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Talk:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
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2 Why don't we implemment some of these suggestions?
3 Why is this here?
4 happy?
5 LOOK AT THIS PAGE
6 Confusion
7 I don't see the point in this.
8 teh funny.
10 Whoops
11 ROTFLMAO!!!
12 Humour Notice
13 Refutation of the principle
14 Links to edit summaries?
15 Like to point out
17 Good one!
18 More appropriate places
19 Humornotguideline
20 dig it
21 Ha Ha Ha
22 One sort of vandalists is missing
23 gays do edit
24 Brilliant
25 wow, that was hilarious
26 Problem with this proposal
27 Wow
28 Get rid of 3 new sections
29 Meta Critique
30 "Poop"
31 This joke has five sections, not four, and I think we should make it six.
32 Uhm... and this?
33 How about another group?
34 German version
35 funny!
37 amusing maybe 6 out of 10
39 Wikipedia to Wikimedia
40 Tag At The Bottom
41 First gay vandal ever seen
42 Finally! A "Humor" Template!
43 Propose rename
44 Proposed sixth vandal category
45 Interesting diff
46 Title is inappropriate
47 Edit button?
48 Move this page?
49 Moved again
TESTEdit
Pardon me while I practice typing here using my gay friend's enormous penis.
Why the hell are you doing that?
Because I want to see if it will work.
Why don't we implemment some of these suggestions?Edit
Proposal: In the recent changes list, if an edit trips one of the following conditions then it will appear in red.
Any character is repeated 4 times or more (e.g. "aaaa")
The word "test" appears
The word "gay" appears
If an entry that was at least 3kb before the edit, lost half or more of its size.
- Lotsofissues
This page is merely a parody of other unwiki proposals to restrict access to Wikipedia. It's a fun joke, and I've tried to make sure it doesn't come across as homophobic. That said, it has a good chance to attract the enthusiastic attention of the same [mouthbreathers] it makes fun of. If that's the case, I'd like to see it deleted. --Evan 23:33, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Well at first I thought this was a proposal is disallow my friends to edit. But then I read the page and got the joke. :) --mav 05:12, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I like that idea about flagging edits like that so they stick out in recentchanges. --22:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Who wrote this nonsense? It's beautiful! Evan? Never heard of you. No matter: you are instantly evelated to my "always read what this person writes, he's good" list. Tannin - 05:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Aw, shucks. B-) --Evan 20:33, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
And I'm afraid i would have to agree. - en:user:Celestianpower
Restricting the flamboyant typing students from using more than 4 instances of a certain character in a row is most likely to lead to discrimination of friends of fat people who need to state the size of their friends' clothing out loud - not to mention friends of individuals with xxxxl penises. --anon. coward.
All I can say about this revision is: Knock it off, Mom! You're embarassing me! --Evan 20:33, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Also: the note about Wikipedia running out of letters cracked me up. ---Evan 20:49, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
likewise 24.190.96.44 14:35, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I do not think that peple shud hav to sine that leter to rite on here. Insted you shud make the note on the top more clearer to make ser you do not do such stuf. It is OK if you ar lerning how to type, or ar curius, or gay or no sumbudy gay, just make ser thay do not rite about it on the Wikipedia. And that shud be a note on the top insted, not a leter you hav to sine to do it.
I moved the following comments from the article : chocolateboy 13:42, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
On a less parodic note- there are some more fine-grained Anti-vandalism ideas around ;-) - Gwicke 01:06, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Opportunist! --Evan 08:07, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
=>;-)) Anthere
There's a fine line between trolling and humor, and you have both feet firmly over that line (not sure which side! ;-) --Ed Poor
Who cares which side, we're all enjoying ourselves!
Note that there are exactly zero vandalism instances that say, "I AM VERY GAY"
I'd just like to say that this edit apparently proves this observation false. Raul654 08:26, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
As does this one. Raul654 21:00, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Also this. Professor Fiendish 05:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Well, I've changed "exactly zero" to "almost no", so this should be more accurate now. ;) —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 08:26, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
One thing I would like to see happen is possibly having checks on all submitted articles to see what kind of changes were done. Say, a huge article gets written down to 10 words or less it would automatically get rejected as an edit. just a suggestion --AppleBoy 04:09, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The trouble with a sanity check like this is it would reject the turning of a page into a redirect after it was merged with another. Boffy b 20:59, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
maybe one solution would be to open a typing school as part of wikiversity... The bellman 02:30, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Why not simplify this rubbish stuff to "those who have any friends at all are not allowed to edit"? :p I would easily qualify. :-) 217.171.129.72 13:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
ERROR: INFINITE RECURSION DETECTED=The word "test" should always be removed although it is already there. PLEASE REMOVE THIS BEFORE
#bombed
Well, i wanna have a baby, so
Wait, i want something cuter!
1 more thing, please? #4pixelsofexplosions
Lemondoge ( T C GC ) 03:08, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
Why is this here?Edit
It only refers to Wikipedia - why isn't it there? 210.50.25.36
happy?Edit
Doesn't gay mean happy? Gerrit 15:51, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
I expect you know English as a foreign language :). Gay used to mean happy, but now that use is archaic. It now means w:en:homosexual. R3m0t 21:26, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
Let's now make it the eighth word you can never say on TV. Professor Fiendish 05:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
But that would ban The Flintstones! 217.254.176.9 08:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
LOOK AT THIS PAGEEdit
This title cannont be real i have no ide where to comment on this
ConfusionEdit
I'm confused, is this a discussion?
No, it's a joke. Hence the Category:Humor tag. Angela
I don't see the point in this.Edit
If this is supposed to be a real discussion, please change the title to sometime less offensive. There are other types of vandalism, as listed on the article, so the title shouldn't refer to just the last given source of it.
When I first saw the title I was actually a bit shocked and thought the title itself might be a result of vandalsim. But having read the article, I must say that it's very witty, and the title is entirely justified by the context. DrKinsey 17:53, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Or, if this is supposed to be a joke, I can only wish the creator would show some maturity and compassion. Ryan 08:57, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
It's a rather amusing tongue-in-cheek joke (and a rather old one at that). Raul654 22:03, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Wait, so this guy is suggesting that if it's a real discussion to ban bad typists, curious people, and friends of gays, that's peachy-keen as long as they change the title. But if it's a joke, he wishes the creator would show some maturity and compassion? I'm sorry sir, did you mean to reverse those? Because your priorities seem pretty backwards to me. --66.18.231.70 15:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
There isn't a point, it is satire. Laugh and move on.
And when I first saw the title, I thought, "Oh, goody, something funny to read!" And sure enough, I was right. Some personality types just do not understand certain types of humor. As long as they keep this problem to themselves and don't flaunt it, by trying to squelch everybody else's good laugh, I have no problem. --Queezbo 20:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
teh funny.Edit
This is one of the funniest post in the Humour cat, very clever too... kudos to the writers =D. - 202.7.176.134 01:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Yes, it's just superb :-D --194.226.235.251 15:08, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
This is the best thing I have ever seen on a wiki. —Frungi 03:23, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Testing testing 1, 2, 3...
Does this thing actually work??
Hy! Thr must b a vandal diting, bcaus Mta sms to hav run out of 's!
WhoopsEdit
Re: this edit summary - stupid firefox autocomplete. Raul654 07:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Borgx, this is a humor page. Anthere 14:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
ROTFLMAO!!!Edit
I was led to this page via a wikipedia link, and couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes after I read it! :D 139.55.52.11 03:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Humour NoticeEdit
I felt that too many people weren't bothering to read the whole article and see that italic note at the bottom, so I added a (humourous) explanation at the top of the talk page. That should cut down on the number of confusions. -Jetman123 09:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
In the process ruining a lot of the humor in a very funny article. People who don't have a sense of humor won't be helped by the notation that this is a joke. People who do have one, would rather not be told it's going to be funny. Sbharris 03:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Refutation of the principleEdit
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Becket&diff=47812158&oldid=47810847. Sam Korn 15:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Note that, while the article claims gays and lesbians are "exceptionally good Wikipedia contributors," it makes no such assumption in regards to LESBIONs.
Indeed, proud, vandalising LESBIONs have been known to run rampant many a time. 69.211.125.101 19:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Look further up this page at my comments from way back in July 2004 - "I'd just like to say that this edit apparently proves this observation false" Raul654 00:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Well it was changed to almost none since then. And to be fair, it is fairly accurate there are very few people who feel the need to announce their sexual orientantion via vandalism but a lot of people who feel the need to annouce their friend's/teachers's/whoever's. This one [1] is a poor e.g. since it sounds like disruption to prove a point to me :-P Indeed I strongly suspect the ED example is a friend who has poor English skills and doesn't know they shouldn't write in the first person if they're referring to a friend not themselves... So we only have one good e.g. so far :-P Nil Einne 19:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Not particularly sure what I was thinking when I wrote the above. The more likely explaination is that the poster isn't ED but has decent English skills and is pretending to be ED hence the first person. Nil Einne 18:50, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Links to edit summaries?Edit
Does anyone think this page would be improved by adding links to edit summaries supporting its arguments? (Not counting ones from this page, that would be a bit silly.) —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 05:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
In addition, vandalism is kinda gay. (User: J. Th. on swedish wikipedia)
Even if all vandalism enjoyed romantic exchanges with the opposite sex, I don't believe that its sexual orientation determines its quality. 66.82.9.76 22:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Like to point outEdit
I absolutely approve of the title of this page. -b 00:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
If it's meant to be funny, it fails miserably. -71.224.12.181 16:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if you noticed this, but not everyone in the world shares the same sense of humour. Sorry about that, mate, but a lot of people actually do think this article is funny, myself included. 99.243.164.126 17:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Good one!Edit
Note that there are almost no vandalism instances that say, "I AM VERY GAY" or "I, Anita Flugelhorn, appreciate a good roll in the hay every once in a while with a member of my own sex." It can be inferred that gays and lesbians are exceptionally good Wikipedia contributors, and only some of their very proud but misguided acquaintances feel the need to broadcast their friends' sexual orientation.
