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With over 15 years of experience in event management and conference curation, Benjamin is an expert within the Entertainment industry and is passionate about all things digital.
in 2003, Benjamin joined Reed MIDEM, a leader in the organization of B2B events, where he was responsible of building the conferences & content programmes for events such as Midem, MIP Markets (MIPTV & MIPCOM) and Esports BAR among others.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
There were moments when Slumdog Millionaire swept me away. Everything good that has been said about its cinematography is true, and the A. R. Rehman soundtrack with more than a few numbers by the incredible M.I.A. makes watching this film a memorable experience.
The two brothers at the heart of the story are played by three sets of actors as they grow up. The youngest are the best, worthy successors to the cast of Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay. But there is a horribly jarring moment when the next pair, playing the adolescent Jamal and Salim turn up on screen sounding like they were enrolled at Cathedral, played tennis at the Willingdon and had NRI cousins. The truly puzzling thing is that they have not yet made some Cinderella ascent up the socio-economic ladder because they are still orphaned street kids doing what we are meant to think of as long, gruelling shifts in the kitchen of a restaurant somewhere in Mumbai.
The most unforgiveable aspect of this film is its complete, utter and total inattention to language, to the fact that English is an Indian language but one that is spoken with varying degrees of fluency, and different cadences, accents and intonations in different class locations. (This is something that is incredibly difficult to capture on film, although Nandita Das's Firaaq comes close to doing it best, particularly in the way the upper-middle class characters move from Gujrati to English in mid-sentence).
Now I'm quite prepared to be told a rags-to-riches story that explains how two kids from a slum acquired these markers of class distinction in their adolescence - indeed that is the real story here, not how one of them won a game show after he started speaking English like, well, like me. OK Mr. sociology lecturer, I can hear you say, consider for a moment that Danny Boyle may have been trying to pay tribute to Bollywood, where everything is possible on screen. Possibly, and indeed that offers a way in which to enjoy this film (I loved Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge for exactly that reason). But having heard Boyle claim in a BBC interview that he was perturbed by the description of his latest work as a 'feel good' film and had made it in the best tradition of British realism, I struggle to see this as Bollywood in English (a la Gurinder Chadha's disastrous Bride and Prejudice). And even Bollywood for all its escapism, doesn't violate class rules without some account - however strained - of social mobility. By the time I had accustomed myself to the Cathedral School brats playing grown-up games in the abandoned Tulip Star hotel, they had grown up again - this time morphing into (at least one) British Born Confused Desi struggling to suppress his natural accent on a trip home to his Indian relatives.
You cannot mess with English in India, particularly in a Mumbai slum. Surprisingly, books have managed this much better. Surprising because of course they don't have the luxury of subtitles or dubbing. There have been three big Bombay books with slum plots in the recent past: Gregory Roberts's Shantaram, Suketu Mehta's Maximum City and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. Of these, the credibility and integrity of the first two are aided by the fact that they are memoirs/travelogues by English-speaking visitors (or in the case of Mehta, returning natives) to the city. Even when characters who would not normally speak English do so in these accounts, we are prepared to accept that given the intermediation of the English-speaking author-as-reporter. Perhaps also the very medium of written text regularly places greater demands on the imagination, so that we are more willing to suspend disbelief, as compared to cinema which we expect (I expect?) to be more 'real'. But Chandra's Sacred Games is a masterpiece in this regard, in its ability to put English in the mouths of those who would not speak it without violating the reader's sense of credibility. Part of the trick here is his skilful peppering of dialogue with Hindi, Marathi and Punjabi words - untranslated, but so clearly embedded in a context that would allow a non-speaker of these languages to guess at their meaning. Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies attempts a similar multilinguality - multiple Englishes, but also Bhojpuri - although there is a great deal more explicit translation in his text. I am reminded here also of Peter Carey's resolute refusal to translate Australian slang in his novels (no one told me what a chevy was when I was growing up reading American novels, he once shot back at a questioner at Hay-on-Wye). English translations of work by the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o also regularly contain untranslated Gikuyu words, whose meaning has to be guessed from context. But even whatever one loses in momentary incomprehension in these works is more than compensated for by the experience of being immersed in a place as it is - not translated for the foreign reader.
Danny Boyle has it much easier. He could so easily have made a film mostly in Hindi. But Slumdog leaves you with the feeling that after the first few scenes, he got tired of working with actors in another language and took the easy (for him) route. Unfortunately this makes things difficult for an audience, struggling to reconcile what they know about a place with what he tells them. The tragedy of this film is that it begins in a blaze of promise and then leaves you shaking your head in disbelief, desperately willing the characters onward on their incredible journey, but knowing that when you leave the theatre the world will look the same.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
inauguration day
PS - if you listen very carefully, aretha tells someone to shut up towards the end of the song. brilliant!
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Gaza II: the ground invasion
They have extremely sophisticated missiles that can be guided to a moving car and they choose to use other weapons or decide to drop a bomb on a house knowing that there were women and children inside. These are very, very clear breaches of international law.
8/01: An Israeli writes of how he was shocked to learn that the government has allowed in humanitarian aid as a way of fending off international pressure to stop the assault: 'Not unlike raising animals for slaughter on a farm, the Israeli government maintains that it is providing Palestinians with assistance so that it can have a free hand in attacking them.'
Any hope that the silver lining in the current crisis might have been a hastily forged unity among the Palestinian factions is belied by this account of how Hamas is continuing its crackdown on Fatah members, in addition to executing collaborators and 'common criminals'.
It was chilling and disturbing to hear the Israeli Ambassador to the UK on BBC Hardtalk, contrast what he seemed to regard as the hellish fanatical Gaza with the prosperous booming West Bank. Listening to him, it became increasingly clear that this is Israel's game plan. In public, Israel denies that it wants to bring about regime change, insisting only that it wants rocket firing to stop. But sometimes spokespersons slip up and suggest much more maximalist designs: the elimination of Hamas - either ontologically (they simply don't exist any more) or by rendering them politically irrelevant via the discontent of the people of Gaza (who, it is hoped, will restore their allegiance to Fatah - which the Israelis now speak of as if it were a model interlocutor).
