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Decision time[edit]
It's time to make some decisions on accreditation requests that are (apparently) languishing in some sort of purgatory. (and, as a random aside: I cant for the life of me figure out why in the heck the ticker shows '4' pending accred. requests, when I can only seemingly find '3').....but, anyhoo........ --Bddpaux (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- The {{votings}} template uses the number of pages in Category:Open accreditation requests; one open request wasn't properly transcluded onto the requests page; traced it from the category and transcluded it. --Pi zero (talk) 22:48, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Research reporting[edit]
I'm struggling to get a handle on where synthesis starts to transition over into data-mining. The immediate occasion is two articles we've published today (UTC), on the European deaf swimming championships and the world wheelchair basketball championships. There's limited secondary sourcing on this stuff, and significant effort goes into extracting the information... is it OR? Is it single-source synthesis? Is it something halfway between — and if so, how should we treat it (and what should we call it)?
I'd welcome others' thoughts on this. --Pi zero (talk) 19:17, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
- As a minimum I'd be inclined to need further notes explaining how the reporter is analyzing the data for it to be called OR. Below that, I'd call it single source synthesis.--RockerballAustralia c 10:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- We both had the same thought about the first submission of world wheelchair basketball championships article. I allowed the second submission; would you have made the same call? --Pi zero (talk) 11:19, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- On quick perusal I probably would have. --RockerballAustralia c 03:19, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Just tossing out an idea[edit]
I've really had audio boxes on my mind lately.....thus I created this little sandbox bit. Who says/what says we couldn't have an article that's essentially 98% spoken audio? I'm not talking the text of an article read aloud to augment the article one can read right there on the screen.....I mean one or two photos, a headline and then just an audio bit....? We've had photo essays that only had 10-15 words of text attached.....so whey couldn't we do audio, where the audio is the article? .....like a radio news brief? --Bddpaux (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- A few thoughts.
- Our existing review process works best with text. We struggle to apply it to audio news briefs — that's why we have the script: so a reviewer can do a preliminary review of the script, drastically reducing the likelihood of a problem that might cause a reviewer to awkwardly not-ready after recording. I think I've twice not-ready'd an audio after recording; it puts the reporter in the nasty position of doctoring the audio and puts the reviewer in the nasty position of putting the reporter in that position. An actual live broadcast is, as has been pointed out, another creature entirely, with nothing to be done except issue corrections after the fact. You want (it's been remarked, iirc) news anchors for that sort of thing — which is to say, people who have frankly experience with it, and who regularly get feedback on what glitches occurred and what could be done better; the whole feedback cycle works differently for that sort of thing and we'd need to put careful thought into how best to handle it (keeping in mind, it's already been a major challenge devising our existing feedback cycle to work on a wiki).
- That's with stuff we compose ourselves, though. There's also stuff where you're carrying a live feed of an event taking place, and then you get to mix the two when you've got on-the-scene coverage with a reporter. These are really interesting questions, to which I for one have few-to-no answers yet (but I'm very much in favor of asking the questions, because we need to not stagnate on any front).
- As a matter of accessibility, we want to provide a transcript of audio content. At its simplest, this is because we can more safely assume that all our readers can read than that they can all hear. (Also, text is way lower bandwidth, and can be consumed in any number of situations where playing sound is out of the question.)
- --Pi zero (talk) 20:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- Very salient points. I cant stop thinking that providing different models/formats on articles help to keep things fresh. Maintaining a true multi media experience can only be a plus, IMO. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- {{Audio box 2}} is for pretty much exactly that. It slots in just above the infobox in an article. The points Pi zero mentioned, however, mean that it pretty much needs to be an audio recording of a reviewed article, done shortly after the review is complete. We've had people here in the past who would go around to articles, read them, upload the audio, and use audio box 2 on an article for easy accessibility of the audio. However, people come and go on the wiki, and I don't think it's been done for a while. Kamnet was an audio junkie, and he and I spent a fair bit of time making the {{Audio box}} and Audio box 2 templates work properly, in the hope that someone might eventually want to provide audio of articles. Hopefully someone does that, eventually:). — Gopher65talk 02:47, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- Very salient points. I cant stop thinking that providing different models/formats on articles help to keep things fresh. Maintaining a true multi media experience can only be a plus, IMO. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:00, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Transcripts of Wikipedia Signpost interviews?[edit]
Please feel free to take part in the discussion at wikipedia:Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost#Transcripts of audio interviews. John Carter (talk) 00:21, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
- John Carter, that's a kind invitation. Truly it is. Perhaps you're not aware of the politics involved, though. I suspect any known Wikinewsie getting involved in that conversation would give Tony1 apoplexy; he's despised Wikinews, and openly plotted its destruction, for years (ever since he humiliated himself here). Using dishonest tactics often involving Signpost. --Pi zero (talk) 01:04, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
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Election results here. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:21, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- I concur with the assessment by Bddpaux (talk · contribs). Congratulations to all successful candidates. -- Cirt (talk) 05:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Context articles[edit]
Hi, still new to this wiki, not sure where this question belongs, or if it's an obvious answer.
Does Wikinews have any policies concerning context articles? I'm meaning something that would provide context to a reader just encountering a commonly reported and developing situation. This could, at its simplest, be in the form of a timeline, such as BBC News Onlines timeline of Ukraine crisis including lists of published articles, possibly with short descriptions giving an overview of how topics have developed. Alternatively it could be more detailed, perhaps including an introduction to the subject.
The intention of such a page would be to provide a quick reference for the reader into a developing situation as to past articles and developments relating to an article they've just read.
As I write, it occurs that this could be acheived with a Category, but none of the categories I have thus far encountered contain a description of the subject, and could possibly be enhanced by the inclusion of a description, or the lead, of each article they contain. Also, such categories would eventually reach a point where they are no longer added to.
