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Alright. Pardon me for bumping a long abandoned thread, but for the record: updated staff/cast commentaries. It's taken this long partially because of the other stuff I worked on last year, and partially because I wanted to go through it quite thoroughly - so lots of new and a few corrected points here and there.
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So, I finally made it to Frontier! So does anyone feel like re-watching this series as I go through it for the first time? It's been kind of lonely marathoning through the franchise by myself, so I was hoping with the 30th anniversity and that this series isn't that old there may be some peeps that wanna re-watch for old time sake.
I'll prolly start watching it in a couple of days(because of work), but my plan is to watch the pilot, Deculture Edition first, then the series, and finally the movies. Let me know if your interested.
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I'm interested in a re-watch. Problem is that I have a health condition that comes with terrible pain and I'm prone to having flare ups that can last for weeks, so I don't know if I can participate on a regular basis. I could barely move since last thursday, much less watch anything.
How long do you think it'll take for you to finish the series? If I can keep up, I'll try.
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'Galactic fairy, my ass. She's just a bitch.' Pretty much sums up my first impression of Sheryl. I'm sure Mao is really pleased of what her granddaughter turned into. But I'm sure she'll get knocked down a peg or two pretty soon. Eyes are bleeding with all the CG effects and smooth animation. And I'm also getting is vibe from the first ep. that I haven't felt since SDF. Alto, yo, if you don't wanna be confused with a girl, cut the hair! Don't have any comment on Ranka yet, but an overly crazy fangirl!
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Which version did you watch? Deculture, broadcast or Yakk Deculture? It's always shocking to see how much the broadcast version lacks compared to the other two.
Spoiler for For length and all three versions:
The credits are also interesting, all three have Sheryl listed before Ranka, even though Ranka seems to be more of a focus in the Deculture Edition and even sings the endings to two of them. This is one of the reasons I don't get why people thought Sheryl was not meant to be a lead character, the three are even seperated from the rest in the listing to point this out.
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Alto, at first was annoying, but after joining the SMS and having Micheal knocking him down a peg; I'm starting to like him more. Overall, I like how they are play homage to SDF, because I really enjoyed that show. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed 7, but for me SDF set the standard of what Macross should be and so far Frontier hasn't disappoint.
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I outdid myself then, I just finished episode 6 on my re-watch in spite of my awful headache and lack of sleep, so I'll leave my impressions on episodes 2-6 here now. I'll be back to correct my grammar later, I promise, but it was hard enough to write in this state.
I hope this is okay, I'm taking notes, something I didn't do before so I can get back to these whenever I want to. Spoiler for Episode 2 - Hard Chase:
Spoiler for Episode 3 - On Your Marks:
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I wasn't planning on doing this - and I certainly don't have the time to watch any of these episodes again, even though I really want to - but on a few of the things you said...
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The eye-catches are pretty, but also pretty random so that fits with what kawamori said. Quote:
Possible that it has something to do with the editing, the 3 versions of episode 1, especially the broadcast version shows what difference it can make, to switch scenes. And the music. The BGM for some of the scenes was so bad. Quote:
Indeed. As much as episode 4 was full of great moments for them as a possible future couple, episode 6 highlighted that not only did they have problems communicating, but that Alto didn't pick up that Ranka was sad for some reason. She just had her first big break, got a concert ticket to see her idol and she isn't jumping for joy at all. Add to that the way she acted and it was clear as daylight, but he didn't bother to ask. I won't blame Ranka for not asking him out right, that's just not how she is, that's Sheryl's style.
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Sheryls antics are getting more and more good by the minute. Not only in enrolling in school, but also dragging Alto on her misadventures.
But so far, I'm really enjoying the rise of Ranka to stardom. Even though she didn't win Miss Macross, which would've seal the deal, she worked hard doing small odd jobs and finally making her big break in the Birdman movie. Had Sheryl not kissed Alto, would Ranka still the take the Mao role? I'm really happy for her, because her hard work is finally paying off, and at the end of episode 10, we are witnessing the beginning of a new star. Of course, if she's Frontiers version of Minmey, then things are going to get alot harder, ie not having enough time to spend with friends or with Alto. As Sheryl keeps making advances toward Alto and Rankas work load increasing shes far behind in that race. Kinda hope they go into Altos Kabuki past and develop on that.
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Ironically, I was biased on which direction the Star Date went here. The flow of the episode had been fine up until that point in which it appeared they'd plotted many different ideas and jumbled them all together. So for the first part, Sheryl is examining things whilst Alto is just barreling off in search of something (looking in different directions and supporting AR fans here) then returns to her side at noticing he'd lost her (off screen). Then they are spending time together honestly. And then we return to him once again searching for something and not paying attention to her. The whole direction of the episode seemed torn between the two girls here, as Alto was put in the middle of "search for Ranka" or "spend the day with Sheryl." And quite frankly, the animators and directors couldn't pick one so they did both infrequently. And like everyone above says, it failed miserably...
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Turbine, perhaps understandably, did little to promote this sale to current players who do not yet own the expansion - I only found out about it when DDO Cast re-tweeted a tweet about the sale. In fairness, the expansion has been around for a few months now, so most dedicated players probably snagged it at full price. Personally, I was almost certainly going to wait for a sale anyway, so
it's not like I jumped on this instead of paying Turbine directly, though at least they would have gotten to keep the whole $25 through a sale on their own store.
Much like physical retail, the daily deal on steam does get a slot on the frontpage that all steam users see when they log in each day - I have no idea whether the studio provides Steam with a discount in exchange for this coveted placement, but it would not surprise me. Presumably, being discoverable by steam customers is the primary incentive for games going on the service in the first place, especially for online games that can generate ongoing revenue that cuts out the steam middle man.
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One of the issues that often irk today's ultra-busy woman is the need for an equitable division of labor. She longs for her husband and children to do their fair share in keeping the household operating efficiently. She wants coworkers to pitch in at the workplace. Complaints abound when the major part of the responsibility falls on female shoulders.
