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There are a variety of surgical options to treat vitiligo. They basically all involve transplanting the patient's normal melanocytes into areas of vitiligo. This can be accomplished by taking small "pinch" grafts or split thickness grafts of normal skin and placing them into suitably prepared recipient sites. If all goes well, the melanocytes gradually grow out of the grafts and repopulate the surrounding involved skin. At certain research institutions, melanocytes from normal skin can be harvested and grown in tissue culture and then placed in suitably prepared recipient sites. Although somewhat cosmetically acceptable, even successful surgical outcomes are nevertheless distinguishable from normal skin.
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John Osmond reports on a seminar in the Senedd this week that looked at the dos and don'ts following a hung electionFebruary 19th, 2014
Rhodri Morgan once famously remarked, in the early years of the National Assembly, that its electoral arrangements had been devised to ensure that Labour would achieve a majority of seats in at least three elections out of four. Speaking at a seminar on coalition government in the Senedd earlier this week, and with the benefit of hindsight, he revised that estimate sharply downwards.
He said that, at best, Labour could not hope to form a majority government following one election out of two. "The 1999 Assembly was not set up for majoritarian rule," he reflected. "It was designed to make it as difficult as possible for Labour to form a government."
The former First Minister also made it clear that he wasn't just referring to the electoral arrangements and their form of partial proportional representation, but to the inaugural Assembly's internal procedures as well. Ron Davies' passionate pursuit of 'inclusive' government had resulted in excessive powers being handed to chairs of Committees, whose role gave them as much if not more influence than Secretaries in the Cabinet. "It was all meant to operate as a happy clappy scout camp," was the way he scathingly described it.
Which was why following the first coalition of Labour with the Liberal Democrats in 2000 he moved swiftly to rename Secretaries as Ministers, to ensure the separation of the legislature from the executive, and to institute as strong a system of Cabinet government as possible.
But more than providing a perspective on the history of Welsh coalition government the seminar, organised by Swansea University's European Institute of Identities, provided an important glimpse of where Welsh politics could be following the May 2016 Assembly election. For the likelihood is that the parties will once more find themselves locked in negotiations to form another coalition.
Rhodri Morgan said he disagreed with a recommendation from the House of Lords Constitution Committee on the formation of coalitions, published last week (here http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/constitution-committee/news/scotland-independence-lord-hope-prof-mclean/ ), that negotiations "should be concluded as quickly as possible". The five days that it took to form the present Conservative Liberal Democrat government at Westminster was too hasty, he said, and destined to ensure that parts of the coalition agreement would unravel. He contrasted it with the two months it took to negotiate the One Wales coalition that he led following the 2007 Assembly election. That, he said, was closer to European norms.
It was important, too, that coalition agreements were endorsed by the parties involved. The 2007 Assembly agreement was voted on by special recall conferences of both Labour and Paid Cymru. This contrasted with what happened in Westminster following the 2010 coalition deal, when only Liberal Democrat MPs voted on it, while the Conservatives didn't seek a mandate of any kind from amongst their party members.
Another speaker at the seminar, South Wales East Plaid Cymru AM Jocelyn Davies, who led her party's team in the 2007 coalition negotiations, set out some practical lessons. She said it was important that she and Vale of Glamorgan Labour AM Jane Hutt, who led for Labour, knew each other well and quickly established a basis of trust. "Neither of us had leadership ambitions ourselves," she said. "So there was no risk to either of us in whatever might have come out of the negotiations.
"We quickly established a safe environment and operated on a basis of trust. There were no leaks and no grandstanding to the press following meetings. We agreed that as far as possible our respective leaders should be kept away from the detail. We would only raise matters with them that we could not resolve ourselves."
She said it was important that following the Agreement the subsequent coalition government acted as one in sharing the commitments in common and not identifying which came from either party. "That allowed us to be more progressive and braver in implementation," she said.
Any disputes that arose during government over issues not covered in the one Wales Agreement were dealt with by a star chamber, made up of the two leaders – Rhodri Morgan and Ieuan Wyn Jones – and their two special adviser, Mark Drakeford, now Health Minister, and Simon Thomas, now Plaid's List AM for Mid and West Wales.