Hope that makes sense -- CSJJ104 (talk) 23:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Context Part of this is addressed by portals and part by RSS feeds in categories and other namespaces which essentially show a timeline of stories. I don't know of a policy about context pieces but I don't see why it's a bad idea as such (especially if you can get any kind of original content, e.g. an interview with someone knowledgeable on the topic). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:05, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- While true categories address this, I was asking about more specific events, e.g. in Category:Ukraine the articles Ukrainian troops retake airfield from separatist militants and Russia stages military exercises as Ukrainian forces advance both clearly related, are divided in the list by articles about, among others, the Deaf Swimming Championships, making it less obvious which stories are directly related, and which are merely related by geographic, or other connections CSJJ104 (talk) 10:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
- We try not to poach on sister project Wikipedia's territory. Something like a timeline of events related to a crisis, or whatever, as a standalone article, would be encylcopedic, so (the theory goes) it belongs on Wikipedia. Granted, Wikipedia systematically poaches on our territory (with a split between those of them who convince themselves they're not trying to write news, and those who can't see why what they're doing isn't writing news; but I digress). We make a point of not poaching on their territory.
- That doesn't prevent us from providing such material in an article. The article has to have a focus that's specific, relevant, and fresh, but within the inverted pyramid style — which I like to think of, in a sort of mixed metaphor, as spiralling outward from the focus — there's flexibility to include various kinds of background. A couple of caveats: we're leery of tabular data, though we do use tables sometimes; and we shouldn't be simply copying a table from somewhere else as that would be copyvio. We've had, though, for example, articles in recent times on sporting events where we had tables with medal counts — how many gold/silver/bronze medals different countries had won, which weren't copyied; that information wasn't being made available elsewhere in convenient summary form (we had to compile the medal counts by going through the lists of who came in what place in each meet, which as you may imagine was "fun" to verify during article review).
- An example that comes to mind is Cypriot court clears all of wrongdoing in Greek air disaster (the self-nom of that article for FA described it as "the best English coverage I saw of what should have been a major international story."). --Pi zero (talk) 13:17, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
I have recently come across the idea of shorts. Is there any reason shorts are so rarely produced? Are these a good place to put the beginnings of multiple articles, if the editor does not have time to write them all up, to be expanded later either by the original editor or someone else, or for other stories to be added to. Or would less, more developed articles be preferable? CSJJ104 (talk) 18:16, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Shorts haven't worked out well in recent times, though we do our best to process them when they come along. As an output product, I can see they have some merit. I think perhaps they sometimes get assigned as coursework. There are some practical difficulties though. Maybe there's a way to make them work better logistically, but atm I don't see what that would be.
- It's not clear to me that the amount of labor to write one is all that much less than to write minimal articles about each of the stories. It certainly doesn't strike me as requiring less Wikinews-writing skill. Each of the stories requires (under the modern review regimen) two mutually independent sources anyway, so there should be enough material there for a minimal article on each.
- The amount of review labor is high, as the reviewer has to look at twice as many sources as there are items, and grok each story in order to review it. It wouldn't be that much more difficult to review separate minimal articles on each story.
- If, during review, one of the items isn't ready, what should the reviewer do? Not-ready'ing the whole batch could be quite nasty. Deleting one and publishing the rest (assuming there were enough in the batch for the remainder to be viable) would make it pretty awkward to fix the one that was deleted, since honestly our review system is pretty clumsy about handling major changes post-publish. Besides which, although we have have template {{breaking}} to mark an article where we believe significant changes might occur during the 24-hour window post-publish, that only works if it's on the article from the moment of publication; it doesn't apply to a shorts article having more items added post-publish; and we generally disallow post-publish additions to an article that change its focus, which is sort-of what would happen if one added an item to a shorts article post-publish.
- As I say, maybe there's a way to make the logistics of shorts work better, but I'm not seeing it. We do sometimes come up with innovations to make something work better; for example, with audio news briefs, which Crtew (a journalism professor at University of Southern Indiana) has revived in recent times, audio summaries of recent articles, we had the problem that once you record the audio, what's a reviewer to do except accept or reject? So we've developed a (so far, undocumented and technically unsupported) two-tier review process, where a script is submitted for pre-review, a reviewer looks it over and makes copyedits as needed, and then they record it and a reviewer listens to it to make sure nothing horrible went wrong. (Maybe once I sent back an audio for something that had gone wrong that I felt needed to be fixed before publication, but the two-tier process works pretty well.) --Pi zero (talk) 19:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. From the writers point of view, I was thinking if 3 or 4 (or more) quite major, from there point of view, stories came along at once, it would be difficult to write them all up, but I can see why it would be difficult for the reviewer. As a suggestion, would there be some way to perhaps use the collaboration page to approve each one individually, before it is added to the main article? Also, perhaps extending the period from 1 to 2 days might give the individual stories time to be developed. Just my thoughts as a comparative beginner on this wiki, would be interested to here what those more experienced think. CSJJ104 (talk) 20:45, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- PS: Also thinking that it could be a good place to post updates to other stories, e.g. a current story involves a Texas Governor, if he does resign it may not be an article on its own, but a couple of lines along with the conclusions of other stories with links back to the main story could be useful/informative. CSJJ104 (talk) 20:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- Well, in regards to the last point, if there's a new development updating an existing story, you'd already need it to be newsworthy and have two sources, and then you can get a standalone article for not much more than the price of one shorts item — by listing the previous Wikinews articles in Related news (assuming they're since about 2009 or 2010, so they'd been peer reviewed) and just flat-out copying passages, sentences, even paragraphs from the previous Wikinews articles to fill out most of the lower part of the inverted pyramid. Professional news orgs, I'm told (and have somewhat observed) do this sort of thing all the time, creating a series of articles on an ongoing story where each one copies a lot of material from earlier ones. Someone was saying, iirc, a professional reporter might produce one major article per week, but build up material for it incrementally in lesser articles over the course of the week. --Pi zero (talk)
- I agree with Pi zero except on one point: it isn't "that much more difficult to review separate minimal articles on each story", it's quite a bit easier. There is a good reason for this: I simply won't review certain types of articles. I think everyone is the same way. Why? Because I just know nothing about some subjects. I won't review one of Rockerballer's articles on Australian Football because I simply know nothing about Australian Football. I just... can't do it. So if you wrote a shorts article with four 2 paragraph articles in it, and one of them was about Australian Football, I'd just pass on by to the next article and review that one instead. Not out of malice, but just because I wouldn't know where to even begin checking the accuracy of a subject I'm utterly clueless about. I seem to recall reviewing one of Rockerballer's articles on one of those (from my distant and completely lost point of view) obscure sports teams once, and what should have taken me 20 minutes took me many hours, most of it background research.
