Sophivorus created T220442: Filter reverted edits.
Sophivorus added a comment to rEWPEb0d1f9ed43de: Respond to second code review by Reedy.
Sophivorus added a comment to T220182: Include the extracted intro of a page using parser function.
This can be accomplished using the Template:Excerpt.
Sophivorus moved T219073: List recent changes to pages marked as part of a WikiProject from Inbox to To Triage on the Growth-Team board.
Sophivorus added a comment to T219073: List recent changes to pages marked as part of a WikiProject.
I'm not sure I understand your question. Adding a talk page to a category does not cause or imply that the content page will be added too.
Sophivorus updated the task description for T219073: List recent changes to pages marked as part of a WikiProject.
Sure, here is a demo!
One possible approach to solving this issue would be to expand Special:RecentChangesLinked with an additional option to show the changes to the associated talk/subject pages, maybe in a way similar to how Special:Watchlist works.
Sophivorus created T219073: List recent changes to pages marked as part of a WikiProject.
Sophivorus committed rENWT8f000f8332f9: Remove unneeded dependency (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT0ba705f82560: Fix extension type (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT433712b65e08: Improve default styling and add WikiEditor to every textarea in the special page (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT7e3bdc8d0292: Minor fixes (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT902bf8af5742: Merge branch 'master' of ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org… (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus created T218216: When the link is to a section, show snippet of the section.
Sophivorus added a comment to T55791: update.php leaves unopenable UIDGenerator lock file.
I got this same issue on my wiki in a VPS. Solution was to reboot the server to empty the tmp directory.
Sophivorus committed rENWT721612bb970c: Fix so that more than one news ticker can be present in the same page (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT98a348a4b9ed: Add magic variable to display the news ticker (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWTeb745aace8eb: Merge branch 'master' of ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org… (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWT2cdfd58d20ae: Change "width" and "height" inputs for more general "class" and "style" (authored by Sophivorus).
Change "width" and "height" inputs for more general "class" and "style"
Sophivorus committed rWGPIa13cc8466aec: Fix bug when the main parameter is not present (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rWGPI7ee0c5af8f20: Minor style improvements (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rWGPI6a5823d90ba7: Fix paramOrder bug when there's no paramOrder set on TemplateData (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus moved T148211: Prompt users to save changes when leaving without saving from Backlog to Feature requests on the ProveIt-Gadget board.
Sophivorus moved T154357: proveit-tag not applied after 'Show preview' or 'Show changes' from Backlog to Bug reports on the ProveIt-Gadget board.
Sophivorus added a comment to T149765: Deploy WikipediaExtracts extension.
@Reedy Thanks! So now that that's done, do you think there's anything else missing before this extension can be deployed in the Beta Cluster?
@Reedy This patch is already V+2 and CR+2 but Jenkins won't merge it. WikipediaExtracts is already in integration/config/zuul/layout.yaml and my email is also in the whitelist. Do you know what are we missing? Thanks!
Sophivorus committed rENWT777478c7f7e8: Add special page aliases (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWTd3385ffcb8e5: Remove old method that was left there by mistake (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWTcf5a2fd3ebfe: Update extensino type (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWTc0bc7712b7b7: Remove config options no longer needed (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rENWTbc82637a8275: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus added a comment to T214061: Button to switch first and last name.
The UI for this could be a button similar to the "Today" button in the date fields, but reading "Switch first and last".
Sophivorus closed T214273: ProveIt gadget (at least on .en) not working properly. as Resolved.
Sophivorus added a comment to T214199: Bot for update localized files on Commons.
That goes without saying! I'll make it as generic as possible so that others can re-use it.
Sophivorus added a comment to T214273: ProveIt gadget (at least on .en) not working properly..
Thanks for the bug report. After some research, it looks like the cause is T213953 which is tagged as "Unbreak now!". Let's give the team a bit more time to fix it.
Sophivorus triaged T214199: Bot for update localized files on Commons as High priority.
Hm, I searched a bit but couldn't find any docs. I think it was in the Jerusalem Hackathon that I heard that we shouldn't be using external code on Wikimedia projects, basically to protect user privacy and data.
Sophivorus closed T214205: Remove the support of the OldToolbar as Resolved.
Sophivorus updated subscribers of T214199: Bot for update localized files on Commons.
Sophivorus updated the task description for T214199: Bot for update localized files on Commons.
If only we could get the code directly from the repo, using Commons wouldn't be necessary and this task/bot wouldn't be necessary either. But it seems like getting the raw file from Gitiles is an old missing feature (see this issue). The closest we can get is this.
Thanks for the quick response, Reedy. I know that doing V+2 myself and submitting is not good practice, but because my previous patch remained unmerged for so long, it became incompatible with the master branch and I had to manually re-do it, which is annoying, and I didn't want that to happen again.
Sophivorus committed rEWPE5b05ce6242de: Respond to third code review by Reedy (authored by Sophivorus).
Hmm, should this extension be deployed on the Beta Cluster before going into production? If so, then I hereby request deployment to the Beta Cluster.
Sophivorus added a comment to T214205: Remove the support of the OldToolbar.
Sophivorus accepted rWGPI433ca9d25edd: Remove the support of the OldToolbar.
Sophivorus committed rEWPEb6a406888cc8: Respond to second code review by Reedy (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus triaged T214061: Button to switch first and last name as Normal priority.
Sophivorus created T214061: Button to switch first and last name.
Samwilson awarded T192752: Convert Extension:Page_Forms to use OOUI a Like token.
Sophivorus renamed T212638: Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:RecentChangesLinked from Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:WhatLinksHere to Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:RecentChangesLinked.
Sophivorus updated the task description for T212638: Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:RecentChangesLinked.
Sophivorus added a comment to T212638: Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:RecentChangesLinked.
My guess on the cause of this issue is that pages on category trees don't get added to the pagelinks table, which is probably what Special:WhatLinksHere checks for.
Sophivorus created T212638: Changes to pages in category trees don't show up on Special:RecentChangesLinked.
Sophivorus awarded T208631: Copy/Paste of images in Visual editor does not work browser page to browser page as expected a Like token.
Sophivorus committed rEANP55ee178a8492: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rEANP3fc46219fef6: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rEANP33ab15fee21e: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rEANP86e70cca48c3: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rEANP385fe5d650ee: Initial commit (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus added a comment to T123636: Discuss edit hashtag support with major bot/tool/gadget creators.
@Samwalton9 No, ProveIt no longer has a hashtag in the edit summary. The "proveit" tag is added to the hidden input field by the gadget.
Sophivorus lowered the priority of T148928: Wikidata integration for proveit gadget from High to Normal.
Restricted Application added a project to T134347: Allow transcluding a talk page inside a wiki page (current error: "Discussions cannot be embedded yet."): Growth-Team.
Sophivorus awarded T134347: Allow transcluding a talk page inside a wiki page (current error: "Discussions cannot be embedded yet.") a Like token.
Sophivorus created T201645: Dropdowns appear in reverse order.
Sophivorus committed rMSPO0415c0e29bd9: Minor style changes (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO963bb05d2c2a: Minor fixes and style improvements (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO724aa63a55e6: Minor style changes and fixes (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPOca398c95d7d5: Improve the logo (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPOade94c7479b2: Minor improvements (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO727f20eeb64e: Improve the actions menu (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPObfd32612dd9a: Minor fixes and improvements (authored by Sophivorus).
Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@wikimedia.org> committed rMSPO527d80627a5c: Merge "Upgrade to 1.3" (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO8130b389a5af: Upgrade to 1.3 (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO91b305839235: Syntax fix (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus committed rMSPO94933a795958: Upgrade to 1.2 (authored by Sophivorus).
Sophivorus closed T195802: Source editing icons offset with MSUpload in REL1_31 as Resolved.
Tested the patch and the issue seems fixed. Thanks @Samwilson !
Sophivorus merged T197821: Better UI for linking to sections in the same page into T52881: VisualEditor: Link input widget should suggest section links.
Sophivorus merged task T197821: Better UI for linking to sections in the same page into T52881: VisualEditor: Link input widget should suggest section links.
Sophivorus renamed T197821: Better UI for linking to sections in the same page from akaaaaaaaa to Better UI for linking to sections in the same page.
Sophivorus created T198335: Enable Extension:SandboxLink in the Spanish Wikiversity.
Sophivorus added a comment to T52881: VisualEditor: Link input widget should suggest section links.
When adding links to sections in the current page, the UI may be a third tab in the Link popup (after the "Search pages" and "External link" tabs) called "Section link" (or similar). In this tab, the existing section titles would be listed (possibly in a hierarchical TOC fashion) and clicking on a section would add a link to that section.
Sophivorus created T197821: Better UI for linking to sections in the same page.
Sophivorus added a comment to T149424: Security review the Extension:WikipediaExtracts.
Please. We could really use this feature at Wikiversity.
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The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has issued a Stage 1 burn ban for King, Snohomish and Pierce counties, effective at 5 p.m. Dec. 25.
The ban is due to increasingly stagnant air, according to the agency.
During a Stage 1 burn ban, burning is not allowed in fireplaces or uncertified wood stoves. The only exception is if a wood stove is a home's only adequate source of heat.
No outdoor fires are allowed, including recreational fires such as bonfires, campfires as well as the use of fire pits and chimineas.
Violations are subject to a $1,000 penalty.
Natural gas, propane, pellet and EPA-certified wood stoves or inserts can be used during a Stage 1 burn ban.


