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The archives are currently stored in chronological order, where 1 is the oldest.
Talks by major topics[edit]
Workspace[edit]
Frontpage mods - any proposed changes to frontpage can be made here
Development - Current status and future plans for the site, including feature requests for Mediawiki.
Discussions[edit]
Subpage structure
Date standards
Revamp Arrange Music
Lyric Re-design
Circle Pages
1 Talks by major topics
1.1 Workspace
1.2 Discussions
2 Spell Card Info Template Revamp
3 "Albums needing pages" instead of "Albums needing genres"
4 Spell card comments
5 Spell Card Template new coding
6 updated list of Fan Comics + Official Print Work
7 We *seriously* need a way to have people knowing what is going on
8 Images not loading without JavaScript
9 Translation Misedits
10 ToggleDisplay no longer working
11 Re:Colors/Colours (part 3)
12 Music Titles and Potential Redundancies
13 Re:The/A/[blank] [song title]
14 Gensokyo.org
15 Speculation and Conjecture in Character Pages
16 How did they create?
17 There are download links (or online readers) on several of the Print Works. Wouldn't this be considered pirating?
18 Wiki formatting broke for me.
19 The formatting of one of the pages is broken
20 Error in Transcription
21 Discord server ban.
22 17.5 portraits.
23 TOUHOU 17.5 ASSET DUMP
24 Rainbow-Colored Septentrion
25 Why do the Fandom pages exist?
26 Stub markings.
27 Seihou summaries.
Spell Card Info Template Revamp[edit]
As per topic, I will starting to revamp Spell Card Info, and this action may broke certain article's presentation. I will try to fix the pages as soon as possible - KyoriAsh (talk) 07:45, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
"Albums needing pages" instead of "Albums needing genres"[edit]
I've been trying to maintain a Current event release worklist and I think it's a more useful link to place in the "Articles Needing Attention" section of the front page than the current music/doujin albums link to Category: Genre Needed. Ycdtosa (talk) 17:08, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Spell card comments[edit]
Clarste made a good point about the spell card comments, something that's been on my mind as well. Why exactly are they there? They are not official (apart from a few games' commentaries), and don't really add anything other than someone trying to be funny. ☢ Quwanti 23:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Should we go through and delete them all, then? I didn't even realise those comments weren't from ZUN until I sat down and properly read the spell card page before... Biggest Dreamer (talk) 05:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
I've never actually read the spell card comments but had always assumed they were all official non-the-less, at present no spell card pages have comments due to an error in the template (going off the discord discussion). As an outside observer who never actually read any of the wiki's spell comments (I read them in game though), I think it needs to be much much clearer which comments are official vs unofficial or they should be moved to completely avoid any misconceptions, although outside of avoiding misconceptions I really don't see an issue with including unofficial spellcard comments. At present there's not much on these pages without the comments (just a picture and 4 short lines of text) so including something unofficial in my mind makes for a better reading experience, on the flip side since many games don't have official spell card comments I'd recommend changing the format of pages without comments altogether, one example could be using full sized spellcard images instead of half sized. Ycdtosa (talk) 13:37, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
In general, the spell cards can be a bit unclear since different phases of a spell card are not included, and neither are non-named cards (aside from those in StB, DS and ISC). Anyway, I think they should be removed all together, for the time being. One idea is to give some sort of explanation for the title, what it means and why it's significant for the character, but that could be a lot of work. ☢ Quwanti 15:12, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
Concurring with their removal. Seemingly the only reason they've stood for so long is because of tradition, something that started over a decade ago just for flavour and happened to stick around. Drake Irving (talk) 12:46, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
So, it's two years later and the comments are still there and while reading through SA's spellcards I caught myself automatically assuming they are canon before remembering that they are in fact not. I would take it upon myself to remove all of them from all games. Is it OK if I do this? --Nameless Fairy (talk) 17:21, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Spell Card Template new coding[edit]
Hi all, I would like some opinion about the new Spell Card Template that made use of some new CSS, which might broke some browser especially IE 11. Test Cases can be viewed from the link. Please provide opinion here if you feel that the template is not compatible with your browser - KyoriAsh (talk) 11:55, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
updated list of Fan Comics + Official Print Work[edit]
I made a list of fan cirles and some of the official printwork.
To be honest, I have no experience on wiki editing and I have no idea how this works.
So I put this list, that maybe somebody could edit this.
I hope, that I could be somehow useful.
Talk:Potential Comics
(I chose this page, because it wasn't used since 2009)
P.S.: I won't be active after this post. - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Austrian Pianist (talk • contribs) 16:53 (UTC), 9 April 2018
We *seriously* need a way to have people knowing what is going on[edit]
Anyone's who's been on here for a non-trivial amount of time should know by now that a major issue with maintaining the wiki, insofar as making any kind of "significant" changes, is that nobody ever knows what the heck is going on because there's no way to notify people when there's ongoing discussion and shit always hits the fan. I knew once people started talking about changing "Rei'sen" and asking for votes or objections, as well as e.g. the above requests for input about Spell Card templates and the user-written flavour comments, that basically nobody answers even if they would have useful input. It's awful for productivity and consensus.
There's the Discord and IRC at least, but any kind of external requirement is not great for this kind of purpose because some people simply do not use those services at all or minimally, and it shouldn't be a requirement for people to use, because then this implies only users that are part of these groups are privy to important notices, which I think is destructive. Having a clear and visible method for "issue tracking" as a part of the wiki itself is important because anyone with any stake in editing the wiki is already going to be a user. Put another way, the Discord and IRC as means of discussion should be 1) orthogonal to means of notification, and 2) supplementary to talk pages but entirely optional.
Stuff like Projects is kind of along the right lines, but those are more about long-term maintenance and still require active checking. Additionally there's the fact that you add the Notice to include articles as part of the Project and so on, whereas I'm thinking more that the issues shouldn't require any extra work on existing pages and are basically a way to point out "hey, there's a discussion happening over here relevant to [subscribed topic] that potentially needs input". Heck, this very talk page is one of the only ways people get notified about sweeping changes, if people even put them here. That's half of why I'm putting this here.
More generally, I do not think wholly article-based solutions are the way to go. We see attempts at structure pop up every now and then with stuff like Touhou Wiki:Translator Zone, Touhou Wiki:Touhou Daikaitei, portals, I dunno; the point is that there are a ton of them and nobody knows about them, nobody gets notified, nobody participates, and they die. Many of them are also for like, the same general purposes. It's literally insanity to keep using these kinds of arcane methods to try to get people on board to do things.
My suggestion here is first to use a MediaWiki tool like Notifications (aka Echo) to implement a way for people to actually receive notifications of some sort. The information surrounding Notifications is pretty fuzzy but apparently it should be standard already? In any case, many extensions see to make use of this feature for various productive purposes and it solves the problem of pushing versus checking (at least on the wiki level). The next step is to use one of these extensions like Newsletter (for example), to have a public and clear list of subjects that users might want to be notified about when there's relevant discussion. Maybe there are only a couple and are manually added by admin so as not to go overboard with compartmentalization. If a user subscribed to the subject (Translations, Names/Terminology, Music albums, Templates, etc), they would be able to create new issues that are basically links to the relevant talk page(s) that require input and discussion, and they'd also receive notifications for new issues added. Make it obvious how one would subscribe to these lists so nobody just happens to not realize it exists.
This way editors that are interested in certain subjects have ways to become notified of things they want to be notified about, and have a way to bring other interested parties to discuss things they probably wouldn't have otherwise noticed unless they stalk RecentChanges. I would particularly like to hear input from User:Mami about technical feasibility.
Drake Irving (talk) 07:33, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
This is a constant issue here. The Discord seems to have helped in establishing more rapid communication between groups. I already have a module that pushes wiki updates to a channel on the Discord; if there was a way to push things from the Discord here, in the sense of a constant and frequent event/news list it'd be pretty nice. I'm also open to discussing any other sort of notifications. Mami (talk) 23:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Is it possible to create an RSS feed for those who are members of each respective zone/project? Code Slasher (talk) 02:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Images not loading without JavaScript[edit]
It seems that most images on the wiki fail to load now with JavaScript disabled. I think it used to work fine not too long ago. Checked in both Mozilla and Chrome. Niektory (talk) 22:40, 21 August 2018 (UTC) Even with JS enabled they sometimes don't load. I have to refresh the page to see them. Niektory (talk) 13:13, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
I changed some of the settings for the image scaler. Let me know if you still see the issue. Mami (talk) 23:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, still the same, nothing seems to have changed. Niektory (talk) 16:04, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Translation Misedits[edit]
User_talk:Yamaxandu is continually undoing the correct translation of "その八重垣を" which is an has an officially translated source Kushinadahime and also removing my citations in favor of his fan translation. Please advise. (sorry of this is wrong area 'report issue' links here.ADCK (talk) 10:23, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
No Reply? In case i'm not making myself clear, I'm requesting Admin assistance. This Yamaxandu kid is itching for an edit war, I feel like i'm doing the right thing here by reporting the issue, I have verifiable citations proving my case. It should be a simple thing for an admin to say yay or nay? ADCK (talk) 12:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
They didn't respond because I am in the right ;) -Yamaxandu (talk) 12:17, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
I am not an admin, but if a vote helps, I think ADCK could be right, providing that there can be definitive evidence that the makers of that song were referring to that poem about her. Code Slasher (talk) 06:45, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
ToggleDisplay no longer working[edit]
I noticed that in articles like Dragon (God), there are some <toggledisplay> tags showing up in plain text. Someone also mentioned this over at Template_talk:Bug#Update for MediaWiki >= 1.18: Apparently, the ToggleDisplay extension was eliminated in MediaWiki 1.18 and was replaced with collapsible elements. I don't know what these were originally supposed to look like, so could someone help fix this? Thanks. Ahiijny (talk) 04:41, 28 December 2018 (UCT)
Fixed in that template and another now, though there's no easy search to find more templates, and the bare element is used by itself on way too many pages -- almost always unnecessarily. If you see those tags, 95% of the time, just delete them. -- Mazian (talk) 04:43, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
Re:Colors/Colours (part 3)[edit]
After a few years of going back and forth on the spelling for the translation of "色" and in light of recent edits, I believe that it is time that we revisit this topic and its overlying issue: translation consistency. Based on this discussion, we essentially decided that "色" needed to be "colour", "coloured", etc. (a British English spelling) because that was how someone first translated it for one of Story of Eastern Wonderland's song titles in an English patch. That being said, this caused a weird discrepancy when someone translated "色" to "colored" (an American English spelling) in one of Imperishable Night's song titles. ZUN has used at least two variants of English over the years, such as "the Last Judgement" and "Colorful Path", making it difficult for us to establish a set spelling standard for future use (although we have tried via the aforementioned discussion). Despite this, because he has used "colored", I believe that we should unite all of the translations for at least "色" to "color", "colored", etc., including the translation used for that Story of Eastern Wonderland song title. Is there anyone here who believes that we should use "coloured" instead of "colored" at this time? Code Slasher (talk) 07:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Well, I don't think it's a pressing issue, but it would be nice to adapt a single spelling for consistency's sake. "Legacy reasons" are a pretty poor argument, even when it comes to something as incredibly minor as this. We primarily use "colored" just about everywhere else (see "Seven-Colored Puppeteer" or "The Ground's Color is Yellow"), so why not? That, and while I argue for not following him to a T all the time, I think ZUN has only used the "judgement" and "color" variants. VasteelXolotl (talk) 09:21, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
