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This post is the first in a series that I'll be making about events in my ancestors' lives, on the days that the events took place.
My reasons for this series are twofold – first of all, it helps me organize my own family documents and files, which is something that has been severely lacking, especially in this past year when I've been so wrapped up in other activities that I've barely had time to touch my own family research. Secondly, it provides concrete examples to you, my readers, of the different kinds of documents that you may be able to consult in your own Latvian research.
Birth: 10th of September 1895, 10pm
Baptism: 6th (?) of October 1895
No. 289 – Anna Natalie, daughter of worker Fritz Leepa and his wife Mihle born Busch. Both Lutheran. Godparents: Miss Anna Busch, Mrs Kristine Balod, smith Alexander Busch. Baptized at St Paul's Church, Pastor C. Walter.
This may be the birth record of my great-grandmother Anna Liepa. I'll get back to the "may be" in a bit, first a bit on her.
Anna Liepa was born in Rīga on September 22, 1895, according to the Gregorian calendar. At the time of her birth in the Russian Empire, her birthday was September 10. Her tombstone cites her date of birth as September 23, but every document of hers that I have (internal passport, marriage record, numerous house book entries, etc.) all state September 22 (and in the early years of independent Latvia, both the Gregorian and Julian dates are cited together). She was a bookkeeper, and married Pēteris Eduards Celmiņš in Rīga on September 17, 1919.
Now back to the "may be" – Anna was born in RÄ«ga, which was and is the biggest city in Latvia. This means there are lots of records to check, and both her first and last names are fairly common. I haven't consulted all of the RÄ«ga records yet, but this one certainly is the best candidate.
My reasoning, in favour of this being her birth record:
- Her precise birth date is mentioned here – September 10, 1895, according to the Julian calendar.
- Numerous other documents, such as her internal passport and her marriage record, mention that her father's name is Fricis, which this record agrees with.
- This record is an extract from the Sv. PÄvila (St Paul's) Lutheran Church. This church is the closest one to where Anna and her husband and children were known to live. While this doesn't prove that she was born in that same area of town, her husband was from the country, and thus it was likely for him to join her family rather than the other way around. This happens numerous times throughout my family history, so could have happened here as well.
Points against this being her birth record:
- No other documents mention a middle name of "Natalie" or "NatÄlija" (a more Latvianized form of the name). Neither her passport nor her marriage record nor any house book records mention a middle name.
- There are numerous "Fricis Liepas" in RÄ«ga around this time. The 1903 RÄ«ga address book mentions two, the 1912 address book mentions three. Any of them could have had daughters named Anna around the same time.
So the search continues. Is this the right record? I won't know until I check the rest of the churches. I could also obtain her death record and hope that it has her mother's first name and maiden name on it. Until then, Anna remains one of my problem ancestors.


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09 January 2011
Simon's Food Highlights 2010
5 comments:
Excellent picks (and pics)! I'll make my best to try some of them this year.
- January 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- susan said...
everything looks delicious! The salad nicoise especially.
- January 10, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
Happy New Year Simon and may 2011 be filled with lovely edible treats :)
- January 10, 2011 at 6:11 PM
- gummi baby said...
You were brave, I would have found it hard to narrow it down to that number considering the fact that you're a prolific blogger (sometimes more than once a day?!!!). :D
- January 10, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi lateraleating, hope you get to try some of them. let me know what you think.
hi susan, and the nicoise is quite reasonably priced as well for the quality.
hi lorraine, happy new year to you too and may our stomachs be filled with yummy food again.
hi gummi baby, actually sometimes it is hard to narrow it done but you can also click on SIMON FAVOURITES :-) label to find out all the others. i wish i had the time to blog about 5 times a day. - January 23, 2011 at 1:20 PM
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I've been using the Fiire remote for about 3 months now and have gotten used the sensitivity of the remote. Jason
So what's your opinion of the OK button?
Would it be better to use one of the larger, more central buttons? Or is there another way to select what the pointer is hovering over other than the OK button? Or is the small button something you get used to. As you've said, the placement of the buttons is awkward, but the OK button is a pretty important one.
Don't forget also that it's not just us. The remote must be used easily by others in the family, including the wife and visitors.


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BERLIN – A higher special connection fee for Berlin's new wastewater customers is inevitable, as is a rate increase for current sewer customers, whether the treatment plant capacity is expanded or merely improved, ratepayers heard at the Jan. 3 meeting on the project financing.
"Just to increase the capability, not merely the capacity of the existing plant, there needs to be a rate increase," engineer Mark Prouty, of wastewater consultant URS Corporation, said last week during a special meeting of Berlin's Town Council.
The special connection fee would increase to $14,000 just on nutrient removal enhancements alone, without adding capacity. The fee, which could change as numbers are finalized, would be $18,000 starting July 1 for the expanded capacity if 50 EDUs are hooked up annually. The total cost of the improvements and the expansion is $18.2 million in today's dollars, said Prouty.
Russ Tatman of URS broke the costs down. The additional capacity and better nutrient removal would account for the majority of the cost, at $10 million. A new, year-round spray irrigation system comes in at $5.5 million. Repairs to the existing effluent storage lagoon, contingency and design costs should reach roughly $3 million.
The 8-percent increase in sewer rates for current customers will begin July 1 if approved by the town council after a public hearing, which will generate $133,000 in additional income every year.
The rate increase would cover only the improvements to the plant's nutrient reduction efforts, not the new capacity.
"They shouldn't be paying for growth," Berlin Mayor Tom Cardinale said.
One thing ratepayers will not be paying for is the design and bidding process.
The finances are not final.
"All these numbers will shake out when we start getting a clear picture of our costs," Berlin administrative director Linda Bambary said later. "We'll be revisiting the numbers. We still have a lot of number crunching to do."
The County Commissioners' decision to reduce the expansion from 1.4 million gpd to 750,000 gpd may benefit the town financially. Hook-up rates in Berlin have slowed down, and the fewer connections there are, the less money comes into town coffers to pay off sewer utility debt.
"There's risk in building a plant when you're not getting connections very fast. It's important for the overall costs to build as close to what you think you need immediately," Prouty said.
At Thursday night's meeting, citizen Ron Cascio raised the question of special connection fees for in-town properties already paying a ready to serve fee, which reserves sewer capacity for an unbuilt property. Those already paying ready to serve fees will still be subject to the full $18,000 special connection fee, Tatman explained.
"Then they're paying to add capacity they already own," Cascio said. Those property owners would also be subsidizing growth, he said.
