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|2013-03-22, 10:22
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Location: UK
That quiz was pretty good. Got 25 out of 31 (partly because I've made an effort not to re-watch the series again since last December so I can really enjoy it when I do pick it back up).
Man, I miss GoL...
As for FT, I still maintain the initial back-story involving young Treize, Zechs, the Alliance, etc. was well-done. I had trouble following/staying interested in whatever it devolved into later during the MC timeline but there were still some good plot-pints.
|2013-03-24, 14:42
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Glory continues to be amazing, I really wish this had been the Wing we got back in the 90's.
I do have to wonder if Katoki has been the one to suggest the weapons as Tallgeese has continued to get awesome ajustments. The placements of the Pods so they are never out of use, the Tempest Lance, and now the Halberd.
While I love Wing EW, it really seems to be getting left in the dust while every other suit gets better and better as time goes on.
|2013-03-26, 15:22
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Is Deacon gone forever now? Do we not get GotD any longer? I wanna cry now...
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Has anyone been in contact with Deac recently?
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So, I read the latest chapter of FT and I must say, I'm miffed at Googlefish because I suspect the parts messed up beyond comprehension are the best ones. Namely, Pagan being badass (which, now that I think about it, totally explains why Relena never had an official bodyguard in the beginning of the series; Pagan is GW's Watari), the scientist shenanigans and the very last part, that takes place in the present and hints that the pilots are about to do a number on their enemies.
The parts that are somewhat comprehensible are all about sappy nonsense. If I wasn't used to it, I probably would have facepalm'd my head off my shoulders.
So Sabrina and Eric bite the dust because someone decided to rig their limousine with a bomb. That someone happens to be the Alliance dude who got owned by the pumpkin tanks and the meowing MA in Cinq. Apparently, the man is a very sore loser.
As predicted, upon hearing the news, Katrina makes the decision to return to Cinq to govern the country, because a baby obviously can't do it, and ends up being down in the dumps due to it. One would think it'd be because of the enormous burden she'll have to carry (which actually is part of it). But no, the far more important reason is that (hold onto your hats) the Cinq kingdom has the tradition that its monarchs can't remarry. Which means that poor Katrina can never be with her one true love Heero (at least officially), because "Katrina Peacecraft" already married Eric Shergold. Oh, the drama!
And I am sitting here, chuckling quietly into my bowl of cereal, because this reason is totally legit, since it's a universally known fact that traditions are never changed. Ever. Which is why we still chop off people's hands when they steal something. Yeah.
So anyway, Katrina apparently wants to make her last moments with her former teacher count and goes to meet him on the hull of whatever the heck they're traveling in (Sherwood cruiser or something), since he's doing repairs there. Cue romantic palaver with a dash of philosophy. Or maybe it's the other way around. Can't tell.
Well, whatever it is they're talking about, in the end they start reminiscing about the good ol' times, like the two of them dancing in the garden and Heero decides it's a great idea to download some classical music to start playing in their helmets to dance to, even though in the beginning of the same paragraph it is said that just working outside on the hull is highly risky and can get you killed. Yeah...
So they switch off their magnetic boots (because who needs safety?) and Katrina, being annoyed that they can't spin with their safety cables attached to them, severs those as well (because who needs common sense and self-preservation?) and they start merrily waltzing off into space.
And I'm laughing my head off, because the song they dance to is the Blue Danube and the first thing I associate with the Blue Danube and spacesuits is Homer Simpson eating a bunch of chips. Though even if that image wasn't stuck in my head, I'd still crack up because I can't imagine "dancing" in zero gravity not to look anything short of ridiculous.
Then again, so is singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" during battle, but sure, if series like Digimon can have battle songs, why not Katrina, too? And yes, she does it again this chapter (for the billionth time ) when the Alliance attacks them as she is descending to Earth. Interestingly enough, Sumizawa uses (European) football to explain the battle strategy of getting Katrina past the Alliance to Earth (who btw uses something called Aquarius and Libra?). Anyway, she gets away, becomes Queen and greets her niece with "Hi, I'm your new mom," whereas Heero and Marticus are talking about Casablanca ...for some reason.
The one interesting thing I gleaned from the chapter is that (I believe) Katrina took Wyvern with her, which she then would logically store somewhere in Cinq. Imagine that. It might explain how Sam ended up in Preventer 5 and/or in the hands of Dixneuf.
Or she shipped it off to Mars, who knows. Everything seems to end up there anyway.
So, do I think this is the last we'll see of the flashbacks? Hard to tell. If Sumizawa plans on springing any illegitimate progeny on us, probs not. And I guess he can also go through Marticus and Katrina 2.0 hooking up. And we all know he wants to, if the past three years are any indication. As for Heero, his story seems pretty complete. Though how the scientists ended up working for OZ would be interesting, if somewhat irrelevant to the Mars timeline. Then again, that hasn't stopped Sumizawa before, has it?
EDIT: Well, look at that. The Alliance officers to attack the Merry Men were Million Liddell-Hart, the (later) general who would screw up the Marius plant battle, so that Treize's group would have to come in and clean up after him in AC 186 Summer, and Clarence Septem, Gwinter's grandpa (the bald old guy in episode 22).
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Yeah, the flashbacks are nonsense. But I'm changing my opinion about the MC story. FT might not be that horrible, after all.
I was trying to make heads and tails of the last part of the most recent chapter, when I noticed that I hadn't read chapter 19 yet. And chapter 19 is really cool, because there are absolutely no flashbacks!
As for its content, Heero, Trowa and Catherine were captured by Naina and co., so those left were Duo in Warlock, Phobos in Sheherazade and Quatre (or Professor W, if you will) in Snow White. They're hiding from the Peacecraft twins, with Quatre using his Space Heart to determine where they are, and as they do so, the twins' side (I think they were the Mars Feds? correct me if I'm wrong) gets attacked by holo!Zechs' side (Lanagrin, if I'm not mistaken).
All in all, 60 Mars Suits (likely Virgos, the translation calls them "Burge") charge them and it's up to Naina, Mille and Quatrine in the Queen, Jack and King suits to fend them off. So the battle begins and what do Duo, Phobos and Quatre do? Grab some popcorn and watch from a safe distance of course!
Well, actually they're trying to decide whether they should wait for the Virgos to wipe them out to rescue Heero (and probs kill Relena afterwards) or to help them defend the pacifistic *coughyeahrightcough* Mars Federation, which makes Quatre babble about how being a pacifist in the GW universe sucks, because your country always gets burned to a crisp. First time was with King Peacecraft, then with Relena and again now. Guy has a point.
So they continue to wax philosophical (this chap is in Duo Jr. POV btw), while the hopelessly outnumbered Peacecrafts + Winner struggle with the Virgos, because their new planet defensers seem to be a royal pain in the neck. From what I gather, they are already in the ropes when they manage to decrease the number to 50.
This of course prompts Phobos and Quatre to decide to pull a big damn heroes moment, with Duo getting dragged along because democracy is awesome and he got outvoted lol. So the big bad wolf in the devil suit and the storytelling belly dancer swoop in to kick Virgo butt; Naina is grateful Duo is backing her up, while Quatrine and Phobos give us a nod to Trowa's EZ, with Quatrine going "I won't thank you" and Phobos responding "Don't worry, I didn't expect you to."
Apparently, the tides have turned but Quatre, who's chilling on the sidelines, still decides to go for the overkill and politely asks the guys to gtfo of the water they're in (apparently they're fighting in a lake) because he's about to use Snow White's white dwarf (meaning, he readies a crossbow to be shot). Just as the last of his allies get away from the water, he shoots a white arrow into the lake where the Virgos are gathered and turns the whole murky, dark lake into pure white.
I'm not sure what he did exactly, but there was a "powerful plasma discharge" that pretty much f***d up the remaining 20 Virgos, winning the battle and giving Jr. a healthy dose of fear for the blond professor for using such dangerous weaponry. Duo also thinks this was a "last resort" kind of weapon, but Quatre informs him that there's better stuff still. Yay.
With the MDs trashed, the Lanagrin folks retreat but not before sending a message. Turns out Quatrine's old friend Stella is part of the baddies now (lolwhut), as she tells them, or rather Quatrine, that next time they won't be so lenient.
All who are left now are Generation Xerox and Quatre, so what is the logical thing to do for our heroes? Surrender of course. Jr. busts a cap, but in the end goes along with it because democracy is awesome and he got outvoted again. That and he swears everybody is out to jerk him around. Quatre tells him that he wants to rescue their captured allies but something is seriously wrong with that statement, because not only are the handcuffs they put Jr., Phobos and Quatre in a joke, they bring them to a room where Trowa and Catherine are calmly having a nice, big breakfast. With silverware and everything.
Trowa even goes "You're late," while Catherine jokes to Phobos about having bananas for him (which makes the brat smile). So yeah, Jr. being put off by this very odd treatment of prisoners is understandable. It gets even weirder when they ask about Heero, and Trowa, who's stuffing his face with a croissant, nods to a chair, which swivels around to reveal Heero watching flashback nonsense on his holo glasses.
To make it a full-blown party, Relena waltzes into the room with a cup of tea for Heero (since throwing tea parties seems to be all that gal is doing nowadays). I think Relena more or less asks him to kill her, but Heero hesitates and says he'll do it after she watches the Peacecraft files herself ("Seriously, there are like a gazillion clones of you! One of them is even piloting a meowing fighter jet. You gotta see this!"). Ahem.
So she puts on the glasses, cue space waltz, blablablah, we skip to the end of chapter 21 where Relena decides it's not the time for Heero to kill her yet (I wonder when the time will come that they decide to do something against the nano machines instead of trying to off their trigger).
Just then they receive a message from a severely wounded Cyrene that Lanagrin is bringing out the big guns, aka Babel, and holo!Zechs shows his ugly mug on screen to demand that they hand over Queen Relena. He gets the proverbial bird flipped in response and Heero asks Quatre if Snow White is ready to use <insert weapon name>. Quatre affirms but tells him he didn't expect to whip that weapon out so soon. The chapter ends with Jr. having no idea what they're talking about and being pissed that no one ever tells him stuff.
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and @Ikuze, where did you find those chapters? Were they english or did you translated them? Thanks anyways, was just going to post here 'whatsup with FT' lol.
From you last post, let me get this clear, so when Duo jr and company were taken in, were trowa and catherine there all the time? Because they were having some food and stuff? Don't get it lol :P sorry
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BOULDER, Colo. – Mike MacIntyre's inaugural meeting with his new team lasted just long enough to leave his players with this thought: He's turned around one downtrodden program and he can do the same at Colorado.
Not someday, either, but starting next season.
The 47-year-old coach revived a San Jose State football team in short order. Now, he'll try to fix the beleaguered Buffaloes, who are coming off their worst season in the 123-year history of the program.
"We've got a long way to go. But I've been there before and I know what to do," MacIntyre told a room full of boosters and media Monday night after agreeing to a five-year deal worth $2 million a season. "There's no reason Colorado shouldn't be at the top of the conference and competing year in and year out."
His hiring ends a two-week search by Colorado that included a rejection by its first choice, Butch Jones.
MacIntyre inherits a squad that's coming off a 1-11 record this year that led to the firing of Jon Embree. MacIntyre's first order of business was giving his new players a quick pep talk when he met with them at Folsom Field.
"I think he won a lot of guys over in his confidence, with what he did at San Jose State and what he can do now," quarterback Connor Wood said. "He said we have a lot of talent here and can do the exact same thing. We believe it."
Lattimore will go pro: At Columbia, S.C. , injured South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore will enter the NFL draft, said people familiar with the decision.
One person said Monday that Lattimore is expected to announce his decision later this week. The people spoke with The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because there has not been an official statements regarding Lattimore's decision.
The running back suffered a horrific injury to his right knee against Tennessee on Oct. 27. Doctors say Lattimore had successful surgery to repair several ligaments on Nov. 2. It is unclear when he'll be able to return to the field.
Lattimore injured his left knee in 2011 as a sophomore. He rushed for 662 yards and 11 touchdowns this season, both team highs. He is South Carolina's career leader in both overall touchdowns with 41 and rushing scores with 38.
Lattimore did not immediately answer a text message or phone call from The AP. ESPN first reported Lattimore's intention to declare for the draft.

