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The business of football has always been about socializing. Super Bowls, Rose Bowls and salsa bowls go hand in hand. The restaurants in Cortez that cater to football affairs are not, however, seeing a tremendous change in traffic.
With satellite providers Dish Network and Direct TV offering football fans the ultimate game-day experience, sports bars and eateries in Cortez may become passe. Even if restaurants have the special programming, people can now entertain friends at home with the same viewing options.
Direct TVs Sunday Ticket is an all-exclusive pass to every NFL game scheduled. This gives customers a chance to pick and choose which games pack the most action.
Kokos Friendly Pub, at 2121 E. Main Street, is closed on Sundays during other times of the year but during the football season it remains open. The pub has a total of five big-screen televisions with four that are about 46 inches in size and one smaller TV is about 26 inches.
Freedom Leonard is the manager at Kokos. The restaurant/bar offers Sunday Ticket to their patrons and are usually accommodating to fans.
But Leonard does not see an influx in customers. She said they are generally slow this time of year to begin with, and her customer base stays the same with a local Sunday football crowd and Monday night.
They will offer happy hour specials to entice people in and also serve chicken sticklers, their grilled version of a hot wing.
People like to eat wings and snack while theyre watching football, Leonard said. We dont have fryers so we try to give them something similar.
At the opposite end of town, Dry Dock Restaurant and Pub located at 200 W. Main Street, only broadcast games showing on local cable channels both Sunday and Monday. They do not show Thursday games.
The local channels will more than likely feature teams such as the Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers and the Arizona Cardinals.
Amanda Adams is the bartender at Dry Dock and said her customers fluctuate with the games.
Denver is a big draw, obviously, Adams said. We get more people in for Dallas and Arizona too. Our business really depends on whos playing.
Dry Dock has four flat screens in their bar area. Two are positioned above the bar for customers sitting at the tables. The other two are located on the back wall. They are all the same size.
Satellite options have become more accessible as Direct TV has made their Sunday Ticket free to consumers. I think more people are staying home to watch the games, said Tiffany Ghere, floor manager at J. Fargos. Which is good in a sense because they are drinking responsibly. Ghere has seen a definite increase in her customers during football season, but it wasnt as large of a bump as she hoped. Still, their regular customers are the majority on game day and they have noticed new people coming in more often, due to the pipeline and construction jobs in the area.
Not every satellite user wants to advance their programming and not every cable user wants satellite. Whatever the reason, on Sunday or Monday nights restaurants and bars will continue to keep the available viewing audience satisfied.


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Egypt military denies report on chief's candidacy
CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian military on Thursday denied a report by a Kuwaiti daily claiming that its chief had made up his mind to run for president.
The military's spokesman said the nation's top soldier will, if he decides to run for president, announce his intention in an address to the "glorious people of Egypt" — and not through a third party.
The spokesman, Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali, was responding to comments attributed by the Kuwaiti daily to Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, saying that he has decided to run for president.
FILE - In this July 22, 2013, file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, listens to the national anthem during a medal ceremony at a military base east of Cairo. Egypt¿s military said on Thursday that the nation¿s top soldier will, if he decides to run for president, announce his intention in an address to the ¿glorious people of Egypt,¿ not through a third party.(AP Photo/Sherif Abd El Minoem, Egyptian Presidency, File)
El-Sissi is widely expected to run for president, but he has yet to announce his candidacy. Speculations are rife in Egypt that he will do so in a televised address to the nation later this month.
rect comments" by the military chief. Ali's statement was posted on his official Facebook page.
El-Sissi, 59, led the popularly backed military coup in July that ousted Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. El-Sissi's popularity has since soared, with many Egyptians now viewing him as a savior and demanding that he run for president. Presidential elections are expected in the spring, followed by parliamentary elections. Thousands of posters bearing el-Sissi's image already have sprung up across Egypt and much of the media treats his victory as a foregone conclusion.
If el-Sissi runs, the career infantry officer is likely to win a landslide victory, but he will then face the unenviable task of finding remedies to a multitude of pressing problems, from a terrorist campaign by Islamic militants in the strategic Sinai Peninsula and tenuous security to a deepening economic crisis and persistent street protests by Morsi's supporters.
The interim government's finance minister, in comments to reporters on Thursday, underlined some of the more pressing economic problems facing Egypt and explained that raising taxes was essential to fund state services like education and health care.
Ahmed Galal, the minister, said the government spends a staggering 130 billion Egyptian pounds, or nearly $1.9 billion, every year on fuel subsidies so that oil products are sold at well below world prices. He said a comprehensive plan to gradually reduce fuel subsides has been put together but gave no details.
El-Sissi himself has offered a glimpse on his possible economic plans, saying in leaked videos that mobile phone users should pay for incoming calls as well as the ones they make and that no state service should be offered to the public at below cost, suggesting that he disapproves of a decades-old system under which successive governments were burdened by a heavy subsidies bill to provide Egyptians with cheap basic items like bread, fuel and sugar.
In a separate development, authorities on Thursday set Feb. 19 as the starting date for the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on charges that they had illegally seized 125 million pounds of state funds earmarked for the maintenance of presidential palaces.
Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising in 2011. He was detained along with his sons — wealthy businessman Alaa and one-time heir apparent Gamal — in April that year. Mubarak and his security chief were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in June 2012 for the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. Their conviction was overturned and they are now being tried again.
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak were acquitted of corruption charges in the same trial, but the prosecution successfully appealed the verdict and they are being retried in the same case as their father's.
The Mubarak sons have been in detention since April 2011. Their father was ordered released last year, but he has since been placed under "house arrest" in a Nile-side military hospital in a southern Cairo suburb.
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 file photo, newly-appointed Egyptian Minister of Defense, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, unseen, in Cairo. Egypt¿s military said on Thursday that the nation¿s top soldier will, if he decides to run for president, announce his intention in an address to the ¿glorious people of Egypt,¿ not through a third party. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency, File)
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text: Having taught high school art with a Masters degree, I have a diverse background in art materials and processes. As I worked on my college degrees in art education and studio art, I focused on drawing, printmaking and jewelry making. While teaching high school art, I concentrated on landscape watercolor painting. After retiring, I turned my attention to photography and most recently acrylic painting. I enjoy acrylic painting. The easy of painting with large brushes is offset by the challenge of its rapid drying time. I am a fan of instant gratification and thus I avoid using a paint retarder in the paint. To keep the paint from drying out, I spray it with water. To speed up the drying process, I use a hair dryer. My ambition has always been to abstract my painting subjects. However, as an observational and mechanical artist, that has always been a challenge. With acrylic paints, I can enthusiastically play with abstractionism—creating more colorful, expressive, and whimsical forms of landscapes as well as non-objective compositions. I totally enjoy the magic that takes place during the painting process. As I immerse myself into each creative adventure, I often times find myself feeling transported into another dimension as if time no longer exists and my imagination and hands work to materialize a new image with color, line, texture, a sense of movement, balance, expression, and mood. Having painted with acrylic paints for the past eight years, I am content with most of my final results. Every painting goes through a probation period during which I react to its visual impact. If the painting passes the visual test and achieved my personal goal, I sign it, seal it, and prepare it for public display. I think of my artwork as a theater production in which the viewer is allowed to temporarily suspend disbelief. For the viewer, my artwork becomes a momentary distraction—a gift of enchantment, amusement and emotional connection. Besides earning several awards for my intaglio prints, drawings, and watercolor paintings over the past several decades, in the past several years I have been honored with several one-person exhibitions in galleries and public and private venues as well as numerous awards in juried exhibitions for my acrylic paintings. In 2016 two of my acrylic paintings were awarded Honorable Mention and Best of Show in the Robbin Gallery Exhibition, 'March Madness' In addition, two paintings were juried into the 2016 Juried Art Competition & Show with one painting taking an Honorable Mention and the other a Second Place in two different theme categories. In February 2017 one of my paintings will be in the International Art Juried Competition and Show, 'Arts in Harmony.'


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Holland enjoying striking success in KC 'pen
CLEVELAND -- Strikeouts are the thing for Royals closer Greg Holland.
Prior to Saturday night's game against Cleveland, Holland had piled up 60 strikeouts in just 35 innings and led the Majors with a strikeout ratio of 15.43 per nine innings.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- Strikeouts are the thing for Royals closer Greg Holland.
Prior to Saturday night's game against Cleveland, Holland had piled up 60 strikeouts in just 35 innings and led the Majors with a strikeout ratio of 15.43 per nine innings.View Full Game Coverage
Not that a strikeout is his primary thought as he enters a game.
