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Linda Powell: Helping to Effect Change for the Better
In the area of research, she is involved in a number of studies focused on how organizations that work with young people can be improved. One study being done through the Carnegie Corporation of New York examines intergroup relations among young people and ways to create a new generation of tolerance. "I am looking at what educators can do to help kids by creating structures and policy," Powell said.
The research on this project will be completed in 1998 and will look at the role that adults can play in providing leadership, policies and structures that support improved relations among young people. It will also explore the impact of schools on intergroup relations and what they can do to foster improvement. The research will also investigate links among three issues: personal transformation about adult identity questions, professional development for teachers and others in leadership roles, and political efforts to make a difference for the school as an organization.
Previously, she worked with the Pew Charitable Trust on a project in Philadelphia involving an organizational and professional development model called Family Group. In this program, each student was assigned to a weekly group meeting run by a trained adult. The project involved placing relationship and community at the center of teaching and learning. In a paper that Powell wrote with Margaret Barry and Gwendolyn Y. Davis from the University of Pennsylvania, she related that, "Family group becomes a source of social support and motivation that students report helps them stay and succeed in school." She also noted that adult leaders "report that their experiences in these groups improve their teaching and encourage them to be more connected to . . . their students."
The Ms. Foundation engaged Powell as part of the evaluation team of a research and strategy approach to explore girls' strengths, called Healthy Girls/Healthy Women Initiative. It will fund 16 cutting edge programs around the country focused on empowering girls. "The developmental psychology literature suggests that something powerful happens to girls at adolescence," Powell explains. "We want to capture some sense of what keeps girls strong during adolescence. We know schools and organizations can play a huge role." The three-year project will fund researchers who will help build a body of knowledge about what works for girls. A research based on this initiative will provide research opportunities for TC students.
"My teaching is also related to my research," Powell says. She is teaching Organization and Interpersonal Behavior this semester, a course designed to focus the students on personal, interpersonal and group level dynamics as they occur in the classroom.
"A big difference in my class is that students have a lot of group relations experience," Powell explained. "Large parts of the course are spent in unstructured learning groups from a model derived at the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations in Great Britain." The Tavistock model connects psychology, systems, and social psychological theory about individuals and organizations.
Powell's most recent book, Off-White: Essays on Society, Race and Culture (Routledge Press) discusses issues of race from the perspective of understanding whiteness as a race. A co-author of the book is Michelle Fine, an alumna of TC, and contributors include Debra Noumair and Robert T. Carter, both Associate Professors of Psychology and Education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology.
Powell designed and managed human resource development programs and corporate training programs for organizations such as Corporate Education Resources, Marine Midland Bank, the National Council of Churches, and Ecumenical Women's Centers.
Why the interest in groups and group relations? "I am an only child, and all my life I have been fascinated by groups," Powell explained. "My undergraduate degree was in group communication, and I fell in love with group relations theory and methodology." She continued, "I am also interested in the link between the internal world and what people do to make organizational change. Some of that starts inside us."previous page


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Losing Ground To Urban Sprawl
and eroded soil directly to streams, instead of first filtering it through forest and grassland.
The water runs off at a fast pace instead of soaking into the soil to be released later. Lacking normal seepage from the soil, these altered streams carry less water at "normal" flow, and may even dry up after the rain stops, making them unable to support aquatic life.
Impervious surfaces, warmed by sunshine, also get hotter and stay hotter for longer periods than natural vegetation. Bricks and concrete used in buildings and streets slowly release heat long after sunset, making the downtown areas of cities such as St. Louis and Kansas City, as well as those of smaller cities like Kirksville and West Plains, routinely five to 15 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside.
In the summer, storm runoff from these hot surfaces increases the overall temperature of nearby streams, lakes and ponds. Temperatures can rise so high that the water has little oxygen-carrying capacity, which can lead to massive fish kills.
A More Natural Balance
We may not be able to stop urban sprawl, but we can counter some of its negative effects. The key is for developers and modern-age settlers to include nature in development plans.
Trees, prairies, and other natural habitats have benefits and values beyond providing places for our wild species to live. Trees provide important protection from storm water runoff, reduce noise and light pollution and lower heating and cooling costs. Natural areas provide recreational opportunities, help clean the water and the air, and improve the quality of life for people.
The presence of natural features has been shown to increase a property's real estate value. It even increases the value of neighboring properties.
When developers take such values into account, natural features can become an important part of the development infrastructure, just like water and electric lines.
Some developers have already taken this track. They leave trees, natural areas and stream buffers. They construct natural footpaths and provide linear parks that wildlife can use as natural corridors when traveling.
Urban sprawl is not just a city issue; it's a statewide issue. Missouri's natural resources are being affected, and it will take many people working together in different ways to make a difference.
Once our natural resources and habitats are destroyed or fragmented, they are gone forever. With some forethought, development and natural resources can coexist.
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There's not much more added than what was in Brotherhood (which I consider to be the best of the franchise), but there are additions nonetheless which are fun. It's pretty much everything you loved about Brotherhood but just that bit more... and the fact that you're elsewhere. The Altair sequences can drag on a little bit, but otherwise a very solid game. Having said that, I still prefer the Brotherhood setting.
Very little new to add to the Series.ThomasG101 | Sept. 13, 2012 | See all ThomasG101's reviews »
After playing and enjoying Assassin's Creed Brotherhood I was initially glad to see that they kept the game closer to Brotherhood than the original game. If you liked brotherhood then you'll like this, apart from the story which is obviously different this game is almost the same as it's predecessor, you can buy up shops and create a personal wealth to spend on whatever is available, you can run around the city finding collectibles or complete any number of mundane tasks. The story it's self is worth a play through but I completed this game on 360 in a 6 night rental so it's not that long. The visuals are pretty standard for the year it came out and the city is well made so you shouldn't get bored of it before completion though there is very little to keep you playing after that so I would recommend doing all the interesting side missions as soon as you can rather than doing it all near the end.


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TV102 on Half Hitch smoothness Youtube video link
Posted 09 May 2009 - 11:43 AM
The disc break on the altitude axis can hold the eyepiece change without any image shift.
The emphasis on the Half Hitch mount is smoothest motion while being balanced. So, I think that you need to use the TV Equalizer to go from your heavy eyepieces to Ortho eyepieces. Intermediate eyepiece weight difference can be covered by the included balance trimmer.
I heard that Charles will make a new optional heavy duty balance trimmer weight. That will help your situation if you don't want to use the TV Equalizer.
Posted 09 May 2009 - 01:39 PM
I change eyepieces too often to use a balance trimmer, for me it needs to be simple.
Do you set the disc brake on the altitude axis once and leave it on, or do you engage it before you take an eyepiece out? Does everyone that use a larger/longer refractor (say 102mm f/8 or bigger) have to use the balance trimmer, or is it feasible to go without it if you can use eyepieces that are similar in weight?
