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Greg Skomal is one of the world's leading shark experts: many thousands of viewers know him as the "Shark Guy" on Discovery Channel and he's affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. So if you're dreaming of swimming with sharks, there's no one better to take you—and that's exactly what he does in this comprehensive, stunning field guide.Ā In addition to an awesome gatefold poster of a Great White (with all its distinguishing features shown in detail), plus amazing original images from Skomal and award-winning National Geographic photographer Nick Caloyianis, it contains a complete listing of every known shark in existence as well as some extinct species.Ā Learn about sharks from their birth to death, their anatomy, how to distinguish one shark from the next, how their teeth are developed, how they hunt and attack, and their importance and purpose within our eco system.
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The pacman package manager is one of the major distinguishing features of Arch Linux. It combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system. The goal of pacman is to make it possible to easily manage packages, whether they are from the official Arch repositories or the user's own builds.
Pacman keeps the system up to date by synchronizing package lists with the master server. This server/client model also allows user to download/install packages with a simple command, complete with all required dependencies.
Pacman is written in the C programming language and uses the
.pkg.tar.xz package format.
pacman -Ql pacman | grep bin
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Usage
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See also
Packages in arch repositories are constantly upgraded. When a package is upgraded, its old version is removed from the repository. There are no major arch releases. Each package is upgraded as new versions become available from upstream sources. The repository is always coherent. (The packages in the repository always have compatible versions.) This type of repository is called a rolling archive. Before packages are upgraded in the core, extra and community repositories, they are tested in the testing repository, to ensure that the distribution is stable.
pacman saves to disk a list of packages available in the repository. This list is not automatically updated (refreshed). (The list is a.k.a. repository databases and the update of the list is a.k.a. synchronizing those databases.) The list can be refreshed using
pacman -Sy.
pacman -Syy refreshes the list even if it appears to be up to date. (Running
pacman -Syy is a good idea after the repository mirror used by
pacman is changed by the user. Mirrors can be out of sync and the package list from the old mirror may not correspond to the package list of the new mirror, even though the dates of the lists may suggest that they do.)
pacman -S mypackage installs
mypackage and all its dependencies. If
mypackage has been upgraded by the user since the last refresh of the package list, then the required version of
mypackage will not be found in the repository and
pacman -S mypackage fails with a message.
mypackage's dependencies are listed in the Depends On entry of
mypackage's metainformation. (
mypackage's metainformation can be listed with
pacman -Si mypackage for packages in the package list and with
pacman -Qi mypackage for installed packages). If
mypackage or its dependencies are already installed, they are upgraded to the version in the package list. If
pacman -S mypackage finds any conflicts (installed packages which are listed in the Conflicts With entry of the
mypackage's metainformation) then it fails with a message.
pacman -S mypackage does not check for broken dependencies which may appear from the possible upgrade of
mypackage or one of its dependencies. It is possible that an already installed package which depends on an upgraded package is unable to function with the new version of the upgraded package. This can happen if the package list has been refreshed by the user but all installed packges have not been upgraded and it could result in a non functional system after reboot.
The solution is to never run
pacman -Sy, which could be followed by
pacman -S mypackage, but to always run
pacman -Syu, which upgrades all packages after the refresh of the package list. This ensures that when
pacman -S mypackage is run all packages installed on the system have compatible versions.
pacman -Syu is run there is a small chance that corrections on the system will be needed in order to have it running as desired. Important corrections are advertised here: Arch Home. They are very rare (six in 2012). However, it is advisable to run
pacman -Syu only when time to perform corrections is available to the user and not when the system is relied upon. It is advisable to run
pacman -Syu often in order to minimize the difficulty of adjustment, whenever it arises.
pacman -R mypackage removes
mypackage. If other packages depend on
mypackage, then it fails with a message. To remove them too,
pacman -Rc mypackage should be run.
pacman -R mypackage does not remove
mypackage's dependencies which have been installed as dependencies (not explicitly, Install Reason in
mypackage's metainformation) and are not required by other packages. For that to happen,
pacman -Rs mypackage must be run. The complete command would be
pacman -Rcs mypackage.
pacman always lists packages to be installed or removed and asks for permission before it takes action. To inhibit any action,
-p should be used.
In conclusion,
pacman operates at a lower level compared to
yum and
apt. This requires more attention from the user, but it also empowers him or her with better control over his or her system.
For those who have used other linux distributions before, there is a helpful Pacman Rosetta.
Pacman's settings are located in
/etc/pacman.conf. This is the place where the user configures the program to work in the desired manner. In-depth information about the configuration file can be found in man pacman.conf.
General options
General options are in the
[options] section. Read the man page or look in the default
pacman.conf for information on what can be done here.
Skip package from being upgraded
To skip upgrading a specific package, specify it as such:
For multiple packages use a space-separated list, or use additional
IgnorePkg lines.
Skip package group from being upgraded
As with packages, skipping a whole package group is also possible:
Skip files from being installed to system
To always skip installation of specific directories list them under
NoExtract. For example, to avoid installation of systemd units use this:
This section defines which repositories to use, as referred to in
/etc/pacman.conf. They can be stated here directly or included from another file (such as
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist), thus making it necessary to maintain only one list.
#[testing] #SigLevel = PackageRequired #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [core] SigLevel = PackageRequired Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [extra] SigLevel = PackageRequired Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[community-testing] #SigLevel = PackageRequired #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [community] SigLevel = PackageRequired Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # Users If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system, # enable the multilib repositories as required here. #[multilib-testing] #SigLevel = PackageRequired #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #[multilib] #SigLevel = PackageRequired #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for # tips on creating your own repositories. #[custom] #SigLevel = Optional TrustAll #Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Package security
Pacman 4 supports signed packages, which adds an extra layer of security to the packages. To enable signature verification, take a look here.
What follows is just a small sample of the operations that pacman can perform. To read more examples, refer to man pacman.
