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Relay For Life Night Provides Good Racing In Front Of Large Crowd
By Ben Deatherage
The Cottage Grove Speedway was back in full swing last Saturday June 15th as they hosted Relay For Life Night At The Races. The evening is quite special as the local Relay For Life chapter comes out and informs folks about their wonderful programs. Also all fans were invited to take part in a walk around the ¼-mile during intermission. Classifications on the card were 360 Sprints, Late Models, Northwest Extreme Sprints, Street Stocks, and Hornets.
In the 360 Sprint division Medford's Roger Crockett was looking to accomplish a goal that he had set when he was a young teenager just starting out in Sprint Cars. That goal was to surpass his father Brian's all-time win total of one-hundred-seventy-nine victories. Two weeks ago at Cottage Grove Roger tied his father at one-hundred-seventy-nine but was looking for one-hundred-eighty on Saturday night.
Off to a great start Roger Crockett put the SKS Racing/Al Parker Racing Engines/Champion Racing Oil #11 KPC to the front out of the exit of turn two on the first lap. Crockett was primed and determined to capture the main event as he nearly lapped the entire field. The only thing that appeared to slow him down was the two cautions that would occur. Roger would go on to the win and break the tie in all-time wins between his father and himself. It was also the fourth victory of 2013 in local action at CGS for Crockett.
The Myers Logging/Armstrong Contract Cutting #21T XXX of Zack Spaulding from Springfield had a great night finishing in second, for car owners Sam and Tony Myers, while crossing the stripe as the last car on the lead lap in third was Central Point chauffeur Garen Linder in the Linder Powdercoating/Rodgers Racing Engines #22 KPC. Jesse Thistle of Creswell was fourth in the All Around Printing/Cobalt Computer Services #4 Maxim and Mike Griffith of Fall Creek would score the fifth spot in his 1st Choice Construction/Griffith Family Racing #21 Gambler.
Garen Linder was fast time of the night at a quick 10.669 seconds around the ¼-mile caly bullring. Kyle Miller of Eugene would score the trophy dash in the Gary's Subaru Service/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply/Oregon West RV #71 XXX for car owner Hedge Carter. Heat race winners were Miller and Roger Crockett.
Once Shaun Mayea got the lead he was gone in the Late Model feature. It would take the Bend driver several laps though to catch the front of the pack. In fact it looked like Paul Culp of Springfield was on his way to winning his second race of the year until Mayea would make the pass around the outside on lap twelve. Mayea would go on to lead the rest of the distance in his Cold Springs Resort/R.G. Remanufacturing #36 Rocket to earn his first career Late Model win at CGS.
Paul Culp ended the evening in the runner-up position in his X-Factor Race Cars/All Pro Steel #42 X-Factor and earning the third place position was the My Boy's Slate Fired Pizza/Mueller Commercial Restaurant Services #18 MasterSbilt of Creswell's Blaine Taylor. Mike Peters from Cottage Grove placed his Send Transportation/Interstate Cargo #88 Swartz in fourth and fifth was Brittany Ray of Beaverton in her #12B Swartz entry. Taylor was quickest in qualifying at 13.643 seconds while Shaun Mayea would win both the heat race and trophy dash.
The Northwest Extreme Sprint feature was a hotly contested affair between two young ladies which were Kady Adelman and Raquel Ivie. Before either of them battled for the lead it looked like Dan Philpott was going to possibly win the event. Glide's Philpott, in his Eveland Sandblasting/Double R Powdercoating #29 Rocket, would set the pace in the first seven circuits before being overtaken by Kady Adelman of Salem.
Adelman looked in control and was seeking to park her BC Motorsports/K&S Motorsports #6A Maxim into the winner's circle for the second time this year. Before too long though Raquel Ivie of Eugene was closing the gap and eventually would pass Adelman on lap fourteen.
Ivie would start to develop a lead before two late race cautions put Adelman back into contention. Ivie would not let the pressure get to her as she would win her second race of the year in her Three Rivers Casino/Bi-Mart/Northwest Training Center #70 Maxim.
Kady Adelman was second followed by Mike Griffith in third. Finishing fourth and fifth respectively were Nathan Ellertson of Fall Creek, in the 4 His Glory Racing/1st Choice Construction #4E Rocket, and the C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments #3 Zeitler of Dave Hibbard from Medford. Adelman was quickest in qualifying with her time of 11.384 seconds and would also win the trophy dash while Hibbard was the victor in the heat race.
The Street Stock feature proved to be a nail biter. Several teams from outside the area converged on the Cottage Grove Speedway to bring the Street Stock count up to the best it has been all year long. Steve Begley of Eugene was the early leader in the Stacy Graves Massage Therapy #00 Nova seeking his first win of the year.
Begley would lose the top spot to Daniel Ray of Springfield in the Pure Romance-Leslee Grimes/Team S.D.M.F. #01 Camaro around lap five. Ray would start to check out and was seeking his third win of 2013. Disaster would strike as the rear axle would break on Ray's machine ending his night prematurely. This would give the lead back to Begley.
Begley was by far not out of the woods yet as he would receive considerable pressure from teammate Darin Crooks of Cottage Grove. Crooks, in the #73 Nova, tried to find a route around Begley but was unable to make the pass. In the later stages of the race Crooks had to keep challengers in check from trying to overtake his second place position which allowed Begley to build a little lead. Despite a late race caution and an exciting finish Begley would hold on to the lead to earn the victory and become the fourth different winner this season in the division.
Darin Crooks would hold on to second followed by Josh Bearden of Coos Bay in the Shinglehouse Auto & Salvage/Warbis Excavating #31 El Camino in third. Steve Dubisar of Coquille would end the night in fourth in the Lil' Stinker Portable Toilets/West Coast Powerwashing #10 Monte Carlo and fifth was the Emerald Valley Reclaimed Timbers #4 Camaro of Cottage Grove's Jeff Casto.
