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In 2006, the Mental Hygiene Administration (MHA), the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) and the State's Core Service Agencies developed and implemented a data sharing initiative, known as DataLink, to promote the continuity of treatment for individuals with serious mental illness who are detained in the detention center.
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ValueOptions® Maryland, the Administrative Services organization for the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), receives a daily file from the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) of all individuals that have been:
detained and processed at local detention centers in the past 24 hour period;
incarcerated in one of the State correctional facilities; or
remanded to the Department of Parole and Probation.
This data is compared against Medicaid eligibility data, utilizing agreed upon data points to identify a detainee as a "match". Once a match is identified, the process looks for Behavioral health authorizations and paid Medicaid pharmacy claims within the past calendar year. This information is then electronically returned to the DPSCS and uploaded into their Electronic Health Record system where it can be viewed by authorized detention center medical staff. Detention center medical staff utilizes this data to address the detainees medical and mental health needs. Simultaneously, the data is also shared with the local Core Service Agency who may assist in providing coordinated care for the individual while detained and upon release.
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The Core Service Agency (CSA) and Local Detention Center meet with the Administrative Service Organization (ASO) to discuss the project, review examples of the data being provided and clarify the roles and responsibilities of each in the process.
Gain all necessary signatures on the Memorandum of Understanding (utilizing the MOU template provided).
Working with the ASO and DPSCS, identify a 'go-live' date when the CSA and Local Detention Center will begin receiving data.
The CSA and Local Detention Center should establish on-going meetings in order to discuss and coordinate the use of the data to ensure continuity of care and monitor outcomes for consumers.
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The DataLink exchange runs daily at 5:00 AM and completes processing (transmitting files) within 30 minutes.
Since January 1, 2013, the DataLink exchange processes an average of 476 records per day and identifies a "match" of consumers with Behavioral health and/or pharmacy claims 22% of the time.
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It's no secret that "I geek poetry" in a big way. I love to read poems. I begin every class I teach by reading a poem.
I also love to write poems, and I have many poems tucked away from my time as a teen, on and off, up to now.
When I take research notes, I take notes in poems. It is just the way my brain works. Writing a structured narrative is painfully difficult for me, but poetry flows. (Not necessarily good poetry, mind you, but poetry nonetheless.)
So, I did have a bit of a spring in my step yesterday as poetry month began. Seems poems are popping up everywhere.
I was thinking I would try to write a poem a day this month, but I knew I would fall behind and feel frustrated. So, I'm just going to try to do one poetry-related activity a day – read one, write one, revise one, post one, something. I'm already a day behind (!) so here goes.
This is a poem I wrote in the Spring of 2007 in a poetry pedagogy course taught by the amazing JoBeth Allen. Early in the semester, JoBeth handed out random buttons and we wrote poems around them. We had many such exercises and inspirations that semester, but this one seemed to stick with me as a challenge. After many years of avoiding rhyme in my poems, this poem became a place for me to experiment in developing rhymes that weren't trite or forced. I'll let you be the judge of my success. As with most of my writing, it is somewhat loosely based on my life. I hope this poem makes you smile a bit. Happy poetry month!
The Family Egg Hunt
Every year on Easter day
Be it April, May or March,
"The Gleeson Family Egg Hunt" came
once we got home from church.
But first, the family picture!
Mom would lovingly remind.
"One, two, three! Smile! Cheese!"
Now we've got eggs to find!
I would shimmy off my tights,
shoes, gloves, and hat were stripped
"on your mark, get set, now go!"
and off we went, full clip.
Crawling under the bushes
in our overgrown backyard,
there always was one or two eggs
that Daddy hid too hard.
Big brother ruffled old dead leaves,
crawled past the spigot drip
"Found It!" he yelled. "Awwww!" I screamed.
Out poked my bottom lip.
My parents stood relieved as
he reached his left arm out.
One less smelly rotting egg
to later worry about.
He strained and squirmed for every inch
so clumsy in his girth
digging in his size twelve feet
and grabbing at the earth.
He reached and finally "got it!"
Then "POP!" the button flew.
He didn't have to say what happened –
for we already knew.
"OW!" as the jagged fence edge
scraped his plump arm red.
"?*!@?*!" as the craggy unpruned branch
smacked him on the head.
"Squelch" went his new loafers
swallowed up by mud.
White polyester covered bottom
hit the ground – – THUD!
"His Easter outfit's RUINED!"
I gasped, so horrified.
"He'd grow out if it anyway"
and smiling, Mommy sighed.
And all this for the trophy
in the corner of the yard.
Daddy should've known better than
to hide that egg so hard.

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text: I am looking to build a garage on a sloping hill. This spot would be the best to build on. What would the best way to build on it so the foundation will hold. i am looking to use cinder block for the foundation. I was going to be about 36" under ground with the blocks. It is about a 4' slope from front to back. The garage is going to be a 24w x 30d. 1 story garage. I am just worried about the foundation blowing out with all the pressure from when i fill inside the foundation.


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Nigerians have taken to their social media handles to lambaste popular Nigerian On Air Personality (OAP), Daddy Freeze for dragging the general oversea of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye into a discussion over the crash of Osinbajo's helicopter.
Naija News reports that Daddy Freeze brought Pastor Adeboye into a comment where the on-air personality asked Nigerians to call the pastor for more prayers.
In a recent report, the crashed helicopter which Osinbajo narrowly escaped death in Kogi, crashed a truck on it way for a maintenance repair. The report revealed that the trailer conveying the crashed wreckage of the helicopter crashed on it way to the venue of the maintenance repair.
It would be recalled that Naija News had reported that Osinbajo's helicopter crashed in Kabba, Kogi state.
