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Advance your enterprise with industry-focused thinking
A smarter planet, while global by definition, happens on the industry level. It is driven by forward-thinking organizations that share a common outlook: They see change as an opportunity, and they act on possibilities, not just react to problems.
Since introducing the smarter planet concept, IBM has collaborated with more than 600 organizations worldwide that each do their part in making this vision a reality.
In a competitive landscape that favors the fastest and the smartest, financial services firms that invest in building sophisticated insight and predictive analytics will be better positioned to emerge as market leaders.
A combination of empowered consumers, new competitors and a sharp increase in demand for mobile and data services has conspired to thrust this crucial sector into a constant state of change.
The following thought leadership presents the IBM point-of-view on the next stage of a smarter planet, industry by industry, including new challenges, new tools and a path to meeting the future head on.
Education will be the critical determinant of success for our communities in the 21st century. Student learning can be enhanced by insight from data that identifies at-risk students, skills gaps and recommended interventions.
With billions of people connected by nearly a trillion devices, there is a wealth of untapped data that electronics companies are just starting to understand. Now is the time for electronics companies to convert data into insights.
Thought leadership for industries
Smarter Cities
Smarter, More Competitive CitiesBanking
Transforming the energy value chainGovernment & Public Safety
Energy and utilities
For most energy and utility companies, success will be achieved through transforming the utility network, improving generation performance, and transforming customer operations.
This is a new landscape for public governance, one that requires much more than simple, temporary fixes. Governments still will be required to provide leadership and services that address the evolving needs of 21st century citizens.
Healthcare organizations will need to develop new competencies to redefine value for their stakeholders. As value becomes understood as a measure of health and well being, organizations that respond will succeed.
Insurers need to manage actuarial, financial, operational and IT risk in a holistic manner—finding synergies between them to help increase business agility and lower costs.
Media & Entertainment
In an industry that already trades heavily in digital information, it's not surprising that data will support the crucial transformation of both the operations and customer value propositions of media companies.
Oil and gas
Depending who you ask, oil and gas companies are expected to increase productivity, at lower cost to consumers, with less market volatility, all while managing the international political dynamics and protecting the environment.
The key to retail success remains the forging of closer ties to the customer. Simply put, the retailers that truly understand their customers are able to offer a compelling and seamless brand experience—and, ultimately, to succeed.
The travel and transportation sector is on the verge of a transformative change. For the first time, we can monitor, measure and manage transportation operations in real time, for more informed decisions to drive better outcomes.
On a smarter planet, we want to change the paradigm from react to anticipate
How to lead and win in the era of "smart"
Watch a replay of the speech by CEO Ginni Rometty (00:58:17)
Read the essay that started our journey to a smarter planet five years ago (622KB)
For five years, IBMers have been working with companies, cities and communities around the world to build a Smarter Planet.
We've seen enormous advances, as leaders are using an explosion of data to transform their enterprises and institutions through analytics, mobile technology, social business and the cloud.
We've also seen how this new era is starting to create winners. They're changing how their decisions are made. They're redesigning how their teams work, reassessing how to serve their customers, and changing the very nature of business.
It's the ability to harness data that gives these leaders their competitive advantage in the era of "smart."
Today, conventions once universally held are giving way to new perspectives, new ways of working, and new solutions across industries. Roles are changing. And more than ever, leaders need a partner to help them adapt.
We don't make decisions on instinct. Now we use data and analytics.
You live in a social world. But do you work in one?
We used to do business at the office. Now the office comes with us.
Your data center used to be on the ground. Now it's in the cloud.


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Does Frequent Video Game Playing Alter the Brain?
Nov. 15, 2011 -- Kids who spend hours a day playing video games may be hardwired to behave that way -- or their brains may have been altered as a result of all the gaming.
The answer is not yet clear, but when researchers compared the brains of 14-year-olds who played video games excessively to those who played less often, they found key differences in an area of the brain associated with reward and addiction.
The brain imaging study revealed that the structure and activity in the part of the brain associated with reward processing was bigger in frequent gamers.
Specifically, an area of the brain known as the ventral striatum -- considered key to motivation and reward -- had more gray matter in kids who played video games nine hours or more a week compared to those who spent less time gaming.
It was not clear if playing video games led to the increase or if kids with larger volumes of ventral striatum were more drawn to video games in the first place.
Researcher Simone Kuhn, PhD, of the University of Ghent in Belgium, says more research is needed to tease this out. But she says that it may be that people with larger ventral striatum volumes might derive more pleasure from playing video games.
Brain Scans for Video Game Players
The study included 154 German 14-year-olds who were asked about their video game habits. The teens underwent brain scans, and the researchers examined differences in their brains.
The study participants were considered frequent gamers if they reported playing more than nine hours a week or infrequent gamers if they spent less time playing video games.
The scans revealed that the frequent gamers had more gray matter volume in the part of the brain known for reward and addiction. And they also showed more evidence of brain activity in this region when they completed a gambling task designed to simulate winning a video game.
The findings suggest that people with more gray matter in this part of the brain might experience video gaming as more rewarding, Kuhn says.
The study is published online in Translational Psychiatry.
In an effort to determine if playing video games actually alters the brain, Kuhn and colleagues plan to study people who have not previously played them. The researchers plan to scan these people's brains before and several months after they are introduced to video gaming.