Our animal family members have wrapped their paws around this prickly issue and come up with their own creative solutions.
We have no idea how the animals, who share our home, have decided what chores they should do or how they've figured out which of them should have certain responsibilities. We just know that they do.
The division of labor goes something like this.
Leaf sleeps near the bedroom hallway door if Linda or Allen are out of town, as if he is waiting for them to return. This isn't where he sleeps at night when his two humans are both home. He is normally on his doggy bed. He also has ultimate responsibility for keeping watch if Allen is out of town because he becomes the man of the house.
Cuddles, our black kitten with white-mitten paws, is Linda's guardian angel. Cuddles follows her charge everywhere and won't even take a nap until she knows exactly where her female human is. Whenever Cuddles sleeps on the bed with Linda, she takes on the task of waking her a minute before the alarm rings. She licks her human's fingers or bites them, if Linda won't get up right away.
Food preparation comes under the watchful eye of our eager dog, Leaf. What meal would be complete without Leaf being alert for any escaping pieces of food that might hit the floor?
Sunshine is the household's watch-bird. If anyone approaches our home, he screeches at the top of his lungs. No one could ever sneak past his watchful vigilance.
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Preeclampsia is – depending on the country– either the first, second, or third leading complication of pregnancy that causes death – either to the mother or baby. And the reported statistics do not include the morbidity and "near misses" that go unreported. Preeclampsia is a life-threatening disorder that occurs only during pregnancy and up to a few weeks after delivery. Preeclampsia and related disorders such as HELLP syndrome and eclampsia affect about one in ten pregnancies and are most often characterized by a rapid rise in blood pressure that can lead to seizure, stroke, multiple organ failure and death of the mother and/or baby.
So what can we do about it?
As executive director, I frequently talk about the Preeclampsia Foundation's mission running on two parallel tracks: One track must be focused on what we know today – what must we do better with what we already know? Right now, we know that in order to address preeclampsia we must ensure an accurate and speedy diagnosis, followed by high quality care (which includes access to magnesium sulfate), and access to facilities and expertise to care for premature babies. The other track, however has our headlights aimed far ahead, investing in research and envisioning a future where preeclampsia is prevented or at the very least effectively treated with something other than delivery of a preterm baby.
Surely by the time my children are having children we will understand the root cause of this disease so that interventions can prevent it from occurring in the first place, somewhere in the first trimester, or even before conception.
It is with this mindset that I eagerly participated in the World Health Organization's (WHO) invitational workshop in late April, in Geneva, to determine the research priorities for maternal and newborn health between now and 2025. With the 2015 deadline for MDG 4 and 5 looming, it's time to start looking beyond it, particularly since it's unlikely we will meet the maternal and infant mortality reductions specified in these Millennium Development Goals.
As home to the global headquarters for the United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Council of Churches (among others), Geneva's multiculturalism reminds me of how important the international part of the Preeclampsia Foundation's agenda is and how broad our perspective and sensitivity needs to be, for women and babies in Kansas and Kenya.
As those in attendance poured over hundreds of questions, I was struck by how far away the year 2025 seemed, and yet much of our debate around the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy mirrored conversations we had a decade ago. We know what works to treat preeclampsia. But we must focus on a forward-looking agenda to understand more about what causes preeclampsia—and how to prevent it. While treatment including magnesium sulfate and antihypertensives are critical components to an obstetric kit today, neither medical intervention ever bought a 24-week baby another six weeks in a healthy womb.
We call upon the international community – policymakers, researchers, clinicians and funding organizations – to not settle for incremental solutions. When countries of limited resources try to tackle preeclampsia, all energy is applied to magnesium sulfate – access, acceptance, and ability. Unfortunately, the discussion often ends there – as if that alone will solve the medical conundrum of preeclampsia/eclampsia that leaves mothers and babies ill or dead.
As a case in point, the seminal Magpie Trial was stopped early when there was overwhelming evidence in favor of the intervention— magnesium sulfate more than halved the risk of eclampsia, and reduced the risk of maternal death by almost half, compared with a placebo.
Those are strong, conclusive findings by anybody's analysis, unless you were a family member for one of the women for whom it did NOT prevent eclampsia, or death, or severe morbidity. Or for whom a baby was stillborn or born entirely too early.
Make no mistake, magnesium sulfate – as with antihypertensives - is a critical first step and we're greatly supportive of the thinking underway at PATH to remove obstacles to this basic standard of care. But the strength of powerful organizations and great minds is lost if that's where we lean back and call it a good day's work.
If it were enough, the more than 80,000 premature babies – an estimated 20 percent of preterm births that are due to preeclampsia – and hundreds of deceased mothers in the US, where medical shelves are fully stocked with this treatment, would not trouble us.
As I leave Geneva, I'm left with a feeling of optimism and impatience. I would submit that the international maternal-newborn health community would do well do adopt a similar two-pronged mission to preeclampsia and its effects on women and babies: universal access to what we know today – and thus realize improvements to our unacceptable mortality rates - with a parallel mission to create a better solution for tomorrow, recognizing that every life matters.
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When thinking about America's prettiest towns, several homey and picturesque places come to mind, and Kapaa, Kauai definitely fits right in. Recently published was Forbes' 2013 list of 'America's Prettiest Towns.' Several towns - including Breckenridge, CO and Athens, GA - made the list (which provided a nice reference for great places to vacation in the United States!).