I really have no sense of what is happening in the West Bank. I was disturbed to hear, from dear S, of reports that there had been minuscule protests in Ramallah. There could be many reasons for this. People may simply be too preoccupied with the imperatives of life to have the luxury of protest. Or Fatah may be actively discouraging any meaningful expressions of solidarity. But it boggles the mind to think the Fatah may actually be pleased by the decimation of Hamas. I think I have a very naive view of national liberation politics in which I assume that despite all their differences, the factions in the liberation struggle manage to forge a tactical alliance till the big goal has been achieved. Then they fall upon each other to share the spoils of victory. In the case of Palestine, the big goal has not been achieved. Instead, Oslo heralded a sort of half-victory, or what Edward Said (I think) called, much more cynically, the right to kill mosquitoes and collect garbage in an archipelago of bantustans. Which is what leaves me incredulous: *this* is what they are fighting over?
But perhaps that is a misstatement of the situation. Perhaps running the PA is enough of a prize, enough of an incentive to engender this sort of infighting and disunity. After all, even before the carrot of the quasi-governmental authority of the PA was dangled before the liberation movement, there had been much infighting between factions. Arafat was able to triumph in that struggle through a combination of ruthlessness and cunning. (Unfortunately he seemed to believe that the skills that served him so well in the liberation struggle could also be useful in government - hence the encouragement of factionalism and his own position as a sort of Caesarist figure who was indispensable, could mediate, take final decisions. The result was chaotic, incompetent, clientilistic government. This is all *very* familiar stuff. The tragedy of Palestine is that it happened too early. Before the prize was won.)
There are other things to be depressed about: UNRWA has suspended aid operations in Gaza, and the ICRC reports a horrible incident in which four children were found abandoned and crying near the dead body of their mother.
And I have had more stray thoughts about the laws of war. It's well known that Katyusha and Qassam rockets are crude weapons that cannot be targeted at anything. Hamas fires them in the full knowledge that they will hit civilian installations, but it doesn't - can't - target anything in particular because these weapons aren't guided projectiles. It is therefore incorrect to suggest, as Israeli spokespeople have been saying, that 'Hamas targets our kindergartens'. Again, it's worth repeating that while kindergartens have been hit, it's wrong to say that they have been targeted. Israel on the other hand has sophisticated technology that enables it to punch in GPS coordinates before firing. The UN says that it reported the coordinates of all its facilities, and they have still been hit. Given this great discrepancy in technological capability, it seems to me that Israel bears a higher degree of moral culpability for civilian deaths because it has a greater capacity to avoid them. If you think this is a spurious argument, I would appreciate being told. It's possible that anger has sent my moral compass spinning out of control.
7/01: Hugo Chavez is the first head of state to have lodged a decisive public protest against this.
If Israel thinks that our suffering from this siege will make us hate Hamas, they are wrong.
21.21: THIS is absolutely despicable. Even if Israel thinks Hamas is cynically positioning its fighters behind human shields in civilian locations, it cannot be right under any moral framework to go ahead and bomb those locations in the full knowledge that there are civilians there, and then to simply say 'It's Hamas's fault'. This is not 'collateral damage'. There is an intentionality and a certainty to these acts that puts them closer to wanton murder. I am aware of the doctrine of double effect, which just war theorists will no doubt use to justify these acts. But I think this incident dramatises everything that is sickening about the very doctrine.
What we are witnessing is nothing less than the toppling of a democratically elected government (by another democratically elected government - it will be interesting to see how democratic peace theorists worm their way out of this one). It looks like Israeli objectives are hardening even during the course of the campaign.
I have been wondering about the marketing of this campaign: Tzipi Livni is of course in the forefront, as is Avital Liebowich. It's interesting how the Israelis tend to trot out blonde blue-eyed US/European accented spokespeople to explain their utterly reasonable actions to the world (e.g. the Australian accented Mark Regev). When was the last time you saw Mizrahim representing Israel on international TV? See here for more on the gendered marketing of the IDF (sexy women on the English website, praying men on the Hebrew website).
5/01: Joseph Massad on ei on the long history of Israeli-Arab collaboration, of which the Gaza massacre is only the latest episode. Why have we heard nothing out of Mahmoud Abbas and the PA?
'When Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was asked point blank by al-Jazeera's anchorman if Israel had an arrangement with Arab regimes to commit the Gaza massacres, she refused to answer and finally denied such an arrangement existed but could not help but affirm that there are those in the Arab world who "think" as Israel does and that Hamas is their enemy as it is the enemy of Israel.'
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
time out: che
del Toro is fabulous. This is an older Che than Gael Garcia Bernal in The Motorcycle Diaries, but somehow also a more credible one. It's possible to see how someone like this (warm, humane, cold, ruthless, driven, dedicated) could have become one of the leading ideologues of one of the world's most successful revolutions. I like that scenes are often accompanied by a voiceover reading from Che's writing on guerrilla war, demonstrating that warfare of this kind is not only a military activity but also a political and intellectual one. Perhaps the line that stays with me most through the whole film is his reply to a reporter's question: what is the one quality that a revolutionary should have? Answer: love. (I'd highly recommend the section on Che in Robert Young's magisterial Postcolonialism: an historical introduction.)
Che is a deely polarising figure and there will inevitably be reviewers who think that the film is too sympathetic to him. I don't think the film sets out to provide a disassionate balance sheet. It's more like an immersion experience: what was it like to be in the Cuban foco? What sort of person joined it and why? And once you did, what did you need to do to win?
Oh and I love that the best actor award at Cannes, which del Toro won, is called the Prix d'interpretation masculin.