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No one could stop him
NAUGATUCK -- Ask an old-time city basketball fan to name the best player he or she ever saw, and you hear the usual names: Finn, Johnson, Lott, Hanson. Ask that question to a Valley fan and the answer is different: Rado.
If we emerge from our citycentric view of basketball we might come to one conclusion: Billy Rado Jr. could be the best player ever in the Naugatuck Valley League.
In an era when Naugatuck basketball ruled the earth and the NVL, Rado was the star. The Greyhounds won 24 straight NVL games to win league titles in 1959 and 1960. Rado averaged 29 ppg in the 1959-60 season, the highest total in the NVL to that time.
"I never truly appreciated how good he was," said Billy's son, Keith Rado, who enjoyed his own All-NVL and All-State career at Naugatuck when his head coach was his dad. Billy was also a physical education teacher and athletic director at Naugatuck. "As time passed, and I talked to many people and other players, I began to understand."
After Naugatuck, Billy Rado went to Manhattan College. He averaged 30 ppg as a freshman and smashed the record book. That led to a scholarship offer from the University of Georgia, and an alteration of Bulldog's numbers.
Rado scored 19 ppg as sophomore for Georgia and received the Lamba Chi Alpha award as the school's most outstanding athlete. As a junior he averaged 15 pgg, was named an All-South all-star and honorable mention All-America.
Rado was always at his best the clock was near zero. He beat nationally-ranked Clemson with a 15-foot shot at the buzzer, and he did the same to beat Florida State with a 30-footer. Such were Rado's antics that legendary, and ultra-conservative, North Carolina coach Dean Smith once said of him, "There is not enough mustard for that hot dog."
Rado knew it too.
"One time he took me to Madison Square Garden to see the Philadelphia 76ers,"
Keith said. "After the game he grabbed me and said, 'Keith, come on, come on.'"
The pair dashed down the player's tunnel. "I thought, 'Oh no, what is he going to do now,'" Keith recalls.
Rado sees 76ers' coach Billy Cunningham, who was a Rado rival when Cunningham played at North Carolina.
"My dad starts yelling at him, 'Hey Billy, it's me, Billy Rado from Georgia. You couldn't stop me.'"
Cunningham looked up, remembered, and laughed.
It's true. No one could stop Rado, except, perhaps, Rado himself.
A sports columnist from the Gainesville Daily Times named Phil Jackson, wrote in 1963 that Rado "believes a basketball is made to be shot, and all basketballs belong to him." Jackson also wrote that "entertaining Mr. Rado dribbles behind his back and between his legs. These manuevers seldom have anything to do with the game situation but they thrill the crowd and add a touch of showmanship."
The article was titled: The Connecticut Yo-Yo
Rado is 71 and lives in Boynton Beach, Fla. where, Keith said, he is still an active sportsman. Rado declined to speak with us for this story. That is understandable. Rado's name was seldom out of the newspaper in a stormy and controversial life.
"He always had that cocky attitude that, 'No one on this court is better than me,'" Keith said.
Rado did not return to play his senior year at Georgia. He graduated as a Dean's List student, but the projected NBA career never happened.
"I think he always had that regret," Keith said. "He was not disciplined. He had trouble making the right choices. He'd take off and no one could find him."
In their travels together, in New York, New Haven, Bridgeport, when Billy Rado saw a playground basketball game, he always stopped and joined the game, Keith said.
"There was no one that I ever saw who could stop him," Keith said. "He was an amazing basketball player."
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click wrote on Apr 5, 2014 6:39 AM:
" One word describes Billy Rado, a "legend." "
Joe Ciriello wrote on Apr 6, 2014 10:32 AM:
" Honed our skills together in Dr.Casella's driveway,age 10 or 11. Croft vs Naugy fouled Billy out drawing 5 offensive fouls .WE scored 33pts. in 4th qtr. still lost by 3or 4. Always loved to play against Billy. "
Ellen wrote on Apr 11, 2014 1:36 PM:
" Bill is a very disciplined person. He did not play his senior year at UGA due to injuries and not lack of discipline. Yes, there are many stories but let me assure you he is well, very active. He is kind, compassionate and always more than willing to help anyone. It is sad that Keith judges his father in such a negative manor since he has had no contact (HIS CHOICE) in approx 20 years. He was an infant when his Dad was at UGA so how he can judge that period of his life is impossible. "
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- Some University Core Curriculum Area 7 classes also count as UCCLE in Areas 2 and 3, and some Area 2 and 3 classes also count as UCCLE in Area 7. Double counting University Core Curriculum Area 7 with Area 2 or 3 increases the number of free electives.
- All students must complete the University foreign language requirement before graduation.
EE Major
- Admission to the EE degree program is governed by CoE and ECE restricted majors' guidelines.
- ECE courses require a C- or better in prerequisite courses (including out-of-major prerequisites)
- Only free electives or Area 6 courses offered only on a Pass/Fail basis may be taken Pass/Fail.
- A minimum 2.0 overall and in-major GPA is required for graduation. In determining the EE in-major GPA, all ECE courses, including repeats, are used. CS 1044, if taken before Fall 2004, will also count in the in-major GPA calculation.
- Non-degree courses are those which do not satisfy graduation requirements, including free electives. The list of non-degree courses includes all courses on the "Non-Degree Credit Courses" list, which is updated annually and published on the College of Engineering Undergraduate Academic Affairs website at www.eng.vt.edu.
- A total of 132 credits are required for graduation with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering.
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University Policy 91 outlines university-wide minimum criteria to determine if students are making satisfactory progress towards the completion of their degrees. The ECE Department fully supports the policy. Specific expectations for satisfactory progress for Electrical Engineering majors are as follows:
- Each student must meet the minimum University-wide criteria as described in Policy 91 and summarized in the Undergraduate Course Catalog and Academic Policies catalog.
- Additionally, upon completion of 60 credits, EE students must have satisfactorily completed ECE 2014, ECE 2004, MATH 2214 and 2224, and PHYS 2306.
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When I move my applications to the the sd card using the "Move To SD Card" feature in ICS the widgets for particular application stop working it says "Problem loading widget".Does anyone know a solution to this? or do I just have to keep the application in the internal memory for the widgets to work?,
There are some technical reasons explained on the Android developers website that justify why the widget may have stopped working:
Any of this ones aren't recommended to move to an External Storage due to possible failure:
As you've guessed, your widgets, live wallpaper etc won't work once you move them to SD card. If you're rooted you can use solutions like link2sd and data2sd which creates an extra partition in your SD card to move your app or part of the app.


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A Jackson, Tenn., teen has given up his fight against being returned to Tennessee to face charges in his aunt's homicide.
According to The Jackson Sun, Caleb Mullins appeared before a judge in Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday and waived his right to an extradition hearing.
Mullins, who is 19, is charged in Jackson with second-degree murder, evidence tampering and theft in the stabbing death of his aunt, Karen Mullins. Her body was found after family members contacted Jackson Police on Nov. 11, saying they were concerned because they hadn't heard from their 43-year-old relative.
Louisville police found Caleb Mullins driving his aunt's SUV. Police in Jackson said they found the murder weapon and other evidence in a trash bin at apartments where the aunt and nephew formerly lived.


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It happened in a blink of an eye, Chelsea Anders, 17, was killed in August, when the truck she was riding in crashed into a ditch on Highway 68-80 in Metcalfe county.
Now her mother Barbara and other family members are working to make the road safer.
"My lawyer told me to call everybody I could and try to even get a hold of Jack Conway, to see what we can do about getting it changed," says Barbara.
According to the police report, the truck went off the right side of the road, and Chelsea was ejected out of the open sunroof.
Marylin Perkins, owns a business on the highway, she says drivers need to slow down, "it's just the people drive to fast and don't pay attention to other people on the road. The curves are just too short and too sharp to go fast."
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says there are warning signs in place to let drivers know just how fast they should be going.
Mark Mudd, Engineering District 3 Manager says, "that speed that we recommend comes out of a scientific study and we use a ball bank indicator and traverse the curve and watch the readings on the instrument."
But for Barbara and her family they're hoping for more.
"I would like to see them stop wasting tax payers money on putting out just suggestional signs and put up signs that will actually save some body's life," she says.
The Transportation Cabinet says state law requires highways to be at least 55 mph, with the exceptions of highways and parkways.
"All the speed limits in Kentucky are governed by the Secretary of Transportation," says Mudd, "that person has to sign all of those official orders so that they are legal speed limits so that law enforcement can write tickets"
They say a speed limit can be changed if warranted, but they ask the drivers on all roads to pay attention.
For Chelsea's family, they will continue to fight for a safer road, in memory of her.


