text: Ocean City Elementary School honored the September Students of the Month with a luncheon sponsored by the Ocean City-Berlin Opti-Ms. Students were treated to a lunch from Wendy's and a special dessert. Pictured, front row, are first graders Jesus Navarrete, Roman Pabich, Natalie Piltoyan, Weston Randolph and Abigail Yesko; second row, second graders Lily Figgs, Morgan Hayman, Miranda Hearne, Hannah Johnson and Laura Ortega; third row, third graders Piper Connors, Rachel Gillin, Niamh Lundberg, Darius Price, Julia Rettig and Shane Strennen; and fourth row, fourth graders Logan Figgs, Tyler Keiser, Amy Lizas, Acacia Nichols, Akira Smith and Rachel Welton. Submitted Photos


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There's nothing that football announcers love more than a good cliche.
It's hard to blame them. Cliches are easier than coming up with a unique point every time you open your mouth (or use your fingers to type, for that matter), and just about every cliche got that way because they were generally true. If you say that one of the keys to the game is making sure your defense limits big plays, you're a lot more likely to be accused of being unoriginal than you are of being incorrect.
Some games seem to lend themselves to cliches more than others. The NFC Championship Game is one of those games, which means you should probably brush up on some of them now so that you can accurately predict where you'll hear them on Sunday.
U.S. & World
"You have to establish the running game." Football guys love this, even though running the football was about as popular this year as sitting alone in a high school cafeteria. You'll probably hear this about the Giants, even though the Giants haven't run the ball all year and it hurt them so much that they are in the NFC Championship Game.
"This guy's got a motor that just won't stop." Justin Smith of the 49ers and Jason Pierre-Paul of the Giants were the two best defensive linemen in the NFC this season. Both of them play games that make you wonder where they get their energy.
"Don't be misled by their record." The Giants are trying to become the first 9-7 Super Bowl entry in history. Joe Buck will use this point to tell you that the Giants of the last four games aren't the same Giants as the first 14 games.
"Eli Manning can make every throw." Which is what makes him a successful NFL quarterback.
"It'll take a full 60 minutes to win this game." Closely matched teams tend to play games that go down to the wire.
"This one's a real throwback." In an NFL that usually resembles flag football, the NFC title game features two teams who actually like to hit. That just makes it football to most of us, but the times they are a-changing.
"The Giants are riding a wave of momentum." Four straight wins is impressive. The 49ers have won the same number of games in a row and they won four more overall in the regular season.
"You have to take care of the football." Again, it's a game between closely matched teams, so turnovers figure to play a major role. The Giants and 49ers forced a ton of turnovers between them last week and they both won, so there's a pretty good point here.
"This game will be won in the trenches." This one really fits for Sunday since the play at the line of scrimmage is going to be crucial against two teams with great pass rushers. That doesn't mean there's not a better way to say it.
"These two teams are playing like there's no tomorrow." Because there isn't.
"Defense wins in the playoffs." This may be the theme of the broadcast given the way the Giants and 49ers played to advance to this game. Do not pay any attention to it if they are playing to face the Patriots in the Super Bowl. If the Ravens win, do not attempt to play a drinking game featuring this statement because it will leave you in need of a liver transplant.
There are plenty more of them, particularly since we haven't delved into the fact that these are two physical teams who will play a slobberknocker/bloodbath/war of attrition or anything else.

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WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Forget crab fishermen on the Bering Sea, U.S. healthcare workers suffer the most injuries on the job than any other occupation, a non-profit group says.
A report by Public Citizen found nurses, nursing aides, orderlies and attendants suffer more musculoskeletal injuries than workers in any other field, and it's estimated it costs more than $7 billion annually for healthcare back injuries alone.
"Most Americans are not aware that hospitals and other medical facilities are actually the most frequent site for workplace injuries," Dr. L. Toni Lewis, head of the healthcare division of the Service Employees International Union, who advised Public Citizen on the report.
"This is an issue that affects so many front-line workers and their patients -- nurses, radiologists, physical therapists -- women and men who are trying to meet the needs of their patients safely and effectively. The current patchwork approach is not working for workers."
In 2010, healthcare employers reported 653,900 workplace injuries and illnesses, about 152,000 more than the next most-afflicted industry sector -- manufacturing. The construction industry is the subject of the most inspections, Lewis said. Although healthcare workers outnumber construction workers more than 2-to-1, OSHA conducts just one-twentieth as many inspections of healthcare facilities as construction sites, the report said.
David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor, acknowledged to Public Citizen that healthcare safety problems need to be addressed.
"It is unacceptable that the workers who have dedicated their lives to caring for our loved ones when they are sick are the very same workers who face the highest risk of work-related injury and illness," he said.
In response to questions asked by Public Citizen for the report, OSHA said it did not have the resources to develop certain standards.
Congress has allocated $535 million to OSHA, a budget woefully inadequate to oversee the 7 million job sites in its purview, Public Citizen said.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 4,693 deaths in 2011, 146 more than in 2010. Most occur in a handful of sectors representing the most fatalities. Since 1992, fishermen have had the highest fatality rate of all occupations, but miners suffered the most number of deaths. Healthcare has the most injuries.


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Lola Midi Dress - Bronze Leopard
$ 145.00 $ 239.00
Buy Now & Pay Later with Afterpay & ZipPay Online and In store
Hurry, this item is selling fast!
The Lola Midi Dress by Rowie The Label is a dream dress for a dream girl. Made from luxurious viscose, the Lola midi stuns in sumptuous bronze Leopard. With her tailored fit, frill details, and adjustable straps, the Lola midi is made for summer nights and holiday soirée's. With strappy sandals, tousled hair, and a dash of fine jewellery, the Lola enchants with her feminine, elegant charm and effortless joie de vivre.
Please note all measurements are approx.
Bust | XS 78CM | S 85CM | M 88CM | L 94CM |
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Size Guide
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You won't believe how easy it is to have your order sent to you straight away, but you have your payments spread out over 4 fortnightly instalments!
- Simply choose Afterpay at our web store checkout and your payments will be split over 4 equal payments.
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text: Ruby Jewel creates extraordinarily delicious ice cream for all to enjoy. Every flavor is carefully hand-crafted daily in our North Portland kitchen using the best ingredients thoughtfully sourced from farmers and food artisans in Oregon and around the Northwest. Family owned and operated since 2004, we are committed to supporting our local community, economy, and limiting our impact on the environment wherever possible. Find us at our 4 Portland scoop shops and in the freezer section of your favorite grocery store!


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Aaron Eden necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Sayulita Paradise
We are a real estate development based in Sayulita Mexico. We are developing a tropical village which is less than a half a mile from the beach. Our new village will have the best views of the ocean, jungle as well as Sayulita.
The fishing village of Sayulita is known for their beautiful beaches, amazing surfing, and lush jungles. Located on the pacific coast of Nayarit, Mexico this pueblo is gaining popularity as a vacation / second home destination with plenty of North Americans.
Our target audience are upper-middle class persons that are looking to purchase a second home in mexico.
The typical vacation-home owner is 59 years old.
Vacation-home owners reported a median income of $120,600.
The median income of investment property owners was $98,600.
Over three-quarters of second-home owners are married.
Boomers are an important segment of the 2nd home market. Nearly 60% of owners are 45 to 64 years old.
While three-quarters of vacation-home owners purchased their home to use for vacations, one-third of owners reported that it was a good investment opportunity as well.
Over half of vacation home owners noted that their interest near water was one of the motivations for purchasing their home.
Nearly half of vacation homes are in resort or recreation areas.
Vacation-home owners spend a median of 39 nights in their home each year.
75% of Vacation home owners don't rent the property.
Many boomers are trying to recapture their youth as well...
Please make use of our existing logo over some sort of design background and try to incorporate photos of the area as much as possible. We would like the primary colors of the page to be green since Sayulita paradise is in the jungle facing the ocean.
I'm including one of our ideas for a brochure. Please don't try to match it directly, but it should give you a good idea what the owner likes.
The main menu of the web page should include:
About Us
Contact Us
The main menu will probably include a sub menu as well.
The owner really likes this site which is direct competition. http://puntasayulita.com/
What he likes about this site is that it's very open and that it has large photos as the background. Please make sure your design makes use of these types of features.
Here are some of our photos that you can use in the design.
Please include .JPG and PSD files as well as any fonts used.
Do not use any copy written materials or items that require additional licensing.
In addition to the home page design, please include a mock-up or two of what the child pages might look like.


