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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Gateway ID47H07u
Whether it's laptops or HDTVs, one thing you seldom hear anyone say is, "I wish it had a bigger bezel." The bezel around the screen of the Gateway ID47H07u ($699.99 list) is pencil-thin, helping to squeeze a 14-inch widescreen into the body of a 13-inch system. The result is a mainstream laptop contender that's more portable (4.4 pounds) than many of its competitors, as well as well-equipped with everything from a USB 3.0 port to Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology for cloning the PC's screen on a (suitably thin-bezeled) HDTV.
The addition of WiDi (which requires Netgear's Push2TV adapter, a $100 extra, for the TV set) and a fractionally faster Core i5 processor differentiate the ID47H07u from the Gateway ID47H02u ($699.99 list, 4 stars). The price is unchanged, which is always nice. And we readily found some online resellers offering the ID47H07u for $50 less, which is even nicer.
Design
Instead of chintzy plastic, the 9 by 13 by 1.1-inch (HWD) ID47H07u flaunts a handsome aluminum-alloy lid and keyboard deck, the latter setting off the metallic chiclet-style keys. You won't find the backlit keyboard seen on our Editors' Choice Dell Inspiron 14z (Core i5) ($750 direct, 4 stars), but you'll appreciate the smooth, precise typing feel. One odd design choice: There's a rightmost column of full-sized keys just screaming to be Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn, but Gateway opted to make them volume control, mute, and social network?a button that launches Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr?keys instead. Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn are doubled up on the cursor arrows.
Similarly, the ID47H07u's plus-size touchpad has integrated (lower left and right corners) rather than dedicated mouse buttons. Normally a turnoff for yours truly, they worked well enough, but the pad's plastic surface puts up a little more friction or resistance than I'm used to. Of course, touchpads that glide too smoothly can lead to accidental cursor movements, but subjectively I felt the ID47H07u's went a bit too far in the opposite direction.
The laptop's 14-inch display offers the 1,366 by 768 resolution that's familiar in this size and price class; it's not dazzlingly bright but delivers crisp text and vivid colors. The "Professionally Tuned" (according to an inscription above the keyboard) speakers work with Dolby Home Theater software to pump out pretty good sound, if not a ton of bass.
Features
The optical drive on the ID47H07u's right side is a dual-layer DVD burner, not the Blu-ray drive found in the pricier Sony VAIO VPC-EG27FM/W ($779.99 list, 3.5 stars) or Toshiba Satellite P745-S4320 ($869.99 list, 3.5 stars). It's joined on that side by a USB 3.0 port, along with an Ethernet port. At the left are two USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone jacks, and VGA and HDMI video ports. A memory-card slot occupies the front edge.
In addition to the Wi twins (WiFi and WiDi), the ID47H07u offers Bluetooth, but not the Wi triplet WiMAX?as seen in the Toshiba P745-S4320, Sony VPC-EG27FM/W, and Asus U46E-BAL5 ($699.99 list, 4.5 stars)?or other mobile broadband. In addition to a one-year parts-and-labor warranty, Gateway provides a modest software bundle led by Microsoft Office Starter 2010 and a 60-day trial of Norton Internet Security.
Performance
At first glance, the ID47H07u's 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive look merely adequate; after all, a couple of its competitors have 640GB drives, and the Asus U46E-BAL5 offered a full 8GB of memory and a 750GB drive for the same price. But the ID47H07u's 2.4GHz Intel Core i5-2430M processor?the same dual-core, four-thread chip found under the hood of the Sony VPC-EG27FM/W and Toshiba P745-S4320?is fully competitive, as seen by the Gateway's topping its peers with a score of 2,384 in our PCMark 7 performance benchmark.
Other benchmark races were photo finishes: The ID47H07u's times in our Handbrake video encoding (1 minute 50 seconds) and Adobe Photoshop image editing (4:01) tests were each precisely one second slower than the Sony EG27FM/W, but it pipped the Sony EG27FM/W by a hundredth of a point with a Cinebench score of 2.70. Like its fellows, the ID47H07u will leave avid gamers searching for systems with something other than Intel integrated graphics?it managed an unplayable 23 and 14.1 frames per second, respectively, in Crysis and Lost Planet 2 at medium resolution and quality settings.
At 7 hours 32 minutes, our ID47H07u fell short of the magic eight-hour mark but still showed impressive unplugged life for a compact without a bulky battery pack. By contrast, the Toshiba P745-S4320 managed only 5:42, though the Dell 14z and Sony EG27FM/W each lasted over an hour longer than the Gateway. The battery is sealed within the system case MacBook Air- or ultrabook-style, preventing you from swapping in a spare for long trips or replacing it yourself when it starts to tire with age.