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With the 2012 Formula One season done and dusted, we round up the biggest moments from a stellar year
Best driver: Fernando Alonso may not have won the title, but for the Spaniard to have missed out on Championship glory by three points despite having inferior machinery is a massive achievement. Had Alonso not been taken out by other drivers' errors in Belgium and Japan the final reading may have had a very different complexion.
Best team: A third consecutive Constructors' title and increasing dominance as the season progressed leave little doubt that Red Bull were the year's best team. No matter how many times the FIA asked them to tweak features of the RB8, Red Bull recovered to head the field.
Best overtaking manoeuvre: Kimi Raikkonen overtaking Michael Schumacher coming into Eau Rouge at the Belgian Grand Prix. Watch and enjoy.
Worst crash: When it came to big crashes, Romain Grosjean was more often than not in the centre of the action - turn one of the opening lap at Spa was no different. Having squeezed Lewis Hamilton into the first corner, Grosjean triggered a six-car crash that took out, amongst others, title-chaser Fernando Alonso. The moment was defining for Alonso, not only because he saw Grosjean's Lotus fly narrowly past his head but it also put a significant dent in his Championship chances.
Biggest loss: Having spent 26 years as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, Professor Sid Watkins was an institution in the sport. Credited not only with with playing a major role in saving the lives of several drivers including Rubens Barrichello at Imola in 1994 and Mika Hakkinen at Adelaide in 1995, Watkins revolutionised safety in the sport.
The 84-year-old passed away on 12 September after suffering a heart attack. In paying tribute to Watkins, Martin Brundle said: "Sid would often prescribe 'a stiff whisky and aspirin' unless your leg was hanging off. His way of saying 'just put up and get on with it'." In the words of Ron Dennis, Watkins "was a truly great man, and the world of motor racing simply won't be the same without him."
Disappointment of the year: After a promising start to the year with victory in China, Mercedes then proceeded to dish out more of what fans have become accustomed to – disappointing results. With just one top five finish from July through to the end of the year, the season fizzled out with a whimper.
Best race: Having been somewhat of a snoozefest in previous years, few would have imagined the Abu Dhabi GP would be topping the tables in 2012. We were lucky enough to witness a number of top quality races including a dream debut for Austin and some exciting racing in Korea and Brazil. However, Kimi Raikkonen's first win in three years came in an enthralling race that had drama all over the field as Sebastian Vettel fought his way onto the podium after starting the race in the pit-lane. Throw in Lewis Hamilton breaking down while in the lead and the deployment of two safety cars and you get an action-packed race.
Biggest controversy: The legality of the Red Bull RB8 proved to be one of the more controversial topics of this season with the team having several parts either declared illegal or becoming so once rules were clarified.
In the wake of the Monaco GP, Red Bull were forced to alter their car's floor as a hole near the rear was deemed to be illegal. Added to that one race later, in Canada, they had to change their wheel hubs as they were believed to be giving them an "aerodynamic advantage."
Three races later they were back in the docks, this time after FIA Technical Delegate Jo Bauer referred the team to the race stewards over what he felt was an illegal throttle map. The FIA lost that round but later clarified regulations forcing Red Bull to again change their car.
And then there was the ride height adjustment issue, which resulted in more changes for the team after stewards told them to tweak the part that allowed them to adjust it manually.
Not a great year for Newey's tricks!
Quote of the year: "Leave me alone. I know what I'm doing." - Kimi Raikkonen tells his team in no uncertain terms that he's in control on his way to victory in Abu Dhabi.
Feel good moment: It was hard not to be moved at the sight of former F1 driver Alex Zanardi winning two gold medals for handcycling at the Paralympics. Eleven years after losing both his legs in a CART accident at the Lausitzring, the Italian showed true grit and determination to fight his way to the top step of an Olympic podium. People talk about the Paralympics being a triumph of the human spirit and this is certainly a case in point.
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It is known that $\sum\limits_{k=0}^n \left\{ n \atop k\right\} k = \varpi(n+1) - \varpi(n)$. Any ideas for computing $\sum\limits_{k=0}^n \frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\}$ ? ($\left\{ n \atop k\right\}$ denotes the Stirling numbers of the second kind and $\varpi(n)$ the $n$-th Bell number)
We know
$$B_n(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n \left\{ n \atop k\right\} x^k $$
where $B_n(x)$ is the Bell polynomial. Then
$$ \int_0^1 B_n(x) dx = \sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\}$$
is what we are interested in computing. It's also known that
$$B_n(x) = e^{-x} \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \frac{t^n x^t} {t!}$$
so we want the value of
$$ \sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\}= \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \frac{t^n I(t)} {t!}, \hspace{1cm} I(t)= \int_0^1 e^{-x}x^t dx$$
But it can be shown (eg) that $I(t) \sim \frac{1}{e \,t}$, so, asymptotically
$$ \sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\} \sim e^{-1} \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \frac{t^{n-1}}{t!} = B_{n-1}$$
which is the $n-1$-Bell number. Some values, taking the logarithm:
The error in leonbloy's approximation $\sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\} = B_{n-1} + E_n$ is exactly $$E_n = - \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\left\{ n-1 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)}.$$ Moreover, the asymptotic can be improved to $$\sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\} \sim B_{n-1} - B_{n-3},$$ (and probably further, for anyone who wants to continue the process below).
Theorem 4 of my paper "On Solutions to a General Combinatorial Recurrence" (Journal of Integer Sequences, 14 (9): Article 11.9.7, 2011), with $\left| {n \atop k} \right| = \left\{ n \atop k\right\}$ and $f(k,m) = \frac{1}{k+1}$ says that $$\begin{align}\sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\} &= \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\left\{ n-1 \atop k\right\} (k+1) \frac1{k+1} - \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\left\{ n-1 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)} \\ &= B_{n-1} - \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\left\{ n-1 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)}. \end{align} $$
Applying Theorem 4 again, this time with $f(k,m) = \frac{1}{(k+1)(k+2)}$, yields (after some simplification) $$\begin{align} &\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\left\{ n-1 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)} \\ &= \sum_{k=0}^{n-2}\left\{ n-2 \atop k\right\} \frac1{k+1} - \sum_{k=0}^{n-2}\left\{ n-2 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)} - 2 \sum_{k=0}^{n-2}\left\{ n-2 \atop k\right\} \frac1{(k+1)(k+2)(k+3)}. \end{align}$$ The first term on the right-hand side dominates, and with leonbloy's approximation $$\sum_{k=0}^{n-2}\left\{ n-2 \atop k\right\} \frac1{k+1} \sim B_{n-3},$$ we get $$\sum_{k=0}^n\frac1{k+1}\left\{ n \atop k\right\} \sim B_{n-1} - B_{n-3}.$$
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How do you pronounce the Japanese "r"? Is it more like an "l" or something inbetween? Would there be any picture or video explaining it correctly, please link it!
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The sound that's transcribed in Romaji as 'r' is what's refered to in phonetics as an alveolar flap (or alveolar tap). It's a sound made by quickly tapping the tip of your tongue on the alveolar ridge (the same place you use to pronounce sounds like 't' or 'l') and to native American English ears sounds somewhere between an 'r' and an 'l'.
If you are an American English native speaker, you probably already make this sound when speaking your own language. It's what's the double-t is pronounced as in "better", for example.
I pronounce it as a singular Spanish 'r'. If you can pronounce Spanish, this will help you. If not, it probably won't. Although I've often described it as close to a 't' or 'd' sounds (as @oren Ronen mentioned with 'better').
It's in between the English "l" and "r" sounds. Make a "l" sound, but sweep the tip of your tongue back without letting it touch your hard palate.
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5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News
#2. Recycled News
The most clockwork example of news recycling is the "THERE IS WEATHER HAPPENING" stories we just mentioned (in the slow Summer months, the "dangers of the heat" stories will come fast and hard). That is, unless the media has a missing white woman to cover.
You know what we're talking about; in a world where thousands of people go missing every year, the national news will latch onto the disappearance of an attractive, middle-class white woman as if she was the only one that mattered. In 2002, we got non-stop coverage of Elizabeth Smart, then Laci Peterson. Then a few years later the "Runaway Bride" Jennifer Wilbanks, and then Natalee Holloway aka that girl who went missing in Aruba.
About the only thing that can knock a missing white woman from the headlines is MAN-EATING SHARKS. Every few years somebody will get mauled by a shark, and we're in for story after story about shark safety (even though far, far more people are attacked or killed by dogs every year).
Puppies, or "dirt sharks," are relentless in their pursuit of a meal.
The news actually declared the Summer of 2001 the Summer of the Shark after eight-year-old Jessie Arbogast was attacked by a bull shark while wading in shallow water. From then on, every subsequent attack anywhere in the world got immediate headlines. All told, shark attacks during the Summer of the Shark were, uh, down 15 percent from the year before.
Then, once November rolls around we'll be ready for all of those awesome Christmas stories. The conservative outlets will tell you all about the War on Christmas. They'll profile the latest town or shopping mall that has changed its holiday decorations after realizing not everyone practices Christianity, and explain how this will lead to the downfall of civilization.
It's not that surprising that Macy's would contribute to the apocalypse.
Meanwhile, everyone else will have their cameras positioned in department stores starting the day after Thanksgiving to cover the fact that HOLY SHIT IT IS NEAR CHRISTMAS AND PEOPLE ARE BUYING THINGS FOR CHRISTMAS FOR SOME REASON.
#1. Passing Advertisements Off as News
There's so much gray area around advertising that it's practically all gray area. And it almost encompasses all of the media we consume. For instance, as much as we love Conan O'Brien, his show--and all talk shows--are simply outlets for studios to send actors with movies or shows to promote. John Stewart's guests are often there on behalf of their publishers, to sell books. Then you have that show that aired after the Super Bowl, Undercover Boss, that is basically corporate PR disguised as a reality show. That's just the way it is.
Like Arby's delicious food and low, low prices, shameless plugs are unavoidable.
But we have to draw the line at news, don't we? Because, you know, the entire concept is that you're seeing/reading actual facts instead of a corporate sales message? Yet the LA Times ran a front-page "story" that was in fact a paid ad for a TV drama, only dressed up to look like a story.
For shame, LA Times.
Meanwhile, last year three local TV news broadcasts in Las Vegas "covered" the closing of a local car dealership, mentioning what low, low prices the cars were going for. This was back when Chrysler was cutting dealers loose, so it kind of seemed like a real news story when you were watching at home. However, the stories were done as part of an ad buy from the dealership (another local station who turned down the deal reported them to the FCC).
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But at least they used their own reporters. Media watchdog site PR Watch discovered that five different news stations used a "Video News Release" about ethanol production and treated it as their own story. What follows is the most insane conspiracy in a local TV news station since the second half of Anchorman. The different news stations just tossed on their own graphics and pretended that the shill playing the part of the reporter, Kate Brookes, was one of their own.
As it turns out, Brookes was a publicist for Medialink, and the original video was made by Siemens AG, an engineering corporation that supplies materials to more than half the ethanol production plants in the U.S. That pisses us off so much the only thing that will calm us down is THE DELICIOUS TASTE OF DORITOS.
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while there weren't any segues or breakout extended jams to speak of, the playing was focused & the jamming still had many payoff moments. there's no shame in being a fan of this show, but admittedly i've been to better as well....
Saturday, 10/26/1996
Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC
Set 1: Julius, CTBCars Trucks Buses, Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother, Reba, Train Song, Character Zero, It's Ice, ThemeTheme From the Bottom, SampleSample in a Jar
Set 2: DwDDown with Disease > YEMYou Enjoy Myself, Sparkle > Simple -> McGruppMcGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Waste, AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Encore: Fire
· The Star Spangled Banner and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) teases in Run Like an Antelope
Noteworthy Jams: It's Ice, Simple (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 4.41
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Antelope included Star Spangled Banner and Voodoo Child teases, and was dedicated by Trey to Fish's then-14-year old cousin Jason Roberts for winning a guitar competition.
Song Distribution:
5 Billy Breathes
4 Hoist
3 Stash
2 Rift
2 Lawn Boy
2 The White Tape
1 Junta
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This show was part of the "1996 Fall Tour."
while there weren't any segues or breakout extended jams to speak of, the playing was focused & the jamming still had many payoff moments. there's no shame in being a fan of this show, but admittedly i've been to better as well....
The boys have been on fire the whole tour. This is vintage Phish. mainly because I remember at this time each show being a real happening and reeeeAAL anticipation as to what the heck they would play. I really think it has to do with the MSG shows a few days ago. EPIC. Bar-Raising in terms of the spectacle Phish can deliver in an arena
Character Zero gets a turn for he third show in a row. for good reason. They were laying into back then. I still think they could take this a lot farther. This is a tight straight forward set I version
Five minutes into the Theme Trey changes voices and we get a real deep Theme. Fish is awesome as per '96 ( he is my mvl so far of the tour)
they lay into the set closing Sample also!
great DWD->YEM! the DWD was special at the end
Beautiful McGrupp. something happens and the crowd cheers during the middle.
waste has a very bevy psychedelic rid at the end that kills me


