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The dreaded sequestration is upon us! The world is ending! Run away! — and Markets scream higher.
Something appears to be wrong with this picture — and this morning, we are going to discuss which of these two organizations is incorrect.
Let's begin by noting both of these entities are self organizing collections of humans. Irrationality is built into their essence. We cannot get away from that factor, at least not until the singularity arrives, and humans can have their irrationality (and humanity) programmed out of them. For now, let's simply admit that this is an inherent function of the breed. It cannot be avoided in organizations of Humans.
Second, consider the motivations (to anthropomorphize this) of each entity. There in lay the clues as to which is more or less rational.
Markets exist as a place where capital, investors and investments intersect in the form of securities. It is where the buying and selling of debt and equity occurs. Those with capital can invest in or lend to those who can put it to better potential long-term use, be they start ups or existing companies or governments.
Media is a business form that creates content, which then attracts an audience. Media then monetizes that primarily by selling access to this audience to its advertisers.
Neither of these entities is any stranger to irrationality. While noth have a profit motive, they each go about pursuing it in very different ways.
At Market tops and bottoms, the collective pricing of its wares becomes absurd. In 1982, stocks traded at an 8 P/E. In 2000, they traded at 32 P/E. On the eve of crisis in October 2007, stocks were priced as if all was fine. In March 2009, stocks were priced as if governments and the Federal Reserve were going to do nothing. History teaches us that the human elements of markets all too regularly spiral into spasms of mass delusion.
Media has a somewhat differing approach to embracing irrationality — with a different level of background foolishness. Hype is the watchword, and the media can take a relatively modest issue and blow it up far beyond reasonable proportions. Think back to Y2K as an example of relentless media silliness and fear mongering. The world was going to come to a stop on December 31st, 1999 when the clocks rolled over. (Nothing happened). This past December, the Fiscal Cliff was going to be yet another disaster. Again, you should have ignored the hype.
And now, we have the sequester. It is front page story, lead item on every TV show. Yes, Sequester is likely to shave at least 0.5% off of our total GDP. It reflects the congenital dysfunction in Washington, DC. I don't want to suggest this is a good thing — it is, as the comic below suggests, a self-inflicted wound. But it is not all that much of a stretch to read the actions of the market as suggesting its not all that.
With Markets, the irrational behavior is a bug. Smarter, more experienced investors are aware of this all-too-human behavior. It creates opportunities, but is wildly disruptive. When markets become irrational, a majority of its participants suffer. Entire schools of thought have arisen to study irrational behavior of financial actors (i.e., Behavioral Economics and Neurofinance). It is not considered an advantage when markets spiral into their regular fits of irrationality.
With Media, irrational behavior is a feature, not a bug. The goal is to attract a large audience that can be monetized with adverts. Hence, there is an incentive to emphasize the outrageous, the ridiculous, to create buzz and hype. An entire subspecialty dedicated to studying memes and viral events has arisen to capitalize on this. It is considered an advantage when media spirals into their regular fits of hype. From a business perspective, "Irrationality" to organizations that sell audiences to advertisers, is quite a rational behavior.
Washington D.C. is the perfect foil for Media. It creates a a false narrative that plays right into their sweet spot. There are the classic elements of narrative conflict: Great stakes, villains and heroes, dramatic personalities, risk and redemption. As previously discussed, the media narrative about the 2012 presidential election — the horse race that was too close to call — was wildly wrong. But it sold boatloads of papers and advertising.
It also scared some people into them into some poorly considered decisions. Over the years, I have tried to emphasize how dangerous a compelling narrative can be to investors. This is where the media narrative becomes so dangerous.
I don't want to suggest either is monolithic. Markets consist of buyers and sellers. Media has a spectrum of opinions. Markets produce an investment opinion by the preponderance of actions of its participants. Some press practitioners actually got these things right, and were proven by time to possess insight. But what we are referring to here is the overall actions, the collective impressions each creates.
Between the two entities, which are you more likely to believe — the one whose job it is to match buyers and sellers, or the one who is trying to deliver an audience to advertisers?


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Tahunanui Motor Camp
70 Beach Road, Tahunanui, Nelson
+64 3 548 5159
0800 500 501 (toll-free)
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Tahunanui Motor Camp
70 Beach Road, Tahunanui, Nelson
+64 3 548 5159
0800 500 501 (toll-free)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: Tahunanui Beach Holiday Park
Aside from Nelson's proven record for consistently being the sunniest place in New Zealand, a major reason for staying at Tahunanui Beach Holiday Park is its location, adjacent to the popular Tahunanui Beach and Fun Park, and only 5km from the heart of Nelson city.
Accommodation includes:
- caravan and camping sites
- motels
- tourist flats
- tourist cabins
- graded cabins
- standard cabins
Facilities (in park) include:
- on-site shop, takeaways, and postal service
- tourist information
- facsimile and photocopier services
- television room
- BBQs
- playground areas
- mini golf and pedal go-karts
- close to transport services
- hire facilities includes linen, cots and highchairs
- giant chess board
Brook Valley Holiday Park
PO Box 294, Nelson
+64 3 548 0399
The Brook Valley Holiday Park is located only 4.5km from the city centre. A unique setting, surrounded by native bush, with many bush walks right on the doorstep. Close to mountain bike track, including Codgers and Dun Mountain.
Facilities include:
- tourist cabins
- camper, caravan and tent sites
- tv lounge
- boat and car wash
- token-operated showers
- laundry
- camp kitchen
Learn more about Brook Valley Holiday Park.
Maitai Valley Camp
472 Maitai Valley Road, Nelson
+64 3 548 7729 (phone and fax)
Only five kilometres outside of the city centre via a scenic drive, the Maitai Valley Camp has a woodland setting and a safe river for swimming. Its 120 power sites and 400 tent sites are spacious and scattered amongst great trees.
Facilities include:
- token gas showers
- two fully equipped kitchens
- BBQ area
- limited dump point
- walks
- mountain biking
Visit their website for details and rates.
Cable Bay Holiday Park
Cable Bay Farm
Nelson, RD1
New Zealand
+ 64 3 545 0003
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Cable Bay is a short 20-minute drive north of Nelson city, situated at the top of the South Island of New Zealand, and near the new Horoirangi Marine Reserve.
A newly built amenities building is clean and spacious with ample hot showers, laundry facilities, fridge and freezer in the fully equipped kitchen.

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Running Central becomes nation's largest independently-owned running shoe store
PEORIA — The Peoria riverfront is off and running.
With its recent move to the former site of the Illinois Antique Center at 311 SW Water St., Running Central opened as the nation's largest independently-owned running shoe store, said co-owner Adam White.
"That's in terms of our (20,000 square-foot) footprint — not in sales. But we hope to get that record, too," he said.
White and wife Marie have been running hard since they took the Running Central shoe store from Heritage Square in Peoria Heights where it had been located for the past three years.
"We had to expand 11 months after we moved in," said White, adding that he doesn't have to worry about finding space at his present location.
The Water Street site not only provides enough room for the 4,000 pairs of shoes that Running Central offers, including a small number that are displayed on a large wall (beneath a stunning 1917 riverfront view of Peoria) along with racks of clothing, flex space for yoga classes and clinics plus a 35-yard jogging track that allows store staff to analyze a customer's running action.
There's even space for showers and a towel service ($2) to accommodate joggers who might want to take a riverfront run before heading off to work, said White.
Space was a real problem for the store when located at Main and Sheridan where it was a fixture for 33 years. White and brother Ian bought the business from Steve Shostrum in 2008 before making the move to the Heights in 2011.
Making moves is what Running Central is all about, said White, whose ShaZam Racing Corp. also runs out of the Water Street location with an organization that oversees nine local races a year as well as providing time and scoring for 80 other races across the Midwest.
For all the running around they do, the Whites know their spacious riverfront store — with its staff of 27 full and part-time employees — can't rely simply on hardcore runners as their sole market.
"The biggest challenge was the name. So many people don't consider themselves runners," he said.
"How do you create awareness when 85 percent run less than 15 miles a week? It starts with customer service," said White.
"People want to be taken care of. Our proposal is that we're fitting you for life," he said.
Marie White added her own slant on customer service. "People want to know that their problems are being addressed," she said.
To address problems, one needs to pay special attention to the customer, she added.
Buying a pair of shoes at Running Central isn't simply a matter of toting a box to the front register, said Adam White, who's well aware of the power of the Internet.
"It's more than just shoes. We can't exist simply on transactions. We want people to come inside the store — whether they buy anything or not. You build an organization around people," he said.
Getting people to come through the door is always a challenge, he added. "Seventy percent of the people who buy a pair of shoes from a running specialty store, buy their second pair online," he said.
Having done his own research, White noted that Running Central fares a little better than that, losing only 50 percent of second-time purchases to the Internet.
"That still means we lose 50 percent of that business. That's the reality of the marketplace," he said.
That reality means that Running Central doesn't set out to be just a mecca for runners, but for fitness in general. "We're trying to support all aspects of health and wellness. It has to be more than just running," said Adam White.
"We're interested in anything we can do to help people get started on self-betterment," he said.
White said he was also interested in supporting community activities such as the farmer's market across the street. "We're looking to partner with others," he said.
White also looks to inspire members of the business community. "We want to show just how gorgeous these old buildings are," he said, pointing to one of the massive wooden beams that support a structure built in 1903.
Steve Tarter is Journal Star business editor. Tarter's phone number is 686-3260, and his email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow his blog, Minding Business, on pjstar.com and follow him on Twitter @SteveTarter


