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Roundup: 10 DIY Desk Calendars, Wall Calendars, and Memo Boards
I'm ALWAYS forgetting dates, meetings and to do's! I NEED to write them down and while it's easy enough to jot them down in iCal, there is something special and tactile about having a physical calendar adore your wall or desk.
I've rounded up a few of my favourites DIY offerings along with a selection of memo board ideas for pinning those reminder cards, numbers or inspiring/aspirational images.
Happy pinning!
Chalkboard Wall Calendar via Stylizimo
FREE 2013 Printable Calendar via A Merry Mishap
Photographic Perpetual Wall Calendar via Photojojo
Paislee Press Digital 2013 Calendar Kit via The Lilypad
Stylish Space Savers via Real Living
DIY Belt Board via Poppytalk
DIY Button Tacks via Fellow Fellow
Old Bed Frame Memo Board via BoligLiv
Clipboard Memo Boards via Seesaw
DIY Wall Organizer via Curate This Space


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The issue arises when you crate a link from an individual or event listed in your database program and an external photo, document or video or audio recording. I am not aware of any of the programs that make a copy of the media item and incorporate it into the program. At best, the programs make a thumbnail or small reproduction of the item for inclusion. The program then records the path to where the actual item is stored on your computer.
I have tried to solve this issue by storing all of the images for all of my programs in one huge file folder on my computer. That way, I can link to the items in that folder and as long as I copy the folder to the new device, my problem of maintaining a link to the files is solved. In my case that file does not hold all of the media items, only those that I have already attached to one of my programs. As that file grows, I will likely have to come up with some alternative storage strategies.
What if you cannot find the photo or image of the document on your computer? I suggest downloading a copy of Google's Picasa. Once downloaded, Picasa will inventory every image on your computer. The images will not be moved and no copy is made by Google. But you will be able to use the programs editor to edit the images and move, rename and delete the images.
You may want to check the options or preferences for your genealogical database program. Usually, the programs allow you to designate the preferred folder for your documents and other media items. I always try to use one folder, as I said, for all my programs so this is pretty easy to figure out. You might become aware that almost every program has extensive instructions about what to do with broken links. Most of the online resources are program specific. So do a search for broken links and add the name of your software program.


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A UNIX programmer might say: "Use stat() to get the file permissions and check them against the user and group id. I'm going to lunch. Don't wait up".
A Windows programmer on the other hand had better skip lunch and start coding.
Here are four possible ways to check whether a user has the requested access to a file on Windows. The first three use GetFileSecurity() to get a file security descriptor and varying methods toobtain the user's security credentials.
1. Use LogonUser to get a Token handle, and validate with AccessCheck()
If you have a Token representing a logged on user you can call the AccessCheck() functionto validate the user access rights against a file security descriptor. If your server code has the user's password and other credentials (not defined in the example code), you could get the Tokenusing LogonUser() (error checking removed for brevity). Assuming the desired access is encoded in the flags variable:
// desired access flags can be set to whatever you defineint flags = O_WRONLY;DWORD sdLen, dwAccessDesired = 0, dwPrivSetSize, dwAccessGranted;PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR fileSD;GENERIC_MAPPING GenericMapping;PRIVILEGE_SET PrivilegeSet;BOOL fAccessGranted = FALSE;HANDLE hToken;I have found this to be the most reliable method of checking a user's file access rights, with thedisadvantage that your server needs to have the user logon details.
// Logon as the user to get the tokenLogonUser(username, domain, passwd, LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE, LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, &hToken); // get file security descriptor - use null value first to get sizeif (!GetFileSecurity(path, OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION | GROUP_SECURITY_INFORMATION | DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, NULL, 0, &sdLen)){ fileSD = HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, sdLen); GetFileSecurity(path, OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION | GROUP_SECURITY_INFORMATION | DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, fileSD, sdLen, &sdLen);}
// initialize a GenericMapping structure based on required accessmemset(&GenericMapping, 0x00, sizeof(GENERIC_MAPPING));switch (flags & (O_RDONLY | O_RDWR | O_WRONLY)){case O_RDONLY: dwAccessDesired = FILE_READ_DATA; GenericMapping.GenericRead = FILE_GENERIC_READ; break;case O_RDWR: dwAccessDesired = FILE_READ_DATA | FILE_WRITE_DATA; GenericMapping.GenericAll = GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE; break;case O_WRONLY: dwAccessDesired = FILE_WRITE_DATA; GenericMapping.GenericWrite = FILE_GENERIC_WRITE; break;} // Create a desired access maskMapGenericMask(&dwAccessDesired, &GenericMapping);
// check the access dwPrivSetSize = sizeof(PRIVILEGE_SET);AccessCheck(fileSD, hToken, dwAccessDesired, &GenericMapping, &PrivilegeSet, &dwPrivSetSize, &dwAccessGranted, &fAccessGranted);
if (fAccessGranted) printf("User has access!");else printf("Access denied, error: %d, requested: %lx\n", GetLastError(), dwAccessDesired);
// clean up resourcesCloseHandle(hToken);HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, fileSD);
2. Use OpenProcessToken() to get a Token handle and validate with AccessCheck()
If you have the process ID, pid, of the user's front-end process you can avoid logging on by getting a handle to the token using OpenProcessToken() as follows (the rest of the code would be the same):
HANDLE hProcess, hMyToken;LUID luid;
// Assign myself the required privileges to call OpenProcess()LookupPrivilegeValue(NULL, SE_DEBUG_NAME, &luid);tp.PrivilegeCount = 1;tp.Privileges[0].Luid = luid;tp.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;AdjustTokenPrivileges(hMyToken, FALSE, &tp, sizeof(TOKEN_PRIVILEGES), NULL, NULL);CloseHandle(hMyToken);
// get a handle to the user processhProcess = OpenProcess(ACCESS_SYSTEM_SECURITY | PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS | PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, FALSE, pid);
// get the Token associated with the processOpenProcessToken(hProcess, TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken);CloseHandle(hProcess);
One problem I've experienced with this method is that OpenProcessToken() can fail with Access Denied on some machines and not others. I have yet to identify the root cause.
