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An hour spent waiting for a show to start on Sunday night in the body heat-fed oven of a sold-out House of Blues can feel like much longer, but the irony alone made it almost worthwhile: In the 14 years since Lauryn Hill's solo debut exploded to critical and commercial acclaim, her fans have made patience their guiding principle, and even they were getting a little anxious.
So when Hill finally took the stage, long after tour coheadliner Nas delivered his own strong performance, the audience breathed a collective sigh of relief that, at least for the night, the wait was finally over.
The issues that have kept Hill away from music can be debated somewhere else, but her abilities as a rapper and singer have never come into question. Wearing a heavy coat with a fitted cap pulled down almost covering her eyes, she cut a commanding figure performing "Everything Is Everything," one of several songs from early in her set that have been adapted to maximize the effect of her impressive backing band, which she conducted and adjusted incessantly throughout.
Calling her set uneven may be slightly unfair after such a long absence. Should she be faulted for performing an overlong version of "Final Hour," embellished with musical flourishes that made it seem more like a band exercise than a cohesive song, or championed for daring to deliver something greater than a routine greatest-hits show, which would likely please many fans? The answer is probably somewhere between the two, and after pushing the outer fringes of indulgence on "Black Rage," she revived the crowd with Fugees cuts like "Ready or Not" and "Fu-Gee-La."
The ease with which Nas has bridged his generations of old and new fans in crowd-pleasing fashion could serve as a good example for Hill to follow. There was the requisite appeasement of his hardcore '90s hip-hop heads with a medley of "Illmatic" cuts, whose jazz samples felt refreshed in the capable hands of his supporting band, seamlessly leading into the philosophical Nas from his newest album, "Life Is Good," with "Cherrywine" (which featured Amy Winehouse on the album) and "Daughters." But perhaps the most notable moment was the one that never occurred: Hill was conspicuously absent for her collaboration with Nas, "If I Ruled the World," a high water mark in both Nas's career and in the history of commercial hip-hop. For that moment, the wait continues.Martín Caballero can be reached at caballeroglobe


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I figured Crownies don't seem to get a lot of love and had a few ideas for a group of Crown ranger types. Crownies have a special place in my heart being the faction that brought me out of my dark age (well, that was probably more the Trolls vs Dwarves stuff, but I guess the Crown Knights provided the backdrop). Following a bit of inspiration from the films 'Kingdom of Heaven' and 'King Arthur' regarding the culturally diverse warriors (and maybe a bit of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...) I put together this gang of 'The King's Own' elite defenders of the Crown.
The King's Own by andhe , on Flickr

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I love saggers a lot, especially when they're thuggish and sexy and sag REAL LO.
I love saggers a lot, especially when they're thuggish and sexy and sag REAL LO.
hey me too!
I hate hate sagging! Looks horrible.
Showing underwear is hot but only a little bit, not pants down at ur knees
Saggin' is sizzling hot!!!
I fucking love saggers with the hot-shit attitude. Saggersgonewild.com seems pretty good from the previews I've seen. Maybe it's just me, but that kind of stuff turns me on big time.
This sagger is fuckin' HOT!!!
Ewwwwww!!!!!! WTF is that??? You have bad taste in saggers my friend...LOL!!!
i am obsessed with saggers i think they are sooo hott!
I saw a guy mowing his lawn. Grass was well over ankle high and it had to be difficult to push the mower. His shorts were so large in the waist and sagged so low he was pushing the lawnmower with one hand and holding up his shorts with yhe other hand. He was working twice as hard trying to look cool. He apparently didn't realize how stupid he looked.
Sicilian Stallion is one **HOT** wigger.
Nice videos
if the sagger is wearing sexy underwear ..then its hot as fuck... if he's wearing boxers its an instant turn-off.
Nothing hot about shorts under shorts... its ridiculous..
All we want is a headrush, all we want is to get out of our skins for a while.
it is really hot when they have a bubble butt and the underwear is tight because you can see the outline of their crack
Sicilian Sagger
^ HOT! I love me some saggers as well
Sexy Fisherman Sagger
ohhh hell yeah i think its hott
i fucken love that
i guess it makes it easier to give them a quick suck off hahaha
I lOVE Kellan Lutz
Sagger Fisherman Kyle
Fisherman Kyle
"It Wasn't I That Made My Life...But My Life That Made Me..."
Thanks a lot for the pics
I'm not saying that I think the fashion makes a lot of sense...but there are guys who sag who are just plain hot. The fact they sag, showing some of their underwear and maybe a flat, or better yet, defined stomach...maybe a little happy trail leading down to a view of fabric you know is so soft to the touch...and what it is touching... Or maybe from behind the fabric pulls in a bit and the roundness of the cheeks is there to be seen.... Well now you know why, while I would never sag myself and think that it can look dumb, also like saggers.
How sexy is this???
I love saggers its the best thing ever
Sicilian Sagger
I would worship a sagger boys feet!! keep his pants off and shoes and socks off!!!
You may like this site, then.
"It Wasn't I That Made My Life...But My Life That Made Me..."
"It Wasn't I That Made My Life...But My Life That Made Me..."
Sagger Kyle
I think saggers look pretty hot, though personally I find having my trouser half way down my arse pretty uncomfortable
I Love saggers!!!!
"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
That "Kyle fishing" video is one of the hottest things I've seen in a long time . . . not so much on his string bikini video.
I love the sagger thug look.
For Me, sagging is hot, if it's slight and when there's some nice boxerbriefs to show. But sagging too much or showing gross undies like the sicilian sagger.... his sixpack is hot, but the red boxers would turn me soft immidiatelly. The same applies for sagging briefs, jockstraps, thongs and so.....
and there's another type of sagging i hate, i know from a friend of mine - the trousers should "fall lower" because they are "bigger" but the friend of mine sags because he's got too small pants so it can't rich the belt. It looks terrible.
Dr. Seuss - Be who you are, and say what you think: Those who care, don't matter; and those who matter, don't care.
Greek Adonis
This guy is a BIG show-off!!!
Sagger Show Off
He may be a big show-off but I sure like what he's showin' off.
This has been an interesting thread, by the way. I agree that when boys take it to extremes (I saw a young kid in SF a couple weeks ago, the waistband was maybe two inches above his knees. I mean, get serious.
But it's like anything else that seems to stir up a tizzy on this site (e.g., shaved pubes), there's no absolute. When it's hot it's hot, and when it's not. . . .
If you do think there's a hard and fast 'not at all hot, period' rule about sagging, might I remind you of the line from Robert Herrick:
A sweet disorder in the dress,
Kindles in clothes a wantonness. . .
I am totally down with wantonness!
I totally agree, Buckley!!!
get at me cause I love to sag


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Kate Bosworth as Susie Diamond
This is Kate Bosworth for Topshop, apparently recreating the iconic scene played by a vulnerable and sexy Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys in an ad directed by, of course, her fiancé Michael Polish.
What is our objective here?
The clothes, right?
We are supposed to want to buy the clothes. Her singing is supposed to make us want to buy the clothes even more.
Does her singing make you want to buy the clothes?
Not me.
If anything, her singing distracts me from the clothes. I've watched this video twice and I don't actually know what she's wearing apart from the fact that it's red. Instead, I'm thinking about her voice. To me it sounds like a weak, thin voice. But I guess I know nothing because Kate Bosworth is some kind of vocalist now. How come suddenly EVERYONE can sing AND act AND dance AND design organic baby clothes AND write books?
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Hey June, don't make it bad. Take a sad song, to make it better.
Remember, to let her into your heart. Then you can start, to make it better.
Hi guys, it's June! Oh wow, I can't believe this blog is about 6 or 8 months I think. Time does fly. Anyway, disregard the song but it's based on the song "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. I heard issues about them via twitter about finally having them on iTunes, yet there were some asking, "Who are the Beatles?" I loled. I guess those were the people in the younger years than me, I'm a '90s kid but I do however love some old songs that my parents introduced me to.
For another, I relate the song to myself because crappy Volumedrive still hasn't given me my VPS since May 25th(when I ordered) now they email me claiming it has been sent. I was like (DUH?!) They say check spam but nothing is on my spam. On contrary, my Yahoo! email account rarely has spams, don't know why. Some however pass through and get to my inbox. But at most, I get emails. Sometimes I don't (which why I prefer Gmail)
Anyway, I just thought I had to make an update because it's June!


