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Brighton-based studio, Littleloud — best known for its work on the browser and iOS game Sweatshop HD as well as animated shorts The Curfew and The Diary of Anne Frank — is shutting down, according to a post on its website. The studio's creative director, Darren Garrett wrote: "All good things must come to an end, and after thirteen years as one of the UK's MOST AMAZING creative game and animation studios, we have decided to take our bow and say farewell.
"As anyone who's done it can tell you, it's hard work running a studio, and after a year of ups and downs, it felt like the right time to let it go and explore other creative ventures."
Littleloud is a BAFTA-winning studio that primarily took on projects from Britain's Channel 4, BBC Learning, BBC Radio and various film studios. Its most recent game —Sweatshop HD, an iOS port of its browser-based game, Sweatshop —was removed from the iTunes App Store in March for violating Apple's guidelines. The strategy management game puts players in the shoes of a manager of a sweatshop, where they have to hire, fire, exploit and abuse workers in order to maintain an efficient factory. Which obviously didn't go over well with Apple.
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BOSTON (CBS) – Rafalca, a horse co-owned by Ann Romney, competed Thursday in the first stage of the Olympic Dressage competition at Greenwich Park.
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Many companies use "keylogging" software or hardware to monitor employees' computer use. But they might be in trouble, according to this recent court case.
Keystroke logging (often called "keylogging") is a process in which everything someone types on a keyboard is recorded, by either a piece of software or a hardware device installed between the keyboard and CPU.
Hackers often spread viruses that install keyloggers on victims' computers to steal bank passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive information. But they're also regularly used by businesses to monitor what employees do on their office computers.
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After Metteyya Brahmana was laid off, he had a dispute with his former boss about back wages he claimed he was owed. During the conversation, the supervisor allegedly made reference to an e-mail Brahmana had sent to an attorney with his personal e-mail account.
Brahmana concluded that the boss had accessed his e-mail. He also learned from a former co-worker that the company monitored all employees' activities with keylogging devices.
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I have received the same message with the Add/Remove Applications option in fedora. This error happens no matter what I am installing. Is there a way to fix the problem?
I also used Fedora for a few days and did you try sypnatic? it is really awesome, it's a GUI tool:
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yum from the command line is the best way to go and can be used as a replacement for both apt and up2date. You will have to edit the /etc/yum.conf file and add extra sites (repositorys) to the listing. Also you should replace the existing fedora sites with faster mirrors. If you are using it on a network behind a proxy, then the proxy settings need to be specified beforehand.... I can give further instructions if needed, or I could email my yum.conf file. Just say the word.
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ADAMS When David J. Andalora talks about Shakespeare, he speaks with the passion of a character out of one of the Bard of Avons dramas.
Between classes in his classroom at South Jefferson Central High School, he held up one of his five Shakespeare adaptations.
In 1603, if you went to the Globe Theatre, even the lowest class of people the groundlings on the dirt floor, the not-so-smart individuals they understood all of this! he said. They understood every word! Theres no way it cant be the same way for people today.
Mr. Andalora has been a teacher of students with learning and developmental disabilities for 25 years. He has opened new horizons in literature for his students, who now not only understand Shakespeare but beg him to give them more. His Shakespeare adaptations are also being used at Copenhagen and Indian River central school districts.
Lori Griffin, an English teacher at Copenhagen Central and a former co-worker of Mr. Andalora, said his Romeo and Juliet adaptation was an instant hit in her mixed-level classes.
Students could understand and discuss pieces that had eluded them before, she said.
As a supplement, Mrs. Griffin still uses the original Shakespeare works for specific quotation analysis and literary allusion references of the most famous scenes.
Dave brought Shakespeare to the modern generation without insulting their intellect while keeping the rhythm and style intact, she said.
Two of Mr. Andaloras students, ninth-graders Erin E. Peters and Casey L. Stevens, werent looking forward to the Shakespeare unit this school year and the task of reading and analyzing Romeo and Juliet.
I thought it would be confusing and hard to understand, Erin said.
I said, Uh-oh. Here comes more stuff thats going to make me upset because I cant understand it, Casey said. I got proven wrong.
Mr. Andaloras adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and his four other adaptations have been called better than anything else on the market by his co-workers.
When he rewrites it in modern language, the kids can understand it, said South Jefferson resource room teacher Annie O. Williams. They perform better and can now write their essays and take tests.
Although Mr. Andalora teaches special education students, his goal is to make Shakespeare accessible to all. The major stumbling block for that understanding is the Elizabethan dialect of Shakespeares time.
When people read Shakespeare, he said, they regularly encounter words that they have to look up or pass over.
For most people, thats why Shakespeare isnt their cup of tea, Mr. Andalora said. It takes too much concentration to understand whats going on. I had a kid say to me one time, You know, Id like Shakespeare a heck of a lot better if he just spoke English.
So, based on a challenge, thats what Mr. Andalora did.
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It was during the 2004-05 school year, when he was teaching at Copenhagen Central, that Mr. Andalora accepted the challenge. He and an English teacher were scheduled to teach special education students a chapter on Julius Caesar. At that time, those students were not mainstreamed at the district.
She wanted to teach them basically the same as what the regular class was doing, Mr. Andalora said. She realized we would need an adaptive version of Shakespeare because the regular would be too tough.
Three different adaptations of Julius Caesar were purchased. Mr. Andalora was asked to select one.