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Walmart and Straight Talk Wireless are offering the iPhone 4, 4S and 5 with no-contract monthly plans.
Straight Talk Wireless plans cost $45 with unlimited talk, text and data for 30 days. A $60 per 30 days plan includes international calling.
Without a data plan to subsidize it, Walmart charges the full retail price for the various iPhone models (from $449 for the iPhone 4 with 8GB to $849 for the iPhone 5 with 64GB). But they are also offering special financing with a Walmart Credit Card of $25/month with no interest.


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Today in History
Today is Sunday, March 30, the 89th day of 2014. There are 276 days left in the year.
On March 30 -
In 1135, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born in Cordoba in present-day Spain.
In 1822, Florida became a United States territory.
In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union.
In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opened.
In 1923, the Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived in New York.
In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
In 1959, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v. Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime did not constitute double jeopardy.
In 1964, John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.
In 2002, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth died at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.
In entertainment history, on March 30 –
In 1978, Paul Simonon (SIM'-uh-nin) and Topper Headon of The Clash were arrested in London for shooting pigeons from the roof of a rehearsal hall.
In 1983, a jury in Santa Monica, California, decided that Groucho Marx's companion, Eric Fleming, had defrauded the late comedian. The Marx Estate was awarded nearly half a million dollars, but the amount was later reduced to $221,000.
In 1986, actor James Cagney died at his farm in Stanfordville, New York, at age 86.
In 1992, "The Silence of the Lambs" won five Academy Awards, including best picture. Stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins won the best actress and actor awards. "Beauty and the Beast" won best original song and score.
In 1999, model Fabio was injured while riding a roller coaster as a goose flew into his face in Williamsburg, Virginia.
In 2004, British-born American broadcaster Alistair Cooke died in New York at age 95.
In 2007, Bono of U2 was knighted in an informal ceremony at the Dublin home of a British ambassador.
In 2013, Phil Ramone, 79, the masterful award-winning engineer, arranger and producer, died in New York
Thought for Today: "In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby." -- Alistair Cooke (1908-2004).


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I use a large usb hard drive to keep backups and other stuff. The partitions on this drive automatically mount when I plug the usb in. This seems to be the default and is the logical thing. However when I come to unplug the drive I go to Thunar, right click on 'eject', Thunar then unmounts the partitions and then automatically remounts them before I have time to unplug the drive.
Is there a way to have automount when I plug the drive in but for partitions to be unmounted AND STAY UNMOUNTED when I want to unplug.
To save having to run Thunar in order to unplug the drive, is there a way to have some sort of button on the panel sort of like Windows' "Safely remove" icon?
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Lenovo IdeaPad U410
You don't say what distro you are using but this could be a system thing as I've similar behaviour on other desktops too.
If you have an icon on the desktop for the partition you can unmount it there by right clicking.
Also please mention the version of Thunar. I see "Unmount" but no "Eject" in Thunar 1.6.3.
I use palimpsest (Disk Utility) to unmount my USB's safely.
Click to view the screenshot
I remember proposing the safely remove feature to be implemented in Thunar last year, but the devs obviously didn't put it in their TODO list... Hopefully we will see this feature in future releases...
What about the plugin "Mount Devices" (RC Panel > Panel > Add New Items), would that do what you want?
MX-17 (based on Debian Stable) with Xfce 4.12.
ozjd - I'm using Mint 16 Xfce (sorry I should have said this and have now put it in my profile). Yes I can unmount each partition in turn from the desktop but it's a lot of steps when a single button could do the trick (and I'm rather forgetful anyway).
vasa1 - Thunar 1.6.3, same as you. When I right-click on a partition located on a usb drive in Thunar I get 'eject' just below 'unmount'.
PaperNick - Interesting suggestion. It turns out that I already have this program, namely gnome-disk-utility and called 'Disks' in Mint. Mint have presumably cleaned up/simplified the interface whilst also hiding the functionality.
Jerry3904 - I don't have this plugin in the Mint version of Xfce. I've found it on Xfce's website and will download and check it out.
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- … unt-plugin
Many thanks for your replies.
EDIT: For Mint the xfce goodies package is in the repositories but not installed by default
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While Cao describes Suicide Slums as "a place you're not supposed to go, sort of an iffy, dodgy kind of place," it's also home to superhero Steel's headquarters, the Steelworks, and the club owned by the Man of Steel's pal Bibbo Bibbowski.
Coming from Star Wars Galaxies developer Sony Online Entertainment Austin, DC Universe Online is currently slated for PC and PlayStation 3 releases later this year.
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Hello, bosunyum,
Im joining in because Ive often thought abt it, too. Which is better:
1. If Ted marries, his mother will be happy.
2. If Ted gets married, his mother will be happy.
It seems to me, it is better to use marry with an object marry smb. When the spouse is not mentioned, Id rather use get married. Ive often seen examples contrary to this idea, though.