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Kaedy Kiely interviewed David Coverdale of Whitesnake back in 2000 - listen to part one.
She asked about Coverdale's relationship with the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, since he had worked with Jimmy Page on the Coverdale/Page project.(listen)
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In the glut of hard rock and heavy metal bands of the late '70s, their first albums got somewhat lost in the shuffle, although they were fairly popular in Europe and Japan. During 1982, Coverdale took some time off so he could take care of his sick daughter. When he re-emerged with a new version of Whitesnake in 1984, the band sounded revitalized and energetic. Slide It In may have relied on Led Zeppelin's and Deep Purple's old tricks, but the band had a knack for writing hooks; the record became their first platinum album. Three years later, Whitesnake released an eponymous album (titled 1987 in Europe) that was even better. Portions of the album were blatantly derivative -- "Still of the Night" was a dead ringer for early Zeppelin -- but the group could write powerful, heavy rockers like "Here I Go Again" that were driven as much by melody as riffs, as well as hit power ballads like "Is This Love."Whitesnake was an enormous international success, selling over six million copies in the U.S. alone.
Before they recorded their follow-up, 1989's Slip of the Tongue, Coverdale again assembled a completely new version of the band, featuring guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. Although the record went platinum, it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake. Coverdale put Whitesnake on hiatus after that album. In 1993, he released a collaboration with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page that was surprisingly lackluster. The following year, Whitesnake issued a greatest-hits album in the U.S. and Canada focusing solely on material from their final three albums (as well as containing a few unreleased tracks).
In 1997, Coverdale resurrected Whitesnake (guitarist Adrian Vandenberg was the only remaining member of the group's latter-day lineup), issuing Restless Heart the same year. Surprisingly, the album wasn't even issued in the United States. On the ensuing tour, Coverdale and Vandenberg performed an "unplugged" show in Japan that was recorded and issued the following year under the title Starkers in Tokyo. By the late '90s, however, Coverdale once again put Whitesnake on hold, as he concentrated on recording his first solo album in nearly 22 years. Coverdale's Into the Light was issued in September 2000, featuring journeyman guitarist Earl Slick. After a lengthy hiatus that saw the release of countless "greatest-hits" and "live" collections, the band returned in 2008 with the impressive Good to Be Bad. Coverdale and Whitesnake toured the album throughout Europe and Japan. The band returned to the recording studio in 2010 with new members bassist Michael Devin (formerly of Lynch Mob) and drummer Brian Tichy, who appeared alongside guitarists Doug Aldrich and Reb Beach, and guest keyboardist Timothy Drury (as well as Coverdale's son Jasper on backing vocals on various tracks). The band's 11th album, Forevermore, was preceded by the issue of the single, "Love Will Set You Free," and released in the spring of 2011. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, Rovi


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Fortitude is another way of expressing the Japanese concept of gaman (to bear the unbearable). Of course, fortitude is not a trait that it exclusive to Japanese. At times of great crisis, such as wars and natural disasters, people of all nations and walks of life, rise to the occasion and demonstrate the best characteristics of human beings.
What makes the Japanese stand out to many of us in the West, is not just their ability to bear incredible suffering, but their lack of complaint and the way that they remain so composed and orderly. It seems to me that Japanese are raised this way -- with an emphasis on these specific traits.
I remember once that a pair of sai were stolen from my home. They were very nice stainless steel Shureido sai. I thought to myself, "How could this happen?"
I did not mean, "How could someone steal my sai?" Instead, I meant, "How could anyone steal?" It was hard for me to believe that anyone could allow himself to do such a thing.
I know that this is very naive, and that theft is a reality in many places, but I was raised by a mother who was born and raised on Japan before the war. Theft is just something that his not done. I heard many stories about my grandmother. My mother always said that if she saw someone in need, she would invite them in to eat. If they needed something, she would give it to them. Perhaps if more people were like her, there would be less need for anyone to steal.
I was at a supermarket once and found a $100 bill on the floor. Of course, I turned it in to a cashier, because it was not my money. It must have been dropped by someone, who would be looking for it. The thought of keeping it did not cross my mind. It simply was not mine.
Sai and a $100 bill are very small things. The devastation faced by so many people in Japan is indescribably great. However, I wanted to explain why it is that we do not see looting in Japan. Looting is not something Japanese are raised to do. I'm sure that many Japanese could not even think about it. How could they take something that does not belong to them? Instead, I think that they would share what little they had. And if they did find cans of food or other items in the wreckage, and they did take it, they would try to find out who the items belonged to so that they could compensate them.
I am not saying that everyone in Japan, or any country, is perfect. However, we can clearly see that the Japanese reaction to the earthquake and tsunami reveals concepts such as gaman, fortitude, honesty, and cooperation -- values that are taught to Japanese children, and, by the way, to martial arts students. In Karate, we also learn such values -- not to become Japanese, but to develop our character.
I was sent a link to a Youtube video you might want to watch. It addresses these concepts much better than I possibly can. Please see:
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J.J. Arrington is back
J.J. Arrington was gone but the Broncos' interest in the former Arizona Cardinals back was not forgotten.
Twice, the Broncos reached an agreement in principal with Arrington last year on a conditional four-year, $10 million contract that would have guaranteed him $3 million had he made their season-opening roster. Twice, the deal effectively fell through because of the condition of Arrington's right knee.
Microfracture surgery finally took and after year-long rehabilitation under the supervision of Dr. James Andrews, Arrington is back with the Broncos after agreeing to a one-year contract. The league minimum salary for players with four years of service time is $635,000.
Arrington will report for the start of the Broncos' offseason conditioning program on March 15.
"This has been in the works for a long time," said J.R. Rickert, Arrington's agent. "It's really been in the works since J.J. had to go back to get his knee taken care of last year. The Broncos said then that as soon as he could pass a physical, they would welcome him back. Other clubs were interested but J.J.'s loyalty was to Josh McDaniels."
McDaniels' testimony of Arrington last season was how the back played nearly every down in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLIII, with Arizona trailing and Pittsburgh in blitz mode. The Cardinals entered the fourth quarter down 20-7 but rallied to take a 23-20 lead before the Steelers won it on a touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Santonio Holmes with 35 seconds remaining.
Arrington will compete with Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckhalter for playing time.


