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Shot of the Day
Jim Simons
Coyote at 200
We bought a ranch in Montana and are out here for the first time. I introduced this fellow to the Gunwerks 6.5 284 this morning at 200 yards. Dead right there. First ever coyote kill. Gun was perfect. I hope you had an great Christmas and will have a even better 2015. Best regards.View
Thomas Chopp
Elk at 665
My first big bull elk. One shot at 665 yards. Thank you Gunwerks and all your instruction. I sent this to Ed Rochnowski in thanks for a private lesson he gave me just before this hunt. I couldn't have accomplished this without him. Also, I have been so impressed with my 300 ultra Gunwerks rifle and have ordered a 7 mm version of the same weapon for my son. Thanks for producing a great rifle...View
James Bailey
Elk at
New Mexico
Hi Aaron, the 7LRM added a New Mexico Bull to its list!! Great rifle and great shooting school. Thanks, Jim Bailey PS ammo performed wellView
Scott Casto
Mule Deer at 365 yards
Unfortunately the pictures do not always include the gun. However, took delivery of the gun November 2013. Took it out of the box, fired 3 rounds to sight it in at 200 yards. The gun is 9 for 9 across 6 different shooters....2 adults, 4 kids. No misses. Only picture missing was my son's cow elk at 586 yards. Truly impressive shooting system. Thanks for creating. Best Regards and Merry Christmas! Scott Casto Rifle, Colorado November 2013 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 Norma 365 yardsView
Scott Casto
Mule Deer at 150 yards
Scott Casto Rifle, Colorado November 2014 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 Norma 150 yardsView
Brian King
Viviana Grigware
Elk at 681
Just a quick message to say hi and tell you that I had a similar experience with my 15 yo daughter and volleyball player this year�?� funny how the show went down, it was about the same for me. Nothing as coveted as the Big Horn Sheep hunt you had with Harley, but the experience was just as special as a father. My daughter, Viviana, has been hunting with me for 4 years. I�??ve hiked her butt all over the Rockies chasing elk and deer, but never closed the deal. This year, she took her first bull elk at 681 yards with your rifle, your BR2 Range Finder, my reloads, one shot digger. It was awesome. Thank you!View
Will Casto
Mule Deer at 150 yards
Will Casto (age 13) Rifle, Colorado November 2014 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 Norma 150 yardsView
Will Casto
Elk at 250
Will Casto (age 13) Rifle, Colorado November 2014 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 Norma 250 yardsView
Shawn Jones
Elk at 960 yards
Shawn Jones Rifle, Colorado November 2013 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 Norma 960 yardsView
Jim Moseley
Doe at 1102
North Carolina
After following you guys since the days of Best of the West, I finally had a chance to break the 1000 yd barrier a few weeks ago. I shot a doe at 1102 yds with an �??aluminum tipped�?� Amax. Shot another one at 840 yds, both dropped in their tracks. Thanks for all the tips over the years and I�??m glad to see you guys expanding at such a rapid pace. Keep up the excellent work! I attached a photo of the Amax. Jim Moseley Candler, NC PS- Enjoy the magazine too!View
Greg Cowin
Coues Deer at 550
I purchased the LR1000 which I recd in April 2014. I shot it quite a bit at the range and it shoots great. I was fortunate to draw a late Coues Whitetail tag in Arizona [...] On the 2nd to last day of the hunt which was my Birthday Dec 30th We spotted this trophy buck[...]I was able to harvest this great buck across a canyon down hill at 550 yards the LR1000 shooting system worked just the way it was supposed to. I dialed 550 yards and held three minutes of wind and wham dead buck. [...] I could have never made this shot without such great equipment produced by a first class company. This buck will score real close to 100+ inches Thank You very much Greg CowinView
Darin Acklin
Mule Deer at 585 yards
I attached a couple of pictures of my 2014 Wyo Region H buck that, without my G7 BR2, I am sure that I would have missed. L.O.S. was 585yds but, corrected distance due to temp and angle was 542! Pretty useful information to have. Not the greatest buck but a personal best and pretty pleased hunting sight unseen as an out of stater. Love your products. You have a customer for life!View
Tracey Valdez
Mule Deer at 300 Yards
Aaron Here is a picture of the buck I took this year in Mexico with my Gun Werks 6.5 - 284 Titanium one shot 300 yards I absolutely love the gun. Thanks.View
Tracey Valdez
Mule Deer at 600 Yards
Here's a picture of my 2014 utah buck taken with my trusty gun werks 7mm one shot 600 yards 15- 20 mph cross wind. The gun never fails me it's still my favorite.View
Scott Olds
Elk at 497 Yards
Here is my first success with the new rifle I got last fall. (A depredation hunt outside of Riggins, ID). 1 shot, exactly where I aimed, at 497 yards corrected, with Gunwerks, 180 Grain, 7mm LRM. BR2 worked perfectly. [...] Thanks,View
Byron Boyd
Beceinte Ibex at 375 yards
Were short shots by your standards, 535 on the Grados and 375 on the Beceinte. [...] Had the Beceinte the day earlier at 725 and was about to take it and wind swirled, busted us, went over mountain. Found him next day, big stalk, took him. I felt really good on the 725 shot, wish I could have taken it. Great hunt, with Ibexhuntspain, Valeriano Belles. Country was beautiful, lots of big mature goats, unbelievable guides, accommodations and food couldn�??t have been better. I�??m already planning return trip in 16 [...] Those guys freaked out over the rifle and rangefinder. The system and school made it possible!! ThanksView
Eugene Mancl
Audad at 744 yards
South West Texas
We spotted this Aoudad a little over a mile away on Monday morning and were able to stalk within 750 yards before we were on the edge of a canyon and no option to get any closer. I told the outfitter I could make the shot from where we were standing and I ranged it at 744yards using my BR2. I had a very slight uphill shot and a minimal crosswind, [...] I had a very solid rest from the canyon top and was able to place the shot perfectly into the Sheep�??s Vitals with my Gunwerks Mountain �??X�?� in 7 LRM. [...] We found him 20 yards from where the shot hit him. I was hunting Richard Baca of Antler Addiction Outfitter (New Mexico) in Southwest Texas.View