- Going back to the scenario I mentioned, if, on the other hand, four separate articles had been written, all of them with a short concluding 3rd paragraph, I might well review three of the four (taking 15 minutes each for minimalist two source articles), while leaving the fourth for someone better equipped to handle it. Maybe even Rockerballer himself if it was a sports article that you'd written, since he'd probably know the difference between a puck and a volleyball, unlike me:).
- Another couple points: from the reader's perspective, only some of the articles in a short are likely to be attractive reading material, leading to less interest in such articles. And from the perspective of our poor, underworked front page, higher article count is better. I'd rather have four minimalist articles posted to the front page than the same four articles all lumped together, and only taking up one of the five lead article slots. — Gopher65talk 04:37, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
- I concur with nearly everything Gopher states, except the business about knowing nothing/something. To review here, I really don't have to (nor do I) know much about Quantum Physics......but as a reviewer/editor, I'm looking for whether someone is/isn't "following the rules" of good print reporting (e.g. style, tone, voice, solid writing mechanics etc.) Of course, it's nice to have editor(s) working on articles within their respective fields of endeavor. But I can ready/not ready a hundred articles next week on the topic of Australian Football so long as I keep my decision focused on the "letter" and not "the spirit". It's not an accident that Rock radio stations hire people who mostly like Country music! Most importantly though, the matter of shorts has also been on my mind too. I love our high standards here, but WE WORK FOR FREE and ask potential other contributors to do the same. Print has always been low man on the totem pole and always will be......BUT, I think if we could generate a list of HIGHLY CREDIBLE sources and accept those within the parameters of single-source articles, it'd be nice to have shorts that ran 3-4 sentence....I love the idea of just "expanded" headlines. This way, we could get newbies to come in as cubs and work their way up to longer articles, but they'd get loads of tiny reinforcers along the way. --Bddpaux (talk) 15:48, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Libyan unrest[edit]
I'm wanting to create a category related to the situation in Libya since the 2011 Libyan Uprising but am unsure what to call it. Thoughts? CSJJ104 (talk) 18:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Following some recent discussion on irc, I've attempted an upgrade of template {{tasks}}. The problem is that newcomers apparently fail to realize the collaboration page is there at all. Experienced Wikinewsies don't, I think, even read the list of items on the tasks notice, they just go directly to the review template; but lately I've observed distinctly better results from leaving a note on the author's user talk page with a pointer to the review comments, and I don't think that's all because of the "personal touch" (though the personal touch is good too).
As I've got it atm, the template produces the usual message if there isn't a
re-review flag amongst the parameters; if there is such a flag, it produces
|This article has been assessed not ready for publication.
Please see the review comments on the collaboration page.
{{tasks}} tag to
If we really want it to produce a visible list based on the other flags, it could. --17:53, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
I know this has been proposed in the past (above, even)...but I strongly wish to bring it back up. I think, for a "contest" or maybe a "promotional event" or the-like, we really need to take a run at doing/allowing some 'shorts'. I think a contest would be awesome! I'm not proposing a major policy shift, this would be short-term only. A few four-sentence articles might serve to spark outside reporting interest (and God knows, we could use some around here). Thoughts? Ideas? --Bddpaux (talk) 14:59, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
- Ping I think it's a fine idea. If it gives this place a shot in the arm, that can't be a bad thing. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:15, 27 October 2014 (UTC)


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I know there are many more ways to make money online, but those listed above should be more than good enough to get you started.
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Just like there are many ways to make money online, there are also a lot of ways to drive traffic to your money making offer.
Your second step is to choose one (yes, only ONE again) proven, reliable way to drive high-quality traffic to your offer.
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Below are some traffic strategies to get you started…
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- Forum marketing
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- Content syndication
- Ad swaps
- Guest blogging
- Blog commenting
- Twitter Tribes
- Google Plus communities
- Content aggregators
- YouTube marketing
Paid Traffic Strategies
- Solo advertising
- Google AdWords
- Bing PPC ads
- Facebook ads
- Your own affiliate program
That should be more than enough to get you started.
Personally, I like using paid advertising since it brings much faster results (good or bad) than free traffic strategies do.
3. Build Your Email List NOW!
"The money is in the list!"
I KNOW you've heard that before. If not, you have now
The most important tip I can give you is this…
Build your email list right from the beginning no matter what money making strategy, system or method you choose to pursue.
When you have an email list, you can send traffic on-demand to any offer you have very quickly.
Check out what Kim Roach says about her email list in this awesome post titled "How to Get 5,000 Visitors to Your Next Blog Post… (WITHOUT Google)"
So Let's Recap…
- Step 1: Choose ONE money making strategy.
- Step 2: Drive high-quality traffic to your offer (the money making strategy you chose in step 1).
- Step 3: Start building your list NOW no matter what money making strategy you choose.