I guess that's what it comes down to. To change eyepieces during a star-hopping observing session how many adjustments have to be made to the mount, including brakes, any tension adjustment, and balance trimming. The available information is somewhat confusing.
It sounds like the mount's motions and slow motion controls are extremely smooth. But it comes at the price of having to use a brake to change eyepieces, yes? And possibly adjust a balance trimmer every time for some eyepieces.
With the Teegul you can find a happy medium where the tension on the altitude axis is enough to keep the scope in place during eyepiece changes, yet still loose enough to move the scope around by hand and use slo-mo controls.
However, it sounds like the halfhitch's motion is smoother and easier. And the slo-mo controls on the Teegul are somewhat stiff & clunky in feel.
Posted 09 May 2009 - 02:08 PM
I need to engage the break to change eyepieces, but the break is much better compare to tension mechanism on other Alt-Az mount. There is no image shifts so I don't find it is cumbersome to use the break to change eyepieces. Again, the mount operates with almost no friction so I don't think that it is possible to change eyepieces without engaging the break.
I'm using the mount for TSA-102(102 mm f/8) and TMB105 (105mm f6.5).
I don't have to use the balance trimmer between my Pentax XL 40mm, Pentax XW 20mm and Pentax XW 7mm. I don't have any other similar weight eyepiecs so I'm not sure how the mount will act with a little more weight differences, but then you can use the balance trimmer in that case. The balance trimmer have few small dot marks so that you can easily know where you need to put the trimmer to balance the scope.
For big weight differences (Pentax XW and Ortho or Plossl), I need to use TV Equalizer adapter.
The break also works as the tension adjustment. With putting small amount of friction, the mount can handle more weight differences without using the balance trimmer, but I don't adjust the tension at all. I just use the mount without putting any tension.
Posted 09 May 2009 - 03:03 PM
To change a eyepiece you take a turn or two on the disc brake adjuster and the scope is essentially locked. Change the eyepiece and release the brake, then use the trim weight to reset the balance point. The process is simple and quick, adding two or three simple steps.....but they are added steps. You do have to think a bit and try to reduce the weight differences if possible (see the TV Equalizer here). The return for this small addition work (work that is required only when you make a eyepiece change that involves a significant weight difference) is a mount that is so smooth and drag free that it really does just get out of the way and let you view - and it does that the entire time you are viewing. If you boost the magnification for some planetary viewing - the slow motion controls will make it easy to keep the object centered.....if you don't use quality slow motion controls - you are missing something special.
I really like the Half Hitch.....any scope up to 4" would do fine and many larger scopes would as well. I haven't tried a DiscMount....I've heard they are great especially for the bigger loads, but if your scope fit the Half Hitch - it is the mount that sets the standard.....for now.
Posted 09 May 2009 - 03:12 PM
Interesting report on the Half Hitch.
When you use the brake to set a certain tension will the tension (that you set by the brake)remain the same as the mount is moved?
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 03:36 PM
Interesting report on the Half Hitch.
When you use the brake to set a certain tension will the tension (that you set by the brake)remain the same as the mount is moved?
In a word.....Yes. If you add drag with the disc brake, there will be drag in the system, so you do have that option. I try to completely release the disc brake so there is the absolute minimum drag in the system. Even with things set this way there is a fair amount of tolerance for weight changes. I switch between Tak LE's (but I use the equalizer) and an Ethos and there is not much rebalancing needed. Eyepieces changes between different LE's don't require any action to rebalance the mount.
Posted 09 May 2009 - 08:14 PM
I would be very interested in seeing comments from someone who has used both the Half-hitch and the Teegul. Certainly, the tensioners on the Teegul are nice - I can use a scope even when it's quite out of balance without a problem - something I'm not sure I could do with the Half-Hitch as I see frequent references as to the need to get the scope well-balanced.
I do like the orientation of the half-hitch - I was thinking at one time of having a machined arm to allow the Teegul mount to have the same benefit (upwards extension and offset so the mount would be centralized over the tripod), but the scopes I use are all short and the offset is not a problem in viewing at the Zenith with any of them.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 01:52 AM
Using friction to overcome imbalance has three UNAVOIDABLE consequences: 1.) The torque required to START the altitude axis turning will be greater than the torque needed to KEEP the axis turning; 2.) The torque required to turn the axis in one direction will not equal the torque needed to turn the axis in the opposite direction because one direction works with gravity and the other direction works against gravity; and 3.) The torque required to turn the axis in each direction will vary with elevation. Effect number one can be partially mitigated by carefully choosing the materials in the friction sandwich, but the other two effects have no mitigations. The UNAVOIDABLE result is that the tradeoff for not having to balance the load is movement that is asymmetric, nonlinear, and too complex to be truly predictable and intuitive.
For a low-friction axis, the load must be more or less balanced. There is always a little friction, so the balance does not have to be perfect. But a lower the level of friction will require better balance. This is the downside of a low-friction axis -- it requires balance. But this is a downside that has several effective (and potentially complete) mitigations. First, if you don't change eyepieces during the course of an observing session, then there aren't any balance shifts. Second, balance shifts can be minimized by keeping the physical sizes and weights of your eyepieces similar. Third, you can add features to the mount (or scope) that make it EASY to neutralize the balance shifts caused by switching eyepieces. And fourth, you can create a mechanism to add in small amounts of friction to adjust the sensitivity of the balance requirement.
The upside of the balanced, low-friction approach is that you have maximally optimized motion control and "feel." By trading easily managed balance adjustments, you get sports car like feel as opposed to truck like feel. You get a system that is symmetric, linear, and predictable.
There is not a correct answer to the balance versus friction argument. One must choose based on personal preference. But the physics is what it is -- all marketing claims aside. The high friction/no balance approach and the low friction/balanced approach are distinctly different. One does not really substitute for the other in the same way that a truck does not substitute for a sports car. The missions are different. It does not surprise me that each type of mount has its advocates.
One thing that the video does effectively demonstrate about the Half Hitch is that the balance does not shift with elevation changes.
Posted 10 May 2009 - 08:57 AM
I would be very interested in seeing comments from someone who has used both the Half-hitch and the Teegul. Certainly, the tensioners on the Teegul are nice - I can use a scope even when it's quite out of balance without a problem - something I'm not sure I could do with the Half-Hitch as I see frequent references as to the need to get the scope well-balanced.
I have owned a Lapides Modified Teegul (with after market 6" slo-mo knobs) and a DM-6 and have tried them with multiple scopes. My best short answer is this: I still own a Half-Hitch II but the Teegul and DM-6 are now sold.
I've posted about this a few times in past so I'll just point out a couple things again. All 3 mounts are excellent and each has its "exceptional" qualities. Without question, none operate as smoothly as the HH and the "motion" knobs (they aren't really "slo-mo") are superb: responsive, completely backlash-free, and great for high mag tracking of solar system objects. Factor in the weight, highly accurate DSC's and rigidity and you have an unbeatable grab and go package, which is clearly what Charles had set out to accomplish when he designed it (and he is still tinkering and tweaking the design).
