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Posted by Nigel Fenwick on January 18, 2013
Is there a fundamental problem in today's IT? I believe there is, and it's this: IT decision-makers are too often focused on the wrong things.
In a recent study, Forrester examined the top priorities, topics, and terms from a variety of data sources for both business decision-makers and technology decision-makers. What we found was a very clear — and to my mind, troubling — distinction between these two groups.
Business decision-makers focus on topics like growing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, and hiring, developing, and retaining the best talent. By contrast, IT decision-makers focus on topics like improving project delivery performance, improving budget performance, and cutting IT costs.
The fact that IT decision-makers have so little focus on business outcomes is one of the main reasons IT is seen as disconnected from the rest of the business.
The only way for CEOs and CIOs to fix this is to begin to measure IT professionals more in terms of business-outcomes and less on project delivery and system uptime. In other words, we need to measure IT professionals using the same KPIs we use to measure leaders across the rest of the business. This means we must begin measuring IT's impact on things like the change in customer satisfaction (that's the company's customer satisfaction and not IT's internal "customers" as some groups like to refer to other employees in the company), or the increase in sales, or the ability to attract and retain top talent.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 292, May 28, 2004
- System And Account Security
- SX-6 Removal from ARSC
- Crash Trace-Back on the X1
- Iceberg Allocations, Charging, and Loadleveler Classes
- ARSC Summer Tours : Wednesdays 1pm
- Quick Tip
System And Account Security
[ Thanks to Derek Bastille for this reminder... ]
As many of you may know or have seen, there has been an increase in activity on the internet recently that is aimed at gaining unauthorized access to computing centers. Many of the attacks have been aimed at individual workstations. If the attacker gained control of a user's workstation or account, he or she could then attempt to access supercomputers or other systems, masquerading as the legitimate user.
Many of the attacks rely on either un-patched workstations or PCs with old, known vulnerabilities or on folks using insecure applications like plain telnet to connect to systems. Others rely on social engineering and on the "trust" relationships between systems.
Given this activity, it is critical that you, as a user, remain aware of how you are connecting to your workstations and to the supercomputers, and of your general computing environment.
Some tips:
- Regardless of your workstation OS, always keep up to date on all patches, hot-fixes and updates for your system
- Never use insecure applications such as telnet or ftp where your password is passed "in the clear" to connect to remote systems
- Change your passwords regularly and take care to pick "good" passwords ( http://www.arsc.edu/support/policy/password.html )
- Be extra observant of your environment. Things such as unexplained "dot" files or hidden directories, unexplained disconnects, and odd system behavior can all be indicative of an attack or a compromised system
- Never account share. Once you lose track of who logged into which account and when, it becomes very difficult to determine if an access is legitimate
- Never open email attachments from unknown senders
Most of all, don't be afraid or embarrassed to tell your system administrator that there's something you don't understand about your account or that you think your account may actually have been compromised. System administrators much would rather spend a little time verifying that a problem is not serious than spend a much longer time cleaning up after an incident that caught them by surprise. Similarly, if you have any questions about system or account security, contact your center's Help Desk for answers, tips, and pointers.
SX-6 Removal from ARSC
Sad but true, the SX-6 which has graced our machine room for two years is to be removed from ARSC at the end of next month (June, 2004).
This system has been available, through ARSC, to our users and the wider U.S. HPC community for benchmarking and testing. ARSC-sponsored rime users have used this opportunity to port tools to the SX-6, prepare codes for runs on the Japanese Earth Simulator, and to simply benchmark codes on this unique vector architecture.
During its stay in Alaska, "rime" has been jointly managed by Cray Inc. and ARSC. It is returning to Chippewa Falls where it will be managed solely by Cray Inc.
ARSC-sponsored rime users: check the news items on rimegate for specific updates and information. Contact us at email@example.com as questions arise.
Crash Trace-Back on the X1
Trace-back on program abort is available under UNICOS/mp 2.4 (installed on klondike). You must enable it, by setting an environment variable, prior to running your executable . When enabled, if your program crashes, the OS will tell you the subroutine call in which the program aborted and its call tree. Formerly on the X1, this information was only available by running the core file through a postmortem debugger (totalviewcli).
From Cray's release notes:
Enable traceback by setting the interim environment variable TRACEBK to the number of stack frames you would like printed (the maximum is 32).
C shell syntax: % setenv TRACEBK 8 % mpirun -np 4 ./a.out Korn shell syntax: % export TRACEBK=8 % mpirun -np 4 ./a.out
Iceberg Allocations, Charging, and Loadleveler Classes
As noted in the last issue, beginning June 1, 2004, all usage in iceberg's foreground classes (standard, data, debug, lpage, p690, special, and single) will be counted against your allocation. Jobs running in 'bkg' will not be charged.
You're encouraged to read "news queues" on iceberg. It gives details on all the loadleveler classes, their purpose, and how to use them. From that news item, here's information on four classes:standard
'standard' the most general-purpose class. It allows jobs up to 256 processors (32 8-way p655 nodes) to run for 8 hours. Please use 'not_shared' node_usage in this class.p690
'p690' starts up to 32 processor jobs on the p690 nodes. Performance will be best with all processors on the same node. Please use 'shared' node_usage in this class.data
'data' is for data transfers to/from the storage server (seawolf). The $ARCHIVE directories are only mounted on the interactive nodes (b1n1 and b1n2). Please use 'shared' node_usage in this class.bkg
'bkg' is for background work. Jobs running in this class will receive lower starting priority but runtime will not be charged against allocations. During periods of high activity this class may be drained.
ARSC Summer Tours : Wednesdays 1pm
Jump-in to virtual reality at the ARSC Discovery Lab. Take a virtual tour of the home to some of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and check out the latest 3-D applications in development at UAF.
The tour meets at the back loading dock of the library (see map). From the Taku visitor lot, walk up the path and veer right on Tanana Loop. Cross at the first crosswalk, take an immediate right. First loading dock on the left. Reservations are required for groups of ten or more.