Friday, January 02, 2009
2/01: Yea, happy new year. An intriguing piece on ei that suggests that the real Israeli objective in Gaza is to coopt Hamas and to get it to collude with Israel in the same way that Fatah does.
In practice that would mean taming Hamas rather than crushing it. Whereas Israel is trying to build up Fatah in the West Bank with carrots, it is using the current slaughter in Gaza as a big stick with which to beat Hamas into compliance.
Israel apparently hopes to persuade the Hamas leadership, as it did Arafat for a while, that its best interests are served by cooperating with Israel. The message is: forget about your popular mandate to resist the occupation and concentrate instead on remaining in power with our help.
This sort of makes sense to me. That Israel is not aiming at the all-out destruction of Hamas is suggested by the weird phrases it uses to describe the objectives of its current campaign - e.g. 'changing the security situation in southern Israel'.
Israeli human rights organisations are recording harm caused to civilians on this blog, which is beginning to read like a roster of war crimes. Photographic evidence from B'Tselem of the IDF's inability to distinguish between rockets and oxygen cylinders (which, presumably, are desperately needed in hospitals?).
Did you hear Tzipi Livni on TV saying 'there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza'? Sara Roy, writing in the LRB, on the situation in Gaza: not enough food, cooking gas, banknotes, power, diesel, water, sewage treatment. 'How can keeping food and medicine from the people of Gaza protect the people of Israel?', she asks. What is the definition of a humanitarian crisis?
31/12: If you have been missing Palestinian or Palestinian-friendly perspectives on the current crisis, go to The Electronic Intifada. If you read one thing today, let it be this searing indictment of Fatah, Arab governments, and yes even Hamas.
...unnamed sources close to Abbas have been leaking to The Jerusalem Post that if the Hamas government in Gaza falls, PA forces could step into the breach. [5] These are the same forces which the Post revealed earlier this month were "taught over and over again" that they were not being trained to "learn to fight against the Israeli occupation." Rather, according to US Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, who is overseeing the training of the new PA security forces, it was to focus on "the lawless elements within Palestinian society" (i.e., Hamas). [6] This revelation is hardly surprising and confirms reports over the past year in the US, Israeli, and Arab press of complicity between PA forces with Israel, the US, and the governments of Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia to topple the Hamas government and destroy its militia. It is also consistent with the actions of these forces in the PA-ruled West Bank, where Hamas members have been rounded up and arrested with frequent accusations of torture and at least one reported death in custody.
Nor has Hamas offered a viable alternative for most Palestinians and they are not blameless in this murderous assault. Their rule of Gaza bears all the hallmarks of their Fatah predecessors: long on rhetoric and short on achievement. Moreover, Hamas has behaved precisely as Fatah did in Gaza during the Oslo period and as it currently does in the West Bank, including arresting and torturing political opponents. Indeed, Hamas has been saved from its own myopia by the ruthlessness of those aligned against it, as the siege has provided the movement with a convenient excuse for its shortcomings. In an interview with Al Jazeera on Saturday, Hamas' exiled leader Khaled Meshaal called for a "third intifada." As has been demonstrated repeatedly in Palestinian history an intifada without a unified leadership or a strategy is doomed to fail with dire consequences for the future. Merely calling for an intifada is not the same as planning and preparing for one. If Hamas is to be a viable alternative to Abbas, it must decide if it will continue to adopt the policies and rhetoric of past Palestinian leaders where every failure is an achievement and every disastrous defeat a victory. Otherwise, they have similarly sacrificed their people on the rocks and shoals of tired slogans and empty promises.
So, an updated list of Israeli objectives might look something like this:
1. Destroy Hamas militarily
2. Hope (stupidly) that Fatah will step into the resulting political vacuum
3. Look good for the elections.
4. Exorcise the ghosts of Lebanon, 2006.
Who advises these people?
More Gideon Levy, speaking truth into what feels like a void where no one seems to be listening:
Our finest young men are attacking Gaza now. Good boys from good homes are doing bad things. Most of them are eloquent, impressive, self-confident, often even highly principled in their own eyes, and on Black Saturday dozens of them set out to bomb some of the targets in our "target bank" for the Gaza Strip.
They set out to bomb the graduation ceremony for young police officers who had found that rare Gaza commodity, a job, massacring them by the dozen. They bombed a mosque, killing five sisters of the Balousha family, the youngest of whom was 4. They bombed a police station, hitting a doctor nearby; she lies in a vegetative state in Shifa Hospital, which is bursting with wounded and dead. They bombed a university that we in Israel call the Palestinian Rafael, the equivalent of Israel's weapons developer, and destroyed student dormitories. They dropped hundreds of bombs out of blue skies free of all resistance.
30/12: Remember Olmert's temporary lapse into sanity? Why do people in government, Mossad, Shin Bet start to sound reasonable in retirement, or on the verge thereof?
Yossi Alpher, a former official at Mossad and a military commentator...was critical of the tough economic blockade Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip in recent years, limiting imports to humanitarian supplies and preventing all exports, a policy that has all but wiped out private industry and brought Gaza's economy to collapse. "The economic siege of Gaza has not produced any of the desired political results," he said. "It has not manipulated Palestinians into hating Hamas, but has probably been counter-productive. It is just useless collective punishment."
He said that in future Israel would have to choose either to recognise Hamas was around to stay and to talk to the movement, however unpalatable that might be for most Israelis, or to fully reoccupy the Gaza Strip, topple Hamas and bear all the costs involved.
I can't yet tell whether this crisis will cement some sort of unity between Fatah and Hamas. In some bits of this report, the West Bank sounds a world away, almost as if the reality of a 3-state solution were sinking in.
18.02: Everything about this war is so depressingly familiar, so predictable, so in accordance with a script you have seen before. You almost know beforehand that Gideon Levy is going to say the most courageous, sensible things. And that few in power are going to listen to him.
More clarity on Israeli objectives. I'm going to update the shopping list as I go along.