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After reading this post, some of you may never view me in the same light again. In my defence, I was only nine years old, don't judge me too harshly! ☺
I don't like dogs. Scrap that, I HATE dogs. They scare the crap out of me and I just cannot understand how people live with them. It's not just dogs, it's animals in general but dogs and I have a history. When I was growing up my family owned three dogs. Two of them were what we called local dogs. Local or foreign, we didn't get along. When I was in primary school, the driver would have to carry me to the car in the mornings because I was too scared to walk. Our dogs didn't have cages, leashes or anything remotely fancy. They roamed the compound freely and ate eba.
There were two in particular that scared the life out of me…Wazobia and Bingo. Bingo was young and very active but when I shooed him, he usually went away. Wazobia on the other hand was a tyrant. The dog just wouldn't leave me alone. If I went out through the front door, she was there waiting for me. If I went out through the back, she was there.
One day my mum asked me to take the bin out and as I opened the back door, she was there, tongue hanging out ready to apply moisture to my skin to make for easier biting. I had the bin in one hand and a kettle full of hot water in the other, to rinse out the bin with.
"Shoo Wazobia , shoo!"
She didn't respond.
"Take that bin out for goodness sake," my mother shouted at me, "it stinks! You've lived with that dog for nine years now, what are you still afraid of?"
"Shoo Wazobia , shoo!"
As I shooed, I dared to step outside. One step, two steps, three steps. She stayed put. Convinced all as well, I walked more confidently. Four. Five. Six, Seven. Eight. Suddenly I heard a bark and saw Wazobia bounding towards me.
"No Wazobia, no!"
I flung the bin and started sprinting back to the house. "No run!" the maid screamed, "if you run, she go chase you!'
Na you sabi!
I carried on running but saw that she was getting to close for my liking. I freaked out and before I could process what I was about to do, chucked the kettle full of hot water at Wazobia. I've never heard a dog howl so loud.
'How can you pour hot water on a dog?!' my mother screamed in horror.
I received a good beating for my actions. Thankfully, animals in Nigeria do not have rights unlike their counterparts in the West so there was no RSPCA to convict me of my crime. That said, anyone with half a heart would know have felt for the poor dog…and I did. They did what they could for Wazobia but the damage was done, she had a large bald grey patch on her back. She became really timid after that and never bothered me again.
I know I'm supposed to be politically correct but I can't lie, I was happy when the dog stopped harassing me. I felt and still feel bad and wish they had just sold the damn dog while they could. Perhaps I ought to be reported to the RSPCA. All I ask is that you give me a heads up before you do so I can run back to Nigeria!


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text: Penetration properties, studied in multicellular spheroids, of totally 23 radiolabeled or boronated substances are summarized. The spheroids were models for small non-vascularized metastases and there is special emphasis on results obtained with a freeze-drying method. The substances were detected using autoradiography or neutron capture radiography. Certain substances, e.g. 5-FU, glucose, BSH and one antibody type, penetrated efficiently while others, e.g. vinblastine, an epidermal growth factor derivative and two other types of antibodies, only penetrated into the outer periphery of the spheroids in spite of long incubation times. The molecular weight of the substances did not relate well with the penetration properties. Instead, those substances that bound extensively had in most cases limited penetration. This was, for example, clearly shown for the drug Ara-C when applied to two different types of spheroids, one type giving low binding and good penetration and one type giving extensive binding and less penetration. The penetration of an antibody and an EGF-derivative improved significantly when their binding sites were blocked. It is concluded that molecular weight is not a dominating determinant for penetration in the studied model, but that binding is. Such knowledge is valuable for the understanding of effects of chemotherapy, targeted radionuclide therapy and immunotherapy and for the development of new agents for such therapies.


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This op-ed by Susan Passoni originally appeared on the South End Patch.
On November 8 voters will be asked to vote on a proposed law that would allow the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to approve up to 12 new charter schools or increase enrollment in existing charter schools each year. I know how I will vote but wanted to share the reasoning since there are a lot of mistruths out there. My decision to vote yes on #2 is simply to provide for many of the underserved children in our Commonwealth and, Boston in particular, the option to attend the best public school possible- a choice that many families do not have today. We should not begrudge those less fortunate a quality education because of where they can afford to live; it is discriminatory and one of the most important civil rights issues of our time.
I was lucky. I attended parochial school from kindergarten through college. It was not because my family had strong catholic values. Rather, it was because the public schools in my community were not going to offer me the education my parents felt was adequate. My parents, a department store employee and a bartender, had limited means, but fortunately at the time parochial schools were affordable options to working class families. As such, I benefited from an education that provided me with numerous options in my life and my career.
Today, there are far fewer parochial schools and, the few that exist are not affordable to many working class and low-income families. As a result, in some communities district public schools, regardless of the quality of education they provide, are the only option for these families and their children's education. They simply have no other choice.
The idea that families have limited or no choice is what is so disconcerting. In a state that embraces the freedom to marry whom we choose and a woman's right to choose it seems paradoxical that we don't embrace choice in public school education.
Charter schools are public schools and have existed in Massachusetts for about 20 years. In Boston, there are 125 district public schools serving 56,000 students versus 16 charter public schools serving 10,000 students. Charter schools were started in Massachusetts by a group of educators and legislators who envisioned creating and adopting alternative solutions to educating our youth. Charter public schools are no different than district public schools except that a charter public school can adopt its own curriculum (as opposed to a state designated curriculum). However, if a charter school fails and is not compliant with its mission, the state can shut it down. Charter public schools are also free to hire whom they want and don't need to employ union labor. On the surface, those are the only differences between district and charter public schools.
However, when you look at how charter schools operate and educate our youth that is where the disparities begin.
1. Charter schools typically have longer school days and school years.
2. Charter schools enroll students via a lottery. Charter schools have no ability to screen, select or cherry pick the best students. Charter lotteries are state mandated, are blind and are open to any family. To date, there are 32,000 children on public charter school waiting lists in Massachusetts.
