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And if you have aspirations to be an Administrator, but...
...feel that you need more experience. Or perhaps you are happy editing and don't want the responsibility of the extra tools. Or better, you have some skeletons in your closet and need time and experience to regain the community's trust. Then these are some things you can do that will help you build experience regardless of your eventual goal.
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-Above was "stolen" from User:Wifione. Handy collection of links.
-Above was "stolen" from User:Buzzzsherman. Handy collection of links.
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Weekly Torah portion
Moses directed the Israelites to appoint magistrates and officials for their tribes to govern the people with justice, impartially, without bribes. “Justice, justice shall you pursue,” he said.
Moses warned the Israelites against setting up a sacred post beside God’s altar or erecting a stone pillar.
Moses warned the Israelites against sacrificing an ox or sheep with any serious defect.
If the Israelites found a person who worshiped other gods, the Sun, the Moon, or any celestial body, then they were to make a thorough inquiry, and if they established the fact on the testimony of two or more witnesses, then they were to stone the person to death, with the witnesses throwing the first stones. If a case proved too baffling for them to decide, then they were promptly to go to the place that God would choose for God's shrine, appear before the priests or the magistrate in charge and present their problem, and carry out any verdict that was announced there without deviating either to the right or to the left. They were to execute any man who presumptuously disregarded the priest or the magistrate, so that all the people would hear, be afraid, and not act presumptuously again.
If, after the Israelites had settled the land, they decided to set a king over them, they were to be free to do so, taking an Israelite chosen by God. The king was not to keep many horses, marry many wives, or amass silver and gold to excess. The king was to have the priests write for him a copy of this Teaching to remain with him and read all his life, so that he might learn to revere God and observe these laws faithfully. He would thus not act haughtily toward his people nor deviate from the law, and as a consequence, he and his descendants would enjoy a long reign.
The Levites were to have no territorial portion, but were to live only off of offerings, for God was to be their portion. In exchange for their service to God, the priests were to receive the shoulder, cheeks, and stomach of sacrifices, the first fruits of the Israelites’ grain, wine, and oil, and the first shearing of sheep. Levites were to be free to come from their settlements to the place that God had chosen as a shrine to serve in the name of God with their fellow Levites, and there they were to receive equal shares of the dues.
The Israelites were not to imitate the abhorrent practices of the nations that they were displacing, consign their children to fire, or act as an augur, soothsayer, diviner, sorcerer, one who casts spells, one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead, for it was because of those abhorrent acts that God was dispossessing the former residents of the land.
God would raise a prophet from among them like Moses, and the Israelites were to heed him. When at Horeb the Israelites asked God not to hear God’s voice directly, God created the role of the prophet to speak God’s words, promising to hold to account anybody who failed to heed the prophet’s words. But any prophet who presumed to speak an oracle in God’s name that God had not commanded the prophet to utter, or who spoke in the name of other gods, was to die. This was how the people were to determine whether the oracle was spoken by God: If the prophet spoke in the name of God and the oracle did not come true, then that oracle was not spoken by God, the prophet had uttered it presumptuously, and the people were not to fear him.
When the Israelites had settled in the land, they were to divide the land into three parts and set aside three cities of refuge, so that any manslayer could have a place to which to flee. And if the Israelites faithfully observed all the law and God enlarged the territory, then they were to add three more towns to those three.
Only a manslayer who had killed another unwittingly, without being the other’s enemy, might flee there and live. For instance, if a man went with his neighbor into a grove to cut wood, and as he swung an ax to cut down a tree, the ax-head flew off the handle and struck and killed the neighbor, then the man could flee to one of the cities of refuge and live. If, however, one who was the enemy of another lay in wait, struck the other a fatal blow, and then fled to a city of refuge, the elders of the slayer’s town were to have the slayer turned over to the blood-avenger to be put to death.
The Israelites were not to move their countrymen’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that they were allotted in the land.
An Israelite could be found guilty of an offense only on the testimony of two or more witnesses. If one person gave false testimony against another, then the two parties were to appear before God and the priests or magistrates, the magistrates were to make a thorough investigation, and if the magistrates found the person to have testified falsely, then they were to do to the witness as the witness schemed to do to the other.
Before the Israelites joined battle, the priest was to tell the troops not to fear, for God would accompany them to do battle against their enemy. Then the officials were to ask the troop whether anyone had built a new house but not dedicated it, planted a vineyard but never harvested it, paid the bride price for a wife but not yet married her, or become afraid and disheartened, and all these they were to send back to their homes.
When the Israelites approached a town to attack it, they were to offer it terms of peace, and if the town surrendered, then all the people of the town were to serve the Israelites as forced labor. But if the town did not surrender, then the Israelites were to lay siege to the town, and when God granted victory, kill all its men and take as booty the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the town. Those were the rules for towns that lay very far from Israel, but for the towns of the nations in the land — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites — the Israelites were to kill everyone, lest they lead the Israelites into doing all the abhorrent things that those nations had done for their gods. When the Israelites besieged a city for a long time, they could eat the fruit of the city’s trees, but they were not to cut down any trees that could yield food.
If, in the land, someone slain was found lying in the open, and the slayer could not be determined, then the elders and magistrates were to measure the distances from the corpse to the nearby towns. The elders of the town nearest to the corpse were to take a heifer that had never been worked down to an ever-flowing wadi and break its neck. The priests were to come forward, all the elders were to wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken, and the elders were to declare that their hands did not shed the blood nor their eyes see it done. The elders were to ask God to absolve the Israelites, and not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among them, and they would be absolved of bloodguilt.