Matt King of Eugene was quickest in qualifying at a time of 16.720 seconds. Earning heat race victories were Daniel Ray and Medford's Jordan Braaten in his Don Braaten Painting/Hands On Detail #84 Regal.
The Hornets were added at the last minute but despite the late notice a good show was produced. Chris Pierce of Cottage Grove was pretty quick in his Material Fabrication/Racing Trends #28 leading several of the early laps. Eventually the lead would be taken over by James Deatherage, also from Cottage Grove, with only a few laps remaining. Deatherage would lead the rest of the distance to put his D&D Automotive/Harris Machine and Design #7D into victory lane for the first of the season.
Jim Simmons of Cottage Grove was second in the Small Town Treasures/Nichol's Napa Auto Parts #89 machine followed by the Santa Clara Transmissions #15 of Aaron Hanson of Creswell in third. The balance of the top five finishers included Chris Pierce in fourth and the Brittney Bailey-Chandler Photography/Kyle Kishan Construction #16 of James Simmons, from Cottage Grove, in fifth.
The Cottage Grove Speedway will be in action this Wednesday June 19th as the Wild Wild West Modified Shootout makes their annual visit. The race will feature the top IMCA Modified teams around the Pacific Northwest for what is always a great night of racing. Races will be held this Saturday June 22nd with 360 Sprints, Late Models, Street Stocks, and Hornets on the card. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
Race Summary:
Relay For Life Night
Saturday June 15th, 2013
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
5 Entries
A-Feature: 1. James Deatherage, 2. Jim Simmons, 3. Aaron Hanson, 4. Chris Pierce, 5. James Simmons
Street Stocks
11 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Steve Begley, 2. Darin Crooks, 3. Josh Bearden, 4. Steve Dubisar, 5. Jeff Casto, 6. Trina Post, 7. Larry Crane, 8. Mark Henderson, 9. Daniel Ray, 10. Jordan Braaten, 11. Matt King
Northwest Extreme Sprints
7 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Raquel Ivie, 2. Kady Adelman, 3. Mike Griffith, 4. Nathan Ellertson, 5. Dave Hibbard, 6. Dusty Redmond, 7. Dan Philpott
Late Models
6 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Shaun Mayea, 2. Paul Culp, 3. Blaine Taylor, 4. Mike Peters, 5. Brittany Ray, 6. Kye Frick
360 Sprints
14 Entries
A-Feature: 1. Roger Crockett, 2. Zack Spaulding, 3. Garen Linder, 4. Jesse Thistle, 5. Mike Griffith, 6. Vern Scevers, 7. Kady Adelman, 8. Nathan Ellertson, 9. Jake Waddell, 10. Raquel Ivie, 11. Kyle Miller, 12. Dusty Redmond, 13. Dan Philpott, 14. Dave Hibbard
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I have been advised by many people to learn from scratch. So I decided to learn it. But I have the following questions in my mind.
- Can we skip "the Trinity" and learn something else directly? ("the Trinity" refers to analysis, topology and algebra)
- Why are these things so important and why are they taught for 3 years?
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Headley breaks thumb, will miss start of season
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By SCOTT BAIR
(AP) PEORIA, Ariz. - San Diego Padres third baseman Chase Headley will miss at least the first two weeks of the season after breaking the tip of his left thumb.
Headley was injured Sunday while sliding into second base trying to break up a double play. He went to San Diego, and an exam Monday revealed the fracture.
The injury is not likely to require surgery and will need about a month to heal.
"Injuries occur. You hate to see it happen, but it's the nature of a physical sport like baseball," Padres manager Bud Black said. "It's unfortunate for Chase and the entire Padres organization."
Headley hit .286 with 31 homers and 115 RBIs last year, when he won a Gold Glove and finished fifth in NL MVP voting.
Logan Forsythe could take over at third. Second baseman Jedd Gyorko, the Padres' top prospect, played third base until switching positions last season in the minor leagues.
Prospect James Darnell is out at least two weeks with an oblique strain.
"We're going to sort that out," Black said. "This time of the year is important as we finalize our roster. We'll work through today's bad news. We feel as though we have some depth on the infield, and we'll react accordingly."
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Excellent session! Tons of examples for consuming winrt from c++. Well worth the watch.
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I found this interesting exercise on a calculus book (Stewart)
Let $$ u=1+\frac{x^3}{3!}+\frac{x^6}{6!}+\cdots $$ $$ v=x+\frac{x^4}{4!}+\frac{x^7}{7!}+\cdots $$ $$ w=\frac{x^2}{2!}+\frac{x^5}{5!}+\frac{x^8}{8!}+\cdots $$ Show that $$u^3+v^3+w^3-3uvw=1$$ It turns out to be an interesting application of the 3rd root of unity, which greatly simplified the (could be) tedious calculation. I wonder if it has any deeper interpretation. (At least I don't see how to easily generalize it.) Can anybody explain this? (I don't need help on solving this problem.)


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Remember back when the Final Fantasy franchise had room for silly jokes and random frivolity? Commenter Balmung certainly does, and he wonders we'll ever go back there in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
So I was just wondering about this. When did the Final Fantasy games get so serious?
Back through Final Fantasies III-VII the games seemed serious with a silly overtone. You had the dirty magazine in Final Fantasy IV, the silly animations and suplexing the train in Final Fantasy VI, and Barrett in Final Fantasy VII to name a few.
After that things changed a bit. Final Fantasy VIII had some small silly parts but took itself as serious as a heart attack most of the time.
Luckily, Final Fantasy IX brought back that silly nature in droves. The world had such a good feeling to it as a result that I still feel like it was the most pleasant of the worlds to explore.
