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VILLAGES in South Gloucestershire are making the final preparations to May Day celebrations on Bank Holiday Monday.
Iron Acton is holding its annula May Day on the Green on Monday, May 5 (10.30am-4pm).
The village green will be transformed into a traditional fete ground complete with May pole, an arena for performances and an array of stalls and side shows.
The day itself will start at 10.30am with the formal opening after the May Queen, King and their attendants have travelled from The Lamb to the green.
Activities and displays in the arena will include Maypole dancing from Iron Acton School, country dancing by North Road Primary School pupils, a dog obedience display and dancing from Kathryn Hurley's School of Dance.
Organiser Heather Tillotson said: "We're ready for another brilliant May Day on the green., let's hope the sun shines.
"Like previous years, our aim is to have a well balanced day of events with charity run stalls that don't cost the earth, have a go activities and entertaining ring events."
The event has had to be cancelled in the past because of bad weather but on a sunny year can attract thousands of people.
Meanwhile, in Winterbourne Down the whole weekend will be given over to marking May Day.
The carnival weekend, which this year takes on the theme of children's books, kicks off on Saturday evening (7.30pm) with a family barn dance and barbecue at All Saints' Church Hall in Winterbourne Down. Tickets are now on sale, call Fred Smith on 01454 772072 or Sue Cessford on 01454 777881.
A village treasure hunt then takes place on Sunday (2pm) starting from Winterbourne Down Methodist Church Hall. Refreshments will be on sale in the church hall and entertainment will be provided by the Westerly Showband.
It will be followed at 6pm by Songs of Praise in the Methodist Church with entertainment provided by the Crossbow Singers.
Then on Monday carnival day begins with a procession leaving Bradley Avenue at 10.15am to the Methodist Church grounds. A craft and charity street fair will be held in Down Road and Camp View and activities are being planned for the whole.
Nine-year-old carnival Queen Charlotte Anstey will preside over the weekend's celebrations which take place from Saturday, May 3 until Bank Holiday Monday, May 5.
Charlotte, a pupil at Hambrook Primary School, will be escorted by attendants Madeleine Allchorne,7, and Evie Allchorne,5, both pupils at Elm Park Primary School in Winterbourne.
Sue Cessford, from the organising committee, said: "Please come along and enjoy the weekend and don't forget to invite your friends."


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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS and THE TEMPEST
Bella Vista Farm Park, December 21
Until January 1
This twofer of Shakespeare's shorter plays – the bookends of his career – makes for an involving if inconclusive night.
The reasoning behind it lies in the notion that the farcical The Comedy of Errors (circa 1594) and the dark-toned The Tempest (1610-11) share some thematic territory. In both plays, the protagonists have been stranded, cut off from their old lives. Each concludes with a powerful act of forgiveness and reconciliation.
In this back-to-back presentation by outdoor Shakespeare specialist Sport for Jove, neither seems to shed much light into the other, however.
The evening kicks off in the courtyard of the Bella Vista homestead with The Comedy of Errors, the story of two sets of twins, separated as infants by a storm at sea, only to be slammed together years later by fate.
Shakespeare's setting, Ephesus, is given a 1950s spin in director Terry Karabelas' brisk and vivid production. There is something of the post-GFC about it, too. The slapstick mayhem seems as much a result of general instability as mistaken identity. Corruption is everywhere, and of course when economic storms blow it's always the most recent arrivals – represented here by Aegeon, merchant of Syracuse (played by Keith Agius) – who feel the chill hardest.
George Banders and Aaron Tsindos, dressed in identical sailor duds, are very funny and convincingly alike Dromios, ducking and weaving while their twin masters (Anthony Gooley and Scott Sheridan) grapple with the confusion they cause among the townsfolk and their tempestuous WAGs.
In short, lots of fun and entirely satisfying as a night's entertainment. We are, however, only halfway through.
A 15-minute interval and a walk down to Bella Vista's historic sheep shed gets the blood flowing again for director Matt Edgerton's straightforward, uncontroversial Tempest, which unfolds as a too-genial parable on virtue's triumph over the impulse for vengeance.
Moreover, it doesn't seem too much of a struggle for Damian Ryan's warmly played Prospero, whose bookish demeanour is more young Dumbledore than conflicted necromancer.
Likewise, the darkness, yearning and anger in Yalin Ozucelik's Caliban is strikingly expressed but feels like it might all go away if only someone would give the guy a hug.
George Banders gets no rest, teaming up with Sam Haft to create an amusing double act in Stephano and Trinculo.
Danielle King is funnier, though, as wicked Sebastia, staggering through the jungle in high heels, searching for a mobile phone signal. It's a rare moment of conflict with a bucolic setting that tends to cushion us from The Tempest's impact.
The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest also play at the Leura Shakespeare Festival, January 5 to 20.


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For an activity that the whole family can enjoy, take a trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. It's just a 16 mile drive from Washington, D.C. located along the Potomac River. The Estate has been maintained so guests can see it as it was in 1799- gardens, buildings and style of clothing included. The original Estate totaled about 8,000 acres and of that, only 500 has been preserved. Still, there is plenty to see!
Your Visit: What do you get to see and do while there Well, there's a guided tour of the facility, daily attractions and activities, especially for kids including games and demonstrations (which change so see their schedule). Visitors can also rest their weary heels at the ? Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant or Food Court and do a bit of shopping at the different shops located on the Estate.? While planning your trip, be sure to see what special events and seasonal activities they have available. They suggest putting aside a few hours for your visit as there is a whole lot to do while there.
Yet, not only is Mount Vernon fun and interesting, but a learning experience for the whole family as well as it is a great source of hands-on history. Before you visit, learn more here and discover some of the Estate's best kept treasures! Also, get some great Touring Tips from their website, e.g what to wear and what to see.
General Information: Tickets- Daytime admission is $15 for Adults (12 years and older), $7.00 for Youth (6-11 years) and $14 for Seniors (62 and over). Annual passes are available. ? Passes for tours are $5.00 per person and sightseeing cruise prices are $9.00 for Adults and $5.00 for youth. Event tour prices vary on the event. Admission packages are also available and will save you a few bucks!
Hours: Mount Vernon is open to visitors following this schedule –
- April through August, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- March, September, and October, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- November through February, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Accomodations for international visitors is also available. Mount Vernon also welsomes visitors with special needs- see their Accessibility information for details.
Directions: If you're traveling by car, see here. Parking is also free to visitors. If you're traveling by Metro/Bus, take a look here. Coming by boat No sweat! They have information on that too!
Still not sure if you want to go? Take a sneak peek in to what you'll see with their Virtual Mansion tour.
Happy travels! -Vanessa, Innkeeper
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This article was published 29/3/2013 (1605 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It's Day 2 aboard the Believe, the sails are at full mast and she's starting to giggle.
That's the term given to that blissful state when a catamaran hits cruising speed and the boat "giggles" in a trifecta of wind, water and sail vibration. "See, I told you sailing forces you to relax," captain Greg Marlo reiterates to us.
We don't even have to answer. Our contented lounging on the foredeck is response enough. The champagne that was popped for the sail-away party is still partly sloshing in the glass and we're soaking up the sun en route from Man-O-War Cay to Great Guana Cay in the Bahamas' Abaco Sea.
This experience is the farthest thing from traversing the water in one of those mega-cruise ships. The Believe is a 39-foot catamaran and we're already likening it to our own private three-bedroom, two-bathroom floating villa. On board, there's only my wife and myself, another couple and captain Greg, who's also doing double duty as chef on this vacation we've dubbed Cays to Paradise.
While it sounds expensive, elitist and exclusive, this holiday is actually affordable and accessible.
Later that night, over barbecued strip-loin steaks and shiraz at the Believe's aft-deck dining table, the captain tells us more people are choosing this bespoke way of seeing the world. "It's unique and customized and personalized," he says.
No kidding.
We're on an itinerary that takes us to small islands accessible only by small boat, and the mode of transportation we're using is as much an attraction and novelty as the places we'll visit and explore. This week of specialty cruising starts at $800 per person based on a group sharing a three- or four-bedroom catamaran. Flights, food and booze are all extra.
We flew to Nassau from Toronto on WestJet and caught the island-hopper SkyBahamas flight to Marsh Harbour on Grand Abacos island to begin our adventure at Moorings headquarters in the Bahamas.
Captain Marlo has a Toronto-based business called Yacht Solutions that hooks up people with customized catamaran and sailboat vacations using the internationally renowned Moorings and its sister company, Sunsail. If you're an experienced sailor or motorboater, you can skipper your own boat or you can abdicate all responsibility and book your ride complete with captain and chef.
We, of course, chose the latter and took full advantage of the situation.
