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HDFL - CKS Swifts Ricky Whitehead received Horsham District Football League's highest accolade, taking home the best and fairest for 2012 at Holy Trinity Lutheran School in Horsham on Monday night.
Whitehead had an outstanding season for Swifts and was a key play maker for the Baggies, providing many highlights as both an onballer and small forward.
He polled 24 votes to take home the Horsham Tyre and Battery Service best and fairest award, edging out Edenhope-Apsley's James Dixon and Taylor Lake's Patrick Purcell who both finished with 23 votes.
Last year's winner, Tim Wade from Kalkee, rounded out the top four with 21 votes.
Whitehead said he didn't really expect to win.
"I thought I was a bit of a chance but I was pretty surprised in the end," he said.
Swifts coach Paul Hanns said it was a great win for Whitehead.
"He was right up there in the mix. Once I saw he was in the top five halfway through the count, I knew he had a pearler of a second half of the year and could go on to win," he said.
"It's a great achievement for him. All the hard work he put in through the year has finally paid off."
It was a slow start to the year for Whitehead, who didn't do a pre-season and it took a while to find his rhythm in a new-look Baggies outfit.
"His commitment to training wasn't the best, through pre-season and start of the year. He didn't do a pre-season, which is different for Rick. We just sat him down and got things back on track," Hanns said.
Whitehead was dropped back to the reserves earlier this season, with Hanns saying it was 'a big wake up call' for his regular senior player.
"We wanted him to start doing team things. Ricky's a pretty proud person and he wanted to be a part of the senior group. He realised that the fitter he is, (the more) he can have a hell of an impact for Swifts through the season," Hanns said.
"He's pretty hard to match up on for opponents because he has so many traits to his game."
This year, Whitehead has had more of a run through the midfield due to the Baggies picking up the likes of Julian Carr and Brett Hargreaves moving forward to provide another avenue to goal.
"We were able to get Rick up in the middle and his fitness lifted again. He took the most of his opportunities," Hanns said.
Whitehead clearly relished in his new-look role, saying he prefers to play in the midfield.
The talented onballer has re-signed for 2013 and is looking forward to helping his teammates go one better next year and reach the HDFL grand final.
Whitehead has been playing with the Swifts since he was 14 and has had just one year at Stawell in the under 17s as well as a stint with Coolangatta in the Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) before returning to the Baggies midway through 2011.
"They're a great bunch of blokes there. I feel comfortable playing there and don't mind the oval. It's nice and flat, with a bit of space and has a good feeling about it," Whitehead said.
"Thanks to all the volunteers that help out round Swifts and to Rob and Deb Carey (Swifts football and netball presidents) for their support and what they've done for the club."


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You've heard stories about how someone buys someone else's project, and what follows is horror story after horror story, including misrepresented, mismatched, or missing parts, frames of questionable integrity, fiberglass repair work done with cut-up Budweiser cartons as backing (and the content of those cartons as . . . well, never mind!) and paint schemes that are a horror story, not only in design but also execution. (Which should have happened to the designer and painter -Ed.)
This Corvette is none of the above, even though when Gary Ricketts bought it, it had been someone else's project. A long-time Corvette lover and street rodder, back in the mid-'90s he had a '30 Model A Ford with a supercharged small-block Chevy engine that he was looking to sell, and he had a potential buyer. Around that time, Gary went to the Super Chevy Show at Maple Grove Raceway near Reading, Pennsylvania-an easy trip from his Mannington, New Jersey home-and he spotted a '65 Sting Ray coupe for sale in the show's swap meet. "The owner was out of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and he had another guy selling it for him," Gary recalls. "So, I looked at it and I said, 'This is my next project-I've got to have this car!'"
Gary got the contact information for the '65's owner, then a couple of weeks later he sold the Model A-minus engine. "He wanted another blower motor in it, we made a deal, and I kept my blower motor," says Gary of the first phase of his project changeover. "As soon as he pulled out with the Model A, I called down to where the Corvette's owner was and found out that car was still available." Soon after, that Midyear was in Gary's garage. "It had a big-block motor in it," he says. "I sold the big-block, because I knew I was going to complete the Pro Street theme with my blower motor."
You heard right-Gary's '65 had already been modified to fit big rubber inside its stock body profile. The frame had been narrowed in the rear, and large wheel tubs replaced the original Sting Ray rear wheelwells. Says Gary of the remainder of the mechanical work needed to complete this Pro Street-flavored Vette Rod, "I did everything on that car, other than the back half on it." That included swapping in the Daryl Fithian-built engine from his Model A, a 350-inch small-block that had been bored 0.030-inch and fitted with TRW pistons on GM steel connecting rods, a GM steel crank, a Comp Cams hydraulic roller camshaft, and a Weiand 6-71 supercharger with a pair of Endurashine-plated 600-cfm Edelbrock four-barrel carburetors on top. The blown 355-incher also received an MSD 6AL ignition system, Hooker Headers with 17/8-inch primary tubes and 3-inch collectors, and a 21/2-inch aluminized-steel exhaust system with Turbo Tube mufflers.
Del Trans in Newark, Delaware, built the manual/automatic shift Turbo 400 with a 10-inch, 3,000-rpm-stall torque converter and B&M shifter. Why not a Muncie or other manual gearbox? Gary says, "Because you only have nine or ten seconds in the quarter-mile, you can't shift that fast!"
The '65's current color scheme is far from the color black that was applied after it was finished and kept on it for about six years, until Gary decided he wanted something different. For the look you see here, he turned to painter Fred Green-and to his own son Steve. "My son laid out those flames," says Gary of the part of the '65's build that he really loves. "He's very much the artist, very much the painter. Back then, he was doing artwork for tattoos and doing small work laying out flames and artwork on motorcycle fenders and gas tanks." This would be his first car, and Gary told Steve that he wanted him to lay out the flames on the Sting Ray's body (which by then had been painted PPG Metallic Silver by painter Green.) "After it was set and ready to go, my son went in the paint booth and in about four hours, he laid out those flames by hand," Gary recalls. "Then, Fred came back with three coats of the Apple Red from House of Kolor, and he went over that silver with three coats."
But that's not all, says Gary. "After that had set up, my son loaded up the small spray gun with black, and he put the shadows in." Once that was done, the '65s got several coats of clear that were then sanded down and polished; the final result was what you see here.
Gary can't say enough about the job that Steve did, not just laying out any old flame pattern on this car, but the right one. "He has a knack of looking at the size of the flame, and the thinness of the flame-depending on the contour of the car," Gary says. "Of course, as low and sleek as the Corvette is, it needed these low, sleek flames."
Along with Steve and Fred Green, Gary has one other person to thank for his contribution to this Pro Streeted '65. "Phil Scarfo from Carneys Point, New Jersey, did the metalwork in the engine compartment," Gary says. "If you notice, the flames go into the engine compartment's sheetmetal work. Phil really helped me out big time, setting up those stainless panels so they're easy-in and easy-out."
No doubt you've also noticed that the hood is hinged differently than on a stock Midyear-at the back, instead of at the front. "It gives you an altogether different dimension of the engine compartment versus the original Corvette," says Gary. "So, with this hood opening up the other way, you get a much better view of the motor. People walk up to it, notice it, and love it." They also notice the interior's changes, which include a rollbar and Corbeau racing seats, which replaced the stock buckets.
What's it like driving this tubbed, flamed, and blown Sting Ray? "It's a good car to drive," Gary says. "It's very street worthy." But there's a limit to how far he and his wife Patty drive it to shows. "When we take it to or from a show that may be a couple hours away, we'll put it in a trailer and take it down. But, if it's no more than about an hour to get to, in the area where we live, which is New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware-and sometimes down into Maryland-we drive it. I do have to stop at several gas stations along the way, but I get there!"
Before too long, there'll be another Midyear in the Ricketts' garage-a '64 that he's building for Patty to drive. It was far from original when he swapped a '79 Corvette for it, but he'll bring back the original body lines by getting rid of the fender flares that were on when he bought it. "It's a frame-off build, and it's going to have a Corvette small-block motor that I'm going to rebuild, and it's going to be a beautiful cruiser," he says of the Sting Ray that will also have air conditioning and a four-speed. "I just love doing that as a hobby," he adds.