After that things seem like they got so serious with very little room for anything silly at all. The games have all been good in my opinion but very rarely do we get the lightheartedness that the series actually has had a lot of in the past.
What brought on this change? Final Fantasy XIII-2 has a bit more silliness than usual but still takes itself extremely serious at times. Does anyone else feel like a move back to putting more silliness and lightheartedness in the Final Fantasy games is a good idea?


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How can I compare gear ratios on different wheel sizes? How can I compare gear ratios on MTB with tracking bikes with bigger wheels? How can I compare gear ratios with gear hubs?
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Typically you quote gear sizes in gear inches, very basically this is the drive wheel diameter multiplied by the ratio between the two gear cogs, traditionally quoted in inches.
Also sometimes mentioned is development which is the amount of distance travelled by one revolution of the cranks (the astute will notice that is going to be proportional to gear inches and possibly a more meaningful quantity).
The more complex alternative, but one which is an absolute number, rather than measured in distance is Sheldon Brown's gain ratio which tries to include the crank length in the equation to get some sort of appreciation for the extra work for the smaller cranks found on, e.g., road bikes in comparison to ATBs. So for every unit travelled by the pedal on its circular journey, the bike will travel x units along the ground.
Hubs will still have an absolute number of sprockets, even if it is just an equivalence to a real cog so can still contribute to these equations.
Whilst this doesn't expand further on the answers already given another site probably worth noting as it covers all of your examples with addition of direct comparisons, it's also very easy to understand is:
Unless you consider the crankarm length (which usually is NOT done for the sake of simplicity), you have one (or two, in the case of gear hubs) "multipliers" to get the ratio of speed (and torque) between the crank and the wheel, and one final conversion between angular speed and forward speed. That would either allow you to calculate forward speed for a given RPM, which is one of the best parameters to judge how a given gears "feels" on any bike.
First you have to calculate the gear ratio between chainring and cog. As an example from one of my bikes, if you have a 46t chainring and a 16t cog, dividing 46 by 16 gives you 2.875 which is a first multiplier.
Then, if I am in the 6th gear of my hub, the table from the manufacturer says it gives me a 0.528 REDUCTION ratio.
So, for every crank turn I have 2.875 times 0.528 = 1.518 wheel turns. If I know that my wheel has a circumference of 2.115 meters, then for each crank turn I'll go 3.21 meters forward.
Now if I take any other similar sized and similar weight bike and ride any other combination which gives me 3.21 meters per crank revolution, these gears most probably will feel very similar, and both bikes could be ridden side by side with the same cadence, even if one bike had a 20 inch wheel (that would mean the gear and hub ratio would have to be higher to compensate.
Although it is possible to calculate wheel circumference from wheel radius (radius * 2 * PI), the best way is to measure - with a tape - the actual distance travelled by the bike as you push it forward until the tire gives a whole turn.
Hope this helps!
The standard scheme is to convert gear ratio into "gear inches" (or, I suppose, in Europe "gear centimeters"). This goes back to the old "penny-farthing" bikes where to get a larger "gear ratio" you'd get a bike with a larger front wheel.
"Gear inches" is the diameter of a "direct drive" wheel that will travel, in one turn of the pedals, the same distance that a geared bike in a given gear will travel in one turn of the pedals.
You first calculate gear ratio, which is the number of front teeth divided by the number of rear teeth, then multiply that by wheel diameter. (Look up actual tire diameter on Sheldon Brown's web site, since rim "diameter" doesn't really measure anything.)
(Or there are no doubt several web sites that will do all this for you.)
To calculate gear inches for an internal geared hub you'd start with the fact that the vast majority of such hubs have their "fastest" gear be a "lock-up" where the wheel turns once for each turn of the sprocket. Then you calculate gear inches for that. If you then have the ratios of the other gears you can multiply/divide (as appropriate for the presentation of the ratios) to get gear inches for the other gears.


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I have a weird problem, which I didn't found anything on the internet about.
I installed KDE4.10 (from kubuntu-ppa/backports) a week ago, and it changed the loginscreen. After there was something weird with my sound (doesn't matter anymore) I uninstalled kubuntu-desktop, rebooted and then i just got
mountall: connection to plymouth disconnected. After installing kubuntu-desktop again. The problem was gone, but I had again this KDE-like loginscreen.
Later I figured out, that i can change the greeter in
greeter-session=lightdm-kde-greeter to
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu but this brings back the old problem which can be seen in the picture i linked above.
Does anyone know how i can fix this? I would like to have the standard-loginscreen again.


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WHEELING - West Virginia University and the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department are gathering data to determine if drilling for natural gas impacts the local air quality.
"We want to eventually be able to look at whether there are health effects that are associated with living near a Marcellus (shale) gas drilling site while it's in operation," said Michael McCawley, chairman of the West Virginia University School of Public Health.
In numerous legal advertisements over the past year, driller Chesapeake Energy confirmed the company has the "potential to discharge" various amounts of the following materials - both from its well sites and from the compressor stations at Battle Run and Sand Hill - into the Ohio County air: carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, formaldehyde and nitrogen oxides.
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TESTING — Somu Chatterjee, left, of the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department and Michael McCawley of West Virginia University test a photoionization detector. - Tyler Reynard
For their study, officials are relying on photoionization detectors, which monitor organic compounds in the air. Some people residing near well pads in Ohio County have volunteered to participate in the study by allowing the instruments to be placed on their property.
The detectors already are in place at a few sites in the county, and organizers soon will add a few more. The equipment will be moved to different locations throughout the county over the next six months to ensure the results are comprehensive.
"One of the questions we need to ask from this is, 'How close is close?'" McCawley said. "We really don't know the answer to that at this stage."
