Wikipedia articles on schizophrenia and other mental health topics were assessed for accuracy, richness of references and readability.
In an article for Psychological Medicine, ten researchers from the University of Melbourne conclude that "the quality of information on depression and schizophrenia on Wikipedia is generally as good as, or better than, that provided by centrally controlled websites, Encyclopaedia Britannica and a psychiatry textbook."
The study focused on ten mental health topics (e.g. "antidepressants and suicide in young people" or "side-effects of antipsychotics"), five each in the areas of depression and schizophrenia. "Using the topic terms (or synonyms) as key words for the searches or through manual browsing, content relating to these topics was extracted from [Wikipedia and 13 other websites selected for prominent Google results for depression and schizophrenia] and from the most recent edition of Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry ... and the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica" by two reviewers. For both depression and schizophrenia, three psychologists with clinical and research expertise in that area evaluated these extracts on accuracy, up-to-dateness, breadth of coverage, referencing and readability, on a scale from 1 to 5 ("e.g. Accuracy: 1 = many errors of fact or unsubstantiated opinions, 3=some errors of fact or unsubstantiated opinions, 5 = all information factually accurate"). As in an earlier study of the quality of health information on Wikipedia (Signpost coverage: "Wikipedia's cancer coverage is reliable and thorough, but not very readable"), readability was also measured using a Flesch–Kincaid readability test, which is calculated from word and sentence lengths.
For both depression and schizophrenia, Wikipedia scored highest in the accuracy, up-to-dateness, and references categories – surpassing all other resources, including WebMD, NIMH, the Mayo Clinic and Britannica online. In breadth of coverage, it was behind Kaplan & Saddock and others for both areas. And "of the online resources, Wikipedia was rated the least readable [by the human reviewers], although some of its topics received an average rating." Likewise, the Wikipedia content had relatively high Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level indices (around 16 for schizophrenia and 15 for depression – indicating that a tertiary level of education is necessary to understand the content), similar to that of Britannica but higher than most other resources examined.
"Despite variability in the methodologies and conclusions of these studies, the overall implication is that Wikipedia articles on health topics typically contain relatively few factual errors, although they may lack breadth of coverage. ... Given the number of patients, would-be patients and concerned others using the internet to search for information on health issues, it seems that Wikipedia is an appropriate recommendation as an information source."
A paper in the Journal of Personality Assessment tried to assess the impact of the Wikipedia article Rorschach test on psychologists' use of that test. As summarized by the authors, "In the summer of 2009, an emergency room physician [User:Jmh649 - James Heilman, MD] posted images of all 10 Rorschach inkblots on [...] Wikipedia. The images were accompanied by descriptions of "common responses" to each blot. ... a fierce debate ensued between some psychologists who claimed that posting the inkblots is a threat to test security and other individuals, including some psychologists and other mental health professionals, who argued that all information should be freely available, including full details of the Rorschach". (In fact, the debates on whether to display versions of the inkblots in the article go back to at least 2005, at first accompanied by rather spurious copyright claims - Rorschach died in 1922.) The authors note that the inkblots had already been revealed to the general public in a 1980s book and cite an earlier study that had found "particularly damaging information" about personality assessment tests on the Internet as early as 2000, "including examples of test stimuli from... the Rorschach" (presumably including this site). Still, "Internet coverage of the Rorschach appeared to grow exponentially during" the 2009 debate about the Wikipedia article, which made it to the front page of the New York Times (Signpost coverage: "Rorschach test dispute reported").
The first part of the study examined the top 50 Google search results for "Rorschach" (excluding "watchmen" in order to filter out results about a comic book and film) and "inkblot test", coding them into four levels representing the "threat each site presents to test security and the extent to which the content of the site might aid an individual in dissimulating on the Rorschach". 44% of the sites were classified as Level 0 ("no threat"), e.g. home page of bands with "Rorschach" in their name, and 15% as Level 1 ("minimal threat"). The 22% Level 2 ("indirect threat") sites which "tended to discuss test procedures more explicitly" apparently included "several 'official' Rorschach Web sites, where one is able to register for Continuing Education Rorschach workshops, [and which] also allow visitors to purchase materials that contain sensitive test information. For example, certain training Web sites allow individuals to purchase training texts and instructional media without requiring a license or other professional credentials". The authors find it "disturbing" that many sites in this threat category "were authored by psychologists". 19% of the sites were classified as the highest level, "direct threat", e.g. many that contained depictions of one or more Rorschach inkblots, or specific information about how responses are interpreted. Together with results about the high percentage of Internet users consulting Wikipedia for health information (36% in the US in 2007 according to Pew research), the authors conclude that "we can no longer presume that examinees have not been exposed to this information prior to an assessment".
