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Atlanta Technical College
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14K Solid Gold 0.044ctw Diamond Gothic Initial Pendant
- This item is a pendant, NO chains included.
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- Metals: 14K Solid Gold
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- Diamond Setting: Prong
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A modest GOP agenda for 2013
WASHINGTON — The conventional wisdom evolves. Yesterday, Washington was merely broken, gridlocked, dysfunctional. The passive voice spread the blame evenly. Today it's agreed that Republican obstructionism is the root of all evil — GOP resistance having now escalated to nihilism and indeed sabotage.
Sabotage carries a fine whiff of extralegal, anti-constitutional vandalism. This from media mandarins who barely bat an eyelash when President Obama unilaterally suspends parts of his own health care law — just as he unilaterally stopped enforcing current immigration laws for 1.7 million young illegal immigrants, thereby enacting by executive order legislation that had failed in Congress. So much for faithfully executing the laws (Article II).
The new CW knowingly deplores the 113th Congress for having passed the fewest pieces of legislation in at least four decades. Why, they were sneering, it couldn't even pass the farm bill, the essence of bipartisanship for oh so many years.
Which is the perfect example of the fatuousness of measuring legislative success by volume, as if every new law represents an advance of civilization. The farm bill is the quintessence of congressional logrolling, trade-offs and kickbacks — in which the public interest is systematically trumped by some moneyed and entrenched special interest. Its death (lamentably temporary — it was partly resurrected on Thursday) was well-deserved.
Opposition to Obama's entitlement-state agenda — beginning with Obamacare, long before it began falling apart before our eyes — should be a source of pride for Republicans. Nevertheless, they shouldn't stop there. They should advance a reform agenda of their own.
The major thrust should be tax reform. The time could not be more ripe. The public is understandably agitated by an IRS scandal that showed not just the agency's usual arrogance and highhandedness but also its talent for waste, abuse, corruption and an overt favoritism that even Obama called outrageous.
Support for tax reform is already bipartisan. Its chief advocates are Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Dave Camp, respectively Senate and House chairs of the tax-writing committees. Their objective is the replication of President Reagan's 1986 bipartisan tax-reform triumph: closing loopholes and using that revenue to lower rates across the board, which helped propel two decades of near-uninterrupted economic growth.
Tax reform is the ultimate win-win. It levels the playing field by removing the advantage of lawyered, lobbied interests. It eliminates myriad distortions in capital allocation and lowers marginal rates — both of which spur economic growth. And it simplifies the code, thereby reducing the arbitrary and unaccountable discretion of IRS bureaucrats.
The House Republicans are preparing a 25 percent cut in the IRS budget. This is silly and small. It will change nothing. Radical simplification of the tax code will change everything.
Second, take a clear position on immigration reform. "Comprehensive" or piecemeal matters not. What matters is to stick to the essential principle: legalization in return for real border control — so that this is the last amnesty we will have to grant.
Any law containing both deserves support. The current Senate bill does not. Setting soft goals for border enforcement is an invitation to this and future administrations to fudge and fake.
Be clear. Be principled. Be unafraid. The country wants legalization and border control. Show that only the GOP is fighting for both.
Third, on the policy front, demand from the president a clear policy on Afghanistan. After highly acrimonious exchanges with President Hamid Karzai, Obama is openly considering a complete pullout next year.
U.S. national interests cannot hinge on personal piques. Karzai is both deeply unreliable and terminally ungrateful. But he will be gone one day, as will Obama. The terrorist breeding grounds of Afghanistan and Pakistan will remain.
For four years, the president argued that our strategic interests require a residual presence in Afghanistan in order to prevent a re-establishment of terrorist safe havens in the region.
Does he still believe this? Enough with the agonized ambivalence. Obama must be made to argue the case one way or the other.
It's a modest agenda, although true tax reform would be an achievement of historic dimensions. But it should by no means diminish rigorous GOP efforts to stop an Obama program that aggrandizes government in every sphere (education, health care, energy, finance) and passes monstrous thousand-page bills that not only effectively delegate unlimited power to the unelected bureaucracy but, like Obamacare, are so unworkable that the administration itself has to jettison one piece after another.
Oppose further expansion of the entitlement state, reform the tax code, secure the border, demand clarity on Afghanistan. A modest, doable, responsible agenda for 2013.
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Angioplasty and stent placement - peripheral arteries
Angioplasty is a procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels that supply blood to your legs. Fatty deposits can build up inside the arteries and block blood flow.
A stent is a small, metal mesh tube that keeps the artery open.
Angioplasty and stent placement are two ways to open blocked peripheral arteries.
Alternative Names
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty - peripheral artery; PTA - peripheral artery; Angioplasty - peripheral arteries; iliac artery-angioplasty; fermoral artery-angioplasty; popliteal artery-angioplasty; tibial artery-angioplasty; peroneal artery-angioplasty
Angioplasty uses a medical "balloon" to widen blocked arteries. The balloon presses against the inside wall of the artery to open the space and improve blood flow. A metal stent is often placed across the artery wall to keep the artery from narrowing again.
To treat a blockage in your leg, angioplasty can be done in the following:
Before the procedure:
Your surgeon will then place a tiny needle into the blood vessel in your groin. A tiny flexible wire will be inserted through this needle.
A stent may also be placed in the blocked area. The stent is inserted at the same time as the balloon catheter. It expands when the balloon is blown up. The stent is left in place to help keep the artery open. The balloon and all the wires are then removed.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Symptoms of a blocked peripheral artery are pain, achiness, or heaviness in your leg that starts or gets worse when you walk.
You may not need this procedure if you can still do most of your everyday activities. Your doctor can try medicines and other treatments first.
Reasons for having this surgery are:
Before having angioplasty, your doctor will do special tests to see the extent of the blockage in your blood vessels.
Risks of angioplasty and stent placement are:
Before the Procedure
During the 2 weeks before surgery:
Do NOT drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery, including water.
On the day of your surgery:
After the Procedure
Many people are able to go home from the hospital in 2 days or less. Some people may not even have to stay overnight. You should be able to walk around within 6 - 8 hours after the procedure.
Your doctor and nurse will explain how to take care of yourself.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Angioplasty improves artery blood flow for most people. Results will vary depending on where your blockage was, the size of your blood vessel, and how much blockage there is in other arteries.
You may not need open bypass surgery if you have angioplasty. If the procedure does not help, your surgeon may need to do open bypass surgery, or even amputation.