His advice is simple, if you're thinking of doing a Corvette project. "I don't mind modified cars-I love modified cars," he says. "However, if it's a complete original car, keep it that way." As for his '65, while it isn't original, it's certainly distinctive. "When I pull into a show with the blower whining, it's an eye catcher, and I just love that," says Gary. And that beats a vehicular horror story any day!

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London Fashion week will start on 13th September 2013 and will end on 17th September. The Designer Showrooms at Somerset House will provide a stunning venue for many British and foreign fashion designers.
In addition to the many fashion shows there will be a host of exclusive parties and events taking place around the capital hosted by fashion brands and designers.
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Current and former employees of JC Penney gathered on Friday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the company's opening in Fort Morgan.
While the corporation started 112 years ago, the Fort Morgan store at 321 Main St. opened April 4, 1914, and this month was a milestone. Its store number is 0052, which shows how early it was in the history of the corporation.
"This is a historic moment," said Store Leader Shannon Tyler, for both the store and the community.
She thanked the many loyal customers who have made it possible for the store to thrive for so long, and thanked people for coming to the ribbon cutting ceremony that commemorated the first opening.
Among those who showed up early for the event were Carol Roth, Sally Bain, Ken Kelly and Betty Yancey.
Yancey had worked at the store starting in 1952, and again starting in 1963.
Kelly had worked in the store beginning in 1964.
Bain started working there in 1965.
That meant that Bain and Kelly were around at the time of the store's 50th anniversary.
However, Roth has been around for the longest time at JCPenney. As of last Saturday, she had worked there for 62 years, she said.
Roth joined the staff in 1952 and has been there ever since. She was there for the 50th anniversary and the 75th anniversary.
When the company turned 100 in 2002, Roth talked about how she came to work there for so long.
She said she never realized her job at JC Penney would last for most of a lifetime. In fact, she initially signed up for two-week stint when the store needed part-time help.
Roth said she almost did not apply because the family had plans to visit her grandparents, but her mother talked her into it.
She was thrilled to make 50 cents an hour for doing odd jobs around the store, and after graduating from Fort Morgan High School in 1954, she started working full time as the store sales audit clerk.
Roth took three months off after the birth of her first son, but the store called her up and she went back to work. After the birth of her second son, she only took two weeks off.
"I couldn't take it," she said. "I had to be there with my people."
Twelve years after that interview, Roth says she still loves seeing and visiting with customers as she works in the ladies' department. She works mornings, and cares for her grandchildren in the afternoons.
"I like to visit," Roth said. "This is my therapy ... If I didn't like it, I wouldn't be here."
Friday offered a chance for former employees to visit with each other, talking about how the store used to be laid out, and reminiscing about fellow workers.
Bain brought up Edith Stone, who was the window display designer at one point. Stone's windows were quite beautiful, Bain said.
Roth said she specifically invited a lot of the former employees who showed up. They were like family over the years. They laughed and cried together.
Roth has said that the company has been good to her over the years. One time, she had a better offer, but she could not bring herself to leave, even after submitting her resignation.
Today, she serves the grandchildren of the people she originally served.
JC Penney
On April 14, 1902, James Cash Penney opened a store in Kemmerer, Wyo., which was the start of one of the largest department store empires in America.
The start of that retail apparel establishment — between a laundry and a boarding house — marked a change in how business was done in a mining town of 900 people.
It opened on the premise that it would charge one price for all people, regardless of social status, and it would only take cash.
Local businessmen predicted he would fail, but residents liked the merchandise and service, and the store offered an alternative to the mining company's store.
Part of the service was "The Golden Rule," the store was named. Penney insisted that customer service follow Jesus' injunction to "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
Penney envisioned a chain of stores that would cover the Rockies, it says in "James Cash Penney: His Life and Legacy."
By 1913, he had 34 Golden Rule stores, with sales of more than $2 million a year. At that point, the chain incorporated, becoming the J.C. Penney Company Inc. By 1929, it had more than 1,400 stores across the nation.
Penney died in 1971 at the age of 95. At that time, the company had 1,660 stores.
The Fort Morgan store had Andrew R. Watland as the first manager. He had moved from an assistant manager post at a Trinidad Golden Rule store.
Charles B. Cooper became the manager in 1920, and Watland moved to the Wichita Falls, Texas store.
B.L. Archibald became manager of the Fort Morgan store in 1924, and Dan B. Steele managed the store from 1926 to 1951.
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Usually that it is not what I want.
However, from all my subscriptions there are maybe two dozens creating such a high volume with their feeds that keeping them all around forever is wearing Vienna down and wasting space.
– Is there a trick to instruct Vienna to delete articles automatically after three weeks for individual feeds while the global option stays at "never"?
– Is there a trick to instruct Vienna to delete articles manually from individual feeds with an option like "all older than three weeks"?
If not, these would be my feature request.
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Former National League MVP Ryan Braun's name was present on a document belonging to Biogenesis of America founder Anthony Bosch, according to a report ESPN's "Outside the Lines" investigative program released on Friday.
ESPN revealed a handwritten note of Bosch, whose Miami-based anti-aging clinic is currently under investigation from Major League Baseball for suspicion of supplying players with performance-enhancing drugs. The document listed Braun as owing Bosch $1,500 for an unspecified service.
Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and New York Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli were also included on the note, with Rodriguez marked as having paid a $4,500 fee.
Braun acknowledged having a business relationship with Bosch, who was previously linked to Manny Ramirez when the star slugger was suspended by MLB for violating the league's drug policy in 2009, when the Milwaukee Brewers star was initially connected to Biogenesis in a story published by Yahoo! Sports last week. The All-Star outfielder said through a statement that his attorneys used Bosch as a consultant during Braun's successful appeal of a 50- game suspension for a positive PED test last spring.
When contacted by reporters at the Brewers' spring training complex in Arizona on Friday, Braun declined comment on the latest allegations.
"I understand why a lot of you guys are probably here, but I made a statement last week. I stand behind that statement," he said. "I'm not going to address that issue any further. As I stated, I'm happy to cooperate fully with any investigation into this matter. I respect the fact that all of you guys have a job to do. Part of that job includes asking me questions. I'm happy to answer any and all questions about baseball, spring training, the World Baseball Classic or anything else."
Three players -- Cabrera, pitcher Bartolo Colon and San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal -- with known ties to Biogenesis have been suspended by MLB for PED use within the past year.


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Countrywide Saturday March 23 2013
People, events and happenings around the country, presented by Damien O'Reilly.
We are delighted to announce that the National Dairy Council (NDC) is the new sponsor of Countrywide !
Jimmy O'Byrne performs "The Life and Music of Bobby Darin" is Dublin's NCH on Sun. 24th March 2013 – tomorrow night - with special Guest Kathy Nugent as Connie Francis. And he came in to give us a taster of the show with some live songs. Bobby Darin died at the young age of 38, having had multiple hits (mnost written by himself), several Billboard number 1s, acted, wrote film scores and crammed so much into his short life.
An App that provides diagnoses and remedies for sick cattle was the winner of the second annual APPrentice competition which took place at Cork Institute of Technology as part of CIT Innovation Week . The man who designed the app is Paul McCarthy from Grenagh, Co. Cork, who is currently in his 4th year of a Business Information Systems degree. The app is targeted at farmers who can type in symptoms of their sick animal and the app suggests a diagnosis and remedy which the farmer can adopt.
Damien was in Brussels during the week attempting to unravel what the CAP reforms actually mean. Using his Eurojargon translator. And some reaction from some farmers in Ireland who neither support the existing proposals nor the IFA line. Still following us?
Frances Shanahan called to Annaharvey, near Tullamore, to talk to Henry Deverell, a large scale tillage farmer. Given the problems with the autumn harvest, the saturated ground up to the end of year and so on, tillage farmers must be having nervous breakdowns.