1. Destroy Hamas militarily, even if you strengthen them politically.
2. Look good for the elections. (If the current Defence Minister and the current Foreign Minister are going to be leading rival parties into the election, are they going to sing from the same songsheet over the next few weeks? Or are we going to hear contrasting versions of what-I-said-should-have-been-done when the campaigning begins?)
3. Exorcise the ghosts of the 2006 defeat in Lebanon; signal to enemies that Israel is not a paper tiger. (Of course Israel runs all the same risks this time around, though the 'lesson' of 2006 it seems to have learned is that it needs to be more ruthless.)
On a different note, perhaps I was too harsh on the international press earlier. There are some strong pieces in the Independent - Fisk as always, and Johann Hari, whose piece seems to corroborate Amira Hass's claim that there are people in Hamas who accept the existence of Israel:
According to the Israeli press, Yuval Diskin, the current head of the Israeli security service Shin Bet, "told the Israeli cabinet [on 23 December] that Hamas is interested in continuing the truce, but wants to improve its terms." Diskin explained that Hamas was requesting two things: an end to the blockade, and an Israeli ceasefire on the West Bank. The cabinet – high with election fever and eager to appear tough – rejected these terms.
The core of the situation has been starkly laid out by Ephraim Halevy, the former head of Mossad. He says that while Hamas militants – like much of the Israeli right-wing – dream of driving their opponents away, "they have recognised this ideological goal is not attainable and will not be in the foreseeable future." Instead, "they are ready and willing to see the establishment of a Palestinian state in the temporary borders of 1967." They are aware that this means they "will have to adopt a path that could lead them far from their original goals" – and towards a long-term peace based on compromise.Why isn't someone writing this in 10-foot high letters outside Whitehall and the White House? Instead, we get these nauseating mealy-mouthed statements appealing for restraint on both sides.
13:46: Israeli objectives seem utterly illogical to me. Even as Israel decimates Hamas as a military force (something it is doing an excellent job of), it strengthens it as a political force. Or it creates the space for something much more monstrous.
As usual, Ha'aretz bravely publishes opinion that one could not dream of reading in the stupid, supine international press. Read this column by Tom Segev; and Amira Hass actually tells us something important that no one is bothering to mention: Israel's policy of assassination has targeted Hamas politicians who accept the two-state solution. So much for the argument that Hamas (all of it) does not recognise the existence of Israel, that there is no one to talk to, and all those usual canards.
I am sickened by the nakedly opportunistic behaviour of Israeli politicians. Everyone to the left of Likud wants to look tough on security for the February elections, and bludgeoning Gaza into oblivion is a good way of demonstrating this. Otherwise, it is unclear why Israel thinks this particular assault? attack? massacre? is going to decisively end rocket attacks on Sderot and other cities in the south.
The university, a television station, a mosque, the Interior Ministry - nothing, it seems, is off limits. I don't understand why police stations are being attacked (and of course police stations are going to be in the midst of civilian areas; where else are they supposed to be?) Tzipi Livni has the gall to say Palestinian civilians should leave places where Hamas officials and fighters are known to be located. Gaza is 41 km long and 6-12 km wide. Exactly which part of it is safe and devoid of an official presence?
The international media should stop using Orwellian language like 'disengagement' and 'truce' because these have never been realities in Gaza. The Israelis pulled out their military, but the territory has been blockaded for over 18 months, a democratically elected government has been boycotted. The plan has been to starve people into submission, so that they turn against Hamas and possibly back to what was beginning to be seen as the incompetent, corrupt and collaborationist Fatah. This is a policy of state terrorism, because like the non-state terrorism that is unfailingly brought to our attention, it ignores the distinction between combatants and non-combatants; it indulges in mass collective civilian punishment with a view to achieving political objectives.
Most worryingly from the broader geopolitical point of view, statements made by the various local actors and regional powers in response to this crisis fall into that familiar pattern reinforcing the great divide in Middle Eastern politics between Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, Syria and the March 8 alliance in Lebanon on the one hand, and the US, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Fatah and the March 14 alliance in Lebanon on the other.

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Rabies vaccinations are $10 for one year or $25 for three years. Registration tags are required by law; registration fees are separate and required at time of rabies vaccination. Discounts for senior residents apply and for pets who have been previously spayed or neutered when purchasing registration tags. Microchips are $15.
Rabies vaccinations provide your pet with the best protection against this fatal disease. Unlike dog tags and collars which can fall off or be removed, microchips are a more
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That's almost double what both Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It's almost seven times what Washington sold.
Banking on weed, Nevada made $10.2 million off the fledgling industry during the first month of sales in July, according to the Nevada Department of Taxation.
Of that, $6.5 million came from industry fees and $3.68 million came from tax revenue.
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26 October 2010
Cadbury's Screme Egg (Asda)
I love Cadbury's Creme eggs, but usually have to wait until New Years Day before getting my hands on one after Easter. Thankfully this year I have managed to get hold of this Asda exclusive Cadbury's Halloween themed Screme Egg.
In terms of taste it is identical to the normal lovely cream eggs. The chocolate is the expected thick creamy Cadbury's, and the filling is the usual sweet fondant. What's new for this limited edition egg is that the yolk is a ghoulish green for the season. This is not the most novel of product, but I won't complain too much if it means I get a Cadbury's Creme egg in October!
I do have to say it is a shame that it is an Asda exclusive though, not because I have anything against Asda, it is just that not everyone has access to all the major supermarkets, so there are obviously going to be people who miss out.
If you do manage to get your mitts on one of these fine eggs, I guess the only thing you have to think about is: How are you going to eat yours..?
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Did the egg scream as the train was approaching? :)ReplyDelete
Yes, it screme-d :-D and the spectre giggled ;-)ReplyDelete
Well you sure are having fun with the Halloween treats this week! ;-) Thanks for the giggles.ReplyDelete
And very sad indeed that these are ASDA exclusive, don't have one near me. :-(
I don't live near a Tesco, and they often have exclusives. Thankfully I made a special trip this week and picked up a couple of goodies I wouldn't have otherwise seen. Will write about them after the Halloween extravaganza! ;-)ReplyDelete
I do wish companies wouldn't give one supermarket exclusivity though - makes finding new products a bit more tricky.