McCawley said the process of selecting where to place the instruments was a "complex issue." Study organizers considered wind direction and topography and sought locations with a clear path between the measurement instruments and active well sites.
The instruments also would assist natural gas companies in monitoring any emissions being produced from their well sites, McCawley pointed out. He added local companies have been very cooperative with the initial phases of the study.
"They think they're doing a good job," he said of the gas companies. "This is one way, in fact, that they can show everybody. The data will tell you whether you're doing a good job or whether you're not."


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I was recently making some mint spheres using reverse spherification, as a bit of background here was my process: I blended around 15g of mint leaves with 250ml of boiling water and left to steep for an hour. I strained the infusion through a 50 micron filter and then added some sugar, lemon juice and 3.5% calcium gluconolacte before thickening with 0.4% of xanthan gum. The spherification went fine but the colour of the liquid went an unappetising shade of brown and what I would like to know is there a way, aside from adding food colouring, to preserve the mint's green colour?
Plants are green due to the presence of chlorophyll. When chlorophyll is exposed to acids, alkalis, heat or enzymes, it first loses its long hydrocarbon tail, becoming water-soluble instead of fat-soluble. Then, hydrogen ions replace the magnesium atom in the center of the chlorophyll molecule, turning it to pheophythin, which has a dull green-yellow-grey color.
If you insist on continuing the heat treatment, you will lose a lot of the chlorophyll color. You can reduce your loses by using an alkali environment and by adding metal ions. The metal ions part can be as simple as boiling the tea in a copper pot. For alkali, use baking soda. It will turn the leaves into mush (so it is preferable not to use it for vegetables, even though it keeps the color), but it will help with retaining the green. I think that the changed pH shouldn't be a problem, as Lersch's Hydrocolloids says that reverse spherification works at pH levels 2.8-10, but is inhibited by pH below 4. Also, I don't see why you steeped for an hour; normal mint tea is steeped for 5 minutes. If you want stronger tea, use more mint, not longer steeping times.
If you insist on a color coming from mint, but are not particular about steeping, I would suggest getting a mint taste in another way. Juicing the mint will be best, but will require heaps of plant matter, so probably not practicable unless you have access to a mint meadow. It would be much better to rupture the cell walls by freezing, and then leech the mint taste and color in some solvent - water will be OK, alcohol will probably give you a stronger extract. Just steep the defrosted mint for a long time in the water (or alcohol, or mix of both), and then use without adding acids or heating. Again, adding a bit of baking soda may help with the color. But pay attention, if your final product has too high a pH, its taste will be perceived as soapy.
And the easiest solution is, of course, to use food coloring. While some people may consider it unnatural, I don't think it does any bad, especially considering that you are already doing some highly unusual things to your food. It gives you a much easier time with the other aspects of preparation (head and acids).
You can try to add some baking soda when you put the mint leaves in the hot water.
Baking soda retains colour in boiling broccoli and other green veggies, so there's a chance this could help you with mint as well.
Try grinding the mint with a mortar and pestle, with your lemon juice as a solvent. Since you strain it, the final solution won't have chunks of mint.


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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Pasta and Breaded Eggplant
7 comments:
- melanie said...
hey yeah, i read your blog nate.
i am a faithful bloggin' girl.
anyway...say congrats to john and his new wife for us.
(you probably won't read it till later anyway. oh well.)
- September 14, 2007 at 2:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bueller here, Sir. I was away for a minute practicing my clarinet but am I'm back now. And may I say what a handsome suit you're wearing.
- September 15, 2007 at 10:24 AM
- Erik Steel said...
Oh, darn, I was going to make the Bueller joke :p
- September 15, 2007 at 3:12 PM
- Sarah said...
I found a link to your blog from facebook. I'm a vegetarian, trying to eat more vegan meals, and I'm digging your blog. Keept the posts coming.
- September 15, 2007 at 6:51 PM
- rockinrose said...
Hey Nate, I have subscribed to your blog through Google Reader. Rock on, buddy!
- September 16, 2007 at 10:19 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
And rock on I will! Thanks all for the encouragement.
- September 17, 2007 at 10:31 AM
- Becky said...
I'm switching over to the vegan side and found your wonderful blog. I've tried a few recipes, and so far they are a big hit!
So I've never cooked eggplant and I was wondering how do you prepare it? Peeling, slicing, cutting, etc... I would most certainly appreciate any help! Thanks!
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My question comes from the proverb: "Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen Leute."
One implication is that lazy people don't want to do anything at ANY time.
Another is that even hardworking person might say, "Morgen, morgen, nur hicht heute," regarding a particular, unpleasant task, which would be procrastination. Or is there one word for "lazy" and another for "procrastination?"


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I love to brag about my children. My 14-year-old son is the athlete. My 12-year old daughter is the musician. I am lucky to have such variety and success in my life! My son is currently participating in track for the second year and I've begun researching eating habits that are important for this sport. Following is the advice I have to offer for the young track athlete:
1) The best thing to do is eat a variety of healthy, well-balanced meals.
2) Do not skip meals.
3) Eat four to six meals per day or three meals with snacks in between.
4) Eat healthy snacks.
5) Always eat breakfast.
6) Eat a variety of foods including carbohydrates (oatmeal, whole grains, pasta, etc.), proteins (chicken, fish, lean beef) and legumes, fruits, vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, etc).
7) Eat lots of fruit and vegetables. The richer the color the better, as this is a sign that the food has a high content of vitamins.
8) Avoid an excessive amount of highly processed foods, specifically those high in sugars, oils, fat and flour.
9) Eat a sufficient amount of protein for your activity level and specific needs.
10) Eat or drink something within 30 minutes after your workout. This will drastically reduce the time needed to recover.
11) Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. Better yet, bring a bottle of water with you everywhere, especially to practice.