All three of them were awful! Just terrible, Mr. Andalora said. They didnt make it easier. They changed the really hard vocabulary words, but two out of three didnt change the syntax or the way Shakespeare is laid out.
When he told his co-worker what he thought of the three selections, he sensed some annoyance on her part.
She said, I suppose you could write a better one? he said.
He responded, I know I can write a better one.
He began it that night.
Mr. Andaloras adaptation of Julius Caesar debuted after Christmas break that school year. It was eventually used by his students and by the general education students of the English teacher who challenged him.
Those kids ate it up, he said. They could understand what was going on. The language was easy enough to where I could give each of those kids a part and they could read it fluently.
Once his students were done with Julius Caesar, they pleaded for more. Mr. Andalora then began work on Macbeth. It was even better received than Julius Caesar. Another English teacher then asked him if he would consider doing Romeo and Juliet. That was followed by Hamlet. Othello was released in March.
Mr. Andaloras adaptations were originally kept in binders. He began to self-published them in 2011 through CreateSpace, and all five are available on amazon.com.
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Mr. Andalora, who started teaching at Copenhagen Central in 1988 and at South Jefferson in 2006, said he is not dumbing down Shakespeare. He said except for Elizabethan language, the element of the original plays have been maintained. If it rhymed in pentameter in the original, it rhymes in pentameter in the adaptation.
The books are not abridged, he said. The only thing thats been changed is the syntax and vocabulary. The only thing you cant teach out of these books is if you are looking to teach Shakesperian vocabulary and Elizabethan sentence structure.
Mr. Andalora, who received his bachelors degree from SUNY Geneseo and a masters degree from SUNY Plattsburgh, described himself as a fan of literature in general. At his high school, Wheatland-Chili Central in Monroe County, he was one of the few students who didnt totally hate Shakespeare.
I think kids today have less patience than they did 30 years ago, he said. I think thats part of the reason some of them find Shakespeare more frustrating than students in the past.
Mrs. Williams, resource room teacher at South Jefferson, teaches juniors and seniors. Her students got their first taste of Mr. Andaloras adaptations this year when they were assigned Hamlet.
They were so excited, she said. They took it home. It makes them feel more independent and successful. They are so used to giving up and not understanding these things.
Mrs. Williams said she previously relied on SparkNotes to teach Shakespeare.
That just summarizes it, she said. I like (Mr. Andaloras adaptations) in that they keep the form of the play. It still has characters speaking and its more genuine.
Mrs. Williams, a former co-worker of Mr. Andalora at Copenhagen, called him her mentor.
He helped me develop my attitude toward teaching, she said. It wasnt a matter of having kids coming in to do their homework and you show them. He showed them how to think, how to learn.
Mr. Andalora seems to be following the advice of Hamlet, particularly in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeares play: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
His translation: But dont be dull and boring either. Let your best judgment be your guide. The action youre doing should match the words youre saying, and the words youre saying should be accompanied by matching actions.
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Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea's won advanced, snapping a two-day decline, on speculation exporters are selling dollars at the end of the month. Government bonds declined.
The currency weakened by as much as 0.2 percent earlier as data showed factory output shrank for a third month in December. Industrial production declined 0.9 percent from November, when it dropped a revised 0.3 percent, Statistics Korea said. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey was for a 1.1 percent gain. The Kospi Index of shares rose 0.8 percent after Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said he's "strongly committed" to reaching a debt-swap accord with bondholders.
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Nursing Times' resident US nurse Sara Morgan is struggling to understand the point of early warning scores. Shouldn't all good nurses already know their way around vital signs?
As an emergency room nurse by background and first love (and yes, I will be using 'ER' instead of 'A&E' for the duration of this post) I live and breathe vital signs (or 'observations', if you prefer). After years spent triaging patients, I've learned that you can tell a lot about a patient's state just by talking to them, but you can't make a final assessment until you know their vitals.
There was the man who came into my ER one winter, smelling of alcohol and seeming just like many other homeless men who had used cheap wine to keep warm, until I checked his vitals and realised that he was slurring his words not because of his drinking, but because his core temperature was 32C. And then there was the woman with the history of migraines who came in with a headache. Was she having another migraine? Or was it her blood pressure of 280/145 that was causing her headache?
All of which makes me really frustrated with early warning scores, which I first encountered here in the UK. I understand the theory behind them — when enough of the vital signs are outside of the normal range, the EWS goes up, triggering a response from the nurse, HCA, or whoever records the vitals.
My problem with the EWS is this: why do nurses have to waste our time deriving a score from data that we already have to tell us what WE SHOULD ALREADY KNOW. That's right — if a patient is going bad, the nurse should know from the vital signs themselves, not from a secondary score that is calculated afterwards.
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Why would a patient with a blood pressure of 80/55, heart rate of 120, respirations of 26 and a temperature of 39 be stable, but the resulting EWS of something like 47,000 suddenly make the nurse think twice about the patient's status? When I have asked this question of colleagues, the response that I usually get is that many vitals are taken by non-registered staff. Does that matter?
Anyone who is collecting vital signs on patients should know when vital signs are abnormal and know what to do with that information. If there is some segment of the nursing workforce, trained or untrained, which is failing to notice deteriorating vitals, then is an additional box-ticking exercise suddenly going to make them pay attention?
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The creation of the EWS score is a solution to the problem of healthcare staff failing to recognise deteriorating patients, but it is the wrong solution. First, it adds more work and documentation to the nurse's already heavy load. Second, if we as nurses are not interpreting vital signs correctly, why would we be any better at crunching that data into a new number and then acting on that result any more appropriately than we had on the original vitals?
