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I am looking for someone to play some fun tennis with. My schedule is pretty flexible. I'd like to make a day an time to get some tennis in every week. I'm new to the area, but it looks like my court options are: Cedar Rose park, Ocean View park, James Kenney Rec, Plaza Tennis or Strawberry Creek park.
If you just want to meet up once that is fine too!
I'm open to suggestions and I love to enjoy the game :)
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Hi Nathan,
I'm just looking to kick off some of the rust as well. Mid-40's and just getting back into a health routine, so may not have a tremendous amount of steam but very willing to give a go. If interested, let me know and perhaps we can arrange to meet at one of your preferred courts.
Hey Dario,
Sounds great! I just moved here and I left my racquet on the east coast. So I need a racquet first. You wouldn't happen to have an old racquet that is usable, or know someone who does, would you?
Thank you!
I'll have to check in the attic, but I do believe I have an old racket moldering somewhere. I'll check and give you an update by Monday.
Best, D.
Hi Nathan,
I'm out of town till the 1st of April, but I would love to set up a weekly time to play, I'm a 3.5/4.0 player. I do have an extra racket if you haven't gotten one yet. my cell number is 970-313-7389, shoot me a text and lets try and find a good time. Wed. afternoons might be good if that works for you.
Hey Andrew!
Are you still interested in meeting up for some tennis? I think Wednesday would work just fine for me.
I have no car, but these courts work good for me: Cedar Rose park, Ocean View park, James Kenney Rec, Plaza Tennis or Strawberry Creek park
I could go a bit further than that if you prefer too. Oh, and I have procured a racquet recently :)
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It is something of a guilty pleasure when I eat shawarma. It is exotic, tough to find in Cincinnati, and most likely not the healthiest dish you have ever put in your mouth. But the intense flavor, mixture of textures and ooey gooey nature of the dish make it pure comfort food for me. Thing is, until now, I had only enjoyed this meal from a nearby takeout restaurant.
So when the New York Times Magazine featured a recipe for oven-roasted chicken shawarma, I know I had to give it a try. Although it seemed a bit daunting, I quickly realized all you really have to make is chicken – the rest is purely assembly.
As for the toppings, you could really put anything you would like. I will list what we included, and the one addition to the recipe that I still believe made the dish is sweet, hot pickles. Without them the recipe would have been good. But with them, it was quite addictive.
Thanks to New York Time Magazine for giving us a way to enjoy my guilty pleasure in the privacy of my home!
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2 lemons, juiced
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil
6 cloves garlic, peeled, smashed and minced
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons paprika
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
A pinch of ground cinnamon
Red pepper flakes, to taste
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1 large red onion, peeled and quartered
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Pita bread
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Tzatziki sauce (greek yogurt, lemon juice, chopped fresh mint, salt)
Hot Sauce
Prepare a marinade for the chicken. Combine the lemon juice, 1/2 cup olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, cumin, paprika, turmeric, cinnamon, and red-pepper flakes in a large bowl then whisk to combine. Add the chicken and toss to coat. Cover and store in refrigerator for at least 1 hour, up to overnight.
When ready to cook, preheat oven to 425. Use the remaining tablespoon of olive oil to grease a rimmed sheet pan. Add the quartered onion to the chicken and marinade, and toss once to combine. Remove the chicken and onion from the marinade and place on the pan, spreading everything evenly.
Put the chicken in the oven and roast until it is browned, crisp at the edges and cooked through, about 30-40 minutes. Remove from the oven, allow to rest 2 minutes, then slice into bits. Scatter the parsley over the top and serve with: diced tomatoes, diced cucumber, tzatziki sauce (greek yogurt, lemon juice, salt and chopped fresh mint), hot sauce, sweet hot pickles. Slice pitas in half and stuff with filling.
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AdWords advertisers know that Google has plenty of policies by which you must abide, like Ad Sitelinks extensions can't have two links that point to the same page, and sitelinks can't have the same destination page as the text ad's headline. These rules seemingly apply to everyone except… Google itself.
The rule-breaking was spotted by SEER Interactive's Francis Shovlin, who noticed some pretty blatant examples on ads for certain search terms, and wrote about it on the company's blog. Marketing Land has been able to replicate some, but not all, of what Shovlin described.
Search for "adwords," for example, and the top result is — unsurprisingly — a Google ad for its AdWords program. Sitelinks underneath seem to link to specific pages where users can "Lean How to Advertise on Google" or the "Benefits of Google AdWords" or about "Costs and Payment."
In fact, all of those links lead to nearly the same page — the only difference between the destinations being that a different tab, below the fold, is open for each link. Meanwhile, Google's own guidelines say "Tabs on the same page count as the same page" and "We recommend that 80% of the content on a page be unique for that page to count as a different page."
Google in September announced it would start more aggressively pursuing violators of the duplicate sitelinks policy, but it apparently hasn't investigated its own ads.
SEER Interactive also noticed sitelinks that included a phone number, also a violation of Google policy, but Marketing Land wasn't able to replicate that result.
An additional query for "google adwords express" was riddled with a similar problem, with all sitelinks going to the same landing page. In that case, there aren't even different tabs on the landing page.
We have an inquiry out to Google about the issues raised here but haven't yet heard back. We'll update this story if/when we hear back.
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Last week, I promised to describe some aspects of software that make testing difficult. As I was organizing my thoughts to do so, I noticed Andrew Binstock's article, which argues that the whole idea of unit testing is so important and useful as to be beyond dispute.
So let me get this out of the way up front: He's right. Unit testing — which I sometimes think of as sanity testing — is an extremely important idea, and everyone ought to be doing it. In fact, hardware designers have been doing it literally for decades. They call it BIST, which stands for Built-In Self-Test. In both hardware and software, the idea is the same: It is better to have a program or device say "I'm broken" than for it to go nuts, and much better than for it to produce incorrect results quietly. As Andrew Binstock says:
Today (and for years now), I write code and then I write unit tests that exercise the edge cases and one or two main cases. Right away, I can tell if I missed something obvious or if my implementation has a slight burble that mishandles cases I expected to flow through easily.
