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Wikitravel:Travellers' pub
Please add new questions at the bottom of the page and sign your post by appending four tildes (~~~~) to it, but otherwise plunge forward!
Keeping the Pub clean is a group effort. If we have too many conversations on this page, it will get too noisy and hard to read. If you see an old conversation (i.e. three months after the last comment in that discussion) that could or should be moved to a talk page, please do so, and note there that it has been swept in from the pub.
Any discussions that do not fall into any of these categories, and are not of any special importance for posterity, should be archived to Wikitravel:Travellers' pub/Archives and removed from here. If you are not sure where to put a discussion, let it be—better to spend your efforts on those that you do know where to place.
As long as there's some chance to upgrade to latest MediaWiki, maybe it's also possible to set up a WYSIWIG plugin? WYSIWIG is used for long at Wikia wiki hosting, and works perfectly (I had some experience with http://paygsimwithdata.wikia.com/). Looks like they are running this extension [1], although I'm not absolutely sure.
Benefits are obvious: much lower barrier for one-time contributors, therefore a higher conversion to regular contributors, therefore more useful content, therefore more pageviews and ads served--so there's even a benefit for IB :-) --DenisYurkin 15:12, 1 June 2011 (EDT)
new monetization initiative by IB proposed
Internet Brands has recently proposed a new initiative to monetize Wikitravel: shared:Talk:Advertising policy#New Monetization Effort II (earlier it was mentioned shortly in #Site times out).
This is more or less how it gonna look: http://wikitravel.org/images/top-hovers.jpg.
Please share your support or criticism on shared: at the above link. --DenisYurkin 17:51, 28 June 2011 (EDT)
I seem to be blocked from editing
Hi all, Please someone check if I have been blocked from editing either intentionally or by accident. I have been unable to log on and have not been able to edit for a week. I have had no notification of a problem, and IB have not been forthcoming on why I get gateway timeouts for attempts to edit or connect to non-article pages. My service provider promised to check if they are the problem but have not come back to me. This is seriously frustrating and annoying, as I have a lot of updates waiting to upload. I dont even expect this message to go through, but it is all I can do. Cheers, User:Pbsouthwood
I have made some small adjustments (set DNS to a more local branch) recommended by my ISP tech who thought they would solve the problem, but things have only improved marginally. I am now sometimes able to open an edit page. Perhaps 1 in 5 tries will open, and some of those will save, but still no success at all with shared. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) Talk 11:42, 8 August 2011 (EDT)
So I understand this, the error that led to this thread has been resolved and we are "back to the usual site sluggishness"? If this is a bug that needs to be addressed, please report it here: http://wikitravel.org/shared/Top_bugs --IBobi 14:01, 23 August 2011 (EDT)
I just wanted to plug our new Collaboration of the Month: a project to create meaningful see sections for all country articles. We have three people on the project; three more would mean that we would make real progress quickly. If you already are familiar with the country, it doesn't take long to write up a see section. If not familiar, this is a great exercise for learning about travel in parts of the world new to you.
This is all to say that this is a fun CotM—join in! --Peter Talk 17:45, 7 September 2011 (EDT)
Alignment of images - left or right?
Hi folks. Can someone please point me to the policy about the alignment of images? Cheers. --SaxonWarrior 07:08, 9 September 2011 (EDT)
Reversion question
I've had to revert this edit three times already, and so I'm reluctant to do so again, but I can't figure out why this is being removed. Any thoughts? LtPowers 19:06, 16 September 2011 (EDT)
Could someone give me a basic outline of our policies toward linking to wikimapia policy. My understanding is that we do not link to other guides, as per External links, including mapping services. However I cannot find any specific reference to Wikimapia in our policies or the discussion pages. I would like some clarity as a new user is quite enthusiastic to use them and I do not want to jump on them in case I am in error in any way in my interpretation of this. Thanks -- felix 05:13, 19 September 2011 (EDT)
We have extensive and creative experience with owning, using, and disposing of timeshares. I've tried to figure out this site but can't seem to find anyone to ask a few questions of.
1. Is there a timeshare category? It doesn't come up in any search.
2. Would people be interested in articles like
Timeshare Swaps - Creative Timeshare Travel+ $0 Exchanges Vacation with eBay Timeshares Rent to Sell Your Timeshare How to Get HIGH DOLLARS for Your Timeshare
3. I understand the prohibition on self advertising and have no problem being total generic. We are a charity that accepts timeshare donations, but the only mention of anything would be in my bio contact email address. We just find that too many people are stuck and need a few creative ideas.
4. What page should we start with as a link?
5. If not, how do we start a new page? Drkenrich 15:10, 30 September 2011 (EDT)
Preferences Reseting?
Last week my user preferences for recent changes and date format reset. Today the same thing happened again, and my editor preferences also changed. Has anyone else seen anything similar? If my account has been hacked that seems like an odd thing for someone to change, so I think it's more likely that something is amiss with the Wikitravel servers. -- wrh2 12:20, 5 October 2011 (EDT)
Search broken?
The last couple of days, I've noticed that the search isn't working properly. If you search for a page (clicking Search, rather than Go), you get a message that says
followed by a Google search box. It happens even if you search for a page we definitely have, like New York City. It seems to be happening only here on en: as far as I can tell, and I have no idea how long it's been going on. Anyone else noticed this? texugo 01:48, 6 October 2011 (EDT)
Looking back into this to 1. Fix it, and 2. Figure out why it keeps breaking.--IBobi 14:22, 10 October 2011 (EDT)
Discussion notice
Could I trouble you for additional input on my question at Talk:Niagara Falls (New York)#External link? Thanks! LtPowers 10:47, 12 October 2011 (EDT)
Format for dual entries
Many hotels or guest houses have good restaurants as well. I understand we're not supposed to list them fully twice, but if our readers are looking for a place to eat, they won't intuitively look under the "Sleep" section and vice-versa. Equally I understand that we don't want to repeat information unnecessarily.
To make our great guide more user-friendly, how about if we have one "full entry" with all common details plus those relevant to accommodation under "Sleep", and one "short entry" under "Eat", with just the name and comments about the restaurant plus a remark like: See "Sleep" section for details. --SaxonWarrior 14:28, 16 October 2011 (EDT)
It which case it would benefit the traveller to have a single line in the eat section that states just that. --inas 06:25, 18 October 2011 (EDT)
But those of us looking to allow occasional exceptions are coming from a different angle. A listing that is primarily a restaurant that happens to have rooms available nearby strikes me as fundamentally different somehow than a hotel with a restaurant inside. People might expect to read about a hotel's restaurant in the Sleep listing, but would be surprised to read about a restaurant's rooms in an Eat listing. (That is, "Eating" is part of the hotel experience; "Sleeping" is not part of the restaurant experience.)
Can we agree that hotel restaurants shouldn't have separate listings, while considering that perhaps rooms adjacent to a restaurant might (given certain other conditions like a lack of other lodging nearby)?
-- LtPowers 08:41, 19 October 2011 (EDT)
On a similar note, (as above) as I posted to the facebook page, and got directed here "
see example: http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=202494502151568170302.0004af6ec0db69a199dce&msa=0&ll=51.294237,-116.946373&spn=0.045836,0.110378
Thanks. Sam--Acrosscanadatrails 23:12, 17 October 2011 (EDT)
Edit window resizing
Has anyone else had their edit window become tiny lately? --Peter Talk 18:41, 21 October 2011 (EDT)
Only new tabs load?