Louise Denvir headed off to St. Thomas' National School in Tallaght, Dublin to see how they won the Innocent and Grow it Yourself Competition! The campaign encourages 25,000 children to grow and eat their own crop. And alongside Louise at the award-winning school garden was chef Donal Skehan and the young gardeners, who explain how best to sow and grow and the lessons they've learned while producing their own food...
For teachers and youth-group leaders who want to get involved in the Innocent and Grow it Yourself campaign, you can apply for free growing pots, soil and basil, cress and pea seeds. Check their site below
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The Zwartble is a breed of black/brown sheep originating in the Friesland region of the north Netherlands. There it was primarily used for the production of sheep milk as well as lamb and mutton. They were often kept alongside dairy cattle herds, but the breed declined dramatically until a recent revival. Suzanna Crampton takes Damien on a Zwartble tour at her smallholding in Bennetsbridge, Kilkenny. And then Damien went to Phillip Cushen down the road in Graignamanagh to see what happens with the wool they bring into their family woollen mills.
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Peadar O'Scanaill is a well known "large animal" vet, in the Meath area. Damien asked Peadar what is happening to farm animals especially new born lambs and calves with this appalling weather, upcoming fodder shortages and Schmallenberg Disease.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 4/24/11
Western Conference Finals
No.2 Spokane Chiefs 1 vs. No.1 Portland Winterhawks 2
Best of seven series 1-1
C Tyler Johnson, SPO: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 71 GP, 53-62-115, +27, 48 PIM
Playoff Totals: 10 GP, 5-4-9, E, 0 PIM
After defeating the top-seeded Winterhawks 2-1 in Game 1, Spokane was looking to take a stranglehold on the series Sunday and took a 1-0 lead late in the first period, but Portland replied less than 30 seconds later to tie the game and eventually win it on a second period power play goal. Ryan Johansen (Blue Jackets) scored the winner for Portland. Lightning prospect Tyler Johnson was scoreless in his return to the Chiefs lineup. He was suspended for Game 1 for a kneeing major taken in the last game of the Tri-City series. Spokane outshot Portland 13-5 in the final period to try to get the game tying goal, but were turned away by Mac Carruth (Blackhawks). Portland outshot Spokane 20-5 in the second period. Game 3 is Wednesday in Spokane. The series will follow a traditional 2-2-1-1-1 format.
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Lake-area athletes and coaches along with Fellowship of Christian Athletes supporters gathered for the annual FCA Home Team Drive and Banquet at Tan-Tar-A on Tuesday night.
Lake-area athletes and coaches along with Fellowship of Christian Athletes supporters gathered for the annual FCA Home Team Drive and Banquet at Tan-Tar-A on Tuesday night.
Before the banquet officially began, residents arrived and mingled with one another. Some even got the chance to meet with the honored guest, Dr. Ken Johnson.
Johnson is a product of FCA and says he would not be who he is today without the organization.
He was born into a poverty-stricken family in Los Angeles and grew up in the inner city of Dallas. He and his family moved 18 times before he graduated high school. When describing his family background, Johnson will openly reveal that his mother was a prostitute and his father was a heroin addict. He also said that he was born addicted to drugs.
In order to escape the reality of his home life, he turned to athletics. He earned a football scholarship for the University of Tulsa in 1979. That was the year his life changed.
A wealthy businessman paid for Johnson to attend an FCA camp that year. He admits he was reluctant at first.
"I was a hurting boy that needed answers," Johnson said. "Hurt people hurt people."
When he arrived at the camp, he saw something he had never seen before.
"Nobody was cussing and nobody fought after the game. I couldn't believe it," Johnson said. "Then, something crazy happened. They started having church."
Johnson described what happened at that camp as nothing less than a transformation.
"For the first time in my life, I felt uncomfortable cursing," he said. "When camp ended I didn't want to go."
When he returned to the University of Tulsa, he began attending an FCA Huddle and even began speaking and singing at meetings.
After graduating with honors, he was drafted into the NFL but was injured and could not play any longer. He then chose to serve his country in the military and as a police officer before working for Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Indianapolis. He currently is the Protestant Chaplain of the Indianapolis Colts, a position he has held for 25 years.
Johnson enjoys traveling and speaking to schools and other groups all while delivering a message of hope.
He stressed the importance of FCA and asked the crowd if the cost was worth it. Since a man took a chance on him and paid for him to go to camp which was instrumental in Johnson's life change, he is a walking example of how much the cost is worth.
Ken and his wife Della have been married for 31 years and have three adult children, Dominick, Kendall and Kristina.


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Another ball that was crushed and caught.
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Wood down to AAA. I think we saw that one coming.
They probably had to call Wood in Louisville to tell him.
I may have sent EV down. But Wood was probably the right choice.
How would you go about getting Renteria on the DL?
Do they still light feet on fire in the dugout?
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Center fielder Colt Atwood also went 3-for-5 as the Bearkats totaled 10 hits in the win, giving Sam Houston two victories in the three-game season-opening series..
Thanks to strong performances from their pitching staff, defense and advantageous hitters, Sam Houston was able to pull away in the late innings on Sunday to defeat the Toreros 10-3 in the series finale to take the series.
"Our pitching was great every game, so we just had to come out and play ball like we know how to play and it worked out," said Bearkats third baseman Kevin Miller, who connected for three hits and drove in three RBIs.
Through the first half of the rubber match, the Kats, who improved to 2-1 on the season, and San Diego were locked in a pitchers' duel.
From the opening innings, Sam Houston starting pitcher Justin Jackson and San Diego's starter Dylan Covey were in command. While being limited at the plate, the Bearkats were able to strike in the third inning.
Freshman left fielder Hayden Simerly led off the inning with a walk and then got into scoring position off a sacrifice bunt by freshman shortstop Corey Toups. Then the speedy freshman center fielder Colt Atwood smacked a liner up the middle that looked to head into center field, but San Diego second baseman Austin Bailey dove and snagged the ball. Bailey attempted to throw from his knees, but the ball sailed left of first baseman Bryan Haar's glove and Simerly was able score easily.
In the next inning, the Kats were able to take advantage of Miller's lead-off double. Once designated hitter Shea Pierce advanced Miller to third on a sacrifice bunt, Atwood brought him home on a sacrifice fly to left field.
"I thought we bunted well all weekend and today was no exception. We really did a nice job of putting the ball in play and placing it. Bunting is all about placement," Sam Houston head coach David Pierce said.
There the 2-0 score stood for a few innings as Jackson and reliever Blake Whitehead held the Toreros in check. Jackson, who was on a limited pitch count, threw four hitless innings with just one walk and two strikeouts. Whitehead allowed one hit in the fifth, but kept San Diego from doing anything with the baserunner.
"Justin was on a pitch count and that's why he came out early. He was really sharp, but we just didn't want to push him. He did a great job," Pierce said. "We also had good work in the middle with Whitehead and (Andrew) Godail. I'm very pleased with the way the guys competed today on the mound."
The Toreros (1-2) started to get aboard the bases and broke through on the scoreboard in the seventh as shortstop Andrew Daniel drove in San Diego's first run on an RBI single up the middle.
With San Diego closing in on the Bearkats' lead, Sam Houston cranked up the offense in a big way.
Before even recording their first out of the inning, the Kats loaded the bases on a single by pinch hitter Luke Plucheck, a sacrifice bunt by Toups that was mishandled by Toreros pitcher Max Homick and a bunt down the first-base line by Atwood.
"Toups moved the runner over and Colt laid that bunt down. That really helped us get momentum on our side," Miller said. "The pitcher that came in, we knew he was a freshman so we had to jump on him early and take advantage of that to get things in our favor."
Right fielder Greg Olson stretched Sam Houston's lead to 4-1 with a double down the right-field line. With the bases loaded again after first baseman Ryan O'Hearn was intentionally walked, Miller looped the ball into shallow right field that fell just inside the foul line and two more runs scored.
By the time the inning was over, the Bearkats had batted around their order and brought five runs in to take a 7-1 lead with two innings to play.