Both Rhodri Morgan and Jocelyn Davies rejected as a myth the notion that smaller parties should be wary of entering coalition government because they would reap adverse electoral consequences. Jocelyn Davies said her party's setback at the 2010 election, when its seats fell from 15 to 11, was more to do with Labour benefiting from a Conservative-led government at Westminster than Plaid participating in the coalition government.
Tags: 2016 assembly election, Coalition agreement, Coalition government, IWA, Rhodri Morgan, Senedd
9 Responses to:"Coalition politics after the 2016 Assembly election"
Geraint Carey Davies says:
Good to see some discussion about coalition politics. This was a key part of our recent political history and it requires further research.
Dave says:
There's no doubt in my mind that Plaid suffered electorally after its coalition with Labour. Not only that, it has lost momentum. As far as Jocelyn Davies' opinion is concerned, I think she would claim that it wasn't damaging considering the pivotal role she appears to have played in bringing it into being. As for Rhodri Morgan, he has nothing to lose, and everything to gain from a coalition with a smaller party which suffers electorally afterwards.
If Plaid repeats the mistake it made, it risks greater losses subsequently, and being consigned to oblivion by the electorate as an irrelevance. Its strategy has been the opposite to that pursued by the SNP, which abstained from coalition, until it was in a position to govern itself as the largest party at Holyrood.
A party that doesn't learn from its mistakes won't get anywhere.
Professor Laura McAllister says:
As a contributor to the seminar last Monday (and in fact, it was my argument that Rhodri Morgan was challenging!), I would dispute Rhodri's argument and point to alternative research and some hard empirical evidence from politicians and officials involved with the planning of devolution. This suggests that the original design of devolution was predominantly and overwhelmingly majoritarian. We have written on this here: http://econpapers.repec.org/article/tafpubmmg/v_3a30_3ay_3a2010_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a103-108.htm.
Yes, there were some idiosyncratic touches around ministers as members of committeesetc. but the fact remains that the limited PR system introduced in 1999 was unusually and heavily skewed towards its majoritarian first-past-the post element (unlike in other Mixed Member Systems) and WAS designed to give Labour majorities-it's just that the political dynamics that emerged post devolution were unanticipated. Moreover, the handling of business and processes remain majoritarian in style.
PS Geraint- we are developing a next stage to our research on coalitions and minosity governments with a major funding bid which we hope will draw lessons for and from Wales.
John Winterson Richards says:
This article sums up the two great ironies of Welsh politics.
Irony One is that an organisation supposedly set up in the name of democracy makes democratic change less likely: although the Assembly has the legal form of democracy, it cannot be called a functioning democracy because there is no correlation between how the public votes and a possible change of policy. There is no imaginable scenario in which the Assembly is not Labour-led. 'We' are given a choice between (1) Labour majority, (2) Labour minority, (3) Lib-Lab, and (4) Labour-Plaid – except 'we' do not even make that choice: it is made for 'us' in closed rooms after the elections, and, as the article makes clear, depends less on votes than on the prejudices and personal relationships of the party leaderships. Voting is a cosmetic exercise because, irrespective of how we vote, we will always end up with an unimaginative left-of-centre, pro-devolution administration led by the most reactionary political party in Wales.
Irony Two is that independence requires a functioning democracy but the supposedly pro-independence Plaid Cymru are an obstacle to establishing such a democracy. The anti-Tory prejudices of Plaid activists meant there was never any chance of a 'rainbow coalition' being set up as an alternative to Labour. As a result, Labour always have an ace in the hole in any negotiations, and, whether in coalition or minority administration, can treat their collaborators with more or less open contempt.
On a personal note, it is only a matter of time before the unsubscribe button on this site is pressed. This is not because of any objection to what is written here but – quite the contrary – because it is extremely frustrating and depressing to keep reading that there is so much exciting and original thinking going on in Wales when there is no realistic prospect of things changing for the better so long as we have this one-party state.