Ready to serve fees guarantee the availability of sewer service for a property, Bambary later explained, and pay for the costs associated with that unused, but available capacity like personnel and electricity.
The ready to serve fee does not confer ownership of capacity, and those properties must already pay the standard connection fee when hooked up, she said.
The connection fee would cover improvements to the plant, not just the expansion.
The proposed new rates and fees will go through public hearings before a final decision on the changes are made.


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Abstract: Honorary Doctor of Music Bernard Greenhouse has earned a worldwide reputation as one of the leading cellists of our generation. As the founding cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio, he has garnered international acclaim for his supreme artistry; and as a teacher, he has exerted major influence on many of today's cellists. This dissertation documents Greenhouse's approach to music making in the context of his interpretation of Beethoven's Sonata in D major for Cello and Piano, Op. 102 No. 2. In a series of interviews by the undersigned, Greenhouse demonstrates ways to seize the sonata's dramatic impulses. He refers to his own studies with Pablo Casals when discussing his approach to interpretation. Among his many suggestions, he emphasizes the performer's role in "turning music into speech that can be understood." To this end, he provides techniques for clear enunciation and for creating dynamic inflections and rhythmic momentum in the music. This dissertation begins by surveying Greenhouse's contribution to cello playing and existing literature related to Beethoven's D-major sonata and Greenhouse. Then it documents Greenhouse's suggestions for the sonata in the form of commentaries and measure-by-measure annotations in a performer's edition of the score. More than a set of specific instructions for how to perform Beethoven's sonata, this dissertation seeks to describe an approach to string playing that can apply in a wide variety of musical contexts.
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'Dusty' is fairly apt
Beat 'em ups have a pretty interesting history. After dominating the arcade scene in the 80s and 90s, the gaming community at large eventually clamored for more transcendent experience than just mashing a few buttons over and over until their short journey was through. So the once simple genre started to get more technical and borrow concepts from other games, such as RPG-like leveling systems, multiple movesets per character, combos, juggles, and so on.
Dusty Revenge attempts to combine a lot of neat ideas, on top of a fairly solid foundation with mechanics that function similarly to a fighting game. It just needs a bit more polish.
Dusty Revenge (PC [reviewed], PS3)
Developer: PD Design Studio
Publisher: PD Design Studio
Released: July 9, 2013
As you can probably tell, Dusty is a tale of revenge, told from the eyes of the titular protagonist. Unfortunately, Dusty's wife is murdered for unknown reasons, and it's your job to find out why, and punish everyone that gets in your way. It's a story fit for a beat 'em up, as your going to do a lot of slashing and shooting on a constant basis.
Dusty has solid beat 'em up mechanics built in, including roll-cancelling, blocking, ranged attacks, and a weak/strong based combo system. There's juggling, uppercuts, downward slashes, and frame specific combos, which helps mix up the variety a bit, and prevent you from just mashing one button over and over. All in all, it feels like a condensed 2D Devil May Cry 3, which is a great thing, and shows that PDDesignStudio really has a knack for designing technical action.
Rondel and McCoy, your trusty sidekicks, function as power-ups, basically. Provided you have a green ability bar handy, you can press the left directional pad to summon the grenade launcher totin' Rondel on the side of the screen, or the sniper expert McCoy. The grenade launcher functions in an "arc" manner, similar to aiming a projectile in Angry Birds, and enacting McCoy's power brings up your standard first-person-shooter reticle. While they're doing their thing, Dusty is open for attack (albeit while blocking), which is a neat mechanic to keep you on your toes, forcing you to "get in and get out" without overstaying the duo's welcome.
The game features a variety of settings, from your typical old west towns to caves, jungles, giant trees, and ancient ruins. Boss encounters not only fit the theme of the stage, but they remind me of true old school beat 'em up encounters, like the numerous memorable encounters with Bebop and Rocksteady in the string of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade games. All along the way, the art is stunning, breaking the boundaries of an indie studio and venturing into major release territory.
But while Dusty has some gorgeous artwork accompanying its gameplay, it suffers from a very awkward presentation. For starters, the voice work and story-telling is very low budget, to the point where it detracts from the overall impact of the world, and causes it to be considerably less enjoyable. Dusty himself doesn't sound either formidable, likeable, or memorable, which is a major problem since it causes a disconnect. None of the other characters in the game really succeed in making a connection either, even if the boss encounters themselves are very fun gameplay wise. In the end, the style feels a bit wasted on this universe.
Beyond that, the rest of the experience also feels decidedly cheap at times, despite the strong combat foundation. To put it into perspective, imagine yourself ripping open your first chest in God of War. Kratos struggles at first, grunting to get to the health orbs inside, and a loud sound effect makes even the smallest of conquests dramatic — it adds to the chaotic atmosphere, drawing you further into the violence. In Dusty, you kind of just point your gun at a chest, and a very small "bang" (that's barely audible) happens.
While this seems like a small potatoes complaint, the game's effects for little things like this add up, and lack a certain impact that takes you out of the excitement, which slowly detracts from the heart-pumping action. I normally don't mind lower budget affairs in the slightest, a few of these mishaps are design choices that could easily be altered.
As a side note, Dusty Revenge has no co-op or multiplayer modes. The whole experience is a few hours long, but that's on the lengthy side in terms of beat 'em ups, with several unlockable extras and the aforementioned RPG progression system.
Dusty Revenge is a solid effort by PDDesignStudio, but it lacks the polish to really be put into the pantheon of brawlers. The good news is there's tons of promise, the art style is gorgeous, and as a general rule, the technical systems are in place to really make things pop with a sequel. With a little more polish, Dusty Revenge would be a pretty decent recommendation, but until then, only the hardiest of brawler fans need to apply.


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Yoko Ono is planning to write a memoir about her life with John Lennon, putting to rest the question we've all been asking: What more can possibly be said about one of the most-documented figures in modern history?
"I would love to do it. I just have to find the time," Ono said. "It will be my next book, which will be written in the next five years."
Yahoo! UK reports that the autobiography will focus on the duo's intense courtship and relationship. In addition, the book will explore the myths surrounding Ono's role in The Beatles' breakup, the 1969 bed-in for peace and Lennon's alcohol-fueled 'Lost Weekend.'
Ono, who was blamed by many Beatles' fans for causing the iconic band to split, had said in the past that she wouldn't release a book of this nature for fear of hurting the families of people close to the group, including John's ex-wife Cynthia Lennon and the son they had together, Julian.
