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There's something satisfying about making your own staples - pasta, preserves or bread. These pitas are great for a light meal, fit well into school lunches and are easily dressed up for smart finger food. Roll out larger or smaller balls of dough for more substantial, or more elegant, portions.
This is a simple dough, a bit like pizza dough, but the results are quite impressive, producing light and airy pitas. They are at their best when freshly cooked, but also heat up well and are highly versatile.
5g dried yeast (or 1 sachet, or 1 tsp)
10g castor sugar (or 2 tsp)
1 tsp salt
250g plain, unbleached flour
50g fine semolina
½ tbsp olive oil
1. Dissolve the yeast and sugar in 65ml of warm water and set aside, covered, for 15 minutes (the mix will expand, so use a medium-size container). Dissolve the salt in 125ml of cold water.
2. Put the flour and semolina in a large bowl and mix. Make a well in the centre and add the yeast mixture, the olive oil and the salted water. Work until a dough is formed.
3. Knead with your hands in the bowl or on a bench (or in a mixer with a dough hook if you have one) for about 10 minutes, dusting with more flour if the mixture is too sticky. The dough should be smooth and elastic.
4. Shape the dough into a ball and place back in the mixing bowl, cover with a damp tea towel and place in a warm area to rise (or over a bowl of hot water to speed the process). The dough is ready when it has doubled in volume - about 40 minutes.
5. Punch down the risen dough and knead for one minute. Divide into pieces about the size of an egg and roll into little balls. Leave to rest for five minutes under a damp tea towel.
6. Once rested, roll the balls into discs on a floured surface to about half-centimetre thickness. Prick the dough with a fork in several places.
7. Heat a frying pan or the flat top of a barbecue. Add a dash of olive oil (add more oil for every second pita) and cook the dough over high heat for a couple of minutes on each side until it bubbles and is lightly browned.
8. Once cooked, stack the pita breads two high on a clean tea towel, then cover with another tea towel and allow to cool a little.
Tip This recipe can be multiplied, and any leftover cooked pita breads can be stored in a plastic bag in the fridge for a day or two (a minute each side in a hot, dry pan refreshes them well) or frozen for later use.
Makes 8-10 medium pitas (15-20 small)
Moorish pork skewers with black olive and orange salsa
These pork skewers crackle with spice and are perfectly complemented by the tangy salsa, cooling quark and fresh herbs. They're ideal for a barbecue and, if you plan to over cater, they'll make tomorrow's dinner fuss-free.
80ml extra virgin olive oil
1kg pork loin, cut in 2cm-3cm dice
Salt flakes
6-8 freshly cooked medium pitas
200g quark (a fresh cheese, similar to cottage cheese, but you can substitute Greek yoghurt or fromage frais)
½ bunch picked mint
½ bunch picked coriander
Spice mix
1 fresh bay leaf
2 tbsp coriander seeds
1½ tbsp cumin seeds
2 tbsp fennel seeds
1½ tsp smoked paprika
2 pinches saffron, activated in 1½ tbsp boiling water
5 cloves garlic
1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tsp chilli flakes
Zest of ½ an orange, grated on a Microplane
Orange and black olive salsa
1 red capsicum, roasted then finely diced
½ red onion, finely diced
1 clove garlic, grated on a Microplane
½ tsp cumin seeds
2 oranges, peeled, segmented and
chopped into pieces
2 red chillies, finely diced
8 black olives, pitted and finely chopped
100ml extra-virgin olive oil
1. For the spice mix, shred the bay leaf and grind with the seeds in a mortar and pestle until pulverised. Add the remaining ingredients (including the saffron and the water from the saffron) and continue to grind until very well crushed.
2. Stir the 80ml of oil through the spice mix and rub onto the pork. Marinate for two hours in the fridge.
3. For the salsa, mix all the ingredients in a medium bowl and season.
4. After marinating, season pork with salt and thread onto eight to 10 metal skewers. Grill or barbecue (or pan-fry) for four to six minutes on high heat. Be careful not to overcook, as the loin will dry out quickly.
5. Serve the pork on a warm pita with a dollop of quark, salsa, mint and coriander.
Serves 6-8
Drink Fiano, preferably full bodied.
Pita with crab, egg, soft herbs and caperberries
This is a great cutlery-free entree for entertaining outside. You can set up a little assembly line of the toppings and cook or reheat the pitas on the flat top of the barbecue. They're really simple to put together but loaded with sophisticated flavours.
1 white salad onion, finely sliced
1 tsp castor sugar
Salt flakes
Juice of 1 lemon
10 freshly made small pitas
About ¼ jar quality mayonnaise
300g cooked Australian crabmeat (available vacuum-packed or in a tub from the fishmonger), drained of any liquid
5 eggs, hard boiled, then sliced in rounds
½ bunch of chives, chopped
Fresh tarragon leaves
10 caperberries (in jars at the supermarket)
Cayenne pepper
1. Place the onion in a small bowl with the sugar, salt and lemon juice. Mix through and set aside for about five minutes to allow the onion to soften.
2. Put the warm pitas on plates or a board and top with a small of dollop of mayonnaise, then the crab flesh, trying not to break it up too much.
3. Finish with the egg, chives, the softened onion, tarragon leaves, caperberries and a good sprinkling of cayenne pepper. Serve.
Serves 10
Drink Crisp, young riesling.
Photos by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik.

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I am so completely in love with the smell of Fresh's Pomegranate Conditioning Hair Rinse! I walk by my bathroom closet and smell it at least once a day (that I'll admit to). It's a little pricier at $24 for 8.8 ounces, but it works like a charm. I found that it's not the best detangler in the world, but it is a fantastic conditioner. It leaves my dry, curly hair soft and smooth and shiny. My favorite thing to do though is work a small bit of this into my hair while it's wet as a leave-in conditioner.


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From ErlangCentral Wiki
You want to read the lines from a file and store them in a list, efficiently.
I read somewhere a while back, possibly in Joe Armstrong's book that an alternative, efficient approach for converting the file contents to a list is to read the file into a binary, since that is a BIF routine, and then converting the binary to a list.
-module(reader). -export([readfile/1]). readfile(FileName) -> {ok, Binary} = file:read_file(FileName), Lines = string:tokens(erlang:binary_to_list(Binary), "\n").


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After elections come more elections.
On Saturday—just over a month after the Nov. 6 election—the Republican Party of New Mexico selected its new figurehead: a tall, deep-voiced Lincoln County party chairman who candidly urged his fellow partisans to do some "soul searching."
"We have permitted our conservative partnerships to fall apart, due in most part to self-interest, infighting and, to some degree, neglect," John Billingsley, 67, told the crowd. "We must care about the good of the party as a whole. We will fail in our future endeavors if we don't care about each other."
Billingsley's comments hint at the crisis within the party. Despite its firm hold on the governor's seat and the high-dollar, sometimes high-handed role of conservative super PACs in the recent election, many in the party say it's in danger of losing ground.
Earlier this year, Republicans hoped to win control of the state House of Representatives and make a dent in the Democrat-controlled Senate. With super PACs freed from state campaign contribution limits, they saw the potential to funnel millions into state and local races, as did Democrats.
The spending happened, but the results didn't. Republicans lost ground in the House and did poorly in national races. On top of that, unprecedented spending by conservative super PACs created a profound rift among New Mexico Republicans. Now, the party faces a new question: Can it recover its dominance of state races—or are official party committees an anachronism in the age of super PACs?
Billingsley's election, with nearly 70 percent of the party vote, was a litmus test. He speaks compellingly of the need for change; he's penned op-eds lamenting the top-down nature of campaigns that fail to incorporate "direct personal engagement" with voters.
Many in the old guard of the Democratic and Republican parties are still trying to adjust to the new normal of outside groups spending unlimited cash in campaigns. Even Republicans, who have a legislative history of opposing campaign finance restrictions, are looking for more transparency from super PACs. Although super PACs operating in the state must disclose their donors, disclosure standards do not always answer questions about who's giving, why they're giving and where the money goes.
