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    My apologies

    in Miscellaneous Chiriquí Topics

    Posted

    Don Ray's blog links are appreciated by some, but not all of our members. The CL sense is that there are technical and expediency reasons why some people complain. Consider that the use of slow computers or poor Internet service cause members to be reluctant to execute links that slow them down. In no case was there any hint that the complaints were coming from people who did not like his content or that they had a vendetta against Don Ray.

    In the spirit of transparency, I am posting the private messages between myself and Don Ray on this matter. The reason for posting these private communications is that CL wishes not to be in the censorship business or acting in a heavy handed manner. To date we have not arbitrarily or unilaterally deleted any content; the only content deleted has been at the request of the originator, and in all of those cases it was because of confusion about how the software used on this website functions. [Further, the only members who have been 'banned' are those who have failed to successfully complete the registration process, meaning they were not banned because of what they had posted, but rather for the information they did not provide that was required for registration purposes. That number as of today is 12.]

    Again, what you see below are the two (there were only two) private messages between CL and Don Ray:

    And now Don Ray's response to my private message:

    From the above you can quickly discern that there was nothing but a sincere request on the part of CL to improve the member experience on CL, and a warm and understanding response on the part of Don Ray.

    CL has not yet acted on his request to delete his blog because we are trying to find a better solution. Don Ray's postings do add value, and we would have preferred that he simply add a few sentences around the links to his website.

    For Don Ray, we ask for your reconsider simply adding a few sentences to encapsulate the content of your blog material.

    From my standpoint, as I mentioned in my initial response to Bud, I think the CC Part II blog on CL should be removed. 

     

    No, I won't continue to use it, because as I said in the apology post on CL, that would require me to create a short introduction to aid a reader in deciding to go to the blog or not. That starts to become work and more effort.

     

    Anyone that has signed up to receive CC blog post notifications on CC, receives an email with an introduction included. That is done by the WordPress software and takes no effort by me. People can then read it or not.

     

    In looking at the small number of posts I had placed on CL, I think the title pretty well indicated what many of the posts would contain. Anyone with much time on CC has a pretty good idea what they will find.

     

    Responding to Bonnie, thinking that having my posts contain a URL to my blog in any way affects the readership of this forum or any other forum is silly. My website is a blog and all discussion there is relative to a specific post. CL and Ning are social site forum based systems.  

     

    Blogs don’t compete with social sites. They typically augment them. If they compete with anything it would be other blogs, but even then, most blogs are covering different items or the same items differently.

     

    To Ken and Becky on “Why not just post the content here?” Because the content is first placed on my blog and if I felt it relevant to CL readers, I posted the link here. In the past on Ning, I posted all Embassy related notices. I have had several times when the Embassy had to correct their message. All I did in those cases was to correct their message on CC. Not in multiple different places.

     

    However, since CL is not a commercial site contrary to Ning, there is no problem with anyone copying any CC post and posting it here. The Creative Commons license is listed at the top of the CC blog. For a non commercial site, it merely requires attribution and link to the source. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/

     

    In summary, I will quite using the Chiriqui Part II blog on CL. It might as well be removed.

     

    If I see a thread on CL that I think a particular post on Chiriqui Chitter has addressed, I will respond to that thread with the link to that post.

     

     

     

    My apologies

    in Miscellaneous Chiriquí Topics

    Posted · Edited by Don Ray

    I received a message from Bob, stating that several complaints had come in about my Chiriqui Life blog. The complaints were that the CL blog post only contained a title and a link to my primary blog.

     

    Bud offered a simple solution of adding a few more descriptive sentences to assist the CL readers in deciding to click the link or not.

     

    After giving this some thought, I have asked Bud to remove my blog from CL, I think the Blog section is really intended for those that don’t have content space on the Internet and i obviously do. 

     

    Also, for me to add enough description to allow readers to decide to click or not click is too much like having to write a summary of the original post.

     

    My sincere apologizes  to those that wasted time clicking on the URLs.

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    "New Content"

    in Miscellaneous Chiriquí Topics

    Posted

    I am not sure how the site software works, but I sometimes come and click on "New Content", like i just did and see only a couple posts. I look at the "Activity Stream" and see activity that was only 4 hours ago listed. 

    I don't understand why some recent content isn't showing when I request "New Content". 

    Is it because the site knows that I have seen all the previous content and then doesn't display it for me. If so, that is fine. However, if everyone is only seeing what I am seeing, then that doesn't seem correct.