2004 Tour Schedule:
June 2-August 25: Every Wednesday, 1 p.m.
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:[[ I want the X1 and SV1 compilers to completely unwind this loop nest: [[ [[ do i=1,3 [[ do j=1,3 [[ do k=1,3 [[ ... [[ enddo [[ enddo [[ enddo [[ [[ There's no "!DIR$ UNWIND" directive, however. Any suggestions? !DIR$ UNROLL 3 do i=1,3 !DIR$ UNROLL 3 do j=1,3 !DIR$ UNROLL 3 do k=1,3 ... enddo enddo enddo (It's not enough to just say "UNROLL"... you've got to give it the 3.) Q: How can I find out what this means? ftn-6205 ftn: VECTOR File = potnl1temp.F, Line = 392 A loop starting at line 392 was vectorized with a single vector iteration. ftn-6003 ftn: SCALAR File = potnl1temp.F, Line = 393 A loop starting at line 393 was collapsed into the loop starting at line 392. (This was output by Cray ftn on my code, when I gave ftn the "-rm" option, for loopmark listings.)
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Poudre Schools Closed on Friday, August 30 due to Heat
ALL PSD schools will be closed tomorrow, Friday, August 30 for due to heat expected to be in the 90s. This includes B.A.S.E. Camp.
All scheduled athletics and after-school events/activities WILL TAKE PLACE as planned.
According to Poudre Schools, the decision to close was not made lightly and is the result of several factors citing that the nighttime cooling procedures that are designed to circulate cool air into the buildings are not as effective because the overnight temperatures have remained hig overnight.
Federal guidelines require that the schools constantly circulate outside air into the buildings during the school day, and since the hot air is being circulated into the buildings, the systems in place are unable to keep up with the rising temperatures.
With 50 schools in the district, there are many different challenges that are faced when heating and cooling the buildings. Air conditioning has not been considered in in building renovations because of the $45-$50 million price tag and the fact that summer temperatures are typically a temporary situation.
As forecasts call for cooler temperatures next week, future heat related closures and dismissal decisions are unlikely.
For more information, please visit psdschools.org.


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I actually don't do very protective styles :/ I wear my hair down a lot and sometimes pony it up but my hair just looks better down. I wish I could come up with some decent styles though!I will once I wash it and style it again -.- I was trying out a new product and my hair does not like it so not at the moment :3 in the growing process I wear my hair in side ponys or high ballerina buns.How about you?
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Pre-CES: Bibble Labs, the maker of the Bibble Pro Raw conversion software, has been purchased by Corel, maker of CorelDraw and PaintShop Pro. The announcement was made by Bibble President Jeff Stephens on the company's blog. According to Stephens' post, Bibble 5.2.3 is the last planned release of Bibble 5. The entire Bibble team has now joined Corel where they are working on developing of an image workflow solution based on Bibble technology. He says the company will continue to support both Mac and Linux. Bibble and Corel will be making an official announcement next week at CES.
I have Bibble light. I like it very much. However I'm not going to fork out more money for some added updates. Corel should be honoring the people who purchased licenses. Offering a $20 discount is stupid. For people that spent $100 for a program. I'll just keep what I have.
I liked Bibble.. I am very happy with Aftershot pro.
Best of luck and great innovation to Corel..
Knock Adobe of thier high horse, really bad customer service and high prices.
Anyone ever hear that there is money in volume. Lower prices more volume...
X Adobe user for now.. Thier last trick did it for me...
Hi everyone: I'm Jeff Stephens, previously the president of Bibble Labs and now I run product development for the new Corel AfterShot Pro. Yesterday was an exciting day for us, launching AfterShot Pro at CES. I hope this answers some of your questions about Corel's purchase of Bibble Labs and the new product.
The Corel team is committed and are excited about our technology and processing power, and the opportunities we see to take the product forward. Corel is eager to invest even more in development and in bringing our technology to even more users -- something that Bibble Labs simply couldn't afford to do on our own. All of us at Bibble have joined the Corel team. We're keeping Mac and Linux support.
Thanks for your enthusiasm. I look forward to hearing your feedback.
Samsung NX100 and NX100 and Ricoh GXR dngs, etc.
Fuji X100 too.
Ricoh GXR (and other Ricoh products) DNG file support.
Oh and it'd be nice if you guys listed what you do support in some obvious easy to find place so that people like me who are willing to give your product a try won't blow the one chance at a free trial period to look at the product only to find that our camera(s) are not supported.
For one, there is no need to purchase a Corel AfterShot license. There is the possibility to perpetuate the use of Bibble 5 under the license, it is presumed one has.
Switching to a Corel AfterShot license is a possibility. This license, in my case, I obtained for NZD $ 19.99 (+/- US $ 15.73 / Euro 12,33 / Can $ 16.11)
Installing Corel AfterShot resulted in also installing my Noise Ninja License.
Why do I, a Bibble 5 Pro licensed user, need to purchase Bibble 5 a second time through Corel using it under a different name - AfterShot Pro? Upgrade price of $79.99 Canadian?
I saw a comment from one of the people close to Bibble on Bibble forums that the upgrade (or sidewaysgrade ) price for Bibble 5 owners will be announced when the product is officially launched at CES this week and that it will be a lot better than the upgrade price shown on Corel's web site.
Time will tell.....
Upgrade pricing for Bibble customers will be emailed shortly.
Did somebody say Synergy? Suck, suck, suck! I hope this isn't the end of Bibble, as it has served me well, but I don't have high hopes for these people now having to work within a bigger corporate structure that will probably try to suppress their ideas.
Downloaded AfterShotPro from Corel, and in effect it seems pretty much the same as Bibble5, although without as many plugins.
I should imagine this is early days, let's hope it carries on getting better.
Perhaps Corel's biggest challenge is that they will need to get a lot more progress and evolution out the door before many people (myself include) will be convinced to invest in an upgrade....Corel, as noted by many in this thread, have a history of blind management and a reputation for killing good products.