3. Charter schools serve a highly diverse student body. In Boston, the 10,000 charter school students are comprised of: 53% African Americans, 33% Latinos, 8% white, 1% Asian and 5% other. By comparison, the 56,000 Boston district public school students are comprised of 33% African Americans, 41% Latinos, 14% white, 8% Asian and 4% other. Thus, on a percentage basis, Boston charter schools have far greater diversity than the district schools. Further, 16% of the 10,000 charter school students are students with disabilities versus 19% for Boston district schools and 43% are in poverty versus 50% for Boston district schools.
4. Charter schools educate English language learners (ELL). In Boston, district schools ELLs represent 30% of total enrollment versus 13% for Boston charter schools. Part of this disparity is due to the fact that because charter schools rely on a lottery for enrollment it is impossible to control who they educate.
However, how well do Boston district schools educate their ELL students? According to a March 2015 review of the City of Boston's education programs by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, Boston failed to provide sufficient specialized education for ELLs - 49% of ELLs in the middle grades and the high schools in Boston were receiving either insufficient levels of specialized instruction or none at all and 24% of Boston's elementary school ELLs were reported as being similarly under-educated.
5. Boston charter schools are outperforming their district peers. According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Boston Globe, four year graduation rates for Boston charter schools is 80% versus 69% for Boston district schools. 53% of Boston charter schools are high performing versus 20% for the district and while 10% of Boston public schools are underperforming and 2% are chronically underperforming, the percentage for charter schools in both instances is 0%.
A recent Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) report noted that on average students in Boston charter schools have significantly larger learning gains in both reading and mathematics, where the average growth rate of Boston charter students in math and reading is the largest CREDO has seen in any city or state. Moreover, 83% of charter schools have significantly more positive learning gains relative to their district peers in reading and math. In a 2016 study by Harvard and MIT it was found that many charter schools in Boston and other urban areas in Massachusetts are generating gains in achievement that are large enough to close achievement gaps by race and income over time.
6. Charter schools are publicly funded, which is why they are public schools. When a student moves from a district to a charter school funding follows that student (the same would be true if the student were to attend a pilot school). However, the Boston school district is reimbursed over a six-year period 225% of the tuition for the loss of that student (100% in the first year and 25% per year for the next five years). Based on the reimbursement policies in place from 1995 to 2011, Boston district schools have received nearly $150 million for the loss of these students despite not having to educate them.
More important, since 2011 despite the growing number of students in Boston charter schools, Boston district public school's budget continued to grow from $831 million to over $1 billion in 2016. Thus, there has been no drain on resources to Boston public schools, in fact they actually benefit when a student leaves and is enrolled in a charter school.
It is also important to note, Boston public school teachers have one of the shortest workdays and teacher work years in the country (182 days). In addition, Boston district teachers have the highest starting salaries in the region and the highest average salaries in Massachusetts. Boston teachers can reach their maximum salary in only nine years, significantly sooner that the national average of 22 years, due in part to the largest salary raise occurring between a teacher's first and second year (such compensation practices, while effective in teacher retention, also may prove imprudent since there is little time to assess whether that teacher is effective, worth retaining or worthy of tenure).
I would argue the money spent to pay public school teachers is one of the best investments in our youth. What doesn't add is the claim that charter schools are taking money out of district school coffers. At the end of the day, charter, district and pilot schools are all public schools, and are publicly funded. Period.
When you have proven success it seems incredulous to denounce the benefits that charter schools bring to our city, the Commonwealth but most important to our families and their children. While not all charter schools are excelling, the majority of them are and, those in our larger cities are making huge strides at narrowing the achievement gap. Providing choice in public schooling is a fundamental right. Giving children the option to learn more and do better has significant implications that go beyond their own experience, it ultimately affects their families and the communities in which they reside.
The right to choose is a powerful tool that our democracy has provided each and every one of its citizens. It is even more powerful when choice is given to those less fortunate. Providing quality education provides an individual with the ability to make choices in their lives and their careers. Choice in public education potentially bridges the divide between the haves and the have-nots. On November 8th the choice is yours.
Susan Passoni is a South End resident. She previously ran for elected office at both the city and state level and was proudly endorsed by both the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) and Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA). She also is a founding board member of Excel Academy Charter Schools, a top-performing network of middle schools and high school with campuses in East Boston and Chelsea, serving roughly 800 students, 75% of which are Latino and 80% low income and over half of which speak a language other than English at home.


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I'm sure that everyone has the same stories and the same pics from this awful storm, but we all like to share our experiences just the same. So, here is our story............
Justin hasn't slept in his own bed since Monday night! He left early Monday morning for a TX trip. (Check his blog for the latest post about that.) I was really uneasy about him going on this trip since I knew the weather was going to be bad between here and there. I am normally not uneasy about him going on trips over night (actually to tell the truth we both look forward to him going on an overnight trip once in a while!), but for some reason I wasn't looking forward to him going. Probably because I knew it could be several days before he could get back home. He did get to come home on Wednesday (thank goodness). We were out of school on Tuesday as a precaution. About 7 that night I headed to my parents house. I knew that if the power went out at Ron & Jill's all they have is the wood fireplace and I didn't want to impose on them any more than we already are. My parents have gas heat and tend to be very overly prepared for power outages. They live out in the country and the power goes out pretty often out there. I spent the next four nights at their house. Justin came out and stayed there too once he got home. On Thursday we went all over town and to Trumann looking for lamp oil and D batteries. We like everyone else in the area were in need of those things and of course couldn't find them anywhere. We did however find the cutest welcome bear for the house and a coleman camp stove to replace the one of my dad's that wasn't working so well. It was the last stove in the store. We got there just ahead of another man and I think he was a little irrtated that we took it and didn't let him have it. We finally found the lamp oil and batteries in Memphis!!! We had to run over and look at some flooring so the hunt continued on there. The Wal-Mart in Germantown had coleman kerosene (lamp oil) for the lamps and we found batteries at the Bass Pro there. The Bass Pro was completely wiped out of every camping supply they had! Saturday we spent the night at our friend's Keith & Denise's house. And we are now staying with Joslyn and Aaron. We feel like gypsies! We have been living out of the jeep and a suitcase for days now. Justin looked at me Saturday night and said, "Courtney, we have got to clean out this camper!" The jeep doesn't make the best camper, but we are making the best of what we've got til the power is back on at Ron & Jill's. A huge thanks to those that have taken us in this last week. We really do appreciate it!
