Old link here
2 questions: Wasn’t there talk of losing the Roman numbers?
If some one ‘acts up’ here, are they banned from both sites? Has this been talked about?
On the fence and leaning? — 05 December 2006, 23:41 --- There was discussion of losing the Ekkses and Vees over on the other board. Someone asked why Roman instead of Arabic, and the answer was that it was a carry-over tradition from here.
If some one ‘acts up’ here, are they banned from both sites?
In theory, yes (and that’s not an invitation to prove it - most people don’t bother to hang out where they’re not wanted).
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SideScroll on MasksII
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Sidescroll on Bird Flu and Global Warming.
I’d do a link but don’t post enough to care to learn to.
Dragonlady , thanks!
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No, thank you for all your time and effort.
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Hi there Pogge or BB We have a never ending loop when trying to follow the links on the bottom of “Todays Flu Prep IV” page. Thanks for the great support.
The link at the bottom of Flu Prep IV takes me to Flu Prep V. The latter had some nasty sidescroll but I fixed that.
I’m not seeing any problems with it, ‘cept for the sidescroll that pogge fixed…
Are the old threads to be fixed from sidescroll? i.e. SurvivingWinterWithoutPower
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Should I look for this on the new forum? I figured I should reread some of these old threads now that we’re freezing our you know what’s off!!
SurvivingWinterWithoutPower
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Dem on 6Dec @ 6:56 I sure don’t want to prove it! I just get to wondering sometimes, especially when things get stressful. Thanks.
Dem on 6Dec @ 6:56 I sure don’t want to prove it! I just get to wondering sometimes, especially when things get stressful. Thanks.
On the fence and leaning
LOL. I didn’t want that as an invitation to your readers. ;-)
Hey, guys,
BB, sorry I was so crabby a couple of days ago; I wasn’t sure if you could do something with those links on the main page or not — I’m just glad SOMEone put it back where I’d told family to look for it! THANKS!!!
I wasn’t clear either in saying that the state threads were “closed”, what I meant was that they weren’t showing in the list of threads — so I was trying to hunt them down from the index page & resurrect some of them. Hopefully that won’t slow down the forum too much. I didn’t get through all of them though before I had to leave that day and haven’t had time to go back to the list. I’m glad we’re getting so much attention over here from you guys — you’ve all been so quick to straighten problems out. Thanks!
I went from knee problems to migraine headache from the meds I took for my knee, and today, we thawed out a little bit…just enough for our water hose connection to split & ice over part of our Japanese Maple tree out front….I hate Fall and Winter.
I’m-workin’-on-it — at 21:04
No apology necessary. We haven’t abandoned this site…there are several of us watching both sides…if we’re not over on the new Forum, we’re here. DemFromCT and pogge have been great about making sure we don’t leave anyone hanging!
Sorry to hear about your knee problems and the water…we haven’t thawed out a bit yet—two days of below freezing, and this is southeastern Virginia. I didn’t know it got this cold here! I can’t wait for Spring—that’s my favorite time of year anywhere…
BB, I’m south of you — Bham, AL and it’s been in the low teens or low 20′s for 2 nights — warms up to the mid 40′s. I remember one year when we first gotten married 13 years ago, my husband was traveling some and it was Winter. It was down to zero here for over a week every night. Our HVAC would kick on every 3 minutes & I was sooooo afraid that it would burn itself up while he was gone & we had no firewood, etc. That may be what triggered my need to seek preparations for every conceivable disaster, including our condo burning DOWN because the HVAC burned UP….even before Y2k set me in survival mode!
I just don’t do cold well. I looked out our front door today & saw water shooting out of our faucet & was still in my bed clothes, but I went out & shut it off without breaking off the spigot handle, but by then I was soaked to the bone from my hair to the hem of my granny gown and freezing my butt off.
BUT at least we’re above freezing during the day so far — it’s rare when it gets below freezing for too very long.
So, if we can’t log on to new site, then we’re not being banned, it’s just a glitch?
Did you email DemFromCt as he suggested to you in the previous thread?
not that I’m aware of. Email me and I will fix.
Hi Everyone. Would one of the Mods help with this one please? Around 7 November 2006, I placed on the main wikie the links to the documents about UN staff which I had mentioned in the following thread: Ask the Moderators Thread. I have been looking for these for quite a while today and I can’t find them. At least I’m pretty certain I did post these links on the Main Wiki. I wanted to add some other pieces which I’d found in the same part. Would you kindly point me to them please? Thank you.