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Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group. Let $X$ be a $G$-variety and consider any closed subvariety $Z$ of $X$. Since any $g\in G$ acts as an automorphism, we know that $g.Z$ is again a closed subvariety of $X$. This yields an action of $G$ on the free module of cycles of $X$ which should induce an action of $G$ on the Chow ring of $X$. The invariants of this ring should be precisely the classes that correspond to linear combinations of $G$-orbits.
Has this action been studied before? Any kind of reference would be very welcome. Thanks!
Edit: It looks like my above idea is rather futile, so let me ask more broadly: Are there any techniques or results in intersection theory specifically on $G$-varieties? Could you name some references?


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On and Off the Record
By Michel Miller and Chris Jay 01/17/2013
Julie Christensen
Weeds Like Us
You don't earn a pedigree like Julie Christensen's without a high level of authenticity, and you don't get to play the blues until you've paid your dues (so they say). Though she's not a blues singer by definition, Christensen manages to convey the beauty of suffering with a subtlety that cannot be faked. It's a quality that less-seasoned vocalists could and should learn from. Weeds Like Us opens with the energetic, playful "Restless" — an infectious R&B-flavored number that showcases Christensen's range — then moves into more introspective territory with Dan Montgomery's "Outside." The album's 12 songs vaguely repeat this pattern of trading lighthearted grit with poignant confessional, much in the rhythm of a life well-lived. The bonus track, "Another One," is particularly emotional as it was written by Kenny Edwards, Stone Poney's founder and dear friend of Christensen's, who was to produce Weeds but succumbed to cancer early in the process. These days, Christensen's career fits pretty squarely in the folk-Americana category, where a handful of other '80s L.A. punk rock alumni also comfortably landed. Probably best known for her work with Leonard Cohen, Christensen has earned a reputation for her vocal versatility. She is indeed a force to be reckoned with and this is a record worthy of your full attention — Kleenex sold separately.
— Michel Miller
Available on iTunes and at www.stonecupid.com.
Cole Citrenbaum
Runaway Dream
There's been quite a bit of buzz surrounding this 17-year-old singer-songwriter, much of it focused on his guitar playing. Runaway Dream has all the elements of a perfect little pop album (which isn't as easy to accomplish as it may seem) but there's precious little guitar virtuosity (or originality) on display here and one gets the feeling Citrenbaum is playing it too safe. Whether that's due to adult coaching — the four-song EP is produced by Jeff Trott, who co-wrote a handful of Sheryl Crow's biggest hits — or naiveté, it's hard to believe anything so thoroughly pleasant could come from the gut of a teenage male armed with an electric guitar. Then again, John Mayer tasted pretty saccharine before he outed himself as a real musician. Is it a bad record? Absolutely not. Citrenbaum has a nice voice, plays a lovely guitar and radiates a sensitivity that doesn't go unrewarded in the benign cookie-cutter market that currently dominates the music industry. It's not at all outside the realm of possibility that a song or two will be snatched up by television music managers (Parenthood, perhaps?), but beyond his fresh-scrubbed persona and well-crafted "adult contemporary" music, there has to be a Ryan Adams clawing to get out.
— Michel Miller
Available at colecitrenbaum.bandcamp.com.
Paul Starling
Shipwrecked Commotion
Thousand Oaks' Paul Starling plays what he describes as "nautical pop," but Jimmy Buffett this is not. While his full-length Shipwrecked Commotion does have a boatload of water references (pun very much intended), musically it's got more of a dreamy '80s indie feel. Starling, a multi-instrumentalist, has a pleasant, welcoming voice and the songs are well constructed with obvious influences like Brian Wilson. Named one of the best of 2012 by David Bash (International Pop Overthrow), if there's any downside to the album it's that some tracks become hard to separate from the others. It's when Starling ventures out onto dry land with jangly, sun-drenched pop songs like "Dress Me in Bowties," "Water Levels" and "All of My Heart" that the record really shines. In the end, despite the nautical overkill, you just can't help but like a guy who has a song titled "All the Good Looking Girls Are Dead" and Starling clearly has a bright future as an artist, as long as he doesn't venture too far out to sea.
— Chris JayAvailable at paulstarling.bandcamp.com
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History of Handsworth
The Digital Handsworth Project has made a huge contribution to recording the history of the area.
Go to
In the Domesday Book, Handsworth was listed as a holding of William Fitz-Ansculf, the Lord of Dudley. It was part of Staffordshire until 1911 when it was incorporated into Birmingham.
The name Handsworth is of Saxon origin, from its Saxon owner Hondes and the Anglo-Saxon word weorthing meaning farm or estate. From the 13th century through to the 18th century, it remained a small village until Matthew Boulton (who lived at the nearby Soho House) set up the Soho Manufactory in 1764 on Handsworth Heath. Accommodation was built for the factory workers, the village quickly grew, and in 1851, there were over six thousand people living in the township. Forty years later over thirty-two thousand were counted at the census of 1881, and by 1911, this had more than doubled to 68,610.
The development of Handsworth was rather sporadic. The result is that many of the roads and streets have a mixture of types and periods of buildings.
Handsworth 1950s - 1990s
During the Second World War, West Indians had arrived as part of the colonial war effort, where they worked in Birmingham munitions factories. Post-war, a rebuilding programme required much unskilled labour and Birminghams industrial base expanded, significantly increasing the demand for both skilled and unskilled workers. During this time, there was direct recruitment for workers from the Caribbean.
The West Indian population in Birmingham numbered over 17,000 by the 1961 census count. In addition, during this time, Indians, particularly Sikhs from the Punjab arrived in Birmingham, many of them working in the foundries and on the production lines in motor vehicle manufacturing.
Although these groups contributed to the local economy, they have suffered much racism and in Handsworth the problems and discontentment escalated in September 1985. As in many parts of Britain, the conflict between black people in Birmingham and the police was a long-standing one. Blanket raids on black meeting places and a stop and search policy increased the tension between the police and the black community.
After the Handsworth riots people came together to work on building community relations and to give a positive voice to the black community. One such organisation, Shades of Black, is still going strongly today and works closely with the community.
Throughout its more recent multicultural history, Handsworth has produced some of the finest musical talent: Steel Pulse, Joan Armatrading, and Ruby Turner.
Handsworth Park has hosted numerous events: The Birmingham Tattoo, The Birmingham Festival (both originally called Handsworth - rather than Birmingham) and the Flower Show, and in 1967 The Birmingham Dog Show. The Handsworth Carnival grew out of the Flower Show and Carnival; Caribbean style carnivals began in Handsworth Park, in 1984, with a street procession via Hollyhead Road. In 1994 the carnival was held in Handsworth Park for the last time. The following year it was moved from the park out onto the streets of Handsworth, since which time it has been known as the Birmingham Carnival. In 1999, it was again held in a park, but this time in Perry Barr Park.
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Top 15 Children's Books for Black History Month
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
By Christopher Paul Curtis
Recommended ages: 8 and up
This middle-grade novel is narrated by 9-year-old Kenny — the younger brother in a middle-class African-American family from Michigan. Kenny's older brother, Byron, is a juvenile delinquent who could use some stern discipline from their no-nonsense grandmother, who lives in Alabama. When the family heads south to bring Byron to Grandma's house, unthinkable events happen and shape the family's life forever.