The Teegul is an interesting mount. I really liked mine a lot (by the way, my reference OTA for this Teegul and HH comparison is a 105 Traveler with Mark V BV). It was also "smooth" (all 3 of these mounts are) and surprisingly easy to balance (depending on saddle plate/saddle used). The stock slo-mo knobs are poorly positioned IMO (and plastic!!) but when extended with 6" aluminum knobs they were a delight to use. It was also easy to track at high mags with these controls and although they do have some "backlash", this doesn't really diminish their utility. The tightening/tensioning screws were surprisingly effective and helped a lot with eyepiece changes and other balance issues. It is hard to argue with this mount as being anything other than a solid, utilitarian performer - perhaps the pick of the 3 if budget is most important. If you want DSC's, however, I think your options are limited with the Teegul unlike the HH and DM-4/6, which were clearly designed with DSCs in mind.
The DM-6 is a triumph of clean, "simple" and solid design. If it is heavy artillery you want to mount on an Alt/Az, this may be what you are looking for. I used this mount with an NP101 (with one of Tom P's excellent tripods), TOA 130 and an AP 140. The Tak and AP are both beasts and while the DM-6 was up to the task you really require a serious set of legs or pier. I used it with a Berlebach UNI24 but the big OTAs really needed more - probably a G11 tripod or Berlebach Planet for example. I wasn't happy with all that weight off to the side with the big scopes but the NP101 worked beautifully with the DM-6. All that you hear about the DM-6 is pretty much true. When balanced up correctly it is smooth, jiggle free and accurate (i.e., DSCs). The orthogonality of this mount is the key I guess, it is like the rock of Gibraltar. Stiction is minimal as it should be, and you can swap out a little planetary EP with a Volkswagen and I think it would hold steady - ok, I'm exaggerating, perhaps something a little lighter like a Nag 31. On the downside, the DM-6 is bowling ball heavy and it lacks slo-mo controls (and I know the argument that it doesn't need them - but I personally like them). To be fair, the DM-4 is probably the mount for comparison to the Teegul and HH (weight complaint goes away) but it still lacks slo-mo and puts the scope off to the side (the Teegul does too but it is narrower and on a 6" platform it is less of a concern). I wasn't thrilled with selling the DM-6 but at the end of the day my reasoning went as follows: if I'm going to drag out the AP 140 for visual and have to lug out the DM-6 and a G11 quality tripod to do so, I might as well use my GEM instead. No way is an ~ AP140 or TOA 130 ever going to be a grab and go, LOL.
You aren't going to be making an egregious error going with any of these 3 mounts. On balance though, I just like the design philosophy, build and especially the smoothness/performance of the HH II with my particular set-up. Your mileage may/will vary. In any event, the HH comes with clear instructions for set-up and set-up is pretty easy but you gotta set it up right for it to perform like a dream.
And as I always like to point out when discussing quality mounts, the tripod is a critical but often underemphasized requirement for high performance. My advice - simply don't skimp on a set of legs. Personally, I think ~$500 (new) is the "entry level" cost of a quality tripod for these mounts. I may get grief for saying this but I have tried a lot of tripods as well and when it comes to wood - Berlebach and AP/Baader set the standard IMO; and for CF - Gitzo 3 or 5 series.
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I'd say both the HH and Teegul are comparable in terms of effects on balance upon swapping accessories (EPs) with big weight differences. After all, they both work best when the OTA is very well balanced. I'm pretty much a BV user nowadays and the biggest swap for me is to go from a pair of Pan 24s to ZAOII's. The balance weight on the HH more than compensates for this difference.
Bear in mind though that while the HH may not be as tolerant of "imbalance" as the Teegul with tensioners (and the DM-6 especially), tensioning/drag on the bearing surfaces will always give you a "performance" hit whether you are talking about "stiction", friction or smoothness. The HH needs to be set up properly but set-up is easy and well worth it for the performance out the other end - at least it works for me. It would be tough for me to now go back to any other Alt/Az I suspect.
I see Charles has provided a much better explanation of the balance-friction issues than my meanderings allowed. He is the designer of the HH but I'm a user so I can at least vouch for what he is saying in terms of real world use.
Perhaps I should put it this way, I'm willing to give up a little in terms of tolerance for imbalance in order to obtain an unparalleled level of smoothness and balance along the range of the Alt axis (the latter is quite an accomplishment in my view).
Posted 10 May 2009 - 12:03 PM
BTW, the Traveller, bino-viewer, Half-Hitch is a work of art.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 09:39 PM
I do like slow motion controls for tracking at high power - the DM6 is smooth and very nice, but for me just not nearly as easy to track at high power, but then again it's probably because I crank up the tension enough to cover switching between a 2-4Nagler zoom and a 26T5. Personally, I find the idea of employing a brake when changing EP's to be fine rather than compromising the motion by cranking up the general tension.
I'm hoping at some point to see the HH in person and try it out - it certainly sounds like a fine mount!
Posted 11 May 2009 - 01:42 AM
I wouldn't worry about the "windbag" post. I've got both the DM-6 and the Lapides Teegul, and you've described both of them very accurately and very fairly as well. For anyone wanting to make a choice between the three mounts, your description is MUST reading in my opinion. I'm itching to get my hands on a Half Hitch sometime soon.
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Pashtunwali – The Code of the Pashtuns
I heard it said by a Pashtun that he has been a Pashtun for 5,000 years, a Muslim for 1430 years, and a Pakistani for 63 years. That is the power of the Pashtun identity, one of the oldest and largest ethnic/tribal groups in the world.
Forty million strong, Pashtuns mainly live in the Pashtun tribal belt which straddles the Afghan/Pakistan border.
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The attempt to extend the influence of a national government is antithetical to the Pashtun ways of living. Outsiders are rejected violently if they threaten to usurp the ancient ways.
In order to understand current events in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is imperative to understand the mores of this ancient tribe.
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His family is poor, his clothes used, but 15-year-old Ali Aqa isn't deterred: He plans to be a lawyer. Childhood memories include Taliban occupation of his village in Bamiyan. "They burned everything, even my school," he says. "I pray to God no regime comes like that again." We have now located him with the help of the UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan) and school officials. We are in the process of working with local educators to help him prepare to start his college education when he graduates from high school next year.
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I have my 20 wk U.S tomorrow a.m. I am so terrified it will be another boy! I feel awful .
I am soooo excited about tomorrow. But its just hit me, that I will no for SURE (most likely) tomorrow what the baby is. I have a 3 year old boy, who I hoped was a girl. And love him to death. But this is my last baby. And want a girl sooo bad and feel like it is a girl. She even has a name. But I know I will be heart broke when they tell me its a boy tomorrow. Pretty sure I will break down crying for sure. I want a healthy baby, but want even more.. a healthy baby girl!