text: The Prince of Pot and Jodie Emery Nail This Interview "This is one of the best anti-prohibition interviews I have seen"--Barry Cooper Part 1 Part 2 Posted in Hot News ← Pot Parents: "Smoking Pot Is Better Than Drinking and Marijuana Makes Me A Better Parent"Tricking The Helicopters → About Barry Cooper "You may have seen him on the pages of Maxim, or during one of his many appearances on CNN, Fox News and Spike TV. He's the cop who turned against the drug war. In American pop culture right now, there's nobody quite like him. As one of the former top drug cops working the Texas highways, he was ferocious, bringing down hundreds of people for possessing even tiny amounts of an illegal substance. In his new life as a humanitarian crusader and activist filmmaker, he's just as ferocious. Cooper is on a mission to free America's pot prisoners. In the terminology of war, Barry is an insurgent, lobbing bombs into the fourth estate as his form of penance for all the people he put behind bars on drug offenses."—True/Slant Barry recently starred with Woody Harrelson, 50 Cent, Eminem and Susan Sarandon in the anti drug war documentary, "How To Make Money Selling Drugs." His internet fame via his website NeverGetBusted.com has received global attention by being reported in Rolling Stones, High Times, a feature in Maxim Magazine and a front cover feature in Cannabis Culture and the Texas Observer. His story was picked as a feature on NPR's, This American Life. He has been a guest on scores of cable news channels discussing the Drug War. He has also appeared as a drug and legal expert in five episodes of SPIKE TV's reality show, MANSWERS. View all posts by Barry Cooper →


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Simon.john.richardson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 5 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
We are launching a new Australian web based service for tradesmen.
"Tool-Log.com.au is building Australia's Easiest Online System for You to create a Secure Online Tool-Log helping protect your tool investments, increasing recovery of stolen tools if you do fall victim and helping reduce the incidences of power tool theft."
Our key offering is a free membership that allows logging of 5 tools, an upgrade to the individual membership for Unlimited Tool logging, 2 levels of memberships for businesses of different sizes, FREE public Buyer Beware Search allowing online purchasers of power tools to check serial numbers for potential theft of these tools before they purchase, expanded (paid) search capabilities for Pawnbrokers and Law Enforcement Agencies and an Affiliate program to power tool retailers, ebay store owners and alike.
Safety, Security and credibility are key principles and is encompassed in both our company name and tagline
Company Name: Secure Shield Media
Tag Line: "Log Your Tools. There's safety in numbers."
Log your tools so if they do get stolen we increase chances of recovering them AND decrease the thieves capabilities to pawn or sell them
Allow the public to search for free at any time to make the 1st reason more effective. End game is a reduction in theft of tools as thieves cannot on-sell as easily.
The target audience is primarily purchasers of power tools such as tradesmen - Electricians, plumbers, carpenters. contractors - but can stretch to the home handy man, gardeners & landscapers, painters, computer technicians, Audio Visual and smart home installers.
Safety conscious "tradies' that cant make their living without their power tools
Fear of Loss is the main driver for membership and equating value of the service to the potential loss - not just of the tools but the business/projects they cannot undertake without their tools.
Whilst the younger trades are internet savvy typically t his audience can be somewhat challenged by computers so messaging and call to actions should be clear.
We need a range of static and animated banners in various sizes that describe visually and verbally the core principles of http://www.Tool-Log.com.au. (Note when using the URL please use capitalisation as printed here)
Tag Line: "Log Your Tools. There's safety in numbers." This must be represented with punctuation and capitalization as it is. Should be used on every banner where possible
Core Principles:
Protect your investment
Check the Buyer Beware Search before you purchase power tools online
Save Money
Organise your tool-life
Australian centric
Tell Your Mates
The more people that use the service the more useful it is for everyone
Free Individual memberships on offer
The call to action is to Log Your Tools because of the above reasons
No native animals please.
We have no preferences for colours but they should reference the site in some way, but these site colours do not have to dominate the banners.
As these will be used primarily by affiliates and these affiliates will be ebay store owners and alike, professional online tool retailers - and they will be placing these banners on or near their payment pages - the security aspect is very important.
Sizes required - 1 static 1 animated for each size
125 x125
468 x 60
160 x 600
300 x 250
I have resources to upload but uploader on site is not working at the moment.


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Asia GFS Surface Temperature/Wind Analysis Chart
- location
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- New Zealand
- North America
- South America
- model
- BoM 10-day
- US 8-day
- CMC 6-day
About GFS
Global Forecast System. The operational numerical weather forecasting model run by NCEP. The GFS superceded the AVN and MRF models, on which it is largely based. Forecast data from the GFS is available out to 180 hours at full resolution and 16 days at a reduced resolution.
Weather News
Perth Easter weekend weather forecast to be among hottest on record as police caution beachgoers
Beachgoers have been urged to stick to social distancing rules this Easter long weekend with Perth and parts of the South West set to experience potentially record-breaking heat.
Pet owners and vets warned after cat tests positive to coronavirus
A report of a in Hong Kong, and ashowing cats can transmit the virus to other cats has prompted the Australian Veterinary Association to to wear personal protective equipment when handling cats with COVID-19 positive owners.
Vanuatu faces 12-month recovery as Cyclone Harold heads for Fiji
Disaster officials in the small Pacific nation of Vanuatu are working around the clock to assess the damage that a category five cyclone has caused to remote islands, as Cyclone Harold heads for Fiji.


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Leo & Bar go shopping
For cameras. He seems to buy a lot of them. I feel like once a year he's photographed camera shopping. Maybe they're for taking pictures of the tigers. He was in Asia recently on a research mission about tigers and has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund to raise $20 million to protect the endangered species.
This is Leonardo DiCaprio with Bar Rafaeli, their relationship currently switched On, in LA today leaving a camera shoppe and walking far apart. Leo's new film Inception opens July 16 and new posters were released this week of each cast member with a title. Leo is The Extractor. Marion Cotillard is The Shade. Ellen Page is The Architect. Click here to see more.
A third trailer for Inception is now rolling on tv, and the publicity push is building for Inception before its premiere, a critical marketing strategy since Inception looks to be another amazing Christopher Nolan mindf-ck. I love when he f-cks my mind. Very much looking forward to this one.
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BBC News
- Coronavirus: Boris Johnson must rest up, says PM's father
- Coronavirus: NHS doctor who pleaded for PPE dies
- Coronavirus: Google data suggests park visits rose on weekend
- Coronavirus: Sick children hospital treatment 'hit' during pandemic - leaked email
- Coronavirus tests and masks sold by fraudsters online
- Coronavirus: Easter egg shoppers go online
- Coronavirus: 'I'm in lockdown with my long-lost sister'
- Brexit: Labour warns against 'chaotic' no deal outcome
- Coronavirus: UK claps for NHS, carers and key workers
- Coronavirus: Imperial College London communal areas reopened
- Coronavirus: Shoppers stock up on alcohol amid lockdown
- Coronavirus: Girl, 17, works at hospital after A-levels cancelled
- Coronavirus: The people fighting fakes from their sofas
- Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'The most urgent research race in living memory'
- Can my dog or cat catch coronavirus?
- Coronavirus: Flour mills working 'round the clock' to meet demand
- Coronavirus: Will summer make a difference?
- Coronavirus: Lockdown 'could boost wild flowers'
- Coronavirus: Wills 'being signed on car bonnets' amid lockdown
- Coronavirus: Have the Brits stranded abroad got home yet?
- Coronavirus: The council workers switching roles to help the vulnerable
- Coronavirus: When will we know if the UK lockdown is working?
- The battle against a vicious disease
- Coronavirus: Chief rabbi says Passover in lockdown will be 'challenging'
- Coronavirus: What does it mean if I've been furloughed by work?
- Coronavirus: What is intensive care and which patients need it?
- Coronavirus: Inside an ICU fighting Covid-19
- Coronavirus: Lockdown, a baby and MND - but I'm feeling great
- Coronavirus: Who's in charge if the PM is ill?
- Coronavirus: Call to help vulnerable women during pandemic
- Coronavirus: Miss England returning to her job as an NHS junior doctor
- Are minorities being hit hardest by coronavirus?
- What was the best year for music?
- Coronavirus: Boris Johnson hospital stay and parallels to Lloyd George
- Musicians in lockdown: How British bands are keeping creative for their fans
- Coronavirus: Suffolk family isolating in van on Corfu
- Coronavirus: The impossibility of home-schooling a nation
- Pink Moon: Europe illuminated by lunar light show
- Coronavirus: 'I'm out of hospital, but I have to remember to breathe'
- Tim Burgess on the power of listening to music 'together, apart'
- Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'Our hospitals weren't made to use this much oxygen'
- Coronavirus: Offline sex workers forced to start again online
- Coronavirus: 'I was asked for £430 a month for my shut nursery'
- How to celebrate some of the most important religious celebrations of the year - virtually
- Coronavirus: Love and dating in lockdown
- Coronavirus lockdown joy for long-lost sisters
- Coronavirus: Being a hospital chaplain in testing times
- Dynamo 'pretty good' after recovering from coronavirus
- Coronavirus: Teacher's warning after recovering from Covid-19
- Newspaper headlines: 'So much for lockdown, minister!'
- Coronavirus: Stormont to place £170m Chinese order for PPE
- Camp Bestival holds online Easter 'sleepover'
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Big 8th
For seven innings, the offense crept along, scoring one run on Tuesday night. For the second straight game, a Phillies starter had a chance to win his 10th game but the offense produced just one while Cole and Doc were on the mound in those games.
Then came a 43-minute eighth-inning. Taking advantage of five St. Louis relievers and their wildness (5 walks, 2 hit batters, 90 total pitches), the Phillies scored nine times. A 2-1 deficit became a laugher. Stutes wound up with his second big league win, both coming on this six-game journey to Seattle and St. Louis.
Phillies record for the biggest eighth inning came on September 22, 1999 at Milwaukee, 11.
Yearbook Questions
Players were asked numerous questions in the 2011 Phillies Yearbook, including:
"What's your favorite sport to play other than baseball?"
Charlie Manuel: golf
Antonio Bastardo: volleyball
Domonic Brown: football
Ben Francisco: basketball
Ross Gload: bean bag toss
Roy Halladay: basketball
Cole Hamels: shuffleboard
Ryan Howard: basketball
Raul Ibanez: whatever my kids are playing
Kyle Kendrick: croquet
Cliff Lee: basketball
Brad Lidge: ping pong
Ryan Madson: hot potato
Placido Polanco: basketball
Carlos Ruiz: soccer
Chase Utley: golf
Shane Victorino: football
Down On The Farm
CF John Mayberr Jr. had a single, double, stolen base in Lehigh Valley's 2-0 loss to Indianapolis . . . SS Freddy Galvis had his second straight 2-hit game but Reading lost its sixth in a row, 4-1, to Erie . . . 1B Jonathan Singleton, single, double, 4th home run in Clearwater's 11-9 loss to Tampa . . . RF Kelly Dugan had 3 hits in Williamsport's 4-3 defeat at Jamestown . . . CF Peter Lavan, single, 2 doubles and 4 RBI as the Gulf Coast League Phillies won their second in a row over the Tigers, 8-2.
All-Star Game: Five Lakewood BlueClaws played in the South Atlantic League All-Star Game in Salisbury, MD: 1B Jim Murphy, 1-2, 1 RBI; DH Anthony Hewitt, 1-2; RHS David Buchanan, 1 scoreless inning, 2 strikeouts; RHS Lisalverto Bonilla, 1.1 inning, 1 run, 2 hits and RHS Garet Claypool, 1 inning, 2 strikeouts.