Says a Beatles expert,"Unlike Cynthia, Yoko has never really told her side of The Beatles' story and the truth about her affair and subsequent marriage to John, so the book will be much awaited.
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Herbal medicines could benefit patients suffering from gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders that cannot be treated using conventional drug therapy. In a study published in Neurogastroenterology and Motility, researchers reviewed data on Japanese herbal medicines and found them to be effective in reducing the symptoms of GI disorders such as functional dyspepsia, constipation, and postoperative ileus.
"Japanese herbal medicines have been used in East Asia for thousands of years," says lead researcher Hidekazu Suzuki, Associate Professor at the Keio University School of Medicine. "Our review of the world medical literature reveals that herbal medicines serve a valuable role in the management of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders."
Many of the drugs used to treat GI motility disorders are ineffective or cause unwanted side effects and, in some cases, this has led to drugs being withdrawn from the market. Herbal medicine is an attractive alternative.
The researchers reviewed data from studies looking at the effect of several different Japanese herbal medicines including the use of Rikkunshi-to, Dai-Kenchu-to, and other herbal medicines. Rikkunshi-to, which is prepared from eight crude herbs, was effective in reducing discomfort caused by functional dyspepsia. Dai-Kenchu-to, a mixture of ginseng, ginger, and zanthoxylum fruit, was beneficial for constipation in children and patients suffering from post-operative ileus – disruption of normal bowel movements following an operation. Another herbal medicine, hangeshashin-to, reduced the severity and frequency of diarrhoea caused by anti-cancer drugs.
In Japan, herbal medicine is manufactured in standardised form with regards to quality and quantity of ingredients. The researchers say the health benefits of standardised formulations of herbal medicines require more rigorous examination, particularly in the Western world.
"There is a mandate to provide accurate data regarding the effectiveness of non-traditional therapy, not only to our patients but also to healthcare providers who face the dilemma of recommending or opposing management strategies that incorporate herbal medicine," says Suzuki.


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In California, at the request of Dr. Harvey Bassett, psychologist Dr. Hill is brought in to confer about Dr. Miles Bennell, who has been admitted to the hospital as a mental patient. Although highly agitated, Miles convinces the doctors to listen to his story, which began a few days before, when Miles left a medical conference early, at the urgent request of Sally, his nurse: Although the small town of Santa Mira seems unchanged when he arrives, Sally reports that his waiting room is filled with patients. Driving to his office, Miles narrowly escapes hitting young Jimmy Grimaldi, who darts into the street. Grandma Grimaldi explains to Miles that Jimmy is afraid to go to school and, when Miles notices that her successful vegetable stand is closed, she says her husband lost interest in it. At the office, Miles finds few patients waiting, but, later, Becky Driscoll, Miles's former girlfriend, comes to consult him about her cousin, Wilma. Becky, who has until recently been living in England, explains that Wilma insists someone is impersonating their uncle, Ira. After Miles offers to see Wilma, he and Becky chat and discover that they have both recently divorced. As Miles walks Becky outside, he speaks with a policeman who asked Sally for an appointment but now says it is unnecessary.
Near the end of the day, Grandma brings in Jimmy, who says someone is pretending to be his mother. After talking to Jimmy, Miles, who is intrigued by the similarity of his and Wilma's claims, proceeds to Wilma's house and determines that Ira is not an imposter. Wilma disagrees, saying that the imposter looks like Ira and has his memories, but lacks emotion, and Miles tactfully refers her to a psychologist, Dr. Danny Kauffman. That evening, Miles and Becky go out together and encounter Kauffman and another doctor, both of whom believe that mass hysteria has stricken the townspeople. Later, Miles and Becky find that a once-popular restaurant is empty of customers and has been for the last two weeks, according to the proprietor. An emergency call from Jack and "Teddy" Belicec prompts Miles and Becky to visit them. At their home, the couple shows them a mysterious, half-formed body, without facial lines or fingerprints, found lying inert on their billiard table. When Teddy points out that the height and build are similar to Jack's, her husband is startled into dropping a drinking glass that cuts his hand. Miles suggests they watch the body until morning. He then takes Becky home, where he checks out an unsettling noise caused by her father working in the basement.
During the night, Jack dozes as Teddy notices that the body has a cut on its hand in the same place as Jack's. Screaming, she awakens Jack and they drive to Miles's house. Miles calls Kauffman and then, acting on a premonition, rushes to Becky's house, breaks into the basement and discovers a double of her forming there. He rescues the real sleeping Becky and takes her to his house. Accompanied by the skeptical Kauffman, Miles and Jack return to the Belicecs and discover that the body is gone. They also find Becky's double missing. When Becky's father, having heard them in the basement, calls the police station, a policeman, Nick, responds to check out the house. When Miles tells him about the mysterious body at Jack's house, Nick says that it belonged to a murder victim later found burning on a haystack. The next morning, Wilma tells Miles that she feels better and withdraws her allegations about Ira. Grandma and Jimmy come to Miles's office and inform him that the boy is back to normal, prompting Miles to wonder why the strange ailments have mysteriously disappeared.
While making dinner at Miles's house that night, Miles, Becky and the Belicecs discover four pods growing in the greenhouse. Horrified, they watch as one body pops out of a foaming pod. Miles guesses that the pods create a double of a person while he or she sleeps, after which the original body is either destroyed or disintegrates. It then occurs to Becky that her father has acted strangely since her return and is one of the pod people. Miles attempts to call the FBI in Los Angeles, but an emotionless telephone operator claims that she cannot get through. Increasingly frantic, Miles asks her to try Sacramento. While waiting, Miles discusses with his friends whether the pods might be caused by an atomic reaction or alien organism, and how the new bodies take over the person's mind. As they wait, one of the pods forms a double of Teddy. Sensing immediate danger, Miles asks Jack to take the women to safety, but Becky insists on staying with him. Miles kills the bodies with a pitchfork and leaves with her. At a gas station, the attendant slips two pods into his trunk, which Miles finds and burns later. Hoping to rescue Sally, Miles and Becky drive to her home, where Miles learns that she, too, has been transformed. Nick, whom he now realizes has been transformed all along, corners him, but Miles escapes with Becky, after which Nick alerts the police to search for them. Abandoning the car, Miles and Becky hide in his office, planning to rendezvous with the Belicecs there.