Another bizarre problem: often trying to open a link will result in a never-ending page load (no content accessed). I also have this problem when hitting go on special:recentchanges. But if I open the link in a new window/tab, then it loads promptly. Firefox. And no idea what's going on. Anyone else? --Peter Talk 18:47, 21 October 2011 (EDT)
Indian articles-burdened with content
At first I considered raising this on the talk pages of some of the Indian articles and then decided it might be more appropriate to seek a wider overview and raise my concerns here. Some of the articles, Kochi and Bangalore readily come to mind, are seriously burdened with clutter. I think those of us who patrol and edit there frequently will be familiar with the issues. Sari shops, taxi services, reams of Eat listings, various shops, long lists of education services and academic institutions and similar can all become a little overwhelming. I have noted a few bold reversions and some ablations of big chunks of content in recent months but I think more drastic action may be appropriate. I do have some concerns though in approaching this. I am aware that many previous contributors who have put information into the articles concerned may be inadvertently alienated by any serious ablations. I do think it is important to retain their interest an enthusiasm and it may wain a little if the content they have contributed is suddenly gone. These editors are potentially our best resource in maintaining the article content.However some times my head spins just looking at these reams of information and a lot of it is just phonebook listing, often without sufficient information to be of use to a traveller. Of course if they are deleted that information cannot be built. In my observations of these articles that rarely happens. I suspect a lot of the listings are made by the proprietors, others possibly arise form the experiences of one traveller who has provided scant info on some place they came across and no one will ever built that information further. I suspect there may be a quite a few listings in the articles that have that quality. Maybe we should sweep to the discussion page, maybe just delete or maybe pick and choose what is swept to the discussion page and what is deleted. However I do feel concerned that there should be some at least broad consensus here first. Normal protocol may suggest raising it the discussion page for each article. I don't think we will get much response from other than regular India article editors and patrol editors so perhaps some of you might like to comment on the issue here.-- thanks felix 08:15, 25 October 2011 (EDT)
Hungarian interwiki link broke?
Per [2] it looks like the "hu" interwiki link stopped working - see also any page (example Ecuador) that used this interwiki link. Before I file a bug on shared:
-- Ryan • (talk) • 11:54, 25 October 2011 (EDT)
Lüneburg Heath
Hi folks. Can someone please check out the Lüneburg Heath and advise what it needs to be brought to usable and, ideally, guide standard? Cheers. --SaxonWarrior 15:58, 31 October 2011 (EDT)
Watchlist out of action?
I get the following every time I try to open my watchlist today. Has this happened to anyone else?
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "wfSpecialWatchlist". MySQL returned error "1: Can't create/write to file '#sql_e08_0.MYD' (Errcode: 17) (wikidb)".
Cheers. • • • Peter (Southwood) Talk 09:09, 3 November 2011 (EDT)
Watchlist should be back in action now -- please let me know if this is not the case for you.--IBobi 19:40, 3 November 2011 (EDT)
Spacing before abbreviations
While we are raking over matters like the wifi acronym perhaps we should also find some clear consensus on spacing before abbreviations. In reading Wikitravel talk:Abbreviations as prompted by inas I note the comments raised there regarding spaces before things like XX km, and X,XXX m, 30 mph and that sort of thing. I have been merrily using spaces as I understood that is the standard here, as on WP. Is this the case though or is this another chestnut looking for a frying pan. I am not even going to dare to express my own opinion on it, and I have plenty as an ex-art director and author of a number of corporate style guides. I just want to know what consensus we have in that regard to this, is there actually a policy or have we just loosely followed the WP style, if so what is it and can we agree here that it involves that use of a space as seems to be commonly practiced here? -- felix 22:45, 6 November 2011 (EST)
Admin assistance needed in Finnish Wikitravel
It seems that article about Los Angeles in Finnish version of Wikitravel gets constantly spammed. So far haven't seen any admin activity there. Does someone with power have time to check it out and maybe edit-protect it? Thanks 184.108.40.206 01:38, 7 November 2011 (EST)
Improving the site as a whole
Maybe this belongs in the "Expeditions" discussion area (or maybe this topic has already been discussed previously). I've been thinking lately... should not one of our main, immediate goals, as a group of dedicated contributors, be to bring the most popular/well-known tourist destination pages to "Star" quality (or as near to it as possible), as soon as possible? Let's be frank, even if Wikitravel had way more public exposure than it currently has, most travelers aren't going to be interested if we're not completely covering the destinations they are interested in. I know this site will never reach a Wikipedia-level of users, but we could have a LOT more; we should be able to compete with print travel guides.
I don't mean covering just major cities such as Paris, London, NYC, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Sydney, etc. (which are reasonably good articles, but compared to our Chicago article, which I've always seen as the ideal, they leave much to be desired)... but also larger geographical areas such as, say, Tuscany, the Niagara Falls area, or Southwest Ireland (regions are something that Wikitravel has trouble with handling well, imo, but that's another discussion... also, I'm not saying my list is definitive). I know it's a huge task; I helped write the star article for Big Bend National Park - a relatively easy accomplishment compared to the places I listed above - and even that took way more time and resources than I could have ever anticipated. I also know that doing this would be much easier if we had more contributors, which makes it kind of a Catch-22 situation.