Installing packages
Installing specific packages
To install a single package or list of packages (including dependencies), issue the following command:
# pacman -S package_name1 package_name2 ...
Sometimes there are multiple versions of a package in different repositories, e.g. [extra] and [testing]. To install the former version, the repository needs to be defined in front:
# pacman -S extra/package_name
Installing package groups
Some packages belong to a group of packages that can all be installed simultaneously. For example, issuing the command:
# pacman -S gnome
will install all the packages that belong to the
gnome group. To see what packages belong to the gnome group, run:
# pacman -Sg gnome
Also visit https://www.archlinux.org/groups/ to see what package groups are available.
--needed option.
pacman -Sy package_name); this can lead to dependency issues. See #Partial upgrades are unsupported and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89328.
Removing packages
To remove a single package, leaving all of its dependencies installed:
# pacman -R package_name
To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package:
# pacman -Rs package_name
To remove a package, its dependencies and all the packages that depend on the target package:
# pacman -Rsc package_name
To remove a package, which is required by another package, without removing the dependent package:
# pacman -Rdd package_name
Pacman saves important configuration files when removing certain applications and names them with the extension:
.pacsave. To prevent the creation of these backup files use the
-n option:
# pacman -Rn package_name
Upgrading packages
Pacman can update all packages on the system with just one command. This could take quite a while depending on how up-to-date the system is. This command can synchronize the repository databases and update the system's packages (excluding 'local' packages that are not in the configured repositories):
# pacman -Syu
Pacman is a powerful package management tool, but it does not attempt to handle all corner cases. Read The Arch Way if this causes confusion. Users must be vigilant and take responsibility for maintaining their own system. When performing a system update, it is essential that users read all information output by pacman and use common sense. If a user-modified configuration file needs to be upgraded for a new version of a package, a
.pacnew file will be created to avoid overwriting settings modified by the user. Pacman will prompt the user to merge them. These files require manual intervention from the user and it is good practice to handle them right after every package upgrade or removal. See Pacnew and Pacsave Files for more info.
Before upgrading, it is advisable to visit the Arch Linux home page to check the latest news (or subscribe to the RSS feed): when updates require out-of-the-ordinary user intervention (more than what can be handled simply by following the instructions given by pacman), an appropriate news post will be made.
If one encounters problems that cannot be solved by these instructions, make sure to search the forum. It is likely that others have encountered the same problem and have posted instructions for solving it.
Querying package databases
Pacman queries the local package database with the
-Q flag; see:
$ pacman -Q --help
and queries the sync databases with the
-S flag; see:
$ pacman -S --help
Pacman can search for packages in the database, searching both in packages' names and descriptions:
$ pacman -Ss string1 string2 ...
To search for already installed packages:
$ pacman -Qs string1 string2 ...
To display extensive information about a given package:
$ pacman -Si package_name
For locally installed packages:
$ pacman -Qi package_name
Passing two
-i flags will also display the list of backup files and their modification states:
$ pacman -Qii package_name
To retrieve a list of the files installed by a package:
$ pacman -Ql package_name
For packages not installed, use pkgfile.
One can also query the database to know which package a file in the file system belongs to:
$ pacman -Qo /path/to/file_name
To list all packages no longer required as dependencies (orphans):
$ pacman -Qdt
To list a dependency tree of a package:
$ pactree package_name
To list all the packages depending on a package, use
whoneeds from pkgtools:
$ whoneeds package_name
Additional commands
Upgrade the system and install a list of packages (one-liner):
# pacman -Syu package_name1 package_name2 ...
Download a package without installing it:
# pacman -Sw package_name
Install a 'local' package that is not from a remote repository (e.g. the package is from the AUR):
# pacman -U /path/to/package/package_name-version.pkg.tar.xz
# pacman -U file://path/to/package/package_name-version.pkg.tar.xz
Install a 'remote' package (not from a repository stated in pacman's configuration files):
# pacman -U http://www.example.com/repo/example.pkg.tar.xz
Clean the package cache of packages that are not currently installed (
# pacman -Sc
Clean the entire package cache:
# pacman -Scc
-Sc and
-Scc switches, consider using
paccache from pacman-contrib. This offers more control over what and how many packages are deleted. Run
paccache -h for instructions.
Partial upgrades are unsupported
Arch Linux is a rolling release, and new library versions will be pushed to the repositories. The developers and Trusted Users will rebuild all the packages in the repositories that need to be rebuilt against the libraries. If the system has locally installed packages (such as AUR packages), users will need to rebuild them when their dependencies receive a soname bump.
This means that partial upgrades are not supported. Do not use
pacman -Sy package or any equivalent such as
pacman -Sy and then
pacman -S package. Always upgrade before installing a package -- particularly if pacman has refreshed the sync repositories. Be very careful when using
IgnorePkg and
IgnoreGroup for the same reason.
If a partial upgrade scenario has been created, and binaries are broken because they cannot find the libraries they are linked against, do not "fix" the problem simply by symlinking. Libraries receive soname bumps when they are not backwards compatible. A simple
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The Cowboys are set to hire Cleveland Browns running backs coach Gary Brown for the same job in Dallas.
The team's website reported Friday that the addition of Brown was expected to be completed next week. He would replace Skip Peete, who was the first coach fired in an offseason overhaul of coach Jason Garrett's staff.
Brown spent the past four seasons with the Browns, his first NFL job.
A former NFL back with the Houston Oilers, San Diego and the New York Giants, Brown has college coaching experience with Lycoming, Susquehanna and Rutgers.
Under Brown, Cleveland twice had running backs score 11 touchdowns: Peyton Hillis in 2010 and rookie Trent Richardson last season. The Cowboys had just eight as a team in 2012.