Here's my system:
Linux version 3.0.0-14-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
So I guess that at least for now the latest Linux systems are supported :D
I am a long term user of PSP. Recently my use has been decling because I no longer use windows, and running a 32 bit PSP in a virtual box is functional but a terrible waste of my 64 bit multi core processors power.
My workflow starts with Bibble 5 on Linux. I use a corrupt interpretation of the star system. 1 means delete, 2 keep but don't edit, 3 means edit in Bibble is sufficient, 4 means extra work in the Gimp, and 5 stars means that I will need to edit them using the VM. Then I output them to different folders.
You can infer from this that I still find PSP better for the most difficult PP tasks, but I try and avoid it!
So for me having PSP layered photo editing power in Linux along with Bibble RAW technology would be awesome....Roll it on.
Well, that should push RAW software development back 10 years.
Corel will bury it, spend 2 years trying to implement the multi-core
engine into it's own stuff , fail and then give up.
It certainly explains why no bug fixing has been done in the last
two years.
Maybe, Stephens will release Bibble 4 to Open Source,
it would ease some of the pain.
I've been a longtime user of Paint Shop Pro (Since it was owned by JASC). When they were bought by Corel the software suffered greatly, however, I believe they are on the right track with the last couple of releases. I prefer PSPx4 over Photoshop Essentials.
I have a Canon 60D and used DPP to edit RAW images. As a beta tester I used AfterShot before I knew it was formerly Bibble (I knew of Bibble, but never used it) I was really surprised how well I liked it. It does complement Paintshop Pro very well.
Buying Bibble was a good move for Corel. Hopefully Corel will continue to allow the folks at Bibble continue developing a nice piec of software.
I have just tried the new product. It's called Corel AfterShot Pro and it is very similar to B5. The new software costs £80 or £60 as an upgrade from B5, PSP, Lightroom and Aperture. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (which I use) as B5 was.
That's fine as far as it stands but as a Fuji X100 user there is still the problem that it doesn't work with X100 raw files, though I note that PSP X5 does so there may be hope. One more point is that it can process DNG files according to the list on the product page.
So until it supports the X100, I have no personal need to move to the new software as it doesn't offer anything new to me.
I am a Lightroom user but I have used Corel since it first appeared in the early 1990s. Although PS5 is a better product, Corel is easier to use and the integration of the draw and photo package are hard to beat. It is very easy to create nice documents.
That said, Corel Photopaint is a dog when it comes to RAW. Corel needs an improvement. What is ironic is that Lightroom developed from a product called RAWshooter which was a giveaway with the Corel Graphics package (version 8 or so, as I recall).
sorry, but your last sentence is just not true:
pixmantec's RAWshooter was aquired by adobe quite a while after launch of lightroom, and it didn't really contribute anything new to LRM, it's rather been a strategic move.
bibble on the other hand started out several years before adobe even realized that there'd be a market for such product..
markus7701, I was a RAWShooter Premium user, and subsequently, a Lightroom beta tester. Adobe acquired RAWShooter, then turned it into Lightroom. Adobe did not acquire RAWShooter "after" the release of Lightroom, but before, and yes, there were many contributions that RAWShooter made to the development of Lightroom, one being the Vibrance tool.
It's probably a good thing, or at least no worse.
I started using Bibble with version 4 and the whole version 5 series isn't as good. Usability has gone backwards and it takes ages to release support for new cameras.
The speed is impressive and I like the Noise Ninja integration. But aside from that I prefer RawTherapee which is free.
I just did a search on the CES site and neither Corel nor Bibble are going to have a booth at CES or the PMA part of CES. What a shame. Who makes announcements at a show an then doesn't have a floor presence?
To reinforce what has been said, I used to love the Micrografx Picture Publisher product until Corel bought it and then let it die. They claimed the "important" features were rolled into other products. I looked and found some in one Corel product and others in other Corel products and some in NO Corel products.
I too wish Adobe faced some serious competition. I now use Gimp and other open source products for most of my graphics/photo work.
I have just started looking into RawTherapee as a potential replacement once Bibble cannot be run any more under newer Linux versions and to my surprise, it has made quite some progress and appears to be quite usable except for some of the very special features in Bibble (layers, spot cloning etc.).
If the worst case scenario materialises and Bibble or any of its follow-up from Corel is discontinued, at least under Linux, and Bibble itself cannot be run any more, then RawTherapee might have matured enough to be a worthwhile replacement.
I hope I am wrong, but this story reminds me of Midland Bank in the UK before it was taken over by HSBC. The first candidate overtaker was Lloyds Bank, but the spin to make it seem like a merger was that the new entity would have one word each from the predecessors' names: Lloyds from Lloyds, and Bank from Midland.
I liked Bibble 5 enough to buy a copy. I wish Corel every success with the new product, on all operating systems. If I don't like it, they can whistle for my money.
Not selling Bibble 5 anymore seems like a mistake... This is a clear signal that the existing technology is dead. Companies who hire a new employee can't buy a new license.
Linux support is probably dead. That's what Corel did for WordPerfect -- they killed sdcorp, who developed a Linux version, made their own slow and buggy version, which didn't sell, and which was promptly killed.
Access to Corel's Q&A, UI, distribution, etc. teams won't help Bibble. Those teams all suck. Unless Corel plans to buy replacements for all of them too...
Only upside might be that we'll see some features Bibble was ideologically opposed to, but that were essential -- like DNG support.
where did u buy your crystal ball? return it - it gotta be faulty ;)
If only a company could break the Adobe quasi-monopoly..
i've been using Corel since CorelDraw 3 in 1992.
What Corel did her was what Sony did for Minolta - xaved dying company,
If it wasn't for Corel Painter wouldn't be around. And Quatro Pro? Very hard to compete with Microsoft even for OpenSoure. Open Office is not doing really great either.
This is not good news for Bibble users. I've been using Bibble since 2005.
If Corel turns out to be good for Bibble users, it will be a first for Corel. I have no confidence that Corel's ownership will result in a product as good as Bibble. Look what they did to Quattro Pro. Look what they did to <fill in the blank>.