The second part of the study likewise starts out with a Google News search for "Rorschach" and "Wikipedia", noting that "of the 25 news stories reviewed, 13 included one or more of the Rorschach inkblots, with Card I as the most frequently displayed", and eventually arriving at five media stories about the controversy which allowed readers' comments (, , , , ). The altogether 520 comments on these stories were "coded according to the opinion expressed by the writer regarding each of the following categories: (a) the field of psychology, (b) psychologists, and (c) the Rorschach." While the vast majority did not state a clear opinion on the first two categories, the authors note that "Of those comments that did express an opinion toward psychologists [ca. 16%] most were overwhelmingly negative." Many more of the commenters on the Wikipedia/Rorschach news stories expressed an opinion about the test itself: "In total, 182 (35%) of comments were classified as unfavorable toward the Rorschach, whereas only 55 (11%) were coded as favorable toward the Rorschach. The remaining 283 (54%) comments were categorized as neutral or not mentioned." Among those who identified as mental health professionals, 61% expressed a favorable opinion about the test and 15% a negative one.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln MBA candidate Jon Stacey reports on the results of a proof-of-concept tool to measure the rate of misspelled words in the English Wikipedia over time. A text parser (code available for download) was applied to a random sample of 2,400 articles. Instead of considering the latest revision, a random revision from the history of each article was used. The final corpus was obtained by stripping markup and non-ASCII characters as well as article sections such as the references and table of contents. Words were matched against a dictionary obtained by manually combining 12dicts and SCOWL (source) with Wiktionary.
In related news, the developers of an open-source multilingual proofreading application called LanguageTool released a beta application for proofreading Wikipedia articles. wikiCheck proofreads articles from the English and German Wikipedias based on a set of customizable syntax and grammar rules. A bookmarklet is available to access the application from a browser.
Three researchers from Stanford University and Yahoo! Research used a novel method to construct "a data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors", as described in a preprint currently undergoing review for publication. While earlier studies relied on Wikipedians participating in surveys (and identifying themselves as such), the authors mined data from users of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Wikipedia URLs containing an &action=submit parameter, thereby arriving at a sample of 1900 editors of the English Wikipedia.
Their first main finding is that "on broad average, Wikipedia editors seem, on the one hand, more sophisticated than usual Web users, reading more news, doing more Web search, and looking up more things in dictionaries and other reference works; on the other hand, they are also deeply immersed in pop culture, spending much online time on music- and movie-related websites." However, these "entertainment lovers ... form only a highly specialized subgroup that contributes many edits".
Based on the toolbar data, the paper also tries to answer the question "Do Wikipedia editors know their domain?" and related questions, positively: "across all topical domains Wikipedia editors show significant expertise. ... We also show that more substantial edits tend to come from experts", and that logged-in editors show more expertise than IP editors. A final result is that "About half of the click chains culminating in an edit start with a Web search, with the other half originating on Wikipedia's main page."
The Oxytocin article is part of Gene Wiki, an open-access collection of Wikipedia articles about human genes.
A special issue of Nucleic Acids Research features 11 articles describing how wikis and collaborative technology can be used to enhance biological databases. A commentary by Robert Finn, Paul Gardner and Alex Bateman discusses in particular how to leverage Wikipedia, its collaborative infrastructure and large editor community to better integrate articles and biological data entries: the authors argue that the project offers an opportunity for crowdsourcing the curation and annotation of biological data, but faces major challenges for expert engagement, i.e. "how to get scientists en masse to edit articles" and "how to allow editors to receive credit for their work on an article".
Another article in the same issue presents the Gene Wiki, an open-access and openly editable collection of Wikipedia articles about human genes. The article describes how structured data available on Gene Wiki articles is kept in sync with the data from primary databases via an automated system and how to automatically compute the quality of articles in the project at word or sentence-level using WikiTrust.
A thesis entitled Individual and social motivations to contribute to Commons-based peer production was submitted by University of Minnesota student Yoshikazu Suzuki for an MA in mass communication. The thesis presents and discusses the results from a small series of interviews as well as a survey exploring individual and social motivations of Wikipedia contributors, drawing on social identity theory, volunteerism and uses and gratifications theory. The survey, run in July 2011 with support from the Wikimedia Research Committee, collected 208 responses from a random sample of 950 among the top English Wikipedia editors. The results, obtained by applying principal components analysis to the responses, reveal eight distinct motivational factors: providing information, the seeking of creative stimulation, concern for others' well-being, the need to be entertained, the avoidance of negative self-affect, cognitive group membership, career benefits, and social desirability. An analysis of the relative strength of each factor indicates that providing information, the seeking of creative stimulation, and concerns for others' well-being were the three strongest motivational dimensions. Grouping the eight factors into two macro-categories according to self- and other-focused motivations, the other-focused motivations were found to be significantly stronger than the self-focused motivations. The thesis reviews the implications of these results for the design of incentives for participation and editor retention. The full text of the thesis and an executive summary are available under open access.
Article revision histories are a rich data source to study patterns of collaboration on Wikipedia.
A paper in this month's edition of First Monday, ambitiously titled "Understanding collaboration in Wikipedia", reports on a statistical analysis of a complete dump of the English Wikipedia (225 million article edits) with regard to several quantities, starting with two that were introduced in a 2004 paper by Andrew Lih "as a simple measure for the reputation of [an] article within the Wikipedia": the total number of edits an article has received ("rigor") and the number of (logged-in and anonymous) users who have edited the article ("diversity"). The First Monday paper cites a 2007 study from the same journal, which found that featured articles tend to have more edits and contributors (while controlling for a few other variables) as a justification for using "rigor" and "diversity" as proxies for article quality, but includes other quantities such as the article size change for an edit. The paper cites earlier work on evaluating Wikipedia article quality (e.g. dismissing the well-known 2005 Nature study based on the mistaken assumption that it had "only focused on featured articles"), but does not discuss existing attempts at more sophisticated quantitative quality heuristics.