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User talk:Lcarsos
- 1 Moved discussion
- 2 Ruby Importer
- 3 Removing Erroneous Categories
- 5 Double redirect
- 6 To the human behind the curtain
- 7 Congrats on becoming Admin
- 8 Category:Comic images
- 9 Captchas
- 10 Deletion
- 11 Patrolling
- 12 Blocking IPs
- 13 Stick figure linking to Cueball
- 14 Categories
- 15 Sections in talk pages
- 16 Two images to delete
- 17 "Unacceptable username"
- 18 Hi,
- 19 About your discussion on explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination
- 20 Major changes on complete explains need a comment at less
- 21 Concerning the bot
- 22 New admin proposal
- 23 1358: NRO trivia
- 24 Trivia sections in general
- 25 Attempt to break through an unjustified block
- 26 Bad Link
- 27 Edit War Policy?
- 28 Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
- 29 User page
- 30 Spam Bot
Moved discussion[edit]
Hi, just to let you know that I move the thread you started to explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests. Cheers, --Waldir (talk) 10:33, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Ruby Importer[edit]
For discussion of the Ruby Import assistant. Please create subsections for each item.
Multi-file Generation[edit]
I assume that ./importer.rb 100{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} would also work? Blaisepascal (talk) 02:08, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
- I hadn't even thought of that. I'll try it and report back as soon as I get home after work. lcarsos (talk) 16:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- It'll work; it's not a Ruby thing, it's a Borne Shell thing. When the Borne Shell does wild-card expansion, it generates all alternatives enclosed in braces. So "echo 1{2,3,4,5}" is equivalent to "echo 12 13 14 15". I've been known to do things like echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} 100 to list all numbers between 1 and 100. Blaisepascal (talk) 16:34, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Removing Erroneous Categories[edit]
It seems to me that if you are removing the same "erroneous" category from three comics that all refer to the same thing (like Wikipedia) that perhaps a bit more explanation needs to be made as to why the category is erroneous. Blaisepascal (talk) 21:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
- I was going through categories, and it looked like someone had started to tag any page that had a link to Wikpedia. I was putting a stop to it.
- But now that you've elevated this to conscious level, it might be that 2 of the pages were tagged Wikipedia because the theme of the comic was Wikipedia. The first one that caught my eye, 548: Kindle, merely had the word Wikipedia, that one to me seems that it was incorrectly categorized. The other two, now that I think about it, would make sense if we're categorizing comics by theme. I'll go back, make restitution, and fix 739: Malamanteau and 214: The Problem with Wikipedia, and undo changes to the Wikipedia category. Thanks for keeping me honest.
Saw this and thought of you: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/12/star-trek-padd-app-is-a-lcars-sporting-trekkies-reference-bible/
- Okay, first, I'd like to thank you for showing this to me. I'm always interested to see anything Star Trek related. Always. There should never be a Trek-less day, for anyone, ever. But, now, you've opened a can of worms so now I get to do a little bit of ranting.
- With a few exceptions, anything "official" that Paramount/CBS Paramount/CBS commissions to be made based on Star Trek is crap. This is one of those things. The interface, while reminiscent of, and is close enough to scare away the children, is a tragedy that shouldn't have the privilege of being able to call itself "official" or "LCARS". The color scheme is vomitous, every color that could have been put into the interface is there, as opposed to the restrained every-color-represents-a-function style that is shown in the show. About the one thing they got correct is the use of the LCARS font. Other than that, the font is too large in every instance. The font should be bottom-right aligned, and there should be a generous amount of padding except for the bottom-right corner. And, except for actual paragraph text, everything should be all-caps.
- They also got the elbos (the bits that change from vertical UI to horizontal and vice versa) wrong. The curves aren't skewed like that. A quick look at the fan-made LCARS Standards website would have showed them the correct way to build an elbo. Or, *GASP* they could ask Michael Okuda to consult on the project.
- Final UI complaint: What is that panel on the bottom doing? You mean that the people that made this app completely missed the idea of the LCARS UI and just have a panel at the bottom with skinned buttons that take you to the main sections of the app? Also, don't mix the butt-ended buttons with the fully rounded buttons. Just don't. Someone should have slapped you in art school for doing that.
- From reviews of the app in iTunes, it looks like the app isn't even fully baked. The database isn't full, just has entries for the popular characters and ships. This should be a front end for Memory-Alpha, but you'd have to do some work to strip out all the wikia bs.
- Finally, still iOS only? It's apparently been out for a year, and been updated once, in October, 2011. Was this a one-off, did CBS hire Random Company LLC to "Make a thing for the hip kids, with the iPads and the what-not" pay them to get the app out the door, kept them for a month to fix bugs and then fired them? Have we heard of Android? Is this the 90s when developers had to pick between developing for Windows 95 or Mac OS 8?
- Why is this catastrophe $5? There's obviously no development work going on, CBS makes bank off of the DVDs and other crap merchandise they sell (why are there no officially licensed replica isolinear chips?). This is pure, simple corporate greed.