While Greg manoeuvred in and out of ports, we indulged in the aforementioned champagne sail-away parties. We put in a lot of hours lolling on deck being whisked over turquoise sea while the sails billowed above us. And we discovered little cays with quaint villages, deserted swaths of beach and one-of-a-kind restaurants and bars.
Not to say we didn't have some boat duties. My job was making sure the cooler was full of ice so the beer and wine were cold. And all of us took turns winching to hoist the mainsail when the wind was right and tying and untying lines when we docked and departed.
The best discovery was Nipper's, a clifftop bar overlooking a spectacular beach on Great Guana Cay. Johnny Roberts, the great-grandson times 10 of the first white man to step foot on the island in 1773, is the proprietor, and he makes a mean Nipper's Tripper. The drink comes in an innocuous plastic cup and is a pretty pink colour, but its secret frozen blend of four types of rum and various fruit juices is lethal.
Man-O-War Cay, population 350, is a small boat-building and maintenance port where the Albury ferry service that operates between the Abaco islands is based. There we wandered the town -- there's only a few streets -- marvelled at the empty beach and ate blackened fish for lunch at Dock N Dine on pilings over the water. Note: Man-O-War is a dry island: no liquor.
Elbow Cay is home to cute little Hope Town, its candy-cane-striped lighthouse and Tahiti Beach at the southern tip of the island, which is considered the best strip of sand in the Abacos.
When not in port, the snorkelling off the boat in clear, shallow water revealed a multitude of shells, sea urchins, sand dollars and plump starfish.
The sailing was easy and the sea calm. The islands in the Abaco chain are all close together and protected where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Abaco Sea and the Caribbean Sea beyond.
By the way, overnighting on a gently rocking catamaran with only the sound of lapping water falls into the category of best sleeps ever.
-- Postmedia News
Toronto-based Yacht Solutions can charter your group a catamaran (sail-motor combination or motor only) or sailboat from Moorings or Sunsail for vacations in the Bahamas' Abaco islands and in other great sailing destinations around the world, such as the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Seychelles, Thailand, Tonga and the Mediterranean.
-- Information: TheYachtSolution.com; Moorings.com; DestinationAbaco.net.


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Hey guys,
So, I have installed backtrack 5 r3 on a Virtual box and often use it for playing about with wifi exploits on my home network. Both myself and my housemate have it on our home PC's and laptops too.
I have an Atheros wifi usb card and the wifi guides all over the internet are all good. Airmon, Airodump, Aireply and Aircrack all work and I have no issues with backtrack5 in this respect.
However, I am now expanding my knowledge to network connected exploits and cisco switches. However, I cannot get any of the metasploit or armatage functions of bt5 to work correctly.
I am not sure if this is a setting with the network on my actual VB setup, as the wireless manager option no longer appears within backtrack since setting to a bridged connection :/
To add any extra advice see below:
I have found guides on changes between r2 and r3 and have tried a fresh install of metasploit using the commands 'apt-get update', which crashed (found the advice here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backt...acktrack-5-r3/, however it doesnt say about errors or if it crashes), followed by the command 'svn cleanup' and trying to get the update to run again.
On a side note, I have tried following guides, one here (https://community.rapid7.com/communi...metasploit-pro) seemed to work, but I could not register metasploit, the site doesnt seem to want to load on my virtualbox.
I also cannot get the DHCP3-Server settings to work, it simply hangs on the pop up window with the bar ticking up. I assume this is a Java / Flash update issue?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have tried to use the search functions here, but cannot find a suitable answer. If I am just being an idiot, please just feel free to point and laugh and point me to a newbies guide to setting stuff like this up :P
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Five GrandsonsTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
On 24 December 1752, George Layton returned to Boston after a voyage of two years. The next day would be Christmas. George's wife, Martha, had invited his five daughters to come and celebrate their first Christmas as a family in three years.
After two years of long grueling days, it was nice to have a night of restful sleep. George awakened around ten in the morning, hearing a lot of bustling going on downstairs. Throwing on his robe, George went downstairs. There, in the parlor, were his wife, his five daughters, and their husbands. Each daughter had a child in her arms.
His wife, Martha, said, "Merry Christmas, George. A happy Christmas, since you have returned home after two years. And each of your daughters has borne you a grandson this year. A very merry Christmas to you!"
Abigail placed her son into George's arms and said, "This is your first grandson, Samuel. He was born on February 22."
Next came Rebecca. She introduced George to her son Richard, saying, "Welcome your grandson, a spitting image of his grandfather. Richard was born on June 27."
Julia then stepped forward. She placed her son, Gregory, into George's arms. "This is Gregory, who was born on September 19."
Elizabeth kissed her father on the cheek, then introduced him to her son, Walter. "Walter was born on October 14, your birthday."
Last, came the youngest daughter, Catherine. "This is Henry, who was born just this month, on December 2."
Then Martha spoke again. "Five grandsons in one year. And truly amazing is that they were all born on the same day of the week."
George stood up and hugged each of his daughters. He then sat back down, smiled at his wife, and said, "My daughters, I know how you like to pose little riddles for me to solve. I know that one of you is lying, and you want me to figure out which one of you is trying to pull a fast one on her father. One of my grandsons was not born on the same day of the week as the other four. That grandson is ... "
The given dates are correct. What grandson was not born on the same day of the week as the other four?
In 1752, the British Empire switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. The Julian Calendar had created an error of 11 days over the centuries of its use. In the Julian Calendar, all years that were divisible by 4 were leap years. The Gregorian Calendar compensated for future errors by not having century years that were not divisible by 400 be leap years. This is why 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, yet 2000 was a leap year. To compensate for the 11 days already accumulated, 11 days were eliminated from 1752. In 1752, September 2 was followed by September 14. The year 1752 was a leap year, but it had only 355 days.
Julia's son, Gregory, was born on Tuesday 19 September 1752. George's other grandsons were all born on a Saturday (February 22, June 27, October 14, and December 2).
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PHILADELPHIA - There's always a chance for a letdown after a big win. Combine that with a series of traveling troubles that has caused a very short turnaround before tip off and the Quakers will be challenged in their prepartion for Sunday. But they shouldn't have to look far for the movitation they will need. Penn will try to avenge last year's season-opening loss to Norfolk State. Tip off against the Spartans is set for 2 p.m. at The Palestra.
Catching the Game
If you can't make it out to The Palestra, fans can watch the game on the Penn Sports Network as part of the Ivy League Digital Network. Live stats can be found at PennAthletics.com and live twitter updates (@PennWBB) are also available throughout the contest. A complete recap and box score can then be found at PennAthletics.com shortly after the conclusion of the game.
In the Series vs. Norfolk State
This will be just the second meeting all-time between these programs. The Spartans won the inaugural matchup in the season opener last season in Virginia, 60-51. The Quakers have played three games against the MEAC under head coach Mike McLaughlin—all last season. In the other two matchups, the Red and Blue topped Morgan State at home (79-73) and beat Howard in the First Round of the Women's Basketball Invitational (65-60) at The Palestra—the program's first-ever posteason victory.
Big Win at Miami
- First-ever win over an ACC opponent (1-13).
- Coach McLaughlin's 50th career win at Penn.
- Sixth-straight win matches longest under Coach McLaughlin (won six straight Ivy games last season).
- First ACC win for an Ivy team since 2010 (No. 15 Florida State at Yale).
- First win in the state of Florida since 1982 (at Central Florida).
Traveling Troubles
Less than 24 hours before tip off and the Quakers are still in Miami. Meanwhile, Norfolk State is waiting for Penn in Philadelphia. Penn's flight was cancelled on Friday afternoon and the Quakers had to reschedule. The team traveled to Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday to catch a late-night flight to Atlantic City where they will bus to Philadelphia and arrive early Sunday morning if all goes to plan.
Tough Start
Though the Quakers started 0-2, they faced some tough competition. Entering the New Year, Penn's first two opponents this season are a combined 20-2 (.915). St. Francis Brooklyn is 9-2 and its only two losses came on the road to BCS opponents in St. John's and Miami (Fla.). No. 2 Notre Dame is undefeated through 11 games.
Best Start
Despite that challenging start to the season, the Quakers have now matched the best eight-game start in program history. Currently at 6-2, the Quakers matched the 2011-12 teams for that distinction. Prior to Coach McLaughlin's tenure at Penn, the Red and Blue had never won five of their first seven games, but they have now done so twice in the last three years.
Non-Conference Streak
With its dramatic and historic victory at Miami, Penn is now currently riding a six-game winning streak—its longest non-conference winning streak in 13 years. The last time Penn won six straight non-league games was in 2000-01—the program's all-time winningest team (22 wins). That group won its last seven non-conference games and after a loss to a Texas Tech in the NCAA Tournament, the 2001-02 team won its first two games for a nine-game non-conference regular season winning streak.