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if it is healthy that is. wont know until the a.m. But you can not exactly control what stresses you out.posted 08/28/2012 by Semicute2000
Unfortunately you cant pick so why stress about it? I get that you want a girl but just be grateful that your pregnancy is healthy.posted 08/28/2012 by nikki4808
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Gynmastics: Gym-Zzouri results
Friday, November 15, 2013
Gym-Zzouri's gymnastics and cheer competition teams recently competed in Fall Fantastic meets.
The gymnastics individuals received the following awards:
• Recreational Level 4 Boys (achievement awards only on events and all around participation) — Sean Vegiard: 49.80 in the all around; Sean Lewis: 45.50 in the all around; Caleb Stangl: 53.10 in the all around.
• Girls Recreational Bronze Xcel (achievement awards only on events and all around participation) — Kira Brown: 35.70 in the all around; Bailey Braun: 33.40 in the all around; Molly Hensley: 33.20 in the all around; Bella Pierce: 32.90 in the all around; Lilly Hensley: 32.80 in the all around; Lydia Moore: 32.50 in the all around; Whitney Keil: 32.00 in the all around.
In the Cheer and Hip Hop competition, the following individuals got awards:
• First Senior Level 1 Cheer Team — Miranda Jeffries, GiGi Alonso, Justice Alonso, Faith Livingston, Cierra Graves, Jaidyn Nshunju, Jahanna Koestner, Onica Manuel, Lashona Chambers, Carsyn Chambers, Anastasia Chambers, Jayla Chambers, Jordan Lowery.
• Hip Hop, Gym-Zzouri First place Team — Jaidyn Nshunju, Jahanna Koestner, Lashona Chambers, Carsyn Chambers, Anastasia Chambers, Jayla Chambers, Brenda Willow, Alexandria Willow, Faith Livingston.
In the USA Gymnastics sanctioned Xcel competition, these awards were handed out:
• Silver Division, first-place team (99.60) — Hayley Jones: first vault, first bars, first beam, second floor, first all around (34.10); Audrey Muessig: third vault, second bars, second beam, first floor, second all around (33.90); Kailee Parker: second vault, third bars, third beam, third floor, third all around (31.60); Cierra Graves: fourth vault, fourth bars, fourth beam, fourth floor, fourth all around (30.70).
• Gold Divison, first-place team (101.65) — Victoria Hartman: second vault, second bars, first beam, third floor, first all around (33.95); Stephanie Miller: first vault, fourth bars, second beam, fourth floor, second all around (33.50); Betsy Morello: third vault, first bars, fifth beam, second floor, third all around (33.30); Tessa Uhlman: fourth vault, third bars, third beam, first floor, fourth all around (33.00); Autumn Kempker: fifth vault, fifth bars, fourth beam, fifth floor, fifth all around (29.10).
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text: Rig3 Design Doc ---- Current Workflow Note: this section describes the current internal workflow. Sections below in this document are historical records and may be obsolete. Summary: - Input blog posts are either Izumi (text with wiki-like syntax) or HTML. - Rig3 has two "expansion" mechanisms: A- Izumi files are text files that contains formatting instructions in brackets, e.g. "[label|http://link]". The IzuParser class knows how to convert these Izu files or strings to parial-HTML, which may contain template tags. B- The partial-HTML is then fed to the "template engine", which is a macro processor (i.e. like PHP or Django templates). Here the template is based on tags which are enclosed in double-brackets. There are tags to inject variables, do some computations or do conditional execution (for, if). - Pure-HTML posts do not go thru the template engine. - Wrapper templates are then available to generate full HTML or Atom pages from individual blog posts. Detailed version: 1- src/rig3.main: - ParseArgs - Run: - new Log - new SitesSettings: Load config file - ProcessSites 2- Process all Sites - for each site from config file: - new rig.site.CreateSite(settings for site) => this returns one of the classes in rig.site.site_xyz (SiteBase) - site.Process 3- Process one Site: - MakeDestDir - CopyMedia - for CSS files, transform using the template engine. - for all sources in the site's setting source list: - _ProcessSourceItems: - source.Parse => a generator of SourceItem (aka SourceFile, SourceDir, SourceContent) - for all SourceItems: - remove dups (by hashing on path/settings) - GenerateItem: transforms SourceItem into SiteItem - list of all SiteItems for this site (e.g. content for each post) - _GollectCategories - GeneratePages 4- GenerateItem: - Currently implemented only in rig.site.site_default for the photoblog - Input must be either SourceFile (one izu file = one blog post) or SourceDir (one directory with index.izu + pictures = one blog post) or SourceContent (one izu string = one blog post) - Parse date and title from file name or dir name - If there's an izu file, pre-render it to HTML (rig.parser.izu_parser.RenderFileToHtml) If there's an izu content, pre-render it to HTML (rig.parser.izu_parser.RenderStringToHtml) - Generates a list of tags: - Use date, title or categories from parsed izu tags, if any. - Generates a list of sections: - Expand sections using the template engine (rig.template.Template.Generate) - Expected sections: "html" (raw), "images" (image list), "en" (default), "fr". - Output is a SiteItem which contains a generator: - Take actual wrapping template - Take extra keywords - Merge with initial set of keywords - Generate actual HTML content Note that GenerateItem does not generate the final HTML as seen on the produced pages. What it does is transform Izu files (which represents "sections" of a final page) into HTML templates and then pre-process these templates (that's because some izu tags such as [rigimg] actually generate template code.) The new SiteItem contain a generator that will actually produce the final content based on the wrapping template (e.g. index page, month page, atom, etc.). 5- GeneratePages: - Input: list of all categories - Input: list of all SiteItems - Generates: - Month pages for "all" category, all items - Main index page for "all" category, with N most recents items and links to the month pages. - Atom feed page for "all" category, all items. - Same for each category (month pages, index of N most recent, atom feed) - For each page: - Filter input items based on desired categories - Compute keywords (e.g. title, URL, current category, filtered categories, etc.) - Generate SiteItem's content using the generator from #4 above - Collect all generated HTML - Feed to the wrapper template (e.g. index, month page, atom feed) - Write file ---- 20070827 Rig3 Rig3 is designed to be an over simplified version of the (dead) rig2. Here I'll first explain the main goal and then stages to get there, with the idea that the first stages will be as simple as possible to get started asap. Rig3 is not a server. It's a standalone python script that runs periodically on the server, parsing a directory tree that contains pictures and Izu files. It produces another directory tree ready to be served by Apache. The main target is to run this under Linux. Whenever possible make it OS agnostic (by using os.path.sep f.ex.) Whenever possible, the processing is going to be incremental, meaning one can expect that most of the source won't have changed between two invocations. It is thus essential to detect only what has changed and rebuild only what is necessary. There are two parts in Rig3: - The engine part is about processing files. - The application part is about generating the final content we care for. Both parts work together. The engine is just here to do whatever the application needs, and not much more. So let's see what application we want to do first: - The main output is a weblog, aka blog, with an entry page containing the last N new items. - Each item is either an Izumi text file (with possible images inserted) or an album view. - The source folders are organized as a hierarchy of directories with a date (either explicit from the folder name or implicit from the filesystem). - Each folder is a blog item and in the blog the structure is flat. - Parents folders are used to provide categories and index.izu files (or some kind of specific file) can provide additional tags. - Generated pages: - Page for the Most recent N items - Page for all items of category X - Each item should be generated as a bit of HTML, cached as an embeddable HTML file. - Each page is a collection of existing items. We can use .shtml on the server side (to be enabled in Apache) to link the separate items into a single page, or we could use AJAX. We'll start with the shtml approach for simplicity. - Use KID for templating the pages and the items. The engine should work like this: - First build a list of source folders to process and their associated destination. These objects should be "lazy" and