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G'day all,
Rotary Club of Hereford Wye Valley
On Friday 30 May 2014 prior to the Rotary International Convention over 100 Rotarians and partners, all members of RVFR or their guests undertook a dinner cruise aboard Captain Cook Cruise's John Cadman. As well as having a wonderful meal we also enjoyed the spectacular Sydney Vivid Lights Display. Sydney's buildings including the Opera House and Harbour bridge and Pylons were illuminated in startling changing colours.
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Our experience at the Rotary International World Convention was wonderful, right from the opening ceremony where our Prime Minister Tony Abbottbspole of the great work undertakem by Rotary.
He then went on to confirm his government's pledge to donate $100 million to Rotary's Polio Plus Campaign (over four years) to help eradicate polio, The Opening Ceremony then concluded with an outstanding performance by "Human' Nature" with their Motown sound, an Australian group that make their home Las Vegas.
The Convention concluded on Wednesdaywith the great sound of the "Ten Tenors" and the beautiful voice of Marina Prior. In between we were motivated by a great variety of speakers with the wonderful work they were undertaking. The guest speakers were all very interesting and spoke enthusiastically on their subject and therefore made Rotarians very proud of their organisation. The administration was all very organised getting people in and out of the auditorium.
The Hall of Friendship with it's many stalls and stage where lots of artists performed throughout the day allowing visitors to sit down for a while and relax. During the afternoon there were numerous breakout sessions that one could attend and gain further knowledge on a different Rotary aspect.
There were frequent buses throughout the day which transported us from the caravan park at Lane Cove to Homebush and return.
Our location at Lane Cove Caravan Park was sensational. Close to town, on the railway line and set on the border of the National Park. Our organisers the Spaths, Rubins and Meyers did a great jobin setting up the park, including erecting alarge marque for happy hour(s), meeting and meals. In fact on the Tuesday night the 160 odd Rotarians and Partners staying there entertained about 30 overseas Rotarians and partners to a paella dinner. A great fellowship and friendship night enjoyed by all.
The Tallebudgera Creek Tourist Park on the Gold Coast was checked and selected 12 months ago and final arrangements settled in earnest in June.
Although numbers were down on prior years, the muster was a great success socially and fellowship wise and we even had a breakeven financial result.
The program included a welcome function with entertainment; a cruise around the canal estates and the Broadwater and lunch; a film night starring James Bond with Pizza, ice-creams and popcorn to give a real cinema feeling to the Marque; breakfast at Jupiters Casino – yes some played and won; Rotary Club of Mermaid Beach hosted lunch with guest speakers from the Queensland Police Service on road awareness for caravanners, eClub NextGen on the Royal Flying Doctor project at Mount Isa and Paradise Motorhomes presentation on Caravanning Safety; a tag-along to Mount Tamborine; the AGM, election and officer handover; Twin Towns dinner and Delltones show; and the Beach Party with dancing on Sunday night. Of course an early morning walk started most days and happy hour and BBQ ended each day on a high note.
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The guys from War are FUMING after being snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week -- telling TMZ the fact the Beastie Boys got in before them is some serious salt in the wound.
TMZ spoke with Howard Scott -- vocalist and a founding member of War -- who tells us he's "shocked" the rappers were inducted before his band, saying, "We were cranking out gold records when they were still in diapers."
Scott adds, "How could the Beastie Boys get in before us when they sampled War's music on their first album?! I'll eat their platinum records!"
The singer had been pretty hopeful his group would finally be inducted into the HOF this year ... and says the disappointing news "felt like I was kicked in the back of my britches."
For the record -- War was founded back in 1969 ... and DOMINATED music with hits like Cisco Kid, Why Can't We Be Friends, Slippin' Into Darkness ... and of course, LOW RIDER!!!
For starters, people need to stop labeling WAR as a FUNK band. WAR created their OWN sound with a combination of music genres: rock,blues,jazz,latin,reggae,soul,etc. They most deservedly belonged in the R&RHOF years ago. I appreciate all the nominees and their music contributions, but it's messed up that the Beastie Boys got inducted before WAR when they sample WAR's 'Lowrider' in their song 'Slow Ride'. Don't tell me WAR doesn't have an ounce of rock in them when they were the last band to jam with ULTIMATE rocker himself, Jimi Hendrix, the night before he died. They have toured and recorded albums with R&RHOF inductee, Eric Burdon of the Animals. Their songs are ICONIC and stand the test of time. But most people don't know that because everyone samples and covers their songs so much that they don't know they are WAR's songs. 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' an anthem for the world. EVERYONE and their mama knows 'Lowrider'. 'Slipping into Darkness', sampled by so many rap artists, I lost track, and an inspiration for Bob Marley's song, 'Get Up, Stand Up'. 'The World Is A Ghetto' resonates to this day. 'Spill the Wine', yeah, bet you didn't know they did that one? Cheech & Chong, George Lopez and countless others reap the rewards and recognition for WAR songs while the ORIGINAL artists of WAR get forgotten. SO WRONG!!
There are some extremely ignorant people on this thread. Fans of the band know that they are far more than just a "funk" band. They could play ANYTHING. Eric Burdon did his most eclectic work with them. War has a LONG list of gold and platinum albums and singles, AND they had the best-selling album of 1973. In fact, they were probably the best-selling act at United Artists Records while they were there. They're far from retired. There's a group with one founding member that calls itself "War", but Howard and the other THREE living original members are the Lowrider Band, very much alive and kicking. They have a legitimate beef: the Beastie Boys SAMPLED them. Run-DMC didn't. Grandmaster Flash didn't. Seriously, though, every guy in the band was a TOP-notch instrumentalist.
I'm sorry, I like WAR. But just because they've been around longer than Beastie Boys, doesn't make them a better band.
Oh they'll get in there, sooner or later. I do agree that the Beastie Boys (although they did start out as a punk band, though not very well) should be in line for induction BEHIND the people that brought music to the point that they could enter into it.