San Diego scrapped back for a pair of runs in the eighth, but it could've been more. The Toreros loaded the bases on back-to-back singles and designated hitter Corey LeVier was hit by a pitch.
After a discussion on the mound, Pierce decided to stay with reliever Scott Allen, who kept the damage to a minimum. The Toreros could only cut into the deficit with a pair of runs.
"The first ball was hit up the middle. If (Scott) wouldn't have tipped it, it would've been a double play," Pierce said. "He did a nice job the next time on the same kind of ball. The ball fell into his glove and he fed John (Hale) the ball and we had a 1-2-3 double play.
"It was just good to get out of that without getting deep with another guy and finalize the inning with minimal damage."
The Bearkats responded right back with three more runs. With the bases loaded - again with no outs - catcher John Hale grounded out to Daniel, but brought in a run.
Then for the second straight inning, O'Hearn was intentionally walked, leaving the bases juiced for Miller.
"I grounded into a double play earlier in the game and I knew they wanted me to do that again. I had to get on top of the ball, but stay short at the same time and take advantage of that, too," Miller said.
Again, Miller came through with a big hit, a screamer that deflected off relief pitcher Trevor Bayless' leg, that allowed Atwood to score.
"For us to come back and really tack on runs, that secured it for us," Pierce said.
Scott continued in the ninth and didn't allow a baserunner to get into scoring position to seal the 10-3 win for Sam Houston.
The Bearkats will be in action on Tuesday as they host Prairie View A&M at 4:30 p.m.
Center fielder Colt Atwood also went 3-for-5 as the Bearkats totaled 10 hits in the win, giving Sam Houston two victories in the three-game season-opening series..


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MOSCOW — A close associate of a former Russian defense minister was placed under house arrest on Friday on charges of defrauding the country of millions of dollars.
Yevgeniya Vasilyeva, the 33-year-old former head of the Defense Ministry's property department, is accused of stealing more than $11 million through a scheme that involved the sale of the military's prized real estate, Russia's top investigative agency said. Vasilyeva faces up to six years in prison if convicted.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges and asked to be released bail, a request dismissed by Moscow's Khamovnichesky district court.
President Vladimir Putin has pointed at the military corruption probe as a reason for firing Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov earlier this month, but some Russian media pointed at the minister's alleged romantic relationship withVasilyeva as a key factor behind his downfall.
They said that Serdyukov angered his powerful father-in-law, Viktor Zubkov, a one-time prime minister and current chairman of the state-controlled Gazprom natural gas company.
The military corruption probe began abruptly last month with a predawn search of Vasilyeva's apartment in a prestigious building where Serdyukov also lived. Russian news reports claimed that Serdyukov himself opened the door to investigators who knocked on Vasilyeva's door.


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Allen F. Gursky
Allen F. Gursky, 16, of 2885 River Rd., Weedville, died Wednesday, June 8, 2011, as a result of an ATV accident.He was born July 8, 1994 in DuBois, son of Franklin G. Summerson and Ann M. Gurksy, who survive. He was a lifelong resident of the area and had just completed his junior year at St. Marys Area High School.He was involved with football and wrestling in high school. In addition to his parents, he is survived by three sisters, Rosalind Gursky of Ridgway, Crystal Dawn Beck of Lititz, and Melonie Romig of Milroy; and two brothers, Franklin G. Summerson Jr. of Williamsport and Matthew P. Summerson of South Williamsport. Family and friends of Allen F. Gursky are invited to attend funeral services to be held in the Shiloh Presbyterian Church on Monday at 1 p.m., with the Rev. Scott Wiest, pastor, officiating.There will be no visitation. The Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.


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This week, Mr. Cue faces a test of how well Apple can keep up in online services with the launch of a new desktop version of iTunes, which is expected as soon as Thursday.
The new iTunes has been delayed a month by engineering issues that required parts to be rebuilt, according to people who have seen it.
The new iTunes will feature a dramatically simpler and cleaner interface that keeps your favorite iTunes content at the forefront. With iCloud integration, your music, movie and TV purchases made on any of your iOS devices or computers is conveniently displayed in your iTunes library on your Mac or PC, available anytime you want them. The redesigned iTunes Store, App Store and iBookstore have been rethought to make buying your favorite content on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC simpler than ever.
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The Nature Center Offers "Staycation" Opportunities for Families
July 17, 2009
The John T. Huston-Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center has joined the nation-wide Nature Rocks initiative to encourage parents to spend time outdoors as a family.
The Nature Center will hold its first "staycation" event in the North Woods on July 25 from 1 to 3 p.m.
The North Woods provides an interactive area for children to play and discover. Backpacks and nature exploration tools can be checked out at the Visitors Center.
"Families are looking for affordable options for their children this summer and nothing is better and more accessible for quality family time than activities in nature," said Charleen Race, academic outreach coordinator for the Nature Center. "A growing body of research indicates that children are happier, healthier and smarter when they get regular opportunities to play and explore nature."
To learn more about the campaign and how to plan family summer activities close to home, visit www.naturerocks.org.
The Nature Center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off of Route 183. The Visitors Center is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The Nature Center is closed on Mondays. For more information, contact the Nature Center at (330) 823-7487.


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Liverpool would reportedly be prepared to sell Luis Suarez to Arsenal before the transfer deadline, should the north London club meet the valuation placed on the Uruguayan striker.
According to SportsDirect News, Liverpool would consider allowing Suarez to join their Premier League rivals if Arsenal were to bid £40 million or upwards for the player.
Arsenal have already been credited with a formal approach for Suarez, who outlined earlier this summer his intention to leave Anfield having grown frustrated with life in the Premier League.
The Gunners are reported to have seen a bid of £30 million rebuffed by Liverpool, although further suggestions claim the offer was made by Arsene Wenger was closer to the £35 million mark.
Arsenal are reportedly considering returning with an improved offer for Suarez, and it would seemingly take a relatively minimal increase in order for them to capture the player.
Despite his apparent desire to leave English football, Suarez claimed last week claimed to be flattered at the supposed interest of Arsenal in his services.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, however, remains hopeful Suarez will stay with the club beyond the close of the transfer window, and says he has been in constant communication with his striker since the end of the season.
Should he stay in the Premier League, Suarez will miss the first six games of the new campaign having received a lengthy suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovoc.
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Waterfowl Lake Pavilion provides a beautifully landscaped location for your next outdoor event. This space can accommodate anywhere from 50 to 5,000 guests with plenty of room for activities – great for large corporate picnics, outdoor events, wedding receptions, all day retreats and more! Located near the Zoo's main gate and tram stop for easy access to our exhibits. Discounted Zoo admission tickets can be purchased for Waterfowl rentals!
Special packages are available just for Family Reunions, too.
Rental Rates*:
Seated under pavilion 100 guests
Standing under pavilion 200 guests
Entire Waterfowl green area 5,000 guests
*Available April through October only. Rates can change without notice.
Price reflects a four-hour event. Rental fees include picnic-table seating for up to 350 guests, Zoo on-site staff, security, and maintenance personnel, parking, and caterer set-up time of 3 hours and breakdown time of 1 ½ hours. Rental fees do not include round tables, chairs, catering, zoo admission, rides, audio-visual equipment, and/or zoo services.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Deere & Co. DE, +0.71% said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit increased 3% to $687.6 million, or $1.75 per share, from $669.6 million, or $1.62 per share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose 14% to $9.79 billion. Wall Street analysts expected the Moline, Ill., company to earn $1.88 a share on sales of $8.93 billion, according to a survey by FactSet. Deere said demand for U.S. farm equipment kept pace with recent performance, while its construction business continued its recovery. Looking ahead, Deere said equipment sales are projected to increase by about 5% for 2013 and to rise by about 10% in the first quarter. Deere expects fiscal 2013 profit of about $3.2 billion, up from $3.07 billion in 2012. Analysts are looking for year-end income of $3.26 billion.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Richard Zare, professor of chemistry at Stanford University, will give the talk, "How To Be Successful," Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Trout Auditorium of the Vaughan Literature Building at Bucknell University.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is made possible by a Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
During his visit to Bucknell, Zare will give formal presentations, speak in chemistry classes, and meet informally with student/faculty research groups.