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We criticize a lot of television on this site... some of it before we even watch it. So when we saw that a ton of new TV shows were announced for 2010 this past week, we figured we'd get a head start on things and start dissecting them now. (Don't worry, we'll watch them when they come out for real; this is just a warm-up.) These are some of the 2010 shows we're looking forward to, and some that we just aren't.
J.J. Abrams' New Spy Show
Plot: This "fun romp" in the tradition of classic TV spy series will follow a married couple who are both spies and are deeply in love.
Yea or Nay?Alias creator J.J. Abrams returning to the spy genre along with the writer of Felicity? The networks are already in a bidding war. Sign us up.
The Phantom (Syfy)
Plot: When his adoptive parents are murdered, a teenager discovers that he's actually the son of the Phantom, and he undergoes training to fight the forces of evil.
Yea or Nay? Just looking at the new, goofy Phantom costume -- and the main character's fondness for purple clothing -- makes us appreciate the much-maligned 1996 Billy Zane movie a whole lot more.
Terriers (FX)
Plot:Donal Logue plays an ex-cop who starts a detective agency with his best friend in this drama.
Yea or Nay? Donal Logue brought a lot of fun to Life, and if the creator of The Shield is involved we expect good things.
You and Me and He (CBS)
Plot: A recently divorced woman who's just moved in with her lesbian girlfriend when she finds out she's pregnant with her ex's child.
Yea or Nay? Considering this was basically a long-running plotline on Friends, we don't know how must-see it will be. But it sounds like Accidentally on Purpose meets The L Word.
The Fuzz (Comedy Central)
Plot: A police procedural show set in a city where humans and puppets co-exist.
Yea or Nay? Dear God, yes. And if there are vampire puppets, even better.
The Cube (FOX)
Plot: An import of the British game show where contestants are put in a glass cube and asked to perform increasingly difficult tasks.
Yea or Nay? Hey, we already have a game show where people choose a suitcase, tell us how much something costs and outsmart young children, so why not put them in a cube?
Lights Out (FX)
Plot: In this boxing drama, Holt McCallany plays a retired fighter trying to reconnect with his wife and three daughters.
Yea or Nay? Not sure what the series will be about, per se, but we're having trouble imagining spending an entire hour with McCallany.
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Plot: We follow Bethenny Frankel from The Real Housewives of New York City in her career as a natural foods chef, Project Runway's Christian Siriano as he opens a boutique and Top Chef's Fabio Viviani as he expands his caterig business.
Yea or Nay? Bethenny? Sure. Siriano? Definitely. Viviani? How can we resist somebody so adorable?
Untitled Melissa Joan Hart/Joey Lawrence Project
Plot: Hart plays a politician who takes in her sister's kids when her sister goes to jail. She hires the out-of-work Lawrence to be their manny.
Yea or Nay? If you were a fan of this modern-day Hepburn and Tracy when they appeared in the ABC Family movie My Fake Fiance together earlier this year, this sitcom is right up your alley. Hopefully, it's a blind alley.
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Kaelin has been diagnosed with SM and she has had surgery. She is doing well. She is on gabapentin and it is working. Every once and a while she has severe pain. I don't know if she spit her pill out and I didn't notice, if she slept funny or if it is just random. My question is what should I do when this occurs. Is it better to leave her alone or is it better to hold her? I do know if I touch her neck or leg she will shy away, which I totally understand. It is very frustrating not to mention painful for her. I have an appointment with her neurologist to ask about medication solutions when this happens but I am not sure what to do while we are waiting for the medication to kick in. Any suggestions would be helpful.


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- Artemis Fowl is going straight-as soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career... After being held prisoner for five years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He's a new man-an honest man, much to Artemis's horror. He makes his son promise to give up his life of crime, and Artemis has to go along with it. But not until he has completed one last scheme. Artemis has constructed a super-computer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube," it will render all existing human technology obsolete. He arranges a meeting with a powerful Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to broker a deal for the C Cube. But Spiro springs a trap-he steals the C Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis's luck may have just run out...
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'Purse Party and Jewelry Jazz' event benefits women in crisis
- Written by Barb Olsen
If somewhere in your dresser drawers you still have that necklace Aunt Ida gave you for your birthday all those years ago or that faux alligator purse you never use, here's your chance to put them to good use.
On Thursday, September 26, the Duvall Civic Club will host a "Purse Party and Jewelry Jazz" event to benefit local women in crisis. It will be held at Match Coffee and Wine in Duvall from 5 to 8 p.m.
"The Duvall Civic Club is sponsoring this event for the second year to provide much-needed holiday money to individual women at the Acres of Diamonds transitional shelter," Civic Club President Judi Chapman explained. "Proceeds will also go to benefit the housing voucher program at Lifewire (formerly Eastside Domestic Violence) and other women's issues in the Valley."
Donations of both jewelry and purses are needed. "We're asking everyone to dig through their jewelry boxes and closets for those treasures we all have but don't use," event organizer Maura VanNess said. "They can really do some good for women in need."
If you have jewelry, purses, or totes (in good condition) to donate, you can drop them off anytime from now to the day of the event, at Match Coffee and Wine (15705 Main Street, open Tuesday through Saturday).
At the event, you will be able to bid in the silent auction on jewelry, purses, and totes and enjoy specially-priced wine or coffee with other people from the area. (Food will also be available for purchase.) Bids will be taken starting at 5 p.m. the day of the fundraiser, with bidding to close at 7:30 p.m. (You or someone for you must be present to claim your winning bids.)
Funds from the Purse Party will also help sponsor the fifth annual Walk 4 Women, on Saturday, October 5 beginning at 10 a.m. in Duvall's McCormick Park Depot.
The Walk is a 13.2-mile half marathon, open to anyone who wants to walk or run the whole way, just a short distance, anything in-between.
For more information about the Purse Party and Jewelry Jazz event or the Walk 4 Women, see duvallcivicclub.org or call Maura at (425) 788-9249 or Barb at (425) 788-5769.