And lastly, the EWS score completely ignores the subtleties of vital signs that make up the 'art and science' of nursing care. An oxygen saturation of 90% might trigger a call to the doctor under the EWS system, but an experienced nurse will recognise that for particular patients, a COPD patient for example, 90% oxygen saturation is entirely appropriate.
What about a stroke patient who is aphasic, but has a suddenly raised heart rate? That heart rate might be the only indication that the patient is in pain, which is easily treated with prescribed medication, rather than taking time to chase down a junior doctor to tell her that the patient's EWS has changed.
Clearly, EWS scores were designed to keep our patients safe — a goal that we all aspire to. But if that is the only thing that lets a nurse or HCA know when there is a problem with a patient, then I think it's time that we as a profession acknowledged that there is a problem with how we are trained to gather and interpret vital signs. We need to solve the problem at its root — in our training — and not with a new box to fill out on a piece of documentation.
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I agree entirely. So much is into schemes and systems and yet the true nurse (so I was told in my training in the 80s) looks at the patient as a whole from head to toe noticing vital signs, verbal and non verbal responses and then develops an instinct that is totally patient contact led and tells you straight away something is up. This instinctive reaction is often faster than filling in another form as mentioned in article above. Certain things trigger warnings and certain knowledge and logic makes sense of them. Are we now too cleve for basics. Is that what degree nursing does (oh and by the way I do have a degree but learned common sense first).
Oh my goodness we have a sensible article on this site.
You are 100% correct. The additional tick boxing makes matters worse. Patients become failure to rescue statistics when RN staffing is poor. Additional paperwork will never solve this problem.
I was left as one RN to 25 medical patients the other day. My only help was a teenager. He was an untrained carer from some agency. He could not take vitals, blood sugars, or do any lifting due to a "bad back". We were the entire staff on that ward for 12 hours.
Filled in the usual incident forms and called the chief nurse, matrons etc. Was told to "stop complaining". I finally demanded to speak to the chief exec. But he/she is refusing to communicate with me.
It sounds like this EWS is a highly dangerous system and prone to error and precious loss of time in a critical situation in a busy clinical area where urgent treatment might be more appropriate for the patient than filling in more forms. It is each individual vital sign, including the visual appearance of the patient and other signs and symptoms that are the warning system not a statistic. Nurses, and others observing patients and measuring vital signs, are, or should be, well trained in and responsible for recognising any abnormalities and taking appropriate action. Why are nurses and trained HCAs in the UK never trusted to use their training, expertise, experience and intuition and do the job they have been trained for and know how to do best.
What happened to the end of the bed test.
Your patient is a whole being not just a urine output in an hour .
many of those trained in the late 70's early 80's will be looking toward retirement in the next 5 - 10 years, we need to address the basic common sense short fall now
Some of us will be patients and I for 1 want to be assured of a nurse who doesn't use a chart to determine whether or not I am sick
I agree with the author, however as newly qualified nurse I do like the EWS (or MEWS). I've been trained on it as a student, however I have seen how it can lead to more work and as some of HCA's I work with do the vitals they just fill it in and do not think furthwer than that. When I do the vitals I look at the trend and the patient. I dod believe that with the culutre of getting sued/ struck off that we have a soviet era work mentality and that this will paralise us when we need to act.
I absolutely agree. Nurses should be trained to be critical thinkers and problem solvers not number crunching computers. They should not need a MEWS chart to tell them that a patient is deteriorating. Anyone who is allowed to take observations should know the difference between normal and abnormal and the appropriate action to take.
Excellent article. You might want to know that some of us practice the common sense you are discussing. We tick the boxes afterwards. As someone who primarily worked in Psychiatric facilities, similar issues can be seen in Mental Health settings both here and in the USA. Examples are the compulsory completing of the BPRS (brief psychiatric rating scale) in acute admissions wards and other settings. Experience, knowledge, and understanding can generally tell you that someone's score for agitation might be sky high BUT then again, they have spent a morning at the GP, followed by 2 hours waiting for a duty CPN and finally being admitted into a bay with a floridly psychotic patient. The BPRS might pick up stuff at the point of assessment which is totally irrelevant if not placed in context. I remember nurses who did excellent things like predict the risk of violence or suicide being pulled up at the Performance reviews for NOT having a BPRS assessment in each of the case notes for the patients they are looking after. Crazy, i dont think this is a UK failing, i think it is a failure of common sense. You do realise though, that there are layers of middle managers whose jobs are secure as long as these redundant processes and requirements are in place????
I absolutely agree! The EWS isn't perfect (some trusts don't even have SATs as part of them) and it can never in any way shape or form be a replacement for good practice or Nursing intuition. However, I HAVE found it to be a useful tool when writing up or when my intuition and knowledge says that a patient is worsening, it provides a protocol that says a Doctor must come and assess the patient at a certain stage, it is this protocol that I have on occasion found use for and have used to force action out of otherwise indifferent medical staff. It is also a good indicator of vital trends in the patients condition, alongside other tools of course. It isn't perfect, but as long as it is used in context (and filled in correctly and consistently by other staff!) with other tools, then it can be useful.