- Sorry for the rant, I get angry when my favorite things are mistreated. lcarsos (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Double redirect[edit]
You're right. I knew there had been a reason I didn't do that for the first pile of comics I created. That's for reminding me. TheHYPO (talk) 21:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
To the human behind the curtain[edit]
Moved conversation to the correct talk page
Congrats on becoming Admin[edit]
Looks like my days of 700+ changes per month are a thing of the past! (What will I ever do with all the free time now? Edit, perhaps? ;-) -- IronyChef (talk) 06:32, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
- Grazie. I noticed Jeff do a little bit of work, and then go silent. So, I hoped that I could catch him with a tab still open pointing out our plight. It looks like it worked! Also, I'd be lying if I said it wasn't in part because you started that daily counter of edits on your user page. lcarsos_a (talk) 06:40, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like you registered your account just two days before I I went on a hiatus for a while, so I'm afraid we never got a chance to interact much. Although away from editing, I've been following the wiki activity through RSS, so I'm aware of the huge amount of work you've put in, which I appreciate. And of course, I take the opportunity to congratulate you on earning your admin "badge". Cheers! --Waldir (talk) 17:05, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Category:Comic images[edit]
Hi Lcarsos. I noticed you categorized two images in Category:Comic images. I am actually using the ones that aren't categorized yet as a todo list of those which haven't been moved to the original filenames (lowercase). If you categorize more images, please make sure to also move them to the lowercase filename, and fix the redirect from the filename with only the first character uppercased. That is: there are typically 3 file pages for every comic: file_name.png, File_Name.png and File_name.png, with the first and third redirecting to the middle one, and the end result shoudl be the second and third redirecting to the first. I hope this isn't confusing :) --Waldir (talk) 18:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry about that. I saw that BPothier uncategorized those two, but when I looked at them I saw they were redirection pages, and when I checked a few other images I saw the category was on the images. I thought I would be helpful and put the category on the File page instead of undoing the change on the redirect page. Sorry to be a nuisance. lcarsos_a (talk) 18:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- Not at all :) You acted in a perfectly reasonable way. In fact I missed the fact that you were actually moving a category from a redirect to the real image, which makes perfect sense. I am the one using the uncategorized files list as a personal todo list, in clear unorthodox fashion :P --Waldir (talk) 04:29, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
I believe there's an option to force all users of a certain group to take the captcha when editing. Could you change the captcha settings to force all anonymous users to pass one to edit? This is getting stupid. Davidy22(talk) 07:14, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- First off, this is a request for Waldir. I have no idea what I'm doing. Second, I've looked at the captcha pages in MediaWiki's manual, and it looks like I don't have the rights to do that, it would have to be someone who can edit the php files to change that over (*ahem* Jeff). Third, I've clicked on every link in Special:SpecialPages and I don't see anywhere that I can change that. I wish I could. Fourth, I am sick and tired of all this spam!!!!! lcarsos_a (talk) 08:12, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm sure you only overlooked this because of being busy fighting huge amounts of spam, but there was actually some valid history behind explain xkcd:Community portal/Design, which I just restored (I left the spam edits under the carpet, though). It's not a huge deal, and as you can see, it's easily reversible, but it's generally nice to preserve page histories for archival reasons. Also, please comment on explain xkcd:Community portal/Technical#We need more maintainers when you have the chance. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 17:50, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Oops, again. I don't know if it was a case of unfortunate blindness, or I was too far into spam fighting that I simply deleted it. Sorry about that. lcarsos_a (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Lcarsos. I think this might be useful for you since you're doing so much work on spam fighting: mw:Help:Patrolled edits. I asked Jeff to change the wiki configuration so that edits by "auto-confirmed" users will be automatically patrolled. This means the feature should be more useful from now on. Let me know if it helps. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 21:28, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Edits from logged in people are still showing as un-patrolled. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. There are several editors that have created accounts that I'm not quite ready to blanket state that every edit they make are perfectly good. I think that if we had more people that were patrolling pages and edits the feature would be more useful. But, since it's just me going through and occasionally remembering to mark a page as patrolled, it's not very useful as I can generally remember where I've perused through. I think if we got Davidy22 rights to patrol edits too, I think that would push it over the mark into useful territory. lcarsos_a (talk) 21:43, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Jeff just enabled the tweaks to the autopatrolling feature as I asked him to. I know we can't immediately trust every edit a recent user does, but I find that well-intentioned mistakes (which we all make btw) are much easier to fix, and overall less harmful than spam/vandalism. Right now the threshold for autopatrolling is at 3 days of age and 10 edits (both conditions have to be met). We can tweak that if we decide different values would work better, but I am assuming that spammers and otherwise malicious editors would be caught and blocked before that. I intend to use the following links to help weed out the bad stuff from the wiki:
- Of course, only edits from now on will apply the new parameters, so older edits by (non-admin) trusted editors still show as unpatrolled. But from now on it will probably make sifting the recent changes a little easier, since we can now filter out edits that we don't have to worry much about, leaving only new users and anonymous ones, the groups spammers/vandals are most likely to belong to.
- Also, I agree that Davidy22 could have patrolling rights by now. I am liberal about adminship, so I'd suggest we ask Jeff to "promote" him, as that would do it.
- Cheers, Waldir (talk) 03:33, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Blocking IPs[edit]
I don't think anonymous vandals should be blocked indefinitely. IPs are generally not static so we might end up preventing someone from doing a legitimate contribution, while the spammer will likely not use that particular IP for very long. I suggest changing all IP blocks to have a finite expiration date, say a week, or a month. What do you think? --Waldir (talk) 15:55, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think that would be a good idea. Our second great spam bout was caused by the 1 month block that SlashMe placed on the IPs of a foregone spam attack expired, and suddenly all those computers had access to edit the wiki again. In theory IPs are not static, but the home I live in right now has had the same IP address since I moved in, and that's even with hard resetting the modem about weekly as Comcast fails to bond their channels together, and I suspect most ISPs work that way.
- Maybe we could try an experiment where we let all the blocks expire and see what happens. But, I do not want that to be anywhere near any holiday, or major event, or major xkcd comic post (see Click and Drag or Congress) as it would be nearly impossible to hand pick out the good from the spam.
- I do understand that theoretically, if this goes on eventually we'll have blocked the whole internet from editing the wiki. We need a better way to lock this down. A lot of the wikis I've looked at disallow editing from anonymous users (See the Valve Developer wiki and the Kerbal Space Program wiki, this would cut down on about half the spam, and then we need a better way to stop the bots from registering accounts, somehow both the VDC and KSP wiki don't have any spam activity (creation or clean-up) for the past few days, we're obviously doing something wrong, but I have no idea what. We may be more popular than the KSP wiki, but certainly we aren't more popular than Valve's own wiki. lcarsos_a (talk) 17:14, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
- I see. Personally, I consider disabling anonymous editing as somehow admitting defeat (assuming bad faith by default) but maybe mw:Extension:SpamBlacklist could help. It uses a very extensive list maintained at meta.wikimedia.org. Do you think it could prevent spam rampages such as the last one? Otherwise, we could try some of the approaches listed at mw:Manual:Combating spam and mw:Anti-spam features. I am inclined towards more automatic methods, as most of those would require Jeff to edit the server, so a one-time config thing (using lists updates elsewhere) would be best. Thoughts? --Waldir (talk) 03:58, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Stick figure linking to Cueball[edit]
Hey there. Do you mind explaining why you reverted my comment on the Stick figure page? (that sounds like "argh how dare you do that" - not my intention, just looking to understand, since there was no explanation given in the changelog.) My thought was that "Stick figure" is a page discussing the art style that Randall uses for his characters. In such a page, it seemed appropriate to mention the one character that is the most representative of the "classic stick figure" (Cueball). I thought I added that sentence in a way that fit naturally with the rest of the text. Please let me know what the issues are so I can work on them. Thanks. - jerodast (talk) 15:26, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- The addition of Cueball was not necessarily helpful in describing what a stick figure is (and I'd like to start a debate on whether or not we should be in the business of doing Wikipedia's job, or simply restrict ourselves to explaining xkcd and providing links where appropriate). Likewise, including Cueball in the explanation of what a generic stick figure is, makes it sound like Cueball is simply a name we use for any character that has no defining features. Which is not true. Cueball has a specific set of generic traits (it's a complex way of thinking about it) which combine to form a geeky every-man who is quite annoyed by the rampant use of "literally", is banned from quite a few security conferences (and at least one grammar con), and is fond of showing security agents the flaws in airport security.