The First Monday paper highlighted that if consecutive edits by the same user are counted as one, the overall number of article revisions drops by more than 33%, "revealing that one in three revisions in Wikipedia consist of users responding to their own edits or continuing an ongoing edit begun by themselves". "Article diversity" ranged up to 12,437 contributors per article, with a median of 12 and an average of 32. One of the main conclusions is that "rather than reflecting the contributions and expertise of a large group of people, the typical article in Wikipedia reflects the efforts of a relatively small group of users (median of 12) who make a relatively small number of edits (median of 21)."
Supporting the assumption that most edits do not result in significant changes in content, the study finds that 31% of all revisions cause a size change of fewer than 10 characters, and 51% a change of fewer than 30 characters, with an apparently significant peak at a 4-character difference, presumably related to the insertion or removal of the four brackets ("[[ ... ]]") that generate a wikilink.
The author notes the slight decrease in the overall number of edits since 2008, but tentatively explains it by the increasingly complete coverage of encyclopedic topics, and doesn't share the widespread concerns about declining or stagnating editor activity: "participation in Wikipedia seems to remain as healthy as ever as revisions made per article created each year has annually increased since 2001 without exception".
A different paper from last year's "Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference" similarly promises far-reaching insights from "Deconstructing Wikipedia" solely based on revision history statistics without analyzing the actual content changes, using a much smaller sample – 30 featured articles from the English Wikipedia, but also including timestamps. The data did not confirm the hypothesis that "the editor who initiated an article would have a high level of involvement in the article's creation": for only five of the 30 articles, the initial author was the most frequent contributor.
A second conclusion is that for all of the articles in the sample, "there is a single Wikipedian whose contributions far exceed all others", ranging from 8% to 82% of the articles with an average of 39% (but the analysis does not seem to have sought to quantify the extent to which this exceeds the contributions of the second most frequent contributor). The author indicates that this supports Jaron Lanier's "oracle illusion" criticism of a supposed presentation of Wikipedia as a product of "the crowd". Somewhat tautologically, the author observes "that the control of an individual editor seemed to be reduced as more editors joined the process", and points to the need to analyze "a significantly larger number of articles" to answer the question whether "too many cooks spoil the stew" (apparently unaware of the significant body of earlier literature on this subject, starting with a 2005 paper that presented an answer in its title: "Too many cooks don't spoil the broth", and including the 2007 study which the above reviewed First Monday paper relied on).
A third result of the paper, which likewise might not surprise those already familiar with Wikipedia's editing processes, is that "the creation process is continuous and can go on for a very long time", with even articles about historic events from the distant past continuing to receive edits.
The author, an assistant professor in management and marketing at Virginia State University, concludes the paper by urging his readers to start "thinking about how the wiki platform, itself, is influencing the creation process".
The Wikimedia Research Committee launched a public consultation on the future data/research infrastructure for Wikimedia, in an effort to understand how to best serve the research and developer community with open data from our projects. The consultation will remain open through January 2012 and the full set of responses will be shared under a CC0 license.
Semantic enhancements: In "Enhancing Wikipedia with semantic technologies", Lee et al. review existing interfaces for semantic search and present their own platform for enhancements. Based on small-scale user tests, they find that one of their three enhancements – range-based queries – are strongly preferred by users, who would find them desirable not only in Wikipedia but on the wider web. A longer summary is available on AcaWiki.
English and Finnish Wikipedias egalitarian, Japanese hierarchical: A paper titled "Analyzing cultural differences in collaborative innovation networks by analyzing editing behavior in different-language Wikipedias" (from the 2010 Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference, as was the revision statistics paper reviewed above) applied social network analysis to collaboration on featured articles on the English, German, Japanese, Korean, and Finnish Wikipedias. It "found notable differences in the communication behavior among egalitarian cultures such as the Finnish, and quite hierarchical ones such as the Japanese. While the English language Wikipedia shows a distinctive pattern, most likely because it is by far the largest and frequently exploring new concepts copied by others, it seems to follow more the Finnish egalitarian, than the Japanese hierarchical style".
User:Emijrp shared a link on wiki-research-l listing 2,596 scholarly references on wikis, obtained by scraping Google Scholar results (on December 22, 2011), as part of a project to build a comprehensive bibliography about wikis – a challenging task that has seen various earlier attempts and was the subject of a workshop at this year's WikiSym (see the October and April editions of this research report).
Should doctors use and edit Wikipedia?: An editorial in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine asks whether doctors should reject the use of Wikipedia. The two page article (one-day access: US$30.00) cites some results about the popularity of Wikipedia among medical students, young physicians and the general public, and for some reason highlights the malicious edits of British journalist Johann Hari as example for the downsides of Wikipedia's free editability. It contains a review of the literature on the reliability of Wikipedia's medical information which is less thorough than that of the Psychological Medicine article reviewed above, and comes to a less approving but still somewhat positive conclusion: "Although Wikipedia entries are often poorly structured and difficult to understand, they are comparable in accuracy to some online resources, such as health insurance websites." In the end, the authors seems to lean towards recommending against ignoring Wikipedia: "One risk of clinicians disengaging from Wikipedia is that only contributors motivated by personal experience (e.g. patient anecdote) or vested interests (e.g. individual clinicians, institutions or companies promoting their own ideas and products) will remain."
↑ Fogarty, Kevin (December 23, 2011). "Wikipedia test showes Americans' ubility too spel is detereeorating". ITworld.
↑ Suzuki, Yoshikazu (November 2011). "Individual and social motivations to contribute to commons-based peer production.". MA thesis, University of Minnesota.