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Over the last year or so, you've heard the coined phrased a million times, "The Southwest Effect," or, more specifically, the increase in airline travel to and from a community after service is inaugurated by Southwest Airlines. That phrase, and it's somewhat pretentious definition, was the cornerstone in the big push to get the new airport placed, built and quickly up and running. You've waited with your doors open expecting the flood of Chicagoans, Tennesseans and the like to see our local marketing efforts and low fares into the "World's Most Beautiful Beach" and show up with money in hand. Well, that hasn't exactly happened yet, (insert BP insult here), but that's not to say that this summer won't see a spike in airline travel and, consequently, more traffic to your business. Recent trends, suggest, the "Effect" might be happening very soon.
Airline Travel:
Earlier this year, now former airport Executive Director, Randy Curtis, stated that statistics taken from the July-August season in 2010 compared to the old-airport's numbers during the same time frame experienced a significant increase. In July-August 2009, the old airport handled about 30,000 monthly passengers. In 2010, however, during those same summer months, the numbers jumped to 83,000 passengers (per month) despite negative, national media coverage of BP's oil disaster and the nation's economical hardships.
Randy Curtis simplified the numbers-by stating that this year's expectations are leaning towards "3x's the number of passengers the old airport handled during the same time frame".
So what does that mean? Well, quite simply, the "Effect" is in effect. What everyone expected from the new airport and the arrival of Southwest Airlines was that more flights would produce more visitors and a broader clientele. The first half of that is already true. We've essentially tripled the amount of passengers coming into Panama City Beach. So, does that necessarily mean more money?
Hotel Booking Numbers:
In a recent article, we explained how Hoteliers were cautiously optimistic about this year'
s tourist season. It seems that optimism is beginning to produce actual numbers and the numbers are good. We spoke with two local hotels and a condo owner renting properties on his own. In all three cases, numbers were up so far. One hotel GM even went as far as to say that Thunder Beach was "the best one we've ever had financially". But it isn't actual heads-in-beds that had everyone raving.
Nick Armstrong, GM of the Chateau Motel, said, "Our early bookings are up, compared to last year where people were more likely to wait until the last minute."
Early booking numbers suggest that a). people are no longer worried about Oil, b). potential vacationers are more willing to set aside money they would/could not last year and c). individuals booking flights are also booking rooms.
If this trend continues, by the end of winter, hotel and condo numbers should be definitive as to whether the "Effect" has had any effect on them.
Increased Staffing:
If you drove around the beach just before Spring Break, you saw "Now Hiring" signs all over the place. This is not uncommon for our area as our seasons dictate the hiring increases. What is uncommon is that the "Now Hiring" signs are still up. In a recent visit to Pier Park, lots of establishments are hiring more people to help deal with the more individuals coming through their doors. Restaurants have bulked up staff members for both the increase in visitors and because of the numbers they project to do this summer. What was once "cautious optimism" is becoming serious preparation. This, of course, suggests that not only do the numbers show an increase in visitors now, but that our little town could be in for a BIG summer.


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It wasn't lengthy ago that bridges and dentures had been your only alternatives when it arrived at replacing missing the teeth. Right now, nonetheless, you can find much better alternatives. While "far better", however, they are also more pricey. This isn't very likely to transform in the future, as dentistry implants require a medical operation and it is a much more intrusive approach to changing pearly whites than dentures. A great periodontist or dental care operating specialist, even so, can do the treatment and give you substitute tooth that will be unobtrusive, organic, and extraordinarily long lasting. If you're enthusiastic about the procedure, here are some items you should check with your dental skilled.
Before you think about spending any additional money that dentistry implants require, you ought to question your periodontist about the benefits of proceeding that extra mile. Some patients don't obtain the advantages to outnumber the expense. Other people discover the information slim overwhelmingly towards obtaining the treatment. Only it is possible to choose beyond doubt. Use a mixture of your dental care professional's assistance as well as your personal study to determine which course is the best for you. Some pros you're prone to locate include a more natural look, much better work, along with the avoidance of bone tissue atrophy-an extremely genuine chance with dentures.
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Confer with your dental professional or periodontist in regards to what the procedure will entail. The entire process of setting up dental implants will not be gonna modify a lot between workplaces, however you may wish to at the very least see what it will mean in your scenario. See how many trips it will take to perform the task. In many cases, it really is some thing that need to be done during the period of several months. Your underlying implants ought to fuse with the bone fragments just before the dental professional can place the crowns to the stops. For the most sophisticated job and also for a number of absent pearly whites, it could be a year before all the work is done. Make certain you're at ease with that scope of treatment before advancing.
You can't make an informed decision regarding dentistry implants until you probably know how much cash you'll be anticipated to pay. Your periodontist, dental surgeon, or dental practitioner are able to provide you with the information about your costs. Keep in mind that your dental insurance plan is not likely to pay for much of the price, because they look at dentistry implants being an elective surgery. Costs change extensively, according to the level from the function, work, and where in the united states your home is. For this reason, it will be folly to speculate around the cost. Speak with your periodontist and discover regardless of if the implants are comfortably affordable.
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I came too; lying on the ground, my eyes shut tight. I don't know if I could have opened them. I didn't want to. The bright purple light made me feel at peace and the forest that was drawn on this backdrop was calming. Verdant green. Mystical. My breathing slowed. My pulse dropped lower and lower.
Bats. Hordes of black spots alighting from the forest. 'No! My mouth is not a bat cave,' I wanted to shout but the words froze on my lips.
'Lyssivirus' I thought before a shake penetrated my consciousness. Eyes opened. Yoga meditation embarrassment.
In response to Charli's prompt where she asks:
April 12, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes a bat. You can use an association to the winged, cave-dwelling critter, or you can explore the word for other meanings. Bonus points for including a bat cave. Go where the prompt leads.
Respond by April 17, 2018. Use the comment section below to share, read and be social. You may leave a link, pingback or story in the comments.
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Chartreuse is an enchanting liqueur if there ever was one. As we covered in this week's Dig, the Chartreuse we drink today is based on a recipe for an "Elixir of Long Life" that was handed down to the Order of Carthusian monks in the 17th century. Reputed since their founding in 1084 as the Catholic Church's strictest order, the monks "dedicate themselves entirely to the service of God and to spiritual life, in permanent silence." Sales of chartreuse liqueur, which is most commonly found in green (its original form) and yellow, support the contemplative order.
Though the Carthusian monks were handed the manuscript for the "Elixir of Long Life" in 1605, it took over a century for them to decode it into something drinkable, the Elixir Vegetal de la Grande-Chartreuse which was first distilled in 1737. 130 different botanicals and plant extracts are used as ingredients, and the drink takes is signature color from the chlorophyll therein. The original stuff was a 71% alcohol, 147 proof, but recognizing the popularity of chartreuse as more than just a medicine, the monks created a more palatable 55% alcohol, 110 proof version which is what we know and love as green chartreuse today. In 1838 the Carthusians introduced the even milder, sweeter yellow chartreuse, which weighs in at 40% alcohol, 80 proof. A kinder, gentler version of the stuff and where you might want to start if you're new to drinking/mixing with it. White chartreuse was also produced once upon a time (1860-1900), as was a special V.E.P. in the (1960s.)
The complexity of the recipe is part of what has kept it secret for centuries. When the Carthusians were expelled from the France (along with members of all other religious orders) the recipe was nearly lost. According to the lore, the monk entrusted with the original manuscript was arrested and jailed during this time. He managed to smuggle it out of prison to another Carthusian who was also on the lam, but the recipient could make no sense of the recipe. Befuddled by the complicated instructions and believing the Chartreuse Order shuttered forever, he sold the manuscript to a Grenoblois pharmacist named Monsieur Liotard, who also didn't "get it". He was unable to do anything with the recipe, and his heirs returned it to the Carthusian monks after his death in 1816.
Similarly, the French government was unable reproduce the stuff after they "nationalized" the chartreuse distillery in 1903 causing the monks to flee to Tarragona, Spain. The government's, Chartreuse-branded product failed in the marketplace within a decade (see right.)
Who wouldn't want to sip on a liqueur that's…
1. Made by an order of contemplative monks in the French Alps?
2. Based on an ancient recipe for an Elixir of Long Life?
3. Such a highly guarded secret that only two monks are entrusted with the recipe, and never known to any one person at a time?
4. Made from 130 different herbs and botanicals, secretly processed and mixed?
5. Has its own color scheme named after it?
6. So deliciously complex that its behavior in cocktails can be a total surprise?
Mix up any one of these and you'll know what we mean:
Adapted by Contessa from a recipe she originally sampled at Bourbon & Branch
2 oz Plymouth Gin
1 oz lime
3/4 oz yellow Chartreuse
3/4 oz St-Germain
Shake in a cocktail shaker, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
1.5 oz gin
.5 oz Yellow chartreuse
.5 oz fresh grapefruit juice
.25 oz lemon juice
.25 oz simple syrup
Shake in a cocktail shaker, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.