I agree entirely. So much is into schemes and systems and yet the true nurse (so I was told in my training in the 80s) looks at the patient as a whole from head to toe noticing vital signs, verbal and non verbal responses and then develops an instinct that is totally patient contact led and tells you straight away something is up. This instinctive reaction is often faster than filling in another form as mentioned in article above. Certain things trigger warnings and certain knowledge and logic makes sense of them. Are we now too cleve for basics. Is that what degree nursing does (oh and by the way I do have a degree but learned common sense first).
In many ways I agree with the author, and her comments are thought provoking. However in this day and age where we are required to justify every action and reaction then the EWS/METS or MEWS aids this. In addition when phoning a Dr to attend to a patient it provides a more structured and robust format and can aid decision making. Unfortunately the old times are gone, and even the good clinical nurse with expertise in patient assessment who knows when there is a problem sometimes needs a tool like this to motivate others to act.
At last a sensible American there is hope. Dont forget where EWS and so much of our 'advanced management theories' come from. Scores, assessments or tools are aids at best to good nursing.
Excellent article!
Summed up beautifully by the first paragraph of "the wrong solution" section. All registered nurses should be able recognise deterioration in physiological status.
Once again I am asking the same question I have been asking since 1981; why do staff incapable of interpreting results STILL take and record patient's vital signs?
We use the EWS at work, and I hate it. Sometimes (on nights especially), if I'm trying to get a doctor to come see a patient with deteriorating obs, all they are interested in is what the EWS is, and why, if the score is 0 or 1 (eg, a post op patient with a falling bp and rising pulse, but which is not yet triggering a score), why I am asking them to review the patient.
To the author, a well respected article.
The EWS is to assist HCA (Non trained)to report observsation recording which do not fall within the normal range. The Nurse need to be informed promptly. In doing so the Nurse can take the appropriate actions. However this is providing the HCA is sensible to report the findings.
Unfortunately I have had experienced where some HCA do not report observations which are out of range. As a result I personally record the vital signs of each patient I nurse whilst on duty and by doing this I am able to act upon those obs which are out of range.
I have been doing some reading on American Nursing Theory and as a trained UK Nurse I must say I have learnt alot and I certainly take it as a positive and try to apply it to my care delivery.
I totally agree - i don't use early warning scores because i don't need to, i know what normal parameters are and i can interpret patients vital signs and think critically about their condition, past medical history etc (as other posters have written about COPD patients etc).
However i do see their usefulness when untrained staff are taking vital signs as long as those staff are trained to use the scores properly.
How correct you are, but we are so dependant upon non registered staff undertaking these skills and all too often they have absolutely no idea about the
1. significance of what they are undertaking,
2. how to undetake this properly, ie what you learn from holding the wrist to assess the pulse, not just the rate - similarly with the respirations
3. The unreliability of relying on equipment,
Some non reg have been brilliantly trained, others by just 'ticking the box.'
As the RN is accountable, and patients lives are at stake, we train all of our own - and assess them individually both how to undertake this and how to use score tool, and reasses annually.
We also ask they report ANY score to the RN
I recently underwent major surgery. Knowing what is normal for my vital signs I was astounded to be told by a qualified nurse that I was well just because my vitals were within the normal range... hence feeling really poorly - bounding pulse, nausea, headache, wound site pain and extremely dizzy I was just about dragged from my bed to the treatment room by two auxillaries, under the instruction of the qualified nurse, and had a drain removed... without the qualified nurse present... I wonder if this is normal practice in post surgical care... being mental health trained my only experience of general nursing is when I am a patient... god forbid i have to suffer such an experience again...
As a nurse trained in the 80's in the UK and further training in the US in 2000 I can see both sides.
I have been back in the UK for 5 years working in acute areas.
My experience in the US showed that the basic ADL's were provided by the nurses aids. Meds were dispensed by a computerised system and IV antibiotics came allready mixed. ECG's and Nebulisation was not done by the nurses on the ward. Cardiac patients had telemetry and CCU had a nurse sitting in front of all the monitors and would call the ward with any abnormalities.. There were many other proceedures not provided by the nurses on the ward itself.
In the UK the ward nurses give all care and perform proceedures, Ecg's, nebulization, suction and cardiac patients are on monitors by the bed which the ward staff have to interpret also. Nurses calculate and mix IV's for administration and medication is in a large general trolley for the whole ward.
Duties for UK nurses are overwhelming at times. HCA's record observations, but many do not know how to interpret the results. EWS and other scoring systems have therefore become a tool to aid in deteriorating patients being highlighted. Without this tool currently in place, many patients could be left to deteriorate until the trained nurse has time to check the obs. With HCA's knowing to report a higher score immediately, patients are reviewed quicker.
Is this ideal??? NO.. It would be wonderfull if trained nurses had the time to provide appropriate care, while new staff nurses and other team members were mentored and experience passed on to them. There are not enough nurses.....
At present with wards dangerously short staffed, high nurse-patient ratio's and higher admission rates, to remove the EWS and other scoring systems will lead to more patients left in beds deteriorating, only being discovered when the trained nurse has time to check the charts or someone passing sees a patient looking like they are about to crash.
I read many articles about the best way to deliver care and most of them are great in principal... The only problem is putting them into practise.
I dream for the days when there are enough experienced nurses to provide excellent patient care and able to mentor newer staff... I dream...
Back to work now, probably to find another risk assessment chart thats oh, so much better than the last one.....
I find it useful as it is a very definite trigger to contact the doctor. Previously they would ignore calls. Now we can bleep them and remind them it is trust policy for us to act on the EWS...
I personally think that the use of the EWS is vital towards documentation, a way of recording.