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Formerly Ender's Base, the Kokuryuteshi have control over a massive building the size of a small city that they have expanded into a massive military area. This area is isolated from the rest of Kokuryu City and The Kokuryuteshi Realm itself. No person can enter here without special admittance.
Kokuryu City. That's what Ender's Former Realm is now. A seemly endless metropolis bristling with skyscrapers, buildings, subways and all other things a city has. Kin Iramasha's army now resides around a huge chunk of land that resembles an island the size of large nation and floats, in what seems to be, a sea of endless purple sky that leads into nothingness. (So I suggest not flying off this island if you can't fly or figure a way back up) The landmass also has hundreds of black portals above it, that made it easy for Ender's soldiers to get wherever they need to be in the Human world or spirit world when Ender was still alive. The only accessible way to enter this place is if you know directly where this dimension is and know how to open a portal into it, you follow somebody into the portal that leads into this strange world or you think up you're own way into this base.
Although this building is not composed solely of towers, one could look upon this place in the capital, it could instantly be recognized for it's three towers connected to it as the Home of the Fenier Family. The entire building is shared by the likes of a majority of the highest or closest members to the family, no matter the branch that they might be apart of. However it could be noted that each of the towers may only be access by the likes of a specific branch of the family. Entrance to this place requires either being apart of the Fenier Family, one of the highest ranking members of the Kokuryuteshi Army, or invitation by one of the Fenier that live here. Once inside of this place you can find that is much like a giant mansion with as many recreation area as one could imagine in the center including many popular sport fields, a swimming pool, and a personal arcade as only a few examples. Within certain halls you will only find rooms upon rooms that are empty or filled by a Fenier resident. Eventually, one can finally stumble across a small hall that contains the members of the family closest to the leading member, and these leaders themselves. The entire place is considered massive in size as one could already imagine, finally along the entrance to the building is a sign with on it is in Cursive, "The Fenier Family."
Mount Malor is a large mountain area within The Kokuryuteishi that overlooks a massive grassland, contains many rocky areas, has it's own lake and even a few cities, villages and bases were made here.
Exavil is located near the edge of The Kokuryuteshi's realm. It is one of the most cold, bitter and harsh locations within this island. Not many DARE venture out here for most are told this area is off limits to anyone but Kin, his right hand people and commanders. There is a massive fence that covers every border of Eavil and it easily capable of disposing of any unapproved targets by firing off many destructive blast from multiple towers spread out across the fence. Therefore, It is unknown what Kin is planning in the cover of snow, but obviously it is something big. The constant sounds of rumbling, heavy reitsu and a terrifying sense of fear can all be felt within this area. Not to mention many people who are even on 1 tier can be seen fainting before reaching the gates, many strange lights can be seen within the distance at night and odd figures can be seen sometimes walking around the gates.


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Car and truck batteries need to be replaced every two to five years. You may be able to prolong the life of your car battery with a portable car battery charger, but these parts wear out sooner rather than later. If you have used a portable jump box or charged a battery without results, it's time to replace the battery and recycle the old part.
Lead-acid batteries would account for a lot of pollution and waste if almost all of the materials in these components were not recyclable. Battery recycling is one of the most successful closed-loop or sustainable disposal and reuse processes. Find out why you should always recycle the automotive battery from a car or truck when it's time for a replacement.
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Up to 99% of the materials in lead-acid batteries are recyclable, and up to 80% of the components in any given battery are recycled. Recycling old batteries makes the production and disposal of these critical parts more sustainable and responsible.
Every battery that is recycled and repurposed reduces waste. Reuse replenishes the supply of recycled lead and plastic for use in making new batteries. The sulfuric acid in lead-acid batteries also gets neutralized during recycling through conversion into water or sodium sulfate.
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Some states require retailers that sell batteries to also recycle old components. As a result, it is easier to recycle batteries than many other electrical components. Most automotive services already recycle batteries, a fact that explains why these parts surpass aluminum cans, newspapers and glass bottles as the most common recycled items.
A battery recycler may process plastics or outsource this work to a plastic recycler. Polypropylene battery cases and covers are melted and extruded as pellets ready for reuse. These materials might otherwise remain in landfills for hundreds of years. The lead from lead-acid batteries is heated in a smelting furnace until it becomes molten and is poured into ingot molds. Battery makers melt these ingots to make new grids, posts and terminals.
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Most retailers and services that sell automotive batteries also turn over these components for recycling. If you are having the battery in your car or truck replaced, ask the service specialists about battery recycling. If you switch out the battery yourself or have this job done by someone who does not recycle, an automotive parts retailer or service should still be willing to take your old battery for recycling. Battery recycling services are required by law in some states. You can contributeto sustainable battery production by investigating recycling options in your region.
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With hackers becoming more effective in targeting and exploiting emerging technologies -- such as smartphones, media tablets and associated cloud services -- enterprises are investing in mobile endpoint security software to protect and manage mobile devices.
Hackers are able to gain access or control of mobile devices via malicious software (malware), while mobile applications (apps) on the device can perform unwanted, high-risk actions. This threat jeopardizes the safety of sensitive data stored on the mobile device, as it can be lost or stolen.
With the ubiquity of mobile devices and trends such as bring your own device (BYOD) to work, industry and government regulations requiring businesses to control network access for all device types and applications adds to market growth.
According to the latest market study by Frost & Sullivan, the mobile endpoint protection market earned revenue of $433.5 million in 2012, and estimates this to reach $1.0 billion in 2017. They note that endpoint security specialists -- McAfee and Symantec -- lead the market. However, several innovative competitors, including entrepreneurial start-ups, are making progress in this market.