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Have you heard about this push to make it illegal to resell your books and DVDs?
Apparently the Supreme Court is now hearing a case which could make landmark law on whether you are legally able to sell copyrighted items here in the US that you legally purchased and imported from another country.
I just thought this looked like an interesting discussion topic.
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It is interesting, but I doubt it would ever become a law. It would severely hurt Amazon, eBay, and several other multimedia retailers.
As is piracy and the like is high, but can you imagine what it would be like if it was not legal to purchase 100% legit movies?
@hackman2007: Unfortunately I think you're underestimating the amount of power that big business exerts in cases like this. You also have to take into consideration that the majority of the current SCOTUS is very much right leaning conservatives. So sadly, I think this young man is screwed.
This would make it even more insanely expensive for like 90% of college students. This will disproportionately affect the poor rather than people trying to make a quick buck.
I agree with @hackman2007: People think piracy is bad now? Say goodbye to every brick and mortar out there if this re-selling gets prohibited.
Although, it looks like it applies strictly to purchasing books overseas and re-selling them in the US. Hopefully, the justices will use judicial restraint and limit their decision based on importing books and re-selling them on US soil rather than books purchased in the US and re-sold/traded/bartered on US soil.
I suggest reading the first comment
I want to get thrown in prison for having a yard sale. That would be priceless.
"So what did you do?"
"Yard-selling illicit items...yeah, that was me"
@iggz: Good point but the intent of a law and the actual way a law is interpreted and implemented is not always the same.
One of my customers is a doctor and his friend is a State Representative. The doctor and I had a very lengthy conversation on laws intent vs interpretation with specific examples when it came to nursing homes that was based on the doctor and State Representative's conversations.
The base of every example was good intent law. Poor interpreted and there for the implementation was costly and unneeded.


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Ashley Kingdon-Reese, a Dakota Wesleyan University nursing student, has won this year's Governor's Giant Vision Award in the student category with her business plan for Independent Health Solutions.
Reese was named the winner of the $5,000 award on Tuesday night at the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) Conference banquet in Sioux Falls. Reese plans to open doors to Independent Health Solutions in Huron, where she is from, by this summer. They will offer home health care services, independent from any particular hospital.
"I believe this will be the first agency in South Dakota that will be independent (from a hospital), offering care equally, without competition between difference agencies," Reese said in an earlier interview.
Home health care begins with a doctor's assessment that a patient could better recover at home, under the supervision of a home care nurse. This can be for a variety of reasons, Reese said, for instance, if the patient's needs do not require 24-hour attention of a hospital staff and could be treated at home. Another reason could be to prevent exposure to hospital germs or possible infection for patients with compromised immune systems.
"Prior to this, all house health care came from a hospital," she said. "Independent Health Solutions would be a hub, a place where nurses will be and the public is welcome. The front area will have a conference room for family meetings to take place with or without the patient."
Independent Health Solutions would offer temporary nurse staffing and also provide catered education for anyone in the field.
Other winners include:
Second ($4,000): College Golf Bound, Kyle Cooper, South Dakota State University
Third ($3,000): Dr. Dak's Protein Pack, Jeremiah Fawcett, Northern State University
Fourth ($2,000): Nanotechnology R&D Company of the Black Hills, Greg Christensen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
"The Governor's Giant Vision Business Awards and Governor's Giant Vision Student Awards were established to help citizens realize that South Dakota is the very best place to start a successful business," states a press release by the organization.
The program was designed as an opportunity for entrepreneurs to compete for seed money and a chance to achieve their dream.
The Governor's Giant Vision Business Competition is a program of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry and is an annual event held in April.


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Background: Immigration is a critical issue for farmworkers. The majority of farmworkers are undocumented, with estimates ranging from 53% to 75% of the workforce. Without legal status, most farmworkers are too fearful of deportation to challenge unfair treatment. Intensified immigration enforcement efforts have driven undocumented workers further underground, leaving them even more vulnerable to exploitation.
In February, the Bush Administration proposed changes to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program that would cut wages and weaken the program's modest labor protections and minimum housing standards. The H-2A program allows agricultural employers to hire temporary foreign workers if no U.S. workers are available and the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers will not be adversely affected. Under the proposal, farmworker wages would be lowered as DOL proposes to adopt a flawed wage formula. Many H-2A employers would be permitted to provide a housing "voucher" instead of actual housing—a voucher is essentially worthless as there is frequently no housing available for farmworkers. The changes also would allow employers to hire foreign workers without having to recruit U.S. workers effectively and would even permit employers to offer some U.S. workers lower wages and fewer benefits than the guestworkers with whom they work side-by-side.
These changes do not address the reality that the majority of farmworkers already in the United States are undocumented. Instead, the proposed changes would make it easier for employers to import exploitable guestworkers and would subject both U.S. workers and foreign workers to poor wages and working conditions. The Department of Labor will allow 45 days for the public to comment on the proposal before finalizing it. The proposed changes should not be implemented.
Solution: The solution to our agricultural labor needs is AgJOBS –the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act, S. 340/HR 371. AgJOBS is a labor-management, bipartisan compromise that would provide America with a stable farm labor force and help ensure that farmworkers are treated fairly.
AgJOBS has two parts: First, AgJOBS would offer many currently undocumented farmworkers the chance to earn temporary legal status by meeting a past-work requirement in US agriculture, undergoing security checks, and paying fees and fines. Participants then could earn permanent immigration status by meeting a future-work requirement of 3 to 5 additional years in U.S. agriculture, complying with immigration requirements, and paying fees and a fine. Second, to regulate migration in the future, AgJOBS would revise the H-2A agricultural guestworker program in a balanced manner.
AgJOBS offers an effective and humane solution. We depend on the farm labor force for the food on our table. America's farmworkers, farmers, and consumers need AgJOBS. Please support AgJOBS.
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Translation in E. coli is initiated at the start ATG codon, which encodes for the amino acid Methionine (Met). In some cases, the start codon can be GTG, which within the open reading frame (ORF) would encode for Valine (Val). If it is in the start of the ORF, does a tRNA loaded with Met get selected? The frequency this codon is used as a start codon is 15%. How would this affect the efficiency of initiation of translation?
The NCBI translation table translates all alternative start sites as methionines. To my understanding, all translation is initiated by the fMet-tRNA. I don't know if there are any exceptions to this rule.
Regarding translation efficiency, I only found a 1985 paper in PNAS (Reddy et al, PNAS 82:5656-60), in which they compared the translation efficiency of adenilate cyclase's own UUG start vs GUG or AUG, obtaining a translation ratio 1:2:6 UUG:GUG:AUG, suggesting that AUG is the most efficient one, followed by GUG. Also, Romero and Garcia, FEMS microbiology letters 84:325-330 (1991) compared the efficiency of AUG vs AUC, AUA and AUU, showing a much lower efficiency for those codons, but they did not compare it to GUG.