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Colors' Changing Hues
HomeGraphic DesignColors' Changing Hues
Cosimo Bizzarri is the executive editor of COLORS, a quarterly magazine published in six bilingual editions (English + Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Chinese) and distributed in more than 20 countries. Created by Oliviero Toscani and Tibor Kalman in 1991, COLORS is made today in Treviso, Italy, by an in-house team of a dozen people from different countries, including researchers, designers, illustrators, photographers and writers. The printed magazine is still at the core, but video, digital, installations and traveling exhibitions add to the content offerings. I asked Bizzarri to tell me about the latest focus of the magazine, COLORS' Survival Guides, which ambitiously tackle themes like transportation, sanitation, happiness, climate change, global markets, apocalypse, migration and protest. These Survival Guides are a series of COLORS issues that, since Spring 2011, mix photography, illustration, design and survival tips "for the big issues of our time."
How does today's COLORS differ from earlier incarnations?
Back in the '90s, when the first issue of COLORS was published, the world had just come out of the cold war and was making its first, enthusiastic steps into globalization. Speaking about the rest of the world meant celebrating diversity in a way that differed from what mainstream publications were doing: showing Queen Elisabeth with dark skin, a nun in her underpants, a full-page picture of a penis accompanying an article about AIDS. Twenty years on, we are plugged into our devices 24/7, Photoshop has become boring as hell, ISIS is using branding manuals to recruit its cutthroats and no one really talks about globalization anymore—and yet its side effects make the headlines every day. We figured that COLORS could no longer just celebrate "the rest of the world," but rather make an effort to understand it. We created a new series of issues, the Survival Guides, where traditional stories told in pictures and text are followed by DIY diagrams that explain to readers how to deal with complex issues like peak oil, the financial crisis, climate change, the end of journalism, the global spread of depression, from different points of view.
Your covers have a distinctive data viz quality. What is the rationale?
Patrick Waterhouse [editor-in-chief] is an illustrator, so he made a strategic choice to use drawings instead of pictures on the covers. When it came to sketching one for COLORS 81 – Transport, he came up with this proposal in which icons of several means of transportation were moving on a red background. It worked and it gave a distinctive language to the issue, compared to the previous ones. We kept this style also for the following covers, although each of them was conceived and produced in a different way, considering the topic of the issue. The visual consistency contributes to the feeling of a body of work, a family of issues. Plus, they look good on a bookshelf.
I heard that the magazine once printed one million copies. Is this true?
The legend goes that the first issue of COLORS was distributed in one million copies. The last issue was distributed in around 20,000 copies, with a separate print run in Asia through our partner Idn Magazine, but the number varies according to the topic of each issue and to the number of languages in which it gets translated (currently we have six bilingual editions: English + Italian, Spanish, French, Korean and Chinese). It's a transition that began a few years ago. It's necessary because it's neither environmentally nor financially sustainable to print tens of thousands of copies that then may remain unsold and get destroyed. In the past years, we have tried to fine tune our distribution by choosing only a few art and design bookstores, encouraging our readers to buy online and increasing our digital editorial activity.
Does Luciano Benetton still fund and support the magazine?
COLORS is published by Fabrica, Benetton Group's research center on arts and communication. So yes, the funding and support still come from there.
At one time COLORS was filled with Benetton ads, but now its wonderfully ad-free. What is the rationale for the magazine in the corporate sense?
In the history of the magazine there have been different policies toward advertising, and it's true that we've had the luxury to enjoy an ad-free era. Overall, though, COLORS has always been a research project rather than a corporate one and I believe most of the editors enjoyed complete freedom in creating their content. It's an act of patronage rather than a branding tool. I guess this is the reason why it's still somehow an anomaly, hopefully a beautiful one, in the world of magazines.
Which are your favorite issues?
COLORS 7: Aids [edited by Tibor Kalman] is still used in schools today. 47: Madness, shot entirely in mental institutions around the world, is funny, beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. Among the ones I worked on, 85: Going to Market, was the most challenging: We tried to create links between the stories, so that the issue would not just be a list of independent articles, but one big story connecting the traders at the Chicago Mercantile Stock Exchange with the people protesting austerity in the street of Athens, the fishermen selling tuna in the markets of Tokyo with the traders bartering goods on the border between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir. A more or less unconscious attempt to translate our daily navigation on the web on paper.
What are your most challenging stories?
I guess the most challenging aspect of our work has been bringing together journalism and design in a piece of work that has to be perceived as a whole. Often design publications feature shallow or inaccurate content, while a lot of journalistic content gets sunk by poor design. We try to bring together designers and journalists and have them collaborate from the onset of an idea to its final realization.
Does COLORS still provoke as much controversy as it did in the Tibor Kalman days?
Let's put it this way. When you see a teenager who lives off odd jobs, parties every night and has several sex partners at once, you think he's cool. When you see a 40-year-old man who does the same, you are likely to feel sorry for him. I think it's the same with magazines. In another era, COLORS sought controversy at every opportunity. Today, many other publications try to do that, so COLORS has had to change. The magazine may not be as sensationalistic as it used to be but hopefully has become subtler in the way it presents contents, unveils topics and challenges its readers to think and discuss.
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What Is Customer-Centric Web Design?
Bare Bottle: Wine Label Design for the Creative Palate
The Graphic Design Visionary Who Changed the Face of British Stamps
Steven Heller: When Book Jackets Meant Freedom