I'll probably continue to use Bibble until someday down the line when I have a camera it doesn't support. Then it will be time to look for a replacement, and I doubt Corel's offering will be among the finalists.
Damon, I love your optimism but, sadly, I disagree.
I used to be a Corel Draw user since 1992. They used to be really innovative, in both UI and features. However, they haven't done anything in the past 5 years or so. Even the Painter program, which they bought, they didn't really innovate much and now Adobe is bringing the same featues in Photoshop.
Corel is a company that is in survival mode. They just go on, and I would be sad to see them gone, but apparently they simply can't innovate anymore.
In contrast to most comments, I'm truly pleased with the news. Developing a top-flight raw converter and everything that goes with it takes serious resources. It's a testament to the Bibble developer's programming skills that they have managed to produce a converter that so efficiently uses the multiple cores of a modern CPU. That's an outstanding accomplishment. Is there any other raw converter that does so well in this respect?
Bibble has evolved hugely in the last decade or so on what I imagine to be limited resources, but like all complex software projects, has shortcomings and rough edges. I expect the product that emerges with Corel's help will be both more polished and have more useful features. I expect there to be more plugins, not less, and I expect they will improve in quality. I also expect that it will be a better marketed product. When I compare the marketing efforts of Bibble to Capture One for instance, it's obvious which product has far more $ behind it!
I think Bibble users are in for disappointment now that Corel is in the picture. Regardless, I'm glad I switched to Lightroom over a year ago.
Corel. The place software goes to die.
Did anyone else read Jeff's post on the Bibble forum before making their comments? Anyway it appears that there will continue to be a Linux solution and that is good news, but you have to wonder how plugins will work. Speaking of plugins it will be really great to have an alternative to the Adobe solution. Being able to use some of the better masking solutions from "Paintshop pro" within the Bibble RAW editing world could be a really great solution. With the bigger development environment available to support the product, we should see a bigger memory mode and maybe GPU acceleration as well as floating windows for two monitor support. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Corel + Bibble = Corel
That's bad news to start this year with...
Time to say goodbye to a great piece of independent RAW workflow software. I've been using Bibble for 6 years on Linux.
The next statement you will read from Corel is that "to optimize customer experience ... blah blah blah ... , we will drop Linux support". Thank you very much.
Then you'll see lots of useless "features", integration into things it doesn't need to be integrated into and finally, it will amalgamate with some of their mediocre software and disappear forever.
It may be the doom's day for me. As I am a Linux user.................
I feel the same.
First Lightzone, now Bibble. :(
Hey, TexJoachim---
LightZone's not quite dead : www.LightZombie.org
And I disagree with the posts about Corel. Is there a better photo editing software out there for the price than PSP---which can often be had for $60? Is there a better paint program than Painter? None that I've seen...
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Peak Design's 'consider every detail' approach shines in the Everyday Backpack. While expensive, it's one of the best options out there for a photographer who needs to pack a lot of stuff in addition to gear.
If you're thinking of using Canon's sports glass on the Sony a9, think again. The ultra-fast camera slows way down when you attach off-brand glass.
The Polish town of Katowice is not known as an area of beauty, but as all photographers know, that doesn't mean that beauty can't be found if you know where to look. Mariusz Pietranek used a drone to look down on the colorful sedimentation tanks at an ironworks.
New York Times video journalist Ben Solomon spent a harrowing three weeks accompanying Iraqi Major Sajjad al-Hour as he and his men fought to retake Mosul from I.S. forces.
The 3D VR camera launched through a crowdfunding campaign in 2015 goes on sale beginning June 26.
Noctilucent clouds, a crescent moon and Venus were visible in the pre-dawn sky over Budapest yesterday. Photographer György Soponyai captured NASA's astronomy picture of the day.
Squirming pets won't sit still for photos? A Kickstarter campaign is looking to help.
Find out how Chris Burkard shifted from editorial photography to his true passions: landscapes, conservation and, of course, surfing.
The updated EyeEm app scans your camera roll and picks images that are composed particularly well, have the best quality, or highest chance of selling on EyeEm Market.
It's three years old but still a solid option for a Micro Four Thirds shooter looking for a high-quality, fast, wide-angle prime. Take a look at how we got along with it.
Tamron has announced the longest all-in-one zoom lens currently available, the 18-400mm F3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD. Designed for Canon and Nikon crop-sensor cameras, the lens will be available in July.
When you're ready to step-up to full-frame from an entry-level or midrange camera, the choices can be overwhelming. Find out which models came out on top in our $1200-2000 enthusiast ILC roundup.
Just a guy wearing a VR headset, smashing invisible Goombas in Central Park.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this gorgeous aerial photo of the Martian landscape. And if you look really close, you can actually see the Mars Curiosity rover in the very middle.
The city of Laguna Beach, California has provided some clarification around the kinds of photography permits it offers.
Later this year, a VR180 camera will be Joining Yi's Halo and 360 VR cameras, which will offer stereo 3D capture, yet be as easy to use and compact as a 2D camera.
Caltech researchers have developed an 'optical phased array' chip that uses time delays instead of a lens to focus the incoming light.
Pricing and shipping have finally been revealed for two highly anticipated lenses from Sigma, announced in February.
These macro photos of clouds of paint billowing through clear water might look like high-quality CGI, but they're real photographs. And photographer Alberto Seveso told us how they were made.
Facebook is testing a feature that prevents people from saving, sharing, or even taking a screenshot of your profile picture.
We've reshot the Sony a9 in our studio. The short story: it's sharper! The long story... well you can read it all here.
The collection will be officially launched during the Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017 crowdsourcing event which will be held on 22 and 23 June at the Berlin State Library.
Light gives us some insight into the preparations for the launch of the pre-order shipments of its much anticipated L16 multi-lens camera.
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has confirmed in a tweet that the second lens on the back of the OnePlus 5 uses a 1.6x optical zoom and that digital zoom is used to reach the claimed 2x zoom factor.