If you'd like to make a financial donation to help these women in need, send your donation to Duvall Civic Club, P.O. Box 315, Duvall, WA 98019 and notate your check "Walk 4 Women."
The Duvall Civic Club meets the second Wednesday of every month, except July and August, in the downstairs of the old Duvall Library building. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
Barb Olsen is a local writer and columnist who writes regularly about community events and about the Washington state Legislature.


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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith (17), white jersey at center, falls back on top of a Green Bay Packers player as players chase a fumble during the NFL Championship game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc., on Dec. 31, 1967.The 1967 NFL Championship Game, determining the winner of the NFL crown and representative to the second Super Bowl, was held 44 years ago tomorrow, on December 31, 1967.
Today, the game is much better known by its sobriquet "The Ice Bowl" for the treacherously cold conditions under which it was played. Gametime tempuratures were down as low as -15°F with a wind chill measured at 48 below zero. This was also one of the brief period (1966-69) when because of the AFL/NFL rivalry the NFL title game didn't also decide the "World Championship."
NFL.com has a mavelous photo gallery of the game up now.
We begin with this shot of Coach Lombardi, taken four days before the game as he shows reporters the elaborate $80,000 system of heating coils embedded in the playing surface to ensure that conditions stayed optimal for football.
AP Photo/Paul Shane
Packer Coach Vince Lombardi explains how the Green Bay stadium "electric blanket" is keeping the playing surface soft for Sunday's NFL championship game against Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 28, 1967 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Buried electric heating cables provide the heat.Unfortunately for Coach Lombardi, and the players, the system famously failed on the day, resulting in a frozen, rocky surface.
National Football League
Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr in a action in a 21-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys in a NFC Championship game on December 31, 1967 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin.In many of these photos, you can clearly see the full stirrups under the Packers' low whites.
For the record, and just because its such a common mistake, Mr. Starr is wearing them the correct way; big hole goes in the back.
Here's The Coach himself, prowling the sidelines in his camel-hair coat and cleats. I love the white detailing around the opening of cleats from this period. I wonder if it was merely decorative, or served some sort of purpose?
Of course, no Ice Bowl retrospective would be complete without John Biever's iconic photo of Bart Starr sneaking in for a touchdown at the end of the game.
Another (albeit well-known) facet of the game is that was reportedly the only time this particular style of pennant was sold at Lambeau Field.
Because of their provenance, and the Ice Bowl's hold on football fans' imaginations, the pennants draw a pretty good price at auction. This autographed example sold for over $800 at MEARS last January.


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Press Release
Attorney General Colberg Announces Settlement with Dell and Dell Financial Services
January 12, 2009
(Anchorage, Alaska) Attorney General Talis Colberg announced a settlement with Dell Inc. and Dell Financial Services to addresses the company's practices related to financing promotions, technical support and repair policies and rebate offers. The settlement will also provide restitution for consumers harmed by these practices.
Under the agreement, Texas-based Dell Inc., and its subsidiary, Dell Financial Services, LLC, admit no wrongdoing but agree to pay $25,000 in restitution to eligible Alaskan consumers who file claims by April 12, 2009.
Similar agreements were reached by 30 other states as part of a multistate investigation led by Washington and Connecticut. The investigation followed consumer complaints in many states about practices by Dell. Some consumers reported applying for what Dell advertised as zero-interest financing but they were later charged higher interest rates. Others had trouble obtaining warranty service on their Dell computers. Many said they never received promised rebates.
It's not yet known how many consumers in Alaska or nationwide may be entitled to refunds under the settlements. Alaskan consumers may apply for refunds if they 1) made a Dell purchase between April 1, 2005 and January 12, 2009, 2) incurred financial loss related to the practices addressed in the agreement, and 3) file a claim with the Attorney General's Office within the 90-day period. The amount of money issued to individual consumers will depend on the number of claims and the total amount claimed.
Alaskans who believe they are eligible for a refund should request a claim form from the Attorney General's Office by calling 269-5200, or outside of Anchorage, 1-888-576-2529, or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The agreement also addresses the business practices identified by the states as consumer protection violations. The company agreed to clearly inform applicants for Dell credit accounts that they are applying for a revolving open credit account (that is, an account that works like a credit card), that minimum monthly payments are required, that penalties apply for late payments or for other reasons, and whether subsequent purchases using the account will be subject to the same financing terms. Dell must notify consumers that approval of the account does not guarantee that the consumer will also qualify for conditional financing promotions (such as zero-percent interest for 90 days). For promotional credit offers, Dell will disclose in advertisements that the majority of consumers who apply won't quality for the best annual percentage rate (APR), and will disclose the range of initial APRs that consumers are likely to receive. Dell will inform consumers of their right to cancel orders made with the Dell credit account within three days after receiving the written terms and conditions for the account.
Regarding warranties and services, Dell must fulfill its warranty obligations within 30 days from the date of notification or receipt of a defective product. The company must disclose whether consumers must first go through phone-based troubleshooting before Dell will provide on-site repair or warranty-related service.
Dell must provide rebate documentation at the time the product is delivered or the service is provided, and it must mail rebates within the advertised time frame, or within 30 days if no date is specified.
For more information about the settlement, please contact Assistant Attorney General Cynthia Drinkwater at (907) 269-5200.
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Another month, yet another quantum key distribution (QKD) "breakthrough" but perhaps the innovation announced by Toshiba's Cambridge Research Laboratory this week will turn out to be highly significant.
The team headed by Dr Andrew Shields and the University's Engineering Department has found a way to send the incredibly weak light signals used in QKD over conventional fibre optic cables while they are being used for other types of data transmission.
A major problem with QKD - a technology for distributing encryption keys with the certainty that any tampering with these will be detected - is that until now it implied a dedicated end-to-end fibre network of its own.