not load their content unless really needed. - Detect which folders have changed, ideally using some simple heuristic such as the modification time. - Create or update the items corresponding to the changed folders. - Create or update the pages corresponding to the changed items. Stages: - Stage 1: - Ignore pictures (i.e. the album view will be a link to an existing Rig1) and only deal with folders that contain an index.izu. - Requires a new Izu formatter in Python that can embedded the Rig images. - Have global config vs sites configs. - Patterns for valid folder names - Settings for generating the Rig links - Generate .shtml for items and create pages that uses them. - Stage 2: - Remove obsolete destination items/pages - Generate embedded album views, with a link onto the full rig version. - Settings/patterns for image levels (unwanted/ignored, low/medium/good/excellent) - Experiment with AJAX instead of shtml (or provide it as an option) - Tags to be able to remove a given source folder from processing - Tags to generate .htaccess into destination Expansions: - Ability to generate on-the-fly obfuscated pages for sharing - can be done at first by symlinking the html on the web server ---- 20070827 Structure Stage 1 At root level: rig3/src: all. rig3/misc: this file. rig3/rig3.py -> src/rig3.py At src level: - settings.py: Load() from .rig3.rc f.ex (flat settings dict per site) - dirparser.py: Parse(dir) => list [ Dir( ... ) ] (recursive) - generate.py: Generate(site) - load source for site - compare to dest - generate or update items - keep links per type: last-n-page or page-cat-X (dict of list or dict of dict) - generate pages - izumi.py: ConvertToHtml(izu) - thumbnail.py: UrlForImage(file, quality, size) - cache.py: Store(type, name, ref), or update. Cleanup() ---- 20071020 Template System I started using the Kid XML Templating system and I'm not very happy with it. It's a fine piece of software and it does its job right. It's just not what I really want. One one hand it means templates have to be XML whereas I want templates to very free text. On the other hand by default it comes with a limited set of serializers, most pro-eminently XML or HTML, that is it will reformat documents accordingly -- and same here I just want something that does text replacement in a template, not reformatting. In the past I used the Django templating system with success and I liked it overall. It's only weakness is that it doesn't do HTML encoding by default, but that normal since it doesn't /have/ to be HTML templates. However Django does much more than just templates and I don't need all the rest. So I decided I will re-implement a minimalist templating system that does exactly and only what I need. The specs follow. Templates are free text with simple variable replacement. Templates contain tags, which are enclosed in double-bracket pairs: [[ ... ]] The first word after the opening bracket is the operation. Some tags can contain content, in which case the content will be after the tag and before the next [[end]] tag. By default we'll have: - [[# multi-line comment]] - [[for x in list]] ... [[end]] - [[include template.name]] - [[if cond]] ... [[else]] ... [[end]] - [[variable|filter|filter]] Unknown tag operations will be expected to be variables to be replaced in place, possibly after filtering. Variable expansion should also accept field access, e.g. var.property.value. For list, list.index (e.g. mylist.0); for dictionaries do a get; if property is a function it evaluates it without arguments; otherwise it's a field/property access. If the template extension is ".html", variables will by default be html-encoded unless a filter is present. The expected filters will be: - raw: The string is output as such. It's a no-op. - html: HTML-encode the string. This is an implicit filter for .html templates. - url: URL-encode the string. - %: Any of the "printf"-like formatting for strings (e.g.: [[count|%02x]] If you're familiar with Django, you'll notice this is basically the same templating system except it doesn't have the notion of "top template" with overridable blocks -- I prefer the usual top-down inclusion system. There could be potentially more tag operations and more filters, for example an "inc" filter, [[elseif]], date formatting, etc. Implementation: we just want one class, Template(filename). Included templates will be looked up in the same directory. The Template constructor should parse the template and validate it and thow a ParseException if needed. Then Template.generate(dictionary) will serialize the template to a string. Internally we shall parse the template into a structured tree. A node can be: - a list of nodes - literal: content - tag: tag name, parameters, optional node content - variable: name list (e.g. x.y.z), filter list Limitations: to keep things simply, we won't have variable expansion inside tag blocks. E.g. you can't write [[for x in [[y.somelist]]]], nor can you write [[myvar.[[selector]]]]. If we really had to, it wouldn't be too hard to support, but my experience is that this is rarely needed and I don't see the need for it -- I'm not writing the most universal templating system here, just the minimum for what I need. ---- 20071029 Template System, revisited I finalized a first shot at the implementation of the template system. I ended up implementing these tags: - [[# comment]] - [[for var in expr]] ... [[end]] - [[if expr]] ... [[end]] - [[expr]] Note that "expr" is exactly that: a free string evaluated as a python expression. For the "for", it's expected to return some iteratable (generator or list), for "if" it's interpreted as a boolean using "not not x" and the last one mean that any unrecognized tag is interpreted as an expression and then replaced as a string. Note the lack of [[else]] and [[elif]]. These are not really needed, just use several "if" tags. Initially I wanted to have filters a-la-Django for the free expressions, i.e. I wanted: - [[expr|raw]] - [[expr|html]] - [[expr|url]] With filter chaining, so you could say [[number|inc|html]]. However it's not really needed. Filters are just a Django idiom to call functions in a syntax that doesn't allow it. Instead you can just have a global "inc()" function and call it. I do want the raw/html/url encoding made explicit however, so I'm going to force them to create expression evaluation. [[expr]] is going away and being replaced by: - [[raw expr]] - [[html expr]] - [[url expr]] This also forces the template designer to make sure s/he's aware of when escaping is done... or not. Finally, I'm please with the free evaluation. It's much more elegant and convenient that forcing a syntax for variables and "if" tags. It has two downsides: first it makes it easier for a template designer to break the separation between code and template (i.e. the dogma of having no code in templates) and second it can be too powerful and be exploited, there's not much of a sandbox here. If you are developing a large-scale templating system like Django, these matter a lot. In my case, I prefer the expressiveness since I'm both the engine designer and the application designer, *and* my target is static sites generation. ---- 20071029 Application Now that the engine "framework" part of rig3 is more or less operational, even if very crude, it's time to focus on the application at hand. Each directory that contains a valid entry should have: - an index.izu or an index.html - zero or more photos Right now I'll ignore directories without an index (it can be empty although ideally I should have something.) Later I may add a more just for pictures. The index.html is for importing old entries from the previous blog. They are self contained and already contain pictures link as necessary. They are just imported as-is. However the index.html also contain an "izu header" on its first line (hidden in an html comment). The izu parser should be able to handle that and generate the tags as appropriate. Currently this header contains: - The full date (YMD/HMS) of the original post - The title - A category (currently empty because of a bug but can be fixed). Or more exactly a list of category keywords. - The author's name The izu index should have the following structure: - An izu header on the first line (same tags). - The date & title are optional. - If not present, the defaults extracted from the directory name will be used. - If present, they must override these defaults. - Sections: "en" (english), "fr" (french), "images", "notes". - Sections are optional. "en" is the default if not specified. - Sections are to be used in the template if present. The purpose of the sections is to further separate layout from content: even in the current HTML of the "old" wordpress blog, I have quite a bit of layout encoded in each post. By separating the layout, I can change the way sections are displayed after the fact, without having to edit back each entry. Some sections might be specialized. For example I'd like to have an "images" section with a list of images to display in this post and some layout logic that can display the images differently (for example a slideshow vs a grid, etc.) We'll start with a minimum set of izu tags and will expand later as needed. For the structure: - [izu:title:xyz] - [izu:date:YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS] - [izu:author:xyz] - [izu:cat:xyz1,xyz2,...] -- for catagories, can be empty - [izu:refuse] -- don't serve this entry at all, can be used for temporary stuff - [s:(en|fr|images|notes)] -- unknown sections should generate a warning - [!-- .. --] -- comments For izu tags (title, date, etc.), several version can be present. The last one takes precedence. However it should be customary to just place them on the first line. For the presentation: - __bold__ - ''italics'' - new lines for paragraphs - * for lists, without indentation. A list ends when there's an empty line. - ---- for an