Fujifilm recently unveiled the second in its series of affordable cine lenses, the MK50-135mm T2.9. We got our hands on it for a couple days and took it for a spin.
Leica's first attempt at an M-series digital rangefinder was rough around the edges, but set a pattern for all of the cameras that came after it. In this week's Throwback Thursday article, Barney remembers the M8.
No stranger to extreme situations, legendary climber and filmmaker Jimmy Chin talks to Outside Magazine about his career, and the challenge of filming Alex Honnold's rope-free solo climb of El Capitain.
A company backed by Android co-founder Andy Rubin is attempting to make video conferencing less terrible.
Rangefinder magazine asked five professional portrait and wedding photographers about posting on Instagram; no surprise, they got five different answers.
This captivating stop motion film was created by stripping away one layer of wood at a time. It's hard to look away.


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Well my Fett build is almost done in time for the local Toy Convention in June, thought I'd share on my progress again since my last ESB helmet update.This Jetpack is made by my good friend MLC. Although not as accurate as the BBF,MOW or the like, I just did my best to make it as accurate as "I" can. ;) the stabilizer tip is also a bit long ;DThe JP collar,stabilizer,and beacon are made out of machined aluminum that I had made, as well as the greeblies on the two exhaust's. I also had to modify the back of the JP so I could mount the hooks in the right angle and place. Hope you guys like it & comments are always welcome!
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Memory of Barnett's Grandfather Leads Her To Success
By Justin Grones (@JustinGrones)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Following a historic 99-53 win against UIC on Feb. 2, the mood surrounding the Green Bay women's basketball team couldn't have been much brighter. The team had just won its 12th-straight game, had scored the most points in a game in more than seven years and would be playing four of the next five games at home.
But for freshman Brionna Barnett (Elkhart, Ind.), the win was overshadowed by news she had received just an hour prior to the game. Her grandfather-and biggest fan-had passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer.
"He was sick on and off for the past couple of years and it just got bad enough that he couldn't take it anymore. I was heartbroken, I felt like it wasn't real, and it still doesn't feel real," Barnett said.
As a true freshman, Barnett started her collegiate career off strong, tallying eight points in the first two games this season. From there she saw limited action until a 71-44 win against Wright State on Jan. 12, when she played 14 minutes and drained a three-gaining praise from her biggest fan.
"He made it to a couple games this year and never missed any of my sporting events," Barnett said. "It was awesome-he always told me 'good game' even if I didn't play or didn't play well and he was always there to cheer me on."
After the win against UIC, Barnett spent time in her home state of Indiana with her family. While going through one of the toughest experiences of her life, she cited her teammates and the Green Bay coaching staff for helping keep her spirits high.
"Brionna is a great player and always works extremely hard in practice," head coach Kevin Borseth said after a recent game. "To go through something like that is never easy for anyone, but she's done a great job of working through it and staying positive."
Barnett didn't appear in the win against UIC or at Loyola the following week, but returned to the court in the win against Milwaukee on Feb. 9, playing two minutes. Just five days later, she would have the best game to date of her collegiate career.
When she checked in against Cleveland State in the second half on Feb. 14, there was just over 14 minutes left on the clock and the Phoenix had a 46-27 lead. Thanks to an incredible day from the field, she helped turned what had started as a close game into a 37-point victory.
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I emailed Jamie today and he says he will install BerryBlab for the blackberry users here!
Any chance VB supports per-thread RSS feeds?
this junior senior member stuff. not feelin it.
I've been going through all the sub-forums.... I can't find squat. Then again I was active in over 150 threads.
Search isn't up yet.
My IM history contains SHIP TO address for people that bought stuff.
They've already stated IM data and Watched topics will NOT be imported, this format can't interface with the data.
Its a crappy deal, but I have a lot of data on the forum that I need to get access to. Sorry
I have a bad feeling that this is either going to tank the VMG, or completely destroy the Vortex "community"
So you assumed Vortex would always be here, then it wasn't. Lesson: don't make assumptions, backup your ****.
drop>drive>destroy>dispose | "You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke." ~ P. J. O'Rourke
"I might get crucified for this but, I honestly believe that people who hate on other automotive sub-cultures are not real car fans." ~ Paddy McGrath
There was no reason to believe that there was a problem or issue? I work a supply chain for a supercharger manufacturer, I don't follow software lawsuits or news.
I'm just saying, they had a bit of time, they could have backed that data up, and they didn't.
Per Brad:
Thanks for the support, Mike.
As said above, we had no choice here. Even moderators and staff lost data that they had in their notepads and watched topics.
Such is life, but the priority right now is getting everything back in line, as to not interrupt service to our subscribers.
FireVortex (sorry, no more)... bunch of VWs.
I came back for #Dieselgate
I think the real problem, is going to be all the Advertisers that just cancel there advertising payments, as the switch is a breach of contract. It gives every advertiser on here a way "out" and option to get all thier advertising dollars back.
I have a bad feeling that this will be the end of Vortex for alot of people. If advertiser's leave, vortex loses money, if people don't like what the forums will become in time as the programmers are working on it, they lose traffic. Not a good combination.
I don't get this. If the two creators of ZeroForum had a law suit issue and now they are not in control of the software anymore, what the gwurgb does that have to do with Vortex? I read that ZeroForum was in control by another party now because of the law-suit, so I dont' see anywhere why the forum is changing, just continue to pay for ZeroForum through the new company and BAM, Vortex is awesome again.
I loved the old forums because it is not like any other forum I belong to (most of which were vBulletin based). I hope this turns out for the better, and we can eventually get ZeroForum back and until then make vBulletin work for awhile.
A big thumbs up to the VMG programmers who are working on this.
Vortex was renting the ZF software from RelyNet, and hosting VWVortex on RelyNet servers. The other guy sued the owner of RelyNet for ZeroForum, and won. he offered to rent back the ZF software, and they were innegotiations but the other day he opffered the software for over 16 times what the normal fee was before that point (reportedly Vortex was paying $15,000 for 6 month's use, the new owner asked for $250,000). The owner of ZF said to Vortex, "it's my software... pay the quarter mil or stop using it immediately". So they took the only logical choice.