To all intents and purposes, this made the technology impractical beyond a minuscule number of military applications. Dedicated QKD networks are simply vastly expensive and so commercial use of QKD is non-existent.
Sending a signal comprised of single photons over a fibre connection represented a huge technical challenge. The breakthrough was that the team was able to build a system "sensitive" to this stream without picking up the huge volume of noise created by the other wavelengths of light sharing the connection.
This allowed the scientists to send a QKD signal at a 'secure key rate' of 500kbit/s over a distance of 50km.
"The requirement of separate fibres has greatly restricted the applications of quantum cryptography in the past, as unused fibres are not always available for sending the single photons, and even when they are, can be prohibitively expensive," said Dr Andrew Shields.
"Now we have shown that the single photon and data signals can be sent using different wavelengths on the same fibre."
Shield's team is considered a world leader among a small, select group of researchers looking at the field form around the world. Breakthroughs happen from time to time, usually around the amount of data that can be reliably exchanged over a given distance.
Perhaps the most important breakthrough to date was the announcement in 2010 that his team had found a way to generate the photons that are the information 'ammunition' of a QKD system using simple LEDs.
Although surrounded by the terminology of quantum physics, the invention of the Entangled Light Emitting Diode was really a way to allow QKD systems to function without the need for a lab full of physicists using esoteric equipment.
Along with the latest development, the hope is that by turning QKD into a technology that can be implemented using more conventional equipment it will become affordable for businesses and government.
And why is QKD worth using in the first place? In essence because it adds certainty to the distribution of the encryption keys used to scramble and unscramble secure communications.
These can still be intercepted but the fact of that attack is immediately revealed according to the principles of quantum physics, namely that an observed (i.e intercepted) photon is changed. QKD systems simply detect that this event has taken place.
This certainty hasn't stopped researchers trying to find flaws in the way the equipment used in QKD is set up - the physics is bullet proof but the engineering, as ever, not necessarily as secure.


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Hi, my level is 4.0. I play tennis all year and I'm looking for someone to play tennis to make exchanges and also to practicing a bit my english. I live in St-Laurent where you can play for free, but I can move to play in a place that is closer for both. So, feel free to join me!
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Hi Kearon,
I lost your phone # but wanted to know if you want to play this coming saturday july 13th.
Text me if you're available.
hey interested in playing sometime, Let me know.
Cheers. Karan
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More progress...
First, I did more sketch work on my proposed pages for the app. One of these involves data plots: plotting the altitude, and on a separate plot, speed from a Strava activity on a graph. This is the biggest challenge of my GUI design: the rest consists of a text widget, a bunch of button widgets, and some labels, with more simple widgets in the "configuration" screen. Plots with limited pixels are a challenge: I believe the screen resolution is only 480 × 800 for which only a small subset, for example 400 × 100, will be available for each plot. Not so bad, actually, but real estates needs to be used efficiently. I'll avoid doing anything fancy: no scrolling or zooming, for example. The goal is just to identify portions of the ride in a clearly identifiable fashion. For this I can either do my own plots with graphic primitives or use a more general purpose plotting package. I'm not yet decided on this.
Second, I looked into the Strava API itself (it's a work in progress so I resist putting the link here). It's not nearly as bad as I feared. The Strava API consists of specific GET and PUT transactions, using the appropriate URL's, to read and write JSON data to the servers. JSON stands for "JavaScript Object Notation". The advantage of this is it is effectively language-indendent. For example, CPAN has a nice JSON package for Perl, my favorite scripting language. However, I will resist the temptation to do this project in Perl: Java is definitely the way to go. Perl is great for quick-and-dirty projects but for stuff intended for distribution on Android Market I should toe the line and follow best practices, which means Java. (Note: this won't stop me from at some point whipping together a quick script in Perl to export ride data to CSV format, something which I'll find personally useful). Previously I'd been a bit intimidated because the Strava API examples are in Ruby, a language of which I know virtually nothing. But Java should work equally well. The challenge with the API will be writing data: I still need to experiment with that. Worst case is the app will write data to a new activity, then leave it to the user to delete the old one to avoid duplication. But I strongly suspect I'll be able to work out activity deletion or even direct data substitution as well.
Here's an example of what version 1 of the Strava API produces: JSON data of a recent short ride I did. It's fairly straightforward, if inefficient. For example, were I to want to download all data for all crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge for statistical analysis (which would be interesting, to get a statistical distribution of speeds), that would be extremely slow; I'd want a compressed data format like FIT (used by Garmin: a Perl library and a link to the Garmin SDK are here) for that purpose. But for a single ride the rich text format provided by JSON is fine.
As an aside, version 2 of the API claims to allow data to be filtered before download (similar to Garmin "smart sampling"). This should help a lot on the bandwidth hit. But using FIT or similar would probably be at least a 10× improvement.
There is another issue: user authentication. Hopefully this can be handled by the standing Strava app. But I may need to add a log-in page to mine. This isn't something with which I've dealt before.
On the number-crunching side, Java is a fairly simple, sequential language and the sequential array processing should be simple enough.
So things are looking okay. The goal on any programming job is to take complex tasks and break them down into simpler sub-tasks. Then take these sub-tasks, and if necessary, break them down into even simpler sub-tasks. You keep breaking tasks down until the remaining tasks are so simple, the actual coding of them is trivial. It's a lazy shortcut to try to take too much in one bite: to do a complex task directly, and attempting to do so invariably turns the project into a mess. The actual coding part for each sub-task should be simple. The challenge is in organizing the tree of tasks, in knowing exactly what you want to do before you try doing it.


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Well that makes things more confusing!?!
What if I induce rocker by weighting the board on the rocker table for a few weeks to create all nearly all of the rocker I desire, then say increase the rocker the final 25% or so under vacuum to set the final shape give or take.
This should reduce the spring back and thus the shear stress on the composite reducing potential of future twisting or delamination under riding stresses. Any thoughts?