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NEW MATAMORAS - Frontier never stopped battling, but ultimately, Steubenville Central Catholic was able to run away with a 48-19 victory over the Cougars Friday night behind the right arm of quarterback Brenton Colabella.
Colabella completed 15-of-23 pass attempts for 207 yards and three touchdowns. The Cougars did manage to pick Colabella off twice and recover two Crusader fumbles, but it just wasn't quite enough.
Central Catholic accumulated 347 total yards of offense compared to 217 for Frontier.
Ryan Fletcher paced the Crusader ground game with 93 yards on 10 carries. Khalil Jones rushed the ball seven times for 45 yards while Stone Romano took three hand-offs in the game, all for scores.
Colabella connected with seven different receivers in the contest. Jones led the way, catching three passes for 52 yards. Fletcher caught two touchdowns passes for 43 total yards while Johnny DiCarlantonio hauled in a 45 yard throw for a TD.
The Cougars were led by Rodney Barnes, offensively. Barnes ran the ball 15 times for 91 yards and a touchdown while Jared Howell and Dakota Welker ran for 16 yards and 18 yards, respectively, each scoring once.
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Catholic Central 48, Frontier 19
Central Catholic 21 7 20 0 - 48
Frontier 0 13 0 6 - 19
CC: Fletcher 7 pass from Colabella (McNamara kick)
CC: Fletcher 36 pass from Colabella (McNamara kick)
CC: Romano 1 run (McNamara kick)
F: Howell 5 run (Buegel kick)
F: Welker 1 run (kick blocked)
CC: DiCarlantonio 45 pass from Colabella (McNamara kick)
CC: Romano 11 run (McNamara kick)
CC: Jones 5 run (McNamara kick)
CC: Romano 3 run (kick failed)
F: Barnes 40 run( kick failed)
RUSHING: Central 25-140-4 (Fletcher 10-93, Jones 7-45-1, Romano 3-15-3, Colabella 5-(-13)); Frontier 42-152-3 (Howell 10-16-1, Barnes 15-91-1, Welker 6-18-1, Reynolds 1-7, Heddleson 8-25, Lamp 2-(-5)).
PASSING: Central 15-23-207-3TD-2x (All by Colabella); Frontier 8-17-65-0TD-3x (All by Reynolds).
RECEIVING: Central (Jones 3-52, DiCarlantonio 1-45-1, Fletcehr 2-43-2, Porreca 3-29, Fallon 2-18, Romano 2-10, Potenzini 2-10). Frontier (Welker 6-50, Barnes 2-15).
FIRST DOWNS: Central 16; Frontier 12.
PENALTIES-YARDS: Central 4-35; Frontier 3-30.
FUMBLES-LOST: Central 3-2; Frontier 2-0.
Frontier quarterback Mitch Reynolds completed 8-of-17 passes for 65 yards. Reynolds was picked off three times in the game, twice by Fletcher. Welker had a game-high six catches for 50 yards.
Colabella completed eight of his first 11 throws for Central Catholic en route to building a 21-0 lead in the first quarter.
On its opening drive, an 18-yard pass to Jones and a 12-yard pass to Aleks Porreca from Colabella set up a 7-yard touchdown strike to Fletcher to begin the scoring.
Frontier went 3-and-out on its next drive, and after Jones returned the Cougars' punt to the Frontier 36-yard line, Colabella immediately hit Fletcher again for a score. John Paul McNamara put the PAT through the uprights to make it a 14-0 Central Catholic lead.
On Frontier's ensuing drive, a Reynolds pass was intercepted by DiCarlantonio and returned to the Frontier 8, setting up Romano's first touchdown of the evening from a yard out. McNamara's kick made it 21-0.
Frontier began to battle back, though.
Central Catholic's fourth drive of the game was the first that did not results in points, as a Colabella pass was picked off by Barnes and returned to the Crusader 18-yard line.
Reynolds hits Welker on a 13-yard pass before Howell ran it the rest of the way for a Cougar touchdown. Garrett Buegel added the PAT to make it 21-7.
The momentum continued to swing Frontier's way on the ensuing kick-off, as Fletcher fumbled on the return. The ball was recovered by Frontier's Josh Saunders at Central Catholic's 41-yard line.
The Cougars pounded the ball with Barnes all the way down inside the 1. On 4th-and-goal, Welker punched it in for the score. The kick was blocked to make it 21-13.
A turning point in the game came on Central Catholic's next possession. On 2nd-and-9 at the Frontier 45, Colabella threw a pass deep down the right sideline for DiCarlantonio. A Frontier defender appeared to have it measured, but mistimed his leap and the ball into the receiver's hands for the score. The PAT made it 28-13 at halftime, and drastically changed the momentum that had been going Frontier's way.
To open the second half, Frontier recovered another Central Catholic fumble on the kick return, but immediately gave it back on an interception.
From there, it was all Crusaders. Romano ran for two scores and Jones for one in the third period to make it 48-13 going into the fourth quarter.
Barnes ran for a 40-yard touchdown up the left sideline in the final quarter to fill out the scoring.
Frontier fell to 1-1 with the loss while Central Catholic remained undefeated with the win at 2-0.
Central travels to Columbiana next Friday.