Now does everyone understand how ****ty a situation it was?
not sure if it has been mentioned or taken care of, but peoples SIGNATURES? thing i hate about most forums are the obnoxious sigs with Pictures, videos, tags, etc. makes it hard to even read the content
need webhosting or design, PM me!
give me the name of the new owner of zeroforum so i can rip him a new one
FireVortex (sorry, no more)... bunch of VWs.
I came back for #Dieselgate
On another note, if I go and re-post all the stuff i had listed in the classifieds, will I be "smacked" for breaking a rule, even when I have no means to find my old threads, considering there is no search function or watched topics?
I see a crap ton of duplicate threads already.
The admin is in for a real nightmare, after the software kinks are ironed out, in just cleaning up the clutter.
@cetanepusher - we have heard your opinions - restating them over and over and going outside the scope of this thread won't speed anything up. Please have some patience.
FireVortex (sorry, no more)... bunch of VWs.
I came back for #Dieselgate
Folks - this thread is NOT about the details of what happen - Please read the title - filling the thread only dilutes getting the message to VMG to help fix important issues.
FireVortex (sorry, no more)... bunch of VWs.
I came back for #Dieselgate
new vortex is getting better and better by the hour, seems you guys are working super hard to get things back on track.
short list of things im looking for.
1. everything is bling. icons next to every post. bigger text, taking up more space on the page, leaving tons of dead room.
just looking for the same basic clean minimalistic style that we used to have. more content per page.
2. better PM handling, seems pms are to complicated with this new setup. not sure if VB has plugins to six this or not.
3. image resizing, bigger picures will be resized to fit the forum window.
biggest concern is the theme, if you can cut out all the annoying icons and make the thread listings cleaner i will be much happier.


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We took the wife's Bersa T380 out to the range today. She is loving it more each time she shoots it. She took a freind with her, and the two are now making plans to take the CHL course together.
I pity the instructor ...
:prayer: :blah:
I am trying to get my mother to buy one for her CHL class she will be taking w/ me when I do my renewal.
My wife loves her's , I traded off her Sig P230 because she has carpel tunnel and the safety on the slide of the Bersa is easier for her to rack the slide .
I am the wife that fell in love with her Bersa 380. I have been so disinterested in hand guns, but was trying to be supportive and go to the range to watch my husband shoot and to sometimes take a turn and shoot also. Then all of a sudden I started really having a good time. I love my gun. It fits my hand well and I am becoming less afraid of it as I learn how to clean it and operate it. I will be ready to take the class soon, with or without my friend.
WOOOO !!!! HOOOO!!!! Go 3Reds go dear lady. I love it when women get involved in shooting. My wife stands in a lane next to me tearing up them X rings. Shes got her own set of guns from a .45 to a .32 and she is one good shot with any of them. Good luck with your class.
Oh no, not another gun! So far I am happy with just having one and shooting some of the others that my husband has. I'm enjoy shooting his 9mm and his 38 revolver. The 45 is a little too much gun for me, but I am doing better. The first time I learned to rack the slide on his 9mm I ripped my fingernails off. Wasn't good. I am getting tougher though and who can say what I will want to shoot in the future.
Go Kathy go. By this time next year you will be chewing them fingernails off for they don't get in your way. http://smileys.on-my-web.com/reposit...ks/ok-wink.gif
Just kid'en ya....
When mama is happy, everyone is happy.
This is funny, for before today my opiion of the Bersa 380 wasn't to great. Well, I went to the range today and after I finished going through my 250 rds of 9's and 40's and was settling the tab a fellow next to me was looking at the little Bersa Thunder's. I listened to the chatter and ask if I could see it (couldn't resist). Well I was surprised with how well it was made, the nice way it felt in my hand and how many of the guy's there owned one and had very high opinions of the inexpensive little pistols. One thing led to another and before long about three or four of us went back to the range with a couple of their Bersa Thunder .380's. Well....to say the least, it was fun and educational in that it became evident that price isn't everything. THOSE ARE NICE LITTLE PISTOLS! Accuracy isn't bad up to 30' and I can see how a new shooter wouldn't be intimidated with it. It was really fun to shoot.:smt023
I may just have to try one of those little rascals.
The gunshop/range was asking $329 for a blue one. Seemed a little high so I thought I would ask if you know of any really good deals you could tell me about?
Or, if there's an Academy near you, they sell the blue model for about $220.
That's great Kathy! Just be easy on your husband. Often women will out shoot their mates. If my wife ever got interested she may be the one to out shoot me and I use to be pretty good. 47 years, myopic eyes and a wife being 13 years younger can be hard on my ego (also good on it!). Ah, but I love her so if she out shoots me I'll be as happy as a tick on a fat leach.
It's also is nice to have another woman here. Welcome! I think the biggest problem for people, not just women, in shooting and guns in general is lack of knowledge. Once you find out that they (guns) can't attack you at any time without human intervention and that they are darn fun to shoot then your trepidation about them diminishes.
Hopefully my wife will join us here some day and add her two cents. Her name is Kathy too by the way.
I am still enjoying shooting my Bersa 380. I am going to take the conceal carry class in a few weeks. My husband has put me through the test a couple of times and I think I am ready.
Thanks for the tip on Buds $215 for the duo tone Bersa is a very attractive and tempting price.
I'm curious....While I was at the Buds web site I checked on the PPK/S 380 prices. In your opinion or anyone else who wants to chime in ... is the PPK/S worth twice as mush $428? Is the PPK/S twice the gun?
For $428, you'd do better to buy two T-380's. Better yet, buy one T-380, take the $200+ you save and buy a couple of spare magazines, a nice holster and 500 rounds of ammo to shoot in your new Bersa!