Eating right will provide a number of benefits, such as consistently better practice sessions (which in turn leads to consistently better races), quicker recovery from practices and races, and increasing your body's ability to prevent injury. Athletes will both feel better, and perform better. Perhaps the non-athlete should follow these guidelines as well?


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In other words is it a safe assumption that no-one of recipients will ever see e-mails in BCC? What if the recipient is an administrator of his (but not sender's) mail server and can do any modifications to his server?
No. SMTP is a plaintext protocol, using store-and-forward methods.
What this means:
In other words, your assumption is unsafe. If you want privacy and security, use digital signatures and encryption, e.g. GPG; vanilla e-mail is a Wrong tool for such job.
Any mail transfer agent (MTA) that fully complies with RFC 2822 (specifically, section 3.6.3, Destination address fields) will remove the
There are a couple of catches:
You should never assume that the recipients won't become aware of the BCC recipient. I've had BCCed recipients hit "Reply All" in their mail program, and announce to everyone their receipt of a mail before, in a stunning lack of understanding of what being BCCed actually meant. If you really need it to be private, forward the message from your Sent folder after you send it to the original recipients, so the only other address in the message headers is yours.
That said, even if you used BCC, as long as the BCCed recipient's server is separate from the original recipient, the recipient's server would not have access to the BCC information, as it would have been stripped out (or more likely never included in the message body) by your provider's mail server.
On a side note: SMTP is neither reliable, not particularly private. Some posters claim that SMTP "chains" of servers exist, but in general, SMTP sends from your computer, to your ISP, to the recipients ISP. (and however many servers they have internally) In general, your mail will NOT be routed to a third party's mail server, and in fact such attempts are generally disallowed for anti-spam reasons. (There are exceptions, as small providers and home networks will forward to their provider, but this is the exception not the rule)
That said, email in transit is not guaranteed to be encrypted, and anything potentially sensitive really shouldn't be trusted unencrypted to the internet via ANY method, including email, as it's trivial for any large provider, or telco to tap the fibers running through their facilities, or log packets traveling across their routers.
The FBI regularly does so through the Carnivore and other programs, and rogue elements have been documented doing so in the past as well.
Your email client or server (don't know which) should strip out BCC information before sending a message. If you BCC yourself on a message and then view the source, you shouldn't find your email address anywhere except in the From line (verified this with my own mail).
It all depends on the server. Most servers will take the BCC line and basically send the message once per address. basically putting the bcc address into cc line send, next address into cc line and send type thing. But it all depends on the MAIL server setup. BCC should never go further than your outgoing mail server.
Everything travelling on the net without digital signature or encryption can be easily modified. If you need end-to-end integrity for email, use PGP/GPG signing.
Also you will need to transfer your public PGP/GPG key to recipients somehow (so they can verify your email messages are really yours). Its kind of chicken-and-egg problem: this is to establish safe comm channel, but it already requires safe comm channel. Sending it via email is OK, but you need to verify PGP/GPG key fingerprint by phone or by other means. Publishing it on https-enabled website is also a good idea, as SSL provides necessary transport integrity guarantees.


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I gained an old machine, what's config is:
- Pentium 2, 300 MHz
- 147 MB SDRAM (recently extended)
- 3 GB IDE HDD - primary master
- 10 GB IDE HDD - primary slave (recently added)
- 52x CD-ROM - secondary master floppy drive
- 2x USB
- 2x PS/2
- 2x eth card (recently added 1 of them)
- 2x video card (I wanted to try multi-seat :D:D:D) (recently added 1 of them)
Before my tries, there were Win98, what perfectly(lol) worked with this config.
With Ubuntu 10.04 alternate CD, I didn't think, that it can be installed with graphical interface.
I thought about LVM .. but no, I thought this is too slow processor. To the primary master(hda, 3GB) I put
/boot with ext4, after Grub
error: unknown filesystem ext3; and swap for the other free space.
To the primary slave(hdb, 10GB), I put
/ with ext4.
I've installed GRUB2 to MBR. It always showed me some error, and
grub rescue> prompt. Finally I've learnt use that, and I tried to set prefix..., ls, insmod (hd0,1)/boot/grub/.... That last command always shows me error: unknown filesystem.
How may I partition this? The installion gets no errors, the
/boot is filled with data files(linux images, etc.).
Is there any other suggestion to get on with old systems?


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If you have a steak medium to rare, such that it's still pink in the middle, is it kosher? At what point is meat cooked enough?
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I'm assuming you are talking about steak which has been processed under rabbinical supervision.
Presently, in the US, with the exception of liver, all kosher meat is salted to remove problematic blood by the certifying agency before it hits the stores and restaurants. So meat which is edible does not have to be cooked "enough" and rare - or even steak tartare (raw) - is fine.
What Monica answered above, that it is 'meat juice'. To find out in much greater detail about this, see here:
This, based on the gemara in Chullin 113b.
Most of the other answers seem to be working under the assumption that the OP is basing the question on the prohibition against consuming blood (although this motivation is not stated in the question). Taking the question at its face value, however, the OP just wants to know how well meat needs to be cooked in order to be Kosher. As YDK's answer suggests (albeit somewhat vaguely), cooking has nothing to do with the Kashering process. Yes, we could get technical and discuss roasting meat in lieu of salting as a means of blood-removal, etc., but if the question is taken at face value, it is based on a faulty premise, probably due to a misunderstanding, that meat needs to be cooked 'X' amount in order to be Kosher. It does not.
You don't say why you think a rare steak might be a problem. I've heard others ask this question based on the prohibition of eating blood -- "hey, if we're not supposed to eat blood, then what about steaks?". I'm answering on the assumption that this is your reason for asking.
Chabad says that what's left in the meat after it's been kashered is juice, not blood, and ok. No sources cited, though I've heard this from a number of people (for what that's worth).