Winning Streaks
A win on Sunday would match the second-longest winning streak in program history. The Quakers have not won seven straight games since 2004-05 - the first season under then-head coach Patrick Knapp. Penn also won seven in a row during the 1999-00 season in the first season under the program's all-time winningest head coach, Kelly Greenberg. The longest win streak in Penn history came in 2000-01 when the Quakers went 22-6 and won their last 21 regular season games.
Penn Trends
Penn is 4-0 this year when Alyssa Baron leads the team in scoring ... The Quakers have had at least two players score in double figures in every game this year ... Penn has had three different leading scorers in the last three games ... The Quakers have won 14 straight games when they have outrebound their opponent and are 19-3 when leading at the half over the last two seasons ... Alyssa Baron has started 95 consecutive games for the Quakers—Penn is now 48-47 in those games ... Penn is 9-1 under Coach McLaughlin when scoring more than 70 points (only loss in double overtime, 88-84, at Harvard in 2011).
Baron in the Top 5
Senior and Miami, Fla., native Alyssa Baron added 14 points in her Homecoming at Miami on New Years Day. Earlier this year, she became the fourth player in program history to surpass 1,400 career points and now has 1,477. This season, Baron will chase Kirsten Brendel (1,656 points) for third place and Jewel Clark (1,743) for second. Clark is also 10th all-time in scoring in Ivy history. Former Quaker Diana Caramanico holds the Ivy League scoring record at 2,415 points. Baron is also among or just outside Penn's all-time top five with 525 made field goals (4th), 130 three-pointers (6th), 310 made free throws (4th), 76.0 free throw percentage (5th) and 281 assists (5th).
Charge for a Cure!
For the fourth straight year the women's basketball team is dedicating its entire season to the fight against several diseases and the team needs your help. In its first three years, 146 donors have joined the "Charge for a Cure" program which helped the team raise nearly $9,000. Each month of the season will be devoted to help a specific disease with personal ties to the program. Fans can pledge a donation per charge and the amount of charges are totaled each month. The money raised will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (Nov/Dec), Dut Jok Youth Foundation (Jan.), Autism/Play 4Kay (Feb.) and Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's (March). To join the team in Charge for a Cure, contact Eric Dolan at email@example.com with your pledge or any questions. For more information, click here.
A Penn Win Would...
... be the seventh in a row.
... match the program's best-ever nine-game start at 7-2.
... be the program's first in two all-time meetings with Norfolk State.
A Penn Loss Would...
... snap a six-game winning streak and the program's longest non-conference win streak since 2000-01.
... be the first since Nov. 23, 2013—a span of 39 days.
... be less good than a win.
Last Time Out
Trailing by one in the final seconds, Katy Allen improvised, and her layup with 5.6 seconds left gave Penn its first-ever win over an ACC opponent, 67-66 at Miami on New Years Day. Penn led by as many as 16 and played from ahead nearly the entire game. But Miami took its first lead with 1:54 to go and led by four with 90 seconds remaining at BankUnited Center. Meghan McCullough calmly hit a three from the wing to pull Penn within one with 1:21 to go. Then after a defensive stop, the ball was worked around to Allen at the wing, who was set to continue the play with a pass, but saw her defender out of place and headed for the basket. She sunk the layup for the final two of her career-high 18 points and gave Penn the lead back. Miami (8-5) got off a deep three, but it was off the back iron and the Quakers pulled off their sixth straight win.
Up Next
Penn travels to Morgan State for a 5 p.m. tip off in Baltimore on Wednesday. Three days after that, the Quakers open Ivy play against Princeton at The Palestra (3 p.m.)—the first game of a doubleheader with the men.
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|No. of QC Staffs
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Well, another Photoshop World come and gone. This year Adam Jerugim and I did a presentation on setting up a machine for doing very large file work. Thank you again to those who attended – we were up against some interesting stuff. I know I promised to have this entry up on Monday, but I've been struggling with getting PowerPoint to let me extract the information in a good way. I'll probably have to update this entry a couple more times as I figure out how to get what I want pulled out.
I wanted to call out a couple of things that are currently buried in the speaker notes, and I'm not sure if I got them across appropriately. First, setting Photoshop's memory percentage to 100% only makes sense if you've got more than 4GB of RAM in the machine, and again, only if you haven't run into trouble running the filters you need that way, and are on CS3. We've improved our ability to back off in the case that the machine we're on starts to page every version. However, it's still important to watch that free RAM (or, in the case of Vista, the amount still being used for the system file cache). It's important that you watch what's going on on your system when pushing things to their limit. If you're regularly seeing free memory (or the amount of free memory + system cache on vista) go below 20MB, it's time to back off that memory percentage setting and try again.
Someone had asked a question at the end about RAID types, and I wanted to repeat that here – for fastest performance, RAID 0 with 2-6 drives for the Photoshop primary scratch disk is the fastest way to go, but isn't a good place for storing files unless you're going to back them up very frequently (daily?) to a big server on the network. RAID 0+1 or RAID 5 would add in the reliability at some cost in performance or the need for additional drives. We still need to measure which of those is the best way to go. It'll be about throughput.
So, here's the current version of the presentation. The animations don't come across, and I still have to go through the speaker notes and clean them up and get a good export of that. Hopefully within the next day or so, and I'll update this post.
[Update: I meant to get the version of the presentation with extended notes up before my travels, apologies for not getting that done. I'll get that up and catch up on the comments when I return in October. -Scott]
[Update: Sorry this took so long, but PowerPoint and I had to come to an, um… understanding. So below is the link to the annotated version of the presentation, with all slide builds manually exploded apart so that they are actually usefull. -Scott]


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Topic: My Wife, Patty, unresectable Klatskin tumor. Trying IP-6
My name is Ted and My Wife, Patty, had surgery to attempt removal of Klatskin tumor with out success. She is turning down F5-U. Although there is a trial using Davanat in conjuction with F5-U,.starting here at Tampa General Hospital. She is still considering it. We have already started her on IP-6 but not sure of dosage. We would appreciate hearing from anyone that has had success with IP-6 and what dosage is being used. Our prayers are with you all that are going through what we are experiencing right now.


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Ludmilla Page—Her personal account of arriving at Auschwitz and being transferred back to Schindler at Bruennlitz
"In, sometime in the beginning of November, my husband and I found out that we were on the list. The men, they, we were very happy, we didn't know what will await us, but we knew that we're going to go to something better than, than anything that we could conceive at the time. The men left a week before the woman did, and, later we found out that they did not go directly to, Bruen...Bruennlitz, they went to Gross-Rosen, which, they stayed there, I think, a few days, and, this was a very, very difficult camp, but they finally arrived in Bruennlitz. The woman, on the other hand, we left a week later, and we were on, in the cattle trains, of course, packed like sardines. And we were going, we didn't know where we going, we assumed we going to go, to Bruennlitz, directly. All of a sudden we landed at this very famous now platform, famed platform at, station in Auschwitz with SS running like mad people, with dogs barking all over. And they started to push us out of trains, and, run us to, to a selection, through a selection process, which was by itself terrible. We had to undress completely. I clutched, in those days I already wore glasses, and I clutched them in my hand because I knew if I don't have glasses, I wouldn't be able to do any work. I wouldn't be able to, to see very well. So I clutch, and thank God no one ever, discovered. Some woman had their heads shaven. I didn't, just cut short, so I don't know how they did it, probably, you know, just picked certain, certain people. Then, and of course the Germans were making, laughing and making, you know, dirty jokes, and it was just terrible. We were completely not prepared for this because we thought we going to Mr. Schindler, you know, to his camp.
So, finally, after about three weeks, I think we lost the count of time, over there, they told us, they, someone came, probably a Blockälteste [block elder], you know, or some German, I don't remember exactly, and started to call our names. Well, that was already good because we knew we are the 300 womans and, women, and she called us by name. We didn't know what she wants us for, but they led us to a side, a train station, like on the sideline, and they put us in the trains again, packed like sardines. Of course, no toilets. There was a, a pail in the middle. No food, we didn't get any food. I don't know if some of us had a little piece of bread from, from, from Birkenau, we had, and after a while, the train started to go. We were only guessing, we didn't know where we going because first of all, there are no windows in the, in, in the cattle cars. We stopped, I think, on the way. The German soldiers let us go out for a while, you know, to, and we had some snow that we took from the ground and kind of, in...instead of a drink. And finally we arrived in some very desolate station, and it said Bruennlitz. It said Bruennlitz, so of course we were terribly excited that finally we arrived at our destination, but in the background, we saw some very tall chimneys. And as we marched to Schindler's camp, which we assumed will be Schindler's camp, we marched by fives, and I was walking, among other friends, with a girl who come originally from Germany, but she was deported from Germany to Poland, and in Poland to camp in Plaszow, and with us to Birkenau, and to Schindler's camp. Her name was Margot, and she said to me, "Oh my God, now we're going to die. Do you see these chimneys?" And I said, I always get upset...and I said to her, "Margot, you know, we cannot die, because if we would be destined to die, we would die in Birkenau."