Hey, Merry Christmas!
If I, or someone else creates an arguably useful category that you don't really like, would you please say so on the talk page, so that we can discuss it, as a community. I agree that two entries doesn't make a category, but there are several more than two comics about Internet arguments. The topic itself is very specific, but it is also recurring indeed, just like raptors. As for Flowcharts, I'm sure I know 5-6 comics containing them, just top of my head. That surely should be enuff? (At least get rid of the Axiom of Choice, if you are to be ... ::puts on sunglasses:: ... consistent.) ;) Swedish greetings from St.nerol (talk) 14:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- By that logic, I am now justified in reorganizing the entirety of Category:Dynamic comics. I hold up that as an example of exactly why I stopped opening this up for a discussion and started ruthlessly cutting down our category count. In general I go by a simple rule of "Huh, I wonder if there are other comics on this topic?" which is why, many moons ago, I created the Category:Axiom of Choice (created when we didn't have so many categories, and no one batted an eye at having a category with only two comics in it). This is why I think Category:Internet is a very good category, and that Internet Arguments was not. Now, maybe I would have felt a little more lenient if it was [[Category:Trolling]] but that's because it's not so specific as to only be a handful of comics (and now that I say that out loud, I think there's quite a few that would fall under trolling).
- This is because, as the wiki has come into its own, the mainstay editors have decided (and I'm the only one to vocalize it) that the categories a page has is not a traditional blog tag cloud where you simply vomit out everything that the comic contains. We use the categories as a way to "find similar" comics.
- It really rankles me to have deeply nested categories, like Category:Set theory, but I'm willing to leave it there because I can see people coming by the site, reading a comic in Set Theory and wanting to read all the other ones on the same topic. Though I would greatly prefer it if it wasn't deeply nested, if it was simply parented to Category:Comics by topic and then had a See Also section.
- As for Axiom of Choice, I still believe that it's an odd enough thing to have in a comic, anyone browsing through might want to see other comics that make reference to it, but I'm open to deleting it.
- Thanks for your answer. I think i mostly agree with you. Especially on that it should not be a tag cloud "to vomit out everything that the comic contains", but to find related ones. So at least no comic should be alone in a category.
- I've been thinking that, while Internet might be a reasonable category, it is not in any way remarkable that the topic "Internet" recurs (of course it does). From that viewpoint it is much more interesting when e.g. the Axiom of Choice returns. The comics becomes much more tightly related, and that piece of information should doubtlessly be given in the wiki! I can think of two ways: by making a category, or by linking to the other comic(s) from the explanation page.
- Since one can argue that set theory is a subdicipline of logic, a subdicipline of math, or neither, i just, without thinking too much, linked to (added) the category from all those levels. Maybe "See also" would be better. Why not?
- Lastly, I must confess that i didn't get the "dynamic comics" part. If you were making a good point, please spell it out.
- Ages ago (I believe it was when we were first working on getting the explanation for Umwelt fleshed out) there was talk about what do we want to categorize it as. Someone, brilliantly, added an "Out of the ordinary" category, and did the same to 961: Eternal Flame, justifying that amid 1000+ comics these ones were truly odd, and broke the format (an animated gif and a comic that was different for nearly anyone depending on where they were, what browser they were using, etc.) that xkcd generally followed (geeky discussions, charts, and the occasional large drawing. Some other editors, that didn't quite understand, went into the back catalog and started adding other comics as being "out of the ordinary" such as Money. This ignited another conversation about what makes something ordinary, what makes it extraordinary, out-of-the-ordinary, the difference between the three, and why we have to have the majority be ordinary so we can have an out-of-the ordinary.
- Then Randall published Click and Drag. Amidst the insanity of everyone frothing at the mouth to completely, totally, and summarily flog that horse until it was dead three times over, it was put into the category "out of the ordinary" and then someone created an "interactive" category, and someone else put Umwelt into it. Then there was an edit war, and a conversation (about why we need to clamp down on new categories, what constitutes out of the ordinary, why Umwelt isn't interactive, and moaning that people should stop the edit war until a decision had been made) was started. It was cut short when Traffic Lights was posted and one of the editors went rogue and cleaned up "interactive comics", and moved "out of the ordinary" to dynamic comics. It's slowly morphed from there to how we currently have it set up today.
- Anyway, months ago I tried to start a discussion that none of the categories/comics should be part of a "Dynamic comics" parent category because none of them are "dynamic" they are very static. Since then I've been promoted to administrator, but I haven't touched it because, even though I may be a BOFH at times, this is still a wiki, and I can't right every wrong simply by wielding the sword of righteous indignation.
- I think this is gonna be good! First, i don't know if i have anything to add about the dynamic stuff. But if no one seems to disagree, why not give it a shot? I wouldn't mind if you changed the nestings in math/set theory either. :) To get back to the "by topic", if i may:
- If two comics connect by some interesting topic or reference, I'd think it's neatest to just link them together with a note at the end of the explanation, like someone did to 994: Advent Calendar also about Zeno, from the last comic. (I added a similar note in 994). Zeno might or might not come back, but anyway it's nice that you can click a wikilink and read another Zeno-joke. If it's a third comic about Zeno, we could do the same thing, (slightly more complicated, since we'd want all three to link to the other two), or consider a category. If it's suddenly four Zenos, well... What do you say? :) -- St.nerol (talk) 17:51, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Sections in talk pages[edit]
Since we/you don't want sections in talk pages, how should we suitably structure the discussions? Where do you think I should answer on the probability thing (latest comic)? On the bottom, or in the middle of the page? -- St.nerol (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- As I've said many times, simply commenting in a threaded chronological order is all that needs to happen. Chronological dictates that all new comments go at the bottom. Threaded dictates that if you are responding to a comment you indent one from the comment you are responding to. Together this means that a discussion starts at the far left, and the responses continue downward and rightward.
- This is only for explanation talk pages, as it breaks the way that sections work through the transclusion of the talk page onto the explanation. lcarsos_a (talk) 23:32, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Two images to delete[edit]
A couple of users ran into a conflict with a KDE desktop file on the server when trying to upload today's comic. Here's two broked images to delete [1][2] Davidy22[talk] 07:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, and another one from a while ago when a user ran into a map stored on the server. People mess up so much when they're trying to make new explanation pages. [3] Davidy22[talk] 06:29, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
"Unacceptable username"[edit]
Just wondering, what does the "Unacceptable username" user-blocking reason refer to? (apart from the fact that these users closely resemble users ready to spam...)