While Forbes named a total of 15 towns on their most recent 2013 'America's Prettiest Towns' list, Kapaa, Kauai was the only Hawaii town that made the list and was listed at #9. While everyone's definition of 'pretty' may be different, there are several factors that contribute to the idea of an overall nice place to visit. Forbes' contributing factors of a beautiful American town included:
- Towns seemingly custom-designed for soaking in the sights
- Charming main streets
- Variety of activities
- Beautiful vistas
Kauai Bike Path, Kapaa
While Kapaa definitely marks off all of Forbes' must-haves for prettiest towns in America, it has several attractive tropical features and amenities that also make Kapaa one of the most unique American towns to travel to or vacation in - one of its best characteristics being that it is a tropical paradise that is a part of the United States of America. Additional characteristics that make Kapaa a popular Hawaii town include:
Kealia Beach is a great beach for evening strolls
Vacationing in Kapaa, Kauai
It's true, Kapaa is a great Hawaii town to vacation in, and as a result has seemingly endless hotel and vacation accommodations. One east side luxury vacation resort is already a favorite among Kauai visitors and is quickly becoming a favorite place for locals to 'stay-cation' as well.
Kauai's Waipouli Beach Resort
The Waipouli Beach Resort - managed by Kauai Exclusive - is the easy choice for the best place to stay and vacation in Kapaa. Beachfront to a sandy east side Kauai beach, Waipouli Beach Resort offers the most convenient, luxurious Kapaa location and amenities for the price tag.
Waipouli Beach Resort's premiere vacation rentals and luxury accommodations allow your Kauai vacation to be a relaxing and enjoyable experience away from home. Whether you're dining beachfront at the Oasis on the Beach Restaurant & Bar, you're getting pampered at the Spa by the Sea, or enjoying the Waipouli Beach Resort fantasy pool, many amenities at the Waipouli Beach Resort are walking distance from your room, including the beach - great for a late night out or a relaxing evening in.
Enjoy the ultimate Kauai beachfront vacation in the Waipouli Presidential H201 luxury condo
Whether you're a guest that's looking for a deal on a Kapaa luxury room under $200, or you want to spoil yourself and rent a Kauai Penthouse, Waipouli Beach Resort through Kauai Exclusive can accommodate all of your Kauai vacation needs.
From 'stay-cations' to vacations, Waipouli Beach Resort in Kapaa is definitely worth checking out. Why not make your trip to Kauai extra special by spending it in one of America's prettiest towns at one of Kauai's most beautiful resorts? The perfect Kauai vacation awaits you...
Visiting one of 'America's Prettiest Towns'
Kapaa's small town feel welcomes visitors and residents of all ages. Stay in Kapaa once and you'll see why those who visit keep returning year after year and why those who live here never want to leave. Experience Kauai's Coconut Coast lifestyle and determine for yourself if it makes your list of 'America's Prettiest Towns.'


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Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy (second from left) held an open house for Christmas on Dec. 8. Joining her are (from left) Hedy Oleski, Donna Dunn, John Adams, and Bob Jackson.
Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy held an open house for Christmas on Dec. 15.
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Google has launched a new service for trend monitoring geeks who find this info important. Bloggers are the most likely user of this service, called Google Insights for Search.
With Google Insights for Search, you can investigate popular searches, compare the popularity of different searches and get a general insight into the zeitgeist.
As of today, Insights also offers a couple of new services. You can now see forecasts of future search trends for certain queries, based on an extrapolation of historical trends and search patterns. In addition, you can now visualize the way interest in given terms has changed over time, using the animated map feature. These maps show an animated depiction of how search interest changes over time in different locations.
Whether you are an advertiser looking to expand keyword lists, an economist analyzing economic trends, or even if you are just looking to settle a popularity contest, Google Insights for Search can help provide the answers. With insights you can:
- See projected future interest in a given term – using the forecasting feature, you can see a forecast of future searches for many different queries.
- See an animated map – watch the way global interest in a particular subject has changed over time.
- Embed comparison charts on your website – you can now easily embed any of the graphs produced by Insights for Search in your website.
- Search trends over time – See how user interest rises and falls around a particular subject. Type in more than one keyword, separated by a comma, to compare keyword popularity.
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"Insights for Search offers a glimpse into the spirit of the times," said Yossi Matias, Director of the Google Israel R&D Center, where Trends and Insights for Search are developed. "What the world is searching for offers an insight into what's interesting to people around the world. An understanding of broad as well as particular trends can be useful for advertisers, marketers, economists and everyday people interested in knowing more about their world."
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Gaza militants from Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired a rocket at Israel yesterday as a "preliminary response" after one of its members died in an Israeli jail.
It was the first time a Gaza rocket had struck southern Israel in more than three months and it stoked fears that the mass protests in the West Bank over the fate of prisoners held in Israeli jails could spread to the Hamas-run territory.
Following weeks of anger in support of four prisoners on long-term hunger strike, the issue came to head on Saturday with news that a 30-year-old prisoner, who had been interrogated for throwing stones, had died in custody.
Arafat Jaradat was arrested on Monday last week and interrogated by Israel's Shin Bet internal security services on suspicion of involvement in a "stone-throwing terror attack" in November last year. Five days later, he died in Megiddo prison.
His death sparked angry demonstrations across the West Bank, with Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqaa saying preliminary results from his autopsy showed he had died "as a result of torture."
At his funeral near the southern city of Hebron on Monday, militants from al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, vowed revenge, with the group claiming yesterday's rocket as a first response.
"In a preliminary response to the killing of our hero the prisoner Arafat Jaradat, we claim responsibility for firing a Grad rocket on Ashkelon at 6am," the Gaza branch said in a statement.
The rocket struck a road just south of the Israeli port city, causing damage, but no injuries, police said.
It was the first such attack since the end of an eight-day confrontation in November last year during which militants fired more than a thousand rockets at Israel and the air force hit back with a major bombing campaign. The violence, which killed 177 Palestinians and six Israelis, ended with a truce deal on Nov. 21.
Meanwhile, Palestinian police were yesterday preventing demonstrators from reaching an area near the Jalame checkpoint in the northern West Bank where several mass protests have erupted into violence in the past 10 days, a correspondent said.