"Unfortunately, where all the parties are becoming transparent—or need to be transparent—the PACs are not," Billingsley tells SFR. "And that's not always good for the public."
This year, according to campaign finance data filed with the New Mexico Secretary of State's office, Reform New Mexico Now, a super PAC run by top Gov. Susana Martinez adviser Jay McCleskey, raised more than any other political action committee, flooding the state with $2.4 million. The identities of its contributors—including oil companies and wealthy, out-of-state businessmen—are listed on campaign finance reports. But unlike the Republican Party, Reform doesn't hold elections or publish an official platform. Like many super PACs around the country, it is fast, lithe—it formed a week before the primary and may dissolve now that the election is over—and able to raise unlimited funds as long as it remains independent of candidates and official campaigns.
In essence, all it takes to influence a race is one well-connected guy who can raise a few hundred thousand dollars. In the online campaign finance system maintained by the New Mexico Secretary of State, there's no way to tell how a super PAC spends that money without combing through each individual report—and no verification that they're real companies [news, June 20: "Black Drops"].
All of this can lead to a crisis of confidence in candidates, campaigns and the electoral process.
"I think that's what troubles most people: the lack of transparency," Jamie Estrada, a former US Commerce Department official under George W Bush, tells SFR. Reform, he says, confused some Republicans by undermining certain GOP candidates rather than supporting them.
Estrada says that, if Billingsley lives up to his agenda, the state Republican Party can forge more long-term relationships and work on grassroots development.
But old-fashioned outreach may be no match for super PACs' fundraising abilities. In 2010, political action committees controlled by party officials were the top PAC spenders, according to SFR's analysis. The Republican Campaign Committee of New Mexico spent $1.5 million—the second-most of any PAC that year, after the Republican Governor's Association of New Mexico 2010 PAC, which spent $1.7 million. (The Democratic Party of New Mexico's political committee and the Democratic Governor's Association came in third and fourth.)
Yet just two years later, the system has been upended. This year, two super PACs—Reform and the liberal Patriot Majority New Mexico—topped PAC spending, pouring $2.4 million and $1.3 million into the state, respectively. The RCCNM, by contrast, spent roughly $252,000—a mere fraction of what it did in 2010. The Democratic Party also significantly scaled back its campaign spending.
Martin Suazo, a Democratic Party vice-chairman for the 3rd Congressional District, says the state Democratic Party didn't do a lot for the presidential election this year because it doesn't have the super PACs' ability to "raise mega dollars."
"I most definitely think that super PACs right now and their ability to fundraise are kicking us, you know, all over the place," he says.
As a result, "both parties have been marginalized," says Janice Arnold-Jones, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District. "So what this last election showed…is that entities can come in, in the name of a party, literally, and say, 'We're the Democratic Party,' 'We're the Republican Party'—and use the name, but in fact have no stake in the people that that party represents. I think that's a mistake. I think that's a real mistake."
Arnold-Jones voted for campaign finance limits as a state lawmaker. In 2009, the Legislature successfully passed contribution limits for candidates, parties and super PACs. Currently, however, those limits are being considered by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver—after New Mexico Republicans sought to dismantle them.
For now, it seems that super PACs will continue to have a role in campaigns. Hours after being nominated, even Billingsley struck a conciliatory tone.
"A lot of people have construed the fact that I'm anti-Jay McCleskey simply because I have said that the party needs to be autonomous...," he told SFR after being elected party chairman. "I'm actually not anti-Jay McCleskey. I'm not anti-strategist at all. They have a very positive aspect in our political arena, and that aspect in their role is to get their candidates elected. And they will, at all times, do anything and everything. Sometimes they get a little overzealous."
But such zeal may also define the party's way forward.
"I think what we're learning is that the messenger is just as important as the message," Estrada says. "[Reform] upset a lot of people. And I think that's why people are trying to rebel against this a little bit and say, 'You know what? We need a really strong Republican Party.'"


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I have a webpage with lots of accented characters from different languages. In IE8, sometimes the page loads fine but sometimes selected accented characters (i.e. á, í, é, ð) come up as boxes. It seems completely random whether it works or not - just reloading the page without making any changes can show different results.
In my HTML header, I use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
At the start of the PHP code, I use
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
Any tips on why it's intermittently working like this?
Some way for us to replicate the problem you are facing will help us to help you.
I tried posting a link in my original post but it wouldn't let me. The URL is skepticalscience dot com/translation.php
I have reloaded the page 20 times a row in IE8 seeing several boxes without seeing any change as described.
What am I supposed to be looking for? How are we to experience your issue?
Thanks for the response and sorry it's a tricky issue. It's like taking a faulty appliance to the repairman, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, it seems completely random I've been hitting reload here. Sometimes it shows weird characters like this:
�El sol ha estado enfri�ndose o calent�ndose en las �ltimas d�cadas?
Sometimes the same line displays fine:
¿El sol ha estado enfriándose o calentándose en las últimas décadas?
Sometimes clicking on one of the links then hitting back toggles from one to the other. Could it be a caching issue?
BTW, now I'm up to 5 posts, the link is http://www.skepticalscience.com/translation.php and an example of a subpage is http://www.skepticalscience.com/translation.php?a=8&l=2
Do you experience the same trouble with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, or other browsers than Internet Explorer?
Works fine in Mozilla - doesn't seem to do any weird characters upon reloading. Only seems to happen in IE8. Do you see the bad characters or do all the accented characters display ok for you?
Page: http://www.skepticalscience.com/translation.php?a=8&l=2
blue title - box instead of accented textpink background - has accented textgreen title - boxes instead of accented textblue background - boxes instead of accented text
No amount of refreshing/reloading shows any changes to what is accented and what are boxes.
When I got your message, I went to the page and saw the same thing.
I hit reload and all the boxes disappeared, the accented text displayed okay
This is in IE8.
Just noticed similar problem in Mozilla. First loaded the page, the accented characters showed up not as boxes but some other weird character. Hit reload, they worked okay. Hit reload again, back to broken and multiple reloads stays broken. Left it for a minute, went to IE, came back to Mozilla, hit reload, fixed again. So both browsers reporting similar issue.
Do you see same problem in both browsers?
I don't have Firefox on this box, but have Google Chrome 4
With Chrome, I see all the proper accents, no boxes at all, even after many refreshes.
Edit: and going back, I do see the boxes with Chrome.
We need to find out what is happening with the title first.
How is it stored in the database, how is it accessed, what happens to it on the way to the page.
It's stored in a MySQL database. The MySQL charset is UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
I access it via basic query with no encoding or decoding:
SELECT * FROM translation WHERE ArgumentId = ".$GET['a']." AND LanguageId = ".$GET['l']
I then output with simple echo (I use a $db class), again no encoding or decoding:
echo "<title>".$db->Record['Argument_Title']."</title>";
There is a way to convert a string into its component hex values, but it slips my mind at the moment.
That information within an HTML comment for the header would allow us to tell us where the difference lies.
If the display of the text changes while the hidden comment shows the same hex codes, it's something about the browsers at hand.
if the display of the text changes an the hidden comment shows different hex codes, we need to investigate the php code more closely.
The hidden comment is exactly the same as the displayed text. This seems to point towards a server side issue. As a bit of a speculator, I tried usingthe php function utf8_encode() and fingers crossed, it seems to be displaying all the text at http://www.skepticalscience.com/translation.php okay. Does it look good to you?
No, that's not it, it still toggles on and off. However, I have isolated the problem by looking at the raw database.
Accents that are prone to going wrong use the accented characters in the raw database: characters like ä. However, whenever it uses HTML code for the character (eg - ä instead of ä), it works fine. So a hack solution would be to go thru the entire database and replace any accents with the HTML code version of each character. Or I could figure out why sometimes the browser shows the character ok and sometimes it doesn't. If no other option presents itself, will have to go the hack option.