I loved this part. :) Congrats to whoever wrote this article, it's very funny! Raystorm in en.wikipedia 15:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This is so not true!!! --Anita Flügelhorn 05:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
More appropriate placesEdit
There are joke wiki and ones completely devoted to satire. This probably isn't good enough to go on most of them. Personally, I don't think it belongs in this wiki. I understand the desire to satire stupid users and vandals, but it lowers the quality of the site. However, I'll let those of you who are more active contributors decide. --CocoaZen 17:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
HumornotguidelineEdit
The {{Humornotguideline}} at the head of the article makes this page much less funny. I've left the template but moved it to the very bottom of the page. —Benjamin Mako Hill 19:45, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
I very much agree. I'm going to kill it again. Sbharris 04:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
dig itEdit
w:WP:LGBT is linking to this now.[2] Please make sure you drop a notice to w:WT:LGBT if there is ever a deletion discussion on this. Coelacan 06:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
It's thanks to that link that I read this essay. It is hilarious! I'm amazed at the humor-challenged individuals who don't get it. Sad for them. Thanks Coelacan, or whoever added the link to w:WP:LGBT and thanks to Evan for composing it! Aleta 02:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Ha Ha HaEdit
Very funny! Now what are we going to do about the vandals? --Chris Grant 10:21, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
One sort of vandalists is missingEdit
I really liked this article, but one sort of vandalists is still missing. The vandalists who makes funny edits, like this. //Moralist 17:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
for those of you who have some foreign language as your mothertongue, and thus have been wondering for the last year and a half what the "funny edit" in the diff. linked by Moralist here is really about - despair no more and quit the Swedish class you've signed on to - here is the Answer: Someone replaced the entry for Earth at Swedish wikipedia with the phrase Mostly harmless. Finn Rindahl 11:24, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
gays do editEdit
look [3] there are edits by gays. Does this page need to be updated? 147.161.1.25 16:43, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
BrilliantEdit
I wish some people would learn to appreciate humour. This actually reminds me of the poster for Wadham College's Queer Bop - "Homophobia is Gay!"
Isnt that an insult to people who are actually gay i mean what if i said that i was gay which im not and started using wikipedia to find another women or men so i could tell them some personal info and then they could come over my house to do some buisness ???
wow, that was hilariousEdit
well, i just said it all with the title--68.157.23.56 00:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree! The person who wrote the proposal is an absolute brilliant!
Aua 10:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
Problem with this proposalEdit
I read this proposal with interest, and I can see its potential benefits (even though I, a self acknowledged acquaintance of homosexuals, would have to stop editing). However, there is a faulty assumption. It is stated that no-one is proclaiming their own homosexuality, but as WP:STYLE [4] discourages the use of the first person in articles I would say it's possible, even likely, that many people are merely using the third person, as should be expected in an encyclopaedia. en:User:AlmostReadytoFly
WowEdit
I'm amazed they let this article stay up for longer than 5 seconds. :P --NightKev 22:04, 13 February 2008 (GMT-8 / UTC-8)
Get rid of 3 new sectionsEdit
Cut it back to the original five categories of vandals. Much funnier that way. Of course the essay leaves a lot of vandals out. That's a good thing. 208.120.198.119 00:11, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Meta CritiqueEdit
This page is bad and you should feel bad.
I feel rather well, thanks. --Dweller 12:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
"Poop"Edit
I laugh every time I see this page, but do feel that "poop" vandals are now so common on English Wikipedia at any rate, that they may be deserving their own subcategorisation. --Dweller 14:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
This is true. Perhaps we need new rules to keep out scatologists, both professional and amateur. Fishal 12:23, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
This joke has five sections, not four, and I think we should make it six.Edit
At the bottom of the page, it is mentioned that there are four sections of this apparent "proposal," but unless you guys have some special system of counting, then there are actually five. Also, why not add a section covering "Wiki-haters" that are against Wikis for reasons such as their reliability (people who think that the fact that they can be edited makes them untrustable), people who are angry 'cause they (or one of their friends) got blocked or banned, and people who get mad 'cause they disagree with consensus on a Wiki? GO-PCHS-NJROTC from Wikipedia 67.233.7.159 22:00, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Uhm... and this?Edit
What about the people, that - uhm... how can I describe it?
It seems to be some kind of tourette-syndrome (my english isn't perfect), but not the ordinary one like:
"FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!"
"ASSHOLE!"
"Dude, Rudolph, you're a NAMES!"
It is more complicated. So that you can understand me, I'd like to begin with my hypothesis: While producing some kinds of information in wikipedia, people with ... THAT syndrome get to start thinking about other subjects. And then they have to write it. And within that we can read:
"Mineral water is usually not used to flavour." (Subject: to flavour)
"The child blow-dries the umbrella so that it is dry." (Subject: Child)
"Even if the violin didn't change much since it's beginnings, there have been many tries of artistic and technical reforms" (Subject: Flagellates)
What about that folks?
Or maybe redirecting the Main Page to w:Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber. Professor Fiendish 05:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
How about another group?Edit
The opposite of the critics, the "this __________ is the best EVAR! i love this ________!" editors? Umrguy42 15:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
German versionEdit
There's a German version (intentionally poorly translated) in my userspace...here! Protactinium-231 14:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
funny!Edit
This article is so funny I had to suppress my laughter because I am at work. Thanks for the laugh. This page should not be deleted simply because it describes vandals to a T. Hmm, does posting this make me a vandal?
HAHAEdit
Best.. thing.. ever... --70.169.247.162 19:30, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
amusing maybe 6 out of 10Edit
as suggested within this article, while deletion of this article isn't called for, expansion of its humor quotient would be encouraged, such that the apparently serious articality is preserved while the humor's boosted too. Good mid-lifecycle stage right now.
Go for an 11 or a metrosexual 00!
Pandelver 21:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC) ~ friend of friend of fish avoiding evolution into lesbians and penises
CommentsEdit
Ultra-strong support. Bob the Wikipedian 06:09, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia to WikimediaEdit
While all of us have all of our lives revolving around WP, any complaint to changing the bulk of the Wikipedia references to Wikimedia, just to make it more generic to the sites? billinghurst sDrewth 10:32, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Tag At The BottomEdit
Why is the tag at the bottom?199.126.224.245 00:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friends_of_gays_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit_articles&action=historysubmit&diff=2015825&oldid=1999184 --Nemo 08:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Where? I'm not seeing any archives where this discussion took place. Surely the tag should be at the top so people know immediately it's intended to be humorous? Perhaps instead of linking to a diff that gives further advice perhaps you could actually answer the question? Rehevkor 13:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
First gay vandal ever seenEdit
As the article cleverly points, a lot of vandals are proud friends of gays, but they usually aren't friends of gays themselves. I just noticed the first proud gay vandal I've ever seen: [5]. I suppose this gay guy expects his mother to check recent changes in catalan Wikipedia and to know his IP adress.--Pere prlpz 19:48, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
First phrasing like that which I've seen, as well. But I have a very different interpretation of the intent of this visigoth. The visigoth themselves may, or may not, have been gay. Merely because they state it as a fact[citation needed] in the prose of their edit, does not therefore make it true, of course.
semantic analysis indicates that the vandal's sexuality is indeterminate in terms of the truth-value of their utterances
Consider the visigoths who speak of their phallus humongous, or those that say wikipedia is bad because they can edit it. Are those indubitably true?
"Hi mom. I have to admit that I am gay."
The visigoth in question was geoIP-located in central Germany, where the Catalan language of Spain is uncommon, and besides, they wrote in colloquial Americanized English. It seems unlikely their real-life mother (even visigoths have them! I swear!) was a known addict of the Recent Changes page on the Catalan wikipedia, who happened to also speak Anglais. Furthermore, the vandalism was a page-wipe, and thus was auto-reverted in just a few seconds by a boht.
Revisió de 19:39, 11 feb 2011 (modifica) (desfés) visigoth -- IP withheld to protect the guilty
Revisió de 19:39, 11 feb 2011 (modifica) (desfés) BotReversor
The page which was wiped above was the Catalan refdesk/helpdesk/teahouse/similar (sorry... my Spanish is awful and my Catalan non-existent... machine translation says "inquiries desk" or maybe "tour query"). Conceivably, therefore, one might assume -- if one were assuming that the intent was to inform the visigoth's actual real-life mother of something -- that perhaps the mother staffed the Catalan wiki-helpdesk.
Revisió de 20:55, 11 feb 2011 (modifica) (desfés) Wutsje
However, the next event seems to discount that theory. About a minute or so after the boht reverted the visigoth's helpdesk wipe, the same visigoth put the exact same text into another page of Catalan wikipedia: the talkpage of the boht which had just reverted their pageblank of the Catalan helpdesk! It seems the bot was unable to protect itself from such depredations, and so the sentence stays web-visible for about an hour-and-a-quarter, until User:Wutsje noticed the trouble, and fixed it.
In other words, neither edit was composed in the language people reading the wiki were most likely to speak, and neither edit was in mainspace. The first edit wiped the helpdesk queue, but was likely reverted before any human noticed. The second edit wiped a boht's talkpage, and was noticed by one single editor (presumably the bohtmaster?) about 75 minutes later. My hypothesis is that this visigoth was actually putting the message in as a *trolling* message, not as a prideful message. They were wiping the helpdesk/refdesk/teahouse, because that is a place that beginning readers and editors would likely see, and they were hoping to fool some of the moms that might be visiting that page, expecting human contact, into seeing the English message, and either knowing what it meant, or asking someone to translate if for them, and finding out thataway.
Now, in practice, the boht saved the day, and it seems reasonably certain that no helpdesk 'customers' actually ever saw the message at all. The visigoth, refreshing the page and noticing that their trolling-trick had been thwarted, clicked on the edit-history to see who had thwarted them, clicked on the talk-button of BotReversor, and then put the trolling-message *there* instead of at the refdesk. Methinks this last move was purely done out of spite; however, I suppose it is non inconceivable that BotReversor was actually this visigoth's mom, or at least, that the visigoth perceived such to be true.