Here are some pictures of what it was like at our house:
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Since the last post a lot of progress has been made. With the rafters finished the dormers were built. As you can see this made Courtney pretty happy.
With those done and some decking on the roof, you can really see what the house will look like now.
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You can see the rafters going on the front over the loft area in this pic. Lifting that rafter into position with no floor under it makes this a pretty difficult task. I don't think the guys were too happy about doing this.
One more shot of the back.
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National Seminar on" Mentoring Aspiring Entrepreneurs For International Business" was held at Radhakrishnan Auditorium, MDU, Rohtak on 16th Feb,2016, jointly organized by IIM, Rohtak and Institute of Management Studies And Research, MDU, Rohtak. Our four management students (two from MBA -4 and 2 from MBA-2) participated in the seminar. It was quite an educative and learning experience for management students.
Faculty member of IIM, Rohtak Dr. Suresh Takhar delivered the welcome address, and threw light on the theme of the seminar. Director, IMSAR Prof Neelam Jain also spoke on the occasion and said the management graduates must try to become job-creators rather than job-seekers.
Entrepreneurship requires creative ideas, deep commitment, futuristic vision, innovation, adaptability and marketing skills. Need of hour is to develop professionalism in entrepreneurship endeavour and work with strategic approach to achieve success at international business level. This was stated by Dr. Amiya Chamdra, Joint Director General( Foreign Trade), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India in the National Seminar.
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Delivering the key note address in the national seminar, Dr. Amiya Chandra said that future of International trade is tilting towards regional sectors. As such, budding entrepreneurs must look forward to start ups and ventures in regional sectors. He emphasized the importance of innovative and quality products and especially developing zero-defect products of International Standards. Dr. Amiya chandra underscored the significance of niche market strategy, and out of box thinking in entrepreneurial ventures.
Guest of Honour Dr. Damodar Y Golhar from Western Michigan University(USA) focused on developing quality world-class education system that would form the foundation for entrepreneurship in india. He called for robust academic industry interface in this regard.
MDU vice-chancellor Prof. B.K. Punia said in his address that International Business environment is very dynamic and provides a platform for entrepreneurial endeavor.
Director, IIM, Rohtak. Prof Atanu Rakshit said the setting up of incubation centers for entreprenership in India is need of the hour. He said IITs and IIMs must collaborate to set up technical incubation centres. He also throw light on role of educational institutions in nation building.
Assistant Professor, IMSAR, Dr. Ramphul expressed the vote of thanks and summarized the essence of the National Seminar. Key note speaker Dr. Amiya Chandra interacted with the students and answered their queries about entrepreneurship.
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Apple Crostata with Oat Crumble Topping
For the dough:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon sugar
2/3 cup Crisco
3/4 cold water
Extra sugar for dusting the crust before baking
While the dough is chilling, you can make your apple mixture for the filling.
For the apple filling:
6 small apples, peeled and sliced thinly (use Jonagold, Gala or Lady apples)
2/3 cup granulated white sugar
3/4 cup water plus another 1/3 cup water
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1-1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon chilled butter, cut into small pieces
For the crumble mixture:
1/4 cup oats
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
For the dough:
Add the flour to a large bowl along with the salt and sugar and sift together.
Add the Crisco to the dry ingredients. With your fingers or a pastry blender, mix the ingredients together. Add the water to the dough, a little at a time, and continue to mix until it looks like a course meal and there are several pea-sized clumps that form.
Continue to mix the dough until it's soft enough to form a dough ball.
Split the dough into two equal portions and form them into disks. Wrap the disks in plastic wrap and refrigerate them for about an hour.
For the apple filling:
Add the apples to a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar and 3/4 cups of water and coat well. Strain the liquid from the apples and place the liquid in a small saucepan.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together the cornstarch and 1/3 cup of water until smooth.
Bring the liquid in the pan to a boil. Once boiling, add the cornstarch mixture, a little at a time, until the liquid thickens. Remove from heat.
Pour the thickened mixture over the sliced apples and mix well to coat. Allow this mixture to stand for at least 30 minutes.
Begin preparations to roll out your pie dough:
When you're ready to form your crust, lightly flour your work surface and then the top of the dough, too. Start rolling out the dough with a rolling pin, moving it in one direction, starting at the middle of the dough, away from you. Rotate the dough a few times and continue the same rolling motion. The dough should be about 1/8-inch thick and about 3 inches larger than the size of your inverted pie pan.
When you're ready to move the dough to the pie pan, roll it over your rolling pin and unroll it over the pie pan. Let the dough settle to the bottom of the pan and gently press it down with your hands (you can also lightly bang the pan on your counter and rotate it). There should be about 3 inches of extra dough around the edges.
Add the apple mixture evenly across the bottom of the pie pan. Dot the top of the mixture with the 1 tablespoon of chilled butter pieces.
Fold the overhanging dough toward the center of the pie, pleating it all the way around. There should be a portion of the filling (in the middle) that will be exposed. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
For the crumble mixture:
In a small bowl mix together the dry ingredients. Add in the pieces of chilled butter and mix well with your hands to incorporate it.
Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the exposed filling, mounding it slightly. Use your fingers to press the crumble down a bit.
Lightly moisten the top of the crust with a bit of water and dust it with a little sugar.