Earlier, Abbas had instructed the security forces to "maintain the calm" in the West Bank, following a demand from Israel at the weekend that he act to cool the situation.
Washington also sent a "clear message" to both sides calling for calm, a US Department of State spokesman said, indicating it expected "all parties to consider the results of the autopsy calmly and without inflammatory rhetoric."
The UN said there must be an independent inquiry into Jaradat's death.
"The United Nations expects the autopsy to be followed by an independent and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Mr Jaradat's death, the results of which should be made public as soon as possible," UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry said late on Monday.
The Palestinians also called for an independent inquiry in a letter from their UN ambassador Riyad Mansour to the UN Security Council, in which it said the autopsy showed Jaradat "was subjected to severe beatings, abuse and medical negligence during his captivity, possibly amounting to torture."
According to the letter, the autopsy showed Jaradat had six broken bones in his neck, spine, arms and legs, as well as other injuries.


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Can the Techniques Taught in Montessori Schools Help Elders with Alzheimer's?
Can people with Alzheimer's disease continue to learn? Most people would say that they cannot, as their short-term memory is deteriorating, and we need to hold a concept in our short-term memory before we can commit it to long term memory. However, a story by Angela Jimenez on nytimes.com tells of a doctor who has been proving this concept to be false, at least in some instances.
In "Making Connections," Jimenez focuses on a program developed by Cameron J. Camp, an experimental psychologist. Camp has applied the childhood education principles of Montessori schools to people most consider unable to learn new things. Dr. Camp developed training seminars and materials that are now used by many nursing facilities around the country. His inspiration came when he was working with the elderly at the same time his young child was attending a Montessori school.
Early in the early 20th century, Maria Montessori of Rome, Italy, developed a method for teaching that centers on the concept that children learn best when all of their senses are used. Montessori teachers provide tools to help children learn through touch, as well as sound, sight, taste and smell. Category-sorting exercises help children see connections and patterns. According to Montessori's philosophy, these exercises help children learn on a deeper level.
Dr. Camp's curriculum for people with Alzheimer's includes matching colored balls to cups, telling the difference between food categories, putting flowers in pots. Repeatedly matching up things that go together teaches the brain to connect these items, and nursing homes that have used this method are reporting positive results.
What I gather from reading the article is that these exercises will keep the brain in learning mode longer, since the stimulation comes from touch as well as sound and sight. An example used is that a person with Alzheimer's, placed in a new setting, can learn where the table is where he or she will eat. It may take time, but with cues from his or her surroundings, the person learns and remembers.
I will say I had an immediate, gut-level, negative reaction to using a child's approach to someone with Alzheimer's disease. I do think that for those who use this concept, there also must be thorough training aimed toward the fact that they are not dealing with children. The attitude of the teacher must be respectful of the fact that they are teaching adults, and the projects used should be meaningful to adults.
I will admit to being fanatical about this issue. Elders are not children, no matter what stage of dementia they have entered. When I got into my dad's world because he couldn't come into mine, it was always with the utmost seriousness and respect. If I had done so in a condescending manner, he would have picked up on that and though my aim would have been to help him, he would have felt diminished. I could not have lived with that. He was the boss and I always tried to treat him as such.
My point being that the Montessori approach may be fantastic for people with Alzheimer's disease, and if so, I'm grateful that some elders have access to it. I would, as an advocate for my elder, want to see how the classes my loved one was a part of were taught. The attitude of the teacher and how the materials are presented would be vitally important, in my view.
It seems to me that if people are learning something new, they are engaged. Even if what they learned will soon be forgotten, the fact that they are engaged in something that interests them, and that they have a chance to feel the satisfaction of accomplishing a task, makes this information important.
I haven't personally been in a situation to read statistics or even see the program in action. However, I have seen people with Alzheimer's respond to art therapy and music, both of which use senses that don't directly involve the memory. I have seen peace, and even joy, on faces when people feel pleased with the result of painting on paper, or even folding laundry.
Engaging people in whatever they are capable of doing is bound to be good for them. If it encourages learning, that is even better. If what is learned will soon be forgotten, so be it. To me, while important, remembering isn't the main point.
I'm hoping Dr. Camp's curriculum will increase quality of life for people with Alzheimer's. I'm also hoping that even those who can't offer the curriculum that Dr. Camp uses will pick up on the fact that engaging all of the senses of any elder, just as with the rest of us, will pay off.
Quality of life is, in my opinion, what this is about. Giving choices, offering stimulating and enjoyable activities and treating people with Alzheimer's and other dementia with dignity is vital. Let's stop assuming that people with dementia can no longer learn, and start trying to find ways to help them do so. Why shouldn't people with dementia feel the joy of accomplishment? As long as the dignity of the elder is respected, I'm all for new approaches.
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The UK government is in discussions with Cloudera – a distributor of Hadoop-based software and services for the enterprise – to determine how it can best make use of big data technologies.
Speaking to Techworld at the IP Expo in London yesterday, Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop and chief architect at Cloudera, said that he had met with the UK government's Policy Exchange team earlier in the week, to discuss how it can use big data "without becoming Big Brother".
"That is the primary concern actually of how they roll this out – how they can do that without freaking people out and becoming Big Brother," he said.
Cutting said that private sector companies like Google and eBay have a fair amount of knowledge about their customers, but they also have a very clear motive to maintain those customers' trust, because if they lose it they will lose their business.
In the public sector, things are not so clear-cut, said Cutting. Governments want to reap the benefits of big data, but are worried about causing a scandal.
"They don't have a profit motive to make them want to use this but they know there are efficiencies. So they are looking for efficiencies where they can save money, govern better for less money, without causing a scandal. That, in a nutshell, is the problem they're trying to solve."
While the thought of the government using big data to profile its citizens may sound like a major invasion of privacy, Cutting said that the intelligence community is heavily restricted by laws dictating what it can and cannot do.