If it was changing back and forth like you say, without you doing anything, you have some other issue.
Are you using persistent database connections?Messing with iconv or mbstring extension, or their settings?
I don't know what persistent db connections are, or iconv or mbstring extensions - so I'm guessing no. I think it makes a fresh db connection each time the page loads.


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Im not sure on how about going on this logic for this game. The game is Flood it.
my repo:
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Basically the idea is.... the top left block color is the starting position/color. And you change your color to touching blocks colors to consume them. The goal being that by before 25 turns, you have the entire board all one color, otherwise you lose.
Ive got the basic UI setup. Im just not sure on how to go about the logic for changing your color to nearby color blocks? Ive sat here for a bit drawing on a white board how to come to a conclusion with this, but i end up getting no where. For some reason i think i am over thinking this, and the answer is simple.


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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by 1LoneWolf75, Nov 16, 2012.
Oh what fun! Little girls learn to wrap their Dad's around their little pinky finger sooo quickly! Congrats!
Congratulations though you may find out at birth it's a boy anyway
Two girls and one boy????
Well, Congratulations.
Girls can sometimes shoot as well as boys!!.
When's the due date?
congradulations to you and yours!!!
Thanks all. Due late march to early april. Doc says april 2 we say march 22. One or the other kids were born on 2nd and 22nd curently. Yes girls can shoot as well as boys and my daughter enjoys it as much as my son does
We'll be watching for the pictures and stats.
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember when we found out my wife was having twin girls. That was a great day for me. I spent all day yesterday and today in the deer blind with them. They are now almost 16 and both love to shoot and hunt. What more could I ask for?


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Authorities say 20-year-old Camilia Terry will be arraigned Thursday morning on an aggravated murder charge prior to her case being forwarded to a grand jury.
Terry is accused in the death of her 3-year-old son Emilliano, whose body was found in trash bags at a waste processing center near their apartment Monday.
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Our hometown Hoensbroek in the south of The Netherlands was liberated by Amercan soldiers in september 1944. In the month January and February was a black american soldier stationed in a part of our town, nearby the railway-station Hoensbroek. His last name was Brooks. This black american soldier was a truck-driver, most times he had a job in transporting ammunition. At the end of february he and his collegues breaked-up for the route in to Germany, that part of Germany called the Eifel and as destination the small city of Raeren.
My mother (her address in those day was Prins Hendrikstraat in Hoensbroek) had a close love-relation with this soldier Brooks. Now we're looking for many years for some answers: What is the first name of this liberation-hero Brooks, what is his day of birth and what is his town of birth. And specially: Did soldier Brooks survived this world-war II?
No way we can get answers on our questions.... we are searching for years, dozens of years....please, please, please, can anyone help us and giving us the answers. Maybe soldier Brooks is stille alive and reads this, that would be a miracle, or is there a old-collegue of this soldier brooks who can help???/ We would be very kind to heare.
Possibly are the next records correct and was soldier Brooks during the first two months of 1945 a member of the
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Flash Player 11 in Early October, Says Adobeby Andrew Cunningham on 9/21/2011 9:02 PM EST
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quiksilvr - Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - linkWe were begging Adobe for years to improve flash. Within two years of Apple complaining about it, they have enabled:
1. Hardware video decoding
2. Multiple monitor full-screen support
3. Impressive CPU and memory efficiency
And now with 11, they finally (FINALLY) got 64-bit support. But it begs the question...why did it take Apple's pushing to do this? Reply
Capt Caveman - Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - linkB/c not only Apple but Google and Microsoft don't want to deal with Flash and looking to move away from it. It may be too late for Adobe. Reply
B3an - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkGoogle support Flash. They include it in there browser, they admit the web needs flash for certain things, many of there sites use it, and it's one of the bigger selling points for Android.
Only a fool would think that HTML5 can completely replace Flash when it cant even do half of the things, and even when it can it often runs worse. Flash also gets new features every year, it will always remain ahead.
And in the article it says:
"the Unity Web Player is already driving 3D games in browser windows today"
...Unity 3D dev software will soon have Flash support. No one will use the Unity Web player when Flash can now do all this and is far more popular. This article also fails to mention that Flash Player 11 now has access to DirectX on Windows, and OpenGL on any other OS. It can literally do console level graphics in the browser, as anything DX/OpenGL can do, Flash can now do. Reply
FaaR - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkIt won't matter how much flash can do, it's still destined for obsolescence because nobody except some flash developers and Adobe themselves really like it.
Also, regardless how feature-packed it is, it'll always be an additional source of browser-crashing bugs and a vector for exploits (and Adobe has always been piss-poor at dealing with both of those), and millions of people will continue using ancient flash versions with severe glitches and gaping security holes for years to come.
THAT is the legacy of Crap - er, sorry, Flash. Reply
Bozzified - Saturday, September 24, 2011 - linkNonsense.. most people actually like Flash because it offers so many things.. Not only consumers for games and video but actually businesses too.
Google supports flash FULLY because they know that HTML5 still can't replace Flash and won't for many years to come.
Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.0 put Flash platform lightyears ahead of HTML5 again and are already becoming de-facto standard for awesome 3D games online and for mobile/tablets.
Just look at Machinarium, the best selling game on iOS. Made completely in Flash.
Only Apple fanboys and those developer who never learned Flash and are now hoping they will have more work with HTML5 are whining about Flash dying.
The reality is that plugins have brought revolution to the web. And are absolutely needed to push the boundaries of HTML since W3C and web standards evolve at a snail pace. It took them 15 years to get HTML to the point of not being a mess and have changed 10 times the direction (XHTML, HTML, DHTML etc).
This is why plugins have a tremendous value and Flash is really the only ubiqutous plugin that pushes the boundaries with every single release.
HTML5 and JS are nowhere near close to full 2D and 3D GPU acceleration. If you mention WebGL, I'm gonna burst from laughing.
And let's not get into tools or lack there of from HTML5.
It is great that HTML5 can now do some very basic things we had to use Flash and for that, it's a welcome addition, but now Adobe can concentrate on going forward and bringing even more advanced features, native apps and so on with Flash/AIR Platform and they are doing a KILLER job.
Only an idiot would kill a superior technology on account of HTML5 just because it can do 30-40% of what Flash can.
Tell me, if you think Flash should be done, than you almost certainly want h.264 to be out too right? Cause, h.264 is a proprietary technology/codec and even worse than Flash actually requires licensing in use.
There is value in proprietary technologies. Just because something is open doesn't mean it's better. Reply
realmike15 - Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - linkI've given up on Flash at this point. HTML5 is so much more superior, it's just a matter of time. It's amazing how many problems are related to Flash when you look at the whole picture.
There's no reason for Flash to continue, Adobe had their chance and instead they decided to err on the side of corporate greed instead of customer service. At this point, aside from Photoshop and Lightroom... I'm Adobe free. Reply
Paul Tarnowski - Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - linkGod, I should charge Adobe extra for all the times I've had to go on a service call to clear out a virus that got in through Flash. Sure, the user shouldn't click on everything, but why the hell is flash so open to exploitation in the first place?
No, the platform may not be on it's last legs, but it will be replaced. There's no way to avoid it. These improvements, though welcome, are just delaying the downfall. Reply
Bozzified - Saturday, September 24, 2011 - linkYou got virus through Flash? What a bunch of bullshit. I have not heard a SINGLE person that got a virus through Flash. You are just a liar. Reply
tenchymuyo2 - Sunday, September 25, 2011 - linkI think there was only one instance of a virus through flash and it was an extremely minor one. SWF/LFM-926 came around when it was still called Macromedia Flash. Nowadays when Adobe puts out an update, sites like YouTube and others install it immediately and refuse access to users whose computers aren't likewise upgraded.
Now there ARE those video boxes on sites (usually the naughty ones) that resemble a flash video but in reality are .exe files in disguise. Clicking those will certainly infect a system without warning. Reply
erple2 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkSounds like a grand idea. But there's just as many "problems" with HTML5 (though of a slightly different nature) - not all browsers support all of HTML5. And that includes mobile phones (arguably the market that's pushing HTML5).