[When we arrived in Bruennlitz] We saw a building, which was a two-story building. The lower, floor, and then the upper was all, had balconies all through the width of the building, and the door was open, the, the gates, rather, were open, and we marched in. And as we marched in, I saw men in the striped suits, you know, which we, they didn't wear in Plaszow, because in Plaszow one still could wear, their own clothes, you know. But all, everybody was shaven, a group of men standing on the balcony with shaven heads, with the so-called "Lausenpromenade," which means, "Lice Promenade," you know a, a shaved strip of hair, of, uh, of skin, rather, completely shaved. And they were waving to us, and, and crying, and laughing. First they, they thought that we are in a terrible shape because wore those rags, first of all, in which they never saw us before, and before we left Birkenau, they painted us with paint, like red, yellow, whatever, in order so we would not escape during our, journey. And I saw among those men my husband. And, of course, my happiness had no, you know, no limits. And then, but downstairs, we saw a group of SS men, but in the middle of them, Mr. Schindler, with his little Tyrolean hat, with a little feather, you know, and completely ignoring the, the Lagerfuehrer, that means the head of our camp, and all the SS men and woman, he said, "I greet you. Don't worry. Now you going to be well taken care of. There is hot soup waiting for you, and don't worry, you are with me now." So then we proceeded to go to the big, the big halls of the factory itself. And of course, there was hot soup, and a pretty good hot soup, and, we, somehow, subconsciously, we are not afraid anymore. Our living quarters were not ready yet. There were no bunks. Everybody slept on, on straw, but nothing mattered anymore, you know, because we knew that he will not, he will do everything, it was not absolutely sure, but we believed that he will do everything in his power to let, to, to help us survive the war."


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The Crap We Missed – Armageddon Edition
Welcome to The Crap We Missed – Armageddon Edition, which I really have no reason for naming it so, considering the Earth has yet to implode or at the very least swallow these two into a crevice. But since there's still a few hours of east coast time for this all to go down, you might as well spend them doing something really important. For example, you could hump your Christmas tree, or send up a Gerard Butler flare, maybe finally come out to a close buddy, or hey, it's the end of the world, fuck it, just let your moobs fly! However you decide to do it, it's been a true pleasure.
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I'm skipping some of the guys who said the same things about the inconsistencies, and for example Dubinsky, who kind of repeated what he said Sunday in Philly.
Henrik Lundqvist:
"It's been tough. It was definitely not the ending we were looking for. I'm so disappointed right now. I've been a pro for nine years now, five years here and four or five years back home, and never missed the playoffs. I can't find words right now. It's disappointing. I understand if a lot of people were disappointed, and fans were expecting a lot more. So were we. We hoped to be playing right now. I'm going to, for the next few weeks, just think about what I could have done better, and I hope the other guys will too, and make sure next year we do it better."
"You realize we didn't lose our spot on Sunday. We lost it during the year when we didn't have enough consistency in our game and we lost a lot of games we should have won. That's where we lost our playoff spot."
"I like to play, and I'm pretty happy the way I played down the stretch. I think I helped the team or at least gave them a chance to win, gave us a chance to win. We had a pretty good run, too. Nobody can say we didn't try to the end. We really did what we could. That's what makes me feel a little bit better. I know I did everything I could, and everybody in here did, too. It just wasn't enough."
"The thing is, I feel fine now, but the goal is to play in June. So if you want to play in June, maybe 65 games (during the season) is a good number. Our goal as a club is to have a good year, but also to have a better playoffs."
"It is what it is. The same thing last year, talking about playing less. But I felt good playing down the stretch … but again, the goal is to play in June, and if you look at the last few years, the guys who have been playing in June, they didn't play that many games during the year. I can't complain because I love to play hockey. I'd rather be out there than on the bench."
Had some issues with his knees and hip, so doesn't know about World Championships.
"Im happy, as I said, going down the stretch, happy with the way I played. But it's hard to be satisfied when it's not enough. We didn't make it so … It feels better when you know you did what you could, but it still doesn't make up for missing the playoffs. It really sucks."
"I don't know (about changes). It's up to management, whatever they think is the best path. But I think it's important that whatever happens, whoever's going to be here in September, we've got to realize we've got to do better; this is not where we want to be. We expect more of us. We want to be a playoff team, and we want to be a good playoff team. That's our goal. Like I said, our fans expect more of us, and so should we."
Marc Staal:
"You look back and it still hurts. It's still a crappy feeling in your stomach every time you think back to that shootout loss. It is what it is."
"Obviously it's disappointing to end like that. You want to make the playoffs and play for the Stanley Cup. It's going to be hard watching the playoffs again."
"I thought I had a pretty good year this year, I felt pretty comfortable on the ice and what I was doing. So I think, you look to improve every year and I thought I did that again this year. So I look to have a good summer and come back at it."
"I would like to (get a new contract done quickly). Nothing's started yet. No conversations or anything. But we're ready to go in there. … I'm not really anxious. I obviously want to be back and I like playing in New York, so I'm excited to get it done. … I haven't really talked to anybody yet, but my brothers have gone through negotiations, so I have them to talk to if I need some help."
I think that's going to wrap it up for tonight. I left out a few guys. I think I sprained all my typing fingers. When the byfuglien is somebody going to invent a digital recorder than transcribes directly to your computer?
See youse.
PS, I have an idea for tomorrow, you know, since we're not doing the Paul Mara Memorial thing.


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I have a forum that have been floated with spam-how do I stop this ?Any MODs-antyspam or so..Is build withphp-any suggestions will be at big help!
@tony5885 - I've moved this thread to the "Web Security" section of the forums, where hopefully you'll get some useful replies.
Thank a lot-I was wondering where to place it and as usual made a wrong choice....Love this forum!!Will be here for a long long time!!Thank!!
I assume that you already have an anti-spam plugin installed. Make sure that you're targeting the right terms so the anti-spam filter puts those comments into moderation and people can't see them. A good configuration and good terms may reduce the amount quite a bit.
Still, plenty of the spam here is handle by us, the moderators.
It may be worth to check Ips. Although banning an IP would mean that a possible real user may not be able to access your forum, if you are receiving plenty of spam from the same IP, it may be worth to consider a IP ban.
Thank a lot-but I do not get any advise???What MOD I have to install?
How are we going to help if you do not tell us what forum software is being used?
OO sorry!It is phpBB tipe...Thanks a lot!!
I've found great successes with KeyCaptcha, however I'm unaware if they offer a version for phpBB. I'm sure they do, go check it out.
in my experiance, spammers are in our times no longer "bots" or scritps in most of the cases..=> low-salary workers i.e. in china are spammers..those guys will manually break all your security and captchas because they are "legit human users"..though they have bad intentions..
Only way I had success with on a video-portal is "admin validation of blogs" (in my case)So im not sure, if there is a mod that helps or a captcha that helps for a forum..if you can, block china by IP completely!!if you need that audiance - have fun with deleting manually..
Personally I don't do a lot with phpBB however dimly recall there beinga 'bad word filter' plugin and that once loaded with a selection ofkeywords to watch out for this should catch most of the link spam.
The other great deterent commonly used by many forums is to makeuser submitted links show with the nofollow attribute. This meansthe links are useless for SEO and the spammer may not get paid forposting them.
Try asking in the phpBB users forum ,they could have a readymade solution or patch.
Agreed, the only 99% full proof anti-spam method is manual authorization. Also by denying China access to your servers, you benefit a lot, but sometimes some people are running their websites to benefit from the Chinese market as well. There are pros and cons, so unless you need Chinese business / audiences, then it's best to just block the entire country.
I personally think China has a lot of potential and that's why I don't block them. It's unfortunate that a vast majority of spammers are located in China though.
I must be unlucky then as I am getting a wagon load of stateside IP's spammingreal-estate and insurance links for companies in the Mid-West.. go figure. Yet tohave any from China showing in the logs, could be they have better proxies or ones not listed but it's unlikely.
Thank a lot every one!!!We will see what going to happen!!!
Agreed . I think so many people out there that make a service of Captcha Solving problem to make their Automation Spamming tools worked perfectly.
I run VB forum. It's an active forum. I banned IPs from China and Russia. That didn't help much. Because the spammers started using Singlehop servers and other servers in U.S. Singlehop is notorious for promoting spam registrations. Now, I moderate each registration. This is the only way to stop spammers, IMHO.
I see that the same spamming group is trying to spam sitepoint as well. If you look at "currently active users" in forum home page, you will see lots of weird usernames. I wonder how sitepoint handles the spams.