3. Use GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl() with a user SID
One way to verify a user's access rights without a token is to get hold of the user SID using LookupAccountName() and call GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl(). Once the file security descriptor has beenobtained as above the rest of the code would do this:
BOOL daclThere = FALSE, daclDefault = FALSE;PACL fileDacl;DWORD sidSize, domainSize = 128;BYTE pSid[sizeof(SID)+(SID_MAX_SUB_AUTHORITIES * sizeof(DWORD))];SID_NAME_USE sidType;char domain[128];TRUSTEE trustee;ACCESS_MASK mask;
// get dACL from security descriptorGetSecurityDescriptorDacl(fileSD, &daclThere, &fileDacl, &daclDefault);
// get user SIDsidSize = sizeof(pSid);LookupAccountName(NULL, user, pSid, &sidSize, domain, &domainSize, &sidType);
BuildTrusteeWithSid(&trustee, pSid);
GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl(fileDacl, &trustee, &mask);
switch (flags & (O_RDONLY | O_RDWR | O_WRONLY)){case O_RDONLY: fAccessGranted = mask & READ_CONTROL; break;case O_RDWR: fAccessGranted = (mask & READ_CONTROL) && (mask & WRITE_DAC); break;case O_WRONLY: fAccessGranted = mask & WRITE_DAC; break;}
if (fAccessGranted == TRUE) printf("\nAccessGranted!\n");else printf("\nAccess denied. Mask: 0x%x\n", mask);
A potential problem with this is that LookupAccountName() can take a long time to execute if you have a remote user from a trusted domain in a network infrastructure with many domains.
Another problem I've seen with this is GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl() failing with return code 5. I have an open support call with Microsoft concerning this problem.
Update 2/13/07: Thanks to some help from a Microsoft Escalation Engineer the specific problem has been identified as when any local user (i.e. not a domain user) calls GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl() and passes it the ACL of an unprivileged local user, the file ACLs include those for groups which contain domain groups, and at a domain level the Network access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation setting is disabled (default setting) the function will return "Access Denied". Because of this reason using GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl() is not the recommended method to determine whether a user has access rights to a file.
4. Launch a process as the user and test access
If you don't want to mess with all the access functions, you could could simply create a process as the user using LogonUser() and CreateProcessAsUser()and try opening a file with the required permissions. This isn't a very efficient method, and executing a command leaves your code open to malicious command injection, but it works.
The file access rights implementation on Windows, and its programming interface, is in my opinion a pile of pants. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time to create an access model with so much flexibility, but a flexible security system is often a misconfigured security system. Suggestionswith simpler alternatives to the above are welcome.
Check User's Permissions On A File or Folder- ASP article By Softomatix.
How To Program a Secure Server on Microsoft Windows NT - Microsoft KB article


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Monday, 19 April 2010
Can you even trust me?
But then some women were like, hey, I can relate! And now some of you have gotten to know me. And some of you have even met me. And I'm not even weird. In fact, I'd like to think I'm reliable (I was honestly going to say as reliable as Holden Caulfield, but then I realized he is usually considered an unreliable narrator. Hmmm.)
Where on earth am I going with this?
I want to report my training, my running and my life accurately. So my dilemma is this: what do I report as my real PR from the half marathon on Sunday? The Garmin time or the official race time? Can we come to a consensus as a running community what people should use as their PR on their blogs? Is there already a consensus? CAN one use a Garmin time? Or is it just ANNOYING to do that?
Let me give you a bit more info about the race on Sunday: It was officially "danish certified" (DAF): measured by hand to be 21.1 (maybe even 21.0975, not sure about that)km. BUT even Peer who measured it also got 21.5 km on his Garmin after the race. As he described, everyone took long ways around at times and wide turns at curves, etc.
So what counts? Or does it not matter? Olga is thinking I should just shut up right now.
I have to say I'm leaning towards reporting the actual race time.
I also want to officially apologize to Sparta, who organized this race! You guys did everything right!
9 comments:
- olga said...
Yes. And put down official time from the race results. And truly, what's there to report, when you will be the one who truly cares?
Really, it ain't a science paper to make sure everything is top notch accuracy, and if it is, then you just found yourself one more hussle in life, when it is supposed to be used for your personal relaxation, even as you strive to get better.
But then again, you know what you've got, and it's not like it'll change.
Whatever makes you happy.
Just go out and run.
- 19 April 2010 at 21:20
- May-Britt Hansen said...
You put down the official result from the race and then you kick ass next time - just to shut me and Olga up ;-)
- 19 April 2010 at 21:28
- sea legs girl said...
Okay. I really don't want you guys to shut up. But I suppose either way I'd better put down the official race time :).
- 19 April 2010 at 21:48
- Danni said...
I don't think it much matters but to the extent that I have an opinion I think the official race time is what matters in terms of "official" PRs. You can have unofficial PRs based on training runs or whatever else.
- 19 April 2010 at 22:01
- cherelli said...
Hmm, yep, sorry but I agree, official race time is what counts. It's true you can go wide on turns due to people etc; be interesting to measure the "inside turns" to confirm how much of an extra mile you can accidentally add to an offical distance....mind you, it's your blog. Give both times, keep the critics happy, and pick which time you want most :)
- 20 April 2010 at 06:23
- Diana said...
Oh, your reference to Holden Caulfield, that little twerp, made me shudder. Not reliable and not likable.