Looking at the current crop of browsers, none of them fully support HTML5. Some are better than others, but none are 100%. The ones that are closest to 100% (Chrome, Safari) I'm pretty sure aren't even close to being "supported", at least from the perspective of business in this country (given that the vast majority of businesses use IE - heck, my company still uses IE7 and 8, only just recently having switched off IE6, and we don't get admin rights to install a better browser - they even block the Chrome download page at the firewall).
So you're just trading one set of problems for another... Until everyone uses a fully compliant HTML5 browser, it's going to remain Flash for the future. Reply
name99 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkYour argument makes no sense.
"Looking at the current crop of browsers, none of them fully support HTML5." Oh, as opposed to the way they ALL (Mobile Safari, Mobile IE10) support Flash? Many of those mobiles that supposedly do support Flash do it badly. Not to mention that all Macs now come without Flash installed --- how many users bother to add it --- and with Win 8 the same will be true of Windows.
The HTML5 trajectory is up, the Flash trajectory is down. As a programmer or a web site, you can choose whether you want to be part of the future or part of the past. Reply
Bozzified - Saturday, September 24, 2011 - linkHTML5 trajectory is up and will always be bigger than Flash because HTML5 is next HTML. Every single page on the web is HTML5. What you are saying doesn't make sense at all.
You are just hating for hating with absolutely no sense. Reply
Bozzified - Saturday, September 24, 2011 - linkAnd there is a reason why many businesses even Youtube have not replaced Flash with HTML5 and only offer some content through HTML5 without all the features Flash version offers.
They are ALL using Flash as the primary technology and HTML5 only for fallback for retarded iOS devices. Reply
mindless1 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkThere is a reason for flash to continue, as the plugin and player at least, that there exists a huge amount of flash based animations, games, etc. that should not be made obsolete.
I am against creating MORE, NEW flash animations but do want the existing ones to continue to function and do so on a broader array of hardware and exploit the features of that hardware. Reply
Bozzified - Saturday, September 24, 2011 - linkHow is HTML5 superior.. I'd definitely like to hear your brilliant reasoning?
There is NOTHING that HTML5 is better than Flash and I use both in many projects.
Let's chat.. What is is that HTML5 does that's superior?
Performance? NOPE.
Mobile? NOPE
Features and compatibly? NOPE.
Creativity and tools? NOPE.
Let's chat.. I'm really interested at people who are constantly full of hot air about this and that HTML5 to explain to me how exactly HTML5 is superior?
Do you even know what HTML5 is? HTML5 is just the tags like video, audio, header, content etc etc..
If you are thinking of interactivity, that's not HTML5, that's JS and most likely JQuery.
So let's hear it.. what makes HTML5 better? Reply
semo - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkI was surprised too when Adobe started frequently updating Flash not long ago. Also adding features too! I still believed that 64-bit support was years away. Adobe seem to be turning around but I wouldn't bat an eyelid if they disappeared off the face of the earth Reply
captainBOB - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkIt wasn't just Apple complaining, Mac OS X has been on the march to 64bit for years now and its nearing completion, Lion only runs in 64 bit mode now with 32bit compatibility.
The same goes for Microsoft, Windows 8 is the last Windows OS to have a 32bit edition, from then on it will be 64bit edition or nothing, 32bit will obviously be retained for legacy support. Reply
Jambe - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkSlightly tangential, but am I the only one who hasn't in stalled Silverlight?
I've seen a few presentations (the majority of them Microsoft's) that required flash and whenever I saw the plugin request I just went "eh" and left. Reply
Jambe - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - link* that required silverlight, rather Reply
webdev51 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkSame here. I avoid Silverlight too. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkNo, what's wrong with you? It even can install through Windows Update.
Nothing wrong with Silverlight, and to be honest you barely every see it. Reply
slashbinslashbash - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkI'm very happy with Silverlight in comparison with Flash. And I'm a Mac user, mind you. The Mac version of Silverlight works great. If Silverlight replaced Flash 100%, I wouldn't mind it a bit. Reply
erple2 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - link
Nothing wrong with Silverlight, and to be honest you barely every see it
Silverlight doesn't run on a Mobile device, or (reliably - moonlight is way too hit-or-miss to be consistent) on any Linux based OS's. That's what's wrong with it. You also used to not "see" Flash until whole sites were created through it, making them essentially unusable through certain browser combinations at the time.
If you see mobile devices as the future, then that becomes a major problem. Until Microsoft works out how to make SIlverlight more agnostic, it's not going to take off beyond desktop share. Currently it only runs on Windows (not windows mobile) and Mac. But it ignores > 50% of the browser market. Reply
Scrogneugneu - Friday, September 23, 2011 - linkSame here, never bothered. So far (apart from Microsoft's websites), I haven't found it to be something missing from my installed plugins. Reply
name99 - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkSo THIS will finally be the version of Flash that doesn't suck? Great. I totally expect that Adobe will deliver.
Meanwhile, in unrelated news, Charlie Brown perhaps you'd like to run up and kick this football? Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkOne of the biggest problems that I have with Flash right now (10.3) is that the updater isn't very good. The problem is that it only runs on Windows start up, so you either have to check whether there's an update manually or only get prompted upon start up. There are also two versions of Flash (ActiveX and the "other one"), and I'm not sure if they both update at the same time. Based on the download size always being ~2mb (which is the size of only one plug-in), I doubt they do.
Thinking about it now, if it occurs on start up, I assume there's an entry for it. I should go look for it and create a shortcut to allow me to run it any time. That would at least make manual updating easier.
Since flash vulnerabilities tend to be a pretty common attack method for malicious code, I'd like to see Flash be a bit more aggressive in its updating. Reply
Andrew.a.cunningham - Thursday, September 22, 2011 - linkI'd love to see Adobe move to a unified updater for its products already. Acrobat has one updater, Flash has another, the Creative Suite programs have another. Microsoft does it. Google does it. It's not so much to ask, really. Reply
fr33h33l - Friday, September 23, 2011 - linkGranted, Apple was possibly the biggest reason for Adobe's recent improvements and them moving in the direction of HTML5.
However, given Apple's business model of locking users into native iOS apps and ever stronger ties to their app store, they are definitely not one of the prominent companies driving HTML5 adoption.
Although you have to applaud Steve Jobs for making it seem as if Apple actually cared about standards and openness in Apple's decision not to support Flash in iOS while all he wanted was 1) eliminating a serious threat to Apple's lock-in model on mobile devices and, possibly, 2) to improve battery life in said products. Reply
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Euklide - Thursday, September 29, 2011 - linkThere is no turning back: Flash player 11 with its hardware acceleration will change the face of the internet: The web will simply turn 3D. This will take some time, but in less than one year there will be many impressive and highly useful 3D websites (aside from game sites) that will give a new meaning to "web surfing"! The difficult part is to make good use of the third dimension -still an unexplored field for information visualization, interactivity and usability, so it will be a challenge for innovation and will boost these fields and therefore 3D interface evolution. In comparison, HTML5 is way too limited to compete.
Now Apple is a great company, but they should put the user (their customers) FIRST, not force them or limit them - this is a huge marketing mistake that they will most likely pay soon or later!