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New! Qstarz BT-Q1000XT GPS receiver Form Fit Leather/Neoprene Case !!!
The new Qstarz BT-Q1000XT leather/neoprene case is a custom form fit case designed to enable the user to easily utilize their note taker while the GPS unit is secured safely to your strap with a clip. Your GPS unit is securely enclosed with a snap button. This unit comes with two clips, Velcro for your shoulder strap and the other for your belt, backpack etc..... This will allow you move and secure your GPS unit in two different areas. Comes with a wrist strap too.
Dealer pricing call (818) 833-8822
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|Boban Markovic Boban I Marko (CD)
|The Boban Markovic Orkestar is undoubtedly the best Balkan gypsy brass band, famed for their contribution to the soundtrack of Emir Kusturicas Underground. If they easily enrapture a live audience, they display equal ingenuity and exactitude when it comes to studio work. This album features 15-year-old Marko Markovic - son of the bandleader and, true to gypsy tradition, a young man deeply attached to his instrument ever since he took his first breath.
Released by Piranha Musik & Verlag AG, Format: CD only
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America's Got Talent: Episode 14 Review
Last week we were able to experience the judges finally being stern with the contestants as they peeled off a layer of poor talent among the bunch. Now we're about to check out the first live show of this season's 'America's Got Talent.' Who will crack under pressure? Hopefully not too many contestants. That gets difficult to watch after awhile.
We travel all the way to New Jersey in order to shrink down our group of contestants. Right now we have a total of 48 acts. Now that's a little too much, and the judges agree. They're hoping that by the end of this week they cut some the less talented acts in order to make way for the next round, and we wonder how many times Howard will butt heads with Sharon and Howie. But this time it's not up to them as to who passes and who doesn't. The audience is allowed to call in and make their votes. Whoever is voted the most makes it to the next round.
First they begin with yet another showy entrance in front of an auditorium where the judges go through the red carpet. Basically the first half hour is showcasing some of the best and worst acts that have ever appeared on the stage. It's a way for new viewers to catch up with the show. By the way, can anybody explain to us why the judges in Vegas said that the next round was to take place in New York when it clearly isn't? We're confused as well, especially since this is their supposedly new home for the remainder of this season.
The first twelve quarter-finalists are up and the tension is high as usual. The judges come out in which easily is the most showy entrances they've ever done on this show. The first act is The Distinguished Men of Brass, the cool and soulful marching band that's made it so far by the hairs of their chinny chin chin. This performance isn't exactly the strongest one they've delivered on that stage.
Next up is Edon, the fourteen-year-old pianist and singer who's truly passionate about his work. Will it pay off in front of millions? He seems a bit hesitant to really show off his vocal pipes at first, stumbling. Sadly his voice is drowned out behind the music. The judges were fine until Howie said "Jew are terrific!" Is he allowed to say that?
Here's our favorite magicians, Jarrett and Raja who've had a hard time trying to convince everybody to buy their magic act. Let's see if they manage to do so with their act that includes performing "Singing in the Rain." It's cute, but too bad no actual act is going on right away. Ultimately, it's rather dull and only half of the crowd is happy with it.
Lil Starr, the slightly duck-faced girl is back on the stage ready to tap dance her way into America's hearts. Though we kind of hope that one of these days they'll train this cute little girl to stop doing the over-the-top cheerleader dance faces. Still, she can tap dance better than we ever can in our lifetimes.
Todd Oliver is coming out with his two doggies which are absolutely adorable. Todd is actually funny with his act but can be better, so Sharon's critiques are justifiable. But Howard's got the best point; that he should step up the material by being raunchier/more topical.
Next up is the American BMX Stunt Team. What exactly makes them unique? The fact that they work together as a team mainly. Once again they have to work with a particularly small stage so we'll see as to whether or not these guys bust their heads in the quarterfinals.The stage really restricts them from really strutting their stuff. Basically, it's weak presentation this time.
Then comes Nikki Jensen, the Australian who decided to leave her home country in order to make it in the USA. She believes America is where all of the opportunities are, and it may be - she does have a unique voice. But it sounds like she's struggling with notes while singing a Coldplay song. Here's a suggestion: sing a song that isn't Coldplay. Though we disagree with Howie: she doesn't sound like Alanis Morrisette, she sounds more along the lines of a fast-paced Sarah McLachlan.
The Scott Brothers smoothly make their way onto the stage, ready to show that they are the superior dancers of the selection. They claim that they know how to entertain the audience, but how will they do that this time around? We're not entirely sure because they didn't look too impressive on the stage.
Up next is Michael Nejad, the man who can make an instrument out of anything. I'm waiting for him to make a flute out of a grilled cheese sandwich but we know that'll never happen. We're not entirely sure what rendition of any sort of song he's trying to play out of his shovel violin or baseball bat flute but... yeah. We just have no idea what's going on here.
Let's give a round of applause for the 787 Crew, one of the most notable of the 48 who were selected to go to the quarterfinals. They're energetic at least, but this didn't feel crazy great like their previous performances.
Shanice and Maurice Hayes are next. The father-daughter duo struggled during the Vegas portion of this show are they aren't pulling it off. Here, they struggle to stay on-key during a few parts of the performance, but everybody else thinks differently.
David Garibaldi and his CMYK's follow. They're one of the best talents to appear on the stage this season, not only for their ability to paint famous icons at such a rapid speed but combining that with dance. This is the only act that made everybody - including the judges - stand up out of their chairs and cheer. We're cheering too.
So now it's time for America to vote for who they think has what it takes to advance to the next round. We'll find out exactly who those lucky contestants are during tomorrow night's results episode of 'America's Got Talent.'


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Hydrocodone with acetaminophen
Brand names: Vicodin, Lortab
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Pharmacists say . . . : Check the labels of any other medications you are taking to see if they contain acetaminophen, and only take one source of acetaminophen at a time.
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Description: An ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitor, lisinopril is prescribed for high blood pressure and heart failure and to improve survival chances after heart attacks.
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jcm's Olympics' Predictions Contest Winners
Kudos to the winners of jcm's Olympics Podium Predictions contest!
Pairs: Jean-Samuel Gagnon, with top 3 correct = 15 points
Men's: MIZ, with top 2 correct =
11 points
Ice Dance: MF (perfect!), with top 4 correct = 16 points
Ladies: LJ, with top 3 correct =
15 points
Your Amazon.com prizes will be sent via email to you winners this week, and once you confirm your email address. (Please respond to the private email you received.)
Many winners benefited from early submissions, as their were multiple ties in several disciplines.
Personally, jcm predicted the ice dance top four, as well as the ladies and pairs top three correctly. Not too bad. However, I failed miserably on the men's.
The Collective Opinion of Participants
As per the collective opinion of contest participants, the ice dance result ended up EXACTLY (top 4) as predicted. The ladies top three were correctly predicted. The pairs' gold was a slam-dunk. But, overall the pairs, and especially the men's were, as we all know less predictable.
Thanks for taking part, and keep your eyes open for jcm's next contest!