"It's always easier to come in and throw seven or eight pitches and get a couple fly balls or a couple ground balls, and get a quick inning," Holland said. "But if you get to two strikes and you're in the right count, you're definitely going to take a shot at expanding or elevating a fastball or something like that, because you've got a higher percentage chance of them getting on if they do hit it.
"But the main thing is just try to execute pitches and try to get weak contact. There are situations, though, with guys on or in close-game situations where you're going to take a chance on a strikeout. But normally, if you're coming in a clean inning, you're just trying to get weak contact early in the count so you can be up [and available to pitch] multiple days in a row and don't wear yourself out with a high pitch count."
Holland has a blazing fastball, but that's not necessarily his strikeout pitch. He depends on pregame analysis by pitching coach Dave Eiland, bullpen coach Doug Henry and bullpen catcher Bill Duplissea, who doubles as the advance scouting coordinator.
"A lot of times, you're just reading hitters. We do a lot of scouting reports and Duper and Dave and Doug do a great job of compiling reports," Holland said.
"Salvy [catcher Salvador Perez] always does a good job, too, and he's actually even getting better at reading hitters. Sometimes when you're out there on the mound, it's hard to read a hitter's swing. So if we're in a disagreement, he'll come out and say, 'OK, I can tell he's late [on his swing], let's stay hard,' or, 'Hey, he might try to jump your fastball here, let's go offspeed.' So having him back there, too, helps a lot."
Holland had struck out the side nine times in his 36 appearances up to Saturday, four times facing just three batters. Of his 22 saves, 15 were in succession starting on May 30 at St. Louis. During that span, his ERA was 0.95.
The Royals were hoping that, if an opening appeared on the American League All-Star pitching staff for Tuesday's Midsummer Classic at New York's Citi Field, Holland would be considered as a replacement.


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I've switched to arch when i get so annoyed by debian out of date stable release and new version of gnome wich i dislike.
So i switch to Arch+awesome and after some learning, i regain a certain level of control on my system.
I also gain a lot of productivity in my work, thx to awesome in that case (i'm a software engineer)
Hi people
I'm Arthur (AKA Flaco) and I'm a GNU/Linux user (ex-Ubuntuer) since 2 years only, I'm 17 and I'm programming in C++ actually...
Oh and I living in Belgium (french speaker)!
I'm new here (ArchLinux in on my machine since... two days) and I wanted to say ArchLinux pierres (ok, this is a bad joke)
I choose Arch for its philosophy and to have a better point of view on a computer / GNU/Linux architecture.
Also, I want to know what I'm doing on my computer... so here it is.
Hi everyone,
My friends call me Bob, and I'm using Linux for 8 years. First I started with Suse 9,2 (if I remember correctly) and then I used Debian, Ubuntu and vice versa for a while. Until I found Arch, and I
felt fell in love. (thx SanskritFritz)
I love Arch because it's philosophy, the simplicity and the control it gives you. I like the idea of knowing what are you installing and install only what you need. The idea to have a lot of unknown stuff moving under the bonnet, scares me. That's the reason I don't like (for my computers) other distro's that gives you everything done.
There'll be a lot to talk about, but after a few years with Arch I wanted to join the community and at least participate in the forum that gave me a lot of useful information.
And finally I want to say, that English is not my native language and be patient and please correct me every time I make a mistake.
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Hello everyone, I just joined the forum! it's nice to be here!
Hello. There's been even a dedicated thread waiting for you: The Official Hello Everyone Thread.
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If you're using mingw32 (and compiling Windows apps on Linux: that's weird, I know) and wondering where is liburlmon.a (there is no such file in mingw32-w32api package) to link against (urlmon.h is already in wine package, but still no liburlmon.a), here is the solution:
1) Get urlmon.spec for your Wine version somewhere (i.e. from http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/, its in 'dlls/urlmon')
2) $ winebuild --def -E urlmon.spec -o urlmon.spec.def -fPIC -D__WINE__
3) $ i486-mingw32-dlltool --kill-at --output-lib liburlmon.a --input-def urlmon.spec.def # (or maybe --add-stdcall-alias should be the right way)
4) You've got your new shiny liburlmon.a, and you can move it to /usr/i486-mingw32/lib/ along with the others
That's it. Now you can link your executables against urlmon.dll without that ugly trick with LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress.
I was not sure where to post this, so this is here.
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Used arch back in 2008-09, glad to be back on the bleeding edge!!!
Lenovo Ideapad Y580:
Successful dual-boot Windows 8 Professional/Arch Linux in UEFI/GPT mode (grub loading from default Windows EFI system partition (ESP))
Everything appears to work...
Bumblebee is effectively disabling the discrete Nvidia GTX 660m secondary GPU upon boot...
Will further test Intel HD 4000/Nvidia GTX 660m graphics switching with primus running through optirun tomorrow. <--07/07/2013--**UPDATE**-optirun-(primus)-works-just-lovely--<<<
Two days (and about 50 hours) later...was definitely worth it.
Now I need to find a way to develope ASP.NET MVC in this envionment...
Sacrilige? I don't know...is it?
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Merging with the Official Hello Everyone thread...
Arch + dwm • Mercurial repos • Github
Registered Linux User #482438
I fell in love with the wiki, tried the OS, packing all my bags off other systems & moving over. All that is left is to watch & follow the community.
#first steps
where was I since all this time ? #Lost planet ..
I feel myself ready to leave GUI linux distro . IN LOVE WITH #aRCHlinux
huting knowledge to keep #Openmind
Hello everyone!
I'm a new user of Arch, I'm an ex-user of Debian, well... I have it on some computers but in my personal computer I decided to install Arch, I join the forum because I want to learn more and I was a little bit bored of Debian , also because the forum and the Wiki is awesome!
My PC: Acer Aspire One with Arch 32bits + Gnome 3
Hi Newbs,
Glad to be joining the ranks, I love that this distro encourages some independent thought. Autodiadictism ftw!
Hi guys! I'm Suriyadeepan from Puducherry, India. I'm an arch newb! been using Fedora and Ubuntu for over an year! wld love to learn a lot about arch and try them...
Hello world! I have switched from Windows directly to Arch with the help of my roommate and I'm right now learning all the basics. The reason why I switched... well, I'm just interested in Linux and wanted to have a good system right up from the start. Thats why. What else is to say? Well, my system (since everyone is posting it)
Asrock X79 extreme11
Intel Core I7 3820
32 gigs of RAM
Samsung 830 SSD
AMD Radeon 7970
And I'm happy that the AMD card is running without any major hickups. People told me, the AMD drivers shall be somewhat "bad" under Linux, but it is running pretty well.
See you in the "I have a question"-subforums.
Hello I'm Jayasankar from India. I was an Ubuntu user,but now turned to use Arch Linux..Not much idea about how to fix real arch problems.Hope I will get enough information from here, how to troubleshoot my new Arch Linux....:)
I should probably say hello.
Ever thankful for the wiki and forums... finally starting to get my feet wet in putting stuff on AUR .
been very thankful for arch's presence in the ever growing sea of overloaded distros and what not.
Hope everyone else that installs arch finds themselves as happy as i was for it. thnx developers.
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Remeber to feed the squirrels
Hello everyone
I am Rajasegar , a web developer and graphic designer from Pondicherry, a small town in India and i fell in love with Arch recently. Actually it was some 4 to 5 years back when i first tried Linux for the first time, one of my friend introduced Arch to me, but as a newbie i was a little intimidated by Arch and i formatted and lost all my data on hard drive in my laptop while installing Arch, it was my ignorance that i messed up with the partitions.
First i tried Knoppix from a live cd, just had a glance at the user interface, file system and stuff and thought it was a little bit old school, then i thought i could use a dual boot and tried Ubuntu for the first time and quite happy i started using Linux , i was carried away by GNOME interface and my laptop was quite fast and performing well with Linux better than Windows Vista which came installed default with my old COMPAQ Presario Laptop. The only thing that took me a quite amount of time is to use my USB stick to connect internet using the default Network manager that came with Ubuntu, but later i figured it out to use wvdial for that, wow another shell utility for connecting to Internet. CLI utilities rock!!!
I started learning to use the shell and it paid of very well for my programming career since i understood the concepts very clear while learning the internal workings of Linux and Unix systems. I keep on learning about my Ubuntu system and it took me some 2-3 years approximately to switch completely to Ubuntu removing all my Windows from the laptop.