In sort, I personally prefer to develop for ONE single standard that runs consistently across all browsers in 98% of PCs and (soon) in most mobile devices too. I don't want to fight each time with each browser's idiosygracy while chasing their miserable updates in daily basis! Users want consistency for piece of mind too. Reply


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Can someone please explain how a user can be made admin when they have just 422 edits and just basically went to Dantman and asked for the position ? As has been mentioned multiple times, we don't need more admins. If going to Dantman and saying "I'd like to help out the wiki and get rid of vandalism" instantly gives you admin status, then you might as well just make every single user admin. There is no need for this unnecessary promotion of random users who have barely made edits. Hell, you could give me, Cerez, UltimateSupreme and a ton of other users admin because they want to "help" the wiki and "clear out" vandalism. None of this can be achieved without admin status according to Dantman >_>
For reference: see this --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 17:38, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah and I was really surprised how someone with only 422 edits can become an admin. I am just pointing out what's the best reason to make him an admin while he's not very active like Cerez or other editors out here. ~IndxcvNovelist (talk | contribs | PR | RLS) 17:46, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- I support Speysider on this one.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 18:09 UTC, Tuesday, 30 October 2012
As a user with only about 400 edits myself, I personally find it rather insulting that you're all ragging on this just because he asked and was made an Admin. Sure, I'm clueless, I wouldn't expect to get a position like that over the likes of Cerez or whatever who clearly understand the system here better, but I'd like to think that the number of edits isn't the yardstick by which we measure people round here. If Omni went to another wiki, even if he had less Edits, he'd still have the experience of being an Admin, so putting him into the position ahead of someone with more edits who has never had that job would make sense, wouldn't it? Ten Tails already brought up to Dantman that they're an Admin on other wikis and while I'll admit I don't find the fact that one of those is a Fanon wiki particularly reassuring, its still something. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 18:57, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Put simply, I have administration experience on other sites. I've been an admin on the Naruto Fanon Wiki, the Bleach Fan Fiction Wiki, and the founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Wiki since back in 2008. On the second site (Bleach), I actually preside over the entire administration team. I'm no novice at this. That aside, I've made many competent edits around the site and participate regularly in discussions. Some of the prominent users know me from this site or know of me from others. Edit counts are not going to be used to judge a user's character. Furthermore, being an admin doesn't mean I'm the boss of anyone, or anything like that. As Dantman and I discussed, its not a status symbol. Its a few extra buttons that allows me to help folks out, and since I'm far past what most users on this site (especially the admins) are up, I'm usually around when the new chapters first come out and can at least provide preliminary information where I couldn't before (due to protection and such) before the others get here the following morning. Lastly, I, as an admin on Naruto Fanon, dealt with a major vandal crisis awhile back and was able to effectively neutralize it with the help of my wiki members, so I know how to handle vandals, and with sysop properties, can handle them during the time of night that most of you aren't here. Speysider, I do take some offense to the fact that you're making such a big fuss about it. If you were concerned, you could have simply discussed this with Dantman, Omnibender, the other admins, or myself at our talk pages. I would've been happy to explain this to you privately. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 20:15, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Just to make sure everyone remembers, let's keep this nice and civilized. Alright? Nice and civilized.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 20:41, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes please xD haha ~ Ten Tailed Fox 20:44, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
I'm concerned that people are simply getting admin just because they ask. I don't care what other wikis you admin as you could be admin'ing 5 different wikis and be a completely crap admin (no offence). And I do make a big fuss whenever some major change gets made just because someone goes to a sysop, asks to be admin, gets that status and is, at best, hardly active. Honestly, this should've been discussed with the rest of the wiki before just doing it so that everyone can get their opinion made known. Like when I brought up needing a second sysop. I'm not saying you'll be a bad admin, but I just don't think any real discussion was made with the community at large. What happens if other editors don't want you to be an admin because there's enough of them ? That's all I'm getting at: don't just give someone a flag without discussion with the community so that everyone's views can be made known. And to be quite frank, you don't really need to be given admin status to do all the things you plan on doing: there are talkpages (and people get to them when they can): the most you should really have, imo, is rollback. Don't need any more admins, like it was made known when I made it clear more sysop's were needed. And tbh, if you take big offence over this, then I question whether your suitable for an admin post at all. And fyi, if the amount of edits means nothing, then just give every random person who asks an admin flag, even if they won't use it properly, because that's what you are all implying at. This is exactly why I don't really edit here anymore: impulsive decisions made on a whim without discussion or people flooding the uploader with needless images. This is a big wiki and it needs community based decisions or it will just go in the wrong direction. >_> --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:13, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
At least he does not delete edits without reasons, as some here do. Honestly? Everyone is jealous of the guy. Create shame on those of you filthy faces before speaking who deserves or does not deserve.--Sasameandhaley (talk) 21:18, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- ^ what ?
- And to add on to what I said: experience also has no relevance either as someone could have admin'd over 10 different wiki's and not done a good job, but hey they have the experience. Basically, this promotion was done on someone's whim and not a REAL community decision like every other wiki does promotions and I loathe admins who make such decisions without bothering to consult his memberbase. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:39, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
Pardon me if I am wrong, but you Speysider, are always first in pointing sticks, and sharpening blades. You are always the one who has been ultimately denied of his rights, privileges. You always point out the importance of the community, but absolutely always deep underneath I find your personal offendment caused by some sudden changes, promotions from which you were excluded, shrouded under "community goals". I try very hard not to misjudge you, but your approach is always harsh, bitter and it always seems the discussion won't reach an end with all parties satisfied. Why don't you wait a week and then judge our new admin? I emphasize I may be wrong but resentment, resentment is what I feel. Way ago when I joined, things were rather quiet. The temperature is constantly rising these days...--Vecanoi (talk) 22:59, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
I'm okay with the decision, it's Dantman's wiki after all. But if we had to vote, I'd give my voice to Cerez and such. Also I don't see an extra admin as a serious game changer, no reason to panic over it. As long as he doesn't abuse his "power" and stays as he is, then I'm a happy folk--Elveonora (talk) 23:07, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
What exactly is this 'experience'? Omni might have been given admin rights here, Avatar wiki and maybe somewhere else too... But that wasn't because he had been an admin somewhere else. That was because of his hard work on every wiki he went (and goes). He, Jacce and others might not have even known what an admin means when they were made one... but they all made great administrators. If you were talking about experience with using the extra tools; there are nice help pages seeing which anyone can use those (Links on this page) or if you want you can ask for any help on CC Forums.
Different wikis have different communities working, different policies and cultures and content. Just because you make a great admin on some wiki doesn't mean that you would do the same somewhere else. @Ten Tailed Fox: Which protected pages were you talking about? — UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 01:06 UTC, Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- ^Took the words right out of my mouth. I don't really care or give a damn as to what some person does on other wiki's: what I DO care about is what they have done on THIS wiki to get admin. If I was Dantman, I'd have been more concerned about the work someone has put in on this wiki and NOT the work that user has put in elsewhere. On my own sites, I do not go around promoting people to admin just because they are a stellar admin from some other random site that they've done well on: I look to see how they contribute on my site and then I promote based on how they behave on my site. UltimateSupreme basically summed up everything I was going to say.