Unless WiMAX is a must for you, the Gateway ID47H07u offers a ton of features in a handsome, highly portable chassis for a pleasingly low price. Its bid to topple the Dell Inspiron 14z (Core i5) for Editors' Choice honors is thwarted only by our subjective impressions of its keyboard and touchpad, plus the Dell's backlit keyboard and removable battery.
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Disputed Voting Turns Church, a Kremlin Ally, Into Its Critic
Published: Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:10 a.m.
Always a reliable pillar of support for the government of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and his United Russia Party, the powerful Orthodox Church has been noticeably ? to some, shockingly ? critical of the elections. Arguably the only major national institution outside the state, the church could potentially play a significant role as the current political and social crisis unfolds.
Patriarch Kirill is by no means the only religious critic of the government since the elections, and certainly not the toughest. ?People of the most varied convictions are now gathering on the square, but they are united by one thing, their unwillingness to live like this any longer,? Archpriest Aleksei Uminsky, a popular Moscow priest who hosts a television program about Orthodoxy, said at a public gathering last week. ?The same thing is happening right now in the church.?
In addition to urging the church to invite serious discussion about Russian society, Father Uminsky called attention to injustices within the church ranks. He cited the case of a priest who died of a heart attack while fighting to preserve church property from Kremlin-backed development plans. ?There was no reaction? from any church leaders in that case and other disturbing episodes, he noted, ?but something is brewing inside.?
Another prominent Moscow priest, the Rev. Andrei Zuevsky, posted a sermon on his Facebook page last weekend that sharply criticized the existing order, and was quickly circulated on blogs.
?As a result of the particular way in which power is set up in our society today, this arrogant attitude toward the people has become the abnormal norm,? Father Zuevsky said. ?Those in power are not only haughty, they refuse anyone but themselves the right to decide what is good and what is bad.?
The criticism has grown so heated that Patriarch Kirill, keenly aware of the church?s continuing dependence on the state, has felt compelled to warn priests to watch their Internet tongues, saying, ?Careless and sometimes intentionally provocative statements by priests cast a shadow on all of God?s church.?
Yet the patriarch, known for mixing tradition with enough modernity to keep himself and his church relevant, condemned neither the Internet nor the right to criticism voiced by priests, monks, nuns and even bishops now blogging and posting on Facebook. Every new parish in Moscow, he has said, should keep in step with the times, accessible to young people and with a home page.
Those comments, at a diocesan assembly on Friday, followed both the statement last week in which Patriarch Kirill upheld the right to protest and sermons on Dec. 17 and 18 in which he urged the government to heed popular anger.
At the same time, alluding to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Communists? near-destruction of the church, he warned of the dangers of revolution in Russia and of the Internet in manipulating the masses, and stressed that all Russians must work on personal transformation in order for society to change. ?We no longer have the right to be divided,? he said, calling for a broad civic dialogue. ?The blood that was shed in the 20th century does not give us that right.?
Particularly striking since the elections have been statements by priests, including those of Father Uminsky, published by Pravmir, a Russian Orthodox news Web site. Patriarch Kirill ? while lauding official steps, like President Dmitri A. Medvedev?s recent appointments of hard-liners to high government positions, or his promises of change ? went out of his way to praise Pravmir?s coverage of the church and society.
The Rev. Dmitri Sverdlov, a young priest who used to work in finance, drew a broad audience and the admiration of secular liberals often cynical about the church with his account of volunteering as an election observer at a Moscow polling place and seeing ballot stuffing in favor of United Russia.
The diocesan assembly has since forbidden priests to act without authorization as election observers, and has warned that it is ?extremely dangerous? for clerics to violate the overall church rule against participating in election campaigns.
Yet Pravmir and the recent involvement of the church in the discussions about the elections have surprised secular Russians. Dmitri Gubin, a journalist and avowed atheist who had said the silence of the church hierarchy was leading him to regard the Russian Orthodox Church as a branch of the state, said he was ?dumbfounded.?
?For the first time in Russia, I got a clear religious view on a secular problem,? he wrote in Ogonyok, a newsmagazine.
Andrei Zubov, a historian who has studied Russian church-state relations, said the Russian Orthodox Church today had modeled itself on the Kremlin ? ?The church is building approximately the same kind of authoritarian system as has been built by today?s regime? ? and yet was gaining legitimacy as the Kremlin lost ground.
This, he contended, enables Patriarch Kirill to appear as a voice of moderation, a position most likely encouraged by the authorities.