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Terri and I are so happy to have Amanda Archibald as our 'Guest Housewife'! Amanda is a nutritionist who founded Field to Plate, "a visionary food education company, pioneering a paradigm shift in how we think, talk and teach Americans about food and food choice." Amanda's expertise is in functional nutrition and culinary medicine (Food as medicine). Field to Plate offers cooking lessons, workshops, retreats, dinners (in Jefferson, Maryland at Fox Haven Farms & Learning Center), nutrition & culinary guidance, and continuing education. Check out their website for details.
Food is information and food is medicine. It tells us how to act and sometimes how to react. But food is often accompanied by a lot of noise, too much advice and a host of conflicting information. So with all that in mind, here are ten straight talking ways you can choose food that doubles as your best medicine.
(2.) You are what you eat, but really you are what you absorb. So in other words, if you eat foods that you can't tolerate or you eat foods that give you headaches, make you feel bloated, give you strange aches and pains, you aren't absorbing them and you are probably doing some damage too. So stay away from them and use those naturally fermented foods to restore the natural bacteria of your gut!
(3.) Think In Shades of Purple and Red: so you are in the produce department and want to know whether to choose green pears or red pairs, green apples or red apples. From a culinary perspective, you choose based on flavor and how you want to use the fruit. From a nutrition perspective, choose red. The deeper the blush, the greater your food-medicine in general. The red translates to anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants. Think of antioxidants as anti-corrosives for your body.
(4.) Think Deep Green over Light Green for Leafy Vegetables: The deeper the green, the bigger the health benefits. Deeper green often comes with more robust flavor, which means more antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. If you are timid around greens, start with Napa cabbage, then move to spinach, onto bok choy and then to chard.
(5.) Think Loose versus Tight: when choosing your lettuce, look for the floppy loose lettuces such as Boston Bibb or Oak Leaf Lettuce. The more the leaves are exposed to UV light, the harder the plant has to work to produce phytonutrients to protect it from the damaging UV light. The higher the phytonutrient quotient, the more nutritionally beneficial the plant for you. So go floppy not tight!
(6.) Think Whole Not Parts: the best medicine you can take as food is the least processed kind. Look for foods that are as close to their original state as possible. This means whole beans not refried beans. Whole oats not flaked oats. Edamame not soy milk. The closer the food is in its natural state, the more slowly it is absorbed and the more friendly it is to your blood sugars. The more stable your blood sugars, the longer your life and the better your health.
(7.) Think Bitter not Sweet The more bitter the food the better the benefits per bite. We are not used to eating more naturally bitter or sour/tangy foods in the USA. We err toward sweet. Around the world bitter has been a part of medicine and digestive stimulants for centuries. In the USA we love to kill dandelions, but cultures prize them. According to o Robinson in her book "A Walk on the Wild Side," dandelions may have 5 times more antioxidants, 2 times more calcium, 3 times more vitamin A and 5 times more vitamin K and E than spinach." So next time you make a salad, think beyond the iceberg and substitute in frisee lettuce or even some fresh picked dandelion greens (Not from a pesticide treated lawn please). Hint: when you cook more bitter-tasting greens, they lose their bitterness!
(8.) A little More Spicy, A little Less Mild: many of our spicy vegetables belong to the same family: the cruciferous family. This family confers robust health benefits, one of which are glucosinolates which confer strong anti-cancer properties. Spicy vegetables are great for people who like hot and spicy food. So seek out all those radishes, mustard greens, arugula, watercress, turnip greens, kale and YES wasabi!
(9.) Mix Up Raw & Cooked: with some veggies you get many more benefits raw, but others are more beneficial when cooked. Gently cooked tomatoes and carrots actually have a higher overall quotient of health benefits than their raw counterpoint. (Remember red-purple carrots are better than the orange). Rather than worry which is which, eat a mixture or raw and cooked vegetables. Oh AND since many of those deep orange and red veggies contain the fat soluble beta-carotene source of vitamin A, you need a little fat (butter/olive oil) to help the digestion and absorption along. And on that note….
(10.) Fat is your Friend not Your Enemy: Fat is a lubricant. It is also critical part of your cells, your hormones, brain fabric and brain chemistry. YOU need it. But you have to be choosy. Look for extra virgin olive oil that is cold pressed. Other good fats are local butters (Yes I said butter), coconut oil and luscious avocados. Now go to your pantry, open your olive oil and if it smells like paint thinner, throw it out. Don't go cheap on oils. They are premium fuel for your body. Buy the best and stick with the best.
VERY INTERESTING–LEARNED SOMETHING!! HAVE YOU BEEN TO HER FARM?
No, but we're planning on it.


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Q: extending existing database - interfaces I am working on extending the existing project which has been in production for couple of years and I need to extend a few existing entities, lets call them a,b,c,d.
When I now think about the designing of a database all the a,b,c,d should have some sort of inheritance, but changing the schema too much is impossible at this point.
Now all the a,b,c,d have their own primary keys but they all have to implement certain interfaces like - "bookmarkable", "taggable", "viewable" etc.
Would it make sense to keep creating tables like
a_saved, b_saved, c_saved, d_saved or a_tags, b_tags, c_tags etc to model the relation? But then again.. I would have to create THE SAME code to handle each of the scenarios where the only difference it's the table name!
I think better solution would be to create an new table - lets call it "object" and try to model some inheritance - for each entity create an entry in the "object" table and store that id in it's table and then create one relational table to map object_tag relation.
Does this sound like feasible solution or possibly error-prone and will bite me in the feature?

A: A similar solution to your second idea would be to create a single table that maps an extension by a combined (entity type, entity ID) key. See here for a sample schema and query: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/3c0235/1/0

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"Racism=Prejudice + Power". That is the opposite of precision of language.
Racism=hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. That is precision of language.
You cannot cry foul when others try to change the definition of words to support their argument and then immediately put up a false definition of a word that supports your argument.
I did read it. It seemed to me that your main point was to redefine the word "Racism". No matter how precise you are you cannot create a new definition of a word and call it Precision of language. Now when you use the word racism(Prejudice + Power) and someone else uses the word racism(hatred or intolerance of another race) you are talking about different things. Literally speaking a different language. That does not foster "A World of Change", but a world of conflict through misunderstanding.
I hope you understand my point. Sorry if I am not being Precise. I am better with the spoken word than the written word.
No, my main point was to say that the current, common definitions of "isms" like "racism" are vague and were created by those who hold power to ensure that power is left out of any discussion of "isms." It is not I who am redefining these words. I have heard countless women-identified people discuss the need for more precision of language when talking about "sexism" because current definitions serve to reinforce the current power structures. I have heard countless people of Color discuss the need for more precision of language when talking about "racism" because current definitions remove all acknowledgement of power and water down the conversation.
The point here is that the commonly-accepted definitions of these "isms" (or at least commonly accepted by people in power and with privilege) are imprecise and vague and are not defined that way by accident. To define them in vague ways ensures that we leave power and privilege out of the conversation and never talk about systems.
Again, whether it causes confusion for people or privilege or not, it is still far more precise to bring discussion of power into the discourse.
the question remains, what is the definition of "has social power"?
Let us say I discover an unknown island and on this island I find a society of humans. How would I find out whether the set of all men from this society has social power in said society or not?
What would be minimal requirements for me to be able to say confidently: "The set of all men has social power on this island."?
What would be minimal requirements for me to be able to say confidently: "The set of all men doesn't have social power on this island."?
Right, then the entire definition becomes subjective.
Unless you are talking about "Institutionalized racism". But even that is too vague. An institution can be a gang or a coalition of governments.
Precision of Language would have to be something like, American Institutionalized racism towards minorities in the early 21st century.
You cannot cram all of that under the term racism. I am Hispanic and have dealt with racism from Asians in the San Francisco Bay Area. What do you call that?
In your effort to be concise you are redefining a word.
There's a word for that: bigotry.
Bigotry based on race is racism.