"My experience with government intelligence is those guys are very careful – much more concerned about preserving privacy than folks in industry – because they don't want to be the subject of some legal inquiry, and they've got clear regulations," he said.
Cutting also told Techworld that Cloudera is hiring a UK managing director and plans to open an office in Reading in early 2013, with Logica as a strategic partner.
"We want to establish our European beachhead in the UK," said Cutting. "We've already got some business here and we see it growing."
One British company that Cloudera is already working with is gaming firm King.com. The company has implemented Cloudera Enterprise to get greater value from the massive amounts of data and information they generate from gamers across multiple platforms.
"In the long term, I think Hadoop is going to have a larger and larger presence in enterprise computing," said Cutting.
"We'll become the dominant platform for enterprise computing. We're a way away from that now. At the present it's very much a complimentary technology; it's young. But I think it has the right properties to take over more and more enterprise software."


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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Dope Man by Master P. Please check back for more Master P lyrics.
Dope Man Lyrics
Artist: Master P
Album: Ghetto Bill
Don't try this at home if you ain't no real hustler
I'm like Betty Crocker in the kitchen
The Ice Cream Man back, you lil' boys been fuckin the game up
But just watch and listen and you might get paid
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
Dope man, dope man - yeah that's me
I can flip a half an ounce to a quarter ki'
Dope man, dope man - yeah that's me
I used to slang in the hood now I'm on TV
[Master P]
The first lesson in the cookin of dope
You need water, bakin soda, P-12 and a stove
Take a mayonnaise jar, put it in the pot
Pour some cold water on it before the glass pop
You see some liquid yeah don't po' that out
Because that's the type of shit gon' get you a car or a house
I mean, shake it up 'til the shit turn white
And don't sell to no snitches cause that's 20 to life
You can't trust nobody, not even your boo
You got one pistol? Man get you three or two
You can find us on the corner, man sellin that cream
And we don't fuck with no weed 'less it's purple or green
[Master P]
I done made a lil' money and it's time to invest
I bought some chrome spinnin shoes man the size of Shaq
The Caddy needed paint so I dipped it in candy
Put some ice on my wrists like I'm goin to the Grammy
I'm a country boy so let the truth be told
The last couple of these I brought a couple of gold
I went to the club, got a couple of hoes
Call me Ghetto Bill, I'm tryin to flip me a roll
Handle that rock like I'm goin to the pros
I got boys that'll tag ya toe
Send money to the pen my homies doin the {?}
I got it for 16-5 if you lookin for coke
[Master P]
I heard a couple of homies snitchin, they didn't want to go to jail
Now you done changed my life, seen my boy get killed
No mo' standin on the block with them nickels and dimes
Ready to take it to the streets with these gangster rhymes
I told Drumma, man mix me a beat
We in the club shorty feelin the freaks
I'm in the hood or I'm on TV
You can't mention the South 'less you mention me
Cause I'm the nigga put the Ice Cream in the dope game
I'm the nigga put the UNNNNGH in the rap game
I'm the first motherfucker to say "hot boy"
And I could never fall off, cause I'll go back to slangin rocks boy
I taught the world how to do dat dere
So stop hatin man, I mean you right there
I'm like, bad grass I ain't goin nowhere
It's the New No Limit shorty this is our year
Master P Lyrics
Master P Ghetto Bill Lyrics
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Master P - My Ghetto Heroes Lyrics
Master P - Thug Girl Lyrics


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Because, after all, who needs one of her 'proper' albums – sets featuring the singer's three or four hits of the campaign in question padded out with a smorgasbord of filler material. They're out there because the industry model demanded it, though with release strategies and marketing budgets evolving and fluctuating respectively, it'd be no surprise if artists of Spears' ilk ultimately stopped producing long-players altogether. If Ash can do it, then…
While her career hit the skids in the middle of the decade – no need to elaborate on that here – Britney's comeback with 2007's Gimme More and Piece of Me, and the following year's Womanizer, was phenomenal. With the singer assumed lost to a life of perennial befuddlement, expectations for her post-wilderness material were low. So when Gimme More proved to be every bit as repeat-play friendly as peak-period hits I'm a Slave 4 U, Boys and the Grammy winning Toxic, all predictions for what might follow went out the window.
Seven of these 18 tracks are from Spears' 2007-'til-now phase, and the excitable energy of If U Seek Amy, Circus, Radar and recent stateside chart-topper 3 comes filtered through admirable nods to electro artists and production houses of utmost respect. While her songs might have matured lyrically, often lacking the comparative innocence of her breakthrough hits and swapping innuendo for outright smuttiness, compositionally they're astonishingly fresh. Even Girls Aloud were too squeaky clean to do justice to Womanizer when they covered it, such is Spears' unashamed directness (though Sugababes could probably pull it off these days).
Spears' revival in the last two years is evidence that even the most easily pigeonholed artist can eschew expectation. After all, when you're seen as having nothing left to lose, anything with a little bite is going to leave an impression. And these songs don't just make a mark, lingering in the memory – they are essential pieces of the past ten years of pop history, and deserve better than dismissal by so-called discerning listeners.


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Finally. Staring a 1-4 road trip right in the face, the Warriors played their best quarter of the year, and turned a 10-point deficit entering the 4th quarter into a seven-point win in New Orleans, 110-103. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
OK, I didn't see it. I watched it, online (long story). And even with that, I was disgusted by what I didn't see. After blowing double digit leads in both Miami and Orlando, G'State decided to forego that route, and just lose the old fashioned way, by getting their behinds kicked from the get-go.
But a funny thing happened on the way to Bourbon Street. The Warriors reversed the script and in a scene out of Bizarro World, where up is down, and down is up, a Warriors loss became a Warriors win. "Worlds are colliding!"
