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|July 17, 2011 03:00 PM EDT
Many of you know me as one half of the ZapThink team – an advisor, analyst, sometimes-trainer, and pundit that has been focused on XML, web services, service oriented architecture (SOA), and now cloud computing over the past decade or so. Some you may also know that immediately prior to starting ZapThink I was one of the original members of the UDDI Advisory Group back in 2000 when I was with ChannelWave, and I also sat on a number of standards bodies including RosettaNet, ebXML, and CPExchange initiatives. Furthermore, as part of the ZapThink team, I tracked the various WS-* standards from their inception to their current "mature" standing.
I've closely followed the ups and downs of the Web Service Interoperability (WS-I) organization and more than a few efforts to standardize such things as business process. Why do I mention all this? To let you know that I'm no slouch when it comes to understanding the full scope and depth of the web services family of standards. And yet, when push came to shove and I was tasked with implementing SOA as a developer, what did I choose? REST.
Representational State Transfer, commonly known as REST, is a style of distributed software architecture that offers an alternative to the commonly accepted XML-based web services as a means for system-to-system interaction. ZapThink has written numerous times about REST and its relationship to SOA and Web Services. Of course, this has nothing to do with Service-Oriented Architecture, as we've discussed in numerous ZapFlashes in the past. The power of SOA is in loose coupling, composition, and how it enables approaches like cloud computing. It is for these reasons that I chose to adopt SOA for a project I'm currently working on. But when I needed to implement the services I had already determined were necessary, I faced a choice: use web services or REST-based styles as the means to interact with the services. For the reasons I outline below, REST was a clear winner for my particular use case.
Web services in theory and in practice
The main concepts behind Web Services were established in 1999 and 2000 during the height of the dot-com boom. SOAP, then known as the Simple Object Access Protocol and later just "SOAP," is the standardized, XML-based method for interacting with a third-party service. Simple in concept, but in practice, there's many ways to utilize SOAP. RPC style (we think not) or Document style? How do you identify end points? And what about naming operations and methods? Clearly SOAP on its own leaves too much to interpretation.
So, this is the role that the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is supposed to fill. But writing and reading (and understanding) WSDL is a cumbersome affair. Data type matching can be a pain. Versioning is a bear. Minor server-side changes often result in different WSDL and a resulting different service interface, and on the client-side, XSD descriptions of the service are often similarly tied to a particular version of the SOAP endpoint and can break all too easily. And you still have all the problems associated with SOAP. In my attempts to simply get a service up and running, I found myself fighting more with SOAP and WSDL than doing actual work to get services built and systems communicating.
Writing and reading (and understanding) WSDL is a cumbersome affair.
The third "leg" of the web services concept, Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), conceptually makes a lot of sense, but in practice, hardly anyone uses it. As a developer, I couldn't even think of a scenario where UDDI would help me in my particular project. Sure, I could artificially insert UDDI into my use case, but in the scenario where I needed loose coupling, I could get that by simply abstracting my end points and data schema. To the extent I needed run-time and design-time discoverability or visibility into services at various different states of versioning, I could make use of a registry / repository without having to involve UDDI at all. I think UDDI's time has come and gone, and the market has proven its lack of necessity. Bye, bye UDDI.
As for the rest of the WS-* stack, these standards are far too undeveloped, under implemented, under-standardized, inefficient, and obscure to make any use of whatever value they might bring to the SOA equation, with a few select exceptions. I have found the security-related specifications, specifically OAuth, Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML), are particularly useful, especially in a Cloud environment. These specifications are not web services dependent, and indeed, many of the largest Web-based applications use OAuth and the other specs to make their REST-based environments more secure.
Why REST is ruling
But even more than the simplicity, I appreciated the elegance of the REST approach. The basic operation and scalability of the Web has proven the underlying premise of the fundamental REST approach. HTTP operations are standardized, widely accepted, well understood, and operate consistently. There's no need for a REST version of the WS-I. There's no need to communicate company-specific SOAP actions or methods – the basic GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE operations are standardized across all Service calls.
As most advocates of REST will tell you, REST is simpler to use and understand than web services.
Even more appealing is the fact that the vendors have not polluted REST with their own interests. The primary driver for web services adoption has been the vendors. Say what you might about the standard's applicability outside a vendor environment, one would be very hard pressed to utilize web services in any robust way without first choosing a vendor platform. And once you've chosen that platform, you've pretty much committed to a specific web services implementation approach, forcing third-parties and others to comply with the quirks of your particular platform.