After giving himself and Becky a shot of a drug stimulant to keep them awake, Miles says that, in his work he often sees people slowly grow callous and lose their humanity, and is troubled how they do not seem to mind. The next morning, Miles and Becky watch through the window as farmers distribute to their emotionless neighbors pods that are destined for other towns. Then Jack and Kauffman appear, both transformed, and place pods in the office for Miles and Becky. Kauffman explains to them that the solution to humanity's problems has come from space seeds. The pods from these seeds reproduce an exact likeness of any form and painlessly absorb its mind, so that the being awakens into an "untroubled world." Although Becky and Miles argue that they prefer to have love, Kauffman points out that life is simpler without it. After tricking the men, Miles injects them with sedatives, then flees with Becky. On the street, they hide their emotions, pretending to have changed, but Becky shrieks when a truck almost hits a dog, thus giving them away. Pursued by the townspeople, they run up a hill and into an old mining tunnel, where, exhausted but fighting sleep, they wait until nightfall. The sound of beautiful music coming from outside the cave gives them hope that others have survived. Miles leaves Becky to investigate it and learns that the music is coming from a car radio.
When he returns, Miles kisses Becky but, to his great shock, realizes that she has been changed, having fallen asleep in his brief absence. Panicking, Miles runs toward the highway after Becky alerts the others, but the townspeople let Miles escape, presuming that no one will believe him. Through the dense, slowly-moving traffic Miles runs, screaming warnings, but the drivers think he is either drunk or crazy. When seed pods fall out of a truck, Miles yells, "They're here already! You're next!" At the hospital, Miles ends his tale, aware that the doctors will not believe him. Then, an ambulance delivers casualties from a highway accident, in which victims were buried under large pods that fell from a truck. Upon hearing that the truck originated in Santa Mira, the doctors call the FBI and police, to the relief of the exhausted Miles.
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Sad day for lips on fire.
Posted in News on November 30th, 2012 by Reagan
Tags: American Airlines, I've been robbed
Two months ago I was flying American Airlines (don't do it. not worth it. never ever worth it.) and my checked baggage was ransacked. The American Airline agents had their way with my bag that I paid money to keep in their possession while I traveled with them. They stole my Bottega Veneta handbag, a camera, a Bottega Veneta coin purse, my car key, Rayban sunglasses and every single tube of lipstick that I own. The total value of what they stole was almost $4,000. it never occurred to me that a company would rob from their paying customers, which is why I had valuable items in the checked bag that I thought would be safe and well taken care of. American Airlines has been completely unsympathetic, and unhelpful would be an extreme under-exaggeration. I have spent hours upon hours of my life dealing with this mess, because of how difficult their customer service/central baggage department is. They sent me a check this month for $200, yes $200 to cover what was stolen.
This whole experience has really shaken me. I've never felt so violated and afraid to travel. I now question that everyone around me is out to take advantage of me. American Airlines doesn't value their customers, and has no interest in fixing their mistakes. I have felt so sad and frustrated and helpless throughout this experience, and hope that by sharing my story, it can help prevent some of you from feeling the way I feel/have felt. I haven't cashed my check from American Airlines in hopes that they'll do the right thing and fix this mess in a more appropriate and considerate manner.


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The Conium Review: Vol. 6 is now available for pre-order. We expect to ship in mid-December.
This volume of The Conium Review features nine new stories from Tamara K. Walker, Jay Vera Summer, Matt Kirkpatrick, Rebekah Bergman, Kevin Finucane, Stephanie Wang, Simone Person, Rachel Lyon, and J. L. Montavon. Readers will experience ghost detector apps, a sentient chalkboard, trippy art museum visits, and more. Throughout this volume, inventive prose, dark satire, and compelling characters abound.
We're still processing final copy edits and completing the layout, so page count is still up in the air, but it'll be a similar length to other recent issues (around 100-ish). As usual, we have a wrap-around cover with just a hint of the main image peaking out. On back, there is a large tree stump gracing the volume.


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With the In the Grass, On the Reef documentary done, me, my wife Amy, and our son Maximus took a vacation to visit Amy's family in Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts. We were picked up at the airport by her cousin, Jim Kennedy. On the ride down, we got to talking about what our respective plans were for the week. One thing he was wanting to do grabbed my attention. He was going to go clamming for quahogs in the marsh by the family's vacation home and make a chowder. That sounded so cool to me. Go into a marsh without having to lug around a camera, and round up some tasty critters? I told him I wanted to go (I did go into the marsh with a camera last year, which is where the marsh pics you see originated). It's a strange side effect of working on this project that I now enjoy going into hot, muddy places surrounded by sharp grass.
Low tide was set for 11 AM on the day we chose to go, so we set out between 9:30 and 10 while the tide was still going out. The marsh is at the mouth of the Back River, and when the tide drops, the grass stands a few feet above the bottom of the river bed. Below the cordgrass, the sides of the elevated marsh are pockmarked by fiddler crab burrows. We entered the sand/ mud flats at the head of the river from Gurnet Road, armed with our permit, a rake, and a 12-quart bucket. The quahogs would be buried just below the mucky surface. Here on the Forgotten Coast, we have quahogs as well- ours are the southern quahogs, the more famous New England quahogs are known as the northern quahog:
There were a lot of people out there harvesting the clams. Most of them used a short rake meant specifically for clamming. Jim went to several stores to look for one but couldn't find it, so we used a garden rake. At the end of the day, though, the best tools we had were our own feet. A mature, legal sized quahog (3-4 years old) is big enough that we could feel them under our feet as we walked up the river bed. Then, with the rake or with our hands, we would dig them out. Around every legal sized clam we found there were usually several smaller ones. I thought back to what David said in the show about what he looked for in an oyster reef. The best ones had several mature oysters as well as several smaller ones to eventually replace them.
I couldn't help but note the differences and commonalities between our local marshes and sand flats and this New England marsh. I didn't see many large predatory snails in or around the marsh, a stark contrast to sand flats in St. Joseph Bay or at Bay Mouth Bar.
Blue crabs are of course common on Florida coasts, but their historic range ends just to the south of here, on the outer coasts of Cape Cod. I believe this mud covered crab is an invasive green crab, and I have seen Atlantic rock crabs on the nearby beach. There were razor clams (Ensis directus) and steamers (soft shell clams, Mya arenaria), each of which are harvested at other times of the year. We also saw the occasional small shrimp, and oysters that had flaked off of reefs deeper out in the bay.
We caught the legal limit and returned, muddied, to prepare the chowder.