The issue that I want to address is when this kind of testing is not enough. In particular, I'll argue that a testing strategy that says "When all the tests pass, you're done" is not enough for anything beyond trivial programs.
One reason that such a mechanical approach doesn't work in practice is that once a program grows beyond what a few programmers can handle, it will never be completely bug-free. For example, a handful of relatively unimportant bugs may require an architectural change to fix, and it may be much easier to wait for that change than to fix each of the bugs individually and then redo the fixes for the new architecture. Alternatively, a bug report might come in when testing is almost complete, and fixing that bug might delay shipment unacceptably. In either of these circumstances, it won't do just to run the tests and wait to ship until all the tests succeed.
However, even if we disregard such situations — treating them as project-management issues rather than as testing issues — there are still at least five kinds of bugs that systematic testing does an unusually bad job of revealing, and for which other strategies are therefore necessary:
- Performance bugs. I'm not talking about the kind of bugs that might come from using an insertion sort or a bubble sort instead of a more sensible algorithm; rather, I'm talking about bugs — or even architectural errors — that result in systems that work fine on a small scale but perform unacceptably under heavy but realistic loads. Detecting such bugs requires simulated load testing at the very least; and of course the load has to be a sensible model of the conditions that the system actually encounters.
- Resource leaks. Curiously, even programs in languages with built-in garbage can leak memory. For example, suppose we execute a statement such as
y=f(x), where
yare both large data structures. As long as the variable
xcontinues to exist, the entire data structure that it represents will stick around — and
xwill continue to consume memory even if the programmer knows that
xwill not be used again. Of course programmers can solve these problems by setting variables such as
xto a null value once they know that the variables will not be used again. However, the same argument can be made for the case of deleting variables explicitly in languages without garbage collection.
- Security vulnerabilities. Testing for security bugs requires a different mindset than testing for ordinary bugs. Security testers must assume that problems they encounter will be the work of a malicious adversary — if you like, that they will come from Machiavelli rather than from Murphy.
- Timing bugs in parallel systems. Such bugs can be extraordinarily hard to find because the same program can work on one occasion and fail on another.
- Corrupted data structures. Such problems can be particularly nasty when the data structures are on a disk or network. The trouble is that a program can ask for several data-structure operations, but they might not all be executed. For example, a network or power failure might halt such a sequence of operations in the middle. What is worse, especially in the case of disk operations, is that programs cannot generally even assume that all the operations before a particular point in time will have been executed and the ones after that point will not be executed. For example, a disk controller might rearrange the sequence of operations in its queue, thereby causing an operation to be executed even though one requested before it is not executed.
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The male whooping crane, designated 12-04, was equipped with a transmitter and leg bands to help track his movements. Trackers located it in January with other whooping cranes in a Cherokee County field not far from the lake where it was killed.
Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Ore., are conducting a necropsy on the dead crane. It is the only lab in the world dedicated to crimes against wildlife.
Raised in Wisconsin at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, whooping crane 12-04 learned how to migrate behind ultralight aircraft flown by Operation Migration.
Operation Migration is a partner with the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, and for 10 years has lead between seven and 20 cranes per year on their first migration from Wisconsin to Florida to increase whooping crane numbers to recover this magnificent endangered species.
The bird made its first migration to the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida during the fall of 2004. It annually wintered in Florida until 2009. Since then it has spent winters on the marshes in and around Weiss Lake, Ala.
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The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership uses two techniques to establish the Eastern Migratory Population. One method trains cranes to follow costumed pilots flying ultralight aircraft from Wisconsin to Florida. The other releases young birds directly into wild populations of whooping cranes and sandhill cranes – called Direct Autumn Release.
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Camarena-Williams, Rupp set ARs; 5 world leaders turned in at USATF Classic
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Jillian Camarena-Williams and Galen Rupp set American records as five world-leading marks – including one in each round of the women's 60 meters – were posted at Saturday's USA Track & Field Classic.
The third stop of USATF's 2012 Indoor Visa Championship Series, the USA Track & Field Classic will be broadcast from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time Sunday on ESPN2.
JCW, Rupp roll
In the very first event of the night, Camarena-Williams picked up where she left off in 2011, breaking her own American record in the women's shot put with her toss of 19.89m/65-3.75. USA Outdoor champion Michelle Carter was second with 19.09m/62-7.75. Defending U.S. indoor champion Ryan Whiting won the men's shot with a mark of 21.43m/70-3.75, second-farthest throw in the world this year.
Rupp's performance came near the end of the evening. In his first attempt at the distance, Rupp eyed Bernard Lagat's 2-mile American mark of 8:10.07, set in 2011. Saturday night in Fayetteville, Rupp ran a well-paced race, striding behind pacemaker Craig Miller for nine laps. The final 1,400 meters were a solo effort, and a 28.86 last lap propelled Rupp to a record time of 8:09.72. (Lagat on Saturday broke Rupp's 5,000m American record, running 13:07.15 at the Millrose Games.)
Scorching Hollister Mile
The Geoff Hollister men's mile lived up to the excellence of the race's namesake, with six men running under the 2012 world-leading time. World Outdoor silver medalist Silas Kiplagat chalked up his second win in the 2012 Indoor Visa Championship Series, edging out Kenyan countryman Caleb Ndiku with a time of 3:52.63. Ndiku was just a whisker behind in 3:52.66, followed by Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (3:53.93), American Russell Brown (3:54.08), Amine Laalou of Morocco (3:54.49) and New Balance Indoor Grand Prix winner Ciaran O'Lionard of Ireland (3:54.76). All six eclipsed the previous 2012 world-leading time of 3:55.09. Jeff See (3:55.79) and Leo Manzano (3:57.92) brought the full field in under 3:58.