Phil Davies says:
I think we would all concede, would we not, that there is a substantive difference between forming a Westminster government and a Welsh government? The Welsh Government has no macro-economic function whatsoever and its policies and actions are of no interest to global or even domestic markets. That is not the case with Westminster and it is therefore subject to much greater pressure to 'declare its hand'. Whilst 5 days may well be inadequate, I'm not sure that the 2007 Assembly scenario provides that much comparative collateral for those interested in improving the Westminster process…
Jeff Jones says:
Laura McAllister is entirely right. The electoral system was sold to a sceptical Labour Party on the basis of UK election results up to 1997. The assumption was that Labour would cross the magic 30 by always having a majority in the first post the post constituency section. The top up list was seen as the fig leaf on what was designed to be a perpetual one party system no different from the state of play in Welsh local government from the 1920s. Sometimes you would do badly as in the 1977 County and 1979 district elections but you would still run the show because your opponents would never be able to get their act together. What I found interesting in the recent You Gov poll was the negative assessment of the Assembly Government linked to the continued popularity of the Labour party suggests that there still really isn't a Welsh political dimension to politics. The biggest reason for Labour's so called success in 2011 was the defeat of Gordon Brown's government and the arrival of the UK coalition. The 2016 Assembly election will obviously be influenced by which party wins the 2015 Uk election. A Tory win and Labour might even gain an outright majority in the Assembly. A Labour win ,on the other hand , with the party have to contend with the need to reduce the deficit coupled with three years of cuts and large council tax increases by Labour councils should make it easy for at least two of the opposition parties to make gains .
John Osmond says:
John Winterson Richards
I would encourage you to keep with it! It wasn't Plaid opposition that foiled the 'Rainbow' project in the summer of 2007, but a finely balanced rejection by the Welsh Liberal Democrats, on the decisive vote of the present leader Kirsty Williams, in a smoked-filled room in Llandrindod Wells (a stance I would hazard to guess. she would be unlikely to repeat if a similar opportunity ever presents itself). Undoubtedly there is a strong view amongst the Plaid membership against doing any deal with the Tories. However, when it came to the crunch in 2007 a majprity within the Plaid group in the Assembly were prepared to do so, up to the last cliff-hanging minute. I recall the Times led with a story overnight that Ieuan Wyn Jones had become First Minister! Some version of an alternative to a Labour or Labour-led administration in Wales could still happen at some future juncture…
John Winterson Richards says:
John, thank you for your kind comment. I bow to your superior knowledge of the facts of the demise of the 'rainbow' and am happy to stand corrected.
Either way, a great opportunity was lost. A 'rainbow coalition' would not only turn Wales into a viable democracy, but Plaid and the Conservatives in particular might both learn a great deal from working with each other.
Alas, Plaid are less likely to contemplate such a deal under the current leadership, and what might have been possible in the dying days of the Blair regime is more doubtful when the present Coalition is a recent memory.
Professor Josep M. Reniu says:
As the last contributor on the seminar, I'd like just to point out that one should keep clear in mind that parties, when coalesce, do not seek only for one goal. That's to say, they do not look for portfolios only, rather than policies, (future) votes and intraparty cohesion as well. It means that, when deciding to form a coalition government parties should answer to these four goals from an strategic approach related to their mid-term objectives.
Find here an article I wrote with Torbjörn Bergman: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/view/POSO0303110063A/23784
In this sense, one of the more relevant concerns when a small party (in parliamentary terms) decides to join a coalition government is both to keep itself as united as possible and, more important, try to foresee what'll be the electoral impact of its decision. When sharing power you should consider that will share responsibilities as well, and sometimes voters do not have detailed information enough to correctly allocate responsibilities for each of the partners in coalition.


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Politics | The AFL-CIO elects a new, fiercer president who has a to-do list for the White House
WASHINGTON-Richard Trumka, a third-generation coal miner and lifelong union member, takes the mantle Friday as president of the largest labor union in the United States: the AFL-CIO. Those who know Trumka describe him as a tougher leader than his predecessor, John Sweeney, who is resigning after 14 years in the office.