    I have entered other times and content that I have read is still shown, but in a subdued color. Is it me or Memorex?

    How do I quote a reply from above the last reply in a thread?

    in Questions and Answers

    Posted · Edited by Don Ray

    I also agree. I've been confused more than once when someone on .ning was responding to something said by a particular person and that person doesn't show any posts. It leaves you clueless as to what was said to bring on a certain response. 

    If you can include the part of the conversation you are responding to, as I am here, doesn't that maintain the integrity of your response. If the other person deletes his/her original comment is it deleted from your response. I had decided that might be an advantage of this forum's software that was not available on Ning.

    There obviously still be other flaws to my thinking I haven't considered. It just annoys me to look back at something I have written and seeing a mistake, that makes it difficult to understand my intended meaning, and I can't edit it.

     

    I do agree that the posts should not be deleted. I just want to be able to edit my posts.

     

     

    A New Dawn For Security in Panama?

    in Safety and Security; Police, Bomberos, SINAPROC Notices and Actions, etc.

    Posted

    In talking with the police, when Deborah gave her statement, we were told that14 year old was released to the father because the law would not allow him to be held.

    15-17 can be held, I have no idea where or if they are. At the time of Deborah's statement a 17 year old was in custody. 

    18 is the age considered an adult.

    The lady taking Deborah's statement said the police were frustrated because their hands were tied because of the law.

     

    IPTV freezing: I think we're closing in on the cause.

    in Communications: Mail Services, Print / Electronic Media, Internet, etc.

    Posted

    Maybe it is because I am in David, but I am rarely having problems with USTVNOW on KODI here.

    However, that being said, streaming media never consistent. I think a lot has to do with the source server that is being hit and how many users may be on it at the time. I usually use KODI for movies and TV series that are not currently on Amazon Prime. If Amazon Prime has it, then that is what I use.

    Even with Amazon Prime. I sometimes have buffering. Normally Amazon Prime is the best. When I had NetFlix, I used it as my primary source and KODI as the backup.

    I used KODI last night to watch CNBC for the debated, since I don't have CNBC on my cable. It only buffered two times during the whole debate.

    Last week Deborah wanted to watch the God Father, which is a 3 hour movie. We watched it on KODI with zero buffering. It did take me several minutes to find a good server on KODI, because the initial one didn't immediately start. 

    Another night she wanted another ova on KODI and it played without buffering.

    On a third night we started a movie and gave up because it wanted to buffer all the time. That night nothing seemed to want to work well. 

     

    A New Dawn For Security in Panama?

    in Safety and Security; Police, Bomberos, SINAPROC Notices and Actions, etc.

    Posted

    I agree 100% with what Bonnie wrote. When the microphones are on, the cameras are flashing and the videos are running, you will hear a lot go promises. Until something is addressed that is targeted toward violent offenses by minors, then I have little hope for significant change.

    I saw nothing in the previous day's meeting with Varela that said anything about this problem. All I really saw addressed was more focus on drug trafficking. 

    Now that the cameras are off, my fear is that things will continue on like it is until the next offense that draws a major public uprising.

    I think it would be a good idea for each individual living in Panama as a resident from a foreign country to write its Embassy and ask the Embassy to address the Violent Offense Problem  by minors be raised as an issue of concern with their Panamanian counterparts.

    Expat prospect - what am I missing?

    in Expatriation, Naturalization, Residency, Immigration / Migration, Identity Documentation, Border Runs ("Permanent Tourism")

    Posted

    You will really not know what you are getting into until you have lived through a minimum of three to four months in both the rainy and the dry season. That six to eight months will allow you to experience many of the cultural differences. Planing for healthcare incase of emergency should be on your planning list of things to check out.

    Expat security email from News Boquete

    in Expatriation, Naturalization, Residency, Immigration / Migration, Identity Documentation, Border Runs ("Permanent Tourism")

    Posted

    I have already passed much of this information on to the Embassy. It is not a new topic and has come up in different versions in previous Warden meetings in Panama City.

    Obviously the U.S. is currently without an Ambassador for Panama. One has been nominated, but not approved. 

    Nonetheless this is a topic that needs to be pushed to the Embassy with the hopes that the Embassy will pass the concerns on to their counterparts. In previous meeting at the Embassy we received presentation on how the U.S. is working with the Panama government related to police and the justice system, 

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