In the first running event on the track, World Outdoor champion Kirani James won the men's 400 in 45.19 to post a 2012 world-leading mark, with Calvin Smith second in 45.73.
Tianna Madison ran a world leader in the first round of the 60 meters with her personal-best time of 7.05, while Allyson Felix ran a personal-best time of 7.10 in taking second in heat 2. In the final, Madison improved upon her own world leader, winning in 7.02 to defeat defending world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown (7.08) and Christine Ahoure of the Ivory Coast (7.09)
In the men's 60 meters, Lerone Clarke of Jamaica ran a world-leading time of 6.52, followed by Justin Gatlin in second and Trell Kimmons in third, both in 6.57.
U.S. Open winner Brenda Martinez had a lead of close to 10 meters in the women's 1,500m but was kicked down in the last lap as Siham Hilali (4:09.36) and Btissam Lakhouad (4:09.72) of Morocco overcome her to finish first and second. Martinez was third in 4:09.96, just off her outdoor personal best of 4:09.52.
Ginnie Crawford got out to a fast start in the women's 60m hurdles, holding off Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper's strong finish. Crawford clocked 7.97 to Harper's 8.03.
2011 USA indoor and outdoor champion Janay DeLoach topped a great field in the women's long jump with a best jump of 6.83m/22-5. Bianca Stuart was second at 6.79m/22-3.5, with reigning world indoor and outdoor gold medalist Brittney Reese third with 6.65/21-10.
For more on the Visa Championship Series, including links to results, visit
Athlete Quotes, USA Track & Field Classic
Jillian Camarena-Williams, women's shot put
- "I didn't feel that great to be honest. I had changed up my training and was wanting to see what worked. I've been throwing well and wanted to just get in the ring and compete. I'm still working on a lot of things and I'm still trying to tweak my technique. I'm very happy with today. Something like this motivates me to keep working hard and I'm looking forward to the next five to six months and see where I'm at."
Ryan Whiting, men's shot put
– "It was pretty good. I fouled on the first throw, and I got a little out of rhythm. I had two season bests tonight. It was my fifth best indoor meet. My PR is from the 2008 NCAA Championships, so I've thrown well here before."
Kirani James, men's 400 - "I had a great run. Today was a positive day for me. Only good things come out of a day like today. My main motivation right now is to stay healthy and stay focused on each race one at a time. Now I move on to Orlando and go from there, but I'm very happy with today."
Siham Hilali, women's 1,500
- "The race was good for me. My body felt good and with this being my first competition here, I couldn't be more happy with how I ran on this track."
Silas Kiplagat, Geoff Hollister men's mile
- "It was a very fast race all around. I'm definitely happy with where I am at with still plenty of time to improve before this summer. I felt good coming into this race and this is the most experienced I've been where I know what to expect. Now I'll be able to take this as I move forward and try to improve my time even more."
Ginnie Powell, women's 60m hurdles
- "Getting here late and dealing with a lot of travel issues, I didn't really have much time to prepare other than just go out and run. I just wanted to concentrate on the race and it worked out for me. Practices have been going good, and I'm starting to find my rhythm. I don't do indoors very often, but I'm surprised how fast I am this early in the year. I'll take a time under 8 (seconds), no problem."
Janay DeLoach, women's long jump
- "I was feeling good all the way up to the competition. My goal was to stay at my previous long, so I can't complain. I've still got a ways to go in the next few months. I've got some work left to do, but luckily I still have plenty of time to get an even bigger mark."
Galen Rupp, men's 2 mile
– "It was a great race. Any day you brake a record is a great day. I didn't feel good the last few days, so I was just going to go out and do my best. I wanted to keep pushing on those last laps. I knew I would probably be by myself on those last laps. I just didn't want to take my foot off the gas and not let up. I was ready for it and just went out and did what I wanted to do."
Lerone Clarke, men's 60m
- Ive been training hard. I've been practicing to execute. I did it in the Perkins and went back and did it in the finals. I went out there got out of the blocks and ran hard.
Tiana Madison, women's 60m
- "It always feels good to win, bit that wasn't the focus. The focus was on nationals and getting better for that meet. I felt really good coming in. The point today was to stay in your lane and run the race. That's it. I'm completely pleased with the weekend."
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LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2004 — Joan A. Payden, CFA, president and CEO of global investment management firm Payden & Rygel, will serve as the distinguished speaker at the 2004 Executive MBA Program commencement exercises at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The ceremony, which will honor graduates of UCLA Anderson's Executive MBA program, will be held on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2004, at 5 p.m. in UCLA's Royce Hall.
Payden, who in 1983 left the partnership of a large investment firm to found Payden & Rygel, is a trailblazer in the field of investment management. Since her firm's creation 21 years ago, she has overseen its international expansion and its growth to more than $50 billion in assets under management. Payden & Rygel was named "U.S. Bond Manager of the Year" based on its investment excellence in 2003 by Global Investor Magazine.
"We're pleased to have someone with Joan Payden's abundance of expertise and knowledge of business and management share her wisdom with our graduates," said George Geis, associate dean of UCLA Anderson's Executive MBA program. "Her insight as a global investment manager and pioneering entrepreneur will truly enlighten us all."
In 1992, Payden's firm created Payden & Rygel Investment Group, a family of mutual funds, of which she is chairman and chief executive officer. Subsequently many of these strategies were duplicated in offshore funds domiciled in Ireland. In 1998 Payden & Rygel Global Ltd. was founded in London. At the same time, the firm established Metzler/Payden LLC, its joint venture with Metzler Bank, Germany's oldest private bank. Payden is also a member of the Payden & Rygel Investment Policy Committee and serves as chairman of the board.