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Meteor Plunge, Harvard Man, And Crooks Give Cops Play By Play: Gump File
TGIF! Oh yea baby, Friday brings a handful of pure stupidity, but that's what we like about the gump file. As always an open invitation to share gump file's with us in the comment section, or e-mail them to me at, firstname.lastname@example.com. And if it's something you did, you can always leave your name out of it. Buckle up, here we go. Enjoy.


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WASHINGTON — Legislation to require federal oversight of nonprofit crisis-pregnancy centers for the first time has seen little movement since it was first introduced several years ago. But such a measure could quickly pass during a so-called "lame duck" session of Congress after the November midterm elections, according to congressional supporters.
Such federal oversight could add massive legal costs to defend pregnancy centers from even baseless claims, according to supporters of the centers, and could limit the volunteer-run programs' resources available to help pregnant women and new mothers.
House and Senate companion bills to grant regulatory authority by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over advertising used by nonprofit crisis-pregnancy centers have not advanced since they were introduced on June 30. However, Democratic congressional staff told the Register that the measures could advance quickly and pass during the usually noncontroversial legislative session following a November election.
Such legislative sessions are usually limited to finishing work on must-pass legislation to fund the operations of the federal government. However, Democrats — facing the prospect of massive losses in November — have raised the possibility in recent weeks that they may use the session to enact several controversial measures before surrendering control of the legislature to the newly elected Congress next year.
Any decision to add the pregnancy center legislation to the lame-duck schedule would be based on the efforts of pro-abortion advocates, who have urged their allies among the Democratic leadership to make this legislation a priority.
"The fact that the interest groups are aware and have created a flurry, that is something," said one Democratic leadership staffer about the bill's lame-duck prospects.
Federal Push
Pro-abortion advocates have made the legislation one of their priorities in the current Congress after they succeeded recently in enacting some similar measures at the local level. City councils in Baltimore and Austin, Texas, have enacted similar advertising-enforcement measures, as has Montgomery County, Md. The measures are designed to prevent the pro-life pregnancy centers from talking women who want abortion out of the procedure while offering pregnancy and postpartum care and services.
"Many women who face unwanted pregnancies find themselves in a very difficult, very personal situation," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., when she introduced one of the bills. "They shouldn't have to face the added stress of deciphering whether or not the clinic they choose offers legitimate medical services."
Proponents of the FTC bills said such federal oversight is needed because crisis-pregnancy centers appear in phone book and online advertising sections under "abortion services." Additionally, women are misled by false information about abortion risks that they receive from crisis-pregnancy centers, the bill's advocates argue.
Pregnancy center supporters counter that phone book companies already have created "abortion alternatives" advertising sections for the pregnancy centers and the groups use such phrasing in online ads.
In fact, Joe Young, vice president of Heartbeat International, an association of 1,100 Christian crisis-pregnancy centers, said his group has found that abortion providers are advertising under "abortion alternatives" descriptions.
"But this legislation will do nothing to curb the misleading ads by abortion groups and providers," Young said.
Abortion advocates disputed that abortion providers use misleading advertising and rejected the idea that the legislation should apply to them as well. It's not false or misleading, for example, for abortion providers to advertise under the "abortion alternatives" ad heading because some provide adoption referrals, said Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.
"If you go to an abortion clinic and do not want an abortion, they will refer you to a facility that can appropriately care for you," Saporta said.
Additionally, advocates for crisis-pregnancy centers, which do not offer abortions or refer women for them, said they do not provide false or misleading information. Instead, they offer scientific findings that have been underreported in the media and ignored by pro-abortion politicians.
"Lying would violate our beliefs," said Virginia Cline, director of public policy/PR for Heartbeat International. "We can document the scientific basis for all of the information we provide."
For instance, some pregnancy centers were blasted in a 2006 investigative report by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., for telling callers that abortions increased the risk for breast cancer despite "a medical consensus that induced abortion does not cause an increased risk of breast cancer," the report stated.
However, in recent years several U.S. and international studies have found "induced abortions" are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, including a 2009 study conducted by a researcher from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The true reason behind the federal advertising legislation is to add costs and legal concerns to the volunteer-run clinics, pro-life advocates contend.
"The opposition sees this as a way to shut us down," said Melinda Delahoyde, president of Care Net, a network of about 1,150 pregnancy centers.
Delahoyde and other pregnancy center leaders said the facilities are not lying about abortion-related risks and therefore do not fear FTC penalties, but the legal costs of defending their volunteer staff and facilities from allegations could impact their growth.
"Increased regulations based on [allegations] that are not true would hurt us," Delahoyde said.
Influence Growing
The number of facilities that would be affected by the proposed federal oversight has rapidly grown from a handful to several thousand over the four decades since abortion was legalized. Pregnancy center advocates credit their growth to their dedicated volunteer staff members, who are highly trained to provide a range of prenatal and postpartum care.
"It's no wonder that a movement like this — and it really is a movement — is getting this kind of attention," Delahoyde said about her organization's 33,000 volunteers. "This is a grassroots movement that operates day in and day out, regardless of what happens in Washington, D.C."
The pregnancy center organizers, their congressional supporters and even some in the mainstream media have credited the pregnancy centers and their low-key services to women across the country with far-reaching impact, including changing the public's attitudes toward abortion. One such possible impact was the finding by an annual Gallup poll that a majority of Americans (51%) described themselves as "pro-life" for the first time since they began asking the question in 1995.
Pregnancy centers "are making an impact in changing the perception of their communities toward abortion," Cline said. Pro-abortion "groups don't like that trend."
Rich Daly writes from Washington.


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(HONOLULU) — The retrial for a special agent accused of murder in a 2011 fast food restaurant shooting in Hawaii is underway — an emotionally charged case that's gripping the island state.