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The ocean's a wild place. It's good to be educated. – Jeff Kurr
Despite 23 years of experience filming shark documentaries, Jeff Kurr knows there are some variables he just can't control.
Like casting, for instance.
"When you go out there and jump in the water, you never know what's going to happen," he said. "You never know who's going to show up."
Fortunately for Kurr, a truly captivating star came upon the scene for his latest Shark Week production — an 18-foot great white.
"It's really like a school bus with teeth," said Kurr, whose "Great White Serial Killer" premieres Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 8 p.m. MDT on the Discovery Channel. "It's certainly the largest (great white) I've seen in 23 years of filming sharks. … It's a very special animal."
Capturing unpredictable apex predators on film is just one challenge for those behind Shark Week, which enters its 26th season on Sunday. Keeping what's become a pop culture phenomenon fresh year after year requires finding new story lines, investing in technology and capturing sharks in ways viewers haven't seen before.
"It's not easy finding interesting and compelling stories to share every year," Kurr said. "You can't make this stuff up."
This year, viewers can expect to see a new high-tech piece of equipment called Shark Cam, which is purported to follow great whites where no diver can; a trio of Louisiana shrimp fishermen tracking down a legendary terror; a reboot of one of Shark Week's most-popular episodes ever; and a haunting examination of two of the most devastating fatal attacks in history.
After kicking off the week Sunday, Aug. 4, at 6 p.m. with "Air Jaws: Beyond the Breach," a behind-the-scenes look at Kurr's iconic soaring sharks franchise, Discovery will unveil Shark Cam, a newly developed robot submarine that follows and films great whites swimming off the shores of Cape Cod.
"How often does this happen everyday?" one scientist asks in "Return of Jaws" as he watches a massive shark travel right along a heavily populated beach. The show premieres Monday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m.
According to Michael Sorensen, a senior director of development and production who oversaw this year's Shark Week lineup, Shark Cam allowed crews to film great white movements for hours at a time, rather than the few seconds they're normally allotted.
"If you shoot something in a different way, it feels different," Sorensen said.
One documentary with a decidedly different feel is "Voodoo Sharks," which follows "Return of Jaws" at 8 p.m. Exceeding expectations, evolving the programming and taking viewers where they haven't been before is one of the goals of Shark Week, according to Sorensen. "Voodoo Sharks" juxtaposes a Louisiana State University science team tracking bull sharks in fresh water with three shrimp fishermen, called the "Cajun team," who chase the legend of a man-eating monster in the bayou. The unlikely hosts (think "Swamp People" meets Shark Week) swap fish stories with locals, retell legends around a campfire and even follow a bull shark using a homemade tracker.
"They had their own story to tell which was a lot different than the LSU science team," Sorensen said.
On Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 7 p.m., "Top 10 Sharkdown" counts down the 10 most deadly sharks in the world. It's a reboot of a 13-year-old episode that drew some of Shark Week's biggest ratings ever, according to Sorensen.
The new episode includes a few shakeups (the blue shark gets a dubious promotion) and some interesting featurettes on the cookie-cutter shark and Greenland shark.
Following "Sharkdown" is "Great White Serial Killer," Kurr's latest project that he produced and did a good percentage of the underwater camera work for.
The program examines two fatal great white attacks at Surf Beach in Lompoc, Calif., that occurred exactly two years apart in the same area. Researcher Ralph Collier says they are "the most violent events I've ever been involved with" in 50 years.
"People are afraid to go there because of these shark attacks," Kurr said. "It kind of played out like a real-life Jaws scenario."
Kurr says he hopes to "get rid of fear with understanding" and help people to know where they're surfing.
"The ocean's a wild place," he said. "It's good to be educated."
The ultimate goal of Shark Week, Sorensen said, is "trying to understand the mystery of sharks."
"Everything is still driven by a need to understand shark behavior."
People are naturally afraid of sharks, Sorensen pointed out, and Discovery tries not to demonize the animal or "over depict and be too graphic" when it comes to attacks, he said.
Still, the different episodes vary in tone and content, and some may be a bit scary and contain too much blood for very young viewers.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country. Her husband died a month later after suffering what she said was emotional trauma from the quake. She and her two daughters now live in tents outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, surrounded by thousands of others made homeless and desperate by the disaster.
What's helped pull her through all the grief, she said, has been her faith, but not of the Catholic, Protestant or even Voodoo variety that have predominated in this island country. Instead, she's converted to a new religion here, Islam, and built a small neighborhood mosque out of cinderblocks and plywood, where some 60 Muslims pray daily.
Islam has won a growing number of followers in this impoverished country, especially after the catastrophe two years ago that killed some 300,000 people and left millions more homeless. A capital where church attendance is so prevalent that the streets echo with Christian hymns on Sundays now has at least five mosques, a Muslim parliament member and a nightly local television program devoted to Islam.
The disaster drew in aid groups from around the world, including Islamic Relief USA, which built 200 shelters and a secondary school with 20 classrooms.
"After the earthquake we had a lot of people join," said Robert Dupuy, an imam or Islamic spiritual leader in the capital. "We were organized. We had space in the mosques to receive people and food to feed them."
Derosier said she was drawn to the religion's preaching of self-discipline, emphasis on education and attention to cleanliness. The constant washing, she said, helps her and other Muslims avoid cholera, the waterborne illness that health officials say has sickened nearly 600,000 people and killed more than 7,500 others since surfacing after the quake.
"This is a victory for me," the 43-year-old woman said about her post-quake conversion. The former Protestant spoke in the tent-filled courtyard of her home, her face framed by a clean, black head scarf. "It's a victory that I received peace and found guidance."
In part, the Muslim community's growth can be attributed to the return of expatriates who adopted the faith in the U.S., said Kishner Billy, owner of the island's Telemax TV station and host of the nightly program "Haiti Islam."
Billy and some others believe that Islam's Haitian past goes back before the country's independence in 1804, and that a Jamaican slave and Voodoo priest named Boukman who led the slave revolt that ousted French colonizers was actually a Muslim.
"Islam is coming back to Haiti to stay," said Billy, who says he converted from Christianity 20 years ago. "Future generations, my sons and daughters, will speak about Islam."
There are no firm statistics on the number of Muslims in Haiti, just as there are no reliable figures for many things in the country, including Port-au-Prince's exact population.
A 2009 study by the Pew Research Center on the world's Muslim population estimated that Haiti had about 2,000 devotees. Islamic leaders in the country insist the figure is much higher and growing.
Islam is hardly unknown in the Caribbean; countries such as Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname and Guyana have significant Muslim populations. Many of those nations have strong roots in countries such as India and Indonesia where Islam is widespread.
The ancestors of Haitians, by contrast, were brought largely from non-Muslim areas of Africa. Haiti's French colonial rulers also imported their Christian beliefs.
The recent growth of Islam, as well as other new religions, shows Haiti is modernizing and becoming more pluralistic, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"Inroads made by Islam (and by extension, by Mormonism and Rastafarianism) tell me that Haiti is very much a product of this century, subject to all winds, ill-winds and otherwise, that blow over the Caribbean nation-states," Bellegarde-Smith wrote in an email.
Rosedany Bazille, a 39-year-old teacher who converted several months after the earthquake, said she had felt rudderless before embracing the religion and was looking for a way forward.
"Islam can put people on the right path and show them who's God," she said.
Some Haitian Muslims belong to the Nation of Islam, a U.S.-based branch of the religion that preaches black self-determination. Some local members converted while serving time in U.S. prisons before being deported back to Haiti. The group's leader, Louis Farrakhan, visited the country for the first time last year.
The decision to convert has made some targets of discrimination.
The Haitian government doesn't recognize Islam as an official religion, nor does it honor Muslim marriages. Wearing the skullcaps or flowing head scarves typical of the religion can draw stares and finger-pointing. Derosier said her neighbors gossip that she's evil.
Voodoo, a blend of West African religions created by slaves during the colonial period, has long been a popular faith in the country, with elements followed even by some of the 85 percent of the population who claim Christian beliefs. Voodoo was once so commonly embraced that the notorious dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier used it to terrify and control the masses.
Most Christian Haitians identify themselves as Roman Catholics. A priest, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was elected president in 1990 by opposing the hereditary dictatorship that continued with Francois' son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
With so much still wrong in Haiti, the need for Islam couldn't be greater, said Billy. Two months ago, he launched his live talk show to educate his compatriots about his adopted faith.
"Haiti has gone astray. It can't produce anything," said Billy. "Right now Haitians just want a visa to go the United States, to Canada. They don't want to stay in Haiti."
With a tapestry of Mecca and praying crowds as a backdrop to his TV show one recent evening, Billy and his co-host Ruben Caries invited watchers to send questions about Islam via text messages.
Billy's BlackBerry buzzed with missives, including this one in Creole: "M vle vini Muslim" — "I want to be a Muslim."