As a FORMER SitePoint TL, the main protection is the outstanding (volunteer) moderator staff. However, because the SitePoint rules are often interpreted differently by each mod AND SitePoint HQ is reluctant to take any additional steps (i.e., contact ISPs re spamming the forum), SP will always be subject to spammers.
Whilst every effort is made (as with most other forums), we do get a high volume of spammers registering each day. One good thing to come out of it is that we have a developed a suite of Greasemonkey scripts that find and highlight them based on a variety of criteria. Couple that with some super dedicated staff members and it make a formidable anti spam force!
This makes our job easier but we still remove 200+ accounts a day and we are also going back through the membership to remove sleeper accounts. Yes, it's laborious and yes, it takes time/manpower but it is worth it.
Ah, Rémon's been at work with his scripting I see! Gudonim!
Thanks for the reinforcement on my post about how SP handles spammers.
Again, the volunteer staff at SitePoint is excellent and keeps things going for all members.


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M.A.C 'Fafi' Eyes
"A quad of eye shadows specially selected to complement the M·A·C Fafi color collection. Housed in a black glossy compact with the collection's three Fafinettes on the front. Features limited-edition shades of Bold as Gold, You're Fresh, Shockwave and Prankster. " I love all of these colors! I will get the most use out of the gold and the black for sure! I like the pink for a fun night out! Oh and the compact is F-A-B!


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|Flow Portal
Flow is a project of the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a modern discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects. Flow provides features that are present on most modern websites, but which are not possible to implement in wikitext. For example, Flow automatically signs posts, threads replies, and permits per-topic notifications.
The main goals for the Flow project are:
- to make the wiki discussion system more accessible for new users
- to make the wiki discussion system more efficient for experienced users
- to encourage meaningful conversations that support collaboration
Flow has been deployed on user talk and wiki-wide discussion pages on various languages and projects, as well as Mediawiki.org – see Flow/Rollout. In September 2015, the team released an opt-in beta feature for wikis that request it, which will allow users to turn on Flow for their own user talk page – see Flow/Request Flow on a page.
- 1 Development status
- 2 Rationale
- 3 Goals
- 4 Components of the discussion system
- 5 Release and features FAQ
- 5.1 Is Flow replacing talk pages?
- 5.2 What wikis are using Flow?
- 5.3 Can I opt out?
- 5.4 What happens to current talk page discussions?
- 5.5 What about IP/anonymous editors?
- 5.6 Why don't we use a pre-built system, like PHPBB or Discourse?
- 5.7 Why not use LiquidThreads?
- 5.8 How does Flow handle spam and vandalism?
- 5.9 Does Flow support wikitext or VisualEditor?
- 5.10 Does Flow support all the templates and other markup we need in discussions?
- 5.11 What happens to my custom signature?
- 5.12 Can I edit other people's posts?
- 5.13 How will you support all of the processes Wikipedia uses?
- 5.14 If you are not working on Flow, will the visual editor be enabled on talk pages?
- 5.15 I can't use any page on Flow. Why?
- 5.16 Why do you use Topics and replies URLs that are not understandable by a human (like Topic:RdZ3SJY7W5Wtr)
- 5.17 Is there a way to all find pages that use Flow ?
- 6 Design FAQ
- 6.1 Why is there so much whitespace/padding?
- 6.2 Why is there limited indenting/threading of comments?
- 6.3 Why are we using big colored buttons?
- 6.5 Why is there gray text?
- 6.6 Why does it look like Facebook/Twitter/StackExchange, etc.?
- 6.7 Why are we using this Topic and Post order?
- 7 Development principles
- 8 Who's working on Flow?
- 9 Contact and links
- 10 Notes
Development status[edit]
As of February 2017, Flow is still being actively maintained. The team is supporting the product and will continue to fix bugs and to make sure that people who are using Flow continue to have a good experience. Communities can try Flow, knowing that there are some limitations and that additional major features will probably not be added during the next few months.[1]
However, Flow has not scheduled for major development since the middle of 2015. "Not in active development" means that significant new features are not being created at this time. The Collaboration Team remains interested in the project and in providing an improved system for structured discussions. Some communities have decided to use Flow and are asking for support.[1]
For the near term, Collaboration team is focusing on Edit Review Improvements project. However, after that work is done, there are some often-requested areas for improvement in Flow which the team plan to improve. To make decisions about the way forward in this area and future developments (scheduled for June 2017[2]), a survey has been sent to many Flow users in September 2016,[1] results published in January 2017. Those results will be used to support a decision for the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department plans for the next fiscal year.
New users on English Wikipedia have become less and less likely to participate in on-wiki discussions,[3] in spite of a growing and mostly automated body of messages directed at them.[4][5] We also know that free-form wikitext talk pages present a significant barrier to new users[6][7][8] and even some experienced users.[9]
In addition, experienced users often employ a suite of workarounds to help them manage and keep track of the many ongoing conversations that they're involved in, using tools that aren't necessarily well-suited to the task. For example, watchlists and diffs are page-level tools, making it hard to distinguish between the conversations that users are interested in and the ones that they're not. Experienced users can waste a lot of time checking diffs on an active talk page, especially if the most active conversation isn't the one that they're interested in following.
We believe that user expectations for a modern discussion system are increasingly diverging from the reality of talk pages today, and that all of our users deserve discussion and collaboration software that meets their needs.
|Current reality
Talk pages—as a discussion technology—are antiquated and are not intuitive.
Many things about the culture that has grown up around talk pages (such as "talkback" templates or being able to edit other people's comments) are confusing. That is not to say those conventions are wrong, merely not what those users are prepared for.
Better methods for collaboration will improve collaboration, which will improve all of the projects.
Q1 (July-September 2014)[edit]
User-facing features:
- Subscriptions:
- Done Subscribe to individual topics
- Done Auto-subscription for topic user has created or participated in
- Done Subscribing to Flow board = notifications for new topics on that board
- Notifications:
- Done Roll-up notifications for activity, one notification item per topic
- Done Clicking on a notification takes you to topic page, with unread messages marked with color
- Done Read/unread state for Flow notifications
- Done Mark all as read
- Done Log item improvements for Watchlist and Contributions (initial step done, but bugs in Contributions need to get fixed)
- Done Hide feature redesign -- actually removing hidden threads from the page, still accessible through history and contributions
- Done Mobile UI and design - board and threads are done, we'll do update to mobile Echo later
MediaWiki changes:
- Done Create a namespace for topic pages
- Done Notifications: dynamic read/unread states
Community partnerships:
- Done Work with the Co-Op team on changes that we'd need for Flow to be useful to the Co-op.
- Done Work with the French WP Forum des nouveaux, ditto
Quarterly review following Q1: [2]
Q2 (October-December 2014)[edit]
User-facing features:
- Done Table of contents
- In progress Search on a Flow board -- (coming in Q3)
- In progress Structural UI changes to enable editing other people's comments -- (partly done in Q2, more in Q3)
- Done LiquidThreads: Transition to wikitext or Flow (based on Andrew's script)
- Not done A more sophisticated version of subscribe to a board -- giving users more options on how notifications appear in Echo and in watchlists. (Not done in Q2, but it will definitely come up later on.)
- Done Review of fixed width and indentation levels. (Just a review. Not a promise.) If we keep fixed width, we need a solution for tables and galleries. (review done, changes coming in Q3)
- Done Special:EnableFlow to have a more scaleable solution for creating new Flow boards (partly done in Q2 with Liquid Threads conversion, more in Q3)
- Not done Turn summarize into a scratchpad area of full wikitext, connected to the conversation. Actual design TBD. (not done in Q2, but it will definitely come up later.)
- Not done "Resolved" function -- mark a topic as resolved. Then we build a sort for resolved/unresolved. (Just "closed" in Q2, but we'll return to this.)
- Done Visual Editor integration with Flow input boxes (coming in Q3)
Community partnerships:
- Done Continue to work with Co-op and Forum des nouveaux
- Done Establish more partnerships with communities in other languages, TBA (working with Catalan, Portuguese)
Quarterly review following Q2: [3]
Q3 (January-March 2015)[edit]
The priority in Q3 and Q4 is to work with communities on several different language Wikipedias to deploy Flow on pages and use cases where it can be helpful, and to focus on building features that will help active editors on those wikis to work together, and reach out to new contributors.