Major Jason Green
Oryx at 413 yards
New Mexico
[...]After I spoke with Maj. Green for a while about precision shooting and extended range hunting I offered him my 6.5x284 and my BR2. He was a bit apprehensive but I told him I would be honored and he accepted. Having never taken a big game animal at much more than 100 yards to say he was skeptical would be an understatement. Things happened pretty fast when we came up on this bull just over 400 yards I ranged and dialed the G7 Nightforce at 413 yards and 3.7 minutes. Maj. Green asked if he needed to hold over and I said no put the cross hairs where you want to hit and squeeze. He did, and made a perfect one drop. High fives all around. [...]View
Richard Uerkvitz
Target at 1100 yards
I talked to you a couple of time about the G7 Br2 rangefinder. I bought one and was very successful out to 1100 yards. I was hitting headshot on my second shot. The wind was more than I calculated on the first shot. We were shooting from the white tent near the barn the headshots were amazing. there were no targets at that range that I could not hit at will. It makes me smile when I am in the woods hunting and I know if I can see it I can hit it. That is a huge confidence booster. I have never taken shots that far out. My farthest shot was about 680 yards. I would recommend it to anyone who will listen. Deputy Richard Uerkvitz #690 Cherokee Sheriffs OfficeView
Tim Long and Anonymous
Audad at 500 and 550
Tim Long and I shot these rams at the Coal Mine Ranch in far west Texas. Mine was 550 yards and Tim's was 500. We were both shooting 7LRMs.View
Gregory Liddle
Coues Deer at 419 Yards
Something's wrong with my rifle...it keeps hitting what I aim at, and Im not that good a shot...Coues Deer 419 ydsView
Chip Carlson
Whitetail at
Good Morning. Just wanted to send you all a photo of the Colorado Whitetail I shot with my new Gunwerks 6.5 back in December. Love the gun and this is the first kill with it. Thanks so much.View
William Angyalfy
Black Bear at
British Columbia
William Angyalfy
Moose at
British Columbia
Matt Casto
Elk at
Matt Casto Rifle, Colorado October 2014 Gunwerks 6.5mm x 284 NormaView
Corey Gulke
Whitetail at 385 yards
North Dakota
North Dakota Whitetail 11/2014 taken at 385 yards, 20mph crosswind, 2 degrees. refreshing. My name is Corey Gulke from Ellendale ND, and I would like to Thank You for just a fantastic rifle and rangefinder. together They have made hunting just so much more exciting and rewarding. I have had the gun for about 3 years now, and the BR2 rangefinder for 2 years. I absolutely love them, they are my pride and joy. The rifle is a 7mm Lrm, 168vld bullet. With this combination I have harvested some beautiful animals, but more than that I have memories that will last a lifetime for me and my hunting buddies Thank You again. Merry Christmas!!!!View
Corey Gulke
Elk at 953 yards
My name is Corey Gulke from Ellendale ND, and I would like to Thank You for just a fantastic rifle and rangefinder. together They have made hunting just so much more exciting and rewarding. I have had the gun for about 3 years now, and the BR2 rangefinder for 2 years. I absolutely love them, they are my pride and joy. The rifle is a 7mm Lrm, 168vld bullet. With this combination I have harvested some beautiful animals, but more than that I have memories that will last a lifetime for me and my hunting buddies Thank You again. Merry Christmas!!!! Montana Elk taken at 953 yards, zero wind, 18 below, one shot. 11/2014View
Tom Davidson
Whitetail at
James Bailey
Moose at
Terry Lyman
Cow Elk at
It wasn't 800 yards but it still got the job done! ThanksView
Joel Biltz
Coues Deer at 600 Yards
Killed this guy @ 600 with the LRM yesterday. One and done. 103 4/8 gross Thanks a million guys.View
Stephen Kowal
Whitetail at 80 Yards
Saskatchewan, Canada
Well I had the chance to come up to Saskatchewan Canada and hunt deer. Today it was -29 F so we shot from blinds where it was a little warmer. My first kill with my new LR-1000 was only about 80 yards. A long range shot wasn't in the cards today. The gun performed amazing in the bitter cold. The bullet (7mm LRM) also did what it should. Blew out the shoulder, took out part of the heart and lung. The buck reared up and fell right down. Quick humane kill. Here's a few pics of me and my buck. Thanks again for such a wonderful gun.View
Jim Crawford
Beciete Ibex at
Pat Wallace
White Tail at
Mark Labac
Mountain Goat at
Terry Louderback
Elk at
LR 1000 7mag happy customer. I'll think about Gunwerks and my guide every time I light my grill.View
James Crawford
Gredos Ibex at
Ronald Hancock
Mountain Goat at 315 Yards
315yds. with 7LRMView
Lee Shelter
Mid Asian Ibex at 160
Hello Aaron & Mike Just returned from a 10 day hunt to Kyrgyzstan. I had great success and the Gunwerks system performed flawlessly. The shots were not exceptionally long due to the expert capabilities of the guides but after attending your shooting school in August I certainly had the confidence to take the shots at whatever range was presented. Thanks again for a product I'm proud to carry in the field.View
Whitetail at
Dave Engelhardt
at 347 Yards
[...] Used my LR1000, [...] here in WY to take the following: October - average buck antelope south of Gillette at 350 yards with a 32 mph nearly full value crosswind on a slightly downhill shot across the rolling plains. October - doe mule deer north of TenSleep at 175 yards under perfect conditions (evening, good light and no wind). November - cow elk west of Meeteetse at 347 yards with a 20 mph crosswind on a slightly quartering away, cross canyon shot. Attached is a photo of the Gunwerks 7mm Rem Mag -168 gr Berger that entered her right side rib cage behind the shoulder angled through and ended up under her left front shoulder.View