They are not Asda exculsives... I work for a well known off licence chain and we got a stock of these in today :)ReplyDelete
This was last years review - but I'm really pleased to hear that they are back for 2011 and are more widely available! Can't wait to have another. :-)ReplyDelete
No, just the same as a regular Creme Egg in taste.ReplyDelete
We are planning some more Halloween creative photos this year too - so do keep an eye out. :-)
Your egg has far more green in it than mine did! I could barely see the green in mine :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, April 02, 2012 10:38:00 am
:,( I wanted one SO BAD and never ended up buying one, even though they were still for sale around Christmas near me- I just never got the nerve to give in to my cravings.ReplyDelete
Now I'm really sad about missing out :(
Hope they do them next year
Anon- they have been out two years running so no doubt will be back next Halloween. I should say they aren't flavoured though, they are just like regular Creme Eggs.ReplyDelete
I saw them a Sheetz this weekend. My wife loves them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, October 12, 2012 4:01:00 pm
These are not an asda exclusive! I have seen them in The Co - op and in Selfridges.ReplyDelete
The review is from 2010, when they were a lot more elusive to find - really pleased to see that they are more available now - such an ace product! :-)ReplyDelete


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One of Turkey's largest banks could be liable for up to £4 million after suffering a cyber attack on the SWIFT global money transfer system, according to Reuters.
Note the many links at the bottom of the page. This is why I have not kept up to date in Fintech – there is too much going on there.
If I was much younger, I would consider becoming an expert in this field. You young guys and gals might try this – there is plenty of money there.


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July 18, 2012 09:00 ET
AssetWorks Solution to Help Tennessee Department of General Services Warehousing and Distribution Division Streamline Surplus Property Management
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA--(Marketwire - July 18, 2012) - AssetWorks Inc., a leading provider of fixed asset software solutions, today announced that the Tennessee Department of General Services (DGS) Warehousing and Distribution Division has signed a contract for a comprehensive surplus management software solution from AssetWorks. The solution fully integrates with the AssetWorks fleet management software application, FleetFocus, which the State of Tennessee already relies on to manage its fleet of 12,000 vehicles.
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|Figure 1. It got your attention, didn't it?
Why? Why does this stupid piece of clickbait provocation keep popping up every few months? I didn't link to it because you don't need to read the article; Google tells me that there are 13 million+ hits on the same exact subject.
Although I'm calling out this one because it's the most recent, it's a whole genre, and you could take your pick of reasons why they're written and published:
- It requires absolutely no thought at all to write, since the conclusion is always the same: "Well, the main reason is job security." No kidding! Do tell me more, Captain Obvious.
- It's quick to do, because you can always pick up some random figures from a recent study to "prove" your points.
- Snark is the currency of the internet, and everyone wants to raise their social profile by getting a lot of hits. It's easier to hurt something than to build it up.
- It's basically an aggregator paragraph or two that popularizes someone else's research with a few sensational provocations--calling what professors write "crap," for example.
But there's an insidious side to all these calls to stop publishing for a scholarly audience and judge an essay's worth based primarily on its popularity. Here are the five weird tricks promised in every clickbait headline to tell you why, although I'll spare you the usual pointless slideshow festooned with ads to show you the list:
1. You can't judge the impact of an article by its immediate popularity. Did Vannevar Bush's classic "As We May Think" make as much of an impact in 1945 as it has since the development of the computer? Some pieces take a while to come into their own. How many ideas popular in their own time (cough*eugenics*cough) were popular and entirely destructive?
2. All research, and certainly humanities research, builds on previous work--standing on the shoulders of giants, I think they call it. The general public may think that an article mapping where speakers in England used "icicle" and where they used "isacle" is pointless, but maybe it tells later researchers where the Vikings landed, or something. I don't know, because I'm not a specialist in Old English, but that's exactly the point: I don't know, and neither do you, dismissive writers and casual readers on the web.
3. It plays into our current national value of being ignorant and proud of it. There are a lot of things I don't understand because I'm not trained in the field, but that doesn't mean that they are not worth attention. A civil society has to trust its members, and it ought to trust that people with expertise know something.
4. The people who read these essays are in a real position to harm funding for research--not just voters, but legislators, who like to wave things from the internet around during their speeches to prove that they're current with what the public is saying. Every time a state legislature moves to cut funding for higher ed, saying "why can't they teach 7 classes a day, 5 days a week?" this is the kind of article they cite.
5. People are hungry for real information, which is why we should share it, but not everything is going to make enough news to gain the kind of currency that these articles demand. What's going to make a bigger splash on Google News--identifying the multiple authors of a manuscript or a cute walking molecule simulation?
When these articles appear on Facebook, I have held back from saying what I really think, in the name of being noncontentious. I think it's time to start being contentious.


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(Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.N) (TRI.TO) reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, benefiting from lower costs and tax savings, and said it expects its revenue to grow by low single digits in 2016.
Despite volatile markets, the news and financial information provider said it expects 2 to 3 percent revenue growth this year, assuming constant currency rates.
"There is a lot to be worried about there," Chief Executive Jim Smith said about global markets in an interview on Thursday.
"But when I spoke to our largest customers this year and when I spoke to major regulators this year, no one believes that we are in a place where the fundamentals are anywhere near where they were in 2008 and 2009."
Adjusted for special items, Thomson Reuters' fourth-quarter net earnings were 65 cents per share, up from 43 cents per share a year ago.
Analysts, on average, were looking for 58 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The 7-cent beat came from cost controls and from lower-than-expected tax rates, said Sanford Bernstein analyst Claudio Aspesi.