Should probably be a separate hip-hop hall of fame though, that's a true thing.
no need to be upset, they should actually be honored: war is a great soul/funk act and nobody in their right mind would want to be included in a hall of bull**** for bull**** "music" called rock, which has been milked to death by the machine and has appropriated elements of good music ever since it was established as a huge brainwashing device for the unsuspecting masses like the braindead user azzkicker, listed below.
f*ck rock! get that **** outta here!
Do you guys know the difference between rock n roll and rock music? You metalheads need to get a grip. Even the bands that started the genre would rather be called rock n roll instead of metal, get a clue.
yeah, but the only problem is, that they din't come up with a song awesomelly titled: "brass monkey". that's an automatic reason for entry into the hall o fame. whamo!
all HOF are dumb... Pete rose,, will never,, Tiger woods will never,, The Doobie Brothers.. and many great Baseball players cause of unproven steroids use..
to all the idiots spouting that: 'the (rock and roll) hall of fame is a joke' maybe take some classes in articulation, in case you are trying to express another point. it's not 'a joke' it's a forum that has been misappropriated by selfish and financially arrogant people who are clearly trying to make a MAJOR!!, HUGE!! MASSIVE!!!$$$$$ profit off of designating only certain artists and groups into this organ, so that they can reap extensive royalties from this (by re-broadcasting these bands or songs in media et al). please stop spouting your ignorance as tho it were wisdom. it's real annoying.
Just because War put out a good couple of hits and sold big, doesn't mean they're anything close to the Beastie Boys. Overall talent and pure music icons, War can eat it.
sorry, but I think WAR should have been "inducted" , don't know how or who votes groups in the Hall of Fame, but clearly there is something going on for how bands are let in.
Once again, who's impressed with the RHOF's decision making?
Let's not forget their "Spill the Wine" song with Eric Burdon. As real musicians and multicultural trailblazers, they deserve to be inducted. They were great in their prime time.
Azzkicker: You need to get your culturally ignorant behind offline and read some books/listen to some music. WAR had more hits (including several #1's) than most of the bands IN the RRHOF. They fused blues, R&B, Latin music, rock, funk, soul and influenced bands from ALL of those genres including The Beastie Boys.
The RRHOF continues to show its cultural ignorance with each passing year. Its snubbing of hard rock, punk, funk, gospel, country, pop and the Black DNA behind all of it (and all which makes the stew that is rock n roll), shows it's getting sadder by the year.
Clean house and bring in people who have true historical perspective - not just the same tired whitewashed interpretation.
WAR needs to be inducted. One of the best bands of all time!


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Shopping trip to Etobicoke suggestions
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- neighborguy Jun 15, 2010 03:50 PM
This east-ender is interested in taking a culinary retail voyage to mysterious and rich South Etobicoke and I'm wondering where I might want to look up while I'm out there on a Saturday morning.
What I have so far:
Pasquale Brothers
Blue Danube Sausage House
European Meats
Not familiar with Pasquale Brothers or Blue Danube; no clue what one would go there for
Dimpflmeiers: Homemade jelly donuts, German pretzels, rye bread.. too bad their strudel dough is always moist and soggy
European Meats: Debreziner smoked sausage
Medium Rare on Dundas: Dry aged steaks, massive selection of in-house sausages, free range chicken, and pretty a pretty good prepped food table (though usually cold.. needs re-heating but its good stuff)
Costco on the Queensway: One of the only locations to carry slabs of Dunn's Montreal smoked brisket
Bom Apetite on the Queensway: Grilled chicken and rotisserie chicken, $10 flat for a whole chicken. I get one of each
That's usually my stops when I travel there from Brampton..although it does seem like i'm forgetting something... hmm..
hope this helps :)
Blue Danube
1686 Ellesmere Rd, Toronto, ON M1H2V5, CA
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
Medium Rare butcher - Dundas at Kipling.
Sha Sha Bread Co. - 20 Plastics Ave. (across from Costco)
Lindt Outlet Store - Queensway east of East Mall
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: Kagemusha
If you go to Mississauga for Brandt, then you may want to stop at Starsky's for something too. It's a big Polish grocery store. http://www.starskycanada.com/
If you don't go to Mississauga, you can check International Food Depot for a smaller selection of German stuff. It's next to European Meats.
2040 Dundas St E, Mississauga, ON L4X, CA
re: JamieK
There is also a Hot Oven on Bloor near Royal York, if you want to stay in the area but avoid the mall. I love their pumpkin seed bread and have been told that the Cloverdale mall location does not sell it.
Another vote for Medium Rare - especilly all the interesting sausages!
And the Lindt warehouse is great if you want to gain 10 lbs. :)
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: bunnylicious
Re: Medium Rare - I checked their site and emailed them about their sausages, the casings being all natural mentioned on the site but I wanted to know if they were pork free varieties. They replied saying most are hog (which isn't what I'm looking for) and some are lamb but that it's all on the site. Does anyone know which ones specifically are pork free? I'd rather not make a trip there if what I'm seeking isn't available.
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: BamiaWruz
i've seen lamb sausage and even salmon sausage I'm pretty sure. Haven't tried either -- pork rules
re: BamiaWruz
Lamb casings are a lot smaller, and used for wieners or small breakfast type sausage. Hog casings are knockwurst size, and even larger.
If you visit a Highland Farms store, their veal sausages have lamb casings, as well as Freybe's frankfurters, which are not all beef. You can ask a meat cutter at HF to show you the size of lamb and pork casings, as they always have them in the back.
Highland Farms
850 Ellesmere Rd, Toronto, ON M1P, CA
re: jayt90
Can I buy lamb casings??? For home use? I'd love to if I can.
Are they cleaned and all?
re: BamiaWruz
Yes, Highland Farms has them. They are steam cleaned and salted for freshness. Just ask.