Prior to founding Payden & Rygel, Payden was managing director of West Coast operations for Scudder, Stevens & Clark, where she rose through the ranks to become the first woman partner of the firm. She currently serves on the Board of Visitors of UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a trustee of the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University. Payden is also a member of the board of directors of the John Tracy Clinic, the California Chamber of Commerce, the Amateur Athletic Association and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. She is past chairman of the Investment Counsel Association of America.
Payden, who holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), which last year bestowed upon her an honorary doctor of letters degree.
About Payden & Rygel
Payden & Rygel (http://www.payden.com) is one of the largest global independent investment managers in the United States, with more than $50 billion in assets under management. Since 1983, the firm has advised corporations, foundations, endowments, pension plans, public funds and individual investors on their overall investment strategies. The firm, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in London, Dublin and Frankfurt, is the adviser to the Paydenfunds family of no-load, low-expense bond and stock mutual funds.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.
UCLA Anderson's faculty includes outstanding educators and researchers who share their scholarship and expertise in such fundamental areas as finance, marketing, accounting, business economics, decision sciences, operations and technology management, human resources and organizational behavior, information systems, strategy and policy.
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By Derek Bonnett: Persistence can carry a fighter a long way. That, and a pretty damn good supply of underrated talent. For junior welterweight Mauricio Herrera, opportunity and just results in the boxing world have never come easy. Herrera, known as "El Maestro", or "The Teacher", inside of the ring has earned the equivalence of a teaching degree after many lessons while enrolled in the clichéd School of Hard Knocks. However, the pupils Herrera has schooled have, at times, gone on to greater fame or projected success, but now, at age 34, the Riverside, California native is in position to make a serious move toward claiming a full world title. All he had to do was outlast his enemies.
Herrera established himself as a viable junior welterweight prospect by going 15-1 (7) over his first sixteen contests. The lone blemish, a controversial split decision loss to Mike Anchondo back in 2009. A couple of fights later, Herrera found himself across the ring from a then only moderately known Ruslan Provodnikov, who packed big power into a 17-0 (11) record. After twelve rounds on ESPN airwaves, Herrera earned a hard fought unanimous decision, which even Provodnikov later conceded to have lost. The win set Herrera up for another pairing against a fellow prospect in Mike Dallas Jr. This time Herrera settled for a majority win in a victory that seemed more definitive than the scoring margins on two cards. Now, at 18-1 (7), Herrera had established himself as a certified maestro and positioned himself at the head of his class of junior welterweight prospects. Yet, it was Provodnikov who challenged Timothy Bradley and later won a piece of the junior welterweight crown. Dallas Jr. went on to fight for the interim WBC title.
Herrera's future still looked bright; then came the challenges of Mike Alvarado and Karim Mayfield.
Alvarado was already a more experienced contender than Herrera and the disparity in punching power proved a prevalent key to victory. Alvarado won the bout clearly, but not without a fight. Herrera seemed ready to wilt several times throughout, but that was only to the eye that didn't know any better. Herrera did enough to make it close on one card, but after ten rounds Alvarado walked away a unanimous decision winner. Without missing a beat, Herrera accepted the challenge of Mayfield immediately following. Trading the power factor for speed, Mayfield won a similarly competitive decision as the Alvarado fight.
In a brief period of time Herrera went from bonafide contender to an 18-3 (7) fighter, who looked to be headed for steppingstone status. Back to back losses have devastated the careers of myriad fighters and sent them on opposing roads before they could ever reach their dreams of capturing a world championship. Herrera, somehow, persevered. To what does the 140-pound WBA interim-champion attribute his resurgence?
"Hard work and staying positive," Herrera explained. "Just the will to be great, win every fight, and overcome any obstacle in my way. I had more confidence from the support of my family, friends, and my fans. The biggest obstacle to overcome is the frustration, the let down you feel inside and all while trying to stay focused on the inside. Sometimes your heart is what takes over in those times."
This energy Herrera fed off of was just enough, as alluded to previously, to supply him with the fortitude to still be standing once several of his former opponents met their own hardships. Provodnikov would gain huge fame off of a Fight of the Year narrow decision loss to Timothy Bradley, but it still led him to a successful title win over Alvarado. Provodnikov reached big-time HBO heights only to crash back down via upset loss to the far less heralded Chris Algieri, who implemented a similar game plan as Herrera had laid out years before. Similarly, Alvarado failed in a Fight of the Year candidate in losing by TKO to Brandon Rios only to rebound with a decision win over Bam Bam to gain revenge. His reign ended, of course, at the fists of Provodnikov. He was further damaged by a twelve round beating at the hands of Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayfield only recently came unraveled after losing back to back decisions to prospects in Thomas Dulorme and Emmanuel Taylor. Time will tell if Mayfield has the same mettle within him as Herrera to turn back the odds in the face of consecutive defeats.
It wasn't mere attrition though which put Herrera back into the parameters of the junior welterweight picture.
In March of this year, Herrera was selected as a "homecoming" opponent for Danny Garcia, who was looking to benefit from his Puerto Rican heritage and step into the limelight as the premiere Boricua fighter of the times. Herrera had rebounded with a pair of wins, most notably a ten round domination of the always dangerous Ji-Hoon Kim. Herrera, a fringe contender at best, forgot to read his script. Instead of making Garcia look even more dominant in the wake of his decisive decision victory over Lucas Martin Matthysse, Herrera looked like a prime Manuel Medina upsetting the odds in one of his five featherweight title claiming efforts. His jab and awkward rhythm controlled the distance and pace of a fight Garcia would likely desire to have erased from memory. It was by no means a beating, but it was a schooling and El Maestro should have claimed both the WBC and WBA 140-pound titles. Instead, one of the most questionable decisions of the year was rendered and Herrera lost a majority decision.
Herrera did not lament the loss too long or let it consume him.