John Gaines
Whitetail at
[...] I have attached some of the harvest this year �?? and to date �?? I have not had a pass through of a bullet. All the energy is dumped inside the animal and most have been drop within 10 feet of where I hit them. Now all I have to do is get them a little further away from me. I now have a 1000 yard gun �?? and now the game wants to get into my lap �?? so I have not been able to touch the long range aspect of the LR1000. But, in either case the gun has performed perfectly �?? and dispatched all game in a humane and sportsmanlike manner. [...] Best RegardsView
Elk at 497
New Mexico
Eagle Nest Ranch, NM last week, young employee of owner, first elk hunt, management bull, with 2 minutes of coaching, 497 yds...thanks for building an easy rifle to shoot!View
Nathon Bertsch
Whitetail at 520
South Dakota
Nathon Bertsch west river deer Stanley county, SD at 520 yards with 338 lapua his first deer.View
Casey Haensel
Whitetail at 210 yards
South Dakota
Casey Haensel east river deer Walworth county, SD at 210 yards with 338 lapua.View
Clint Haensel
Whitetail at 165
South Dakota
East river deer Walworth county, SD shot at 165 yards with 300 win mag.View
Clint Haensel
Elk at 340 yards
Black Hills, South Dakota
Black Hills, SD elk was shot at 340 yards with 300 win mag.View
Richard Mallette
Big Horn Ram at ~600 Yards
Thanks again for all your support and the technically advanced hunting products that Gunwerks and G7 Team have made available. [...]your products have certainly won me over! I used both the G7 Scope along with BR2 Rangefinder in taking this once in a lifetime ram in Arizona out @ ~600 yards�?�..I just wish it could have been with Mike Davidson�??s muzzleloader, however, it wasn�??t in the cards and I wasn�??t about to let this ram of a lifetime walk! I just can�??t say enough good things about Mike and all his support. You guys @ Gunwerks have a customer for life and will gain more from this, I�??m sure of it. [...] AZ G&F Checkout Score 184 5/8 Gross & 184 2/8 Net.View
Angelo Paolella
Red Stag at
New Zealand
503 1/8 NZ Red Stag 04/2014View
Kevin Small
Big Horn Ram at 380 yards
Guys, This is a pig of a sheep Alberta Rocky Mountain Bighorn. Shot wasn�??t real long 380yd but the wind was blowing 30mph and the temperature was -20 he will score around 195 and is 42.5 on the long side 14 yrs old. Thanks for the opportunity to shoot such an excellent gun. KevinView
Jake Walker
Coues Deer at 782
This is my first Kill using the G7, 782 yds. 2nd shot 300 WSM 168 Berger VLD Az Couse My Grandson took one at 346 using the G7. Thanks againView
Perry Mald
Whitetail at 30 yards
Saskatchewan, Canada
Took my new Gunwerks 7mm Helios up to Sask, Canada to shoot a big whitetail at an extreme distance but ended up shooting this bruiser at 30 yards in the bush! My new brush gun , ha.View
Dave Turchanski
Big Horn Ram at
British Columbia
By the way I killed a ram as well and here is a picture of both sheep. This ram completes my Grand Slam and North American 30. CheersView
Joanne Sibley
Big Horn Sheep at
British Columbia
We just returned home from our BC Premiers sheep hunt in Southern BC and Joanne wanted me to forward this to you as she killed her ram once again with here Gunwerks 7mm. Ram green scored 191 3/8 CheersView
David Hagness
White Tail at 275
Aaron and Mike, Patience paid off. I passed on several small 3 points over 3 long cold days of hunting. I spotted this stud with 10 minutes of legal shooting time left. Awkward sitting side hill sloping away and 275 yards. He recently busted a long tine which I am going to have doctored. The longest tine measured 10 1/2 inches. 2014: 2 shots with my Gunwerks LR-1000 and 1 nice Muley and 1 outstanding White Tail. Thanks Guys!View
Dave Schenck
Dall Sheep at 438
My goal was to be a better long range hunter at any range than a long range shooter. Even with having the [Gunwerks] right scope and range finder I made some less than even fair shots over the last few seasons. But this last season in Alaska I made a prefect one shot at this Dall Sheep at 438 yards. He has 41�?� on both sides.View
Vance Diggins
at 850
I sure do enjoy this gun. 850 yds this am. 7 degrees out, appx 3 mph crosswind. 2.5-3" grp. I am practicing for a cow/meat hunt in a few weeks on Turners ranch in New Mexico. (I hope they let me stretch it out!)View
Gregory Liddle
Elk at 430
Douglas J.Leech
Desert Sheep at 675 Yards
These rifle systems with their Nightforce Scopes and G-7 rangefinders are simply unbeatable in long range shooting - Aaron Davidson and his team have taken all the guesswork out and reduced it to a simple science that has been taught to many serious hunters in their Long Range University. This ram was taped by Nevada Fish and Wildlife at 148 7/8 inches and is representative of the better rams that can be expected in this unit.View


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Fiercely distilled and haunted by the cruelties of war, Do Not Rise is compressed, imperative, disquieting, and compassionate.
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"Beth Bachmann's Temper was the last time [in forty years] I remember reading a first book by a poet so prodigally and—the word that came to my mind was—severely gifted. The new poems in Do Not Rise are a quantum leap forward with all the metaphorical leaps, adumbrations, dizzyings, deft, brief knottings that make the poems in Temper so dazzling. A remarkable young talent, and a scary one."
—Robert Hass
The collection's conceptual center—and its most insistent word—is "open." . . . The resulting gaps open the poem to a meaningful range of pauses, hesitations, delays, sonic mutations, reconsiderations. . . . There is so much seeing in its listening.
Beth Bachmann's Temper was the last time [in forty years] I remember reading a first book by a poet so prodigally and—the word that came to my mind was—severely gifted. The new poems in Do Not Rise are a quantum leap forward with all the metaphorical leaps, adumbrations, dizzyings, deft, brief knottings that make the poems in Temper so dazzling. A remarkable young talent, and a scary one.