Bake the pie for 15 minutes at 400 degrees F., then reduce the heat to 375 degrees F. and bake for 45 more minutes, or until the crust is golden and the apple mixture is bubbly
This recipe is really a cross between a pie and a crostata ("pietata," anyone?). Whatever you call it, it's my mom's hard-captured recipe, worth every bit of the wrestling I had to do to get it down in print!
This recipe makes enough dough for two, 9.5-inch pie pans (or crostatas), but the filling is just enough for one. You can freeze the unbaked dough for up to two months.
If you don't want to use a pie pan for this recipe, roll out your dough into a large circle (about 11-12 inches) then place it on a baking sheet. Add the apple filling to the center of the dough, and fold and pleat it all the way around as you would if you were following the instructions below.
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A community you can grow in! If you are just starting out to find your first home or transitioning to your second or third home, Saddle Creek in Burtonsville, Md. is the place for you. The community of Saddle Creek features all home sizes from cozy town homes to large detached homes. The neighborhood has a great location just off of Interstate 95. Residents can find plenty of activities in and around Burtonsville. And of course, the pleasure of being able to send your kids to Montgomery County Public Schools.
Saddle Creek in Burtonsville Md. Accommodates Everyone
This Maryland real estate has a place for everyone. Your first home in Saddle Creek can be a comfortable two bedroom town home with about 900 square feet. If you feel the need to expand to a larger town home, you can add a bedroom and an additional 400 square feet. And when you are ready for the big leap into a detached home, Saddle Creek can accommodate that move as well. The community has detached homes with two car garages and around 1200 square feet and up. You can find both brick front homes and handsome low maintenance vinyl elevations as well.
A community that allows you to grow in income and family size without changing location is a wonderful benefit.
Prices in Saddle Creek in Burtonsville, Md. range approximately from $200,000 to $400,000
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One of the best things about living in Saddle Creek in Burtonsville, Md. is the location. Just a short commute to one of the biggest job markets in the country, Washington D.C. In addition, the community is not too far from the National Security Administration (NSA) and Fort Meade. Just a little bit further of a commute away is Baltimore Maryland and its job market.
Saddle Creek is close to public transportation with Marc Train in nearby Laurel. The "Kiss and Ride" is five minutes from the neighborhood. Residents can use the "Kiss and Ride" for a quick ride to the nearest D.C. Metro Station. The D.C. Metrorail makes it easy for home owners to visit all the history and other tourist attractions in Washington D.C.
The Saddle Creek Burtonsville area is close to shopping. Residents can choose to visit Colombia Mall, anchored by Nordstrom, Lord and Taylor and Sears. Or, head South and visit the new Downtown Silver Spring. Downtown Silver Spring Md. offers plenty of shopping, entertainment, and dining.
Additional dining choices a little closer to Saddle Creek can be found in Laurel, Md. National chains like, The Olive Garden, Fridays, The Silver Diner, Don Pablo's and Einstein's Bagels can be found within walking distance of each other.
So you can see, Saddle Creek is some great Maryland real estate. You will happy to live here if you choose to do so. You can find homes for sale in Saddle Creek (if any are currently available, or any available homes in Burtonsville, Md. by visiting my web site.
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Despite pavlova being a traditional Australian/New Zealand dessert I had never actually tried it until a few years ago. It is a favourite of my husband's and he often has me whip one up for him.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with pav it is basically one big pile of meringue which is crunchy on the outside and fluffy and soft on the inside, topped with whipped cream and seasonal fruit. We are not too fussed on the fluffy middle, to me it has a slight raw egg flavour so I make a variation on the traditional pav by making several thin rounds of meringue and layer them with cream and strawberries to make a pavlova stack. These thin layers are mostly crunchy with a bit of chewy gooiness in the middle and no raw egg flavour.
As it is my husbands birthday this week (and this happens to be my 100th post) I thought I would make these cute individual Mini Pavlova Stacks.
The recipe I use is simple and super easy.
6 egg whites, (I can't bear the waste of throwing away the yolks so they are in the freezer and there may be some ice cream in my near future)
1 1/2 cups of caster sugar
Whip whites and sugar in an electric mixer on high until thick and glossy, I did it for about 5 minutes.
Line several baking trays with baking paper and sprinkle with cornflour. I also draw circles on the paper to use as a guide when spreading the meringue.
Spoon or pipe equal amounts of meringue onto the paper and spread it out using the circles to ensure they are all an equal size and shape.
Pop them in an oven preheated to 120 degrees Celsius for roughly an hour, they should sound hollow when tapped. Turn the oven off but don't remove them just yet, leave the oven door ajar and let them sit in the oven for another hour or so to dry out.
If they don't readily come away from the paper then they haven't dried out enough, I just put mine back in the oven for a little longer. However, it is my experience that some meringues just don't want to play nicely. Out of the 18 rounds I made 2 were not interested in behaving correctly and consequently were smashed.
Now it is time to put the stack together!
Whip up some cream layer one meringue, cream, fruit of your choice, berries, tropical fruits like mango, kiwi and passionfruit or stone fruits like peaches or nectarines are definitely the best, repeat layers twice.
You should definitely serve this fresh and with a scoop of very good quality vanilla ice cream!
Now go and enjoy this heavenly little treat!
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You've probably recently heard of 'Generation Y' (sometimes referred to as 'Millennials'), as the term seems to appear more and more in mainstream news channels. You might even be part of the Generation Y bracket yourself! In case you aren't aware of this growing demographic, we'll quickly summarise it for you –
"Millennials (also known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when the generation starts and ends; most researchers and commentators use birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s"
So essentially, anyone currently aged between 16 and 36 is a trusty Millennial. This demographic of young adults has, unknowingly, changed and is still changing the landscape of consumerism all over the world. Their interests and demands are vastly different to their predecessors, and their dependence on technology and the digital world is transforming the way in which we live our lives and do business.