I was waiting eagerly for each and every cycle of new version of Ubuntu to get installed and having the latest software in my system, but sometimes i was frustrated everytime i have to install the operating system again and again but i thought it was worth the effort. But then i always thought i missed something , i am not learning the stuff which i was supposed to learn by starting using Linux or Unix. But every new version of Ubuntu came with its own set of bugs and problems loaded with its bloated user interface aka Unity. I was very restless day by day and i thought its time to switch to another distro.
Fortunately i was given an opportunity to work with Fedora in my new office in my new job as a web developer, before that i was purely into programming, i used to be a Visual C++ programmer on Windows platform. To my surprise and my curiosity Fedora was much much stable than Ubuntu and the repositories always got the fresh load of software in it. It was pretty amazing to use the package manager "yum" still i prefer "apt" was an easy one to use. I got carried away by the GNOME 3 interface it was much faster and responsive than Unity, then i decided this is the one distro i was looking for despite of the fact that it is still another distro which comes with all the bloated software and unwanted things i would be needing in my system and i could not take complete control of my Linux machine. My learning curve also got steeper and steeper day by day, i started using different distros.
But i was not quite happy with the 6 month release cycle and the unnecessary software that comes preloaded with the distro and everytime i have to reinstall my operating system whenever i am moving to new version of the distro. Then i tried Linux Mint for some eye candy and simple approach and out of the box working software which was much better than Ubuntu.
For the past 1 or 2 months it was quite an amazing experience for me that i installed some 6-7 distros (including Arch) in my machines both in my home and office, but it was very helpful and great learning many new things and this all started with me trying Arch once again and coming back to it with some little knowledge after studying so much about Linux all these years, still i need to learn much much more about Linux...
Now i feel like i am completely free from all the shackles of proprietary operating systems, commercial packages and bloated software, its quite amazing to learn, install and use an Arch system, i have complete control of my machine, i can keep track of what software i have and i am using in my machine, how much hard disk space, how much ram, everything and anything i can get my hands on, now i have my own choice of software starting from very simple utilities like my shell to much more complex applications like file managers, window managers, etc.,
I take this opportunity to thank all my fellow Archers for providing such great operating system along with complete set of packages, community, forums and wonderful wiki pages.
Thank you all , thanks a lot, all the efforts are much much appreciated...
ArchLinux rocks!!
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." - Bhagavat Gita
I am the one
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Yet another hello!
I'm a CS Master's student in the US. I have dabbled with Linux for about 13 years now, but have never made the full switch I just undertook. I wasn't happy with the way Windows was shaping up with 8 and 8.1. I was pushed over the edge when I read that MS was integrating advertisements into their local programs. Seems tacky to do that when people shell out $100+ for software. Ironically, the MS bootloader took a nose dive one evening two weeks ago and I thought "The heck with it".
Most of my Linux experience comes from Gentoo and Funtoo. I thought it would be better to switch to a distro that seemed familiar enough to me, but didn't require a sizable time investment to keep stable and up to date. I did run a VPS for about two years that was based off Ubuntu running a small webserver and IRC node. I think Unity is a dog, so I didn't want to go there on my desktop and I don't like how long it takes Debian to get software into their official branch. I had heard a lot about Arch and figured I would give it a shot. I was sold when the Arch liveCD booted to straight to CLI instead of a desktop.
Been solely running Arch on my desktop for about a week now, and I am loving it! My other systems are all running OS X. I keep this system for heavy lifting (I'm focusing on databases in my studies) and gaming.
Xeon E3 1245v3 | ASRock Z87 Extreme6 | 20 GB DDR3-1666 | Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro | 256 GB Samsung 850 Pro | 120 GB Samsung 830 | 300 GB WD Velociraptor | 2 TB WD Black
Greettings programs! Mr-E here.
I'm a newbie Arch Linux user; I use Linux since 2009 (if mind don't lie).
+ Actually running 7 servers (4 real, 3 virtual) most are Debian, one Ubuntu server LTS, and one old Win2000 SBS
+ My current desktop at work is an Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
+ Actually Learning how to install a PDC in zentyal
Currently I try to learn the most of every distro for the task that is need it.
so I seek to learn the best tool for virtualize servers (with mixed vm OS)
I seek to learn about Arch, CentOS and virtualization (kvm, xen, qemu) to acomplish my tasks.
At home, I'm a very happy Arch Linux/Cinnamon user, since 3 weeks ago.
I have some little issues that I need to fix but my current system works 99.99% like I want/need.
Hello Everyone!
I am Jean Menezes from Brazil. I have been using Arch for the latest week or so.
Despite not working with anything heavily computer-related (I am a PhD candidate in musical composition and a music teacher), I am a soon-to-be seasoned Linux user. Started with OpenSuse LiveCD in 2005. After that, I had some fun with PuppyLinux. Between late 2006-2009 I dual-booted Windoze XP and Ubuntu/UbuntuStudio. From 2010 on I started to work with electronic music and computational musicology. I ditched Winderps with great pleasure and started using CrunchBang exclusively, which was awesome at start, but progressively started annoying me with several things (namely apt and its occasional dependency hell). In this meantime, I flirted with lightweight distros (such as AntiX, SliTaz, DSL and Puppy again) and started to feel the urge to reorganize myself and think more about performance and reliability of my systems. A major data loss (my very fault for being too lazy to backup and too stingy to spend some nickels in another external storage device) made me rethink my entire computational life. Arch was my first step into this new way of thinking and I am all thankful for learning it and progressively starting to tame my system. And pacman is filled with victory and epicness, too!
I should add, I am a wannabe minimalist since #!, trying openbox, xmonad, i3 and finally settling with musca. I do as much as I can with the terminal and aim to dismiss GUI and mouse for everything where it is superfluous. I like tmux and urxvt, and I am an avid vim enthusiast (though I am nowhere near bashing Emacs, as I see where this monster excels. I can even use it if someone point a gun at my head, and can even try some elisp if they threaten my family as well). For making music, I love ChucK, Lilypond and Audacity (and rarely need anything other than these). I am also keen on anything that aims to be lightweight on resources and play nicely with cpu and i/o.
Long life to Arch. I hope I can contribute positively to our discussions, as much as possible. I'll try hard to be polite and useful, but assholeness is sometimes an unstoppable force of human nature. I am sorry in advance for that
Best regards!
Não me siga. Estou tão perdido quanto você.
Don't follow me. I am as lost as you.
my name is Herbert.
I am gambling with linux already a couple of days I switched to arch two day ago, coming from Gentoo/Funtoo. Mainly I switchted because I never used arch before.
My first project went no so bad, I wanted to set up a machine with two disks utilizing ZFS-filesystem (did this with Gentoo and Funtoo before). After I figured out how to get there, (the actual arch description has some points for improvement) it worked. What I like is that installing new programs is much faster then the gentoo-way. Of course, the gentoo-way I have much more control, but compiling a web-browser takes ... and takes .... and takes time.
The ZFS-install went as said fine, but at one point of time I forgot to update initram (the modules to operate zfs-filesystem are not part of the kernel) and I could not boot it any more. Instead of fixing, I switched to lvm on raid with ext4. Installed that yesterday and I am happy till now.
As for the window-manager, I like i3 right now most, web-browser is chromium, and I am preparing the machine right now to develop the pictures I took on vacation.
Biside of that I have a little server build, running ubuntu-server with some virtuel machines on it, firewall, DNS/DHCP server, mail-server, web-server. Was a great project !!
Finally switched all the way over to Arch. Started out on Linux back in '05, using Puppy to get my feet wet. Grew tired of the limitations and very non-portable code. Did som distro hopping, including Fedora, Slackware, Vector. I found myself running Debian unstable on a laptop and FreeBSD on my desktop, then just FreeBSD on everything for a while. Started toying with a migration back to Linux when it became obvious that most modern software projects were getting harder to port to *BSD. When xfce moved to udev/udisks it was just about the last straw, as Gnome was already gone and I don't care much for KDE. I played around with LFS and pkgsrc for a bit but it was frustrating. Doesn't *just work* on linux, although with some effor a lot of problems can be solved.
I tried Arch under qemu a couple months back and wound up migrating the qemu installation to my hard drive. Dual booting with Debian Jessie. I was still tied to debian until about a week ago due to problems with the newer openchrome driver (mouse artifacts and a screwed up console). But I wound up adding a new video card and things are great now.
I'm quite happy with it now. I'm a huge fan of the rolling release model and up to date packages (my primary reasons for loving FreeBSD) as well as the vanilla nature of the install. Plus, the wiki is just about the best source of documentation out there. And after going back to a simple desktop (openbox with conky, stalonetray, and a bunch of homebrewed pipe menus) I'm getting to be productive again.