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const payment = {
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/**
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Rural Nevada Hospital Exec Guilty Of Opioid Charges
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. (AP) — A senior doctor at a rural hospital in northern Nevada has pleaded guilty to writing illegal prescriptions for narcotics including opioids without a medical purpose.
Utah House Passed Bill To Study Opioid Overdoses
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House has passed a proposal to create a committee to review drug overdose deaths.
Nevada AG Gets Approval To Hire Firm To Sue Opioid Makers
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada attorney general's office has received clearance to hire a law firm to sue opioid manufacturers.
Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses
When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
Florida Sues Walgreens, CVS For Alleged Role In Opioid Crisis
State Attorney General Pam Bondi's office announced Friday that it had added the drugstore chains to a lawsuit filed in May against opioid distributors and manufacturers.
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Is it important to preserve Japanese Canadian cultural centers and institutions for future generations?
Critically. The Japanese Canadian and Japanese American community story is one of strength, determination and perseverance. It doesn't matter how much "Japanese blood" future generations have, it is vitally important that the original settlers; those that came to North America and, through great personal sacrifice, broke down racial and cultural barriers, are remembered.
In Toronto, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre was founded with "friendship through culture" as its deceptively simple mandate by a group of Issei who put their personal finances on the line and mortgaged their own homes to build the centre. The original concept was that by bringing the world into "our" Japanese Canadian home, we could show them that "we" were not the fiendish foreigners that we had been portrayed to be, and that we were as Canadian as anyone else, with different traditions to introduce to the wider community. What a brilliant concept; offering first hand knowledge and experience as the antidote to fear of "the other." That mandate remains as effective as ever, and I find it a shame, frankly that cultural centres of all stripes don't have the same open-door policy.
In any case, in addition to continuing to exist to preserve and celebrate Japanese-North American history, as long as the Japanese language serves as a barrier and modern Japanese culture remains "foreign" and to to a large degree, impenetrable, to the average North American, cultural centres and institutions will continue to play a vital role inviting North Americans a comfortable introduction, and the chance to become immersed in that culture, from the comfort of their own communities.
Any rough patches during the filming and editing?
Instinctively, I would prefer to embrace my own form of 'shikata ga nai' and not answer this question. However…I once ran the risk of getting kicked out of law school for skipping class for a week when a window opened that allowed me to shoot the west coast portion of the film. That could have been an interesting headline—"Student Kicked Out of Law School for Returning Grandmother to the Locations of Her WW2 Internment." Thankfully my professors of the day were very understanding and fully supported my unorthodox actions. I was thrilled to host no less than three of them at the recent gala for the film.
The rest of the rough patches have all been financial but I do think they're worth discussing as they illustrate the Quixotic mental state that may be necessary to survive such a quest. In the course of simultaneously funding the film and years of grad school, I've been absolutely underwater for the past decade. Even with the generous support I received from my family to assist with daily life and from individuals within the community to finish the film, it will be a long time before the expenses incurred as a result of the production are paid off. I am of course absolutely grateful for all of the support that I've received. But with regard to the debt that I'm carrying, as noted elsewhere, that's not at all what this experience has been about. I'd prefer to not have to deal with the heavy financial pressure, but those are the breaks. In the long run the "short term" sacrifices will have been worth it. Finishing the film and presenting it to the world has been a huge psychological relief. It took a lot of faith to keep it moving.
The Atom Egoyan comment is impressive. How do you know him?
I met Atom Egoyan in the course of my work at Alliance Films. He knows me as a lawyer, so I think he was a little surprised when I mentioned one day that I had made the film. I was really reluctant to say anything about it as I'm sure he's inundated with people asking him to review things for them. However, Egoyan's 2002 film Ararat was centred around the Armenian genocide in the early part of the 20th Century, a major historical event with which Egoyan had become fascinated with in the course of discovering his own ancestry, so I had the sense that he might be a kindred spirit. He absolutely is. He graciously accepted a copy of the rough cut, and responded shortly thereafter with the most detailed constructive critique I've ever received in my life. I was truly overwhelmed with his graciousness, and his support gave me the momentum I needed to get the project across the finish line.
How satisfied are you with the telling of your grandmother's story?
Almost completely. Even after working on it for so many years I occasionally recall elements that I wished that I had included, but it really is as good as it can be—I have no reservations saying that.
My grandmother was initially very reluctant to share her story—which is actually part of the story itself, but as she saw the film beginning to evolve, she became more comfortable with the idea. She has been very flattered at the level of interest that her story has received.
Our family has been completely supportive of the project from day one, which has been a big help. We've all conspired over the years to make sure my grandmother is as comfortable as possible discussing what used to be a painful chapter in her past. That discussion turned out to be a very cathartic experience for all of us.
It's finished. I learned a heck of a lot in the process. I'm thrilled with the results. No room for second guessing!
Any thoughts about the legacy of the Nisei and the importance of it for future generations?
To me, the Nisei are an enlightened people. They've seen such collective adversity that they are able to live with a level of self understanding and restraint that is foreign to most of my generation. Even the most established Nisei that I have met over the years have a very special appreciation for simple pleasures and minimalism, and there are many Nisei that are among the most resourceful people I've ever met. Because of the massive trauma that they experienced—regardless of their age through the process, they take little for granted and, even now, they seem to individually strive to better themselves and the communities around them. My generation has a lot to learn from them.
I'm currently working on subtitling the film in Japanese. I'll be presenting that version at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival on June 11th. A Canadian broadcast and distribution deal may be in the works, and I would love to be able to have the film distributed in Japan, and, even modestly, in the U.S. I recently had the privilege of having a long conversation with actor George Takei when he was in Toronto to receive the Sakura Award from the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (in recognition of his humanitarian and community work) about his family's experience during the U.S. internment. The difference in the experience on either side of the border is quite remarkable. I think the contrast in the experiences would be of interest to a U.S. audience; particularly in areas along the west coast like Seattle, where the population may be aware of the difference in the treatment, but may not be aware of the details. As I explore in my film, and as has been covered at length of course by this publication, contrary to popular perception, the Canadian government revealed itself to be much less benevolent than the U.S. when it came to the removal the "Japanese" population from the coast. Ideally, I would love to introduce the film to PBS for U.S. broadcast—any help toward that goal would be much appreciated!
I'm also assisting director Denny Tedesco to bring his "family story" to the screen. Denny has spent the last fourteen years working on a documentary about The Wrecking Crew—an elite group of L.A. session musicians that, with little to no credit, played on more #1 records throughout the '60s and '70s than any group in history. From Nat Cole and Frank Sinatra to The Beach Boys and The Captain and Tenille, everyone has heard them, but no one has known who they were—until now. Denny's father, Tommy Tedesco, was among the most recorded guitar players in the group. I welcome all to check out the trailer for the film at www.wreckingcrewfilm.com. During this, the 50th Anniversary year of the Beach Boys, we're looking for a U.S. distributor for that film.
Any personal reflections on the 70th anniversary of internment?
This anniversary year is an important one. The 70th anniversary of the internment is the last significant anniversary that many who were adults when the internment began, will live to see. The youngest of them are, like my grandmother, in their 90s. I am absolutely thrilled that I was able to finish my film to present it first to a group of conference delegates at the Keisho Conference—the 70th Anniversary Commemorative Conference at the JCCC in April. That was the best tribute that I could offer them, and wow—what an amazingly gracious and appreciative group. Having their support for the film meant a lot to me, and hearing repeatedly that so many in attendance were riveted to "see" their own family history come to life in the film sent a bit of a chill up my spine.
For many years I felt like I was alone with a singular vision for the film, but after hearing that response I realized that the project is the fulfillment of a duty to help to pass the legacy of our ancestors forward. I'm thrilled that there are so many now willing to receive it.


Obama's team has worked closely with Google to enlist three YouTube stars, Destin, the engineer presenter of SmarterEveryDay, lifestyle vlogger Ingrid Nilsen and comedian sWoozie to interview him on Friday January 15 following his final State of the Union address tomorrow.
Each brings more than 3.5 million subscribers with them to the party and while Nilsen has promised to ask about women, LGBT rights, healthcare and unemployment, sWoozie has suggested this is his chance to find out who is Obama's favorite Kardashian.
Here he is catching up with the others ahead of the big day.
Anticipating that some people online may not exactly play ball, Destin has asked his viewers to leave only "intelligent, respectful comments" on the video announcing that he's taking part.
Last year almost 500,000 people tuned in live on YouTube to see the POTUS interviewed by another suitably varied 21st century team, in the shape of YouTubers Bethany Mota, GloZell Green and Hank Green.
Given it's the last one before Obama leaves office, this one could draw an even larger crowd.
You can hashtag #YouTubeAsksObama to join the chat on Twitter and there's dedicated Reddit thread being pushed live soon.
The official State of the Union address will be streamed live on the White House YouTube channel tomorrow at 9pm EST. You can also catch the preparations on the White House's new official Snapchat channel.
The YouTubers will then take on the President in the same place on YouTube on Friday at 2.15pm.


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This denture – which is perceived as uncomfortable and complicated – is made of both plastic and metal, which affects its look. It's expensive to fabricate due to its many parts. However, the installation process is simple and the natural teeth are spared.


Minisink Valley High School seniors Justin Mitts and Matthew Knapp will participate in the Greater New York Automotive Dealers Association's (GNYADA) State Competition on Feb. 12, as a result of their win at GNYADA's regional contest in early January.
Justin and Matt, who are also students at Orange-Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Education (CTE) Academy, took the top awards at the regional competition held at The Center for Automotive Education and Training in Whitestone, New York.
Justin and his partner Kenneth Kohn of Goshen High School won first place in the two-person team event. Matt was named first place alternate and will be onsite and on standby if he needs to cover for either or them or the second place team.
The hands-on automotive competition for high school seniors included competitors from the lower Hudson Valley and New York City. Each school was allowed to send two teams of two students and one alternate.
Students demonstrated their skills as auto technicians by fixing issues on a wide range of car makes and models across 10 different work stations. The nationally recognized competition was created by GNYADA to draw attention to well-paying automotive technician job opportunities and reinforce to interested students that there are rewarding careers in the auto industry.
Justin said the 10 stations were focused on testing competitors' proficiency in a variety of automotive technology areas, including electronic circuitry, air conditioning, tool identification, measurements and more.
The idea, he added, was to test competitors' ability to address any mechanical, electrical or related issue that could come up in a vehicle.
To prepare for the state competition, Justin and his partner are practicing on a 2019 Chevrolet Malibu, sponsored by Healey Chevrolet of Middletown.
"We're working on cars that have less than a 1,000 miles on them," said Justin, who is currently planning to attend the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport to study diesel technology.
As the alternate, Matt is splitting his time and practicing with Justin's team and the team working on a 2019 Toyota Camry, sponsored by Johnstons Toyota in New Hampton.
Matt is focused on getting a job with an auto dealership after graduation. His first choice is a position with BMW.
CTE Director Orande Daring said the students and their instructors put in countless hours to prepare for the competition.
Orange-Ulster BOCES' CTE programs give students the opportunity to graduate from high school with technical experience, professional skills, national industry certifications, and college credit in a wide variety of high-demand occupations. Programs are held on two campuses in Goshen.
The talented students also won scholarships to auto technology schools. The state winner would become the Greater New York representative at the National Auto Technology Competition. The finals, where over $3 million in prizes and scholarships is at stake, will be judged before a live audience at the 2019 New York International Auto Show in April.