You know if you were in the humanities and not the sciences, you could pull out some post-modern theory and make the argument that there is no Truth, and we only have the fragments of each individuals' perceptions of events. You could say that your version of the events, and thereby your Garmin time, is just as accurate as the "official" race time. I don't really think that's the slant you're going for, though. :)
If it really matters to you what your blog readers think, I would report the official race time. It was a certified course, so that's what you would have to rely on.
- 20 April 2010 at 09:14
- SteveQ said...
The official time is the time to report. In my records, I have a bunch of notations, such as "short course," "unofficial," etc., requiring me to list more than one record for each distance.
Marathon records now have to be on certified courses with less than 1% net loss of altitude and no tail wind. But, if you set that record at the Half-Voyageur, I think it MORE than counts!
- 20 April 2010 at 17:41
- PiccolaPineCone said...
I agree with Cherelly, it's your blog... do what you want!
For me personally though, if the course is accurately measured (along its shortest distance) I would report the official race time because the art of running the shortest distance along a race course i.e. choosing the correct tangents is an implicit part of the sport of distance running.
I could go on but if you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
- 20 April 2010 at 18:20
- sea legs girl said...
As of today, whether or not the discrepency between recorded and measured distance can be caused by taking wide turns is a subject of hot debate. Some seem to think .4 km can't be explained by anything other than getting way off course.
Thanks for all the great comments.
- 21 April 2010 at 14:16


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Saturday 28th October 2017
Midland football League Premier
Coleshill Town 1 v 0 Boldmere St Michaels
Scorer: Joe Halsall.
Attendance: 132.
Opposition Player Of The Match: Ryan Edmunds (Coleshill) Cameron Gayle (Boldmere)
Supporters Club Man Of The Match, Sponsored by Greensleeves: Jorna Moulton.
Colemen: Paul Hathaway, Jorna Moulton, Gio Dainty, Rob Evans, Joe Cole, Danny Tymon, Ryan Edmunds, Joe Halsall, Jordan Nadat, Reece Leek, Dean Rathbone (Matt Gardner). Subs not used Luke Edwards, Jesse Race, Anton Astley, Liam Molesworth.
The Mikes: Lewis Fenney, Keenah Rosser, J'Lee Abraham, Cameron Gayle, Harry Craven, Joe Lyng, Ben Usher-Shipway, Craig Milligan, Jason Holmes, Ryan Shaw, Charles Morris. Subs Alex Forde, Reiss Wagstaff, Anthony Fitzmarie, Alister Brauns, Ryan Nesbitt.
Coleshill needed an injury time goal to see off basement club Boldmere St Michaels and maintain their one point lead. Joe Halsall fired in from close range at the end of a game in which the visitors had the better of the chances.
Top v Bottom! That means nothing in this league, every game is a tough one, and old rivals Boldmere St Michaels weren't going to roll over despite only winning one game so far this season.
Town won with a Joe Halsall goal in the 92nd minute to maintain top spot and as the Top Eight teams all won, it was a vital three points. However, it's difficult to put a positive spin on the performance as chances were few and far between, Reece Leek almost rounding the keeper the only other real threat. The Mikes on the other hand missed two sitters, hit the bar and had a decent penalty appeal turned down.
Jorna Moulton returned to the starting line up and Gio Dainty took up the left back spot at the expense of Luke Edwards and Anton Astley. Coleshill started brightly but after a couple of dangerous attacks down the flanks, the Mikes started to grow in confidence. A half cleared corner came back to the unmarked Shaw who volleyed across goal missing the far post by inches. Coleshill had plenty of possession but the final ball was sadly lacking, A fine run and cross by Ryan Edmunds was took off the head of Joe Halsall in the centre of goal but Reece Leek recycled the move and his vicious shot went just past the far post. Town looked to be getting up a head of steam as shots from Reece Leek and Jordan Nadat were cleared off the line and a Beckam-esk shot by Rob Evans inside his own half wasn't too far away but the half finished disappointingly goalless.
Early in the second half a ball into the box by Usher-Shipway found Holmes free in front of goal but just as he prepared to shoot Jorna Moulton came from nowhere to smash out for a corner. From that corner Lyng hit the bar with a powerful header. Boldmere's back line were giving Coleshill a tough time and keeper Fenney was having a fairly quite afternoon. Dean Rathbone headed for goal from a Reece Leek cross and Jordan Nadat's left foot shot were both saved by Fenney. Holmes pinched the ball off the home defence and fed Morris who went down in the box under a challenge by Rob Evans. Keeper Paul Hathaway was furious that Morris had gone to ground but it could well have been adjudged a penalty. Coleshill's best chance came when Dean Rathbone split open the visitors defence to leave Reece Leek a free run at goal. Fenney was quick off his line and was outside the box when Leek attempted to go round him but the keeper stuck out a leg and managed to kick the ball away from what would have been a certain goal. Joe Halsall headed wide a Ryan Edmunds cross and Paul Hathaway punched away a Craven header. A Jordan Nadat cross was met by Matt Gardner at a stretch, his effort only just went the wrong side of the far post but with time running out Coleshill finally found a way past the Mikes defence. Reece Leek jinked his way into the box and his pass came off Matt Gardner and fell nicely into the path of Joe Halsall who swept the ball across the keeper into the far corner of the net. There was no time for Boldmere to hit back as their run of bad results continued. On this showing though, once their luck changes, they should easily climb out of the relegation zone.
Title winning teams get results when they don't play well but not every week! It's a long season, all teams have good days and bad days! To still be top with the half way mark fast approaching is more than we could have asked for but to maintain that over the second half of the season the Colemen definitely have to play better than this.
A match report taken from Boldmere web site
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/boldmeres ... /0-3717131
Although the Mikes were condemned to yet another league defeat at the league leaders it was hard not to feel sympathy for the players who more than equalled the table toppers throughout the ninety minutes. To rub salt in the wounds the winning goal came in the third minute of stoppage time and was scored by ex-Boldmere midfielder Joe Halsall.