Highland Farms
850 Ellesmere Rd, Toronto, ON M1P, CA
re: BamiaWruz
Medium Rare has chicken and duck sausages. The duck is really good according to my wife, I've not yet eaten any as of yet. Personally I'm not a big fan of chicken sausages, but what I have tried a while back I enjoyed. Thought for the life of me I can not remember the flavour. The lamb sausages are to die for!!!
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: Pastryrocks
I think BW is referring to the casings. All casings at Medium Rare are from pork/hog regardless of type of sausage.
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: Hondapendragon
Their pork souvlaki is even better.
Take a drive or walk along Lakeshore Blvd. between First St. and Fortieth St. as there are a few interesting places such as small asian and other bakeries, The Factory poutine, thai, shwarma, carribean, Kalamata (patio) and a few neat little shops. Also, in Mimico there are some interesting places for food along Lakeshore Blvd.
3473 Lake Shore Blvd W, Toronto, ON M8W1N5, CA
re: fryerlover
Too bad about Pasquale Brothers. I remember them from King Street and back then it was certainly worth a visit.
What about Mad Max and The Cheese Boutique? Aren't they in the general vicinity? Not really a big fan of The Cheese B myself, but many are. I suppose if you are in the area, it would be a good stop.
re: millygirl
I disagree with Kagemusha on skipping Pasquale Bros. There are always some great items (prices). Their 7 year old cheddar at $25/kilo is hard to beat. Ask to go in the back which is the warehouse, they have at least 40 types of olives alone. However they are not open on Saturday.
Pasquale Bros
16 Goodrich Rd, Toronto, ON M8Z, CA
re: tasoid
Not enough to warrant the trip. Don't dig the prices--plus there's more to life than olives. Their once-famous artichoke salad was full of tough outer leaves last time I got some--a far cry from their King St store of yore. They used to stock killer real-deal Spanish paella pans at good prices. Not sure they've kept up with the competition.
re: Kagemusha
they don't have an extensive or particularly unique cheese selection but the standards they have are better priced than their counterparts. perhaps i'm not very observant, but the coutances that i enjoy so much doesn't seem to be readily available at any other shops i drop into.
other than the sandwich deal with the pop, a great great snack/lunch, i don't think anything else there is really worth a look. but if you're in the nabe i don't think it hurts to check it out.
Cheese Boutique is definitely worth a visit.
Cheese Boutique
45 Ripley Ave, Toronto, ON M6S, CA
re: JamieK
You've gotta be kidding. Over-priced, occasionally off cheese, and waaaay too much condescension. Thankfully, TO has other better places to buy cheese.
re: Kagemusha
I still think it's worth a visit if you're the area, even once
re: Kagemusha
Can someone who has tried the sausages at Medium Rare specifically comment on the texture. I used to like the sausages from the Healthy Butcher but I have found of late that they are full of gristle and not very good at all. I am looking for great sausages that are well ground....also do they have all of those varieties available at once to purchase individually??? are they frozen??? thanks
The Healthy Butcher
565 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5V, CA
Medium Rare
5241 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B, CA
re: xiolablue
I find the sausages to be pretty "meaty" - to me it seems to be a fine grind. Very little fat, no gristle in the ones tried so far. Some have been a little on the salty side but that's probably because he doesn't use any preservatives. They are frozen in packages of 4 IIRC. Huge selection, all types of meat, poultry, and fish sausages. I'd say try them and compare.
re: xiolablue
as regulars @ medium rare, they've always told us that they'll put aside any of their stuff for us in any quantity. service has always been top notch so maybe you could ask? if they weren't willing to sell the sausages in smaller packages, then maybe they would pack them separately - i.e. in pairs - so you could make two and freeze two?
re: Kagemusha
Perhaps, but they have much more to offer than just cheese. Great variety of dried pastas, all shapes and sizes. And some very unique products in the way of marinades, etc. Yes you need to watch your due dates, like anywhere else, but still fun to browse.
re: millygirl
The first time I went there, I spent about an hour just gawking at all the products -- from marinades and jams to oils and vinegars and more -- before I even got around to why I was there -- for the cheese, which is also an amazing selection. The cheese cave itself is pretty neat to see too.
I have not had an issue with attitude or off cheese but maybe I don't go often enough to experience any negative stuff (I live in the same neck of the woods as neighbourguy and when I go to CB, I feel like a tourist ready to take the bad with the good).
re: JamieK
Sorry but I find the gestalt of the place off-putting and irrelevant. There's so much on offer around the GTA now that the "ye olde fine food shoppe" vibe is plain hokey. Suppose they rocked once but be sure to check stale dates if you go. Besides, a visit to the CB is a bit wide of "fun" for me, food-wise. Feels like a tourist trap you do once but never again.
re: JamieK
Divided opinions aside, Cheese Boutique isn't really in the vicinity, technically speaking; Bloor West vs. Etobicoke. Granted, they are geographically close but not the same nabe. Thought this might be useful info for the OP when making a decision.
Cheese Boutique
45 Ripley Ave, Toronto, ON M6S, CA
re: tuttebene
OP asked for South Etobicoke. Cheese Boutique is near South Kingsway and the Queensway. I think it fits the profile perfectly.
Cheese Boutique
45 Ripley Ave, Toronto, ON M6S, CA
re: JamieK
yes...but relatively speaking it's not in the general vicinity of most other suggestions posted. Just wanted the OP to be aware that if they're interested in the CB, it's in the opposite direction and a stand alone destination (compared to other recs). This may help when deciding if it's worth going because the lack of agreement in the postings won't be helpful. Not much else around Ripley Ave.
re: Whats_For_Dinner
Just a few doors east of the original location.
not TOTALLY in the same vicinity as the places you've mentioned but ma maison is awesome ... french boulangerie/patisserie/traiteur. @ royal york and dundas. go early in your trip though ... if you're there after lunch, a lot of their stuff may be gone! http://www.ur2busy2cook.com/store.php
re: lilaki
When I've been across the street at Brunos or the Magoos, I have often wondered about Ma Maison. What do you recommend from there?