Volatile currencies, falling oil prices and worries about slowing growth in China have put pressure on sell-side financial services firms, the core customers of Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business. Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and other banks are looking to slash expenses further this year..
Since the beginning of this year, U.S. financial shares .SPSY are down 15.2 percent while the broader U.S. market .SPX is down 9.4 percent.
Thomson Reuters, the parent of Reuters News, competes for financial customers with Bloomberg LP, as well as News Corp's (NWSA.O) Dow Jones unit.
Smith noted that the fourth quarter is key for Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk division, which makes up about half of the company's revenue, because that is when clients decide whether to renew for the year.
"It's generally when the big banks tend to adjust their seat count for the coming year," Smith said.
The division, which provides news and analytics to financial services companies, showed sales outpacing cancellations - a key indicator of future growth, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive net sales at Financial & Risk. Revenue was $1.53 billion for the quarter.
Quarterly revenue was slightly below estimates, down 2 percent to $3.15 billion, but would have been up 2 percent when factoring out currency. Analysts had forecast $3.17 billion.
The company said it plans to buy back about $1.5 billion of its shares, having largely completed its prior $1 billion buyback program.
The company's 2016 forecast excludes revenue from its Intellectual Property & Sciences business, which it expects to sell in the second half of this year.
Thomson Reuters announced in November it was exploring strategic options for the business, which provides intellectual property and scientific information and associated tools and services to governments, universities and companies. It had revenue of $1 billion in 2015.
CEO Smith said he would favor using proceeds from the sale to buy back shares and said he has no plans for major acquisitions in 2016.
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Now I don't know if you know how it is to wake up in the morning, brush your teeth, eat or whatever, you almost have to get out, ok you are already running late and you still have your pyjamas on. And not because you would rather go back to sleep, that is redundant, but
because the anxiety attack kicks in because you don't know what to wear because you don't even know what season it is any more. It used to be winter, but then spring came and quickly left or something and now here it is some season that is playing hard with our heads.
And you know I like playing.
So I had to do something to like this f***ing season. As in literally. Since it is mindf**king us anyway.
First of all, throw on a party on your own. But that is the general rule. While typing "throw on", I totally thought of "a skirt", but then "party" is always in the back of my mind, so there.
You see where this weather got me to?
I was saying. Skirt! To trick the spring and yourself. To look more dressed, dressed, not dressed up (necessarily), put a thick, matte, black pair of tights. This is how you trick winter, too, ha! A loose, very-pleasant-to-stay-in-all-day sweater. I am wearing his. Heels, no heels, your call. I am wearing mine.
And just to cover it all up and to trick the sun just the way he tricks you, put on your most oversized coat eva'. For the "I am wearing my blanket to town, I am still in my bed, under my blanket, don't mind me, move on, move on" kinda feeling.
Have fun. We said something about a party earlier on. We did, didn't we?
Heck yeah!
The scarf? It is a scarf instead of a belt. My way of saying "party". Sort of. What's yours?


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Few weeks ago, I had a catch up lunch at a creperie / galletoria called Au Temps Jadis in Shibuya with Ferina. It has been a while since I met her, I think the last time was probably last summer, when we went to see several museums at Roppongi.
Their shop is too cute! reminds me of Peter Rabbit or Winnie the Pooh story books.
The food was good, the price is a lil bit pricey but average for crepes or galletes in Tokyo.
After being satisfied with our Parisian lunch, we headed towards Harajuku, to where Steamer Coffee Company is. I've been wanting to go to this coffee shop since long time ago! I've heard many good stuff about them. Some people even say that they got the best coffee in town.
I am not a coffee expert, but I love their latte! The cup is big and the latte art is cool.
There are many tourists, foreigners, hipters coming to this shop as this shop is on so many Tokyo guide books!
I've been busy going to hanami / cherry blossoms viewing spots in Tokyo this past a week!
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Alright guys? How the bloody hell are you?
I'd managed to get into a bit more of a regular thang when it came to blogging recently, but I fell out of this routine in a big way this week. Soz and that. However, in the time I've spent not blogging, I've found the time to try out and fall in love with some new beauty products, the time to consume my body weight several times over in shortbread biscuits - and the time to appreciate / fall back in love with some of the beauty products I use daily. So here's a little round up on the above [minus further details regarding the biscuits, as even I'm a bit embarrassed about how many I've devoured this week hahaha #LifeOfABeast.] Bring on the fitties!
Sleek MakeUP's 'Matte Me' Lipgloss, in Birthday Suit
You may have already seen here - I'm a sucker for a matte lip. I'd love to try Kylie's Lip Kits, but I'm pretty confident that pigs will fly, wear clothing and get into politics before I have the spare cash to afford one. So instead, I picked up this Sleek 'Matte Me' lipgloss in Birthday Suit. I ordered mine from Littlewoods [on buy now pay next year, obv #POORPEOPLESPROBS] but you can also pick these bad boys up online or in Superdrug, if you have actual cash to your name.
I am madly in love with this lipgloss. I've worn it literally every day since it arrived and I'll be stocking up on this in bulk when I can afford to live again [one day.] It's a little drying, but as long as your lips are in alright shape, it's pretty easy to pull off. Plus super long lasting - a little goes a long way.
I'm not going to pure go on about this, cos I very much intend to post about it again soon [with some raging selfies] - but the summary I want you to come away with here is that I'm literally made up with it. I've been wearing it it with Mac's Soar lipliner and also, putting a layer of it on over the top of other darker shades for a sexy, matte finish.
NYX Lip Liner, in Shade SPL809, Mahogany
I saw this photo on Instagram of this total babe right, rocking a proper fit burgundy shade of lipstick. Literally, this bird looked so amazing, she was 100% life goals - so I threw a quick tweet out to the babes of the #bbloggersphere to see if anyone could recommend a [cheap] dupe which could make me look slightly more like a functioning human and less like a mad old tramp. As a result of this, Kirsty behind the fabulous Life in Excess blog suggested I try this shade - and I couldn't be any more grateful for her recommendation if I tried! THANK YOU, YOU ABSOLUTE HERO!