Because really my point is that nailing the popular/well-known destination articles will not only attract more readers, but it will also in turn attract more contributors... and that's a big thing. More contributors will mean more articles AND more accurate articles, as well as more people to help with administrative tasks (such as de-tout-ifying). In short, we need more contributors. To get more contributors, we need to take care of the basics first. I see great work has been done recently for Washington DC and Orlando, and I think those are great steps. Army of me 01:41, 11 November 2011 (EST)
I am willing to join a collaboration on some of the top destinations listed above. Please feel free to drop me a personal message / email when the project takes off, as I'm not very frequent on the site in the recent weeks. --DenisYurkin 15:05, 26 December 2011 (EST)
Exchange Rate Bot
It would be great to have a box in the "buy" section of country articles (and regions, ie. Hong Kong, when appropriate) which could have exchange rates that are automatically updated (weekly). I frequently come across old exchange rates on articles and there are many country articles without an exchange rate listed. This would make it very helpful when looking at prices...is 5000 francs in French Polynesia expensive? For a meal yes...for a hotel room its dirt cheap by local standards! But I have to take a minute to calculate it, and I know where to go and how to do it, which many WT readers likely don't. The box could be simple with just the name of the currency & code listed at top and 3-5 exchange rates listed. Since this is the English WT, there should at least be US dollars (USD), Euros (EUR), & GB pounds (GBP) and possibly Canadian, Australian, & NZ dollars as well. The bot could be written based on the 3-letter currency code, so that the currencies listed could be changed to reduce redundancy (ie. 1 USD=1 USD on the US page) or reflect regional currencies which travelers may have or be familiar with (ie. South African rand in southern African, Russian rubles in Central Asia). Examples (would need a better format):
Australian Dollar (AUD)
Exchange rates, as of 16/11/2011:
1 AUD equals / 1 ___ equals
(US flag) 1.015 USD / 0.987 AUD
(EU flag) 0.751 EUR / 1.332 AUD
(UK flag) 0.644 GBP / 1.556 AUD
Exchange rates, as of 16/11/2011:
1 KZT equals / 1 ___ equals
(US flag) 0.007 USD / 148.200 KZT current
(EU flag) 0.005 EUR / 199.749 KZT current
(UK flag) 0.004 GBP / 233.585 KZT current
(Russian flag) 0.208 RUB / 4.812 KZT current
(Chinese flag) 0.043 CNY / 23.358 KZT current
Of course the only "big issue" is finding a website that has exchange rates and a terms of use that would allow us to display rates here. Will have to check a couple dozen such sites to find one compatible. Is WT considered commercial? The content from the US government is in the public domain, but rates are only published by the Treasury quarterly and by country (not currency), [4]. Any similar public domain sites for Pound & Euro exchange rates, at the very least? If this is unfeasible, could it be made a standard template that could be put on pages (although manually updated) with perhaps a quick link to the currency calculation (as in the second example for Kazakhstan tenge). AHeneen 06:27, 16 November 2011 (EST)
I don't think listing 7 +/- 2 currencies would be a good idea either. The idea I had was to have one template, which would include the US dollar, Euro, & pound, and have a couple additional lines ("currency 4=", "currency 5=") where 1-2 additional currencies could be added when appropriate because they are widely accepted or common in the region and which traveler would have or need to exchange. Examples would be the South African rand, which is commonly used in southern African countries, the Russian ruble in Central Asia, the Australian dollar in the South Pacific, the Swiss Franc in Western Europe, etc. This isn't simply to help travelers from those countries, but even for an American visiting southern Africa, you'll likely become familiar with using the rand and while shopping in Botswana, where many merchants will accept rand, it would be helpful to know the exchange rate between the two when a price is listed as 100 pula, but the shopkeeper says he'll accept 150 rand (the exchange rate is only 1.09 rand=1 pula)...much simpler than trying to convert each to dollars. Hopefully that example is clear. I don't have any programming knowledge, but basically the text of the template that the user would copy onto the page would look like this:
| Currency1=USD (use 3-letter currency symbol, USD should always be listed first except in countries using the US dollar)
| Currency1flag=Image:flag (small flag of country issuing currency 1)
| Currency2=EUR (use 3-letter currency symbol, USD should always be listed after the US dollar, and not listed in countries using the Euro)
| Currency2flag=Image:flag (small flag of country issuing currency 2)
| Currency3=GBP (use 3-letter currency symbol, GBP should always be listed after the Euro, and not listed in countries using the Pound)
| Currency3flag=Image:flag (small flag of country issuing currency 3)
| Currency4= (use 3-letter currency symbol, only list additional currency widely accepted in this country or major regional currency)
| Currency4flag=Image:flag (small flag of country issuing currency 4)
| Currency5= (use 3-letter currency symbol, only list additional currency widely accepted in this country or major regional currency)
| Currency5flag=Image:flag (small flag of country issuing currency 5)
If this were a bot, then it would simply take the currency from the first line (the one for the country of the page it is on) and the other currencies and display the current exchange rate and the date it was last updated. If it was simply a template, then additional lines for each currency would be needed to list exchange rates & url to current rate (like in Tenge example above). Or a better idea might be to just keep things simple and just have the url to the current exchange rate, which users simply click on and go straight to the up-to-the-minute rate. While simple, it wouldn't be useful to travelers who download to use WT offline and might cause problems with mobile versions/apps of WT. The text for a template which includes the rates would look like:
| Currency= Tenge (KZT)
| Currency1=USD (use 3-letter currency symbol, USD should always be listed first except in countries using the US dollar)
| Currency1flag=Image:US_flag
| Rate_for_1_Currency1=148.200
| Rate_of 1_Currency=0.007
| Rate_url=http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=KZT&To=USD
And so forth
The above would look like the tenge example in the original suggestion above. The second option with just the links:
| Currency= Tenge (KZT)
| Currency1=USD (use 3-letter currency symbol, USD should always be listed first except in countries using the US dollar)
| Currency1name=US dollar
| Currency1flag=Image:US_flag
| Rate_url=http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=KZT&To=USD
And so forth
Which would look like:
Tenge (KZT)
Current exchange rates:
(US flag) US dollar
(EU flag) Euro
(UK flag) Pound
(Russian flag) Russian ruble
(Chinese flag) Chinese yuan
If the consensus is for a template and not a bot, then I like the example with just the links, even with its issues. AHeneen 21:20, 17 November 2011 (EST)
Why doesn't the <eat> template allow wiki markup inside its tags? I went through and marked the selected restaurants listed at the top level of Atlanta#Eat with their district (so it's obvious that this one is in Downtown, and that one is in Midtown), only to find out that all my beautiful wikification is just displayed as plain text.
I also remember finding out some time ago that the '' and ''' syntax for bold and italics isn't supported, either, so we can't list phone numbers as "+1 404 894-2500". These both seem like pretty useful features to have, IMO. It would help reduce clutter/duplication if large city articles could list minimal details about restaurants, bars, etc., on their front page — just enough to get a traveler's interest — and then readers click through to the district article to get the full scoop. --BigPeteB 13:29, 17 November 2011 (EST)
This just occurred to me, but... why does WT use XML-based templates instead of normal MediaWiki templates? If templates were used, they would support full wiki markup for all parameters, and they would be easier to edit (if it ever became necessary to edit them). --BigPeteB 11:26, 2 December 2011 (EST)
There has been a huge increase in accounts created by spambots of late, so I've made a request that IB enable CAPTCHA for all account registration. By my count there are already 30+ spambot accounts created today on shared:, and the day is barely half over. I know some people hate CAPTCHA and that there may be some objections from those who primarily use non-English languages, so this thread should hopefully serve as a location for anyone to raise issues. For my part, spending time each day deleting spam pages and blocking accounts on a site that is already horribly slow isn't an enjoyable way to spend time, and isn't something that I want to do on Wikitravel for much longer. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:55, 21 November 2011 (EST)
People paid to flood discussions
I am not sure whether or how this affects us, but something else to aware of are what is called in Chinese an "Internet water army", people paid to post favorable reviews or comments on consumer or political forums. Some interesting research on these has just been published [5]. I bet China is far from the only place where this happens. Pashley 22:59, 22 November 2011 (EST)
I've added a note to Talk: List of Related projects about adding WikiOverland, the encyclopedia of overland travel to the list of related projects and linking to it from appropriate articles.
An IP user has created Category:Warnings and added it to Template:Warningbox so that all articles with warnings are categorized therein. I'm not sure how useful this category is, though, as "What links here" works almost as well, and we don't usually use categories for anything but article status. Thoughts? LtPowers 10:55, 30 November 2011 (EST)
Site outage earlier today
Wikitravel experienced a site outage early this morning, PST. An upstream provider experienced a hardware failure and it impacted WT. It's been resolved and we don't anticipate any further problems. Let me know if you see any hiccups.--IBobi 15:56, 30 November 2011 (EST)
Hawaiian versus English, and other languages spelled with accents
What are thoughts on using the Hawaiian or English spelling of names, when the names only differ by the use of the okina (ʻ) and kahakō (āēīōū)? E.g. Hawaiʻi or Hawaii, Oʻahu or Oahu, Kalākaua or Kalakaua?
Obvious options:
(I imagine this could apply with other pairs of languages where words differ only by accent marks... heck, even Japan could benefit from this, with Tōkyō or Tokyo.)