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Mohamed El-Beltagi arrested on suspicion of inciting violence, Egyptian media report
El-Beltagi among many Muslim Brotherhood leaders arrested since president's ouster
El-Beltagi's daughter was killed during Cairo sit-in crackdowns this month
Egyptian security forces arrested a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader on suspicion of inciting violence after last month's ouster of then-President Mohamed Morsy, state-run media reported Thursday.
Mohamed El-Beltagi was arrested in Giza province, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported.
The Egyptian military and other security forces have arrested a number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders since the ouster of Morsy, who belonged to the brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. In many cases, those arrested have been accused of inciting violence.
What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Egypt has been in turmoil since the military ousted Morsy in early July. The military and Morsy opponents have battled Muslim Brotherhood members and other Morsy supporters.
This month, hundreds of people – citizens as well as members of security forces – were killed. Many of the deaths occurred when the military used force to clear two pro-Morsy sit-in sites in Cairo, and when violence raged after pro-Morsy supporters staged demonstrations two days later.
El-Beltagi's 17-year-old daughter, Asmaa, died in violence related to the sit-in crackdowns, Al-Ahram reported.


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Vanessa Vazquez Laba, a scholar feminist and researcher in gender studies in Argentina, with whom I share a first name, activism, and intellectual interests, hits me on Valentine's Day with the following message:
There have been 57 femicides in the first 43 days of 2017 in the country, and the government has suspended the funding of universities for research on gender based violence.
57 femicides in 43 days…
A heartbreaking message to receive in Valentine's day, isn´t it?
What does this mean? According to the definition accepted by the majority of women's rights activists and scholars, "Femicide is a sex-based crime, generally understood to involve intentional murder of women because they are women." . The World Health Organization states that a Femicide is:
Usually perpetrated by men. Most cases of femicide in the world are committed by partners or ex-partners, and involve ongoing abuse in the home, threats or intimidation, sexual violence or situations where women have less power or fewer resources than their partner.
57 women in 43 days… It means 57 human beings were murdered, most of them in the hands of someone they trusted and shared an intimate relationship with, after a painful process that included different types of violence to deplete their sense of value and personhood.
One woman murdered every 18 hours.
57 women most of whom were abused for one they loved.
Maybe you are wondering, as in the famous song performed for that outstanding singer and domestic abuse survivor Tina Turner: What's love go to do with it?
When we realize that the most of these women lost their lives while being at home at the hands of their partners, husbands, boyfriends, fiances… we know that love has all to do with it: "Romantic Love" is a patriarchy's device that keep us in relationship based in inequality and makes us vulnerable to dismissing, violence and .. death.
Dates such as Valentine's Day promote a kind of love based on patriarchal patterns, rooted in ideas of submission and co-dependence, macho-alpha masculinity, and pleasure through the consumption of goods. In this scenario, women's bodies are goods subject to the discipline and power dynamics of heterosexuality.
Patriarchy contaminates everything including also the way we "Fall in love" and understand "Love." Patriarchal romanticism is a cultural mechanism to perpetuate and legitimate inequality, much more powerful than laws because through it, inequality nests in our hearts. We come to think of love through the concept of private property and from the basis of inequal power between men and women. Our culture idealizes female love as an unconditional love, selfless, surrendered, subdued and subjugated. Women are taught to wait for and to love a man with the same devotion that we love God.
Sociologist Coral Herrera Gomez says: "Women have been taught to love man's freedom, not our own".
For love, we women hold on to situations of abuse and exploitation.
For love, we join with horrendous kinds of men that at first seem charming princes, but then they cheat us, take advantage of us, or live at our expense.
For love we endure insults, violence, contempt. We are able to humble ourselves For Love, and at the same time to boast our intense capacity to love.
For love, we sacrifice ourselves, we let ourselves be annulled, we lose our freedom, we lose our social and affective networks.
For love we abandon our dreams and goals.
Romantic love is a cultural device that also aborts any possibility of encounter, understanding and sorority among women, because:
In the name of love, we fight against other women for the exclusive attention of a man.
In the name of love, we see other women as enemies.
In the name of love, we speak ill of the ex-wife of our present object of affection.
In the name of love, we blame "The Other Woman" for the infidelity of our husband or boyfriend, removing accountability from who actually must be accountable.
And we compete with other women with enmity forever, we lose everything.
This kind of "Love" is so dangerously relevant for women, because it is from this that we have been socialized to build our identity as individuals, rather, as a reflection of other individuals who are considered to be actual people in this world.
Because we have been taught that this LOVE, will purify us, dignify us, give us visibility, a place in the world, a role, a status, will elevate us above the rest of people; is more, much more than love: It's salvation and redemption. We won't be perceived as losers, as failure, as leftovers. We will be people with value and purpose: Wife, Lover, Mother, Help. And for this prize, we are told we must forget about ourselves, because "Love is worth the sacrifice."
We do not see or do not want to see how this isolates us and makes us vulnerable in a patriarchal system in which our lives are worthless because, for a start, we are not considered people, so we have to fight every day to claim our humanity.
In order for women to stop dying in the "domestic peace" of their private world, the concept of love, as well as the relations and dynamics of power that manifest in its framework, must be addressed, challenged and eradicated. The personal is political: Intimate relationships reproduce the inequalities that we live in society as a whole.
Coral Herrera states:
It is vital that we understand that love must be based on good treatment and equality. But not only to the spouse, but to the whole society. It is essential to establish egalitarian relations in which differences serve to enrich each other, not to submit to each other. It is also essential to empower women so that we do not live "in love," and also to teach men to manage their emotions so that they quit violence, control and need of domination in the way the interact with women and can control their anger and their fear, to embrace that women are not personal objects, but life companions.
We need to push for social justice and equality from the very depths of our lives. As Chilean activist Margarita Pisano (RIP) used to say: "As women, we want and deserve a social justice that starts from our beds to the workplace and towards the streets".
Other ways of "being in love" for a fairer, safer and more compassionate society. A love that includes dignity and rights.
57 in 43 days.
57 more for each day, in every city, anywhere in the world.
They loved and trusted.
They were deadly in love.
Till death tore them apart …
"This day is to celebrate women who hold roses, but also to remember the women who have bloody noses…" – Zubeida Shaikh
Vanessa Rivera de la Fuente works in community development, gender equality and communication for social change. She has led initiatives for women's empowerment in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Morocco and South Africa. As a Gender Justice advocates with a broad scope of interests, she is a social and digital entrepreuneur commited with the strengthening of grass roots organizations and the developing of an independent pathway of thinking, research and academic writing around Gender, Politics and Religion. Loyal lover of books, cats and spicy Chai.


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I have tried out a number of MMOs, both paid and free to play, and I can't say I've noticed any stark differences between the two styles as far as the fun factor is concerned. I've even subscribed to a few games, and/or bought longterm or lifetime subscriptions to others. But I am beginning to feel more strongly as time goes on that no one game can appeal to all of my gaming desires, so it is not reasonable for me to buy into one game and play it to the exclusion of all others. I just don't want to have to pay subscriptions for all of them, when I play them so sporadically!
Currently I am playing Star Trek Online (year-long sub), Wizard 101 (free until I purchase more content), Aika (as further betas allow), and am trying to get back into Lord of the Rings Online (lifetime sub). Now, if I could continue to play any of the following without paying additional subscription fees, I would gladly pop back into:
- Warhammer Online: the thought of a free T1 experience was appealing to me until I discovered that only Empire vs. Chaos lands could be accessed. I would be back in a heartbeat if Mythic enabled me to, say, pay by the tier – if I could purchase T1 access and have access to all three lands forever (or even one fee per pairing; I would pay that, too!), with all of my characters. If they would add fees for access to T2 through 4 in the same way, I'd be all over that. They could take from DDO's model in this way, such that anyone could obviously bypass the Tier For Fee option and just pay a full subscription for access to the whole game.
- Age of Conan: I loved the Tortage experience, but even so, I'm not that big a fan of repetition and after playing through the 1-20 game with all four archetypes, I feel I've exhausted that content. The addition of new content through the Rise of the Godslayer expansion has me really tempted to return and try running through with a member of the Khitai race, and really itching to try out the lands of Khitai for their contrast to the existing continents. But again, it would be really nice if I could buy this content. I would even be willing to pay extra on the price of the expansion if I could "own" access to the lands of Khitai. Heck, charge me $25 over the expansion box price and let me progress only through the lands of Khitai, stopping at level 40, but have access to that area forever.
- City of Heroes/Villains and Champions Online: My partner and I had a lot of fun with CoX, though, as many others have said, most of our time was spent in character creation and we never really made it past level 12 or so (though I have a level 21 character that I soloed with). Again, it seemed just a bit too much to maintain a subscription for the amount of time we were spending with the game, and feeling compelled to "get our money's worth" on the subscription tended to make us feel a bit sick of the content early on (I doubt I would have felt the mission structure was as repetitive as I did if I only attempted one mission in a week, instead of trying to get in 4-5 per night). Champions Online was my solo game, and I had enough fun with it that I felt sad when I canceled my subscription after one month, for the aforementioned reason.
- Vanguard, Saga of Heroes: Now, here is a game that I feel would benefit from enabling permanent free access to the trial island. Between my better half and I, we couldn't even make it to Adventuring level 10 in the two-week trial period, let alone in the other two spheres. I do have a concern that we game in too short of spurts to really make it far in a game of such sprawling landscapes and dungeons as Vanguard, but I would like to try, and would happily pay a one-time per-area fee for that opportunity.
Someone on the Massively forums said, in response to a player bemoaning the lack of American players' ability to pay by the hour when playing games the way they do in Asia, that "if you play enough" the subscription fee is a bargain. Yes, it certainly is – if you play enough. Right now the only option with subscription games is to either play "enough," overpay for sporadic gaming schedules, or not to play at all.