A little on how you prepare quahogs for chowder:
You scrub the mud off of the closed shells. Open shells buried in the mud are dead animals and are unsafe for consumption.
After scrubbing them, you boil them until they open. Then you shuck them and remove the contents of their stomachs. In the photo at the lower left of this paragraph, that green stuff is phytoplankton- microscopic plants floating with the other sediment in the water. Good food for clams- and their filtering it is a great way to keep the water clean- but not anything we were interested in eating.
I got to try my hand shucking and cleaning the clams. Jim's mom, Pam, cut potatoes and onions while Jim cooked the quahogs and fried some bacon. The bacon smell helped with the boiling clam smell. The ingredients would come together in a large pot with milk, cream, and flour. The making of the chowder in the cottage brought out some nostalgia.
Pam recalled that her grandmother's chowder didn't contain dairy. When Bertha and Archer MacFarland would camp on Duxbury Beach, they didn't have refrigeration and so milk and cream weren't really an option.
"When Max is old enough," My father-in-law, Chris MacFarland, said to me, "you need to teach him how to go quahogging to keep the tradition going." Maximus is five months old, so I have a bit of time until I take him out there. When he does go, he'll represent the fifth generation of the MacFarland family to harvest quahogs from Duxbury Bay.
Duxbury Beach and Duxbury Bay are separated by Gurnet Point, a thin cape down which Gurnet Road runs. The road runs to the town of Saquish at the horn of the cape. Driving there, the beach is on your left, and the bay is to the right. A large marsh is at the North of the bay.
Archer and Bertha started camping on Duxbury Beach around 1920. After some years of camping there, they bought plots of land and built a cottage by the marsh. When their son Robert was sixteen, he built another house nearby. Then, when he was nineteen, he sold his car for $200 to buy a plot. There he built the house where his children, and their children and grandchildren, vacation every summer.
Robert took his children looking for quahogs when they were young. They used the "treading" method to find their clams, much like we did, except that they were barefoot. Jim and I wore shoes to keep our feet safe from broken shells hidden in soft mud that was deep in places. It was deeper as we walked up the riverbed- I sank almost up to my waist at one point. I imagine that they didn't walk that far up.
Robert also fixed up an old pram, on which he used to take his sons Chris and Doug on fishing trips off of the beach. As Chris (who was 7) and Doug (who was 5) recalled, one of them would row, the other would bail water. They caught cod, threw back pollock and perch, and used mackerel for bait. Of course, North Atlantic cod is not nearly as common as it once was. Nor is flounder as common off of Saquish. Jim remembers going out with his family and spotting them at the edge of seagrass beds from the family's Boston Whaler. For about ten years now, those haven't been seen much either. As David points out in the program, the animals in the lower trophic levels see less change over time, and so there are still plenty of clams in Duxbury Bay.
Hopefully that means chowder at the cottage for many more summers.
When the chowder was done, it was served with oyster crackers and crumbled bacon (the bacon Jim made earlier- the grease was used in the chowder).
I'm guessing there are stories like this across the Forgotten Coast: generations of families bonding while they made use of the fish and shellfish swimming outside their back doors. Do you have a story like this? Share it here, in the comments section. We might want to visit some of you and feature your stories in one of our videos.
Photos taken by: Rob Diaz de Villegas, Chris MacFarland, James Kennedy, and Amy Diaz de Villegas. Archival photos provided by Chris MacFarland.


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2 Feb 1967
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Writers :
Don M. Mankiewicz
Season Ep :
x 15
Main Cast :
James Doohan
Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley
Leonard H. McCoy
Walter Koenig
Pavel A. Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Nyota Uhura
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner
James T. Kirk
George Takei
Hikaru Sulu
Grace Lee Whitney
Janice Rand
Guest Cast :
Hagan Beggs
Lieutenant Hansen
Bart Conrad
Captain Kransnowsky
Elisha Cook
Samuel T. Cogley
Tom Curtis
Winston DeLugo
Joan Marshall
Areel Shaw
William Meader
Base Command Representative Lindstrom
Alice Rawlings
Jamie Finney
Percy Rodriguez
Commodore Stone
Reginald Lal Singh
Captain Chandra
Richard Webb
Ben Finney
Nancy Wong
as Personnel officer
Stunts :
Chuck Clow
as Kirk's stunt double
Troy Melton
as Finney's stunt double
Kirk claims at one point that the audio sensor can be boosted to one to the fourth power. However, one to any power is still one! He likely intended to say "ten to the fourth power", which would be 10,000 times amplification.
In this episode Spock states that it is impossible that Kirk jettisoned the pod before he was supposed to, stating "human beings have characteristics just as inanimate objects do. It is impossible for Captain Kirk to act out of panic or malice. It is not his nature." Yet in "Day of the Dove", when asked if Kang's wife can guarantee that he will listen to Kirk's peace offer, Spock states that "No one can guarantee the actions of another." So which is it?
Come to that, why don't they just put Kirk under a lie detector and ask him if he hit that button? For the forgetful, Wolf in the Fold states that the Enterprise computer can make a recording of the registrations of both the conscious and subconscious mind, detailing what a person did in the recent past
even if that person does not remember what they did
Great Moment :
I love the scene where Stone tries to convince Kirk to quietly accept a lesser assignment and Kirk angrily demands a court martial instead.
Body Count :
None, although we do think Finney is dead for a while.
Factoid :
This episode has one of the first mentions of an ion storm, which features in several episodes of the various Trek series.
The original brief for the episode was to write a good story which could be filmed within a single, easy to construct set. Writer Don M. Mankiewicz proposed a courtroom drama as a solution.
This is one of very few episodes that uses a voice over, during the scene when Kirk gets a confession from Finney and repairs the ship. Originally there was to have been a scene where Jamie comes to engineering to prompt the confession, but the episode was running over time. The voice over was a way to move the ending on as quickly as possible.
The episode never explains why exactly an ion pod must be jettisoned during a storm. In the novelisation, it is suggested that the pod is directly exposed to the storm so that it can take readings. This means it picks up a high level of dangerous radiation, threatening to contaminate the ship if the storm is strong enough.
This is the first episode to show the Starfleet dress uniform, and the only one to show a female dress uniform.
This is the first episode to mention the word "Starfleet"
It's also the first episode to show a Federation star base.
Commodore Stone mentions the USS Intrepid. This will later be established to be a ship with an all Vulcan crew, which is destroyed by a space going life form.