--BigPeteB 12:13, 7 December 2011 (EST)
(Re-indenting) Local names are not preferred, English names are. When there is an English name available for a place, it should be used. Else we would have to rename Germany to Deutschland. I interpret current policy this way:
I hate to beat a dead horse, but I just got back from a week in Hawaii and I've been rethinking this based on my observations:
The biggest problem I have with the "English names are preferred" argument is that that isn't what locals do when they talk. If I ask locals about a cloth skirt, they'll call it a "muʻumuʻu" (4 syllables), not a "muumuu" (2 syllables, and is a real Hawaiian word that means either "footsteps" or "silent, mum"). If I ask how to get to Ala Moana Center, they'll tell me to turn on Piʻikoi Street (3 syllables) even though the road sign reads "Piikoi Street" (2 syllables, if you pronounced it as written).
So, unless someone has an equally convincing argument otherwise, I think that because the traveler comes first, the Hawaii articles should just use Hawaiian names for things, because if we write "a cloth skirt called a muumuu (muʻumuʻu)", that reads like it's correct to pronounce it "moo-moo", and it just isn't. You may be understood, but you'll be just as wrong as if you pronounce Łódź like "lods" instead of "wooj"... why leave any room for confusion, when you could just write "Łódź" and be done with it? --BigPeteB 16:43, 27 December 2011 (EST)
Whew, a lot of confusion here. I'm going to try and spruce up Wikitravel:Naming conventions, since it's clearly unclear!
Hopefully this clears things up at all? --Peter Talk 19:45, 29 December 2011 (EST)
Brief site outage
We experienced a brief site outage from approximately 4-4:45pm PST today. Site is back and stable -- thank you.--IBobi 19:53, 16 December 2011 (EST)
Guayaquil colleges
Regarding this edit, both Brookdale Community College and Broward College (both U.S. institutions) claim to have the only U.S.-accredited college in South America. Thoughts on how to handle this? LtPowers 20:21, 16 December 2011 (EST)
Help with Pedasi villa rental listing
Hi, everyone. There's been a discussion of a villa rental listing at Talk:Pedasi. I'm OK with the listing now, but I'd like for some other folks to weigh in, so that we can achieve a consensus and either have the listing go up and stay up or not. Thanks a lot, everyone! Ikan Kekek 13:52, 17 December 2011 (EST)
Help patrolling Morocco for tour agency spam and deleting tour listings that don't belong
I'd still like help with the Pedasi listing, but I hope some of you can help with this larger problem. There's a new spammer, who says they are a "legitimate and licensed organization offering desert tours to Zagora" but is posting all over the place, with no street address but "based in Marrakech." I thought I had posted to 18.104.22.168's Talk page, but I see no evidence of that (I must have closed the tab before hitting "Enter") and have to get some sleep. Here are the anonymous user's [[10]]. I've been deleting them all, but I'm unsure what to do in the M'Hamid guide, because there are so many tours listed. What standard do we want to use? Local addresses only? Thanks in advance for helping. Ikan Kekek 06:54, 19 December 2011 (EST)
See http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:CAPTCHA_for_registration -- enabled as of this morning. Please report any bugginess/effectiveness against spam registrations.--IBobi 19:16, 20 December 2011 (EST)
Rendering failure with Firefox 9.0.1 / Seamonkey 2.6.1
There are some rendering problems with pre-1.16 MediaWiki-Wikis since the update of Firefox / Seamonkey a few days ago. I solved the problem with Wikivoyage in the following manner:
URL ban nomination?
I am not sure how to nominate a URL for a nuisance ban. There is one (or perhaps more than one) anonymous user, from at least 2 IPs, who has repeatedly substituted the commercial website, http://bahamasbahamasbahamas.com/, for the official website of Bahamas Tourism in the Bahamas article. The aforementioned web address is the site for the Bimini Bay Resort, whose entry I will now delete from the Bimini guide, as promised, but given the repeated misbehavior of people presumably associated with this resort, I think it would be a good idea to blacklist all sites associated with that resort, site-wide. I welcome your feedback. Ikan Kekek 05:18, 28 December 2011 (EST)
I've resumed work on my Wikitravel:iTravelFree Android/iOS app - the next version will include Foursquare data as well as Wikitravel and Wikipedia - and its Wikitravel maps mash-up, and it occurred to me that some of the server-side stuff I do might be useful to others. In particular, I parse out Wikitravel pages into their constituent sections and listings, work out parent/child relationships using both breadcrumbs and internal links, convert addresses into lat/long coordinates, etc. It wouldn't be that much work for me to create a API that let developers access not just individual pages but individual sections and listings within pages, and the parent/child relationships between pages.
But it wouldn't be a trivial job either. And if a bunch of people wanted to use it extensively, the bandwidth costs would quickly become nontrivial. (I'm using Google App Engine, which ain't cheap.) So would anyone out there be interested in such an API? And if so, would it be a Creative Commons terms-of-service violation to charge its users enough to defray my costs for it? Rezendi 16:34, 2 January 2012 (EST)
Spelling of Odisha/Orissa
Hi, everyone. User Triseult has been editing every mention of the Indian state formerly known as Orissa to reflect a new official Indian government spelling. I appreciate his/her diligence but have doubts about his/her decision. We have not changed the spelling of Bangalore to Bengaluru, for example, because the latter spelling is still at least somewhat more common in English.
I have started a thread in Talk:Odisha and invite your participation.
All the best,
Ikan Kekek 05:21, 4 January 2012 (EST)
Tour listings - rules
Hello, I would like to find solution of one problem. I was trying to edit info about exploring Warsaw and information about tours was erased according to [12]. I asked User:LtPowers to change back information because mentioned tours have got "value-added activity". Warsaw during WWII was destroyed in 90% and many interesting places are covered by modern buildings (eg.last pieces of Ghetto Wall). Whats more there is lack of book which describes Warsaw architecture in English. Thats why Wiki users should have access to erased information.
Outline status for travel topics
I'm a bit confused about the layout requirements and status determination of travel topics. Maybe I'm looking on the wrong page, but it seems to me that travel topic outlines are different from destination outlines, in that they will apparently be deleted if not edited for a year. Looking at Wikitravel:Travel_topic_status, it seems that that warning is the only template outline travel topics can bear. Why is that? In practice, some outline travel topics have been given a "normal" outline template (e.g. Rock climbing) while others have been tagged "usable" despite being fairly short (e.g. Round the world overland). I imagine this might also be the result of people trying to get rid of the deletion warning, and indeed it it would be strange to delete these topics.
Now, I was trying to save windsurfing from deletion, but I'm unsure what that would require? There doesn't seem to be a set article template for such topics (and I would say that's a good thing), but what would it need to be usable and thus off the hook? Or should I give it just the standard outline status? Justme 06:39, 13 January 2012 (EST)
Err.. am I the only one not seeing the sidebar, as it's placed all the way at the bottom of the page? Justme 14:12, 19 January 2012 (EST)
Never resolved, but I just updated to Firefox 10.0 and WT appears normal again. AHeneen 15:48, 4 February 2012 (EST)
Wikitravel sucks
So slow for the past couple of days. A couple of attempts at editing, and then give up for the day. --Inas 22:40, 19 January 2012 (EST)
Please would someone peer review the Wernigerode article and let me know what is now essential to get it to guide standard. Many thanks in advance. --SaxonWarrior 11:44, 21 January 2012 (EST)
Saxon Ore Mountains
The above article name is a bit of a fudge forced to fit the existing country/state hierarchy. The range is known as the Ore Mountains and straddles the German/Czech border, the highest point being on the Czech side. It is a major tourist magnet. IMHO we need an article on the Ore Mountains, but it will be an extra-hierarchical region. Can we cope with that? --SaxonWarrior 02:14, 25 January 2012 (EST)
Adequate attribution?