Down 82-72 entering the final 12 minutes, Monta Ellis quickly took over. He nailed a 3-pointer, and a jumper to cut the lead in half, and then after a Jarret Jack jumper, hit another three to cut the lead to 84-80. The future all-star guard led all scorers with 29 points, 12 of them in the 4th quarter.
Still down by four with just under eight minutes left to play, Ellis found Ekpe Udoh for a jam Dorell Wright hit a three; David Lee scored inside and was fouled to the chagrin of Emeka Okafor who got T'd up. Stephen Curry hit the free throw, and Lee did as well for an old fashioned 3-point play followed by Udoh with another basket and Curry with one from downtown, his only one from distance in the game and the Warriors were on a 14-0 run that gave them a 99-89 lead with 4:13 left. Even the Warriors couldn't blow this one, right?
Not so fast. New Orleans responded with a 10-2 run to trim the lead back to 101-99. That was as close as the Hornets would get. Golden State hit 9 of 10 free throws down the stretch, and that flight home from the Big Easy is now going to be a much more enjoyable ride.
As Jack Buck famously said about a home run I'd rather forget, "I don't believe what I just saw." Well, I don't believe what I just didn't see. And this time, it sure looks good.
About the Author
Written by Scott Johnston
Scott Johnston is a longtime Sports TV Producer/Writer from Los Angeles who now lives just outside of Boston. After a long career at KCAL-TV in L.A., where Scott covered such things as Kirk Gibson's HR, Hank Gathers death, and Magic Johnson's retirement, NBA ll-Star Game MVP performance and subsequent return to the NBA. His favorite team is the Oakland A's and whomever happens to be playing the Yankees, USC or the Cowboys on that particular day.
Scott left his staff position at KCAL and formed his own small production company in 1996 while continuing to freelance there and at other stations, including WTTG in DC for two years.
His company, ProTVSports, started out covering one team during Spring Training in 1997 but now covers six of the Cactus League teams. He also covers tennis and golf events during the year and has had the privilege of covering 5 NBA Finals, including two of the last three.
Scott loves all sports, but considers baseball to be his favorite. He loves politcs, reading, movies and his wife and two daughters—not in that order!


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Farmers with dead livestock on their hands will not be able to get rid of them by sending them to the convenience center in Waddy.
The 109 (solid waste) Board voted last Monday no longer to accept dead livestock at its facility on Kings Highway near Waddy. Citing costs to the county and uncertainty about how to deal with potentially diseased animals, the board voted unanimously to bar farmers from bringing in dead livestock.
"I just don't think we should go there," board chair Don Cubert said.
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Testing for the Best Instrument to Generate Sustainable Food Consumption
The increase in the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere in the last centuries, and the subsequent increase in temperature, has been a widely studied area in the last few decades. Climate change has become a key item on the political agenda due to concerns regarding the sustainability of current human consumption for future generations. Consumption of food and agricultural goods constitutes an important part of household based GHG emissions, and the relatively low costs associated with environmental improvements make it an interesting area of study to understand behavioural changes. Despite general agreement on the need to curb the amount of GHG emissions worldwide, little evidence exists regarding the best instruments policymakers can employ to stimulate changes toward more sustainable consumption. The present work explores which instruments are most effective in fostering change to more environmentally friendly food consumption. The instruments tested are CO2 labelling, GHG abatement subsidy and product-specific bans. We used a simulated online shopping trip in supermarkets in the Greater London area in the United Kingdom, where respondents shopped in four product categories: cola, milk, meat (chicken and beef), and butter/margarine. Consumer preferences reveal that, in the presence of these instruments, quantity instruments performed better than price incentives and labelling.
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The 765 includes a FM transmitter, so you can route audio output through your car stereo. Setting this up takes just a few finger touches. This can also work in tandem with the Garmin's ability to play MP3s and audio books in Audible format. A standard stereo 3.5mm jack is available for headphones, too, should you want to use your Garmin as an expensive iPod replacement.
There are a few more slightly unnecessary but potentially useful extras included as standard. These include a world clock displaying three time zones; a unit converter for area, currency, distance, speed and temperature; a calculator; and a foreign language dictionary. The latter includes the important ability to translate 'two draught beers, please' into German, but otherwise we found it a little quirky. You can also download images to the 765 and view them as a slideshow.
You can switch the device between car, bicycle and pedestrian routing. It's possible to include Off Road options, rather than just the fastest or shortest. Yet, unlike TomTom's pioneering IQ Routes system, there is no facility to take historical traffic information and real road speeds into account. It does, however, use the traffic information from its TMC receiver when calculating a route.
Unfortunately, Garmin still hasn't fixed the jerky map redrawing we noted in our review of the 760. This can be very disconcerting, as the roads disappear completely and take a second or so to reappear - not what you want when approaching a junction.
The Garmin nüvi 765T is a thoughtfully designed sat-nav that exudes build quality and offers pretty much every essential feature. The menu and map interface designs are also extremely easy to get to grips with - clearly ahead of TomTom's army of menu options and levels.
However, it's up against some stiff competition, particularly from TomTom's Go 720 and 730 and Navman's forthcoming S100. Overall, the TomToms offer more features, with the exception of the dubious value 3D landmark system. Since the TomTom GO 730 Traffic comes in £60 cheaper for broadly similar features, the Garmin looks good, particularly for the novice, but is a tad overpriced.
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The Learning Center houses a variety of instructional support services including learning assistance and technology to help students succeed. The Center provides assistance through the Writing Center, the Math Lab and the MESA (Math, Engineering and Science Achievement) Program as well as free peer tutoring. Additionally, the Learning Center has open computer labs with access to the Internet. Courses, which include transfer-level classes, are primarily self-paced, open-entry courses utilizing computer-assisted and individualized instruction. For more information, please visit the Learning Center in Building 9, on the Second Floor, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, or call (650) 306-3348.