The labor organization has watched its membership rolls decline in recent years, down to 11 million as manufacturing has all but disappeared in the United States. Last year several major union federations left the AFL-CIO to form their own coalition called the Change to Win Federation, taking 6 million workers with them.
While the labor movement is divided and aging (the average age of AFL-CIO members is 47), its leaders are optimistic about the near future with Democrats in power in Washington.
President Obama made some promises to unions-and won their support in the election. Trumka himself gave a speech last year that went viral on YouTube calling on union workers to vote for Obama, bluntly criticizing racism among his audience.
"There's only one really, really bad reason to vote against Barack Obama," he told a gathering of the United Steelworkers. "And that's because he's not white."
Trumka has pointed out that when unions support a candidate, they expect that candidate to follow through on his or her promises. He wants Obama to push the Employee Free Choice Act-known as "card check"-and to make the public option a priority in the healthcare bill.
Obama is doing what he can to keep unions enthused, even though neither of those union priorities have been a priority for him so far. He spoke at an AFL-CIO picnic on Labor Day, then again at the federation's convention Tuesday in Pittsburgh to a raucously welcoming crowd chanting his name.
"The White House is pretty nice, but there's nothing like being back in the House of Labor," he said to start things off. Calling his listeners "brothers and sisters," he continued, "Whether we're in good economic times or bad economic times, labor's not the problem. Labor's part of the solution."
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke to the convention on Monday. Both Solis and Obama assured union members that the White House would work to make sure labor reform passes Congress. That may happen, but healthcare has derailed all other major legislative efforts. Also, the Senate just dropped the "card check" provision of the bill, which would make unionization of a workplace easier. So even if a labor bill passes, as the White House is indicating it will, it may not have the elements that Trumka is looking for.


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Although thin character motivation and some far-fetched plotting strain credulity in the late going, for the most part "The Edge" is a tense, visceral battle-of-wits thriller played out against a spectacular wilderness background. An elemental genre piece with an extra veneer of class applied in all departments, this looks like a solid fall entry for Fox.
Although thin character motivation and some far-fetched plotting strain credulity in the late going, for the most part "The Edge" is a tense, pleasurably visceral battle-of-wits thriller played out against a spectacular wilderness background. An elemental genre piece with an extra veneer of class applied in all departments, this looks like a solid fall entry for Fox.Until now, one has never expected to hear David Mamet dialogue exchanged in front of rugged mountains, soaring timber and big skies, nor to figure this urban-oriented playwright as the author of a film in which the action highlights include bear attacks. Granted, this original screenplay, originally entitled "The Bookworm," is far from vintage Mamet, at least on the basis of the evidence onscreen, but it does contain more than the usual share of wit, cleverness and mordant character shadings for this sort of fare while still keeping the film's thrust very mainstream. A considerable amount of the amusement stems from beholding the seemingly limitless morsels of knowledge pouring from the central figure of Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins), a billionaire of a certain age who accompanies his supermodel trophy wife, Mickey (Elle Macpherson), on a photo shoot in the pristine wilds of Alaska. Checking into a cushy lakefront lodge along with the couple is an entourage whose chief members are cocky fashion photographer Robert Green (Alec Baldwin) and his assistant, Stephen (Harold Perrineau). With the group pausing long enough to celebrate Charles' birthday and with the script dropping such tidbits as the presence of man-killing kodiak bears in the area, pic generates just enough interest in the leading characters before sending Robert and Stephen off on a short private-plane trip to even more remote territory in search of a particular Indian to pose with Mickey, with Charles going along for the ride. The small plane crashes into a lake in a sequence made all the more powerful by having been shot at full speed, without repetition or overdone intercutting. Stranded without food, warm clothing or any means of communication, the three men must formulate a strategy for survival and a return to safety. Despite Charles' earlier demurral that "most of my knowledge is theoretical," it is