I could swear I posted this here last night, but I can't find any trace of it...
Anyway, just asking because I'm not sure, but is this use of our image properly attributed? It makes no mention of the creative commons license, etc. texugo 15:57, 25 January 2012 (EST)
Today's outage
We had an unplanned outage for several hours today due to a database malfunction. Site should now be behaving as normal; thank you for being patient while we resolved this.--IBobi 17:45, 25 January 2012 (EST)
The database did not find the text of a page that it should have found, named "(fixme, bug)".
This is usually caused by following an outdated diff or history link to a page that has been deleted.
If this is not the case, you may have found a bug in the software. Please report this to an administrator, making note of the URL.
The site appears to have become so slow over the last few days that it is now virtually unusable. It is near impossible to load a page, preview and edit or render an edit upload. Whats happened, rats chewed into the cabling? -- felix 09:54, 16 February 2012 (EST)
Listings of individuals
Hi, everyone. I'd like you to weigh in on this. My understanding has been that we don't allow listings of individuals, such as individual language tutors, trekkers, guides, translators, or drivers. But I'd like to refer you to a discussion taking place in Talk:La Paz and another that I just started at Talk:Banaue. I think we need to have a clear and well-thought-through policy on these matters. Ikan Kekek 06:20, 28 January 2012 (EST)
Cape Town Dive Festival 2012
Cape Town is hosting a dive festival in August. It is not on the same scale as the football world cup or summer Olympics, but we are hoping for visitors from all over South Africa, and possibly a few internationals. The festival is a co-operative event to be organised, subsidised, and run by most if not all of the local dive shops, charter boats and clubs. If successful, they plan to make it a bi-annual event. I would like to put up a temporary article giving basic details and contact details for booking and a small temporary banner on the following relevant articles:
The proposed banner is:
Is this acceptable, and are there any suggestions or existing policy to cover this? Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) Talk 11:07, 31 January 2012 (EST)
Seeraa, the user and the Chinese website
Hi, everyone. I would like you to please read the exchange at User_talk:Seeraa and also have a look at [13] and [14]. User Seeraa is some informative edits (unless they are copyvio, and except where they're merely added links to the seeraa portal), and I don't want to chase him/her away, but if the website in question really is in any sense official, why does [15] not mention that? How should we handle this situation? Ikan Kekek 03:58, 3 February 2012 (EST)
Cameron Highlands Tour providers
General aviation
I'm wondering about this edit, which reverts what an anonymous user had added about general aviation airports near Atlanta, with no explanation given. I couldn't find any WT policy on general aviation, but I thought it was generally not excluded. I've certainly seen it mentioned in a lot of other articles. -- BigPeteB 09:43, 10 February 2012 (EST)
Beta testing Mediawiki 1.17 upgrade
Having addressed the first round of bug reports from the Mediawiki upgrade beta test server, we're currently underway on a final round of testing before the new version of Wikitravel goes live in a few weeks. We'd love to have your input, so if you are interested in participating in the beta, email me at paul.obrien at internetbrands.com for testing credentials and instructions. Thanks!--IBobi 18:55, 21 February 2012 (EST)
Integrating as a Wikimedia project
This does not seem to have been brought up in a long time. I believe that integrating would be positive for all involved
I cannot really think of any drawbacks. Wikimedia projects are now under the same license is here. --Doc James 10:25, 23 February 2012 (EST)
Wikitravel was down for a while this morning due to an unscheduled data backup. If you see any unusual performance issues today, please let me know. Thank you --IBobi 17:11, 23 February 2012 (EST)


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The equation behind human-induced climate change is as simple as 1+2=3.
Welcome to Global Warming 101. It's the first of a four-part series aimed at the staunchest of climate change skeptics. Rather than having the goal of convincing skeptics manmade global warming is real, the aim of this series is simply to show that those of us who are convinced have arrived at our convictions through a rational thought process based on logical conclusions.
As Bebbo says in today's strip, all legit scientists agree on the basics of how the greenhouse effect works and that humans have been putting additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. If a lawyer were laying out the following four statements, he or she might lead off by saying, "These are the facts of the case and they are undisputed.":
- Greenhouse gases are a natural part of our environment. When heat radiates from the planet and attempts to leave the atmosphere, some of it runs into tiny greenhouse gas particles, which absorb the heat. The particles, in turn, radiate the heat back out in all directions, some heading out of the atmosphere and some heading back towards earth.
- The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring phenomenon. The delicately balanced sequence of events described above has been happening on our planet for a long time. It's called the greenhouse effect.
- The greenhouse effect is a good thing—not only natural, but critical to our survival on this planet. Without any greenhouse effect, our planet would be 50° F colder on average. And remember—just an 8° F drop would give us an ice age.
- Human activities are putting additional amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
…Which leads us to manmade global warming. Those little greenhouse gas particles up in the atmosphere capture SOME of the escaping heat, returning SOME of it to our atmosphere to keep earth nice and warm. But what about the additional particles people are producing? Couldn't the increased density of particles up there absorb—and radiate—additional heat?
While there is likely nothing that will convince the staunchest skeptic that anthropogenic climate change is real, I'd be interested to know if anyone can reasonably argue the concept is illogical, in light of the widely-accepted information in the bullet points above. Please let me know!
Here are some examples of noted climate change skeptics (and I emphasize skeptics) acknowledging the role of greenhouse gases, the likelihood that people have at least some responsibility for warming the planet, or both…
"Is the globe warming? Yes. Is the greenhouse effect real? Yes. Is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, being increased by men? Yes. Would we expect this warming to have an effect? Yes. Do human beings in general affect the climate? Yes."
—the late Michael Crichton
"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."
—Bjørn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
"It has been known since 1872 that as we emit more and more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere, each increment results in less and less warming. In other words, the first changes produce the most warming…Once human beings start to warm the climate, they do so at a constant rate."
—Patrick Michaels, climate scientist, American Senior Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, former program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society
"No doubt that warming is happening…A lot of these things are not anything to do with human activities…So it certainly wasn't due to human activities, most of the time…But certainly, most of it is not due to human activities."
—Excerpts from an interview with Freeman Dyson, Princeton physicist
"If you closed the whole carbon economy for 41 years you would only forestall one degree of warming."
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It's still summer. There's still time for a road trip. May we suggest Colon, Mich., U.S.
The self-proclaimed "Magic Capital of the World" is hosting a magic festival from Aug. 5 to 8. A report from the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer gives a great look at the history between two rival magic stores.
OK, maybe Abbott's Magic Company and FAB Magic Co. are not exactly rivals:
"This has always been Abbott's," FAB owner Rick Fisher said of the Get Together. "We were budging in on their turf, but we weren't doing it to be nasty or put them out of business."
The two stores host a bevy of magic lectures and performances during the festival. It's a fitting fete for the town which houses the grave of the legendary Harry Blackstone.
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I was surprised to reach the end of this letter and not see Rita Crowell's name. Carl W. Biggers loves the Second Amendment, and is not above tossing some pro-life fanservice into the first sentence.
Our government doesn't want us shooting people but doesn't seem to care how many babies are murdered in the womb.
I don't think he realizes that it sounds like he's genuinely disappointed that he can't go around shooting people.