For the sake of consistency I really think it should be colored across the board considering that's how ZUN's used it. It doesn't really make sense for Reimu's theme to use "colored" but Marisa's theme to use "coloured"Megaman-Omega (talk) 03:29, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Music Titles and Potential Redundancies[edit]
Okay, so let's discuss this in a talk page that can be referenced in the future. There was some previous discussion here, but given that it was in a user's talk page, it didn't get much traffic. Basically, there have been edits made and reverted that removed the Japanese part of Music title due to being perceived as redundant. Examples of this include 世界の果て ~ World's End going from End of the World ~ World's End to just World's End and 少女綺想曲 ~ Capriccio going from Maiden's Capriccio ~ Capriccio to Maiden's Capriccio.
Personally, I echo what PK wrote in the previous discussion. A translation of a music title is just that, a translation. When we have a music title like JAPANESE ~ ENGLISH, ideally we translate the Japanese part and keep the rest of the music as intact as possible. If the title has two parts you keep both even if the meaning is the same so that anyone reading the title actually gets to know what both parts mean without having to wonder why someone removed the Japanese part instead of translating it. It's still part of the music title and thus should not be removed. I will note that the two examples above had added annotations with "lit. End of the World ~ World's End" when it was changed to World's End. Why not just make that annotated translation the actual translation if it is more correct? For 少女綺想曲 ~ Capriccio, the two "sides" so to speak are not even the same, one is "Maiden's Capriccio" and the other is just "Capriccio". Strange? Sure, but it is different and should not be perceived as redundant. --DTM (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Oh, I should've put this here in the first place. Oops.
Translations of titles should be kept as close as possible, yes. However, the titles were originally already laid out as [Japanese title] ~ [English translation] (kinda like how ZUN does it in Shuusou Gyoku, except in the cases I want to change it's in the titles themselves rather than omake files). You may be against giving those particular songs some sort of "exclusive treatment" since we generally keep everything, but these tautologies are introduced specifically due to translation, as it's now all in one language. Keeping both segments in these cases isn't necessarily more correct - to me it feels more overcorrect, trying to keep everything the same due to some unwritten rule. In addition, I don't know why some of them are cut off while others aren't. What makes World's End special compared to Doll of Misery that necessiates keeping both parts, other than trying to keep old, inconsistent translations for status quo reasons? Or Casket of Stars?
The annotations were added as a compromise between both ways, where the needless part is out of direct view, but it's there as a footnote in case someone really wants to know. I can't imagine anyone actually getting confused, since to care and look for the untranslated titles (and reasons for cutting things out), you would need to have some prior knowledge in the first place, and at that point it's not exactly hard to come to the conclusion without any guidance.
Besides, this isn't something like omitting a previously untranslated part of EoSD's 3rd stage theme - it's removing something that's the exact same and translated word for word without regard for that. To me it's just slight translation corrections. VasteelXolotl (talk) 16:56, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
Honestly speaking, the argument of "if other songs had the Japanese section cut off when translating, why not this one?" sounds equally like an argument for properly translating them instead of "cutting out the redundant words". 装飾戦 ~ Decoration Battle into Decoration Battle, 霊天 ~ Spiritual Heaven into Spiritual Heaven, 禁断の魔法 ~ Forbidden Magic into Forbidden Magic and 悲しき人形 ~ Doll of Misery into Doll of Misery.
Music translations should be done to accurately translate what's there so people who don't know Japanese aren't left with "Huh? Why'd they just not bother translating the first part?"
Yes you may come into some redundancies, especially with earlier music (sometimes not even though, 少女綺想曲 and Capriccio are two completely different words and definitely should not be combined into one). But the point of this place is to accurately translate what's presented, not make arbitrary decisions of "this sounds redundant, so just cut it out". Changes to old translations should be done to improve or fix old mistranslations and errors, but something like changing Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star into Casket of Stars feels like less of an improvement of the original translation and more personal preference from feeling that "Vessel of Stars" and "Casket of Star" sound too similar to one another.Megaman-Omega (talk) 17:16, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Sure, a consistent approach would be the primary thing to consider over preferences in translation in this case. Still, I don't see why not. This does seem like a translation problem to me, since this really only becomes an "issue" when translated, and it's a result of trying to go for the highest possible accuracy over taking some liberties to make things seem more coherent to an English speaker. An issue in a few other places, actually. I should get on that sometime.
You could translate 器 in about a million ways just like any other character, but why would you, when you straight-up have the English translation right there? It's the same as other "redundant" songs, where I'm pretty sure the titles work in the way I laid out in my initial reply. Unless you want to propose translating the Japanese segments differently from the English counterparts in every song like that, in which case... well, I don't know what you could do with names like "眠れる恐怖" that wouldn't be stilted and make matters worse. I guess I can see the case for Maiden's Capriccio, though, since it's not literally the same. I've gone back on the Phantom Ensemble change for a similar reason.
As I've said before, I don't see how all this is a problem to people who don't know Japanese. In the first place, you have to learn of these changes and go out of your way to look up the music separately of the games to figure out just why they were made. I imagine reaching a conclusion by yourself at that point isn't hard. Buuuut you wouldn't particularly need to think/google much, since you'd have the annotations. Boom.
If anything, I imagine your average Joe would go "ah, makes sense, it's the same thing" instead of "why would they ditch this?!" Matter of factly, the current English patches for the PC-98 games cut out the unnecessary parts in music and stages (with one exception) and still have the full Japanese titles in the Music Room, and I've yet to see anyone raise an eyebrow. Kind of a moot argument, I think. VasteelXolotl (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
"Your average Joe" is a little bit subjective. Their opinion might change depending on how long they have been paying attention to the Touhou Project, especially the song titles. Furthermore, I side with DTM and Megaman-Omega on this one, as there are plenty of instances where the Japanese before the tilde is not easily equatable to the English on the other side. This even happens in areas that are not song titles, such as "東方神霊廟 ~ Ten Desires". Removing the translation on one side of the tilde dulls the clarification of the other. Code Slasher (talk) 04:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
But I'm not arguing for that? 神霊廟 is as far from Ten Desires as it can possibly be. Not once have I talked about game titles, which always have two distinct parts. I don't see what enlightening context will this hypothetical average Joe gain from seeing "Sleeping Terror" twice back to back. VasteelXolotl (talk) 10:26, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Would it be worthwhile removing the redundancies, but then noting in a footnote that the first half of the title is the Japanese version of the second half? That way people know that there was originally two halves, but they know why we didn't include it in the translation. After all, it's inherently impossible for these translated titles to serve their original function (source language ~ translated language) unless we do something like (translated title ~ romanisation), which wouldn't really be ideal. I agree that we gain nothing from seeing "Sleeping Terror" twice back to back. Biggest Dreamer (talk) 06:11, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
That was my proposed solution for those exact reasons. I had the footnotes up on the LLS page for a while, actually. I think this option would make the most sense.
I changed all the titles to their redundant versions for the time being, but I'm still not at all convinced, either. Especially since one person completely missed the point and talked about game titles for some reason. VasteelXolotl (talk) 07:48, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
I thought you did that on purpose. I think you are not understanding when there is an approximation versus an exact versus something entirely different. When you remove one side of a tilde for either an approximation or something entirely different, you are potentially removing clarification in a title. What you are suggesting only works when they are exactly the same and/or there is no better alternative for the translation of the original Japanese, such as with "Sleeping Terror". (In fact, there is a similar situation with some of the fan-made arrangements, like "UTAKATA -泡沫-" (both are "Foam").) Code Slasher (talk) 21:19, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
I wasn't gonna weigh in on this originally but I thought I might just to see if I can offer a little insight on what seems to be an endless back and forth discussion. First and foremost, this is a wiki. We primarily record all things canon to the series. We should, ideally, preserve the titles no matter how redundant because, in the end, ZUN wrote them that way. But, we have leeway with translation. We don't have to have "Sleeping Terror ~ Sleeping Terror". Why not "Dormant Horror ~ Sleeping Terror", for example? That's a valid translation and it gets rid of a ridiculous title repetition. Why not? Same thing was done for Phantom Band, Casket of Star, and Luna Dial ("月時計 ~ ルナ・ダイアル" is just the repetition of [moon]+[timepiece]). In order to remove hilarious redundancy, I propose that new translations be made. "End of the World ~ World's End" (世界の果て refers to the edge of the world; Pandemonium is canonically at the edge of Makai, according to Shiki) could be "Edge of Space ~ World's End" as 世界 can mean "realm" or "dimension" and Makai is, based on what little we know of it, no orb-shaped planet. These are just suggestions of course. If this idea is implemented we could always have a vote on titles. But, yeah. I believe that giving alternative translations to these titles is the perfect middle ground to outright removing them or keeping a ridiculously redundant title. Hopefully I don't sound too crazy making a suggestion like this. It's always an option.
—Ennin (talk) 01:51, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
No, what you are saying is not too crazy. In fact, I was advocating for exactly that (not getting rid of approximations), and this is also what used to be the status quo on here. Code Slasher (talk) 21:49, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
And I brought this up because I wanted some translation leeway, so I don't have anything against it either. I'm not sure if that's doable for every title (not that I'm particularly going through all of them to check now, but what about 霊天, off the top of my head?), but it'll come down to individual songs, so it's a valid approach. VasteelXolotl (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
I think that keeping the text to the left of the tilde, rather than increasing clarification, actually decreases clarification (especially if unnecessary liberties are taken for the sake of making it sound different). In these sorts of titles, like many of the PC-98 ones, I think the text to the right actually sets out the boundaries through which we interpret the text to the left.
For an example, let's look at Yuuka's second theme: 幽夢 ~ Inanimate Dream. We currently have it as 'Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream'. I actually don't think 'Faint' is an adequate translation of 幽 in this instance, and I've come to that conclusion based on the text to the right of the tildre. Inanimate literally means 'lifeless'. Knowing this, we can now make use of the following meaning of 幽: ⑤あの世の。死者の。「─界・─霊」. In other words, we should interpret 幽 as meaning 'lifeless', and can actually translate 幽夢 as Inanimate Dream. It's another example of a title where the English translation is already given, and I don't think that 'Faint Dream' necessarily adds to our understanding of the title.
It's an entirely valid approach to offer up a different translation to the left of the tilde, but I think if we did that we'd be doing it for the purpose of adding flavour, rather than preserving titles or removing clarification. The clarification for these titles is provided by the English - In effect, ZUN is telling us how to interpret the Japanese text.