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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
October Featured Relative of the Month, No. 1
Riddle: What do prisoners use to call each other?
This is the only riddle I ever heard Dad tell:
Riddle #2: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
Note: Pictures 2, 3, 4, and 5 are not family photos, but from the internet.
George Gilbert Nickerson was always called Gilbert or Gib by his family, George when he moved to southern Maine, and Nick by his co-workers through the years and everyone in Scarborough, where he worked for 32 years. He was born Oct 17, 1920 on a potato farm in the small town of Fort Fairfield, Aroostook, Maine, on the Canadian border. With a population in 2000 of 3,579, and an area of 75 square miles, there are still only 47 people per sq. mile. He was the 5th child of 6 (the 4th died as an infant) and second son.
Photo: Dad and Laddie in his front yard, 1930.
He grew up with a dog, a horse, and plenty of farm chores. He proudly told us that by age 9 he drove the tractor (and sometimes the horse team) in the potato fields. He was too small to lift potato barrels, so his driving freed a man to do the heavy work. He learned to plow, harrow and spray the fields driving in a straight line down the furrows, and this skill got him promoted to Corporal in the Army. He said he could strike off and march in a straight line all day, unlike the rest of the troops, so he was made their leader.
After potatoes, the second most plentiful crop in his
hometown was snow. He said that he could ice skate on his birthday each year. Last winter (2007-08) set a new record for total snowfall in the town, 198 inches!
Dad's winter school bus looked like this. They each had a tiny wood stove inside.
In good weather they drove their pony and cart to school.
In 1920: The National Prohibition Act against alcohol (18th Amendment) went into effect January 16, 1920.
Women's suffrage, (the 19th Amendment) allowing women to vote, was ratified.
The first Agatha Christie mystery was published in October. (For extra points, what was the title? First correct answer wins)
Formal radio broadcasting began on Nov 2, when station KDKA in Pittsburgh announced the Harding-Cox presidential election returns.
When he was married in 1941, and for the duration of World War II, he worked in the South Portland, ME shipyard. This photo was taken the day I was born.
His grandaughter L wrote this eulogy on 6 Aug 2004:
(Photo: 1969) My Grampy
Duty, Honor, Loyalty -- these are words to live by for a man who was born 83 years ago. George Gilbert Nickerson was born October 17, 1920, the 2nd youngest of 6 children to Herbert Nickerson and Floss McDougall. He was raised on a potato farm in Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine.
He was large in stature, and large in spirit. In second grade he was as tall as his teacher, so he said. No stranger to hard work, he labored on the family farm.
His life changed as the world changed during World War II. He joined the service, and the young man from the cold north was sent to tropical Panama. He became ill and was sent to San Francisco to recuperate.
He made friends with Al Trout. He met and married Dorothy Trout, settled down in Oak Hill, Scarborough, Maine, and had two children.
He was a man of his time, known by many names. Called Gilbert by his sisters and brother, Nick by his fellow police officers and close friends and George by all others. I knew he was really Jolly Old St. Nick.
At the age of 40, he became my Grampy. From my earliest memory, I knew that Grampy was Santa Claus. For many years he was the town Santa, visiting schools and riding in the Christmas Parade. I was the luckiest kid on the planet. His secret was safe with me.
Photo: 1962
He loved the outdoors, and enjoyed gardening and hunting. Using nicknames from the outdoors, he called me "Punkin" and my sister R was "Skeeter."
I have fond memories of listening to the police-band radio, waiting for his voice to say, "Code 11" as he pulled in the dooryard. Then I could explore a real police car and hear stories of protecting the citizens of Scarborough and Prout's Neck.
He had a sharp sense of humor. We often enjoyed a battle of wits across the holiday dinner table. His demeanor mellowed with time, and the rough edges of younger days became smoother. He found it easier to share tender feelings in later years. In rare moments, he told me some of his hopes and dreams.Those are very precious memories.
He became the Great-Grampy of 6. My children S and R and my sister's 4 - B, C, L, and A. Although he was a man of few words, we mostly visited on the phone. When I called he'd say, "How's the weather? It's your nickel, do you want to talk with Grammy?"
He dedicated his retirement years to caring for Grammy. After her passing last Sept., he told me although he wished she had been able to travel in retirement, he said, "I never minded taking care of her."
August 23, 2004 marks 63 years since they were married. They have only been separated a short time, and will be together again this anniversary.
I know that we will see them again, free from physical pain and the cares of this world. Duty, Honor and Loyalty are the legacy of George Gilbert Nickerson. I love my Grampy.
Riddle Answer: Cell phones
Riddle #2 Answer: A nervous wreck
Posted by GenealogyGrammy at 8:25 PM
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Agatha Cristie's murder mystery published in 1920 was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a Hercule Poirot novel.
Do I get extra credit because I've read it?
- October 23, 2008 at 9:50 PM
I wish when we were young we knew what questions to ask. He did not realize how facinationg his stories would be to a young person.
- October 24, 2008 at 9:01 PM
I am grateful to him for many things: feeding a hungry boy, teaching me to shoot, letting me drive a police cruiser, snowmobiling, camping, and being outstanding in his field
- October 24, 2008 at 9:03 PM
I wish I had been able to spend more time with him. I was really young when I saw him the most. I remember his sense of humor, and I remember him teaching me how to play croquet in the front yard with uncle Steve. He always let me have the red ball.
- December 18, 2008 at 8:50 PM
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Since there has been much inactivity on the forum lately, I thought I'd come up with more interactive thread topics to get us hanging out and talking nba.
There have been many great teams in nba history so let's come up with a top ten alltime greatest list. I'll start and we can come to a consensus at the end. The only must is that each team won the championship that season.
10. Milwaukee Bucks 1970-71 - This team was lead by alltime top ten players Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor back then). Record of 66-16 and only lost two games in the playoffs, beating the Baltimore Bullets 4-0 to win the championship.
9. Philadelphia 76ers 1966-67 - This team was led by top ten player alltime Wilt Chamberlain and had a record of 68-13. In a close series, they defeated our San Francisco Warriors 4-2 to win the championship.
8. LA Lakers 1971-72 - This team was led by Chamberlain, Baylor (though he retired before the season ended) and West. Record of 69-13 (The best ever and only surpassed twenty four years later) and a still nba record of 33 straight wins. They beat the Kicks 4-1, after losing the first game, to win the championship.
7. Philadelphia 76ers 1982-83 - This team was led by Moses Malone and Julius Erving. Record of 65-17 and they swept the Lakers in the finals to win the championship, after only losing one game all playoffs, still the best playoff record for fewest losses, though since tied.
6. Boston Celtics 1985-86 - This team was led by top ten alltime player Larry Bird and had a record of 67-15. They beat Houston, with Twin Towers Ralph Sampson and Olajuwon, 4-2 to win the championship.
5. LA Lakers 1986-87 - This team was led by top ten alltime players Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Record of 65-17 and beat Boston 4-2 to win the championship.
4. Chicago Bulls 1991-92 - This team was led by greatest player of alltime Michael Jordan and had a record of 67-15. The beat Portland 4-2 to win their second straight championship of their first threepeat.
3. LA Lakers 1999-2000 - This team was lead by top ten players alltime Shaquille O'neal and Kobe Bryant, as well as greatest coach ever Phil Jackson, the coach of the four greatest seasons ever. Record of 67-15 and beat Indiana 4-2 to win their first championship of their threepeat.
2. Chicago Bulls 1996-97 - The greatest team ever was slightly less than they were the season before, with a record of 69-13, and that was good enough to be better than any other team ever, except themselves the year previous. Led again by the greatest player and coach ever, Jordan and Phil Jackson. They beat Utah 4-2 to win the second championship of their second threepeat.
1. Chicago Bulls 1995-96 - The greatest team ever was lead again by the greatest player ever Michael Jordan and the greatest coach ever Phil Jackson. The best record ever 72-10. They beat Seattle 4-2 to win their fourth championship and first championship of their second threepeat over eight years. Simply the best and likely never will be outdone.
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Well, there isn't a lot to pick from, when you said that teams mentioned here need to have at least one championship. It's pretty much as you stated it, not many variations to that.
I would add Jazz and Supersonics, because I believe that they would be amazing if they played in some other time. Maybe even then if they had more luck. Or Magic with Penny and Shaq...but things never really worked in their favor.
I would add Jazz and Supersonics, because I believe that they would be amazing if they played in some other time. Maybe even then if they had more luck. Or Magic with Penny and Shaq...but things never really worked in their favor.


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From my morning mailbox -
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are proud to announce that defenseman Ryan Lannon has been named the team's winner of the American Specialty/AHL Man of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the Northeastern Pennsylvania community during the 2005-06 season.
Ryan "adopted" a second grade class at a local elementary school and goes to spend time with the students every other Tuesday. He participates in a reading program and spends quality time with students on an individual basis. Many of the students in the class are from low-income families, and very few of them are able to attend games on a regular basis. Ryan does his best to bring the team to them and provide a positive role model for the kids.
With the team in town for the Thanksgiving holiday, Ryan also came up with a plan to work with a local United Way agency - the Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO) - to put together a full dinner for families that could not otherwise afford it. He spearheaded a food drive that raised enough money and collected enough food items to provide an entire Thanksgiving meal to more than 150 families. After the "to-go" meals were distributed to the needy families, he worked in the kitchen serving meals to people who were spending the holiday alone.
Keeping children's programs as his number one priority, Ryan has been the most active member in our team school visits, which promote health, safety and positive lifestyles. Through the Blue Cross Goals for Health Campaign, Ryan has had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of local school students on the importance of living responsibly, playing sports and leading an active and healthy lifestyle. Ryan also organized a team visit to a local hospital around the holidays to spend time with sick children who were unable to make it home for Christmas.
In recognition of his efforts, Lannon will be presented with an etched crystal trophy during an on-ice presentation prior to an upcoming Penguins home game.
Lannon is now one of 27 finalists for the AHL's 2005-06 Yanick Dupre Memorial Award, honoring the overall American Specialty/AHL Man of the Year. The league award is named after the former Hershey Bears forward and AHL All-Star who died in 1997 following a 16-month battle with leukemia. The winner of the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award will be announced later this month.
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The Amazing Leaf-Miner
If you live in a climate where fall brings colors to the leaves before they fall, you've probably noticed something strange. Once the leaves start to fall, the ground is littered with their color. But among all those fading leaves, you might find a perfectly healthy looking green leaf. That green leaf is probably the work of one of God's more amazing tiny insects.
Several species of beetles, flies and moths go through a larval stage in which the larvae burrow into leaves. These leaf-miners gain their nutrition from the leaf. But when fall comes, and the leaves lose their green chlorophyll, they stop making food for the larvae. So the larvae secrete a hormone that prevents the leaf from losing its chlorophyll and shutting down to die. This hormone enables a leaf to stay green and produce food for the larvae even long after the leaf would normally have turned color and dried up on the ground.
Leaf miners present several problems for those who think that mindless evolution produced the variety of life that we see around us today. How did the larvae learn to make just the right hormone to preserve the leaf on which it depends? Are we to believe that these larvae kept evolving from something else until one of them figured out the chemistry of the leaf? And finally, are we to believe that this unlikely evolutionary event happened in several species?
Just as the sprouting of new leaves in the spring means that summer is near, so the cleverness of the leaf-miner should tell us that the hand of God created this insect. And we can reliably conclude that God made the entire creation.