TLDR: this example, while somewhat fascinating as an instance where a visigoth was trying to troll in a mildly intricate fashion, in addition to simply trying to vandalize something by pageblanking, does not seem to be a counterexample to typical visigoth behavior patterns. We don't actually know whether or not this particular visigoth was gay. But that is not the point: since they were arguably *not* speaking to their actual mom, it becomes vastly more likely that *both* the first sentence, and also the *second* sentence, were in fact falsehoods, at least, in-universe falsehoods. If the visigoth personally was gay, or was not gay, is beside the point: they were not speaking as nor for themselves when they wrote "hi mom" and thus it is only reasonable to say they were not speaking as-nor-for-themselves when they next wrote "I have to admit that I'm gay." Rather, they were voicing the words of a persona, in this case, their trolling-persona, who needless to say does not exist, except perhaps as the visigoth's imaginary friend. In this way, they are no different than visigoths that use the second-person when speaking of others. QED. Hope this helps. — 74.192.84.101 02:28, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Finally! A "Humor" Template!Edit
Finally, no more unneeded page deletions... Coming from a Wikia artist and a Minepedia editor. Btw, how do I convince my friends and sister that Wikipedia (or, unknowing to them, wikis in general) isn't that bad? 67.84.83.106 02:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
I was unmoved by the idea of Wikipedia until I wondered what made an antimicrobial pen "antimicrobial"...and thus the antimicrobial pen introduced me to Wikipedia. When your friends and sister ask a question and you've got an Internet connection handy, say "let me look that up on Wikipedia". Impress them with the speedy research and an accurate answer, and soon they may start using it themselves for quick questions. Bob the Wikipedian 01:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Well that certainly went as planned....Padenton (talk) 08:54, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Propose renameEdit
Proposed new name: FILL-IN-THE-BLANK should not be allowed to edit articles
Yes, that is meant to be the actual title.
Comments? Davidwr/talk 19:52, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
How nonsensical. --MF-W 20:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I think the current title is fine. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:40, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
I agree that a rename should be discussed - and it was clear from the deletion discussion that others agree it is a topic worth exploring. Perhaps a move request would be the most appropriate route? --Varnent (talk)(COI) 04:50, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
A guy walks into a bar and shouts "anyone know where I can get a goddamn drink around here?"
This is a move request. Don't be silly. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:24, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
My suggestion was for one on the move requests page so it gets a larger audience than just the four of us - and I think you knew that. :/ --Varnent (talk)(COI) 17:21, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
It's long-standing practice across Wikimedia wikis to discuss a page's title on the associated talk page. The fact that four people (myself included) are using the talk page to discuss a move request makes this practice self-evident, surely. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:32, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Sure, we're discussing. Proposed conclusion after 2 days: not gonna fly, title stays. --Nemo 11:32, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
I think you mean "Friends of FILL-IN-THE-BLANK should not be allowed to edit articles". WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:01, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
I get the impression that most people wanting a rename or the deletion of this page haven't bothered to actually read what the title (or it) says, because of omissions like the one you just pointed out. Ajraddatz (Talk) 17:22, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
I think that is an unfair assumption based on the comments I read when the article came up for deletion. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:32, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
It could well be. But when people are arguing that it is offensive to gay people, rather than what it actually is (horribly offensive to friends of gay people, like myself), it gives the impression that they are making stuff up. But this digresses from the point of this discussion - ultimately, I don't think a rename is needed, and appreciate the point that I perceive WhatamIdoing is trying to make. Ajraddatz (Talk) 20:44, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
No need to rename it, fine the way it is. Ajraddatz (Talk) 17:22, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
Proposed sixth vandal categoryEdit
People who are special - Some people know that they are better than everybody else despite not receiving any mention in reliable sources, and they know they should be recognized in Wikimedia projects for their specialness (or their special needs). Some are special in specific ways, while others are just plain special. Some create special autobiographies, some add themselves to lists of notable individuals, some just randomly announce their specialness on random articles, and the most special of all do all of the above. While it is awesome that such special people have found the edit button, their edits are usually less than special and especially need to be undone immediately. Some special examples of special vandalism include:
"Brad is the 1337est h4xx0r in Russia"
"♥ Katryna ♥ is the bestest bestest cheerleader ever!"
"KAYLA IS THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!! <3 :-)"
"david pwns."
Since I see more and more of that category every day. PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 22:55, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
To be fair, I think this area may be covered already (by metonymy) in the "equipment" part; maybe we could add a specification to that category, ", or are otherwise extremely special"? Your observation and proposal demand great care: if you are right, I feel the plan proposed by the page will need some non-trivial adjustment for it to be up to the task of eliminating vandalism. Great care is needed for such additions if we don't want the proposal to look incoherent and superficial.
For instance, what sort of proof should be attached to the application letter to confirm the applicant's declaration of being totally inconspicuous? Does this pose any challenge to getting it notarized? In phase II, what aspects could the investigators focus on, considering that the ideal candidate will be completely invisible to the investigator's eye just like an ant in its underground refuge? --Nemo 08:52, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Interesting diffEdit
Changes since the RFD: [6] PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:12, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
@PiRSquared17: The part about criticizing Wikipedia is more accurate than you think, see https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Electronics/Resistors&diff=prev&oldid=2581379. --Jakob (Scream about the things I've broken) 16:27, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I've seen many vandals like that. Some claim to be l33t h4x0rz because they can edit articles. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:35, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Don't you know that the "just kidding" excuse makes anything offensive ok? 199.168.151.107 17:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
No, not really.--AldNonymousBicara? 17:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Title is inappropriateEdit
I was reverted when I moved this over to a more appropriate title. The current title is "Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles" the text below it (all of it ) refers to vandals not friends of gays. I'd say the page needs to be retitled (moved ) to something more fitting like "Vandals should not be allowed to edit articles". Any one in agreement ? Necromonger Wekeepwhatwekill 16:33, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
No. This has been discussed many times before. It's a humorous page, and the title reflects that reality. Are you really trying to say that friends of gays are discriminated here? I obviously can't speak for everyone who has at least one gay friend, but I'm not feeling too hurt. Ajraddatz (talk) 17:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Edit button?Edit
Where's the edit button? I thought I'd make the page a little bit funnier.--Nowa (talk) 02:48, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
It was determined that 100 % readers of this page have gay friends, so the edit button was disabled consistently with the proposal in the article. --Nemo 18:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Move this page?Edit
I have an idea for a funnier title, that sums up who should not edit articles: Typing students, curious people, critics, certain men, cheerleaders, and friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles. Does anyone agree? Ups and Downs (↕) 16:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Maybe but too long in my humble opinion. --Pierpao (talk) 23:32, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Too long, and also not funny. By the time I finish the long list, my sense of humour has been put to sleep. BethNaught (talk) 16:58, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
Probably too long, I prefer the current title. --British Potato (talk) 10:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
Good point. Maybe I should read Uncyclopedia:HTBFANJS. Ups and Downs (↕) 04:57, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
Moved againEdit
The title is inappropriate and we have at least four people (including myself), who have attempted to move this away from the prior title, we have one person who opposes. I'd say we have a consensus that the prior title was innapropiate and needs to stay gone. Wekeepwhatwekill 12:59, 17 July 2019 (UTC) <signature sanitised>
No, the talk page shows that there is no consensus for a move which essentially negates the whole essay. You can propose deletion if you think Meta should not host such humour. Nemo 10:24, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
I also don't see the consensus here... and new title makes no sense as vandals are not allowed to edit anyway. Also, please do not add incorrect categories to this page.—Teles «Talk to me ˱C L @ S˲» 23:36, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Regardless of where the title ends up, @Wekeepwhatwekill: it is not acceptable for you to continue to move the page without discussion. This is the third move that you have made now, so consider this your only warning. If you want to make a contentious edit or action, open a discussion and argue your point. As to the actual title of the page, I have argued in the past that it is not discriminatory, but in the spirit of providing a safe and inclusive space on Meta I would be OK with the page being renamed. I would prefer a name more connected with the content of the page; i.e. "Typing students should not be allowed to edit articles", rather than the current title which doesn't make much sense. – Ajraddatz (talk) 00:38, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
The current title is a response to Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles, i.e. a request of personal identification to prove certain personal characteristics before being able to edit. Other humorous titles are possible but until we find a suitable one and get consensus on it we'll keep the status quo. The status quo title is not offensive for anyone and certainly not for gays or friends of gays. Nemo 10:27, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
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Jason Davis/Getty Images for Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
Alabama Honored as Country Music Hall of Fame Reception Heralds New Exhibit
Band Cheers as Charlie Daniels Gives a Musical Salute
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum heralded the opening of its Alabama: Song of the South exhibit with an elegant reception for several hundred guests Monday evening (Aug. 22).
The gathering was held in the high-ceilinged sixth-floor event hall that looks out on Nashville's ever-changing skyline.
The guests of honor were Alabama's founding members, Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook. Charlie Daniels provided the music.
The exhibit officially opens Friday and will run through July 16, 2017.
Guests mingled for an hour before the official program got underway. While waiting, they converged on the two fully stocked bars and foraged at food tables and carving stations laden with smoked beef brisket, corn and hulled pea salad, melon wrapped with Tennessee country ham, blackened catfish salad and jicama slaw.
Waiters circulated with trays of fried cheese grit cakes topped with blackened shrimp, deviled eggs with sweet relish and candied bacon and brie-stuffed mushroom caps.
Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, welcomed the guests and then introduced Daniels and his band to a standing ovation.
Daniels said Alabama was one of the few bands he opened for that he stayed around to watch, particularly drawn to their vocal harmonies.
"To be up here doing Alabama songs in front of Alabama is really weird," he said. "So if we mess some of your music up, you'll have to forgive us."
With that, Daniels launched into a high-octane cover of Alabama's Grammy-winning "Mountain Music," interspersed with his frenzied fiddling.
"I see Randy grinning," Daniels said as the song ended, "so I guess we're OK."
This fall, Daniels will join Alabama as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Daniels concluded his brief set with "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" and exited to another standing ovation.
Young returned to give a brief account of how Alabama came into being. He said Owen's father, Gladstone Owen, had inspired his son with the power of words by reading to the family the poems of Edgar A. Guest, who was known as "the people's poet."
Young declared that through their songs, Alabama had become "the people's poets," whose lyrics reached out farther than even Guest's poems had done.
He concluded by reading from Guest's "I Follow a Famous Father," which ends, "I follow a famous father, and I must keep in mind/though his form is gone, I must carry on the name that he left behind/It was mine on the day he gave it, it shone as a monarch's crown/And as fair to see as it came to me it must be when I pass it down."
He said Owen had fulfilled that charge admirably.
Although Alabama's former drummer and fellow Hall of Fame member, Mark Herndon, was not among the guests and is apparently still at odds with the founders, Young acknowledged his part in the band.
Young also noted that Owen had spearheaded efforts that have raised $600 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
He then summoned the members of Alabama to the stage as the crowd stood and cheered.
Gentry and Cook were both brief in their remarks.
"It's an incredible honor to be here with people we looked up to," Gentry said. He, too, acknowledged Herndon.
Cook, holding up an injured hand, said he still believed he was "put here on Earth to play guitar." He then jokingly saluted "the people we invited and the people we didn't invite but who came here anyway."