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Grandparents are often thought of as bringing gifts to their grandchildren, spoiling and indulging them. However, grandparents have more important gifts to offer – gifts that cost little or no money, but that build character and create fond memories.
Today's fast paced lives challenge grandparents as they search for ways to show their special kind of love.
Because of longer life expectancies, families today have the potential for having long-term relationships with multiple generations. It is well worth taking the time to think creatively and find ways to enrich the lives of grandchildren.
A program through the University of Illinois Extension in Grundy program discusses the important roles of a grandparent and strategies to enhance the relationship between grandparents and the grandchild, as well as the parents.
Chelsey Byers, family life educator U of I Extension, will conduct the seminar from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the University of Illinois Grundy County Extension Office (Farm Bureau Building) 4004 N. Division Street in Morris.
Advance registration and $5 per person is needed by Friday, Nov. 2.
To register for this program, call U of I Extension in Grundy County at (815) 942-2725 or send your name and phone number via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Set in the vivid world of prizefighting's past, Golden Boy, Clifford Odets' most popular play, is the story of Joe Bonaparte, a promising young violinist who forsakes his family and artistic dreams for the lure of fame and fortune in the ring. Joe's immigrant father (Tony Shalhoub), Moody, Siggie, Roxy, Pepper, Tokio (Danny Burstein) and Lorna Moon – "the dame from Newark" (Yvonne Strahovski) with whom Joe (Seth Numrich) falls in love- are just some of the colorful characters sharing the excitement of Joe's rise up the ranks, and the conflicts that come with money and fame. Bartlett Sher (Awake and Sing!, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, South Pacific) directs this 75th Anniversary production in the very same theater in which it premiered!
Michael Aronov, Danny Burstein, Demosthenes Chrysan, Anthony Crivello, Sean Cullen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ned Eisenberg, Brad Fleischer, Karl Glusman, Jonathan Hadary, Daniel Jenkins, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Dion Mucciacito, Seth Numrich, Vayu O'Donnell,Lucas Caleb Rooney, Tony Shalhoub, Yvonne Strahovski, David Wohl
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Music and Dance Faculty to Perform Benefit Concert
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Faculty members from the Department of Music and Dance will join together in their fourth annual benefit concert on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in the UVM Recital Hall on the Redstone Campus. Voluntary donations will be accepted at the door to support the Yandell Fund, which provides scholarships to talented UVM students.
The program will include an eclectic variety of solos and ensembles featuring classical music, jazz and dance, with works from Haydn to Debussy to Charles Ives, Dave Brubeck to David Rakowski, whose piece will challenge composer and pianist David Feurzeig to play with two hands and his nose.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill that would bar people from getting hunting and fishing licenses if they owe money to a county jail.
The measure endorsed Tuesday would also divert a person's lottery prizes and income tax refunds to pay for jail debts. Debtors also would be barred from getting concealed gun permits until they pay up.
State law requires people confined in county jails for state crimes to reimburse counties for the cost of their incarceration. The Missouri Sheriffs' Association estimates unpaid jail boarding fees statewide total about $3 million.
The legislation sponsored by Republican Sen. Brian Munzlinger, of Williamstown, needs one more affirmative vote before moving to the House.


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AFTER shootings in America people tell each other in sad and shocked tones that the victims should have been safe where they were killed.
And the people are always right. The victims of Sunday's shooting were praying in a temple, preparing for their weekly shared meal. They should have been safe. The 12 killed in Colorado should have been safe sitting with family and friends to enjoy a movie.
Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her staff and constituents should have been safe at a public meeting outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, but six of them died, and Ms Giffords will probably not fully recover. The 17 people wounded in a bar last month in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, when an angry man opened fire on them with an assault rifle should have been safe, too.
Everyone who has been shot in their homes, in bars and schools, colleges, universities, workplaces, even in the streets of the capital, Washington, DC, should have felt safe, should have been safe.
Even as police searched for a suspected second assailant in the Milwaukee temple on Sunday morning (it turned out there was only one), even before the death toll was known, it was clear that America's Sikh community did not feel safe and has not since September 11, 2001.
"I request all everyone who know #sikhs & tweet or have access to media. Talk now. The world is listening. Tomorrow they won't," tweeted Gagan Singh just after midday, long before the police operation had ended.
Minutes later his Twitter account was suspended, but he was happy to speak to a journalist over the phone. He explained that hate groups had targeted Sikhs across the US since the attacks on September 11, probably because - unlike most Muslims - Sikhs wear turbans.
"A lot of the population does not know that these turban-wearing people are Sikh, they expect us to be associated with al-Qaeda," said Mr Singh, a community activist with a blog called Urbanturbanguy.com.
"A lot of Sikhs live [in America] with fear in their hearts." (He stresses that no one, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, should be subjected to abuse for his or her beliefs or background.)
Even as he spoke, Sikh community leaders were on air on the cable networks trying to get the same message out, to explain who they were while they fleetingly held the nation's attention.
The first post-September 11 attack on a Sikh came just four days later, when Balbir Singh Sodh, a petrol station owner in Arizona, was shot dead by a man called Frank Roque. Roque had reportedly told friends and a waitress that he was ''going to go out and shoot some towel-heads''. He is serving a life term in prison.
On Monday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a brief compendium of hate crimes against Sikhs over the past couple of years, including the story of a Virginian family who received death threats last March by someone calling them "the Turban family" and accusing them of links to the Taliban.
Also that month two friends - Surinder Singh, 65, and Gurmej Atwai, 78 - were shot dead while taking an afternoon walk. The Southern Poverty Law Centre has suggested that assailants who mistook the men for Muslims committed the killings, the Journal Sentinel reported.
It now seems clear that Wade Michael Page, who was killed by police on Sunday morning after he is thought to have murdered six worshippers, was a member of more than one white supremacist organisation.
It is not known whether he mistook the Sikhs he shot for Muslims or whether he just hated anyone who did not look like him. Doubtless that will be discovered in the continuing investigation, and it is doubtless useful information.
But it is unlikely to be much comfort to America's Sikh community, nor to its Muslims.


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"I am sick of all this Titanic stuff," shouted Boston Bob from his lanai. "It all comes down to British arrogance!" Boston Bob is Irish/American.
The sentiment echoed down the canal and was met with more than one, "here, here!" The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic has been way overblown. Still this obsession continues with an ever-increasing tempo.
Later that day at the afternoon informal "Dead End Canal Yacht Club" meeting, around my pool, we continued the discussion. Boston Bob was off to the airport to pick up a passenger in his van. "Them 'furners' can't run a boat," said Kentucky Tim.
"Appears so," said Run-aground Ralph, "hitting an iceberg is inexcusable!" Captain Crunch agreed heartily, and we all chided him. He corrected us by pointing out that he had never hit a berg. "Only because Florida doesn't have them," we all said.
I was never very interested in the sinking. Never saw the newest movie about the Titanic which 90 percent of the world has. I saw an older version years ago, and I'm sure neither one was completely accurate. Suddenly, I wanted to know the truth and I became addicted to the search. I was astounded at the volume of research and opinion on the Internet.
I don't have space to acknowledge every source so I will summarize. The most interesting, by far, was the PBS show, 'Saving the Titanic' about the black gangs, engineers and electrician who worked in the bowels of the ship. Obviously, they didn't save the Titanic but they kept the lights on and electricity flowing to the lifeboat winches until the last minute. This is a fictional account of actual events.
Why the Titanic sank is not in dispute, the Iceberg did it! Why the unsinkable sank? Everyone has a different opinion but everyone agrees the ship wasn't ever unsinkable. So it was the arrogance of the designers and the White Star line that designated the ship so. Under ideal circumstances, the ship should have survived but, as in most disasters, there are many minor mistakes that add up to a disaster.
The ship was designed to withstand a head-on collision but the natural instinct is to try to avoid a collision. If the skipper had kept the starboard engine engaged and reversed the port engine instead of stopping both and then reversing both, the ship would have turned to port quickly, possibly missing the berg. The helmsman had little training in wheel steering; survivors report that he had been proficient in tiller steering and turned the wheel the wrong way when ordered, "Hard to Port!" With a tiller, turning left meant pushing the tiller to the right, with a wheel it is turning the wheel to the left.
What if, if, if That game can be and has been played for more than 100 years without changing a single aspect of the tragedy. What hasn't been scrutinized was the bravery and heroism of the crew. There were mistakes by the captain and topside crew. The first lifeboats were launched partly full because of the delay of the "abandon ship" order but after it was given, the topside crewmembers were efficient and heroic.
Titanic carried all the lifeboats that the law required but only a third of what was actually needed. The bilge pumps were inadequate for such a catastrophic collision. In a simulation, the ship sank much quicker than in real life. The engineers jury-rigged ballast pumps to pump water overboard instead of side to side.
As the sea rushed in, the boiler rooms began to flood and the struggle to maintain electrical power became the number one priority. The black gangs, coal stokers and boiler maintenance personnel were given the option to go topside and take their chances. Many went but many stayed and fought until the last. Power to the lifeboat winches was absolutely necessary, and they achieved the nearly impossible!
Survivor accounts confirm that the ship was fully lit until it broke in two and sank. The PBS story tells how and why it was so important. In a way they did save the Titanic or at least could have saved it under other circumstances. Sure it is fiction, but I have to believe it is true. The ship should have sunk quickly after the boilers exploded but they didn't, and the generators would have stopped if the boilers were left unattended. Keeping the lights on was a lot more than throwing switches. There wasn't any way to save the ship but they tried.
I've asked our club members to watch the show but they are as burned out as I was. I especially wanted them to see the reference to King Canute. As a junior engineer lay dying in the boiler room, he said he felt like Bloody King Canute who tried to order the tide to reverse and nearly drowned trying.
"A lot of people think old Canute was just arrogant," said the Chief Engineer, "but I think he was saying that the sea cares little for kings. This ship has a gymnasium, a library, a swimming pool for God's sake but what is she compared to the sea, nothing!" And still they fought on!
Visit PBS.org to view the entire one-hour show. I know you'll see this story in a new light.
Boatguy Ed is a retired marine manufacturer, past Commodore of the "Dead End Canal Yacht Club" and an avid boater. Send comments to email@example.com or go to the "Dead End Canal Yacht Club's" Facebook page or www.supershipbottom.com.