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So I polished my Tojiro DP this weekend, since it was the knife I learned to sharpen on, and use daily--it was quite scratched and beat up. I wanted to clean it up, but the polish sticks, and I don't even like it! I would really like an even, hazy, scratch-less pattern on it. If anyone has a Gray Kunz spoon, look at the handle. That's what I want on the blade, so it will stick less, and contrast the polished edge.
But I do not have time, money, or desire to search my whole life for Natural stones that create the magic combo. Is there a reliable way to create that kind of finish?


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Rafa Benitez named Manager of Month with Robin van Persie the top player
Chelsea's Rafael Benitez and Manchester United's Robin van Persie are named Barclays Manager and Player of the month.
Last Updated: 03/05/13 3:09pm
Benitez, interim boss at Stamford Bridge, is the first Chelsea manager to win the award since Carlo Ancelotti in April 2011 after he oversaw an unbeaten month with three wins from four games.
The results have been enough to lift Chelsea into third place with four games remaining, but despite being in pole position to win UEFA Champions League football for the club, his popularity with fans remains well below 100 per cent.
The Blues beat Swansea City, Sunderland and Fulham and conceded a last-gasp equaliser to draw against Liverpool at Anfield.
Benitez has also helped to guide Chelsea to the final of the Europa League in Amsterdam later this month, where they will take on Portuguese side Benfica.
Van Persie, who won the player award in December, scored six goals for United in guiding them to their 13th Premier League title.
The highlight of his month was a first-half hat-trick in the 3-0 win over Aston Villa that confirmed them as English champions for the 20th time.


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By Esther J. Cepeda
CHICAGO -- It's a shame that Republicans blocked a resolution calling for the Senate to honor the legacy of Chicano icon Cesar Chavez.
But though the GOP looks petty and downright stupid for not allowing a purely symbolic commemoration honoring the history-changing labor leader, the Democrats look sort of clueless themselves for not letting the Republicans add their say to the resolution.
According to news reports, Republicans said they would have allowed the resolution to pass if Democrats had accepted additional language recognizing that Chavez supported strict enforcement of immigration laws in order to help protect American workers' wages. Democrats refused to agree to those additions.
"It is an injustice to his memory," the Washington Times quoted Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who has introduced the resolution eight consecutive years to no avail. He claimed Republicans were trying to mix the immigration debate with a commemorative resolution.
Menendez is right: The Republicans were playing politics -- just like the Democrats.
Why, exactly, is it an injustice to Chavez's memory to note that he was against illegal immigration because it undermined the bargaining power of U.S.-born and legal immigrant workers?
It's not like this is news.
In 2012, author and former farmworker Frank Bardacke added to the stacks of Chavez biographies -- minus the blind hero worship -- with his book "Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.
He tells the story of a complex human being with grand ideas about how to make the lives of the poor better by taking on powerful, entrenched interests. And some of those interests, especially in California agribusiness, were more than happy to turn their backs on a broken, sometimes violent and often exploitive immigration system.
"In 1948, Ventura County's total farm receipts had been less than $40 million. In 1958, agricultural sales topped $100 million," Bardacke writes. "Local workers were the big losers. In a period when agriculture was booming and agricultural employment climbing, there was less work for locals and at lower wages. A small group of local farmworkers held on, finding work mostly in the vegetables from the spring to the fall. Meanwhile, real wages of braceros actually declined during this remarkable decade of growth: the nominal wage in lemons, the best paid of all local agricultural jobs, was 95 cents an hour in 1947, and just 97 cents an hour in 1959."
Bardacke provides a colorful portrayal of how the braceros -- seasonal Mexican laborers -- and the people who hired them, used dirty, or outright unlawful, tricks to evade legal guarantees "that the Bracero program [a U.S.-sponsored way to bring workers across the border for seasonal labor] would not 'adversely affect' domestic labor and decreed that braceros could not be contracted to a job if there was enough domestic labor to do it."
So, yes, Chavez favored strict border controls and an Immigration and Naturalization Service that would actually do its job instead of turning a blind eye to cheap labor streaming across the border.
Chavez also indirectly participated in an effort called the "wet line," which involved setting up tents along the U.S.-Mexico border and staffing them with about 300 members of the United Farm Workers, who wore armbands emblazoned with "UFW Border Patrol."
Bardacke writes, "They were paid $10 a day plus expenses. They operated mostly at night, using dune buggies, cars, vans and small trucks to chase people down. During the day, they also had a small plane to track people from the air. ... No judge's order put any limit on what the union's night patrol might do to the people it caught. ... If you got picked up by the UFW, you were on your own."
Instead of trying to downplay this history -- liberals are all about "authentic" history unless it tarnishes one of their own patron saints -- why not let it ride and instead use the point to discuss how and why Chavez eventually fought for the rights of all workers and to ensure that even unlawfully present workers got relief in the 1986 immigration reform?
But no, that would make too much sense. I mean, who would actually agree to injecting any sliver of realism, pragmatism or factual precedent into our immigration debate? Sounds too much like compromise, I suppose, and neither Democrats nor Republicans seem at any risk of allowing this.
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Screening for minor memory changes will wrongly label many with dementia, warn experts
10 September 2013
A political drive led by the UK and US to screen older people for minor memory changes (often called mild cognitive impairment or pre-dementia) is leading to unnecessary investigation and potentially harmful treatment for what is arguably an inevitable consequence of ageing, warn University of Sydney experts in in a paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) today.
A team of specialists in Australia and the UK say that expanding diagnosis of dementia will result in up to 65 percent of people aged over 80 having Alzheimer's disease diagnosed - and up to 23 percent of non-demented older people being labelled with dementia.
They argue this policy is not backed by evidence and ignores the risks, harms and costs to individuals, families and societies. It may also divert resources that are badly needed for the care of people with advanced dementia.
Their views come as the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference opens in New Hampshire next week, partnered by BMJ's Too Much Medicine campaign, where experts from around the world will gather to discuss how to tackle the threat to health and the waste of money caused by unnecessary care.
Paper co-author, Professor David Le Couteur from the University's Charles Perkins Centre, said dementia is an age related condition and with an ageing global population, it is predicted to become an overwhelming and costly problem.
"Although evidence suggests that only five to 10 percent of people with mild cognitive symptoms will develop dementia each year, current policy in many countries is aimed at encouraging more widespread and earlier diagnosis of dementia," he said.
"For example, in the US, the Medicare insurance programme will cover an annual wellness visit to a physician that includes a cognitive impairment test. In England, the government has announced that it will reward general practitioners for assessing brain function in older patients - and has committed to have "a memory clinic in every town and every city" despite no sound evidence of benefit.
"This has led to the development of imaging techniques and tests that are increasingly used in diagnosis, despite uncertainty over their accuracy.
"Furthermore, there are no drugs that prevent the progression of dementia or are effective in patients with mild cognitive impairment, raising concerns that once patients are labelled with disease or pre-disease, they may try untested therapies and run the risk of adverse effects."
The paper co-authors also question whether ageing of the population is becoming a "commercial opportunity" for developing screening, early diagnosis tests and medicines marketed to maintain cognition in old age.
The desire of politicians, dementia organisations, and academics and clinicians in the field to raise the profile of dementia is understandable, write the authors, "but we risk being conscripted into an unwanted war against dementia."
Yet they suggest that the political rhetoric expended on preventing the burden of dementia would be much better served by efforts to reduce smoking and obesity, given current knowledge linking mid-life obesity and cigarettes with the risk of dementia.
"Current policy is rolling out untested and uncontrolled experiments in the frailest people in society without a rigorous evaluation of its benefits and harms to individuals, families, service settings, and professionals," Professor Le Couteur concluded.
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Wednesday's antitrust hearing pitting the NFL against its players has taken a quick break.
Greg A. Bedard of the Boston Globe reports that the hearing took a break around 12:15 p.m. ET after starting at 10:30 a.m. this morning. Bedard has a few other interesting nuggets from the morning sessions.
The most eye-opening: "Only 1 mention of irreparable harm and [Judge Susan] Nelson said it 'appears players have strong case."'
According to USAToday, the NFLPA* argued the lockout was illegal.
"Let them go back to work and do what they do, and that's playing the game of football," said lawyer James Quinn, speaking for the players. "The lockout itself is illegal. Over 800 players are unsigned. These players have no jobs. They have nowhere to go."
Bedard said most of the talk so far has been about whether the the court has jurisdiction. Quinn was up for 33 minutes and fielded 13 questions. NFL counsel David Boies has been talking for 58 minutes and has taken 23 questions.
UPDATE: The break is over. Hopefully everyone got a snack at halftime. Boies is still taking questions.