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Noni's Bar & Deli
- 50% off
- Only on the App
- Old Fourth Ward
- Italian, Sandwiches, Lounges
This Old Fourth Ward spot is beloved as much for their garlic parmesan fries and meat-stacked subs as they are for their ridiculously fun and sweaty late-night dance parties.Rule of thumb: any restaurant named after a feisty, pint-sized, whiskey-drinking Italian grandmother has to be good. Such is the case with Noni's, which is known and beloved as much for their garlic-parmesan fries and meat-stacked subs as they are for their ridiculously fun and sweaty late-night dance parties. And now that the long-awaited streetcar is on Edgewood with a stop right in front of the restaurant (and free to ride for the rest of the year, we might add) it's even easier to get yourself a Noni sandwich. If you're still married to your car, don't worry- there's still plenty of free parking--and plenty of food that's worth navigating a little Sweet Auburn traffic.
Everything from the recipes, dish inspirations, decor, old-school cocktails, and the name of the place comes from owner Matt's "whippersnapper" granny, Noni herself, whose sauce, soup, and pasta recipes have made Noni's a local favorite for Italian-American dishes and mouthwatering sandwiches. And they take their food seriously: all of the sauces, dressings, and vinaigrettes are made in-house, in addition to house-made mozzarella, pickles, gelato, and Noni's signature pasta, tagliatelle. Sandwiches are a no-brainer, especially the crowd favorite Noni sandwich, stacked high with delicious meats and cheese (think Genoa salami, soppressata, mortadella di Bologna, provolone, pepperoncini—all our favorite fixins). The Patricia is an Italian favorite- featuring Noni's homemade mozzarella, homemade seasonal preserves with smoked turkey and prosciutto on Holeman & Finch focaccia. While you chow down on those, you can gaze at vintage sepia-toned portraits of Noni and other staff members' grandmas. It's all so wonderful, we might just get the dance party started about twelve hours early next time we drop in for spaghetti and meatballs at lunchtime. Won't you join us?
Menu Highlights:
Noni's Fries, $6
Mushroom-Leek Bruschetta, $8
Noni Sandwich, $8.50
The Patricia Sandwich, $9
Meatball Sub, $8.50
Farfalle with Pancetta Cream, $8
Tagliatelle Bolognese, $12.50
Today's Risotto, $10
7 days a week, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 a.m.
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|Stimulation Substitutes for Trichotillomania
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- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
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- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
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Greetings. Having an internet problem that's pretty much exactly what the topic says on the tin. I didn't know where to properly post this since the InSSIDer subforum only has 2, 3, 4, and Office, while I have InSSIDer Home.
Normally, the wi-fi in the house has been relatively good. The Up/Down speeds have never been anything spectacular (between 1-2mbps), but overall the speed has been fine. Even with many many devices connected to it (there are four of us in the house, and everyone has a computer and phone that is connected to the access point, as well as two tablets), it's never been noticeably laggy or slow; maybe a random lag hiccup here and there at worst.
But over the past few days, we've been experiencing terrible lag spikes that occasionally slow things down to a crawl; most noticeably when I'm gaming, things can be fine for some minutes, and then completely unplayable for the next few. Today has been the worst so far. The lag spikes weren't as hard, but the connection was laggy 100% of the time, so even thoguh the lag was weaker, it made things even more impossible to play. What's more is that it has significantly slowed down even basic web browsing; even trying to watch a simple video on YouTube was a chore.
On a normal day, our link score is between 70-80, with 83 being the peak if memory serves. Even as I type this, it's 83 for now. For some reason whenever I change channels there are other networks in the local area that "follow" me; I can change to channel 11 when there's no network on it, but after a bit there'll suddenly be four when there should only be two (our access point and our signal booster). Switching again will still have these extra networks "follow" me after some time delay.
Is there some other kind of reason or explanation for these suddenly very poor connection speeds that I'm missing? If everyone in this house can be on the wi-fi at the same time (with multiple devices using it) and the speed is unaffected, then I can only assume that something else is messing with it when nothing on our end has changed.
We have an old Verizon router from before we moved last year, but the house we're in has had Charter as the ISP ever since.


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All the programs that we normally write are console based. Hence, it gets boring and the users can only interact with the program only if they've something to compile the codes. Thus, this is where swing comes in to play, swing allows the user to interact with the program better and more playful. So what is swing ? Swing is a package that create applications which use a flashy Graphical User Interface ( or GUI ), pronounce as " gooey ." In English, simply all the application that we are using such as, Jgrasp compiler, Media player, Microsoft Word, and so on. Swing API provides many different classes for creating various types of user-interface elements. We will look at three of those classes: JFrame, JLabel, and JPanel. The swing class has more than that, lets see a brief description of the classes.
- Object: All classes derive from Object.
- Component: The component class represents an object that has visual representation that can be shown on-screen and can interact with users.
- This is in the AWT class rather than the Swing class.
- Container: It builds on the basic visual capabilities of the Component class by adding the ability to hold other containers. This is in the AWT class.
- Window: It defines a window, a specialized type of container object that has a border, a title bar, and buttons that minimize, maximize, and close.
- Frame: A type of window that serves as the basis for Java GUI applications. It's also in the AWT class.
- JFrame: It's an older Frame class.
- JComponent: It's a swing class that is the basis for all other swing components except for frames.
- JPanel: It creates panels, which are containers used to organize and control the layout of the other components such as lables, buttons, textfield and so on.
- JLabel: The class creates a label that displays a simple text value.
At the moment, you might not have a clue of what all those are, but keep in mind of the descriptions as we move along in the chapter it will be more clear. Lets see a very simple graphic user interface (GUI) using JOptionPane.
Listing1: Code displaying the GUI using JOptionPane
/* This is a simple GUI using JOptionPane */ import javax.swing.*; public class Name { public static void main(String[] args) { // Ask for a name String input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter your name"); // Outputs the input name JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The name you enter is " + input); } }
To get an input from the user, we use JOptionPane.showInputDialog(" " ); and to output to the screen we use JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, " "); so know the difference, and when outputting don't forget to put the null. The inputs from swing is a String, so if we want to do calculations we would have to convert the string into number, thus the Java API gives us a great method to do so.
Integer.parseInt(" ") -- Converts String into an integer
Double.parseDouble(" ") -- Converts String into a double
Float.pareseFloat(" ") -- Converts String into a float
Lets see a example on how to use them.
The program demonstrate how to convert Strings into Numbers
Listing2: Code displaying the process to convert Strings into Numbers
* */ import javax.swing.*; public class ConvertNum { public static void main(String[] args) // Gets the first number String firstnum = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a number"); // Gets the second number String secnum = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter another number"); double sum = 0.0; // Convert the Strings into a Double double num1 = Double.parseDouble(firstnum); double num2 = Double.parseDouble(secnum); // Sums up the number sum = num1 + num2; // Output the sum into the screen JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The sum of the two number is " + sum); } }
Now, lets get into a different kinds of swing. A window type of swing application. To help us understand the swing world better, I created a method and constructor table of swing classes in the link below. As we move along, it would be best if you first read the swing method and constructor table first and try to remember what each methods/constructors do.
Recall from the inheritance, once we extends a class, we are able to use any methods that belong to the other class. It is the same thing with swing classes, if we extend any of the classes we are able to use their methods as if it were its own. It might be a little confusing from just reading it, hence lets see a example of it.
/* The program demonstrates the use of JFrame It sets the title to Hello World * */ import javax.swing.*; // Needed for the swing class public class HelloWorld extends JFrame { public HelloWorld() { // Sets the size of the window setSize(300, 200); // Sets the title of the window setTitle("This is a Hello World Frame"); // Sets the action when the user clicks on the X of the window setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); // Sets the window to be visible setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new HelloWorld(); } }
The above program is a very simple swing program with a title set to " This is Hello World Frame ." Since swing applications are still java applications, and all java applications need a static main method that starts the application. Hence, in order for the window to display we would need to add a main method. The above method used the inheritance style, we inherits the method from the JFrame class, thus we are allow to use all the method inside the class. Notice, the name must be the same as the class name that we created. If we look back at the program above, we have the class name as HelloWorld, follow with another method with HelloWorld. The two names has to match or else the compiler would give out an error. Then inside the main method, all we need is an instance of the class.
We learned on the potential of Java Swings to interact with the web programs and how it can come up with a flashy and attractive Graphical User Interface.