Not so with REST. Not only does the simplicity and purity of the approach eschew vendor meddling, it actually negates much of the value that vendor offerings provide. Indeed, it's much easier (and not to mention lower cost) to utilize open source offerings in REST-based SOA approaches than more expensive and cumbersome vendor offerings. Furthermore, you can leverage existing technologies that have already proven themselves in high-scale, high-performance environments.
Focus on architecture, not on HTTP
So, how did I meld the fundamental tenets of SOA with a REST-based implementation approach? In our Web-Oriented SOA ZapFlash, we recommended using the following approach to RESTafarian styles of SOA:
- Make sure your services are properly abstracted, loosely coupled, composable, and contracted
- Every web-oriented service should have an unambiguous and unique URI to locate the service on the network
- Use the URI as a means to locate as well as taxonomically define the service in relation to other services.
- Use well-established actions (such as POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE for HTTP) for interacting with services
- Lessen the dependence on proprietary middleware to coordinate service interaction and shift to common web infrastructure to handle SOA infrastructure needs
Much of the criticism of REST comes not from the interaction approach, but rather from the use of HTTP.
Much of the criticism of REST comes not from the interaction approach, but rather from the use of HTTP. Roy Fielding, the progenitor of REST, states in his dissertation that REST was initially described in the context of HTTP, but is not limited to that protocol. He states that REST is an architectural style, not an implementation, and that the web and the use of the HTTP protocol happens to be designed under such style. I chose to implement REST using eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) as a way of doing distributed, asynchronous messaging styles of REST-based Service interaction. XMPP, also known as the Jabber Protocol, has already proven itself as a widely-used, highly-scalable messaging protocol for secure and distributed near-realtime messaging protocol. XMPP-based software is deployed widely across the Internet, and forms the basis of many high-scale messaging systems, including those used by Facebook and Google.
Am I bending the rules or the intent of REST by using XMPP instead of HTTP? Perhaps. If HTTP suits you, then you have a wide array of options to choose from in optimizing your implementation. Steven Tilkov does a good job of describing how to best apply HTTP for REST use. But you don't have to choose XMPP for your implementation if HTTP doesn't meet your needs. There are a number of other open-source approaches to alternative transports for REST existing including RabbitMQ (based on the AMQP standard), ZeroMQ, and Redis.
The ZapThink take
The title of this ZapFlash is a bit of a misnomer. In order to be a convert to something you first need to be indoctrinated into another religion, and I don't believe that REST or web services is something upon which to take a religious stance. That being said, for the past decade or so, dogmatic vendors, developers, and enterprise architects have reinforced the notion that to do SOA properly, you must use web services.
ZapThink never believed that this was the case, and my own experiences now shows that SOA can be done well in practice without using Web Services in any significant manner. Indeed, my experience shows that it is actually easier, less costly, and potentially more scalable to not use Web Services unless there's an otherwise compelling reason.
The conversation about SOA is a conversation about architecture – everything that we've talked about over the past decade applies just as equally when the Services are implemented using REST or Web Services on top of any protocol, infrastructure, or data schema. While good enterprise architects do their work at the architecture level of abstraction, the implementation details are left to those who are most concerned with putting the principles of SOA into practice.
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Mar 09, 2010 01:25 AM|amalhashim|LINK
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To enhance the beauty of some interior e.g. a living room interior some interior designers often install chair rail molding on the walls. Do you know what it is? Such a decorative ornament is something that you can see running across a wall in the middle position exactly in a horizontal direction usually as high as chairs. That is actually its name was originated from.
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To say the most the most difficult thing related to the installation of it is the cutting. How to cut the pieces of the molding properly so that they can be perfectly joined to each other and thus will look flawless once installed is something you must be carefully deal with.
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To cut chair rail molding use the miter saw to cut each of the ends. Straight cut it so that it can evenly sit at every wall's end.
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If you want to joint two pieces of moldings at a ninety-degree angle use the coping saw of yours to cut at a 450 angle the 2 molding pieces so that they can be joined to one another. Remember to mark when we want to cut using a pencil.
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It has been asserted that among industrialized nations the United States is:
*CyberCollege and InternetCampus visitors come from more than 50 countries. If you are not from the United States, I'm sure a list could be drawn up for your own country.
Many believe that broadcasting is a more powerful influence on most young people than the home, the school, or the church. Assuming you secure a position in the industry, one of the ways you can give your life added meaning is to be a bit of a "change agent."
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I have been working at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than a year)
Training is great for series 7.
It's a call center not a brokerage firm. Metrics are based on CSI measurements not how well you know your job.
Advice to Management
Tell people when they interview that 90% of the calls you get are password reset and TD systems always go down driving high call volume.
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I worked at TD Ameritrade (More than 10 years)
Branch was enjoyable and met some good people for the last 10+ years. A long time ago we were charged with doing the right thing for our clients.
IC pay over the last 5-7 has trended downward. Yes TDA management will say that target comp has gone up, but the reality is that sales targets have gone up while payouts have decreased, and that is indisputable. But far worse than that are the inherent conflicts of interest. Once upon a time all advice solutions were considered "one target/one bucket" and thus one payout regardless of solution. Then TDA added the INHERENT CONFLICT OF INTEREST by placing a heavier weighting and payout on proprietary/in house solutions. And that was the end of a great era. From that point on we no longer had conversations amongst colleagues about "what's the singular best solution for the client", but rather "how can I split client asset amongst different solutions to maximize my stack ranking and payout".
TDA has promoted "people matter" and "client centric" or whatever the catchphrase du jour is today, but in reality it's all about the shareholder at this point.
Advice to Management
For the past 2 years you have waffled back and forth on a "relationship/advice model" and are still stuck at ground zero. And part of this is because you are trying to take the company in this direction with the same middle and upper management that has NEVER operated in a "relationship/advice model".
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I have been working at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than a year)
Licensing, able to be sponsored for series 7,63,66,3,34 fairly easy so long as you show interest. Great culture, good management, good company.
Difficult to move up, you move sideways but a bit difficult to move up. Have to jump through major hoops for promotion.
Advice to Management
When people enjoy their job, meeting numbers is easy.
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I have been working at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than 3 years)
none i hate working here
working here is a slow death. New regionals are despicable humans
Advice to Management
i'll be gone in a few months and taking my clients with me. Keep doing what you . are doing. Status quo always works out right?
I have been working at TD Ameritrade full-time
Big enough to matter, small enough to care
very conservative dealing with investment laws
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I worked at TD Ameritrade full-time (Less than a year)
Paid training, opportunity to get licensed,
Miscommunication and no organization, they force you to dump the way you've been learning all your life to follow their process, the learning environment is not great, if you fail the test they will reach out to you about a job opportunity and then you'll never hear from them again.
Advice to Management
Study time for the Series 7 needs to be longer. Some people can't rush their learning capability. Have clear instructions set for those who do not pass the test. Remember that sone people left their jobs for yours so just brushing then off in the end really shows the type of company you really are.
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I worked at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than 3 years)
Good mix of diverse quality employees.
Talk the talk of putting the client first, but the compensation forces the talented staff to be at conflict with that goal. Middle management full of lifers afraid to push back to stagnating management decisions.
Advice to Management
Try to lead rather than pace Schwab, 5 years behind. The call nights are probably illegal and cultivate resentment.
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I worked at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than 8 years)
TD Ameritrade has a complex from being in the shadow of Fidelity and Schwab since their inception. It used to be a fun place to work, but, upon change after change after change in upper management, the job has deteriorated into a bad place to work.
You earn PTO and then are criticized when you use it. Expensive benefits. Management by intimidation. Micro-management. Leads to the branch are manipulated. Favoritism is a heavy function at this employer. This company can't quite decide what it wants to be; it keeps talking about how the Branch role is "Relationship Management" but they only care about stuffing all clients into their very narrow offerings that consistently under-performs the benchmark. Having a designation of CFP (and other designations) doesn't allow you more autonomy. They consistently drive away older employees and they are involved in many lawsuits due to wrongful termination.
Advice to Management
Stop managing by fear and intimidation. Get control of the Branch Managers. However, the Branch Managers are out of control due to upper management intimidation.
I have been working at TD Ameritrade full-time
Culture, Pay, Flexible, Diverse, Fun, Room for growth
It is what you make of it, no company is 100% perfect.
Advice to Management
Always treat people well.
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I worked at TD Ameritrade full-time (More than 10 years)
West Palm Branch members A rated
Upper management disconnected in 2015
Advice to Management
Revert back to the time when there was a great connection to what actually happens on the ground level.
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Brakke Consulting's
Animal Health News & Notes for May 30, 2003
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> PETsMART, Inc. announced results for its first quarter ended May 4, 2003. The company reported first quarter net income of $24.6 million, compared with net income of $22.1 million for the first quarter of 2002. Net sales for the first quarter of 2003 were $696.8 million, compared to $645.8 million for the same period last year. Comparable store sales grew 4.8% over the first quarter of last year. Pet services sales for the first quarter were $45.5 million, up 22% over the first quarter of last year, an increase that reflects the company's focus and investment in growing its grooming and training businesses. The company opened 19 new stores, closed two locations and reformatted 49 stores in the first quarter of 2003. (Business Wire)
> Sanderson Farms reported net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2003 were $201 million compared with $175 million for the same period a year ago. For the quarter, Sanderson reported net income of $12.8 million compared with net income of $7.7 million in the prior year period. Net sales for the first six months of fiscal 2003 were $385 million compared with $340 million for the first half of fiscal 2002. Net income for the first half of the year totaled $18.1 million compared with net income of $13 million for the first six months of last year. (Meating Place)
> Oil-Dri Corporation of America announced sales of $46 million for the third quarter ended April 30, 2003, 17% greater than the same quarter a year ago. The company reported net income of $977,000, 94% greater than income reported in the same quarter one year ago. Sales for the nine months were $128 million, 4% greater than sales in the same period one year ago. Net income for the nine months was $2.6 million, a significant increase from $845,000 in the comparable period last year. Sales for the Consumer Products Group were ahead 15% in the quarter and flat for the nine months. Distribution at Wal-Mart for Cat's Pride and Jonny Cat brands of cat litter remain strong. (Business Wire)
In the past year or two, the exhibit halls at veterinary conferences have seen a proliferation of veterinary compounding pharmacies. In response to frequent questions about this topic, Brakke Consulting will be conducting a study of the phenomenon of veterinary compounding. The study will answer questions such as
- what do veterinary compounders offer?
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- how frequently are veterinarians using compounding services?
- are there differences in veterinary usage between equine and small animal practitioners?
- are veterinary compounders taking business away from traditional pharmaceutical manufacturers?
The study will be completed in July 2003. The pre-publication price, available until June 15, is $2,750, a $500 discount off the actual $3,250 cost. Orders placed by June 15 will also be permitted to submit questions for potential inclusion in the veterinary survey. For more information, please call 972-243-4033 or email email@example.com .
> Premium Standard Farms will supply retail customers with pork that complies with USDA's Country of Origin labeling requirements as of July 1, certifying that all pigs in its integrated system are born, raised and slaughtered in the US. Source verification is one of six key components in the Premium Standard Farms' Process Verified Program that has been in place since 1998. Premium Standard Farms says it was the first pork company to achieve Process Verified accreditation from USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service. (Meating Place)
> PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. announced the pricing of a public offering of 9,000,000 shares of its common stock at $19.65 per share. All of the 9,000,000 shares are being offered by selling stockholders. Certain selling stockholders have granted the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 1,350,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. PETCO will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by the selling stockholders. (Business Wire)
> VetCentric, Inc. announced the opening of a 12,000 square foot distribution center. VetCentric filled more scripts for more veterinarians last month than in all of 2001, so expansion was critical. The new facility includes state of the art automation equipment and a substantial amount of space for shipping and receiving. The facility also has a new "facility within a facility" dedicated to pharmaceutical compounding. (company press release)
> Nutreco and Genex Swine Group Inc. have completed the merger between the businesses of the Canadian swine genetics company Genex and Nutreco's swine genetics company Hypor. Both parties had signed a Memorandum of Understanding on January 28, 2003. The new company has a leading position in the pig breeding markets of Canada, Japan, Spain and Belgium and has a stronghold for further expansion into the US, Latin America and Europe. Nutreco owns a 50% share of the merged business, which will have a turnover of 30 million euros. (Wattnet Meatnews)
CLARIFICATION: Pfizer would like to emphasize that the company's newly approved injectable Rimadyl, when followed by take-home dosing with either the 30-count package of Rimadyl chewables or the Rimadyl caplet 4- or 8-day Pain Pack, provides the industry's only continuum of pain management therapy for dogs. These products allow the veterinarian to manage pain before, during and after surgery with a single compound. (company communications)
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In the past few years, Brakke Consulting has been the finder of record, agent of record or consultant for a number of projects that have closed. We have assisted with valuations and due diligence on confidential transactions, and provided executive counsel on a number of potential transactions.
Brakke Consulting has the experience, insight, abilities, and contacts that provide our clients with the highest quality services in the animal health, pet, veterinary, and specialty chemicals markets. Please contact any of our offices for a confidential consultation on our range of services. Contact information for all offices are available on our website at www.brakkeconsulting.com
> CANADA Canadian agriculture officials announced that all 192 animals from the same herd as the BSE-infected cow tested negative for BSE. 17 farms remain under quarantine across the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia while officials tried to piece together which other herds had contact with the infected cow, or with poultry feed rendered from its carcass. To date, more than 400 head of cattle have been destroyed to ensure that the case, first announced May 20, was an isolated incident. All calves sold out of the original herd are now being removed from their current herds, slaughtered and tested, with results due later this week. Another 180 have been slaughtered for more testing, including genetic tracing in search of where and when the infected cow was born. (Meating Place)
> CANADA parts of the Canadian cow that recently tested positive for BSE may have been used to make dry dog food that was shipped to the US, according to an FDA news release. The dog food was made by Champion Pet Food between February 4 and March 12, 2003, and marketed by Pet Pantry International of Nevada. The Pet Pantry products were packed in 50-pound bags, distributed to franchises around the US and sold by home delivery only. There was no retail distribution. The FDA advisory notes that there has been no scientific evidence so far that dogs can contract the disease or spread it to humans. Consumers are asked not to destroy or discard the product themselves as the FDA is working with Pet Pantry to ensure proper disposal. (Texvetmed)
> EU The European Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has altered the controls over avian influenza in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In the Netherlands, the existing restrictive measures have been extended until 17 June. In Belgium, the measures still applicable in the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg will expire on 11 June. In Germany, the restrictions will be limited to the part of North Rhine-Westphalia west of the Rhine from 3 June onwards and will expire on 24 June.
No new outbreaks have been confirmed in the Netherlands since the end of April. (Wattnet Meatnews)
> UK One in five poultry companies that abandoned the use of antibiotics to make chickens grow faster are now using them again, according to a story in London's The Guardian. Assured Chicken Production, which sets standards for the British chicken industry, prohibited the use of antibiotics in 2000; however, last year quietly allowed them back on "welfare" grounds, under the supervision of a veterinarian. According to The Guardian, veterinarians, producers and retailers had complained that some flocks were developing liver damage and diarrhea. This caused extra mess on the bird's litter in production complexes and caused more birds to suffer from hock burn on their legs. The antibiotics were used to prevent disease, not treat it, according to the ACP. There was also a 23% drop in the use of therapeutic drugs to control illness. (Meating Place)
> ARGENTINA International Epizootic Office (OIE) officially raised Argentina to the "free with vaccination" category for foot-and-mouth disease after an outbreak more than two years ago. Argentina officially recognized an outbreak of the virus in March 2001, its first in seven years. Argentina eradicated the virus through a massive vaccination campaign. (Meating Place)
> AUSTRALIA The Australian red meat industry gave final approval to form a new representative body for processors, retailers and exporters. The Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) is a merger of the Australian Meat Council (AMC) and the National Meat Association of Australia (NMAA). AMIC will represent constituent interests on the industry's peak advisory body, the Red Meat Advisory Council (RMAC), alongside the other peak bodies representing Australia's cattle and sheep producers, lot feeders and live exporters. (Wattnet Meatnews)
> US Legislation was introduced this week in the US House of Representatives to include goat and poultry meat under the new country-of-origin labeling law (COOL) as well as grandfather in animals born before the mandatory program's implementation date. The bill also amends the COOL law so that it would not apply to covered commodities derived from an animal born before 1 October 2004, or whose birthdates is before that date but not readily verifiable. (Wattnet Meatnews)
> US Some of the 28 million children in the national school lunch program may find irradiated hamburger on their plates as early as next year. The USDA is seeking suppliers to furnish irradiated ground meat for the school lunch program. Despite apprehension among some people about the technology, the department issued specifications this week to schools, notifying them of the coming availability, and said it will seek bids from potential suppliers by January. (AP)
> US A University of Idaho/Utah State University research team is the first worldwide to clone a member of the horse family, a mule, according to an article to be published in the journal Science. The baby mule was born May 4. It is the first clone of a hybrid animal. A mule results from a cross between a female horse and a male donkey. As hybrids, mules are sterile, except in extremely rare cases. Veterinary examinations of the foal and its surrogate mother showed them to be in good health. (AnimalNet)
Have you read any articles in the newspaper or magazines lately on deflation? I've seen a number of them and each one gives me a bit of heartburn when I try to transpose the principles onto the animal health and nutrition industries. One of the best definitions of deflation I've seen is taken from a New York Times editorial on May 20, 2003 by George Melloan.
"Deflation is a manifestation of slowed economic activity as prices adjust to reflect an imbalance of supply over demand. With prices falling and lower returns in prospect, business investment declines. Producers who can't cut their costs rapidly enough go broke."
Now, let's take a few measurements of the animal health and nutrition industries.
- Do we have excess manufacturing capacity and inventory?
- Have we taken price increases lately?
- Have we adjusted prices downward to sell capacity or aging inventory?
- Has net revenue increased for each unit sold?
- How many factory line or facilities have been closed or shuttered?
Is it you or your competitors that are causing the problem? Think about it over the weekend and send me an email with your thoughts. I'd be interested to hear them.
Ron Brakke
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