LCTR 840, 841, 842, 843 VOCABULARY IMPROVEMENT I, II, III, IV Description: This workbook-based series of four vocabulary courses helps students build and improve vocabulary skills while teaching 150-300 basic words in each course. The courses give abundant practice and reinforcement by checkpoint tests through an intensive words-in-context approach. This is supplemented by matching words and definitions, concluding with chapter and unit exams using words in context and assessing word definitions with antonyms and synonyms. Prior to enrolling, students should take a short pre-test at the Learning Center to determine course in which to enroll. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree.
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Share the news that the U.S. Senate passed resolutions in 2009 and 2010 declaring October 20 the National Day on Writing.
Ask your town officials, or legislators to proclaim October 20 as the National Day on Writing with this proclamation.
Your community, school, organizations, and family can get involved with the National Day on Writing in numerous ways.
Suggestions for where to hold Celebrations and Events:
Students Distribute Works throughout City to Celebrate National Day on WritingChelsea Standard, October 22, 2010
Region 8 Students Celebrate "Writing!"KAIT TV, October 20, 2010
Sigma Tau Delta Takes Over Campus to Celebrate National Day on WritingThe Patriot News, October 20, 2010
Writing Celebrated with Various Activities on CampusThe Grand Views, October 22, 2010
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NH-S Celebrates National Day on WritingNHS High School Spotlight, October 25, 2010
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Go Ahead: Write (National Day on Writing), October 20, 2010 Making Webcomics on the National Day on Writing, October 21, 2010 From Bitstrips to Glogster: A Collection of Day on Writing Webcomics, October 23, 2010
NCTE member and consultant Mary Cappellini tells us that she helped organize a celebration for National Day on Writing at her daughter's school in Newport Beach, California. Newport Elementary, a K-6 school, invited community members and professionals, many of whom were parents, to talk to the children about the importance of writing and "how they use writing daily in their jobs or careers." The students in each classroom listened to and interacted with three different speakers. Some of the speakers included attorneys, realtors, marketing consultants, restaurant owners, a city public information officer, a director of the local nautical museum, an editor of a magazine, and even a city editor and reporter of the local newspaper.
Besides having some parents participate as speakers, other parents also came during the writing workshop time and wrote along side their children in the classrooms. The day started with a "Writing Kick-off" by the school's principal. "It was a great celebration!" said Mary.
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"The Cincinnati Post was a relatively small newspaper … when it closed. Nonetheless, its absence appears to have made local elections less competitive along several dimensions: incumbent advantage, voter turnout and the number of candidates for office."
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By Colette Barry, B.M.I., L.M.T., R.Y.T.
In my many years of practice as a fitness expert and Registered Yoga Therapist, I've come to understand the importance of obtaining proper body alignment during any movement, especially exercise.
One of the things yoga teaches is a continual awareness of how one body part relates to another. For example, improper alignment of the spine can cause headaches, shoulder discomfort and even the achy teeth that are associated with TMJ (jaw joint) disorders.
Perfect Alignment Through Muscle Memory
When we become lazy with our posture, we strain our hips and shoulder joints. This can wreak havoc on the arm and leg joints. Another downside of poor body alignment is that the body actually becomes fatigued faster because of the constant effort required to maintain balance.
When we exercise, we can actually teach our body how to acquire and maintain perfect alignment by using muscle memory. Whether we perform an exercise correctly or not, our muscles will create a memory of the alignment. After that, the muscles will be inclined to duplicate that image for each future repetition. That's why performing a new exercise correctly the first few times is essential. We want to create an enduring effect.
When we exercise, every effort should be made to attain a well-centered body. This allows our body to function at its peak. However, this only happens when the body is properly aligned. To help us achieve proper alignment, we must take a serious look at the body's core.
The Core of the Body
The core is the fulcrum for all other body parts. By the core, I mean the muscles of the midsection and back that are responsible for support and posture.
Some of these muscles include:
– The Transversus Abdominis wraps around the midsection like a corset just underneath those six-pack abs.
– The Pelvic Floor acts like a basket containing all the abdominal organs. It also acts as a hip stabilizer.
– The Diaphragm is a sheet of muscle that aids in respiration.
– The Multifidus runs the length of the spine and helps keep us upright.
As the core goes, so goes the rest of the body. When we neglect our core, we lose our center of balance and the body begins to compensate for the misalignment. Compensation for misalignment leads to pain and joint/muscle fatigue and breakdown.
Core work is essential to any workout routine. By zoning in our focus and using the core as our guide, we can quickly and accurately pursue the ultimate prize—a stable and strong body.
Greater development of the core can be achieved by using props like a slant board, or the gravity glide board found on the Total Trainer® home fitness machine. In addition, a slant or glide board increases stability in every plane of the body. These boards greatly aid proper alignment attainment throughout all range of motion. And with greater stability comes increased confidence in every movement.
So, let's take a look at three benefits that come with proper alignment during exercise:
- Good Alignment creates a more harmonious relationship between the mind, body, and spirit. There is a mind-body-spirit connection that gets impeded when the body is misaligned. A certain movement may appear to be strengthening only a particular muscle group. However, when done correctly, it may be increasing circulation to a vital organ as well, which benefits our emotional and physical balance.
- By mastering good alignment, you achieve greater efficiency during workouts. When our body is improperly aligned during exercise, it will naturally compensate for ineffective movement. That means we're working harder with less benefit and nobody wants that. We always, always, always, want to perform any exercise while in a state of power and strength. When we align the body properly, we optimize its power and strength. We work less but achieve maximum results.
- Proper alignment during exercise decreases the chance of injury. The quickest way to injury is improper alignment during movement. We want our exercise routine to strengthen and rehabilitate, not weaken and debilitate.
And if those three reasons were not enough, maintaining proper alignment during exercise just looks and feels better! When the body is locked into ultimate alignment, it's like plugging it into a socket—we receive a jolt maximum energy and optimal performance every time!