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From Ophelia, I discover that Justin Vacula is still on his kick trying to suggest that what the slimepitters, et al. are doing is absolutely not stalking.
A lengthy post I authored months ago concerning what certain Freethought Bloggers are calling 'stalking' and 'cyberstalking' is below. This is especially relevant considering Ophelia Benson's recent post "It's all trolling, when you come right down to it" in which she claims that the "pro-misogyny crowd" stalks bloggers "day in and day out."
TL;DR – criticism, even when it is excessive, isn't stalking or cyberstalking. Public figures who make their controversial opinions known to the world will get responses. Reductio ad absurdum: Major cable news networks must be stalkers for their coverage of Obama and Romney.
So, let's look at what kind of "reaction" the slimepit had to me yesterday, as just one of those days in and out.
Ah, it seems they have discovered the young woman who went to WisCon some years ago and posted surreptitiously taken photos from the event to Something Awful, along with a bunch of fat-shaming, transphobic and otherwise nasty comments.
You will be shocked, SHOCKED! to find out who was right there, leading the online harrassment campaign against the blogger for that post.
I'm trying to figure out which one she is, in the original pictures!
None of those were me, just for the record. No profit in it for the woman involved. In 2008, I was in very good shape.
omfg you're kidding.
That woman is toxic.
Am I now.
Once I saw that the story involved
1. Feminist science fiction……….check!
2. Located in Wisconsin (right beside Minnesota)……check!
3. A vicious campaign of threats and job targeting……check!…..check!…..check!…..check!…..check!…..check!…..check!…..check!
I knew she must be involved.
There are a few other comments, but they don't amount to much more than trying to fat-shame me, trying to connect my feminism to New Age theology, and suggesting Greg and I must be having sex. There's one person using insulting me as an introduction to the pit, and a post from Vacula on where he thinks he's going with this:
I hope to author a blog post touching on conflation of criticism with abuse and responsibility and the internet (if you can't take the heat, don't engage in drama or cause conflict – but, you know, advocating for reasonable responsible action is 'victim blaming').
I'm all for separating criticism from abuse. It will be interesting to see whether Vacula can tell the difference. I doubt it. This is the man who referred to defamation law as a defense against stalking, and he apparently has no idea what a reaction is.
If you are responding to something, you aren't starting it. Effects come after causes, not before. Someone who is going out of their way to find out what I did four years ago isn't responding to me.
Neither, for that matter, is someone who makes up a story about what they found. That "leading the online harrassment [sic] campaign" I supposedly did? Here's the full text of that post.
While WisCon is generally an accepting place, it always raises some anger. Not surprising. We're talking about contentious issues tied closely to our identities. It's hard to get through a con without realizing that we've taken something for granted that's hurt someone else. We get defensive because we've put a lot of effort into being decent, thoughtful people and we really want to rest on that sometimes.
Then there's Rachel Moss, whose motivations for coming to the con (twice) are, well, opaque despite her explanation. Angry Black Woman has a good summary of the debacle that started when Rachel Moss decided to post pictures of WisCon on Something Awful with something masquerading as commentary. Liz Henry starts an interesting conversation on balancing awareness of our enemies as human beings with holding them 100% responsible for their behavior. Lesley at Fatshionista simply and beautifully tells everyone creeping out of the woodwork to get at it already–do their worst.
After them, and the commenters at their blogs, all I've got to say is that I'm proud WisCon is my con and that these are my people. And no one making nasty comments is having as much fun as my people are in those pictures.
That's it. I mentioned what had happened, praised a couple of people for taking positive steps that didn't target Moss. From the post of Liz's I linked:
I don't want people's justified anger at her to push her deeper into isolation. I hope she has friends who will stick with her and help her and that her boyfriend (who she says tries to stop her from throwing up) can help her figure out what to do.
I still feel angry with her but I feel infinitely sad also, I also feel that might be condescending of me, if so, I'm sorry.
This is an illustration of how the people who hate us often are us, and need our help.
Again, that's it. That behavior somehow made me a toxic leader of a vicious campaign of threats and job targeting.
This isn't a response. It isn't reporting. It isn't criticism. It is, however, the sort of thing that happens–yes, day in and day out–to this group of bloggers I happen to be part of. In other words, it's pretty much exactly the opposite of what Vacula had to say about what we experience. Not only that, but it's happening right under his nose, and he's still pretending it doesn't.
Let's just say I don't have high hopes for this next post of his.


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Forty-four years ago, Calvin Madison was one step away from the electric chair. A year ago he was a step away from freedom. What happens this year could depend on you.
The former Rockford resident shot and killed John Hogan in 1970. Actually, that's an understatement. Madison executed Hogan, 19, in cold blood. He made Hogan kneel, then shot him four times in the back of the head. That was after Hogan gave Madison the contents of the cash register of the gas station where he worked - $100.
Hogan's life was taken for $100.
Madison was sentenced to death in 1970. Two years later, his life and the lives of 600 other inmates on death row in 34 states were spared when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment and unconstitutional.
He was resentenced to 75 to 100 years in prison. However, under the old "indeterminate" sentencing system in Illinois, no matter how long the sentence - or how horrible the crime - the inmate eventually could be considered for parole.
Madison is up for parole a year after narrowly being sent back to prison. He got five votes for parole from members of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, three fewer votes than needed. His family is working hard to win his freedom.
The board considers community reaction when it decides these cases. The Winnebago County state's attorney's office plans to object to Madison's parole. Will you?
Madison is the third local killer up for parole this year: Robert Henry Lower killed 15-year-old newspaper carrier Joey Didier, and Curtis Brownell was convicted of killing 17-year-old Louise Betts.
As with Lower and Brownell, the Rockford Register Star is collecting electronic signatures for and against parole. And, as with Lower and Brownell, the Editorial Board opposes Madison's parole.
Madison's family says he has turned his life around, has been a model prisoner and is ready to be a productive member of society. We believe people can change, but we think he can be productive behind bars. He can mentor prisoners who will go free and can serve as an example of a life wasted because of one cruel, heartless act.
Three teenagers are dead and the three men who killed them still have hopes of being free. That's unfair to the families of the victims who never really have closure after their loved ones' deaths.
As John's brother, Terry, points out during a video interview that's posted on rrstar.com, Madison's family can interact with Calvin even though he's behind bars. Hogan's family can only visit a cemetery in Hanover, Wis.
The Hogan, Didier and Betts families have to relive the horrible events of the day their teenagers died every time one of these killers comes up for parole.
"Nobody should have to go through this. It's hard," Debbie Hogan, John's sister-in-law, says in the video interview.
It's bad enough living through it once, let alone the multiple times these families have to relive their suffering. Madison should remain locked up. Go here to sign the petition.
If you can't sign our online petition, you can send a letter to Illinois Prisoner Review Board, 319 E. Madison St., Suite A, Springfield, IL 62701.