Owen had a veritable honor roll of people to thank — from his father for teaching him "E, A and B [chords]" and buying him his first guitars to "the only club owner who gave us a bonus."
He thanked, as well, the country acts who welcomed them to the stage early in their career, among them Ray Pillow and the late Jack Greene and Sammi Smith.
He also expressed his gratitude to the late John Vartanian, a former drummer with the band "who took us to the Bowery," the Myrtle Beach nightclub, where the band was discovered.
And he thanked "the girls at the Bowery who danced" and thus enabled the band members to live on the tips they earned there.
Following the program, guests either went downstairs to view the exhibit or else diverted themselves at dessert tables piled high with Kentucky bourbon pecan pie tartlets, Southern banana pudding shooters with whipped cream, fresh fruit and assorted truffles.
It was that kind of night.
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Ariana Grande Fan Detained After Trying to Surprise Singer While Wearing a Santa Suit
To say her record label's reaction wasn't jolly would be an understatement.
By Steve Annear·	 12/3/2014, 11:02 a.m.
Image via Associated Press
A Lowell man who was reprimanded by police and told to stop sending extravagant gifts—including a 42-pound pumpkin—to pop star Ariana Grande, ignored the department's warnings and showed up at the singer's record company in New York City last week, this time dressed head-to-toe in a Santa Claus costume.
Timothy Normandin, 29, who told Boston last month that he had no plans to ease up on reaching out to Grande to express his feelings for her, was reportedly detained and sent for a mental health evaluation after the impromptu appearance at the singer's record label headquarters during the Thanksgiving holiday. Besides the suit, Normandin admitted that he also carried in a 4-foot-tall white Christmas tree to the building, to give to Grande.
In his own words, Normandin wrote in a public post about the incident that it was an "absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving week," despite being detained.
"I went to tell Ariana Grande and got cuffed by security at URR [the record label]," he wrote. "Got taken to St. Luke's psychiatric where I was wrestled by the hospital army and [my] face shoved (smashing one of my hearing aids) to be pumped with 'medication' on my very last breath before passing out, which I didn't do."
As reported by TMZ, Normandin admitted that he spent several days at the mental health facility before he was turned loose, still wearing the Santa costume, onto the streets of New York City. He then spent time sleeping in a homeless shelter—by choice—before eventually boarding a bus back to Massachusetts a day after Thanksgiving.
During his time in the city, Normandin said he roamed the streets of Manhattan "spreading cheer" in his holiday-themed outfit. Despite the incident, he made the best of his experience, he said.
"I still had a great time handling that mess of a situation," said Normandin in his Facebook post about the apprehension and time in the psych ward. "Having been in the Santa Claus gear all week and still, I wanted to spend Thanksgiving day walking around Manhattan spreading cheer in the busiest city, New York. It was so great to see so many smiles come across the faces of kids, ladies, and gents when their eyes rolled onto me."
Normandin was first told by Lowell Police last month to stop reaching out to Grande, after security officials from the singer's record label told officers that he had sent candles, a massive pumpkin, and other presents to their building. He decided on the Santa costume and Christmas tree stunt after Grande released a new song called "Santa, Tell Me."
After someone told Normandin on his Facebook page that he shouldn't waste time on Grande, since she hasn't been receptive to his pleas for attention, he brushed off the suggestion.
"She is probably minimally aware of such events if at all. Based on the messages that I'm getting from the URR security, she IS minimally or not at all aware," he said. "Even if fully aware, if a change could happen in her mind for the better, I don't see more shared potential in any other, and I or in Ariana Grande."
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Scandal Tonight: The Cat's Out of the (Prada) Bag!
On tonight's all-new episode of Scandal, flashbacks to the Cytron case will reveal more about Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and Verna's involvement in the cover-up of Lindsay Dwyer's identity (a.k.a. Quinn Perkins). It will also reveal the more feminine wardrobe Olivia had, pre-Pope & Assoc. "This particular outfit is a perfect example of how we change Olivia into a different look in the past," costume designer Lyn Paolo told InStyle.com. "It is subtle, but notice the dress (not pants), the dangling earrings (not her usual close to the ear look), her shoes have pointed toes and are more of a princess heel, and, as always in her flashback looks, [she carries] the Goyard tote, not her usual Prada bag." Past or present, we love Pope's tan Burberry coat paired with a plaid Ralph Lauren dress, and her very of-the-moment bangs, thanks to Michelle Obama's recently debuted fringe. "We think that these small changes, along with her different hair style, help to tell the audience that we are in a different time and place," Paolo said. Tune in to Scandal tonight at 10 p.m. EST on ABC to see what happens—and to see Olivia's full look!
Plus, see Kerry Washington's best looks ever.


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COVID-19 Coronavirus: locations visited by confirmed cases
Locations in Western Australia visited by confirmed COVID-19 cases
Last updated: 16 January at 7:15pm
The information provided on this page should not replace advice given directly to an individual by the Department of Health's contact tracing team.
The Department of Health is contacting all confirmed cases to identify and inform close contacts.
As part of the contact tracing process, contact tracers speak to positive cases and determine where they have been in the days they are possibly infectious.
When close and casual contacts in a location can be comprehensively traced such as a workplace, family's house, or friend's house there is no need to publicly release the location, as all contacts are tracked and contacted as a priority.
However, when the positive case has visited publicly accessible locations and close and casual contacts are not as readily identifiable, the location is released to assist with the public health response.
Find out where to get tested.
Visited a site during the time(s) listed?
If you have visited an exposure site during the times listed below, you are required to follow the corresponding health advice issued for that location, unless directly advised otherwise by the Department of Health.
If you have or develop symptoms, please isolate and phone 13 COVID (13 26843).
Exposure sites
Use the table below to view all the Western Australian public exposure sites.
Exposure date & time
Friday 14/01/2022 at 8:00pm - Saturday 15/01/2022 2:00am
Hit studio Karaoke Box
64 Francis st
Get tested immediately and isolate until you receive a negative result, unless directly advised otherwise by the Department of Health.
Friday 14/01/2022 at 8:10pm - 10:00pm
U Natural Spa Therapy
894 Canning Highway
Get tested immediately and isolate for 14 days from the date of last exposure, unless directly advised otherwise by the Department of Health. If you have not been contacted by the Department of Health phone 13 COVID (13 26843).
Friday 14/01/2022 at 10:40am - 8:20pm
Mount Lawley
New U Massage
771 Beaufort St
Friday 14/01/2022 at 9:00am - 10:50am
Thursday 13/01/2022 at 9:30am - 8:30pm
Osborne Park
Comfort Massage
83A Main St
Thursday 13/01/2022 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Settlers Tavern & Margaret River Ale Co
114 Bussell Hwy
Thursday 13/01/2022 at 10:40am - 8:20pm
Wednesday 12/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Pinns Palace Resturant
Shop 3 / 1481 Albany Highway
Wednesday 12/01/2022 at 11:15am to 12:30pm
Kookai, Garden City Shopping Centre
Shop 179/180/125 Riseley St
Wednesday 12/01/2022 at 9:00am to 9:30am
Bassendean
Last Crumb Café/Bakery
Friday 07/01/2022 all day
Saturday 08/01/2022 all day
Sunday 09/01/2022 all day
Monday 10/01/2022 all day
Tuesday 11/01/2022 all day
Wednesday 12/01/2022 all day
Thursday 13/01/2022 all day
U Natural Therapy Spa
Thursday 13/01/2022 at 1:00pm to 2:15pm
West Swan
The Margaret River Chocolate Company
5123 W Swan Rd
Thursday 13/01/2022 at 9:45am to 10:30am
Pharmacy 777 Canning Bridge
900 Canning Hwy
Monitor for symptoms unless directly advised otherwise by the Department of Health. If symptoms develop, get tested and isolate.
Wednesday 12/01/2022 at 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Xiaolongkan Chinese Fondue
Unit 2 / 191 James St
Midland Gate Shopping Centre
Kmart Midland Gate Shopping Centre
Wednesday 12/01/2022 at 2:15pm - 2:45pm
Telstra shop
Midland Gate Shopping Centre,
Thornlie
West Care Medical Centre
Spencer Village Shopping Centre,
Shop 4-5 / 208 Spencer Road
Tuesday 11/01/2022 at 5:45pm to 8:00pm
Seoul BBQ Buffet
425 Albany Highway
Tuesday 11/01/2022 at 2:40pm
Spiderman movie
Hoyts Carousel Cinema
1382 Albany Highway
San Churros
Kiosk K105 / 1382 Albany Highway,
Tuesday 11/01/2022 at 11:30am to 1:00pm
Woo Jeong Korean
542 Hay St
Tuesday 11/01/2022 at 11:00am to 11:45am
Belmont Medical Centre
321 Abernethy Rd
Monday 10/01/2022 at 10:00am - 8:30pm
Monday 10/01/2022 at 1:45pm to 2:30pm
Sunday 09/01/2022 at 10:45am to 11:15am
Woolworths Stockland Bull Creek Shopping Centre
44 Benningfield Rd
Get tested immediately. Unless symptomatic, you are not required to isolate while awaiting negative result.