Happy Post-Turkey Day festivities! We hope you're reading this as you sit stuffed to the gills, a little buzzed, and surrounded by family and friends. We also hope that this installment of Our Blog gets to you in time! With the Black Friday shopping cycle getting longer each year, it is quite possible that our words of wisdom might reach you too late!
So let's get into it. Black Friday is kind of a special day around 7Spears. It usually falls on the birthday of our Director of Operations, Jenny. If you know anything about Jenny, you know that it takes a feat of amazing grit, courage, and stamina for her to pass up a good sale. That usually means that we are out-and-about at o-dark-thirty the morning after Thanksgiving.
Skip it. If at all possible, stay at home that day. Enjoy a leftover, tryptophan-induced coma. Play a pick-up game of touch football with the neighborhood kids. Go to the range. Do ANYTHING but be around the madness that is ensuing at your local mercantile establishments. Later that evening, you can sit confidently in your Lazy-Boy watching some tragedy unfold on the nightly news at some major box store, knowing that Darwinism has reared its ugly head yet again and the worst of humanity has jumped head first into the holiday season. Then, on Monday, wake up, grab your coffee, shuffle over to your computer in your robe and slippers, and find a Cyber Monday deal that puts the Black Friday deals to shame. Seriously folks, avoid the risk if at all possible.
#1: More people visit Walmart on the Friday after Thanksgiving than visit Disneyland all year.
#2: More people die every year in Black Friday shopping tragedies than in shark attacks.
Put your phone away and pay attention. Situational awareness is key here people, especially if you are knowingly entering a powder keg environment waiting for a fuse. Give yourself (through your senses and attention) the fighting chance to recognize a threatening situation and avoid it before you inadvertently get caught up in it. We talked about intuition a little bit in our second installment of Holiday Travel Safety and Security, but it's worth repeating here; Trust Your Instincts! If something doesn't feel right, if you see something that doesn't look right, if you have a weird feeling, just leave. Immediately. The bargain isn't worth the danger your body is screaming at you to avoid. Feel silly later, but be alive to feel it.
Patience, patience, patience. Unfortunately, not everyone reads 7Spears' Blog Posts (we're working on that!). Most of the people you run into will be distracted in their phones, sleep deprived, and sale crazed. As hard as it is to understand, their very life in that moment relies on them getting the latest Tickle Me Elmo at a $5 discount. They may or may not notice you. They may or may not care. They may or may not have had their coffee yet and could be the Devil incarnate. You and your plans are nowhere near as important as them and theirs. This is true on the road, in the parking lot, and in the store. So BREATHE, and practice your "Wooo-Saaaa." Yes, coffee helps too.
Have a plan. You are a true glutton for punishment if you go out on Black Friday just to "meander around and see what sales are available." You are obviously out there for a reason. Stick to that reason, get in, and get out. Pre-plan your routes, plan your stores, and have a specific shopping list.
Be familiar with the stores you will be visiting. If you have never been there before, visit them before Black Friday, and before the mobs. Identify emergency exits and "pockets" of the store that can be used to get out of the mob: restrooms, mall alcoves, an unused section of the store (the garden area in big box stores is usually pretty vacant during Black Friday), etc.
• Leave kids at home with family or a sitter. You'll have enough to worry about keeping an eye on yourself and everyone else. You don't need the added responsibility of little ones. In an unruly mob situation, kids are especially vulnerable. Not to mention the abduction risks. Hey, you're probably out there shopping for them anyway, right? Let them sleep in while you voluntarily risk your life.
Carry only the necessary cash (very little) and only 1 or 2 credit cards. Incidents of theft and robbery are 28% higher on Black Friday than any other day of the year. Limit your exposure to loss. Leave the purse/wallet at home and carry only what cash, ID and credit/debit cards you need in a waist pouch (you can bedazzle your fanny pack in a festive Christmas motif to make it seem less awkward!).
Park under lights and close to entrances. If you wait until daylight to go Black Friday shopping, you are likely late to the party and picking up scraps (literally!). So it is probable that you will be out in the dark hours of the early morning. We have already talked about the steep increase in incidents of theft and robbery, this especially applies to you around your car and the items you have in your car. The bad guys know that everyone is out-and-about loading up their vehicles with high-end electronics, jewelry, clothing, etc. They sweep in like Dr. Seuss' Grinch to take advantage. Parking close to entrances and in a well-lit area makes you a harder (not impervious) target. Park smart, keep your wits and senses about you, lock your doors, have your keys out when you return. As you get back to load your car up, take a moment before you open up your vehicle. Look at who/what is parked around you. Look behind you. Make eye contact with anyone loitering in the area. Again, trust your gut and if it doesn't feel right, go back into the store.
Lose your ego. NO bargain is worth a confrontation. People will be aggressive. People will be rude. People will be entitled. People will be impatient. Know this before you leave the house. When you encounter this (and you WILL), go to your happy place, smile, and practice your best, "I wish you a Merry Christmas." When all else fails, turn and walk away. Let it go and know that Santa is delivering an extra helping of coal to their house.
Ready? Now you are. Keep your wits about you, trust your instincts, stay situationally aware, and practice the Holiday Spirit. Have a plan and stick to it. You'll be fine.
We were going to include a holiday shopping list for your favorite security professional in this post, but we decided to delay that…we don't want to be responsible for you going out on Black Friday to get our gift! Enjoy the day, stay safe!


I've just put Adblock Plus 1.3.5 on the roadmap. I mentioned this release a bunch of times but wasn't sure whether we are actually going to release it or whether we will go to Adblock Plus 1.4 immediately. Now we have some nice improvements in the development builds (DNT header support, faster filter matching and startup, less memory used for element hiding) and releasing these improvements before Adblock Plus 1.4 definitely seems worth it. This is what Adblock Plus 1.3.5 will be about, a bunch of improvements under the hood that will hopefully make live better for some people. Adblock Plus 1.4 on the other hand is planned as a major user interface redesign.
One thing is important enough to be repeated: faster filter matching algorithm will come in Adblock Plus 1.3.5, not Adblock Plus 1.4 as originally announced. The point of delaying this change was to give subscription authors time to update their filters. It seems that by now all major subscriptions are done, their filters are fast with both the old and the new algorithm. This means that this feature can be released earlier.
This is great to hear. Thanks Wladimir !
You plan to add support for jetpack?
I suggest you reformulate the question because the way it is now it makes no sense. Jetpack is a tool for building extensions, the end result is a regular Firefox extension – we have that already and don't need Jetpack. If you ask whether I plan to use Jetpack to build Adblock Plus – no, I don't. It will give us no advantages whatsoever (plenty of disadvantages however). If you ask whether Adblock Plus will support installation/update without restart – this feature is available to non-Jetpack extensions as well but has lots of drawbacks (https://adblockplus.org/blog/how-many-hacks-does-it-take-to-make-your-extension-install-without-a-restart).
The caching feature will hopefully compensate a bit for the continuously growing filter lists and their effect on Firefox's startup time.
Chromeless is an experiment, I doubt that a stable release is even planned for it. Why should I go out of my way to support a prototype?
If you try read between lines – you'll see that Chromeless is the one that MoFo planning to replace FF in the future ;) .
Do you think why MoFo replaced cute xul extension manager with the ugly html one in FF4b ;) ?!
I can read between lines – and Chromeless is really an experiment by Mozilla Labs. It has the potential to replace Prism/WebRunner and bring web applications to the desktop. The chances that it will ever replace Firefox are extremely slim, already because the effort of turning it into serious competition for Firefox would be enormous. If anything, it will help deciding on the future direction of Firefox development – but it would still be Firefox going there, not Chromeless.
As to the extension manager, there are lots of reasons for the new user interface (look around in Jennifer Boriss' blog). In this particular case HTML allows easier integration of addons.mozilla.org into that user interface ("Get Add-ons" is a regular webpage). And there is a general tendency at Mozilla to move away from XUL towards HTML. There are pragmatic reasons that don't let this tendency get too far – developing a user interface with native look and feel in HTML is near impossible.
Adblock Plus absolutely WILL NOT block that ad.
When I right click on it, Adblock doesn't come up, but instead a popup wants to happen. Otherwords, it CAN'T be blocked. I tried putting just the website in the filter, but it's not working. I can't grab the entire link, because it's a RIGHT CLICK FAIL actually. I looked in the HTML view page source and STILL couldn't find it to block exact thing.
Maybe that's why it's called Smarter.com. Right now it's smarter than Adblock Plus cause we can't right click to get Adblock Plus to come up in the first place.
I sincerely recommend changing dom.event.contextmenu.enabled preference to "false", this will prevent websites from hijacking the context menu.
Other than that, the context menu isn't the only way to block something in Adblock Plus. You can use the list of blockable items (see https://adblockplus.org/en/faq_basics#objects, second "Show me how this is done" link). Feel free to create a thread in the forum if you need more help.
Okay, that's WAY over my head. I don't know what a dom.event.contextmenu.enabled preference is. Where is that?
I'm computer literate to a degree, but I'm not THAT savvy. So I'm totally lost. Sorry about that.
I guess you'll have to encounter the ad yourself in order to know what I mean. That ad is all over the cheezburger.com websites.
As I said, check the second "Show me how this is done" in that FAQ entry – it deals with the cases where blocking something through the usual user interface isn't possible for some reason. You then have to press Ctrl+Shift+V to open the list of blockable items, find the item in question there and double-click it to block.