In his public talk, Zare will build on the advice of American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who recommended, "Do not drink, do not smoke, do not endorse, do not speculate. Concentrate, perform more than your prescribed duties; be strictly honest in word and deed. And may all who read these words be just as happy and prosperous and long lived as I wish them all to be. And let this great fact always cheer them: It is impossible for anyone to be cheated out of an honorable career unless he cheats himself."
Zare says, "This may be fine advice for the business world, but it seems to offer little guidance in today's world how to live a truly fulfilling life. There is no question that life is full of problems and problematic situations.
"In this talk, I will concentrate on tips for problem solving, suggesting that these same tips, when vigorously pursued, lead to happy outcomes, whether or not a particular problem gets solved. They lay the basis for a wonderful life of the mind."
"We are very excited to welcome Dr. Zare to the University," said Tim Strein, professor of chemistry at Bucknell. "Zare has an impeccable reputation in both fundamental and applied research. Moreover, he is a gifted speaker who has a knack for communicating complex ideas in terms that all can understand — and he does so with a great sense of humor.
"It is fitting that his visit coincides with Mole Day, which commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23), a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day was created as a way to foster interest in chemistry, and I can't think of a better exemplar of having fun by doing great chemistry than Dick Zare," he said.
Winner of numerous awards including the 2010 Priestley Medal (the highest award given by the American Chemical Society) and the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry.
His development of laser induced fluorescence as a method for studying reaction dynamics has been widely adopted in other laboratories. Ongoing projects in the Zare research lab make use of lasers to understand chemical reaction dynamics and to advance the science of chemical measurement, and apply those new approaches to help solve real world problems.
Zare also was a member of a research team that concluded a Martian meteorite found on Earth contained fossilized remains of microbial life, "though that evidence does not prove that life existed on Mars in the distant past," he said.
Zare was elected to the National Academy of the Sciences in 1976. Formerly chair of the President's National Medal of Science Selection Committee, and current adviser to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Zare was appointed chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the three academies, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, earlier this year.
A graduate of Harvard University, Zare taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado, and Columbia University, before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1977, where he serves as the Maguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science.
He has authored and co-authored more than 800 publications and more than 50 patents, and has published four books including Angular Momentum: Understanding Spatial Aspects in Chemistry and Physics (1988) and Laser Experiments for Beginners (1995).
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Researchers from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Nature Conservation Foundation spotted and photographed the animals, formally known as Macaca munzala ("deep-forest monkey" in the language of the local people), on a series of expeditions in 2003 and 2004. "This new species comes from a biologically rich area that is perhaps India's last unknown frontier, says team member M. D. Madhusudan of the WCS. The discovery of a new species of monkey is quite rare. What is also remarkable about our discovery is that few would have thought that with over a billion people and retreating wildlands, a new large mammal species would ever be found in India, of all places. The creatures are relatively large, but have shorter tails than other primates of their size. In addition, living between 1,600 and 3,500 meters above sea level makes them one of the highest-altitude primates in the world.
There are 20 other species of macaque monkeys, which live in a variety of locales. The scientists are not sure how widespread the Arunachal macaque is, but plan to undertake future studies to determine its range and whether or not it warrants protected status. A paper describing the animal will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Primatology.


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I just saw a frost warning for parts of Southern Ontario which reminds us that the cold season is really upon us. Days are shorter and the autumn leaves line our streets. It seemed like yesterday people were still enjoying sunny days in the park, but Fall is fully upon us. Before it gets too cold, take some time to make sure your home is ready for the chilly months ahead.
CMHC has a fairly extensive checklist for regular home maintenance for all the seasons. Here are a few to keep in mind to keep your home cozy this winter.
Weather Stripping: Replace worn out weather stripping to keep the warm air in and the cold air where it belongs - Outside!
Baseboard heaters: Vacuum the dust from your baseboard heaters and make sure they work properly
Furnace or Heating System: It's recommended that you have your electric furnace or heating system serviced every two years.
Foundation: Check to ensure that water isn't pooling or leaking into your basement. Look for cracks or imperfections, and seal them or call a contractor if necessary.
Roof: Replace any broken shingles. Clean the debris from your eavestroughs and roof and make sure downspouts are draining properly.
Landscaping: Prune dead and dangerous branches from your property's trees to ensure they don't damage property during strong winds. Drain outdoor hoses and store them for the winter and bring your patio cushions inside.
There are a lot of advantages to keeping your home well maintained, like costly fixes that have been left unattended. Your home is one of the biggest investments in your life. It's worth the time and effort you put into it.


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FAQ - why use open websites
We need to get activist to actually use alternative net infrastructure.
Q. Its to complex to use this geek software.
A. So was Facebook when it started, almost nobody understood what twitter was for for ages – all new experiences are hard. Its actually ONLY a question of motivation then familiarisation through repartition.
Q. Activist internet site are ugly – if they just look nicer people might actually use them.
A. After bad UI is put to one side (and this can be an issue) the is a direct correlation between full user functionality and bad looking sites – you can make site look nicer by dis-empowering the user or by shaping and controlling there interactions – but freedom always looks messy just look at Facebook its one of the more messy sites out there – it overcomes this issue by good UI and familiarity – people get used to "functionality - ugliness" after they use the software every day.
Q. My activist site has no way for the "user" to be part of the site beyond limited commenting.
A. Yes activist sites are generally in the stone age of hierarchical control freakery, use sites that are web02 not web01 the actually are some projects out their. Complain to admins if the is no peer -to- peer production on an activist site, then actually use the peer production tools they set-up such as wikis and forums.
Q. Why not just use Facebook groups/ fashionable web2 site, every one is on there anyway.
A. This way leads to the death of the open internet/society LINK
Q. Can i trust activist sites with my privacy.
A. On corporate site's that most activist use, such as Facebook you can only hide from your friends not from your enermys. This is generally true for the open web in general and is something we need to understand. If you have a secret take the activist to the garden and whisper it in there ear, do not rely on any fig leafs of corporate privacy settings or promise of activist client server encryption LINK
Find and Join the OMN
How to re-boot grassroots media to help to re-boot the open web to create real social change
We need to get our current dispurate and weak activist sites to link to each other, then get NGO's to do the same. Then push out news river embeds to more mainstream sites to expand the network.
This project needs to be run as a non-branded open network based on open social and technical standereds.
The social side is based on linking flows of information.
Of course you can and should be all of the above, but to aid expansion and growth this is not insisted on.
The first two paths are easey, the last more complex:
* Producers, this is any web site that puts out an RSS feed, this is most sites on the internet [tick]
* Consumers, are at a basic level very easy to do using a javascript sidebar code or a custom CMS plug-in using the javascrit plugin the barrier to upkeep is slight so this can spread easily. [half tick]
* Aggregates are slightly more complex as they will need custom codeing, this all ready exists in a basic form for Drupal and Wordpress and the miro project. [needs work]
As the production side is already solved and the consumers side is relatively trivial this only leaves the Aggreaters as a steep path to take. We have a small budget to kick this off and is technically feasible.
The second part needed is actually the more complex one, how to get groups and individuals to implement open cooperative working practices. The issues that have to be bypassed/addressed/ignored:
* Geek culture is infeactured with encryption and fake technical privacy, this is fading with the victory of failbook and its fellow dotcoms and the disintegration and fading into obscurity of the geek privacy projects. But this will comeback and bite at the OMN as it grows out and builds the basic open tech. So we have to harden the project against this agenda by codeing the opens into the foundations of the project.
* The Trots and the Authoritarian tendency left jumping on the band wagon, this is solved in the same way as the geek problem as they actually share the same pathology of the 20th century illusion of control.
* NGO's this is solved by moving to fast for them to react, if we get bogged down this might become an issue of co-option. Keep moving fast.
To sum up build soled open foundations and keep moving fast.
How would the project look/feel
The open web and the sites that make it up would look much like they look today.