Saturday 08/01/2022 at 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Big W Cockburn Gateway
816 Beeliar Drive
Woolworths Cockburn Gateway
Good Price Pharmacy Jandakot
626 Karel Ave
Friday 07/01/2022 at 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Australia Post Collection Centre
7 De Laeter Way
Chemist Warehouse Bentley Plaza
Shop 11/1140 Albany Hwy,
Friday 07/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
P&N Bank Cockburn Gateways
shop 121, 816 Beeliar Dr
Friday 07/01/2022 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Bunnings Cannington
27 Liege St
Spudshed Jandakot
Homecraft Textiles
Albany Hwy, St James
Tuesday 11/01/2022 at 8:15am to 9:15am
Atwell
Harvest Lakes Discount Drug Store Pharmacy
2/23 Gibbs Rd
Monday 10/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Bunnings Midland
Cnr Lloyd & Clayton St
Saturday 08/01/2022 at 11:30am to 2:30pm
Suisen Japanese Restaurant
8/57 Old Perth Rd
Saturday 01/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 2:30pm
Emperors Kitchen
1/18 Cecil Avenue
Sunday 09/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 12:15pm
Forrestfield
Truck Moves Australia
Saturday 08/01/2022 at 8:45am to 9:45am
Sunday 09/01/2022 at 7:00am to 7:45am
Southern Cross
Shell (Dunning's) Southern Cross
22 Great Eastern Hwy
Saturday 08/01/2022 at 4:45pm - Sunday 09/01/2022 at 4:30am
Coolgardie
Coolgardie Goldrush Motel
47-53 Bailey St
Norseman BP,
1 Coolgardie-Esperance Hwy
Saturday 08/01/2022 at 9:45am to 10:30am
Caiguna
Caiguna Roadhouse
Medicare Fremantle
11 Queen Victoria Street
Monday 03/01/2022 at 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Winthrop Village Shopping Centre
Corner Jackson Avenue & Somerville Blvd
Kwinana Commonwealth Bank
Shop 31, Kwinana Marketplace,
4 Chisham Ave, Kwinana Town Centre
Aldi Kwinana
32 Meares Avenue
Gelato Bar Cottesloe
88 Marine Parade
Tuesday 04/01/22 at 10:20am to 10:50am
Kwinana Repco
3/46 Meares Ave
Monday 03/01/22 at 12:45pm to 1:15pm
Coles Express
1 Johnson Road
Sunday 02/01/22 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Leda Essentials
Stargate S/C 6 Feilman Dr
Chemist Warehouse Leda
Tenancy No 1 Stargate S/C 6 to, 8 Feilman Dr
Friday 31/12/21 at 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Woolworths – Westfield Carousel Shopping Centre
1382 Albany Hwy
Liberty Fuel Beckenham
63 William St
Friday 31/12/21 at 10:45am to 11:45am
Kmart Rockingham Shopping Centre
1 Council Ave
Rockingham Central Lottery Centre
Kiosk 5 / 1 Council Ave
Rockingham Shopping Centre
Thursday 30/12/2021 at 6:30am - 8:00am
Cowaramup
BP Petrol Station Cowaramup,
Corner Bussell Hwy and Roy Earl Drive
Tuesday 04/01/22 at 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Fremantle Pharmacy
82B High Street
Sundancer Backpackers Hostel
80 High Street Fremantle
Monday 03/01/2022 at 6:30pm to 10:00pm
East Victoria Park
Healthy Thai Vegan and Vegetarian Cuisine
867a Albany Highway
Saturday 01/01/22 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Sunday 02/01/22 at 2:00pm to 2:30pm
Blue Cat Bus – Fremantle to South Beach
Monday 03/01/2022 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Blue Cat Bus – South Beach to Fremantle
Sunday 02/01/2022 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Blue Cat Bus – South Beach to Fremantle Markets
Corner of Henderson Street and South Terrace
Sunday 02/01/2022 at 5:15pm to 7:00pm
Friday 31/12/2021 at 11:45pm - Saturday 01/01/2022 12:45am
Yagan Square
Wellington Street
Friday 31/12/2021 at 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Ampol Foodary
810 Beaufort Street
Thursday 30/12/2021 at 11:00am to 12:45pm
Diver's Tavern
12 Cable Beach Road W
Related to a case that has tested positive in Queensland
Thursday 30/12/2021 at 7:30pm - 8:00pm
Shou Japanese Kitchen
Shop 24, 18 Calectasia Street
Monday 27/12/2021 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
West Perth
Dan Murphy's, Hyde Park
Cnr Bulwer and, Fitzgerald St
The Lucky Shag Waterfront Bar
Thursday 30/12/2021 at 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Aviary Bar
Level 1/140 William St
Wednesday 29/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 11:00pm
Thursday 30/12/2021 at 10:00pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Murdoch University - Building 340,
Thursday 30/12/21 at 4:15pm - 4:45pm
Chidlow
Lake Leschenaultia (used toilets),
Rosedale Road
Thursday 30/12/21 at 11:30am - 1:30pm
Woolworths Greenfields,
2 Eaglemont Street
Aldi Cannington,
Wednesday 29/12/21 at 1:00pm - 6:00pm
South Beach Fremantle,
Wednesday 29/12/21 at 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Castle Rock Beach Parking,
Castle Rock Road
Tuesday 28/12/21 at 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Coles, Bunbury CentrePoint Shopping Centre,
Blair Street and Stephen Street
Tuesday 28/12/21 at 12:50pm - 1:05pm and 2:00pm to 2:30pm
South Bunbury
Smokemart, Park Centre Shopping Centre,
1 Brittain Road
Tuesday 28/12/21 at 9:30am - 11:30am
East Bunbury
Woolworths, Bunbury Forum Shopping Centre,
Sandridge Road
Big W, Bunbury Forum Shopping Centre,
Monday 27/12/21 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Binningup
Puma Petrol Station,
7080 Forrest Highway
Sunday 26/12/21 at 11:00am - 7:00pm
Dalyellup
Beach Park,
66 Hutt Drive
Saturday 25/12/21 12:00am to
Sunday 26/12/21 10:00am
Preston Beach
Martins Tank campground,
Preston Beach Road N
Friday 31/12/2021 at 11:15pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Spearwood
Spudshed Spearwood,
Stargate Shopping Centre,
432 Rockingham Road
Friday 31/12/2021 at 12:15am - 12:45am (midnight)
BP Kardinya,
88 Gilbertson Road
Murdoch University - Building 515 Multi Faith Centre,
Mekan Chargrill and Kebabs,
17c Marshall Road
Thursday 30/12/21 at 8:00am - 5:00pm
Gracetown
Gracetown Beach Car Park,
Bayview Drive
Wednesday 29/12/21 at 9:30pm - 6:00am Thursday 30/12/21
Wilyabrup
Honeycombs Beach Car Park,
via Moses Rock Road
Wednesday 29/12/21 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse,
Cape Naturaliste Road
Meelup Beach Parking,
Eagle Bay-Meelup Road
Eagle Bay Beach Parking,
West Busselton
Kmart Busselton,
Aldi Busselton,
7-Eleven Busselton,
Wednesday 29/12/21 at 9:15am - 10:00am
Busselton Visitor Centre,
17 Foreshore Parade
Busselton Jetty
(Jetty and bathroom - opposite the brewery by Information Centre - before and after sunset)
3L Queen Street
Park Centre Kebabs,
Tuesday 28/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Kmart South Bunbury,
Coles South Bunbury,
Tuesday 28/12/21 at 12:50pm - 2:20pm
Park Centre Shopping Centre,
Tuesday 28/12/21 12:00am - 12:30pm
Tuesday 28/12/21 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Wyalup/Rocky Point Carpark,
1 Ocean Drive
TSG,
Sunday 26/12/2021 at 12:45pm - 1:15pm
Hamilton Hill
224 Clontarf Road
Kardinya and Fremantle
Bus route 998
Kardinya to Fremantle
Fremantle and Hilton
Fremantle to Hilton
Kmart South Bunbury
7 Adelaide Street
Spearwood and Fremantle
Spearwood to Fremantle
Sunday 26/12/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Fremantle and Spearwood
Fremantle to Spearwood
Preston Beach General Store
52 Mitchell Road
South Fremantle
South Beach Toilet Block (Shower)
Off Ocean Drive
Kmart Perth
712 Hay Street Mall
Myer Perth
Coles Kardinya
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 11:00pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Perth and Fremantle
Perth to Fremantle train ride
Fremantle Line
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 11:00pm - 11:30pm
Perth Railway Station (including public toilets)
East Fremantle
Domino's Pizza East Fremantle
BP Fremantle Service Station
85 Queen Victoria St
Portside Boulders O'Connor
12 Murphy Street
Sunday 26/12/2021 at 5:30pm - 6:15pm
Farmer Jacks Spearwood - Phoenix Shopping Centre
254 Rockingham Rd
Sunday 26/12/2021 at 11:15am - 1:30pm
Snap Fitness 24/7 Gym
1/218 Rockingham Road
Perth Railway Station
Wellington St, Perth
East Bunbury and Perth
B56 Australind Train ride (TransWA)
Bunbury to Perth
Bunbury Passenger Terminal
Picton Rd;
Wyalup/Rocky Point Carpark and Public Facilities
Preston Beach Carpark and Public Facilities
87 Mitchell Rd
Beeliar
Coles Beeliar Village
8 Durnin Avenue
Liquorland Beeliar Village
Corner Beeliar Drive & Durnin Avenue
Fremantle & Perth
Fremantle to Perth Train ride
Thursday 23/12/2021 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Woolworths South Fremantle
219 Hampton Road
Fremantle Central Pharmacy
Shop 1, Corner Cantonment & Queen Streets
Hay St &, William St, Perth WA
Liquorland South Fremantle
Shop 9, 219 Hampton Road
Kakulas Sister
29/31 Market Street
Burswood & Perth
Burswood to McIver train ride
Armadale/Thornlie line
Dan Murphy's South Fremantle
47 Douro Road
Friday 24/12/2021 at 12:00am (midnight) - 11:30am
Fremantle Village Caravan Park
25 Cockburn Rd
Thursday 23/12/2021 at 4:30pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Perth CBD & Scarborough
Perth Busport to Scarborough
Scarborough & Perth CBD
Scarborough to Perth Busport
La Capannina
L1/171 The Esplanade
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 12:50pm - 1:00pm
Vibe Forrestfield
159 Milner Rd
Tuesday 21/12/2021 at 7:45pm - 11:00pm
Picabar
51 James St
Monday 20/12/2021 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Monday 20/12/2021 at 4:50pm - 10:10pm
Dough Pizza
434A William St
Woolworths - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Erindale Road & Beach Rd
Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Kmart - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Smokemart & GiftBox & Vape Square - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Aldi - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Coles - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
Liquorland - Warwick Grove (shopping centre)
My Oz Experience Hostel
79 Aberdeen Street
Old Fire Station Backpackers
18 Phillimore Street
The Hive Hostel
55-63 Stirling St
Thursday 23/12/2021 at 12:00am (midnight) - 12:50am
McDonalds Melville
Cnr Leach Highway and North Lake Road
Perth Baptist Church
Pretzel café
Tuesday 21/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Escape Portal (gaming lounge)
Coles Raine Square, Perth City
300 Murray St
South Fremantle Marketplace (Shopping complex)
Fremantle Prison YHA
6A The Terrace
Monday 20/12/2021 at 1:30pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Perth Mess Hall
8 Francis Street
Friday 17/12/2021 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
JB Hi-Fi Forrest Chase
Tenancy 22, Level 1 200 Murray Street
Woolworths Murray Street
Mont Clare Boutique Apartments
190 Hay Street
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 4:15pm - 12:00am (midnight)
Aldi - The Square Mirrabooka (Mirrabooka Shopping Centre)
43 Yirrigan Dr
Kmart - The Square Mirrabooka (Mirrabooka Shopping Centre)
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 11:45am - 12:15pm
Vinnies Mirrabooka
Wednesday 22/12/2021 at 11:45am - 2:00pm
The Square Mirrabooka (Mirrabooka Shopping Centre)
Sunday 19/12/2021 at 11:00pm - 11:30pm
Girrawheen
McDonald's Girrawheen (not drive through)
Templeton Crescent
Sunday 19/12/2021 at 3:00am - 5:00am
Connections Nightclub
Bangkok Brothers
Sunday 19/12/2021 at 12:00am (midnight) - 3:00am
Geisha Nightclub
135A James St
Saturday 18/12/2021 at 8:00pm - 8:30pm
Dan Murphy's Joondalup
75 Joondalup Drive, Edgewater
Dan Murphy's Wanneroo
1387 Wanneroo Road
Newpark Shopping Centre
60 Marangaroo Drive
IGA Girrawheen - Newpark Shopping Centre
60 Marangaroo Dr
Marangaroo
Shell Coles Express Girrawheen (fuel station)
Bloody French
279 Rokeby Rd
Palace Cinema, Raine Square
Top floor, Raine Square, 300 Murray St
Vans Shoes Store - CBD
Lower Ground, 195 Murray St
Kmart - CBD
McDonald's - CBD
3 Forrest Place
Galway Hooker
3/148 The Esplanade
Scarborough Sunset Markets
152 The Esplanade
WA Museum Boola Bardip
Perth Cultural Centre
7-Eleven Midland
8 Clayton St
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Arrivals area and luggage carousel
1 Horrie Miller Drive
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QR900 Qatar Airways Doha to Perth 10/12/2021 1, 2, 3, 4
EK420 Emirates Dubai to Perth 04/12/2021 1, 2, 3, 4
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Blast is caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. It can affect all above ground parts of a rice plant: leaf, collar, node, neck, parts of panicle, and sometimes leaf sheath.