Just being curious. - Cos (talk) 14:09, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
- Maybe it's just that you don't know what else to put when blocking a highly suspicious account? In which case you could add a reason in MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown, something like "User account suspicious compared to spamming schemes" (or a better phrasing than this one, which I'm not too sure of...).
- Thing is, I don't see what's wrong in choosing for instance "Zbenjamin89" as a username. - Cos (talk) 14:41, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
- You're right. I'm using "Unacceptable username" with the implicit subtitle "spammer-like username". I've been putting it on some of the block messages. I'm only blocking usernames that were created in blocks, that are suspiciously similar to known spamming accounts, and have no contributions despite the account being created hours before. If any one of them comes back and posts on their talk page, or gets in contact, to prove they are human I unblock them. So far, none of them have.
- I got tired of having to clean up spam, and it seems that blocking these accounts that are created, left to sit for a day or a week, and then activated to spew absurd amounts of spam, has helped in some small measure. lcarsos_a (talk) 23:52, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
- So, what about adding a dedicated reason to MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown? (with the right permissions, I'd have done it myself)
- As I said, I'm not blaming you for being the "BOFH" here (love that one ^^), I think that these blocks are useful indeed. I just feel the same thing could be done more intelligibly: someone stumbling upon one of those blocked accounts, or on a log, wouldn't understand and could deduce wrong things out of this. For instance, if you blocked a legitimate account among spammers (seems quite plausible, and in a way, unavoidable), it would not help the user to understand what the problem is, and chances are he would not try to fight to get his "unacceptable" username accepted by an environment he doesn't really know about...
- So, I believe adding a block reason is very quick and would be better. Maybe my previous phrasing isn't very good, then what about this simpler one: "User account suspicious, very similar to spamming accounts"?
- Cos (talk) 14:10, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I understand you had exams. Hope they went well for you! May I ask what you're studying? (Myself I have one week to the exam in multivariable calculus!) ––St.nerol (talk) 00:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, the week before last I had a Physics exam (circuits, capacitance, AC circuits, Kirchoff's law, fun stuff), and last week I had midterms in both Discrete Mathematics (the most wordy math class I've ever taken, but it's about the only formal logic I've ever had, so I love it) and Operating Systems. I also had large projects due in both O.S. and a class called Elements of Computing Systems (The premise of the class is to build up a computer starting at nand gates and through multiple levels of abstraction eventually end up with a high level java-like language that compiles down to the machine language of the processor we "built"). It's all fun, but immensely draining. lcarsos_a (talk) 09:45, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
About your discussion on explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination[edit]
Those two IPs you were complaining about - that was me (I was using two computers so two IPs). At that time I was a bit of a noob and did all of those things because I thought that I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Things have changed. I haven't made many new categories (just Category:Bobcats and Category:Crossbows) and I started using {{incomplete}} on comics that I either can't explain or am not confident enough to do so.
I do not like the way that I was treated as an anon, because, in my opinion, the community bit a newcomer. Nobody posted on either User talk:220.127.116.11 or User talk:126.96.36.199 so I only discovered that my actions were not received very well when I saw an angry edit summary. That was not at all pleasant or friendly. --Btx40 (talk) 19:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for bringing your butthurt to me several months after the matter lay so dormant as to be forgotten by most parties (yours being the most notable, and to my knowledge only, exclusion). I assume you mean explain xkcd:Community portal/Coordination#Can we turn off page creation for non-logged in users, I have posted many times to Coordination, but that one appears to be the only one you have concerned yourself with (again, Necro Bumping an 8 month old discussion). I'm sorry that you don't like the way you were treated when you chose to be anonymous to the regular editors of this wiki, and intentionally difficult to contact. And yes, being anonymous is more difficult to contact because at least 95% of all the anonymous editors we have know nothing about editing a wiki. Normally that wouldn't be bad, except when they continue to make poor quality edits ignoring any editor that "fixes" (my term) a page that they have edited and ignoring the format of any other page on the wiki. I have not yet had any anonymous editor respond to any post made on their IP talk page, which makes it pointless to try. It is the responsibility of any editor who knows anything to take responsibility for their edits by using their account. Anonymous editors have almost 0 accountability. Final point, edit summaries are not biting the newbie. They are grumblings in public. You will notice that my primary goal in that post was to try to shut off the flood of daily spam we were getting and slogging through.
- Now that I've got my butthurt out of the way. You are correct. That post on the Coordination page was rude and out of line. I realize that now. But I hold onto my defense of hindsight always being 20/20. Back in September the site was almost complete anarchy, and the few of us that were regular editors wanted/needed the site to operate the same from moment to moment so we wouldn't lose our sanity. I apologize for being a little bit vicious toward you. But a lot of confusion could have been avoided if you had made an account and had made your edits using the account. I'm glad to have you with us, and I hope you keep on editing.
- Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I take a long time to compose serious responses to matters that require serious responses. (Also, I hope you don't mind, I edited your post so that the categories would show up in the text, rather than being added as categories of this page).
Major changes on complete explains need a comment at less[edit]
Thanks for your UNDO at [5], major changes on complete explains need a comment. And smaller changes are simply better to understand by the reader. --Dgbrt (talk) 22:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
- I'm slightly confused, are you thanking me, or asking for an expanded explanation of my actions? lcarsos_a (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Concerning the bot[edit]
It's having a bad few days. It's been sick for a while, and it's having trouble getting to our servers. I sent it a get well soon card, but the error logs lead me to believe it's an ISP issue. Davidy²²[talk] 07:17, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- How sad! I hope it isn't terminal. I'll have to send a care package with chicken soup and bits. I'll also have to go apologize to the (kind of) helpful user. lcarsos_a (talk) 16:40, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
New admin proposal[edit]
Please take a look here. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 18:36, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
1358: NRO trivia[edit]
Hi Lcarsos, is there a way where we can figure out that Hubble issue without an edit war? I did move that content to trivia and also did some enhancements on that content. I think Randall's work should be always mentioned at trivia if it does match the theme. Any thoughts? --Dgbrt (talk) 20:17, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- If anything this comic is more about Enemy of the State than it would ever be about Hubble. Secondly, NASA and the NRO are VERY different departments of the US Government. One is forwarding the purpose of science, human advancement, and space exploration; the other is forwarding the goal of turning the US into a totalitarian police state (a small amount of hyperbole is used for effect) and the subjugation of the American people. Deciding which is which is an exercise left to the reader (lol). Thirdly, in the What If that's been linked shows that Hubble could never be used for this purpose, the focal range is too far out. Fourth, the What If and this comic are separated by more than a year's time, without any kind of proof that Randall had revisited the idea of Hubble taking pictures of earth there is 0 probability that these two pieces are connected by more than the fact that the same man made them. Fifth, we don't link to every other thing Randall has done on every page of this wiki, it would be ridiculous; and yet there are things that have a closer connection than these two. Sixth, several years ago Google, to improve Google Maps, started buying the rights to satellite photos with a resolution high enough to resolve objects less than 1 meter long. That was consumer grade technology several years ago. A government agency using the latest technology would have even better resolution, because designing a satellite that looks down instead of up means that you can build it to do its job.