FrenchieGirl--- I just went back and found those links in the Ask the Mods XIX thread that you’re talking about. Clicking on them (the TinyURLs) took me nowhere…it appears that the web pages you linked to have been taken down…
Did you happen to save the .pdf files locally?
Well, I think I saved them on either my work or home computers, but where I am at the moment, I cannot get at them. And since, as you found out, I also saw the site was down for some reason, it gave me the idea to look them up on the Main Wiki, because I am pretty certain I posted those links on there. Hence my question if you could find them on the Main Wiki.
Re-reading the above. I posted those links not only on the Ask the Mods thread, but _also_ on the Wiki. And t’s those links on the main wiki I can’t find. I wanted to add more stuff along the same lines, that’s why I asked if you could find the wiki place where I’d put them. As for the undg.org being down, it’s probably weekend maintenance. These places usually run lots of backup and updating routines in the run-up to the Christmas closure. Please forgive me if my way of expressing myself is lousy tonight. I’m stuck half the world away from home, in this [____fill in various colourful expletives] country, sick and weak in a hotel bedroom, using a borrowed computer with mostly an erratic behaviour and alien keyboard.
Can you give me some text to search for to find the right page on the wiki? I tried a couple of things with no results.
I think I had put them under some international organization header, “United Nations” Pandemic Plan for Staff or Pandemic Preparedness for UN Staff or such. I don’t want to cause you too much more work than you already have - if it looks like too complicated, I’ll just redo the page/links, perhaps tomorrow. Many thanks, all the same and have a nice weekend.
Sorry. I tried a few more variations but I’m still striking out.
pogge --- Lots o’ Spam on Consequences Recent Changes
Thanks. Fixed.
FrenchieGirl
I have downloaded and have available the .pdf’s, all four (they work). OTOH, i’ve tried various combo searches including “un staff” “united nations”, “staff pandemic” etc and cannot locate the page.
I’m sorry.
I made a new page for you. it’s part of the business and workplace continuity page.
Many thanks all of you. You’re so sweet! That’s welcome sunshine to me. DemFromCT, might it be an idea to link the .pdfs you have to the Wiki? It would be a pity for this document to be lost in a clean-up of the site… or simply to be unavailable because of server maintenance at the undg site and not have a record of it for posterity ;-) - Just tested the site, it works now, albeit very slowly
I’m happy to do it… will be up by afternoon. do we need both english versions?
sidescroll on the Canadian Preppers 3 thread- thanks!
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DemFromCT at 11:18 on 10 Dec. Well, we don’t really need the two versions I suppose, but I haven’t printed them and compared them word for word, and I shan’t be able to do this until quite some time. As for doing that in “eyes only mode”, on the very small screen on which I am presently, I don’t feel up to it. So I suggest, if you would put one of them up, never mind which, in the new wiki page you created for me, and then, in the new year, when I have had the possibility to review both printed docs, we can always adjust if necessary.
Other question. The other day, I forgot if yesterday or the day before, I tried to edit the “influenza news sites and resources” page at the chapter “risk communication” to post a working United Nations breakfast summary report, where the United Nations is musing on how to get avian flu messages in the media, and somehow I could not do so.
So, this is the text of what I wanted in that area of the main wiki. Though you might want to suggest another (perhaps more prominent?) place for this very very interesting article despite it being several months old… Here:
Many thanks again.
yes, it can go in tip of the week, main page.
I will follow through with all of this later this evening.
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on the main page (side bar), and in the Links and other resources section undr risk communication.
I’ll put up the UN page attachments later.
Thanks for moving the resilant comm. thread up where we can reread it. I`m looking forward to Peter`s report.
DemFromCT at 13:58. Many thanks, it looks exactly like I wanted it to be, perfect. Otherwise, I have finished working on the UN and WIPO pages for now, and will not touch them for a while I guess. So whenever you want to put the pdfs on the UN, that’s fine, we won’t risk a save-to-save collision. ;-D
Well, actually, there’s one more doc to add to WIPO before I close everything down, I won’t touch the UN though… BTW, the last UN doc is an interesting read on the assumptions it makes, logistically and medically. Pity I don’t have anymore time to take it apart before my next flight.
SPAM deleted from Consequences.Complementaryandalternativemedicine
Please delete thread.
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Sidescroll on “Idaho Massive Mallard Death” thread.