Blast can occur wherever blast spores are present.
It occurs in areas with low soil moisture, frequent and prolonged periods of rain shower, and cool temperature in the daytime. In upland rice, large day-night temperature differences that cause dew formation on leaves and overall cooler temperatures favor the development of the disease.
Rice can have blast in all growth stages. However, leaf blast incidence tends to lessen as plants mature and develop adult plant resistance to the disease.
Initial symptoms appear as white to gray-green lesions or spots, with dark green borders.
Older lesions on the leaves are elliptical or spindle-shaped and whitish to gray centers with red to brownish or necrotic border.
Some resemble diamond shape, wide in the center and pointed toward either ends.
Lesions can enlarge and coalesce, growing together, to kill the entire leaves.
Blast lesions can commonly be confused with Brown Spot lesions.
Leaf blast lesions are usually elongated and pointed at each end, while brown spot lesions tend to be more round, brown in color and have a yellow halo surrounding the lesion.
Rice blast is one of the most destructive diseases of rice. A leaf blast infection can kill seedlings or plants up to the tillering stage. At later growth stages, a severe leaf blast infection reduces leaf area for grain fill, reducing grain yield.
Leaf blast can kill rice plants at seedling stage and cause yield losses in cases of severe infection.
The primary control option for blast is to plant resistant varieties. Contact your local agriculture office for up-to-date lists of varieties available.
Adjust planting time. Sow seeds early, when possible, after the onset of the rainy season.
Split nitrogen fertilizer application in two or more treatments. Excessive use of fertilizer can increase blast intensity.
Flood the field as often as possible.
Silicon fertilizers (e.g., calcium silicate) can be applied to soils that are silicon deficient to reduce blast. However, because of its high cost, silicon should be applied efficiently. Cheap sources of silicon, such as straws of rice genotypes with high silicon content, can be an alternative. Care should be taken to ensure that the straw is free from blast as the fungus can survive on rice straw and the use of infected straw as a silicon source can spread the disease further.
Systemic fungicides like triazoles and strobilurins can be used judiciously for control to control blast. A fungicide application at heading can be effective in controlling the disease.


JAKARTA (NYTIMES) - For Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, this has been the year of living with disaster, both national and personal.
Sutopo, the spokesman for Indonesia's disaster management agency, has become a household name as a source of reliable information during a deadly string of earthquakes, floods, landslides and, just a week ago, a tsunami that killed more than 400 people.
At the same time, he has been dealing with his own calamity. A lifelong non-smoker, he learnt early this year, at the age of 48, that he had Stage 4 lung cancer. Doctors gave him one to three years to live.
"When I heard the diagnosis in January, I was shocked," he said during a recent interview at his office in Jakarta, the capital. "After that, I accepted that it was my fate, just like people who were affected by earthquakes and the tsunami."
Now 49, he has used the time left to him to plunge into his work, winning the admiration of his compatriots and gaining a large following on social media.
His Twitter feed is filled with dramatic videos of landslides, rushing floodwaters and erupting volcanoes, interspersed with photos of him undergoing chemotherapy at a Jakarta hospital.
After a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the resort island of Lombok in August, killing more than 550 people, he fielded calls from reporters while receiving treatment.
Despite the constant ache in his bones, where the cancer has spread, he has remained a commanding presence at news conferences beamed live across the country.
"When there is a disaster and I have to do a press conference, my adrenaline increases and I even forget I am sick," he said. "As soon as I get home, I feel the pain." A vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia is especially vulnerable to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis because it sits astride the Ring of Fire, an active seismic area on the margins of the Pacific Ocean.
This has been the country's deadliest year for natural disasters in more than a decade, Sutopo said. More than 4,600 people died, a figure that does not include the 189 passengers and crew members killed in the crash of a Lion Air plane in the Java Sea on Oct 29.
The worst of the catastrophes was the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck the island of Sulawesi in September, killing more than 2,100.
"This has been the year of disasters," Sutopo said.
When the second tsunami of the year struck on the evening of Dec 22 in the Sunda Strait, Sutopo was in the city of Yogyakarta, having a holiday with his family and seeking alternative treatment for his cancer.
He quickly began sending updates to the news media, keeping at it until 1am. He was back to work before 6am, apologising for typos in his messages, saying that the fingers of his left hand were numb from his treatment.
Later, he spoke bluntly about the lack of a tsunami alert, saying, "The disaster early warning system in Indonesia is still far from satisfactory."
Across Indonesia, people rely on Sutopo when a disaster strikes.
"He explains things in simple language for average people," said Caroline Maringka, a store manager in Jakarta.
"I also feel he is very committed and puts the public's interest on top. Even though he is suffering from a terminal illness, he still does his job."
Despite his condition, Sutopo was upbeat and vigorous during a two-hour interview.
The father of two children, ages 12 and 19, he said he was taking morphine for pain, including an aching spine. Lying down is so painful that he rarely sleeps more than three hours a night.
He posts often about his condition on Twitter, sharing X-rays of his lung and before-and-after photos of the top of his bald head, showing that some hair, oddly, has grown back during chemotherapy.
Pak Topo, as he is affectionately known, grew up in the Central Java town of Boyolali, about 330 miles east of Jakarta and close to Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's many active volcanoes. He studied geography at university and later earned a doctorate in natural resources and environmental management.
For 16 years, he worked for government agencies as a researcher, mainly on water issues. After a dam broke near Jakarta in 2009, killing more than 100 people, he analysed photos of the dam and went public with his finding that cracks in the structure had caused it to fail.
"It was me against the Ministry of Public Works," he said. "At that time, I received a lot of threats to keep quiet."
Even so, he was asked to take a leading role in analysing and explaining subsequent disasters.
He turned down his current post three times, he said, because he did not want a job in which he thought his role would be to promote his boss.
He was finally left with no choice in 2010, when he was directed one day to attend a ceremony dressed in a suit. Only after he arrived did he discover he was being sworn in as the disaster agency's spokesman.
He said he never received training for the job.
"I don't have a background in communications," he said. "I just do it. And I just have to have the guts to criticise the government, not using bureaucratic language but in my own style."
Rumours often spread quickly during big disasters, and Sutopo sees part of his job as combating online hoaxes and false reports. "What I am giving out is the real thing, not fake news like Donald Trump," he said.
Like many Indonesians, he prefers President Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, who lived in Indonesia as a child and has visited several times.
In a country where people often rely on faith and superstition to understand the world, Sutopo's job sometimes entails explaining the science of disasters, such as the fact that quakes and volcanic eruptions are caused by the shifting of tectonic plates that form the Earth's outer layer.
He also incorporates local wisdom and traditional beliefs into his explanations.
"The cultural approach works better than just science and technology," he said. "If people think that it is punishment from God, it makes it easier for them to recover."
His office shelves are lined with dozens of awards. An Indonesian anti-hoas group called Mafindo honoured Sutopo in October for his efforts to combat the spread of false information during disasters. The Straits Times newspaper in Singapore named Sutopo an "Asian of the Year" this month.
The attention he has received is unusual for a mid-level bureaucrat. He has become so prominent that President Joko Widodo, whom Sutopo calls his idol, met him in October.
Another dream came true in November when Sutopo met his favourite celebrity, a pop singer, Raisa Andriana.
He had been trying to get her attention by including her Twitter handle in some of his disaster posts. He said he hoped she would retweet the messages to her 8.4 million followers.
When she didn't respond, some of his followers began using the Twitter hashtag #RaisaMeetSutopo, which went viral for a few days in October.
They finally met last month in Jakarta, where she sang a song to him. He called it one of the highlights of his life.
Who is next on his wish list to meet?
"Not Donald Trump," he said. "Obama."


The Edwards Family has been hit hard with this terrible disease. My maternal grandfather had it. My mother had it. Two of her sisters had or have it.
It is a scary feeling seeing your loved ones suffer and not knowing if it will affect you. My mother has one sister who is suffering now with this disease. It is a very hard job being a caregiver, because it affects everything in your life.
My family is committed to the walk in four states to help raise awareness. We are committed to the walks in Baltimore, Washington D.C., North Carolina and White Plains. This is in part for us to find a cure.


Shopkeepers in Chinese-dominated parts of New York City have long favored a particular form of extra-legal justice in dealing with badly behaving customers: catch the offense (typically shoplifting) on tape, seize the offender's ID, take a photograph and threaten to paste the picture on the wall--along with the would-be thief's name and crime--unless he or she agrees to pay a penalty. The approach has its critics but also benefits from a certain logic: Why bother going through the rigmarole and uncertainty of criminal prosecution when shame works so much better?