User-facing features:
- Done A new model for indentation for discussion tangents (released, now evaluating the impact)
- Done VisualEditor integration, with an editing toolbar (first version live, there will be more additions)
- Done Category support for Topic pages
- Done Editing other users' posts, with an Echo notification if your post is edited
Community partnerships
- Done WP languages with Flow-enabled project pages (help, village pump): Catalan, French, Portuguese
- Done WP languages with Flow test pages: Chinese, Hebrew, Punjabi, Russian, Telugu
Q4 (April-June 2015)[edit]
User-facing features:
- Done Deleting and moving Flow boards
- Done Page-width toggle, with Flow board header moved to the siderail
- Done Mark-as-resolved feature
- Done Edit patrolling
- Not done Search on a Flow board -- postponed until after Q2 2015-2016
Q1 2015 (July-Sept 2015)[edit]
User-facing features:
- In progress Opt-in for individual user talk page in beta features, on wikis that request it
- Done Convert LiquidThreads pages to Flow on Mediawiki.org, other wikis that want to convert
- In progress Split Echo notifications into two icons -- Alerts and Messages
Q2 (Oct-Dec 2015)[edit]
Collaboration team will be working on:
- Global Echo notifications, cross-wiki
- Workflows, see the Collaboration team page for more information
Components of the discussion system[edit]
Here's a brief list of the main feature areas for a discussion system, a description of what the plan is for each one, notes about the status, and links to any ongoing discussions. It'll be regularly updated to factor in new discussions, and to note the permanency of the feature.
|Solution in Flow
|Message separation
|Different messages in the same thread will be visually distinguished through design cues.
|MediaWiki users have adopted indentations as a workaround for the difficulty of presenting discrete messages on a completely unstructured blank wiki page. Flow will present messages in a more structured way, using usernames and other design cues to separate posts in a given topic.
|The current release (as of August 2014) has three levels of threading (or two sets of indentations).
|MediaWiki users also use indentations to mark that a message is a direct reply to a specific earlier message, rather than a reply to the ongoing conversation as a whole. This is an important goal for complicated, structured discussions like an RfC, where conversations often diverge into multiple sub-threads. On the other hand, for simpler and shorter discussions, it may be confusing to have to choose between several different ways to "reply". The team is considering ways to simplify the interface for simple discussions, and allow for more complexity in more complex, structured discussions. There will be a lot more discussions and experiments on this subject before we're done. :)
|Navigation and archiving
|Currently (August 2014), the software features infinite scrolling on a Flow board, with all of the discussions accessible on the same page. A sorting feature allows users to reorder the board's conversations based on the time that the topic was started, or by "recent activity" on the discussion. Individual topic subscriptions and notifications help users to find and manage the conversations that they're actively participating in. In addition to these, the team will create a search feature to find older topics, and there will be a Table of Contents in the side rail to help users navigate quickly between topics on a board.
|There's a lot more work to be done on this. One of the core goals for Flow is to make talk page discussions more efficient for experienced users -- finding the discussion that you're looking for (and filtering out the ones that you're not interested in) is a big part of making the system more efficient. Sorting and subscriptions are steps in this direction. We still need to figure out how search/filtering will help users find specific discussions.
|Design density
|The Flow software is deliberately using more whitespace than wikipedia currently does - whitespace is actually beneficial for reading. On the desktop, the open space on the right will (probably) have the Table of Contents, and a link to archives.
|There is a wide range in users' preference for information density. Core MediaWiki is very information-dense, with a completely fluid width and tight line spacing -- and, possibly not coincidentally, experienced MediaWiki users tend to prefer greater information density. (This may be the equivalent of natural selection.) One of the goals for Flow is to make the discussion system more accessible for new users, and part of that may include a less info-dense design. We're still figuring out the right balance, and this may include individual preferences for display density, with Gmail's recent redesign as an example.
|Editing messages
|Logged-in users can edit their own posts, including markup and templates. Flow as it is configured currently doesn't allow users to edit the comments of others - the pros and cons of this are discussed more below.
|This is present in the current version (as of August 2014), but it's a configuration setting: we can allow it if people want (or allow it to only administrators, or only autoconfirmed users, for example). We have to look more closely at the use cases that require editing other people's posts.
|Topic order
|Flow will have "top posting" by default, in the sense that topics are displayed from last-added to first-added: within topics, posts will operate from first-added to last-added within each subthread (normal chronological order). Users can also choose to sort by recently active conversations, to make it easier to find ongoing active threads.
|The main reasons for this are explained below, but we're open to feedback.
|Flow currently has human-readable relative (elapsed) timestamps on posts, topics, and history views, which expand to show full UTC time on hover. After initial experimentation with these timestamps on the board and history views, we decided to change to full (exact) UTC timestamps for higher granularity.
|Wikitext editing
|Topic titles of Flow posts do not currently render wikitext. Within Flow posts and header areas, virtually all forms of wikitext, extensions (such as :mw:Extension:Math), and templates are supported (see Parsoid limitations for templates that do not currently work; these are very rarely used in discussions).
|Post moderation
|"Hide", "Delete" and "Suppress" - analogous to revert, revision-deletion and oversight - are current features for Flow, and will be present before the first deployment on Wikipedia. Users will also have the ability to delete/suppress entire threads.
|Flow currently includes a version of these features (as of August 2014). However, we're not completely satisifed with how "hidden" and "deleted" discussions are displayed on the Flow board; we'll come back for another revision before the end of the year.
|Input method
|In the current release (August 2014), wikitext is supported. VisualEditor will be supported later.
|VisualEditor support will come, with collaboration from the VE team. We plan to add VisualEditor support via Beta Features, later on. (So that you can opt-in to one, but not the other, and vice-versa).
|Page/thread protection
|This is still to be discussed. Since threads can potentially exist on multiple discussion pages, a protection system that is equitable to users is difficult to get just right.
|To be discussed
|Flow will attribute content changes automatically (both new-posts, and edits to anything). Sinebot and {{unsigned}} will become unneeded.
Release and features FAQ[edit]
Is Flow replacing talk pages?[edit]
The Flow discussion features are being used successfully on user talk pages, help spaces and village pump-style group discussion pages.
There are other, more complex use cases for some wiki talk pages, which will be addressed as part of the Workflows project.
What wikis are using Flow?[edit]
As of December 2016, Flow is enabled on 25 wikis (see Flow/Rollout), some of them are using it as a beta feature on user talk pages. You can make a request to have Flow on your wiki (WMF wikis only). The technical process for rollout, is documented at Flow/Rollout#Process.
Can I opt out?[edit]
In terms of viewing, you won't be able to opt out of seeing Flow. If other users have converted their talk pages to Flow pages, or reached consensus that a Wikipedia or article talk page should be converted, there's not going to be a way to avoid using Flow if you want to contribute to that page.
What happens to current talk page discussions?[edit]
When Flow is enabled on an active wiki talk page, the existing dicussions are moved to an archive page. There's a link in the Flow board's side rail to the archive page. Old discussions aren't thrown away; we know how important discussions are to understanding the collaborative history of a wiki page or project.
We won't be able to "convert" wiki talk pages into the Flow format, because there isn't a clear one-to-one correspondence between a wiki talk page edit to a Flow post. It's more respectful to the discussions if we preserve the original format, on an archive page.
What about IP/anonymous editors?[edit]
Anonymous users are able to use Flow-enabled talk pages as any other user. However, subscriptions to individual topics, and notifications based on those subscriptions, will only be available to logged-in users.
Why don't we use a pre-built system, like PHPBB or Discourse?[edit]
On a wiki, the discussion system needs to connect to the rest of the wiki systems, including history pages, contributions pages and diffs. It would be harder to integrate a pre-built system than it is to build our own.
Why not use LiquidThreads?[edit]
LiquidThreads (LQT) was an early attempt at creating a structured discussion system. It has both strengths and weaknesses. After exploration and discussion, LQT was abandoned as a solution going forward for several reasons: poor performance, due to the way individual comments or posts are stored, parsed, rendered, cached, and assembled; no support for globally unique identifiers; and lack of flexibility with regards to workflows and collaboration techniques beyond simple discussion.
We have a conversion script that turns LQT discussions into Flow topics, which has now been used to convert all the LQT threads on MediaWiki.org into Flow. Details at Flow/Converting LiquidThreads.
How does Flow handle spam and vandalism?[edit]
In the current release (September 2015), each topic and individual post comes with a set of moderation features. These are:
- Hide (equivalent to reversion/rollback);
- Delete (equivalent to revision-deletion), and
- Suppress (equivalent to oversight or suppression)
Handling spam and vandalism in Flow should actually be easier than dealing with it on existing talkpages. Because Flow topics and comments exist as discrete elements, a specific post can be removed with a single set of actions: there's no need to go through the page history removing intervening comments, for example. In terms of spam, Flow is integrated with the AbuseFilter and the global and local Spam Blacklist. See mw:Extension:Flow/Moderation for technical details.
Does Flow support wikitext or VisualEditor?[edit]
Both. Flow is linked into Parsoid, which is the software that VisualEditor uses to read and write wikimarkup. Hooked into that is a wikitext editor and VisualEditor. Users are able to pick which they want to use, and the last edit-mode that is used to edit the content within, will be saved as a hidden preference. VisualEditor is used as the "preview" function.