Raw, unsalted meat is completely kosher. Just rinse and eat. Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah siman 67 siff 2.
EDIT. The Shach in siman 76 s.k. 2 also point out that unsalted roasted meat even if only rare is also permitted to eat. The point of my original answer was to dispel any misconceptions about blood, but this edit will answer the assumed question more directly as pointed out in the comments.
One more point of clarification as pertaining to cooked, not roasted meat, is after salting the red juice is not considered blood,but called mohel, as pointed out by Monica. This is the Ashkenazi law lichatchila. For Sfardim however, if possible they should be putting the raw salted and washed meat into boiling, not warm or cold, water in order to seal in the red juice which the Rambam did in fact consider blood, and the Shulchan Aruch says to take into account, when possible. See siman 69 siff 19. This is process is called chalita.
I don't know any Sfardim who actually do this, whether at home or in restaurants (though some Teimanim do). So for all Acheinu bnei Hamizrach please comment or quote any modern day rulings, but this is what the Shulchan Aruch says and some people reading this question and these answers might find this interesting.
As others have pointed out, it doesn't have to be cooked at all. Another example of this is soaking raw muscle meat in vinegar - this is another method of kashering. So if you ever get the urge for kosher carpaccio... Although it seems like it's not such a straight forward process... Rambam discusses this although I don't have the reference handy at the moment.


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Twelve. Twelve. Twelve. (Also Know As, I Am Thirty.)
Something about milestones…
Yesterday, I found this picture of me celebrating my 5th birthday as I looked at old photographs my aunt gave me the last time I went to Cuba. In it there's a young girl with a mischievous smile standing behind a cake decorated with swans. She wears a girlie dress full of ruffles in shades of pink and yellow and blue. A bruise on the side of her face incurred from a fall down the stairs is being hidden from the camera. You also miss the hole on the cake where she stuck her fingers and quickly shoved them in her mouth as her grandma scolded her for being a glutton. Her mom is on the other side of the camera next to the photographer, looking horrified and praying that things turn out alright for her clumsy baby.
The girl is thirty today, and although she's not as fond of swans or pink as she used to be, she's still quite familiar with falling and picking herself back up. Bruises aren't always obtained from stairs but the marks they leave no longer make her cry hysterically nor last very long. She will make mistakes and apologize to no one. Her mom will be horrified and resort to praying. If she's lucky she'll blow many more candles and release wishes of the best kind to the universe. After that she'll stick her fingers in cake and rejoice in the rush of sugary sweetness that is sometimes life. It will taste exactly like she planned and the next day she'll go on a diet and curse her tendency to over-indulge. Highs and lows will go hand in hand. Embracing and manipulating will as well. She wouldn't have it any other way.
She wouldn't have it any other way...
11 comments:
- Katsidhe said...
Happy Birthday, lovely! May it be filled with Vodka, love and dancing boys.~
- December 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- bluemoon said...
Happy birthday! May it be a decadent, indulgent, lovely one!
- December 12, 2012 at 12:00 PM
I love the swan cake. How cute are you at 5...and still at 30???!! :) Enjoy your special day.
- December 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- Yvonne said...
Cute pic! Loved your words!
- December 12, 2012 at 9:42 PM
- Jeff Evans said...
Lovely post, Gorgeous, and, once again, happy birthday.
- December 13, 2012 at 6:50 AM
- Althea said...
Happy Birthday! :) x
- December 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM
- Annah said...
It was an awesome week of milking my birthday and being spoiled by a bunch of wonderful people in Miami in Houston. Thirty really isn't oh-so-bad, after all.
- December 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM
- Gia said...
Happy Birthday! Sorry it's so belated. Whoops.
- December 27, 2012 at 7:40 AM
- My_Blog said...
Happy birthday,sorry its belated alsoo!
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- February 10, 2013 at 6:47 PM
HA! You're def not the same shy, timid girl... STILL BEAUTIFUL though! :)
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Soprano Laura Heimes '90 is one of four soloists taking part in SUNY Geneseo's presentation of Handel's "Messiah."
GENESEO, N.Y. - Performances of Handel's "Messiah" typically involve large choirs with robust instrumentation, but SUNY Geneseo's Chamber Singers and four guest soloists will present the work more in line with Handel's original concept during a concert Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. in the college's Wadsworth Auditorium.
"We have chosen to do a historically informed performance," said Gerard Floriano, professor of music at Geneseo, who will conduct the presentation. "The first performances of 'Messiah' involved smaller forcesthan we are accustomed to hearing in modern performances. Our performance will involve the Geneseo Chamber Singers, a chorus of about 45 singers, and the Geneseo Chamber Symphony, an ensemble of about 25 players. Our goal is not only to show off the crisp melodies and sparkling textures, but to give a spirited and warm-hearted reading of this timeless masterpiece."
Watch Dr. Floriano discuss Geneseo's performance of Handel's "Messiah."
The performance will feature four well-known soloists: Soprano Laura Heimes, a 1990 Geneseo graduate from New Jersey, who performs all over the world and has eight vocal CDs to her credit; mezzo-soprano Jami Tyzik, who has performed internationally in various opera, pops and orchestral venues; tenor Gregory Kunde from Penfield, who has performed in some of the most well-known opera houses in the world; and baritone Derrick Smith, who has sung in various orchestral and stage performances around the world.
"This is a most exciting slate of soloists who will be singing with us," said Floriano. "They are about as good as they come in this repertoire."
Floriano attributes the wide-ranging appeal of "Messiah" to various factors but emphasizes the historic endurance.
"'Messiah' became very popular again after Handel's death and in the 19th century when it was performed regularly by various groups and singing societies throughout Europe utilizing massive forces," said Floriano. "This popularity has never waned. 'Messiah' also has great, memorable melodies and a text by Jennens, which is at once sublime, majestic and moving."