Now a group of local officials in China has decided to apply that approach to an entire city.
The March 19, 2011 edition of the Wuhan Evening News displays the Wuhan government's inaugural "Uncivilized Residents" lists.
Frustrated at the inability of traditional propaganda and fines to improve the behavior of its citizens, the government of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, has teamed with local media to produce a city-wide name-and-shame list.
The inaugural list--released over the weekend and teased on the front page of the Wuhan Evening News with a blaring headline "City Reveals First Group of 'Uncivilized Residents'"--verbally tars and feathers 40 people for engaging in one of four unacceptable activities: careless running of red lights, careless parking, jaywalking ("careless crossing of the street") and littering ("careless throwing around of garbage").
Offenders are named in three of the four lists (jaywalkers appear in photographs but aren't named). Perpetrators of traffic offenses have their license-plate numbers listed along with the time and location of the infraction, while the list for litterers offers offenders' ages as well as the punishment received (typically a 50 yuan fine).
The Wuhan Evening News promises a fresh set of lists every week, but the categories could change. Next time, the lists might include "carelessly dumping sediment," "throwing things from high places" or any number of other inconsiderate activities, Yan Hong, head of the Wuhan Civilization Office, told Xinhua (in Chinese) on Wednesday.
Public reaction to the new initiative appears sharply divided. A number of online commenters have lauded the lists as a way to improve Chinese people's character (素质) – a topic of much discussion in the wake of the disaster in Japan, which has produced an outpouring of admiration in China for the discipline and orderliness of regular Japanese people. Others, however, have been less enthusiastic.
Many seem to bristle at the idea of government officials, who in China are often assumed corrupt until proven otherwise, labeling other people uncivilized.
"Work up a black list for the government, then its fair," one commenter writing under the name Xiaosi Dake said on the microbbloging site Sina Weibo.
Many others worry that the list represents an infringement on privacy, with some questioning whether it's legal. "Publicizing a list of uncivilized residents is a misuse of power!" Guo Jinlong, an accountant based in the southern city of Shenzhen wrote on his microblog. "What legal basis does this have?"
As with the shame tactics employed by the shopkeepers in New York, the answer to the legal question in Wuhan isn't immediately clear.
For his part, the man in charge of the lists suggests people focus more of their attention on the system's intended goal. "Exposure is just the means, not the end," the Civilization Office's Mr. Yan tells Xinhua. "All of this is to build an enduring mechanism for establishing civilization and improving the character of residents on multiple fronts."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post mistranslated the name of Guo Jinlong.


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Ex-Slave Seeks Office in Mauritania to Fight for Freedom
FILE - Anti-slavery militants hold a banner whose message translates as "No to slavery and racism, no to the regime of the general dictator Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz" as they demonstrate, Aug. 3, 2016, in Dakar against the imprisonment of fellow activists in Mauritania.
DAKAR, SENEGAL —
Born into slavery and kept as a servant for 30 years, Haby Mint Rabah is now running for parliament in Mauritania to fight for freedom in a nation with one of the world's worst slavery rates.
Rabah's candidacy is a first for the West African country, where more than two in every 100 people — 90,000 in total — live as slaves, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index.
Slavery is a historical practice in Mauritania, which became the last country to abolish it in 1981. Black descendants of ethnic groups in the south are typically enslaved by lighter-skinned Mauritanians, often as cattle herders and servants.
Rabah, 44, was born into bondage and forced to work from age 5 as a maid and a field hand. She hopes to be a role model and show that freedom and a life after slavery are possible.
"I submitted my candidacy because I was a slave, like my parents and my parents' parents before me," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from the capital, Nouakchott. "And I never saw a slave candidate in elections."
Mauritania criminalized slavery in 2007, but few slave owners have been penalized. Some members of the political elite deny that slavery still exists, and several activists who spoke out against it have been arrested and even jailed.
Mauritania's government has repeatedly denied restricting the activities of rights groups or making arbitrary arrests.
'I know that they exist'
"The day that I'm in parliament I will defend the slaves ... because I know that they exist and that they have many needs," Rabah said. "I'll be there for them."
Rabah will stand in the September 1 elections as a member of the Mauritanian Rally for Global Action, the political wing of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), in coalition with the more established Sawab party.
Rabah was freed in 2008 with the help of the IRA after one of her brothers escaped and alerted the anti-slavery group.
As a slave, her chores included carrying water and herding animals. Her master repeatedly raped and beat her, Rabah said.
"I suffered every kind of mistreatment," she added.
Slaves in Mauritania do not tend to escape because they are unaware of their rights and cannot envisage a life beyond slavery, said Boubacar Messaoud, president of rights group SOS Esclaves.
"[Rabah's candidacy] is something that should encourage slaves to lift their heads ... to see that when you are free, you have the possibility to access everything the others always had," Messaoud said.
Report: North Korea, Eritrea Have Highest Rates of Modern Slavery
Mauritania Jails Slave-Owner for 20 Years in Country's Harshest Ruling
Mauritania Intensifies Crackdown on Anti-slavery Activists, Says Campaigner
Mauritania Anti-Slavery Activists Appeal Conviction


And you feel the FEELING.
And in that small silence between him asking, "Really?" you both know. Your world is about to change.
All of this to say WE'RE MOVING. Not far, but a little outside of the city to a more family-friendly area where I'm less likely to find heroin spoons in the park and where people smile a lot more readily. Where the town holds outdoor movie nights in the summer, hosts a downtown trick or treat, and Santa has his own chair at the coffee shop come Christmas. It's borderline idyllic—the kind of place ODP will probably want to get away from as soon as he graduates high school and then inevitably long for when he's hung over on a Saturday morning. You can catch a whale watching tour right from the ferry dock downtown, kayak out to your crab pots all summer. This is a place my mommy (and straight up PNW-loving human) dreams are made of.
Have I mentioned we also have to sell the house we're living in?
There is a LOT going on and while it's all good, it is all happening at once. I heard a nice reminder this weekend about life happening for us, not to us—from Oprah, obviously—which has made me feel slightly more at ease about the sheer volume of things we have headed in our direction over the next few months. I can't say I'm totally ready, but I can say I'll try to take some deep breaths along the way.
And I'll be sharing a whole lot of house projects, too. That part will probably be my favorite.


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h2h Corner ~ Katy Perry (Hot 'N' Cold) All-Stars
Posted April 22, 2010 by alangyo in H2H.	Tagged: Adam Jones, albert lang, beltre, Carlos Lee, fantasy baseball, Fantasy Baseball 101, Gavin Floyd, h2h corner, haren, ibanez, lester, ortiz, porcello, Red Sox, roto.	1 Comment
Players get hot and cold over a weeks period, it's as sure as the samples are small.
"It's black and it's white"
While I typically agree with anything Katy Perry says/does, I have to make way for a shade of gray in fantasy baseball leagues. Below you will find analysis on the hottest of the hot and coldest of the cold. Some of the hots are just one-week oneders, while others deserve consideration in deeper leagues or as match-up plays. Most of the coldest of colds are here for a one-week blip in an otherwise storybook season, while a few are perennial offenders who should be watched as carefully as crazy Claire.
Casey McGehee – McGehee, since playing full time in mid-2009, has done nothing but hit. Last week was no exception (.455 AVE, five runs, two HRs, eight RBIs). Only 76 percent owned, he has seen ownership numbers skyrocket over the past few weeks. He clearly won't continue to hit .396, but could be a .300 hitter like he was last season (although he hit .279 in the minors). McGehee, who is just hitting his prime (27 years old), could be a 20+ HR hitter this year.
Ty Wigginton – Wiggy had a similarly dominating previous week (six runs, three HRs, eight RBIs, and a .304 AVE). However, he is not really assured of playing time. He'll get ABs while Miguel Tejada and Brian Roberts are out and could see time at first base. However, look at Wiggy as a short term play. If you can trade him for anything, by all means go for it. He has probably played his best week.
Ivan Rodriguez – The fountain of something has sprung eternal all over Ivan Rodriguez. He hit .462 and added seven runs and six stolen bases in the past week. The Hall of Famer is 38 and hasn't hit over .300 since 2004. He has been a nice find for those struggling with catcher issues (Miguel Montero and Mike Napoli most notably), but I'd rather have Napoli or Chris Snyder for the future.
Alberto Callaspo – Callaspo turned in a tidy last week (two HRs, seven RBIs and a .360 AVE). Don't expect the power to continue (he hit 11 last year in 634 plate appearances and never more than 11 in a minor league season). Still, he'll hit for a decent average (.286 for his career) and won't hurt you. You could do worse at middle infield.
Chase Headley – As someone who drafted Headley in his long-term keeper league a few years ago, subsequently dropped him and is playing against me this week, I'm a little annoyed. Over the last week, Headley has stolen four bases, scored four runs and knocked in five. Headley, only 26, seems to be hitting his prime this season and could provide a .270 AVE, 15 – 20 HRs and double digit steals (he swiped 10 bags last season). I'd rather be betting on Headley (only 57% owned) than Adrian Beltre.
Jose Bautista – Bautista crushed the ball last week (two HRs, seven RBIs). When Edwin Encarnacion returns, Bautista will shift to the outfield and retain playing time (Fred Lewis will go to the bench). Still, Bautista hasn't been a useful player (except for 2007 – 75 runs, 15 HRs and a .254 AVE). Aside from 2007, his average has never been above .238. I wouldn't be buying Bautista.
Juan Uribe – Left for dead two years ago, Uribe has come back with a vengeance. In 122 games last season, Uribe managed a .289 AVE and 16 HRs. In the last week, Uribe hit .286 with two round trippers. Uribe should qualify at every infield position except first base and could provide a nice source of power. I'd ride him until his batting average takes a dip.
Mike Pelfrey – The 40% owned Pelfrey turned in a stellar last seven days (15 IPs, two wins, one save, 12 Ks and a 0.00/0.87 ERA/WHIP). It doesn't get any better than that. Pelfrey is certainly gaining maturity, has a favorable home ballpark and his K-rate (6.9) has blossomed over his career (5.2) norm. This rate has moved closer to his AAA number of 6.8. I'd be buying Pelfrey at the moment. He should be owned almost universally.