After a morale boosting win on Tuesday manager Stuart Grosvenor recalled Lewis Fenney in goal, Keenah Rosser replaced the unavailable Nicky Dodd at right back and J'Cee Abraham took over at left back from skipper Craig Milligan. The captain moving into midfield with Ryan Shaw and Jason Holmes occupying more forward roles to the exclusion of top scorer Ryan Nesbitt.
The game was end to end from the first whistle with the Mikes perhaps edging proceedings in the opening quarter, indeed they should have taken a seventh minute lead when Shaw spurned a golden opportunity scuffing his effort past the far post when a goal beckoned. Meanwhile the pacey home forwards Jordan Nadat, Reece Leek and Ryan Edmunds kept the Mikes defence on their toes but with Harry Craven and Joe Lyng forming a solid partnership keeper Fenney was not troubled until ten minutes before half time when Dean Rathbone picked up a loose clearance and fired a dipping cross shot that the custodian tipped away for a fruitless corner. Charlie Morris and Ben Usher-Shipway worked tirelessly on the flanks and were fed regularly by Milligan and Cameron Gayle. Morris in particular caused several anxious moments in the home rearguard and full back Jorna Moulton was perhaps lucky to receive just a yellow card when chopping down the winger in full flight. Although the scoreline remained blank at the interval the fans had been well entertained in the autumn sunshine.
In the second period despite the fact that the Mikes were propping up the table prior to the match they played like anything but that, closing down the Colemen tenaciously and creating most of the better chances. On the other hand speedy breaks by the home forwards meant that the Mikes defenders always had to be on the alert to snuff out raids into their territory. They say when the chips are down every decision seems to go against you and that certainly rang true when another marauding run by Morris was halted by a tackle that everybody on the ground deemed a penalty bar referee Matthew Hopton. Joe Lyng smacked a great header against the bar following a corner and Jason Holmes would surely have taken either of two good chances on another day. The second attempt in fact led to an injury seeing him replaced by Nesbitt whose goal record this season inspired hope of snatching the three points. The best chance at the other end fell to Leek who broke clean away and after all the Mikes efforts a goal seemed certain to break their hearts but Fenney made a stunning tackle on the edge of the box to deny the forward. Substitute Matthew Gardner, another ex-Mike steered a further chance wide at full stretch and it looked as though Boldmere would secure a valuable point that would have been just.
As the game inched closer to the final whistle Coleshill did exert a little more pressure on the visiting rearguard but hardly deserved the winner in the 93rd minute. A free kick midway in the Mikes half snaked through a crowd of attackers and defenders to Halsall who swept the ball home from ten yards. In a late effort to rescue a point Lyng joined the attack but his frustration led to a booking and he joined Fenney who been similarly penalised for time wasting minutes before the deciding goal. Despite this further defeat all of the players can look back on a performance that suggested better things are just round the corner. Hopefully the tide will start to turn when the Mikes face AFC Wulfrunians on Saturday.
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Iraq Intelligence
Data didn't back Bush claims on Iraqi weapons, officials say
WASHINGTON — President Bush and his top aides made prewar claims about Iraq's weapons programs that weren't always backed up by available U.S. intelligence and painted a threatening picture that was far starker than what American spies knew, according to current and former intelligence officials and a review of available documents.
Bush and other White House officials also publicly cited evidence—particularly on Iraq's suspected nuclear-weapons program and ties with terrorists—that on closer examination turned out to be false or debatable.
Senior defense officials confirmed Friday that a report by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency last September expressed significant doubts about whether Saddam Hussein was producing and stockpiling chemical and biological weapons, as Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell all claimed.
"There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or whether Iraq has—or will—establish its chemical warfare agent-production facilities," said portions of the report made available to Knight Ridder.
While Iraq had biological stockpiles, "the size of those stockpiles is uncertain and is subject to debate," said the classified report, titled "Iraq: Key Weapons Facilities—An Operational Support Study."
The DIA report and other developments illuminate a growing debate over the White House's use of intelligence on Iraq. So far that debate has revolved largely around allegations of pressure on professional analysts to shade intelligence estimates.
The new developments raise the possibility instead that some U.S. officials, deliberately or inadvertently, magnified what they were told by spy agencies, which had an incomplete picture of Iraq and few sources of their own to fill in the blanks.
The DIA report was completed just as the White House was launching a campaign last fall to make the case that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and terrorist ties presented a grave danger that justified pre-emptive military action.
Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, the DIA's director, said after a private meeting with senators Friday that the report didn't mean that Iraq didn't have caches of chemical and biological weapons, only that his agency couldn't definitively pinpoint them.
"Some people higher up the food chain made the leap from suspicion to conviction," said a senior military official who is critical of how the intelligence was handled.
"I think they honestly believed that, based on how the Iraqis had always behaved in the past and not just because they wanted to scare the public into supporting the war," said the official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of the classified information involved.
In a speech Oct. 7 in Cincinnati, Bush said the Iraqi regime "possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons." Powell told a television interviewer Sept. 8: "There is no doubt that (Saddam) has chemical weapons stocks."
The DIA report, whose existence was first reported by U.S. News & World Report magazine, illustrates how intelligence reports were much more equivocal. That reflected the shortfalls in U.S. spying capabilities in Iraq and the uncertain nature of the intelligence profession, officials have said.
"It's looking like in truth the Iraqi (weapons) program was gray. The Bush administration was trying to say it was black," said former CIA Iraq expert Kenneth Pollack, who's now at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a research center.
Pollack, who advocated a war to overthrow Saddam, said he believes more evidence of Iraqi weapons activity will be found.