By Charles H. Fairbanks, Junior Archeologist, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia.
IN THE popular imagination the archeologist is a mysterious fellow who delves in the ground and periodically emerges with exciting news of some striking discovery—a rare object, bones of strange people long since buried, remains of ancient towns and villages, or other material evidence of the existence of man in past ages. He is a sort of glorified ditch digger who, spade in hand, pushes back the boundaries of our knowledge of human life before the dawn of history or adds concrete information to support the written record of the historic past.
In reality the archeologist is a scientist whose work requires the use of many and varied techniques. When he drops his spade and trowel and climbs out of his excavation his work is but half done. Armed with voluminous field maps, sketches, and notes, he moves his excavated materials indoors. There, in his specially equipped laboratory, he painstakingly analyzes his finds and compares them with discoveries made at other sites. Then he prepares the detailed reports which announce to other archeologists and to the world at large the real nature and significance of his findings.
Using metal profile gage in reconstructing an excavated pot in the archeological laboratory at Ocmulgee National Monument.
The Ocmulgee laboratory was established for the purpose of cataloging and studying the large collections of pottery and other objects excavated since 1933 at Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Ga., and a number of nearby sites. This extensive excavation program resulted in about 30,000 storage boxes of potsherds (fragments of Indian vessels), flint tools, bone and shell ornaments, and numerous other objects of Indian manufacture.
The laboratory was established early in 1938. It took over the staff of the earlier field laboratory which had been operating during excavation. Temporary quarters for storage and office space were obtained in the Macon Municipal Auditorium. The staff consisted of 35 clerical workers supplied by WPA, ERA, and CCC, under the direction of two supervisors.
The first problem was to catalog adequately all the material and to index the voluminous field notes and observations written by the excavation staff. During excavation the archeologist separates the material into groups according to the evidence revealed in digging. Thus a single field number may be assigned to a single object or to a collection of similar objects from the same location, soil level, house floor, burial, and the like. In the case of whole pottery vessels, stone tools, and similar materials each object is given a separate number. Small potsherds, broken tools, scraps of animal bone, and related objects are lumped together so that all of the materials from one place may be handled at the same time. This segregation depends upon the judgment and knowledge of the archeologist. Notes are taken for each separate piece on the surroundings, soil condition, associated objects, depth, or other items of significance. The notes, together with a running account of the excavation, are returned to the laboratory where they are typed, indexed, and preserved for future reference.
The purpose of cataloging is to make each collection readily available for analysis together with the notes describing its discovery. In the laboratory a number is first assigned to each object or collection. This consists of a serial number and an abbreviation identifying the site by county. This is written on the object in India ink, or, in the case of beads and other small objects, on an attached tag. The number also appears in the upper left corner of the catalog card as shown in the accompanying illustration. The catalog card also contains (at the left side) references to various notes, profiles, maps, or photographs of the material. On the right side of the card are recorded the site name, field number, horizontal location, depth, and associations, together with a description of the material. The location in the storage spaces is given at the bottom. The cards are typed in triplicate and filed by master catalog number, site (geographical unit), and by material (bone, stone, shell, or pottery). When the catalog cards are completed and filed it is possible to learn all the information available by consulting the file under any one of the three headings.
More than a million objects have been cataloged in this manner. These fall into some 35,000 collections representing either single objects or boxes of sherds, flint, or bone fragments. This large number of objects is temporarily stored in approximately 10,000 boxes, 10 exhibit tables, and 35 feet of shelves for whole vessels. The great majority of this mass of material came from the Macon plateau and the Lamar tract, the two areas of Ocmulgee National Monument.
Identification serial numbers are written in India ink on pottery fragments when excavated objectes are catalogued.
The second phase of work in the laboratory is the preservation and restoration of excavated material. All human bones from burials, as well as bone tools, such as awls, punches, and needles, are strengthened by saturation with a solution of synthetic resin in acetone. Shell beads and ornaments must be cleaned carefully before they are strengthened with the same solution. Wood and charcoal specimens are preserved by soaking in a mixture of paraffin and gasoline which makes them more easily handled by the dendro-chronologist. These wood specimens are vitally important because it is hoped that exact dates for the various occupations can be determined from a study of the climatic changes as recorded by the growth rings. Copper ornaments from the historic Creek occupation are cleaned with chemicals to prevent further corrosion, and reveal something of the original appearance. These copper bells, buckles, bracelets, and other ornaments, when cleaned of the green patina, reveal an attractive yellow color that readily explains why copper was such a favorite article of trade among the Indians. Many glass beads from the Creek village and shell beads from the earlier settlements must be strung—a considerable task when it is considered that more than 26,000 minute shell beads were found with a single burial.
Temporary storage of cataloged objects.
Finally, the pottery vessels which have been crushed by burial in the earth or broken by the Indians must be restored to their original form. The first step is to fit and glue together all the pieces recovered. In many cases it is then simply a matter of filling in with plaster of paris a few small missing fragments. Often, however, only a third or a half of the vessel is found. In this situation it is necessary to construct a mold of clay by the use of the pottery wheel to support the sherds while the lost section is replaced. This is done only in cases where similar vessels are at hand in sufficiently intact condition to indicate clearly the shape of the missing parts. The reconstruction of badly broken vessels from as many as 200 pieces is often an extremely delicate task compared to which the most difficult jigsaw puzzle is child's play. The work of the restoration unit provides material for museum exhibits and enables the archeologist to get a better picture of the objects as the Indians actually used them.
Triplicate cards are filed by master catalog number, by site (geographical unit), and by material (bone, stone, shell, or pottery).
The third function of the laboratory is to analyze the materials with a view toward making technical reports. Analysis depends upon the habit of human beings to make things in "style." Thus the various Indian settlements on the Ocmulgee had different styles of pottery, tools, and ornaments. Within a single group these styles changed with time or the influence of other groups. The archeologist calls these styles "types" and by careful study identifies the various types, their changes, and relationships to other types.
*From The Regional Review (National Park Service, Region One, Richmond, Va.), Vol. III, No. 3, September 1939, pp. 9-13.