he who instantly proves to be the most practical and resourceful of the trio, while the two younger men demonstrate they're about as useful in the wild as Woody Allen would be. On their first full day in the middle of nowhere, the group manages to survive a bear attack, but after two days of hiking they wind up right where they started, and Stephen suffers a deep cut in his leg. The injury proves fatal when his blood attracts the bear, which attacks during a nocturnal thunderstorm in a genuinely chilling sequence. So now it's just Charles and Robert, whose mutual suspicion comes increasingly to the fore but must nonetheless remain secondary to the fact that each needs the other if either of them is to have a chance of getting out of the woods alive. Through it all, Charles retains the upper hand by remaining lucid, rational and in control, while the more physically fit Robert loses his cool on numerous occasions, repeatedly underscoring his reliance upon the older man by asking, "What are we going to do, Charles?" As the men work their way out of the trees and into terrain where they have a hope of being spotted, Charles has no doubt that the bear will track them down and prepares an ingenious, if chancy, plan of defense. This simple man-vs.-beast gambit is ultimately more exciting, and more convincingly dramatized, than the inter-human conflict, which pivots on the question of whether Robert is having an affair with Charles' young wife and what either of them is going to do about it. If Robert is plotting to kill Charles, as the tycoon at least rhetorically suspects from the beginning, it would seem to be a very odd plan indeed, since the risk involved in committing murder would be far too great for the simple benefit of enjoying Mickey's favors, which he is in a position to continue doing in any event. Perhaps the circumstance of being stranded in the wild creates an opportunity for undetected murder that didn't exist before, but what were Robert's intentions had the plane not crashed? Underlying motivations, as well as the decisive actions they cause, are decidedly murky here, pushing the drama into hokey territory toward the end. But up until then, director Lee Tamahori, after his misstep with "Mulholland Falls," moves things along at a muscular clip and employs all means at his disposal to deliver a physically powerful entertainment. Everything from the impressive and fresh Alberta, Canada, locations (doubling for Alaska) and Donald M. McAlpine's crisp widescreen lensing to Neil Travis' tight editing and Jerry Goldsmith's fine, varied score contributes to the film's invigorating dynamic. Hopkins has it all over the other thesps here simply by virtue of playing an exceptionally bright fellow, and by underplaying the role at that. Baldwin, while physically and emotionally credible, can do little to expand the built-in limitations of his sketchily written part. Macpherson has no trouble doing what comes naturally as a model extraordinaire, Perrineau is suitably uptight as a city fellow way out of his element, and L.Q. Jones registers a tasty character turn as the lodge boss. The bear battles are certainly among the most frightening and credible human-animal fights ever staged for the screen, and credit here must go to Bart the Bear, his trainer Doug Seus and the various hands responsible for animatronic and hydraulic bear action.
The Edge
A 20th Century Fox release of an Art Linson production. Produced by Linson. Executive producer, Lloyd Phillips. Directed by Lee Tamahori. Screenplay, David Mamet.
Camera (Deluxe color, Panavision widescreen), Donald M. McAlpine; editor, Neil Travis; music, Jerry Goldsmith; production design, Wolf Kroeger; supervising art director, Rick Roberts; set decoration, Janice Blackie-Goodine; costume design, Julie Weiss; sound (Dolby digital), Eric J. Batut; visual effects, Peerless Camera Co. Ltd.; stunt coordinator, Betty Thomas; assistant director, Philip A. Patterson; second unit camera, Roger Vernon; casting, Donna Isaacson. Reviewed at 20th Century Fox Studios, L.A., Aug. 20, 1997. (In Toronto Film Festival.) MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 117 MIN.
Charles Morse - Anthony Hopkins Robert Green - Alec Baldwin Mickey Morse - Elle Macpherson Stephen - Harold Perrineau Styles - L.Q. Jones


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Copter collision kills 7 Marines in Calif. desert
San Diego Two Marine Corps helicopters collided over a remote section of the California desert during a nighttime exercise, killing seven Marines in one of the Corps' deadliest training accidents in years.
There were no survivors in the latest in a series of crashes involving troops from Camp Pendleton, officials said Thursday.
Two Marines were aboard an AH-1W Cobra and the rest were in a UH-1 Huey utility helicopter when the crash occurred Wednesday night near the Chocolate Mountains along the California-Arizona border, said Lt. Maureen Dooley with Miramar Air Base in San Diego.