But on Iraq's suspected nuclear-weapons development, which for him and other analysts was the most alarming program, "we've clearly uncovered nothing" so far, he said.
The U.S. military has captured two Iraqi mobile laboratories apparently designed for biological arms, although no traces of germ weapons were found.
The failure by search teams nearly two months after the war's end to find chemical, biological or nuclear caches in Iraq has led to growing questions about the war, on Capitol Hill and in allied capitals.
It also has re-ignited vitriolic behind-the-scenes battles in Washington that have put administration hawks who advocated war on the defensive.
"The knives are out," said more than one official.
Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's No. 3 official, called a news conference Wednesday to deny reports that a special unit in his office had exerted pressure on the intelligence agencies to dramatize the evidence against Iraq.
The CIA is standing by its formal estimates of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, said a senior U.S. intelligence official. Those include an October 2002 report, which stated in part: "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of (United Nations) restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade."
"I think it's appropriately caveated," said the senior official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
The report parallels a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which represents the combined views of all U.S. intelligence agencies. The NIE now is being rechecked as part of an internal CIA review.
American intelligence officials expressed cautious optimism this week that they are getting closer to new information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, after wasting a couple of months chasing bad leads drawn from Iraqi exiles and U.N. weapons inspections that ended in 1998.
Iraqi scientists and officials are beginning to talk after either refusing or repeating ritual denials that Iraq had any such weapons, they said. "We're starting to get better information now from people who initially didn't cooperate," one official said.
Still, along with the missing chemical and biological weapons stocks, several key statements by Bush and his aides have yet to pan out or have been proved false:
_In the president's State of the Union address Jan. 28, he cited a British intelligence report that Iraq sought to import "significant quantities" of uranium from Africa.
Intelligence officials said his statement was based on documents forged by a diplomat in Rome from the African nation of Niger, who made them using a fax machine. The diplomat sold the forgeries to Italian intelligence officials, who dutifully passed them on to the United States and Britain, officials said.
_Bush, Powell and others spoke of Iraq's attempt to import aluminum tubes, which they said could be used in centrifuges to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
Powell, in a presentation Feb. 5 to the U.N. Security Council, acknowledged there was a debate over the tubes' intended use, but said the majority of U.S. analysts believed they were meant for a nuclear weapons program.
Mohamed El Baradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the Security Council a month later that extensive investigation "failed to uncover any evidence that Iraq intended to use these 81-millimeter tubes for any project other than the reverse engineering of rockets."
_Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and, to a lesser degree, Powell charged that Iraq was harboring terrorists, including a major cell linked to al-Qaida. Officials say they stand behind these statements, although no new evidence of terrorist links has emerged publicly since the war's end.
"What happened here is that people who meant well and who had a really aggressive foreign-policy agenda allowed their enthusiasm to overcome them," said Walter P. "Pat" Lang, formerly the DIA's top Middle East analyst.
"In some cases, they managed to push the intel guys back," Lang said, referring to pressure on analysts. "In other cases, where they couldn't do that, they simply ignored them."
(Knight Ridder Newspapers correspondent Jonathan S. Landay contributed to this report.)
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In the ongoing Dwight Howard-Stan Van Gundy bitchfest, there is only one true solution: just get rid of everyone. Trade Howard. Fire Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith. Then sell the team. Until then Orlando will have a superstar who does not want to be there being coached by a coach who does not want to be there, employed by a general manager who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about—all enabled by an owner who has long since ceded any power he may have had to control this circus.
GM Otis Smith, in refuting his coach's claim that Dwight Howard asked management to fire Van Gundy, unwittingly provided an apt description of the whole nonsensical mess:
"He never asked me; I didn't have that knowledge," Smith said.
Van Gundy said Thursday he knew Howard, the Magic's franchise player, had asked that he be fired. Smith said both parties were to blame for the public dispute.
"If he did ask he's wrong, and for Stan to address it in public, that is wrong," Smith said.
It is impossible to understand what any of that means. You're better off throwing up your hands and just waiting for it to finally end. Howard didn't do it. Otis Smith didn't have that knowledge. If Howard did do what Otis Smith just got finished saying he did not do, it's wrong. Stan should not have addressed it in public. Like Otis just did.
To recap, either Howard is a liar, Van Gundy is a liar, Otis Smith is a liar or someone high up in the front office other than the general manager is a liar. Whatever the case may be, get rid of everyone involved and get this mess off my television.
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Hello... I have never posted on this board but have read alot of posts thru the months.. I have two cavaliers brothers that are about 11 months old. One has shown signs of patella at about 6 months.. its been getting worse and worse thru the months and he never wanted to play.. so I decided to have surgery with a Dr who came highly recommended but he was not an ortho.. He had surgery on both knees
Anyway, Barney had surgery three weeks ago and it has been so hard on me.. Barney has been a trooper. The vet said at his two week check up he was doing well but I fear he is not. He only takes a few steps and then sits down. He walks very funny
I am wondering if anyone else has gone through this recently.. Are my expectations to high that he should be better by now? My vet also said to cut his tramadol in half but I am afraid to do this because I dont know how much pain he is in..
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We've teamed up with Radiohead and actor Jude Law to make a fantastic video to Save the Arctic.Take a minute to watch it yourself and then spread the message by sharing it with your friends and family.Oil companies are using melting sea ice to drill for more of the oil that is causing global warming in the first place. Shell's Arctic fleet will be arriving any day now to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska this summer. Commenting on the film, Jude Law said:"As the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are being forced to go far beyond their normal habitat to find food and look after their young. This film is a powerful expression of how our fates are intertwined, because climate change is affecting all of us no matter where we live.""Right now a handful of oil companies are trying to carve up the Arctic for the sake of their next quarterly results but a global movement is growing to stop them. I stand with hundreds of thousands of others who think the area should be made into a sanctuary, protected from corporate greed for good."Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke said: "We have to stop the oil giants pushing into the Arctic. An oil spill in the Arctic would devastate this region of breathtaking beauty, while burning that oil will only add to the biggest problem we all face, climate change. That's why I'm backing this campaign."If you haven't yet, please join our campaign too. We have to act now if we hope to save the Arctic and the polar bears that call it home.