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What the frack, Gov. Jerry Brown? First he's in a panic about the "evil weed", and now he supports the evil deed, as you can see in the following press release. Both issues affect my home state of California, and both are rantworthy.
The good news: My old pal Andy Cobb has put out yet another hilarious video filled with snarkitude that skewers his targets in all kinds of memorable and effective ways. We owe you one, Andy. The bad news: The vile F word won't go away: Frack (scroll).
Frack Water Cologne Ad Exposes Motives Behind Gov. Brown's Fracking Push
New online video and campaign finance analysis highlight dangers of fracking, influence of Big Oil in California
California Governor Jerry Brown is taking a hit today for his penchant for fracking and dirty energy donations with a new satirical online video launched by Oil Change International (OCI) and comedians Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis of Heavy Crude Video. The video is the latest escalation of the Big Oil Brown campaign effort sponsored by OCI, pushing for a ban on fracking for oil and gas in the state.
The video parody, entitled "Frack Water," portrays a Governor Brown look-alike outside a southern California oil field accompanied by a California oil industry representative, in a shot for shot remake of a 2004 Stetson cologne advertisement starring actor Matthew McConaughey:
"In a land plagued by drought, one man stands tall….We won't tell you what's in it, but Big Oil Brown's got it all over him…Jerry Brown's frackwater. A fragrance that smells like a man…a man who doesn't give a [bleep] about drought or climate change."
Here is the original McConaughey ad:
Also out today is a new analysis released by Oil Change International that outlines the massive contributions from the oil industry to the Governor's coffers in recent years. The review shows these contributions have surpassed $2 million since 2006.
The campaign contribution analysis can be found here.
"You can't buy back your legacy, Governor, even with all that Big Oil cash," Turnbull said. "California is on the brink of climate catastrophe and fracking up the state will help push it over the edge. Californians deserve better than to be beholden to Big Oil's desires and befouled by their stench."
The video and analysis come just over a week ahead of a major mobilization in Sacramento planned for March 15th, where thousands of anti-fracking activists from around the state are expected. More information on the March 15th mobilization can be found at www.dontfrackcalifornia.org.
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France has won more Nobel prizes in literature than any other country and is a leading center for research in the sciences and the humanities. It also is a leading producer of films in the world. Although American and French societies have much in common, French values and thought patterns are often distinctly different from ours, so that the study of these cultures opens up a new perspective on the world. Students increase their own sensitivity and awareness, discovering the truth in the saying "To know another language is to possess another soul."
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Bushfire threatens Alpine region
Victorian fire authorities have issued an emergency warning to townships near a fast-moving bushfire, saying it is now out of control and creating spot fires.
The CFA says the large Harrietville fire, which is burning in the state's Alpine region, is threatening the Mount Hotham, Hotham Heights and Dinner Plain areas.
The fire is 4100 hectares in size with spot fires on Thursday afternoon igniting about two to three kilometres ahead of the fire front.
The CFA says there is a risk to lives and homes.
A watch and act alert has also been issued for the Dinner Plain area.
The fire is travelling in a south and southwesterly direction.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report says Nebraska netted about $231 million in tax revenue in October, roughly on pace with projections for the month.
Net tax receipts for the month were less than 1 percent higher than the state's official forecast of $229 million.
The forecasts come from the Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board during its meeting in April.
Board members offered a cautiously optimistic view of the state economy during their meeting last month, and projected the state will collect an additional $46 million for the current fiscal year. The state only certifies its projections if revenue is expected to drop.
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The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager monitors the Windows Application log on computers that are running Exchange Server 2007 and generates this alert when the event or events specified in the following Details table are logged.
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Review the description of the event that includes the variables specific to your environment. From the Operator Console, select this alert, and then click the Properties tab.
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An error occurred while logging an event related to an outgoing replication message, which resulted in a non-delivery report.
This Error event indicates that an attempt to send an outgoing replication message resulted in a non-delivery report. Replication message errors may occur when the database is out of synchronization, records are locked, or data is missing or unavailable. Most errors can be ignored, and retries will be attempted during the synchronization process. If a message fails to synchronize, the updates are made during the next synchronization.
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As the game between Cathedral Catholic and St. Augustine draws to a close and it is clear the Saints will win, St. Augustine teammates Brent Jones, Nate Samaniego and Brynton Lemar start to celebrate as Xavier Williams of Cathedral looks on.
The lights went out five times during warm-ups for the fifth renewal this season of the best rivalry in San Diego County.
But it took St. Augustine High until the fourth quarter to turn out Cathedral Catholic's lights for the season.
Led by a 14-point, fourth-quarter performance by junior Trey Kell, St. Augustine survived the power outages that affected the neighborhood surrounding Rancho Bernardo High on Tuesday for a 55-45 victory over Cathedral Catholic in the Southern California Regional semifinals.
"It wasn't that we put the ball in Trey's hands in the fourth," St. Augustine coach Mike Haupt said. "Trey put the ball in Trey's hands.
"He had one of the best quarters ever."
Kell's efforts spurred the top-seeded Saints (27-4) to a 25-13 edge in the fourth quarter to erase a 32-30 deficit after three quarters.
"We'll do whatever it takes to get to the state finals," Kell said. "This is our goal and has been since before we even practiced once.
"In the fourth quarter, I saw my first shot go down, so I kept going. We were in a little bit of a scoring drought because they changed defenses, and we were sloppy with the ball.
"We had to stay calm and play as a team. If we stay composed, we're just fine."
It was the 12th consecutive victory for Saints and the second win over the Dons in five meetings, including a 62-36 win in the San Diego Section finals March 2.
"Cathedral is a great team," Haupt said. "This is exactly what I thought this game would look like.
"This is a big deal for us. These kids wanted to win the state title and now they're one win away from getting a shot at it."
Now Saints is on to Saturday's regional finals at 8 p.m. at Colony High against No. 2 West Hills Chaminade, which defeated Simi Valley Royal.
Defense is what forced Cathedral Catholic (30-5) into a tough shooting night. The Dons were 17 of 50 for the game with a 5-for-8 effort in the third quarter being their best stanza.
St. Augustine has been giving up just 36 points on defense in the postseason.
Senior Xavier Williams was the lone Don to solve Saints' defense. He scored 23 points, along with 10 rebounds, as only four Dons scored in the game. Niksha Federico had 10 points.
While Kell led the way, senior Brynton Lemar added 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Saints.
But it was a 3-pointer by Brent Jones with 2:46 to play that sparked the final push to victory.
Brandon Michel's basket had pulled the Dons close at 43-39 before Jones, who was 1 of 7 before his last shot, drained a 3-pointer to push the lead back to seven points.
"I knew one of his shots would fall and it came at a great time," Kell said of his teammate's bucket.
After freshman Martin Tombe's layup with 2:18 to go, St. Augustine was ahead 48-41 and the Saints hit seven of eight free throws down the stretch.
"I wasn't nervous for this one," Kell said. "I was more excited. I was looking forward to playing this game.
"The crowd was alive before we even came out for warm-ups. They were into it and I really love playing in that atmosphere.
"I'm kind of used to games like this against Cathedral. It's my eighth time to face them."


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ClergyAgainstAlzheimer's continues the rich legacy of clergy as agents of social change. We believe that Alzheimer's disease presents a moral imperative at a scale commensurate to the grave and growing threat it presents to our nation. This network harnesses the powerful and ardent voices of men and women of faith to call for urgent action to advance the goals of better care, improved treatment, prevention and ultimately a cure.
We work together to remove the stigma of dementia and promote the intrinsic value and worth of the individual, regardless of physical or cognitive impairments.
We recognize and call attention to the fact that dementia impacts not just the individual with the diagnosis, but the entire family, and must be addressed in this context.
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- Ron Smale was re-elected as President
- Polish soccer fan set on fire by guard
- Olivieri: Canada aiming to impress
- Never Walk Alone: The return of the EPL Trophy to Anfield?
- Atlanta confirmed as Major League Soccer's next expansion market
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What Is It About 'David Beckham' That Turns So Many Brains To Mush?
- Updated: December 10, 2013
by Bobby McMahon, Sunday, February 03, 2013
On Thursday morning David Beckham signed a contract to play for Paris Saint-Germain in France's Ligue 1.
Since the Qatar Investment Authority took over PSG in 2011 the aim has been to make the team a major force in world soccer and by signing Beckham they think he can help make the dream a reality.
"He's a very proficient player and I'm sure he will add big volume to the club," stated club President Nasser al-Khelaifi. (Hopefully a remark conveyed by an over-worked translator.)
And of course Brand-Beckham once again became the acquisition that launched a million articles and generated an outpouring of hyperbole.
"A coup not only for Paris Saint- German but also for Ligue 1."
"Boosting the club's prestige and marketing prowess."
"Great marketing from Paris Saint Germain, expected to attract a worldwide audience for Ligue 1 games."
"The realization of a dream for Paris Saint Germain came to fruition yesterday."
So much Kool-Aid; so little time.
Of course six years ago you could have replaced Paris Saint Germain with Los Angeles Galaxy and Ligue 1 with Major League Soccer.
A sober assessment of Beckham's six seasons in MLS would tell you that few if any of the lofty expectations set out in 2007 were actually achieved. Remember the accepted-as-fact $250M contract?
Beckham's time in MLS increased visibility for the league not only in North America but around the world. But did MLS have to fight off hoards of international broadcasters ready to toss hundreds of millions of dollars their way?
By the end of the Beckham era international rights holders for MLS amounted to 46 broadcaster partners.
In an industry that has seen increased competition for live sports and soccer inventory in the last five years or so the fact that no dollar value was included in the press release tells you that the deals are all about exposure and contribute very little to the bottom line.
MLS saw an increase in attendance during the Beckham-era; 2006 it was 15,504 and last year it had reached 18,807. When measured over 323 games that means that an additional 1,065,000 spectators watched MLS on an apples-to-apples basis.
But Seattle Sounders and their remarkable fans accounted for 733,000 and alone boosted the average for the entire league by over 1,400 fans per game. After adjusting for the Sounders, the average increase for MLS games was 1,900 spectators.
(The Los Angeles Galaxy average attendance rose by about 2,200 from 2006 to 2012.)
Growth is good but I have yet to see any articles predict that the arrival of Beckham in Ligue 1 will add a modest 10% more fans to the present average Ligue 1 average gate of 19,000.
And remember the MLS experience lasted six seasons. Beckham's deal with PSG lasts 5 months – about the same length of time a company would hire a summer student.