- Vecanoi, it's replies like yours that make me not want to edit on this wiki. You are all quick to attack me for anything, regardless if it's valid and you do not read what I say properly anymore. More of you guys need to stop jumping to flaming and trolling my posts and actually read what I am saying --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 08:51, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
While I don't have much to say on this, since it is Dan's decision, I am a bit uhm shocked about the people who are mentioning my name lol. Not that it's a bad thing, just surprising since I argue with most of you... a lot xD. That being said, I'm assuming TenTailedFox has been given the admin flag? Congratulations then. The users don't mean it maliciously, just the fact that it comes as a bit of shock because admin experience or no, you are fairly new to this wikia and our culture so I can see where the others are coming from. Being an Sysop/using the position's privileges is something that can be learned over time either way.--Cerez365™(talk) 10:33, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Speysider and Cerez are right. ~IndxcvNovelist (talk | contribs | PR | RLS) 14:04, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Cerez. I understand the surprise at the situation, it isn't the first time I've been through a similar situation, so I don't think Speysider and the others are being malicious or anything. I think I will surprise them once they are given a chance to see that I'm no different from them, and won't treat them wrong or anything of the sort. Whether your edit count is 50,000 or 300, the count shouldn't matter. If you have anything your personally concerned about, Speysider, this is for you specifically, since you seem the most concerned, direct it to my talk page please. I'd be happy to talk to you about it in depth there, if you'd like. It may not quell any of the fears you have, but might put your mind at peace at the very least. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 15:05, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
- I think it's better if it stays in one place: this thread. Honestly I think what would have been better is that you had actually contributed more, became noticed by the admins and then being asked by Dantman if you wanted a promotion. From what I remember you were randomly appearing, and weren't all that active. Then you just suddenly appear out of nowhere and have an admin flag. That's what gets me annoyed because you haven't been around to know the culture of this wiki and it does not help when someone like yourself appears and becomes admin. In all honestly, Cerez has been around for much longer and has been much more active and he knows the culture of the wiki so much more than you do so he would've been a better candidate for adminship and not you. I haven't really seen much from you in the way of edits or reverting edits that makes this promotion really thought out and detailed. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 18:23, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Point of Clarification: Ten-Tailed Fox has been around since 2010, so in internet terms he has been around for a while.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 19:16, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Yet has made less contributions than Cerez who has been here from the same year >_> --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 19:23, October 31, 2012 (UTC)
It doesn't make sense that we linger and bicker over this, I highly doubt Dan will change his mind because of it. It's best we just let things as is, one more sysop can't hurt the wikia... could it?--Cerez365™(talk) 01:47, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- I concur with Cerez. This argument is pointless and will get us nowhere. Also, Ultimate is right. I have been a reader, occasional commenter, and observer of this wiki since 2010, and have become progressively more active ever since. I do know the culture of this wiki and am familiar with quite a few users around here. And, if you think 400 edits is small, on both wikis I was first made sysop on, I had been a member for no longer than a few weeks at best. It isn't about the number of edits, its about the quality of those edits. I have made a number of quality edits around this wiki. But even that isn't the point. Sysop is not a status symbol on this wiki. It is a tool used to be of service to the wiki and its community. I really don't think an extra guard against vandals and an additional sysop helping had, especially one who is around the moment new chapters are released, would be of harm to the wiki. That being said, I respectfully bow out of this conversation at this point. The consensus seems to be that there is no need to continue this discussion as Dantman has made his verdict and several users have voiced their consent or agreement with the decision, therefore I think it is time to move on to other, more important, issues. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 05:36, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Make no mistake, I've thought about it, and I don't believe the appointment is fair because one, we were told never to ask for adminship because it would not be given to us. If people had known that the post could be applied for using "work experience" many of us would have done it from before now. I know its said that it isn't a status symbol but that is incorrect in some sense, because the truth of the matter is that sysops are being put in charge of the wikia, which is what people have an issue with because lurking or no since 2010, you are not known. There are a lot of active users who, in my opinion have made great strides in the way of contributions (quality and all), there's a young SimAnt-like protégé who would do well with those rights in my opinion. I also believe your reason for wanting the position is inherently flawed: wanting to update information on protected pages when the chapter comes out, just because you happen to be awake. The one incident of that which I can recall was actually due to a current sysop having the foresight to protect the article. Usually it's a good thing because it stops the constant addition and subtraction of misinterpreted information forcing people to go to the talkpages. I however decided not to take the path of "righteous indignation" because it doesn't really affect my editing, and I'm getting way too old and would like to retire from this place with some dignity.--Cerez365™(talk) 10:24, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Something must be in the air, I've hardly seen Cerez agree with my reasoning in years :lol:.
- Wiki's operate on the principle that the community is what builds it. Dantman's decision to promote someone who is a relatively unknown to the wiki without consultation with the community means this wiki is technically violating the basic rules and principles of how a wiki is meant to work. Everytime a new feature is introduced by Wikia, as you all know, a member of staff comes over and posts a thread, looking for the community to respond with their comments or concerns. It is the same when a new sysop or admin is to be chosen: the community makes the choice. Like Cerez said, this is an unfair promotion because it's just common sense you do not ask for power because it makes you look like you want to use that power for the wrong reasons (not saying you will but that's what many others will say). If you get noticed by the community, do many contributions and are generally respected within the community and have a number of edits, then it's usually put to a vote and the majority vote is what decides the outcome. Quite clearly here, there is ZERO community participation and it makes many people ponder as to whether this is a locked down system where we cannot have a community decision on everything and sysop's just go around promoting people at random who ask, regardless of edit count. Only a few people seem to understand that experience on other wiki's means absolutely nothing to getting an admin position here. If you do a terrible job here, do you expect to be given admin position ? No. If you do an excellent job on some other wiki, do you expect to be given an admin position here? No.
- Admin and Sysop positions are status symbol. Why ? Because if a user has a problem, they are going to go to someone who is an administrator more than someone who isn't. They are not flags: they are a symbol to indicate this user is trusted to operate the wiki. If you continue to call them flags, then it means you don't know the true danger of what an administrator is. Forum owners don't go calling admins "flags" because it is a dangerous position that cannot be given lightly and it is therefore a status of someone who is well trusted in that specific community to manage the site. Unlike in most forum software where you can restrict what admins do, you cannot restrict administrative access in MediaWiki without using unnecessary extensions that can do more harm than good. If someone is given administrator status, you are basically putting your trust into them not to destroy your wiki. Under Dantman's current ideals, someone could be nice and caring and say that they wish to help out and would like to have admin status. Next minute, this user gets admin status and the wiki is destroyed. Yeah, I don't think we should continue calling them flags incase a situation like this occurs: calling them a status that you must earn rightfully is more appropriate.
- I think it's time that people start discussing things with the community more or this is not a wiki. It's funny because people link to Wikipedia all the time here (like assuming good faith) but don't listen to what it says. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 13:09, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- You said it too long Speysider but every bit make sense.
- I agree with Cerez too.
- It's not fair for TTF to get admin when Salil and a load of others are more appropriate for the position. I thought of this since yesterday, how come that the admin status is not a symbol? It should be considered a symbol, as Speysider said. I know that many people want to be an admin in this wiki (and including me) and it must be something people should work hard. I do understand that I'm not still that deserving because I have still something to improve on my editings here. It's better if TTF wasted his time doing thousands edits and that will honestly is not too much of a problem (Cerez has 35K edits, been here for almost three years already and is a prominent editor). You should have edited more (reaching more than 3K then asked Dantman about the admin rights), at least consider the community's reaction. Like Spey, I don't give a damn if you handled so many wikis (I am aware that on some, you worked hard and have thousands edits and that makes sense).
- I'm not saying you have no right to be an admin. This is just not the right time.
- ~IndxcvNovelist (talk | contribs | PR | RLS) 20:05, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Ten Tailed Fox is an admin now? lol :D Never seen him, though...Well, aren't we having enough admins like Omni, TU3 who are active enough...btw, if there is someone who deserves to be an admin...then that would be Cerez.. akz! 15:44, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
Sysop is a tool, a series of rights that let you do some things to the wiki an average user can't do. They are not a status symbol. A sysop doesn't get to end a discussion with a result against consensus. A sysop doesn't get to make the wiki rules alone. Having sysop doesn't give any more authority to a user than a user without it. And different users get sysop for different purposes. Back when I gave SimAnt sysop (and iirc perhaps Omnibender too) I didn't trust him to know enough to deal with policy related stuff like I trusted TheUltimate3 and Jacce to deal with that, but he dealt with a lot of spam and was good with templates and I gave him sysop so he could do some stuff on his own.
And trying to relate user groups here to forum rights and suggest they are dangerous is ridiculous. This is not forum software, this is wiki software. Everything done is logged and can be undone. Just as users can't do any permanent damage, sysops can't either. Rogue sysop scenarios?
- Sysop goes rogue, blocks 1000 users; Sysop loses rights, 1000 users are unblocked.
- Sysop goes rogue, deletes every page on the wiki; Sysop loses rights, all pages are restored, sysop probably gets a ban.
- Sysop goes rogue, inserts an attack script into site code; Other sysop disables JS and reverts the code. Sysop loses rights. Staff fix any minor damage. Sysop likely ends up global blocked.