The era Generation Y grew up in was one where digital really began taking shape and becoming mainstream in popular culture; with Millennials being dubbed the consumer champions and early adopters of the internet, online gaming, social media, MSN, apps, and smartphones. This trend has remained as these young people became young adults graduating school or university to join an organisation, armed with a smartphone and a deeply engrained digital culture.
What do we mean by 'digital culture'?
Millennials have different lifestyle habits to the preceding Generation X. The way in which information is obtained is at the click of a few buttons or a quick Google search, leading to an inherent dependence on choice. Pages and pages of Google, Yahoo, and Bing searches lead to unprecedented choice. Information can be communicated to friends, family, or colleagues in a host of ways – many of which are digital and require no physical words to be spoken; social media, email, instant messaging, group chat, or text. Generation Y has become accustomed to an expectation of instant information, efficiency, and exceptional choice, and these are three of the biggest challenges the landscape of consumerism has had to evolve to meet…including that of business travel.
How is business travel changing to meet the demands of Generation Y?
Generation Y is essentially the next generation of business travellers. The once-teenagers growing up in the late 80s or early 90s are now approaching 30 years old and will be stepping in to the well-travelled shoes of Generation X. Let's look at the facts; there are currently over 800 million young people in the Generation Y bracket. It's estimated that by 2020, they'll be taking 320 million business trips per year, and with a much higher travel expenditure than Generation X, they'll be contributing a whopping 75% to business travel spend. Now is most definitely the time to join the conversation on how we as an industry can evolve to meet their needs.
So, what do they need?
There are three elements to Millennial business travel; technology, choice and exploring new places. These are now the three factors that dominate where Generation Y is booking their corporate travel and how they're booking it. A corporate online booking tool isn't nearly as effective as it was a decade ago; with Concur estimating that up to 50% of business travel is booked outside the traditional, mandated avenues. That's almost half of an organisation's travel programme booked either on an app or directly with a supplier. From both a spend reconciliation AND a duty of care perspective, that figure is pretty scary.
1. Travel Booking
Studies show that mobile technology is indispensable to a Generation Y traveller, with 32% using smartphones to book travel and a further 20% using a tablet. Comparing this to Generation X with less than 11% using a smartphone, you start to see a trend. Having a mobile booking avenue is vastly more appealing to a Millennial than using a desktop computer; something that remembers their payment/billing/personal information, offers plenty of choice on price and can be done on-the-go. Millennials are traditionally quite busy people, balancing a career, a vibrant social life and usually a health and fitness regime all at once. Time is precious and apps are their way of getting things done efficiently, quickly and on-the-move.
2. Choice
Choice is really at the heart of a Millennial's business travel habits and from this spring a host of opportunities and challenges that the industry is rising to meet. One Google search for a flight to New York will yield approximately 209 million results and countless pages to scroll through! The level of choice available on the internet is phenomenal and not to be underestimated as a compelling tool for booking outside mandated policy. Having grown up through a double dip recession, value for money remains a real priority for Millennials and is currently one of the main reasons that travellers book directly with a supplier, or on a last-minute-deal website. More choice on the internet inevitably means a larger price range to choose from; prices which can often beat those offered by their incumbent travel management company.
3. Connectivity
Hotels all around the world are currently racing to put together free Wi-Fi packages for their business travellers as a means to keep their business. In a rather worrying recent survey, a host of Millennials were asked if they would rather have permanent internet connectivity or lose their sense of smell… can you guess their answer? You got it, over half of them chose connectivity. Poor connectivity is an issue for many travellers, Generation X included, but for our Generation Y demographics, it is often the difference between making a booking or not.
4. Bleisure
Whilst we can all agree that 'bleisure' is an incredibly ugly industry buzzword, the fact remains that employees are five times as likely to extend their business trips for leisure purposes than they were a decade ago. Meeting new people and exploring new places is engrained in the culture of Generation Y and with increasing pressure to work harder and longer hours, it makes sense that they've become opportunistic with their time off. By simply adding a few days of annual leave onto their work trip, they're saving in air fare and will often invite a friend or family member out with them.
So there're four top priorities for busy business travelling Millennials. With a host of new loyalty programmes, data capture technology, Wi-Fi bundles, bleisure policies, payment reconciliation tools, itinerary integration apps, and duty of care platforms being created specifically to target the needs of this demographic, we think Generation Y might just be the most powerful demographic the consumer world has seen yet.
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How to improve WordPress speed and performance – RianGraphics
WordPress is one of the most used cms's of the whole World Wide Web. I'll teach you how to improve WordPress speed, as you know a slow website will never get high ranks. Here you will find out how to improve your site's speed and get all the benefits from WordPress platform.
The most annoying experience you can provide to a visitor on your website is a slow page load time. How many times while you're searching for something on Google and the best result takes 5 to 10 seconds to load? It happens all the time it's granted. For a better user experience, we all should care about providing a better page load time for our's end users. It will definitely help your ranks, maximize your bounce rate and view time, your users will spend more time viewing content on your website. Just think a moment about it, if your page responds quickly in off, the user will be less annoyed. Your users will definitely stay more to learn about what you do or sell on the web. Your conversion rate will blast and more money will come.
Try to focus on improving the page load time and response. Don't let your users leave your awesome pages, just because of such an issue so easy to fix. WordPress has a long list of valid solutions for this type of problem. It can be easily fixed by just installing some plugins in your WordPress Installation. Remind that for a full fix you need to go a bit further. Tweaking a little bit with some options and touch a bit of your template code.
If you want to know how to improve WordPress speed keep reading
Here's a list of bad practice for speed when building a Web page:
- Too many Http requests (try to make just a few Http requests on your Web pages Http requests are everything your page need to be rendered like stylesheet files, javascript files, image files, font files. When possible combine them together, this way you will have fewer Http requests)
- Too big files (avoid big images and script files, they will take a lot of time to be downloaded and as result your page will be very slow, for images try to save them with Web resolution the file size will be very tiny, minify your scripts and load your videos in external platforms like YouTube)
- Gzip module disabled (Gzip is an apache module that compresses your files for the browser, Gzip is a very powerful tool to make your site faster. You'll notice a big difference in your page speed if Gzip is ON)
- Cache system disabled (enabling a Cache system and defining the right expiring time will help you page load very fast if you already visited that page. The cache saves for you all the files a Web page need to be rendered, doing that the second time a user visit that page he already has those files on his computer and the page will flash in a second)
- Not Minified Html (another tip, minify your HTML output it'll save many bytes)
- Use of images when not needed (do not make use of images when isn't necessary CSS is a better solution in many cases)
Good practices when you trying to improve WordPress speed
Let's see what's a good practice in terms of page speed optimization. Knowing what's bad, you agree with me that is pretty easy to guess what's good practice:
- Less Http requests are gold in terms of page speed optimization. Having just a few Http requests is your first goal to archive. Your browser will love your pages and page delivery will be fairly faster.
- Optimize your images for the Web (resize your images based on your layout don't oversize it. If you have a little 100×80 pixels image box, resize your image.
With that same parameter do not load an image 10 times bigger. Here some good parameters to keep in mind when saving an image for the Web.
Keep your dpi at "72" this is the best quality value, your images should be like 1024px width, don't oversize if not needed)
- Combine and minify your CSS and js files (this way you'll have fewer Http requests and save lot of bytes)
- Activate Gzip compression (this is mandatory Gzip will bless your pages with the power of file compression. You just need to activate it Gzip will take care of the rest)
- Enable a good cache system (Cache will optimize your pages, saving your files in the browser cache.
This way all your returning visitors will have better experience and pages will load faster)
- Move all your CSS and scripts at the bottom of the page.
Doing that your page will be rendered while those blocking files are being downloaded and your visitors won't leave your pages at the very first 2 seconds).
- Minify HTML to save even more bytes
- Don't use images when not needed (instead of a flat gray background image, use CSS. Don't use an image for every icon. You may need put them together and create a font file and so on)
OK now the good part of improving WordPress speed
We covered some of the bad and good practice. Let's take care of how you actually can improve your WordPress pages performance.
In the WordPress repository, there are many plugins to help you in all kind of aspects of how to improve WordPress speed. Let's see which ones you can count on.


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Coinstar, Inc. Announces Executive Leadership Succession Plan
J. Scott Di Valerio to Succeed Paul Davis as Chief Executive Officer Effective April 1, 2013
Names Galen C. Smith Chief Financial Officer
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Coinstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTR), a leading provider of automated retail solutions, today announced that the Coinstar Board of Directors has appointed J. Scott Di Valerio, currently Coinstar's chief financial officer, as the company's next chief executive officer, effective April 1, 2013. Di Valerio was also appointed to the Coinstar Board of Directors effective at that time. Di Valerio will succeed Paul Davis, 55, who is retiring on March 31, 2013. Davis will remain a member of the Coinstar Board of Directors through March.
Di Valerio, 50, has served as Coinstar's CFO since 2010, and, in addition to his leadership of the finance organization, has overseen Coinstar's corporate information technology and supply chain functions.
"Scott's appointment as CEO is a direct result of the Board's long-time focus on developing a deep management team and ensures that Coinstar will continue to benefit from strong leadership following Paul's retirement," said Deborah Bevier, chair of the Coinstar Board of Directors. "Scott is a proven leader at Coinstar and a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of management, operations and finance experience. Coinstar has a clear and focused growth strategy, and the Board is confident that Scott is the right person to lead the company through its next phase of development."
Bevier continued, "On behalf of the Coinstar Board and the entire organization, I would like to thank Paul for his outstanding leadership of the company. For nearly four years as Coinstar's CEO, Paul has successfully guided the company to tremendous growth and profitability through a wide range of initiatives, including refocusing Coinstar on organic growth through its core businesses, shedding underperforming businesses, and growing Redbox from 6,000 kiosks to the 42,000 kiosks we have today. Thanks to his strong leadership, Coinstar is well positioned for future growth. We wish him the very best in his retirement."
Davis said, "I am extremely proud of the many accomplishments we have achieved at Coinstar and look forward to teaming with Scott and the entire management team to ensure a smooth transition in the months ahead. I have been fortunate to have worked closely with Scott during the past three years, and I can attest firsthand that he is the right executive with the right experience and background to lead Coinstar forward. I believe that under Scott's leadership, Coinstar will continue to expand on its market-leading position and in new venture opportunities to drive future growth and value creation for our shareholders."
Added Di Valerio, "I am honored by the confidence the Board has in me to lead Coinstar through its next chapter of growth and share Paul's enthusiasm for Coinstar's automated retail businesses and the opportunities we have to deliver value to our shareholders. I am excited to continue our work and lead our talented team in growing the business through the strategic initiatives and new ventures under way and in development."
Coinstar also announced today that Galen C. Smith, senior vice president of finance at Redbox Automated Retail, LLC, Coinstar's wholly-owned subsidiary, will succeed Di Valerio as chief financial officer. Smith, 36, joined Coinstar in 2009 and has served in his current role leading the finance function at Redbox since 2011, and prior as corporate VP, finance and treasurer for Coinstar. The company has started the process to identify a successor for the Redbox finance leadership role.
Di Valerio added, "Galen is a valuable leader and proven executive in the Coinstar organization. His extensive financial experience as well as his knowledge of Coinstar will contribute significantly to the company's continued growth and financial strength. Galen's broad and comprehensive understanding of our businesses will be a valuable asset as we continue to execute on our strategy and work to enhance value for all Coinstar stakeholders."
Coinstar expects to report 2012 fourth quarter and full year revenue and core adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations within the ranges provided on October 25, 2012, with core diluted EPS from continuing operations trending at or above the high end of the range primarily due to lower company G&A expenses and certain tax benefits at Redbox.
About J. Scott Di Valerio
Scott Di Valerio joined Coinstar in January 2010 and assumed the role of chief financial officer in March 2010. In addition to his leadership of the finance organization, Di Valerio also leads the company's corporate information technology and supply chain functions. He has over 25 years finance, operations and management experience. Prior to joining Coinstar, Di Valerio served as president of the Americas for the Lenovo Group Limited and held senior positions at Microsoft Corp., including corporate vice president of Microsoft's OEM division and corporate vice president of finance and administration. Previously, Di Valerio served in management positions at The Walt Disney Company and Mindwave Software Inc., and as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
About Galen C. Smith
Galen C. Smith joined Coinstar in June 2009 and assumed the role of corporate VP, finance and treasurer in January 2010 overseeing corporate financial planning, treasury, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations. In May 2011, he became the senior vice president, finance at Redbox leading financial operations in addition to business negotiations, including the digital joint venture with Verizon and studio deals with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Prior to joining Coinstar, Smith was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Consumer and Retail Investment Banking Group.
About Coinstar, Inc.
Coinstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTR) is a leading provider of automated retail solutions offering convenient services that make life easier for consumers and drive incremental traffic and revenue for retailers. The company's core automated retail businesses include the well-known Redbox® self-service DVD and video game rental and Coinstar® self-service coin-counting brands. The company has approximately 42,400 Redbox DVD kiosks and 20,300 coin-counting kiosks in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants, financial institutions, convenience stores, and restaurants. Redbox also offers DVD rentals through additional kiosks acquired from NCR Corporation in June 2012. For more information, visit www.coinstarinc.com.
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "will," "expect," "intend," "anticipate" and variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding Coinstar's management changes. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future actions, results, performance or events, which may vary materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Differences may result from actions taken by Coinstar or Redbox or their management, as well as from risks and uncertainties beyond Coinstar's control. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, timing and integration of management changes, changes in strategic and financial objectives, and the ability to attract new retailers, penetrate new markets and distribution channels and react to changing consumer demands. The foregoing list of risks and uncertainties is illustrative but by no means exhaustive. For more information on factors that may affect Coinstar, please review "Risk Factors" and other disclosures described in Coinstar's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements reflect Coinstar's expectations as of the date of this release. Coinstar undertakes no obligation to update the information provided herein.
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|p4 1,7 ghz (2:10am est thu mar 29 2001)
finally we will see a p4 able to compete with athlons without losing in (almost) all the benchmarks – by matteo
|p4$ (9:00am est thu mar 29 2001)
there is still one important benchmark in which the athlon will still whip the p4- price. it is possible to buy the latest and greatest (and fastest, as the benchmarks say), but is it really worth buying it when the cash you will save will buy you another system on down the road (and you wouldn't notice the speed difference anyway)? the fastest stuff is great when you spend other people's money (like when your company buys it for you), but when it comes to building my own stuff, what i'm buying should be worth the money. so far, the p4 isn't. – by akula
|blurb on p4 1.7ghz from the register (1:52pm est thu mar 29 2001)
i read an article the other day on the register () stating that the p4 will be released at prices of $776 each in quantities of 1,000. they also mentioned that this was "handsomly priced". well, i had to call them out and write back on that one. :)
the fact is for $776 (a price the street will never see because there's reseller markup on top of it) you can almost get a whole amd system. from pricewatch.com on 29-mar-2001:
$232 – 1.33ghz athlon-c (266mhz fsb)
$1133-$776 = $357. so, for an extra $357 you can get a whole computer system over the price of just an (equivalent in performance) pentium 4 chip alone.
intel? are you listening? – by rick c. hodgin
|they probably know… rick (6:33pm est thu mar 29 2001)
i think that people aren't so afraid of spending that extra money to get an awesome chip. besides, intel has their prices at that level for some reason, and they must not be too concerned with lowering it down to their competitors' prices. p4's are much cheaper now that when the 1ghz came out ($990us). like holy ship man! who ever bought one of those when they were new are probably kicking themselves in the ass for not buying one in today's' time for about half that, or just when it lost 40% of its value:) haha! oops, sorry. besides, i think a gig is fine for anything anyone does, along with a large quantity of cheap 133mhz sdram. still not fast enough? then overclock your gig. that's what people will be talking about in the near future when a gig is a simple common every-day-bought chip. very soon�
intel rules! – by bye bye
|yawn… (7:50pm est thu mar 29 2001)
the question is why would you spend the extra money to buy a chip that is not going to give you any real performance boost. the fact is, the pentium 4 is nothing more than marketing fluff with an outrageous price.
– by tac
|bye bye pentium 4 (8:59pm est thu mar 29 2001)
>intel has their prices at that level for some reason
you're right. it's because the die of the pentium 4 is more than 200 mm2! it costs them a fortune to make. their yields (assuming everything works perfectly per wafer) is about 1/2 of what amd can do and about 1/5th of what via can do with their cyrix and c3. they have to sell them for more to make up the difference.
>and they must not be too concerned with lowering it down to their
not only **are** they concerned about it but they're also going forward with their risky capital investment plan. and they're doing this in spite of falling revenues because they are a smart company and they recognize the fact that they are not going to make enough money from the pentium 4 to make their investors happy. they've had to go to plan b.
let's face it, intel made a bad chip. the pentium 4 is a failure in every practical way. it is expensive. it is not faster on real world applications. it is not even forward upgradable (all chips made today will be replaced in q3 with a new pentium 4 that won't even fit the socket the pentium 4's use today).
bottom line, if you take a look at the price / performance charts you end up with an expensive piece of silicon that will do nothing but drain your wallet. the only advantages the pentium 4 has are a fast bus on sequential memory transfers and sse2. beyond that everything about the chip is crippled and not, in my opinion, even worthy of the pentium name. – by rick c. hodgin
|p4 1.7 (11:11pm est fri may 18 2001)
where can i buy a p4 1.7?
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