Juliette is a Digital Mobilisation Specialist at Greenpeace International. She likes chocolate, narwhals, and is slightly obsessed with the Arctic.
Well.. that's not a very uplifting image. Poor thing :-| Very well done though.
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Such beautiful creature so sad how they are diminishing so fast.
3 July, 2012 at 15:03
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It's not about saving the Arctic, it's about saving ourselves.
Now you leave people with a choice. "Where is the Arctic? Wha...
It's not about saving the Arctic, it's about saving ourselves.
Now you leave people with a choice. "Where is the Arctic? What does that have to do with me? You go and save your Arctic. I have better things to do."
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The video clip should be sent to the powerful men of the world, to head of States, to principles, to teachers and to our children. They should watch the clip and feel how the ice cap melts day after day. Continue your great work !!!
We need a lot more. As a teacher and photographer, it is very sad what I see. Today we are confronted of a mass destruction of our beautiful planet. World destroyers of the so called planet should be judged as war criminals. Greenpeace and many scientists know more of what lies ahead of us. It is very gloomy and dark...!!!???..
P.S. I sent www.savethearctic.org to 10 of my friends
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The following rant has nothing to do with Greenpeace, neither have I. It just had to come out as I saw the clip.
People care more for th...
The following rant has nothing to do with Greenpeace, neither have I. It just had to come out as I saw the clip.
People care more for themselves than for polar bears. Therefore it is logical to assume that their self-interest will conflict with their empathy for polar bears. Their empathy for polar bears is addressed beautifully in this clip, but their self-interest is ignored. The twist is that their interests are the same as the polar bear's. They just haven't thought it through and arrived at that conclusion. That's why certain business-suits stay in power and shovel conceptual value into their bank accounts while they promote that the demands of the market should govern the planet. The market demands are in turn governed by the wealthy of yesteryear because these have the corporations and marketing power to dominate media and culture, be it the soda or entertainment manufacturers. The consumers are driven to believe in freedom, but they don't seem to consider that freedom lies in the wealth of the environment necessary to sustain maximal freedom , rather than in the satisfaction they think they will finally achieve at the next purchase.
The masses seem to think that the climate is a necessary sacrifice to maintain financial growth. In reality, our climate IS our financial growth. The reason we're successful as a species is because the earth has been so rich for us to take. Now the balance is shifting. Slowly but steadily, the foundations we stand upon, the environment we adapted to, gets more and more pressured and poor. Our paper/digit economy will reflect that. If we let the real world slide. It will be slow to catch up, just as it today is slow to catch up to the fact that all sensible alarm bells have gone off, but when it catches up, we won't wake up rich.
- Just the stray thoughts of an individual idiot, non-representative of this site or any of its affiliates.
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The homeless polar bear or polar bears had a magnificent home: The Arctic. Yes. It's melting like PEAU DE CHAGRIN. 80 to 90% of the world is uncon...
The homeless polar bear or polar bears had a magnificent home: The Arctic. Yes. It's melting like PEAU DE CHAGRIN. 80 to 90% of the world is unconscious of what is happening to the Earth: Climate change, nature's resources diminishing, bird population vanishing and so forth. In the era of video games, video clips, festivals, having fun, having....no wonder we are indifferent. Many of us say who cares ? This beautiful planet gave us everything we need, we didn't give him back what he deserves. We are starting to pay for it and it will be worse. Since industrialization Man went to far, very far. I wonder what will I leave for my children. Nature is Beauty, the Earth is a gift from Someone to us. What did we do to respect Mother Earth ?
Today, greed, money, irresponsibility makes the world go round. I would like to be positive but what I see around me when I walk in the woods with my children make me shiver.
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The lost bear is your canary in your coal mine. Maybe t's time to get out of the mine, maybe it's time to get out of the coal and oil busines...
The lost bear is your canary in your coal mine. Maybe t's time to get out of the mine, maybe it's time to get out of the coal and oil business, out of the wasteful consumption business. Any chance that happens, until the party is over, until the crash?
A representative fool, commenting in The Telegraph, writes: "Sorry guys, the polar bear scam dropped of the chart years ago. How about concentrating on some real world problems?"
His kids will be as lost as the bear, when London goes under water. It might be smart to act before Bangladesh and Denmark go under water. But maybe the crash will come before that.
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no-one i know who has seen this has remained unmoved
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There is only one Lawgiver...That Lawgiver is the lord!
If you believe in god,The Government doesn't exist.(THEY ARE PRETENDING TO BE GOD!)....
There is only one Lawgiver...That Lawgiver is the lord!
If you believe in god,The Government doesn't exist.(THEY ARE PRETENDING TO BE GOD!)..They are breaking the Laws of God & if You follow their Laws & not the Laws of God You are Sinning! God is watching EVERYONE & he is the ONLY Lawgiver! GOD BLESS GREENPEACE! God Bless Everyone!
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Sadville insecurity invites pickpockets
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This story was updated to correct information about how QuickTime vulnerabilities are exploited in Second Life. An option for viewing media must first be selected.
More than two months after security researchers released exploit code that steals money from Second Life users, residents of the virtual world remain vulnerable to similar hacks, the researchers say.
The exploit, which will be demonstrated for the first time on Saturday at the Shmoocon hacker conference in Washington, allows attackers to take control of user avatars, those custom-made cartoon character that travel through the Second Life universe. Attackers can then force the avatar to exclaim "I've been hacked" as they pilfer virtual currency, which can be transfered into real dollars.