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Dem- you work your way throught, don’t you? That was so maddening reading those sidescrolls, and I was going to post it to you, just got sidetracked. I’m SO glad that is not a problem at the new forum. I’m loving it more and more! Thanks for you time.
Quick question: I noticed a new rumor page, it was actually old, was closed on October 27th but it was listed on the main forum page with a date next to it of Dec. 16th. Right up near the top. I have seen this before and it just makes me wonder every time. Why does it do this? How can it show up on the days list when there isn’t even a place for someone to right a post? Thanks.
DemFromCT fixed some sidescroll. Any kind of edit bumps a thread up the list, even if it’s one of us repairing a problem.
OHHhhhhhhh, thanks. I’ve been wondering.
pogge- thanks for your time too!
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I don’t know what I did wrong, but there’s sidescroll on FluPrepXXVI. Thanks.
I may have been the cause of sidescroll on FluPrep XXVI as well. Not sure why though, because I didn’t leave any spaces when I was typing my post, but upon preview, there is a space in front on my second sentence…don’t know why that happened. Sorry.
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Please fix sidescroll on CommunityPrepsForTheWorstCaseScenario page(s).I want to link to them and noticed sidescroll.
Thanks, and happy holidays.
Fixed.
Everybody stay safe and have a good holiday.
I wonder if the person who did the Pandemic Awareness business cards would consider revising them to change the URL for the fluwiki. I plan to hand these out at a couple of meetings.
stillwaggon, we can help with that.
http://www.fluwikie.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.RedRibbonPandemicAwarenessCampaign
has the right URL.
When I go to the CDC site, I want to find specific current information, but when I use their search feature, it takes me to old articles that I have no interest in. Obviously, I am not on to something that I need to navigate there successfully. Say I wanted to know current mortality numbers from pneumonia, how would I search to find the most recent report?
Another question I have is the following: Does anybody know how the testing is done by the CDC sentinal sites for the types of flu?.
I look at the CDC info and see that eighty percent of the Type A flu is undetermined. Ye Gads! That scares the bejebbers out of me, because it makes me think that they might have tests that hit on H1 and H3, but have no test that could hit on H5 that they are using.
If eighty percent of the tests are Type A but they can not tell you WHICH “Type A,” could that be because the test for H1 will not tell us if H7 or H2 or H5 or H9 is present??????
Are there any experts in the house who know the answer to this?
Joe Neubarth, try searching MMWR rather than CDC.
Also, most quicktests do not look for anything other than A or B. So, if that’s the test that’s being done, it’s indeterminate.
The CDC and the state labs are capable of looking for H5, but for the most part they get the test results from elsewhere and are not doing the testing themselves.
For the most part, the system as currently construed is not set up to find ‘the first case’ of H5N1. It’s designed for seasonal flu.
Thanks. I was trying to find the current pneumonia mortality figured from CDC to see if there had been an increase in the past two or three years. I’m still looking.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmort.asp
try that…
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Hey, would someone fix the side-scroll on Having Kidney Stones During PBF so that I can email the link to it to a friend? Thanks!!
Fixed.
Thanks sooo much! That was hard to read with the scroll & I was kinda used to it — I knew my neighbor would never get through it!
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You guys are great! Happy New Year!
Dem- sidescroll on Karo clusters. Thanks, and have a great New Year.
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Dem- Sidescroll on An Inconvienent Truth. thanks and happy new year as well.
Sidescroll fixed. Happy new year back at you.
I may be one of the very few but I can’t seem to get around on the New Forum. I used to get on Fluwiki every day and read just about everything posted but now I don’t check for weeks at a time because I have given up trying to figure it out (even though Dem from CT has posted several sets of directions trying to be helpful!) So my questions is this - Is the Old Forum going to stay intact indefinitely or if/when there’s a Pandemic will someone just put “Pandemic Unofficially Declared” or something across the top of the New Forum? Thanks.
We don’t know yet what the fate of this place will be, but if I were you, I’d get used to the new forum. Going to the main page of the new forum and scrolling down will tell you everything you need to know.
For example, if you go today, right now, you will see a big scrolling banner that says “Happy New Year”. Let’s just suppose the banner said “Pandemic Unofficially Declared”. It’d be tough to miss.
I’ll find somewhere else I guess. Thanks for doing such a good job.
Just a quick note that I can’t figure out the new forum either, and I always thought I was trainable. I’ll miss this community, there isn’t anything else like it out there.