I strongly feel that the ideal solution is to keep the English translations to the right of the tilde and add in a footnote that the Japanese text means the same thing. We should identify the titles, like Inanimate Dream, where the English deepens our understanding of how the Japanese text should be interpreted and adopt that translation as the best one for the sake of clarity. It seems like the general mood is to use an alternative translation to the left, and that's fine too - I just think that the reasoning is off. We'd be taking that approach to add flavour and preserve the structure. After all, if "World's End" should be interpreted as "The End (destruction) of the World", then translating 世界の果て as "Edge of Space" is actually taking us further away from the intended meaning. For more discussion on how 世界の果て should be interpreted, please see this old discussion.
That's pretty much all I wanted to say, but I think there are pretty good arguments to go for both flavour text and going with the translation we've been given. Biggest Dreamer (talk) 09:01, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Re:The/A/[blank] [song title][edit]
(revisiting from the discussion from Archive 14)
This is driving me nuts. We seem to have all three of these scattered throughout the wiki. Should this be a user discretion thing, or should we standardize something? I for one have tried to improve the flow of song titles, add title emphasis, etc. to different song titles by using these filler words, but I would really like some other users' inputs on this. For example, we have The Road of the Misfortune God ~ Dark Road. Why did we not use A Road of the Misfortune God ~ Dark Road or Road of the Misfortune God ~ Dark Road? In addition, we have Eternal Transient Reign (like Eternal Shrine Maiden). Why did we not use The Eternal Transient Reign (like The Eternal Steam Engine) or An Eternal Transient Reign (like An Eternity More Transient than Scarlet)? Code Slasher (talk) 17:13, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
There's no possible overall standard, no more than you could interchange "a road" and "the road" in everyday English conversation - they're not the same. It'll always have to be down to the individual translations, based on translator best judgment. -- Mazian (talk) 17:05, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Gensokyo.org[edit]
Since the most relevant people to the site (or the people closest to them) are probably on this wiki, I'd like to say that I think it's about time someone renewed Gensokyo.org. Persona! (talk) 22:40, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Speculation and Conjecture in Character Pages[edit]
Currently, a number of character pages are absolutely riddled with hearsay - Marisa Kirisame's page is probably the prime example of this. The occupation section is mostly wild conjecture, there's absolutely bizarre leaps of logic (such as naming Chiyuri Kitashirakawa, a pc-98 character of all things, as a possible influence on Marisa's personality without a single cited source), there's very colored language at parts (such as referring to her relationship with Alice as love-hate), saying that she might have a hoarding disorder without a source cited, and this is far from the only page like this.
Character pages need to be gone through and edited to remove these instances of speculation, unless there's some reason for keeping them that I'm missing. The character pages are notoriously misleading, and removing fan speculation from them outside of the fandom page would be a good step towards fixing that.
Nyttyn (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
How did they create?[edit]
Can someone please tell me what they used to create the website? 9:36 AM, October 7th, 2020 ~User:KanakoYasaka
You mean this site, the Touhou Wiki? It's using MediaWiki, the same software that is used by Wikipedia. --Nameless Fairy (talk) 14:55, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
There are download links (or online readers) on several of the Print Works. Wouldn't this be considered pirating?[edit]
I'm farily new to this Wiki (I have visited it for quite a while, but only started editing soon), so pardon me... I am also not someone who knows much about how licensing works for Japan print works and Mangá. But...
Wouldn't sharing print works, such as comics and novels, be considered pirating? Download links are available in multiple pages (such as this one, as well huge packs included in the Comics page. This page also has the book's content on the Wiki itself).
I know people like free stuff, but if something was sold for a price, it probably shouldn't be made available, and I'm mostly sure that not all comics have been free-of-charge.
I don't want to sound too critical here, I am just not sure as to why these are available for download. Gabrielwoj (talk) 03:01, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
It is pirating, and I support removal of such contents. We don't allow pirated copies of games on the wiki either. ☢ Quwanti
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's basically the only reasonable way to experience the comics if you are not a Japanese reader. Belone
The copyright holders clearly don't mind or they would demand removal themselves. Let's not be overzealous. If you were to remove everything that could "be considered pirating", then you'll have a lot of removing to do and the only thing that you'll achieve is making the wiki less useful. Niektory (talk) 15:43, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, historically ZUN hasn't really cared all too much about piracy, he could easily take it all down if he wanted to. Belone (talk) 15:57, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Those translations will still exist. The wiki simply won't host/be a portal for them any more. ☢ Quwanti 16:46, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
That sounds like a contradiction. Full translations are supposed to be the equivalent of having the material, unless you do not include the images. I am with Niektory on this one, though. We put ourselves in a position to lose useful content if we remove them. Code Slasher (talk) 03:29, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
I'm specifically talking about the links to entire scans of print works, which will still exist elsewhere on the internet. The transcriptions/translations also don't really belong on the wiki like this, but I understand if there is more of a backlash towards the removal of those. ☢ Quwanti 09:46, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Wiki formatting broke for me.[edit]
I don't know what caused this, I didn't change any settings or something like that, but the entire formatting for me on the entire wiki is screwed up, a few examples down below:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/825180850881822733/882023222508408832/unknown.png,
Can someone tell me how I can fix this, please? Belone (talk) 22:09, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
It's probably a dumb question but are you sure that you didn't just switch to mobile version of the wiki accidentaly? Lemington (talk) 04:44, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Dunno, how would I revert that if I did? Belone (talk) 11:33, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Go the the bottom of the page, there is written "desktop". PK (talk) 12:12, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Well, that fixed it, thanks.Belone (talk) 13:30, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
The formatting of one of the pages is broken[edit]
So, I was editing this particular page, and I noticed that no text had shown up on it, save for two lines. When I go to edit the page itself, I find all the text there, but I cannot find the error that's causing this to happen. Can I have some assistance?--MadamePhoton (talk) 08:23, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
I did some testing, and it works if ja/en is swapped for native/trans, which is weird because ja/en works fine on other pages e.g. the corresponding page on UFO. Tygerius (talk) 12:33, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
EDIT: Managed to find the problem. The spaces after each "ja" and "en" were non-breaking spaces, which were messing up the template somehow. I went ahead and removed them. Tygerius (talk) 12:42, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much for helping me! I owe you my life~ --MadamePhoton (talk) 15:10, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Error in Transcription[edit]
Just to let everyone know, this page for Strange Creator of Outer Worlds's entry on Mountain of Faith has all its text copy-pasted from the Hidden Star in Four Seasons interview. If anyone can get the actual text from the Mountain of Faith overview article, that'd be great. --MadamePhoton (talk) 16:38, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Discord server ban.[edit]
Who do I contact about a ban from the wiki discord server? Belone (talk) 12:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
May I know what's your username in Discord? - KyoriAsh (talk) 12:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
F.F#3060 Belone (talk) 12:39, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
I revoked your ban on Touhou Wiki server, but if you start showing undesirable behaviours, I might have to re-issue the ban on you. - Another Oni (talk) 14:15, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
17.5 portraits.[edit]
Do we use the 17.5 or do we keep the 18 portraits for Reimu and Marisa? 17.5's release being what it is kind of makes this confusing. Belone (talk) 21:23, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
TOUHOU 17.5 ASSET DUMP[edit]
This download contains all the assets in Touhou 17.5, if you want to help update the images, download this and go to \data_a\unk all the games sprites/gifs are in there, although all of them have names that consist of seemingly random numbers/letters. https://mega.nz/file/A9xyUCrA#hDZc2znt461S8-J528nUnjhkMRPCC2QCoUgN1qbJ_wI
You really want to first edit these images in software like paint.net to get rid of unused space.
Creddits to brliron#0478 on the thpatch Discord for this. Belone (talk) 12:40, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Rainbow-Colored Septentrion[edit]
Can someone please add Rainbow-Colored Septentrion to the music section thanks Crim (talk) 22:12, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Why do the Fandom pages exist?[edit]
You know, the "Fandom" pages that are linked at the bottom of every character, the ones that just cover a bunch of memes? I don't really think their existence is warranted. Belone (talk) 12:15, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
They are only a review of the different characters as seen in the community (not in the lore). Why do you consider they are not necessary in the wiki? They add a different point of view of the different games, characters and Touhou as a whole. PassingStrike (talk) 17:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
I don't think they're relevant to deserve it. A lot of the stuff is also just really bad or disgusting. Belone (talk) 19:22, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
The pages could be trimmed slightly, but I think there is some value in documenting this stuff. ☢ Quwanti 11:55, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
Stub markings.[edit]
If you see a filled-out article, then it probably doesn't deserve the stub marking. Please remember to remove them at places they're not appropriate at, there's a lot of those.Belone (talk) 01:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Seihou summaries.[edit]
The character pages of Reimu, Marisa and Yuuka have summaries for their Seihou appearances, shouldn't these be treated as not canon? We also removed entries of the Inaba mangas. Belone (talk) 06:21, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
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Olympics Update: I'm in the final phase of preparations. The yarn is ready, the pattern has been adjusted, the needles have been selected (Addis all the way this time, because speed is crucial). All I have left to do is straighten the yarn basket, de-clutter the knitting area (yarn bits, old post-its, stray cat fuzz — they have to go), and fluff up the couch cushions. Soon I'll be off to the opening ceremonies! Well, actually, I'll be a little late — I do have to work on Friday. You know, the thing that makes all the knitting possible? The "financial backing," as it were? No big deal.
I've discovered a quirky thing about this Moss Agate Socks That Rock. When I tried to knit it in a simple pattern — the Slipped-Stitch Rib I was planning the other day — it pooled like crazy, into weird undulating blobs of green and purple. Not attractive. I love it this way, in simple and uncomplicated stockinette, the comfort knitting I need before the Challenge begins.
Another thing I've discovered: I now have enough handknit socks to warm my feet for more than a week, with choices to spare. I can stop wearing the first pair I ever made (the "emergency" socks, like the "emergency" underwear that is left at the back of the drawer until one morning you have no choice but to put them on, because when was the last time you did laundry?).
And at long last, it feels like Winter, and my warm socks and scarves are a welcome necessity. The temperatures are back down to normal — high 30's are predicted for today. I'm not a huge fan of bitter temps, but 50's in February is just too freaky. This sky is for Sandy.
It's going to be an errandy day off today, with a little knitting thrown in for good measure. I hope you get to have just the right kind of day, too.
This whole full-time job thing is really getting in the way of the Olympics. I should have checked into some kind of leave of absence.I'm loving the socks – the colors are great and I like the way it's striping. I actually cast on for my Jaywalkers yesterday, but will of course put them down beginning Friday. Tonight I plan to wind the yarn into a cake and make sure I have the right needles, or buy new ones tomorrow. I'm hoping Addi's will work with this. No, I didn't do a gauge swatch. I know – no need to say it.
Amie, my store's only (semi)official t-shirt says "Dissent is Patriotic" on the front. So, no garish lycra for us!