Nope, it isn't worth twice the price of the Bersa (IMHO)
OK, OK, So I don't have any willpower! When I saw that $215, 28.38 shipping and insurance + $25.00 my FFL costs me thats about $275. NOT BAD when you consider my locat's are asking from $329- 355 and change for the blue or the duotone.
I can't wait to get it and take it to the range.
I need a little more of your help if you would induldge me.
Where can I find reasonably priced mag's and what kind/style holsters are you using for your Bersas?
Thanks again to everyone for your opinions and for putting me on to the great price at Buds.
Jim :watching:
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Collecting data is relatively easy, but turning raw information into something useful requires that you know how to extract precisely what you need. With this insightful book, intermediate to experienced programmers interested in data analysis will learn techniques for working with data in a business environment. You'll learn how to look at data to discover what it contains, how to capture those ideas in conceptual models, and then feed your understanding back into the organization through business plans, metrics dashboards, and other applications.
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By Ricky Rick
from Boston, MA
About Me Designer, Developer, Sys Admin
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I think that this is overall a really good book on data analysis. The author drawing from his experience really adds a lot of value. I also like how he covers a lot of ground on different topics and really tries to clarify the concepts within the text. Overall, I'd definitely recommend this book to someone when it concerns getting a good introduction on all those topics. This isn't a reference book or technical manual.Weak point would be some of the examples, but then I don't think that is the main focus of the book. He does cover a lot of different technologies. If a reader is interested in a specific case, I'd say grab an additional book that is more detailed on the subject (like an R or Python book, which can add value).I think this book is most useful to someone with a basic understanding of statistics, programming and familiar or has heard about the concepts in the book. Initially, 2-3 years ago, I read this book and didn't understand it that well. Now after being a developer for some time and having studied statistics on my own, I can really appreciate this text more.
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Best into to data analysis around
By Ted Dunning
from San Jose, CA
About Me Designer, Developer, Maker
This book is the best I have seen for giving a concise and useful introduction to data analysis for developers. It gives practical examples of solutions to important problems. Now that the author has made code available on-line, the few complaints that others have raised have been resolved.I have plenty of books with all the math. And there are plenty of books that cover these issues at a fluffy level. This book strikes a balance that is likely to make it much more useful to many more people. Frankly, I think it is better than either of the books I have written.This book is good enough that I have not only recommended it to others, I given it to others. Yeah... it is good enough to put my own money down.Go get it.
just 'excellent'
By Old Codger
from San Diego, CA
This book is very much in line with what an O'Reilly text is all about. Clear, concise explanatory narrative with examples to illustrate and aid complete understanding. Not only is the author good, but the editors seem to have disciplined the flow of the book well also.I have nothing but praise for the way the author presents difficult things in easy terms. The author has a very clear understanding of the subjects discussed and so his explanations are clear and have made some things that were a very diffuclt for me to comprehend for many years immediately obvious. Thank you, thank you all.
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Full of wisdom, not just techniques
By Brice
from Paris, France
About Me Developer, Sys Admin
This book is enlightening. Not only it discusses the techniques with sufficient details, but it also gives a clear idea of what is behind them and how to use them. It really enables one to extract meaning out of the data.As an example, chapter 9 about statistics is not your usual enumeration of p-values, t-tests and the like. Instead, it says everything that is NOT in your usual textbook. This chapter starts with this: "[here], I want to explain what classical statistics does, why it is the way it is, and what it is good for". Then the author goes on explaining the design goals of the usual methods. And from those design goals, he concludes about situations in which they are useful, and their limitations. This gives much more insight than what I had read before.And the whole book is this way: full of rare but very useful information, and wisdom. It's also relatively easy to read (some of the most difficult parts are optional and marked as such) and contains many references.However, it is not so much about software tools, though there are examples of how to use some of them.
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An complete voyage into Data Analysis
By Zalakain
from Iruña, Nafarroa
About Me Designer, Developer
Very good and comprehensive exercise by Mr Janert on how to produce "readable" graphs (read information) on top of massive data volumes, all with open source tools. This is not a book showing samples or "how-to" code that you can run easily on your app (HTML- or OS-based). Instead it goes much deeper than that, explaining the math that supports the data analysis, lots of the statistical theory underlying the data analysis processes, etc. But this is not a book to read during commutes or trips on ebook format, but to be read whilst at home or in a quiet place instead, giving it the care and attention if deserves.There are also many good things about it too: the Workshops provided are very good step-by-step descriptions of the process taken by Mr Janert to solve them. Given that the subject of the book is dense, this seems like the best idea to help understanding what has been talked about.Many kinds of graphs (like jitter plots, scatter, mosaic plots, kohonen maps, etc.) and the logic underlying them (logarithms, pareto, regression, estimations, Monte Carlo simulation, etc.) are covered in this book. So I find it a great source of information that can be perfectly used as a superb reference book when developing a projects requiring graphical analysis tools on big volumes of data.
Complex Subject Matter Clearly Explained
By doug
from San Francisco
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I used this book as a reference--but it's not a 'Cookbook'. In fact, there are plenty of recipes for any of the techniques in this Book, available on the Net. What i don't often find there are well-written explanations of these techniques in sufficient detail to allow you to sit down and code your own implementation from start to finish. This is the real value of this DAWOST. The explanations of Kohonen Maps and Discrete-Event Simulation are particularly excellent.