I have a few projects going on at present. Working on a number of openbox pipe menus that are shell based (for small systems that might not have room for python or perl plus all the extra modules) and a little gui for sshfs and curlftpfs to provide network connectivity to apps like leafpad and Rox-Filer that don't speak gvfs. Uses gtkdialog (I used it a lot with Puppy, what can I say...) and rox. I'm also toying with a small musl libc based environment that I compiled from scratch, and a makefile based build system that creates a small system resembling LFS. Those last two are more for amusement and my own education.
Newbie here, I tried Mint for some time on my laptop and thought maybe I could try install Arch. It was difficult for me (even with excellent wiki guides) I had 2 unsuccessful tries, this time I chose syslinux instead of grub and I made it(?). Installed SLiM but I have problems with Cinnamon (freeze with the first click of mouse) and thought that again the installation was a failure. Then I installed Mate and couldn't believe that all worked. Looking forward to learn new things and have more control of my system. Next thing is to solve the Cinnamon problem. Nice to join you.


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Event: Celebs attended RAAZ - THE MYSTERY CONTINUES special screening held at Fame Adlabs, Mumbai.
Guest List: Kangna Ranaut, Soha Ali Khan, Anjana Sukhani, Emraan Hashmi, Adhyayan Suman, Mahesh Bhatt, Mohit Suri, Mukesh Bhatt
Venue: Fame Adlabs, Mumbai.
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
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I wish I still went out at the weekend
I remember when they were exciting. Got no social life at all anymore, just sit in my bedroom all weekend
Yes but now the internet is your street
websites are your pubs and clubs and message boards are you hunting ground.
but also: Porn. What's the problemo?
Thursdays are the new Fridays (apparently)
I was out Mon, Tues and Weds this week and it's absolutely killed me. The fact I have nothing on this weekend is truly wonderful news.
- PickledOeuf this'd this
I have just had a text from my friend reminding me they are playing the abc tomorrow night. SO I will be going to Glasgow tomorrow night too. SQUEE. Shout me if you're about. I'll probably take the band to sleazys.
not sure if I'll be in the weege tomorrow night
will give you a bell if I am
- japes this'd this
I like calling it the bridge, so I can go
TAKE IT THE BRIDGE and yeah, that's about it really.
can't go out just for the sake of it anymore
it's boring
where are you?
#UNDERCHUFFEDAntpocalypsenow this'd this
I am WORKING tonight
why do you have no social life any more? Is it through choice?
If so, that's not a bad thing as social lives can be draining and expensive. But you really should try to get out and do something every now and then. It doesn't have to be all aobut getting a bit drunk in the pub (although I have to say that is my All Time Favourite.)
Best mates moved
Other mates don't get in touch anymore cos I'm a bore with no personality
Get some new friends if you want some. Are there DiSers near you?
hi Bamnan, how are you?
I can't stop eating today. I think I maybe have worms. What's new with you?
Not a lot mate
I feel abit like untrue except I don't post any good threads
lock up your daughters
bammers and untrue AKA Double Trouble are hitting the town togetherandyvine this'd this
- japes this'd this
and that's hometime.
goodnight everyone
I can relate, it's weird how sudden after years and years of going out every Friday and Saturday it just evaporates, people are too dispersed and the rare occasions I meet up its not like the halcyon days of yore
can you go out yourself?
I'm perfectly happy to go and sit in a bar and have a drink and get chatting to folks. Can you not just do that? (old mens pubs admittedly the best for this.)
Unemployed women give the worst tips
Genuinely no disrespect to untrue - he's my bro - but does he strike you as the type to rock up to a pub alone and get the repartee going?
No...Bamnan's earlier idea that they both dress up in matching tuxedos and sunglasses and hit the town together in a limo is the better advice.japes, kilgore-trout, monoshono, and andyvine this'd this
I never said I wanted to go out on the town
I was just trying t be nice to untrue but you've ruined that now :(
I am just not really working right now. Although I am working in half an hour. For half an hour.
- PickledOeuf this'd this
it's my parents business you plonker
We do it from home. Although I did actually have to do half an hour's proper graft there. I even had to lift some machinery.
in a bikini
in between biscuits
its a god send when the rare weekend with nothing to do happens
and i can sit around doing what the fuck i like for two days.
haven't you got a local?
every man needs a local. get one, meet yer mates in there, get to know other people, whenever you're bored, go in, have a bit of a chat, etc, etc. standard stuff.
to be honest, though, nights out aren't for me. don't think i've had a night out on a friday for about ten years. best night for telly, innit, and daytime weekend boozing's much more fun.
this is kind of what i'm getting at
Find a nice boozer where you can keep yourself to yourself (obviously you do the polite nod to the people that you see there regularly) or where you can have a chat about something inconsequential should you choose. A local is a godsend. It's like a church to me.blimeycharlie this'd this
if live in exeter I've just moved here and know nobody.
about to go to the pub on my own. can't remember ever having done that on a friday night before.
The Hour Glass
Quality, quality boozer that is
- incandenza_ this'd this
just got back from my boss.'s wedding. Dutch guy marrying a Flemish girl. Speeches given in English. The future's here and it's in English.


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The cost of higher education in this country is more than alarming. As someone who graduated with more than $70,000.00 in student loans for my out-of-state tuition, I sometimes want to slap myself silly for borrowing so much money.
When I was in college in the 90s, I borrowed tens of thousands of dollars each year despite having no credit history. Getting my loan money each semester was easier than opening a credit card with Macy's. I couldn't buy a pair of shoes on credit but I was able to borrow an almost unlimited amount of money with no idea or plan in place as to how I would pay it back four years later.
Fifteen years later, I now understand that something is fundamentally wrong with a system that allows a student to accumulate so much debt by the age of 22. Most student loan borrowers have never had a chance to earn an income or manage debt and a budget, yet the total number of student loans outstanding in the U.S. is $750 billion dollars. With our economy failing in so many different other areas, almost 70% of lenders anticipate that student borrows will be delinquent in their payments. While some of these students may "bank" on filing bankruptcy, they will be disappointed to find out that neither federal or private student loans are discharge-able in bankruptcy unless a student demonstrates extraordinary circumstances.
The solution is not to just to lower loan rates, instead we need to make higher education in this country affordable. Until college and graduate programs are more affordable, we must be able to provide American students with other ways to pay for college. Enacting laws that change the way students borrow money and how that money will be paid back must be part of the solution. We also need to provide our students with more resources to avoid borrowing money.
Currently there is hope for mothers like myself worried about how she will pay for college for three children. President Obama has doubled his investment in scholarships and financial aid so that students from working- and middle-class families can have access to higher education without the fear of owing so much upon graduation. This new law give me peace of mind. I have invested so much time and resources to give my children the best education possible during their kindergarten through high school years. My goal is to have my children qualify for academic scholarships so that after college, they are focused on finding or starting their new jobs rather than worrying about how they will pay back an impossible debt. If my children do not qualify or receive scholarships, President Obama has also enacted law that makes it easier for students to pay back their federal college loans. These changes demonstrate a commitment by our current administration to ensure that higher education is still a feasible option for American students and families like mine.
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1) Healer of My Heart (1740) by Pamela Griffin
2) Printed on My Heart (1758) by Laurie Alice Eakes
3) Sugarplum Hearts (1789) by Gina Welborn
4) Heart's Inheritance (1815) by Jennifer Hudson Taylor
The four stories in Highland Crossings is centered around the lives of the McKay and McPherson cousins and their descendants. A priceless brooch is given to an ancestress for a good deed she once performed for the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots and serves as the motivation that tears the family apart. It plays a role in bringing the sisters together after twenty years of separation, gives a daughter a start on her dreams, and a granddaughter a new plan for the future. Each finds her way in the New World, the new nation, and a new century, finding God's purpose for their lives and the loves of their hearts.


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Monday, April 29, 2013
Iler progress
The Iler 40 QRP SSB transceiver kit proceeds apace - a snail's pace. I wasted a lot of time correcting stupid errors - like soldering a resistor in the wrong place and putting a diode in back to front. I mean, I know diodes have to go the right way round and the banded end is clearly enough marked on the board. Removing parts from boards with plated through holes is a nightmare. Why didn't I check it?
Another reason for the slow progress is that building circuits does my back in. It's the bending forward to see the parts under the magnifying lens that does it. Eventually there is a twinge from my lower back that says: time to take a break. So I'll put everything to one side and do something else for a bit.