The demo works by exploiting an old vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime media player. While Apple has provided an update patching the hole, Second Life creator Linden Lab has done little to change the architecture that allowed the exploit to work in the first place. That means Second Life residents are at risk anytime there is an un-patched security bug in the Apple software. There were close to three-dozen such bugs last year, according to Secunia.
Prior to the demo, Second Life had been viewed as something of a benign place. It may have offered little more than scantily clad avatars selling lap dances and fuzzy animals congregating in discos, but it was largely viewed as a refuge from the web and email, where drive-by downloads and malicious attachments regularly turn PCs into mincemeat. Not anymore.
"In these virtual worlds, it's a whole new ballgame," says Charlie Miller, who developed the exploit along with Dino Dai Zovi. "How do you give a user information to stop that? It's counter to all the training people know right now about how to be safe."
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QuickTime exploits can be triggered anytime a Second Life resident passes onto a piece of virtual land controlled by an attacker, as long as a user has enabled a feature to view media. From then on, Second Life's client software will automatically activate QuickTime and open malicious links that are secretly embedded into the territory. Because music and video are such an integral part to the virtual experience, such links are a common occurrence.
Shortly after the demo was disclosed in late November, Linden Lab's Joe Miller counseled users to block the exploit by turning off video feeds. And, of course, he also advised them to install the QuickTime patch once it became available. Indeed, more recent versions of the Second Life client require users to have the most recent version of QuickTime in order to accept video feeds.
But so far, no one at the company has done anything to prevent similar un-patched vulnerabilities from exploiting Second Life users in the future.
"Second Life from a security perspective is horribly broken," says Greg Hogland, author of the book Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems. "When you look at Second Life, you know in your bones they simply did not think about security when they developed this application. It's broken from the inside."
Second Life representatives declined to comment for this story.
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For now, the exploit can only steal money that's in a victim's virtual wallet, but Miller, who is perhaps best known for hacking the iPhone a mere three weeks after it was released, says he's in the process of rewriting the code so it automatically debits credit cards filed on Second Life servers. (Credit cards are required of all users who own virtual land.) He also says it would be "trivial" to modify the exploit so it installs a rootkit or other type of backdoor on a vulnerable machine.
The exploit was also developed by Dino Dai Zovi, who turned heads last year when an exploit he spent about nine hours writing was able to fell a fully patched MacBook Pro.
Miller also says QuickTime is only one of the potentially vulnerable engines that the Second Life client depends on to render sound or video. Separate engines called fmod and Vivox, which are used to deliver sound effects and voice chat respectively, could also put users at risk.
To be fair, Second Life isn't much different than other 3-D environments. Bugs in games like Halo and World of Warcraft, for example, have allowed players to cheat. But the Second Life hack is notable given its connection to real economies and the interest companies such as AMD and IBM have shown in using the virtual world as a platform for transacting business.
"It's not obvious if I take over some random person's computer how I make money off that," Miller says. "Here, it's really easy to steal their money and cash it out."
And so far, he adds, Linden Labs seems to have no mechanism in place for detecting such heists.
"They're not doing much because last night I exploited a character 50 times," he says. "It was my own character, but they didn't know that. No power from above came down and said: 'stop that.' They certainly don't know when it happens because I do it all the time." ®
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Those looking for evidence that commercial rock 'n' roll music as we have known it — the kind featuring an electric guitarist — is in a coma need only examine a few recent incidents for proof.
Most prominently, the major nominations for Sunday's 56th Grammy Awards suggest a genre floating further from the cultural center than ever, sapped of new ideas and so eclipsed by the competing sounds of electronic dance music, hip-hop, digital pop and country music as to seem almost inconsequential.
Others have observed a similar crisis.
There's this: In the fall, the lead singer of Grammy-winning band Arcade Fire, probably the most acclaimed rock and roll band to arrive in the last decade, announced at the beginning of its recent song "Normal Person" that he's been questioning his tastes. Wonders Win Butler as a riff starts to stir below: "Do you like rock 'n' roll music? Cuz I don't know if I do."
And this: Last April, platinum-selling punk band Fall Out Boy issued its reunion album, "Save Rock and Roll." Produced with glistening radio-friendly pop sheen, the record debuted at the top of the charts and featured a title track intent on resurrecting a tired music. Singer Patrick Stump complains on "Save Rock …" that it feels "like I'm the last damn kid still kicking that still believes." If that's true, we're in big trouble.
Or this: Reigning arena rock hunk Chris Daughtry in November released his album "Baptized," featuring the song "Long Live Rock & Roll." Sounding like Grandpa talking about Lawrence Welk reruns, his song has the feel of an obit. "I was born the year that disco died," he sings, "And U2 was in high school — thank the Lord that they survived." As he name checks KISS, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, Journey, Van Halen, Van Hagar, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses and others, he may as well be carving their names on tombstones.
Add in the Grammy roster for more bad news: The closest thing to a rock record competing for album of the year is Taylor Swift's "Red." Rock's other torchbearer in the main categories? Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven," which purports to be about sex but lacks any hint of grit or grunt.
What's more, Led Zeppelin — a band that hasn't released a studio album in more than three decades — is in contention for rock album and rock song of the year (for "Kashmir"). In the album category, their "Celebration Day," a recording of a 2007 reunion concert, will compete, among others, against three other acts that rose 40-plus years ago: Neil Young, Black Sabbath and David Bowie. That's akin to Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five or Afrika Bambaataa snagging a hip-hop Grammy nod. (To be fair, the other two nominated rock records, by Queens of the Stone Age and Kings of Leon, are stellar examples of the form.)
Rock's been in dire straits before, only to limp out of the hospital to live another year. But generations of hip-hop, electronic dance music and country dominance have done their damage. More teens can recite the words to Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot" than the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl."