None of the possible scenarios cause any real damage to the wiki, a non-sysop could do a similar level of damage with a priviledge-less bot (and frankly, bot attacks are even more annoying to deal with than a rogue sysop), and none of these scenarios are really even likely at all. (( ;) heck, I could do that last one without needing sysop))
Sysop has nothing to do with the number of edits a user has made, how long they have been on the wiki, or simply alone because they're sysop elsewhere, it's not some thing you earn in any way as some prize you get after achieving certain things on the wiki. And no-one gets sysop because someone thinks that they 'deserve' it. There have been and will continue to be users making lots of great edits to the wiki who still never have a reason to be given a sysop flag during the entire time they are editing here. The factors that got Ten Tailed Fox sysop were relatively the same as for other users who got sysop.
Heck if you want to see the lack of relation between edit counts and sysop just take a look at Jacce, Simant, Cerez365 (sorry Cerez365), and Omnibender's edit counts. Cerez365 has been here since 2009, and has 37k edits. Simant has been here since earlier in the same year, yet he only has 17k edits. Omnibender is the one user with slightly more edits than Cerez365 at 39k edits. But Omnibender has been here for more than a year before Cerez365 was here. Yet Jacce, who has been here the longest of them all -- two years before Cerez365 -- only has 21k edits.
2/3 sysops, both who have been here longer than Cerez365 have less edits than him. If you take a good look at the kinds of edits the users make you might manage to see the reasons why. Cerez365 looks like a content editor. He makes a lot of edits to the content on the wiki. Not only that, but he even creates whole articles for the wiki. Jacce on the other hand makes reverts, page protection, blocks, etc... but doesn't do much actual content editing besides fixing some issues. Simant makes reverts, template edits, talk and forum edits, tests things in the sandbox but likewise doesn't to a lot of content editing. Now Omnibender is on a different part of the scale. Like Cerez365 you can see that Omnibender makes a lot of edits to the content. Though he does a lot more reverting junk than Cerez365 does.
So edit count has little to do with high edit counts. It's more of a factor of what kind of editing you do on the wiki (well, frequency too of course). And in fact most users suited for sysop will actually naturally have smaller edit counts. Because the kinds of editing sysops do here doesn't boost edit counts as much as normal user's content editing does. Frankly Cerez365 will probably continue as-is and never have a real need for anyone to give him a sysop flag. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 01:10, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
…¬_¬ */tears up resume/* (._. ) lol.--Cerez365™(talk) 02:13, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
Someone is just butthurt about not being given admin rights. Behavior > Status, Edit Quality > Edit Quantity. Also I dare to say that creative work is more important than administrative one sometimes, as wikias are made of articles, and without them, well... would not be much here to manage. But yeah... What the heck ? I had some disagreements with Foxie in the past, thus I soundly declare, let the protest begin!!! No way a user who opposes my words shall act as my superior. I vote Cerez, we hate each other as well, but he can make me laugh once in a while. Joking put aside, congratulations for the promotion--Elveonora (talk) 02:14, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
And I wonder what was the reason why TTF got it O.o?184.108.40.206 (talk) 03:24, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
I don't care about edit counts...Even Droid pads his edit count by uploading shits....But that doesn't give him the sysop rights, does it? I'm not nominating Cerez for his edit counts, but for his activeness...He can delete vandal pages, remove unwanted fanarts, ban the vanadal users, protect an article as soon as something tempting in a manga chapter is released as quickly as possible as he is more active than some of the admins here...But as you, Daniel Friesen, said that's the same work being done by the other admins Omni, Jacce and Simant, then why did you make TTF an admin, in the first place? His experience? lol...He bribed you or what? Why did you grant TTF this so called tool, when there are enough sysop for the above mentioned works of this tool....? And, why should we care about edit counts, when you, who has 10K edits most of which are on template or policies, is the owner of Narutopedia? Corruption Attacks! akz! 04:19, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
- Clarification: Dantman has 10,418 edits as of this message. I don't know where you got the 700 from. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 04:45, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
And no one owns Narutopedia (infact any wiki). But I do agree that this was a completely unnecessary change and you are also contradicting yourself in the above post.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 04:53 UTC, Saturday, 3 November 2012
- I'm not contradicting anything. All I was doing was correcting an incorrect statistic. Nothing more was claimed or added in my statement. I agree with Dantman's assessment entirely. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 05:05, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
I was actually saying that to Dantman.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:09 UTC, Saturday, 3 November 2012
- 699 is in animanga... akz! 05:32, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
Someone is just butthurt about not being given admin rights.
- Nobody is butthurt and even if I was, I don't give two damn shits about being a sysop of a wiki where you can get sysop for no apparent reason.
- Like UltimateSupreme said, this is an unnecessary change as TTF can do everything Dantman said without the sysop rights (who gives a shit if you (TTF) are the only one awake when a chapter is released >_>) and there are multiple inconsistencies with Dantman's supposed assessment. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 10:26, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
All right guys, I think we either need to take a break from this forum or just let it go altogether. I do agree with Dan's assessment, it's pretty spot on, and I do get that you guys are affronted by the promotion but look at it this way: it doesn't affect what you do here, so there's no need for you to get so agitated about it. Accept the fact that he's been promoted even though you might not agree with it, and move on.--Cerez365™(talk) 11:29, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
I don't even get why you guys would want Cerez365 to deal with going around and cleaning up trivial spam. Cerez365 is a brilliant content editor. He's continually improving the fundamental piece of the wiki. Why push him into something like going around and cleaning up spam? That kind of thing is just a distraction from the great work he's already doing. If we even needed someone else to deal with spam, etc... White Flash's editing style would be a better fit.
Different users get sysop for different purposes. The same assessment for Ten Tailed Fox was fine; "Is there a useful reason for him to have that flag?" "Do we need another user doing 'that' or is there a different unique reason for him to have that flag?" "Is his psychology fine? Does he look responsible and mature enough to handle the rights? Does it look like he considers the rights properly, as a tool, not a status; eg: it won't change how he acts on the wiki?". It's a bit of a simplification, but that's pretty much how everyone got sysop. (Oh and two secrets about Project:Rules. First, that last bit is what 90% of everyone who actually asks for sysop fails on. That's the origin of why the rules page contains the "Do not ask for Sysop status on the Wiki, it won't be given to you." rule. And secret number 2 about Project:Rules... that is actually a stock page C&Ped across several wikis, it's very generic. Time and time again I've contemplated deleting it. But I could never get around to figuring out which bits I should actually reorganize into other pages nor could I figure out what I would even write on the policy index page. ;) right now that page is practically placeholder.)
Ten Tailed Fox's sysop flag has nothing to do with cleaning up spam, etc... (though it's fine for him to use it for that when it runs across it) or anything that another sysop is already doing. It's to edit protected infoboxes and articles. Chapters come out, and there's a mix of controversial and non-controversial information in them. Thanks to the edit wars over controversial information we can't let normal users handle updating this information. But there still is information to update. Till now our other sysops have sorted through talkpages later on and made edits to protected pages. But besides potentially being asleep with their own lives to deal with, those sysops primarily do spam stuff, deal with users, etc... Why have them deal with the same issue over and over when we've got someone else who can do that?
So why not wait and see what kind of improvements happen as new chapters come out now that we actually have someone specifically making those changes, rather than it being a side task. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 12:14, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
- So you think that TFF's writing level is the best? Let's see.... If it would have been about writing level, then Blackstar1 would be the best choice... Anyways, let's wait and see... akz! 12:32, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
- Ten Tailed Fox just has right intersecting the time availability, desire to do it, and the right maturity/psyc. to use the flag. Even if he isn't the best at writing he should still be able to handle other user's requests who may come up with better writing for him to add.