Does Flow support all the templates and other markup we need in discussions?[edit]
Whatever markup Parsoid supports, Flow can support. Generally speaking, anything users commonly need to use (mathematical symbols, references, templates) can be added to a Flow post. You can see and test templates and other markup in the sandbox, e.g. this topic has some examples.
What happens to my custom signature?[edit]
Flow will not directly support custom signatures, for a couple of reasons.
The first is that they're disruptive from a UI point of view. Custom signatures are great for letting people know who said what; they allow for a specific user to be easily, visually distinguishable in discussions. The problem is that the way this comes about is by allowing refactoring of where links live, how they're displayed, and so on. As a result, there's a complete lack of consistency, which hurts the ability of users to navigate easily. One user might have their talkpage link in one place – another in a different place, and with a signature that doesn't actually reveal their username. The second is technical; allowing people to add raw HTML formatting into Flow boards could cause serious issues and errors in how the page is displayed.
Having said that, we appreciate the advantages of a custom signature; it allows for some visually distinguishing elements, and it allows for forms of identification that extend beyond username (e.g. in a second language). We're going to be working a "preferred name" field into the interface to allow for the latter; while it won't be as malleable as the status quo, it will allow for some originality. Your own posts will be visually highlighted to be more easily findable.
Can I edit other people's posts?[edit]
Yes. In the current release, autoconfirmed+ users are able to edit the posts of others, to fix problems or look at the wikitext. When you edit another person's post, there's a clear signal on the page that the message has been edited.
How will you support all of the processes Wikipedia uses?[edit]
It's a complex problem, which is why we started with the most basic process first – unstructured user-to-user discussion.
In October 2015 the Collaboration team postponed the Workflows project, which would handle the more complex talk page use cases.
If you are not working on Flow, will the visual editor be enabled on talk pages?[edit]
No. This question comes up quite often.
- The visual editor (VE) is designed to edit content, plain pages of text[2].
- Talk pages aren't content. Many of the tools and design patterns that make VE nice to use to edit content make it poor to use for discussions.
- To make it usable for discussions, we would have to remove or break many of those patterns in VE. We have spent a lot of time researching with users what works best there.
- VE can't deal with structured discussions and plain-text discussions are not structured discussions.
- Discussions like they are on traditional talk pages are not structured discussions from a technical perspective, despite the fact there is a certain number of colons or bullet points added to each answer to provide a pseudo-structure. With the current design of classical discussions, a piece of software can't know who has replied to whom – only humans can. There is no real connection between posts (which post is the parent/child of which), which is the definition of a structured discussion.
- In Flow, each post is independent with a unique ID, linked to other posts and to a Topic (also with a unique ID), with a specific history, and all posts can be targeted precisely. It would be possible in the future to have conversations at multiple places, to move topics or replies, and to create sub-discussions with Flow. Classical talk pages, using VE or not, do not allow that.
I can't use any page on Flow. Why?[edit]
It is probably a compatibility problem. That page may help you.
Why do you use Topics and replies URLs that are not understandable by a human (like Topic:RdZ3SJY7W5Wtr)[edit]
These URLs are an unique ID. Flow has been designed to allow cross-pages and cross-wiki display which an unique ID. It is not possible to have multiple topics titled ''Topic:Hello''. A way to change topic names has been investigated to have something more explicit, like
Topic:Hello-RdZ3SJY7W5Wtr, but that still have that necessary unique ID somewhere.
Is there a way to all find pages that use Flow ?[edit]
For wikis using CirrusSearch this can be found using the "contentmodel" keyword, e.g. Special:Search/contentmodel:flow-board. This will only find flow pages, not the threads within them until they are cleanly separated (phab:T73196).
Design FAQ[edit]
Why is there so much whitespace/padding?[edit]
Whitespace is used for your eyes' resting spots. It helps you focus on content and increases content comprehension by 20%,[10] which is important in discussing complicated issues. It decreases user dissatisfaction, which could result in an unhealthy discussion and harassment. We know what kind of harm to productive conversations misunderstandings and misinterpretation can do.[11]
In addition to the above, white space helps structure a wall-sized amount of text, communicates the relationship between content, and improves scannability and readability. "The eye cannot focus on excessively close lines and … the reader expends energy in the wrong place and tires more easily. The same also holds true for lines that are too widely spaced ... Where reading is smooth and easy, the meaning content of the words is grasped more clearly[.]"[12] The optimal text leading is x1.5 of the text size. The text size we will be using is 16pt at 25pt leading.[13]
See also[edit]
That being said -- there is a wide range in users' preference for information density. Core MediaWiki is very information-dense, with a completely fluid width and tight line spacing -- and, possibly not coincidentally, experienced MediaWiki users tend to prefer greater information density. (This may be the equivalent of natural selection.) One of the goals for Flow is to make the discussion system more accessible for new users, and part of that may include a less info-dense design. We're still figuring out the right balance, and this may include individual preferences for display density, with Gmail's recent redesign as an example.
Why is there limited indenting/threading of comments?[edit]
Mobile readership is growing dramatically (currently, representing almost 1/4th of total pageviews to Wikipedia),[14] so we need to build for a future where we have users who are purely mobile-only. Multiple indentations will have problems displaying on a small screen.
There are also many general usability arguments out there for why discussion systems that use indentation (also called nesting, branching, or threading) to indicate the relationship between comments are problematic.[15] As Joel Spolsky writes:
Branching is very logical to a programmer's mind but it doesn't correspond to the way conversations take place in the real world. Branched discussions are disjointed to follow and distracting. (...) Branching makes discussions get off track, and reading a thread that is branched is discombobulating and unnatural. Better to force people to start a new topic if they want to get off topic.[16]
We want to structure conversations in a way that makes sense and fosters a healthy discussion. The framework we're proposing places more emphasis on discussing the topic and less on tangents. (Users can still engage in tangents with one another, but the primary action that is emphasized is responding to the topic.) To complement this system, we are planning to add the ability to easily split tangents off into new topics, since it's likely that long tangents are, in fact, different discussions altogether. What we want to de-emphasize (without entirely disabling) are long back-and-forth tangents between two users that have no relation to the main topic. This is usually the hallmark of an unhealthy conversation or just one that needs to be moved off to a new discussion.
The buttons in Flow are part of OOui (previously from Agora), a new standardized UI library for Wikimedia projects. We use colored buttons to emphasize what to click next in order to complete a particular workflow. The blue-colored button signifies a progressive action that requires more steps ahead, while a green-colored button signifies the final progressive action. Links are used in areas where the action is not necessarily encouraged or discouraged (e.g., replying to any specific post).
Why is there gray text?[edit]
Pure black text is harsher for the eye to read on a white background, due to strong color contrast. Text will start to flicker, users will experience eye fatigue and strain, and they will be tempted to stop reading. If my eyes gives me a limited amount of time to read and try to understand a discussion thread, especially a complicated one, I'm more likely to get frustrated and give up. That's not a good user experience. The benchmark of text color on white backgrounds to avoid these issues is #333.[17][18]
Why does it look like Facebook/Twitter/StackExchange, etc.?[edit]
The Wikipedia community has very different values from many of the other popular discussion websites. But the important thing to remember is that those sites have done lots of elaborate user research and A/B testing to find what works best for facilitating discussions, reducing flame-wars, and creating inviting and easy-to-use interactions. We don't want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to the basics of online discussion, and we don't want to create something that breaks most Internet users' expectations of what a discussion system looks and behaves like. Flow should be intuitive enough for anyone to use without having to read a manual, and that means following the best practices of discussion interface design.
However, we are aware that the discussion system on Wikipedia is more than just a tool for communication, but also a medium for collaboration and consensus-based decision-making. We are going to keep iterating and responding to your feedback on how to better serve those usages.
In addition to the sites you may be familiar with, here are some other sites we look to for inspiration/guidance that have structured discussion systems:
- YouTube
- Flickr
- PhpBB
- Simple Machines Forum
- Gawker
- Discourse
- Gizmodo
- StackOverflow
- Medium
- Quora
- Tumblr
- The Verge
- Livejournal
If there are patterns from these sites that you think might be interesting to explore on Wikipedia – or if there are patterns you feel do not belong in a Wikipedia discussion! – please let us know.
Why are we using this Topic and Post order?[edit]
The default order in the current release is: new topics appear at the top of the page, and new posts within those topics appear at the bottom, below older posts. There is also a sorting feature that allows users to see the most recently active topics at the top.
- Topic order
Infinite scroll, and the elimination of the need to archive - this aspect necessitates top-posting.
More intuitive for newcomers and more efficient for seeing new/updated content. New/updated topics appearing at the top follows standard set by many forums, social media, and email.
- Post order
Replies to topics appearing oldest to newest (top to bottom) make sense as a way of encouraging users to read through the existing conversation before jumping in to comment.