In the Jan. 25, 2013, Joplin Globe, it was reported that her ban would include rifles, handguns with one of any military style features — detachable stock, grenade launchers — as well as 157 specific firearms.
OH THAT LYING SKANK. She sounded all reasonable at first, but then she wants to take away our pistols. Our grenade-launching pistols. What a fascist.
I agree we don't need slide fire stocks on rifles that can shoot 100 rounds in 7 seconds. We don't need large capacity magazines. We don't need threaded barrels for silencers, and we don't need silencers. We do need to keep our Second Amendment rights to carry our handguns for home, family and self-protection. We should be able to keep our chance to help stop crimes in progress.
Slightly related– did you hear about the guy who stabbed the burglar in the eyeball with a knife? IF THEY HAD A GUN THIS WOULDN'T HAVE—oh wait….
I think the government wants all guns out of law-abiding citizens hands so when they become dictators, they won't have to face an uprising.
You know what I've noticed? I hear a lot of people saying we need guns to shed the blood of tyrants. Like a whole lot of people saying so. We apparently have a goodly amount of Jack the Tyrant Killers in this country.
Apparently our tyrants are usually schoolchildren, peace protestors, black kids, women going to the gym, and people who attend midnight screenings of popular movies. Normal citizens and easy pickings. Meanwhile, actual government heads openly muse about taking away people's rights, and they sleep like babies. Perhaps most gun fetishists don't really give a shit about shedding the blood of tyrants. They want to be tyrants.
Take us out with some Jesus, Carl!
I am a born-again Christian and pray that God will convince the hearts of our government to pay attention to him before it is too late.
Jesus isn't the guy that gives you grenade launching pistols. You're thinking of Santa.


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I am glad to present you our first male designer of this edition, which not only is funny and talented but also one of the lucky one to be able to say they were a Mr Virtual World contestant, MR. V♛ BELGIUM 2012. His creations are stylish, and i urge all models to go by his store, his name is Boniefacio from the store Dot BE Fashion.
Hello Boniefacio! Thanks for taking the time out to talk with us.
MB: You have a lovely brand. Tell us the story about how your store came to be.
BR: Well i started in the MVW competition and we had to do different stylings. I then began to build my outfit for cubism and was thinking hey, what if i bring some of my idea's into sl … and so i did. And since i'm from Belgium the name Dot BE Fashion Is a reference to Belgium.
MB: Is there a gender you prefer clothes for the most?
BR: Well i prefer making clothing for both, so i don't really have a preference. Although its not easy and i have to change into a female form to get all the designs right and see if they match.
MB: Are you the type of designer that constructs clothes spontaneously or do you sketch our your pieces before hand?
BR: Well most of the times i base my clothes on rl designs and art. I try to bring the rl fashion into sl. My latest collection comes from the runway and from Burberry, but sometimes i wake up at night, take my pen and paper and start to write ideas on it. My new collection that's coming out after my fashion show will be based on fall/winter.
MB: Would you ever consider teaching others the skill of designing?
BR: I could consider this, but i think designing has to be inside of you. Its an art or like a dj. You can teach someone to sketch stuff or to mix music but if the feeling is not within the person you can teach as much as you can there will be no result.
MB: Describe a designing horror story (such as a certain piece coming out completely wrong from what you imagined), if any?
BR: I was working on my pieces for my fashion show that's coming up 27 October and i had such a great design in my head until i brought it into sl and i was what am i thinking this doesn't look right. After 2h of prims adjusting and texturing i decided to delete the entire stuff and start with something else.
MB: Use three words to describe your design aesthetic.
BR: Bring some art in to fashion casual and formal … o o that's more then three words.
MB: If you could collaborate and make a brand with any designer on Second Life, who would it be?
BR: Yasum Designs, Azlyn makes fantastic outfits and handmade mesh. She is a wonderful, understanding and straight forward women.
MB: What's in the future for Dot-Be Fashion?
BR: Well i hope Dot-be Fashion is going to stay and grow further in sl and on 27 October i'm going to show my new collection at 2pm. With some great models that will fill the stage and with 1 surprise … nah I'm not saying what it is. But i will say everyone is invited and they can send me a notecard to get a personal invite.
Take a broom ride to his store: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mikela%20Isle/81/37/22
A special thanks to my personal assistant, Angexx Quandry who created this interview for me.


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China's CNOOC Ltd said on Friday it expects its $15.1-billion takeover of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen Inc to close in the first quarter of 2013 at the earliest, a move that could be aimed at giving U.S. regulators more time to approve a sensitive aspect of the deal.
The company is still awaiting U.S. approval over its purchase of Nexen assets in the Gulf of Mexico after Canadian officials approved the deal earlier this month.
A ruling by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, is seen the main remaining regulatory hurdle for CNOOC and Nexen, which resubmitted applications to the committee in late November.
"The closing date of the deal is closely linked with the approval result. Now it looks like it is not practical to close by end of the year. So now we expect it to be closed at the earliest in the first quarter of next year," said a CNOOC official with the firm's investment relations office.
The official declined to comment on the status of CFIUS approval.
U.S. companies face barriers to invest in around 100 Chinese sectors, restricting their opportunities in the world's second-largest economy. Chinese firms wanting to invest in the U.S. fear a political backlash in Congress and being blocked on national security grounds by CFIUS.
One issue the committee will examine is whether Nexen's assets are too close to sensitive U.S. military areas, CFIUS experts have said.
Though just a fraction of Nexen's reserve base and production, an acquisition of the Canadian firm's Gulf of Mexico assets would give CNOOC a foothold in the world's prized deepwater oil province.
Industry officials are optimistic about winning U.S. approval, arguing that the Gulf of Mexico assets are relatively small, but carry huge exploration risks and require massive spending.
"I don't foresee many political hurdles from the U.S….CNOOC, which already holds U.S. onshore assets with Chesapeake, will just be one of hundreds of firms already working in the area," said one Beijing-based official with direct knowledge of CNOOC's overseas investment.
Judging from the wells already sunk by Nexen in the region, the exploration and development risks could outweigh the economic returns, said the official.
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"In making admissions decisions, we give consideration, among other things, to diversity factors (including but not limited to racial or ethnic group identification, cultural, linguistic or economic group; sexual orientation; or other factors), obstacles that applicants have overcome, and/or discrimination that you have experienced. If you choose, please submit a separate statement (in addition to the required personal statement) discussing any or all of these issues to the extent they apply to you."
To those who have questions about diversity statements, this is a good prompt (one of U Mich's optional essays) that I posted on the other board:How might your background and experience enhance the diversity of our student body or of the legal profession? You might discuss perspectives or experiences relating to socioeconomic disadvantage, disability, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, or religious affiliation. You might also discuss atypical career goals, employment history, educational background or special talents or skills.The diversity statement speaks to what makes you different from the rest of the applying class. It doesn't have to be about a specific experience or obstacles that you've overcome.
What is a certification letter?On the wisconsin-madison app it has this included at the end:note: If you are applying electronically via LSAC, print out and sign your certification letter instead of signing this application.Where is it? And do what with it then? I feel like this is probably a really stupid question, but...I'm asking anyways.
You will not find it on the application. You will find it only once you've submitted. Then you'll have access to it. It's a form you'll print out and mail.I was pretty confused by this sort of thing last year.