The Enterprise is at Starbase 12 for repairs after passing through a severe ion storm, resulting in significant damage and the loss of one crew member. Kirk is in the Starbase Commander's office making a report about the incident, in which he states that Records Officer Ben Finney was in the ship's ion pod taking readings during the storm. The pod has to be jettisoned during a heavy storm, something that is done when Red Alert is sounded. Kirk says that he did this but that for some reason Finney remained in the pod and was jettisoned with it. Finney's daughter Jamie arrives, tearful and blaming Kirk for the accident that killed her father. They comfort the girl and Spock escorts her out.
However, when Spock beams down with the computer records of the incident Commodore Stone reviews them and finds that Kirk actually ejected the pod during Yellow Alert. The action would constitute gross negligence on Kirk's part, prompting Stone to confine Kirk to the base and begin an official inquiry.
Kirk and McCoy head to the Starbase bar for a drink, finding several people from Kirk's graduating class at the academy there. Some of them make rather barbed comments about Finney's death, obviously believing Kirk to be guilty. Kirk leaves alone, and McCoy encounters Areel Shaw, an old friend of Kirks.
In Stone's office, Kirk arrives for a meeting about the inquiry. The evidence against him seems concrete, with the records clearly stating that he jettisoned the pod before sounding red alert. Kirk also has a history with Finney. When they were young they were close friends, with Finney even naming his daughter Jamie for Kirk. However, when they served together on the USS Republic Finney left a circuit open on the atomic matter piles by mistake. If it hadn't been noticed and corrected by Kirk the mistake would have destroyed the whole ship. He logged the incident, which led to Finney being given an official reprimand and his name being put at the bottom of the promotion list. Finney never progressed all that far in Starfleet after this, something he blamed Kirk for.
Kirk maintains that this made absolutely no difference to him. He followed procedure during the storm, exactly as he was supposed to, and has no explanation for how the pod was ejected with Finney inside it. Stone suggests that the stress of command has worn Kirk down, prompting him to make a mistake that anybody could have made. Stone offers Kirk the chance to retire quietly, avoiding the bad publicity of a court martial. Instead Kirk angrily dismisses the idea of any kind of cover up and demands to have his day in court.
Later he meets Areel Shaw and they chat about the case and his attitude towards it. She tells him that the prosecution will frame the issue as his word versus the computer record, and on that basis he cannot possibly win. She suggests an attorney for him, one Samuel T. Cogley. When Kirk asks how she seems to know so much about what the prosecution will do she confesses that she
the prosecution, and will try her very best to break Kirk out of Starfleet in disgrace for the good of the service.
Kirk goes to see Cogley, finding him to be a rather old fashioned individual who refuses to use his computer in favour of a huge library of actual physical books. The two get on well and Kirk takes him on to defend him. The case begins, with Shaw calling Spock for questioning. She suggests that Kirk made a mistake during the ion storm, but Spock replies flatly that, whilst he did not personally observe what Kirk did during the storm, it is impossible that the Captain could have acted unprofessionally as it is simply not in his nature. Next Shaw calls a personnel officer to testify about the incident on the Republic and Finney's attitude towards Kirk. She moves on to McCoy, asking him if it isn't possible that Kirk grew to hate Finney as much as Finney hated Kirk. McCoy admits that this is a possibility, whilst trying to defend the captain. In each case Cogley makes no effort to rebut the witnesses, not asking a single question.
Cogley Kirk to the stand and puts the vital question to him - what did he do during the storm. Kirk explains his actions, stating that they were in line with procedure all the way. He assigned Finney to the job because his name was next in line on the duty roster, regardless of any personal feelings. He jettisoned the pod after calling red alert. He states that he has absolutely no doubt that he would do the exact same thing again in the circumstances.
Shaw cross examines by playing the video log of the event. It does indeed show that Kirk went to yellow alert, then jettisoned the pod before declaring a red alert. Kirk is stunned, whispering that "that's not the way it happened!" They break for the day, leaving Kirk despondent as even Cogley begins to doubt him.
On the Enterprise Spock has examined the computer and can find no problem with it. An idea occurs to him and he goes to the rec room to play several games of chess against the computer. McCoy is appalled at this apparent lack of concern for Kirk, but Spock points out that he has won four games in a row. This should not be possible, since Spock programmed the computer and it thus has an equal understanding of the game. The only explanation is that the computer has been tampered with in some fashion.
The court begins again, and Spock and McCoy arrive to inform Cogley of their findings. He argues that Kirk has been denied one of his basic rights - the right to face his accuser, the Enterprise computer. In an impassioned speech he demands that the court reconvene on the Enterprise so that the machine can be challenged - not to do so, he argues, effectively elevates the machine to a status greater than man. Stone agrees and they move to the ship. Spock explains his experiment with the chess program and the implications that the computer must have been tampered with. The only people capable of doing such a thing are Spock, Kirk, or a qualified records officer. Cogley asks Kirk about his actions after the pod was jettisoned and learns that he had a phase one search performed. Such a search is aimed at finding an injured or lost person, and assumes that they would not be trying to evade the search. Cogley concludes that Finney may not actually be dead, but rather hiding aboard the ship. They evacuate the Enterprise of all crew and then activate a highly sensitive sound sensor, which detects the heartbeats of all present. McCoy uses a device to mask the heartbeat of all those on the bridge, and to their surprise one heartbeat remains - Finney is alive, and hiding aboard ship. Kirk goes to find Finney whilst Cogley goes to run an errand of his own on the planet. Finney is quickly located, obviously lost in madness, raving about how he will have revenge over the Captain who betrayed him. He reveals that he has tampered with the engines, and the Enterprise is rapidly falling into the atmosphere of the planet. However, Cogley has returned with his daughter Jamie. The prospect of losing her sends Finney over the endue, giving Kirk the chance to overcome him. He tells Kirk how he sabotaged the ship and Kirk is able to repair the damage in time for the Enterprise to regain orbit.
Exonerated in the most dramatic fashion possible, Kirk resumes his command. He parts on good terms with Areel, smiling as he finds that Cogley has taken on his next case - defending Finney himself for his crimes.
Not a terrible episode really, but this suffers from something of a plausibility gap. The basic idea of Kirk being accused of incompetence is a decent one, and the "courtroom drama" idea of the episode is nice. But it's not played all that well. For instance whilst it's hard to nitpick court procedure on a court that operates under laws and rules that we don't know, a lot goes on here that's a bit weird. Like for instance, the prosecutor goes and chats with Kirk in a bar, informing him as to her strategy and giving him legal advice. Seriously? The trial itself also has all sorts of leading questions, vague questions, you name it. Still, if the details might be a bit skewed, the trial itself is still pretty entertaining stuff.