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The New Orleans Saints are on a roll.
The Black and Gold have won four of their last five games and gone from a low of 0-4, which is how they started the season, to a nearly-even record of 4-5.
The New Orleans Saints are on a roll.
The Black and Gold have won four of their last five games and gone from a low of 0-4, which is how they started the season, to a nearly-even record of 4-5.
Perhaps the most-emotional win of the past month came on Sunday when the Saints beat their archrivals, the Atlanta Falcons.
Not only are the teams longtime rivals and division foes, but the Falcons came into the game undefeated, giving the Saints the honor of beating what had been the last team in the NFL without a loss this season.
For the Saints, the win was huge in another way as well.
To secure the victory, the Saints relied on their much-maligned defense to make a stand at the goal line and keep the Falcons from scoring. The defense was up to the task.
At times this season, the Saints' defense has had trouble stopping the running game of opponents, making tackles in the open field or even keeping close coverage on receivers.
Those worries were nowhere to be seen on Sunday in the Superdome.
New Orleans had the lead in the final minutes, but when the Falcons got to the Saints' 1-yard line and had a second-and-goal, it looked like the visiting team was ready to take the lead.
It was not to be.
The Saints' defense held, with cornerback Jabari Greer making the decisive play on fourth down when he dove to knock away a pass that could have been the go-ahead touchdown.
For the Saints, the win was nothing new. The Black and Gold have had tremendous success against Atlanta in recent years, having lost just two of the past 13 matchups with the Falcons.
In a larger sense, though, the win could be just the thing to remind the Saints and their fans of the elite-level talent on this team.
After an incredibly disappointing 0-4 start to the season, fans were wondering whether the coach and management suspensions resulting from the team's Bountygate scandal were the undoing of this year.
Following such a strong rebound, capped off by Sunday's dramatic win, some of those fears might start to fade.
While it would take an improbable chain of events to allow the Saints to win their division this year, it is still more than possible for the Black and Gold to win a wild-card spot in the playoffs. From there, anything would be possible.
The important thing is that Louisiana's team is one game closer to restoring everyone's faith in their greatness. Next up on the schedule is a road game next week against the struggling Oakland Raiders, an excellent chance to bring the record to 5-5 and a hail a new beginning to the season. The fans can't wait.
Geaux Saints!
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A's Reddick injured against Houston
HOUSTON — Oakland right fielder Josh Reddick has been injured after colliding into a wall trying to chase down a foul ball against the Astros.
Reddick appeared to injure his right wrist when he fell chasing down a foul ball hit by Marwin Gonzalez in the fifth inning.
He remained on the ground and was looked at by trainers for a couple of minutes before getting up and walking to the dugout. He was holding his right wrist as he left the field.
After the injury, Seth Smith moved from left field to right, and Yoenis Cespedes entered the game at left field.
There was no immediate word from the team on Reddick's injury.


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Canadians expect their governments and public institutions to uphold the highest standards of efficiency and effectiveness. The National Gallery of Canada is committed to meeting those expectations by pursuing its mandate in a way that reflects best practices in corporate governance and by remaining fully accountable.
Under the Museums Act, the Gallery's Board of Trustees serves as its governing body, reporting to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. The 11 members of the Board, representing all regions of the country, are appointed by the Governor-in-Council on the advice of the Minister. The Board has primary responsibility for ensuring that the resources provided to the institution are used judiciously to achieve its mandate. The Board provides strategic direction to the Gallery, oversees the conduct of its business, and ensures that all major issues are given proper consideration.
The Board is assisted by six committees: the Executive Committee; the Acquisitions Committee; the Audit & and Finance Committee; the Governance and Nominating Committee; the Human Resources Committee; and the Programmes and Advancement Committee.
The Board of Trustees meets quarterly, once outside the National Capital Region, and the meetings are supplemented by frequent conference calls. The Board delegates authority for day-to-day management of the Gallery to the Director of the National Gallery, who is supported by three Deputy Directors and four Directors.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 98022740 | Dated February 27, 1998
Edward Odom
Chief, Legislation and Regulations Division
Visa Office
U.S. Department of State
Room L603-C, SA-1
Washington, DC 20520-0106
Re: Response to the Interim Rule Regarding Public Charge published at 62 Federal Register 67563, December 29, 1997
Dear Sir:
In response to the interim rule implementing provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRAIRA") regarding the acceptance of affidavits of support by consular posts abroad and the determination by consular officers of public charge, following are the comments of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ("AILA") and the American Immigration Law Foundation ("AILF").
AILA is a voluntary bar association of over 5,000 lawyers and law professors practicing and teaching in the field of immigration and nationality law. Its members represent the entire spectrum of those involved in our country's immigration laws, from aliens seeking immigration benefits to employers, U.S. citizens and other U.S. entities seeking to sponsor foreign nationals.
AILF is a non-profit organization established to increase public understanding of immigration law and policy, to promote public service and professional excellence in the field of immigration law, and to advance fundamental fairness, due process, and basic constitutional and human rights in immigration law and administration.
Because of this collective expertise , which includes extensive experience in the field of immigrant visa processing, AILA and AILF are uniquely qualified to assess the impact of this interim rule.
As an initial matter, we are appreciative of the Department's desire to open these issues for public comment. We hope that the Department will continue to share its thoughts on the implementation of IIRAIRA as it moves through the process of guiding consular officers through new systems and new requirements.
However, we remain concerned with the implementation of the affidavit of support requirement, even with the limited role played by the Department in interpreting these requirements. In particular, we are concerned that the level of discretion given to consular officers to find likelihood of becoming a public charge despite meeting the requirements of the income or assets test imposed by the new affidavit of support.
The interim rule (40.41 (a) and (d)) provides for a consular officer to determine that a sponsor has not satisfied the public charge ground of inadmissibility, even if there is on file a properly executed and presumably enforceable affidavit of support (I-864) and the sponsor has passed all income or assets test required by the INS. There is no guidance for the consular officer, although the INS regulations provide some guidance as to the inability to maintain the sponsor's income at the required level. Faced with this lack of guidance, consular officers will have difficulty distinguishing among a myriad of factors beyond those authorized by the statute. This uncertainty will prejudice many immigrants and sponsors who otherwise meet the statutory and regulatory income requirements. To the extent that the affidavit of support and its criteria were instituted to add elements of certainty into the process of identifying and eliminating those likely to become a public charge, this unbridled discretion is without support.
Assuming this discretion will continue to play an important role in the process, it will be even more important to afford would-be immigrants a meaningful opportunity to rebut a finding of inadmissibility on these grounds. Such a review process will aid consular officers in making correct and equitable decisions, protecting the integrity of the process and also protecting the immigrants and their sponsors.
At a minimum, we suggest that the Department consult with interested stakeholders prior to the issuance of field guidance on these issues. We remain available to participate in such discussions and would welcome an opportunity to discuss the implementation of these issues further.
Finally, we thank the Department for this opportunity to present our views and look forward to receiving your response.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 98022740.
American Immigration Lawyers Association
1331 G Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Copyright © 1993-2018
American Immigration Lawyers Association.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Gophers baseball team is about to break ground on a new stadium.
The University of Minnesota has scheduled a Monday afternoon ceremony at Siebert Field, which has been slated for replacement on the same site at the north edge of campus.
The first phase of the project was approved by the Board of Regents last week. Construction of the 1,400-seat, privately funded facility will start on June 18, with completion set for December. The playing surface will be artificial turf, with potential for seating expansion, a locker room and training facility to be added in the future.
The Gophers have used the downtown Metrodome as their primary home stadium in recent years due to the deterioration of Siebert Field.


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"Historically, oil and gas producers have used pipelines to transport crude from production to refineries and ultimately on to end users," said John Lanigan, BNSF executive vice president and chief marketing officer. "Because this shale development growth came about so quickly, there has been a shortage of pipeline capacity to deliver production from new unconventional sources to coastal refiners. BNSF has responded quickly to enable producers to move crude to the most attractive markets and secure the best prices."
Today, through direct and interline service, BNSF's network reaches all major coastal and inland markets and it directly serves 30 percent of U.S. refineries in 14 states. BNSF currently has 1,000 miles of rail line in the Williston Basin area and serves eight originating terminals with two more scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012. BNSF connects to 16 of the top 19 oil producing counties in Central and Western North Dakota and five of the six oil producing counties in Eastern Montana.
"BNSF has been hauling Bakken crude out of the Williston Basin area for over five years. In that time, we have seen the volume increase nearly 7,000 percent, from 1.3 million barrels in 2008 to 88.9 million in 2012," said Dave Garin, BNSF group vice president, Industrial Products. "We see this trend continuing and we are committed to serving this growing market now and in the future."
BNSF is investing $197 million in 2012 on projects in North Dakota and Montana. Some of those projects include 2,188 miles of track surfacing, two new inspection tracks, raising track at Devil's Lake, replacement of 121 miles of rail and about 332,000 rail ties, as well as signal upgrades and equipment acquisitions.


text: Yesterday we found one of zekeandgeorge's new cache in Hot Springs. In the cache was a TB "Elefant" (TBB340) from Germany. We picked up the TB and logged it. It had just come from the Crater of Diamonds State Park. We have a TB called Crater of Diamonds (TBG2VM) that is in Germany. We just thought that was interesting. Just wondering how far some of your TB's have traveled?