The author of but one other book of poetry, Temper (2009), Bachmann has already established herself as a powerful voice in contemporary poetics, one who writes like 'a sibyl burning the leaves and smelling the smoke,' as poet Robert Hass has described her. While Temper addresses the unsolved murder of her sister, her second collection takes war as its central theme as she goes inside the heads of soldiers suffering from PTSD, explores unrestrained governmental surveillance, and mines traumatic memories. Bachmann crafts images of arresting serenity ('No snow on the road, only falling'), disconcerting severity ('Fingers / in the mouth make mud / into a poultice to warm / the dead'), and haunting intimacy ('Unknown soldier, you hardly say you love me but you love me like ice / the orchid takes slowly in its turning toward light'). With deeply resonant lyrics, strange grace, and unorthodox arrangement, Bachmann is in good company among poets such as Charlotte Boulay (Foxes on a Trampoline, 2014), Dana Goodyear (The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard, 2013), and D.A. Powell (Useless Landscape, 2012).
A fierce collection, one that reminds us of poetry's vital place in processing our never-ending wars.
Nearly two centuries after the first recorded use of the term, 'war poet' still defies easy definition. It is a fraught laurel, one which Beth Bachmann wears with unflinching honesty and passion. Her latest collection,' Do Not Rise', demonstrates the lyric's ability to transcend its music and offer a haunting perspective on both violence and its aftermath . . . Indeed, it is difficult to imagine more vital poems than the ones Bachmann writes.
Bachmann's poetry is morning light sliced by blinds, fragmented and illuminating. It doesn't burn when it settles on your skin, but its warmth unnerves. Its brightness momentarily blurs all sight. This warm unnerving, this brightened blurriness draws readers from sleep into a realm of sensation and forces us to pay attention.
The core question 'Do Not Rise' seems to pose is how do we see the world now, after all the things we've been through—all the violence, guilt and grief? This is where 'Do Not Rise' excels. . . the moments of stillness and depth (or the clever and funny, for that matter) that Bachmann finds in her work are well-worth looking for. 'Do Not Rise' reads like a beautiful shuddering. Bachmann's poems shake in frustration towards the pain of war, and each pitch of grief can only help to herald the arrival of more pain, more loss, and more seeking.
The collection's most powerful creative device [is] positioning nature beside the harrowing images of war.
The poems are terrifying and complex-—the words seem to loom in every part of the room long after you read them. Do Not Rise is purposefully unmoored by particulars. It is abstract in the strongest way, revealing something intrinsic and unrestricted, theoretical and affecting.
Beth Bachmann is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and the author of two prior books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Poems from CEASE received the Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize. Each fall, Bachmann serves as Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University.learn more

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Election Watch
Currently, I'm flipping channels while watching a sleeping baby. So much riding on this election . . .
I lived in Pennsylvania in 2000, and I remember going to bed thinking that Gore had won. What a horrible thing it was to wake up the next morning hearing otherwise. I was tuned to NPR constantly.
My students were anxious during class. They were watching the clock and talking excitedly about the elections--so good to see.
Been listening to The Pretenders lately. I don't know why.


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Microsoft (MSFT) is upping its ante in the living room.
At the E3 gaming expo, Microsoft just announced that it's rebranding its Xbox Live video service as "Zune Video," which will launch in 18 countries later this year.
- The main changes: Hi-def video will be available in 1080p, and movies and TV shows will stream instantly -- no waiting for downloads.
- Microsoft will also offer "Live Party," where you can watch stuff with your Xbox Live friends over the Internet.
- Facebook now has an Xbox app. Facebook Connect built into games, too.
- Twitter built in, too. Post to Twitter from Xbox.
- You can now browse Netflix (NFLX) movies on Xbox instead of using Web site and "instant queue."
Nice updates, and more evidence that Microsoft is kicking Apple's butt in the living room.
Photo: Kotaku
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University Board on Retention, Tenure, and Promotion (UBRTP)
The University Board on Retention, Tenure and Promotion (UBRTP) shall examine the
evaluations and recommendations of the department and
college/school levels for RTP Files in which any level has made a negative recommendation or there is the absence of a recommendation. The Board shall
make a thorough evaluation of the documentation for each such probationary faculty member. The Board shall make independent recommendations directly to the President. These recommendations shall be based solely on information and documentation in the RTP File.
To view the entire committee charge, please go to this link (pdf)
Committee Members
- Joe Parks(Chair) - (Kremen School of Education and Human Development)
- Daniel Bukofzer - (Lyles College of Engineering)
- Vang Vang - (Library)
- Daming Zhang - (Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences & Technology)
- Stefaan Delcroix - (College of Science & Mathematics)
- Anthony Radford - (College of Arts & Humanities)
- Harald Schweizer - (College of Social Sciences)


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Andy cannot let a new year's day go by without partaking in the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of pork, sauerkraut and potatoes. It is said: pork and sauerkraut for good luck and a prosperous new year. It is said: eat sour cabbage for a sweet new year. It is said: pork because pigs root forward with their snouts, signifying progress. Of course, there is the fact (in which tradition is so often rooted) that pork, cabbage and potatoes are what have historically been available in the belly of winter. Armed with the lovely stories beget of humble facts, here we are, hoping that a simple meal will heap good tidings on our endeavors. Our meal was quite cobbled together, and not in keeping with tradition, but there were potatoes, albeit fried (in lard!) for breakfast; there was Milkhouse pork, albeit of the pulled variety, and there was sauerkraut, albeit from Morse's by way of Hannaford. The story of that last one is our cabbage seedlings got toasted in the greenhouse, we never planted more, we haven't gotten any storage cabbage from farmer friends and even if we had, odds are we wouldn't have fermented any given our track record for putting food by this year. But really, I'm fine with all of that, because I love Morse's sauerkraut.