- Finally, not every page needs a Trivia section, and using a tenuous connection between two things, that could easily be served as a comment on the discussion page would be infinitely more desirable.
- Ohh, you did write this while I was creating a more general section below here. I don't like edit wars, so I'm talking to you.
- I fully agree on your "totalitarian police state" statement and much more.
- But comparing the best civil space telescope to a task even NRO is not capable of should be mentioned here. Of course this could be still enhanced.
- Randall jokes about the accuracy of spy satellites. This is still unknown and has to be compared to current high tech machines like the HST is.
- --Dgbrt (talk) 21:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- Ohh, you did write this while I was creating a more general section below here. I don't like edit wars, so I'm talking to you.
Trivia sections in general[edit]
Please do not miss my statement before this paragraph.
At my understanding a TRIVIA section is a section doesn't belong to an explain but mentions comparable issues. Maybe I'm just a dumb German Besserwisser, but I'm not just a wise guy.
The common layout here is that the trivia section is below the transcript, ask David on this. t So, in conclusion: Anything doesn't explain the comic itself has to go to a separate section. And I would prefer a position before the transcript, but David doesn't agree.
I'm looking only for the best explain for a s simple reader here. --Dgbrt (talk) 20:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, trivia goes after the transcript because its content should be less important to understanding the comic than the transcript. This way blind people using screen readers will hear the transcript before tangentially related information.
- What belongs in a trivia section are small (or meta) facts about the comic, or the time that the comic was written in. Things like, "Did you know that all the cancer comics came about because Randall's wife was diagnosed with cancer, so it consumed his life for a period of two years?". I would categorize most of these "trivia" things as general interest that are related to the comic but don't have much to do with the comic, or xkcd, or Randall. For example: on Su Doku I just took out a bit of trivia saying that hexadecimal sudoku games exist. While this fact is of general interest to geeky people, it did not explain the comic or the title text, it was not trivia about the comic. Had it been posted by the original author on the discussion page I think people would have commented with their favorite one, or asking for a link to a good one. That's the perfect place for it, somewhere that sparks a conversation on the topic that the comic covers, but not about the comic. The same is true about your post on the Chess Enlightenment explanation. While it did relate to chess, it didn't relate to the comic. Putting it on the discussion page would be a good place for that kind of content.
- Adding sections makes an explanation look more complicated, and that's not what we want to do here. I'm not saying don't add sections, but seriously think about what kind of content you're adding, and see if there's all ready a place for it to go on the page.
- I agree on that what belongs to the trivia section, but I don't agree on your statement on what belongs not.
- Wikipedia says, that Stefan Zweig "...was one of the most popular writers in the world." Maybe not in the US. He flew from the German Nazis and committed suicide in 1942 at exile in Brazil; I didn't mention this at my post.
- The novella The Royal Game was instantly in my mind when I did read the title text, but younger people probably don't know.
- If that trivia adds are not welcome here any more I wish you a good luck on removing of hundreds trivia sections.
- And sorry, I think we have more serious issues here.
- --Dgbrt (talk) 19:35, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
- The novella is not trivia about the comic, certainly it has an association in your brain, which is why it is fully, completely, and totally acceptable in the discussion section. But, this is a website about explaining xkcd comics. It is not a general trivia website with an xkcd bent. We should make an attempt to keep the information we provide domain specific (and I'm not talking about URLs). We intentionally do not duplicate content that is on Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is doing a fine job of housing its own data on its own.
- Those kinds of factoids have and are always been welcome, but they belong in a different place than creating a section that does not need to exist on pages. If we listed every random fact that was minorly associated with every strip, it would never be complete as there would always be cultures we don't know about with histories and stories we haven't read and heard.
- If you feel so strongly that there are more serious issues to address, then I suggest you get to work fixing them rather than making passive aggressive passes at the work other editors are working on.
- Thank you for the well wishes,
- No time yesterday, so I'm sorry for the delay.
- In general I do only a revert when I think an edit would have been the better explain instead a former revert.
- Today I did clean up the transcript of 1360 and copied the content of that crappy template Template:1360/list to the explain. That's still wrong, content is missing, I did just NOT a simple UNDO, I did work on that line by line. Costs time. What a rhyme...
- If you are an admin you should see my request and understand.
- TRIVIA is still a matter on discussion, and I still can accept most of your edits. But sometimes a sidestep for non US people sould be possible.
- --Dgbrt (talk) 20:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- No time yesterday, so I'm sorry for the delay.
Attempt to break through an unjustified block[edit]
I'm trying this because nothing else has worked. Your name appears as the agent who blocked my account, apparently mistaking my User page for spam, as noted at:
The page was an exact copy of my Wikipedia user page, which demonstrates a characteristic of visual perception and gives credit to the MIT professor who created the demonstration. You can see the unchanged original page at:
I committed no infraction at all, and don't plan to. As evidence, see my Wikipedia editing record, which goes back to early 2010 and is visible at:
I request that you restore my account, which I never misused. You can write me at [email protected] or on my Wikipedia Talk page:
Thanks, Ornithikos Paleologos
- Sorry about that. You signed up before we had adequate spambot blocking measures. We'd (User:Davidy22 and I) had noticed a pattern: a bot creates an account and then creates a user page and a user talk page with random gibberish and links to pages they want to up the google ranking of. Your account creation looked very bot-ish, especially since you didn't go and improve any explanations, or comment on a comic discussion page. Glad to know you're a person. I apologize for not looking closer at your case while cleaning up pages marked as spam. I hope you'll stick around and help improve the wiki! lcarsos_a (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Bad Link[edit]
I saw a strange comment by user E-Inspired and saw there was a talk page, only to realize he was banned. I looked through the "blocked" text and noticed a link to "make useful contributions", which linked to Five Pillars using the code Wikipedia:Five Pillars. This demonstrated the page you were trying to go too quite well, but the actual page linked to was a disambiguation page, and not the actual page "Wikipedia:Five Pillars". I believe putting a w| in front of Wikipedia: Five Pillars to create this should fix the issue. Not pressing but didn't want to just let it happen. Thanks in advance! "That Guy from the Netherlands" (talk) 16:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Edit War Policy?[edit]
I would very much appreciate your advice and/or opinion regarding Talk:977: Map Projections#Wording disagreement - Frankie (talk) 17:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls[edit]
Is that deliberate? Beanie (talk) 11:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
User page[edit]
Hi, I'm a new user and for some reason I cannot edit my user bio page or use my user talk page. I have not found an explanation for this and because you seem to be 'official' I thought I could ask you why and how to change it.--Obscure xkcd reference (talk) 20:30, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- Oh jeez, if I'm what counts for official... I haven't been active here in a hot minute.