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Barista Uprise, Redux: The Starbucks Barista Strikes Back
Last Friday, we published an email from a Starbucks employee we referred to as "Barista X." She had reached out to Gawker to complain about some of the new break room policies at her franchise. We pissed all over her little rant, as did some of you noisy bastard commenters. (Some noisy bastard commenters supported her cause, too.) But Barista X, Katie Pengra, has decided to pen a follow-up for us. To Gawker. To Gawker commenters. To America. We thank her for her contribution.
Dear Gawker,
I'm sorry, do you write your snarky remarks while standing?
First, thanks to everyone in the comments for your support. As for the rest of you: this was not meant to be a dick-measuring contest of whose job is harder. We get it DrGhonzho, you have a magnifying glass to your shaft and it's roughly the diameter of a Coke can. No wonder your back hurts all the time. This is not a good vs. evil scenario. It is about basic respect for employees and fellow humans.
I am Barista X—Entitled Drone. My name is Katie Pengra. I'm 26, and I work multiple jobs to pay my own way through graduate school. This is not a pat on my back or a whine for sympathy; it is simply my current situation. I've worked at a wide variety of jobs since I was 15, many of them were far worse than the time I spent at Starbucks.
The letter was not meant to bring down a company, or create an uprising, and it was not a rallying call to unionize. It was meant to express that you should never have to sit back and blindly accept dehumanizing mandates from the corporate world.
Here's the thing about working for a corporation: It's overly structured. You leave your individuality at the door. Why? Because they make it WORTH IT. Most of us would sell our souls to the devil for some decent healthcare, vacation time, and a retirement fund. So hell yes, we become drones, because they pay us to do exactly as they say for fear of losing hold of those few, tiny grips of security that they provide. But at what point do you draw the line?
Starbucks did not take away our break room; we never had a break room. We had one tiny table and two fold-out chairs in the back storage area. This is standard in any Starbucks. It was not much, but it was where we could hide next to the mop sink for a few minutes to maintain our sanity. Have you ever had a grown man scream at you because his hot chocolate was too foamy? It's ridiculous, but it's exhausting and humiliating, for all parties involved.
Long story short: This exposure helped us get our tiny table back. So, thanks to all of you who supported such a seemingly silly movement.
We all work. Sometimes it's awesome, sometimes it's brutal. My whole point is that everyone should be continually pushing for improvement. Don't blindly accept any situation, whatever it may be.
Katie Pengra no longer works at Starbucks. Follow her on Twitter at kpenguins while you drink your coffee instead.