Tickets for the performance are $10 for the general public and $8 for students and senior citizens with proceeds supporting the Geneseo Chamber Singers. A discount of $2 per ticket will be given for a purchase of ten or more in any combination. Tickets are available at the Brodie Hall Box Office (245-5833) with cash or check only.
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Sometimes when I cook hard boiled eggs they will crack in the saucepan, and some of the egg will seep out into the water.
Am I boiling the water too vigorously, or can I add something to the water to prevent it?
I used the method here before with good success: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_perfect_hard_boiled_eggs/
Basically you start with the eggs in the pan with cold water and bring the water to temperature, right when it reaches boiling you pull the heat back and let the eggs cook for 10 minutes.
You don't need a full on boil to hard boil the eggs.
Before you submerge the egg, prick the large end of the shell with a (clean!) thumb tack or safety pin. This will allow the trapped air bubbles - which are normally responsible for cracking - to escape during the boiling process.
Also take care to avoid any impacts:
P.S. Even though the above should always prevent cracking, if you're still having problems, you can add some vinegar to the water. This will not help with cracking but it will make the eggs set quicker if they do crack and mitigate the nasty mess. I don't do this anymore, but something to remember if you're desperate (i.e. if the eggs are very old).
As eggs develop more air as they get older (which is why bad eggs float, fresh eggs sink,and old eggs stand up in water) you are more likely to get cracked eggs with older eggs, and if you plunge them in to hot water.
If you are doing it for hard boiling then you might be better using a technique like ManiacZX describes where you bring the eggs to the boil in cold water, then turn the heat off and leave them with a lid on for 10-12 mins.
You'll want to fill the pot that you are boiling your egg with to at least an inch higher than the egg layer. This will prevent the egg from bouncing around too much. I've been using the stuffs written here in boiling eggs: http://knowhowtoboileggs.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-hard-boil-eggs.html
For the first time I used a special rack to suspend the egg in the water without it resting on the bottom of the saucepan and for the first time ever it didn't crack.
Any other time I have tried all the above and it didn't help.
I'm now sure it's because of the contact with the hot surface of the pan before the water has a chance to disperse the heat so that it doesn't rise dramatically above 100 deg c
There is an air bubble at the base of the egg as shown below. As you cook the egg the air bubble expands and cracks the shell. To prevent the shell from cracking, gently pierce the air bubble with a sharp, pointy knife. It allows the expanding air to escape.
I am going to add a caution for simple over-cooking. I'm a soft-boiled fan, myself, but generally I think the risk of cracking is greater the more the eggs rattle around in boiling water with their liquid steaming inside. Low and slow makes great eggs.
I trained as a chef; the way to do this is as follows.
The egg cracks for a number of reasons which are mainly due to a change of pressure within the egg itself. You never want to put a hole in the shell, add salt to the water or frankly any of the other suggestions on this page above, and it's not due to eggs banging about in the pan (that one did make me laugh).
Occasionally an egg will crack anyway due to having an uneven thickness of shell but there isn't much you can do about it. It's best to take the eggs out of the fridge (if that's where you keep them, but that's about all you can do).
Pre warm chilled eggs in a bowl of hot tap water for 5 mins and put them straight into boiling water. Never crack!
Most of the time it's the result of extreme temperature changes ie fridge to boiling water or worse boiling water + salt (higher temperature). Take eggs from fridge and warm them under hot tap. Submerge eggs at least 1 inch below in non salted boiling water. Viola no cracks.
I agree with the pricking eggs at the rounded end, and also leave the top of the pot off. I never have cracked eggs.
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1969 Plymouth Road Runner Recarpeting - Re-Rugged Road RunnerWritten by on November 18, 2010 Quick Tech
While we'd all love to have a museum full of beautifully restored Mopars, the fact is that there are many reasons most of us don't. If you're like us, you enjoy the collector car hobby by having a couple of project cars around to wrench on and drive, and by enjoying a car show or a little drag racing on the weekends. Or maybe your Mopar is considered a driver, a car that isn't perfect, and gets used regularly for all the purposes a car is meant for like commuting to work or running errands. Such was the case with this '69 Road Runner we picked up locally. With only 78,000 miles and a cheap paint job, we chose to drive this car for a while before we decided whether to restore it, or cut it up and make it a race car (just kidding). Unfortunately, the carpet was trashed, so we decided new carpeting would benefit our Road Runner in several ways.
Carpet is not only important aesthetically, it also serves as a barrier, insulating the car's cabin from noise and extreme temperatures. Since a car's carpeting is trod on every time the car is used, it's no wonder the carpeting in a car is one of the first areas of the interior to show wear. Every time the driver or passengers get in the car, they track in whatever dirt, grime, and grease they walked through on the way to the car. Floor mats certainly help alleviate this problem, trapping contaminants and being easier to clean and change than carpeting, but even floor mats can't prevent all of the causes of carpet damage. Sun, especially in southern states like where we live in Florida, can cause carpet to fade and dry, discoloring the areas exposed to the sun and causing unsightly fading. Up north, if the car is driven during the winter, it's likely at some point that slush, water, and snow will get tracked into the car, none of which are good for the carpeting.
When we picked up this '69 Plymouth Road Runner a few months ago, it was mostly original, ran and drove well, and had relatively low mileage (we'll tell you the whole story about this car in a future Hidden Treasures column). Since the car was mechanically sound, and because we already have a couple of projects in process that we can't drive, we chose to simply drive this car for a while before restoration. While the car's interior was in pretty good shape when we got it, the carpet was showing a lot of wear, and wasn't even automotive carpeting at all, but rather outdoor patio carpet installed by the previous owner. Fortunately, that owner had also purchased a new carpet set for the car and included it in the sale, so we decided to dramatically improve our car's interior by installing the carpet. While we got lucky and our carpet came with the car, new carpeting is relatively inexpensive-less than 200 bucks for most Mopars-is available from multiple sources including many of our advertisers, and can be easily installed in an afternoon. Follow along, and we'll show you how much better this inexpensive and easy repair can make your car look.