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Don't discuss sensitive matters where they can be overheard.
Be suspicious of quick friendships.
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Don't become involved in black market currency exchanges.
Don't bring illegal drugs into or out of the country.
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Be careful of the buildings and other sites you choose to photograph, as some countries have strict regulations against taking pictures of military and/or security installations.
Don't engage in personal contact with political or intellectual dissidents or other people considered to be "undesirable" by the host government.
Don't overindulge in alcohol.
Be suspicious if you are singled out for attention not given to other members of your group; if you are assigned a hotel room on a different floor than the rest of your group; if your luggage is temporarily lost; or if your luggage was the only luggage lost out of all the members of your group.
Ensure that you have all official documents: passport, immunization records, international driver's license, etc.
Don't take any photographs of your family with you. They could be used by terrorists or criminals to coerce you into unwanted actions.
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Make copies of your airline ticket, passport identification page, driver's license, credit cards, Visa, and passport-sized photograph to take with you. Keep these copies separate from the originals, as this will expedite the replacement process if they are lost or stolen.
Prior to traveling, obtain the phone numbers of the U.S. Consulate/Embassy/Legat of the foreign country you plan to visit.
Keep a low profile, shun publicity, avoid civil disturbances, and obey all local laws.
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Upon release, immediately report to the U.S. Consulate/Embassy.
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Being for opposite-sex marriages doesn't involve being against anyone... but being against same-sex marriages does involve being against someone.
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Instead of experiencing sadness, you should be happy. A whole bunch of people made a commitment to marriage in the last week and a half. And individual rights and freedoms have been strengthened. This is a great time for Utah.
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What are people supposed to believe when the main argument against gay marriage is that allowing gay marriage would hurt traditional marriages? The two aren't correlated, and people intelligent enough to see this are consequently led to believe there is some other hidden agenda.
Gay marriage is only for people who are wired differently. The institution of traditional marriage doesn't suit them. The reality of nature is that some people are homosexual. I wish it weren't so, but this is the reality.
All this said, children ought to have a mother and a father. Gay marriage if it ever becomes allowed permanently ought not mean that children who otherwise could have had a mother and a father become stuck with two mothers or two fathers instead.
Civil unions with all the rights of marriage other than the right to adopt children who otherwise would have a chance to have a mother and a father would seem to be in order.
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This reminds me of when women didn't want to be called "Miss" or
some feminists didn't want to be called "Mrs" so suddenly every
woman, regardless of age or marital status, was "Ms." Just because a
woman is married and prefers to be called "Mrs" is no reason for those
who aren't to feel uncomfortable being called "Miss." They think
being called Miss will openly attract men in whom they have zero interest.
News: If a man finds you attractive and he is the sort to pursue possibilities,
it won't matter if either you or he are married or what you are called; he
will behave that way towards you.
For those with same-sex attraction, that want to live together in a committed relationship, go for it. I hope you are happy and feel fulfilled. You deserve every legal protection and advantage the law allows anyone else. But you are not "husband and husband" or "wife and wife" and certainly not "husband and wife." Perhaps you could use another term for sharing your life together other than "married." That is more of your hang-up than your previous legal status.
- 1:30 a.m. Jan. 5, 2014
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The "Biblical tradition" of marriage includes multiple wives and
We don't force single parents to marry, we don't prohibit parents the right to divorce, we don't set income or educational restrictions in the ability to have and raise children - nor do we have laws controlling against many of the other things we know are more riskful situations for raising children. Why worry about this one that _might_ be a problem while ignoring those we have firm evidence _are_ problems?
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How can someone who thinks marriage should not exist at all be considered an
"advocate" of marriage and why only focus on homosexuals who think
marriage should not exist when there are many heterosexuals who feel the same
Public accommodation laws are very clear - if you serve the public, you must serve the entirety of the public. Business owners should not be allowed to use religion as an excuse to discriminate. Otherwise - as history has shown us, not as some fabricated slippery slope scar tactic - it progresses from not providing a cake to not providing food at all, from not providing a bed to not providing housing at all, from not providing elective medical care to providing no medical care. There are already those in Utah who freely admit they should not have to work with or hire gay people nor allow them to live in certain neighborhoods or apartment complexes.
There is something special about marriage - which is why so many gay couples want it.
And nothing in this editorial addresses why it should be denied them when it is not denied to others based on the exact same reasoning presented.
- 4:11 a.m. Jan. 5, 2014
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When you spend $2 million dollars against it, fine.
When the governor forces me to spend $2 million of my tax dollars against my own interests…
yes, you are 'against me'.
When you force me to pay higher taxes, and get less benefits, because of who I love.
*'Gay Americans pay more taxes for fewer rights' - By Suze Orman – CNN – 02/25/13
'We all have 83-year-old Edith Windsor to thank for in pushing the issue of same-sex marriage equality on to the national front. Edie and her partner Thea were together for 40 years. How many marriages do you know that have lasted that long? But when Thea died in 2009, Edie was hit with a $363,000 federal estate tax bill because as a same-sex couple they were not eligible for the unlimited marital deduction.
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This same 'ho hum I'm not TARGETING' anyone claim has been
disproven over and over again…
*'Kept From a Dying Partners Bedside' - By TARA PARKER-POPE - NY Times - 05/18/09
'...the couples had prepared for a medical emergency, creating living wills, advanced directives and power-of-attorney documents.'
And yet, even with Living Will, Medical Directive, Power of attorney and emergency contact information...
Janice Langbehn was kept from the bedside of her dying partner, Lisa Pond.
They were together for 18 years.
Working against marriage equality has factual victims. LGBT Americans who want nothing more than to live their lives.
Do not fool yourself otherwise.
- 6:32 a.m. Jan. 5, 2014
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"Contrary to popular portrayals, supporters of traditional marriage are not
the angry, hate-filled bigots they have been stereotyped to be."
And yet the Deseret News prominently publishes the story of the gathering in Highland ("Former Arizona sheriff blasts ruling that allows gay marriage in Utah") that makes it clear just how angry, hated-filled and bigoted a sizable element of the anti-marriage equality movement really is.
What is also perfectly clear is that opposition to respecting the equal rights of homosexual citizens derives exclusively from the hostility of religious fundamentalists towards homosexuals.
We do not live in a theocracy. Our nation is a constitutionally constrained republic in which the rights of a minority are not subject to majority vote. And because of that fact, Utah's Amendment 3 has rightly been found, through extensive legal review and due process, to be invalid.
The rights, marriages and children of heterosexual couples are not in the smallest way harmed by marriage equality, while denying same-sex couples the right to marriage does real harm. Those are the established facts.
Your personal religious convictions do not trump the 14th Amendment, no matter how much sugar-coating you apply to your arguments.
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"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those
who speak it."
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~George Orwell~
Let the "tolerant people" begin bashing the truth of this article (and then proceed to claim that they are victims because they are seen as being the real voices of hate)
- 6:59 a.m. Jan. 5, 2014
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Very, very well said!
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Once again, financial issues are conveniently ignored. Of course supporters of
"traditional" marriage favor paying less tax because same-sex couples
must pay more -- half a million dollars more, in the Windsor case. Of course
they are in favor of collecting more Social Security benefits because LGBT
survivors, including children, collect nothing. Of course they favor increased
veterans benefits for some, because spouses killed in action serving their
country are denied anything for their life partners -- at least if they did not
formalize the relationship in a state that recognizes unfairness.
Those states, however, are where 38% of Americans reside. Same-sex marriage is not just a financial issue, but those who are unwilling to address financial inequality should no longer be permitted to ignore it. Opposition to same-sex marriage may not mean being against anyone, but it does mean taking money out of their pockets.
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Wonderful article that's honest and represents the majority of traditional marriage supporters in this state.
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I am for traditional marriage too, but I am also for gay marriage. Why can't I have my family just as you have yours? I am not trying to stop anyone from having a traditional marriage. So why are you trying to stop me from marrying the one I love? Gay marriage doesn't subtract anything from traditional marriage, it only adds more happy stable families.
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I'm sorry...but you are wrong. You can "believe what you want to believe", certainly. But you can also do so without trampling on the rights of others. Not believing in marriage equality doesn't make a person a bigot, however, actively opposing it does. Bigotry is believing that you have a right to something while denying it to others. No one is saying that you have to embrace marriage equality. You as an American have the right to personally accept it or not, but what you don't have a right to do is to deny your fellow Americans their right to marry the person that they love.
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This pretty much sums up how I feel about the issue. Great article.
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Nice try, but bigotry is still bigotry. Put a nice face on it and you're
still denying other consenting adults rights that you get to take for granted
and for no substantive reason.
"Traditional marriage" isn't a finite thing. Extending it to gay couples doesn't mean that there's less of it for you.
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Get over it. Gay marriage is happening in our country. You have lost, the other side has won. Our civilization is not going to crumble now because of this. Find a way to move past this issue and go make the world a better place.
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Absolutely NOTHING has happening to "traditional marriage" as it applies
to people who are Straight (i.e. heterosexual). Nothing is being redefined.
Straight couples will continue to date, get engaged, marry, and build lives and
families together as they always have. None of that is going to change when Gay
couples tie the knot also.
Did Michael and Jenet Erickson think that the marriage equality movement was some sinister plot to make homosexuality compulsory for everyone? Gosh, I hope not. It doesn't work that way. The human population has always been and always will be predominantly heterosexual. Procreation is not at risk here.
And for Heaven's sake, who DOESN'T support "traditional marriage?" If any of my single Straight friends finds a compatible person of the opposite sex to get "traditionally married" to, NO ONE will be happier than me. The fact that I support equal treatment under the law for law-abiding, taxpaying Gay couples doesn't mean I'm against "traditional marriage" for Straight couples.
When it comes to tradition and stability, isn't it better to encourage Gay couples toward monogamy and commitment?
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"...we believe what we believe. And our conviction is strong."
That doesn't give you the right to deny the benefits you enjoy to LGBT citizens. We are not a theocracy.
"... the overwhelming reaction to the news about Amendment 3 was one of sadness, ..."
Why be sad over someone else's joy? How does letting LGBT couples marry change the ties of children to their bio parents?
"...religious believers must violate their conscience or have civil claims brought against them. "
You should be glad about this. It means YOU can't be discriminated against too.
We're not "changing" marriage. Marriage will continue but now more people will participate.
This whole article makes ME sad.
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How Family Alliances Affect Your Daughter
Building Blocks
A family alliance is a connection or union of individual family members that demonstrate an affinity for one another and are joined by a mutual interest.
Family alliances are formed between family members who affect the structure and functioning of the entire unit. The combinations are plentiful. Here we will deal with the most common alliances that influence a daughter's position in the family and the overall relationship with her mother and other family members. The order in which these are presented is random and does not suggest a hierarchy of importance.
Alliance #1: Dad + Daughter
Daughters who align themselves with Dad may get a good go-between for themselves and Mom, but the conspiratorial closeness they exhibit with Dad may make Mom resentful and jealous.
Alliance #2: Mom + Daughter
The alliance between mother and daughter is a natural one despite their conflicts, particularly during adolescence. Sharing the same gender and identifying with one's mom is a strong reason to become allies. On the other side of the coin, situations when Moms align themselves with their daughters can get sticky for several reasons:
- An alliance can pit one sibling against another when there is more than one child, particularly another daughter.
- Usually Mom aligns herself with the child she can manipulate the most.
- Sometimes the mother-daughter alliance is formed in order to present a united, confrontational, and protective front where Dad is concerned.
- In some cases, a mother forms too close of an alliance with a daughter, and turning her into a friend at too early of a age and confiding in her inappropriately.
Alliance #3: Sibling + Sibling
The coalition formed by cooperative siblings is called "sibling axis." This type of alliance inside the family gives siblings leverage with the older generation, namely Mom and Dad. It's the old story of strength in numbers.
Alliance #4: Mother + Son
A mother may form an alliance with a son for some of the same reasons she created one with her daughter. However, as we shall see shortly, a son is viewed and treated differently by his mom. This may particularly affect the quality and intimacy of the alliance as well as the determination whether or not to select a son because expectations of him are less when compared with daughters.
The next step it to watch these alliances in action and see how they affect the family dynamics.
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Geneseo alumnus Jeff Clarke
GENESEO, N.Y. - Jeff Clarke, a 1983 SUNY Geneseo alumnus, will address the college's 145th undergraduate commencement May 14. The ceremony's keynote speaker is chief executive officer and president of Travelport, a broad-based business services company serving the travel industry and corporations worldwide. He will address "Choices for Your Next Decade."
The college will confer an estimated 1,275 undergraduate degrees during two separate ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena on campus.
"Jeff has had an extraordinary career in business and finance and he understands the challenging global environment our graduates will enter," said SUNY Geneseo President Christopher C. Dahl. "Jeff comes from a family of educators and is a wonderful example of the power of a Geneseo liberal arts education. His forward-looking message will enlighten us all."
Clarke has 26 years of strategic, operational and financial experience with leading high-technology firms. In addition to his CEO responsibilities at Travelport, he serves on the company's Board of Directors and as chairman of the Board of Orbitz Worldwide. He also is a member of the Geneseo Foundation Board of Directors.
Before Travelport, Clarke was chief operating officer for CA Inc.
(formerly Computer Associates). Prior to that, he was executive vice president
for global operations at Hewlett-Packard. He began his career with Digital
Equipment Corp. in 1985 and joined Compaq in 1998 after it acquired Digital. He
was appointed Compaq's chief financial officer in 2001.
Clarke earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Geneseo and a master's degree in business administration from Northeastern University. He grew up in Hamilton, N.Y., where his father was a professor at Colgate University and his mother a high school music teacher. Clarke lives in San Francisco with his wife, Suzette, and three children.
During commencement, the college will confer an honorary doctor of humane letters degree upon renowned poet and librettist J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy, professor of English at Yale University. He also is editor of "The Yale Review" and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
"Sandy McClatchy is a fine poet and an incredibly versatile man of letters, and we are proud to honor his accomplishments with an honorary degree," said President Dahl. "He is no stranger to Geneseo, since he delivered our Phi Beta Kappa lecture two years ago. We wanted to bring him back to campus to honor his many artistic and literary achievements."
Geneseo graduate students will celebrate a week earlier during a master's degree ceremony May 7 at 10 a.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. An estimated 60 graduate students will receive degrees.
Iris Banister, an accomplished author and highly sought motivational speaker, will address the master's ceremony. Banister received her master's degree in education from Geneseo in 1970. Geneseo offers master's degrees in education, accounting and communicative disorders and sciences.
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I'm trying to download Xcode 4.0 for my Mac and they want me to upgrade to Lion and download 4.1. Is there a way to download 4.0 without having to change my entire operating system?
The App Store only distributes one version of each app. Xcode 4.0 is no longer available as Xcode 4.1 replaced it.
If the author of the software wishes to keep an older version on the store, the new version has to be uploaded as a different sellable item.
In this case, Apple didn't choose to leave both.
You can get multiple versions of Xcode by joining the paid developer programs. Last time I checked, Xcode 3 was available with the free account. It runs on Snow Leopard - but it doesn't look like you can buy Xcode 4.0 anymore without a paid developer account - it might not even be available to the developers - you might ask before paying money if you really need 4.0 and only 4.0.
Here's a link to Xcode 3.2.6 for Snow Leopard that I found on developer.apple.com. I couldn't find versions 4.0 or 4.1.
The site https://developer.apple.com/downloads has a search field. Enter "Xcode" and you will see "Xcode 3.2.6 and iOS SDK 4.3 for snow leopard". You can download a non App Store version of Xcode from there after signing up as a developer.
You can get assorted versions of Xcode all the way back to Xcode 2.3 it seems. You can do this without a paid account, but, you do have to register as an Apple Developer.