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tools/configure or
pseudo-install -A
cd to the root of your git
foswiki/distro checkout
perl core/create_new_extension.pl extension_name
perl ./build.pl extension_name release
AddOn modules are supported but should not be used for new extensions.
tools/build.pl file in a git checkout of
foswiki/distro for information on building
the core.
Extensions are developed in subdirectories of the
foswiki/distro checkout.
For example, BathPlugin will be developed in
This directory is called the root directory for the extension.
foswiki/distro, it is almost never checked into the
foswiki/distro is reserved for default components that we ship
with foswik.
Plugins/ (or)
name.pm - code file for the plugin or contrib, usually derived from EmptyPlugin or EmptyContrib
name/ - directory containing sub-modules used by your plugin/contrib, and for storing your
build.pl script and other support files. It is referred to as the module directory
build.pl - build script for this extension
MANIFEST - list of files to be installed
DEPENDENCIES - list of modules this extension depends on
Config.spec -
configure setup for this extension
name.txt - your plugin/contrib topic
name/ - directory containing unit tests for the extension
name/ - directory where all your images, css, and Javascript files should go
lib/Foswiki/Contrib directory instead of
lib/Foswiki/Plugins but otherwise in exactly work the same way.
Plugins or
Contrib directory with the same name as the
extension. This module should have two global variables -
$VERSION and
$RELEASE which are used to determine the installed version of the extension.
Plugins also need
$SHORTDESCRIPTION which shows up on InstalledPlugins and is merged with the
System/YourPlugin topic when build is run,
templates etc.
While development in a git checkout is strongly recommended, it is also possible to develop in a normal Foswiki install. To do this, simply install the BuildContrib.
pseudo-install.pl -A, but if you want to access your development environment from the web, then
bin/configure or
tools/configure to build a configuration custom to your requirements.
See Foswiki:Development.HowToStartExtensionDevelopmentInGit for further
details on how to build your development environment.
FOSWIKI_HOME points to the directory above lib, bin, data, ... Generally
FOSWIKI_LIBS points to the lib directory, usually
<FOSWIKI_HOME>/lib and
PERL5LIB should point to the
BuildContrib/lib directory so that a consistent set of perltidy rules are used.
FOSWIKI_LIBS (which is a
path, same as
PERL5LIB) to point to your
lib directory in your development
$FOSWIKI_LIBS is used to extend @INC _for the duration of the build
only_, so it won't mask problems during testing.
The approach we recommend is to set
FOSWIKI_HOME and
FOSWIKI_LIBS in your login script (e.g.
.profile depending on what shell you prefer).
See Foswiki:Development.BuildContribCookbook for more information about setting these variables.
build.pl does not read
bin/setlib.cfg. It uses
$FOSWIKI_LIBS only to find the modules for the BuildContrib.
build.pl, in its
module directory. A build script is a perl script that takes a number of
targets as its parameters. For example,
perl build.pl test will run unit
tests, and
perl build.pl release will build a new release.
The build script also accepts the following options:
|Do nothing; just print what you would have done
| Don't upload anything (used for testing target
|Be verbose
| with target
upload, only upload the topic (not the archives)
make for portability reasons.
The targets you will normally use are:
|perform basic build steps
|Generate compressed versions of JavaScript and CSS files
|Run Perl::Tidy on all perl modules listed in the MANIFEST
|run unit tests
pod and package a release zip
release and upload
|print a guess at the MANIFEST (Caution - omits the primary System/Extension.txt topic
|print a guess at the .gitignore
|Find and print a best-guess dependencies list (for DEPENDENCIES)
test. The BuildContrib is designed so that most common behaviour is catered for. It is also easy to override any of the default targets in your
build.pl and add extra behaviours.
build target
compress target
npm install -g terser and
npm install -g csso
This will install both terser and MinCSS.
The compression can work with a number of different naming schemes, depending
on what files you refer to in your MANIFEST. For example, the name mappings
for javascript are:
XXX_src.js ->
XXX_src.js ->
XXX.uncompressed.js ->
XXX.uncompressed.js ->
XXX.js ->
XXX.compressed.js in MANIFEST, then the build will look
XXX.uncompressed.js or
XXX.js in the source tree to generate it from.
XXX.compressed.js will be regenerated even if it exists in the source tree
itself. If you list
XXX.js in MANIFEST, then the build will look for a
XXX.uncompressed.js or
XXX_src.js in the sources to generate it from.
The new files are generated in the source tree, so can be used for pseudo
installation and testing. However they are not checked in.
The easiest way to use compressed sources is to select the version your code is
to use based on a switch when you include the headers. For example, you can
use the
DEBUG global from the
Assert module:
use Assert; # Standard Foswiki ASSERT module ... my $pack = DEBUG ? '.uncompressed' : '.compressed'; Foswiki::Func::addToHEAD(<<SCRIPT); <script type="text/javascript" src="%PUBURLPATH% \%SYSTEMWEB% \MyPlugin/my$pack.js"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="%PUBURLPATH% \%SYSTEMWEB% \MyPlugin//my$pack.css" /> </script> SCRIPTWhen
DEBUG is defined (i.e. when ASSERT is enabled), this will include
my.uncompressed.js and
my.uncompressed.css, which makes debugging easier.
DEBUG is not defined, it will include
my.compressed.js and
my.compressed.css instead for best performance.
If you have your own debugging flag in your extension, you could use that
instead of
tidy target
test target
test/unit/extension_name directory.
release target
release target are:
tracked target
tracked target is a special case of the
release target. Given the
name of a customer, it will calculate a ciphered ID and replace
%$TRACKINGCODE% in the sources and documentation with the calculated
code. It will then make a release for that specific customer that
includes the tracking code. This is useful where you want
to be able to trace the code back to that customer without revealing any
details about them.
To use this target, you must manually add %$TRACKINGCODE% into your
sources and documentation.
upload target
upload operation will first attempt to download the topic to recover the PackageForm so that it can be added to the newly uploaded topic.
upload also gives you a chance to specify an alternate download location
to be used for PackageForm recovery.
manifest and
dependencies targets
twiki target
build.pl to load the Foswiki build system rather than the old TWiki
build system.
Secondly, BuildContrib has a special target,
twiki, which can be used
with a Foswiki build script to generate a TWiki directory structure and build
script, that can then be used to build an extension targeted at TWiki. The
files in the extension are run through a number of "mapping rules" that
will map much of the Foswiki namespace to TWiki. This transformation is not
complete, because Foswiki has many more features than TWiki, and because
CSS and Javascript cannot be reliably transformed this way. However many
extensions will work in TWiki after this transformation, and for others it
can be used as a launchpad for further manual mapping steps.
$ cd EditRowPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin $ perl build.pl twiki Created data/TWiki/EditRowPlugin.txt Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin.pm Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/Table.pm Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/TableRow.pm Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/TableCell.pm Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/screenshot.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/edittable.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/quiet.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/example3.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/example4.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/example5.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/addrow.gif Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/TableSort.js Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/TableSort_src.js Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/erp.js Created pub/TWiki/EditRowPlugin/erp_src.js Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/MANIFEST Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/DEPENDENCIES Created lib/TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin/build.pl $ cd ../../../TWiki/Plugins/EditRowPlugin $ perl build.pl release Building a release for Version 0 (15 Feb 2009) of EditRowPlugin MD5 checksums in EditRowPlugin/TWiki_EditRowPlugin.md5 .tgz in EditRowPlugin/TWiki_EditRowPlugin.tgz .zip in EditRowPlugin/TWiki_EditRowPlugin.zip WARNING: no .txt was generated WARNING: no _installer was generatedThere is no TWiki-specific topic generated. The Foswiki topic should suffice. Installer generation is also disabled using
!option installers none in
the tranformed MANIFEST. Users must install the generated TWiki packages
manually from the command-line. This is required due to bugs in TWiki.
Note the
TWiki_ prefix on the archive names. This is useful to avoid naming
clashes with the standard Foswiki release of the same package. It is defined
!option archive_prefix TWiki_ in the tranformed MANIFEST.
Extension authors are strongly recommended to check the functioning of the
TWiki versions of their extensions very carefully.
TWiki® is a trademark of Peter Thoeny.
MANIFEST file contains a list of all the files that are wanted in the
package. Each line is a file path, relative to the root of the installation.
Wildcards may NOT be used.
If the path contains spaces it must be enclosed in double-quotes.
Each file path has an optional octal permissions mask and a description.
For example,
data/System/BathPlugin.txt 0664 Plugin description topic lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BathPlugin.pm 0444 Plugin code moduleIf no permissions are given, permissions are guessed from the permissions on the file in the source tree. These permissions are used by the installer script to set file permissions in the installation. The following permissions are recommended, and will be applied by default if you don't specify anything different:
|File type
.pm file
|Anyone can read, but cannot write or execute
.pl file
|Anyone can read, user and group can also execute
data/....txt file
|Anyone can read, only owner can write
| File in
| File in
|Anyone can read or execute, but not write
|Anything other file
|Anyone can read, but cannot write or execute
|default directories to traversable
,v files. If you include a
,v file it will overwrite any existing
,v file when an extension is upgraded, potentially wiping out local changes on the end users installation. (The extension installer will not install
,v files even if they are included in the MANIFEST. However this is still a concern for anyone installing manually using
unzip or
tar. and sites using the new
PlainFileStore will encounter errors if RCS
,v files are present.)
MANIFEST, or any other side file used by the build process.
!ci and
configure). This is useful when you
expect users to customise your files locally and you don't want to risk
overwriting their customisations. If you want to suppress this checkin
behaviour for individual files, you can add the string
(noci) anywhere
in the description of the file. If you want to suppress it for larger
numbers of files, you can use the
!noci and
!ci directives in the
MANIFEST. Any files listed after a
!noci directive, up to the next
directive or the end of the file, will not be checked in when installing
to Foswiki 1.0.1 or later
!include <path to extension directory>
!include WysiwygPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/WysiwygPluginThis will include the WysiwygPlugin in the release package. Note that there is a script in the Foswiki
tools directory called
check_manifest.pl that can be run at any time to check the contents of your MANIFEST against what is checked into git.
!include <path to extension MANIFEST* file >
... pub/System/TinyMCEPlugin/screenshot.png 0644 !include lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TinyMCEPlugin/MANIFEST-3.4.9 !include lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TinyMCEPlugin/MANIFEST-3.5.7 !include lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TinyMCEPlugin/MANIFEST-4.0.8 pub/System/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce.gif 0644 ...Manifest for TinyMCE version 3.4.9
!noci pub/System/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce-3.4.9/LICENSE.TXT 0644 #pub/System/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce-3.4.9/build.bat 0644 #pub/System/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce-3.4.9/build.xml 0644 ...
!option is a general directive used to define global options. Currently
supported options are:
!option archive_prefix String_ will prefix the name of generated archive files with =String_
!option installer none will suppress the generation of an installer script.
DEPENDENCIES file specifies dependencies on other extensions and
perl modules. Each line of the file is a single dependency:
name, version, type, descriptionwhere
.deb packages can resolve these external dependencies.
r1234 (r followed by 1-6 digit number), the SVN release of the module will be compared, instead of the version.
cpan modules should be found in the CPAN repositories.
perl modules include
Foswiki:: and
TWiki:: modules.
external or any other value is reported but ignored.
Optional then the dependency will not be automatically resolved.
cpan or
perl will be executed in an
eval statement to compare the VERSION and RELEASE strings.
$FOSWIKI_PACKAGES or
> condition, so that more recent versions will also work. If a dependency on a Foswiki module fails (because the module isn't installed, for example) then the installer script will pull the latest version of the module from Foswiki.org, whether that is the required version or not. This is a limitation of the way plugins are stored on Foswiki.org.
As an alternative to using the Version number, you can also compare to the SVN release number. Write the version string as
>=r1234. Note that the Version number is the preferred method, and is reported to the user during the install.
When you are working with CPAN modules, you need to take account of the fact that there are two types of CPAN modules; built-ins and add-ons.
Built-ins are perl modules that are pre-installed in the perl distribution. Since these modules are usually very stable, it is generally safe to express the version dependency as ">0" (i.e. "any version of the module will do").
Note however that the list of built-in modules is constantly growing with each new release of perl. So your module may be installed with a perl version that doesn't have the required module pre-installed. In this case, CPAN will automatically try to upgrade the perl version! There is no way around this, other than for the admin on the target system to manually install the module (download frm CPAN and build locally). You can help out the admin by expressing the dependency clearly, thus:
File::Find,>0,cpan,This module is shipped as part of standard perl from perl 5.8.0 onwards. If your perl installation is older than this, you should either upgrade perl, or manually install this module. If you allow this installer to continue, it will automatically upgrade your perl installation which is probably not what you want!
ONLYIF ( condition ), where condition is a Perl
conditional. This is most useful for enabling dependencies only for certain
versions of other modules. For example,
File::Munge,>0,cpan,... ONLYIF ( $Foswiki::Plugins::VERSION < 1.025) MyPackage::FixOldFileFind, >=1.000, perl, Optional, only required if we have an old version of Foswiki API.The
ONLYIF only applies to the next dependency in the file.
create_new_extension.pl script, which is part of the BuildContrib.
perl create_new_extension.pl BathPlugin
lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BathPlugin.pm as required to create your plugin functionality
lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BathPlugin/MANIFEST and make sure it lists all the files you want to include in the release package
pseudo-install.pl script to
soft-link your development code into your dev install. This script uses the
MANIFEST you write and creates softlinks (copies, on Windows) in your dev install that allow
you to run your test code without having to do a full re-install each time you
make a change.
If you have a pre-existing extension, and you want to package it for use with
BuildContrib, then you (may) need to create the module directory and write the
MANIFEST and
DEPENDENCIES files. The easiest way to do this
is to copy those files from an existing extension in git, and modify
them for your use.
release is used is based on a template. This template is populated with lists of files and dependencies needed to make the extension-specific installer script.
PREUNINSTALL, and/or
POSTUNINSTALL files in the module directory.
These optional files are embedded into the template install script
at the appropriate stage of the installation. Read
lib/Foswiki/Contrib/BuildContrib/TEMPLATE_installer.pl (in the BuildContrib)
to see how they fit in.
With the Foswiki 1.1 version of the install tools, these exits run as methods
of the
Configure::Package object instance for the extension, and have access
to the package manifest and other information. See the
PerlDoc for Foswiki::Configurer::Package for details (link requires BuildContrib to be installed).
If the script needs to report to the installer, it should return the message
as a simple string ending with a newline. It will be presented as a verbatim block to the web
install, or as inline text for the shell installation.
mapTarget to find the
correct file location for the current install. See
PerlDoc for Foswiki::Configure::Util (link requires BuildContrib to be installed)
my $this = shift; # Get the object instance passed to the routine if ($this) { # Verify that you are running in the new environment # Map the standard location to the absolute location on this # installation of Foswiki. mapTarget is only available in Foswiki >= 1.1 my $mapped = Foswiki::Configure::Util::mapTarget( $this->{_rootdir}, 'tools/obsolete.pl'); my $count = unlink $mapped if ( -e $mapped ); # If it exists, delete it. return "Removed $mapped \n " if ($count); }
test/unit/<name> directory for each extension.
To run the unit tests you will need to set up the test environment as described
in Foswiki::Development.GettingStarted
The easiest way to generate tests for your extension is to copy the approach taken in another extension. See for example ActionTrackerPlugin and CommentPlugin, which both have extensive test suites.
Tests are run using
perl build.pl test
cd BathPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BathPlugin
perl build.pl release
cd dev install
perl pseudo-install.pl -uninstall BathPlugin
cd dev install
perl BathPlugin/BathPlugin_installer
release target automatically expands certain tokens in
.txt files
and in the installer script. The following tokens are supported:
%$MANIFEST% - table of files in MANIFEST
%$FILES% - hash keyed on file name mapping to permissions i.e. 'data/System/ThsiTopic.txt' => 0664, 'lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BlahPlugin.pm' => 0775
%$FOSWIKIAUTHORS% - contents of
%$DEPENDENCIES% - list of dependencies from DEPENDENCIES
%$VERSION% standard perl version string
%$RELEASE% value of the
$RELEASE perl global variable from your master perl module
%$DATE% - local date
%$POD% - POD documentation for the package, excluding test modules.
%$PREINSTALL% - contents of PREINSTALL
%$POSTINSTALL% - contents of POSTINSTALL
%$PREUNINSTALL% - contents of PREUNINSTALL
%$POSTUNINSTALL% - contents of POSTINSTALL
%$BUGSURL% - URL of bugs web
%$INSTALL_INSTRUCTIONS% - basic instructions for installing
configure uses the
| Version: | row in the table in the extension topic to determine what version of the package is installed. In the sources this is normally set to
| Version: | 2.10 |. When you
perl build.pl release, 2.10 is extracted from the primary Plugin or Contrib module, so it's very reliable and low maintenance. You don't have to use 2.10 in the
| Version: | row of the extension topic - you can use your own version string if you want, or you can use 27 Apr 2022 which will take whatever value you have assigned to the $RELEASE variable in the extension master perl module.
configure supports all of manually generated triples (1.2.3), ISO dates, and
dd Mmmm yyy format dates as valid RELEASE identifiers.
cd BathPlugin/lib/Foswiki/Plugins/BathPlugin
perl build.pl upload
upload target will upload to Foswiki.org. You will be prompted
to enter an alternate upload target, should you require it (e.g. to upload to
private corporate repository). The upload updates the topic and any associated
Var topics published by the extension, and uploads zip, tgz, md5 and installer
Defaults for the upload, passwords, etc. are stored in the
file in the users home directory.
The installer script shipped with the package is very simple. By default all
it does is to check the dependencies you list, and if necessary download and
install any missing Foswiki and CPAN modules. Other dependencies are simply
checked. Topics shipped with the
module are automatically merged into any existing local copies, ensuring
histories are preserved.
If you want your installer to do anything else then you will need to write a POSTINSTALL script.
cd /path/to/foswiki perl tools/extension_installer <NameOfExtension> installIf you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in
configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See https://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.
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A missing Portales woman remained hospitalized Tuesday after being found under a mobile home within a block of her North Avenue A home about 11:30 p.m. Monday.
Maria Galvan, 63, disappeared from her residence on foot Saturday afternoon.
According to a news release from the Portales Police Department, Galvan's condition was unavailable Tuesday. However, officers and firefighters at the scene described her as alert and uninjured.
Portales Police Deputy Chief Lonnie Berry said Galvan was taken to Roosevelt General Hospital Monday night. Berry said there were concerns because of existing health conditions, the cold weather and length of time she'd been missing.
Galvan has Alzheimer's and diabetes, according to a news release from New Mexico State Police.
Berry said the resident of the mobile home in the 1000 block of North Avenue A heard noises Monday night and called police. Officers checked under the mobile home and found Galvan, who appeared to have crawled there, he said.
Police requested help from Portales firefighters in getting Galvan out from under the mobile home.
Inge said he hadn't learned why Galvan was under the house.
Firefighter Mike Inge said when firefighters arrived, Galvan's family had given her blankets and water under the house, and someone had started to remove the floor over her location. The firefighters cut a larger hole in the mobile home floor, helped Galvan out and took her to the hospital to have her health checked.