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|October 18, 2012, 03:59 PM
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Poor police procedure?
This is not strictly firearms related but something I observed yesterday that seems to me to be a recipe for disaster.
I called in a take out order at a nearby restaurant at 11 am yesterday.
I drove down there to pick the order up and as I pulled into the parking lot, there was a line of police motorcycles backed into stalls. They were so close together, I wondered how the officers dismounted.
There were six motorcycles there.
I walk in to pick up my order and there are six uniformed officers and two civilians ( may have been officers ) sitting at one table taking lunch.
What I noticed is that four had their back to the outside and next to a window and four had their back to me.
They were avidly engaged in conversation and paid me no mind.
I am not a threat to the police. . .BUT there are people who ARE.
For you LEOs out there. . .would any of you ever put yourself in a situation like that?
I cannot imagine any department condoning such an action.
Wasn't it just in the last few years that several officers were shot because someone decided that a group of police officers close together at one time and not fully alert would be easy pickings?
Sure seems to me to be a breakdown of common sense.
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|October 18, 2012, 04:43 PM
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Complacency kills.
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|October 18, 2012, 05:37 PM
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purhaps they had a sentry posted outside to guard them.
You know.. sometimes police officers may just sit down to eat in the seats that are available. I probably wouldnt like someone telling me that they wanted my seat because it was tactically superior to the ones that were available.
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|October 18, 2012, 06:00 PM
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I'm not even LE and I go to great lengths to know my surroundingds at all times.
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|October 18, 2012, 06:24 PM
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Honestly, most of us have more awareness the the average cop. Sure he's on high alert when making a stop or responding to a call, but the rest of the time, not so much.
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|October 18, 2012, 06:31 PM
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As I walked by, they MAY have looked me over. . .or maybe not.
I just don't think they were thinking about what could have happened.
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|October 18, 2012, 06:45 PM
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Some Clown comes by who has been watching too much Smokey and the Bandit , might think it great fun to drive over 8 Copper Choppers parked in a row. They could draw straws then to see who has to call the Chief and ask for a ride back to the station. Not good.
|October 18, 2012, 07:03 PM
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You said that the Officers were facing each other. Could they have been watching each others backs?
I have never heard of anyone mowing down a row of police bikes... have any of you?.... Besides the movies.
Honestly most of you do NOT have more situational awareness than the average cop. Well the average street cop that is. Where most people work at gaining S/A, with street cops it's second nature. It becomes ingrained after a very few months on patrol.
I agree that complacency may get you killed. In fact I've known a few officers who allowed their complacency to cause their death. But it's usually more complicated than that, or maybe even more simple than that.
Since the officers were inside the resturant, and the bikes were parked outside... I guess they do have a way of getting off of them when they are parked so close together.
|October 18, 2012, 07:18 PM
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If they were facing each other, how would someone sneak up on any of them?
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|October 18, 2012, 08:41 PM
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No one needs to sneak up on them to do harm... Sneak In is a bigger threat...
As for SA, I didn't work at it... it was ingrained in my very being... From when i was showed the coral snake in Tampa at 2 years old ( I promptly delivered mortal wounds with my bare feet much to dad's chagrin) I was taught that i am the only one responsible for my well being and keepin' my eyes and ears open and cake grinder turned off was best formula to stay safe and sound...
|October 18, 2012, 08:44 PM
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I think it would be wise for them to stagger their lunch shifts so they're not all out of service at the same time.
|October 18, 2012, 08:55 PM
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I'll never forget a lesson taught during my very first "in-service". It was about Officer Awareness and was taught be a man who is now a friend and teaches at a local Correction Academy.
He related an experience he had when he was a Patrol Officer in Florida. He had just gotten off duty and was going home in his personal vehicle but still in uniform. As he stated, in his mind he was no longer on duty. He was just another civilian. He stopped at a convenience store to buy a soda, got out of his truck and approached the door without paying much attention to his surroundings. He opened the door and immediately took two rounds of 9mm, point blank and dead center mass, from the guy who was robbing the store.
He still has the body armor he was wearing at the time. It has two punctures about 2 inches apart dead center of the trauma plate area. He said he placed that vest where he would have to look at it every day before going to work.
A uniformed officer can never let their guard down. Just because you are eating lunch doesn't mean you are off duty.
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|October 18, 2012, 10:13 PM
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I'm sure they were fine. If they were sitting around a table they could see thier surroundings. Seems like you are making a big deal out of nothing. If you were that concerned about thier tactics you should have went up to all thoes cops and tell them what they were doing wrong, and see where that gets ya.
|October 18, 2012, 10:28 PM
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|October 18, 2012, 11:45 PM
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Forgive me, but I find this notion hilarious. Who's going to attack 8 cops? Certainly not any sociopaths, they always kill themselves when the cops get there.
|October 19, 2012, 12:26 AM
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If so, can I get the name,address of your relation? He owes me a panhead. ...
On a serious note:
Complacency cost two LEO acquaintance's of mine their lives.
One had 24+ yrs. in and getting ready to retire. He was killed by a wanted felon on a routine freeway traffic stop. Pulled car over for changing lanes without signaling. Knowing this officer, he wasn't going to do anything but give driver a verbal warning. He walked up to the drivers door and felon hit him, point blank in the chest with a load of buckshot out of a sawed off 12ga. Felon drove off but was captured within 30mins.
The other was a 13 yr veteran. Killed while working spec. duty at a bank. Talking to a customer in line to do their banking instead of watching who was coming through the front door. Took multiple hits from a 9mm with the fatal shot to the side of the head.
I did my job for 33yrs. Not as an LEO but at a job in which sometimes my safety or others could have been at risk if certain procedure's weren't followed. Sometimes, I caught myself getting complacent in certain areas. Taking shortcuts, hurrying etc.
Over the years, I've worked very closely with a lot of LEO's and will say, after a few years on the force, many LEO's get the same way. Cops are human too and a lot of their daily grind is routine. Not cuffing someone when you should, assuming your partner has your back cause he/she usually does. Or not cautiously approaching a car you have pulled over, even for just a minor traffic violation is complacency and can get you killed.
Don't know if these six officers were being lacks in their situational awareness or not but I hope a few were sitting facing the entry(s) of the building while the ones sitting across from them kept tabs on their backs.
I sure they were.
|October 19, 2012, 05:07 AM
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I think we're making a mountain out of a mole hill here.
Everyone's got to eat, and for all we know the reason for so many could have been due to a shift change.
I'm not sure exactly what the alternative would be.... post guards?
It probably wouldn't be great PR for their department if they were too obtuse in their distrust of the general public.
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|October 19, 2012, 05:55 AM
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Quite often motor's cops are assigned in groups to a "DETAIL" a motocade, specific traffic inforcement, a funeral, parade... The kind of things cops do on a motorcycle. Almost always IME they would all be assigned the same meal period, and usually eat together. So what the O/P saw was not unusual.
|October 19, 2012, 06:15 AM
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There is a widely used 5 color system used to illustrate LEO levels of attentiveness.
White – not focused
Yellow – no target, focused on surroundings
Orange – focused on target and surroundings
Red – focused only on target (use of force)
Black – panicked, fight or flight
Basically you want to operate at yellow for patrol and going around town, and orange when on task. Red only momentarily, and have the training to never enter black.
As you guys pointed out LEOs need to be vigilant and it is recommended that officers take safety refresher courses when they feel themselves slipping in this area. I'm certain more people enter white than they would care to admit. The problem for LEOs is that they can be the victims well planned attacks; even when alert they can still be caught off guard.
|October 19, 2012, 06:59 AM
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My very best friend is a sworn officer and I love him like a brother.
I hope to NEVER see another incident that takes the lives of officers just because they got lax for a moment.
The restaurant is very open and there are two entrances. I have seen police there often but only in ones and twos.
I have never seen so many in one place at one time and that is what prompted the original post.
Those officers could have been far more aware than what I saw. I hope so.
I do remember in the last 3 years or so seeing 5 officers at a Dunkin Donuts shop.
I go there every Friday to pick up a dozen for the Range Officers at the range I frequent.
The LT. was killed a few weeks later when he was ambushed during a "normal" car stop.
Police work is dangerous enough without giving the wannabe bad dudes an opportunity to make a name for themselves.
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|October 19, 2012, 10:01 AM
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You park bikes from left to right, and mount from right to left,that way you can get them closer together, and take up less parking spaces.
Sounds like they had each others backs.
|October 19, 2012, 11:18 AM
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Cops working motors are taught and trained how to park their motors.