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Data Analysis w/ Professional Experience
By Eder Andres Avila
from Paipa, Colombia
About Me University Student
This is a book about how to design a strategy to understand the organization's data collected using statistical, graphical, analytical and reporting methods and open source tools. This book explains the major concerns about how to extract the information that the data tries to show about products, finances, processes and others. For that purpose, every information engineer should consider:• The underlying properties of data• The ways to represent the current status of the data• The criteria to select relevant data and attributes• The algorithms to analyze the selected data and attributes• The ways to report the conclusions of the performed data analysis.The author Philipp K. Janert takes a designer approach rather than an implementer approach. That means that you will gain important suggestions and tips to propose a plan for data analysis, instead of how to build an entire or partial information infrastructure using open source tools like Python, R, PostgreSQL and Weka.Then, for some developers the lack of full programming constructs may be disappointing. However, I feel that Philipp K. Janert's main goal is to share with us his own professional experiences in real world enterprise analytical projects from a requirements perspective. In fact, many reference and recipe books cover deeply the aforementioned open source technologies so you can start to build a data analysis subsystem from zero, but without this book, you can lack the enterprise's point of view, something much more related to data architecture and data policies.Despite the implementer approach is not fully covered, you'll be able to understand how the analytical demands can be satisfied using specifically the programming languages Python and R given its speed of execution, numerical analysis capabilities and cross-platform support. Each chapter contains both the Philipp K. Janert's professional experience and the core programming snippets that make such concepts a programming asset.In conclusion, if it is true that this book will not guide you to develop a data analysis tool with all the specific programming details of Python and R, it is also true that you will gain worthy professional experiences to design strategies, architectures and policies for data analysis.This review is in exchange of the O'Reilly Bloggers Review Program (oreilly.com/bloggers).
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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
By Levon
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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools is an excellent primer for those who need an overview of the field of Data Analysis, along with pointers to some of the most popular free and open source tools.The book does have it's short comings. There are places where the text is either confusing to read, or just wrong, and they should have a website with links to all of the tools presented, along with the data used with the examples in order to make it easier for the reader to follow along with the examples and jump-start them playing with the tools presented. The presentation of a set of analytic techniques, followed by a workshop where one of the tools is introduced to work through a real example is a strong point of this book. I also appreciated the informal description of classical statistics to help provide context to the subject. This is something that should accompany any introductory text on classical statistics. It both gives an opportunity to see the techniques in action and provides some pointers for those wanting more hands-on experience with a set of techniques. Overall, I would recommend this as the best primer to Data Analysis techniques that I have come across, but it still fall short of being an excellent book.
Merchant response: The author has provided some data sets and example files at http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596802363/ For data sets that are publicly available, he didn't replicate the data set, but included the URLs where you can find those data sets. Also, he explained that not all figures in the book have an attached data set; many figures are function plots or otherwise dynamically generated. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the forum (http://forums.oreilly.com/category/107/Data-Analysis-with-Open-Source-Tools/) or email email@example.com, our book technical support.
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Decent overview of data analysis
By Robert, a software engineer
from Royersford, PA
If you are expecting a book filled with examples of NoSQL databases like Hadoop and Cassandra, you are definitely going to be disappointed. The key with this book is to look at the cover. Data analysis is the main point of this book, and open source tools are really just a nice sidebar. The data analysis information is fairly solid and ranges from some basic methods, through statistics and eventually getting to some machine learning methods like clustering and categorization. The open source tools portions of the book are based on examples of the various analysis methods, but do not delve too deeply into how the tools work.Some people may think that some important statistical methods were missing, but the author follows each chapter with recommended resources. These recommendations end up being a huge collection of excellent books that you could review for deeper treatment of the various topics.The appendices are fantastic. The first talks more about programming tools, the second gives a nice overview of some of the calculus used in the book, and the third talks about where to get the data you want to work with and how to work with it, like cleaning the data and normalizing it. In some cases, you may even want to start with the appendices before getting into the meat of the book.
assorted techniques for large data sets
By Morris
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This book has a bunch of examples of using various tools to try to learn something useful from large sets of data.I often find myself in a situation where I have some millions of records of something, and I have to figure out what is going on. Much of the book is examples drawn from project that the author worked on, but I find his ideas useful in my work.The book is not a set by set cookbook, teaching you how to use various tools. It is much more about giving you ideas of what you might want to do, and then at the end of the chapter giving a short discussion on what tools the author has experience with for that type of work.I would use this book to answer the question: "What type of analysis might be useful?" but not the question "How exactly do I perform the analysis using [GNUPlot or R or whatever]?"
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Quick Overview
A steam table is a valuable addition to any restaurant or supermarket operation where serving and holding hot food at proper temperatures is must for customer satisfaction. Providing a variety of functions such as holding side dishes, preparing food for a large group or for general cafeteria use, a quality steam table is a necessary piece of equipment. This 48" 3 Well Steam Table (CWS-48) by Universal MFG will prove to be a great investment for your business.
Product Description
|Universal MFG
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|311 lbs.
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|6" Adjustable
|Stainless Steel Wells & Body
|Compatible with "Hotel" Pans
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|Safety Valve
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Overall User Rating:(5 out of 5 stars from 3 reviews)
Customer Rating 1 5
I needed to add a 4 ft steam table application to our min/super mart. We found elite restaurant equipment online and like the fact they were based in Brooklyn NY, since we are in Manhattan, NY. The gas steam table is stainless steel which is good to prevent rust and holds 3 full hotel size pans. We use this cook to warm hot food like rice, vegetables, pasta and more. The delivery people were very nice and brought the steam to table to its designated location. After this good experience i will keep this company in mind for any products we may need in the future.
Posted on 9/13/2014 by Tony C.
Customer Rating 1 5
We purchased this steam table for our mart to increase revenue with hot food. We bought it about 6 months ago from eliterestaurantequipment.com. Our electrician said gas would be easier and cheaper for us to install. a 3 well gas steam table that is 48" fit the space we have perfectly. We have a chef that prepares hot food 3 times a week such as: rice, chicken, fish, vegetables, and more. We purchased smaller pans to have the ability to give our customers variety. This steam table arrive about a week after we placed the order. We think we got a great deal, shipping was free too. We are very happy we found these guys.
Posted on 7/2/2014 by Mark V.
Customer Rating 1 5
Put this unit in my Mexican restaurant and hooked it up to the propane tank, and lit it up. Worked perfectly. This gas steam table heats soups and sides and keeps them hot all day long. Very good drain system, and easy to clean. A super buy. We received the gas steam table about a week after purchasing it online. These guys know their restaurant equipment, highly recommend.
Posted on 6/26/2014 by Jose M.
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