Anyway, applying is really not as complicated as it sounds. All you need to do is tailor your resume to the study of law (should be easy), then write a few general personal statements about why you want to go to law school (a diversity statement if applicable), and an addendum if it applies to you. (i.e. I had a M.I.P. my freshman year of college --- not a big deal at all) ... Apply before November and the rest will really take care of itself.All I am saying is that it is good to be concerned in advance, but dont sweat the small stuff. I would again stress the importance of your LSAT score (you CAN help this) and your GPA (you CANT help this) above any of the aforementioned documents. Just take it one step at a time, you will learn as you go.
Beautiful, thanks.Addendums will be added to the list. What sort of addendums are we looking at?


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Hai guys :3
I am a very new mapper and my online name/mapping name is Gaz'sAnt. I havent been mapping for very long and i am still learning new things all the time about gtkradiant and mapping.
I have made my first map and it is meant to be fast-paced and quick. I made it so players have to meet up and cant hide or avoid the enemy to make the round last too long. I have done this as i dont like it when rounds last too long as it gets boring (if waiting in spec or trying to find the opponent) and as urt is now getting less players and maps are starting to get too big. PICS :
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Jason Karolak's Solo Paintings Exhibition to Open at McKenzie Fine Art, 2/8
McKenzie Fine Art has announced an exhibition of recent paintings by Jason Karolak. This will be the artist's first solo showing with the gallery. The exhibition opens Friday, February 8th with a reception for the artist from 6 to 8 p.m. and concludes on Sunday, March 17th, 2013. On Sunday, March 10th at 4:30 p.m., the artist will give a talk on his new work at the gallery.
Jason Karolak makes abstract oil paintings that depict vibrantly colored linear structures. He works primarily in two scales and employs a different approach to visual space based on the size of the canvas. In his large paintings, isolated dimensional forms float in the center of black voids. The smaller paintings represent a more shallow space and suggest all-over patterns. In both cases, he approaches the process of image making as a language that builds on itself. Karolak uses lively linear elements, striking combinations of fluorescent hues, and the layered evidence of each painting's creation to suggest dynamic expansion.
Drawing and color fundamentally guide Karolak towards a completed work. He seeks to extend the sense of immediacy found in his sketches and works on paper onto the painted canvas. Rather than composing a painting, he constructs it over time through a process that involves the interaction of marks, colors, and the resolution of an emerging structure. In Karolak's large canvases, the centrally placed structures resemble impossible wireframe models: loose forms made of smaller geometric elements that overlap repeatedly and appear simultaneously rigid and fleeting. For the artist, the size of these paintings--approximately 90 x 80 inches--and the illusion of dimensional form relate to the human body in real space. The tension between structural necessity and ideal form is continually renewed as these mysterious armatures hover and glow in the inky darkness.
Instead of hinting at depictions of spatial form, Karolak's smaller paintings tend to contain flattened patterns that fill the canvas edge-to-edge. Though constructed through the same process of color and mark selection, they eschew the distinct figure/ground relationship expressed in the larger works. In this small scale, the marks interlock or align tightly side-by-side in more broadly colorful, syncopating patterns or meandering linear compositions.
Though the materials and languages of painting are important to Karolak, he does not think of their refinement as his ultimate goal:
I am more interested in the porosity of abstract painting, in its ability to gather and absorb. So the geometric and the structural are relaxed by the organic and the ephemeral. The architectonic framework becomes open, transparent, and lightweight. And the still image becomes active with the potential of time, growth, and change. I want the forms in my paintings to work both graphically and dimensionally, to expand and contract.
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; on Sundays the gallery opens at noon. Monday and Tuesday are by appointment.Artwork: Untitled (P-1206), 2012, Oil on canvas, 86 x 76 inches


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This exam tests the Sales and Field Engineer's knowledge of the Cisco IP Video Surveillance solution. Candidates will be tested on basics of digital video, hardware and software components of the Cisco VSM solution, configuration and design of IP Video Surveillance. Candidates can prepare for this exam by taking the Cisco IPVS course offered by Cisco Advance Services Education.
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As for your rain argument, here's a little thought for you. It's a bit complicated and requires an understanding of Biblical law.
The Bible in Leviticus 25 talks about the "remission year" or "fallow year" that the Israelites must observe every 7th year inside the Land of Israel. (This is called "shmitah" in Hebrew.) The law requires that Jews (including modern Jews living in Israel) not work their land every 7th year... they cannot plant, sow, reap, or otherwise work the land. They cannot obtain food from the land. Which means that they must have enough food reserves from the prior year to last through the 7th year.
That means that every 7 years on the 6th year of the cycle, the land must produce TWICE AS MUCH as usual in order for the people to survive... especially in ancient times when their were living in a subsistance agrarian economy.
Part of God's promise to the Jews was that if they follow these laws, he would make sure they had enough to eat, even though they didn't work the land.
The Bible in Leviticus 25 also requires that Jews observe the Jubillee year every 50th year. ("Yovel" in Hebrew.) One of the requirements of the Jubillee year is that the land remain fallow, just as in the Shmitah year.
Let's do some math for a moment... according to my calculations, the Shmitah year would be in year 7, year 14, year 21... and year 49. The Jubillee year would take place in year 50.
That means that there are two fallow years in a row... years 49 and 50. And that means that, in this ancient subsistance agrarian economy, the land in year 48 had to produce THREE TIMES AS MUCH FOOD AS USUAL... enough for years 48, 49 AND 50. And it had to do so BEFORE lying fallow... at a time when the land has already been used to its fullest potential for the prior 6 years and needs a "rest".
Yet, God's blessing that the land would provide enough for all the people even durring the fallow years has managed to hold true for literally THOUSANDS of years. Throughout that entire time there have been Jews following these fallow laws, and never once has the land failed to produce as promised due to drought, famine, disease... the land has produced in accordance with God's promise every time.
It seems to me that prayer/worship definitely DOES result in good weather as needed. You can't produce twice or three times as much food as normal in bad weather.
How do I know that it never failed? Because if it had failed, the Jewish people would have known that God's promise was fake and would have stopped following the laws. Yet they kept the laws, and still do, because God demonstrates time and again that his promise is the real deal by making sure the land produces as much as is necessary to keep the people alive. The evidence is in the people and their actions.
What this tells me is that prayer/worship does have a real, tangible effect... if you are willing to recognize it as such.
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Pope Francis sent a special video message to the televised event in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, which coincided with Holy Saturday, when Catholics mark the period between Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
The Vatican, tiptoeing carefully, has never claimed that the 14-foot linen cloth was used to cover Christ after he was taken from the cross 2,000 years ago, as some believers claim.
Francis, reflecting that careful Vatican policy, on Saturday called the cloth, which is kept in a climate-controlled case, an "icon" — not a relic.
But Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin, the "pontifical custodian of the shroud," said the special display on Holy Saturday "means that it represents a very important testimony to the Passion and the resurrection of the Lord," The Telegraph reported.
The burial shroud purports to show the imprint of the face and body of a bearded man. The image also purportedly shows nail wounds at the man's wrist and pinpricks around his brow, consistent with the "crown of thorns" mockingly pressed onto Christ before his crucifixion.
Many experts have stood by a 1988 carbon-14 dating of scraps of the cloth carried out by labs in Oxford, Zurich and Arizona that dated it from 1260 to 1390 — well more than 1,000 years after the time of Christ.
The new test, by scientists at the University of Padua in northern Italy, used the same fibers from the 1988 tests but disputes the earlier findings. The new examination dates the shroud to between 300 B.C. and 400 A.D., which would put it in the era of Christ.