Although places like Next, Boots, Very and Littlewoods stock NYX products, I headed straight to my first love [eBay] and ordered one off there for about £4 with postage. I wasn't sure initially if the colour would suit me - I worry that darker lipsticks cause me to channel my inner Dracula vibes and I also worry that berry shades make my teeth look yellower, but I frigging HEART THIS SO MUCH, man. I don't even care if I look like the living dead - this colour is INSANE!!
As with my new Sleek lippy, I've literally worn this most days since it arrived in my life. I might not be as fit as the Instagram bird, but hell - I feel like a proper adult when I wear this. It's like, the shade of my dreams. Again, I'll post more on this little beaut at a later date, as I have too much love for it to summarise into these three little paragraphs.
Cheeky Chat Me Up Nail Polish, in Shade Vamp It Up
Continuing with vampy, mahogany vibes - how super fab is this nail polish? I ordered this from Birchbox's store online.
Three reasons why I TOTES love this nail polish:
1. Packaging - I truly heart nice packaging and a good choice of font. This ticks all the boxes
2. Colour - I'm obsessed with oxblood / maroon / burgundy nails
3. IT WAS FREE. Yeah, not even messing - I had enough Birchbox points from when I used to subscribe to them to claim this for free. #WINNING!!!
Anyway, there will be loads more #notd photies / posts to come feat this vampy little bugger, so keep your eyes peeled.
I realised recently that the last time I mentioned my Magnitone on the blog was during my first impressions post last month and that despite me having used it religiously every single day since then, I haven't really said much more about it. Oops!
I've been using this beautiful little gadget every day for the past few weeks. And my initial opinion still remains - it's insanely brilliant.
In my initial post, I was pure cocky and like - 'breakout? What breakout?' Yeah. LOL. Well, that happened.
After the first week or so of using my Magnitone daily, my skin defo started throwing out extra blemishes, in places that I'd never really had spots before. However, as Magnitone advise on their website - power through, this is just the brush doing its job and bringing all your impurities to the surface. And they are totes right.
Although I'm still getting the odd spot pop through atm, my complexion is SO SO SO much more noticeably brighter. My skin no longer looks dull and lifeless when I'm freshfaced; it's radiant, glowing and so much more even in terms of skin tone. And even better - since getting this product, I haven't had to charge it once [since the initial 16 hour charge up.] HOW AMAZING IS THAT?! It's the gift that keeps on giving and it never fails to amaze me.
I am OBSESSED with these lashes. Since discovering this brand, I've worn them every single day without fail - they're lightweight, great quality, easy to apply and last for ages. I doubt I'll ever use another brand again in all honesty - I am IN LOVE with these so much. They're out of stock online at the moment [*cries*] but luckily, I bulk bought last month, so I have a little pile of these babies in my wardrobe.
What products are you loving at the moment? Have you tried any of the above, or do you have any recommendations? I'd love to hear your thoughts :]
*My Magnitone was very kindly gifted to me via The Bloggers Hangout #TwitterParty, but all opinions are totes my own and 100% honest. I wouldn't lie to you lads - it's not big and it's not clever!!


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The latest news in the tablet industry is that the HTC Flyer will be on sale at Best Buy from Oct 6 for the discounted price of $299.99. The better news is that this impressive 7" tablet device from HTC will be available without any contracts. According to certain reliable sources, the ad materials have already been prepared and the deal is just waiting to go through.
We all know what a great brand HTC is. The Flyer will be loaded with several interesting features, including the very much sought after HTC Sense UI. Nevertheless, we are really wondering if Best Buy will be able to rock the market all that much, with the HTC Flyer.
For one, the Flyer comes with a single-core processor, which is not all that hot right now. Besides, consumers are impatiently awaiting the impending launch of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Considering that, Honeycomb may take a backseat for now.
So what do you think? Will the HTC Flyer make its mark at Best Buy? Would you be willing to shell out $300 for the HTC Flyer at this point in time?


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Rayne Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud
LAFAYETTE, La: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Deynoodt Joseph Besse, 53, of Rayne, La., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard T. Haik to one count of wire fraud.
Besse worked for Rayne tire company Interco's sales department from Aug. 1, 1997 to Aug. 3, 2010. On Jan. 29, 2003, he created a separate company called INT Sales. According the indictment, Besse used his Interco sales position to divert tire sales to his INT Sales account. He would arrange for the tire sales as an Interco sales associate and then take customers' account information. Besse would process the account information through a point of sale device, and the transactions were then credited to a bank account associated with INT Sales. The government alleges that Besse fraudulently obtained $143,872.88 using the scheme.
Besse faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both, and three years of supervised release for the count of wire fraud. A sentencing date has not been set.
The FBI conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel J. McCoy and Myers P. Namie are prosecuting the case.


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As votes were being counted across Liberia to determine the country's next president, and legislators, South Africa's Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, on Thursday commended outgoing President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson for her successful presidency.
"We owe thanks to our mother, sister and leader for the calm and determined way in which she helped to stabilise the country and made Liberians feel at home in their own country," Mbete told the 10th Annual Conference on Women's Rights during the fifth session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), at the Gallagher Conference Centre in Midrand on Thursday.
"Bringing real and lasting solutions are in the hands of the PAP. We can't rest until there is peace and security on the African continent," Mbete told the audience.
Turning to the theme of the conference, the house speaker expressed gratitude that organisers were addressing the painful issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), describing it as degrading towards women and girls, and a form of discrimination and violence.
The conference was officially opened by Haidara Aichata Cisse, the Chairperson of the PAP's Women's Caucus, who said African women would respond to the mismanagement inflicted on Africa by unfair decisions such as the travel sanctions placed by the US Administration on Chad and the proposed sanctions on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
"Africa shall no longer accept veiled colonisation," said Cisse.