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We don't talk a whoooole lot about comics here on Idle Hands, but I thought, what with a Guardians of the Galaxy movie being one of the most talked about topics in the geekiverse at the moment, let's take a closer look at this book and get some insight into the big screen event!
"This will be the most surprising chapter of Marvel NOW! This is a brand new #1 that starts these characters off in a place for new readers but doesn't rob them of what made them great in the first place. It's also a great place for you to hop on and see why we're excited for these characters to be in a movie and why it's as good a franchise as Marvel has. This ties into a lot of things already happening in the Marvel Universe. The things that have happened on Earth in the past few events have had a butterfly effect through the galaxy. The abuse of time travel, the use of the Infinity Gems...these things have costs. The Guardians are the first line of defense for Earth. If you're looking at Earth in the Marvel Universe from a distant, it looks like an insane asylum! It's a place where the Phoenix Force doesn't destroy the world, where Galactus doesn't feed. It's the scariest place anywhere to the rest of the galaxy! Wait until Earth joins the cosmic community... A lot of big time cosmic players are on stage right from the beginning.
I wrote Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1 without anybody asking me to, I love the characters so much. Starlord's origin is a hidden gem. I repeated it in a Marvel retreat and it was nice to see even guys like Dan Slott didn't know it. It's as good an origin as Spider-Man. This is why you care about this guy. They all have father issues or are the last of their species. It's a universal thing not to like the world you're born into and not having to be a part of it. Peter Quill's father is basically the king of the galaxy, but I'm of the belief that the guy who won the war is just the biggest [expletive].
Every Marvel comic is science fiction on some level. As I was working this, I pulled out every sci-fi book that meant something to me on some level. I have so many that I truly love. I want to see what I was looking at and what drove me crazy; it was always the character and the artwork. That's the philosophy I applied toward this book. Steve McNiven wanted to come in and design everything. Not just the costumes, but the ship, the worlds. I'm a big fan of alien worlds actually looking like people live in them, not like sets. These worlds look lived in, they look like everything works.
The threat of the first arc is that the Spartax Empire is an empire of conquerors, and the Earth is the sexiest jewel in the galaxy. There will be a lot of complicated plays for Earth, you can't just come in and invade it if Galactus, the Phoenix and the Skrulls couldn't do it. They have to be smart. That includes manipulating Starlord and the Guardians into a place where they won't be an issue. When you see what's coming to the book in its second arc, you will be shocked. The fallout from Age of Ultron lands directly in this book. Even though Groot only ever says 'I am Groot,' somebody will write or tweet me that 'Groot wouldn't say that. There are levels worth pursuing with Drax and Rocket Raccoon beyond even where DnA went. The legend of being the most dangerous killer in the universe weighs heavy on Drax. You mention Rocket Raccoon and people ask what you're doing. You show them and they think he's pretty cool. Iron Man joins the team right from the get go, which is exciting and show that the Guardians are really the cosmic Avengers. The Guardians will be out in space a lot, but there's something about them trying to protect the Earth but not belonging here and needing to understand it. Earth is in the first two issues. Iron Man wasn't even on my list of characters I could get for this book until Kieron Gillen brought it up at our last retreat. They start the book as a team, but we will explore how they got together and why they stick together. Most of them have nothing outside of this team. What I like about the Guardians is that they don't answer to anybody. That makes them very dangerous and very cool.
A lot of the ideas Jeph and I came up with came about when we were working on the Ultimate Spider-Man show. I wrote a Guardians of the Galaxy episode coming up in the second season. Marvel Studios has been developing the Guardians movie for years. I was not the most focused member of the Creative Committee on these characters, but looking at them with eyes wide open and became so excited. When it came time to think about putting this book out, they called me because I sounded like a mental patient talking about the possibilities of Peter Quill.
Hell yes there could be a threat ascending to cosmic level. There will be seemingly minor characters who become big. I'm trying to do something with the Badoon and getting into stuff about Asgard spinning out of Jason Aaron's Thor. A crossover with the X-Men is absolutely going to happen. The All-New X-Men have a lot to answer for. You know who's not excited for Jean Grey to be back? Everybody who saw her as Dark Phoenix. These characters were, to me, the most emotionally connected and the ones Peter could count on the most. You can agree with me or not. I cannot express enough to you how grateful I am for the work DnA, Keith Giffen and various artists did bringing these characters from nothing. I was on Avengers thinking everything they did was so cool. I would never dream of touching any of it until they were well done with their epic. The Guardians' involvement in events will depend on who is writing those events. I always looked for a place to organically fit the Avengers in, which was easy. I know from what's coming in the next couple of years, and the Guardians will fit in. I thought what DnA did during Secret Invasion made that event more epic, so hopefully we can do that. Again, the fallout from Age of Ultron to Guardians is insane." - Brian Michael Bendis
"Brian and Jeph Loeb have worked together to make sure that shared universe makes sense, and the Guardians show up in Nova, but the two books will be separate." - Steve Wacker
More details: On the cover of Guardians of the Galaxy #1 are Star-Lord, Iron Man, Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Gamora and Drax. The team we are seeing now is not the whole team. The Guardians WILL team up with the All-New X-Men. Thanos is alive! You should check out the first arc of Avengers Assemble.
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The Metro can be a little scary….i was terrified actually, lol…Just remember ONLY USE THE LETTERS! if you get on a number line…you will end up outside Paris somewhere. I went to France in 2006, and before my trip i got a copy of the Metro map, and i would test myself saying 'ok, if i start at Gallien (we were told our hotel and it was just above that metro line) how do i get to…the eifle tower, or Pigale or some other place' at least once a week for about 2 or 3 weeks our group (it was a school trip so we all did it together) we would do this exercise, and it really helped when we got to France. We had 4 days in Paris, and got a Carte Orange it was still a little confusing, and a little scary but because we were at least a little bit familiar we could always figure out how to get back. as long as you stay on the letters, you should always be able to find your way back.
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