But the OMN project would socialise linking and sharing to create a network out of all the small disparate bits that make up the remains of this fading open web.
Production and consumption sites would gain a sidebar containing realtime updating links to "tag" based rivers of relevant content.
Aggregating sites would contain rivers of subject based content that they would sive and add value to be re-tageing. And creating meta articles linking to original sources. The feeds that production and consumption sites display would come from one of these aggreating sites.
The network would grow out organicly based on subject:
* a aggregating site could only handeal so many feeds before the human moderates are overwlemed this would lead to specialisation and a hirakey of subject aggreaters that would organicly mirror the existing real social interest groups.
* we would end up with specialisation, and a shifting network of overlapping bottom, middle and top sites which would all find ordnances and drive traffic back to the producing sites that feed the network.
* bottom sites would aggregate mostly original producer sites, middle sites would aggregate a mixture of original sites and tags from subject based bootem sites, finally the top sites would aggregate tag based feeds from the middle sites.
How would this look to the "users"
* It would be much easer for "normal" users to find relevant content on subjects that they are interested in, they would be introduced back to the open web by links on #failbook and #juduceserche engine. This growth of traffic would re-energise peoples websites and inspire the upgrading of meny moribund website projects and a move away from current hegemonic dotcom aggregation of #failbook and its siblings.
How would it affect "producers"
* publish ones and your content appears on 100's of sites driving traffic and commenting back to your blog/website and away from #failbook atel. The open web is being straggled by the pay to view throttling on these copurte silos, its a no brainier to move to escape this now. With the increased trafic you can put energy into upgrading your existen website to make it more relevant, the OMN would be active in providing the open tools and plug ins to make this happen.
What would this look like from tech prospective:
KISS open industrial standards based on trust and redundant data roll-back back functions to Handel the breakdown of trust that will happen some times.
RSS will be used as a database object exchange format, a tagging taxonermy will be used to shift and create the flows of these objects. Subscribing to tag based RSS feeds will be the bases of the trust network.
Open databases will hold duplicate meta data linking back to the original source of the RSS object.
*** the is a creative way of making the consumption of content more transparent and develop/user friendly – this will be talked about later ***
RSS feed aggregation would be base on trusted, strate through or moderated ie adding to a moderation cue in the aggregating sites.
3 months to build the seed aggreaters and basic javescript embeds/plugins
6 months to build out the seed networks
9 months to major launch
12 months to being a real alternative and play a role in saving the open web.
Food for thinking:
If you think this sounds oldfaserned you would be right it is, its the basics that needs to happen to create a pool of metadate enhanced media objects. What happens after this? for ideas will add some links:
To escape our silo thinking
"A river that needs crossing political and tech culture - On the political side, the is arrogance and ignorance, on the Geek side the is naivety and over- complexity"
What am highlighting here, Geeks think this is to simple to think about, the politicos have no understanding of this. Both are happy with silos as it gives them "total control" of there tiny things. These isolated siloed islands are no match for the continents that the dotcons control. The issue here is that nobody cares for the big thing that all these tiny things grow from, this big thing "the open internet" is withered from neglect. The shrinking "open internet" is further perverted by political legislation and Dotcon grasping/enclosing it becomes a ghost of its old self.
Thinking to escape this sad and bad fate.
The web is made of links:
* Articles are just data objects
* Data flows
* Feeds are living links to move data object flows
* The link is were the value is (google learned this a long time ago)
* Synchronisation and redundancy of data is key to resilience and remembering the past links (value)
This is hard for the politicos to hear, but, content is just something to link to.
This simple thinking is held safe by the 4 opens.
The is a small resurgence of alt-media projects (such as LINKS ) but each of them is a silo and will likely flower and fade.
Open Media Network
The project
The Open Media Network is a project to play a small role in revitalising the open web. It uses the tried and tested technology of RSS, taking it out of a basic personalised mash-up of feeds into an open metadata social network. Its initial focus will be around alternative media, enabling projects to grow and cross-fertilise independently of the social media corporate giants.
The #dotcom silos are completely dominant in terms of people's identity, for publishing and for networking etc. At social events you once gave your phone number, then your email address, and now you friend on facebook.
By contrast, the open web has plateaued or is already in decline, depending on your point of view. To fix the issues of why the open web is failing we first need to look at why it succeeded:
- KISS throughout
- no identity checking
- no security
The internet/web was a KISS trust-based network that took over the world we have been living in for the last 30 years, and it was no accident that identity checking and security were missing from the original internet/web.
To reboot the open web will take many overlapping streams of open projects. Here we are proposing a KISS project to that end.
Let's look at a small, once healthy stream. Alt/grassroots media used to play a large role in the world. Now all that remains is a few sprigs of green in a polluted/dry river bed. In its heyday the global #indymedia (link broken) network rivalled the BBC and CNN in its scope and coverage on the big days of action and international summits. Now all that is left are some strongly branded small projects (http://novaramedia.com), that grew from #dotcom social media and are only networked within them, and a handful of big legacy projects (http://www.democracynow.org).
The problem we face is a pre-web problem, that of silos. That is each project is a small pool in a empty/dry river and there are very few links or shared data from one to the other (link to 3 projects). The currency of the web is the "valid link"to build networks. Alt-media's growth is severely limited by this lack.
Open Media Network
The OMN is one project to fix this problem.
It is a project of the 4 opens. It is a human-based project at its core, as opposed to an algorithmic project.
Quite simply we want alt-media sites to link to each other and share content, to become a healthy network rather than isolated drying-out silos.
The outcomes needed for it to work are easy to achieve, and they have a large possibility to grow/empower projects as a network.
The project uses RSS as a data object exchange format, using a tagging folksonomy as a way of shifting the data flow between federated sites. It uses both native code plug-ins and javascript to "embed" links to this tagged data flow in open web sites and blogs (working example visionontv side bar on http://newint.org)
RSS aggregating news portals are not new, which is a major part of their strength for the realizing of the Open Medium Network. Taking this tried and tested tech into an open metadata social network is new. Another thing which will be new to some of the media side of the project is the 4 opens.
Each participant in the OMN will embed at least one news river in their sidebar.
The plan is to build synching aggregating portals / hubs (based on existing CMSs) that feed those sidebar rivers.
Human networking based on trust is key.
Aggregators choose to link RSS feeds into their hubs.
Users choose the tags for the link streams from the hubs into their side bars.
To facilitate trust, basic security is built in.
- flows can be on auto or moderation
- there would be a feed-based roll-back for when spam gets through the trust network.
User embeds, either native or JS, are boolean tag based and have metadata editing rights based on trust (hosting hub gives them this), with 3 levels: auto/moderation/rollback.
NOTES for Developers:
This project uses technology to build a human network. There's a sense in which the simplicity is as important as the code. The project can grow to work in many different ways but the base has to be KISS.
NOTES for journalists and media makers:
You retain complete control of what appears on your site. As the trust network builds, it will become higher quality and faster to administer.
From simple springs big rivers grow to feed the sea.
In my 30-year experience, I have seen too many alt-media projects grow, flower and fade away, without aggregating or archiving themselves into a state of permanence.
This project can play a crucial role in solving this, as hubs will not only be able to moderate the flows of news, they could achieve it, with no extra work, in a massively redundant distributed way.
The same basic project and tech will work fine for the blog-rolls of sites, creating more "static" dynamic linked side bars. This will reboot the idea of "webrings".
It can also form the basis of identity. People are just a tagged data object that can be sorted into "flows". This opens up social networking to creative thinking.
Sites link to each other both though trust, the human side, and through links, the machine side. Both are a good opportunity for the open web to compete with the closed silos.
The networks of hub sites become portals in their own right, driving traffic to the root news orgs/blogs that feed them.
300 words
The Open Media Network is a KISS hybrid client server/peer2peer project to play a small role in revitalising the open web. It uses the tried and tested technology of RSS. Its initial focus will be around alternative media, enabling projects to grow and cross-fertilise alongside the social media corporate giants.
For the full background to the project see this http://hamishcampbell.com/en/home/-/blogs/open-media-netwo-1?