And now we're happily eating pulled pork sandwiches for the next few days. Not a bad beginning, especially given the wicked cold these days. It has been a harsh and beautiful winter so far. In between telling of their power outage woes, everyone who talks of the ice storm marvels at it's intricacy, its entirety. There is great allure to a landscape which shines so brightly we can hardly look at it.
I am talking of this season's winter like I know it well when really my time outdoors has been much lessened by Andy's and my son, Linus. Our homebound days with him have been some of the sweetest of my life, and one of my favorite of many short eras. We're on the other side of that time now, for the most part, and learning how to juggle baby, business, our little homestead, and Andy's time at Two Loons Farm. Some days are hazy after little sleep, and on others, Linus sleeps like a champ through the night & day and we are unabashedly impressed with our once run of the mill daily accomplishments.
A few updates from the Milkhouse: we've got winter pigs in the works, our yogurt and milk is now MOFGA certified, we're going to be the Belfast Coop's featured vendor for January, we're picking up some new equipment to make our yogurt processing more efficient and we're now selling yogurt and milk at a few new locations: Fresh Off the Farm in Rockport, and the Good Tern Coop and Terra Optima in Rockland.
We've had a wild year and are looking forward to another year of many changes and much progress. Here's to a happy, healthy, bright, prosperous, and sweet new year.


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888 Poker Rewards Program Review
888 Poker is one of the top poker rooms in the world in terms of player traffic as well as quality of service. They have a great rewards program that will help those who play consistently at 888 Poker. Every time you wager money in a ring game, in the casino or take part in a tournament, you earn some status points and rewards points. The better your status level is the better the rewards you can get.
How does it work?
The rewards program at 888 Poker has 10 statuses:
- Blue
- Iron
- Chrome
- Copper
- Bronze
- Silver
- Gold
- Platinum
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The status points for non VIP bonuses need to be collected in a month. When you reach the status level, you retain that level for the next 30 days. At the beginning of the month, your status points are reset. For the VIP levels, you need to collect the points in one year. After you attain a VIP or VIP diamond status, you retain it for an entire year.
Benefits of the rewards program
You get various benefits like cashback, and participation in freerolls. Here are the benefits for every status level.
Cashback: When you start playing at the blue level you only get cashback of 2%. This remains the same for iron, chrome, copper, and bronze level as well. At the silver level you get a cashback of 4%, 9% at Gold and 18% at Platinum level. At VIP and VIP diamond level you get cashback of 27% and 36% respectively.
Freerolls: As you move up the status ladder, you start getting access to more freerolls. At the blue level you can take part in the $75 daily freeroll. Then you have $100 iron freerolls, $200 chrome freerolls, and $300 copper freerolls, which are all daily freerolls. Bronze and silver levels give you access to $750 and $1000 weekly freerolls respectively. You get access to $4000, $7000 and $10,000 monthly freerolls when you reach the Gold, Platinum and VIP statuses respectively.
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Earning status points is the key to climbing these levels. When you contribute $1 in the rake, you earn 2 status points. Also, for every dollar you pay as the tournament fee, you are awarded 2 status points. You can also earn a status point by wagering $16 in casino games while playing through your poker account.


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Trinket Trays by Bella Joy
Trinket Trays by Bella Joy
These tiny triangles are ready to hold all of your little treasures: keys, rings, jewelry, spare change, you name it! Each measures 3 inches across and feature a shiny gold glaze on the rims.
These colorful ceramics by Bella Joy are sure to brighten up your day!
If not in stock in the store at time of purchase, this item may take a few days for us to fulfill your order. Feel free to contact us if you need more details.
There are 3 different options for connecting you to your new wearable art. In checkout, you can 1) choose to have it shipped, 2) pick-up inside the store, or 3) curbside pick-up, where we will run the artwork out to your waiting car. Options 2) and 3) are free. The shipping charge for 1) covers insured first class USPS mail, which will be sent out within 1-2 business days.


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Shonda Rhimes Among Mogul Mentors of New Intern Sushi Program
A professional networking program from co-founder and CEO Shara Senderoff's LinkedIn competitor offers users chances to sit down with industry power players such as the "Scandal" creator and showrunner.
Ever wonder how the top industry players got to where they are today? A new feature on networking website Intern Sushi gives users a peek behind the curtain of such media heavyweights as Scandal's Shonda Rhimes and WME's Charles King.
Started two years ago by co-founder and CEO Shara Senderoff with co-founders producer Mark Gordon and digital media entrepreneur Richard Gelb, Intern Sushi, which links interns to employers, launched its Industry Influencer program on Wednesday. The program works to create a deeper connection between potential candidates and employers. The Intelligence Group's Jamie Gutfreund, ESPN sportscaster Linda Cohn and Philadelphia Eagles minority owner Christina Weiss Lurie are among those who will build individual digital profiles for the site, detailing their career journeys, education and job history offering advice along the way.
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"It's wondering about what Shonda Rhimes was doing when she was 20," Senderoff told The Hollywood Reporter. "We went to these influencers to tell us what are the stories about them nobody knows."
Senderoff, 28, began as an assistant at the Mark Gordon Company after moving to L.A. from New Jersey with no initial connection to the entertainment industry. Now, as director of development of film and vp of new media with the same company, she wants to give those looking to break in a more beneficial way to network. "The goal is to have a way in to connect with these major moguls," she said on the importance of networking. "How do we ask that person, 'What did you do?' and 'What do you think of what I'm doing?'"
Each influencer featured on Intern Sushi, including Rhimes, will host a 30-day competition during which users enter their profiles for a chance to earn a one-on-one meeting. The winner is personally selected by the influencer, and 15 others are granted a badge on their profile, noting the influencer's acknowledgement of their passion and enthusiasm.
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"As we reached out to each influencer, they unanimously said they love mentoring and want to give back, but there was no real organized way to do it," Senderoff said. "The goal here is credibility."