Jason Vargas – Last week, Vargas got two starts (against the Orioles and Athletics, neither of which can hit anything). Still, he didn't disappoint: 13 IPs, 11 Ks, 2.08 ERA and 0.77 WHIP. Vargas, a former second round pick, is 27 years old, but doesn't have all that much major league experience (237 IPs over five seasons). Still, last year he did post a usable WHIP (1.33). At this point, Vargas looks match-ups worthy.
Livan Hernandez – Livan and Ivan must have gotten together on some rejuvenation machine. In the last week, Livan pitched a complete game, no-run effort. Still, he only struck out three batters and walked two. On the season, he has Ked four batters and walked five – not a real sustainable approach. Furthermore, batters are only hitting .173 on balls in play against Livan – something even more unsustainable (unless he has superman playing short). In short, trust Livan at your own peril. I wouldn't feel comfortable starting him in an NL-only league unless it was against the Astros.
Carlos Silva – For the time being, Silva is finding the grass much greener on the NL side of the fence. Last week, he threw a gem against Houston (seven IPs, five Ks, no runs, and 0.71 WHIP). However that was the Astros, so let's temper expectations. Like Livan, he's been pretty lucky (.205 BAbip), so I wouldn't be putting any faith in continued useful performances.
Then you're cold…then you're no…then you're out…then you're down
Nick Swisher – Yowser, Swisher hit a paltry .091 (2/22) last week, but did manage all of one run and three RBIs – so there's that. This piled onto a not great start to the season, which has people concerned. Still, it's only been a handful of weeks and his OBP is .340. Swisher will be fine and way more valuable in OBP leagues than AVE leagues. I'd be dealing for Swisher in leagues (especially OBP ones) as he'll hit 25+ HRs this year.
Adam Jones – So far the birdman has not cometh at all this season. Last week, Jones scored one run, posted one RBI and hit .200. Still, I'm preaching patience, especially with a young guy like Jones who is on a struggling team. Jones, who has a career BAbip of .314, is only hitting .260 on balls in play this year. He'll come around and hit near .270 with 20 or so HRs and ten steals.
Adrian Beltre – Beltre, much like the majority of his teammates, did not produce much last week (.200 AVE, one run). He's had a decent start to the season, hitting .286, but this might be the high-watermark of his average all season. I didn't trust him before the season for 10- and 12-team mixed leagues and nothing he has done so far has changed that opinion.
Carlos Lee – I have Carlos Lee on my HR-team. Let's just say I'm not happy. Last week, he hit .120 and scored two runs. That's all. Still, Lee has never been a strong out of the gate horse (.256 AVE, .318 OBP and .467 SLG in March/April), so expect him to improve as the weather heats up. It certainly won't hurt to have Lance Berkman back. I'm not too worried about Lee and would be buying him
David Ortiz – All Ortiz managed to do for teams in the last week is hurt them in batting average (he added no counting stats to his .158 effort). Still, I'm not throwing him overboard. He is a career .300 hitter on balls in play, in 2010, just .250. He also started miserably last year, only to rebound to hit 28 HRs and 99 RBIs. You should definitely bench Ortiz and he is droppable in 10-team mixed, but in deeper leagues, you should hang on. He'll get his mojo back.
Raul Ibanez – I also have Raul Ibanez on my HR team – how well do you think I am doing? Ibanez hit .125 last week, which lowered his season average to .186. While he hasn't hit a long ball, he does have three doubles. You've got to give him a bit of rope given his prodigious production last year. It takes awhile to get over injuries. Still, if he is performing like this in a few weeks, it might be time to cut bait.
Garrett Jones – Jones didn't do much for teams last week (.067 AVE, one run and two RBIs). In addition, he played over his head last year (.298 AVE) as he hit .258 in the minors. He'll hit better, but don't expect him to be a .300 hitter. Right now, he looks like a decent fourth outfielder in 12-team mixed leagues – not much more.
Rick Porcello – It's never good when your two-start pitcher lasts only 10.1 IPs. That was the case for Porcello over the last week. He posted a 7.84 ERA and 1.94 WHIP. Still, he managed to strike-out seven batters, which is actually a promising sign. In 2010, his K/9 rate is up to 5.9 which can work in the Bigs. You'll have to give him a little rope this year, and those starts against Kansas City and Cleveland sure look nice.
John Lackey – Lackey managed to do more damage in less innings (10) than Porcello. Lackey's ERA (9.00), WHIP (2.10) and lack of Ks (just five) were pretty damaging. Still he did salvage a win. Further, Lackey's bad week was really the result of a horrendous start against Tampa Bay. Every pitcher will have a disastrous turn throughout the season, just be happy Lackey's is over with.
Gavin Floyd – Floyd had a disastrous one-inning start (seven runs) against the typically woeful Indians. Further, he hasn't been off to a good start. However, this should not be surprising. Floyd is typically an incredibly slow starter. He posts horrible ratios in March/April, does slightly better (albeit not great) in May, then kills it the rest of the season. If you can buy low, go ahead. I wouldn't start him this month and be careful of him on the road (career 5.13 ERA and 1.64 WHIP), but he'll be useful when summer comes around.
Jon Lester – Lester hasn't been good this year or last week. Still, he's been fairly unlucky (.365 BAbip) and hasn't usually started seasons quickly in the past (5.46 ERA, 1.60 WHIP in March/April). I'm not scared of Lester for the rest of the season. I believe he has his worst starts behind him. Feel confident trading for him, if you can.
Dan Haren – While Haren struck out 15 batters last week, he likely hurt your ratios big time (12.1 IP, 6.57 ERA and 1.54 WHIP). Still, last week's mark was overshadowed by three home runs (and seven total runs) allowed against St. Louis in just six innings. Haren has allowed one HR per nine innings in his career, a number he should have no problem replicating. No need to panic.
All stats as of April 21.
FB101's 411: Be sure you know how to judge a hot streak. McGehee, Headley, Pelfrey, make good adds. You are allowed to give up on Ortiz and Beltre.
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A WordPress plugin called "Counterize" brought me to the link of the above mentioned competition. Last week as I was checking the list of my Counterize Referer I saw a link that catched my attention. I clicked on it out of curiousity and voila…there I found out that there's a competition for WordPress 2.0 theme design running. I thought of joining but I became hesitant as I saw the long list of participants. Hubby and AnP encouraged me and so I made up my mind and spent one and a half week creating/designing three (3) WP Themes for submission. It may sound so ambitious of me to participate…but what the heck! In german we say it "dabei sein ist alles" *to take part is all that matters. I would like to encourage all other hobby designers like me to join the fun. Please go here KCYAP for more details.
All three themes will be available for dowload after 28th February 2006. By the way, be my judge. I'd like to hear your opinon about my work…and oh please be gentle with your comments :). Yours truly is not a professional designer…I'm just doing this for fun.
You did a great job. I'm sorry to say this but you just made me frigging jealous. All three are definetely stunning!
Hi Diane, thank you :cheerful:, the green one is also my favorite among the 3. Yung orange naman, I had a hard time searching for a suitable graphic that would match to the color combination of the whole theme…til I found the Butler. The image is somewhat funny but has a touch of class and the color scheme is perfect…and so is Clueless theme born.
So pareho pala tayong tatlo ni Diane ;-). Kumusta na? Haven't been bloghopping for almost two weeks now dahil dito sa competition na ito.
Uhhhm…wow…speechless here…don't know what else to say except your are definitely talented in this arena!
Im waiting the day wordpress would inser that to the 'presentation' section of their free blogs. The, i would be able to use all 3 themes. hehehe.
I luv them all benggay but I luv the first one with orange header best, that guy figure is very unique!! congrats manash!
Minimalist ako (kuno) so i take the first one with the old man nga nag verbeugen, bagay sa buktot kong uyab LOL!!! So profesional looking.
Well she's a designer and you're not but it turned out you're already a pro. C'mon let's keep our fingers crossed. Do we need to vote? Where and How?
On commenting: In my humble opinion, de-activiate "waiting for verification". This thread comments is safe because sometimes it makes me think kung na accept ba yung comment o hindi.
BTW, can you design three-column layout and black themes?
call lang unya ko kung maka time next week! Ingat inday!
Flattered na ako niyan :-), okay, since I asked you to judge my work…your opinion is accepted :blush: (hiya). Salamat pala for reminding me about the comment option…I forgot to turn it off. And regarding to your question about a 3 column theme in black…yes I can. Gusto mo?
hehehe, kong si Jing pa ang pasultihon…kanang naay tigulang nga ning bow :-D.
Kars, I am glad to hear that…sana nga ano? Pero Inday…sakaling you feel like having or acquiring own web space, just timbre me, hane?
oi wla nawala…bitaw giingnan na kong dodong knoiz about it…akoa ng gi off ang moderation.
Ate, I'm considering of moving to a new webhosting service, say sign-up at your own service plan but want to keep my own domain name. How do I do that?
That is very easy. I only have to send you a copy of "Connectivity Coordination", then you sign it and send a copy via fax to your current provider and to me and that's it. All the rest will be taken care by us. It will take 2 to 5 days…depending on how fast your provider work.
Please do. Can you send the copy thru my email? I will make a necessary informations about payment methods, fees & other essentials. I will be giving advance notice to my current provider. My bandwidth has exceeded its qouta and they charged me pro-rata. I went blah. Thanks Ate.
the 2nd one will go well with a daring straight forward blog…..
oen category ra ni beng???
Oh you have been busy!! Anyways, ate just take some time off from the pc or work and close your eyes for even 15 minutes or so. And if you have frozen cucumbers, that will be nice to place on top of your eyes! I usually do that from time to time.
one do you mean sha?
yup, there is only one category. medyo unfair di ba? 4 profi designers na ang nakalista. i said profis dahil they are really designers. their fees for a custom theme is more than $200.
anyways, i really don't care…ang sampung juries na ang bahalang mag judge. i really hope you can come sha…AnP is looking forward to see you too.
Yes Charles I had been so busy the whole time due to this competition and my hosting business. Kaya pasensiya ka na muna ha at medyo limited ang time ko ngayon.
Hello Ate Beng!!! I love the new look now as well here! It is so clean and all!
Too bad ur allergic to it ate!


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Nelson and the four others were given misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop. "When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana," a local news release stated. A search of the bus produced 1½ pounds of marijuana and slightly more than three ounces of magic mushrooms.
There were enough drugs to merit a felony charge of distribution if they had been found in one person's possession, state police spokesman Willie Williams said. But all five claimed the drugs as their own and the drugs were not packaged for resale, so each was charged with misdemeanors, said Williams. All were released after the citations were issued.