Hebrew and English text
Hear the parshah chanted
Commentary from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University (Conservative)
Commentary from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Conservative)
Commentary by the Union for Reform Judaism (Reform)
Commentaries from Project Genesis (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Chabad.org (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Aish HaTorah (Orthodox)
Commentaries from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (Reconstructionist)
Commentaries from My Jewish Learning (trans-denominational)
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General
It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
— Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper, USN
I lead because you choose to follow, not because I know where I'm going.
A day without laughter is a wasted day.
Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
— Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
— Deng Xiaoping (1962, actually a Sichuan proverb)
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
— Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— Twelfth Night, or What You Will, ACT 5, SC. 1
Nuts!
— General Anthony McAuliffe
at the Siege of Bastogne
Some people make things happen, others watch things happen, while the rest wonder WTF has happened.
— Anon.
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
— From Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
(frequently misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy)
Wikipedia is for people who want to know stuff and share the stuff they know with people who know stuff that they don't.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
We tried to stop her by hitting her fists and feet with our faces, but …
— Charles Gunn (describing a fight with Darla), Offspring (Angel episode)
We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it.
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Mister Hunter. I've made a decision. I'm Captain of this boat. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Believe me, woman, if I could walk on water, I'd carry you out into the middle of a lake and hold your head under water until the bubbles stopped!
Off throne … he's off throne! That can't be good.
— Loki (upon unexpectedly seeing Odin), Son of the Mask
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Humpty Dumpty hired an attorney and settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money and ownership of the wall.
— Dot
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky: OK, Brain, but how will I recognize Moses?
Brain: He's a tall man with a long, white beard and a staff.
Pinky: Is it a large staff, or just a publicist and a Girl Friday?
- …
Pinky: Gee, Brain, are we going to push the corner of the envelope?
Brain: No, Pinky, but we may get as far as the sticky stuff near the edge.
- …
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, then why does he keep doing it?
SciFi quotes
Babylon 5
Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry
— Zathras, waxing philosophically
— War Without End (Babylon 5)
- …
I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!
— Susan Ivanova, when asked, "Who are you?"
— Between the Darkness and the Light (Babylon 5)
- …
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would like to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. (He wiggles his fingers like a small child.) Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
— Vir Cotto, when asked, "What do you want?" by Mr. Morden
— In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum (Babylon 5)
Space: Above and Beyond
Priest: Colonel! Colonel McQueen! Do you need to make peace with your maker?
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
Priest: In times of war we must all make peace with our maker.
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: Well, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now, because He knows I'm going to go out in this plane, and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy Von Richtofen's blood and celebrate his death.
Priest: (visibly shaken) Amen.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There is a theory that states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable.
There is another which states that this has already happened.
Miscellaneous
Outside the box is where I live, sir!
Fear leads to anger ... anger leads to hate ... hate leads to suffering.
— Yoda
If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothes … and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
— Zoë (describing the Reavers), Serenity (Firefly episode)
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubble gum.
— John Nada , They Live
It is a good day to die!
— Worf
Humans are so backward that they still call their home planet, "Dirt."
— (I still have to research this one)
from Apocalypse Now (1979)
[Kilgore calls for his personal surfboard to be dropped at the LZ]
Signalman: What about Charlie?
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
- …
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
[Kilgore unhappily walks off]
from The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Mitch Henessey: What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?
- …
Mitch: The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.
- …
Nathan: Alice, please. Your dog, Alice. It and my appetite are mutually exclusive.
Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog?
Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?
- …
Mitch: How did you find us?
Nathan: There may be many reasons not to kill you, but among them is not that you'll be missed by NASA. I found the address in your coat. Here. Between the address of a topless bar, and the picture of what looks like a man's penis.
Mitch: That's a duck, not a dick.
The Five Stages of Acquisition
The only value of a collectible is what you can get somebody else to pay for it.
— 101st Rule of Acquisition
In addition to the 285 Rules, Ferengi recognize five Stages of Acquisition:
- Infatuation : An unreasoning love or attraction. — "I want it."
- Justification : Moral excuse used to explain. — "I must have it!"
- Appropriation : To take to one's self in exclusion of others. — "IT'S MINE AT LAST!"
- Obsession : A compulsive or irrational preoccupation. — "Precious!"
- Resale : The action of selling something previously bought. — "Make me an offer for it."
This teaches us that all Good Things must inevitably come to an end … no matter how much you want something, or what it costs you to posses it, there will come a day that you are willing to part with it … for a profit, of course … so, enjoy the Fourth Stage while it lasts. ;-)
Your goals should be to make your Obsession (ownership) stage last longer than the first three stages combined, or to get at least twice what you paid for it … and always remember:NRFB! : Never Remove From Box!
Happy Editing! — 72.75.110.142 (talk) 00:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
How to: History Merge
To merge the edit history of two or more pages or to split up the edit history of single page into two or more separate pages you will need to use the Delete and Undelete tools.
Edit histories should generally be merged if pages in the main namespace copy contents from pages in the main namespace of a sister Wikimedia project in order to comply with the GFDL license. For similar reasons if a page in the main namespace is split into several pages such as from becoming big or due to reorginization it is generally a good idea to split the edit history among the new pages.
Merging
Merging the edit histories of two or more pages is easy. Follow these simply instructions to do it.
- open the page you wish to merge the edit histories into and click the edit link.
- open a window for each page whose edit history you plan to merge with step 1.
- click on the move link of each page you opened in step 2.
- enter into the "To new title" field box for each page, the page name from step 1 and confirm deletion of the existing page.
- close all windows open in step 2 and in a open a copy of the page in step 1 in a new window.
- click on the history link and then the view or restore link.
- confirm you wish to restore edit histories.
- go back to the page and click the edit link.
- copy and paste the contents of the edit box in step 1 into the edit box in previous step.
- enter "restored current version" into the summary box and click save page to restore back the current version.