On Saturday it will have been 3 years since the earthquake. I landed there 3 years ago on January 12th. This Saturday Paul and I will land there again. There's been news of trouble in the streets but this time its political not a natural disaster.
We are heading to AUC to teach 2 classes. Paul will teach soil microbiology and I'll be teaching Introduction to College. My class will be large. All of the prep students over 80 students. It should be fun. We both like to teach.


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Q: Reading a Text File Stored Online I am trying to read a text file which is stored online in my Android Studio application.
I have tried some code which seems to crash my app as soon as the app opens. Here is the code which I have tried:
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_browser);
    mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
    WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webSettings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    webSettings.setUseWideViewPort(true);

    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    mWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_NO_CACHE);
    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(false);
    mWebView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setEnableSmoothTransition(true);
    CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);
    mWebView.clearCache(true);

    try {
        URL url = new URL("http://urlhere.co.uk/files/testFile.txt");

        HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
        InputStream is = con.getInputStream();

        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

        String line;
        String link = null;

        while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            link = line;
        }
        mWebView.loadUrl("file:///" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/" + link);
        br.close();
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        System.out.println();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.print("test test");
    }

}

Just as a bit of explanation. The text file contains a URL which is going to be loaded into the webview. This is the best way I think to do it for the thing I am trying to do.
UPDATE
I used logcat and got some errors which I believe are caused by this:
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why my app is crashing straight away?
Thanks in advance

A: Thanks for replies. I can't believe it was such a simple fix. By changing to a http not https object it got rid of the first error displayed in update 1.
However this caused a android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException error which I believe is because I am not using Async. I will leave this question posted for anyone in the future who also occurs this problem.
Again, thanks to all the replies

A: You need to access the network in a background thread. An AsyncTask is good for both doing this and accessing the result on the UI thread afterwards. Something like this:
try {
    final URL url = new URL("http://urlhere.co.uk/files/testFile.txt");
    new AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() {
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Void... voids) {
            try {
                URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
                InputStream is = con.getInputStream();

                BufferedReader br;
                try {
                    br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
                    String line;
                    if ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                        return line;
                    }
                } finally {
                    br.close();
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                return null;
            }
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String link) {
            mWebView.loadUrl("file:///" + Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/" + link);
        }
    }.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

(Also, use URLConnection (or HttpURLConnection) with http. The cast to HttpsURLConnection works with https -- but it looks like you discovered that already.)