Stage one (6-12 months) basic linking and embedding programming, basic beta roll-out – the outlandish funding.
Stage two (6-12 months) is synchronising and meta-data editing, then expanding roll-out.
When we have basic working code, set up a number of exemplar hubs to beta test the project in the real world and push out embeds to existing real world alt-media sites.
This project is largely social technology. The tech part is configuration and repurposing existing CMS's and their plug-in architectures.
Pre-programming - there is a need to look at the existing code/plug-in base and spec out a number of roots to working aggregating CMS to seed development.
List the parts that need scripting/programming/configuring.
Work out the basic meta-data format (RSS/atom)
Dave Winer's CMS
These no exclusivly act as "seeds" for the aggregating hubs. They already have some of the basic functionality needed. Take this list to open source programming projects such as LINK etc.
As an open project built peer2peer, the core is to get a lot of people at different levels of expertise working on each bit and run them all in parallel. There is no right answer and no signal point of use/failure.
visionOntv project can offer to match the funding coming from outlandish.
I take this comment from a famous programmer as a complement "feels dated in the language and tech" that's the point ;)
Briefly describe what support in addition to funding you would require to make your project a reality. This could include people with other skills, or office or event space.
The funding is nice to keep focus, but the core help is the links and knowledge network that outlandish provides. The content and media side we can handel. The running of aggregation we have been doing for over 20 years, over many generations of failing alt-tech. At the moment we only have youtube play lists and embeds, this is a crap situation, not to say embarrassing state of alt-media.
Why did the open web flower and die over the last 30 years
Why did the thousands of open internet projects fail? despite the mager state, foundation, NGO funding. The were early successful atavist tech projects, all proved to be pointless or withered with success. In all cases I would argue that the underlining failer was one of ideology, almost all projects worked against the dominate ideology of the net and web it self. Just as the dotcons bumed and bust repeatedly, traditional media was hopeless in till a new generation came along who had a inclining of the underlining working of the new tech ideology.
The few open projects that worked with in the ideology of the web were swamped by the pushing of the funding of the main streaming of the web/internet. Am arguing here that the majority of people making a living in the open web/internet world are core to the problem not the solution, I could name hundreds of projected with the word open/radical in um who actively destroyed "open".
A tiny minority created a world expanding technology based on the ideology and practices of trust based Anercisam. This exploded into the existing tech/communication worlds, pushing aside, pushing over, all the "better" 20th century vertical (ideology) tech already in place. Open became dominant for a while and this open was "locked in" because of a strong idealogical thread through out the standards and structures the internet/web, the very "chaos" of the open web protected it from the "vertical" (20th century) lockines of corporates such as Microsoft etal.
Nothing last for ever, a new generation came along who merged the "open" back into the "closed" cant rearly blame them, they were children of Thatcher and Rangion. Am amazed to have lived though the time of the open web, the world really did feel very different for a time. Who are the heroes and who the villeins, this history is unwritten yet, better get to it.
This is my realistic/pessimistic view of were we are at for a little more dreamy/optimistic view LINK
We face a digital cliff, the open internet may be over
Here are two views on this subject:
We have Phil Windley who thinks the open internet was a historical fluke http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/02/decentralization_is_hard_maybe_too_hard.shtml here he is talking about the very real view that the internet is finished, that the commons have been enclosed by the dotcon silos and what remains outside are terminally withered and dieing.
Then Dave Winer http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/26/0936.html who argues that the open web comes in waves and what Phil Windley is arguing is but the drawing back of the water before the next wave of open washes in.
My point of view is that both are right, the open internet was a historical "mistake" and with Winer that the are a few waves left, the storm is not over yet. The is a logic to the digitisation of everything and the web was a living example of this let loss, it was a tsunamis that crashed over every part of our cultures and the storm is not over yet.
The commons opened up by the early web are enclosed by dotcons, but their sea defences are low and weak and the digitisation storm still rages.
The open web and the power of lobbyists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality is being regulated.
Net neutrality is a good thing the open web works because of it. But legislating around net neutrality is dangerous as it opens up the actuality existing open web to the power of lobbyists. Historically the web has been shaped by undefined "traditions" built on open industrial protocols. This "open web" is starting to become thin with the enclosures of the dotcoms.
We are now resorting to "regulation" which takes this nieve working "open" inside the bureaucracy, historical experiences of this is a bit scary. I understand we need to bite the bullet and do, but with our current politicians toss a coin into the air and hope it lands on its side...
The are some good people working on this lets hope it doesn't go wrong, the out come will be in the small details...
The Activists - FUCKED UP USE of corporate social media
It consistently amazed me how activists walked into the trap of corporate social networking. I can understand NGO groups narrowness of focus, its were the funding is. I can understand traditional media's embracing of Facebook, Twitter and the closed ecosystem of app stores as its a perceived as a "safe" place to run from the crumbling business markets they are part of.
Lets look at each in turn:
Corporate social networking is perfect for the less radical charity's as the company's running theses networks wont to be seen to be social responsible and charity's are the perfect place to be seen to care with out the risk of upsetting sponsors, advertisers and investors.
The more progressive parts of the traditional media, such as the FT have realised the trap they leapt into when building inside Facebook, Twitter etal. And are now back to prioritising building on the open web using HTML5. The less progressive side are now negotiating from a weak postion with these new powerful gatekeepers.
10 years ago Activist media was a worldwide phenomenon, inventing and leading many of the technology and techniques that are now mainstream. But two things happened, firstly they got bogged down in "activist process" and on the other the "lifestyle of geek" open-source culture. These together slowed innovation to a stop, the functionality and reach of such new networks as Facebook and Twitter rendered this moribund activist media less relevant to new generations of activists such as the climatecamp media team. Leaving space for the NGO focus embracing of corporate social media on one hand and the manipulation of traditional media on the other as the main ongoing successful strategy.
Were are we now? I was at the party to cover the celebrate of the death of Margaret Thatcher recently in Trafalgar sq. The were hundreds of cameras both video and stills probably as many people filming and documenting as there party goers or police. But almost no radical media made it online, the was a smattering of wonabe mainstream media such as Vice and Demotix. What interested me was running into all the retired activist and the ones that now work for NGO's it struck me that the is no continuity, no new radical media, it had almost completely ended. Few small exception's to this are ourselves (visionontv) and ONN who are both small fish.
As I sead at the time, we as activist's fucked up in two ways: in wholesale embracing of corporate social media and in the narrowing of activist tec into geek lifestyle. Can we learn from this? Its time to reinvent grassroots bottom up media – its not to late.
StopG8 website - Activist web organising tools are broken
The web is fundamentally a peer to peer network, as are human relationships. Let's look at a recent activist website built for the G8 protest in London https://network23.org/stopg8. It is a one way approach – a directing tool for a small minority of unknown and unknowable people to direct the majority of people, with limited ways for the majority to talk back or take part in the web organising.
Wordpress the tool used here is a a top-down tool, original a single user blogging platform, thus its useful for hierarchical opaque organising, which goes hand in hand with "closed security" minded geeks and activists - the problem oveasuly lies in the fact that such tools restrict peoples online involvement and this leads to a dampening and shrinking of offline involvement or the moving of open organising onto the closed web of Facebook etc. Wordpress is fine for a noticeboard site or personal blog but not for any form of self organising or group networking, its broken as a way of building a dynamic social moveme
A more obvious activist approach would be to use opentools such as wikis and forums, and self organising web spaces to build a creative movement "open security" model were people could could build "trust" by activity feeds. A tool for this would be single sign in site built on liferay such as http://visionon.tv
"Closed security" gives the dangerous illusion of anonymity were non exists, this both gives control to a small group of unaccountable activists and dampens self organising – the life blood of activism.
"Open security" widens ownership and builds spaces for creativity, its based on transparent trust networks. It builds security as the is no foles sense of anonymity – if you wont to organise something "spiky or norty" you whisper at the back of the pub.