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Dog Friendly Rentals
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][B][COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]I am looking for any suggestions for pet/dog friendly rental accommodation (housing not hotels)across Canada. My lack of a detailed plan may sound a little strange, but I am planning to move from BC and relocate in another province at the beginning of September. Without writing a novel about the series of events leading to this decision, my move is motivated by a past assault and my belief that space and change is nessecary for a positive healthy fresh start. I have no family or friends outside of BC and am open to settling in a number of places. My main criteria for a place to live is somewhere large and populated enough (not necessarily one of the larger cities) I will not have too much difficulty finding employment. My education and work expereince is social work, but am happy to work in any field (fast food, retail, etc...) to start with. I have been putting away a nest egg to keep me going until I find a job. I'm on a budget so the cheaper the better, but can spend up to 900 per month plus applicable damage and/or pet deposits.
I have experienced the challenge of finding a home to rent that allows larger dogs in BC. One dog is a 17 year old medium lab X border collie and the other is a 4 year old large lab X pit bull X ???. Both girls are well behaved, not destructive, quiet, housebroken, and friendly. Unfortunately places advertised as pet friendly often have size restrictions on dogs that my 2 far surpass.
My pets are my family and I would no more consider leaving them than I would a child. Again, I know my openess as to where I will settle in a country as large as Canada may seem strange, but a main factor is a place where I can find a home for both myself and my dogs. Its extremely hard to find a place to rent when searching locally and finding a place while out of province is that much harder.
I would be extremely grateful for any advice, info, suggestions, or tips anyone could share. The smallest bit of help would go a long way [/COLOR][/B][/FONT]
my cousin just went from ontario to bc with her dogs and she camped along the way in a tent at camp grounds. A lot of them have showers and such and most don't have restrictions on dogs. She was on a very strict budget as well. good luck on your journey!
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The things I would like to see are more runs/ at least have a RB in the back field on 3rd and 4 and shorter and more 2 TE 2 WR 1 RB sets.
I would love to see them come out and run the ball 4-6 times for + yardage in said set and then run an out and seam with the TEs and deep comeback and slant with the WR. We could really benefit from a few 6 yard passes running in a more balanced set.


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Promotion devotion
Quicken Loans' CMO Todd Lunsford and Qtopia project manager Catherine Buzzitta
One of the Web's hottest new virtual communities may be at the cutting edge of Web 2.0, but it also takes advantage of some of marketing's tried-and-true tools.
Qtopia is a virtual world in which customers of online mortgage lender giant Quicken Loans participate in interactive promotions and games while also managing their mortgage information, accessing educational resources, communicating directly with their mortgage banker, socializing with other customers, and receiving special offers and discounts from national retailers.
"We're an online company and in keeping with that, we've always done online promotions," says Todd Lunsford, CMO at Quicken Loans. "[They are effective for us] because our customers are used to interacting with us online."
Qtopia is just one example of how innovative marketers are using digital technology to recraft and define the category of promotions and incentives. Sweepstakes, contests, coupons, events, sampling, and premiums have always played an integral role in consumer marketing. Today, however, it is Web-based promotions using those same strategies that are attracting the attention of marketers and consumers alike.
Web promotions encourage activity
Matthew Kates, VP of strategy at ePrize, which has handled more than 4,000 online promotions for companies like Coca-Cola and Dell — and worked with Quicken Loans on Qtopia — explains that online promotions succeed because they're active rather than passive.
"Telling someone, 'cut this thing out and sent it in,' doesn't involve much interaction and doesn't form much of a relationship," he says.
Launched in March, Qtopia is being promoted to more than 300,000 Quicken Loan customers. A sweepstakes promotion, "Win big in Qtopia," created awareness among clients and provided "non-client" entrants an opportunity to tour the virtual world and learn more about Quicken Loans, according to Qtopia project manager Catherine Buzzitta. Incentives included a $10,000 grand prize and hundreds of instant-win prizes like Blockbuster and Starbucks gift cards. Preliminary data (the sweepstakes ended on May 30) indicate the promotion was a hit.
"We've averaged more than 400 registrants per day, with zero dollars spent on banner ads, paid search, or placement, which we believe is very strong," Buzzitta says. The company also received 200 mortgage inquiries through Qtopia since its launch. "We had forecast perhaps 20 or so per month," she reports.
Researchers at Williamsburg, VA-based Borrell Associates Management recently uncovered a new phenomenon: businesses are increasingly shifting marketing dollars from classic online advertising to non-advertising marketing expenses.
According to the company's study, Online Promotions: The Big Shift, released in April 2008, spending for online promotions is expected to nearly triple over the next five years to $22.8 billion, surpassing all other online advertising categories. Web-based promotions are also expected to supplant direct mail and mass advertising.
"Promotions are very measurable. You know exactly what the result is very quickly after you're done," points out Kip Cassino, Borrell Associates' VP of research.
However, renewed interest in promotions isn't just limited to those that are Web-based, says Nowell Upham, EVP of promotional marketing at Dallas-based The Marketing Arm (an Omnicom agency), whose top clients include American Airlines and Frito-Lay.
"Marketers used to believe that a steady flow of relevant and original advertising messaging would work to shape consumer attitudes and beliefs, and ultimately persuade them into action," he notes. "Today, smart marketers are forgoing persuasion in favor of negotiation, using promotions to reward a specified behavior."
Promotions offer quick, measurable results
Upham says he became aware of an emerging, across-the-board spending shift from advertising to promotions about six years ago, when promotions became a winning point of difference in his agency's new business pitches. "I believe the shift in interest has a lot to do with the more measurable and near-term results promotions can offer and the growing demands on marketers to be accountable for ROI," he explains.
Punctuating Cassino and Upham's opinions, Subway Scrabble, which ran last summer with the help of Catapult Action-Based Marketing, became one of the most successful promotional campaigns in Subway history. And, its quick, measurable results proved the strong value of online promotions. Designed to increase profit margins, visit frequency and in-store traffic, the promotion sought to re-engage customers online with a continuity game. Game pieces on a 32-ounce drink cup provided an instant win possibility for free food and beverages as well as online game play, where customers registered and played in a virtual game space. Online prizes included $100,000 cash, airline tickets, MP3players, vacations and Scrabble games.


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Hi. My name is David McAlmont and I blog for The Huffington Post.
I like how that reads. For someone who still harbours inane post-Carrie Bradshaw fantasies of becoming a columnist it feels like a step in the right direction, like I have what it takes. Mind you, I don't know that it actually takes that much: in this day and age where cage fighters affianced to glamour models can have columns - albeit in beleaguered tabloids - or some of the more idiotic views on gay marriage emerge from the more 'respectable' broadsheet columnists, intelligence certainly doesn't seem to be a necessity. I think, therefore, that I'm as valid a columnist as anyone.
See what I did there though? I just dubbed myself a columnist, even though that just isn't what this is. Anyway, I've been slapped in the face with a wet whale too often to take my columnist aspirations that seriously, and this Huffington blog lark seems like much more fun: like a sort of prestigious 'blog quarter,' where I've been seated at the authentically cool kids table, keeping company with the likes of Ben Drew (my appreciation of whom pretty much landed me this gig,) Bill Maher and Bishop Gene Robinson.
Incidentally, I sang for the bishop last weekend at the British Film Institute's London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, but I digress. 'Bloggard,' that's the word I like, because I feel as if I've coined it, although I'm sure it's already been coined - I'm many things but rarely original. Nevertheless, I like the idea of being a blaggard who blogs or a braggart who blags. I'm just being silly now; it's the excitement.
Before I became too smug with the engagement I thought it would be expedient to see what my friends thought: it isn't as if the golden hand of the colossus Arianna reached out from the Zeusian AOL cloud with a booming "It's you!" or anything, but it is a secret; well, it isn't now, but I kept it close because I wanted the first post to double as a 'coming out' fanfare, a reveal.
But before that could happen I needed to know my friends' take: when I told El Boyfo (my beloved) about the engagement he was delighted; he's already a bit of a starlet on my Twitter feed as I regularly refer to him, so he is quite thrilled to be coming to The Huffington Post, so to speak.
Bill, my gay dad, emitted a high-pitched "Oh!" I think he likes the idea; he even provided me with my presidential nominee style profile picture. When I mentioned 'The Huff' to my business partner Guy he typically responded with brusque hardnosed assessment "The Huffington Post is HUGE!" Still uncertain, I mentioned it to my publicist, Susie Tullett, she effused, in true publicist style, that The Huffington Post was being "insightful" and that they'd selected an "expressive and eloquent wordsmith;" no pressure then. Finally, I sent my friend Paul Burston at TimeOut London an email and he responded, "I think it's fantastic! Well done. I'm thrilled that they've had the good sense to invite such a witty, wise and dandified man as your good self. And you can quote me on that." Aw, Sweet man.
Goodness knows I should have plenty to blog about. My new year's resolution this year is to walk everyday and an immediate consequence has been a photographic obsession with Thames bridges.
I'm plugging my viewing gaps in the American and British Film Institutes' top 100 movie lists by viewing and reviewing the titles I haven't seen, I live in the south of one of the world's most persistently fascinating cities, where extraordinary encounters, people and events are a given, and the view of the world like the view from Brixton Hill is forever frenetic with traffic.
I was a little concerned about the current affairs aspect of things because I don't watch television, other than an occasional dip into the BBC i-Player, neither do I read the papers, but this is where El Boyfo is invaluable: he can be relied upon to return home after a trying day in the class room incandescent with issues, either from the staff room water cooler or the free London newspapers on the tube. He'll come home and go on and on about his bugbear du jour for an aeon, unless I take a stand, venture a view or voice an opinion, even if it is just to shut him up. I am in so much trouble when he reads this.
All in all I think this little Huffington experiment could be one of the finest reasons for blogging I've had so far. I'll file it under 'Woo Hoo' for now.