"Smartphones may fail to meet organizational security and compliance policy requirements as they are extremely susceptible to mobile malware breaches and unwanted or high-risk mobile applications," said Chris Rodriguez, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
However, the mobile endpoint solutions market faces competition from other mobile security products. For instance, mobile device management (MDM) capabilities are considered an essential first step in addressing mobile security needs and a suitable replacement for mobile endpoint security solutions.
Unfortunately, MDM does not address mobile malware and unwanted or high-risk mobile applications. Businesses worldwide severely underestimate the risk presented by truly smart smartphones and media tablets, and therefore delay the adoption of comprehensive solutions.
Mobile endpoint protection vendors could acquire MDM companies to enable a robust enterprise endpoint security and device management portfolio. Plus, new technologies such as cloud-based malware analysis, application wrapping, and containerization will further widen the global customer base.
While end users from the business segment are opting for established security vendors that offer enterprise central management and reporting capabilities, emerging start-ups are gaining traction in the strategically important consumer market with inventive, free or low-priced solutions.
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The cast of Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert included, from left, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene, John Legend as Jesus Christ, Alice Cooper as King Herod, Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas, and Jason Tam as Peter. AP/COURTESY NBC
NBC ended Easter Sunday with "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert," with John Legend in the role of Jesus Christ -- and he was definitely a superstar!
Twitter lit up with people loving the show, especially Legend's performance, with one person tweeting, "John Legend takin' us all to church." John wasn't the only one taking people to church. "Hamilton" alum Brandon Victor Dixon absolutely killed it as Judas.
In fact, everyone in the show put in an Emmy-worthy performance, including Sara Bareilles, who played Mary Magdalene, and Alice Cooper, who made a brief appearance as Herod.
"Hands down, the best NBC Live Musical. Stunning. Moving. The real deal," one person tweeted.
Overall, people absolutely loved the musical -- even some famous people, like actress Sarah Paulson, who became a new fan: "I didn't know I even liked this musical, turns out IM IN LOVE WITH IT."
The final image of Legend as Jesus on the cross, fading away through a cross-shaped opening, had the theater audience sitting in stunned silence -- and everyone at home begging for more, with one person tweeting, "So I want to see this every Easter. Anybody else?"
The Rock opens up on depression
Thanks to a slew of hit comedies, Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson has transitioned from pro-wrestling tough guy to Hollywood teddy bear and beloved funnyman. Now he's showing fans a different side.
According to Yahoo!, In an interview with the Express, the action hero spoke candidly about his personal mental-health struggles, saying his "absolute worst time" came after his dreams of pursuing a football career crumbled -- he was cut from the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders in 1995 -- and his girlfriend ended their relationship.
"Struggle and pain is real," he said of that dark time. "I was devastated and depressed. "I reached a point where I didn't want to do a thing or go anywhere. I was crying constantly."
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It's not the first time Johnson has addressed mental health in his family. In February, he posted an Instagram message detailing his mother Ata's suicide attempt when he was 15.
"She got out of the car on Interstate 65 in Nashville and walked into oncoming traffic," the 45-year-old actor told his fans. "Big rigs and cars were swerving out of the way. I grabbed her and pulled her back on the gravel shoulder of the road."
Though he has now found success on both personal and professional levels -- the father of two is expecting another child with longtime girlfriend, Lauren Hashian, and is one of the highest-paid actors in the world -- Johnson says it's "important to not forget the tough times."
"We both healed, but we've always got to do our best to pay attention when other people are in pain," he said about showing empathy to others in similar situations. "We have to help them through it and remind them they are not alone."


Weep (or stock up), nostalgia fans, for the venerable floppy disk (which Sony still makes!) will be no more after March of next year. Sony is the last company making the old disks, and it just isn't getting enough demand from people who have been living under rocks for the past 10 years to keep production going. This would be sad if floppies hadn't always been largely unreliable and surprisingly easy to lose. Oh well -- another part of computing history fades into the sunset.


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Tony Ralston at work at the Grange iron ore facility in Port Latta. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
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In Tasmania's wind-swept north-west, mining and manufacturing are firing up quite literally, with iron ore being processed at 600 degrees Celsius at a plant at Port Latta.
Mining and related manufacturing are picking up again in the seat of Braddon in Tasmania's north-west
Local miner Grange Resources has hired 80 staff in the past 18 months, with other projects also hiring
Braddon is a key battleground seat held by Labor on a margin of 1.7 per cent
The ore is pumped out of three giant 50-year-old furnaces the size of four stacked semi-trailers, and transported on a conveyer belt to ships on Bass Strait.
It is miner Tony Ralston's job to work on this line as it belches steam. And he is happy to be there.
"It's great to be working back in Tasmania. I grew up here, but had to leave when the work dried up," he said.
Mining is making a comeback in the wake of a commodity price crash which followed the global financial crisis, and for workers like Mr Ralston, job security in the industry is front of mind this election.
Tony Ralston's key concern this election is secure mining work in Tasmania where he's supporting a young family (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
Mr Ralston supports a young family and is part of a growing number of workers in the industry who are returning to Tasmania after years working on mainland Australia.
"Fly-in fly-out work takes a toll on your family. We always wanted to return and raise a family here but only recently has that been possible," he said.
The industrial region is part of the marginal seat of Braddon, which snakes along parts of the north and western coasts of the island state.