Some influencers even have asked to host the competition more than once a year, granting more one-on-one sessions. Intern Sushi now has 10,000 participating companies on its site and 80,000 users. By the end of the year, Senderoff hopes to have 150 industry influencers participating and granting young career hopefuls a chance to peek inside.


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First Opened: 30th May 1766 (253 years ago)
Also Know As: Bristol Old Vic
Former Names: The Bristol Theatre
Website: www.bristololdvic.org.uk
Telephone: 0117 949 3993
Address: King Street, Bristol, BS1 4ED
The Bristol Old Vic's Theatre Royal is the United Kingdom's oldest continuously operating theatre, having opened its doors in May 1766. At the time of opening it did not possess the royal patent required for the public performance of plays, so productions were disguised as concerts and the theatre's entrance was not directly accessible from the street to minimize unwanted attention.
Architect Thomas Paty supervised the construction of designs by David Garrick's carpenter at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, James Saunders. The theatre was closely modeled on the Richmond Theatre in Surrey (1765) for which Saunders had provided drawings, and London's Theatre Royal in Drury Lane (1674 building). The Bristol Old Vic is a rare example of an 18th century horseshoe theatre.
The 50 Bristolians who had each invested £50 to fund the theatre's building received a silver ticket which granted them "sight of any show at the theatre for the rest of their lives".
In the absence of the royal patent required for public performance of plays (Licensing Act 1737), the opening night was described as a concert "with a specimen of rhetoric". Prolific actor David Garrick delivered the evening's prologue. Patrons could not directly access the theatre from the street and instead had to knock on the door of a house belonging to a man named Mr Foote and walk through his backyard to reach the theatre's entrance.
In 1788 the theatre was awarded a royal patent and became known as the Theatre Royal Bristol, at last able to openly advertise its performances. 12 years later actor William Wyatt Dimond took over the lease and the theatre was run jointly with the Theatre Royal in Bath, a single company performing at each theatre on different days. Major alterations were made by Dimond by raising the auditorium roof to accommodate the addition of a Gallery seating 550, a new sloping auditorium ceiling, and conversion of the Upper Circle to boxes accommodating 750. The total seating capacity was 1,620.
The relationship with the Bath Theatre Royal was disbanded in 1819 and management taken up by William Macready the elder. The theatre had little success at the time but its fortunes slowly turned-around in the 1850s under the management of his widow, Sarah Macready. In 1853 the Macready's son-in-law, James Chute, took over following Sarah's death, however Chute lost interest when he opened the New Theatre Royal Bristol on Park Row. By 1881 the theatre was in dire financial straits however well-known theatre architect C.J. Phipps oversaw the removal of the forestage, a fire curtain created upstage of the Proscenium Arch, and installation of a new ventilator amidst a new star-studded auditorium ceiling.
The 20th century saw a number of failed attempts to revive the theatre, and by the 1930s it was in a state of disrepair. In 1942 it was sold for conversion into a banana-ripening warehouse. Public outcry led to the suggestion that a revived theatre might emulate the recent success of London's Old Vic theatre – that it could become Bristol's "Old Vic". In 1943 the forerunner of today's UK Arts Council supported the reopening of the theatre, and following the end of the war experimented with the idea of subsidizing a regional theatre by sending an acting troupe from London's Old Vic to Bristol. The Bristol Old Vic company went on to present many successful seasons at the theatre throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and the regional subsidy model was rolled-out across the UK.
In 1963 the Arts Council's role was taken over by Bristol City Council and the Bristol Old Vic became fully independent of its London namesake.
In 1970 a major refurbishment was begun however ran out of money before it could be completed. Coopers' Hall (1743-44), in front of the theatre on King St and operating as a fruit and vegetable market at the time, became the theatre's new Front of House space while the previous entrance area was converted into a studio theatre. To enable the theatre to house elaborate sets and more efficiently transfer a show's sets directly to other theatres, the 18th century stagehouse was demolished and rebuilt with a new fly tower, the stage was leveled, and the 19th century stage machinery underneath the stage removed. Money ran out before the auditorium's seating could be adjusted to take account of the changed sightlines effected by the now level stage, resulting in large parts of the new stage not being visible from many of the old seats. Additionally, the building changes badly affected the theatre's acoustics. There was no money available to fix the multiple issues and they persisted for over 30 years.
In 2007 public concern for the theatre's survival resulted in formation of a new board of trustees. With the theatre dark by this time, the new board of trustees carried out essential remedial works before embarking on the first phase of a major refurbishment, completed in 2012. The £12 million project saw the original geometry of the Georgian theatre restored, auditorium seating reconfigured and replaced, new rehearsal facilities added, and improvements made backstage.
Following a period of consultation and careful design, in 2016 the major refurbishment's second phase broke ground. The refurbishment was completed in late 2018, seeing all Front Of House areas reconfigured and improved with the 18th century Coopers' Hall being returned to its original use as an events space.
The theatre boasts a large scenic workshop with direct access to the stage, situated at the House Right side of the auditorium. Workshop facilities include a full-size paint frame, operated from the workshop floor with the paint frame disappearing into a slot in the workshop floor. Although still counterweighted it is now electrically, as opposed to manually, operated. For the duration of the 2016-2018 Front Of House refurbishment the workshop was tastefully reimagined as the "Backstage Bar" and temporary theatre entrance, with the paint frame forming a natural division of the space between audience circulation and seating/display areas.
The Bristol Old Vic actively references its history for learning and educational purposes, and throughout the building there are interesting displays pointing out period features. The Gallery retains some of its original bench seating, parts of which were frequented by soliciting prostitutes in the 18th century. A 1981 scale model of the original stagehouse and 19th century stage machinery is a popular display piece with audiences. Replica 19th century rain and wind machines have been created for educational purposes, however the pièces de résistance is the 19th century "Thunder Run" which still exists in the attic above the auditorium. The Thunder Run created the sound of rumbling thunder when smoothed beech balls of varying diameter were released down a gently sloping wooden trough. It was last used as a stage effect in a production of King Lear in 2016. There are only four Thunder Runs remaining in UK theatres: the Bristol Old Vic, the Globe Theatre in Plymouth, Her Majesty's Theatre, and the Playhouse Theatre, the latter two located in London. The Bristol Old Vic's Thunder Run is the oldest and is located above the auditorium for maximum effect (the London Thunder Runs are located backstage).