Where it falls down for me is towards the end. The use of the sound thing is just silly on so many levels. For instance you can have microphones around the ship, apparently powerful enough to record people's heartbeat from a distance - yet they record nothing else at all? No breathing, taking a step, clearing your throat, digestion noises? And you can simply subtract a heartbeat by pointing a microphone at somebody for a few seconds, regardless of the fact that your heart rate varies continuously?
Finney's "I'm a loon" performance is also rather over the top. I get that the guy is meant to be insane, and getting worse by the minute more or less, but even so... well take a look at his image on this page. There's a reason we picked that particular expression, you know!
Special Edition
Some nice stuff here. The usual new planet that most episodes have gotten. We also get a lovely opening shot showing two Contitutions in orbit as shuttles whizz past - with an Antares class just visible in the background as well. There are some gorgeous close ups of the Enterpise showing the spot where the ion pod was ejected. Also the shot of Starbase 11 has been altered by adding people moving around inside the windows of the buildings.
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R (MP) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (MP v Secretary of State for Health)
NHS regulations require most non-EU citizens to pay up to 150 percent of the cost of healthcare treatment. A man who was being treated for cancer challenged this in the courts, arguing that the regulations did not comply with equality laws.
Immigration status and the right to rent a property (R (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department)
As part of the Home Office's 'hostile environment' towards those without leave to remain in the UK, the Immigration Act 2014 prevents landlords from renting property to people who do not have leave to enter or remain in the UK. A body representing the interests of immigrants challenged this, arguing that the law breached both equality and human rights legislation because it causes landlords to discriminate against potential tenants on the grounds of their nationality and/or their race. This may happen, for example, because landlords think they do not look or sound British, even if they are not disqualified from renting.


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Sunday 11 May 2008
Creamy Green Lasagne for Beautiful Bones
While I don't like milk and cream I do love cheese and yoghurt. But my preferences mean that I find creamy dishes very rich and don't make a lot of them. However, one dish that I will usually make with a creamy sauce is lasagne. My standard lasagne is vegies and beans in tomato sauce with a cheese sauce on top. Placing cheese sauce through all the layers is a bit rich for me but I do love the soft white sauce under the crispy cheese on top. This weekend I fancied some lasagne but wanted something a bit different, especially after seeing some inspiring vegetable combinations in baked pasta dishes by other bloggers.
So I turned to my recipe books and found one of the recipes that gave me much pleasure in the past: Mollie Katzen's pesto lasagne from the Enchanted Broccoli Forest. It was pleasing because it was so full of green pesto, spinach and even lasagne verde. I have had my eye on a broccoli and rocket pesto lately and added this rather than the common basil pesto. It gave the sauce a bit more substance and texture than the usual spinach and cheese combination. But it was still a very rich lasagne that needs a hearty salad such as rocket, tomatoes and beetroot with crimson dressing.
This lasagne is full of cheese – ricotta, parmesan and mozzarella. So I thought it would be ideal for Susan at Food Blogga who is asking bloggers to post a calcium-rich recipe to raise awareness of osteoporosis for her Beautiful Bones event. Of course the cheese is full of calcium but, as someone who can never remember liking milk or cream, I think it is important to be aware that this is not the only source.
When I went vegetarian I read enough to know how important it is to eat a varied diet to get all our nutritional requirements. In this dish, calcium is also found in vegetables (spinach, broccoli, rocket), nuts (walnuts), seeds (sunflower), and herbs (parsley). So even though my intake of dairy foods isn't always that high, it is reassuring to know there are many other sources of calcium in my diet. If you want to know more about osteoporosis and sources of calcium, then you should head over to Food Blogga where Susan has posted some really helpful information.
Green Lasagne with Broccoli and Rocket Pesto
(adapted from the Enchanted Broccoli Forest)
Serves 6-8
2 tbsp olive oil
2 medium onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, crushed
350g fresh baby spinach, finely chopped
1 tsp salt (or to taste)
Freshly ground black pepper
1½ cups broccoli and rocket pesto (see below or use basil pesto)
750g (3 cups) light ricotta cheese
¼ cup sunflower seeds, toasted
handful parsley, finely chopped
½ cup parmesan cheese, grated
400g ready cook lasagne
200g mozzarella cheese, grated*
(*or 3 sliced tomatoes and less mozzarella)
Heat oil in large heavy frypan and sauté onions and garlic until soft. I washed and chopped the spinach while I did this so I think it took me about 20 minutes on low heat. If you need to toast the sunflower seeds you could do these while onions cooking but don't get distracted with other tasks!
Add spinach to onions and stir to combine, then remove from heat. Add salt, pepper, pesto, ricotta, sunflower seeds, parsely and half the parmesan cheese. Stir to combine.
Preheat oven to 350 F. To assemble you need a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish. I put a smear of filling in the bottom of the dish. Place a layer of lasagne noodles and cover with a third of the filling. Repeat twice. Place final layer of noodle on top and cover with grated mozzarella cheese and the other half of the parmesan. I also gave it a spray of oil but this is optional. If you want to use less cheese you could put a layer of sliced tomatoes on top of the top layer of lasagne noodles and sprinkle some cheese on them as I did in this lasagne.
Bake for 45-60 minutes until the noodles feel cooked when you stick a knife in it. If it is looking too brown on top you could either cover with foil or move to a lower oven shelf. Serve with a tomato and beetroot salad or a tomato sauce.
Broccoli and Rocket Pesto
Makes 1½ cups
250g broccoli (about one head of broccoli)
1 cup rocket leaves (a.k.a. arugula)
1 tbsp fresh oregano (or mint or basil) finely chopped
1 clove garlic, chopped
⅓ cup (40g) walnuts (or pinenuts)
3 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup vegetable oil (optional – I didn't use)
Steam broccoli til just soft but still green. Place all ingredients except oil in food processor and blend til smooth. Drizzle oil into mixture and process until well combined. Mine was quite a thick paste which would have needed some seasoning if not being used for lasagne.
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19 comments:
- Anonymous12 May 2008 at 04:54
Lovely. I have a vegetarian lasagna recipe that I'm really starting to tire of. This looks like a worthy substitute.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous12 May 2008 at 10:47
I've got 3 of Katzen's books and love them all. . . this is such a lovely lasagne with the pesto! I can't imagine juice on cereal, but I have to agree about the milk vs. yogurt. Though I have no trouble drinking a glass of rice milk on occasion!