As a sudent nurse in my final year I clearly state at my uni we are taught to look at the patient as a whole,not just the EWS, and I certainly know if I have a problem from the obs alone and do not require the EWS to tell me.
On the contrast having lived in the US, and attending emergancy department with a child, no treatment is given without first showing insurance card or cash. I wonder why the EWS is that bad? perhaps both side of the pond need to rethink?
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#14484 closed task (blessed) (fixed)
Make WordPress core updates only update the core
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Since both plugins and themes can be updated within WordPress now, it's time to keep all of the updates separate. Really, everything in wp-content (or what ever the user has that named) should not be touched (including the index.php sitting in wp-content/, wp-content/plugins/, and wp-content/themes/).
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comment:1 @scribu — 5 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback added
Not really sure what you're getting at. What exactly is touched in wp-content when updating, currently?
comment:2 @nacin — 5 years ago
I think dd32 and I agree here -- wp-content no longer needs to be touched. (Hello Dolly, Akismet, Twenty Ten.) We will however need to copy over the current default theme if it does not exist in the install.
comment:3 @dd32 — 5 years ago
I think dd32 and I agree here -- wp-content no longer needs to be touched.
Only 2 exceptions which i can think of:
- New default themes as you mention
- If we can get a post-upgrade message for the new things, then new themes can be ignored for core upgrades, Current installs can then just use the Theme Installer if they wish to try out the new themes.
- Updated Language files
This ties into custom wp-content dir's as well, at present, the core upgrader is not aware of custom dir's, so if you use the constants to make it 'my-content', the upgrader will still dump the stuff into 'wp-content' even if its not used. Theres another ticket for that
comment:4 @mikeschinkel — 5 years ago
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comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 @bergius — 5 years ago
Just wondering, why do you need to copy over the default theme? If it doesn't exist, it has probably been deleted for a reason.
This is one thing that always irritates me with every upgrade. It keeps installing the default theme, Aksimet and Hello Dolly. I'm using my own custom theme, and I'm not using these plugins. That's why I removed them in the first place. Now, it's not a big deal as long as they are up to date, but as soon as there's a new version, you get notifications. This can be confusing for clients or any user not tech-savvy.
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 @nacin — 5 years ago
- Keywords reporter-feedback removed
Replying to bergius:
Just wondering, why do you need to copy over the default theme? If it doesn't exist, it has probably been deleted for a reason.
I'm referring to the most recent theme, assuming you're upgrading from a version prior to the release of said default theme. I suppose with an optional way to disable that for client sites.
comment:7 @nacin — 5 years ago
- Keywords 3.2-early added
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release
comment:10 @Denis-de-Bernardy — 5 years ago
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comment:11 @jb510 — 5 years ago
- Keywords core hello dolly added
- Version set to 3.0.2
+1 please... I've already got 3 emails from clients asking me WTF Hello Dolly is and where it came from...
This makes perfect sense to me. I can support keeping Hello Dolly and Akismet in the default install, but neither should ever re-install during an update.
comment:12 @computerwiz908 — 5 years ago
- Cc computerwiz908 added
I think that this is a no-brainer. It is very frustrating to have to delete Hello Dolly every time I update WordPress...
comment:13 @toscho — 5 years ago
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comment:14 @hakre — 5 years ago
- Cc hanskrentel@… added
comment:15 @ptahdunbar — 5 years ago
- Cc trac@… added
comment:16 @dd32 — 5 years ago
- Keywords 3.2-early added; core hello dolly removed
- Owner set to dd32
- Status changed from new to accepted
comment:17 follow-up: ↓ 18 @dd32 — 5 years ago
Accepting this and marking as 3.2 for tracking purposes, Until the 3.2 scope meeting is done, no specific enhancements are a given.
comment:18 in reply to: ↑ 17 @hakre — 5 years ago
comment:19 @hakre — 5 years ago
- Keywords needs-patch added
comment:20 @scribu — 5 years ago
- Keywords 3.2-early removed
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 3.2
- Type changed from enhancement to task (blessed)
The blessing: https://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/wordpress-3-2-the-plan-faster-lighter/#comment-17295
comment:21 @dd32 — 5 years ago
(In [17576]) Be a party-pooper; No more Akismet Dancing upon upgrade; Respect custom WP_CONTENT_DIR for bundled plugins/theme installation; Respect custom WP_CONTENT_DIR/WP_LANG_DIR for Language files when upgrading; Standardise WP_Filesystem path method returns (They're trailing slash'd). Adds an exclusion list to copy_dir() as well as WP_Filesystem_Base::wp_lang_dir(). See #14484 See #11495
comment:22 @dd32 — 5 years ago
comment:23 follow-up: ↓ 37 @dd32 — 5 years ago
- Keywords needs-testing added; needs-patch removed
Point of discussion:
- CORE_UPGRADE_SKIP_NEW_BUNDLED - It's been mentioned there should be a way of preventing future default themes/plugins from being installed with upgrades. That constant does just that. Need to check if anyone has a better idea for the constant name.
Testing is needed here as well, particularly with localised installs, and those with custom wp-content directories
To test WP_LANG_DIR: You'll need to take a 3.2 install, modify it's version to indicate 3.1, set a custom WP_CONTENT_DIR and/or WP_LANG_DIR, and perform a automatic re-installation from Dashboard->Update, the result should be that wp-content doesn't exist, and that the language files have been updated
comment:24 follow-up: ↓ 29 @duck_ — 5 years ago
Do we want upgrades to 3.2 to skip the wp-content shenanigans? At present moving to 3.2 will overwrite wp-content with that from the downloaded package. This is because the upgrade will make use of the 3.1 (or below) version of copy_dir without skip lists.