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Happy New Year! Riding the momentum of 2010, we have a lot to look forward to in 2011, and what better way to kick off the New Year than with our partners from around the world? This year's Global Partner Summit will be two information-packed days of exciting speakers, sessions, and networking opportunities. There's still time to register, so be sure to reserve your space now.
Aside from the Partner Summit, there are a number of opportunities this month for you to get to know Pentaho. We'll be on the road, wrapping up the last leg of our Data to Dashboards Tour in North Carolina, our CTO James Dixon will be presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics MeetUp, and Pentaho Training Classes are taking place everywhere, from Paris to Buenos Aires, throughout the month of January.
We invite you to join us at any of the events below, as we kick off a fresh, new, and exciting year ahead in the world of open source business intelligence!
Pentaho Global Partner Summit 2011: Rising Above
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On the official site: http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook/get-ubuntu/download
The instructions for creating a bootable USB key for installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix include a line saying:
"Insert a USB stick with at least 2GB of free space"
I recently installed UNR on a netbook -- in fact, the one I'm using right now -- and I went ahead despite only having a 1GB USB key on hand. Everything went smoothly and installed 100% correctly.
If I had waited to go out and buy a 2GB USB key I would have spent that money unnecessarily and wouldn't have been able to use the computer in the meantime.
I was wondering if there's a specific rationale for requiring a 2GB USB key, or if the instructions could be changed to indicate that it can be done with only 1GB.


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12 Classic Toys That Still Rockby FamilyEducation Staff
Stumped for gift ideas for your kids? Before you get your child the latest fad toy, consider these top 12 classic toys that have been around since your childhood and have lasting appeal. Check your attic or grandma's basement before you buy these oldies but goodies!
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Back when we were kids, Mr. Potato Head was nothing more than a collection of plastic facial features looking for a real potato to call his own. The burning question was: What kind of potato would you choose? Smooth and round, bent and gnarly... the possibilities for potatoes with personality seemed endless. Over the years, Mr. Potato Head has gone through some changes: He married, had little spuds, and eventually gained a plastic body (hey, couldn't some of your original parts use replacing?) And although he's spun himself off into software, books, keychains, movie star roles (in the Toy Story series) and more, his basic charm remains the same, as proven by the 50 million Potato Heads sold in the past 43 years.
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I have all these DVD rips on my computer, and I want to put them on a DVD to play on my TV, as my laptop doesn't have a HDMI port. What is the best way to do this? I have Ubuntu 12.04. Iv'e tried using Brasero, but i don't get any sound, just the image. Please help. Thank you.


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Steve Ballmer showed off this app in the keynote and we met up with the actual developer to show us the ins and outs of the La Monde app for Windows Phone 7.
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For your information this is not "La Monde" but "Le Monde". "Le Monde is a french newspaper.
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Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch eReader (Pre-Owned) for $33
Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch Wi-Fi 6" E-book Reader for $33.00 plus tax and shipping.
NOOK features a 6" E-Ink display with 800 x 600 resolution, which reads like real paper, 2GB internal memory for up to 1,500 book storage, wireless 802.11b/g/n, web browsing, and more.
Most used Nook Simple Touch eReaders online have retailed for $50+.
ETA: If the page shows the product as sold out, try checking again later. Supply increases and decreases throughout the day.
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7 minutes later:
"We're sorry, but this product is currently sold out."
Srsly, 7 minutes? What happened?
This really isn't a deal as this is the normal price for the Nook on Cowboom, however it's rare when they have one in stock.
Just got one of these last time and it is going back because it cannot be registered with B&N because cowboom/past owner failed to unregister it and B&N refuses to help.
@weatherlightthe2: You can hard reset it and it will go back to factory settings.
See here http://nookdevs.com/Nook_Simple_Touch_restore_to_stock
Unless resetting the Nook also removes the registration information from the B & N database server, that will not help.
I had the same problem with a nook I bought on cowboom. Was still registered under previous owner, and the B&N guy I talked to finally figured out that it was still registered to the previous owner, and to send it back to cowboom and get my money back because there was nothing to do about it. Sending things back to cowboom is not the greatest experience, but I was finally able to do it.
got one last time and it bricked within a couple of months.
I guess I got lucky, because I bought a Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight from Cowboom last year. I didn't have any issues with registering it and haven't had any problems with it since.
"Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS)'s surprise loss during what's usually its most profitable quarter was triggered by a 26 percent sales drop at Nook, the only segment that had been growing and is essential to aiding a shift to e-books.
The net loss of $6.06 million, which included $74 million in charges from plummeting demand for its newest Nook tablets,..." Book Business Magazine
13 hours on a sold out item. I wonder where the OP and mods are.
@linrey: A hard reset on my nook first gen removes registration info.


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- Fill the clean soda bottle with water to about one-third full.
- Add a spoon or two of tempera paint and the liquid detergent.
- Glue the cap securely onto the bottle by applying glue to the inside of the bottle cap and screwing it on.
- Your child will enjoy shaking the bottle to make colored bubbles.
- For a quick and easy alternative, put small pieces of yarn (about 3--6 inches long) into a clean, empty soda bottle.
- Fill the bottle with water and glue the cap on.
- Your child will enjoy shaking the bottle to make the yarn dance.
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