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I'm sure the U.S. Supreme Court will just overrule them.
I'm sure the U.S. Supreme Court will just overrule them.
Doesn't matter. We have Obama protecting our rights, he who PROMISED to overturn the draconian Patriot Act.
They will not bother, US Surpreme court or any is just to slow and it gets leaked to the world.
RCMP and CSIS are above the law. This is more like a ruse to come clean. Wasn't just USA that had McCarthyism. Canada is a statism state, between Saudi and USA. Government in Canada has monitored Canadians without warrants for 5+ decades at least.
Cops here can spy on anyone except the corrupt MPs, judges and the well connected. General population is wide open.
BTW, RCMP only get their man if it is politically
Yes, I am ready to move there, if they'll take me. NS or PEI I'd like. Now, le tme in! I am smart and have a degree from a good college!
I grew up in NS. The only problem is if you work in a sector like most of us do here on Slashdot, you are pretty much regulated to working in the one city Halifax. Those kinds of jobs just do not exist outside of there. Unless of you want to try and open up an independent PC shop or something, or can somehow convince your employer to telecommute.
It is pretty great there and I hope to eventually move back some time (Ontario now).
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On topic, I'm glad to see at least some of our justices are taking their jobs seriously. Appointed by Stephen Harper, yet curtailing government invasion into private lives. A nice breath of fresh air in a recent gale of anti-privacy legislation. (Thanks Michael Geist [michaelgeist.ca], for keeping us abreast of all the government's IT shenanigans!
We don't want you. We want you to stay home and get involved and sort out your country. That would have a greater beneficial effect, here and there.
Put it this way: it's nice to be good neighbours with good neighbours.
Saying "fuck it, I'm moving" is the same stripe of "I've got mine, jack" that's at the root of much of what's gone wrong down there. By moving, you making it worse, twice.
Saying "fuck it, I'm moving" is the same stripe of "I've got mine, jack" that's at the root of much of what's gone wrong down there. By moving, you making it worse, twice.
Voting with his feet is all that's left to him, and likely lots more effective than trying to change anything via his nanoscopically valuable vote. The US won't be fixed short of outright revolt and revolution. It's way too far gone and has been for decades. We're just seeing the fruit of it culminating now.
Besides, Canada can always use smart people to help pay for the welfare state.
You can check your eligibility at Citizenship and Immigration Canada [cic.gc.ca]. They even have a self-assessment test [cic.gc.ca] to see if you qualify as a Skilled Worker.
And it's not all that hard to qualify if you're in IT - even without a degree, if you have experience to compensate.
(Just got my Canadian permanent residence a month ago; three years in the country from there, and you can apply for citizenship - much easier and faster than in U.S.)
Actually Canada is less free than the U.S. in many respects. I'm too lazy to dig-up the details, so I'll just pull it out of my memory, from when I read the articles 2 years ago.
There was an author wrote a book that he considered inoffensive but a Muslim priest filed a charge anyway. No big deal; it's protected as free speech right? Nope. He found himself drug into the Canadian court for charges of hate speech. They did eventually let him go, but not until he had wasted half-a-decade and nearly $100,0
America doesn't have real freedom of speech. To claim otherwise is to ignore the obvious current events, with lawsuits (defamation) or PR problems. You can say what you want, as long as you are willing to be black listed, jobless, in jail, or killed. It is freedom of speech, Lenin-style.
Non sense... Several books have been banned previously by the United States federal government. For instance, the title: "China's Destiny" . It was banned because of the anti-Western sentiment expressed in the book.
Ya, I am not sure about the specifics of the US but they do have more Freedoms of speech.
In Canada all we have, basically is: You can say whatever you want, unless it offended someone, he charges you, and a judge finds that what you have said is unreasonably offensive.
The law is worded loosely enough that anything can be considered illegal to say, if the judge finds it so.
There was an author wrote a book that he considered inoffensive but a Muslim priest filed a charge anyway. No big deal; it's protected as free speech right? Nope. He found himself drug into the Canadian court for charges of hate speech.
Arrested for wearing a t-shirt: USA! USA!
Tazered and arrested for asking a question at an open mic question period: USA! USA!
Accused of hate speech: CANADA HAS NO FREEDOMZ! OMG!
Better hurry, things are getting uglier by the day...
If you want good tech prospects and an economy that just won't quit, try Calgary.
24 hours to get a warrant under dire circumstances? That's just asking for problems.
Since when are police officers punished for breaking the law? at worse they're gonna be suspended *with* pay or relegated to other duties.
Maybe you're right, and that's something they should address separately. Or perhaps they could've just gotten permission from the family directly...? ianal, and all that.
But either way, it sounds like they had the good sense to avoid doing something stupid under bogus pretenses.
Canada is looking like a good alternative to the USA. At least when "bad laws" do manage to get passed, they bother to get rid of them from time to time. Here anyway, anything that makes the police's job easier is apparently considered an OK exception to the constitution.
You cannot own a gun in Canada? Seriously?
You can own rifles without registration and get permits for handguns.
You can't buy grenades, flamethrowers, or rocket launchers, although you can find them on the side of the road from time to time.
You cannot own a gun in Canada? Seriously?
No, you certainly can.
There are three classes of firearms licenses:
- Non-Restricted - things like rifles and shotguns
- Restricted - Handguns, short rifles/shotguns, and some other random restrictions (scary looking guns, for example)
- Prohibited - Short barrel handguns, fully automatic rifles, etc
To get your firearms license, you have to (optionally) take a firearms safety course and then write (or challenge) the exam, where you demonstrate safe handling and use of the firearms, as well as knowledge of the firearms regulations.
To get a permit for a restricted license, there's an additional course and exam. Also, restricted firearms are limited to government approved firing ranges - no taking them out into the bush to shoot cans.
Prohibited licenses are not issued, only given to people 'grandfathered' in to the licensing system. Once they die off, there will be no more prohibited class.
For any of these, you submit ID, proof of exam, personal questionnaire, and $$$ to the government, where they perform a criminal record check and reference check. Fired from your job recently? They'll look into that. On anti-depressants? They'll look into that. And yes, they do check your references - they checked mine.
So yes, you can. But it's a lengthy process.
So nobody can carry a pistol?
So nobody can carry a pistol?
Only cops, soldiers and private security with the right paperwork.
And since recently, and quietly, cops and soldiers of the U.S. of A.
Prohibited licenses are not issued, only given to people 'grandfathered' in to the licensing system. Once they die off, there will be no more prohibited class.
There won't be a "prohibited" class for civilian firearm ownership permit, but prohibited weapons are still restricted to military and paramilitary, and cannot be purchased even if you have a license for ownership.
Also, a PAL (for non-restricted weapons) is fairly easy to get. They basically just do a police records check and fingerprint check, in addition to writing the exam, and you get your license. It can be had in about a week.
The thing is, he guy didn't own a gun. He was arrested purely by the drawing.
From TFA,
OTTAWAâ"The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Friday warrantless wiretap powers that police have in cases of emergency.
The high court has given Parliament a year to re-write the law.
Ruling in a 2006 British Columbia kidnapping case, the countryâ(TM)s top court said a 1993 provision of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because there is no accountability or oversight for the warrantless searches, either to the person wiretapped or in reports to Parliament.
So the ruling says the law is unconstitutional. Now, Parliament has 1 YEAR to fix it - it means police can continue to use unconstitutional law as is for 1 YEAR. But the most troubling part is this is a 1993 law! 20 years to "fix it"???? 20 YEARS???
That's like hailing some judicial decisions in 1950s that the Nazi party didn't have legal rights to issue laws they did in the 1930s... I'm sorry, but 20 years is snail pace.
The moral of the story is, if the politicians don't give a fuck about the const
The Turks and Caicos have been asking to join Canada for years. We can't let them in because:
They don't speak French. It's Quebec fucking over the rest of the country again.
Malheursement, j'ne sais pas une mot francais.
I learned French in high school in Canada; it's a requirement for graduation. Of course, the rules run by a bureaucrat somewhere (I'm guessing from Ontario) made it so that we learn formal French from France, not Quebecois, which is what they actually speak in Quebec.
Now, over in BC, there are very very few chances to speak any other language but English. Those of my friends that speak ExL {x| 2 or more} don't like to speak to me in their native tongues. One,
Blame Quebec, it's easy right? In Quebec, there's a minority of bigots who blame English speakers. Let's just keep at it for a few more centuries until things escalate way out of hands again.
So you know, instead of blaming French Canadian speaker who live in Quebec like me, and who despise the bigotry of a minority who fear the Borg assimilation from English speakers, maybe you should target idiots from both side. People who just like to think their side is better, and who just like to pretend that the real
Cut the bullshit or back that up with a citation. The issues related to annexing new territories are more complex than your simplistic and baseless statement would claim, particularly for a country that is not in the habit of colonizing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands#Proposed_union_with_Canada [wikipedia.org]
If you want to talk baseless rumour, the dirt (from a politician-friend) is that the acquisition is still on the table. If T&C can show that they can keep their crime and local political issu
The Montreal Gazette of today, Saturday April 14th, reported that the Canadian Constitution has displaced the American one, when it comes to models of constitutions for other countries. Africa, Egypt and other countries are modelling their constitution after Canada's.
Canadian authorities DO have the right to come into your house and take your Kraft Dinner without a warrant if they're hungry!
Hopefully, Canada will begin to take a slightly more critical look to the whole concept of 'Emergency Powers'.
We did. It was called October, 1970.
Seems we're due for another review of it.
This is common sense.
The fact that this even has to be discussed is reprehensible. A warrant should always be required for any breach of privacy.
We've become far too lax in letting "authority" into our lives.
If you have to do shortcuts like that then you are doing the LEO thing wrong.
What you want to do is deliver supplies of Bourbon/Whiskey and or %Critter% to a few of your local judges so that you can show up at His/Her house to get your warrant without having a gavel or something thrown at you.
I heard about this on CBC today at lunch.
I have to say I am a bit conflicted.
Usually I am the one beating the privacy drum and less impingement on individual rights, however in this particular case, it does make me think.
This is an instance where the kidnappers let the captives phone family, the family contacted police, the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the
you don't understand the law or what happened here.
in this case the evidence obtained by the warrantless tap was PERMITTED at trial. The police were following the law, and acting in good faith, and their actions were in the public good, and it would not bring the administration of justice into disrepute to allow the evidence.
The court found that the provisions allowing warrantless tapping in those limited emergency situations were CONSTITUTIONALLY VALID. i.e. Warrantless wiretapping is OK in limited emergency circumstances where it would be impossible to get a warrant fast enough.
However the court found the law to be defective because the government made no provision for any kind of supervision of these wiretaps. No reporting to anybody. No oversight by anybody. The wiretaps just take place and then nobody knows.
The court said the law should have provisions for reporting and oversight on such wiretaps, so that the subject of the wiretap can challenge them and the public can be confident they are not being abused. The court voided the law but suspended the ruling for 12 MONTHS, so that the government could fix the law.
the current law essentially allows SECRET warrantless wiretaps. that is unconstitutional.
The court never ruled that warrantless wiretaps themselves are never justified, merely that the government can't go around doing it without oversight and reporting.
the police did apply for a warrant, but knowing it would take 24 hours or something to get, they went ahead and tapped the line anyway because they were fearful something might happen to the family
One solution to this problem is to let the police wiretap without warrants. The better solution is to have a system where a judge can be woken up in the middle of the night with a warrant to sign - if it's truly urgent enough and valid, he can sign it. If it isn't, he can give the cops an earful and tell them to stuff it.
I am proud to be a Canadian.
Except for section 13, right? Got that repealed yet?
Except for section 13, right? Got that repealed yet?
13. A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
What is your problem with that?
Except for section 13, right? Got that repealed yet?
13. A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosecution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
What is your problem with that?
Oh please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commission_free_speech_controversy [wikipedia.org]
Oh please.
Please yourself. We are a nation with many statutes, a very significant number of which have a "Section 13". It's entirely your own fault you didn't bother to specify which Act you were referring to.
Oh please.
Please yourself. We are a nation with many statutes, a very significant number of which have a "Section 13". It's entirely your own fault you didn't bother to specify which Act you were referring to.
The point was, your government has its flaws, like any power system (maybe a little more hypocitical) and will do what it takes to keep the reigns. And you share some of the blame for not simply asking for clarification. I'm not an expert on the Canadian government, but know it's another government power system and they all have a few ugly things in common. You smug Canadians can get off of your high horses now.
If you read the decision [lexum.org], you'll see two very important things.
First, the justices didn't say the concept of the law is unconstitutional. Because the provision only applies in exigent circumstances, where "an officer believes on reasonable grounds that the interception is immediately necessary to prevent an unlawful act that would cause serious harm, provided judicial authorization could not be obtained with reasonable diligence", the justices said the provision would be constitutional on those grounds. However they ruled it unconstitutional on the grounds there is no oversight provision built into statute, and therefore police could use it to silently intercept all sorts of communications and no one would be the wiser. Only if someone is charged criminally, would they be (1) made aware of the intercept and (2) be able to challenge it in court. The justices did say that if parliament added a notice provision to the statute, in which the intercepted party were notified after the fact then the statute would be constitutional.
Second, the court suspended the application of their judgement for 12 months to give Parliament the opportunity to amend the statute to bring in line with the constitution, which they will most likely do.
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Heavy Metal - The Vinyl Years (Book Review)
January 2002
Released: 1996, Independent
Rating: 3.0/5
Reviewer: JP
Both of my book reviews for the Library of Loudness this month are going to be of interest to older fans, audiophiles, collectors and fans of vinyl. Both books are non-fiction encyclopedia style pieces based on the world of heavy metal vinyl.
To the best of my knowledge Allison's book, was the first of it's kind. HM: The Vinyl Years looks and feels like an independent effort which is not a big deal but does diminish from the impact of a bigger budget publication.
This is essentially a metal discography from 1970-1990. It is an excellent reference guide and I have found myself dipping into over the years for tidbits of trivia or information. This small paperback was independently published and is very affordable.
Unfortunately that is where the book stops. It is about 185 pages of small type style text that is just pages and pages of discographies, nothing more, nothing less. There are about 60 small black and white pictures of rare album covers, all of which are very neat to see in print.
This is truly an academic reference guide which has many errors and omissions but it is an excellent effort by Allison who's passion and dedication to metal are readily evident by the number of rarities documented.
As I mentioned in my review of Popoff's vinyl guide, if you are a metal archivist like me or a vinyl collector this guide is truly essential. If not it might not be worth your time to track down this limited pressing as there are a number of other, more comprehensive collector guides out there.
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Study: To preserve digital resources, institutions should play to their strengths
"The efforts to preserve digital humanities research are as numerous as the definitions of the catchall term, according to a report that urges institutions to develop their own strategies to preserve resources that can't simply be bound and stored in a library. The report, "Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond the Start-Up Phase," represents an effort by co-authors Nancy L. Maron and Sarah Pickle, a program director and analyst at the consulting firm Ithaka S+R, respectively, to study how institutions support digital resources created on their campuses. The work builds on an earlier report that looked at similar efforts in the United Kingdom." (via insidehighered)