"I learned more about my body and how to train it," Herrera said in regard to his fighting top opponents repeatedly. "One lesson was to not over think about my opponent, to be myself, and have fun. The fight with Danny Garcia best represents me as a fighter. I'm here to make a name for myself. I want the fans to feel proud and entertained by the fighter I am in and out of the ring."
Herrera is certainly making a name for himself and his fan-base has grown exponentially since the Garcia defeat. Because of his growing popularity and attitude, some of those opportunities will come more quickly. Especially in light of his recent defeat of Johan Perez in July to become the WBA interim-champion. The interim belt essentially equates to number one contender status in the division in the eyes of the WBA.
So, what's next? Garcia? Provodnikov? A welterweight venture? A grudge fight?
"I feel some great fights can now be made and it puts me much closer to a world title fight," stated Herrera. "[Before], I felt that a Provodnikov rematch didn't make sense since we were both still unknown. Now, we both are in the spotlight and I would be open to a rematch. I would love to capture a world title at 140 [,but] I feel I can go up to 147. There are so many names; I want them all! I've never known any of them personally enough to have a grudge with them. This is the reason why I stay relaxed and focused all the time. Someone like Thurman would be a great fight."
At thirty-four, Herrera is far from youthful, but age has become less and less of a definitive factor inside of the boxing ring over the years. After centuries of professional fisticuffs, styles still make fights and Herrera's just might be the right one to attain junior welterweight supremacy or, at least, continued success. Even in a division where he lacks serious firepower when compared to some of his current contemporaries, Herrera is poised to dole out a few more lessons.
"I am El Maestro because I like to be a technical fighter in the ring," Herrera asserted. "I always had that style, although fighters like Chavez, Toney, Napoles, Benitez, Hopkins, amongst many others, are fighters I adopted my style from. Being a great boxer with a solid chin, I feel, is a power puncher's kryptonite."
Teach on, Herrera. Teach on.
For further boxing discussion, contact Derek DBO Bonnett on Facebook.
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I suspect every review of Eminem's new album, Recovery, will rightfully open with these words: Guess who's back?
After three straight masterpieces and some excellent contributions to the soundtrack of his movie 8 Mile, Eminem tanked on Encore and Relapse. He's far too talented for those albums to have been completely worthless, but they were a pale shadow of his previous accomplishments. Exhibit A that something was wrong: Not only did he think "Ass Like That" was worth recording, he thought it was a worthy single.
He knows he let us down: "Them last two albums didn't count. Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing 'em out."
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Along the way, Eminem notches what will probably be the single of the year, "Love the Way You Lie," where an aching chorus from Rihanna (not content with only having 2007's single of the year, apparently) anchors a wonderfully-strummed guitar bed for Marshall's heartbroken rhymes. It's a tremendous song, and it will seal his comeback the moment it hits radio.
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Peter V. Lee, the executive director for Covered California, Obamacare's incarnation in the Golden State, said Thursday 500,000 people who started the enrollment process online didn't get a chance to finish. It's unclear how many of those will sign to public exchanges -- Lee says about half could end up on the state's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal -- but the numbers at the end of the Obamacare enrollment period on March 31 are likely to go up.
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Covered California fully enrolled 1.22 million consumers by the end of the day March 31 with about a third of that, or 416,000, coming in the last of six months of signups. In total, more than 3 million Californians got insurance, as 1.9 million were added to Medi-Cal.
"This is beyond the highest projections, developed independently by the University of California," Lee said. He later added: "I can't tell you how proud I am of California."
Lee said young adults enrolled with increasing frequency during March, with the 18-34 age group accounting for 32.1% of the monthly total. That drove up the overall cumulative to 28.2%, or 344,000 -- exceeding base projections of 212,000. Experts have said the share of young adults should be a third or more in order to help spread the risk for carriers.
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URGENT UPDATE Sexagesima Thursday: Solemn Feast of Reparation of Insults Offered to the Most Holy Sacrament
UPDATE 27 Feb: I have received more information for this Mass, including all the orations for the Mass. Now the texts are complete. I have linked to a PDF, provided by the Benedictines of Silverstream. Click HERE Originally Published on: Feb 25, … Continue reading
Fatima's major theme and YOU
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Sometimes, I feel less like a Texans fan and more like a Texans mom. People sometimes come to this spot on the web to find out if things are going to be ok.
Sometimes a mom says yes. "Yes dear, everything will be just fine." Sometimes a mom just is there when you want a bit of a cry. Sometimes a mom has to explain difficult, uncomfortable truths about the world. Moms are happy when good things happen for all, and want to be a part of that happiness and encourage more of same.
Today, this Texans mom doesn't know what's going to happen. I wish I could tell you its going to be just fine. I wish I could tell you that a plague of frogs won't be falling out of the sky next. I don't know, and I suspect nobody really knows for sure because we are in uncharted territory. This is what I know and think I know about the circumstance of Matt Leinart replacing Matt Schaub who likely has a season-ending foot injury:
In General:
For the purposes of this blog post, and future blog comments, this is a handy thing to remember:
Mom's care about helping with spelling. On the Houston Texans official message board back in the day when people were interested in drafting Leinart, the moderators changed the settings that made his name look like ******* if folks spelled his name wrong because there was a whole lot of that going on. Yes, some fans wanted the Texans to draft Matt Lionhart.
Positives for Leinart taking over the Texans.
To summarize, is this the direction of the upside?
Here's the TheBusTV.com video of Eric Winston, ND Kalu and I talking about Schaub being out. (The best part of my contribution? My fabulous ostrich boots). The short version? Protecting the blind side of a left-handed QB is overblown, and Winston doesn't think it changes what the offense does much. He believes that Leinart has put the work in to be successful in this offense and that folks may be surprised:
* Quarterback-friendly system, run by a head coach that has worked with many quarterbacks over the years. The quarterbacks that have gone through this system often remark that its their favorite system to work with because there is always a place for the ball to go. Sometimes people denigrate "system offenses," "system quarterbacks," "system running backs" etc, but having a specific system and philosophy can make it easier to deal when good players go down. It's a violent game. It's inevitable that players get hurt. It is the offensive and defensive systems, and the players excelling in them, that have helped this year with the losses to Andre Johnson and Mario Williams.