Tony Ralston bids farewell to his young family. His partner Amy used to work as a truck driver on the mines. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
Mr Ralston, and many like him, never really wanted to leave but felt they had no choice.
Significant job losses in the wake of the global financial crisis saw hundreds of local workers, like Mr Ralston, leave the area.
Braddon has a long affinity with mining, and the health of the sector may play a key part in the outcome of the election, which is expected to be closely fought.
The seat is held by Labor's Justine Keay with a margin of just 1.7 per cent.
Already Prime Minister Scott Morrison has visited the seat several times, hoping to turbo-charge the campaign of local candidate Gavin Pearce.
Industry is booming at Port Latta. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
More than 600 new jobs have been created in the mining sector since 2009.
The re-start of Hellyer Gold Mine just south of Burnie has seen about 50 people employed, and William Adams CAT is taking on 10 new apprentices to help meet demand in repairing mining vehicles.
Ben Maynard, president of the Tasmanian Minerals and Energy Council and general manager of operations at Grange Resources, said he had hired an extra 80 staff over the last eighteen months.
"Our main concerns going into this election are in terms of energy prices and skilled workers," he said.
"We need more skilled people, and we would like to use locals where possible. We need to develop our people resources locally."
Daniel Goscombe says fly-in fly-out work takes a toll on family life. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
Another worker lured back from the mainland is Daniel Goscombe, who has returned to Tasmania's north-west to work as a service manager at William Adams, which repairs mining vehicles among other things.
Mr Goscombe said he got sick of the "28 days on, five days off" fly-in fly-out work on the mainland.
"You never get to see your family," he said.
"One of those days off was always taken up in flights. People talk about cost of living concerns but family is everything too. Tasmania is a great place to raise your family."
The marginal seat of Braddon has a long connection with mining. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
The lure of returning home is strong, Mr Goscombe said.
"We've got to get the work here for them to come home, there's plenty going on around the world but there's plenty of people that want to be here," he said.
"I've got family here, I've grown, born, grew up here. I'd like to stay, everyone I know would like to stay, they don't want to hop on a plane and go away from their families and it's great to be able to come home because the business is here."
The picture is not all rosy, with some key projects dead in the water, including a nickel mine on the west coast which promised 200 jobs.
The shortage of skilled workers has also been noted by Burnie's Chamber of Commerce as a key issue moving forward.
But those who work in the mining sector, and their families, will be making the most of it while the good times last.
Tasmania's mining industry is experiencing a resurgence after the commodities crash. (ABC News: Henry Zwartz)
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During a meeting with Park City School District counselors (because I am going to be teaching mindfulness at the High School and Junior High!! – but that is another post) one of the Junior High counselors told me that when kids are sent to his office, instead of punishing them, he has them read the Kid's User Guide!
How have you been using the Kid's User Guide?


On December 2 we'll be upgrading our UCSB Production instance of ServiceNow to Jakarta Patch 5. This upgrade brings enhanced security as well as new and updated application features from the Istanbul and Jakarta releases of ServiceNow.
While the upgrade will be mostly transparent for both end users and Fulfillers, I've described below a few enhancements you may notice.
If you find ServiceNow is not working as expected once we go live with Jakarta next Monday, December 4, please submit an "ETSC Portal Problem" ticket (under "Software" in the ETS service catalog). For all other related questions or requests, use "Other ETSC Portal Services."
· The system that ETSC customers use to chat with the Service Desk will be upgraded to a new version called "Connect Chat." When customers initiate a chat from the ETSC Portal home page, they will be able to enter their chat questions directly without choosing a topic/service group first. In addition, they can access multiple active chat conversations as well as their five most recent closed chat conversations from the chat window.
· Connect Chat also provides a new chat interface for Service Desk staff. This includes an enhanced view of chat queues, direct access to knowledge base and user information, and the ability to include worknotes (not visible to customer) as well as comments in Chat records.
· Finally, the new interface includes the ability for both customers and Fulfillers to add attachments to chat.
· Connect Chat is part of a broader suite of interactive support tools, called Connect Support, introduced with the Geneva release in ServiceNow. To learn more about Connect Support, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g4QS1LEQto.
· In addition to homepages, Fulfillers will be able to build dashboards as a way to view and access tickets, reports, and data in ServiceNow. Dashboards have a drag-and-drop canvas that lets you easily manipulate widgets. You can add multiple tabs, and you can share and collaborate on dashboards with other Fulfillers.
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Two men were robbed at gun point while parked in front of 80-42 47th Ave. in Elmhurst (Google Maps)
March 12, 2021 By Christian Murray
Two men rammed their car into a vehicle in Elmhurst Saturday night and then robbed the occupants of the vehicle at gun point.
The suspects drove their Dodge Durango into an Audi outside of 80-42 47th Ave. at around 7:20 p.m. on March 6. When the two occupants of the Audi got out to inspect the damage, the suspects walked up to them with a handgun and demanded their property.
The suspects approached one of the victims — a 35-year-old man — and took his Samsung cell phone, a wallet containing debit cards and $500 cash. The other victim, also a man, fled the scene on foot and one of the suspects fired a single gunshot at him. The shot missed and both the victims were uninjured.
About 90 minutes later, a woman was seen using the victim's credit card inside a Brooklyn grocery store located at 1990 Bedford Ave. Surveillance video was captured of the woman, who is wanted for questioning.