Six of the victims were from Camp Pendleton - the largest base on the West Coast - and one was from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona. Their identities will not be released until their families have all been notified.
Officials were still scrambling after sunrise to gather evidence at the crash site in a remote section of the Yuma Training Range Complex.
The sprawling 1.2 million-acre range in Arizona and southeastern California is favored by the U.S. military and its allies for training because the hot, dusty conditions and craggy mountains replicate Afghanistan's harsh environment and the clear weather allows for constant flying.
It was the fifth time since March that Marine Corps aircraft have crashed during a training exercise in California. In the past five years, there have only been two other aviation training accidents in the Navy and Marine Corp involving seven or more deaths, according to the Navy.
Retired Marine Col. J.F. Joseph, an aviation safety consultant, said Marine aviators are always at risk as they train to become combat ready.
"It's an unfortunate consequence of the high tempo of operations," he said. "They're out there working on the edge trying to exploit the maximum capabilities of the aircraft and their tactics. Just by the virtue of that, in becoming combat ready, these unfortunately are not uncommon occurrences."
The Marine Corps and Navy, nonetheless, stand out in their efforts to mitigate that risk and make training as safe as possible, he said.
The weather was mild on Wednesday when the helicopters were flying as part of a two-week standard training called "Scorpion Fire" that involved a squadron of about 450 troops from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
The wing has about 17,500 Marines and sailors, including six helicopter squadrons that fly both Cobras and Hueys. It's headquartered at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station and also has personnel stationed at Camp Pendleton and Yuma.
The helicopters collided at 8:45 p.m. near dunes at the edge of the Yuma range. Ground troops were in the area, but they were not affected, said Gunnery Sgt. Dustin Dunk, a spokesman at Marine Corp Air Station Yuma. The station is about an hour and a half drive from the accident site.
Part of the exercise involved having helicopters low on fuel descend to ground troops that have set up a refueling outpost, Dunk said.
He did not know if that's what the pilots were doing at the time of the crash, which occurred about an hour before the range was to shut down for the evening.
"Our training is always evolving, safety is paramount, and being prepared is paramount," he said. "It was a very standard exercise for what we do. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family members ... Our investigation will look to see what went wrong and how to correct it."
The AH-1W carries a crew of two - a pilot and gunner - and is considered the Marine Corps' main attack helicopter. The UH-1Y, which is replacing the aging version of the Huey utility helicopter first used during the Vietnam War, carries a crew of one or two pilots, a crew chief and other crew members, depending on the mission.


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Posted Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:27 AM
Well, this wouldn't necessarily help if a long-standing member suddenly decides he or she wants to basically "erase" all their previous posts. Someone could have excellent karma and still decide one day (for whatever reason) to go ahead and do that. The new forum software we'll be running soon does have a built-in reputation system that could easily be used to grant additional privileges as you described, but I'm not sure that I'm going to use it.
Would a kind of trust system work here at AtariAge? GameFAQs has the "karma" thing where you get "good karma" with each day you post, and you lose "good karma" when you posts have to be moderated or if you abuse the system in some way. More "good karma" = more privileges. It might help a person to isolate which users are going to cause more trouble, and which users don't mix well with what kinds of topics.
Posted Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:43 AM
I've increased the time to an hour.
Posted Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:16 AM
Yeah... Anyone who has 5000 or more posts can edit all they like.
Would a kind of trust system work here at AtariAge?
Posted Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:50 PM
I recently made a change to the way the post editing feature behaves. In the past, members have been able to edit posts indefinitely. Unfortunately, this privilege has been abused and I was forced to limit use of the "Edit" feature to within 15 minutes of when a post is first made.
Edited by ijor, Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:51 PM.
Posted Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:03 PM
I appreciate your feedback and sympathize with those for whom English is not their native tongue. I think an hour is a reasonable amount of time to go back and edit any mistakes in your posts. If you know you only have a limited window to edit your post, you'll hopefully be a bit more careful before submitting the post (the Preview button is your friend!), or at least you'll read it immediately after posting to see if there's anything you want to change.