* This is Matt Leinart's second year under the system. There's a bit of transition learning this system, and at least this isn't year 1. People were surprised when he stayed in Houston instead of going to Seattle, but Leinart likely knows better than most how it is important for a player to be in a good situation, with a good system, with good coaching.
* This offense suits his skill sets. It is one of the reasons he stayed in Houston versus competing for a position with another team.
* The only time that Matt Schaub missed games in the past, Sage Rosenfels was able to move the ball some in this offensive system. Even some games without Andre Johnson. His most productive years were in Houston. His numbers (stats here) were nothing like the ones that Matt Schaub put up in his +4000 years, and they contain many more interceptions than you would care to have. Even so, Rosenfels never had the benefit of a good running game or a good defense. Rosenfels at the time suggested that some of the interceptions came from taking more risk than he would like trying to get back into a game.
* The Texans have been able to run the ball and play good defense this season. So it doesn't have to be the Matt Leinart show. If adversity builds character, the Texans and their fanbase may have it in abundance.
* His teammates who've watched him practice and prepare believe he can run this offense. Kubiak specifically wanted him back. They are certainly closer to evaluating him on a day-to-day basis than the folks calling in sports talk radio shows.
* Nice numbers in the 3rd game of the preseason against the 49ers? Leinart struggled some in the game 2 preseason game against the Saints, and Kubiak decided he needed to not try to get him to do too much, too soon. In the game against the 49ers, Kubiak said, "We really locked into the things that he felt good about, and it showed." I'm guessing they do more of that. Not quite the same as playing with backups in the preseason, especially a particularly battered offensive line, against backups in a vanilla scheme, but we have limited data points.
* Friend of the blog, Bill Barnwell over at Grantland looks at Leinart's background at Arizona and USC, and concludes, "Leinart might not be Schaub, and he might not ever end up becoming the player that everyone expected him to be coming out of USC, but he can be a viable starting quarterback on a playoff team." It's worth a read, and I hope Bill is right.
* Another friend of the blog, Khaled Elsayed of Pro Football Focus, concludes in looking at the entirety of the Texans team that the season is not lost. He concludes, "For all those doubting, look at what a good defense and the right situation has done for Alex Smith. He's taken his big opportunity and run with it. Now we eagerly wait to see if Matt Leinart can."
Negatives with the Matt Leinart show.
* Just because someone can run this offense in practice, doesn't mean they can run it during a game. See e.g. D. Carr. Just because someone looks like they might be a good fit for this offense, and Kubiak supports that publicly, doesn't mean that they will have the football IQ to run it. See e.g. D. Carr, D. Orlovsky, perhaps add R. Grossman to list. To go Donald Rumsfeld again, we are now in the realm of known unknowns. We know what Leinart looked like in college and at Arizona. We know what he has looked like in minimal time in a preseason games against backups after having a very short offseason, being a player who missed camp reps due to free agent rules. We have no clear picture what he will look like during the game. His teammates have good things to say about his work in practice, but that is not games.
* TJ Yates is next in line. At least Matt Leinart has started NFL games, with mixed, mostly negative results.
* The Texans were still able to run the ball without the downfield threat of Andre Johnson. The question is whether Leinart can maintain a pass threat + direct the offense well enough to burn clock and move the chains. The defense has done well this season because they've been forcing punts, but part of their success has been playing with early leads, the Texans being able to run the ball with the lead and keeping the defense off the field. The Texans are leading the league in fewest yards allowed and smallest defensive time of possession (ToP) with 26:09. They have ToP over a minute less than the Steelers with 27:17. The Texans have an absurdly low time of possession. The last time a team went under that ToP on defense was the 15-1 Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004 with 26:00 time of possession for the season.
* Schaub hasn't had to throw the ball as much as in previous years but he has done a good job of managing the offense. Some fans make fun of him throwing away the ball or going fetal during a sack, but both of those actions are smart things to do because it reduces the risk of turnovers. The way this Texans have been winning this year is playing smart, strategic football on offense and making few mistakes. The Texans offense in previous years has had to take more risk because they were often playing from behind and/or they knew their defense couldn't keep point totals low. Can Leinart play in a way where he keeps the trains running? Texans are 3rd in league in turnover margin after 49ers and Packers.
Fantasy Football Implications.
Not to go Arian Foster on you, but @#$%* your fantasy team. THE STARTING QUARTERBACK OF MY FAVORITE TEAM GOES DOWN WHEN THEY ARE PLAYING DOMINANTLY WITH A WIN RIGHT BEFORE THE BYE WEEK AND FANS HAD ACTUAL, REASONABLE HOPES AND DREAMS AFTER YEARS OF PAYING FOR A RAGING PILE OF SUCK!!!! AAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY! AGONY!!!!! CAN'T BREATHE!!!!! DESPAIR!!!!!!! FEEL MY PAIN!!!!! FEEL MY PAIN!!!!! AAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY! /please note, there is no font type that can accurately reflect how emphatic I am on this particular issue, so that is but a poor facsimile of my emotions and what my Facebook/Twitter timeline with Texans fans looked like. //perhaps we need a Sam Kinison font. ///we are now at the denial/rationalization stage of grief.
Now that I've made my biases and rooting interests very clear, if you have Texans on your fantasy football team, I wouldn't bail on them. Schaub had nice chemistry with Andre Johnson and Owen Daniels, and I'm not sure that will be exactly replicated. I'm guessing the running backs will get plenty of work as they've been. Leinart could be a decent option because various Texans get good yards after the catch.