One of rock's most vital services, as a delivery system for rebellion and frustration, can be just as effectively tapped through a combination of old Public Enemy, Nas and Clipse jams and new experimental rap teams such as Death Grips or Odd Future. As a decade earlier mainstream rock fans sought Green Day, Foo Fighters or Fall Out Boy, more kids wanting to scare their parents listen to DJs Zedd and Bassnectar or rappers Tyler, the Creator or Tech N9ne than they do guitar-heavy rock tantrums.
There's a part of me that says good riddance. As someone lucky enough to have first fallen in love with music within the generational sweet spot between the rock-obsessed baby boomers and the rap- and electronic dance music-loving Generation X, I heard Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" in the same breath as the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" and Black Flag's "Damaged."
I quickly discovered that all were effective at getting my parents' furrow-browed attention. A few decades later, I can't imagine any form of guitar-based music arriving that could upend the genre and make it shocking again. Sapped of sex and danger, it can be pleasant, energetic and surprising but not groundbreaking.
Has mainstream culture moved on? None of the five best new artist nominees — James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Ed Sheeran — could be considered a rock artist by the standard definition. Even young New Zealand singer Lorde, mysteriously snubbed in the category, seldom employs a guitarist when she performs and made a more of-the-moment statement by covering Kanye West and Chief Keef's searing "Handle My Liquor" than she would have doing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." And when she covered post-punk band the Replacements' "Swingin' Party," she did so minus any discernible guitar.
That "Royals" has topped Billboard's rock charts and her debut full-length has ruled the album charts further illustrates a genre amid an identity crisis. "Royals" and the rest of Lorde's debut album, "Pure Heroine," minimize the use of the electric guitar in favor of electronics-generated distortion and midrange digital synthetics as envisioned by Nine Inch Nails, Björk and Skrillex. Imagine Dragons' electronic rock hit "Radioactive" offers equal weight to both electric guitar and computer-generated sonic aggression; minus the electronics, it's just another Creed song.
Few new musical sounds are more alien to parents who lived through punk or heavy metal as a squelch of digital noise and a bass wobble. Know how to anger a Black Flag-loving dad? Tell him Kanye West's "Yeezus" has as much punk energy as "Damaged." (It does.)
As polka, hard-core punk and disco fans can attest, no music ever "dies" as long as there's a Brave Combo, Off! or Daft Punk to keep the fire burning. Vital, breathtaking electric guitar music appears daily, and Grammy nominees in the increasingly ridiculous category "alternative music" confirm that niche artists like Tame Impala, Neko Case and Vampire Weekend can deliver surprising, inventive guitar records.
But then we're talking about a world in which the current No. 1 on the Billboard rock charts is "Let Her Go" by Passenger. A flaccid, brain-dead whine-rock song about lost love and regret, it's about as rock 'n' roll as Michael Bublé.
Faced with such evidence, compassion suggests we address the inevitable. If this is what rock's future holds, might we all be better served if someone does the humane thing and pulls the plug?


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Considering the collapse of the 2012 White Sox, the team losing A.J. Pierzynski and Kevin Youkilis to Free Agency, one might not expect the 2013 White Sox to fare any better. But, looking on the bright side, they should have a solid starting staff, with Chris Sale having another year of experience under his belt, and, hopefully, the return of a healthy John Danks. That's a pretty good 1-2 punch. Next is Jake Peavy. Not a bad 1-2-3 punch, if you ask me. Follow those 3 with Gavin Floyd and/or Hector Santiago/Jose Quintana, not too shabby. An "expert" may look on the not so bright side, and see a "whole lotta outs in the lineup".
Between Gordon Beckham, Alexei Ramirez (both struggled in 2012) and the newly anointed starting Catcher, Tyler Flowers, that's a combined average of .237 (which equals a whole lotta outs). While some say Beckham's and Ramirez's defensive prowess make up for their offensive deficiencies, many White Sox fans disagree. But, if Alex Rios and Adam Dunn can carry over their production from 2012 into 2013, the Sox could be in the running for the division title again. The addition of Jeff Keppinger at third base, while not a high-profile move that White Sox fans had grown accustomed to with former GM Kenny Williams, he is solid at the plate and in the field. Let's take a look at the Sox payroll for the 2013 season….
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TMZ.com is reporting that Manny Ramirez has been arrested in Florida. Witnesses told TMZ that Many was removed from his house in handcuffs after an "altercation" with his wife.
Witnesses tell TMZ Ramirez was taken out of his Weston, Florida home at around 7 PM ET in handcuffs. We're told Ramirez' wife was in the house. Two witnesses tell TMZ Ramirez and his wife were involved in an altercation.
Manny retired earlier this season rather than face a 100-game suspension for testing positive for a performance enhancing drug. It was his third positive test. Manny would have been eligible to return from his suspension on July 31.
Manny signed with the Tampa Bay Rays this past off-season, but only appeared in five games before his retirement. He was 1-17 with no home runs and a single RBI. He finished with 555 career home runs, 14th on the all-time list.
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I've suggested more than once before that we're sleepwalking into a police state. How much more anecdotal evidence do you need?
"Wanker" may be little more than naming-calling
jackdaw version wrote:I think the theory is well established that if there is to be "freedom of speech" then all speech must be protected bar the obvious cries of "Fire!" in crowded theatres and outright distortion of fact to smear character with libel.
the narrow-minded, hissy-fit complaints of self-righteous do-gooders.
Yes, and also an understatement. Henceforth, such reaction may be called the Stockwell Defence.Gordon Neill wrote:Of course, from the account we've been given, there was police over-reaction. That looks to be pretty obvious.
How, exactly?Ted wrote:but the moment he starts to organise action against gays its a different story
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