Albert, with all due respect (and I honestly consider you a great sysadmin), I don't think this is right. I realize that some people abuse this privilege, but I believe that the innocent should not pay for the guilty. And this is what is happening with this policy.
For many of us, english is not our mother language. And we often see our spelling/grammar errors much later than 15 minutes (or one full hour, as I see you changed it). And yes, I always preview and check before post. We might ask you for a special extension when this happens, but most of us won't; and if we do, I guess you'll become too tired This is just an example for a very valid reason to edit, I'm sure there are many more.
At the very least I should extend this time well over the current period. I don't know how much control you have over this feature (if it is standard for the forum software, or if you developed it), but a possible better compromise would be to enable some kind of version history. Say, free edit for X time. After that, you still can edit, but only for a maximum of N times, and anybody would be able to read your editing history. I realize this is far from trivial to implement, just an idea.
Posted Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:40 PM
Before this stuff was brought up at various times, I thought the forum software kept track of edits. I thought it had some kind of built-in backup system.
I may further increase the length of time the Edit window is available, although possibly not before I implement a system that actually keeps a history of post edits. Then if someone goes back and edits a post (say, perhaps they said something derogatory and then edited that post before a mod or admin was able to see it), I will be able to look at the previous version of the post before it was changed.
Edited by Random Terrain, Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:40 PM.
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Posted Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:56 PM
That would be awesome if the software could back up what was posted before an edit. Then, although I might make a complete *censored* of myself, I can go back and change it so that only Al and the mods can see that I made a complete *censored* of myself and I can save face in front of the masses.
Posted Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:15 AM
Posted Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:10 AM
You may now do so..
I'd like to be able to edit my initial post in the List of Falcon owners.
Thanks for thinking about it.
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Posted Thu Jan 1, 2009 3:42 PM
I do need to update the first post in this thread....
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Posted Thu Jan 8, 2009 5:18 AM
Al, could you allow me to edit this post indefinitely: Comprehensive Plug-and-Play Listing, post #1? That's where I keep my list of all plug-and-play video game systems that I know about, current and historical versions. I've maintained it since the end of 2005, adding a new version of the list to the post roughly every 3 months. I didn't know about the new editing policy until I tried to upload an update today and thought I was going nuts because I couldn't find the edit button.
Also, this one is less important, since it's just a personal data post, but I'd like to be able to edit this post: Classic Arcade Pinball TV Game personal high scores. As you can see, I posted my high scores once and then just continued to keep it up to date whenever I set a new high.
Thanks for your consideration.
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I could use access to the second post in the Heavy Sixer thread.
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Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:16 PM
hi al!
can you please unlock that one for me: http://www.atariage....howtopic=141272
Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:31 PM
hi al!
can you please unlock that one for me: http://www.atariage....howtopic=141272
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The Supreme Court recently ruled that some bosses can make your birth control decisions for you. Some bosses think their religious beliefs should prevail over the beliefs of their workers—and that they should be able to evade the law that requires them to include birth control in their employees' health coverage.
Allowing some bosses to override the religious beliefs and health needs of their female employees hurts women, especially those already struggling to make ends meet.
Tell Congress to support the Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act and protect birth control access for all women, no matter where they work.
Photo Caption: Demonstrators in support of abortion and contraceptive rights chant in support of their cause after the Hobby Lobby ruling outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 30, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that business owners can object on religious grounds to a provision of U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare law that requires closely held companies to provide health insurance that covers birth control.
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The Supreme Court recently ruled that some bosses can make birth control decisions for their employees. Some employers will now have license to harm their workers in the name of religion.
The majority of women across all religions use birth control at some point in their lives, and the majority of Americans believe that women should be able to make decisions about reproductive health care without interference from their bosses.
While the court left the birth control requirement in place, its ruling exempting closely held for-profit companies could jeopardize the health care that women workers need and deserve—and especially hurt women who already struggle to make ends meet.
I urge you to support the Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act, a bill that protects birth control access for all women, no matter where they work.