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Q: Denying usage of applications in android I am developing an administrative application that has functions like denying usage of camera, locking the user device or setting passwords.
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Pickers in the news
Following yesterday's post about the winners of this year's Steve Martin Banjo Prize, it has been announced that the winners are Alan Munde (left above) and New Orleans jazz tenor-banjo player Don Vappie (right; featured on Deering Live earlier this year). Each will receive $25,000.
Nora Brown was interviewed on Deering Live on 27 May (see the BIB for that date). She has now been interviewed for Fretboard Journal by the editor, Jason Verlinde, in 'The old-time mastery of Nora Brown'.
Also on the Fretboard Journal website: a video premiere of guitarist Jordan Tice (who, like his parents, has played bluegrass in Ireland), playing his composition 'Cats and kitties'. The video went on to YouTube yesterday.
In last week's IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards, Billy Strings received the awards for Entertainer of the Year and Guitar Player of the Year. The Bluegrass Situation (BGS) online magazine has now announced him as its Artist of the Month for October, with a video of his 'Heartbeat of America' (also on YouTube) and a playlist of twenty-two numbers from his recordings. A video feature on Billy Strings and Del McCoury singing 'Midnight on the stormy deep' together (with Billy on mandolin) is also on BGS, and a two-part interview will follow later this month.
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The i2P Amazon Expedition will see close to 20,000 students from all across North America and around the world taking part in our Experiential Learning Program. A subset of schools has been selected to participate and test a brand-new i2P Education Initiative.
i2P Exploratory is an Experiential Learning pilot project developed by i2P for the Amazon Expedition. Ten schools have been selected to test this learning tool, which is designed to allow students in the classroom to direct the collection of lesson material from the expedition field. Students then build a project with the information they have gathered during the expedition.
A total of 10 schools has been pre-selected to participate in this program.
Two Exploratory topics are selected that reflect the theme of the expedition – in this case biodiversity. Teachers and students participating in an i2P Exploratory pilot project develop a list of issues they want addressed and questions they want answered from the Amazon Rainforest. This list is submitted to i2P in advance of the expedition. These questions will be posted in the Research Questions tab. It is then the job of the 4 Youth Ambassadors on the expedition to collect the information listed by the schools. Information can be collected in any medium: video, film, interviews, etc. This information is relayed back to the participating schools and posted on the expedition website in the Research Responses section. The participating schools use this information to build class projects pertinent to the theme of biodiversity.
Review the topic with your students. Based on your discussion in the classroom select questions that you want answered while i2P is in the Amazon. The selection of these questions should keep in mind your ultimate purpose of the information, whether to complement curriculum or build a class project.
Please take photos of any deforested areas of the Amazon you see.
Please be creative and do not hesitate to ask many questions. The better the questions the better the information we will be able to generate.
For the purposes of the expedition two of the four i2P Youth Ambassadors will be assigned to each Exploratory project. Over the course of the expedition it will be their job, with the support of the i2P team to collect the information directed by the School submissions. As they travel through the Amazon Basin the Youth Ambassadors will serve as the eyes and ears of the students following back home in their classrooms.
The collection of the information for the two Exploratory projects will occur during the course of the expedition. As much information as possible will be posted on the Exploratory section of the i2P website during the expedition. What remains will be posted immediately after the expedition. All information is freely available to all schools. Questions asked by the students and teachers will be posted in the Research Questions tab and data collected by the i2P Youth Ambassadors will be posted in the Research Responses tab.


Alight at Goldhawk Road tube station and you are faced with two options. Turn right and walk for a couple of minutes to BrewDog Shepherds Bush or turn left and walk for eighteen minutes to the Duchess of Cambridge. The left hand path will take you past several pubs that have closed down and a few more that probably should have. If the weather is fine it's a pleasant enough little jaunt.
As I approached the pub I feared that it hadn't yet opened for the day. It looked pretty dark inside and there were no happy smiley faces staring out of the windows. I tried the door. It opened. I entered. The place was empty and no music was playing. Once again I wondered if the place was closed. I felt like I was intruding. I walked past the unoccupied seats and turned the corner to face the bar. Someone was standing there doing paperwork. He looked slightly startled but smiled politely and asked what I would like to drink. Open for business!
I ordered a pint of Art Brew's Hip Hop Dr Rudi. Despite the fact there was a pump clip for it on a hand pull it was served from a gravity cask. I took my pint to a booth table and surveyed my surroundings. The Duchess of Cambridge is larger than I was expecting and a lot less grubby looking than its sister pub, the Bree Louise. It has a slightly dishevelled appearance but it feels more bohemian than out of work bum. I liked the place. It had a nice feel to it even though it was empty. Sadly, my beer wasn't in great condition. It wasn't atrocious or even bad enough to pour it in a plant pot but it certainly wasn't as good as I know that beer can be. Most annoying. The cask and keg lists are written on a blackboard – the words before my eyes weren't super exciting but there were a few beers worth drinking provided the quality was up to scratch. On the table was a big fat fake leatherbound menu. I assumed it would list the bottled beer collection but unless I had a duff copy the menus only list food and wine and spirits, which seems a bit of an oversight. I returned to the bar ordered a pint of W&E Conqueror. Once again it was served from gravity. While there I had a perusal of the bottle beer fridges. They housed an interesting little range of Belgian beers alongside BrewDog San Diego Scotch Ale, Brooklyn Monster, Flying Dog Horn Dog and a few others. Assuming the pricing is correct it would certainly be a fridge worth exploring. I returned to my table. I believe Conqueror is the first BIPA I ever tried. I also believe that first pint of Conqueror was in far better condition than the pint I now had before me. Most annoying. Initially I was planning on meeting a mate in the Duchess but after two disappointing pints and several explanatory tweets I was double timing it back down Goldhawk Road: Destination BDSB.
I actually quite liked the Duchess of Cambridge but thanks to the poor quality of the beer I didn't like it anywhere as much as I should have, which is a bit of a shame. It's unlikely I'll be returning anytime soon.


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Q: Single to many analog signals I am trying to drive two piezo inkjet print heads with an analog waveform varying from 0-40V, with a slew rate of 15V/us and a complicated waveform of a duration of ~20us. When printing only one nozzle will print at a time but the nozzles will fire in sequence.
I have considered the following circuit (displaying only 3 outputs), an FPGA linked to a DAC will generate the waveform, this will be connected to all 32 nozzles. Firing of a nozzle is carried out by using a transistor (Accidentally picture Darlington) switch also connected to the FPGA.

I believe this circuit although crude would be capable in firing any nozzle with the complex analog waveform, the issue I have is that I would like  a different waveform applied to every nozzle not currently jetting.
For succesful jetting it is required that a constant voltage is applied to all nozzles so a voltage drop is possible during activation. It is imperative that there is no voltage spikes from switching between the "non-printing" and "printing" voltages.
I have considered using a second DAC to generate the constant voltage, that this second DAC is in series with the primary DAC and that a method for switching the second DAC on/off for each channel.