- Blackstar1 doesn't seem to be around editing that frequently. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 14:48, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to say but doesn't look like its doing any good to us. He is not even around when new chapters are released.220.127.116.11 (talk) 08:41, December 18, 2012 (UTC)
- ^ this. I haven't seen any so-called "chapter" edits from him yet --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 19:02, December 18, 2012 (UTC)


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Adam Bock's A Small Fire is, at it's heart, a story about family coming together and being ripped apart by the challenges of life. The Steep family has come together to bring this story to the stage. Under the direction of Steep Artistic Associate Joanie Schultz, A Small Fire will feature performances by three Steep Company Members: Melissa Riemer, James Allen and Julia Siple.
Melissa Riemer is a company member at Steep Theatre. Most recently, she appeared as Aunt Sister in Cicada with Route 66 Theatre Company. Her other Steep productions include Moment, Under the Blue Sky, Festen, Harper Regan, 2,000 Feet Away, Book Of Days (Jeff Nomination Best Ensemble) and Catch-22. Other Chicago credits include Her Naked Skin (Shattered Globe Theatre), Start Fair In The Common Race (What's Up Next Lab at Next Theatre), Mrs. Antrobus in Backstage Theatre's production of The Skin Of Our Teeth (Jeff Nomination Best Supporting Actress), and the Griffin Theatre's productions of The Hostage, Letters Home (Chicago production/National Tour), and Picnic (also at Theatre On The Lake). London credits include The Lost Vegas Series (Riverside Studios), An Empty Plate In The Café du Grand Boeuf (New End Theatre) and Time And The Conways (Drayton Court Theatre). Melissa trained at the Drama Studio London.
James Allen, also a Steep company member, has appeared at Steep in Moment, Feston, Incident at Vichy, Book of Days, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Bang the Drum Slowly, Otherwise Engaged and more.
Julia Siple, a Steep Company Member and Steep's Managing Director, most recently appeared as Marley in Steep's production of Motortown and as Ciara in Moment. Prior Steep shows include Love and Money, Under the Blue Sky, 2000 Feet Away, Festen and Harper Regan. Julia has worked with numerous theater companies around Chicago including Viaduct, TUTA, Strawdog, Circle, Griffin, and Uffish. She is a holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Michigan.
Robert Koon is appearing on Steep's stage for the first time. He was most recently seen in The Roper at The Den Theatre and At His Best for Cold Basement Productions, and has also recently appeared at the side project (The Kindness of Strangers, Choosing to be Here, People We Know), Chicago Dramatists (I Am Going to Change the World), and Sideshow Theatre (Heddatron). Robert is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, who recently produced his play Homecoming 1972. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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The man Ricky Hatton has chosen to guide him through his comeback believes that the fighter's road to redemption will take him all the way to a world title.
Hatton approached Manchester-based Bob Shannon, who previously guided his brother Matthew to a world title challenge, to link up with him two weeks ago and the veteran trainer says that he could see the desire in his friend's eyes from that moment on.
The Hyde fighter has been out of action since his last fight saw him knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in their IBO light-welterweight title fight in Las Vegas. Shannon said: "This has come out of the blue for me. I got a phone call from Ricky two weeks ago asking me to come and see him because he was thinking of fighting again."
He continued: "I looked him right in the eyes and said to him, 'why are you doing it'. He told me he couldn't stop thinking about the Pacquiao fight and what he could have done differently.
"Everyone deserves a second chance and when he told me how he wants to redeem himself for his son, his family and his fans, that's what I wanted to hear. I wanted him to want to be the man he used to be."
Shannon believes he can guide Hatton back to the top. He said: "It's now my job to get him back up there. For the last week we've been doing hand eye co-ordination and timing sessions and I can honestly say he's unbelievable.
"It's like he's never been away from the gym and I feel like I've trained him from day one because we've just gelled together. He still moves like he used to do and my job is to work with that class and ability he's got. I'm so excited this legend is back in British boxing and he will be a world champion without a shadow of a doubt."
For Hatton the comeback is about far more than reclaiming a world title belt. Despite admitting he longs to return to the top of the profession after three years, the motivation for him is much closer to home.
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I am a 2000 graduate of the ENS Masters program. After coming from a very large university, it was refreshing to be in an environment where the student-to-faculty ratio was very reasonable. What also attracted me was the diversity of the program. I had heard that "Sangamon State" (UIS' former name) was progressive in nature and indeed the courses reflected this fact. I did not have the "hard-science" background yet I was encouraged to enroll in several such courses including environmental chemistry and toxicology. During my time at UIS I worked for a local environmental consulting firm and utilized risk assessment skills gleaned from UIS course work. My advisor agreed to act as my chair and I conducted my first empirical field experiment. He allowed me to pursue research of my choosing in an independent fashion. Since then I have gone on to complete a second Master's degree and obtain a Doctoral degree at another established University. I have published several quantitative experiments in peer-reviewed journals and currently conduct research at Cornell University. I urge all potential candidates to consider choosing the ENS program at UIS. It will give you the experience you need to prepare for a career in consulting or as a researcher in the academic field.
Mark Danenhauer, MA
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"I graduated from the ENS program at UIS in 2005. During my time in Springfield, Illinois I completed my Masters degree in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development and also gained valuable real world experience working at the Illinois EPA. Graduate school was not easy, but it was a very rewarding experience that pushed me to better my academic and analytical abilities. The education I received has given me a great background in my current work with the Utah Rivers Council, a non-profit organization working to protect Utah's rivers.
Was graduate school easy? Is it supposed to be easy? I have always believed that anything worth having is not easy. The harder you have to work for something the more it will mean to you and the more that you will get out of it. Well, graduate school at UIS was not a walk in the park. Receiving my degree required completing my Master's Thesis, which entailed hard work and perseverance. Luckily, thanks to dedicated, passionate professors I was able to complete my Master's Thesis and receive my Master's degree.
In many respects graduate school is simply an extension of undergraduate classes, with new classes, tests, research papers, and presentations. However, the entire process of writing a thesis is unique to graduate school. This entailed coming up with my own unique research question, doing the background literature review, developing a research methodology, conducting the research, and throughout the process presenting and defending my work to my fellow students and faculty. I now have the confidence and skills to write research papers and to think critically.
Of the many skills I acquired, the most valuable was to think critically. The class schedule gave me good knowledge in a wide range of areas, but working on and writing a Master's Thesis was an incredible experience. It made me learn to take criticism and to be humble. At the time it was not easy to spend months working and writing my draft only to have it dismantled by my advisor. However, now I am grateful for the criticism and assistance that I was provided in all of my classes and with my Thesis. Without an advisor willing to put in the time and effort to improve my writing and work I would have never improved my own skills.
One of the things that I did enjoy about the ENS program was the small class sizes. In undergraduate school I was one of the hundreds of kids sitting in class, hiding behind my papers. At UIS the small class sizes allowed me to get engaged in classroom discussions, thereby gaining more from the classes, and to get to know the knowledgeable professors.
Another very unique bonus about being located in the State Capital is that many students are able to get a Graduate Public Service Internship. This is a program that helps locate graduate students with state agencies. Personally, I spent over two years working with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency while I was in graduate school. This is not an experience that most schools offer. I learned what it is like to work for the State Government.
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I would recommend the ENS program at UIS to anyone that is looking for a school where they can gain real world experience while at the same time going to graduate school. The unique setting in the State Capital is a huge bonus to attending UIS."
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In the late 1980's I was working in a coal mine in central Illinois. I was injured in the mine and realized that, due to my injuries, I needed to obtain a less physically demanding occupation. I had always wanted to attend college, so I attended a couple of classes at UIS to determine if I had what it took to obtain a college degree. UIS was perfect for my needs. The class schedules were flexible which allowed me to continue in my position as a miner while I studied for, and eventually obtained, my Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Every member of the faculty at UIS was not only extraordinarily knowledgeable in his or her area of expertise, but expressed a genuine interest in the success of each student. My degrees from UIS allowed me to continue my studies at Cornell University Law School. After graduation from Law School I practiced corporate law on the east coast for several years. I have since returned home and I am now an attorney at the largest downstate environmental law firm in Illinois.