Ma Maison
4243 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M8X, CA
A trip to Etobicoke without visiting the Cheese Boutique is like a trip to Centre Island without visiting Centreville. You must go! It's worth a stop, if only to be charmed by the abundance, the atmosphere, and the lovely little samples.
And for a delicious latte, and wonderful baked goods ( great atmosphere as well), carry on to Royal York Road to visit San Remo.
Cheese Boutique
45 Ripley Ave, Toronto, ON M6S, CA
re: Jane.T
A very apt comparison of two tourist traps--spot on!
San Remo is worth it: no hype, no attitude, no extortionate pricing. A genuine neighborhood joint. Great ice cream, too!


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Sophia Anna Bush was born July 8, 1982, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, Charles William Bush and Maureen Bush, a celebrity photographer and photography studio manager respectively, had Sophia attending Westridge, an all-girls high school in Pasadena, California. Sophia Bush made her first big screen appearance in the comedy Van Wilder as Sally. Since then, Sophia Bush has made appearances in several television shows including Nip/Tuck, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Punk'd after being tricked by her friend Brittany Snow. Sophia Bush was cast as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines but was replaced by Claire Danes as the director thought Sophia Bush was too young. In 2003 Sophia Bush won the role of Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill. The show is one of "The WB" networks biggest hits & is imported all around the world. It was here Sophia Bush met future husband Chad Michael Murray. Since working on One Tree Hill Sophia has filmed 3 box office movies. Supercross, Stay Alive and John Tucker Must Die. Sophia Bush started work on The Hitcher in 2006.
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The country of Belgium is at the very heart of the European Union. Its capital, Brussels, has many of the EU's major governmental organizations such as the European Parliament and the European Council. So basically, as the rest of Europe goes, so does Belgium. But just like most of Europe, the Belgian economy is highly developed and is one of the most globalized economies on the planet. According to the IMF, Belgium's GDP is $465.676 billion in nominal terms, while its nominal GDP per capita is $42,630. So the Belgium market is clearly one of the richest markets in Europe and therefore the world.Belgium's strongly globalized economy and its transportation infrastructure are integrated with the rest of Europe. Its location at the heart of a highly industrialized region helped make it the world's 15th largest trading nation in 2007, according to the CIA World Factbook. As the Belgian Foreign Ministry cites, the economy is characterized by a highly productive work force, high GNP and high exports per capita. Belgium's main imports are raw materials, machinery and equipment, chemicals, raw diamonds, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, transportation equipment, and oil products. Its main exports are machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, and foodstuffs, as noted by the CIA World Factbook. One of the founding members of the European Union, Belgium strongly supports an open economy and the extension of the powers of EU institutions to integrate member economies. The Belgian economy is heavily service-oriented and shows a dual nature: a dynamic Flemish economy and a Walloon economy that lags behind, according to an article by Expatica Communications. As a result, industry is concentrated mainly in the populous Flanders in the north, around Brussels and in the 2 biggest Walloon cities, Liège and Charleroi, along the sillon industriel. Belgium imports raw materials and semi-finished goods that are further processed and re-exported. Except for its coal, which is no longer economical to exploit, Belgium has virtually no natural resources. Nonetheless, most traditional industrial sectors are represented in the economy, including steel, textiles, refining, chemicals, food processing, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, electronics, and machinery fabrication. Despite the heavy industrial component, services account for 74.9% of GDP, while agriculture accounts for only 1% of GDP. With exports equivalent to over two-thirds of GNP, Belgium depends heavily on world trade. Belgium's trade advantages are derived from its central geographic location and a highly skilled, multilingual, and productive work force. However, there are some problems on the horizon that may make the Belgian market difficult to do trade in.
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Last night it hit me what I really really love would love to do as a career. Use my skills and experience in the computer information technology field and my desire to travel and report on different technology experiences in different cities around the world. Not a revolutionary idea I realize, but it is exactly what I would like to do. Give people a granular view of Technology in different cities such as data and Telecom infrastructure, average internet speed, pricing, reliability, power, what kind of phone service is available, etc.
One last thing, I plan to do this utilizing my phone. Hopeful to make this all happen. More to come…
This is a copy of a letter i emailed to Spirit Airlines Customer Service. I have gotten nothing in response.
March 10, 2013 Flight 972 from DFW to FLL, Connecting flight 201 from FLL to STT
I booked a villa on the island if St. John, US Virgin Islands. In researching flights and costs, Spirits Airlines came up as one of the cheaper by over a hundred dollars per ticket. So I thought I would give them a try, assuming the flying experience could not be that different from other carriers. I could not have been more wrong.
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This is a screenshot of my flights, Spirit has changed the first flight at this point to 12:40PM, which is when the plane actually departed. It was originally scheduled to depart DFW at 6:00AM. That is almost a 7 hour delay, due to a mechanical/computer issue with the plane. Spirit agents (Wanda) at DFW repeatedly assured passengers with connecting flights to San Jose, Montego Bay, and St. Thomas (our final destination) would be fine because they were holding those flights in Fort Lauderdale. This was a lie. When we finally arrived at Fort Lauderdale around 3:53PM, the connecting flights were long gone, even with our original 3 hour layover.
We were upset and the customer service counter immediately outside the jet way was worthless, and the staff, much like many of the Spirit staff I encountered along this trip, were off put by customers, had a horrible attitude, and were not customer service oriented in any manner. We went to the ticket counter, along with several other people (more than 10), all of us had the same general issue…Spirit lied to us all to get us on the plane, instead of giving us a refund so we could make our own arrangements. Since they had done that, we were all now stranded in Fort Lauderdale instead of heading to our destinations.