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Mahinda Rajapaksa
Maldivian Parliament Speaker Nasheed to facilitate safe haven for Mahinda in the Maldives
Nasheed and former SL PM Mahinda Rakapaksa
The Maldives Journal has learned that the speaker of the Maldivian Parliament, President Mohamed Nasheed is presently brokering safe passage for beleaguered former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his family.
Nasheed is currently in Sri Lanka, meeting heads of political parties. Nasheed went to Sri Lanka last week, and volunteered to coordinate international relief efforts for Sri Lanka, despite lacking any experience in that field. In the last few days, Nasheed has held several meetings with high-level political figures and lobbied to grant the Rajapaksa family a safe passage to the Maldives.
Mahinda called Nasheed for assistance
A senior Maldivian government official reported to TMJ that after he had resigned, Mahinda Rajapaksa had called Nasheed. In this call, Rajapaksa requested Nasheed to make arrangements so that his family can stay in the Maldives until the situation in Sri Lanka calms down.
Mahinda initially had the plan to settle his family in a property of Maldivian tourism tycoon, Champa Muhammad Moosa (Uhchu). Moosa is known to have close ties with the Rajapaksas.
Mahinda and Muhammed Moosa (Uhchu)
Nasheed had shot down the idea, citing that Moosa was an untrustworthy figure. "Uhchu is not to be trusted," he said.
As an alternative, Nasheed had proposed that Rajapaksas purchase a private residence in Soneva Fushi, a property owned by India's Sonu Shivdasani. Sonu is a close associate of Nasheed.
Sonu and Nasheed.
Shivdasani has close ties to India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is suspected to have bank rolled MDP during the tenure of former President Abdullah Yameen.
Shivdasani okays villa purchase
The source also reported that Sonu Shivdasani had agreed to sell a private villa to the Rajapaksa family – at a cool US$ 12 million. An additional villa, priced at US$ 3 million, is also included in the deal, and will be used as housing for the family's staff and security.
A 6 bedroom villa in Soneva fushi
TMJ has been able to confirm that the family plans to purchase a six-room villa, measuring 24,000 square feet. It can comfortably house 12 adults and six children. A private pool, gym, sauna, and other facilities are available in the villa as well.
Ulterior motives behind international aid coordination
Speaker Nasheed left for Sri Lanka last week. The Prime Minister's Office reported that Nasheed had generously offered to assist Sri Lanka in securing relief from foreign nations. Wickremesinghe had accepted the offer.
Since then, Nasheed has held several high-level meetings, including one with former Minister of Youth and Sports, Namal Rajapaksa, the son of Mahinda, as well as opposition leader Sajith Premadasa.
While his original pledge was to coordinate international relief efforts, this has taken backstage to the lobbying efforts he is undertaking. In each meeting, Nasheed had constantly and consistently, lobbied for safe passage for Rajapaksa and his family.
In his meeting with Premadasa, Nasheed had talked of creating peace and political stability. In these meetings, he had urged all to refrain from revenge.
Sri Lankan courts have seized Rajapaksa's passport and a travel ban is on the former Prime Minister.
One of Nasheed's tasks in the country, the source said, was to coordinate between various stakeholders so that the Rajapaksas can leave the country. The source added that Mahinda had agreed to support and fund Nasheed's political activities, in exchange for safe passage.
Zero track record in securing aid
The news that Nasheed was seeking relief for Sri Lanka was met with public criticism, as he has zero track record in securing aid. During his administration, he had famously failed to bring in 'millions', in spite of boasting that he could do so. On top of that, Nasheed's administration had sold off state assets on the cheap to foreign parties.
While campaigning for office in 2008, Nasheed had pledged to bring in US$ 300 million as foreign aid in the first three months of his presidency. His term ended prematurely in 2012 after he resigned – the promised aid is yet to come.
Nasheed's short term in office was marked by economic difficulties, with a currency that was losing its value quickly. The dollar was pegged at 15.42 during his tenure.
His party, Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) is back on the presidency. This administration has continued their heavy reliance on foreign aid as well. Each year, Ministry of Finance pencils in billions as receivables in foreign aid. This is then used as basis for major infrastructure projects and recurrent expenses.
Each year the administration fails to bring in even a quarter of the amount. For the running year, they had set a target of MVR 2.9 billion (US$ 188.01 million). So far, not even three percent has been received.
With such a spotty track record, what guarantee is there that Nasheed could successfully assist Sri Lanka navigate their financial crisis?
Ties between Rajapaksas and MDP
MDP and Rajapaksa family always has had close ties. MDP had their origins in Sri Lanka in 2003. Then the Maldivian constitution did not allow for political parties. This did not halt Nasheed and his allies' ambitions – they started their activities based from Sri Lanka.
Mahinda became Prime Minister for the first time in 2004. Nasheed and MDP continued their work under the protection of Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa is also rumored to have funded Nasheed in the 2008 Presidential elections.
Several high-level figures of MDP call Sri Lanka their second home. President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's father-in-law Sikka Ahmed Ismail Manik resides in Sri Lanka for the most part, with several businesses and residences to his name. Present Health Minister Ahmed Naseem also has a property in the country. Naseem's nephew is currently the Ambassador of Maldives to Sri Lanka.
When former President Ibrahim Nasir ended his term in office, those who were closely aligned with Nasir, set up base in Sri Lanka. This includes, Moomina Haleem, and President Solih's father-in-law, Sikka Ahmed Ismail Manik.
SLPP & MDP -mirrored style of rule
Mahinda Rajapaksa's party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Nasheed's MDP are bastions of nepotism, cronyism, and unchecked corruption.
Mahinda's brother Gotabaya is President. Chamal Rajapaksa, another brother, headed the Ministry of Irrigation. Basil Rajapaksa served as Finance Minister. His son Namal was serving as Minister of Youth and Sports. They all resigned their portfolios in April 2022, in light of protests.
MDP has mirrored this effectively. Nasheed serves as Speaker, while Nasheed's cousin Eva serves as his Deputy. President Solih's cabinet and senior government positions are filled by his and Nasheed's close family and associates.
Sri Lankans are currently in the midst of unprecedented economic turmoil. The country is effectively bankrupt, with the majority of the population struggling to make basic needs met. One of the key demands from the protests is the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Go Gota Go, is the unwavering and unfazed demand. An unrepentant Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family is leaving the country for the Maldives, is a step backward for citizens asking for the bare minimum of accountability.
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Nasheed under pressure, denies TMJ expose