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Thursday, March 31, 2011
There's A Lot Going On For Sophie Katz
Posted by kyradavis at 6:30 AM
Labels: Alexander Skarsgard, Lifetime, original TV series, Rod Lurie, self-publishing, Sophie Katz
12 comments:
- Melanie said...
I'm so excited! Fingers definitely crossed!
- March 31, 2011 at 6:36 AM
- Gina said...
This is very exciting! Best of luck to you and I'm looking forward to seeing how everything plays out!
- March 31, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Doris J said...
Oh if the tv thing goed through i just might have to get cable tv lol
- March 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- rourri said...
Oh I am ***SO*** excited for you!!!!!! That is fantastic news!!!
(keeping fingers crossed that planets align for this to all happen!!)
- March 31, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- RichardS said...
At the risk of being the only guy to post a comment on your blog... Congratulations on the TV possibility. I hope it works out for you. On the self publishing issue my concern is for those of us who listen to audio books. I do read ebooks but listen to 4-5 times as many as I actually get to read. If not for audio books and audible.com I would never have discovered Sophie to begin with. Regardless which way you go I wish you the best.
- March 31, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- kyradavis said...
@Richard-- The audiobook issue is one I'm trying to figure out. A LOT of my readers listen to Sophie. I know the woman who records them & if I did self-publish I'd try to find away to have the audio books available for download. We shall see :-)
- March 31, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- Kristi said...
How exciting! Congratulations. I've bought all of them the day they come out and can't wait for the next one. I have a Kindle and a Nook and I'd buy the ebook if that's the way you go.
- March 31, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- Diane Kelly said...
Awesome news! Can't wait to hear how this all turns out!
- March 31, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- kyradavis said...
Thank you, everyone! Keep your fingers crossed! :-)
- April 1, 2011 at 2:33 AM
- RichardS said...
Thanks for remembering us and for responding. That you might even get the same narrator is great news!
- April 1, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- Amanda Brice said...
Wow, lots of big news!
- April 1, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- Katie said...
Awesome News! Congrats, Kyra for all the hard work you have put into an amazing character and storylines. I currently watch BOTH Army Wives & Drop Dead Diva, and would ABSOLUTELY watch anything to do with Sophie Katz and the lovable characters I've been so dedicated to read about. As much as I look forward to the new book, I'm sure that the work and effort you are putting into this pilot episode is well worth it. What an awesome surprise!!!
- April 2, 2011 at 4:16 AM


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Primera Liga: Real Madrid criticise Cristiano Ronaldo's 'harsh' red card
Real Madrid have bemoaned the "unfair" dismissal of Cristiano Ronaldo against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
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Ronaldo was controversially sent off in 75th minute of the 1-1 draw at San Mames following an off-the-ball incident involving Athletic captain Carlos Gurpegi.
The Portugal international was pushed by Gurpegi after appealing for a handball in the area and responded by brushing his hand into the Athletic man's face.
Gurpegi tumbled to the turf and a melee between the teams ensued with Ronaldo confronted by Athletic midfielder Ander Iturraspe, who clearly pushed his head into the Madrid player's face.
Iturraspe ended up with a yellow card while Ronaldo was shown a straight red card - something his team-mates believe was undeserved.
Madrid defender Marcelo said on his club's official website: "It's tough to lose a player in an unfair way. The sending-off of Cristiano wasn't fair, although I'm not going to talk about whether the referee had a good match or not.
"We're tired of trying to talk with the referees. They talk with us and we listen to them and it would be good if they also listened to the players."
Midfielder Xabi Alonso added: "It wasn't aggression, the red to Cristiano Ronaldo is excessive. Gurpegi helped a lot and the referee was affected by the reaction of the fans throughout the match. That always happens here, it's nothing new.
"Cristiano shouldn't have done what he did but it is not a sending off, that went against us. We came here with the intention of winning because it was a good opportunity to pick up points in the league but we knew it was going to be a difficult trip."
Ronaldo's red came moments after Athletic had equalised through Ibai Gomez's piledriver after Madrid had taken a 65th-minute lead through Jese.
The result left Madrid in third place in the standings, level on 54 points with defending champions Barcelona who were surprisingly beaten at home by Valencia on Saturday, with new leaders Atletico Madrid now three points clear.
It was undoubtedly a missed opportunity following Barca's unexpected slip-up, but Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was nevertheless happy with his side's performance.
He said: "We played well. It was a high intensity match and we hardly let them have any chances. We did especially well in the second half.
"It could have been different because we scored first and dominated the match afterwards. Athletic Bilbao scored a fantastic equaliser, but overall we are going away satisfied with how we played."
On Ronaldo's red card, the Italian added: "It's tough for me to say because I was not close to it, but the pictures show that it was a bit exaggerated.
"It was difficult to try to win the match with 10 players, especially because some of them were tired. I made changes, but not because I wanted to try to win the match, more to put on fresher players to help the team at the end."