- Can you create any pages? Or is it just your User: and User talk: pages? lcarsos_a (talk) 21:08, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- Yes it is just my User: and User talk: pages. Is it some sort of spammer blocker or is it a bug? And how can I change this? (I know that you shouldn't start a sentence with 'and' but I can't find any other way to phrase this.)--Obscure xkcd reference (talk) 17:35, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you☺--Obscure xkcd reference (talk) 19:33, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Spam Bot[edit]
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The more plays I direct, the more I know that I don't direct them well unless I bring my own experiences into the rehearsal room.
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Today's Melbourne Cup marks twenty years since a horse my father was a part-owner of, ran in the Cup. London Bridge won the Duke of Norfolk Handicap (now known as the Andrew Ramsden Stakes) in 1992, a race over 3200 metres at Flemington just like the Melbourne Cup, and he won it in race record time. His trainer was the Cups master, Bart Cummings, so London Bridge went into Melbourne Cup day with some hope of a good run.
On Cup Day, the rains came and we knew from the Adelaide Cup in May 1992, that London Bridge was not partial to getting is feet wet. The winner of the Adelaide Cup was Subzero and when it rained at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November 1992, London Bridge's chances decreased and Subzero's chances increased dramatically. Subbie won and London Bridge ran a brave ninth.
Both London Bridge and Subzero went on to noble careers after their racing retirements. London Bridge served as a police horse with the Victorian Police Force and Subzero was a Clerk of Course horse for 15 years and then became an Ambassador for Racing Victoria. At twenty-four, he still visits schools as part of Racing Victoria's Community Education Programs and other public appearances.
To mark the 20th anniversary of London Bridge's Melbourne Cup run, this week's Trove Tuesday has a Cup theme with newspaper articles about Bart Cummings. Both articles are from the Barrier Miner, a Broken Hill newspaper where, surprisingly enough, I find many treasures.
The first article is from 1947 and a young Bart Cummings, working for his father, had a fall from a flighty colt.
When I first read this story, I thought it was a different horse to that in the next article, 1950 Melbourne Cup winner, Comic Court. However after reading Racing Victoria's bio of Comic Court I realised that Comedy Court and Comic Court were the same. Both horse and rider were lucky to win any Melbourne Cups!
The next treasure from the Barrier Miner is a photo of Bart Cummings, Comic Court and Deidre Gath, the daughter of Albert Gath, a harness racing trainer, who had stables near Flemington.
I like this photo as it brings together two racing dynasties, one thoroughbred racing, the other harness racing. I also love the way Comic Court is looking at Deidre. Three generations of the Cummings family became trainers, Jim, Bart and Anthony, while the Gath family had five brothers training during the 1950s. Like the Cummings name in thoroughbred racing, the Gaths are still a force in harness racing today. In August 2012, Andy Gath trained the winner of the Group 1 Breeders Crown Final with Caribbean Blaster and last Saturday, an Anthony Cummings trained horse, Fiveandahalfstar won the Group 1 Victoria Derby.


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Students from New York University's Washington Square campus will be joined by members of NYU Abu Dhabi's inaugural class of 2014 to perform original student compositions for a master class —despite being separated by some 7,000 miles. The performance is a highlight of the ResoNations Education Session, a component of the Innovation Talks Symposium III at United Nations Headquarters on Dec. 2 and 3.
Students from University's New York and Abu Dhabi Campuses to Perform in Real Time From 7,000 Miles Apart as Part of Conference at UN
Students from New York University's Washington Square campus will be joined by members of NYU Abu Dhabi's inaugural class of 2014 to perform original student compositions for a master class —despite being separated by some 7,000 miles. The performance is a highlight of the ResoNations Education Session, a component of the Innovation Talks Symposium III at United Nations Headquarters on Dec. 2 and 3. The event brings together the arts and UN communities to make practical contributions to UN peace-building efforts.
Using emerging telematic music technology, which allows for real-time performance by musicians in different geographic locations, the student musicians will participate in the class and perform together via high-bandwith Internet and high-definition video. The student musicians will interact in real-time with professional musicians, including Mark Dresser, bassist and composer, and Min Xiao-Fen, pipa and composer, in Abu Dhabi and UN Headquarters in New York.
The ResoNations Education Session, sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, will take place on Thurs., Dec. 2 from 9AM to 12PM EST. The Innovation Talks Symposium III is presented by the World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF).
The two-day conference will culminate Fri., Dec. 3 at 9:00PM EST with a special concert by musicians in three different locations performing as one ensemble. The musicians will simultaneously perform at UN Headquarters in New York; in Beijing, China; and in Seoul, South Korea. "ResoNations 2010: An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace" will feature premieres of original compositions for peace by Sarah Weaver (USA), Min Xiao-Fen (China), and Yoon Jeong Heo (Korea).
"ResoNations means 'to resonate nations'," said Weaver, a graduate student in music technology at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, as well as music and technology advisor to Arts for Peace of WAFUNIF, and the performance's conductor. "Our aim is engage the role of the arts in international peace-building through new compositions within the innovative telematic music medium. In telematic music we are in real-time and also real-space, which transcends geographic distance and utilizes the music itself as a vehicle for peace. The works of both the ResoNations concert and education session are apropos and deeply transformative."
"Working with my fellow students in New York, and seeing all of these ideas come together, has been an incredibly exciting process," said cellist Charlotte Wang (USA), a member of NYUAD's inaugural class of 2014. "The idea that as a freshman at NYU Abu Dhabi, I'm able to perform with these really talented musicians at NYU New York, over the Internet, from 7,000 miles away, for an event at the United Nations, just astonishes me."
"The ability to work and share information with people across the world has already resulted with a beautiful collaborative experience between all of us," said violinist Patti Killroy (USA), a Steinhardt graduate student. "The most exciting aspect was that I had the opportunity to share who I am with my fellow students, and learn about them in turn."