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Laziness is a virtue for a sysadmin. If something needs to be done twice, automate it. Usually, the scripts and hacks are very much tailored to the task, and useless outside the site where written. But here's some software I feel can be useful for others.
Report directories with many files (inodes) - Bacula du - Query Bacula logs - Remove unneeded Bacula volumes - Monitor Bacula (or Bareos) backups - Summarise Bacula storage usage per customer - Send SMS for free via GuleSider.no - Convert vCalendar 1.0 to iCalendar 2.0 - Report TITLE from URLs posted in Irssi - Fake keypresses - Keep running - Timestamp - Netgask - cknfs - Managesieve sync - Listadmin - Stripnuls - Compare Iozone - Sjekkpart - Genunames - FH find
So you have run out of inodes. How do you find out where they are hiding so you can clean them up? Introducing: inode-usage(1)!
Usage: inode-usage [OPTION] [DIRECTORY...] Like du(1), but report inode counts instead of disk space usage. When no directory is specified, report on current directory and its sub-directories. Options can be: -t, --threshold=N exclude directories with fewer than N inodes -x, --one-file-system skip directories on different file systems The four columns in the output are as follows: 1: Count of inodes including sub-directories 2: Cound of inodes in this directory 3: Marked with "*" if this directory contains hardlinked files 4: Directory name The inode count is an approximation. If the tree contains files hardlinked from the outside, the reported count can be a little too small.
inode-usage (version 1.0)
Bacula (and Bareos) stores detailed information in the database
about the contents of a job, but it can be awkward to inspect
bacula-du works mostly like
Usage: bacula-du [OPTIONS] -j JOBID Summarize disk usage of directories included in the backup JOBID Main options are: -a, --all write counts for all files, not just directories -S, --separate-dirs do not include size of subdirectories -t, --threshold=SIZE skip output for files or directories with usage below SIZE. default is 1 octet. -L, --largest=NUM only print NUM largest directories/files -i, --inodes print number of files instead of size
There is also an alternate mode which can be useful as a faster
alternative to a
verify job.
Usage: bacula-du --md5sum -j JOBID --md5sum output list of all files in job in md5sum format
bacula-du (version 1.8)
Bacula (and Bareos) logs can be unwieldy when you have hundreds or thousands of jobs. I wrote this tool so I can filter out the cruft easily.
Usage: bacula-logs [OPTIONS] [--days N] [JOB ...] Print logs for JOBS, or print logs for all jobs the last N days (default 1) JOB can be job id or a job name (optionally with % wildcard). Main options are: --errors-only, -e only print jobs which failed --last-run-only, -l only print the last instance for each job --pattern, -p PATTERN only print jobs with a log matching (Perl) PATTERN [*] --ignore-case, -i case-insensitive pattern search --match-only, m only print matching log entries --client-log, -c only match against log entries from client (without --pattern: only print log entries from client) --status-only, -s do not print logs --extended-info, -X add field (files, bytes, duration) to status line --simple-status, -S as --status-only, but without decoration of output
This can be used many ways. E.g.,
bacula-logs -esl
will give a summary of jobs which failed last
bacula-logs web02 will output the logs of all job
names starting with "web02".
My favourite command is
bacula-logs -eXl | less -p==
. The
-p== specifies a search pattern which matches the
header for each job, so pressing "n" will skip to next job in the
bacula-logs (version 1.9)
The backup software Bacula (and Bareos) is very reluctant to delete files which contain backup data, even if the data comes from jobs which failed or if the data is older than your retention policy. This script will remove the files and clean up the database.
bacula-purge-unused (version 1.4)
The backup software Bacula (and Bareos) will only report success or failure -- but what if your backup is missing important files? This script allows you to monitor if those important files are included every night. You can also use it interactively to check what jobs contain a specific file.
bacula-check (version 1.7)
This script will collect and add up storage usage for our customers. It assumes
that client names are on the form
SOMETHING.customer.TLD-fd (see the
get_customer_list function). The output can be grouped
by customer, or by client name. Example output:
$ bacula-customer-size 2087.9 - 995.8 on tape, 1092.1 on disk - redpill-linpro 7.8 - 5.5 on tape, 2.3 on disk - skolelinux 2095.8 - 1001.4 on tape, 1094.4 on disk - TOTAL
There is also invoicing code, but it generates URLs for doing the invoicing which are quite specific to Redpill Linpro.
bacula-customer-size (version 1.3)
I found a script
by Richard Tangstad which uses wget to send SMS via the free service (5 SMS per day)
at Gule Sider. I did some
rudimentary usability tweaks, so here you go:
gulesider-sms (version 0.4)
After using syncml-ds-tool from the libsyncml project to dump the calendar from my Nokia e71, I was very disappointed to find that neither Google Calendar nor Evolution was able to parse the file. It turns out the dump contains extra comment lines and uses quoted-printable which aren't handled very well.
This quick Perl hack may massage your file into something more readable. I still had to remove a few calendar events manually which Google didn't grok, but it worked for me. Oh: Evolution didn't handle base64 either, so the long descriptions may become quite unreadable, so please let me know if you understand what I (or Evolution) did wrong.
Here it is: convert-vcalendar1.0-to-icalendar2.0 (version 0.2)
This plugin will attempt to download the head of the URL and report the title. It looks like this:
10:02 [title]>> What Happened When NYU Students Discovered They Could Email 40,000 People At Once 10:02
Hehe. http://www.buzzfeed.com/atmccann/what-happened-when-nyu-students-discovered-they-co
Here it is: linktitle.pl (version 2016022301)
Looking around on the Internet, I couldn't find any program which makes it easy to script entering text into X applications via faked key presses. I needed this to replicate how XTerm's translation table allows you to bind the insertion of chunks of text to function keys or whatever.
The code is pretty rudimentary, but works for me. It assumes all characters in your text are available by pressing a combination of Shift and AltGr, so I suspect CJK users will be out of luck. Suggestions for improvements are welcome. Usage is simple, anything given as the first argument is copied to the window holding focus. If you want to include newlines or tabs, consider using printf(1) to generate the input string.
The latest version is fakekeypresses 1.0.
There seems to be two wrappers I continually write. One to set environment variables before invoking the real binary, the other to make a slightly buggy daemon stay available by running it inside a loop.
Usually, it's too much work to set up exponential backoff, alerts via e-mail and/or syslog, so it's just left there, with a custom log file no one remembers to check. I decided to write a script which is kept simple (so it doesn't introduce new bugs in the system) but still is general enough to be used on a multitude of services.
Usage: keep-running [options] command [args] Valid options: -m <mail-address> send failure report to <mail-address> default: don't send e-mail -r <number> how many times to restart the service default: infinite -d <maxdelay> a limit on how long to wait before trying to restart, in seconds, or with a suffix. default: 1d -S <command> how to shut down the child cleanly. default: send SIGINT or SIGTERM -t <template-file> a file containing the e-mail message to send default: built-in template -u <username> switch to this user on startup -c <config-file> the name of a file to poll for changes. -c <watch-file> the name of a file to poll for changes (can be given multiple times). -l <log-target> which syslog facility to use for diagnostics, or, if the argument contains a '/', which file to log diagnostics to default: print on standard error -D run as daemon in the background (requires -l) -C "launch from cron" mode: exit silently if already running (requires -L) -L <lock-file> only run if lock can be held exclusively (also contains PID of keep-running)
For more details, read the manual page. The script is written in Perl. No extra modules are needed unless you want e-mail notification (Net::SMTP, Net::DNS) or logging via syslog (Unix::Syslog).
The latest version is keep-running 1.07.
Sometimes programs emit data on stdout or stderr, but they're long running, and you would like timestamps on each line to make it more like a log file. You can do this by piping through a Perl one-liner, but that collapses stdout and stderr. This wrapper script spawns the command itself to keep total control.
Usage: timestamp [options] COMMAND ... Prepend timestamp to each line of output from COMMAND. Valid options: -u, --utc Use UTC rather than local timezone -f, --format FORMAT Format timestamp according to strftime (default: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ") -o, --format-stdout FORMAT Use this FORMAT for stdout -e, --format-stderr FORMAT Use this FORMAT for stderr --stdout-prefix STRING Add STRING in front of date on stdout --stderr-prefix STRING Add STRING in front of date on stderr $ timestamp echo This is a trivial example 2009-09-16 16:31:36 This is a trivial example
The latest version is timestamp 1.0.
This script is mostly obsolete with the more commonly distributed ts(1) from moreutils.
We use netgroups extensively at our site for giving users access to computers, printers, files, etc.; or for giving computers access to other computers; or for keeping track of what each computer is supposed to be doing. Most of these netgroups are automatically maintained based on our student database and the host database.
The key is to make this information easily accessible for sundry scripts, and Unix has for some reason always lacked the tools needed, the closest you get is ypmatch(1m) which is quite awkward for this task.
This package, which was originally written in 1988, contains four small utilities written in C:
The latest version is netgask 1.07. We use it on AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, MacOS X, Solaris and Tru64 Unix.
Don't you hate it when your scripts hang due to a dead NFS server? With cknfs, you can check if a path (or $PATH) is available before you access it. Each path is examined for an NFS mount point. If found, the corresponding NFS server is checked. Paths that lead to dead NFS servers are ignored, the remaining paths are printed to stdout.
Usage: cknfs -e -f -s -t# -u -v -D -L paths Check paths for dead NFS servers Good paths are printed to stdout -e silent, do not print paths -f accept ordinary files -s print paths in sh format (semicolons) -t n timeout interval before assuming an NFS server is dead (default 10 seconds) -u unique paths -v verbose -D debug -H print host pinged -L expand symbolic links
This program was originally written by Alan Klietz back in 1989. It has been maintained here at UiO since, but it's still in glorious K&R C and even runs on Ultrix. Improvements include support for NFS over TCP and a few useful flags.
Version cknfs 1.9 works on on HP-UX, IRIX, Linux and Solaris. In version 1.10 and above support for historic operating systems is mostly abandoned, and the code is rewritten to support IPv6. The latest version is on Github.
This little script uses the Perl module
Cyrus::SIEVE::managesieve which comes with Cyrus IMAPd to
copy all Sieve scripts from one server to the other. It supports
authorisation as a super user to enable copying without user
Mailman has a friendly but rather awkward web interface for manipulating the queue of messages held for moderator approval. Since I maintain a couple of dozen lists, some of which receive 50+ spams per day, I needed a way to reduce the time taken to process all the junk e-mail.
The result was listadmin. It is designed to keep user interaction to a minimum, in theory you could run it from cron to prune the queue. It can use the score from a header added by SpamAssassin to filter, or it can match specific senders, subjects, or reasons. The configuration file is Notepad.exe friendly. A sample configuration file:
password "Geheim" # action to take when pressing just Return default discard # discard automatically anything with SA score higher than 6 spamlevel 6 discard_if_from ^(postmaster|mailer(-daemon)?|listproc|no-reply)@ firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com
You can't make a screenshot of a program like this, but a sample session may be instructive. See the manual page for the whole story. The script is written in Perl and requires a few modules, but AFAIK only Text::Reform isn't bundled with Perl 5.8.0.
Johnny Solbu has taken over maintenance of Listadmin, many thanks! See the new project page at Sourceforge for details.
Many music albums contain "hidden tracks" implemented by putting a long stretch of silence into the last song. I find this very annoying, so when I rip the albums, I shorten all stretches of silence longer than six seconds. The new length of the silence is the square root of the length in seconds, so 5 minutes (I've seen even longer!) becomes roughly 17 seconds.
The program will print a terse summary if it removes data, I add this information as tags in my FLAC files.
Making sense of Iozone reports and see what's good and what's bad isn't so easy, so I wrote a script which makes an HTML report with colour coding to make it easier to spot the differences in performance of two systems. Yellow means same performance, red is a regression, green is an improvement. If you feed it many reports, it will throw out the worst and best results (since they may be anomalous) and average the rest.
Sjekkpart scans your system for harddisks, and tells you about unused space etc. («sjekk» simply means «check» in Norwegian.)
This is an example (excerpt) from an old SunOS server:
==== sd0 ===== 1002 MB, SUN1.05 sd0a 32 MB 24% [1999-12-28] / sd0b 245 MB [ never ] swap sd0e 382 MB 103% [1999-12-30] /local sd0g 201 MB 65% [ never ] /usr sd0 140 MB UNUSED (1750..2036) ==== sd1 ===== 1002 MB, SUN1.05 sd1a 23 MB 11% [ never ] /var sd1 978 MB UNUSED (48..2036)
The first line contains device name, disk size and disk name. The other lines are partition device name, partition size, %full (if mounted), date of last backup and local mount point. There may be a "G" (for «global») if the filesystem is in the automounter map. The numbers after «UNUSED» are first and last cylinder of the free area.
Sjekkpart understands Solaris' Disksuite and Veritas volume manager. It is designed to be easily ported to other operating systems. Please send me a copy if you do.
Genunames takes a full name as input, and tries to come up with reasonable user names. E.g., it will suggest kjetilh, kjetilth, kjetilho and so on given my name as input.
It is written in Perl, and should be easily pluggable into your existing scripts.
Solaris only
Have you ever gotten log messages like
client nfs: NFS write error on host server: No space left on device. client nfs: File: userid=1232, groupid=13787 client nfs: (file handle: 2240005 3e7 a0000 1fa04 26 a0000 2 0)and wondered exactly where the problem is? No more! Run the script fhfind.perl on the server:
# fhfind.perl 2240005 3e7 a0000 1fa04 26 a0000 2 0and it will scrounge through your /dev to find the file system, and then look for the inode there.