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Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion
June 1, 2010 June 1, 2010 Jesus Maria Alvarez
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This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. It was written by George Friedman. I found it through Josh Marshall's TPM:
On Sunday, Israeli naval forces intercepted the ships of a Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Israel had demanded that the vessels not go directly to Gaza but instead dock in Israeli ports, where the supplies would be offloaded and delivered to Gaza. The Turkish NGO refused, insisting on going directly to Gaza. Gunfire ensued when Israeli naval personnel boarded one of the vessels, and a significant number of the passengers and crew on the ship were killed or wounded.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon charged that the mission was simply an attempt to provoke the Israelis. That was certainly the case. The mission was designed to demonstrate that the Israelis were unreasonable and brutal. The hope was that Israel would be provoked to extreme action, further alienating Israel from the global community and possibly driving a wedge between Israel and the United States. The operation's planners also hoped this would trigger a political crisis in Israel.
A logical Israeli response would have been avoiding falling into the provocation trap and suffering the political repercussions the Turkish NGO was trying to trigger. Instead, the Israelis decided to make a show of force. The Israelis appear to have reasoned that backing down would demonstrate weakness and encourage further flotillas to Gaza, unraveling the Israeli position vis-à-vis Hamas. In this thinking, a violent interception was a superior strategy to accommodation regardless of political consequences. Thus, the Israelis accepted the bait and were provoked.
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The 'Exodus' Scenario
In the 1950s, an author named Leon Uris published a book called "Exodus." Later made into a major motion picture, Exodus told the story of a Zionist provocation against the British. In the wake of World War II, the British — who controlled Palestine, as it was then known — maintained limits on Jewish immigration there. Would-be immigrants captured trying to run the blockade were detained in camps in Cyprus. In the book and movie, Zionists planned a propaganda exercise involving a breakout of Jews — mostly children — from the camp, who would then board a ship renamed the Exodus. When the Royal Navy intercepted the ship, the passengers would mount a hunger strike. The goal was to portray the British as brutes finishing the work of the Nazis. The image of children potentially dying of hunger would force the British to permit the ship to go to Palestine, to reconsider British policy on immigration, and ultimately to decide to abandon Palestine and turn the matter over to the United Nations.
There was in fact a ship called Exodus, but the affair did not play out precisely as portrayed by Uris, who used an amalgam of incidents to display the propaganda war waged by the Jews. Those carrying out this war had two goals. The first was to create sympathy in Britain and throughout the world for Jews who, just a couple of years after German concentration camps, were now being held in British camps. Second, they sought to portray their struggle as being against the British. The British were portrayed as continuing Nazi policies toward the Jews in order to maintain their empire. The Jews were portrayed as anti-imperialists, fighting the British much as the Americans had.
It was a brilliant strategy. By focusing on Jewish victimhood and on the British, the Zionists defined the battle as being against the British, with the Arabs playing the role of people trying to create the second phase of the Holocaust. The British were portrayed as pro-Arab for economic and imperial reasons, indifferent at best to the survivors of the Holocaust. Rather than restraining the Arabs, the British were arming them. The goal was not to vilify the Arabs but to villify the British, and to position the Jews with other nationalist groups whether in India or Egypt rising against the British.
The precise truth or falsehood of this portrayal didn't particularly matter. For most of the world, the Palestine issue was poorly understood and not a matter of immediate concern. The Zionists intended to shape the perceptions of a global public with limited interest in or understanding of the issues, filling in the blanks with their own narrative. And they succeeded.
The success was rooted in a political reality. Where knowledge is limited, and the desire to learn the complex reality doesn't exist, public opinion can be shaped by whoever generates the most powerful symbols. And on a matter of only tangential interest, governments tend to follow their publics' wishes, however they originate. There is little to be gained for governments in resisting public opinion and much to be gained by giving in. By shaping the battlefield of public perception, it is thus possible to get governments to change positions.
In this way, the Zionists' ability to shape global public perceptions of what was happening in Palestine — to demonize the British and turn the question of Palestine into a Jewish-British issue — shaped the political decisions of a range of governments. It was not the truth or falsehood of the narrative that mattered. What mattered was the ability to identify the victim and victimizer such that global opinion caused both London and governments not directly involved in the issue to adopt political stances advantageous to the Zionists. It is in this context that we need to view the Turkish flotilla.
The Turkish Flotilla to Gaza
The Palestinians have long argued that they are the victims of Israel, an invention of British and American imperialism. Since 1967, they have focused not so much on the existence of the state of Israel (at least in messages geared toward the West) as on the oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Since the split between Hamas and Fatah and the Gaza War, the focus has been on the plight of the citizens of Gaza, who have been portrayed as the dispossessed victims of Israeli violence.
The bid to shape global perceptions by portraying the Palestinians as victims of Israel was the first prong of a longtime two-part campaign. The second part of this campaign involved armed resistance against the Israelis. The way this resistance was carried out, from airplane hijackings to stone-throwing children to suicide bombers, interfered with the first part of the campaign, however. The Israelis could point to suicide bombings or the use of children against soldiers as symbols of Palestinian inhumanity. This in turn was used to justify conditions in Gaza. While the Palestinians had made significant inroads in placing Israel on the defensive in global public opinion, they thus consistently gave the Israelis the opportunity to turn the tables. And this is where the flotilla comes in.
The Turkish flotilla aimed to replicate the Exodus story or, more precisely, to define the global image of Israel in the same way the Zionists defined the image that they wanted to project. As with the Zionist portrayal of the situation in 1947, the Gaza situation is far more complicated than as portrayed by the Palestinians. The moral question is also far more ambiguous. But as in 1947, when the Zionist portrayal was not intended to be a scholarly analysis of the situation but a political weapon designed to define perceptions, the Turkish flotilla was not designed to carry out a moral inquest.
Instead, the flotilla was designed to achieve two ends. The first is to divide Israel and Western governments by shifting public opinion against Israel. The second is to create a political crisis inside Israel between those who feel that Israel's increasing isolation over the Gaza issue is dangerous versus those who think any weakening of resolve is dangerous.
The Geopolitical Fallout for Israel
It is vital that the Israelis succeed in portraying the flotilla as an extremist plot. Whether extremist or not, the plot has generated an image of Israel quite damaging to Israeli political interests. Israel is increasingly isolated internationally, with heavy pressure on its relationship with Europe and the United States.
In all of these countries, politicians are extremely sensitive to public opinion. It is difficult to imagine circumstances under which public opinion will see Israel as the victim. The general response in the Western public is likely to be that the Israelis probably should have allowed the ships to go to Gaza and offload rather than to precipitate bloodshed. Israel's enemies will fan these flames by arguing that the Israelis prefer bloodshed to reasonable accommodation. And as Western public opinion shifts against Israel, Western political leaders will track with this shift.
The incident also wrecks Israeli relations with Turkey, historically an Israeli ally in the Muslim world with longstanding military cooperation with Israel. The Turkish government undoubtedly has wanted to move away from this relationship, but it faced resistance within the Turkish military and among secularists. The new Israeli action makes a break with Israel easy, and indeed almost necessary for Ankara.
With roughly the population of Houston, Texas, Israel is just not large enough to withstand extended isolation, meaning this event has profound geopolitical implications.
Public opinion matters where issues are not of fundamental interest to a nation. Israel is not a fundamental interest to other nations. The ability to generate public antipathy to Israel can therefore reshape Israeli relations with countries critical to Israel. For example, a redefinition of U.S.-Israeli relations will have much less effect on the United States than on Israel. The Obama administration, already irritated by the Israelis, might now see a shift in U.S. public opinion that will open the way to a new U.S.-Israeli relationship disadvantageous to Israel.
The Israelis will argue that this is all unfair, as they were provoked. Like the British, they seem to think that the issue is whose logic is correct. But the issue actually is, whose logic will be heard? As with a tank battle or an airstrike, this sort of warfare has nothing to do with fairness. It has to do with controlling public perception and using that public perception to shape foreign policy around the world. In this case, the issue will be whether the deaths were necessary. The Israeli argument of provocation will have limited traction.
Internationally, there is little doubt that the incident will generate a firestorm. Certainly, Turkey will break cooperation with Israel. Opinion in Europe will likely harden. And public opinion in the United States — by far the most important in the equation — might shift to a "plague-on-both-your-houses" position.
While the international reaction is predictable, the interesting question is whether this evolution will cause a political crisis in Israel. Those in Israel who feel that international isolation is preferable to accommodation with the Palestinians are in control now. Many in the opposition see Israel's isolation as a strategic threat. Economically and militarily, they argue, Israel cannot survive in isolation. The current regime will respond that there will be no isolation. The flotilla aimed to generate what the government has said would not happen.
The tougher Israel is, the more the flotilla's narrative takes hold. As the Zionists knew in 1947 and the Palestinians are learning, controlling public opinion requires subtlety, a selective narrative and cynicism. As they also knew, losing the battle can be catastrophic. It cost Britain the Mandate and allowed Israel to survive. Israel's enemies are now turning the tables. This maneuver was far more effective than suicide bombings or the Intifada in challenging Israel's public perception and therefore its geopolitical position (though if the Palestinians return to some of their more distasteful tactics like suicide bombing, the Turkish strategy of portraying Israel as the instigator of violence will be undermined).
Israel is now in uncharted waters. It does not know how to respond. It is not clear that the Palestinians know how to take full advantage of the situation, either. But even so, this places the battle on a new field, far more fluid and uncontrollable than what went before. The next steps will involve calls for sanctions against Israel. The Israeli threats against Iran will be seen in a different context, and Israeli portrayal of Iran will hold less sway over the world.
And this will cause a political crisis in Israel. If this government survives, then Israel is locked into a course that gives it freedom of action but international isolation. If the government falls, then Israel enters a period of domestic uncertainty. In either case, the flotilla achieved its strategic mission. It got Israel to take violent action against it. In doing so, Israel ran into its own fist.
Diplomacy, World AffairsAid Flotilla, Exodus, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Leon Uris
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Shortly after I graduated from law school, my wife and I got engaged. Since she lived just two doors down from my parents, I stayed living at home until we got married. I would walk over to her house to pick her up for a date and then walk her home at night.
Then I would walk back to my folks' house. Because we were night owls, we'd stay up and watch great TV shows like 'Win Ben Stein's Money' or 'Golden Girls.' I loved living at home. My mom is a great cook and my dad and I could carpool to work. Don't get me wrong, I am the luckiest man alive to be married to my awesome wife and live with her, but I really enjoyed my time at my parents'.
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The Rotondos live near Syracuse, New York, with their 30-year-old son, Michael. Though he still lives at home, Michael doesn't pay any rent, do any chores or really help out in any way. Like all parents, the Rotondos want their son to be independent and self-sufficient. So they've begged and pleaded with him to move out.
The couple even offered to give Michael $1,100 to help get him settled. They told him he needed to find a job and get health insurance.
But after March came and went, it was clear that Michael wasn't going anywhere. The Rotondos then went to their local town court to see if they could evict their son. They were told that because Michael was a family member, they would need a Supreme Court justice to remove him. So last month, the Rotondos brought suit against Michael in Onondaga County Supreme Court.
Shockingly, Michael argued that legally, he was not given enough notice to leave. He also called his parents' lawsuit "retaliatory" and has asked the court to dismiss the case. Judge Donald Greenwood denied his request and granted the eviction and ordered Michael to be out by June 1.
But things may be looking up for Michael. After hearing about Michael's impending homelessness, Andrew Steinberg, chief operating officer of the pizza chain Villa Italian Kitchen, offered him a job.
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What is the impact of "duplicate content" on the search engine ranking of your web content? What are the different ways you can wind up with duplicate content? And perhaps most importunely, how can you correct the issue?
The article has a great series of examples and links out to all sorts of resources to learn more. Although SEO has been part of what I've done for many years, I definitely learned a few new things from this piece. It's definitely worth a read!
Kudos to "Dr. Pete" for writing - and sharing - such a useful piece.
For those of us who spend our time creating content online (as I do) and strive to make that content of the best quality and of value to people, the rise of so-called "content farms" has been an annoying feature of the online landscape: both the networks of sites that simply scrape our content and surround it in ads... and the networks of sites that churn out incredibly large quantities of low-grade content that is optimized for SEO so that their pages can rank highly and get eyeballs to their pages and their ads.
For we who strive to create "high quality" content, the spammers and content farmers were annoying in that Google search results seemed to feature these sites (because they were trying to game Google) when our higher quality was ranked lower.
The good news is that as they threatened earlier, the folks at Google stated that they have changed their ranking algorithm to de-value low quality sites. That is to say... they are aiming to hit the spammers and content farmers at their critical reason for being: search engine result placement.
Yet to be seen is exactly what they do and how they tweak the algorithms... there will always be an arms race, I fear, between the search engines like Google and those who want to try to game the system.
Regardless, the move is welcome!
Bring on the changes, Google! We who spend our time striving to create high quality content welcome them.
UPDATE, Feb 26: There have been a number of articles out there seeking to show the actual impact of this change. One of the best I've seen is this post from SISTRIX that shows the 25 biggest losers according to the research they've done.
What is Google going to do about the perception that there are more "spam" sites in search results? What will Google do about content farms?
On Friday, Matt Cutts at Google published a great piece entitled "Google search and search engine spam that is worth reading for all involved in online content creation. Somewhat predictably, he starts out pointing out that in truth there is less spam in search results than there used to be... but then he clearly accepts the "perception equals reality" mantra and lays out what they are looking to do about it.
To respond to that challenge, we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new classifier is better at detecting spam on individual web pages, e.g., repeated spammy words—the sort of phrases you tend to see in junky, automated, self-promoting blog comments. We've also radically improved our ability to detect hacked sites, which were a major source of spam in 2010. And we're evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others' content and sites with low levels of original content.
This issue of people copying others' content continues to be an annoyance to me, particularly because content scrapers keep scraping a lot of Voxeo's old content. Anything that can reduce the value in people doing that is a win by me!
For those of us who are actually spending the time to create quality content online, this is definitely good news.
He ends with a note that Google does not take into account whether or not sites run Google advertising when it is taking action against those sites. I'm inclined to believe them on this point, because at the end of the day, Google's a pretty geeky, hard-core technology company... and Search rules.
It's good to see Google come out with a clear statement like this... and I look forward to seeing what actions they take.
And for us who are creating online content, it's important to monitor whatever changes they make so that we don't wind up inadvertantly having our content somehow devalued amidst the changes.
It seems that a quick way to get a blog post loaded up with spam comments is to get it up on the first page of Google search engine results. Or at least, that's how it appears to me.
But that doesn't really answer it to me. When I head over to the AdWords Keyword Tool, the reality is that pretty much almost no one is searching on those particular terms! So even though my post may place highly in the results, it doesn't really matter because only a trivial number of people are actually searching for that term.
I should note, too, that none of the blog comment spam had anything whatsoever to do with Node.js. It was all the typical comment spam linking to various silly products... watches, pharmaceutical products, websites, etc.
In the end, I don't know... perhaps some comment spammer is trying to post comments on blogs that have long-tail terms related to topics getting buzz these days. ("Node.js" is a hot topic in developer circles right now.) Perhaps that particular post just got tweeted or retweeted and caught someone's attention.
On one level, it doesn't much matter to me, since I moderate all comments from people who haven't commented before. So the comments are going live on my site... it's more just the annoyance of having them come in (and a number of them are not getting caught by Akismet).
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Small in size but big in impact, it's a boutique for "conscious consumers," explains owner Tyra Johnson, who promotes the concept of sustainability through the hard goods and consulting services she offers. Here, in an old brick building with a simple storefront, her passion for social responsibility and earth-friendly products collides with her professional background in civil and environmental engineering. And the result is pure magic.
"I have to believe that I am making a difference," insists the Wisconsin-born Johnson, who practices what she preaches as she urges others to look at the big picture: a healthier planet for future generations.
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Q: Counting the number of distinct values in one column with table1 as
(
  select CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY, count(CTN_MAIN) as c
  from
  (
    select distinct CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY
    from STG_SDB_LOAD SDB
  )
)select * from table1;