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ASD Inc., a Boulder-based maker of spectrometers and related instruments and accessories, recently was acquired by English firm Spectris plc, company officials announced Tuesday.
Spectris acquired ASD on Jan. 31 for a debt and cash-free net consideration of $14 million, officials said, adding that a contingent consideration of up to $19 million may be paid of certain milestones and sales targets are met in 36 months.
As part of the acquisition, ASD will be integrated with the Netherlands-based PANanalytical B.V. and become Spectris' "NIR (Near Infrared) Excellence Center."
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Lincoln schools pioneer anti-violence initiative
LINCOLN - With song and silent observation, Lincoln High School students and faculty paid tribute last Friday to the lives lost in Newtown, Conn., a year ago.
As the school's select chorus sang "Where Are You, Christmas," students hung 26 white angels on the tree located in the main foyer, one to represent each life lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Dec. 14, 2012.
But it is not just a Christmas tree. Called the Tree of Life, and also featuring ornaments made in the special education life skills classes, it will be on display in the school all year along with students' personal codes of ethics, which are posted next to each other on the wall with the hope of one day stretching around the building. The same will happen at Lincoln Middle School.
This is part of WAVES RI, which stands for Working Against Violence Entering Schools.
Inspired by Rachel's Challenge, LHS secretary and former coach Rebecca Buontempo started the program in Lincoln as a way to start a chain reaction of kindness following the events in Connecticut last year.
Buontempo, who also runs the LMS Dream Team for Self-Esteem, said she has met with Gov. Lincoln Chafee and she is working to take the initiative to high and middle schools statewide. Elementary schools have not been included because of the sensitive subject matter.
"We're hoping Lincoln will be the role model," Buontempo said, adding that she almost became emotional during the ceremony. "I'm so proud of these kids. We will make a difference."
A chain of essays about codes of ethics one day stretching throughout the school will allow all students to express themselves anonymously, she said. The hope is to promote less judgement and more communication, and eventually, a more positive atmosphere.
LHS Principal Kevin McNamara said everyone looks for meaning in the wake of tragedy.
"This is a really positive way to focus energies and efforts," McNamara said.
Buontempo plans to make the second week of December each year WAVES RI's Acts of Kindness Week.
"When you do good, you feel good," she said, adding that a small bit of kindness can go far in preventing others from acting out on their anger. "If we stop one, we stop a lot more."
Several codes of ethics essays were already hanging on the wall for the ceremony Friday.
Equality, mutual respect, believing in yourself, helping someone smile and not walking away were some of the student ideals.
"If you show kindness to one person, they might show it to another person, who will in turn show it to others," one student wrote, "and eventually so many people will be affected and the world will become a better place."
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Moderator writes "Could Gnome drop support for non-Linux operating systems? That was a recent proposal on the Gnome mailing list, although there were significant objections in response. Quoting: 'It is harmful to pretend that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different kernels...the time has come for GNOME to embrace Linux a bit more boldly.'"