Christopher Deedy, a special agent for the State Department, is accused of second degree murder in the Nov. 5, 2011 death of Kollin Elderts, 23. Deedy has pleaded not guilty.
A previous trial ended with a deadlocked jury.
In opening statements made Thursday, the prosecution painted a portrait of Deedy as a bar-hopping drunk the night he shot Elderts.
"The defendant was fueled by alcohol, primed by warnings given by his friends about hostile locals and ignited by the power of his Glock," prosecutor Janice Futa told the court, referring to his Glock pistol.
But the defense alleges it was the victim and his friend who were the aggressors, harassing other customers before scuffling with Deedy. Deedy fired his gun in self-defense, attorney Thomas Otake said.
"It's a potentially violent situation developing. Well, what are law enforcement officers trying to do? Stop it before it becomes violent," Otake said.
Deedy maintains he went to the McDonald's with some friends after a night out — testifying in November 2011 that he intervened when he saw Elderts harassing other customers.
Deedy identified himself as a cop, he said, but the warnings didn't work.
"I didn't see him when he actually came at me," Deedy previously testified. "But he hit me hard and fast and the best way I can describe it was like a spear tackle. I stood up. I put both arms in front of me, palms forward and I said 'stop, I'll shoot.'"
Deedy says Elderts tackled him to the ground.
"He was delivering blows, back and down, back and down," Deedy said. "I had two concerns, I think, at the time — not let those blows direct my skull into the ground. And two, trying to take the shot that would stop the threat."
Deedy fired.
Elderts slumped and began bleeding.
Deedy says he tried to help keep Elderts alive, but it was too late.
ABC News Chief Legal Affairs Anchor Dan Abrams said prosecutors have two distinct advantages in this trial.
"At the first trial, the defense was allowed to show video of Special Agent Deedy performing CPR on the victim after the shooting, showing his humanity. The jury won't see that video this time. And the judge is excluding toxicology analysis that the victim had taken cocaine as not reliable enough," Abrams said.
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cac101010 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Your Club Host
We are a new company looking for a logo that showcases what were about. Our clients will be high end people so the logo needs to be rich looking. The companies main business is dealing with bottle service at clubs. So as you may know this logo needs to appeal and fit in with the wealthy demographic.
Wealthy, Professional, Elegant, Clean and Powerful.
Logo must be vector format in .ai file.
- The logo should use the text "Your Club Host"
- Use Similar typeface to Entourage Logo. Google 'Entourage HBO' to see an example of the typeface.
- One idea is to make the L in 'Club' a champagne bottle. Use this shaped and style high end bottle with similar colors: http://www.redsource.com/hongkong/c…DP1998.jpg
- If you have a better or different idea than the L w/ champagne bottle feel free to submit something else too.
- Text should have an expensive shimmering type style to it. Maybe try colors like gold and platinum in the logo.
- You can try all CAPS for the text and all lowercase too, not sure what we will want yet.
*Also another idea is try putting some sort of a red rope (typical for the front of clubs entrances) around the text that might work too. It's just an idea so we want to see logos without the rope first, then you can try adding if it looks good.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Spread the IYC cheer on chemistry textbookActivity by Ying Zheng | added on Jul 26, 2011 | Canada
As part of the celebration of IYC, the 2011 edition of my custom coursepack for the course "Chemistry for the Life Sciences I" at the University of Lethbrdige will have the IYC logo on its cover. This will help spread the spirit of the celebration of IYC.
I create coursepacks for my courses at the University of Lethbrdige. For this year's edition (published by Nelson Education Ltd.) we put the IYC logo on the cover to show our support for the celebration of IYC. This will be a historical edition! For the remaining of 2011 (and hopefully beyond) all my students will be reminded of this event and of the importance of chemistry in our life.
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It's been almost a month since my last post. Blogging experts may differ as to the optimal frequency for posting, but on one point, I'm confident they all agree: It should be more than once a month.
That being said, I had my reasons. This month has been breathtakingly busy. Though, admittedly, any such assessment is a relative one. I once marveled at a prolific writer friend's ability to churn out books while also holding down a full-time job. "I could never do that," I said. "No," he agreed, reflectively. "You need a lot of time to hang out."
He had a point. And while "a lot" may also be a relative term, I definitely do need some. Which brings me to how I made the decision to take a break from blogging.
Here's the thing: This blog isn't just about my life; it's also a life laboratory. I am both subject and object, both creator and data. When I sit down at my laptop to write, I'm not thinking only about the writing but also about the writer. How is she feeling? What is she thinking? How is she relating to this singular act of putting words on paper?
For pretty much all of my life, I've been an achievement junkie. Degrees. Jobs. Books. You name it. I've been really really good at getting things done, at erecting whatever psychic dams are needed to stem the emotional tides. You might say my motto has been: Act now; feel later.
But while this strategy may have its place, it also has its limits. I see this more and more. Like adrenaline, it's good for emergencies, not so good for the long haul.
I'm still figuring out where to draw the lines—still following breadcrumbs—but in the meantime, a few salient markers are starting to emerge.
For one thing, my life works best when I hold my plans lightly. To put it diplomatically, this is not my usual M.O., which tends towards command and control. The metrics for this are simple. Accomplish your goals, and you have succeeded; fall down on the job, and you've failed.
Predictably, I began the month with this idea in mind. Even with my other projects-in-waiting, two posts a week struck me as a fairly modest target. But in the days that followed, my stress level grew, and something started to shift. A single question presented itself: What is the real point? This didn't feel like edging towards procrastination or squirming out of work. Rather it felt like a small first step towards taking care of myself.
So what is the real point? Why did I start blogging? Last fall, at a particularly difficult crossroads, I went in search of ways to feel more grounded, more connected, and well, happier. Blogging has given me all these things, which is why I keep at it. Would strong-arming myself into twice-weekly posts really build on this foundation? It seemed to me that the blog could wait. And so it did.