It determined that the earlier results may have been skewed by contamination from fibers used to repair the cloth when it was damaged by fire in the Middle Ages, the British newspaper reported. The cloth has been kept at the cathedral since 1578.
The new tests also supported earlier results claiming to have found traces of dust and pollen on that shroud that could only have come from the Holy Land.
The latest findings are contained in a new Italian-language book — "Il Mistero Della Sindone," or "The Mystery of the Shroud," by Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical and thermal measurement at the University of Padua, and journalist Saverio Gaeta.
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If the current quarter brings more gains, you'll miss out, but that's better than being exposed to expensive asset classes.
Of course, you're losing money to inflation sitting in cash, which pays nothing, but you're reserving the opportunity to buy stocks, bonds, REITs and other investments at potentially cheaper prices later this year. To paraphrase value investor Howard Marks, we can't predict what will happen — certainly not in one quarter — but we can prepare. Read a counterpoint: Don't fight QE3 in Q4.
Let's go through some asset class valuations and expected returns starting with bonds to see why raising cash is a good idea over the next few months.
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How about investment grade (above BBB-rated) corporate bonds? The iShares iBoxx $ InvesTop Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund LQD, +0.12% has a yield of under 3% and an average weighted maturity of 12 years. So higher-quality corporate bonds may help investors eke out victory over inflation at its current rate, but a surge of inflation will crush you.
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Now let's look at real estate investment trusts. The Vanguard REIT Index Fund VNQ, +0.52% is sporting a 12-month yield of around 3.4%. It's possible, but unlikely, that with rental and dividend growth, this asset class can maintain purchasing power.
The problem is that REITs are trading at 20x cash flow or "funds from operations," a historically high number. A starting dividend yield of 3% in this asset class has generally not been the ticket to future 10-year double-digit or even high-single-digit returns. And if Treasury yields should rise, and investors can capture the same 3% yield on safer assets, look for REITs to plummet. Finally, with median income stagnant, it's questionable how much landlords can raise rents.
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How about stocks? The Shiller P/E, which is the current price of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, +0.92% divided by the past 10 years' earnings of the constituents of the index, is at around 23 — almost 50% above the long-term average of 16. Read more: 5 charts every investor needs this quarter.
This metric has a good record of predicting future 7-10-year returns, and with the metric so high, expected returns are low. Some people say Robert Shiller's data before 1950 is inaccurate, and that the average after 1950, when more accurate data is available, is 18. Even accounting for this, stocks are overpriced.
And with a dividend yield of around 2% and profit margins at record highs, savvy investors such as GMO's Jeremy Grantham, who think margins will revert to their longer-term mean, view domestic stocks as poised to deliver almost no return above inflation over the next seven years.
In fact, the stock markets poised to deliver returns close to 5%-6% over inflation or somewhere around 8% nominally are overseas markets, including emerging markets, according to Grantham.
No guarantees here, of course. As good as Grantham has been regarding asset class returns, his estimates are based on past averages. And we're again talking about little diversification to other asset classes.Read more: Stocks should rise this quarter if history holds.
Finally, we derive some confidence in thinking that cash is the "least worst" option by looking at managers we admire including Grantham. Steve Romick's FPA Crescent Fund FPACX, -0.31% is holding 32% cash and Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Total Return Fund DBLTX, +0.19% is holding nearly 20% cash, according the most recent portfolios published by investment researcher Morningstar Inc.
Romick was a finalist for the Morningstar Manager of the Decade Award in 2010, as was Gundlach. It appears the smart money is getting defensive.
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In one of the more Jalopnik museum exhibitions in recent memory, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Arts is featuring both Dymaxion creator Buckminster Fuller and icy BMW car artist Olafur Eliasson.
There are few 20th century visionaries quite as cool as Buckminster Fuller, if only for the Dymaxion car. In what can be considered the first minivan, the Dymaxion got 30 MPG, could seat 11 and hit a top speed of 120 MPH. It did all of this in 1933. The MCA doesn't have a copy, sadly, but it does have numerous early drawings and other Dymaxion-related goodness.
Olafur Eliasson is the most recent BMW car artist but, rather than repainting an existing model in his own style, he took one of BMW's H2 racers and re-skinned it with reflective metal and frozen water. Though the car itself isn't around, numerous other object creations from Eliasson are on display, including the 360-degree changing color room. As one of the most influential artists of the day, these works impact the design of everything from furniture to new cars.
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Kauai is known as the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km), it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle", Kauai lies 105 miles (170 km) across the Kauai Channel, northwest of Oahu. This island is the Site of the Waimea Canyon State Park.
The United States Census Bureau defines Kauai as Census as Census Tracts 401 through 409 of Kauai County, Hawaii, which is all of the county excepts for the islands of Ka'ula Lehua, and Ni'ihau. The 2000 census population of Kauai (the island was 58, 303
There is no known meaning behind the name of Kauai. Native Hawaiian tradition indicates the name's origin in the legend of Hawaiʻiloa — the Polynesian navigator attributed with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. The story relates how he named the island of Kauai after a favorite son; therefore a possible translation of Kauai is "place around the neck", meaning how a father would carry a favorite child. Another possible translation is "food season.
Kauai was known for its distinct dialect of the Hawaiian language before it went extinct there. Whereas the standard language today is based on the dialect of Hawaii Island, which has the sound [k] at the beginning of words, the Kauai dialect was known for pronouncing this as [t]. In effect, Kauai dialect retained the old pan-Polynesian /t/, while 'standard' Hawaii dialect has innovated and changed it to the [k]. Therefore, the native name for Kauai was Kauai, and the major settlement of Kapaau would have been called Tamara.
Kauai's origins are volcanic. The highest peak on this mountainous island is Kawaikini at 5,243 feet (1,598 m).] The second highest peak is Mount Waiʻaleʻale near the center of the island, 5,148 feet (1,569 m) above sea level. One of the wettest spots on earth, with an annual average rainfall of 460 inches (1,200 cm), is located on the east side of Mount Waiʻaleʻale. The high annual rainfall has eroded deep valleys in the central mountains, carving out canyons with many scenic waterfalls. On the west side of the island, Waimea town is located at the mouth of the Waimea River, whose flow formed Waimea Canyon, one of the world's most scenic canyons, and which is part of Waimea Canyon State Park. At 3,000 feet (914 m) deep, Waimea Canyon is often referred to as "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific". The Na Pali Coast is a center for recreation in a wild setting, including kayaking past the beaches, or hiking on the trail along the coastal cliffs.
During the reign of King Kamehameha, the islands of Kauai and Niʻihau were the last Hawaiian Islands to join his Kingdom of Hawaii. Their ruler, Kaumualiʻi, resisted Kamehameha for years. King Kamehameha twice prepared a huge armada of ships and canoes to take the islands by force and twice failed; once due to a storm, and once due to an epidemic. In the face of the threat of a further invasion, however, Kaumualiʻi decided to join the kingdom without bloodshed, and became Kamehameha's vassal in 1810, ceding the island to the Kingdom of Hawaii upon his death in 1824. In 1815-17, Kaumualiʻi led secret negotiations with representatives of the Russian-American Company in an attempt to gain Russia's military help against Kamehameha; however, the negotiations folded and the Russians were forced to abandon all of their presence in Kauai, including Fort Elizabeth, after it was revealed that they did not have the support of Tsar Alexander I.
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