Over the centuries many actors have sneaked-up to the theatre's attic and its walls are covered in their signatures and sound bites representing over 250 years of theatrical performances at the Bristol Old Vic.
The Bristol Old Vic runs occasional weekend theatre tours which last one hour and cost £12 per person. Check the
Bristol Old Vic's website for further details.
The theatre has previously participated in the annual Bristol Open Doors event and may do so again in the future.
|Flying System
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|Total 540 (Pit 128; Dress Circle 133; Upper Circle & Boxes 134; Gallery 127; Standing 18)
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The European Advocacy Director & Head of the European Institutions Office has the overall responsibility for developing and implementing strategies to influence EU Institutions and the Council of Europe on AI's regional and global human rights priorities.
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I love being outside. My two year old and I share an interest in nature, and plants especially.
While most of my clients don't want to go to the arboretum this time of year, this is my favorite time. Not only are the textures layered in a contrast of velvet and gloss, the scents are Divine! If you haven't smelled the Daphne Odora, Witch Hazel, or Jasmine this time of year, get to the Washington Arboretum's Winter Garden. Inhale deeply and forget your worries. Inhaling, I think of my late mother who was always either filling her lungs with garden scents, or sighing in despair that she couldn't spend all of her time outside. The woes (and thrills) of a garden addict run in our blood!


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Training going well Irina Shayk struggles with her disobedient dog on day out in New York
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Training going well Irina Shayk appeared to be struggling with her disobedient dog as she took him out for a walk in New York yesterday
No! Irina wagged her finger at Labrador Caesare after he pulled on his lead
I"m sorry! The dog looked apologetic after he was told off by his owner
Disobedient: Caesare appeared to have got slightly excited and pulled on his lead when another little dog came up to him
That"s better: After a stern talking to, Caesare appeared to have learned his lesson
Reward: The dog gazes adoringly at his stunning owner as she rewards him with a stroke


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About Travelling Ava
So who is Travelling Ava?
Meet Travelling Ava she is an adventurer, urban explorer and is a crocheted doll, designed and made by me. She love travelling the world, discovering new things and making new friends. She is a fearless explorer, curious about everything and everyone. Travelling Ava is a cheeky rebel sharing stories and photos, blogging about her adventures.
This is how it started…
A very poorly drawn sketch and an idea that just wouldn't go away. I wanted to design a doll, but I had already done that, in fact before making the first version of Travelling Ava I had already designed 4 other dolls. I had a character in my head, full of personality and somehow I needed to turn a ball of yarn into this character.
The original plan was to send her travelling with strangers but I have become too attached to her so now she tags along with me and my friends to see the world. She has been to Spain and Portugal with her most recent overseas trip taking her to Brisbane in Australia
What are travelling dolls?
Travelling dolls are amazing, they help you to explore, giving you a new perspective as you travel on your adventure. Travelling dolls help you to rediscover a sense of joy and wonder you perhaps thought long forgotten. You do not need to travel across the world to be an explorer. I don't know about you but I'm not ready to be a grown up yet. Travelling dolls like Ava help us to have new experiences and make lots of happy memories. Become an urban explorer, a hometown tourist, take a travelling doll and have an adventure.
Meet the Designer
Hi I'm Sam Osmond, I'm the creative storyteller and crochet addict working behind the scenes to create Travelling Ava and her travelling friends.
I've always loved yarn and my mam attempted to teach me to knit many times over the years but it just didn't stick. In 2012 I picked up a crochet hook, made my first flower and never looked back. Crochet is so versatile, I'm always amazed at what can be done with a hook and some yarn. I'm always learning and discovering new techniques. Turning yarn into characters is my favourite thing. I love watching the transformation. They take on a life of their own, each with their own story to tell. I'm so lucky to come from a family of creative storytellers, a nurtured imagination unlocks a world of possibilities. You are only limited by your imagination.


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Microsoft has done an excellent job of talking up Windows 8 in the press. It is pulling all sorts of PR tricks and even has Steve Ballmer making a lot of quotable noise.
One subtle story is beginning to appear, though, and it is good news for those of us who are reliant on desktop computing: Microsoft is boosting support multi-screen computing in Windows 8.
This is a bigger deal than most people think. While I'm sure that most of my readers have desktop machines with two, three, or even more monitors to create one large virtual screen, some people have yet to get a clue about this.
An ideal setup would include six monitors arranged in two rows of three. I've seen this with eight monitors, too, and when you have this many, it becomes complex. But wow.
Put your MacBook Air next to that sort of lash-up and ask yourself, "which one of these rigs would I prefer if I actually had to do a lot of work?"
This sort of setup used to take multiple machines with multiple keyboards. That still might be an option, but everyone can easily do three monitors with DisplayPort. Matrox has a DisplayPort card that handles eight monitors.
Much of the buzz about Windows 8 revolves around the fact that apparently the OS in beta had poor support for multiple monitors. Now, it will handle a mix-and-match situation with both horizontal and vertical monitors placed all over and every which way.
Whatever the case, we are at least five years overdue on promoting multiple monitors, which Microsoft says are only employed by one in seven users.
The easiest setupand one of the most cost effectiveconsists of two moderately-priced but reasonably-rated 27-inch 1920x1080 screens side by side. Almost every video card can handle these as adjacent dual monitors. It seriously opens up your desktop and gives you breathing room.
Many people prefer three 21-inch monitors but this may require a new video card and some tweaking. Much of the complexity is eliminated by the latest VESA standard called DisplayPort. This eliminates the VGA and DVI ports and is more or less backward compatible with some clunky dongles.