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I'm barely here now. • Puppy's talk page • 11:15 20 Apr 2013
- Indeed...but why? --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 16:46, April 23, 2013 (UTC)
- Don't go. I only know of you through a pee review that you once did for me but that was enough to let me see that you are a great Uncyclopedian. Sir ScottPat UnS CUN VFH (talk) 16:50, April 23, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm working 50+ hours a week at the moment. I'm just exhausted. • Puppy's talk page • 09:25 23 Apr 2013
- But do you remember when Uncyclopedia was comic relief from work?! Spıke Ѧ 21:32 23-Apr-13
- I started editing here when I was unemployed, and for the last few years I've mainly been a phone jockey - thereby having a low work load and constant access to Internet at work. I'm back in management, so have to focus creative energy to get paid. I'll probably be back here regularly at some stage, but just not right now. • Puppy's talk page • 01:35 24 Apr 2013
- But do you remember when Uncyclopedia was comic relief from work?! Spıke Ѧ 21:32 23-Apr-13
- I'm working 50+ hours a week at the moment. I'm just exhausted. • Puppy's talk page • 09:25 23 Apr 2013
- Don't go. I only know of you through a pee review that you once did for me but that was enough to let me see that you are a great Uncyclopedian. Sir ScottPat UnS CUN VFH (talk) 16:50, April 23, 2013 (UTC)
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May, 4th 2013 - May the Fourth be with you! • Issue 182 • Sponsered by (and biased towards) the Rebel Alliance.
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Once again it is that time of year when we must take a day off to remember those who fought for the Rebels against the evil empire. As you know Uncyclopedia has a large Jedi community and to reach out to all our religious groups no matter how liberal they are we muast help them with their festivals.
What will you do on International Star Wars day? Perhaps you shall visit the temple and pray for the dead of Hoth? Perhaps you will use the force for good and strangle some politicians? Whatever it is that you want to do Uncyclopedia is there to support you.
One user who will remain nameless, is going to attempt to raise money for charity by speaking in Jedi for the whole day. The money he collects will go to
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Nobody has been handing out welcome messages to people recently signed with different admins names and nobody was concered by the huge discussion on a forum about it. Nobody would like to apolagise for this because to be quite frank Nobody did it. Many admins were getting quite frustrated that Nobody had done it as they had wanted to do the welcome messages instead.
It was later discovered by Spike that it wasn't Nobody (Nobody disagrees) that had done it (excuse my grammar) but that it was an automated Wikia message. This has caused some members of our community to vent even more frustration with Wikia however this newspaper would like to point out that Wikia has done a lot to benefit us and Nobody agrees that the welcome message (and content warning) has been very useful.
The fact that the message has now been stopped is thanks to the admins sorting the problem out with Wikia so on this note Nobody would like to thank the admins for their help in running this site.
Also Nobody cares about UnSignpost and Nobody is moved that there are a lack of articles submitted to UnSignpost to be featured in the newspaper. UnSignpost would therefore like to remind you that it is vital to support your community newspaper as it supports the community.
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Thanks for editing this so that it gives a signature. Sir ScottPat (talk) VFH UnS NotM WotM WotY 07:41, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
- I just undid it. I prefer a three tilde sig - the date stamp is incorporated into my signature. There's no easy way to have it change between three and four tildes for user preference though. • Puppy's talk page • 07:43 06 May 2013 <--three tilde
That's fine then. Thanks for your help though. Sir ScottPat (talk) VFH UnS NotM WotM WotY 07:45, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
- You could create a template of {{OD}} which would consist of the text of:
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- which, if my wiki-fu is correct, give you the result you are after. It's been a while since I played with subst'ing and noincludes/includeonlys in templates though, so I'm not promising it'll be perfect. • Puppy's talk page • 07:51 06 May 2013
- Okay - it has been done and tested. • Puppy's talk page • 07:54 06 May 2013
Ahhhh! Edit-conflict. I hate them. Anyway my point I was going to make is invalid now as you have already changed it. Thanks. Sir ScottPat (talk) VFH UnS NotM WotM WotY 07:56, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
- This should always be
{{subst:OD}}anyway. Given the text just comes from {{Oh Dear}} that'd probably be better off with better protection. • Puppy's talk page • 09:51 06 May 2013
I am glad you are taking a look at this. I have not been to the Wikipedia article on it--I visited Conservapedia itself, once, and found it more didactic than conservative--but the article strikes me as a total (featured) rant, about everything from being, yuck!, conservative, to being not conservative enough, to not banning people for the right durations, with vanity comparable to Poptropica and Red Hot Pawn when we encountered them. Spıke Ѧ 00:21 7-May-13
- I have a dislike of anything Schafly related. Conservapedia is the product of the youngest(?) Schafly, Andrew. Because of my personal dislike of the site I'm not too involved in that article, as I would become ranty myself. The core of this article was a parody of http://www.conservapedia.com/Uncyclopedia. The "ranty" aspect in that was taken as a parody of the source, as was the "too left leaning" concept. It could be stripped back to the original concept, as the concept has become muddled over time, but as I mentioned before, I may not be impartial enough to do this well. • Puppy's talk page • 12:32 07 May 2013
I have no such personal dislike, but I always hate parodying ranters by exaggerating the rantiness; it usually doesn't work, sometimes doesn't come across as parody at all, and the reader wonders what the writer's agenda really is: create comedy or destroy his adversary with the adversary's own words. I could eventually do it right, but this is a FA (gawd!) and there are bigger fish to fry. Spıke Ѧ 00:43 7-May-13
- Revert to featured version? We could probably improve it over time, but as an FA it means at that time it was considered one of our finest. (And I like the FA version myself.) • Puppy's talk page • 12:54 07 May 2013
Compared to the FA, the current version has some small corrections, and some helpful large deletions, including my own of today. I would delete the external links as well: one to Conservapedia and another advocating a "better" conservative website. Spıke Ѧ 01:13 7-May-13
- Oddly the Conservapedia page on Uncyclopedia links to the fork. Given how precious Conservapedia are about anyone not regular editing pages there I'm surprised that this edit got through. • Puppy's talk page • 11:00 07 May 2013
Fifty shades of grey
I just ran across your page Fifty shades of grey. Very creative (I was gone for most of 2012 and missed the feature). There is a vote on the newest content warning page, for a new content warning. Please have a look. Hope all has been well, and profitable, and then some extra things too. Aleister 1:45 9-5-'13
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May, 10th 2013 • Issue 183 • Uncyclopedia set to have a bright future. Sunglasses stocks are running low.