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The Bianconeri were made to work exceedingly hard for their win, and were perhaps fortunate to escape with the points in the end after the hosts were denied a clear late penalty
The Bianconeri had little left to play for after clinching the Scudetto against Palermo on Sunday, but picked up their ninth straight league win thanks to Alessandro Matri's well-worked first-half goal.
With the title wrapped up over the weekend, Antonio Conte opted to give some of the less-heralded names in his squad a chance to shine, as Marco Storari, Luca Marrone and Simone Padoin all started.
The opening goal came in the 18th minute courtesy of good work from Andrea Pirlo who clipped a sublime pass between the centre-backs for Matri, who controlled superbly before lashing into the far side.
The goal seemed to coax the home side out of their shell, but it was Juve who nearly struck again less than 10 minutes later. Mauricio Isla's fantastic cross was begging to be met and Paolo De Ceglie obliged, but his stooping header was just wide.
But just when it seemed like matters on the pitch were picking up, events in the stands grounded proceedings to a halt. Flares and smoke bombs were thrown, forcing the referee to stop the game, with Conte and Juve defender Giorgio Chiellini making frantic appeals for the away fans to behave.
When play resumed Martin Caceres gave the ball away and German Denis pounced from a quick cross, smashing the ball towards goal from inside the box, only to see the base of the post deny him.
Atalanta continued to look dangerous after the restart, but it was Juve who carved out the better opportunities. Emanuele Giaccherini blasted over the bar at the end of a counter, before Matri missed a gilt-edged cross from Isla yards out.
The game exploded back into life in the 81st minute. Federico Peluso avoided a penalty call for a clear handball and Juve were swiftly down the other end of the pitch, with substitute Arturo Vidal seeing a close-range effort denied by Andrea Consigli.
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AT&T Inc., one of the nation's largest wireless providers, is starting the new year with an assault on rival T-Mobile US Inc., offering to pay T-Mobile customers up to $450 to switch to the AT&T network.
AT&T's move is viewed by analysts as a preemptive strike against T-Mobile, which is said to be planning a similar announcement at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It also signals what could become an industrywide price war that would ultimately benefit consumers, analysts said.
Every US cellphone company faces a stark problem — virtually everyone who needs a phone already has one, said Ramon Llamas, wireless industry analyst for IDC Corp. in Framingham. That leaves them with only one option to grow: luring customers from rivals.
So far, the other two cellphone giants, Verizon Wireless and Sprint, are staying on the sidelines. But Llamas said it is only a matter of time before they join in. "They're going to have to," he said, "just to stay competitive with everybody."
AT&T said Friday it will offer T-Mobile defectors a $200 credit for switching to AT&T. They can also receive a credit of up to $250 for trading in a T-Mobile phone. The credits can be used to purchase a new phone from AT&T or pay for wireless service.
Ironically, AT&T and T-Mobile sought permission to merge three years ago in a massive deal valued at $39 billion. But antitrust concerns scuttled the deal.
Since then, T-Mobile has hired a new chief executive, John Legere, who has stunned the industry with his tough talk and aggressive strategy.
In a statement posted on T-Mobile's corporate website, Legere called the AT&T plan "a desperate move" by AT&T. "I'm flattered that we have made them so uncomfortable . . . nothing has changed; customers will still feel the same old pain that AT&T is famous for." Legere added that after he announced the company's newest initiatives at next week's electronics show, "the competition is going to be toast!"
Legere once described AT&T's cell network as "crap" during a press conference, and called the entire cellular industry "stupid, broke, and arrogant."
He's backed words with action. T-Mobile has eliminated cellphone contracts, instead letting customers buy their phones up front, or through monthly payments.
Once the phone is paid for, the customer's phone bill goes down — a big difference from standard cellphone contracts that keep on charging the same price.
The new approach seems to be paying off. T-Mobile signed up 648,000 new subscribers in the third quarter of 2013, second only to Verizon Wireless, which added 927,000, and much better than AT&T's 363,000, or Sprint Nextel Inc., which lost 363,000 customers, according to data from the companies.
Charles Golvin, an independent analyst tracking the wireless industry, said that AT&T's new offer is clearly a reaction to T-Mobile's growth spurt. "They're lost a lot of customers at T-Mobile's hands," Golvin said.
But AT&T could be well positioned to strike back, Golvin said. Its network covers more of the United States than T-Mobile's. It's also further along than T-Mobile in converting to high-speed 4G LTE wireless data technology.
Golvin said that AT&T is targeting people who may have defected to T-Mobile, but are now having second thoughts. "AT&T feels they have a compelling message to bring to these disaffected T-Mobile customers," Golvin said.Hiawatha Bray can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Spain: The Rich Neighbor - The border-town of La Linea is close to bankruptcy. Many citizens actually earn their living outside the Euro zone by smuggling or working illegally on the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. La Linea is struggling to pay its employees, and the town is facing massive unemployment. That's quite a contrast to the heady days of the 1980s and 1990s when it was known for its laissez-faire attitude. Back then corruption was quite open and the town's bureaucracy was huge. Now the town's true financial situation is slowly coming to light. Poland: Homeless in Krakow - Icorn is an international association of cities dedicated helping persecuted writers. The Polish city of Krakow has adopted a blogger called Kareem who had to flee his native Egypt. He studied law in Alexandria and spoke out in favor of a secular state with equal rights for women. This commitment brought him a five-year prison sentence in which he also suffered torture, long before the uprising against Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Now Kareem's year in Krakow is ending, and he's hoping to get refugee status somewhere in Scandinavia. Returning to Egypt is not an option. "Small Worlds" Series: Part 3 - Romania: The Turkish Enclave of Ada Kaleh - The island of Ada Kaleh on the River Danube used to be filled with bustling activity, coffee houses and Turkish bazaars. But about 40 years ago the island in southern Romania had to be evacuated to because of a hydroelectric plant being installed. The authorities promised residents that they could relocate to the downstream island of Simian and that everything would be rebuilt there. But Simian is now a waste land. Only part of the old fortress was rebuilt, and a number of graves were moved. The former inhabitants of Ada Kaleh were forced to reconstruct a new life for themselves on the mainland. Britain/Germany: A Taste for Things German - Brits having a hankering for things German - from the country's cars to the capital city of Berlin. The traditional German sausage, the "bratwurst", is more popular than ever. "Hermann ze German" is the brainchild of a young couple originally from the Black Forest region. Two years ago they opened their first sausage outlet under the name, and others have followed. Even their slogan plays on a stereotypical German accent "Our wurst is ze best". And the hungry Brits come in droves.
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