The two-day symposium, "Real-Time Interaction via Internet Technologies: Meeting Development Goals, Enhancing Potentialities and Implementing Access," is presented in conjunction with the UN International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and includes delegates from the UN institutions and experts from the professional fields for a series of panels on cutting-edge Internet technologies and their applications in the arts, education, and healthcare. NYU Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs Ulrich Baer played an instrumental role in the development of the symposium and will lead a session on global higher education.
Participants in the master class include:
Student musicians in New York: Patricia Kilroy, violin/viola (USA); Paul Kang, cello (USA); Ian Shafer, oboe (USA); and Michael McCoy, flute/alto flute/piccolo (USA).
Student musicians in Abu Dhabi: Will Seonmin Heo, violin (Philippines); Charlotte Wang, cello (USA); Máté Bede-Fazekas, piano (Hungary); Manuel Nivia, guitar (Costa Rica); and 15 students from NYUAD's The Human Voice course, which explores the sound and significance of the human voice.
NYUNY and NYUAD instructors: Mo Ogrodnik, Robert Rowe, Tala Jarjour, Sarah Weaver, and J. Martin Daughtry. The technologists are Tom Beyer, Charles Hagaman, Diana Chester, Senem Pirler, and Joshua Guthals.
Press interested in attending the master class and/or concert must RSVP to Tim Farrell, NYU Office of Public Affairs, 212.998.6797 or firstname.lastname@example.com. In addition, all press must be credentialed by the UN Media Liaison Unit, firstname.lastname@example.com. Click here for more information.


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Plus Size A-Line Backless Sleeveless White Beaded Pink Satin V-Neck Prom Dress, PD2303232
Plus Size A-Line Backless Sleeveless White Beaded Pink Satin V-Neck Prom Dress, PD2303232
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1.Style: brand new, column, mermaid or A-line style.
2.Length: knee length, Tea Length, or floor length are all available.
3.Fabric: imported satin, silk, special taffeta, stretch satin, organza, chiffon, lace, tulle are available.
4.Embellishment: beading, embroidery, appliques, handmade flowers, handmade ruffles are available.
5.Color: color free, all the colors on our color chart are available.
6.Closure: Zipper back or Lace up back.
7.Lining: Boned and Fully Lined.
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1.Shipping methods we offer: TNT,DHL,UPS ,Fedex,EMS etc. All dresses will be shipped via express. Normally you will receive your order in 3-7 days after it was shipped(Exact transit time depends on your address).
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Standard delivery, you will receive the dress in 25-30 days after payment.
Rush delivery, you will receive it in 7-15 days after payment.
If you need the dress less than 15 days. Please note us the date you need the dress, we will put your order on prior schedule and make sure you receive it on time.
For some styles with complicate beading and hand work, it may take few more days for processing.
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Our dresses are all made to order. Once the tailoring process has begun, the materials can not be reused. But there is still time to change your mind after placing your order. For details, please refer to our cancellation policy below
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As all of our dresses are hand-sewn and made to order, the finished gown may vary by approximately one inch in either direction of the specified measurements. We would check the size and measuremnts before we ship them. Therefore, the mistake on size and measurements are very rare.
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All dresses made by hand work, although we can't be careful, there might be some small problems which we can't be totally avoided, but take it easy, if there are our problems to make dresses wrong size, color, style, you will get full payment back!
For custom and plus size order, sorry we can't accept returning, please note this policy, because even they returned, we can't sell them again in the future.
For standard size dress in picture color, we accept return. You need to pay the return shipping fee. Since the return shipping would be too expensive, we strongly suggest you choose size carefully. Please double check our size chart and order the correct size.
For accessories,we do not accept return. Please note accessories are final sale.
We will accept returns if there are quality problems, we also hold the right to refuse any unreasonable returns, such as wrong size you gave us or you change your mind, but we offer free alternation. And we do not accept return for try-order. If you just need one dress, please do not order more than one dress and return other dresses you do not like. Because all dresses are made after payment, we can hardly sell it again even they are returned.
Please carefully follow our guide:
1. Contact us within 2 days after you receive the items.
2. Provide us with photos of the dress, to show evidence of damage or bad quality, this also applies for the size, or incorrect style and color etc.
3. Item must be returned in 7-15 days upon delivery date. The returned item must be in perfect condition (as new), you can try the dress on, but be sure not to stretch it or make any dirty marks, otherwise it will not be accepted.
4. Please fold the dress inside out. The tracking number of the returned item must be provided together with the reference code issued.
5. If you prefer to exchange dresses, then a price difference will be charged if more expensive.
6. You are required to pay for the shipping fee to return or exchange the dress.
7. When you return the package to us, please pay attention to the following points, if not, customers should pay for the duty:
we put all of our energy and mind into each dress, each of our dress are full of love, our long experience and skilled craftsmanship keep less return rate till now, but if there are our problems, we could return all your payment.
We will try to avoid mistake, we know each dress is so important for each girl, since all dresses made by handwork, there might be mistake, but if it is our problems, we will pay all the loss.
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A huge crowd filled Nationals Park for this afternoon's game between the Washington Nationals and Boston Red Sox. The year's only exhibition game in DC was meant to be a final warm-up for the season that starts Monday. Nats fans were simply grateful that this one didn't count.
With Craig Stammen spotting Boston an early lead, and Tim Wakefield shutting down the Nats on the field, the faithful looked to the 4th-inning presidents race for signs that 2010 would be different.
Instead, what transpired suggested that the conspiracy that continues to deny Teddy Roosevelt his first presidents race victory is alive and well.
Teddy had raced out to an early lead over the other presidents when That Cat, who has foiled Teddy numerous times in the past, appeared from the centerfield fence. Chasing down the presidents, the Cat tackled Abe, Tom, and George in succession, but ran into a stiff-arm from Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy held off That Cat, pushing him to the ground just before crossing the finish line, but Screech stepped in and immediately disqualified Teddy for "unnecessary roughness." For the first time ever, That Cat was declared the presidents race winner.
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Chase Field co-hosted Pool B in the first round of the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Nearly 100,000 fans attended the six games at Chase Field and Scottsdale Stadium in '06, which featured teams from Canada, Mexico, South Africa and the United States. Chase Field, which has a storied history as an event host, has in the past accommodated numerous concerts, international sporting events and the 2001 World Series. Most recently, it hosted the 2011 MLB All-Star Game.
A brand-new state-of-the-art facility which held its inaugural game only two years ago, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick will host two games in the first round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The 140-acre complex is the first LEED Gold-certified sports venue of its kind. In its brief history, Salt River Fields has already welcomed such critical acclaim as being voted "Ballpark of the Year" by Ballpark Digest and "Best Place to See a Spring Training Game" by Phoenix New Times. In addition, it set the all-time record for Spring Training attendance in 2011, and again in '12.