It was around 4:30PM by this time and many of the Spirit "customer service agents" were coming out and going home, even though the line was now well over 20 people and rising because of the huge lie they had fed their customers in Dallas. ** Keep in mind my wife and I were already supposed to be in St. Thomas by now and well on our way to the villa I had already paid for and was non-refundable. We were not there yet because Spirit Airlines deliberately lied to their customers instead of giving them a refund and making things right for their customers.**
A woman came over to help us and immediately began to talk condescending and down to us, sounding rude and standoff-ish, saying "here's what we can do for you". They put us on a shuttle bus down to the Miami Airport, and then we flew American Airlines from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we stayed in the Airport Hotel overnight. Monday afternoon at 3PM, we flew from San Juan, Puerto Rico to St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, arriving at 3:30PM. I argued along with several other customers but Spirit would do nothing else for us. I even had to press for Spirit to pay for the shuttle to Miami ($300), to pay for their shuttle due to their screw up and lies. Absolutely unreal and by far the worst experience I have ever had with an airline.
They could pay for a shuttle ($300) to Miami, 2 tickets on American from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico ( $776), and a 1 night stay in the airport Hotel ($108.99).
As you can see by the Reservation Summary, it was a short trip to begin with and when Spirit did what they did, it cut the trip down by an additional day, costing us valuable time and money already paid. They offered no compensation of any kind for this screw up, they would not even more our later flight so that I could have an extra day of vacation on the back end.
I have flown several other carriers in my life, American, United, US Airways, Delta, Lufthansa, KLM, etc. When they have made a mistake or there was a problem due to the carrier, they gave us vouchers and made it right, compensating us for our lost time and money with several hundred dollars in airline vouchers as well as taking care of the other arrangements. I can promise next time I will pay the extra money for the ticket and fly another airline and tell everyone considering yours this story.
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Well, sure seems like Samsung is kind of getting the hose job on this. The excluded slides clearly show they were working on a touch screen bar type handset well before the first iPhone was ever released.
Microsoft rolling out new Hotmail interface, looks like Gmail. It's a lot better and cleaner looking now, actually kind of pleasant. If you have a hotmail account or would like to jump on the land grab go to outlook.com.
I had heard this previously, but thought I would share this article. Really helpful and could save your phone one day!
Excellent wired article regarding the sacrifices consumers are making by predominately choosing thinner and lighter.
Very very nice Samsung product. Someone should ship one of these to me for testing and utilization purposes. I love Samsung products!
Doing my part to perpetuate the rumor mill in the Technology Arena, lol. They talk about rumors around the 4" iphone and iPad Mini.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A General Accounting Office (GAO) study showing that medical groups manufactured a crisis to push their agenda of changing the medical malpractice insurance system is further proof that Congress and state legislatures should abandon efforts to take away patients' legal rights, Public Citizen said today.
The GAO study, which was released on the Friday before Labor Day, found that the American Medical Association (AMA) and other medical provider groups manufactured a "crisis" of access to care – a crisis they claimed was caused by malpractice lawsuits.
Eighteen of the GAO report's 41 pages are devoted to debunking claims that doctors in AMA-designated "crisis states" were no longer providing medical care to patients. Most damaging to the AMA's argument was the GAO's finding that the volume of medical care delivered to patients in five states had increased during the period during which the AMA suggested it was decreasing.
Congressional lawmakers earlier this year considered a measure to cap non-economic damages provided to victims of medical malpractice at $250,000. Proponents of the measure cited the AMA's information. Public Citizen offered data showing no crisis existed and explained how the insurance industry was pushing damage caps because it suffered losses as a result of the economic cycle. Now, however, lawmakers are talking about reconsidering the cap this fall.
"The GAO report confirmed what Public Citizen has found in its numerous state studies — that liability laws have a positive effect on doctors' behavior, not the negative effects so often alleged," said Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen president. "The GAO study also shows that Bush administration lies are not limited to foreign policy."
Added Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch, "The AMA propaganda machine failed in Congress but succeeded in too many state legislatures. Far too many state lawmakers were hoodwinked by the AMA's false claims. It's unfortunate that the AMA succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of so many policymakers and the public."
The GAO compared conditions in five AMA-designated "crisis states" — Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Mississippi and Nevada — to four states that the GAO determined had no reported problems. Those were California, Colorado, Minnesota and Montana. The report was requested by three Republican House committee chairs who support restricting patients' legal rights.
The GAO also determined that the overall number of doctors in the AMA-designated in "crisis states" had not declined, echoing findings made by Public Citizen in reports on malpractice conditions in a dozen states released earlier this year. (Click here to view the reports).
GAO investigators also determined that the AMA's claims that medical services were unavailable in particular areas were untrue. The investigators found that other factors, such as the rural character or economic circumstances of an area, created conditions that made it hard to attract or keep physicians.
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Before widespread literacy came to Ireland, a name was often recorded under several different variations during the life of its bearer. Accordingly, numerous spelling variations were revealed in the search for the origin of the name McGarvey family name. Variations found include Garvin, Garvey, Garwin, Garvine, Garven, Garvan, Garvy, Garvie, Garwen and many more.
First found in County Tyrone (Irish:Tír Eoghain), the ancient territory of the O'Neills, now in the Province of Ulster, central Northern Ireland, where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
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Thousands of Irish families left for North American shores in the 19th century. These people were searching for a life unencumbered with poverty, hunger, and racial discrimination. Many arrived to eventually find such conditions, but many others simply did not arrive: victims of the diseased, overcrowded ships in which they traveled to the New World. Those who lived to see North American shores were instrumental in the development of the growing nations of Canada and the United States. A thorough examination of passenger and immigration lists has disclosed evidence of many early immigrants of the name McGarvey:
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