How many are allowed to take breaks/meals together depends on the practices & policies of any particular agency, and can be affected by the nature of their detail/duties at that time. (It's not uncommon for agencies to have limitations on how many officers routinely can be seen together for coffee breaks & meals, as this is the sort of thing that can result in unwanted PR issues, public perception issues, etc.)
As far as how they were sitting? Yep, if they were seated facing each other, they ought to have been able to cover all directions. That freedom of vision ought to have been able to be applied to outside the windows to some extent, too. Doesn't mean it would have been obvious, though. Sometimes the appearance of deliberate attention serves a purpose, and sometimes discrete attention to surroundings is more useful. Watching without appearing to be watching is handy in a public situation, and it helps ease potential friction (since some folks can get nervous if they think cops are watching them).
Now, cops are people, too. I've certainly known enough guys & gals who didn't always have their officer safety awareness up and engaged in all situations and circumstances.
The four officers shot & killed in Lakewood WA (Nov '09) was a tragic reminder of how someone looking to kill police in public can take advantage of when officers may be taking a break or a meal in public.
Whenever I used to stop for coffee or a meal with a partner (whether working uniform or plainclothes), most of the other cops with whom I met were always aware (without being obvious) of all directions, the general presence and movement of the public and any changes in the crowds of any size. (Sometimes a subtle crowd reaction, or undercurrent, can provide an early warning before a potential threat is itself visible.)
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|October 19, 2012, 11:56 AM
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Methinks there is some paranoia out there. The reality is, given a base rate of 0.0073% (yes 73 ten-thousandths of a percent), for being a murder victim we are actually quite safe here in America.
According to the LEOKA (law enforcement officers killed or injured in action) data there are 1.5 officers who lose their life by their own hand for every 1 officer that dies due to hostile action. Or, any given officer is 50% more likely to take their own life than die by hostile action. Or, for the officers at that table, if two are shot and killed by a booger-eater, three will take their own life.
I suspect the 6 (or 8) officers, with mutual coverage and interlocking fields of fire, are going to be okay at the local Pizza Hut.
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If you were thinking about buying an Android phone in the next two weeks, please stop what you are doing and read this post. Something big is coming and I think you will want to know the full details before you get tied up in another 2-year contract with your carrier. The rumor, the source, and one Android Insider's take on the goods after the jump.
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Google and Samsung will announce the "Nexus Two" at a press conference on November 8th in New York city. The phone will be the first device to ship with stock Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and it will be available soon on multiple carriers.
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I have spoke with multiple, trusted sources familiar with the project who have shared the same story with me. They wish to remain anonymous.
One Android Insider's take on the rumor
Originally I planned to skip the Samsung press conference on November 8th (because of the $$$), but now I'm considering going (if I can still get in).
Last month I was having dinner with a bunch of Android bloggers out in Burlingame with the Open Feint team and they asked us what was the best Android phone currently available (since they are mainly iPhone guys). Virtually everyone at the table said that the Samsung Galaxy S offered the best combination of hardware, but ironically none of us were using a Samsung phone as our daily driver.
As we went around the table each one of us gave our thoughts about Samsung and we basically all said the same thing. We want phones that run the latest version of Android and that's why we were all carrying different models from HTC and Motorola.
In the last post about the "Nexus Two" I left a comment saying that I still believe Samsung makes the best hardware and I was heavily down-ranked. A few people backed me up, but I think there is a large number of current Samsung Galaxy S owners out there that are jealous because their new phone is still stuck on Android 2.1.
So imagine what would happen if Samsung focused on only the hardware and let Google takeover the software duties. That is exactly what you will get with the "Nexus Two".
I can imagine I will take a lot of heat for this post from all the people that recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S over the summer. I feel your pain and I believe Samsung will do the right thing and eventually get your phone updated to Gingerbread. Having said that, I wouldn't hold my breath because when the carriers get involved that adds a lot of waiting time.
We don't know for sure who will sell this phone in the U.S., but I believe yesterday's report that Carphone Warehouse will be the exclusive retailer in the UK is accurate. Go back and read my crazy speculation and then let me know how you think Google will distribute this phone.
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I'm totally ok if you don't believe this report, but do yourself a favor and wait two weeks to see what happens. I would hate for you to purchase a new phone in the next couple of days and then be major disappointed when you find out something new just dropped. Of course if you enjoy a custom Android skin (and the slow updates that are often associated with them), then go right ahead.
This new Samsung phone might not blow your socks off, but you will at least want to hear their pitch before making your next purchasing decision.


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Bangalore: While the Justice Mukul Mudgal report on betting and fixing has cast a long shadow over the Indian Premier League (IPL), some of biggest names in world cricket are slated to go under the hammer here Wednesday at the 2014 Pepsi IPL Player Auction that could produce a young millionaire or two.
Though the Mudgal Committee report, made public Monday, is basically a preliminary finding, it nevertheless casts aspersions that cannot be wished away. That, however, does not preclude some 514 players getting into the ring for the multi-crore bidding process that will shape the eight IPL teams.
Though players of strong and proven credentials like Jacques Kallis, Mahela Jayawardene, Virender Sehwag, Kevin Pietersen and Yuvraj Singh are in the fray, indications are that the teams might be more tempted to opt for the young and talented rather those in the twilight of their careers.
Among the most talked about players is 23-year-old New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson whose recent exploits, notably a world record 36-ball ODI century against the West Indies, have projected him as a "hot buy". Chances are that he might end up becoming a millionaire in the next 24 hours.
With IPL completing five seasons, the eight teams were allowed to retain a maximum of five players, something that only Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals opted for while Delhi Daredevils preferred to release its entire squad.
Royal Challengers Bangalore preferred to retain three as against two each by Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Those retained include Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Dwayne Bravo (CSK); Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Ambatti Rayudu, Rohit Sharma and Harbhajan Singh (MI); Stuart Binny, James Faulkner, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson and Shane Watson (RR); AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli (RCB); David Miller, Manan Vohra (KXIP); Shikhar Dhawan and Dale Steyn (SH).
This is the first IPL auction where the bidding will be done in Indian rupees (INR) with a total of Rs.274.50 crore available across eight teams. Uncapped Indian players will be making their debut in the auction.
The 514-strong list features 219 capped players (169 Indians and 50 overseas players) and 292 uncapped players (255 Indians and 37 overseas players). There are also three players from Associate Nations, namely Niall and Kevin O'Brien from Ireland and Ryan Ten Doeschate from the Netherlands.
The proceedings will commence at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and will be conducted by Richard Madley, who has been associated with the auction since the inaugural season in 2008.


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Letting Go
A Weaning Story
Lu Hanessian
Englewood NJ USA
From: NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 21 No. 1, January-February 2004, pp. 4
My son was barely out of my womb when people asked me how long I planned to breastfeed. A year and a half later, people ask when I plan to enroll him in school, whether he throws tantrums, if he's a picky eater, if he's waking up dry yet. Then they find out he still breastfeeds.
"I can't imagine nursing such a big baby," laughs my neighbor.
"Agh! How do you do it with all those teeth?" shudders my friend Jennifer.
People are curious, I suppose. And probably a little concerned about a nursing child who can also feed himself with a fork. "You still have milk?" a girlfriend asks incredulously.
Occasionally, my father-in-law teases me that Nicholas will still be breastfeeding when he's 35. "You're coddling him," he jests. And I kindly remind him that he was nursed until he was four.
"Why?" people ask, half-afraid of the answer. Why nurse him when he can walk? I guess the answer is so simple that it's kind of complicated.
My son loves to nurse. He gets giddy. He takes my hand and pulls me to his favorite Red Flower Chair in the corner of our living room. "Ana nuss, Mah-mee," he declares. Translation? I want to nurse. Yes, at a mere 18 months, the boy knows what he wants. Or rather, he knows what he needs. He plays like a Whirling Dervish, then comes to my lap and asks to breastfeed for a minute, like an Indy 500 race car coming in for a pit stop.
He wakes up from a midday nap, and my husband, Dave, brings him downstairs where I'm writing. He looks at me with his nap hair and pillow-creased cheeks and gasps, "Mah-mee!" And he runs to me from across the room in his superhero way, arms suspended, fists high, eyebrows raised, mouth open, his eyes glistening with anticipation. We spin in my swivel chair, reveling in the moment, both of us wearing silly, sloppy grins of deep, deep satisfaction. And then, he sits up suddenly, like a Pavlovian bell has just rung, and says, "Nuss!" For him, nursing is a tonic, a stabilizer, an elixir, a magic potion. Society tends to find it weird.