Her comments on the discrimination African women faced were equally strong.
"Africa's priorities must focus on women and youth for the continent to develop. How can the continent's full potential be reached if over half its population is excluded from full equality?" asked Cisse.
"As wives and mothers we must also fight the practise of FGM which is unacceptable in the 21st Century.
Justine Coulson, the United Nations Population Fund's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, told conference attendees that ending FGM, gender inequality and violence was imperative for Africa's future development.
"If we don't invest in health and education for all Africans, the continent won't advance. Gender empowerment is essential and countries won't reap the benefit of gender dividend if discrimination against women is not eliminated," warned Coulson.
She said the world still had a long way to go with 200 million women and girls around the world living with the traumatic consequences and complications of FGM. "Only 24 African governments have laws against FGM."
However, Coulson added that there had been some progress in fighting FGM with over 3000 African communities committing to fighting against the practise since 2008.
"These results wouldn't have happened without the PAP. However, PAP parliamentarians can still do more to help the 300 million women and girls across Africa who still face FGM," said Coulson.
– African News Agency


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I think I mentioned that we played Guitar Hero the other night right? Well something was missing so we asked Terry if we could come look at his games and borrow one. So now we are ON TOUR! We have the drums, bass guitar, lead guitar and vocals. We all took turns but I haven't played the drums yet. I got stuck on the vocals, you have to keep your voice just right or you will get booed off stage. (Everyone else did, not me of course... who am I kidding) I had some revelation last night and that is...
1. I am way to old to rock out ALL NIGHT LONG!
2. I am way to old to rock out ALL NIGHT LONG!
3. Jim and I get just as addicted as Alex when it comes to this game.
4. Competitiveness really causes issues, even if you are on the same team.
5. Being in a band isn't so hot the next morning when you have to get your kids on the bus.
6. Verizon just doesn't understand that we NEED Jim on the tour. They just don't get it when he calls in and says "sorry I'm not sure where I am this morning. Somewhere between LA and Hong Kong. But I'll be in after I find out. (Hey anyone know how he can get off work for a year, say every other year? anyone? Bushlings?)
7. We had 3 fallen comrades last night. Passed out and carried off stage to bed. Jimi, Sami and Trever are just still to young to hang with the tour.
8. The pictures just don't capture the true COOLNESS we felt last night. I guess we just need a new photographer, or camera. (applications and resumes to be left in comments)
9. TRUE rockers can not dwell with the musical drama geeks! Therefore I am going to have to quit the play, so I don't start rocking out on stage and ruin the whole thing.
10. There is a real reason that Mormons aren't usually in the band, a 12 pack of diet Pepsi IS NOT the same no matter what ANYONE says. It has NO effect on stage fright but does get the kids wiry as heck!
11. We should really wait for the Home Teachers to leave before you set up the drums. Alex jumped up after the prayer, shook their hands, and set up the drums. We thought he was going to actually give them the boot right out the door. Sorry Dylan and Carlos, next time we'll give you an autograph.
I am tired, and my arm is actually sore! YES SORE! And now I realize why the number of successful bands usually don't further their education, you just can't do both. So Jim and I are trying to evaluate the band and see if the kids really need to go any farther in school, Trever has the hang of reading, we should be good. All they need to know is a few colors, green, red, yellow, blue and orange. SUCCESS! By the way, if ANYONE can let me know where I can buy some "sticks" (rocker word for drum sticks). Our drummer (Jim) got a little wiry himself and snapped one on the second song of the set. Somewhere between LA and Portland. They all run together after about 2am.


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permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
of or relating to law; connected with the law or its administration: the legal profession.
appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law.
recognized by law rather than by equity.
of, relating to, or characteristic of the profession of law or of lawyers: a legal mind.
- of or relating to the Mosaic Law.
- of or relating to the doctrine that salvation is gained by good works rather than through free grace.
a person who acts in a legal manner or with legal authority.
an alien who has entered a country legally.
a person whose status is protected by law.
a fish or game animal, within specified size or weight limitations, that the law allows to be caught and kept during an appropriate season.
a foreigner who conducts espionage against a host country while working there in a legitimate capacity, often in the diplomatic service.
legals, authorized investments that may be made by fiduciaries, as savings banks or trustees.
Origin of legal
1490–1500; < Latin lēgālis of the law, equivalent to lēg- (stem of lēx) law + -ālis -al1
Synonyms for legal
3. licit, legitimate, sanctioned.
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established by or founded upon law; lawful
of or relating to law
recognized, enforceable, or having a remedy at law rather than in equity
relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
Word Origin for legal
C16: from Latin lēgālis, from lēx law
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
mid-15c. "of or pertaining to the law," from Middle French légal or directly from Latin legalis "legal, pertaining to the law," from lex (genitive legis) "law," possibly related to legere "to gather," on notion of "a collection of rules" (see lecture (n.)).
Sense of "permitted by law" is from 1640s. Related: Legally. The Old French form was leial, loial (see leal, loyal). Legal tender is from 1740.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper


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Hi there,
I've made the Danish language translation for Traq 3.x (as seen on the 2nd of July 2014 at https://github.com/nirix/traq/blob/mast ... e/enus.php).To install, copy attached file to <TRAQ_ROOT>/vendor/traq/locale/.To activate go to AdminCP->Settings or UserCP and choose "Danish (daDK)".
-----------------------------------------------Hej med jer,
Jeg har oversat Traq version 3.x (i tilstanden fra 2. juli 2014 på https://github.com/nirix/traq/blob/mast ... e/enus.php).For at installere, så kopiér filen til <TRAQ_RODEN>/vendor/traq/locale/.For aktivering vælges AdminCP->Settings eller UserCP og vælg "Danish (daDK)".
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I attached the Italian translation by mistake.
Here is the Danish version.
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Language translations for Traq 3.x
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