The first suspect is described as being between 28 and 35 years of age, and being around 6 feet tall and weighing approximately 175 to 185 pounds. The second suspect is described as being approximately 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds.
Anyone with information in regard to the identity of the woman is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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After receiving my new ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW, the first thing I did was prepare it to dual boot between Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I'm not a fan of Windows at all, but I do understand that sometimes its required, so I need to dual boot.
I'm paranoid about losing data or making my system unrecoverable, so I tend to take some extra steps when I approach something like this. I'll outline what I did here, in the hopes that it may help someone else installing on a newer ZenBook or other ultrabook with a high pixel density display (the ZenBook has a 4K display).
I can't stress this one enough. If something goes wrong, this is what you're going to need to get your laptop or system back to its original factory state. Its easy enough to do. From your Windows 10 installation, click on the Search box and type in "recovery image". Follow the prompts and be sure to check the box to include System Files. I put mine on a 16GB flash drive. It takes a while to run, but once its done, you can feel quite a bit more confident knowing that if something goes wrong, you can start over.
Windows is greedy when it comes to hard drives. You can use the Windows disk manager to resize, but it only gave me about 200G of the 500G disk. I really only want about 100GB for Windows, and the remaining 400GB for Linux, so I had to use GParted.
Before you can use GParted you need to disable Secure Boot in the bios, since the GParted live images aren't signed.
My first attempt, I decided to try Ubuntu 15.10. Since its a lot newer, I figured it should recognize the hardware better. There were several issues with 15.10 that I didn't like, most notably encrypted swap. So that being the case, I reverted back to 14.04.3.
I used Ubuntu 14.04.3 to do my install and everything went fine. I went with a default installation and it recognized Windows and added it to the Grub menu. You will need an external mouse for the installation, though, since the kernel that comes with 14.04.3 doesn't recognize the touchpad on the ZenBook UX501VW. You will also notice that everything is really, really small after you boot. 14.04.3 isn't without its other issues, too.
There are several issues that need to be addressed. I'll outline the various things I did to get a mostly usable system.
Reboot and there will be no more of the annoying password prompts. This didn't work for me, however. After I did that, shutting down the laptop just spun, it would never actually shut down. So far, none of the things I've tried will fix it, so, I'm still dealing with an annoying password prompt at startup and when doing updates.
This one is a challenge, even for a lot of Windows apps. A 15.6″ 4K screen has a very high pixel density, and apps that aren't coded for them (read most of them) will be displayed very small. There are various things you can do to compensate for it, depending on the window manager and the software you use. The most common method is to simply double the size of everything, which, for the most part, works okay. There is a wiki entry on the Arch Linux site that covers HiDPI screens and how to tweak various window managers to look more presentable on a HiDPI screen.
I normally use Xfce because its fast and stays out of my way. Though lately, I've been having more and more issues with it keeping up with modern hardware. After installing, I tried each of the following desktops: Unity (ubuntu-desktop), Gnome 3, Xfce and Cinnamon.
None of them worked well on 14.04.03, and only a single one of them worked out of the gate on 15.10: Cinnamon.
I am very impressed with the latest Cinnamon release. Its been a long time since I looked at it, right about the same time I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu. I've been using Xfce ever since. This latest release of Cinnamon has me convinced its time to switch. Everything looks beautiful and just works. And when I say just works, I mean just works. Everything is scaled correctly, the themes are nice, there are no holes at all. It is everything I would expect to see in a window manager. I'll be writing up another post on migrating to it and the experiences I have with that, but for now, I highly recommend using Cinnamon on the ZenBook if you're going to go with 15.10.
For 14.04.03, though, I ended up setting my display resolution to 1920×1080. Its not ideal, but everything just works. The reason I couldn't use Cinnamon, was the Intel 3D drivers caused massive flicker and tearing under 14.04.03. Intel, for some unknown reason, no longer supports their latest drivers under 14.04.03, so I switched to XFCE. I did turn off compositing under XFCE, otherwise I would have had similar tearing issues.
Its not ideal, but it works, and should hold up until 16.04 comes out.
This is optional, but if you don't, you're likely not going to have a good experience with the touchpad on the ZenBook. It was mad-making for me until I realized that the model touchpad used in the latest ZenBook it not recognized by kernel version 4.2, which is the kernel used in Ubuntu 15.10. It works, but you can't adjust its configurations at all. To solve this, you need to upgrade to a 4.3 kernel. As of this writing, this is the latest 4.3 kernel, so you may want to check for something more recent. This won't be necessary with Ubuntu 16.04 or later as it will be using an up-to-date kernel when it is released.
Reboot. After that changes made to the touchpad settings will work much better. I still haven't managed to get two-finger scrolling to work yet, but disable while typing and tap to click are now disabled correctly. This makes the touchpad much more useful.
If you're just running Windows, the ZenBook is great, most things scale just fine.
If you're planning on running Ubuntu 15.10, Cinnamon will work great at full resolution, but the others fall short of being usable. At 1920×1080, most things will still work, and you'll just need to update your kernel to get a usable system.
This is the problem when running Linux on "bleeding edge" hardware, the drivers take a while to catch up, so it can be a pain to get everything working. I'm not 100% happy with things, but still happier than I was when using my old Vaio. I still recommend purchasing the ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW if you want a beautiful workhorse of a laptop.
I'll add a new guide when 16.04 is released with a guide to Cinnamon and installing the latest Intel graphics drivers.