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The previous owner had purchased this inexpensive one-piece carpet set for our car but never installed it. Though not as nice as a factory style two-piece carpet set, it is molded to fit our car and much better than the carpeting we're replacing. Since carpet comes boxed up, we unpackaged it and laid it flat so it could relax.Removing the old carpeting involves removing a good portion of the interior including the front seat, lower rear seat...With the carpet removed, it's a good time to vacuum and inspect the car's floorboards. We were lucky and our floors were solid, if yours aren't, now's the time to make repairs before installing the new carpet.


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In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. But Anne Frank's diary, argues Francine Prose, is as much a work of art as it is a historical record. Through close reading, she marvels at the teenage Frank's skillfully natural narrative voice, at her finely tuned dialogue and ability to turn living people into characters.
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I wish the Harris couple good luck in getting the help they deserve. I got flooded on June 28th by storm water runoff that originated in Warren Township, Jefferson County then through Smithfield Township on Township 117.It then took out part of my driveway ruined my yard, surrounded my house on all four side, went into my basement via the sill plates, plugged my french drains and caused me a full week of 18 hour days for clean up and I am still not done. Neither Township has taken any responsibility and neither is offering any help to prevent this from happening again. And neither is concerned about the safety of my family or me. I have a video on youtube. You will be surprised when you see all the debris, rocks, tons of rocks, tires and mud.And not one iota of concern from elected officials. *******youtu.be/yeP6ROJMnBE
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Behavioral: Provider Education Workshop
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Time Perspective: Retrospective
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|Gulf War 1 Veteran Patient Satisfaction With VA Primary Care: A Survey Study.
- Assessing client satisfaction changes at 3 months [ Time Frame: baseline, 3 months later ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Client Satisfaction Questionnaire
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|December 2012
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Persian Gulf War 1 Veterans who are currently treated by a primary care physician at the VASLCHCS.
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Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War1 (GW1) conflict are still experiencing a host of adverse health conditions at the present time. Many GW1 Veterans are still unhappy with their health care at the VA, and other stakeholders are critical of how the VA has dealt with GW1 Veterans' issues. For these reasons, the Gulf War Veterans' Illness Task Force (GWVI-TF) was set up to find ways to improve the situation.
The present survey study addresses one of GWVI-TF's missions, that is, to identify gaps in VA services, and to discover opportunities to better serve GW1V. Caring for GW1V is a top priority for VA health care providers, which is all the more pressing for the following reasons: 1. medical science of Gulf War Illness and environmental exposures is still at its infancy, 2. most providers have not received any focused education about how to take care of GW1V and the unique medical problems these veterans face, 3. a lack of provider knowledge that GW1V may receive may lead to decreased satisfaction on the part of GW1V and may result in GW1V perceived health service quality that is compromised.
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- currently treated by a primary care physician at the VASLCHCS
Exclusion Criteria:
- cannot read and write English
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|Principal Investigator: Gavin West, MD
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|Study First Received:
|October 5, 2012
|Last Updated:
|October 5, 2012
|Health Authority:
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Keywords provided by University of Utah:
patient satisfaction
Gulf War 1 Veteran
Desert Storm Veteran
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Persian Gulf Syndrome
Occupational Diseases
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[In this tutorial, Paul Rayman explains how artists of all skill levels can use GameDev Animation Studio to create simple 2D animations.]
Simply put, 2D animation is the movement and transformation of objects on the screen in two dimensions. Classic cartoons are good examples: multiple pictures of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck alternate over time and produce the illusion of movement. Modern 2D animation software eases the animation process, eliminating the need to produce tons of frames.
Just like with classic animation, computer 2D animation also consists of frames. A frame is a single picture of an object illustrating position, size and other properties of that object. Adjacent frames are slightly different from each other, so that when the animation is played at full speed -- usually 24 frames per second -- the effect of motion appears. This is similar to cartoons and movies.
In computer animation, however, you typically don't have to draw each and every frame manually. Most 2D animation software allows you to set up keyframes -- frames that specify intermediate positions of an object. The motion of the object between these keyframes is built by the software automatically. The result? You end up with creating keyframes only, while the animation tool calculates and builds the rest of the frames automatically. This process is called interpolation.
The motion between two keyframes can be different -- accelerating, slowing down, coming to a rest, or even all of these in one move. The simplest way to specify how one keyframe should transition to another is to use curves. A curve defines how a specific parameter of an object -- such as a coordinate or a scale -- should vary over time.
Let's take a look at a simple animation example made in the 2D animation program GameDev Animation Studio. We want to make a ball move up, down, and then bounce.
Basically, this means that the vertical coordinate of the object -- the Y-coordinate -- should change from zero (the top of the screen) to the maximum value that corresponds to the bottom of the screen. Then the ball "bounces" -- more specifically, its form gets distorted vertically and is then restored again.
After that, the ball moves up, which means that the Y-coordinate should decrease to zero. Note that due to gravity, the ball moves down with acceleration, while the upward movement must be decelerating. This is mirrored in the slope of the curve: a sharper slope means faster movement, and vice versa.
The curve determining vertical movement of the ball looks like this:
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As you can see, the curve here gradually develops from zero to its maximum. Then, after the peak, it goes back to zero again. The highest value of the curve corresponds to the moment when the ball hits the ground -- this happens in the 30th frame on the timeline. After that, the ball starts moving up.
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