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How the Chemicals in Your Life Are Affecting Your Unborn Children
How the Chemicals in Your Life Are Affecting Your Unborn ChildrenIf you've been reading our blog, or keeping up with news items (including a piece on 60 Minutes that aired just a week ago), you will know that many of the items in our everyday lives contain potentially harmful chemicals. This is even more of a problem for kids than adults, because kids' bodies are still developing. But the problem starts long before the kids are born. In fact, it's immediately after conception. Check out this resource that shows you exactly when and in what part of the body chemicals affect your unborn child.
The resource is a chart on the website of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX). TEDX is a non-profit organization that studies the effects of low-dose exposure to endocrine disruptors, chemicals that effect fetal development and human health. These chemicals include, but are not limited to, bisphenol A (BPA), dioxin, and phthalates.
The chart is called Critical Windows of Development. It lists the various systems, organs and so on within the body and shows the stages of development during each weeks and trimesters in the womb. On the upper right of the chart, it shows checkboxes for 'All Chemicals', 'Bisphenol A', 'Dioxin', and 'Phthalates'. Check 'Phthalates', for example, and red lines appear on the chart that show you which systems they affect, and at what period of pregnancy.
There are also little triangles on the chart that provide the names of studies that support the information.
One thing is clear: If we want to give our kids the best chance at being healthy as children and throughout their lives, expectant Mothers need to be free of these chemicals.
Pass this on to anyone you know who is pregnant, or may be in the future, so they can start doing something about it now.
What do they do about it? Eliminate the chemicals from their lives as much as possible. Many of our blog posts show you how to do that, and Debra Lynn Dadd's book Home Safe Home has a wealth of information on what chemicals are in what products and suggestions on healthy alternatives. But, basically, just go organic, go toxin-free.
And once your baby is born, make sure you continue your toxic-free life. Get the baby a safe crib and baby crib mattress, made with non-toxic materials, swaddle them in organic cotton, feed them organic food, get them glass baby bottles and diapers and toys that are not made of harmful plastics or other potentially harmful chemicals.