Development principles[edit]
With any complex software project, it's almost impossible for the designers, developers and product people to know everything. This is a particular problem in an environment like that of the Wikimedia projects - due to the sandbox-like nature of the place, there are tens of thousands of different workflows, different user needs, and different problems. Even if we could accurately identify all of them, we can't necessarily tell if our solution is the right one until we put it in front of users.
Accordingly, we're keeping two things in mind while we're developing the Flow software. First: we are partners with the community on this. Editors are welcome and encouraged to participate in the development process, pointing out things we've missed, identifying and describing new workflows, and helping keep us honest - when something hits this level of complexity, it's impossible to make things work without as many people helping as possible. Before and after we build things, we'll open a conversation about the feature. Second: a lot of the work we're going to do, at least initially, is experimental: we don't know if it's the right implementation of a feature. If it's not, we'll be happy to roll it back.
Who's working on Flow?[edit]
See: Collaboration/Team
Contact and links[edit]
- IRC channel:
- Wikitech mailing list
- Phabricator:
- Collaboration team (the primary task management locations): Current, Backlog
- Flow: open tasks, all tasks, submit new task
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Based on James Forrester's message on wikimedia-l mailing-list, September 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Based on James Forrester's message on wikimedia-l mailing-list, June 2016
- ↑ New user participation in deletion discussions and community discussion spaces.
- ↑ Bytes added to English Wikipedia by namespace
- ↑ Messages to new users by type.
- ↑ User test results
- ↑ WMF Usability study highlights 1
- ↑ WMF Usability study highlights 2
- ↑ Experienced user responses
- ↑ UI Design Newsletter – December, 2005, Human Factors International
- ↑ Norman A. Johnson, Randolph B. Cooper and Wynne W. Chin, Anger and flaming in computer-mediated negotiation among strangers, Decision Support Systems, Volume 46, Issue 3, February 2009, Pages 660–672
- ↑ Barbara Chaparro, J. Ryan Baker, A. Dawn Shaikh, Spring Hull, & Laurie Brady, [1] The Software Usability Research Lab (SURL), July 12, 2004
- ↑ Michael Martin, Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices, Smashing Magazine, August 20th, 2009
- ↑ Mobile Pageviews, Wikimedia Report Card
- ↑ Jeff Attwood, Web Discussions: Flat by Design, Coding Horror blog
- ↑ Joel Spolsky, Building Communities with Software, Joel on Software blog
- ↑ Aries Arditi, Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies, Lighthouse International
- ↑ Oliver Reichenstein, The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard, iA
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Gladys Presley
Mother of Elvis Presley. She was born in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Her parents were Robert Lee Smith and Octavia Luvenia "Doll" Mansell. Gladys' mother Doll, gave birth to nine children. Octavia was bedridden most of her life, dying at 59 from tuberculosis. Her father Robert, was a cotton farmer and would occasionally pick up odd jobs to support his large family. In his fifties, he died suddenly of pneumonia, leaving Gladys then 19 to work in Tupelo as a seamstress to help support the family. She married Vernon Elvis Presley on June 17, 1933. The family rented a house on the edge of Shakerag, an area of Tupelo. She gave birth to twin boys and named them Elvis and Jessie. Jessie was stillborn. In 1948, the Presley's moved to Memphis, Tennessee. They lived in public housing or low rent homes in the poor neighborhoods of north Memphis. The family attended the Assembly of God Church. Elvis worked at various jobs to help support himself and his parents. They were a very close knit family. She had a very special relationship with her son, Elvis. Gladys Presley died of a heart attack brought on by acute hepatitis.
In a newspaper interview with The Memphis Press Scimitar, Elvis himself was open about the close relationship to his mother. "She was the number-one girl in his life, and he was dedicating his career to her."[1] Throughout her life, "the son would call her by pet names", and they communicated by baby talk.[2] Presley even shared his mother's bed "up until Elvis was a young teen",[3]simply because the family was so extremely poor that they couldn't afford the luxury of two beds. According to Elaine Dundy, "it was agony for her to leave her child even for a moment with anyone else, to let anyone else touch Elvis."[4] Presley himself said, "My mama never let me out of her sight. I couldn't go down to the creek with the other kids." His father talked about Elvis's close relationship to his mother "after his son became famous, almost as if it were a source of wonder that anyone could be that close."[5]
During Presley's rising career, Gladys became despairing, depressed and lonely and began to neglect her health. She put on weight and began to drink everyday. She'd wanted Elvis to succeed, "but not so that he would be apart from her. The hysteria of the crowd frightened her."[6] Doctors diagnosed liver problems, and Gladys's condition eventually worsened so much that she was admitted to hospital in August 1958. At that time, Elvis was in Fort Hood, Texas, to fulfill his military obligations, but he got emergency leave to see her, and a special plane was chartered to bring him home on August 12. Gladys died on August 14.[7] Elvis and Vernon were deeply upset by her death, with Elvis "sobbing and crying hysterically",[8] and eye-witnesses relate that he was "grieving almost constantly" for days.[9] During and shortly after the funeral, Judy Spreckels and Nick Adams, Presley's best friends at that time, attempted to comfort the singer


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There's a part of the zoo you've probably never seen, and most likely have never even heard of. Tucked away behind the Education Center, it's known simply as the Animal Room. That's a pretty ordinary name for part of a zoo, but it's got a unique function. It's where all the Education Department animals live—the ones used for programs such as Zoo Camp, Zoomobile, Wildlife Theater, scout programs and birthday parties. These animals don't simply hang out at the Zoo, waiting for visitors to come by. They go out and do the visiting themselves, traveling throughout the Bay Area. And for the last six years, these special animals have been looked after by a special keeper named Chris.
It's Chris' job to see that these animals are taken care of and ready for their important job as ambassadors for the Zoo. There's a lot of coming and going in the Animal Room, so it takes a good system to keep everything running smoothly. Her day begins before 8 o'clock, when she does a preliminary visual check of all her animals (which total nearly three dozen.) Here, she looks for things that indicate their well-being, such as how much food was consumed overnight and if enrichment items were used– also noting their appearance and behavior. Later, during the daily business of feeding and cleaning, Chris has ample opportunity to get a more in-depth look at her animals. She makes sure to handle each one at least once a day to keep them well acclimated to being touched.
Communication with Zoo staff is crucial. Since she's routinely in and out of the room during the course of her day, Chris needs to make sure that all the pertinent information about the animals is passed on to those who'll be handling them. With the Animal Availability Board, she posts such things as who's just been fed, who's currently under medical observation and which snakes are "in shed" (shedding their skin.) As a back-up, Chris uses a series of color-coded tags attached to the cages which further indicate issues with particular animals. This way, animals that need to be left alone for a while are not accidentally taken out on a program and handled. In return, the Education staff uses another series of tags to indicate to Chris the specific location of each animal that's currently out in the field. This way, she won't think that a hedgehog hopped out and took a walk around the Zoo if she noticed that its cage was empty.
What types of animals does Chris take care of? She's got snakes, parrots, turtles, frogs, hedgehogs, and even giant African millipedes. And where do they go? In the ZooMobile program, they go to schools, senior centers and private birthday parties at homes throughout the greater East Bay– as far away as Livermore, Newark and Sunol. But before they can take these animals off Zoo grounds or even handle them here on the premises, the Education staff needs to go through a 3-part training and certification process for each individual species, which Chris oversees.
Chris also trains other staff in animal handling, including docents, interns, apprentices, and Twigs (teen volunteers.) She also sends out weekly emails to the Education staff in the form of Animal Room Updates. And in her spare time, she does research on possible new animals for her collection. But despite her heavy workload and numerous responsibilities, Chris finds her job very rewarding. So the next time you enjoy one of the Oakland Zoo's many animal programs, think of Chris, the person who
helped make it possible!
Tags: animal education, birthday parties, fun with animals, kids, Oakland Zoo, ZooMobile


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Oysters Casino
This recipe for oysters casino is from "The Hog Island Oyster Cookbook" by Jairemarie Pomo.
- Servings: 8
Source: The Martha Stewart Show, October Fall 2007
- 4 slices bacon, chopped
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup minced shallots
- 1/4 cup finely chopped red bell pepper
- 1/4 cup finely chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Large pinch of cayenne pepper
- Rock salt
- 2 dozen small (3 to 4 inches long) Pacific oysters on the half shell
- Minced fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnish
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small skillet, cook bacon until almost crisp. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a paper towel-lined plate; set aside.
Place the butter, shallots, bell pepper, celery, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne pepper in a food processor; mix until well combined, about 20 seconds.
Spread 1/4 inch rock salt on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes.
Place oysters firmly in the hot rock salt. Place 1 tablespoon of the butter mixture on each oyster; top each with bacon. Bake oysters until bubbly, about 12 minutes. Do not overcook. Sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately.