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1) HP Screws up.
2) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison takes a pot shot at HP's management/board/strategy/choice of pet dog.
3) Rumours swirl around Oracle acquiring HP.
Except in the last week parts 2) and 3) have been noticeably absent. It may be that Larry and Oracle President Mark Hurd are still too busy chortling into their cornflakes to get on the line to their investment bankers. It may be that HP has finally demonstrated that its such a lemon that even Larry's magic touch can't turn it around. However now that the dust has (slightly settled) its probably worth thinking the unthinkable (again).
Is it time for Oracle to put HP out of its misery?
The most important diagram in enterprise IT
It shows how, over the past ten years, the enterprise IT has consolidated (largely via aggressive M&A) into vast end-to-end stacks owed by Oracle, IBM, and to a lesser extent Microsoft and SAP. As the market evolved these IT giants generated so much cash (remember tech is a low capital intensity/highly cash generative industry) that they could buy out smaller competitors on a whim. This led to an epic consolidation as a plethora of horizontal specialists (e.g. Sun for servers, Siebel for CRM, PeopleSoft for ERP apps) were consolidated into these giant single-owner tech stacks.
Oracle has been particularly aggressive in pursing this strategy. Since the historic hostile bid for PeopleSoft in 2003, there has been an unending stream of multi-billion dollar acquisitions. First Ellison cleaned up the detritus of the software industry, including blockbuster deals for PeopleSoft, Siebel, BEA, Hyperion. Then in 2010 he turned on the hardware market with the acquisition of Sun, at the time a declining stalwart enterprise servers.
The move into hardware heralded an important competitive shift. Historically SAP has been Oracle's biggest bete noire, but the shift into hardware meants its focus increasingly turned to taking on IBM. Indeed if you listen to their quarterly results calls (worth it, if only to be entertained by Ellison's hyperactive rants) its clear they they are talking about SAP less and less and IBM more and more.
This is where HP comes in.
Why HP is a great strategic match with Oracle (on paper)
Hardware is the reason Oracle would do the deal
The chart below shows HP's revenues and profits by division. Servers & storage are in purple. Actually its only HP's fourth-biggest profit driver. But this is the asset which Oracle prizes above all.
If Oracle really wants to make in in hardware, it needs HP. Given the slow-moving nature of enterprise hardware (hands up any corporates who still have a Fortran box running their basement...), this isn't a market where Oracle can grind its way into the top two by organically taking share. HP is the only game-changer still out there.
Services and Software are nice-to-havesServices too (the old EDS business) is an area where Oracle lags behind the mighty IBM Global Services. This is probably less of a priority for Oracle - historically they have gotten shops like Accenture to do their dirty work. One area it could be useful is if the move towards cloud computing demands more experience running hosted services - EDS's experience in managed services could be helpful.
There are also some nice assets on the software side - again not game-changers given the relative size of Oracle's business, but assets with a degree of scarcity value. Ironically Autonomy is the most prominent here. Under the hood they have good technology and their expertise in unstructured data complements Oracle's strengths in relational databases.
Vertica also has expertise in columnar databases which fits with Oracle's strength in row-based databases. This is particularly useful as in-memory/columnar structures are flavour of the month at the moment. Having this would strengthen their case against SAP's HANA offering. Finally Mercury is a market leader in software testing tools; a neat little play to capture developer hearts and minds.
PCs and Printers will goIts unlikely Oracle will have any interest in PCs and Printers (50% of revenues and 41% of profits). These would clearly be earmarked for disposal. This should be easy to achieve for the Printing business - historically the jewel in the crown for HP. In addition to being nicely profitable, the recurring stream of consumables revenues should be attractive to a financial buyer. PC's will be more tricky - but in a cutthroat business where scale matters an existing competitors like Lenovo might be interested in using it to bulk up its market share.
To sum up: On paper, HP undoubtedly puts Oracle into a much stronger position versus IBM.
Why Oracle can make the deal work (in practice)
Of course on paper Sony's strategy to combine film studios, gaming consoles, laptops and mobile phones was a great strategy. And look where it got them.
The most important question isn't "does this make sense", it's "can Oracle make it work".
A couple of thoughts here.
HP is undoubtedly a badly managed businessIt's difficult to argue that HP's execution in recent years has been anything other than worst-in-class - something reflected in its lowly stock market valuation. Simply removing this Lemons-in-the-C-Suite-Discount (like a Conglomerate Discount, but juicier...) should be worth a good 20% on the shares.
More seriously though, when I analyse a "turnaround story" at a distressed company there are two things that can be wrong - either the portfolio of assets can be wrong or the execution can be wrong. I would much rather take bad execution over a bad portfolio any day. Improving a company's portfolio involves switching in and out of assets which takes a long time and gives plenty of scope to blow-up in the meantime. Improving execution involves switching personnel which can be done much more quickly.
As I said earlier, aside from the hard-to-sell PC business I think the portfolio of assets at HP is right (or at least right for Oracle). It's the execution that's the problem. That, to me, is an encouraging sign (sic).
Strong merger execution... Helped by a dash of HurdIf there's anyone who knows about how to gut and fillet and acquired business its Oracle. Starting with PeopleSoft in 2005 they have unmatched institutional experience in how to integrate and turn around acquired assets. Their most spectacular success was Sun where they completely turned around the margins in the hardware business and made an acquisition no-one thought likely a smash hit. They will be hoping they can do the same thing at HP.
Of course Oracle's secret weapon is Mark Hurd, Oracle's Co-President and HP's former CEO. Given his five-year stint he will know where all the skeletons are buried, and undoubtedly have a big say in whether to do the deal.
And if the deal goes through he's the right man to make it work. At HP he was known as a brilliant executor, although lacking in vision (arguably many of HP's problems lie in the fact that he failed to move the portfolio on from legacy hardware when he was in charge). But at Oracle Larry Ellison takes case of the vision thing (and then some). Hurd's inside knowledge at HP and operational chops can be deployed where they matters most - integrating the merger.
Oracle have the financial resources
In short yes, and then some. With gross cash of $16.8bn Oracle could finance the deal at the drop of a hat. If they paid a 20% premium for HP it would cost them $29.4bn and take them to 0.95x net debt/EBITDA. That's well below the 2.5 - 3.0x level which is seem as comfortable for a software company (i.e. would also leave Oracle plenty of firepower for further acquisitions). See chart to right for the back-of-the-fag-packet M&A math:
Remember for Oracle, its always personal
The other thing to mention, of course, is that for Oracle's controversial CEO, business is always personal. Larry Ellison's career is littered by endless feuds: With Tom Siebel, his former star salesman who upped sticks to found Siebel Systems. With Craig Conway, the PeopleSoft founder who labelled Ellison's hostile bid "atrociously bad behaviour from a company with a history of atrociously bad behaviour". But most of all with HP.
When HP fired Mark Hurd, Ellison labelled it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago". When HP bought Autonomy, Oracle said Mike Lynch "has a very poor memory or he's lying" about an earlier attempt to shop it to Oracle. And don't forget that the current HP Chairman is ex-Oracle President Ray Lane, who Ellison fired in 2000.
And of course as soon as Mark Hurd was a free agent, Ellison signed him up and made him co-President.
If there's one think Ellison (and Hurd) would love, it would be to buy HP, fire the board, and make the business work.
He'd love it if he beat them, love it!
Why wouldn't Oracle do the deal?
Of course M&A speculation is cheap. It's easy to talk about big deals, hard to do them (come on Apple, why haven't you bought TomTom yet?? :-p ). Putting the other hat on, why shouldn't Oracle do this deal?
Will regulators shut down the deal?One big stumbling block would be if the deal can pass the regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. A PC / Printer spin-off would be a convenient smokescreen, but IBM would undoubtedly be screaming (big) blue murder at the prospect of Oracle and HP's server businesses ganging up.
I think Oracle's strategy here will be to try to redefine the market. This is a neat trick they did when acquiring PeopleSoft/JD Edwards. At first sight it was clearly an anti-competitive move as it would reduce the market for large-enterprise ERP software to a SAP-Oracle duopoly. What Oracle argued though was the market was much broader than that and vendors such as Microsoft (actually an also-ran in ERP) should be considered.
I suspect they could pull something similar here. IBM / HP is a small market but if you consider all the cloud vendors offering search/storage options (e.g. Google, which builds its own servers, or Amazon EC2) then the market suddenly gets a lot bigger (and muddier).
Is the merger integration task too big?Larry Ellison has never had an issue with lack of ambition, but HP is an order of magnitude bigger than previous deals. There is clearly massive execution risk around HP's business. Whether this is too much for Oracle to chew is the big uncertainty. Arguably you could have had the same about previous blockbuster deals like PeopleSoft, but Oracle made them work.
I think one point in Oracle's favour is that its main profit driver - maintenance revenues from databases - is very separate from the HP businesses. This means that even if HP blows up in their faces, cashflows from the database business will pour in regardless. This means that despite the size, this is not a bet-the-farm deal.
Its worth putting the size of the potential transaction into context. this table shows Oracle's $1bn+ acquisitions ranked by size. HP would be three times the size of Oracle's biggest previous deal, PeopleSoft. But also look at the size of the deals relative to Oracle's market cap. HP is three times bigger, but so is Oracle's market cap. In terms of relative size its in the same ballpark (probably smaller once you strip out the PC and Printing businesses). So HP is big, but not as big as you think.
Will the merger dilute Oracle's operating margins?Oracle is proud of its 40%+ margins, and rightly so. However naysayers point out that HP's single-digit operating margins will dilute Oracle's profitability. With Sun Oracle answered its critics by aggressively cutting costs and driving margins up; while they may hope that they can do a similar job here, HP is a lot bigger (and a WHOLE lot messier).
I actually think this criticism is back-to-front. The important thing to realise is that high margins are not a good thing in-and-of-themselves. You can have high margins because you are cutting back on future investment and cash-cowing your business; you can have low margins (e.g. Salesforce.com) because you are investing like buggery to exploit a growth market.
Rather high margins are good because they general correlate with a company's competitive position. A company with deep competitive moats and the ability to price its products at a premium generally earns high margins. A company in a commodity business generally has low or no margins.
In short, a company has high margins because it is in a good competitive position. It is not in a good competitive position because it has high margins (NB also the same logic applies to Michelin Stars and restaurants, IMHO).
As I said at the start, I think owning HP's assets makes Oracle's competitive position stronger rather than weaker. I suspect Ellison will be thinking along similar lines.
Does Oracle want to be in hardware?To me the most serious objection to the merger is this: Does Oracle actually want to be in the hardware business?
It's worth referring back to what I wrote about cloud computing. As you get deeper into cloud computing models, the cloud vendor does more and more of the work, and disintermediates anyone below them in the tech stack:
Given that hardware is pretty much at the bottom of the tech stack, then that's bad news for anyone in the Server business. At best you only have one or two customers for your servers (the big cloud companies) rather than thousands of brainless corporates. At worst the big cloud companies start to build their own servers.
So to me the biggest question is this - does Oracle believe the world is moving towards cloud computing and if so would they rather sit back and let Amazon and Google kill IBM's server business rather than having to do it themselves?
If the answer is to this question is "yes", then Oracle will not buy HP.
However here's another perspective: This cloud driven disintermediation doesn't only kill HP's server business. It also hurts Oracle's database business. Same logic applies - it you move towards a Platform-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service model then the cloud vendor runs the data management part. So no more need to buy an (expensive) Oracle database.
So its Innovator's Dilemma 101. Oracle have a vested interested in keeping customers off the cloud, or at worst pushing them towards a basic Infrastructure-as-a-Service model where they still need to buy an Oracle database. It's interesting to note some of their offerings such as the Exalogic "Cloud in a Box" (a contradiction in terms if there ever was one!). This seems to be pushing customers towards buying an integrated on-premise hardware appliance rather than entrusting their data an external cloud vendor.
If that's Oracle's strategy then HP fit's right in.


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'The Butler' Trailer: Forest Whitaker Takes a Tour of the Twentieth Century
From the opening frames of the trailer for 'The Butler,' it's as if you can hear everyone involved saying one word. That word? Oscar. Academy award-nominated director Lee Daniels leads Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker in this tour of race relations in America as told through the perspective of a White House butler.
And Whitaker leads an all star ensemble that includes Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams and Melissa Leo (as Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower), James Marsden and Minka Kelly (as John F. and Jackie Kennedy), John Cusack (as Richard Nixon), Alan Rickman and Jane Fonda (as Ronald and Nancy Reagan) David Oyelowo, Mariah Carey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Redgrave, and Liev Schreiber.
Between the cameos and the portentous music (and The Weinstein company producing it), the trailer practically shouts "Hey academy, check me out!" It will be interesting to see if the academy responds as Daniels's last film 'The Paperboy' is now viewed as either garbage or a camp classic.
Here's the film's synopsis:
THE BUTLER, based on the screenplay by Danny Strong & Lee Daniels, is inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article about an African-American man who served as a butler (Whitaker) to eight Presidents in the White House for over thirty years. From this unique vantage point, THE BUTLER traces the dramatic changes that swept American society, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man's life and family."
And here's the film's trailer. 'The Butler' is scheduled to hit screen October 18.

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Carter's last-second goal in first period sparks Kingsby Shawn Roarke
NEW YORK -- The Los Angeles Kings played a near-perfect road period to start Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday at Madison Square Garden.
They bottled up the New York Rangers, taking away their speed, which many believed was the biggest advantage held by New York. They limited the Rangers to intermittent shots, refusing to let them get a foothold in the attacking zone and generate a sustained attack. They took the crowd, filled with fans that have waited 20 years to celebrate the return of the Stanley Cup Final to the Garden, out of the game almost from the start.
With all that accomplished, the Kings would have been happy to go into the first intermission after a scoreless opening period. Instead, Jeff Carter gave them the lead, scoring at the last possible second.
That game-opening goal set the tone for what turned out to be a 3-0 victory by the Kings in Game 3 of the Final. The Kings are one win away from sweeping this best-of-7 series and winning the Stanley Cup for the second time in three seasons; they'll try to eliminate the Rangers in Game 4 on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS).
"I think Carter's goal was the big one," said Los Angeles center Mike Richards, who scored the game's third goal. "In [this] series, we haven't played well off the start. I thought we played a pretty good first period. To get that at the end of the period made us feel good going to the dressing room."
The Kings trailed 2-0 in the first period of Games 1 and 2, only to rally and win in overtime. But to do so, they have had to chase the game, opening things up and allowing the Rangers more chances than the Kings are normally comfortable surrendering.
On Monday, the Kings got to play with the lead and they were a far different team. They attacked, but with a plan. They defended responsibly. Yes, they allowed 32 shots, but a good portion of those came on the six power plays the Rangers earned. The Kings showed their dominance late in the game when the Rangers pulled their goalie with 4:21 remaining. Despite playing with a 6-on-5 skating disadvantage, the Kings did not allow the desperate Rangers to fire a shot on net.
All of that dominance, though, was made possible, in large part, by the momentum of Carter's goal.
The Kings had just finished killing a high-sticking penalty to Willie Mitchell when Slava Voynov made a crisp outlet pass to Justin Williams. He carried across the attacking blue line before making a sweet pass to Carter, who was cutting into the zone. Carter fired and his shot ticked off the skate of sprawling defenseman Dan Girardi and handcuffed New York goalie Henrik Lundqvist. There was 0.7 seconds left on the clock when the red light flashed.
It is only the fifth goal in the history of the Stanley Cup Final to be scored in the last second of a period.
"I was reacting low and it went high and it's just one of those plays where with a little luck there that puck ends up in the netting or in the glass, but unfortunately with half a second left it ended up in our net," Lundqvist said. "It was a tough play."
It rocked the Rangers and they never recovered. Now they sit one loss away from elimination and face the daunting task of winning four straight games without a margin of error.
"We felt we played a real good period, the pace was good, there wasn't a lot of room, both teams were battling real hard for ice," New York coach Alain Vigneault said of the first period. "That was their only chance in the first period. We out-chanced them 4-1. We had some real good looks. Stuff like that happens.
"Effectively we came out hard in the second and we kept trying."
The Rangers did try for the rest of the game, but they did not succeed, thanks to the breathing room provided by the Carter goal.


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Stolen from Faultline USA
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
Over the past few weeks I have been wondering why none of what's happening today in America seems new, or even surprising. A short time ago it became clear. We've experienced it before. We've seen this movie before. It's pre-1945 Germany — all over again.
"The U.S. had been moving toward a total police state since about 1913; but in 2012 the final nail in the coffin of democracy and justice was hammered into place with the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. NDAA allows for the U.S. military to arrest, imprison, and torture American citizen without due process of any kind!
Contemporary America has adopted the identical police state, economic-military imperialist policies and operations that Nazi Germany did–though the enactment of those policies differs to some degree. The sound of Gestapo jackboots is now heard in the land of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt." SOURCE
Oh, yes. I expect to get hammered for even broaching this subject. Any time a conservative points out the obvious — especially when it has to do with Hitlerian Germany — we are hammered by the political left.
Problem is — there are still a few of us around who remember those days, and the war, and the years after the war when so much more was uncovered about the leftist movement in Germany that produced Nazism and nearly destroyed the world.
In his book: "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change," Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.
The sad truth is — they are doing it again. This time America is their target and, unfortunately the average American citizen is so ignorant of politics, so ignorant of their own country's history and its founding documents they are allowing a leftist dictatorship to roll-up America as they stand idly by fiddling with their latest electronic gadget totally oblivious to their loss of freedom.
So why speak up now and risk bringing an excrement shower down on our heads? Because we have a duty to our fellow man to issue a warning.
Those of my generation remember these few words well. They are burned into our psyche:
"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't communist.
They they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionists.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Finally, they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up."
Those words were penned by Martin Niemoeller, a Lutheran Pastor who was sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1938. He paid the price.
We could easily insert the words "Tea Party", "The Press," "Christians," "Conservatives" into the Rev Niemoeller's words above and they would fit, exactly, where we are today in modern America.
In an oped piece for the Washington Times back in 2009, Walter Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University, said this: "The path we're embarked upon, in the name of good, is a familiar one. The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the '30s and '40s with the men usually associated with those names. Those horrors were simply the end result of a long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the name of social justice." In Germany, it led to the Enabling Act of 1933: Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation. After all, who could be against a remedy to relieve distress? Decent but misguided Germans, who would have cringed at the thought of what Nazi Germany would become, succumbed to Hitler's charisma.
Today's Americans, enticed, perhaps enchanted, by charismatic speeches, are ceding so much power to Washington, and like yesteryear's Germans, are building the Trojan horse for a future tyrant." SOURCE
I came across an article entitled: "26 Similarities Between America and Nazi Germany — Three Forces Destroying the America We Know" By Brannon Howse recently. I'd like you to consider a few of those similarities Mr. Howse points out:
In 1935, under Hitler's rule, prayers ceased to be obligatory in schools. In 1962, The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school prayer.
Hitler eliminated Christian holidays in the schools first by calling Christmas "Yuletide." Most American public schools now call Christmas vacation a "winter break."
Hitler took Easter out of schools and instead honored that time of year as the beginning of spring. It has likewise become common for schools in America to refer to time off at Easter as "spring break."
Hitler controlled the church using intimidation and threats. A half-century ago, U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, promoted a bill that included an amendment to use the Internal Revenue Service to remove the non-profit status of a church that speaks against the election of any specific political candidate. (We all KNOW what the IRS has recently publicly admitted to doing.)
Hitler enticed thousands of pastors to promote paganism in their congregations. Neo-paganism is one of the fastest growing religions in America, doubling every 18 months according to a June 2008 article in The Denver Post.
Hitler was an environmentalist and vegetarian. Marriages performed by the Nazi state frequently included blessings of "Mother Earth" and "Father Sky." Today Americans increasingly accept radical environmentalism, pantheism, and the celebration of Earth Day.
Hitler was fascinated by eastern mysticism. Today an increasing number of American pastors encourage their followers to become "mystic warriors".
Hitler's holocaust killed between 8 and 11 million Jews and non-Jews. Americans have killed an estimated 50 million babies since abortion was legalized through the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.
By 1938, all private schools were abolished by Hitler and all education placed under Nazi control. There is constant pressure from federal and many state education authorities to require that Christian schools use state-mandated, humanistic textbooks.
Hitler prevented dissenters from using radio to challenge his worldview. Many powerful liberals in America have made clear their intent to reintroduce the "Fairness Doctrine" that would require conservative and religious radio stations to offer equal time to anti-Christian, anti-conservative worldviews.
Pastors who spoke against Hitler's worldview and his murderous regime found themselves on trial and frequently imprisoned for "Abuse of Pulpit." In America, hate-crime legislation has the potential to criminalize Christians and pastors who speak out against the homosexual agenda.
Hitler outlawed the cross and replaced it with the swastika. Today many churches, Christian colleges, and universities have willingly removed the cross from their buildings. Numerous court cases sponsored by the ACLU have required the removal of the cross from public grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the Ten Commandments cannot be posted on public grounds for religious purposes.
Hitler exploited the economic collapse of Germany to take over as dictator and usher in his brand of socialism. America's financial crisis has given liberals in both political parties the opportunity to grow the size of government and implement freedom-robbing socialism at lightning speed.
Hitler was obsessed with globalism, and many of America's most powerful political leaders are willing to subjugate American sovereignty to contemporary globalism.
Many Germans responded to Hitler by retreating into neutrality. Today most Americans prefer to remain neutral on moral issues that they think don't affect them personally.
On trial after World War II, Hitler's henchmen used the defense that they had not broken any laws. True, they had not defied the laws of Germany since those had been re-written to fit the goals and objectives of Hitler. The Nazi leaders were nevertheless found guilty because the courts at the time recognized a "law above the law." Yet now the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the law of nature and nature's God by claiming that as society evolves, morals evolve, and so the law, too, must evolve.
Calling upon Darwinian evolution, Hitler convinced the German people that purging millions of people was acceptable because of the need to create a pure race; also referred to as eugenics. American students across the board have been educated in Darwinian evolution because the Supreme Court has ruled that creation cannot be taught in our schools-even if both creation and evolution are taught side by side.
Germans accepted socialism to avoid pain. Today's Americans are rejecting capitalism in exchange for government-sponsored "free" healthcare, education, and countless other government handouts.
America is rushing toward government-sponsored, national healthcare. (Obamacare is already the law of the land in America.) We already have a form of this in Medicare and Medicaid. Hitler, too, expanded and centralized Germany's healthcare system. As Melchior Palyi explained, "The ill-famed Dr. Ley, boss of the Nazi labor front, did not fail to see that the social insurance system could be used for Nazi politics as a means of popular demagoguery, as a bastion of bureaucratic power, [and] as an instrument of regimentation."
There is much more in this article and we recommend you read it — whether you agree with it or not. You will find it here: SOURCE
I don't know about you, but I experienced an involuntary shudder as I read the similarities above. It's akin to reliving a terrifying nightmare.
What's even more distressing is watching my fellow Americans happily and energetically promoting and then voluntarily lining up for the FREE hot government showers.
It has been said that the only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence. I would add one more — apathy.
Many conservatives are losing hope today that America can survive. Unless there is an act of God, I feel certain America will install another president in the mold of the current occupant of the Oval Office in 2016. I believe that will truly mark the end of days for America.
America rode to the rescue of the world in the 1940's. But there is no one, no country, remotely interested in riding to America's rescue today. So, if America is to be rescued, she must rescue herself.
And therein lies the deepest hurt of all.
There is virtually no homogeneity in America these days. There is precious little similarity, or comparability in kind or nature amongst Americans anymore. Diversity and multiculturalism took care of that. We have so little in common with our neighbors and fellow countrymen that we really could not care less what happens to them and — by extension — to our country. Thus our vulnerability.
It is not enough to ask as the ancient Psalmist did: "If the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" — Psalm 11:3. It seems so inadequate to answer by sounding ONLY the alarm.
But America is not alarmed — not yet! Until she is — and until she is ready to pay the fiddler, her race to self immolation will continue.


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Never having won the "Prettiest Little Town in Alaska" award, Glennallen is none the less an important hub of commerce and government in the interior of southeast Alaska. It's important because there is a real supermarket here. The next closest supermarket is in Palmer. There is a bank with an automatic teller machine. You can also buy gas, diesel and attend Alaska's only accredited 4-year Bible College. The Alaska State Troopers have offices here as does the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Other attractions include a health clinic and... a radio station!
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska


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Australia's High Life
I was watching a cricket match, although it not quite popular in England or should I say the people are losing the passion as the team is not performing well enough. The match was between England and Australia and in between I got an ad commercial of Australian tourism which made me got to Australia for fun and explore the amazing country. So I took the British airways and landed on the beautiful island continent.
I packed my magazines, clothing and all the necessary stuff that I am going to need there. I also took a colleague from my office to do the comedy stuff. And during the flight he told me about this amazing thing about aussies. He said that online gambling is really popular in Australia and we can try our luck there to win jackpots and bonus.
So, I look out on the internet and searched the casino forums where people have been talking about many nice games and from among them I took one called "the High Life" and make it download on android mobile phone. After that I decided to play it with the free spin at first, and the plan was when I feel good and become savvy about it then I was going to try it with the real money.
This pokie machine has so much to offer with 5 reels and 5 paylines to slot players along with a jackpot of 1500 coins. It got a theme of a lavish lifestyle with all the luxury stuff along with diamond and the mansion. The mansion is the wild symbol and it scatters drives pretty fast, in fact it is multiplier haste.
Since microgaming is the developer of this shiny slot game, it was pretty hard to find a leak in the game, I played the game again and again almost during the whole flight thinking that when we get there I will be all cool with the dynamics of it and that way can win loads of money. And with money we will win there, we could make our trip better and fun.
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Template:Grasses, Legumes, and Forage Crops/req
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
Meet three out of five requirements as indicated in each of the four divisions, or a total of twelve requirements out of the twenty.
Grasses - Any three
- 1. Show samples of five kinds of perennial grasses and explain their uses for feed purposes, soil conservation, and control of erosion.
- 2. Show how to prepare a seed bed for a lawn, pasture or meadow.
- 3. Show:
- (a) samples of three annual grasses used both for hay and pastures;
- (b) samples of three largesee grasses, explaining the practical uses of each.
- 4. Make a blotter, plate or rag doll seed tester and show how to use in testing seeds for vitality.
- 5. (a) Make a exhibit of six of the most important grasses common to his locality. Identify and explain use of each; (b) explain the differences between "bunch grasses" and "sod-forming" grasses and their uses.
Legumes - Any three including Requirement 1 or 3
- 1. Show samples and name the five most important legume crops grown in his section.
- 2. Name three small seed legumes, and three large seed legumes. Explain use of these for feed, soil conservation, cash crop, and for maintaining soil moisture.
- 3. Show how to fertilize, lime, prepare seed, bed, seed and manage a crop of legumes grown in his locality.
- 4. Explain:
- (a) how legumes, such as soy beans, cow peas, alfalfa and clover may be used to build soil fertility and control erosion;
- (b) under what conditions legumes deplete the soil.
- 5. Explain:
- (a) what is meant by inoculation of legumes;
- (b) how this is done, and why it is important.
Pastures - Any three including Requirement 3 or 5
- 1. Explain the best method for improvement of old pastures, and how to manage and maintain pasture fertility in his section.
- 2. Explain under what conditions grasses, legumes and hay fields may be used for pastures.
- 3. Make an exhibit or collection of five poisonous or undesirable grasses and weeds which are injurious to pastures or poisonous to livestock.
- 4. Explain from personal observation how cows, horses, and sheep differ in their grazing methods or habits.
- 5. Prepare an exibit of at least five pasture grasses, showing whole plant, with stem, leaf, flower and seed.
Hay Crops - Any three
- 1. Explain how grasses such as legumes and grain crops may be used for hay or feed for livestock and wild game.
- 2. Give directions on how to store hay crops safely in barns, stacks, sheds, and in bales. Explain how to prevent hay barn fires and combustion.
- 3. Make a mounted exhibit of five kinds of properly cured hay crops; explain the qualities of "succulent" or "well-cured" hay.
- 4. Show samples of not less than two kinds of hay crops best suited to different live stock, such as dairy cows, horses, sheep, deer and beef cattle.
- 5. Show how to operate one hay-making machine and one hand tool; name five tools and machines used for hay-making in his locality; explain the purpose of each.
Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Requirements in Grasses, Legumes and Forage Crops.
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Read about the differences and understand the different ways of classification. You may have heard of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, but do you really know its nuts and bolts? What about the Library of Congress system? Check out some web sites for summary information on Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Classification (including Understanding LoC Call Numbers). Don't worry if it seems confusing. Just look at the categories and ways library items are organized. Do you see other areas that may include books of genealogy interest? Explore those areas of your library for other materials. Bloggers are encouraged to share their experiences with this challenge.
I thought I would take this time to explain the classification system that is used at the Allen County Public Library's Genealogy Center. They use a system that makes it very easy to find genealogy books based on place.
Each region in the world is given a three digit number. For example western states in the US are given the number 978. The 978 books include books on Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
Then each a decimal number is added to break that region into smaller pieces (like states or provinces). For example, Kansas books are 978.1, Nebraska books are 978.2, South Dakota books are 978.3.
If you want to find books that cover the entire state of Kansas or large regions of Kansas you would find those books in 978.1. If you are looking for books on one county, you would look under 978.101 followed by a letter-number sequence. Allen county, Kansas books are found in 978.101 AL5. Greenwood county, Kansas books are under 978.101 G85. All counties are in alphabetical order in the 978.101 section.
If you are looking for a book on a particular city in Kansas, you look under 978.102. Madison, Kansas materials are found in 978.102 M26. Eureka, Kansas is under 978.101 EU72.
So to review, states are dot something. Counties are dot something 01. Cities are dot something 02.
If you are looking for military books, they have their own call numbers. General US military books are in 973 and divided further by wars. But World War One and Two books are in 940. All family histories are in 929.
Once you learn the system, you can easily find your materials when you are browsing the shelves (as long as you can find the stack).
If you ever visit ACPL, make sure to look at the reference desk and pick up the handouts on how to use the library. The pink "Finding Your Way in the Book Stacks" sheet will tell you what call number and stack to find each location (as long as they don't change the color). And the map will tell you where to find the stacks are located.


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Author Notes: I love food parcels - vine leaves, cabbage, lettuce, bread....an endless list really. I watched Kenny Aitkinson roll cured mackerel in bread, pan-fry it and serve it with gooseberries. I've wanted to replicate it for so long and I'm thankful an opportunity has finally presented itself! —Kitchen Butterfly
Makes: delicate hor dóeurves or individual rolls
Smoked Mackerel Roll
4 - 5 slices of white sandwich bread, crusts removed
2 plain-smoked or salt-cured mackerel fillets, broken or flaked into large pieces
6- 8 green olives, pitted and roughly chopped
1 tablespoon microplaned lemon zest
Freshly crushed black peppercorns
Vegtable oil to fry
To serve - apple and olive sauce (Recipe below)
To serve - sour cream, extra lemon zest, olives
Olive-Apple sauce
1 sweet, crisp apple (I used Golden delicious), skinned, cored and roughly chopped
20 green olives with pits in
1/2 cup of water
1 garlic clove
1-2 stalk of coriander, or to taste
Pinch of salt
In This Recipe
Smoked Mackerel Roll
- Roll out crust-less slices of bread till flattened.
- Set each slice of bread lengthways and make a bed in the centre with the chopped olives. Top with some mackerel pieces and finish with crushed black peppercorns and lemon zest. Then as if rolling sushi with an imaginary mat, bring the side toward you in and roll to finish.
- Do for the rest of the bread. When completed, wrap the rolls tightly in clingfilm and leave to rest for an hour in the fridge. Once rested, prepare to cook.
- Heat one tablespoon of oil in a frying pan and fry the bread rolls turning regularly, for 2-3 minutes, or until the bread is golden-brown and crisp.
- Remove from heat and cut into bite sized pieces or eat as a roll, with sour cream and the apple-olive sauce.
Olive-Apple sauce
- Crush the olives by squashing them in between your fingers. Leave the pits in and then gently heat the crushed olives in the water and bring to boil. Turn off and leave to cool. Once cold, pit olives and discard seeds. Reserve cooking liquid.
- Combine all the ingredients - pitted olives, apple, garlic, coriander in a blender. Add the water slowly as you blend - the result should be a nice green puree. Add more water to give a thick consistency.
- Season to taste and serve as you like
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best One-Bite Party Snack
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Citrus & Olives
More Great Recipes:
Roll|Apple|Coriander|Olive|Seafood|Sour Cream|Serves a Crowd|Fry|Make Ahead|Appetizer|Hors D'Oeuvre|Snack


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Current Law Students / Re: law school relationships/love?« on: January 22, 2009, 11:06:43 AM »
I met my girlfriend in orientation and we have been together ever since (we are both in our third years). We kept it quiet for a while, but it eventually got out and everyone knows about us. We work together for the same judge in our 3L exeternship and will be clerking for the same court (different judges) following graduation. It is possible to work, sometime it requires more patience because the work can make you stressed out. But I feel that I have done better academically because we have been together.


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== SimpleCompoundExtractorService ==
== SimpleCompoundExtractorService ==
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CompoundExtractor Service
Interface: org.eclipse.smila.importing.CompoundExtractor
A CompoundExtractor service provides two kinds of methods:
- check if an object's filename, URL or mimetype idenfifies it as a compound object that can be extracted by the service.
- extract the compound: Given an InputStream with the compound content produce records for the elements.
The element records can contain the following attributes:
- fileName: the complete name of the entry in the compound object, usually something like a filesystem path
- isCompound: set to true if the element is a supported compound object itself.
- size: uncompressed size of the element
- time: last modification timestamp, as a datetime value.
- compressedSize: compressed size of the element
- comment: a comment for the element in the compound
- isRootCompound: set to true if the record describes the processed compound object itself.
- compounds: a sequence of the compound files to look into to reach this element. For example, if the compound /data/compound.zip contains a file archived/subcompound.zip which contain a file x.html, the compounds list for x.html would be:
[/data/compound.zip, archived/subcompound.zip]
Not all attributes need to be set for all compound types.
Bundle: org.eclipse.smila.importing.compounds.simple
This extractor service uses the classes provided by the JDK's java.util.zip package to extract compound objects. This means that it can currently support ZIP files and GZ files (not TAR.GZ, though).
Supported Mimetypes:
- application/zip
- application/x-gunzip
- application/x-gzip
If the mimetype is not provided by the caller at all or it is only application/octet-stream it uses the current MimeType Identifier service to recognize the real mimetype from the filename extension.
The compound types are treated differently:
- For ZIP files, it creates one record for the ZIP file itself and one record for each contained element.
- For GZ files, it creates one record with the original filename of the GZ file, but the uncompressed content, because technically GZ files are not real compounds, but just compressed single files.


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not stand in (someone's or something's) way(redirected from won't stand in her way)
not stand in (someone's or something's) way
To refrain from obstructing, hampering, impeding, or preventing someone's or something's action or progress. If you want to squander all your money on a fancy car, I'm not going to stand in your way. I've worked too long and too hard on this deal, and you are not going to stand in its way now.


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Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead 2 & New Super Mario Bros Wii
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you should use not 'top tip', but PROTIP. big mistake. :)
Fantastic episode, one of the best he has done in a while! Disagree what he said about L4D2 but hey!
Wow, two games in one review. That's nice.
I feel like Yahtzee was way too harsh on New Super Mario Bros. Wii, especially considering that there hasn't BEEN any, or rather many side-scrolling platformers these days, and the fact that he said it shouldn't exist makes me feel very angry and upset.
Yeah, he's got a point about not making progress, but then again, when most of the games these days are just 3D platformers, maybe the best way to make progress again is to go back to basics, you know?
"This shit won't fly" lol
I like the ending where mario and luigi are killed by the infected minions.
Theory: Nintendo is spiting Yahtzee by overtly making the same mistakes over and over again.
Also, did Yahtzee just get through a review of a Wii exclusive, without ripping on the Wii once?
Yes, thank you, L4D2 feels like and could be sold as an Expansion, finally someone to "notice", and a Valve fanboy no less xD
And did he just basically Review 2 MultiPlayer Games?... As in more than one?...
Why the hell are the top two posters suspended?
on topic: nice video as always, particularly enjoyed the predictable yet acutely deserved jab at the ridiculous video game laws in australia.
Yes yes they certainly are the worst gaming company in recent history. You are correct with that statement. They are definitely the worst gaming company in recent history.
And, I know this just makes me a Nintendo whore, apparently, but the game is actually very fun. I know that in this day and age making a game that is purely fun is an awful sin among the likes of rape and murder, but I enjoy playing it. I enjoy playing it with friends (not seriously, of course, that really does breed hate among even the closest group; playing it as PHUN PARTY GAME is a much more pleasant experience) and I enjoy playing solo.
So, now that that's done, this was quite a humorous review! I laughed quite a few times!
The images in the credits were the best bit imo :P
Yahtzee certainly isn't the only one to say this. Many of gamers have said this, and they have all been equally wrong.
They ARE making a new Golden Sun, for the DS. It will be supposedly released next year. And Mario isn't dead. Not even close, if you ask me. His popularity his high, and unlike Sonic, he doesn't just have nostalgia to back him up, he has awesome gameplay.
I pretty much 100% disagreed with everything he had to say (video game wise), but it was still a great episode, and just as hilarious as ever.
And on a tangentially related note, Team Fortress 2 (and all its many incredible updates) could literally keep me busy for years on end.
Yeah, if you can look past the little crike Yahtzee tosses it's way it really bounces them back. so agree'd
"A Bit bitter because he only has 2 friends"
Shame the Australian Government screwed him over. The game is must more Satisfying with all the gore.
I fully agree with Yahtzee on this review. The new Mario is nothing more then recycling and old game and L4D2 is good but Valve should really get back to HL2, cause I'm starting to get really annoyed by the fact we still haven't got ANY information whatsoever about Episode 3.
I thought the credits were funny as hell
Thats only because they LET him live
Bowser would probably win the fight as he can actually breath fire and if things get bad he has a bloody spike encrusted shell to protect him self from the monstrosity. if a zombie mutant fan of the hulk can be taken down by some nutter stereotypes with too much ammo and some of the worst suvival instict ever conceived then surely a firebreathing, twice as strong, serial kidnapping mastermind with apparenltly an inability to die can do a much better job. with any luck he'd be spit roasting the fool on a large pinewood pyre by lunch time so that those anti-survivalist remtards from the first game of Left4dead can have even a vague taste of victory.........even if is a barbacued undead rotting flesh flavoured one at that.
I thought the new mario was really good, yeah, it's not very original anymore but it's still fun. Although I thought left 4 dead 2 should've just been a DLC.
I'm actually surprised they don't make new Mario games including Yoshi.. I'm pretty sure most players enjoyed the dino. Since I have no wii I don't know what the new super mario or whatever looks like but if it is in any way close to the new super mario bros. for the DS it can't be good. Never liked a Mario game after super mario world...
Don't care about l4d2 at all.. so yea, and tanks crush turtles not matter how many spikes they have. It goes crkkrkrkkrrrrr
I'm facepalming so hard at this thread, with people lauding and defending what Nintendo does, and then agreeing that L4D2 was 'too soon.' Go back to your copypasta Mario and Zelda games, the rest of us have grown out of Nintendo's bullshit.
/me is ironically wearing a Nintendo Rehab tee.
except God of War II and AC2 both had very noticeable graphical upgrades and large scale game play changes. Modern Warfare 2 also has a ton of new multiplayer maps (more than 5) and a new campaign as well as the co-op mode.
Yahtzee sounded really annoyed in this review. However, I must agree with him about HL2 Episode 3. It`s been over a year since we have literally heard anything regarding it`s development and Valve remains entirely tight-lipped.
Blizzard often gets scolded for how scarce it`s information on StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 is, but even they are not this silent.
Hmmm... Bowser vs. Tank... Well, first Bowser would shoot a fireball at the Tank; igniting him. But then the Tank beats Bowser to a pulp. Bowser dies, but then the Tank meets a grim fate, and gets cooked alive from the fireball.
Left 4 Dead 2 DLC?
yes, but i dont count each floor of a dungeon as its own dungeon, its a smaller part of the whole. Apperently L4D has a different definition of map from every other FPS game out there. In Unreal Tournament or MW2 a maps are totally independent of each other, you can play whichever you want in whatever order you want, but L4D2 has 5 "campaigns" that force you to play the sections in a specific order, you cant skip ahead, or just play your favorite section, therefor they are not independent maps.
lol at least I admit all the Zelda games are the same, but I love them anyway.
NSMBWii? That's some straight up bull, they didn't try at all, at least the new Zelda game has a train and ghost bj's lol
I found the L4D2 Springfield 30.06 funnier - i have a garand 30.06 at home :)
I feel sorry for Yahtzee and every other Australian that has to deal with the "edited" version of Left 4 Dead or any other game. That's government totalitarianism at it's worst. That game itself was alright, but I'm waiting for that price drop to $30 or less before picking it up myself as I agree in that it should be an expansion pack (thus the price of $30 more reasonable than $50) instead of a full blown game.
Several reviewers have said that NSMBW is the best 2D Mario game thus far. I guess that what you're saying is that SMW was better because it was at least inivative. NSMBW is like Uncharted, it's fun, but it adds nothing.
Bowser VS. Tank?
Bowser would win because he could set the Tank on fire and run away.
I like how Yahtzee never actually says something about whether either game is fun or not. All you hear is some whining about originality, or innovation (both from him and from this thread), and quite honestly I'm starting to grow tired of it. Innovation does not translate to good. Innovation is a way to find more good stuff. It's not a way to make good stuff better. NSMBW didn't have new gameplay? Who the f*** gives a shit? Doesn't it have new worlds? Yes? Doesn't it have new power-ups? Yes? Doesn't it have a whole new way of playing the goddamn game (i.e. the multiplayer)? Yes? Then what the f*** are people complaining about? That you run to the right while jumping/swimming/spinning to get past obstacles?
I know how Yahtzee feels about multiplayer, but he's honestly complaining about what he believes is a co-operative multiplayer but what is in fact just as much a competitive multiplayer. Don't feel like working together? Fine, play against each other. Screw each other over. That was the whole marketing point of NSMBW to begin with. Co-op or competitive. Single player or multiplayer. A single matter of just two people playing together (ah yes, it seems that you don't even have to be four to play this game, so if you feel that four are too many then that still isn't a problem).
All I hear about NSMBW here is how it's not original, but to me that says jack shit about how good the game actually is, which is oddly absent from the review itself as well. No-one has actually come up and said that the game sucks. That it's boring. That it's in any way less than a great game. I've only heard the opposite. Yahtzee says that "this shit won't fly". It's already flying. It's flying high, high, high. People have been wanting 2D Mario since Super Mario World, and that is the reason why it has triumphed this "gameplay innovation" Yahtzee is nagging about.
Innovation is not the be-all-end-all of gaming, and even then you can't say that NSMBW has been done all before, because that would be a flat out lie. Unlike Modern Warfare 2, NSMBW is an experience entirely different from NSMB, SMB 3, SMW or any previous 2D or 3D Mario game.
I'm just glad I watch Yahtzee because he's funny, and not because he's got gaming words of wisdom, because if it was the latter then I'd be gone already. Much of what he said in this review has already been said by countless forum dwellers before him (except for the whole "this shit won't fly" thing). All he did was sprinkle funny things over them, and that is afterall the main appeal with Yahtzee. He's funny. Even if you think he's spewing bullshit. And this review was pretty funny, if just messed up a little. He's done double-reviews (or even multi-reviews) before, but this is honestly the first time where he jumps back and forth between the games, and that makes it messy. Like trying to watch two TV shows at the same time by switching between channels.
What does Nintendo "do"? keep old franchises going (Mario, Zelda) while exploring new territory and trying to get more people to game (Wiisports, Wiifit, etc) and try catering to more than just a hardcore fanbase? So terrible! I see nothing wrong with what Nintendo is doing. Heck, atleast Nintendo does several genres as oppossed to Valve which basically does just one. I don't hate Valve, but I don't see them as any better than Nintendo. And I don't get all the Nintendo hate people have. Nothing wrong with some Nostalgic games.
And I felt L4D2 was released too soon because it A. made everyone who bought L4D1 feel like they paid for a beta. B. Killed the community for L4D1. Forcing everyone to either buy L4D2 or good luck finding people to play with.
I'm also loling hard at the people whining that Nintendo dares to use a successful franchise like Mario, and then asking when Valves gonna release HL2:EP 3.
I really don't even understand why the hardcore crowd who generally don't even own a Wii, cares what Nintendo does. Is it because Nintendos more successful than the companies releasing rehashes?
And yeah, if you wanna talk rehashes I'd like you to meet my friends Activision and EA.
i feel your pain yahtzee,having to play as the one with the vag in left2dead4
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Everyone is on the road for a busy UAA weekend, and the Judges are getting some love from the NCAA!
If you haven't yet, tou can still vote for the #20 women and their showdown on Sunday with #5 Washington University as the NCAA Division III Game of the Week poll on Facebook.
Check out featured photos of Joe Eisenbies '13 on the NCAA's Division III men's soccer page and Michelle Savuto '15 on the women's page! The Judges also made an appearance in the NCAA's Weekend Roundup!
If you want to follow soccer on the road, the women are at Chicago this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. and the men follow at 6:30. The games can be heard at http://athletics.uchicago.edu/menssoccer/msc-live-audio.htm
On Saturday, volleyball looks to get into the win column in the UAA at Carnegie Mellon, but it won't be easy. The Judges open with NYU and #16 Chicago on Saturday and follow up with #5 Emory and host Carnegie Mellon on Sunday. Results and box scores can be found at http://athletics.cmu.edu/sports/wvball/2012-13/uaaroundrobin
Women's tennis gets in the action in Western Mass. with the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament. We'll post a link when it becomes available.
Finally, the weekend wraps up in St. Louis when the Judges take on WashU in men's and women's soccer. The women face another nationally-ranked squad at 12:00 p.m. and the men face a tough Bear squad at 2:30 p.m. You can follow LiveStats or check it out on streaming video.
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Cruise Through Your Holiday Party in Destin
The busy holiday season is only a few months away and many are already planning their December festivities. From private holiday parties with family and friends to corporate holiday parties in Destin Florida, the 'to-do' lists, budgets and stress levels all begin to rise as the holiday planning begins. The event planners at SunQuest Cruises have over 10 years of experience planning all types of events in Destin, from weddings to holiday parties, on the 125' SOLARIS yacht and share their tips on how to successfully spread the holiday cheer without breaking the bank.
"It's easy to get carried away with all the fun elements of planning a holiday party, including the theme, decorations and invitations," said Kristi Adkinson, Director of Events for SunQuest Cruises. "That's why it's important to have a plan and timeline in place ahead of time to avoid any budget busters or extra stress."
According to Adkinson, the golden rule is to set your budget first to easily determine limitations and what discretionary funds will be left for the fun stuff. Many Destin Florida venues, such as the SOLARIS yacht, offer all-inclusive pricing which offers a flat price per guest including food, drinks, event planning, live entertainment, venue rental, linens, décor, taxes and service fees. This truly eliminates stress, unexpected costs or sticker shock at the end of an event. The SOLARIS is also docked at the all-inclusive Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, offering guests a variety of on-property accommodation and transportation options to ensure a safe and worry-free night.
A holiday party in Destin is great way to show appreciation to employees or give friends and family an unforgettable experience as their holiday gift, says Adkinson. If employees spend most of their time in an office, search beyond the four walls of a banquet room for a venue that offers views of the water and sunset. Experiences continue to be popular gifts for friends or family that seem to have it all. A holiday cruise on the SOLARIS offers an unforgettable evening of dinner and dancing on the water that they will treasure for years to come.
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Grand Theft Auto III – Bulletproof Car FAQ
PlayStation 2
Bulletproof Car FAQ by Azure Edge
Version: 1.8 | Updated: 09/09/02
Bulletproof Car FAQ v1.8
This FAQ is copyright 2002 by Azure Edge (email@example.com). It
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It may not be used or distributed for any commercial purpose.
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1.0 -=- Introduction
1.01 - Version History
1.02 - Introduction
2.0 -=- The Cars
2.01 -Patriot
2.02 - Cheetah
2.03 - Securicar
2.04 - Bobcat
2.05 - Barracks OL
2.06 - Stretch
2.07 - Trashmaster
3.0 -=- Closing
3.01 - Frequently Asked Questions
3.02 - E-Mail Policy
3.03 - Credits
1.01 - Version History
1.8 - (NEW FINAL VERSION) Redid the Trashmaster section. Added Maritza
Frixione to the Credits section.
1.7 - Major cosmetic changes. Small updates to all car
sections. Added Trashmaster to the car section.
1.6 - Updated copyright.
1.5 - Changed e-mail address.
1.4 - Added the E-Mail Policy section. Fixed small errors in the
introduction and the Stretch section. Updated the Frequently Asked
Questions section. Updated the Credits section.
1.3 - Added the Frequently Asked Questions section. Changed the
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1.2 - Added new information to the contact section. Added Jamie Magic
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1.1 - Added a new method of obtain the bulletproof Cheetah. Confirmed
the falsity of the Barracks OL glitch. Fixed errors in the
introduction, Cheetah section, and Barracks OL section. Added hosting
list. Added Coyote Mystro, Ivan Chich, and Krys M. to the Credits
1.0 - First version. Original content placed.
1.02 - Introduction
This guide is dedicated to getting those elusive bulletproof cars
scattered about Liberty City. Out of the seven I know of, only one are
you *supposed* to get. The others require a bit of ingenuity and a bit
of luck to obtain. All of the bulletproof cars that can be resprayed
can do so without losing their special endowments, so if you dislike
your bulletproof car's color, you can cruise on over to the Pay 'N
Spray and change it. Best of luck to you!
Each of the cars will be shown in a simple data sheet. Here's how it
will look:
Location: The city where the car can be obtained.
Mission: The mission you can get the car in.
Difficulty: The difficulty of obtaining the car. It will be rated from
one to five stars.
Method: The method of obtaining the car.
2.01 - Patriot
Location: Staunton Island
Mission: Marked Man
Difficulty: **
Method: To obtain the Patriot, you will need to complete the mission
'Marked Man', given by Ray. Before starting the mission, go back and
obtain any of the other bulletproof cars - it doesn't matter which.
When you start the mission, have Ray get into your bulletproof car and
head for the bridge. Normally the feds up on the bridge would
annihilate you with their M-16s, but you're in a bulletproof car, and
the feds won't come down and bust you. Take Ray over to the airport,
and he'll give you the key to his lockup. Follow your map back to the
lockup, grab all the items, and take the Patriot.
2.02 - Cheetah
Location: Portland
Mission: Turismo
Difficulty: ***
Method: To get the Cheetah, you'll need two tanks. Use the tank cheat
to get them, since the tanks you get with the cheat do not vanish,
unlike a normal tank. Park the two tanks along the road outside your
hideout, on the far side of the entrance from the intersection just
down the street. Now start the Turismo mission. Go down to the staring
line and tap one of the Cheetahs with your car, starting the race
instantly, then drive back to your hideout as fast as you can. When you
get there, set your view to the top-down view, since it's easier to
keep a Cheetah in your sights in the top-down mode. Get into one of the
tanks and wait.
At around 100 seconds into the race, the three Cheetahs will come
roaring down the road, going the wrong way. They'll plow straight into
the tanks, and at least one will get knocked into your hideout - if
you're lucky, it'll fall onto its back. Once all three have hit the
tanks, drive into your hideout and hit the Cheetah there, causing it to
explode. This is where it gets tricky - using the tank, you have to
push the blown-up Cheetah into your garage. If you have trouble
controlling the tank, you can park a smaller car inside the hideout and
use it as well. Remember this, though: If you have any major part of
the Cheetah inside your garage, DO NOT get out of your vehicle or pull
away. The door will close on the Cheetah, causing it to vanish. You
also cannot let the Cheetah out of your sights or it will vanish.
Either way, once you've gotten the Cheetah in your garage, you'll
probably get a message saying 'You cannot fit more than one car into
this garage' (if you're still in your car when the door closes with the
Cheetah inside). Get out of your car and check in the garage, and
there's your shiny, new Cheetah. The Cheetah is also impervious to fire
and explosions, and after completing all of El Burro's missions, you
can redo Turismo to get more BP Cheetahs. Enjoy!
Krys N. sent in this alternate method:
Enter the race just a usuall then wait untill one flips over. (the
cheetas flip over quite frequently) Keep looking at him so he doesn't
unflip. Then wait until the race is over and the drive gets out of the
car. While the car is flipped just push it back to your hideout, unflip
it push it into your garage and save. When you come out it will be
unlocked. (it is easier to push if fliped)
2.03 - Securicar
Location: Portland
Mission: Van Heist
Difficulty: **
Method: The only problem you might have getting the Securicar is the
mission itself. Ram the Securicar until the driver gets out, but
instead of taking it to the Securicar Cracking garage, head back to
your hideout (thank you to everybody who told me that the Securicar
WILL fit into the Portland garage). Park the Securicar in the garage,
but since the mission is still going on, you'll have to destroy it -
preferably with a method that won't hurl it out of the garage. The
'blow up all cars' cheat does a fine job of this. Once it has blown up
and you get a mission failed notification, leave the garage then enter
again, and you've got a bulletproof Securicar.
2.04 - Bobcat
Location: Staunton Island
Mission: Evidence Dash
Difficulty: ****
Method: Like the Cheetah, this Bobcat is bulletproof, fireproof, and
explosionproof. To start, you'll need a big, tough truck like a
Barracks OL or a Flatbed. Find the Bobcat carrying the evidence and ram
it to flip it onto its hood. You'll get a notification about this car
being a decoy - don't worry about it.
This part is what's tough. You have to take whatever vehicle you might
be driving and push the Bobcat all the way back across town to your
garage. Let it go offscreen for too long and it's gone, although it can
last longer out of your sights than the elusive Cheetah. Depending on
where you flipped the Bobcat, it could be easy to get or tough to get.
If you wanted, you could use this same trick to get multiple
bulletproof Bobcats from one mission, provided you don't pick up the
evidence packages. And you can still complete the mission after getting
as many Bobcats as you want!
2.05 - Barracks OL
Location: Staunton Island
Mission: Arms Shortage
Difficulty: *
Method: This bulletproof Barracks OL is parked inside the Army Surplus
Store area during the Arms Shortage mission for Ray - it will only be
bulletproof during that mission, so if you don't take it then, it will
not be bulletproof when you return.
The Barracks OL glitch, which supposedly corrupted your game save if
you put the truck in your garage, has been proven wrong, thanks to
faithful reader Ivan Chich. Thanks, Ivan!
2.06 - Stretch
Location: Portland
Mission: Salvatore's Called A Meeting
Difficulty: *
Method: The bulletproof Stretch is flameproof, explosionproof, and
reportedly damage-proof as well. The best part is, it's a slick-looking
jet black Mafia Stretch. It is also quite easy to obtain. After you
leave Toni's, head for Joey's garage, but don't go into the blue
circle. Park a car up against the wall, then enter the faster gameplay
cheat twice (Triangle, Up, Right, Down, Square, L1, L2) and run between
the car and Joey's garage (the Faster Gameplay cheat can be disabled by
entering the Slower Gameplay cheat for each time you entered the Faster
It's a bit tricky to get it right, and hard to explain in writing, but
once you get it, you'll be pushed through the wall and into Joey's
garage. Get into the Stretch waiting there, then back out through the
back wall. You'll fall through 'blue hell' for a few moments, then
you'll pop out on the street behind the garage. Take the Stretch to
Staunton Island via the flying cars cheat over the bridge, then put it
in the garage. You'll then have to find some way to blow it up, which
is tough because the Stretch is bulletproof, flameproof, and
explosionproof. My reccomendation is to use the Blow Up All Cars cheat.
I have also been informed by several people that setting yourself on
fire then getting into the car will cause it to set on fire and
eventually explode.
2.07 - Trashmaster
Location: Portland
Mission: Blow Fish
Difficulty: ****
Method: Well, the old Trashmaster method was a load of unnesscessary bunk,
thanks to reader Maritza Frixione, who kindly informed me last month of this
new method. I finally tested it, and I am glad to say it works. One
difficult part still remains, but two other barriers have been blown down.
As always, take the Trashmaster, but instead of driving to the bridge, head
through the Porter Tunnel (you'll probably recognize it as the tunnel with
the four Molotov Cocktail junkies). It's behind and to the left of the
Trashmaster's starting point. Drive through the tunnel and take a tricky
left past the barrier and out onto the beach.
Keep your finger ready on the brakes as you slowly inch your Trashmaster
into the water. The purpose of this is to disable the Trashmaster's bomb
timer and fragility. Keep going into the water until you get a Mission
Failed notification, and the timer will disappear.
Now that two of your biggest enemies are removed, head back through the
tunnel, or drive back through the streets, whatever. Just head for the
Callahan Bridge. When you arrive, input the Jumping Cars and Flying Cars
cheats. Hop the barrier - I still prefer going over one of the smaller side
partitions, as the Trashmaster is no Olympic long jumper.
Feel sorry for your X button. It's time to jump the bridge. Jam it
mercilessly down into the analog pad in hopes that somewhere the Trashmaster
will find a bit of speed. Align the Trashmaster perfectly straight before
you go, because turning causes speed loss. As with before, you have to jump
at the EXACT RIGHT moment as the Trashmaster descends the bend at the bottom
of the bridge and picks up speed to make this hellishly asinine jump. As the
Trashmaster breaks roughly mid-arc between the two bridges, haul back on the
analog stick to bring up the Trashmaster's nose. If it starts coming up into
a vertical position on its tail, STOP, because it will stall and you will
If, after this, the Trashmaster is far enough up on the bridge that its weak
engine can pull you up - congratulations, you've done it! Take your
admittedly slow prize to your Staunton garage and pat yourself on the back.
3.01 - Frequently Asked Questions
1.) Where is Ray's lockup? I want the bulletproof Patriot!
-You cannot access Ray's lockup until the mission 'Marked Man'. After
you finish Ray's first few missions, he will vanish for a while, then
he will reappear after you open Shoreside Vale. That is when you can do
Marked Man - during the mission, you will be directed to the lockup.
2.) Your information is wrong. I can't get that car that way.
-I assure you, the methods used in this FAQ are tried and true. Every
single one works. It is your own folly if you are not getting the car.
3.) I've found another bulletproof car!
-Highly unlikely. Almost every possible bulletproof car has been looked
4.) Can I put your FAQ on my site?
-No. I am no longer submitting my FAQ to new sites.
5.) The garage door won't close on my Cheetah, and it keeps
-The mission must end before your garage will close on your Cheetah.
It's really a matter of luck and speed as to keeping the Cheetah from
6.) Hey! I picked up a Bobcat cruising the streets of Staunton, and
it's not bulletproof. What gives?
-The cars listed in this guide are the ONLY ones of their type. There
are no bulletproof versions of these cars besides the ones here. So
don't steal a Cheetah off the streets and expect it to stand up to your
7.) What about the Bling-Bling Scramble mission? Aren't those cars
-NO. I have tested these cars, and they are not bulletproof.
8.) The Mafia Sentinels in Sayonara Salvatore?
9.) What about those Sentinels in the Bait mission? I'm SURE of those!
10.) Aren't there ANY other bulletproof cars?!?!
-Not unless you download your save to your computer with a SharkPort
and edit it with an editing program. You can give any car any number of
special abilities this way. Feel free to experiment if you own a
3.02 - E-Mail Policy
READ THIS BEFORE SENDING ANY E-MAILS. I am no longer accepting any
questions about the game or anything in it. THIS IS THE FINAL VERSION.
There will be NO more updates unless an enormous secret is uncovered,
so please do not send me any more information by e-mail.
3.03 - Credits
-Maritza Frixione, for contributing the easier Trashmaster method
-Mana Blue, for informing me that the Trashmaster was bulletproof
-Various people for pointing out the errors in the Stretch section.
-King Vinsfield, for discovering the method to obtain the bulletproof
-Coyote Mystro, Jamie Magic Pants, and ZildjianSoldier/ash147, for
discovering the method to obtain the bulletproof Bobcat at different
times and at different places
-thekosmicfool, for informing me of how to get the Securicar, Barracks
OL, and Bobcat
-Krys N., for submitting an alternate method of getting the bulletproof
-Ivan Chich, for testing the Barracks OL glitch
-Slash5493, for telling me how to get the bulletproof Stretch.
-The webmasters hosting this FAQ, 'cause I'm an annoying little wretch
and they happen to like my writing ^_^
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Mumbai: Filmmakers Karan Johar and Shekhar Kapur can't stop praising Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee's "Life Of Pi", based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize winning novel of the same name.
The movie opened here Friday in four languages - English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu and collected 3.5 crore.
" 'Life Of Pi' - must watch!! Its message will have multiple interpretations and will be open to post viewing analysis. That's the fun of it," Karan tweeted.
It has been released in 2D and 3D format and Kapur liked the movie so much so that he went to watch it a second time.
"Watching 'Life Of Pi' second time in two days. Brought my daughter and her friends. Nice to see a full house and lots of kids. Fantastic movie," Kapur tweeted.
"Life Of Pi" narrates the tale of a boy who is adrift at sea in a lifeboat with a Royal Bengal tiger after his family is drowned in a shipwreck.
It features Indian actors Tabu and Irrfan Khan and newcomer Suraj Sharma.
The movie was shot in the hillside town of Munnar along with the elegance of Pondicherry - all on 3D.
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Sister Stout will be serving the Lord as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the England Leeds Mission from August 2011 - February 2013
Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, and rejoice ye inhabitants thereof, for the Lord is God, and beside him there is no Savior. Great is his wisdom, marvelous are his ways, and the extent of his doings none can find out. His purposes fail not, neither are there any who can stay his hand. From eternity to eternity he is the same, and his years neverfail. For thus saith the Lord—I, the Lord, am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and delight to honor those who serve me in righteousness and in truth unto the end. Great shall be their reward and eternal shall be their glory.Doctrine & Covenants 76:1-6
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Zoltan! *pop pop*
- "Dude, Where's My Car" Space Suit
- Made with real Bubble Wrap!
- One size fits most adults
We had a dream: a dream of space travel, of living amongst all the aliens in the universe. Of course, were were mocked when we started wearing the bubble wrap suits. They thought we looked ridiculous. But who's laughing now? We are! (And we're flying through outer space while doing it, so our mockers looks very, very small.)
Of course, there's always a jokester on board who decides it would be hilarious to pop all the bubbles in someone's suit. Listen, we know it's totally fun to do that, but now we have to buy a whole new suit for the big meeting with the aliens regarding a certain planet. They won't think we're cool if all our bubbles are popped. We can't break the ice at the interstellar mixer if there's nothing to pop!
Product Specifications
- Bubble Wrap Suit for cosplay or everyday
- Inspired by the infamous space travel suit from the movie "Dude, Where's My Car?"
- Only functional if used in conjunction with the word 'Zoltan".
- Recommended use with the 'Z' hand symbol as well.
- Elastic band waist on pants, hook and loop closure on jacket
- One size fits most adults:
- Chest (measure under armpits): 46"
- Waist (elastic band): 26" - 40"
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The intension of this page to collect experiences of implementing a Generation Adapter.
A sample implementation is the project org.eclipse.emf.examples.generator.validator
(see :pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/modeling under org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf/examples)
GeneratorAdapter Class
The definition links like this
public class GenClassValidatorGeneratorAdapter extends GenBaseGeneratorAdapter {
The GenBaseGeneratorAdapter base class provide you the basic implementation you have to override:
- canGenerate
- generateXXXX
It's depend of the project type what generate method's you override. The following types you know from the menu in the Gen Model.
In the method canGenerated you have to return true for your project types.
The prefix "GenClass" says this adapter works with the GenClass class of the genmodel.
In accordance to this you have to configure the extension point or you write a GeneratorAdapterFactory. All adapters types are:
- GenPackage Adapter
- GenEnum Adapter
- GenModel Adapter
- GenClass Adapter
Take care not all combinations and of project type and adapter type produce output. (e.g. I had no luck in the combination GenClass and EDITOR project)
JET Templates
The included JET Templates or better the static JET template classes have to be generated with the "old/basic" JET implementation. (choose "Convert Project to JET Project" in new wizard and do not create a "JET Transformation Project")
The M2T JET project even in JET 1 mode produces a not compatible code: see BUG 333811
- http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&S=26948a7500a8f8b49cfde1a577ad810c&th=155261&goto=48916
Forum entries related to how to compine a generator and dynamic templates
- http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=647243&S=26948a7500a8f8b49cfde1a577ad810c#msg_647243
- http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=480066&th=152145
- http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=415810&S=6b757ff8567e4b1a93cbdc4439a9d208
Here another example: http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/emf/source/browse/#hg%2Forg.eclipselabs.emf.codegen.addon


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LOS ANGELES — Back following two seasons away from football, Kareem Ismail became the biggest target on the field when it mattered most for the Flintridge Prep football team.
The 6-foot-7 Ismail, who last played during his freshman season before seeing his career put on hold because of injuries, made the two biggest catches of the season for himself and the Rebels.
Ismail's biggest reception came when he hauled in a 15-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Clayton Weirick in the first overtime to give visiting Flintridge Prep a 34-28 upset win against Ribet Academy on Friday night in a CIF Southern Section Northeast Division first-round contest.
Flintridge Prep improved to 6-4 and won its first postseason contest since 2003, when it captured a CIF Southern Section Division XIII championship. Flintridge Prep will meet top-seeded Mission Prep, which opened with a 41-8 win against visiting Frazier Mountain, in a second-round home game Friday at a site to be determined.
"I saw the safety move to the right and the seam was my route," said Ismail, who also made a huge catch in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter to help the Rebels knot it at 28. "It's good to be back."
Ribet (9-2) appeared on the verge of advancing when it scored with 1:05 left in the fourth quarter when running back Andrew Morales converted a 12-yard run to give the Frogs, who won the Arrowhead League crown, a 28-22 lead. The Frogs failed to score on the two-point conversion.
Flintridge Prep, which took second in the Prep League and took part in its first playoff game since 2008, battled back. Weirick tossed a 24-yard pass to Ismail, who caught the ball and held on to it while sliding down to the 1-yard line with 21 seconds left in the fourth quarter. After a couple of plays, running back Stefan Smith scored on a two-yard run to tie it up.
"We know Kareem is a great athlete," said Flintridge Prep Coach Antonio Harrison, who got 100 yards rushing in 11 carries from running back Kurt Kozacik. "He wanted to be a wide receiver this year and I told him he's got it.
"He made the big plays when he needed to. Our guys played hard."
Ribet had the first possession of overtime and couldn't convert. The Frogs had a 32-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricky Cors called back because of an illegal man down field. On fourth down, Smith registered an interception.
After the Frogs took a 6-0 lead on a 70-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Alexander Camacho to wide receiver Nick Park on fourth down with 10:58 remaining in the first quarter, the Rebels took an 8-6 lead with 2:31 left in the first quarter on a 21-yard run by Kyle Hamane and a successful two-point conversion run by Dylan Colliflower.
The Rebels made it 16-6 on a two-yard run by Smith and another two-point conversion run by Colliflower with 7:46 left in the second quarter.
Ribet closed to within 16-14 when Park caught a 13-yard pass from Camacho with 4:46 remaining in the first half. Andrew Morales scored on the two-point conversion.
Smith, who rushed for 189 yards in 25 carries, gave the Rebels a 28-22 lead on an 18-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter.
Weirick completed six of nine passes for 35 yards.
Camacho completed 16 of 34 passes for 220 yards for the Frogs, who scored at least 30 points in a game six times and at least 50 points twice this season.


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WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will
decide on a response to chemical weapons use in Syria based on
U.S. interests, but Washington will continue to consult with
Britain after its parliament rejected a motion supporting
military action, the White House said on Thursday.
"We have seen the result of the parliament vote in the UK
tonight. The U.S. will continue to consult with the UK
government - one of our closest allies and friends," said White
House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden in a statement.
"President Obama's decision-making will be guided by what is
in the best interests of the United States. He believes that
there are core interests at stake for the United States and that
countries who violate international norms regarding chemical
weapons need to be held accountable," she said.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed and Jeff Mason; Editing by Philip


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