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A Study With Neoadjuvant mFOLFOX7 Plus Cetuximab to Determine the Surgical Conversion Rate for Unresectable Colorectal Cancer With Metastases Confined to the Liver
FC-6 is a Phase II, multi-center clinical trial for patients with unresectable, wild-type K-RAS, colorectal cancer with metastases confined to the liver. Liver metastases must be determined by FC-6 criteria to be unresectable, and the colorectal cancer (CRC) tumor (primary or metastatic) must be found to be wild-type K-RAS. Patients with mutant K-RAS tumors are ineligible. K-RAS testing can be done through the local hospital or a tumor sample can be submitted to the FC-6 central lab (Esoterix Clinical Trial Services).
A primary aim of this study is to evaluate the surgical conversion rate using cytotoxic combination chemotherapy and biologic therapy with cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody targeted against the epidermal growth factor receptor. A second primary aim is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a chemotherapy/targeted therapy regimen in this patient population. Secondary aims include determination of clinical response rate, recurrence-free survival for patients undergoing complete resection and/or ablation of liver metastases, and overall survival.
Full Title of Study: "A Phase II Study to Determine the Surgical Conversion Rate in Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant mFOLFOX7 + Cetuximab for Unresectable Wild-Type K-RAS Colorectal Cancer With Metastases Confined to the Liver"
Study Type
- Study Type: Interventional
- Study Design
- Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
- Study Primary Completion Date: July 2013
Detailed Description
All patients will receive the FC-6 study treatment regimen every 2 weeks during each 8-week cycle for a total of 3 cycles.
Baseline imaging of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis will be performed. CT scan or MRI of the abdomen will be performed after 1 cycle of neoadjuvant therapy to assess clinical response and resectability of liver metastases. If liver metastases are not deemed to be resectable at this assessment, but tumor assessment demonstrates stable disease or partial response, therapy will continue with re-assessment for clinical response and resectability after Cycle 2 and, if necessary, after Cycle 3.
After a minimum of 1 cycle of therapy, patients who meet the guidelines for resection of liver metastases will undergo liver metastasectomy (tumor resection and/or ablation) as soon as judged technically feasible by the hepatic surgeon in order to minimize chemotherapy damage to the liver and morbidity from surgery. At the investigator's discretion, the chemotherapy and cetuximab regimen may be continued for 1 additional treatment given at least 2 weeks before the planned date of surgery. This additional treatment, if given, will not be considered to be part of the 3 study therapy cycles.
The surgical goal is to perform a curative (R0) resection and/or ablation. If curative surgery was performed and if only 1 or 2 cycles of therapy were administered before surgery, postoperative therapy using the same regimen will resume 4-6 weeks following surgery to complete 3 cycles of study treatment. Following discontinuation of study therapy, all patients who undergo R0 resection (with or without ablation) will be followed every 3 months for the first 2 years on the study and then every 6 months for years 3 through 5.
Further therapy for patients who do not undergo R0 resection/ablation will be at the investigator's discretion. These patients will only be followed for vital status every 12 months for the remainder of the 5-year period following study entry.
A total sample size of 60 patients will be enrolled in the FC-6 trial.
- Biological: cetuximab
- 500 mg/m2 IV every two weeks on days 1, 15, 29, and 43 of each 56 day cycle, for a total of 3 cycles. Cetuximab dose will be escalated by 100 mg/m2 every 2 weeks to a maximum dose of 800 mg/m2 if, at the time of retreatment, skin rash is less than or equal to grade 1, diarrhea is grade 0 (defined as less than or equal to 3 stools per day over baseline), and the patient is not experiencing any other greater than or equal to grade 2 toxicity attributed to cetuximab.
- Drug: 5-FU
- 3000 mg/m2 IV continuous infusion over 46 hours every two weeks on days 1, 15, 29, and 43 of each 56 day cycle, for a total of 3 cycles.
- Drug: oxaliplatin
- 85 mg/m2 IV every two weeks on days 1, 15, 29, and 43 of each 56 day cycle, for a total of 3 cycles.
- Drug: leucovorin
- 400 mg/m2 IV every two weeks on days 1, 15, 29, and 43 of each 56 day cycle, for a total of 3 cycles.
Arms, Groups and Cohorts
- Experimental: treatment
- mFOLFOX7 (5-FU, leucovorin, oxaliplatin) + cetuximab
Clinical Trial Outcome Measures
Primary Measures
- The Percentage of Patients Who Had a Curative (R0) Liver Metastasectomy Following Protocol Treatment, i.e., Metastatic Disease That Can be Completely Resected and/or Ablated With no Postoperative Evidence of Residual Malignant Disease (R0 Resection).
- Time Frame: 8 months
- Reported Adverse Events.
- Time Frame: 8 months
- 19 participants experienced at least one adverse event. There were a total of 95 adverse events reported. (Note: multiple occurrences of the same adverse event in one individual are counted only once.) Refer to the Adverse Events section for specifics. The Other Adverse Events section lists only those events occurring above 5% frequency.
Secondary Measures
- Overall Survival (OS). Time From Study Entry Until Death From Any Cause.
- Time Frame: 18 months
- The percentage of patients alive at 18 months.
- Objective Clinical Response Rate (cRR). Measureable Lesions That Can be Accurately Measured in at Least One Dimension With Conventional Radiologic Techniques or Spiral CT.
- Time Frame: 8 months
- Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by PET/CT, CT scan, MRI or spiral CT: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Objective clinical Response Rate (cRR) = CR + PR during the 3 preoperative cycles, among the treated patients.
- Recurrence-free Survival (RFS). Time From Study Entry Until First Recurrence.
- Time Frame: 2 years
Participating in This Clinical Trial
Conditions for patient eligibility
- Patients must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 and must be considered a potential candidate for a major hepatic surgical procedure.
- The patient must have histologic or cytologic confirmation of a diagnosis of colorectal adenocarcinoma.
- There must be documentation by PET/CT scan, CT scan, MRI, or intraoperative palpation (at the time of resection of the primary colorectal tumor, if applicable) that the patient has evidence of hepatic metastasis. (Histologic confirmation of hepatic metastasis is not required.)
- Patients are eligible with any of the following: primary tumor and regional nodes resected with clear surgical margins and no evidence of extrahepatic disease or; unresected primary tumor with plans to resect the primary tumor prior to study entry or; unresected primary tumor with plans to resect the primary tumor and the liver metastases in a single surgical procedure performed within 2-7 weeks after the last preoperative dose of chemotherapy/cetuximab or; unresected primary with plans to resect the primary tumor and the liver metastases in staged procedures performed within 2-7 weeks after the last preoperative dose of chemotherapy/cetuximab.
- The colorectal primary tumor or metastatic tumor must be determined to be wild-type K-RAS. The K-RAS test may have been performed through the local hospital, or a tumor sample may be submitted to the FC-6 central lab for K-RAS testing. If local K-RAS test results are reported as indeterminate, submission of a tumor sample for central testing is required. Note: Needle biopsy of liver metastasis is not recommended for the express purpose of obtaining tissue for K-RAS testing because of the risk of needle track dissemination of malignant cells.
- There must be documentation that the liver metastases must have been determined by a hepatic surgeon approved (by protocol defined criteria) to participate in FC-6 to be unresectable based on at least one of the following criteria: All of the liver metastases cannot be resected (and/or ablated) with negative margins, i.e., lesion(s) located in an area that would result in the resection of all of the hepatic veins or the main portal vein or the right and left hepatic arteries or the common bile duct; Complete resection and/or ablation would require greater than 60% of the liver parenchyma to be removed. Note: At the discretion of the hepatic surgeon, portal vein embolization (PVE) may be utilized preoperatively following neoadjuvant therapy to enhance the volume of the hepatic remnant. However, the determination of unresectability will be based on the estimate, at the time of study entry, of the percentage of liver parenchyma that would need to be removed. PVE may be employed preoperatively to enhance the overall safety, but not specifically the resectability of the liver metastasis(es).
- There must be documentation that: at least 3 of the 8 hepatic segments are free of metastases or; based on imaging studies, the patient is anticipated to have at least 40% of the liver will remain intact after surgery.
- If an adjuvant therapy regimen of 5-FU given alone or in combination with leucovorin, irinotecan, capecitabine, oxaliplatin, cetuximab, or bevacizumab was administered, the adjuvant therapy must have been discontinued more than 6 months prior to study entry.
- The patient must have had the following tests and exams within 4 weeks prior to study entry: medical history and physical exam; consultation with a hepatic surgeon approved for FC-6; and PET/CT scan or both a PET scan and a CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis must be performed. (MRI scan can be substituted for the CT scan.)
- There must be evidence of adequate bone marrow function: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than or equal to 1500/mm3; Hemoglobin greater than or equal to 10 g/dL; Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/mm3
- There must be evidence of adequate hepatic function: Total bilirubin less than or equal to upper limit of normal (ULN) for the lab; aspartate aminotransferase (AST) less than or equal to 5.0 x ULN for the lab
- Serum creatinine must be less than or equal to 1.5 mg/dL.
Conditions for patient ineligibility
- Diagnosis of anal or small bowel carcinoma.
- Colorectal cancers other than adenocarcinoma, e.g., sarcoma, lymphoma, carcinoid.
- Unresected primary tumor in the colon or rectum with significant symptoms related to obstruction or that will require radiation therapy.
- Evidence of extrahepatic metastases or non-contiguous extension of intrahepatic metastases to non-hepatic tissues.
- Radiographic evidence of metastases to portal lymph nodes (node greater than 1 cm in diameter) unless the node(s) are proven by biopsy to be negative.
- Previous hepatic resection and/or ablation, hepatic arterial infusion therapy, or any systemic therapy for metastatic disease. (Patients who have only had an excisional biopsy are eligible.)
- Radiation therapy to the liver.
- Pre-existing chronic hepatic disease (e.g., chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis) that, in the opinion of the investigator and hepatic surgeon, would limit the patient's ability to undergo hepatic metastasectomy.
- Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Effects (CTCAE) v3.0 grade 3 or 4 anorexia or nausea related to metastatic disease.
- CTCAE v3.0 greater than or equal to grade 2 vomiting related to metastatic disease.
- CTCAE v3.0 greater than or equal to grade 2 sensory/motor neuropathy.
- Any of the following cardiac conditions: Documented congestive heart failure; Myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to study entry; Unstable angina within 6 months prior to study entry; Symptomatic arrhythmia.
- Serious or non-healing wound, skin ulcers, or bone fracture.
- History of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy. (Patients on stable anticoagulant therapy are eligible.)
- Symptomatic interstitial lung disease or definitive evidence of interstitial lung disease described on CT scan, MRI, or chest x-ray in asymptomatic patients.
- Any evidence of active infection.
- Active inflammatory bowel disease.
- Other malignancies unless the patient is considered to be disease-free and has completed therapy for the malignancy greater than or equal to 12 months prior to study entry. Patients with the following cancers are eligible if diagnosed and treated within the past 12 months: carcinoma in situ of the cervix, colorectal carcinoma in situ, melanoma in situ, and basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.
- Previous serious hypersensitivity reaction to monoclonal antibodies.
- Psychiatric or addictive disorders or other conditions that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude the patient from meeting the study requirements.
- Pregnancy or lactation at the time of study entry. (WOCBP must have a negative pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to study entry. Male and female patients of reproductive potential must agree to use adequate contraceptive methods during and for 2 months after study therapy. )
- Any other serious concomitant medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the safety of the patient or compromise the patient's ability to participate in the study.
- Use of any investigational product within 30 days prior to study entry.
Gender Eligibility: All
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: N/A
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No
Investigator Details
- Lead Sponsor
- NSABP Foundation Inc
- Collaborator
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
- Sponsor
- Overall Official(s)
- Norman Wolmark, MD, Principal Investigator, NSABP Foundation Inc
Clinical trials entries are delivered from the US National Institutes of Health and are not reviewed separately by this site. Please see the identifier information above for retrieving further details from the government database.