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'Captain America: Civil War': Avengers Reassemble
By Kurt Loder
Spoiler note: Those wishing to know nothing about a movie prior to seeing it might want to steer clear of reviews before doing so.
"Captain America: Civil War" is packed with enough blockbuster super-stuff — scads of characters, oodles of travelogue mileage and acres of eye-punishing shaky-cam action — to fuel two movies. But "Civil War" is of course only one movie, and so its excess of just about everything overwhelms its virtues.
As has been the case ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe was launched eight years ago, with "Iron Man," this film is another way station en route to some sort of super-duper "Avengers" movie of the indeterminate future. Whether that galactic wrapup will ever actually be reached is teasingly uncertain: a pair of purportedly climactic "Infinity War" films are in the works, but keep in mind that the Avengers' comic-book exploits have been going on for more than 50 years. Anyway, in this third "Captain America" picture, a crowd of familiar faces is once again assembled. That it's such a large crowd is one of the movie's problems.
Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. are back, of course, still appealing as straight-edge Steve Rogers/Captain America and quip-slinging industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man. Scarlett Johansson returns as the butt-kicking Black Widow, Anthony Mackie and Don Cheadle fly in as the Falcon and War Machine, Paul Bettany reprises the charmingly synthetic Vision, Elizabeth Olsen is the telekinetic Scarlet Witch, and Jeremy Renner is briefly on hand as Hawkeye (still standing up to the forces of interstellar evil with nothing more than a bow and arrows). A couple of Avengers are missing in action — Thor is still back home in Asgard and the Hulk is vaguely indisposed — but three newbies do a nice job of taking up the slack. Paul Rudd's Ant-Man features in one of the movie's more inventive action scenes, and Chadwick Boseman's formidable Black Panther adds at least iconic heft to the proceedings. Best of all, perhaps, is 19-year-old Tom Holland's giddy Spider-Man — a character finally freed from his bondage in the foundered Sony franchise.
This time out, the team is caught up in an ethical issue of the sort that comic books are able to present with such simple clarity. The question is pressing: Should superheroes be applauded for protecting the world from alien assaults, or are they dangerous vigilantes who need to be reined in? (This conundrum was also addressed six weeks ago, although more glumly, in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.") As fans will know, the Avengers have already wrought extensive destruction in New York City and the Eastern European country of Sokovia; and as the movie begins, we see them notching up more collateral damage in a raid in Nigeria to prevent the theft of a deadly biological weapon. The world has about had it with these people, and there are now calls for the Avengers to be brought under U.N. control.
The U.S. secretary of state (William Hurt) advises the team to sign on to this plan, and Tony Stark surprisingly agrees that they should. But the more staunchly libertarian Steve Rogers resists: Subjecting the Avengers to the whims of international bureaucrats, he argues, could only prove disastrous. What ensues is not a "civil war," exactly, but Rogers and his supporters in the group do split off to continue their unhampered pursuit of world-threatening malefactors — at the risk of becoming international fugitives.
The plot evolves with the return of Rogers's old friend-turned-enemy Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). He's still in the grip of his World War II brainwashing and has now been reactivated as an assassin by a mysterious figure called Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl). Rogers gets some unexpected help in tracking these two from former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter (a returning Emily VanCamp), the niece of his lost love of the 1940s, Peggy Carter.
This is a serviceable story, occasionally warmed with sentiment (Rogers flies to London to attend the aged Peggy's funeral) and often flecked with humor (Stark's visit to a Queens row house to recruit budding web-slinger Peter Parker is tartly funny: "So you're Spider-Boy," Stark dryly observes.) The overstuffed cast is a problem throughout, though: Johansson's Romanoff is sadly underemployed (where's her spinoff movie, anyway?), and Olsen's Scarlet Witch and Renner's Hawkeye barely have room to register. Stan's Bucky Barnes has a few heart-tugging moments, but he's still a dull character, as is Bruhl's Zemo, who lacks villainous flamboyance.
It's nice that directors Anthony and Joe Russo and their writers, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, have toned down the usual superhero real estate wreckage. But what they've replaced it with amounts to endless mano-a-mano fight scenes, all shot in a cliched blur of handheld camerawork. There's some rousing action — especially an all-stops-out battle at a Leipzig airport, and a chase through a tunnel thick with speeding vehicles. But the leap-and-kick fisticuffs predominate, and over the course of nearly two and a half hours, they drag the picture down. By the time it wallows to a close, some viewers might feel little more than a sense of relief.
But does it matter? "Civil War" is just another stop on Marvel's march toward world super-flick domination, and stand-alone movies featuring Spider-Man, Thor, Ant-Man and Black Panther are already in the pipeline. Exhausted skeptics might wonder where it all will end. Or will it ever?
Kurt Loder is the film critic for Reason Online. To find out more about Kurt Loder and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Dental laboratories manufacture or customize a variety of products to assist in the provision of oral health care by a licensed dentist. These products include crowns, bridges, dentures and other dental products. Dental lab technicians follow a prescription from a licensed dentist when manufacturing these items, which include prosthetic devices (such as denture teeth and implants) and therapeutic devices (such as orthodontic devices). The FDA regulates these products as medical devices  and they are therefore subject to FDA's good manufacturing practice ("GMP") and quality system ("QS") requirements. In most cases, however, they are exempt from manufacturer registration requirements. Some of the most common restorations manufactured include crowns, bridges, dentures, and dental implants. Dental implants  is one of the most advanced dental technologies in the field of dentistry.

Certification in the dental laboratory profession is strictly voluntary.  Laboratories who have taken the extra steps to become certified represent the top of their field.  The most easily obtainable certification is the CDL (Certified Dental Laboratory). A Certified Dental Laboratory has met standards in personnel skill, training, infection control, tracking mechanisms and good business and manufacturing practices. The certification is based on a third party review of photos of the facility.  The next tier for certification is DAMAS (Dental Appliance Manufacturers Audit Scheme). DAMAS requires a third party on-site inspection. Based on international standards for the manufacturing of medical devices, the DAMAS certification ensures the lab environment operates in such a way as to ensure product and patient safety. It provides a formula for improved documentation of many aspects of dental lab activity (from dental prescriptions to material traceability). DAMAS standards mirror the FDA's quality system and good manufacturing practice standards, which all domestic dental laboratories must comply with.

The highest level of manufacturing certifications available to dental laboratories are through the ISO "International Organization for Standardization". The ISO develops standards through the consensus of standards organizations from 161 countries. Members represent both the public and private sectors of countries around the world. ISO standards are thought to represent the best interests and needs of the broader global society.  ISO 9001 is a set of standards for quality management systems.  ISO 13485 is a set of standards, published in 2003, that represents the requirements for a comprehensive management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices. It emphasizes meeting regulatory requirements and managing risk in order to ensure the production of safe design and distribution of medical devices. Product documention is thorough and covers the entire life cycle of product design, manufacture and post-delivery. Although not considered a substitute, ISO 13485 will align a dental lab's management system not only with the FDA QS-GMP regulation, but various other regulatory requirements found throughout the world.

National Association of Dental Laboratories
The National Association of Dental Laboratories (NADL) was formed in the United States in 1951 after the merger of Dental Laboratory Institute of America and the American Dental Laboratory Association. It became a federation of state commercial dental laboratory associations. This merger took place in Chicago and then, in 1952, NADL established its headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., which were moved to Tallahassee, Florida later in 2001.

The association was known as the National Association of Certified Dental Laboratories from 1968 to 1971 when it changed back to its original name. Its mission is to be the recognized advocate for the dental laboratory technology industry by promoting professionalism, setting technical standards and providing valued services to its membership. The stated purpose of NADL is to uphold and advance the dignity, honor and efficiency of those engaged as operators of dental laboratories, to advance their standards of service to the dental profession and to establish cooperation among its members.

NADL offers several benefits to its members and one of such benefits is that it promotes high standards and aims to work as a unified voice for the dental laboratory trade. NADL establishes alliances with professional businesses to benefit its members with either discounts or services. Members also benefit from NADL's educational programs ranging from seminars, conferences, materials, the NADL University which offers a Certificate in Dental Laboratory Management, to the Wealth of Knowledge Videotape Library. These programs inform and educate NADL members on topics such as production, marketing, and promotion, and also serve as continuing education credits. Furthermore, this association offers the NADL Pillar Scholarship aimed to provide qualified dental technicians the opportunity to take the necessary examinations to complete the Certified Dental Technician examination process.

NADL also has its set of communications tools to keep its members informed about the industry trends. Two examples are the Journal of Dental Technology (JDT), a journal published 9 times a year, and JDT Unbound, a mail newsletter that includes regular updates.