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Right on. Scribd has traditionally been a candidate for the worst designed site on the Internet managing to combine flash abuse, baffling layout, slow response, and wretched human factors in one tidy package. I started avoiding Scribd links months ago.
The bright side. I don't see how HTML5 could possibly make it any worse.
How is that even necessary? Good move getting off that Flash addiction.
stage 1) We can quit any time we want too. You just don't understand. It makes us feel ways about things. We can't sleep without it. Its only for recreation. The chicks dig it. Everyone is doing it, and there is no proof.
stage 2) We can't take our life anymore! You have taken everything away from us! You have no right!
stage 3) So whats with this "alternative"? Does it do the same thing for us? Without the stigma?
stage 4) See my yard? Ya I got that pool with my own money. They tell me I was talking about myself in the plural form and stuff. I was on Flash. Ya, they have me on HTML5 now, I am feeling better, no longer have the iphone fits I used to have and my job got better. I don't crash as often on my new meds.
stage 5) Flash was retarded.
I am not sure why I felt the need to act that whole thing out, but your better for having read it. Congratulations.
Ah, but now, we don't have to worry about them fucking up material suitable for PDF format. Now, they're fucking up material suitable for HTML format, too.
The thing I noticed first was that you can no longer drag the pages around in the html5 version.... they would need some more javascript. Is it just me... or is scribe showing just a bunch of jpegs as book pages? When you zoom in, you are zooming in on the original 640x480 jpeg and don't gain any benefit of getting more detail as you zoom in.
Heh. If you get to the end of the high quality introduction, you're presented with a link to the people that drew all of the images:
http://www.specialagentproductions.com/ [specialage...ctions.com]
Yeah, their site doesn't work unless you enable Flash. Pretty funny after the whole "get rid of proprietary formats" and "free your documents online" thing...
I'm willing to bet the companies that Microsoft contracts to do its marketing don't do their video editing on Windows...
I have noscript, when I ~allow~ (whitelist) their site, the images disappear along with most of the functionality, blank page for the most part?!. Turn off scripts and it seems to work fine. Maybe it's just my borked up firefox, but if this is the way it was intended, then I'll actually start looking at their site far more - If I see a site in flash I tend to go elsewhere. : ) Very nice change.
It renders correctly on iPhone too, selectable text and all
Sorry, I'm avoiding that link. Do you have a simple pdf link anywhere?
They have a great viewer as well.
So, I'm using the latest chrome, and the latest firefox, and the latest safari... and if I disable flash and attempt to go to any of the "html5" documents... I get "You need to upgrade to the latest flash player to access this content".... If I leave flash enabled, I get the same old clunky flash document viewer... so uh what gives?
The best is when they tell you to do all this neat stuff in their "welcome to html5" presentation... and then none of it works, cause its still in flash...
In my Safari and Chrome it works perfectly fine. Are you sure you're not doing something wrong?
Check http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5 [scribd.com], it has a blue box to the right, with the title "Reading just got better", where you can switch to HTML5 mode
(I'd really say "HTML mode" since it works in IE too.... the whole HTML5 vs Flash argument for Scribd is just flamebait/publicity stunt).
Go to scribd.com, notice the Google Ad, click "try it now". Or, on most of their featured pages, you should be able to click "view with HTML" on the right side.
So, it's something they're trying out. It's not actually the default yet.
It also appears to only be for certain documents.
Right, as TFA says -- they intend to convert their entire collection eventually, but they're not there yet.
Do one of the following:
1. Click on the "See this document in HTML mode" link to the right
2. Replace "doc" in the address bar with "documents"
Scribd is more of a pain than a useful tool. It's basically an online PDF viewer, one which makes content non-downloadable. It takes away functionality; you can't select and cut text. So it's really more a form of DRM than anything else.
You can get most of the same effect by rendering your document to PDF with the page size set to "trade paperback".
Furthermore, I find their "major reason" that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality to be a blatant lie. To give one example - ok, HTML5 supports webfonts... but how exactly are you going to license the fonts from Adobe (or any other font foundry that doesn't give away the font for free)?
Don't get me wrong: the ability to select, search (*) and so on is great, and could be a very good reason per se to switch. But I don't think that the solution is to flame things up.... ju
Furthermore, I find their "major reason" that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality to be a blatant lie. To give one example - ok, HTML5 supports webfonts... but how exactly are you going to license the fonts from Adobe (or any other font foundry that doesn't give away the font for free)?
That's a big point I hadn't thought of.. are they planning to pirate all of the fonts? Surely their spammy business model doesn't afford them the margins to properly license all of the typefaces. Further, how will they accurately preserve layouts or typesetting? This is something the PDF format does extraordinarily well, it's unfortunate that all of the browser plugins are terrible (at least on Windows, which represents ~90% of their user base.) I admittedly have spent little to no time working with the fo
You can select and copy text. I'm sure you can find a way to spider the pure HTML pages. Even if you can't, Scribd has always allowed you to download the original PDF.
But what is the point of Scribd? (Hint: There is absolutely none.)
Just replace every link to Scribd with the link to the PDF, and you're good.
Oh, wait, that's actually easy to do with Greasemonkey. Except that Scribd still requires you to log in, and get a session id to download it. So it's still pointless DRM / obfuscation.
Two nights ago I wanted to check out the catalogue for a bike company. Their "low resolution" PDF was 157 MB, their hi-res was almost 250 MB. Never mind downloading on a mobile device, even on my desktop I had no desire to download something that big just to view a half dozen pages within, and their "interactive" Flash version was crap.
If they had used Scribd and their new HTML mode, I would've been able to load the front cover, go to the table of contents, jump to just the pages I wanted to see, and probab
Even if you can't, Scribd has always allowed you to download the original PDF.
Not true at all. Person who uploads PDF can prevent download of files. A person who upload can even prevent you from copying text out of files!
I personally dislike Scribd simply because they host a ton of other people's content. I found 4 of my PDFs there ( 3 presentations, one ebook) and the people who uploaded them were making money off it and so was Scribd (ads).
Do you hate google as well? They also give you access to stuff other people made public, often illegally.
Hell, we should shut down the whole internet.
I found 4 of my PDFs there ( 3 presentations, one ebook) and the people who uploaded them were making money off it and so was Scribd (ads).
That's what section 512 takedown notices are for. Or did you send one and then get a counter-notice?
I hate scribd more than I hate experts-exchange. Wish there as an easy way to make google remember my minuses.
So far as I can tell this is mostly just html4.1 plus some web-fonts thrown in (which is properly css3), and a bunch of mostly browser-specific css. Not really html5. They mention canvas in their introduction, but I haven't come across an example.
Certainly looks better than the flash, but take a look at the source code and it'll make your eyes bleed. So much for semantic code - there are spans and divs up the wazoo.
I'll settle for unruly code if it deprecates and banishes flash... hands down
I'll settle for unruly code if it deprecates and banishes flash... hands down
So it's just a holy war for you, rather than the actual best tool or solution for the job?
That sort of spaghetti markup leads to huge pages, increased CPU load (browsers trying to render and mark up all the tags and mangled CSS), and other ill effects. It's not quite a black & white, "HTML IS BETTER THAN FLASH!" like you want it to be.
Sounds a bit like something is wrong with the PowerPoint interface, aside from the general bloat and usability issues.
It's seems similar the same problem Adobe are currently having with Flash. Adobe needs to come up with an excellent HTML5 authoring tool and put Flash on the back-burner as a vector animation and on-line games platform, perhaps.
You mean an open standard won out over a proprietary implementation?
Flash is about to be marginalized. It will happen quickly, in much the same way as the open HTML/DOM/Javascript beat out over 20 years of Microsoft "innovations" such as VB and
See, open standards usually follow proprietary "trail blazers". Once the standard has been defined, copy-cats move in and do the same things, cheaper.
Apple originally won the desktop computer war, then lost it to the more open (and less expensive) Microsoft, which finally is losing it's lead to the even more open (and inexpensive) web/SOAP API. Apple got it right again with the iPhone, but is already losing it again with the highly proprietary iPhone now rapidly losing market share rapidly against the more open Linux/Google/Android platform. (Android's 4x marketshare growth in a single month - WTF!?!)
As a note, I have an HTC WinMo phone right now, but my next phone will almost assuredly be... Android!
And why countless free source control tools beat ClearCase. We could go on like this all week.
Why on Earth has this been moderated "troll"? I don't agree with everything in the post, but there's sure-as-hell no trolling here!
Because, around here, "Troll" == "I disagree with you". Seriously, are you new around here?
I would like to believe that, really i would, but history has shown us that better isnt always the best selling concept.
My attempts at using HTML5 on my iPhone have been clunky at best, I remember this game called PieMan, a rip from the PacMan we all love. The issue was the caching, i simply found it too slow, its navigation on the touch screen was temperamental and it would pick the worst times to hang on me and as a result i gave up on it all togeather in about 15 mins, granted it could of been bad progra
You mean an open standard won out over a proprietary implementation?
Flash is about to be marginalized. It will happen quickly, in much the same way as the open HTML/DOM/Javascript beat out over 20 years of Microsoft "innovations" such as VB and
Huh? This is akin to saying Coca Cola beat out Honda..
Am I to believe that's a rip on the
And in much the same way as Android is about the slaughter the iPhone.
Sadly, I doubt that. For non-geeks the iPhone is the one to have.
Let's take that Android growth rate.
Now factor in that it's almost exclusively among people who have contracts with carriers that don't offer iPhones.
Now factor in that it's for the US only.
Now factor in that it's doesn't mention that Apple sells other devices (iPods, iPads) that are part of the same 'ecosystem' as the iPhone.
I think you're declaring this competition over a little prematurely.
"Now factor in that it's almost exclusively among people who have contracts with carriers that don't offer iPhones."
Or to put it another way, in the US only AT&T offers iPhones. How did an iPhone limitation become a feature?
I wasn't listing 'features'. I was listing reasons the published growth rates might not necessarily be indicative of future performance.
In other words, Apple could end the exclusivity deal and immediately sell a bunch of iPhones to non AT&T users.
Your examples are good ones, but there are plenty of other examples of proprietary software succeeding where open ones are failed. One of my own small open source projects was swallowed by a proprietary competitor for example.
Just because flash is dying the way VB did, doesn't mean android or linux will take over. iPhone OS and Windows are more entrenched than flash ever was, and they are both under active development by skilled programmers, unlike flash.
Apple got it right again with the iPhone, but is already losing it again with the highly proprietary iPhone now rapidly losing market share rapidly against the more open Linux/Google/Android platform. (Android's 4x marketshare growth in a single month - WTF!?!)
I would say, and I believe many would agree, that the normal "user" doesn't care about or even understand what "open" really means. In fact, from reading many comments on various sites I would say that many "geeks" don't even understand what open means or how its applied to the various phones. Regardless, Apple has a single phone (granted with 3 revisions thus far), on a single US network. Android is available on multiple networks and more importantly, Verizon. I know many people that would love to get
What if someone bumps my computer? It could fall out and the links would break.
Yup, same experience for me too.
Their flash viewer is nice and smooth with scrolling, supports search and works quite well.
The HTML5 viewer is horrible slow (using Chrome on a quad-core Linux box) and doesn't even support search.
Apparently "just got better" means something entirely different to them then to their users.
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