Some people think attachment to the breast means attachment to the mother, which means too much dependency on the mother. And too much dependency on mama? Well...we all know what that means.
I suppose some people get nervous because they think that a child who doesn't "learn to soothe himself" will never learn how. I think about that logic applied to anything else a child learns. For example, if you feed a baby, he'll never learn to feed himself. Or, if you dress him, he'll never learn to dress himself.
I'm warned that if I don't wean him early, he'll never wean himself. In other cultures around the world, however, it's not unusual for children to breastfeed as toddlers. And they do, eventually, stop breastfeeding.
Our Western society, however, frowns at the thought of a walking, talking child at the breast, because it's generally perceived as inappropriate. Sexually inappropriate. As if physical arousal was the goal of toddler nursing-or the effect! Maybe people are uncomfortable with the emotional intimacy of nursing a toddler. It's easier to sexualize the breast than to confront and resolve their own intimacy issues. People who find a breastfeeding mother's motives suspect just don't understand that no toddler can be forced to breastfeed against his will. If he doesn't want to nurse, nobody can make him take a breast any more than someone can force him to eat his lima beans.
In my mind, there is absolutely no confusion whatsoever about a toddler's motivation to nurse. At 20 months now, my son's motivation is clear, because he tells me. I can determine by the tone and inflection of his voice, and in what particular context, the actual reason he wants to nurse. He wants to soothe himself. He wants to connect. He wants to meditate. He wants comfort. He wants to gather his wits. He wants to restore himself.
He comes to me and asks, "Mahmee, pleez nuss?" And he whimpers in triplets under his breath like he's bravely trying to stifle a meltdown. And then he adds, "A lidda bit..." He's becoming aware of time and timing. He is beginning to understand the unspoken and spoken dynamics of relationship, and the language of his needs-and mine. "I have to go to the bathroom first, sweetie," I explain. "One, two, fwee, fo…" he counts, rocking back and forth on his little heels.
I am deeply convinced that the only reason he is even half-heartedly able to exhibit this small vestige of patience at 20 months is because I breastfed him whenever his little heart desired until he was old enough to understand "not right now." In other words, I can occasionally and lovingly say "no" to him now as a toddler because I consistently said "yes" to him as a baby.
This was my first blinking "a-ha!" moment that shined a floodlight for me on the very origins of trust. He trusts me, not because I am his mother, but because I am the mother that responds to him.
We breastfeed in silence. We breastfeed in dialogue. We breastfeed asleep. We breastfeed in a chair at the end of the day until all the light is gone from the room. I hold him, knowing, wistfully, that he will never remember this. But somehow, I feel in my intuitive heart that this will have helped shape his perceptions of himself and me, and give him some kind of internal compass that leads him along a path that is always lit even if it's dark.
In spite of my poetic musings about nursing and the call of the human spirit, I still get flak. Lots of flak. When he was a year-and-a-half old, many people thought my son was just too darn old to nurse because he was apparently not a baby anymore.
But he cried when I wiped his nose. (Still does.) He didn't put his fingers in the right glove holes. (Still can't.) He got upset when his hands were sticky. (Right.) He fell apart when his play-date left. (Yup.) Time passes.
Now, at two years old, people really think he's too old to breastfeed because he's a self-sufficient toddler. But he wears a bib when he eats. He wants to play outside without clothes. He wants his scrapes kissed better. He is afraid of velcro.
People at the mall, in the park, on the airplane, at my pediatrician's office, and sometimes in my own home, are upset with me. A friend visiting from out of town counted how many times my boy nursed in a day. "Six," she says. "Like a newborn baby," she adds. As if I've been giving him Coca-Cola every hour, on the hour.
He cries upon my return from an appointment one day, and a friend shakes her head, and mumbles that she's "worried" about his breastfeeding. It seems everything can be blamed squarely on the breast. Any unseemly toddler behavior. International crises. Traffic jams. Inclement weather. If my son is the slightest bit unruly, it's got to be the breast. Clingy? The breast. Anti-social? You got it. Doesn't want to go outside today? Yep, it's because the breast has lulled him into a state of agoraphobia. Wants to play in the park until dark? It's the breast's fault for not setting better limits on his recreation.
Left breast turned off its plumbing? "There are women who nurse on one side," the doc reassures me. "But at this point, it's time for you to wean him," he advises. "There are no medical benefits to nursing at this stage. There are actually no benefits at all, other than maybe psychological. But it's very controversial."
My son, who is strapped in his stroller in the room with me while the doctor states his case, is now crying so hard I can see his epiglottis. The doctor then proceeds to tell me that I've put myself in a "very difficult position" by nursing my child "this long."
"I'm not here for your support of my nursing," I say calmly. "I'm here for a medical checkup."
"Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I don't support nursing. I think nursing is great. I'm your adversary!" he assures, surely meaning to say "advocate."
I don't bother to correct him. Sometimes, I feel like a marathoner hopping on one good leg to the finish line.
It's bedtime. My son and I are in the rocker. He's nursing while doing his version of Cirque du Soleil. My last nerve is frayed. I have little scratches all over my stomach, almost as if I've wrestled a cat. He likes to press his thumb into my navel when he's nursing like it's a milk dispenser. My tolerance is depleted. I feel forsaken for feeling depleted. Resentful for feeling forsaken.
His eyes are wide open. Even in the dark, I can still make out two blinking black pools. I "shhh" him softly. I tell him to close his eyes now. He puts his paw over his eye as if to let me know that even if he won't close his eye, he can at least cover it.
My breast begins to feel sore, and I tell him I can't nurse him anymore right now. He manages to stop long enough to blurt quietly out of the side of his mouth, "No..." He believes he owns my breast.
Sometimes, I wonder if it's really mine. For a moment, I feel a flash of ambivalence. I see how nursing my baby has helped him flourish. I see how comfortable he is in his own skin because he has gotten the kind of comfort he wants. I see how helpful it is to both of us to be able to breastfeed him when he's not feeling well, when we're in the emergency room with croup at 11 pm, and he's feeling hot, scared, and confused.
I see how he finds his peace. Orders his world. I see how blissful it is to sit with him at dawn and nurse him into another day. I see how breastfeeding him for comfort has made him more comfortable in general. More patient. More respectful of my needs. More able to calm himself. More centered. Happy.
I see how it has made me more patient, more centered, able to calm myself. I see the look of deep knowingness in his eye, as if we've been walking the planet together for a couple of hundred years. I see how breastfeeding has become part of our rhythm, our rhyme, our understanding of each other. How it has given our relationship a whole other layer of connectedness. And how that connectedness has influenced my parenting choices, how I perceive him, and how he responds to me.
I can also see how he won't go down to sleep at night with anybody else but me. At least, not at this point. Not now. Not yet.
Sigh. I hear the chorus of friends, strangers, and pediatricians who warned me about becoming a "human pacifier." I can hear the wave of "I-told-you-so" sweeping across the landscape like a hot wind. Is that them-or me?
Two seasons have passed. The trees are barren in anticipation of our first snowfall of the season. My two-and-a-half year old is watching an old Ed Sullivan show on TV, the Beatles' first appearance. My son is sitting cross-legged on the couch mouthing the words. "I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your ha-a-and."
We haven't nursed in a long time. Three whole weeks. An eternity. I think he's weaned himself. He has been going to sleep without breastfeeding for months now. My breast is no longer needed for soothing. For sleep. For comfort. For peace.
Gradually, he asks less. His need diminishes in phases. The "gotta-make sure-they're-still-there" phase. The "20 seconds phase." The phase where he asked me if my breasts are "feeling okay." If they're "tired."
The first time we go a full day without. A full week without, The first time I rock him in my arms without nursing. The first time I comfort him without nursing. The first time he sees a friend's baby breastfeeding, watches in recognition, and goes on with his activities.
I used to think of breastfeeding as the essential connection between us. I couldn't imagine, and sometimes worried about, how we would relate to each other after he was no longer breastfeeding. It was part of our language. Our understanding of each other.
Now, in retrospect, I realize that nursing is only one aspect of motherhood. One way of connecting. One way of comforting. On the other side of the nursing journey now, motherhood continues, of course. And, in some ways, for me, it is just beginning again.
In letting my son decide when to stop nursing-when to let go-I have learned about letting go, too. About letting go of one thread while holding on to others. Letting go, letting go, until more threads are loosened, unraveled, untethered, like a dancing kite that has set itself free.