I'm trying to get this 3 columns CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY and the number of times a distinct CTN_MAIN appears. If I do just
select count(CTN_MAIN)

I get the count main field, but I need other columns as well. What can I do?
the error is
ORA-00937. 00000 -  "not a single-group group function"
*Cause:
*Action:
Error at Line: 3 Column: 10

A: Try this
with table1 as
(
  select CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY, count(CTN_MAIN) as c
  from
  (
    select distinct CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY
    from STG_SDB_LOAD SDB
  ) group by CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY
)select * from table1;

A: Use analytical function
with table1 as
(
  select CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY, COUNT(DISTINCT CTN_MAIN) OVER (PARTITION BY NULL) as c
  from
  (
    select distinct CTN_MAIN, SUBS_KEY, BAN_KEY
    from STG_SDB_LOAD SDB
  )
)select * from table1;


SHA1 and Crypt are both one way encryption methods, meaning they cannot be decrypted, both are good choices for encrypting passwords.
md5 is two way encryption method meaning it can be both encrypted and decrypted.
stoping people from gaining access to the zerver falls under server configuration, setting up strong usernames and passwords for MySQL access and for FTP access. we do not have tutorials for configuring the server, this should be handled by your host.
No, security assist does not any built in protection from brute force login attempts.


Summary LSA can be of two flavors: type 3 and type 4. In this tutorial we will focus on type 3 LSA. Type 3 LSAs are generated by ABR. They represent networks from an area and are sent to the rest of the areas in OSPF domain. Type 1 LSAs don't cross area boundary, so Area Border Router (ABR) uses type 3 LSA to inform other areas about networks learned in its area. Type 3 LSA uses network address as Link ID and router id of advertising router as ADV Router in OSPF database.
Type 1 LSA (also called Router LSA) contains information about directed connected links in the area to which the router belong. They are flooded to all routers in that area. If the router is an ABR (Area Border Router), it generates type 1 LSAs for all the areas to which it is connected and send those LSAs to all neighbors in corresponding areas.
OSPF is a link-state routing protocol, which in contrast to distance vector routing protocols enable the router to have a map of the whole OSPF domain. This is done by collecting routing information from the rest of the routers in OSPF domain. Routing information is exchanged between routers by using LSAs (Link State Advertisements).


On the heels of cost-cutting news from CanWest and CTV recently, CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix sent a missive to staff Friday sketching out a few ways the public broadcaster intends to reduce costs.
On the heels of cost-cutting news from broadcasters Canwest and CTV recently, CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix sent a missive to staff Friday sketching out a few ways the public broadcaster intends to reduce costs.
CBC and its French arm, Radio-Canada, are not immune to the current financial climate, Lacroix wrote in an all-staff memo.
"We will need to adapt to changing conditions and circumstances to see our way through these tough financial times," he warned. "Our revenue streams are taking a hit; we are currently projecting a deficit in our television operations, though not to the extent of our competitors; and our levels of federal funding are never guaranteed."
Still, Lacroix emphasized that "where others are contemplating and predicting layoffs, we are looking to put in place and push forward with solutions that won't involve cutting jobs. Changing circumstances might over time challenge us in this regard — it's impossible to predict what exactly is to come — but I want you to know that we're putting our people first in all of this."
Review all plans for capital expenditures to determine whether they can be deferred or cancelled.
Review all new hires on a case-by-case basis at the vice-presidential level.
Significantly reduce expenditures for travel, hospitality, overtime and other areas.
"In other words, if it's discretionary, it's gone. If it's anything less than a bona fide requirement, it's gone. If it's not absolutely strategic, it's gone," he said, adding that more details and guidelines will be available from managers shortly.
Lacroix also called on staffers themselves to come up with ideas on how their respective departments could cut costs.
"If we stay true to our values, work together to push for results, and serve Canadians as well as we know we can, I believe that we might even emerge from these times a much stronger and better company, with an even more meaningful and relevant brand," he said.
Private sector broadcasters are already facing difficulty because of declining ad revenue.
On Tuesday, CTV staff learned of cost-cutting measures ranging from a hiring freeze to predicted layoffs. The news came in a memo from CTV CEO Ivan Fecan, who is also president and CEO of the TV broadcaster's parent company, CTVglobemedia.
Last week, rival media giant Canwest Global Communications announced it will be cutting five per cent of its workforce, including 210 broadcasting and 350 publishing jobs.