This could be overcome with a temporary 3.2 version of copy_dir (named _copy_dir for example) in update-core.php which would only be included for 3.2. However, there are a number of drawbacks. This 'fix' would only work for updates to 3.2, still the same problem (which would occur anyway) for 3.1 -> 3.3, unless it was kept indefinitely which doesn't sound good. Also I think there would be extra problems with language packs, see #11495 comment 20, without extra workarounds for 3.2 which doesn't sound nice either.
comment:25 @travisnorthcutt — 5 years ago
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comment:26 @dd32 — 5 years ago
duck_: Yeah.. I realised that last night after signing off.
the WP_LANG_DIR code also won't work for 3.2 upgrades thanks to me only adding wp_lang_dir() in the same commit.
The downside of adding a "copy" of the function is that we can't just include it for 3.1-3.2, it needs to be available for every version since the Auto upgrades started.
My original attempt was pretty much duplicating copy_dir() in upgrade-core.php, which is what I think I'll have to revert it to using.
The skiplist makes it so much simpler.. but unfortunately makes it also not work for 3.2 upgrades.
comment:27 @scribu — 5 years ago
Maybe we should accept that it will only work after 3.2, just like automatic upgrades started working only after WP 2.7.
comment:28 @dd32 — 5 years ago
The alternative is:
// Copy root files manually dirlist() foreach ( $list as $file ) if is file, then copy if is directory and not wp-content, then copy_dir() // Do wp-content stuff ..existing code in core after last commit
comment:29 in reply to: ↑ 24 @nacin — 5 years ago
Replying to duck_:
This could be overcome with a temporary 3.2 version of copy_dir (named _copy_dir for example) in update-core.php which would only be included for 3.2. However, there are a number of drawbacks. This 'fix' would only work for updates to 3.2, still the same problem (which would occur anyway) for 3.1 -> 3.3
I strongly suggest we do exactly this. Use a temporary solution so people who update to 3.2 can benefit from this now, and rip it out in 3.3-dev. If you go from 3.1 to 3.3, you won't get this until you're using 3.3, which is fine by me -- the alternative is the same position. There's no cost in this cost-benefit analysis.
comment:30 @dd32 — 5 years ago
I strongly suggest we do exactly this.
It has the obvious downside that those who don't upgrade to 3.2 first will have the old bug re-introduced temporarily, but benefits the majority of users doing it that way.
comment:31 @nacin — 5 years ago
Right, but it's not actually a regression for them, which is nice.
comment:32 @dd32 — 5 years ago
comment:33 @dd32 — 5 years ago
comment:34 @ramiy — 5 years ago
Why not add this feature to 3.1.1 or 3.1.2 or any other minor release befor 3.2 ?
comment:35 @dd32 — 5 years ago
Why not add this feature to 3.1.1 or 3.1.2 or any other minor release befor 3.2 ?
point releases are maintenance releases only; they're designed to fix critical/security bugs & regressions. Major features/enhancements only go into the next major release.
comment:36 @ramiy — 5 years ago
i know that. but it can solve the problem.
comment:37 in reply to: ↑ 23 @hakre — 5 years ago
How do you ensure that bundeled stuff won't be installed if they are not found on disk?
comment:38 @dd32 — 5 years ago
How do you ensure that bundeled stuff won't be installed if they are not found on disk?
By only copying them if the introduced version was newer than the previously-installed version.
comment:39 @strider72 — 5 years ago
Although the reappearing plugins etc. are annoying, it's easily remedied by using a custom wp-content directory. So -- the ideas discussed may be a good idea anyway, but we should be careful of needlessly complicating things. This is almost (almost!) a solution without a problem.
comment:40 @nacin — 5 years ago
It's not just reappearing plugins. It's also edited themes. Also, we're now detecting custom content directories and upgrading those, I believe.
comment:41 @travisnorthcutt — 5 years ago
Not to mention many (most?) users don't (and likely don't know how to/don'w want to) use a custom wp-content directory.
comment:42 @dd32 — 4 years ago
comment:43 @dd32 — 4 years ago
comment:44 @dd32 — 4 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from accepted to closed
Believe this can be closed for 3.2 now.


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American Safari Cruises' first trip to Kaunakakai in November 2011 was met with protests.
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Tensions continued to run high in January 2012 as the Explorer pulled into port. There were Coast Guard and state law enforcement officers on the water and county police and state sheriffs on shore.
It was a far different sight on Wednesday as representatives from the state, American Safari Cruises and the Molokai community signed an historic "Molokai Community Agreement" outlining visits to Molokai.
"It is an outcome of community sitting down with business talking openly and honestly about each other's needs," said William Aila, Department of Land and Natural Resources chairman.
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Under the agreement, American Safari Cruises agrees to make only one visit per week with a maximum of 36 passengers on any trip.
The company will help to create an orientation video on Molokai that the passengers will view before arrival.
The tours will not visit the wahipana, or sacred places, on the island.
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"This is a precedent-setting thing," said Molokai activist Walter Ritte. "So, we're hoping that Molokai uses this. We put this in our community plan so that anybody else coming as tourists or tourist industry to this island knows there are steps they need to take. They just can't come here and do whatever they want."