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A full week has passed since our last edition and the news is piling up, notably the story for which we'd "clear Page One" if we ever had more than one page: This week was just like last week. The only exeption being that more evidence has led certain users to believe that Uncyclopedia is being controlled by a higher power. The evidence is listed here:
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Aleister kicked off with bringing the topic into a conversation with SPIKE on a completely unrelated forum, SPIKE immediatly reacted by calling off play and deciding to move to another pitch as this one was too wet and reminded Aleister that this strategy had been used twice before to no avail.
Undetered Aleister replied by claiming that the first change worked but the second change reverted the content warning to the original and this time we'd get it right. Aleister then preceded to run up the pitch dribbling the ball through the midfielders. ScottPat ran down the wing screaming at Aleister to go for the goal now. Aleister who was about to storm off the pitch thanked ScottPat and continued.
Shabidoo then charged down the other wing hurling attacks at the original content warning defenders who seemed to be non-existant before swearing so much he collapsed into a ball. Startled ScottPat replied that he didn't want top have anything to do with anti-Wikia extremism and Aleister lined up the ball for the shot into goal.
Aleister placed the ball into the back of the net with a vote for the new content warning. ScottPat ran up to him patting him on the back and giving him a "for" followed by Simsie and Puppy. SPIKE then struck back attempting to shoot the ball into the back of the new content warning supporters' net with the opinion that readers don't care about the content warning although he saw that the other team were fierce and wrote to Wikia asking the content warning to be removed as it was no longer needed.
Aleister, Puppy and ScottPat defended against him with three replies while Mhaille ran up the pitch and saw a goal scoring oppurtunity with another content warning proposal however Scottpat was unsure that that oppurtunity would get them the goal that the team were aiming for. Puppy stood with the ball wandering whether to pass it to Mhaille afterall but remained indecisive.
That was a report of the game so far, more to come next week.
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May, 18th 2013 • Issue 184 • Vandalpedia strikes back! Luckily the Jedi will return.
Is it time to have a site-wide Competition?
A recent forum on village dump has brought the thought of having an article competition to the Uncyclopedian user masses. "Competitions would increase productivity of articles," claimed the forum writer ScottPat when interviewed by himself. Recent studies done by wikia authorities confirm this.
The idea would be to have a panel of experienced judges (probably admins) who could judge the articles submitted by users. By having three judges there would be less opinionation. The articles can then be given scores out of 50 just like on pee review with some comments. The overall winner could be given a template and so could the winner of each individual category. Categories could be based on: humour, content, parody humour, satire, images and so on.
If you would like to support this and want to have a competition then please do get in touch by voicing your opinions on the forum. This will surely help to make Uncyclopedia better and will be fun for everyone.
A Reflection on the Week
Summer holidays are coming and users seem to become more active. This shows that we are gradually recovering from the recent uneconomic downturn.
For example an unknown IP vandal who seemed to be sleeping for the whole year and whose only contributions were to add several quotes here and there, is fully awake now. During the last two days (to be more accurate: nights) he was trying to realize a very carefully planned attack. He has added several quotes to at least 20 pages on Uncyclopedia. His goal was to... Well, no one knows what his goal was because it has not been achieved and Uncyclopedia has neither lost its high morality, nor encountered a major crisis. To be honest, everything that the vandal did in an hour (probably), has been undone in ... several minutes. Those who saved Uncyclopedia from external enemies and whom we can thank are: Simsilikesims (as always), Spike, ScottPat, Frosty, Llwy-ar-lawr and...ahem... me.
Our advice to this person is to read Uncyclopedia:Vandalism is pointless, so he will not waste time and will maybe even begin making useful contributions.
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May, 29th 2013 • Issue 185 • Brought to you with help from a couple of Erwins.
PLS is back!
An agreement between a large part of the Uncyclopedian Community has come about that we are to hold a Poo-Lit Surprise contest at the end of June. The competition will be run by Romartus and the judges are yet to be chosen. Any queries about this competition can be asked here and one of the users involved shall get round to answering it.
The winner of the competition will receive a template and the usual crown of thorns and everyone will feel bitter about him for the rest of his time at Uncyclopedia. But in true cavalier spirit, it is not the winning that counts but the taking part. However if you are a roundhead you'd have planned your cheat strategy from the start and are probably very likely to win it.
HowTo:Care for Uncyclopedia so that it doesn't end up as degraded as Encyclopedia Dramatica.
A lot of things on Uncyclopedia are not what their title suggests (and sometimes exactly the opposite). For example, if a user understands the name of the Pee Review page literally, he will probably be deceived. Although we actually do deal with your waste but only with the virtual one.
In addition to this, few people do dirty work nowadays and that is why everything you leave may not be sent back to you. 8 articles need to be reviewed. Here is the link.
Therefore Uncyclopedia is changing. The Village Dump is actually becoming such. A lot of topics are not even worth discussing and even if they are, they can easily be moved to someone's talk page.
A lot of Uncyclopedians want to laugh on every page possible and now they find it hard on our Forum. That is why they are protesting against boring and not useful issues such as Creative Commons or Content Warning. But those users (although very active) have refused to answer our reporters' questions because of their shyness. This is why this conclusion maybe different from theirs.
Also our friend The Reverend is spreading his spiritual wisdom around Uncyclopedia in the form of proofreading so that he may enlighten us all and show us how to write properly.