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Police logs - Sept. 24
Groton City
Holly Manley, 29, of 95 Litton Ave. was charged Sunday with first-degree forgery, sixth-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit sixth-degree larceny.
Latoyya Ellis, 25, of 192 Branford Ave. was charged Sunday with risk of injury to a minor.
Groton Town
Alyne D. Rodrigues, 21, of 66 Pepperbox Road, Waterford, was charged Sunday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, failure to signal or grant right of way, failure to yield right of way on a left turn and failure to drive in the proper lane on a multiple-lane highway.
Anthony M. Smith, 20, of 1042 Poquonnock Road No. 61 was charged Sunday with third-degree criminal mischief.
Carl B. Gilbert, 35, of 6 Conrad Court, Gales Ferry, was charged Sunday with possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Keron K. Keane, 18, of 105 Route 184 was charged Saturday with first-degree criminal trespass.
Michael D. Smigel, 20, of Naval Submarine Base was charged Saturday with driving as a minor with an elevated blood-alcohol level and failure to have lights lit.
Allen Coates, 24, of 4 Coachman Pike, Ledyard, was charged Friday with second-degree failure to appear in court.
Brian Bates, 18, of 800 Long Cove Road No. 5, Gales Ferry, was charged Thursday with evading responsibility and interfering with a police officer.
New London
Kristen L. Vandermaelen, 23, of Madison was charged Sunday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and failure to obey a stop sign.
Richard C. Dobbins, 36, of 329 Broad St., 1-A, was charged Sunday with threatening.
Kim Bewlay, 22, of 71 Division St., Apt. A, was charged Monday with breach of peace and third-degree assault.
Rachel Bewlay, 21, of 71 Division St., Apt. A, was charged Monday with breach of peace and third-degree assault.
Jennifer Silver, 41, of 71 Division St., Apt. A, was charged Monday with breach of peace and third-degree assault.
Ricardo Charles, 32, of 249 Broadway, was charged Sunday with driving with a suspended license and traveling too fast.
Porta N. Ralls, 29, of 76 Liberty St., Apt. 2, Pawcatuck was charged Sunday with breach of peace.
Edward K. Ross, 38, of 20 Pierce St., Westerly, was charged Monday with using a motor vehicle without the owner's permission and breach of peace.
John E. Gates Jr., 27, of 4 Terry St., Westerly, was charged Sunday with second-degree failure to appear in court.
Jonathan Ryder, 24, of 19 Kingfisher Way was charged Saturday with violation of probation and sixth-degree larceny.
Police logs reflect arrests, not convictions. For information on the outcome of criminal and motor vehicle arrests: www.jud2.ct.gov/crdockets/SearchByDefDisp.aspx.
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Design students are designing efficient, attractive micro-home interiors, and a graduate student in the Business School is researching how location impacts the cost of micro-housing.
As micro-housing gains a foothold in Boston -- with a target market of young professionals willing to live in tiny, affordable apartments that provide easy access to urban amenities -- students and faculty from across Suffolk University are collaborating on research and creative work that inform public policy and private-sector decisions regarding micro-housing.
Design by prospective residents
To demonstrate what living in a micro-unit is really like, students at the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University did a real-scale floor plan of a micro-unit that was displayed at a recent campus Sustainability Fair. They also have created sample designs that for display during a panel discussion on micro-housing to take place March 26 at the Modern Theatre. Professor Anna Gitelman is heading up the design project at the request of Richard Taylor, executive in residence and director of the Center for Real Estate at the University's Sawyer Business School.
"It was a perfect challenge because most of these students are graduating in the spring," says Karen Clarke, who with Gitelman is co-director of the Interior Architecture master's degree program. "It presented an opportunity to create an environment that would appeal to them."
The project is timely, as developers are constructing micro-units as small as 350-square feet in the fast-growing Seaport District. So far there are more than 700 units being built on Boston's waterfront, including the $100 million Boston Wharf Tower, which is under construction on A Street.
Cost vs. location
While the student designers began planning the sample interiors, Taylor and research assistant Michael Gesualdi, a master's degree candidate focused on taxation, assessed micro-unit costs per square foot according to location. Their study focused on "core-city" areas like Boston neighborhoods and "connected-city" areas like Quincy, Malden and Somerville, which offer lower rents and access to public transportation into the city.
"Our data sought to explore the rental price differences in neighborhoods outside of the Innovation District that are close to the public transit system," says Taylor. "Access to public transportation is critical so that young professionals can take advantage of growing job opportunities in life sciences, technology, medicine and education."
A launching pad for young professionals
Personally, Gesualdi sees the advantages of living in a smaller space.
"I don't view it as a compromise," he says. "It is an opportunity for young professionals to live in an urban center for less money. If we are spending less on rent, we have more disposable income, and we're more likely to participate in all the city has to offer."
Taylor says that these small units work well if developers invest in common areas, such as roof decks, cafes and gyms, that allow residents to eat, work and socialize outside of their individual units.
Living better with less space
"We are the demographic that Mayor Thomas Menino wants to retain," says Interior Architecture Master's degree candidate Sonya Randall, 29, one of the micro-unit designers. "Our goal ultimately was to design a space that we ourselves would be excited about living in."
Micro-units bring costs down by being more efficient with space.
"They are ecologically sustainable and built with thoughtful innovations and attractive amenities," says Clarke.
The result is a comfortable and flexible personal space that offers an opportunity to be part of the city life. The interior designs created by Gitelman's students -- four themes reflecting different tastes and styles of living -- reflect these attributes.
"My own place"
"When I thought about the prospect of living in a micro-unit, I realized that for the first time in years, I could afford to live alone, without a roommate," says Randall. "I love socializing, but at this point in my life I'm looking forward to having my own place."
Gesualdi thinks the micro-units are a great idea. However the units in the Innovation District are still beyond his reach at about $1,200 per unit a month.
"The city is definitely on the right track," he says. "I would simply encourage a focus on more cost-effective areas for young professionals."
University's impact
Taylor believes that this is one of a number of opportunities where Suffolk University can explore and add to the discussion of major public-policy and private-sector issues in the City of Boston.
"This is especially significant given our location," he says. "I hope that this data analysis helps encourage other developers and architects to consider developing these units."


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Christian Can You Really Worship a God Who Will Send Your Family and Friends to Hell?
I want you to think about it rather than regurgitate the standard pat answers from the Bible itself. Just think about it. I attended a funeral this weekend and my brother conducted the memorial service. In it he warned us that "the wicked will end up in hell." At the funeral dinner I asked him if he thought I was going to be in hell and he responded: "Only God can judge." Now think about this, okay?...and be consistent. Is it just that believers cannot say what their theology commits them to when it comes to a family member? Look your non-committal family members in the eye and tell them they are going to hell. Can't do it? Why? That's what you preach. And then think about this song:
HT for the song "The Fate Awaiting Thee" to Dr. Jim's Thinking Shop and Tea Room.
HT for the song "The Fate Awaiting Thee" to Dr. Jim's Thinking Shop and Tea Room.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May, 3 2010) - After winning its fourth straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship two weeks ago, the ETSU men's tennis team finally learned its first round match-up on Tuesday afternoon during the ESPNEWS selection show.
With players, coaches, staff members and fans watching inside the Humphrey Academic Center, ETSU (15-7) received the three-seed in the Knoxville Regional and will take on second-seeded Alabama (13-13) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament
The Bucs, who enter the tournament ranked 65th in latest ITA poll, have won eight straight and 13 of their last 14 matches.
Head coach Yaser Zaatini's squad will be making their eighth NCAA appearance all-time. ETSU's lone victory in the Big Dance came two years ago against Notre Dame during first-round action - which was also the last time the Bucs earned a three-seed.
Alabama (13-13) enters the field after receiving an automatic at-large bid from the committee. The Crimson Tide will be making their 16th trip to the NCAA Tournament and seventh under head coach Billy Pate.
Overall, Alabama - who is currently ranked 32nd by the ITA - has defeated seven nationally ranked teams this season.
Despite two different bids into the field the Bucs and Crimson Tide have played against three common opponents this spring in Georgia, Mississippi State and Tennessee. ETSU went 0-3 against the three Southeastern Conference schools, while the Crimson Tide went 1-2.
Joining ETSU and Alabama in Knoxville is instate-rival and No. 2 overall-seed Tennessee (26-1) and Winthrop (13-11).
Specific times and dates for first and second round matches will be released at a later time.
Fans can access the entire 2010 NCAA Tournament Bracket by clicking the link above.
For more information on Buccaneer men's tennis team as they make final preparations for the NCAA Tournament, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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