Ritte says they hope to set a precedent for the rest of the islands so that each community can have a say about how tourism is implemented on their island.
As for American Safari Cruises, the company says communication is good. Later this year, the company plans to base a boat out of the island bringing more revenue to the Molokai community, all with the community's blessings.


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BATON ROUGE, La. – Tanner English broke a 2-2 tie in the ninth inning of Saturday's game at No. 2 LSU with an RBI triple and scored on a balk to lift No. 15 South Carolina to a 4-2 victory over the Tigers.
The Gamecocks evened the series heading into today's rubber match at 3 p.m. on ESPN. They improved to 32-12 overall and 12-8 in the SEC; LSU fell to 39-6 and 16-4.
Eight South Carolina hitters recorded a hit with LB Dantzler and Brison Celek also picking up an RBI.
Jordan Montgomery gave up two runs on 10 hits and recorded two strikeouts for USC. Adam Westmoreland (5-1) picked up the win in relief while Tyler Webb worked out of a jam in the ninth to earn his 13th save of the season.
LSU starting pitcher Ryan Eades lasted seven innings, allowing two runs on six hits, but Chris Cotton gave up the two runs in the ninth to record the loss.
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LSU got a run in the second on a sacrifice fly and another on a groundout in the sixth, both RBI going to Ty Ross.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Nalaga scores four as Clermont dismiss Toulon
Toulon slipped into the relegation zone on the weekend after being beaten 32-5 by Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14. Flying Fijian Napolioni Nalaga crossed four times, keeping up his impressive try scoring record for the French side.
His tally for the season is now ten, scoring twice either side of half time. His hulking frame, flamboyant skills, and speed off the mark have seen him acknowledged by Planet Rugby as one of the best wingers in the world, making their team of the year.
As for Toulon, they couldnt repeat their win over the same side in the opening round of the season, and now face the reality of going back to the Pro D2.
They managed a solitary try from Normaan Jordaan, but it was not enough as the loss results in them now being just one point ahead of bottom placed Mont-de-Marsan.
Tana Umaga and the rest of the highly paid signings may soon find themselves looking for a way out, or facing the ominous tast of heading back to the second division.
Toulon's assistant coach, Aubin Hueber, was full of praise for the opposition though.
"We came up against an excellent Clermont team, who were more dominating and organised than us with leaders who made the difference such as Nalaga who was magnificent. We would really like him in our team!"
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Anonymous January 06, 2009 9:27 am
This guy is a huge huge star for the future, despite being already a major threat to any team!!!Power skill, size and speed, a Lomu in the making?Rokx
Anonymous January 06, 2009 10:58 am
Horrible defence by Toulon no wonder their doing so poorly.Also even though we all know how devastating Nalaga is in attack is he any good in defense? Cause i saw a vid on RD were Rory Lamont ran straight through him twice. But i havent seen enough footage of him to judge so please let me know?
Flooz January 06, 2009 11:32 am
i'm happy to see nalaga back.he was suspended for few weeks after a coathanger on elissade.as clermont begin their come-back in top14, nalaga will help with his devastating runs, i enjoy the way he can join the forwards
bD January 06, 2009 11:34 am
Aubin Hueber probably went up to him after the match and offered him a nice sum of money to come to toulon lol...french rugby becoming more about the money? i hear Giteau is going to bayonne too
billybob January 06, 2009 11:58 am
Hes like every other fijian winger, Great attacker but poor in defence. Cool name though lol
Anonymous January 06, 2009 12:18 pm
what has happened to sonny bill williams?
Anonymous January 06, 2009 1:33 pm
I've watched this kid in more or less every game he has played for Clermont in 2007-2008, and I've only seen him get shown up once in defense. As stated earlier Rory Lamont bounced off his tackle and scored. The mistake he did in that game was he tried to shoulder charge Lamont, which he should've been carded for, but Lamont just bounced and spun out of the tackle. Apart from that incident he is pretty good in defense...Howlett had 3 1 vs 1 opportunities against him but couldn't get past.Defense will always be a big problem with big wingers, I've lost count the number of times the likes of Alesana Tuilagi, Matt Banahan and Vainikolo have been shown up in defense.
Anonymous January 06, 2009 1:42 pm
re: 2nd trywho was the 1st defender he beat? SBW? Samoan utility back Tusi Pisi is no slouch in defense, but Nalaga just bounced him off with ease. 4 defenders near the sideline with rougly 60m to the try line and they couldn't stop him, TOULON ARE CRAP.re: 3rd TryLMAO@SBW....Loic the Clermont 2nd rower side stepped a center. What was SBW doing? embarrassing
Anonymous January 06, 2009 3:34 pm
ENORME! Naps
Anonymous January 06, 2009 4:01 pm
the "almost 2nd try" was some cool jonah-lomu stuff
Anonymous January 06, 2009 5:15 pm
so then can anyone sort some stats? is he as big as lomu, me thinks not lomu was 19stone in his prime that is massive... he was lightning too. the thing with lomu compared to a alot of so called big wingers like banahan, vainikolo and tuilangi is that he was so fast. nalaga doesnt look as quick.