Too Much Anxiety Girl --- What is it that you can’t figure out? We’re here to help… ;-)
note to all.. registration is needed to see many of the navigation features in the new place.
what’ the Enter code for ?
when the new forum is less successful than the old one, will we go back to how it was before or is it a one-way-street ?
Author — at 04:43 --- The “Enter code” means to enter the code you see in red. It’s basically a SPAM-stopper, since the spam-bots don’t know how to enter random numbers that match what you see.
I don’t see the new forum being less successful at all. In fact, in less than 6 weeks, there have been more than 56,000 visits to the site. There’s no going back…the new site is what it is. This software that you’re looking at now was never designed as a forum-based application. ;-)
Since there’s fewer people using this site now, is it still necessary to close threads here at all?
When you do it puts closed threads at the top of the page & pushes what current stuff might still be being discussed to the bottom (which might be just exactly what you want to do in order to discourage people from reading further down now on this site now).
It seems quite fast to me now, but if you guys feel it’s still necessary, will you at least spend some of your time here bumping UP the current threads after you’ve closed threads so that passersby can see that we’re still here?
I’d rather see you guys spend your time either visiting with us here and contributing daily like you used to do so often (not just answering questions & redirecting people) OR making changes to the new site to make it more friendly, as I’ve suggested many times, BUT if you’re going to spend time here closing threads, then please at least bump up the current ones after you have closed what you feel you have to close. Can you do that? If you do it then the current threads will ALWAYS be on top. I’ve been doing it, but I don’t know when you’re going to be closing things so closed threads sit here for hours being the first things people see.
As I close threads, I bump the threads that are current that day. That means threads that are having discussions going on. Over the past few weeks there have generally been only about 5 or 6 threads that are really active…the rest are still available.
As for you bumping numerous threads, the same thing is happening—the recent discussions are getting pushed down and off the Last 50 page, and I try to bump those up again.
closed threads sit here for hours being the first things people see
That could be because there’s not much going on here on this site. And no, I don’t usually leave the closed threads at the top of the list.
Thanks then for helping keep them at the top, it’s not as bad as it was, and I’ve not been here as often throughout the day as I’d meant to be, especially this week. I had to work in my pantry today to get stuff off the floor that we’d piled up there, and also to move some stuff down to 2 new cabinets we put in in the guestroom…should have taken only about 2 hours I thought, and it took all day! And prior to today I had to move stuff around to make room for the 2 cabinets! My house (much like fluwikie) is like a puzzle game - one of those handheld things with 9 spaces & 8 blocks in those spaces & you move them around, pushing up, down, left, right to get the blocks in a certain order…it’s just not right for a house to be that inefficient. :-)
I’ll try to be more consistent at checking in when I have enought time to actually bump stuff up!
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Hi Mods, there is something vrey strange happening to the threads! They are all posted by I’m working on it and have several empty posts at the bottom also in I’m working on it’s name. Is this a new kind of spam! I haven’t been here for a while- the new forum and PFI keep me more than occupied. I felt a bit homesick for old Yeller, but wow is it slow compared to the other sites. Thanks for all the good work.
When you bump stuff up, it looks like there is a new comment rather than a bump. Causes needless opening of each thread. Do you really need to bump them up, since there is so little activity here. It makes it easier just to open the new stuff. Thanks
Ocean2 --- Not SPAM. IWOI is bumping older threads that haven’t been closed yet. :-(
When you see that, you’ll need to scroll down to find the current threads.
And do come back over to the new Forum…it’s been busy lately!
NJ Jeeper --- When I close threads, I sign as “Closed - Bronco Bill”; when I bump the currently active threads afterwards, I sign them as “Bump - Bronco Bill” so folks will know that I’ve simply bumped them to the top of the list. Apparently I’m the only one doing that…there was a request some time back that I sign that way for that very reason.
Unfortunately, I have no control over what others do when they bump threads…
NJ Jeeper --- Also, when I do a closing blitz of multiple threads, I feel that the currently active threads should be bumped back to the top so y’all don’t have to go hunting for them…that’s why I do that.
sidescroll on “it’s to quiet” cottontop
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Pogge, I posted three times in a row on Foot Pump Generator thread. Only wanted to post once. Also wanted to add that the generator may be great for apartment preppers as it uses no fuel.
pogge---I like your edit comment at the end of the “It’s Too Quiet” link. Not sure if you’re practicing your Spanish, or if that’s a light “sigh”! :-)
Forum.It is Too Quiet . . . January 04, 2007, at 09:07 PM by pogge: si