"There comes a time in life when you have to stop doing things for instrumental reasons," my first-year moot court partner told me, explaining why he had no intention of trying for a spot on the Harvard Law Review. More than two decades later, I still recall those words. They seemed important at the time. Now I understand why.


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With the 2014 World Cup just a year away, the qualifying matches have taken even greater importance as teams head towards the finish line.
Here we take a look at how the European sides of group B got on this past week:
Finland 1:0 Belarus
With Spain and France clearly the superior teams of the group, this match wasn't met with much enthusiasm from the neutrals.
But even with the chances of going through being next to nothing, it's always a good feeling to win with your country. In a somewhat dull affair, with only a few decent goal attempts between the two teams, Finland claimed the win.
The goal separating the two teams was an own-goal scored by Shitov just before the hour mark. Nekhaychik was sent-off in injury time.
Belarus 1:1 Finland
In the return fixture four days later, Finland took the lead in the first-half, as Pukki provided the goal. After both teams wasted solid chances in the second-half, it seemed as though the Finns were going to pull-off a double victory over Belarus. However, Verkhovtsov was determined to not let this happen, scoring a late equaliser five minutes from time.
Here are the standings for group I:
Spain and France occupy the top two spots. Finland still have a theoretical chance of going through, however, they would need a miracle. Spain are in poll position to qualify directly for the World Cup finals next summer. All they need is to make sure they don't drop any points and they're golden, while France will be hoping for a slip-up in order to top the group.
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undaunted needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
undaunted media
Indivdual iphone developer needing an icon for a particular project.
Best categories to describe this app in the Apple app store would be: Business; Productivity. This app will be used primarily in business (although it could be college/education or other institution). Primarily for any business leader that manages people.
What do I need? To simplify things, I only need the following 5 screen designs:
1. splash screen
2. Add/edit members screens (Slide02.jpg)
3. Calendar view: Day (Slide04.jpg)
4. Calendar view: Month (Slide06.jpg)
5. Add/edit event (Slide07.jpg)
Looking for a creative and eye-catching UI design for a new iphone / ipad app. The app is called Team Tracker. Utilizing a calendar and gantt chart view, the app allows a team manager to coordinate the who, what and where of individual team members.
See the enclosed Archive file for details. First slide shows application flow (do not need this designed).
**** Update: slight change to slide02 (added photo box).
*** Note: I have another contest going for the iphone / ipad icon over here (keep this in mind):
There should be enough to give me an indication of your design intention.
App designs I like:
2 screenshots of iPad apps that I like:


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Primary Investigators: UB Undergraduates Get Hands-on Research Experience
Release Date: January 28, 2013
While most students are settling into the new semester, Alanna Olear, a University at Buffalo environmental engineering major, will be in campus bathrooms measuring the amount of paper towels that were used that day.
The Amherst native is attempting to answer an age-old question that has frustrated most who have ventured into a loo: is it better to use a hand-dryer or paper towels?
But Olear is not concerned with which option dries one's hands quicker.
Olear, one of many students taking advantage of UB's undergraduate research opportunities, is studying which alternative leaves a smaller environmental footprint throughout the life of the product. To accomplish this, she will measure the amount of money and energy used through manufacturing, production and regular use to determine which is more wasteful.
"People ask me what my research is about, and I say paper towels because I like to see their reactions. They just laugh and think it's funny," says Olear.
"But it has a good purpose. The research is my way of using my education to give back to UB and the environment. Improving the hand drying systems at UB is a small piece in solving a large problem. A lot of small pieces can add up."
The study she is leading was accepted into the 2013 New York State Pollution Prevention Institute Student Competition, a state-wide contest that enables students to design solutions to real world environmental challenges.
Under the supervision of James N. Jensen, UB civil, structural and environmental engineering professor and faculty director of the Research Exploration Undergraduate Academy, Olear orchestrated this experiment all before the end of her junior year.
Traditionally, research at universities is carried out by graduate students, however, Timothy Tryjankowski, director of UB's Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, believes the norm is changing.
"The students entering UB as freshmen are asking from day one, really from open house and orientation, 'Okay, I made it to UB. Now how do I get to medical school, law school or graduate school,'" says Tryjankowski.
Banuna Barinaepkee, biological sciences and psychology major, started even sooner, as she began studying Human Immunodeficiency Virus in high school. Now a college sophomore, Barinaepkee continues her research under Gene Morse, PharmD, UB pharmacy practice professor and associate director of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
After collecting data on HIV trends in the U.S., Barinaepkee presented her work at a Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program Conference over the past summer. Her presentation titled, "An Update on HIV," highlighted that African-American males who were homosexuals were the only group with an increase in the rate of new infections. It also identified two new antiretroviral therapy treatments called Treatment as Prevention, or TasP, and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, which she plans to further investigate this upcoming summer.
Although Barinaepkee did not conduct hands-on research, she still found the experience rewarding.
"Even though it wasn't me doing the research in a laboratory, people were interested in the knowledge," says Barinaepkee. "Sometimes research is not just in the lab. It's also sharing information with other people."
Helping people share information is the center of Xiang Lin's research. Lin, a senior computer science major, merged Google's Cloud Platform with their Android operating system to create a data storage application called Contacts Cloud Book.
The app will allow users to store their contact information inside Google's servers to avoid losing the data in the event their cell phone is lost or damaged.
Constructing a virtual phonebook is only the beginning for Lin, who with the help of Bina Ramamurthy, UB teaching associate professor in computer science and engineering, plans to utilize big data computing methods to develop the app to handle large financial and medical data.
Whether studying the latest medical treatments or creating the newest cell phone app, undergraduates at UB are making an impact on the world through their research while discovering what their passions are.
"By doing what we do best, imagining, creating and educating, we are raising the bar higher every day in every field of study at UB," says Tryjankowski.
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