Hi Marc, I have been trying for a week to install Ubuntu on my new UX501VW. I wonder if you can give me some advice, because I cannot find anyway to get the touchpad to work.
The problem: after 5-20 seconds of login, the mouse cursor disappears and the laptop stops responding to the touchpad. I can still use the touchscreen fine. It is apparent that the laptop recognises the touchpad initially, but there is something else blocking it's input. When I suspend and login again, the touchpad responds again for a few seconds before freezing once more.
Details: I am installing Ubuntu 14.04 dual-boot with Windows 10 (pre-installed). I have done this procedure before without issues. I turned off fast boot in BIOS and turned off fast start-up in Windows. The problem is present at the very beginning, when I "try Ubuntu" from boot. I have also attempted with 15.10 and 16.04 and the problem is identical. I am most interested just now in getting 14.04 working. I have attempted to install with kernels 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.3.5, 4.4.0, 4.5.0, 4.5.2. With all those, the problem has been the same and has not resolved.
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Not sure I can help here on this one. I never tried 14.04 on mine. After the touchpad dies, do you see anything in dmesg output that might give you a clue as to whats failing?
I was running exactly the same setup as you on my old Vaio laptop, and had no issues at all. This the UX501VW does seem very finicky about things, though.
When I installed, I didn't do the "Try Ubuntu" at all. I went straight for the install, and then updated my kernel to 4.3.5. I also only tried 15.10 and 16.04. I should also mention that I could only use the stock Ubuntu release or the XFCE release. The other releases wouldn't even boot for me with the shipped kernels. I have no idea why.
Is there a requirement that you run 14.04? The desktop environments (specifically Gnome and now Cinnamon) in 16.04 support the HiDPI screen much better. When I was running 15.10 I had to force the screen resolution to 1920×1080 to get anything looking even remotely good. If it were me, and I had a requirement for some things to run on 14.04, I would probably install 16.04 and then run a 14.04 in VirtualBox instead.
Other than that, it sounds like you've done everything I did to get mine working. As I've mentioned before, mine is rock solid now. The only thing that I can't get working is the SD card reader, but thats only an inconvenience and not a show-stopper for me.
I'm seeing that something is definitely going wrong with the Elan touchpad driver, see below. It seems like the device is failing to initialise on this driver. Perhaps the explanation of why the mouse works temporarily is a boot driver loads successfully to control the touchpad, then when the Elan driver fails to load, control of the pointer passes to the touchscreen? Does anything below make sense to you?
The touchscreen is an independent device (USBest in my case), so it wouldn't depend at all on the touchpad.
The touchpad is certainly failing on you, but for reasons I cannot determine. My output is different than yours. There was discussion about this particular bug on the kernel bugzilla here https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108581 . It looks like it was fixed in a newer kernel, and then broken, and then fixed again.
I haven't rebooted my laptop in a week, just suspended and resumed. I almost never boot into Windows, so this is all under Linux.
I will say this, though, I have encountered an issue where it may not work after a cold boot. If it fails, I will power off the machine forcibly (i.e. holding down the power button for 4-10 seconds), and then power it on again immediately, and it always works perfectly from that point on. Again, this is with kernel 4.3.5.
Hey Marc. Thanks for the article. I have literally come across the same issues as you. I installed 15.10 and the touchpad did not work. Fortunately when I did a distro upgrade to 16.04 the trackpad worked. However I am having the same shutdown issue as you. Any fix there?
For me, the solution was to install the 4.3.5 kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.5-wily/ . I've had no issues at all with startup/shutdown or suspend/resume.
Fantastic. I actually ended up going with the 4.6 kernel to fix the shutdown issues and to have a semi working trackpad. I also updated my nVidia driver to 370.28. That helped the laptop to not randomly restart. Have you been able to get multitouch to work? From the threads that I have read , it is being recognized as a mouse insteach of a touchpad. No fix found in all of the threads I've covered.
Thank you so much for this article, but this was really helpful. I came across lot of the problems described here.
I thought I would tell you my experience, since it could be more updated and useful for someone. Mine is a Zenbook UX501VW-FI127T.
– Installed Ubuntu 15.10 from USB as you said. Had no problem at all booting and installing. Mousepad wasn't working but Wi-Fi did. I did experienced problems booting from USBs with 14.04 LTS, 14.10, and 16.02 LTS.
– Before (or during) the update of software, I installed the proprietary driver for the Nvidia graphics card (I read somewhere this solved the fan issue).
– Update software from 15.10, and the check again for updates to upgrade to 16.04. Mouse wasn't still working then.
– Upgraded to 16.04, then again to 16.10.
– Now I'm in 16.10 using kernel 4.8.0-37-generic. It doesn't seem like the fan is overworking (at least I don't hear it), mousepad is working (although not all gestures, the only one that seems to be working is scrolling with 2 fingers, need to check this later). Wi-Fi also working super fine.
– Brightness keyboard shortcuts (the blacklit keyboard and volume ones DO work, also the airplane mode one, though its light is a little buggy).
– White noise present when plugging in headphones.
Hi everybody! I have some trouble with boot on Ubuntu Live.
I disabled Secure boot but when I try to run into ubuntu live but it remains into the boot animation (it stopped after some second).
Hello everybody. I've a vio laptop and i didnt have any problem with installing ubuntu and windows on it .but its really old and cant trigger my work. Really i like to buy one of this model of asus but maybe it incommodes me because it cant support ubuntu as well as old medels.do you think there are lot of problms in this choice?would you pls recommend anither models to me?