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TRPA withdrawal discussed by local governments
Efforts by both California and Nevada that could unravel decades of bi-state planning at Lake Tahoe were among the items discussed at a joint meeting of the South Lake Tahoe City Council and Douglas County Board of Commissioners Monday afternoon.
Nevada Senate Bill 271, passed in 2011, would allow the state to withdrawal from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as soon as 2015. Separate California legislation, Senate Bill 630, would establish the California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as the entity for approving projects on the California side of the lake if Nevada doesn't rescind 271 during this legislative session.
"The bill would, commencing January 1, 2014, prohibit a project from being developed in the region without the approval of the agency, and would prohibit the approval of the project unless it is found to by the agency to comply with the regional plan," according to the bill's language. The legislation has not been approved and is undergoing financial analysis.
City Councilwoman Angela Swanson said she felt Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's decision to wait and see how a recent lawsuit by environmental groups challenging December's TRPA Regional Plan Update resolves before rescinding the state's possible withdrawal from the TRPA has effectively held the region hostage to the legal action.
Still, she said local jurisdictions should enlist the help of the governors of each state and federal representatives to ensure regional planning remains at Lake Tahoe. The loss of the TRPA's Bi-state Compact could cost the basin tens of millions of dollars in federal funding, Swanson said.
The councilwoman rallied support behind getting the local jurisdictions to present a unified voice in the discussion surrounding the efforts by the states. What that message would be is unclear.
"We need to keep the TRPA together," said South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tom Davis, adding he was surprised to be supporting the TRPA. An appointed CTRPA would not work in the best interests of the local jurisdictions, Davis explained.
But Douglas County Commissioner Nancy McDermid called the effort to repeal Senate Bill 271 "premature." The bill allows for an extension of the state's withdrawal from the TRPA until 2017. Two of the legislation's reform efforts, changing the TRPA's voting structure and the switching the burden of proof in lawsuits challenging TPRA decisions to plaintiffs have yet to be discussed, McDermid said.
"It's not like it's now or never," McDermid said.
Sandoval and California Gov. Jerry Brown met last week to discuss management of Lake Tahoe. The outcome of the meeting has not been released. Sandoval also met with Senator Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, a sponsor of SB 630.
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EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.
Mirkin and his colleagues printed the logos as well as an integrated gold circuit using a new printing technique, called Polymer Pen Lithography (PPL), that can write on three different length scales using only one device.
The PPL technique, to be published Aug. 15 in Science Express, is a fast, inexpensive and simple way to print on the nanometer, micrometer and millimeter length scales.
The new printing method could find use in computational tools (the electronics that make up these tools), medical diagnostics (gene chips and arrays of biomolecules) and the pharmaceutical industry (arrays for screening drug candidates), among others.
"While watching the Olympics opening night ceremonies I was delighted to see that printing was highlighted as one of ancient China's four great inventions," said Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, professor of medicine and professor of materials science and engineering. Mirkin led the study.
"We consider Dip-Pen Nanolithography, which is nanotechnology's version of the quill pen, and now Polymer Pen Lithography to be two of Northwestern's most important inventions."
Polymer Pen Lithography uses arrays of tiny pens made of polymers to print over large areas with nanoscopic through macroscopic resolution. By simply changing contact pressure (and the amount the pens deform), as well as the time of delivery, dots of various diameters can be produced. (The pen tips snap back to their original shape when the pressure is removed.)
"We can go, in a sense, from an ultra fine point Sharpie® to one with a fat tip," said Mirkin, director of Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology. "The tip of each polymer pen starts with nanometer-scale sharpness, but if we press down harder the tip flattens out. This gives us great flexibility in the structures we can produce."
In the case of the Olympic logo, the researchers started with a bitmap image of the logo and uniformly printed 15,000 replicas onto a gold substrate using an "ink" of the molecule 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid. (The ink is a mere one molecule thick.) This took less than 40 minutes.
The logo is so small that 2,500 of them would fit on a single grain of rice. The letters and numbers, "Beijing 2008," were generated from approximately 20,000 dots that were 90 nanometers in diameter. Then, with more force applied to the pens, the stylized human figure and the Olympic rings were made from approximately 4,000 dots that were 600 nanometers in diameter.
The integrated circuit the researchers built had features on all three length scales, perfectly integrated together. Building the circuit took about two hours. As with the Olympic logo, the structures were made by making multiple printing passes with the same tool (the pen array, which has an ink reservoir).
Polymer Pen Lithography simplifies and takes the best of two existing printing techniques -- the high registration and sub-50-nanometer resolution of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) and the use of a polymer stamp to transfer a pattern in microcontact printing. (Mirkin invented DPN in 1999.)
The PPL method requires a dot matrix image of the structure to be printed (the Olympic logo, for example) and an atomic force microscope. The researchers have demonstrated arrays with as many as 11 million pens