Its Board of Directors comprises 14 members and its current President is Robert Savage. NADL also has an independent board, the National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology, founded in 1955 as an independent certification organization. It administered the first Certified Dental Technician (CDT) tests in October 1958 and awarded the first CDT certificates in March of the following year.

A wide range of institutions offer associate degree programs to become a technician. In addition, an interested person can complete an apprenticeship program that lasts for five years. After the apprenticeship or associate degree has been finished, the person will need to pass an exam that is administered by the National Board for Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology.

CDTs  can retain certification if they apply to the NBC every year for renewal and prove they have complied with the local laws governing their work and undergone continuing technical education. They are also required to pay a renewal fee.

NADL regulations
It is in NADL best interests to protect the patients' health and assure their restorations are safe for use. To fulfill this objective, NADL has supported federal and state regulations since 2003 and has worked close with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state health officials and the dental industry as well. It has also developed regulatory guidelines aimed to be a basic standard of regulation. Although its main objective is to benefit the general public it is also intended to be effective for the dental technicians and the dental industry. One of the requests from NADL to the FDA has been to protect patient's safety. In this sense, the Association intends that the source of dental devices be disclosed to the patient.

NADL has expressed its support to establish mandatory certification and continuing education for dental technicians dedicated to restoration manufacture; mandatory registration of all dental laboratories with the competent authority; mandatory documentation of those materials used in any restoration and their point of origin; as well as mandatory documentation of the mentioned items in the patient's dental records.

In their Guidelines for Establishing Statutory Regulation, NADL has noted that certification is a way to recognize individuals who have met established qualifications, therefore, they should be the only ones legally acknowledged to use the designated title.

Dental Lab Certification in the UK

All Dental Technicians and Clinical Dental Technicians in the UK are required by law to be registered with the General Dental Council (GDC). The GDC is an organisation which regulates all dentists and dental care professionals, they set and maintain standards in UK dentistry.

Many of those who work for Dental Laboratories are also registered with the Dental Technologists Association (DTA). The DTA is a professional association representing the interests of dental technicians in the UK.

The GDC ensures that dental professionals have the necessary qualifications and are trained to the necessary levels. Dental technicians must prove their knowledge is up-to-date by taking part in Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

References

External links
 National Association of Dental Laboratories
 International Organization for Standardization
 Dental Laboratory Careers
 Dental Laboratory Careers in India

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Astronomers have long theorized that newly formed stars can occasionally consume their planets, but until now, they have never observed such a feeding frenzy. This artist's concept illustrates the destruction of a young planet around a star, which can knock material directly into the star itself.
Astronomers generally agree that planets form out of the massive disks of leftover debris that surround most newborn stars. As these disks of gas and dust orbit their stars, small clumps of material coalesce, ultimately growing larger and larger until they eventually reach planetary status. However, not all planets make it that far. Sometimes, two nascent planets catastrophically collide — and stars apparently do not mourn their dead.
In a study published July 18 in The Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers announced they may have, for the first time ever, witnessed a star feeding on the leftover remains of one such planetary collision. These novel observations not only show that a star can devour its own planets, but also bring astronomers one step closer to fully understanding how planets form — or in this case, are destroyed.
To carry out the study, the researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to watch the peculiar star RW Aur A — the largest of a pair of young, low-mass stars in the RW Aur system. The star, which is only 10 million years old and located some 450 light-years from Earth, has drawn astronomers attention since 1937, thanks in large part to the mysterious dimming episodes it experiences.
Every few decades for over 80 years, astronomers watched as the star would fade for about a month before brightening back up again. However, in 2011, astronomers noticed the star dimmed for about six months before returning to its baseline brightness. Then, just three short years later, they saw it darken again. And this time, the dimming lasted for over two years. Because RW Aur A is dimming more often and for longer periods of time, it begs the question: What is passing in front of the star and obscuring its light?
By analyzing how the X-ray light was filtered through the star's debris disk, the team concluded three things: The star has a lot of material surrounding it; the star is significantly hotter than expected; and, surprisingly, the star's outer layer is loaded with iron — much more than was seen before or is found in otherwise similar stars.
In the study, the researchers propose two possible scenarios to explain the significant excess of iron observed during the most recent dimming of RW Aur A.
One possibility is that the star's disk exhibits a phenomenon known as a dust pressure trap, where a relatively placid zone forms within the disk (imagine an eddy forming in a river) and collects certain types of particles, like iron. If one of these iron deposits was present in the inner disk when the star's binary companion (RW Aur B) passed close by and disturbed the disk, it could have resulted in a cascade of iron falling onto RW Aur A, temporarily obscuring its light and giving the star its observed excess of iron.
However, if this was the case, the dimming would presumably only occur when the pair of stars passed close by each other, which tends to happens at regular intervals. And since RW Aur A is dimming more often and for longer periods lately, this scenario is not entirely convincing.
The second possibility, which is more compelling to Günther, is that two baby planets collided at some point in the not-too-distant past. If these small worlds contained some iron, the collision would have spewed it back out into the disk (along with many other light-obscuring particles), and the star would have eventually accreted some of this material onto its surface. This scenario would likewise explain both RW Aur A's variable dimming and its iron enrichment. But, because developing planetary systems are very chaotic places where catastrophic collisions occur frequently and commonly produce secondary collisions, Günther believes this scenario can also explain past dimming events.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with science, the evidence for this planet-eating star is primarily circumstantial, and further research is needed to bolster Günther's claim of a cosmic cannibal.
In particular, he would like to continue observing the star over the next few years to track how the iron levels change (or don't change) over time. If the iron levels significantly drop, that would suggest whatever produced the iron was relatively small. On the other hand, if nearly the same amount of iron remains, that would suggest the material likely came from a large planetary collision.


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Photo Tour Fee: $6100 which will include everything from the time we leave Anchorage to the time we get back - all lodging, food, flights from Anchorage to the bear lodge and back again, park fees and permits, and any boat trips during our stay. Inquire if single occupancy may be available for roughly $1000 if desired.
Deposit: $1000 (to be deducted from the total. The balance of $5100 will be due three months prior to the trip (May 14).
Join our small group on the shores of Cook Inlet, in the shadow of the smoking Iliamna Volcano, where brown bears roam the shores in search of salmon and crustaceans.
Hat and Gloves: A warm hood could be the perfect answer for a cooler than average morning. Gloves are optional if you have extra room in your luggage. Long underwear is not a bad idea either.


Here is something that doesn't come along very often — or ever: a single auction lot of the 1988 Showtime Los Angeles Lakers's game-worn and champagne-stained 1988 NBA Finals kicks (12 pairs in total). The lot includes Magic Johnson's Converse ERX-400 hightops, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's white adidas lows and James Worthy's signature New Balance. Why these were given to reserve big man Mike Smrek instead of the Basketball Hall of Fame is beyond us, but Springfield's loss and potentially your gain. Check out all the images of this once in a lifetime opportunity, and hope Jack Nicholson doesn't decide he wants them.


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Home › Event Archive › John Ramsden: Hanoi after the War. Thu 29 Nov, 18.00 - 20.00
John Ramsden: Hanoi after the War. Thu 29 Nov, 18.00 - 20.00
Please join us in the Bookshop and meet John Ramsden who is introducing his book Hanoi after the War, published by Skira.
The black and white photographs by John Ramsden, depicting everyday life in the North of Vietnam just after the war, reveal a world of hardship, poverty and endurance, but also an ancient culture still very much alive, with scenes of wistful beauty amidst the austerity.
Well known Vietnamese writers describe living through the period, in essays full of vivid memories and telling detail. Each photograph has a caption by Duong Trung Quoc, an eminent historian who takes us deeper into what we are seeing.
John Ramsden lived in Hanoi from 1980 to 1982, when he was Deputy Head of the British Embassy. He spent the rest of his diplomatic career in Europe. In 2013 his photographs were the subject of exhibitions in London and Hanoi. He is now retired and divides his time between London and France. His interests are photography and painting.
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I am getting the following error
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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user@host:~$ python3
Python 3.5.3rc1 (default, Jan  3 2017, 04:40:57)
[GCC 6.3.0 20161229] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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Kindly help.

A: python3-pyqt5 is a valid package for apt get
you need to update your package repo
try dpkg -l python3-pyqt5 to see if your computer can find the package at all

A: there were some network issue  which once resolved , resolved this issue too