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While different players continue to step in and out of the spotlight, the one constant on the Pasadena City College women's basketball team has been the consistent play of sophomore point guard Desiree Loving.
The 5-foot-7 dribbling wizard made a visit back home when the Lancers played at El Camino College-Compton Center Friday night. Loving, a product of Centennial High in Compton, proved why she's one of the South Coast Conference's top players with another dazzling, all-around performance in PCC's 69-39 victory.
Loving scored 20 points, sinking 6-for-6 at the free throw line and drilling her first two 3-point bombs of the season. She added seven assists, seven rebounds and made five steals. Loving is averaging 13 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists per game while leading the conference in free throw accuracy (77.5 percent). She also joined the 500-point club at PCC with a current 514 points in her two seasons as a Lancer.
The Lancers closed the regular season at 21-7 and a strong second place in the SCC North Division at 10-3. Ranked No. 8 in the state, PCC will await a probable home playoff seed.
Against Compton, Averie-Alice Guzman totaled 10 points and five rebounds off the bench. Emily Thach added nine points while Tyler Crockom had five points, four assists and 12 rebounds. Brandi DuBose chipped in seven points and 12 rebounds.
Compton (3-22, 1-12) was led by Jessica Phillips with 13 points and 18 rebounds.
[Photo--Desiree Loving sinks this shot from the corner Friday at El Camino College-Compton Center, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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The Town walls
The Town walls - South wall. Newcsatle has the third most complete surviving town wall in England after York and Chester, though much of the remains are hidden in back lanes or behind later buildings.
Above and above right - Forth Lane, the section of wall overlooking the River Tyne. At one time a brewery stood on this site and the wall effectivly partitioned the building into two sections. The building was demolished and the wall opened up in the mid 1990's.
Right - The section of wall running up the hill from the Tyne to Forth Lane. There would originally have been a gate into the town at this point., but it was demolished during the redevelopment of the riverside in the 19th Century.
Above left - The West Wall. Part of the wall with a curtain tower (still in use as a meeting room) at the rear of Stowell Street in Newcastle's Chinatown area.
Above - A small postern gate which used to link Blackfriars Monastery with the monastery lands, cut off from the friars when the wall was built.
Left - A corner tower. The wall to the left of the tower is the outside of the wall (above left). The gate (above) is hidden behind the tower
Above - the East Wall. The Pandon Tower overlooking the old harbour (filled in and used for building land in Elizabethan times).
Above right - Another view of the Pandon Tower
Right - A section of the East wall now forming the base of a retaining wall for the road above.


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BEAUMONT - A gunman climbed into a woman's truck while she was withdrawing money from an ATM near Parkdale Mall and crawled over a child in the rear seat to rob the victim.
Watch KFDM News at 6 for more on the story, including reaction from a police officer who worked the crime.
On Monday, May 14, 2012, at 8:32 p.m., officers responded to an aggravated robbery at Chase Bank, 6025 Eastex Freeway.
The victim told investigators she pulled up to the ATM to withdraw money. The woman and a female passenger were in the front seat. The 9-year-old daughter of one of the women was in the rear passenger seat.
The victim told police that immediately after her transaction a black man with a silver handgun entered the back seat of her truck on the passenger side and crawled over the 9-year-old to get to the seat behind the driver.
The attacker demanded the money she had just withdrawn. She gave him the money and pulled up a few feet. The robber got out of the vehicle and ran to a maroon PT Cruiser style car or possibly a Chevrolet HHR. She said he left driving the maroon vehicle north through the Parkdale Mall parking lot.
The victims believe they saw the robber's vehicle at the bank as they pulled up and said it made a circle and came back around from behind. The two women and the child described the attacker as a black man with close hair, very dark complexion, square diamond earrings, gold teeth, approximately 6' and 180 pounds. He was wearing a dark blue or purple shirt with black pants.
Officers canvassed the area and are working with detectives to catch the robber.
If you have any information about this crime call Beaumont Crime Stoppers at (409)833-TIPS or log on to www.BeaumontCrimeStoppers.com or text BMT plus your tip to CRIMES. All tips are anonymous and you could be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1000.
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