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Rex Ryan: 'I'm the right guy' to coach Jets beyond this season
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Rex Ryan's tenure as coach of the Jets could be in its final weeks.
Keep Rex or Fire Rex? Well, that depends on who you ask.
There's one guy, though, who thinks the Jets already have the right man to lead them beyond this season.
"Of course, I believe it," Ryan said Monday. "No question, I believe it. There's no doubt, but again I'd rather get out of this press conference and go to work. That's how I feel about it."
Fans and media have taken to sports talk radio and social media with a mixed bag of opinions ranging from wanting to see Ryan get a contract extension to hoping for a coaching staff shake-up.
The Jets (6-8) clinched a third straight non-winning season — their first such stretch since 1994-96 — with a 30-20 loss at Carolina on Sunday, and were eliminated from playoff contention when Baltimore beat Detroit 18-16 on Monday night.
Mistakes, uneven play by rookie quarterback Geno Smith, injuries to key players on offense and some questionable decisions have all added up to another season of struggles.
Then again, very few outside of the team expected even this much from the Jets this season.
Ryan was by no means campaigning for his job, preferring at first to dodge questions by saying he doesn't think about his situation until reporters bring it up. But, a little of the coach's confidence reappeared when he was asked why he believes he should be back.
"Look, I'm a competent guy, even though I know that will be questioned a zillion times forward and backward, whatever, that's fine," he said. "But I know I'm a good football coach. I believe in this team. I believe in this organization and I'm determined to bring a winner to this team, there's no question about it.
"I know and I believe that I'm the right guy for it. Now again, I'm not the guy making that decision."
Ryan has gotten no indication from his bosses about his future, and neither owner Woody Johnson nor general manager John Idzik has spoken publicly about whether the coach will be around next season. That has led to increasing speculation that Ryan could be coaching for his job during these last two weeks.
If that decision hasn't already been made, of course.
"I'll stand on a soapbox and say it: Rex is my coach," said right guard Willie Colon, in his first season with the Jets after seven in Pittsburgh. "He's one of the main reasons I came here. I love the guy to death. I love his passion, I love his heart.
"I think if he doesn't come back, it will be a step back for us as a team."
The fact a team that set an NFL record by alternating wins and losses for the first 10 games of the season and endured a three-game skid was still talking about the possibility of the playoffs before Monday night's Ravens' win, is in many ways a credit to Ryan. There has been no quit in these Jets, even when they've gone into several games against opponents who were clearly superior in overall talent.
"We're going out there and playing for Rex because he's our head coach and we want to play hard for him and we want to win games for him," Smith said. "He coaches us hard, he puts the time and effort in and he deserves for our team to go out and that's what we do every single week."
Smith was then asked if he wants Ryan to return next season.
"I love Rex," he said. "And despite what decision is made, my feelings toward him will never change."
This is nothing new for Ryan, whose status was uncertain after the Jets went 6-10 last year. Owner Woody Johnson opted to bring him back while he fired GM Mike Tannenbaum, making for a curious and unique situation when Idzik was hired and inherited a head coach.
"It's been tremendous," Ryan insisted of his rapport with Idzik. "I think we both want the same thing, we both want to win. From the day I met him, it was clear that's what John wants to do. He obviously wants to build a team that's a perennial winner."
The question, though, remains whether Ryan will indeed continue to be part of that process.
"I think that this team is on the right path," Ryan said. "It might not be reflective in our record right now, I understand that. But I believe this team is going in the right direction."


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As a part of Vancouver's West End, we really feel very lucky to belong in such a pretty district, and what makes it even better is its superb location.
Cozily nestled between the Downtown core of Vancouver, with False Creek to the South, English Bay and Stanley Park to the West and Coal Harbour to the north, this area has pretty much retained its look since the 1960s – much of this due to the efforts of the long term residents of the West End who understand the importance of retaining an image and history that makes the West End unique.
When visiting this neighbourhood, we suggest taking time to wander and meander through the different streets as it is impressive to see how the area changes. Street by street, block by block, you will see the colours, style and shape of each building and apartment look very different from the next one. The trees and various other types of flora are absolutely stunning, especially at this time of year with the fall colours and leaves showing us an impressive natural display.
Not only do we enjoy the sights of the West End, it is its sense of multiculturalism and welcoming diversity that really makes this area what it is. It is home to Davie Village, which spans the blocks of Davie Street and Jervis, right down towards Burrard and Davie Street. The streets here are all decorated in an array of colour to predominantly celebrate the heart of Vancouver's Gay scene and now official Gay district. The area is awash with Rainbows, colourful murals and pink bus stops – all to celebrate the sense of pride, love and diversity that is Davie Village. No matter who you are, you will always feel welcome within this love-able community.
The West End is home to many hidden gems – some of which are very well known, others not so much. We would like to personally highlight a few that you may wish to discover when you come to visit us here. As mentioned earlier the West end is located at the northern side of False Creek, reaching False Creek you will be greeted with the Seawall and Sunset Beach. This beach has to be one of our favorites as it is tucked along the Creek were it is bordered to the East by the Impressive Burrard St Bridge, and English Bay to the West… all overlooked by the famous Inushuk monument at the seawall, a recognizable symbol of First Nations culture and also known as "Ilanaaq" which was one of the official mascot logos at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
This beach is a perfect place for hanging out in the summer, never overly crowded and generally filled with locals from the area. It is a great spot to watch the small boats and yachts zoom in and out of False Creek and from Granville Island through to English Bay. It is also one of the better spots to watch the vibrant Vancouver sunset away from the busy but bustling English Bay.
Our other favorite areas to explore are also just a stones throw away from Sunset Inn & Suites. These are the historic housing community of Mole Hill, Gabriola Mansion (formally home to the 'Romanos Macaroni Grill') and St Pauls hospital.
Mole Hill is situated just to the north of Davie Street/Village and south of Nelson Park, a cute little city park which is home to a smaller park where your dogs can run free. It's pretty fun to watch the dogs have their day with their buddies. Mole Hill has its history dating back to the 19th century; it was named after two early settlers Elizabeth and Henry Mole. The housing here is basically a co-operative community advocating for people of all ages in the middle to low income bracket, members and tenants of the housing here all partake in the upkeep of the Mole Hill community, which is clearly visible with the stunning flowers and gardens that surround this hidden community.
Gabriola Mansion which was formally the home to Romanos Macaroni Grill is quite an impressive building. One of the very few 'great' mansions left in the city. In its day, this home would surely have been one of the most lavish in the area. Named Gabriola after the sandstone rock which was quarried at Gabriola Island and used to build the outer side of the house. Built in 1900 for Benjamin Tingley Rogers an industrialist whom founded BC Sugar. Sadly the mansion is now standing derelict and its future is unsure. Back in the 1970's it was at risk of demolition, and we hope that this building is saved for the future and beyond.
St Pauls hospital, which sits between The downtown Core and Davie Village, is an impressive imposing red brick building. The site was founded in the late 1800s as a 25 bed hospital, with a large expansion of the hospital occurring in 1912. Its unmistakable red brick turn of the century architecture is quite something, especially among the many taller glass fronted buildings that is quite the modern look of Vancouver these days. The hospital was at risk of closing down until very recently, for the foreseeable future it is here to stay.
So there are just some tidbits of what the West End is like….come for yourself and see this wonderful community!
Some information was cited from the following sources: http://gabriolan.ca, http://www.miss604.com, http://www.mole-hill.ca


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We're all too aware of how important it is to get a good night's rest, so we're always interested in finding ways to help us achieve this better: keeping electronics in another room, shutting off the computer an hour before bed, exercising at a certain time of day, etc. But now, the one fact that we've always held onto, that eight is the most magical number when it comes to optimal hours of shut eye, we hear is a lie.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a series of studies have found that not only is seven the number of hours we want to strive for, but also that getting eight hours or more could actually be unhealthy. We knew oversleeping wasn't a good thing, but we didn't realize quite how unhealthy getting overzealous with our Z's actually is.
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In one particular study, Dr. Daniel F. Kripke at the University of California San Diego found that participants whose sleep ranged from 6.5 hours to 7.4 hours had lower mortality rates than those with shorter or longer sleeps. In a later study, Dr. Kripke even found evidence that we need less sleep as we get older: After testing 450 elderly women, he found that those who slept fewer than five hours and more than 6.5 hours had higher mortality rates.
Higher mortality rates are scary enough, but there are plenty of other worrying side effects of oversleeping, including diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. Fortunately, cognitive function and memory issues (which are common results of too little sleep) did not change with too much sleep, but if those other serious risks aren't enough to scare you into setting your alarm, we're not sure what will.
TELL US: How many hours of sleep do you usually get a night?
Photo: M.Kolchins/Getty
NEXT: 25 Ways to Sleep Better Tonight »
This story originally appeared on ELLE.com
More from ELLE:
• Doctors Bust the 7 Biggest Sleep Myths
• Arianna Huffington's Guide to "Sleeping Your Way to the Top"
• Sleep Procrastination Is Now an Actual Diagnosis


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