ReplyDelete Your rocket pesto is sensational, Johanna. I can just imagine how intensely flavorful this lasagna is. But then again, why imagine? I'm just gonna have to make it and taste it for myself!
You have deliciously shown that it really is easy being green. Thank you for a lovely submission.
Susanthanks AForkful - I'd like to think I could eat the whole lot but this is really too rich :-)
thanks Romina - love the green!
thanks Susan - more greens would make a healthier world!
thanks Tanna - buttermilk sounds like an odd thing to drink as I have only ever seen it used for baking cakes but I think it would have more flavour than plain milk!
thanks Katie - yes, this does have a different texture to white sauce lasagne
thanks Wendy - hope you enjoy
thanks Medena - this would surely fill you up!
thanks Deb - yes, I also love a different sort of pesto and have been wanting to try this for ages - it needs a little seasoning if served alone on pasta but was a great addition to this lasagne (which is also v good just with mollie's basil pesto which is how I have had it in the past)
thanks CookinPanda - I love tomato sauce in a pasta but I think I have also got a bit tired of it (I've another lasagne idea I might try soon too)
thanks Lisa - the seeds taste great - part of the original recipe that was not to be messed with!
thanks Lucy - I keep my lasagne for winter - that's when I crave the heavier food and the oven heating the kitchen
thanks Judy - I missed the tomatoes a little but if you are avoiding them, this is a great recipe
thanks Ricki - yes I love Mollie Katzen's books - the Enchanted Broccoli Forest is one of my first loves and I always find lots of inspiration every time I go back to it
Thanks for dropping by. I love hearing from you. Please share your thoughts and questions. Annoyingly the spammers are bombarding me so I have turned on the pesky captcha code (refresh to find an easy one if you don't like the first one)


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Talk:Tolkien Gateway
Things to add in (notes to myself and others):
Negotiations with TORn (2007? 2008?);- Earliest history about which we know little;
Growth in members (I have this);(see Tolkien Gateway:Membership Growth)- Growth in articles (I don't have this);
Important events in community (within history, not separate section);Screenshots of TG.--Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 16:49, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Another thing to add, apparently the first mention of TG in print (Amon Hen 201): User talk:GaramondBophîn#Thanks :).--Morgan 23:17, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
- Note "apparently" - I don't have that issue and I would like to check before adding it. It would be good to know how TG is mentioned.--Morgan 14:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- No.--Morgan 14:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Could you look it up?-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 16:51, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Discussion[edit source]
By 'Negotiations with TORn (2007? 2008?)' do you mean the email exchanges I had with them? I can post them here if you like. -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 18:51, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
- It's up to you, you can do. (I've finished doing what I can with this article, now, so hoping others will add/change as they see fit.) --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 19:03, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
- I might do it when I get time. -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 22:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Praise[edit source]
GREAT article Mith! Good work! :D -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 22:11, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
Wikifactor[edit source]
Should we mention in this article that our WikiFactor is 39? --Amroth 11:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- It might be worth it. It says here that we're WikiFactor 32 (not 39, as you said) and they've classed us as a vibrant wiki. Although it still classes us an an OpenEdit wiki, when we're not (for the time being at least). -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 12:02, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- The last time they updated that was in May 2010, I've calculated the new Wikifactor (with Popular Pages) which is 39. --Amroth 12:16, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Edit: Just to let you know I updated their page a bit. --Amroth 12:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- Just wondering, why did you take us down from vibrant to active, Amroth? — Mithrennaith 05:18, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
- From the description of the Category:active, also when combined with that list, I get the impression that 'active' describes a very basic level where the wiki is functional and basic housekeeping is performed. Our wiki is definitely more than that, there are several editors who develop projects or work more or less steadily to improve a specific group of articles or field of knowledge. Also, don't forget that we have regular meetings.
- Furthermore, the description of the Category:vibrant gives a number of grounds to conclude that a wiki is more than active, enough to merit the label 'vibrant'. We certainly have significant content; the fact that we are discussed now and again on other Tolkien sites and fora indicates that we generate a certain level of interest. Moreover, it was apparently already felt that TG merited the label 'vibrant', I think there is enough ground to let that stand. — Mithrennaith 23:32, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
- Right, I've put it back to 'vibrant', I've also repaired ('with duct-tape') the broken image of our logo there and the broken link to our stats, updated the number of pages and added our interwiki partners there (same as had already been done for Ardapedia, the others are not listed on wikiindex). — Mithrennaith 00:20, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed, I think we more than qualify as a 'vibrant' wiki.-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 00:35, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
2011[edit source]
Some notes on what could be included in a 2011 section:
- Charity
- Mithilien and Technical updates
- Discussion about Sindarin/Quenya names, minor plant articles and games.
- Quin/Vector?
- Editors
- Gamling (Letters and general)
- Morgan (books)
- Amroth (gaming)
- Pinkeith (gaming)
- Hyarion (technical)
- Mith (technical and general)
- Ederchil (lurking)
- Sage (language)
- KingAragorn (Images)
- Dward Lord
- Tik
- Grond
- Others?
--Amroth 15:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- I absolutely would not accept I am simply technical, considering the amount of effort I've put into things like redesigning infoboxes (and updating the infoboxes on pages which have them) and standardising and preparing the ground for the date articles. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 12:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I didn't mean you only did technical work, just like Morgan didn't only work on books. I just found that your technical work should be mentioned aswell. --Amroth 15:18, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Did I do nothing noteworthy? -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 17:21, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Images?
- IF there's anything which is uncomplete or incorrect in the list, please change it. --Amroth 14:15, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Fandom/Wikia[edit source]
I'm confused about this edit being reverted as spam. Isn't it correct? Wikia's name was changed to Fandom several years ago, and the old link now redirects to the new one. Shouldn't the article say "Fandom.com, formerly known as Wikia" or some such? --Pachyderminator 15:03, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ooops, my mistake! I was not aware of that and at first sight I thought "fandom.com" didn't sound well. Thanks for pointing it out. --LorenzoCB 15:18, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Launch date[edit source]
My understanding is that Tolkien Gateway was created in 2005 and just switched website url in 2005. In my opinion (though I could be totally misunderstanding it) the statistic of the TG being launched in 2005 seems a bit misleading. Aragorn II (talk) 01:33, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


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