It first appeared in 2006 but did not hit the motherboards until after the latest iteration, which was approved in late 2009. By this time next year, I suspect the DisplayPort connector will be the only thing you'll find on any new machine. In fact, that may have happened already since I keep seeing it everywhere.
It was designed to compete with HDMI but focus more on computers than entertainment systems. It includes audio channels. With little fanfare, it's been fully adopted and will probably co-exist on most motherboards with an HDMI connector.
I find these sorts of changes annoying as they take forever to get a full foothold and now everyone has a bunch of DVI monitors that all need dongles. (And when I see something like this, I realize the factor driving the change is a cheaper connector, thus saving 15 cents.)
Apparently, the DisplayPort cable can be extended a great distance before signal degradation. So that's good news. And, of course, the push to multiple monitors. That's good news, too.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 21, 2015 . Federal-Mogul Powertrain, a division of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation (FDML), was the recipient of two 2015 Automotive News PACE(TM) Awards at a ceremony on April 20 in Detroit. The prestigious award recognizes automotive suppliers for superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance.
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Federal-Mogul Powertrain earned the Automotive News PACE Award following an extensive review by an independent panel of judges including a comprehensive written application and site visit. For complete details of the Automotive News PACE Award, visit www.autonews.com/pace.
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Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation (FDML) is a leading global supplier of products and services to the world`s manufacturers and servicers of vehicles and equipment in the automotive, light, medium and heavy-duty commercial, marine, rail, aerospace, power generation and industrial markets. The company`s products and services enable improved fuel economy, reduced emissions and enhanced vehicle safety.
Federal-Mogul operates two independent business divisions, each with a chief executive officer reporting to Federal-Mogul`s Board of Directors.
Federal-Mogul Powertrain designs and manufactures original equipment powertrain components and systems protection products for automotive, heavy-duty, industrial and transport applications.
Federal-Mogul Motorparts sells and distributes a broad portfolio of products through more than 20 of the world`s most recognized brands in the global vehicle aftermarket, while also serving original equipment vehicle manufacturers with products including braking, chassis, wipers and other vehicle components. The company`s aftermarket brands include ANCO® wiper blades; Champion® spark plugs, wipers and filters; AE®, Fel-Pro®, FP Diesel®, Goetze®, Glyco®, Nüral®, Payen® and Sealed Power® engine products; MOOG® steering and suspension parts; and Ferodo®, Jurid® and Wagner® brake products.
Federal-Mogul was founded in Detroit in 1899 and maintains its worldwide headquarters in Southfield, Michigan. The company employs nearly 50,000 people in 34 countries. For more information, please visit www.federalmogul.com.
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I came across a website about a Canadian writer,Kuldip Gill, who researched the lives of elderly Indian women in Fiji and I found one of her poems based on her interviews. Girmit refers to the indenture system, a shameful period of colonial history where labourers were treated like slaves to build up the sugar industry in countries such as Fiji. Many of the people in areas such as Labasa, Ba, Tavua, Lautoka, Nadi are descended from men and women whom were brought to Fiji under the indenture scheme.
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A language can change due to migration, or as is the case in Fiji and other island nations, indenture or slavery. In Fiji, the name of the language spoken by North and South Indians has taken on its own flavour as the indentured group, an amalgam of very mixed ethnic, religious and caste groups, learned to speak a dialect formed on the islands based on the diversity of the indentured. These few lines from my sequential set of poems Fiji Ghazals, drawn from the lives of five old Indo-Fijian women, illustrate this point, as well as how I use another language in my poetry. Following convention for this form, it is un-named.
She swings to and fro: identity to icon, and back. Her lies.
She pumps her feet caste to caste blue skying with friends.
Girmitya, a noble mask of oneself, the collective memory.
The other portrait a tracery, the overseer's whips' lines: doubts, fears.
I was eleven when I got married and came here. In Nasavu, I stayed
for three or four years. Sometimes I liked it. Sometimes I did not.
I have to stay with my husband even if I have difficulties,
I rati, rati. I had a baby girl, a child—I had them every three years.
Language? the teacher says, "the lingua franca here is Fiji-Hindi
We try for a coherent discourse". She says that. We call it Fiji-bat.
— Kuldip Gill
The Fiji Ghazals are based on interviews of five old women, children of indentured persons, during Kuldip Gill's doctoral fieldwork in Fiji from 1985-1986. The women had no idea where in India they were from or their caste.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
A Canadian Indian poet writes of the girmits of Fiji
Posted by Peceli and Wendy's Blog at 10:16 PM
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- Pandabonium said...
That resonates with me. It is the history of Hawaii in many ways as well. The Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese and Filipinos all brought as "contract" labor to work for the white Eastern-USA missionary's sons who owned the plantations. As the saying goes in Hawaii - the missionaries came to Hawaii to do good, and did well.
I don't know how things could have gone otherwise, but it still saddens me.
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I believe there are some situations with league management that do not concern the entire league. In the 14 team dynasty league I run (found here, http://www21.myfantasyleague.com/2015/home/19481#0) we had 42 man rosters with a six man taxi squad for rookies and players that got listed doubtful, out, or on injured reserve. It became very hard to manage owners leaving ineligible players on their taxi squad and the free agent pool dried up quickly. A thread got opened up for discussion as I planned to drop the taxi squad to four spots with it only being open to rookies and players listed on IR. The change got implemented in the offseason with three months of warning for owners to plan. This was about the betterment of the league and not a scoring change that would affect everyone.
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When I am commissioning a league, I want at least one or preferably two owners that both the league and I are comfortable being my sounding board to make decisions. I have either a vice or co-commissioners and act as a co-commissioner myself in four other leagues. The more experience you have around you, the better off the entire league will be.
Do not show favoritism, be impartial
If the commissioner's brother, wife, or best friend is in the league and there is an issue, do they let someone else decide aka vice/co-commissioner or steering committee? You play to have fun and maybe earn a little extra scratch, not get into personal squabbles.


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