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Jun 24, 2013 07:22PM
The "new" problem has been going around GR for awhile. According to staff in the Feedback group, it happens when a member deletes their GR account and chooses to also delete all of their comments. When they do that, the count that GR uses to tell you a comment is "new" gets off. Their recommended solution is for the moderators to start a new thread.
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Denise wrote: "Lily wrote: "Is anyone besides me having difficulty with messages continuing to be marked "new" even after having read them on this thread?"Yes!!! It's been going on for a while now, and I haven't seen that happen with any other thread, in any group."
Thinking it was probably a setting of mine, I placed a question on the Feedback forum about this and here is the response I received:
"You may have had some members who deleted their accounts. This messed up thread counts, especially on longer threads, so that the 'new' doesn't calculate properly.
"Your moderators may wish to close that thread and open another."
I wanted to be certain I wasn't alone before posting that response. Like you, Denise, I haven't happened to notice it elsewhere either.
There isn't a problem with opening up "Part the Ninth?"
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "The "new" problem has been going around GR for awhile. According to staff in the Feedback group, it happens when a member deletes their GR account and chooses to also delete all of their comments. ..."Actually, Elizabeth you are the one who responded to me on the Feedback group! We obviously overlapped posting just now. Thx for the suggested fix. We are approaching our 1,000 messages mark for a new tea shop, so I leave it to our moderators to decide what route we take. I just appreciate the insight -- I wondered what was happening and this sounds probable/possible for this long thread.
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Yes, it has been going on for more than a month. It is ..."
Weird!
The 17-Year CicadasI waited all May and June to hear them. Nada. What a disappointment. They were supposed to cover the land from CT to NC. Here in a suburb of NYC, nothing, and it turns out we're overdeveloped (like I didn't already know that.)
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/06/...
Even in an annual cicada year, it's noisy out there at night, with crickets chiming in too.
Did anyone hear the singing this year?
Yes, I was near Basking Ridge, NJ and they were loud! I didn't know what the sound was at first. Was able to take some photographs: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
☯Emily wrote: "Yes, I was near Basking Ridge, NJ and they were loud! I didn't know what the sound was at first. Was able to take some photographs: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb......"Can't see them without a Facebook account, like some secret sorority. Can you post them elsewhere, like a photohosting site?
An 8th volume of Hardy's letters has been published. What chronicle will we have of modern authors whose primary written correspondence is email, as evanescent as smoke?http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/a...
Rochelle wrote: "An 8th volume of Hardy's letters has been published. What chronicle will we have of modern authors whose primary written correspondence is email, as evanescent as smoke?http://www.the-tls.co.uk..."
Well, between the British Library (with its Internet archiving project) and NSA, it may take NSA-like capabilities to process the massive amounts that will be available. Or, as you hypothesize, much may be "as evanescent as smoke."
So we shouldn't hope for another James-Wharton relationship by email?;-)Please explain the Brit Library project. Any relationship to the Wayback Machine?
Rochelle wrote: "So we shouldn't hope for another James-Wharton relationship by email?;-)Please explain the Brit Library project. Any relationship to the Wayback Machine?"
Never mind; I looked it up. Problem is, 50% of the web is garbage, and that gets immortalized too.
The Last Night at the Proms, an annual event in the UK, this year conducted for the first time by a female conductor, Marin Alsop :-D. There's no problem getting the radio player here, although we can't get their TV player.http://moreintelligentlife.com/blog/a...
Sat. 9/7 at 2:30 Eastern Time (GMT-5.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc...
Full schedule:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programme...
Rochelle wrote: "The Last Night at the Proms, an annual event in the UK, this year conducted for the first time by a female conductor, Marin Alsop :-D. There's no problem getting the radio player here, although we ..."I listened to this, and it was wonderful. Alsop had a long climb getting there, but she's opened a door.
And since the last broadcast, I've learned "Jerusalem," which I think should replace"God Save the Queen." The words are from a poem by William Blake, the orchestration by Hubert Parry. So much richer than the lyrics and music of the current anthem.
Someone wasted no time in recording it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoV4yr...
No Rochelle but some seats are relatively cheap and there are good views from all seats:-http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/features/t...
Fortunately for those who cannot get to see them, the BBC broadcast them. You can see quite a lot of them on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFGwI...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/features/t...
Fortunately for those who cannot get to see them, the B..."
Doctor Who at the Proms! This is going to be fabulous!
It has finished Frances but you can get it on Youtube - it was indeed fabulous:):-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH7m64...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO9QaD...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICsZE1...
There are likely to be some repeats around Xmastime and I expect a DVD will come out around then too.
Rochelle: Jerusalem is one of my favourites too and I would prefer it as the national anthem. It always features at the last Night of the Proms and was also used for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games:-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IxVKI...
MadgeUK wrote: "Rochelle: Jerusalem is one of my favourites too and I would prefer it as the national anthem. It always features at the last Night of the Proms and was also used for the... I used to listen to a late radio show here that always broadcast the Last Night. Took me a while to find out was the Proms was.
And then there's this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yIWBO...
I'm touched by the sight of tens of thousands of UKers outside the cathedral singing along.They have an emotional relationship with the Queen and her family that can never be duplicated here.
Getting back on topic, I was thrilled to see Alsop up there.
A woman of Indian-American heritage was chosen Miss America this week. I won't present the entire disgusting article here. The NYTimes reports that after all the racist insults thrown at her on Twitter, that edifice of free-speech, Hari Kondabulu, an Indian-American comedian, wrote:CAN WE PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHEN WE OBJECTIFY WOMEN? #MissAmerica
I love Jerusalem, too. Blake was a great poet, and it is a beautiful poem. I took an entire course on Blake in college, so of course we studied it.Emerson, Lake, and Palmer do a great version of it, too. I remember that a British classmate of mine said that all schoolchildren sing it.
They are a very good heavy metal/rock band, beloved by my sons:)
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