tehsniper January 06, 2009 5:23 pm
last anonymous, you are a joke.nalaga is lightning quick, probably even quicker than lomu was, with all due respect
mpc33 January 06, 2009 5:35 pm
I'm frenh, sorry for my poor english.Nalagua is a deadly finisher, a try-hunter, clearly one of the best winger in the world ball in hand. But apart from that, he has real weaknesses, especially under high ball and defence. Like many Pacific wingers (with all the respect due to them), he doesn't like to catch high balls behind him, moreover he doesn't catch the pressure very well. Concerning his defence, well, he's not a so bad bad tackler (easy when you're more than 100kg), but he has real lacks in his defensive positionning and is sometimes not as commited as he should be.Still, he remains an impressive player. I'd rather like Clermont to give Malzieu game time in orer to have a worthy French team for the Six Nations.But, in france, you know, nobody really understand that we have to give young guys their chance in order to win international games. And in the same time, clubs only care of victory &/or money... As long as clubs will be the priority over national teams in the northern hemisphere (an don't come telling me that it's wrong), we won't win any other RWC...I am very happy to see Toulon being in this situation, it shows that money doesn't make everything. To me, they're just a mercenarie band, leaded by the worst thing that ever happened to rugby : Boudjellal. This thing has never touched any rugby ball in his life, the only reason why he's interesting in rugby is because he felt he could get money and celebrity from it. He has no respect to rugby valors, he should have spent his money in Football where he could have find bastards president like him.And, in order to keep things clean in our beloved sports, let's bring quotas of SH players in the Northern Teams (yeah yeah sweet dreams...), it would be better for everyone in the end...I fell, i went a little far away of the original subject, no ? Excuse me.
james January 06, 2009 6:13 pm
he actually gets five accordin to the commentators
Anonymous January 06, 2009 7:05 pm
I doubt Nalaga is as fast as Lomu, but he does have something special.
Anonymous January 06, 2009 7:09 pm
@MPC33I agree with your notion giving Malzieu more game time, but, if a player like Nalaga is used on the bench for Clermont, he will look else where. He would't have any problem getting signed by another top T14 club. Clermont would rather have a player like him on their side then on the opposition team.
Don January 06, 2009 11:45 pm
Nice 2nd try.Nalaga is a mini-lomu...Nalaga basically has the strength and speed to get him there...but not he's certainly not as fast and strong as lomu. I saw him literally stumbling to make each try. But if there's one thing this kid doesn't have that Lomu had...that's finesse.
Anonymous January 07, 2009 7:09 am
with all due respect to the people saying Lomu was so much better than Nalaga you have to remember that he was playing at the dawn of the professional era, where many players simply didn't have the size, strength or defensive tactics to stop him. The way the game has evolved now, it's pretty astounding that Nalaga is so effective. I think given time he could grow to be even better than Lomu was (absolutely no disrespect to Lomu. The guy was and still is a legend)
Anonymous January 07, 2009 10:52 am
I totally agree with the last Anon, taking nothing away from Lomu, he did play at a time where wingers and backs in rugby were small. Today, more or less every back, even fly-halfs are between 6ft2"-6ft7" and most weigh above 100kg. It's unfair comparing this 22yr old kid to a legend like Lomu, many big wingers have carried the "next Lomu" title, but more or less all have failed to live up to the name. I wouldn't go as far as saying Nalaga is the next Lomu, because imo he is a totally different type of player. He's work rate is unbelievable, at times I'm confused wether he's a winger or a flanker, because I'm always finding him popping up around the ruck area, unlike some wingers who sit on their hands waiting for a miracle to happen, this kid goes looking for work for the full 80mins. Some wingers get hyped up but fail to deliver, Nalaga has impressed, improved and been consistent in his performance. This is only his 2nd season with ASM/T14 rugby, and he's already at the top of the try scoring table.re: defensemost big wingers are poor defenders, Lomu was devasting with the ball but not a very good defender...easily turned
Anonymous January 07, 2009 11:02 am
re: Nalaga's speedHe does not look fast, but, I've seen a youtube vid where he skinned Delasau and easily burned him off in a 30-40m foot race to the try line. I expected Delasau to catch him but with every stride Nalaga pulled away. Not a lot of wingers can say they beat Delasau in a foot race.
Anonymous January 07, 2009 11:11 am
Lomu had finesse?? lol uhhh?? I doubt it, he was a 6ft5"/120kg winger playing against opposition wingers who were half his size. Lomu was all about speed, power & strength, but finesse is a word I wouldn't use to describe him.
Anonymous January 07, 2009 5:30 pm
Toulon are hardly the best team either
Anonymous January 08, 2009 1:29 pm
I agree Toulon are not a good team, but they do have class players in their outfit.How many carries and line-breaks did Nalaga get in the Munster game? I seem to recall him breaking through tackles several times and making a lot of yards in that game.


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I found an sketch I had done a while ago even though I normally don't draw vessels, while cleaning and organizing for a likely move to Boston in the next few weeks. I thought it would be a good challenge for me to recreate on SketchUp.
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Interesting design :)
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It's clearly a Seahorse of Prey.
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i cant make this out. which is the front?
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^ The front is facing left
Here's work in process. I just did some additions and took a picture while taking break from the cleaning and packing.
I'll do the details once I'm done with the bottom of the ship and adding the little round engines between the two already in the picture.
Back to cleaning and packing.
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Interesting design, but in 3D it reminds me of a ground defense turret or a gun handle. Definitely not a typical ship design. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. :)
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dont want this to become my catchphrase, but very Gundam Universe looking. somehow.
Re: Warship Sketch
Reminds me of the Babylon 5 Excalibur--destroyer class whitestar--the arms.
Re: Warship Sketch
I forgot to update.
I don't know how to render it, like some of you do, but here's what I've done via SketchUp
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