The is no security in centralised activist infrastructure as you don't know who actually runs them and you don't know who is upriver of their hosting providers. The is a clear danger that this pseudonymous is mistaken for true anonymity and this danger comes at a clear organising cost. At the moment we have a clear failer of activist web culture, which can be seen in the shrinking of activism ( and its replacement with clicktivism) – post a comment if you would like to have a go at fixing this.


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What are the differences between the Outback 2.5XT and WRX STI engines?
Posted 05 August 2007 - 04:22 PM
Both engines are 2.5L with turbo. Do they really start with the same block/heads or what parts do they share. I noticed that the STI is intercooled.
Beyond that, what are the differences.
Is it possible to make an OBXT STI fast?
Posted 05 August 2007 - 04:34 PM
Posted 05 August 2007 - 05:05 PM
So, now what differences are left to make up the almost 50hp difference?
Posted 05 August 2007 - 05:07 PM
Posted 05 August 2007 - 05:36 PM
Yep, your right. They are intercooled. I was just going by the specs on the Subaru website and they don't mention it under "engine" for the OBXT. I just looked at a picture of the engine bay and I guess the hoodscoop is a giveaway.
So, now what differences are left to make up the almost 50hp difference?
turbo and tuning.........
Posted 05 August 2007 - 10:39 PM
Posted 10 January 2013 - 09:32 AM
Posted 10 January 2013 - 01:41 PM
While it can be as fast as a stock STi with the right upgrades and tuning, it doesn't have the potential without changing the pistons. For that matter people break stock STi pistons at stock power levels so frankly they need upgraded as well. But the OBXT pistons are higher compression and would need to be swapped for significant HP gains to be safe.
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Sleet in the Metro
Yes, there has been a lot of sleet reports across the metro all afternoon. It is a combination of some very dry air at the surface and very cold air at the mid levels that has caused all of this. As the is potent disturbance at the upper levels has moved across N Georgia it has sparked a few showers. The interesting thing about this is that as the rain fell into very dry air, air that was already near freezing around 2-3000 feet, the rain cooled the air even more surrounding the raindrops. Very similar to when you get out of the pool on a very hot but dry day.. The water quickly evaporates as it moves through the air and causes what we as meteorologists call "Evaporative Cooling". This cooling was enough to drop the temps in a layer of the atmosphere to below the freezing mark and allow the raindrops to freeze into sleet pellets! Cool huh? This will continue to be the case through the early evening hours,
Frost Advisory
A frost advisory has been issued for all of N Georgia for tonight through tomorrow morning. With the cold air we have in place and the chance that we will have clearing skies later tonight, we have the potential to see temps get right around the freezing mark later tonight. I think in metro Atlanta we will stay above the freezing mark, but in the suburbs and the low lying valley areas there is a good chance that some will wake up with some frost on the ground.
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27 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre. 3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'You say, Tyre,
"I am perfect in beauty."
4 Your domain was on the high seas;
your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
5 They made all your timbers
of juniper from Senir[a];
they took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
6 Of oaks from Bashan
they made your oars;
of cypress wood[b] from the coasts of Cyprus
they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail
and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple
from the coasts of Elishah.
8 Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;
your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.
9 Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board
as shipwrights to caulk your seams.
All the ships of the sea and their sailors
came alongside to trade for your wares.
10 "'Men of Persia, Lydia and Put
served as soldiers in your army.
They hung their shields and helmets on your walls,
bringing you splendor.
11 Men of Arvad and Helek
guarded your walls on every side;
men of Gammad
were in your towers.
They hung their shields around your walls;
they brought your beauty to perfection.
12 "'Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.
13 "'Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.
14 "'Men of Beth Togarmah exchanged chariot horses, cavalry horses and mules for your merchandise.
15 "'The men of Rhodes[c] traded with you, and many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
16 "'Aram[d] did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise.
17 "'Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections,[e] honey, olive oil and balm for your wares.
18 "'Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar 19 and casks of wine from Izal in exchange for your wares: wrought iron, cassia and calamus.
20 "'Dedan traded in saddle blankets with you.
21 "'Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.
22 "'The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your merchandise they exchanged the finest of all kinds of spices and precious stones, and gold.
23 "'Harran, Kanneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Ashur and Kilmad traded with you. 24 In your marketplace they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multicolored rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted.
25 "'The ships of Tarshish serve
as carriers for your wares.
You are filled with heavy cargo
as you sail the sea.
26 Your oarsmen take you
out to the high seas.
But the east wind will break you to pieces
far out at sea.
27 Your wealth, merchandise and wares,
your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,
your merchants and all your soldiers,
and everyone else on board
will sink into the heart of the sea
on the day of your shipwreck.
28 The shorelands will quake
when your sailors cry out.
29 All who handle the oars
will abandon their ships;
the mariners and all the sailors
will stand on the shore.
30 They will raise their voice
and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust on their heads
and roll in ashes.
31 They will shave their heads because of you
and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep over you with anguish of soul
and with bitter mourning.
32 As they wail and mourn over you,
they will take up a lament concerning you:
"Who was ever silenced like Tyre,
surrounded by the sea?"
33 When your merchandise went out on the seas,
you satisfied many nations;
with your great wealth and your wares
you enriched the kings of the earth.
34 Now you are shattered by the sea
in the depths of the waters;
your wares and all your company
have gone down with you.
35 All who live in the coastlands
are appalled at you;
their kings shudder with horror
and their faces are distorted with fear.
36 The merchants among the nations scoff at you;
you have come to a horrible end
and will be no more.'"
28 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'In the pride of your heart
you say, "I am a god;
I sit on the throne of a god
in the heart of the seas."
But you are a mere mortal and not a god,
though you think you are as wise as a god.
3 Are you wiser than Daniel[f]?
Is no secret hidden from you?
4 By your wisdom and understanding
you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
in your treasuries.
5 By your great skill in trading
you have increased your wealth,
and because of your wealth
your heart has grown proud.
6 "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'Because you think you are wise,
as wise as a god,
7 I am going to bring foreigners against you,
the most ruthless of nations;
they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom
and pierce your shining splendor.
8 They will bring you down to the pit,
and you will die a violent death
in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you then say, "I am a god,"
in the presence of those who kill you?
You will be but a mortal, not a god,
in the hands of those who slay you.
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised
at the hands of foreigners.
I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.'"
11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
topaz, onyx and jasper,
lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[g]
Your settings and mountings[h] were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you.
16 Through your widespread trade
you were filled with violence,
and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
and I expelled you, guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
17 Your heart became proud
on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings.
18 By your many sins and dishonest trade
you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire come out from you,
and it consumed you,
and I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
19 All the nations who knew you
are appalled at you;
you have come to a horrible end
and will be no more.'"
20 The word of the Lord came to me: 21 "Son of man, set your face against Sidon; prophesy against her 22 and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'I am against you, Sidon,
and among you I will display my glory.
You will know that I am the Lord,
when I inflict punishment on you
and within you am proved to be holy.
23 I will send a plague upon you
and make blood flow in your streets.
The slain will fall within you,
with the sword against you on every side.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.
24 "'No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
25 "'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.'"
29 In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. 3 Speak to him and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
you great monster lying among your streams.
You say, "The Nile belongs to me;
I made it for myself."
4 But I will put hooks in your jaws
and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I will pull you out from among your streams,
with all the fish sticking to your scales.
5 I will leave you in the desert,
you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open field
and not be gathered or picked up.
I will give you as food
to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
6 Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord.
"'You have been a staff of reed for the people of Israel. 7 When they grasped you with their hands, you splintered and you tore open their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke and their backs were wrenched.[i]
8 "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast. 9 Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
"'Because you said, "The Nile is mine; I made it," 10 therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.[j] 11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years. 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
13 "'Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered. 14 I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom. 15 It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations. 16 Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.'"
17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me: 18 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre. 19 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army. 20 I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
21 "On that day I will make a horn[k] grow for the Israelites, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord."
3 Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. 5 For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, 6 like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
8 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. 9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 10 For,
"Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
11 They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."[a]
13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear their threats[b]; do not be frightened."[c] 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 17 For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive,[d] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.[e] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
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