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Sir ScottPat (talk) VFH UnS NotM WotM WotY 08:24, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
Australia has old coins up North
Yes it does. Hello, long time no bark. Hope all is well. ATS had a thread on 1,000 year old coins being found in North Aussie, and they probably bought a lot of spiders. To business. It seems as if the new content warning idea of Brother ScottPat and Brother Aleister may be set for center stage, although we have no real page to put up. If you have a few minutes can you play around with it? Thanks!!!! The exact language voted on is:
- 1)To contain the words "Content warning. Some of this encyclopedia's pages may not be safe for work or school, and some are unsuitable for children."
- 2)Which would be followed by the two enter or not buttons.
- 3)The light background be a picture of an academic institution or temple, this picture here, just lighter and enlarged (or engourged - i.e. Shaibadoo)
So if this is any use to you, please do some magic(k) and see what works best as to color of the lettering, if the button can somehow be placed onto the lawn of the pic, etc. You of course can play with the colors, size, fonts, etc., and do a bang-up job. No hurry (seriously, no hurry) and see if you can work a link to this in somewhere. Thanks from all of us here at uncyclopedia, your friendly neighborhood encyclopedia. Aleister oo:41 4-6-'13
- 1,000 years? A little surprising, but it's surmised that the Dutch had been to Australia long before the English, and there are maps dating back even further that show part of the northern coastline, so reasonable to assume there were visitors previously. Australian Aboriginies would have no use for coin though, so if coins had been left with them they probably would have been discarded.
- Not much that needs to be done on the CW. Can't get that link in there though, mores the pity. I'll have a go at something tonight my time. • Puppy's talk page • 01:04 04 Jun 2013
- Here is the link to the 1,000 year old coin thread. I haven't read deeply into it, but have marked it for future reading material. If you look at it again, as always, it's best to log in there to escape some of the ads. Thanks for considering putting something together. Maybe the pic doesn't have to be very light, or can just stay as it is. Is there an easy way to redo the pic with a "hole" cut onto the lawn where the button can be placed? Anyway, to make the site look academic and respectable would be quite the sleight of hand, and maybe a good mock-up will convince the no-comment-sayers to see the potential of finally doing away with some of the controversy about the warning label. I still think the 1,000 year old coins were used to buy spiders. That just seems the most obvious thing to buy with coins back then, except for women and rocks. Aleister 2:20 4-6-'13
- Er… I may have gotten busy. • Puppy's talk page • 04:23 08 Jun 2013
- Here is the link to the 1,000 year old coin thread. I haven't read deeply into it, but have marked it for future reading material. If you look at it again, as always, it's best to log in there to escape some of the ads. Thanks for considering putting something together. Maybe the pic doesn't have to be very light, or can just stay as it is. Is there an easy way to redo the pic with a "hole" cut onto the lawn where the button can be placed? Anyway, to make the site look academic and respectable would be quite the sleight of hand, and maybe a good mock-up will convince the no-comment-sayers to see the potential of finally doing away with some of the controversy about the warning label. I still think the 1,000 year old coins were used to buy spiders. That just seems the most obvious thing to buy with coins back then, except for women and rocks. Aleister 2:20 4-6-'13
Forum:Rollback with custom Change Summary
Wasn't it you who originally asked for this? Spıke Ѧ 11:20 8-Jun-13
PS--Help! Furry's code is willing to modify the RecentChanges report rather than take you to a different page. But I can't see it! On my PC I have:
/* MAKE ROLLBACK LEGEND INTO A SYMBOL */ .mw-rollback-link A { ... background-image: url(Graphics/Rollback.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; }
Furry changes the text of the
A and removes the
href. What it seems I need to do is put something after A to not apply to all
.mw-rollback-link A. But I don't know how to do it. Spıke Ѧ 19:10 8-Jun-13
- Hey man. Been busy as crazy. Don't quite follow what you're looking for - what's the outcome you're after? • Puppy's talk page • 10:00 10 Jun 2013
How do I modify the selector in the above CSS to restrict it to <A> for which the text is
rollback, or for which there is no
href? Spıke Ѧ 11:08 10-Jun-13
- Ah. The first option is - as far a I'm aware - impossible, or close enough to make it too difficult to do reasonably. The HTML DOM doesn't recognise the text in a hyperlink as part of that element. When BB and I were looking at the patrol changes issue we had a similar issue, which we ended up getting around by doing a text match to the actual link itself. The second may be doable, but I'm not sure off the top of my head - I'm scattershot at js at the best of times. TBH, I don't know that I have the time to investigate at the moment - literally working every chance I have. • Puppy's talk page • 11:15 10 Jun 2013
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June, 14th 2013 • Issue 186 • This newspaper may not be able to tell you who Denza but then it can't tell you much anyway!
UnToon Project start-up
A certain user is scooping the competition by revealing here that a heretofore unknown group of users has been accumulating subversive UnDocuments containing UnToons, fresh off the Strip Generator. It is rumored that as many as 7 or 16 separate comics, with characters seen here before, are in this file.
Once a certain sum of comic strips are accumulated, this gruntled group intends to release some sort of public statement, proposing the reinsertion of UnToons into UnNews front page.
There is very little information on these people, other than they make some of us nervous.
Another rumor is that this group is looking for submissions of cartoons, to be brought to the attention of a certain Reverend Zim, who has been abducted and forced to work with the group. There may be something posted at the Village Dump, where sympathetic users may make contact. Until then, folks can contact Zim at his talk page.
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All the formerly missing admins suddenly begun returning one by one and different Uncyclopedians have lately admired the resurrection of our Justice (literally).
And, although, the VFH page is becoming shorter and shorter to the great joy of our rivals (do we even have any?), the list of the Pee review requests has almost hit our record and a group of unvestigators have discovered that an average admin is now a way more active than all the normal users, there are still some good news (if you don't consider the very first one to be such).
For example, after a long period of Darkness several VFH entries have received more than 10 votes
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I'm with you on this, Matty. I was hoping Reggie would grab Watkins, but the more I see of Mack, the more I feel like Reggie made the best choice he could make. Even if Watkins was still available, I'd still be happy with this pick. Let's hope Reggie's mojo holds through the rest of the Draft.
Matty Raider:
Absolute home run with the #5 pick!
I came unglued when Jax took Bortles, knowing we were getting Watkins or Mack.
The more I watch on Mack, the more excited I get. Him and Sio and our LB tandem for the future. Love it.
Glad we replaced Houston on the line with Mack....solid defensive player that I hope will have a smooth transition into a successful career in the NFL with the most Feared Silver&Black! GO RAIDERS!!!
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I agree. We should take Sammy Watkins at #5. Dont trade down. Reggie has a hard time with draft picks. I say go for the best available at the fifth pick.
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--- Quote from: houston raider on May 02, 2014, 11:21:02 AM ---The Oakland Raiders need to Draft Wide receiver Sammy Watkins (from Clemson) with the number 5 pick. Don't make a trade with the 49ers so they can get the number 5 pick!!!I can't state this ENOUGH!!! Sammy Watkins will be the NEXT Tim Brown...Lets Do IT!! Don't trade the #5 pick away!!
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