Any result of this quarterback change, good or bad, wouldn't be surprising to me. Who thought Wade Phillips would have the number 1 defense in the league by Week 11 with Mario Williams out for most of the year? You? LIAR! This year has been very weird. Bad weird with injuries. Good weird with unpredicted positive results. Let's hear it for more good weird.
Your Texans Mom Steph


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It's November and holiday season is officially upon us – so why not get a head start on your holiday shopping and decorating? When it comes to both of these things, there's nothing better than something handmade – it gives it that special little personal touch that can go a long way. I can't get enough of these clear Christmas bulbs because there is so much you can do with them – and they make great decorations or little stocking stuffers for your family and friends :)
For those of you who are coming to our Cambridge Crafting Party on Saturday, we'll have the supplies to make these cute little ornaments, but for everyone else here's a tutorial!
What you need:
Clear Christmas bulbs – I got these at A.C. Moore but you can also order them online from Amazon!
Gather whatever other embellishments you like! I used yarn, glitter, fake feathers, fake flowers, glue and a little plastic figurine I had lying around. But the best part about these is you can literally do almost anything!
I've had this little plastic deer sitting at my desk for a while now, and for my first ornament I knew I wanted to make him a little snow globe :) I gave him a bed of green yarn that I used fabric glue to attach to the base of the ornament. The deer fit perfectly into the ornament – I just dabbed a little bit of glue on his feet and stuck him right in! For the finishing touch I added some white glitter to give the appearance of snow when I shake it.
I would love to have a whole tree decorated with ornaments like this – with little woodland creatures and scenes living inside!
For my next ornament I filled it with some fake flowers and added some glitter for a little sparkle :) I think this would look really pretty with real flowers too – dried flowers would look so nice!
For the third ornament I used different colored fake feathers – I like how this one looks different as it turns at different angles, and almost like tie dye :)
As a finishing touch, I love the idea of hanging the ornaments with neon thread!
If you guys have any other ideas for what you can do with these clear ornaments, I'd love to hear! I've seen some pretty neat ones made into mini terrariums…


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Montblanc Âme De Star CollectionCategories:Jewelry & Watches
Consider this your exclusive sneak peek. Due to be launched in May 2013, Montblanc will be releasing a new ladies collection that's made up of 16 different pieces of jewellery. Simply known as the Montblanc Âme De Star collection, which translated means 'soul of a star', the pieces play on angular facets and the sensual curves of Montblanc's star emblem (which can be viewed on almost every piece from the side), each piece modern and contemporary, yet still sensual and elegant.
Comprised mainly of rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces in sterling silver, some also feature more elaborate finishes like lustrous black lacquer (shown above) and sparkling diamanté, if only to up the ante a little more and making these pieces even more desirable.
Prices will start from around SGD200 and up, making them very affordable as well, which is always a good thing. And closer to the launch date there will be another post (or two) on the full collection, so do stay tuned for more updates.
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Montblanc Star Chronograph AutomaticCategories:Jewelry & Watches
Some people buy timepieces because of their perceived resale value, others are fanatic about limited edition collectibles that come with all the prerequisite bells and whistles. Then there are those who are extremely particular about technical components and those who buy brand name ones solely to name-drop.
As for me, I'm very driven by aesthetics, and then price, which is also why I'm pretty enamoured with the Montblanc Star Chronograph Automatic (SGD5200) at the moment. Having spotted it on the wrist of an SA who served me at the boutique, he promptly whipped one out from the showcase for me to have a look at.
Measuring 39 mm across, it's a chunky little number, with its width coming in at around 13.95 mm. More importantly, I love how the month and date is displayed, framed into a 'box' that's pretty much how a retro clock would look that's slightly awkward yet cool all at once. Cast in stainless steel and finished with a luxurious alligator strap, it would look very smart peeking out from under your shirt cuff, or on weekends stacked with all manner of wrist candy, which is how I personally like to style my watches.
But because I'm more of a 42 mm kind of a guy (I like my watches wide and chunky), this was a pass for me, but it will do well for guys who prefer a regular-sized timepiece, or ladies who like their watches chunky and manly.
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Montblanc Meisterstück Selection Double Gusset BriefcaseCategories:Other Brands
I've always been a fan of a smart leather briefcase, the type busy professionals will carry from point to point that's probably filled with all manner of important work documents and contracts that they'll need in their daily work life. And even though I own a couple of classic briefcases myself, I've never had the chance to use them all these years because, well, I don't really need something so formal and structured because of the work that I do.
Which brings us to the Montblanc Meisterstück Selection Double Gusset Briefcase, a supremely smart formal workhorse that won't look out of place on any suited man's lap. Measuring 42 cm by 32 cm by 12 cm, it's a really decent size for all manner of A4 folders and tech gadgets. Made in Italy, using full-grained calfskin that's also reminds one of Saffiano leather, it being grained also means it will be more hardy than smooth-skinned leathers and more resistant to most nicks and bumps.
Priced at just SGD2300, which really, isn't that bad for a work bag that will probably be used on all work days of the month since men don't usually like changing up their bags as often as say, the ladies, you'll find it it Black, Cognac (shown above), and Flannel (a really lovely hue of grey) at Montblanc boutiques islandwide.
Plus it doesn't scream 'old' or 'fuddy-duddy' either, just smart and sophisticated, which can only be a good thing.
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Montblanc Meisterstück Heritage Gold Watch CollectionCategories:Jewelry & Watches
As far as men's timepieces go, a little gold never hurt anyone, and with the newMeisterstück Heritage Gold Watch collection that I spotted recently in Hong Kong'sWatches & Wonders, there's no better time than now to embrace your inner leprechaun.
Created in celebration with the Meisterstück's 90th anniversary, there are 3 differently-styled timepieces in this capsule collection, all featuring 18K red gold, namely red gold with a white/silver face, red gold with a white/silver face that's also festooned with 88 diamonds around the dial, and my personal favourite (shown above), the red gold with a chocolate brown dial that's both very distinguished and elegant all at once.