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The 2019 annual tax sale will be held by the Pottawattamie County Treasurer on Monday, June 17, 2019. This year the sale will be at online at www.iowataxauction.com, or www.iowatreasurers.org. The tax sale will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. and will continue until every parcel has been offered for sale. The sale will close at 11:30 a.m.
Please read the TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE ANNUAL TAX SALE
The HOPE 4 IOWA Crisis Call Line connects individuals in crisis to a helping hand and the resources to address and improve mental wellness. Available 24/7. For more information visit our website here.
Pottawattamie Alert is the countywide emergency notification system serving all residents within Pottawattamie County and its communities.Part of the Alert Iowa System, Pottawattamie Alert is a high-speed notification and weather warning service. This no-charge service is available to businesses and residents of Pottawattamie County and its Communities that allows public officials to warn citizens of pending emergencies, critical public information during disasters, recommended protective actions, and provides automated severe weather warnings tailored to your preferences. The system can also be used to provide other important information to communities.


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The GMD to RoboBride: Put on your happy face!
Under attack everywhere – with Us Weekly calling her a prisoner (and curiously no ensuing lawsuit) and increasing criticism about the Church and its oddball "detoxification" tactics for 9/11 workers, it was time for another PR dinner. And look at him...look at him "presenting" her. Much as he did at the Vanity Fair Oscar bash a few weeks ago and if you missed my report at the time, click here to catch up, I promise it's a good one.
So anyway, last night, in Beverly Hills, the Gay Midget Dwarf is at it yet again. Because every meal is a performance, every restaurant is a stage, the pappies are the audience, and remember – their love is STRONG. Their love is TRUE. Their child is THEIRS.
Praise Thetan, ah-Xenu!


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- Lifetime Stain, Soil & Pet Stain Warranties
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Spirited Sichuan, No Apologies, at Lao Cheng Du in Flushing
Lao Cheng Du (fka Prince Noodle House)
37-17 Prince Street, Flushing, NY 11354 (b/n 37th and 38th; map); 718-886-5595
Service: Friendly and patient despite a language barrier
Setting: Bright white dining room short on frills
Must-Haves: Spicy radish with peanuts and tofu, Spicy ChengDu Chicken with Hot Pepper, Spice Mung Bean Jello Salad
Cost: $15 to $30 per person depending on how stuffed you want to be; lunch specials are $6.50
Compare To: Biang!, Legend, Cafe China
Grade: Recommended: A soulful, un-cheffy take on Sichuan cooking that succeeds far more than it stumbles
Use "home cooking" to describe a restaurant's menu and you give it a kind of death sentence. The comfort food is familiar and well meaning—and ever so slightly boring.
That's a shame, because we all know at least one home cook who isn't like that at all—whose cooking is raw and unafraid, maybe a little off-kilter and all the better for it, who uses a few too many lumps of butter or extra licks of salt. What they lack in cheffy respect for balance they make up for in pure conviction, and you always hope they invite you over for dinner.
Give this kind of home cook a restaurant and they won't be making pork chops and applesauce.
Or at least Big Sister Zhu won't, and she isn't at Lao Cheng Du in Flushing, a Cantonese restaurant that recently transformed itself into a Sichuan one with her running the kitchen.* Zhu developed a reputation for unabashedly spicy and unconventional cooking from her food stall days; now her take on Sichuan cuisine sprawls across a 100+ item menu, and if it's not the most refined restaurant of its kind in New York, it's a hell of a lot of fun.
* The owners are the same and the English signage still reads Prince Noodle House. Read our friend Joe DiStefano's first look and primer here.
You know something is special about Lao Cheng Du as soon as you walk up to the cold appetizer display at the front of the dining room. Whole fried fish ($7) glisten with chili oil; thinly sliced sausages—a good 90% fat—smell as citrusy and bright as they taste. They are both very good, but even better are the Diced Rabbit with Red Chili Sauce ($8) and Spicy Radish, Peanut, and Bean Curd ($5).
The former is a pile of peanuts, scallions, and chilled poached rabbit, riddled with bones that force you to slow down and appreciate picking it apart for morsels of meat. The latter should be in New York bars under penalty of law: tiny cubes of chewy marinated tofu jumbled with peanuts and crunchy pickled radish in a thin but incendiary sauce of chili oil. You'll want to stop eating once the dizziness kicks in, but go ahead and try.
Venture into the rest of the menu and you'll need to do some digging. Nine out of ten items carry the spicy chili icon, but they don't all mean it. Unless you read Chinese you'll be left decoding what's different about the three columns called "Delicacies," or what "Enhanced Pork" might mean, or what distinguishes ChengDu Spicy Chicken with Hot Pepper ($14) from House Special ChengDu Spicy Chicken ($28). Despite their lack of English, the wait staff are on your side, and their patience and helpfulness as you figure out your order could be studied by Manhattan restaurants.
As it turns out, the non-special Spicy Chicken with Hot Pepper is what's frequently called Chongqing chicken elsewhere: fried bits of chicken legs and wings frolicking in a ball pit of dried chilies. As with the rabbit, the chicken is bone-in, and it's crisp but also moistened with a faintly sweet glaze. You take your time with it, picking the bones out of every tender piece, prolonging the burn as you do so. It's memorably delicious.
The mapo tofu (Bean Curd with Spicy Minced Pork; $10) is less so, as is the dry-style Spicy Minced Pork with Vermicelli ($10). But I don't regret ordering either of them; they're savory more than hot, a little bland in an appealing way that balances out the heat of other dishes. It's an easy mistake to go full throttle at a Sichuan restaurant with nothing but spicy items—you can literally end up in tears—and these quiet players round out the table nicely. You could say the same about the [not] Spicy Double Cooked Pork ($10), though it's more sweet than the others. The pork belly's edges pick up some char from the wok, and its flavorful fat gives a little pull to the teeth.
The cooking occasionally appears to be a little monochromatic. Zhu's spiciest offerings are dizzy-making as they should be, but sometimes there's not enough numbing ma to balance the burning la, or sufficient sweetness to tame a blast of salt. The food at Lao Cheng Du is more gutsy than most of the city's well-respected Sichuan spots, and in its own way just as thoughtful, but the wily home cook's sword cuts both ways.
The solution may be to dig in to a chilled dish of Spicy Mung Bean Jello Salad ($5), a particularly fresh and wobbly liang fen in a sauce of sweet black vinegar, chili, and cilantro. Sweet, sour, hot, and herbal flavors vie for your attention, but in a deliberate, orchestrated kind of way that's anything but noisy. Also surprisingly multilayered, a simple dish of Asparagus with Yibin Veggie Buds ($12) bolstered by nubbins of ground pork that have carried some lard along for the ride. The crisp stalks take well to the floral-funky flavor of the pickled vegetables, which have been dry-fried into something even meatier than the pork.
There are missteps you should avoid, like a whole fried tilapia soaked in an insipidly sweet chili sauce, or a mess of pork belly steamed with ground rice powder and canned peas that approximates English cafeteria food more than the cooking of Chengdu. But these were the exceptions to otherwise very happy meals. Lao Cheng Du might be one of those restaurants where you have to order "right" for best results, but it doesn't seem that hard to get something good.
If I were to compare the place to anywhere, it'd be to Biang!, where most of the fun comes in an elemental interplay of textured starchy things and an addictive mother sauce. Big Sister Zhu's food is more varied, but the ethos is the same: make something earnest and delicious and a little rough around the edges, no apologies. Who are you calling scruffy?
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