All automatics with a simple date function and your straightforward hour, minute and second hands, it's the overall simplicity that ultimately appeals to me, a classically-styled timepiece with an added dash of bling that 'flashes' you when it peeks out from under your cuffed sleeve. Priced around the SGD10,000 range, you could first put yourself on the wait list at Montblanc boutiques (it hasn't arrived for the local market as yet) or wait till I do another update when it does.
And because this timepiece is also unisex (the dial measures some 39 mm across), this is also the watch you ladies can buy for your man and nick for yourself when he's not looking. But if this is too simple for you (and you're the type who likes their timepieces with all the bells and whistles), behold the Metamorphosis II, the top-tier timepiece from Montblanc so intricately elaborate with 746 mechanical movement components that it should have its own role in the next Transformer movie. Really.
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Montblanc Metamorphosis IICategories:Jewelry & Watches
If you're following me on Instagram, you'll know I'm currently in Hong Kong for Watches & Wonders, an annual exhibition into its second year, made up of 13 horological houses showing their best and the brightest. And while I haven't exactly checked out all 13 pavilions yet, the timepieces I've seen so far from the likes of Cartier, IWC and Van Cleef & Arpels are actually truly wonderful.
And then there's the star timepiece from Montblanc, the Metamorphosis II that's all kinds of amazing. Crafted entirely by hand and made up of over 746 mechanical movement components (just look below for a condensed cross section), the easiest way to describe this beauty is this. It's a watch with two faces. It is first a classical timepiece, with the face showing hours, minutes and dates. 'Open' it and it reveals a chronograph face with all new functions, with the kicker being how it 'transforms' from one face to another with just the aid of a slide on the left side of the face.
It is also the kind of watch I personally adore, given that it ticks all my boxes as far a timepiece is concerned. Copious amounts of gold? Check. A wide enough face that measures 52 mm because I'm not big on tiny watches? Check. Also, it's thick, chunky and finished off with a luxurious leather strap? Check, check, check. But the most appealing feature besides its obvious good looks and the way it functions has got to be the fact that there are only 18 made, a true limited edition that's also a tribute to Montblanc's watchmaking heritage that spans 150 years.
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Bagaholicboy Celebrate Meisterstück With Montblanc In SingaporeCategories:Jewelry & Watches
It's not every day one gets to celebrate their 90th, and in the case of Montblanc'sMeisterstück, 90 years is no mean feat, especially when all the hype is over a pen. More specifically, the pen that we all grew up knowing to be superior and reliable, and more often than not, every man's (or woman's) first proper writing instrument when they entered the working world, and one we all wanted as a milestone of us entering adulthood. Which, on hindsight, makes the hype definitely worthy.
Fittingly, Montblanc will be celebrating this icon in a grand exhibition that will kick off on 2 August 2014 at Ngee Ann City's Civic Plaza. Running for only 3 days till 4 August, you'll be able to experience firsthand the evolution of Meisterstück through the years, illustrating its exquisite artistry and unmatched craftsmanship.
The Montblanc Meisterstück collection will also be unveiled during the exhibition, a specially-created capsule that includes a new line of fine watches, intricate jewellery and of course, luxurious leather goods will be made available for sale during the duration of the fête.
Depending on which style of instrument you prefer (I'm a Rollerball, by the way), theMontblanc Meisterstück collection will also feature a new line of writing instruments(#MEISTERSTUCK90YEARS) which have their nibs finished with 18k red gold. Choose from between ballpoints and elaborate fountain pens that will each come beautifully packaged in a box (and accompanying sleeve) that hails back to the original design used back in 1924. Which makes 2014 the 90th year. And given how they are so expertly made, good for another 90 more.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 156 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Association des Spécialistes en Médecine Interne du Québec
We are an association of doctors specialized in the diagnostic and treatment of diseases involving different organs (multisystemic diseases) in the adult population.
We are multitask specialist that are asked by other doctors to treat conditions affecting the heart, lungs, glands, brain, kidneys, infectious, rhumathology, gastro-enterology, cancer....
We are also asked when the other doctors can't figure out what diseases affect their patient ( "diagnostician doctors" like some doctor on prime time TV... but nicer ;-) )
Important to know that we don't do surgery and don't treat psychiatric problems either.
When we work in teaching hospitals we have a ward where patients have multiple diseaes or a only one complex disease that affects multiple systems.
When we work in community hospital, we do the job of the specialists that aren't present : we have knowledge to take care of all medical specialties and intensive care units.
Our logo will be on our letters, web site and prescription pads. So it will mostly be seen by other medical associations, other doctors, health care goverment and our patients.
-We want a logo that shows our versatility as doctors as compared to other specialist that focus on only one part of the human(example: cardiology takes only care of heart; pneumologist of the lung....and us, we can take care of the pneumonia, the heart attack and the diabetes at the same time ! One specialist instead of 3 !)
-We want a logo tha will "fit" on top of a prescrition pad, on a letter heading or better in a letter keft margin.
-We woul like the the name of the assocciation to appear:
Association des Spécialistes en Médecine Interne du Québec
(yes, it is in french! it means : Québec's(a province of Canada) association of internal medicine specialists)
- We would like the abbreviation to appear : ASMIQ
- we would agree with colors (3 max I guess) but we want the logo to make sens and look good in black and white because we often use faxes
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I'm confused, how does Sam and Dan get the clue without their golem having an arm?
The sun is rising. Man. Brian & Ericka are going to be third. Man.
Phil said, "You are the third team to arrive." Was there another penalty that we didn't know about?
Flight Time & Big Easy? You are the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race.
S/D's Golem had two arms. It was only cracked a little at the shoulder.
Love Ericka Popping eye reaction!! Wohoo!!
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