?His declarations are taking on more and more the tonality of a high moderator, who can, he thinks, still calm down the situation, which is headed otherwise to a complete split of society from the regime, and, correspondingly, towards profound political crisis,? Mr. Zubov said.
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Moscow patriarchate?s department on church and society relations, has said recently that he was meeting regularly with representatives of various political parties, including the Communist Party.
Father Chaplin, a controversial figure who hews publicly to government policy yet also frequents a Moscow club known for indie music and alcohol-fueled debates, said there were now Orthodox believers among the Communists, who are No. 2 among the officially sanctioned political parties in Russia, after United Russia.
For now, the church is avoiding unsanctioned political parties. ?So far, the radical opposition has not come to us with proposals to facilitate a dialogue with the authorities,? Father Chaplin said in an interview. ?A dialogue is needed of course.?
The patriarch and Father Chaplin have stressed that the Russian divide is not just between the Kremlin and those in the streets, arguing that dialogue must include everyone: the elite, workers and peasants, liberals and conservatives, officers and soldiers, and the creative intelligentsia.
Source: http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20111229/znyt03/112293019
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Friday, December 30, 2011
How To Make Money From Home With Facebook And Twitter
When we understand, that it is important to market with the social mediums, we are after two benefits, how to reach higher rankings with our Facebook page, for instance, and how the social media posts can increase the rankings of our website. When we have solved this problem, we have far better ways how to make money from home. Lets discuss about this.
1. The Social Media Market is Heavily Growing.
The social media has two benefits. It is a big market and it is growing strongly. The total visitor number is 6,2 billion and unique visitors 213 million. The market is strong, so the question is, how you can turn enough visitors to your social media page or to your website?
The secret is to know, what these visitors are looking for and how they do that. Did you know, that many visitors use the search function, actually 845 million searches were made, up 13,5 %! If SEO is familiar to you, you guess the opportunity.
The searchers search mainly people or brands. Yes, brands. The social media is also called a conversational media, i.e. an interactive one, which gives hints, how to use it to promote or to build a brand.
2. How To Rank Better With Social Media Page?
If you wonder, how to make money from home with the social media, one answer is, that your page must rank well. It is a question about the links. Do you link from your home page? Use also your brand name in the post content.
The search engines give value to the crowd science, i.e. the more people like your page, the higher ranking it will get. Are your likes, follows and +1 in condition? Its about trust building. If Facebook is your only medium, this is even more important.
3. How Social Media Can Improve Your Website Rankings?
As we have seen how Google has changed its algorithms, the criteria which sets the rules how the ranked pages are ordered, it is clear, that the links from the social media have become more important. It is important that the landing page is easy to like, i.e. that the social media buttons are in place. It is crucial to call visitors to action, i.e. to share the thing, they just liked.
4. Define The Role Of The Social Media In The Sales Funnel.
As said, the social media is an interactive and discussing media and the different social media sites have different user profiles. If the social media is the first point in the sales funnel, what you have planned it to do?
Is it a teaser, which persuades readers to get more from the landing page? Does it communicate the same brand identity than the landing page and other sales funnel parts? Does it have a personal and human feeling, like some club has, so that it will encourage to participate?
5. If You Do It, Do It Properly.
The social media is not anymore a discussion forum, but a serious business medium. When you ponder ways how to make money from home, you can even end up to use only one social media and to learn to master it.
Remember, that the brand building is crucial with a planned brand strategy. Without it there is a danger, that all what you get is a content, which does not share any benefits to the visitors.
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Tornado alarm interrupts wedding
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The video shows the couple just moments away from being wed.
"If there is anyone here who has just cause why this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony speak now or forever hold your peace," the minister says.
At that moment a loud tornado alarm begins sounding, causing the group to erupt in uneasy laughter.
It is unclear when or where the video was filmed, but it was uploaded to social news website Reddit today.
User Mr_Rawrr posted it with the message saying he was the one who filmed the video.
The video prompted another user to share a similar story.
"Years ago at my cousin's wedding something similar happened," user Plumhawk wrote.
"The altar they were standing on had a lattice with white roses intertwined overhead. As the pastor said the 'speak now' portion of the ceremony, a rose broke off and bounced off the pastor's head.
"Everyone laughed. Within a few years, they were divorced."
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Rabbi?s rounds include visits with college kids
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December 28, 2011
Every year, David Spiro, a senior at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, looks forward to having dinner there with Rabbi Clifford Kulwin of Temple B?nai Abraham in Livingston, where Spiro grew up and celebrated becoming a bar mitzva.
?We always go the Cottage Inn, and he goes around the table and asks each individual, ?What are you doing in school?? and then we talk about contemporary news events,? said Spiro. ?He always tries to get a gauge on the campus and?how the younger generation perceives what?s going on in the world.?
Spiro and his fellow Wolverines aren?t the only college kids to get a visit from the rabbi. Every year, Kulwin visits children of temple members at colleges with a critical mass of Jewish kids, including Indiana University, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, Penn State, Syracuse, Bucknell, Rutgers, and Princeton.
This year, he will visit the University of Maryland and University of Delaware for the first time.
He also went to the University of California-Berkeley this year ? and for just one student. Congregants forgave the exception: he visited his own son.
Kulwin said he embarks on his travels to maintain ties with students at an age where they are often not engaging with the Jewish world.
?Because I?m able to maintain ties over the course of the year, there?s a different dynamic,? he said in a phone interview shortly after returning from a Midwest jaunt that included the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ?Students often e-mail me about paper topics in Jewish studies or for different kinds of advice. I can think of a couple of situations where a kid was going through something particularly challenging and turned to me in a way they otherwise might not have. And I get to spend time encouraging students to go on Birthright Israel and study abroad in Israel.?
He said, ?The mere fact that I?m there is Jewish reinforcement.?
He finds the conversations with students ?fascinating.?
?What?s happening on campus is not part of my day-to-day life, though it is important to the Jewish community and our families,? said Kulwin. ?I?m interested in the political issues that present themselves to our kids and what concerns they have, from a Jewish point of view or any other.?
Some schools can be more politically charged than others around issues like Israel. Michigan, with its large Arab-American population from the Detroit suburbs, for example, has a long history of political engagement.
Kulwin logs 6,000-8,000 driving and flying miles each year in visits to about a dozen schools. The cost comes from the synagogue?s annual budget.
?All his children?
Parents are thrilled by his visits.
Susy Spiro, David?s mother, said, ?What rabbi goes to colleges and takes kids out to dinner? It just shows the kids what a close community we have, and they know the rabbi cares enough to take time from his busy schedule to spend time with them.?
Lori Schlanger of Short Hills was at first shocked to learn about the visits and her children?s interest (she has three, the youngest two at the University of Michigan, the eldest a recent graduate).
?We weren?t all that involved ? we are the kind of Jews who only went for the High Holy Days,? she said. ?But my kids jumped at the chance to have dinner with the rabbi. Now my kids feel very close to him. And I love the fact they are connecting with somebody Jewish.?
?It?s so important for our kids during these years that they are not so in touch with the temple and with Judaism; this keeps them in touch,? said Nurit Gans, whose son, Asaf, attends Penn State.
Aliza Roth, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, had dinner with Kulwin on his recent trip. Her mother, Ginny, also appreciates what it does for the parents. ?It means the world to us and to our kids. At a time when parents are not that involved in synagogue life, he e-mails them about his visit to their children, and it keeps them connected.?
Students like the visits from home.
Mara Schlanger, a University of Michigan student, said she didn?t know what to expect the first time she joined Kulwin at the Cottage Inn. She didn?t know many of the other TBA kids attending the school and hadn?t spent much time with the rabbi recently. ?Dinner turned out to be a comforting taste of home,? she said. ?I got the same sense of relief seeing him as I would my parents, friends, or anyone I was close with in New Jersey. It was comforting knowing that I was in the presence of someone that I?ve had a relationship with since childhood.?
She also described how the rabbi manages to put the students at ease, in part by telling the waitress, ?to bring us anything we wanted, because we were ?all his children,?? she said. ?Other diners must have thought we were celebrating a birthday because of the high levels of spirit and energy at the table,? said Schlanger. ?It was amazing how interested Rabbi Kulwin was in all of our lives ? conversations ranged from dorm life, to classes, to academic organizations, to the social scene, sports, food, friends ? you name it.
?Of course, our relationship to Judaism on campus was brought up, but Rabbi Kulwin never made the conversation about what we should or shouldn?t be doing, rather how or if we were integrating it into our college life.?
Aliza Roth acknowledged the lasting impact of the visits.
?At this age, being in college, away from the temple and religion as a whole, it?s sometimes hard to want to go back to services,? she said. ?But when he comes, it?s a little reminder, and maybe I?ll stop by when I come home.?
The whole endeavor came about through happenstance, when Kulwin?s father moved from Florida to Ann Arbor to be with Kulwin?s sister. When the rabbi visited the first time about 13 years ago, he took a group of TBA kids out to dinner. After a few years of such visits, he said, ?I thought, ?Gee I really ought to do this at other schools, too.??
He gets as much as he gives, he said. Born and raised in Champaign, Ill., he misses the fabric of a university town.
?You?re just exposed to things there that you aren?t elsewhere.? And, he added, ?It?s fun.?
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Ron Paul: I Wouldn't Risk US Troops to Stop the Holocaust
Ron Paul: I Wouldn't Risk US Troops to Stop the Holocaust
As a historical matter, the US didn't risk troops to end the Holocaust; FDR rejected Morgenthau's entreaties that he bomb the train lines to Auschwitz or take similar actions, on the theory that the US wouldn't support the war if it became perceived as a War for Jews. FDR seemed to believe there was a lot of anti-semitism in the country.
Speaking of which:And so I asked Congressman Paul: if he were President of the United States during World War II, and as president he knew what we now know about the Holocaust, but the Third Reich presented no threat to the U.S., would he have sent American troops to Nazi Germany purely as a moral imperative to save the Jews?We didn't fight WW2 to end the Holocaust, of course. FDR specifically rejected any actions which might reduce the German's Jew-murdering machine. But Ron Paul seems to believe we did. It's always the Jews.
And the Congressman answered:
No, I wouldnt. I wouldnt risk American lives to do that. If someone wants to do that on their own because they want to do that, well, thats fine, but I wouldnt do that. Paul then looked at me, and I politely thanked him for his time. He smiled at me again and nodded his head, and many of his young followers were also smiling, and nodding their heads in agreement. Clearly, I was the only one in the room who was disturbed by his response.
Ron Paul is most assuredly an isolationist. He denies this charge vociferously. But I can tell you straight out, I had countless arguments/discussions with him over his personal views. For example, he strenuously does not believe the United States had any business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWII. He expressed to me countless times, that saving the Jews, was absolutely none of our business. When pressed, he often times brings up conspiracy theories like FDR knew about the attacks of Pearl Harbor weeks before hand, or that WWII was just blowback, for Woodrow Wilsons foreign policy errors, and such. I would challenge him, like for example, what about the instances of German U-boats attacking U.S. ships, or even landing on the coast of North Carolina or Long Island, NY. Hed finally concede that that and only that was reason enough to counter-attack against the Nazis, not any humanitarian causes like preventing the Holocaust.But Ron Paul goes a step further than that: He actually casts WWII, which was not a "humanitarian" intervention, as a humanitarian intervention, just so the facts agree with his eternal conclusion. Of course Ron Paul's supporters don't sweat details like that. They've got bigger issues to worry themselves about.
When not listening to Alex Jones and Jeff Rense, chemtrail believers obsessively take photographs of the poison trails and evil clouds. Of course, since the alien-lizard-Zionist-Bilderbergers forbid the puppet governments of the world from admitting that chemtrails exist, the intrepid chemtrail hunters have been stymied. Sure, they can photograph them, but they cant stop em.Video at the link. This is what really bothers me about Ron Paul. He's not merely courting the paranoid fringe; he is the paranoid fringe. I can almost deal with the racism and antisemitism. These are easily understandable, at least. We're used to such things and prepared for the distortions in thought such impulses will produce. What I cannot abide is a "man's" full-tilt white-knuckle freak-out over the "New Money."
Or CAN they? This year, a movement has spread like dengue fever among chemtrail sleuths. This movement claims that chemtrails can be killed with vinegar, sprayed upward from the ground. And hundreds of chemtrail true believers are doing just that and theyre uploading videos to Youtube, Dailymotion, Ebaumsworld, and elsewhere, documenting their chemtrail kills.
Of the hundreds of chemtrail kill videos, the majority are made by self-described Ron Paul supporters. Ive dubbed this branch of the Paul camp the Paulsamics (as in Paulsamic vinegar). If you want to see the sheer volume of Paulsamic videos online, just Google or Youtube-search chemtrails and vinegar. Below, Ive embedded the very best video of the lot. Its ten minutes long. Normally, I would grab a video of that length and edit a highlight reel. But its impossible to edit this one down; its too damn perfect as it is. Watch as a chemtrail-obsessed, Ron Paul-obsessed mom uses her trusty spray bottle to combat the marauding trails, as her long-suffering teenage son is forced to record her. Witness her great victory as she reemerges later to find that she has cleaned the sky.
Congressman Ron Paul Monday morning Dear Fellow American: You may not have much time left. Next year, or next month, the New Money could wipe you out destroy everything youve worked and saved for and leave your family destitute. It could happen any time. And I dont mind telling you Im scared. For myself, for my family, for my friends, for my country. Weve seen a lot of financial tyrannies from Washington in this century. This one could take the cake. And popping out of the cake, with a big Surprise!, will be an IRS agent with an AK-47. Picture this: your feet are aching, your back is sore, and your patience ran out about two hours ago. How dare these bureaucrats treat you like this? How dare they make you wait in this line, this incredibly tedious line, to turn in your greenbacks? Then, when its finally your turn, its not so tedious after all. An IRS agent with the dead eyes of a mako shark, asks with that chilling police politeness for your name, address, Social Security number, and explanation. From his tone and body language, you expect the Miranda warning next. While muggers, robbers, and rapists run free on the streets, the power of the state is focused on you. And no wonder. Youre a suspicious character. Youve always kept some emergency cash. And now youre in trouble. . . because you tried to take care of yourself and your family, because you saved and planned ahead. When President Bush announced the New Money during a War-on-Drugs speech, few realized what it meant, or just how bad it would be for innocent Americans, not drug dealers. Turning in all your old money for a new currency wasnt so bad. Theyd done it often enough in Latin America, after all. ... I uncovered the New Money plans during my last term in the U.S. Congress, and I held the ugly new bills in my hands. I can tell you they made my skin crawl. These totalitarian bills were tinted pink and blue and brown, and blighted with holograms, diffraction gratings, metal and plastic threads, and chemical alarms. It wasnt money for a free people. It was a portable inquisition, a paper third-degree, to allow the feds to keep track of American cash, and American citizens. As one federal scientist confirmed to me, these bills can be computer imprinted and read, to lay a paper trail hundreds of transactions long. Who uses them, when, and where. The taggents chemical alarms will set off federal cash-detection machines at airports and anyplace else they choose. And there are other swindles involved as well. Thank goodness, a patriotic American within the Federal Reserve told me about this financial Manhattan Project. But this time, the government wants to drop the bomb on us. To manufacture the New Money, the feds have built a colossal blockhouse in Ft. Worth, Texas, as ugly as it is evil. Designed in Stalin-style, guarded by KGB-level security, and full of three-color printing presses and spy device embedders, it belongs in Moscow, not Texas. Stage One of the New Money microprinting and a polyester thread was meant to lull us to sleep, before the knife fell. But the bureaucrats scheme went awry when the old Bureau of Engraving and Printing plant in Washington, D.C., couldnt handle the new technology. Theyve fixed that now, and Stage Two will chill your blood. The New Money will steal our freedom and our prosperity; it will accelerate the transfer wealth and power from the people to the government and its friends.Yeah, the "New Money" is now in your wallets and it exists, as was always planned, to make it a little harder for North Korea to counterfeit. If a man were a dedicated UFOlogist and believed in all of it, and was convinced Men in Black existed and all of that too, would we consider electing him just because some of his alleged "policies" were conservative-sounding? No, we wouldn't, because we'd question his judgment. A man who is afraid of shadow-people and faeries in the garden has an addled mind which cannot distinguish between serious threats, less serious threats which are nonetheless real, and just made-up "I want to worry about this so I don't have to worry about real things" fun-time phantasmal threats. Ron Paul is crazy. People toss this term around a lot, but I'm saying it seriously, not metaphorically. Political paranoia is just a low-grade, livable form of the serious mental illness called paranoid schizophrenia. And it causes all sorts of misprioritizations. While Ron Paul worries about Conspiracies Against The Currency, for example, others of us worry about, say, Islamists killing people by the hundreds. Now, Ron Paul insists the former worry -- the Conspiracy Against the Currency -- is real, and the latter concern, the terrorist one, is made-up by neocons and Jews (but I repeat myself). The man is literally crazy, at least in a low-level, non-commitment, doesn't-expose-himself-in-public way, and apparently Step One in our effort to take back the White House is to announce to America, in Iowa, that this man represents our views. Of course, half or more of his support isn't even from conservatives or Republicans, but what are conservatives and Republicans doing adding to his numbers?
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I'm Back?
It's extremely likely that none of you remember who I am, since I only had two posts on this account. My lost account had only one. However, I'm here to say that after months of contemplation, I'm back and I think I'm fully and creatively prepared to contribute to roleplays. I'm very pleased to be back, because I remember this community to be creative and friendly, especially after clicking around and looking through the forums. I don't know if I'll receive very many hits, but I think I'll begin crafting some applications soon.
Just a little background on me before I let myself get distracted by filling up my head with notions of being creative just yet. I'm attending school to be a graphic designer (hopefully, layout design- you could say it's a passion of mine). At the moment, I'm attending a trade school and will soon be entering college for such studies. I've been roleplaying all sorts of things since I was but a boy of 7: fantasy, sci-fi, romance, comedy- you name it. I enjoy reading about the occult and the history of witchcraft due to some personal ties with the subject. My favourite genres to roleplay in are comedy, action, horror and fantasy.
My hobbies include writing and performing music, drawing, writing, reading and, of course, playing video games. If you feel like you want to get to know me better or even just say hello, I'm always open to PM's.
Sorry all that was so long-winded, but it's just some info I wanted to get out before starting to participate a little more. I hate being a stranger.
PS: In roleplays, I give you back what you give me. For example, if you give me a one-liner, I'm not going to give you a paragraph.
Tl;dr: I love roleplay, so I'm coming back to where I know is friendly. :D
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Post-Christmas bowl puts crimp in BYU coach's surfing crave
With coach Bronco Mendenhall's post-practice interview session with reporters winding down this afternoon and getting a bit light-hearted (by Bronco's standards), I asked the coach if he had finished his Christmas shopping.
"Well, when we get done with this [interview], I will probably start," he said, drawing chuckles from a half-dozen or so reporters who are probably in the same boat. I know I am.
Anyway, just before that, Mendenhall was asked what impact a post-Christmas bowl has on him personally.
"I don't get to surf. It's a bummer. Might as well say it like it is, right?" he said.
After last year's New Mexico Bowl on Dec. 20, Mendenhall famously met with his offensive coaches the following Monday morning, then headed off for a vacation in Mexico.
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Friday represented the media's first chance to talk to Mendenhall about Jake Heaps' decision to transfer to Kansas, since there was no availability on Friday.
I used most of what Mendenhall had to say about the topic in my article I just filed that will be published Saturday morning (and posted online tonight), but the bottom line is that Mendenhall still cares about Heaps, wants him to be successful at Kansas, believes Kansas is going to be a good fit for the young man and thinks Heaps will benefit from being coached by Charlie Weis.
Mendenhall repeated his belief that Heaps will play in the NFL some day.
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A few more post-practice comments from the jollier-than-usual Mendenhall:
On how the last practice in Provo went:
"Things went well. We did a Thursday format, so it kind of wound down a very effective week. I like our team. They've been very consistent, really, for a long time, not only in practice but how we play.
I don't see any signs of that changing, so I am encouraged."
On whether coaches are putting in anything new, any wrinkles:
"There is always time to do it. The question is, how many of those things to chase down? We would prefer to maintain our identity and just work on the execution of things that have already proven to work. Sometimes there is room for a wrinkle or two, based on the opponent and if you have extra preparation time.
But my philosophy and approach isn't so much about the innovation. It is about the execution. So if we miss, it will be missing on the side of just what we already do well."
On which QB the Cougars have faced this year reminds him of Tulsa QB G.J. Kinne:
"I think this year the quarterbacks that New Mexico State used, and the quarterback from TCU, those two offensive styles are similar to what Tulsa runs, and their quarterback's mobility reminds me of them."
On whether Kinne is like ex-Florida State QB Christian Ponder:
"It is not so much the size. We haven't seen very many players, or the first player to him, get him down. He's very elusive, and it is not that he is flat-out fast. He just has this really nice feel for making people miss. I am just impressed. He's confident, he's poised, he's tough, and he knows where the first-down markers are, and he just finds a way to move his team. So it will be a great challenge for us. Our players respect him."
On the team's health going into the bowl game:
"It is really good. Really good. And we have managed practice to the point where we haven't put them really at risk, which is a always a balance. You hate to lose someone getting ready to play the bowl game. So heathwise, it is good. It looks like academically we are in good standing. Not all the grades are in yet. But this is kind of a unique situation because the Las Vegas Bowl, or our early bowl games, the grades coming in were never a factor.
But there is a chance -- always there is a chance -- that this one, because this game now should be after the grades are posted, or at least on the same day. But our academic staff is on top of it. So health wise, or academics wise, I think things look good."
On Jameson Frazier's health:
"We managed practice well with him, and he will have enough practices down there to get into their scheme. He's seen a lot on film. He hasn't had a lot of repetitions left, but when you have played as much as he has, it should come back quickly."
On what challenges the Tulsa offense presents to BYU:
"Just versatility. Their coach uses the word balance, which we use a lot here. When you look at their statistics, they can throw the ball and run it, and their quarterback is part of the run game, so that makes it more difficult to defend. That usually forces you to use an extra number defensively. Then when you can throw the ball as well, you don't have as many numbers to defend the pass, which sometimes leads to big plays.
They also have skill running around you. So they have schemes in terms of fly sweeps, ride G sweeps and different things like that. So they are able to attack the perimeter effectively. That's mixed with the quick screen games tool. So they not only run the ball internally, they throw it and run it externally, and then are able to go over the top of you.
So their point production goes over the top and around. So that's where we will start. Normally you start inside-out, but we will kind of start outside-in. If they score, hopefully it is on sustained drives and not on big plays."
On Tulsa scoring a lot on BYU in past games:
"The past I don't think is relevant. It was so long ago, with different coordinators, etc. While it may be an intriguing storyline, there's not much that it is the same since then."
On Tulsa's high-scoring offense presenting a challenge to BYU's defense:
"Sure, and I think they are looking forward to it. I think both teams are anxious to play a quality opponent, on a nice stage to finish the season. So a lot is at stake."
On Tulsa's offensive system:
"Well, it is effective, and if you look at following the coordinator that put it in [Gus Malzan] and his success at Auburn and other places, the elements stay, and then each coordinator tweaks it a little bit. But there's not much to change, because it works really well."
On Tulsa's defense:
"Brent guy is the defensive coordinator, so he has some familiarity with BYU, and he's a good coach. They play good defense, and have where ever he's been, including Utah State when they played against us here. So yeah, it is a good team."
On the third trip to Texas this season:
"Yeah, it is great. I like it. It is fun to play great teams. So to me it is not the location, it is who you are playing. Getting to play Texas at Texas, great experience. Disappointed we were one point short. And TCU, I think that we didn't quite overcome the mistakes we made. But a good team on a big stage and so again we get another good team. Different stage, but it is great. It is good for our program."
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Thousands pack Bethlehem for Christmas
BETHLEHEM, West Bank?? Tens of thousands of tourists and Christian pilgrims packed the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations Saturday, bringing warm holiday cheer to the traditional birthplace of Jesus on a raw, breezy and rainy night.
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With turnout at its highest in more than a decade, proud Palestinian officials said they were praying the celebrations would bring them closer to their dream of independence.
Bethlehem, like the rest of the West Bank, fell onto hard times after the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation broke out in late 2000. As the fighting has subsided in recent years, the tourists have returned in large numbers and all of the city's hotels were fully booked.
By early evening, the Israeli military, which controls movement in and out of town, said some 55,000 visitors, including foreigners and Arab Christians from Israel, had reached Bethlehem. Palestinian officials in Bethlehem said that with local tourists included, overall turnout was 120,000 ? about 30 percent higher than last year. The number was expected to rise throughout the evening.
"It's wonderful to be where Jesus was born," said Irma Goldsmith, 68, of Suffolk, Virginia. "I watch Christmas in Bethlehem each year on TV, but to be here in person is different. To be in the spot where our savior was born is amazing."
By nightfall, a packed Manger square, along with a 50-foot-tall (15-meter-tall) Christmas tree, was awash in Christmas lights, and the town took on a festival-like atmosphere.
Vendors hawked balloons and corn on the cob, and bands played Christmas songs and tourists packed cafes that are sleepy the rest of the year. As rain began falling in the early evening, many people cleared out of the square and raced to nearby restaurants.
Festivities were to culminate with Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born.
Among the visitors were a surprisingly large number of veiled Muslim women with their families, out to enjoy an evening out in what is normally a quiet town.
"We love to share this holiday with our Christian brothers," said Amal Ayash, 46, who came to Manger Square with her three daughters, all of them covered in veils. "It is a Palestinian holiday and we love to come here and watch."
Israel turned Bethlehem over to Palestinian civil control a few days before Christmas in 1995, and since then, residents have been celebrating the holiday regardless of their religion.
Today, only about one-third of Bethlehem's residents are Christian, reflecting a broader exodus of Christians from the Middle East in recent decades. Overall, just 60,000 Christians live in the Palestinian territories, making up less than 2 percent of the population, according to Palestinian officials.
Pilgrims from around the world also wandered the streets, singing Christmas carols and visiting churches.
"It's a real treat to come here," said John Houston, 58, a restaurant owner from Long Beach, California. "It makes me feel really good to see what I have been learning from the time I was a kid in Sunday school until today."
Houston said he was surprised by Bethlehem's appearance, which is a far cry from the pastoral village of biblical times. Today, it is a sprawling town of cement apartment blocs and narrow streets that combined with several surrounding communities has a population of some 50,000 people.
Located on the southeastern outskirts of Jerusalem, Bethlehem is surrounded on three sides by a barrier Israel built to stop Palestinian militants from attacking during a wave of assaults in the last decade.
Palestinians say the barrier has damaged their economy by constricting movement in and out of town. Twenty-two percent of Bethlehem residents are unemployed, the Palestinian Authority says.
Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem have added to the sense of confinement. The Christmas season is essential for Bethlehem's economy, which depends heavily on tourism.
"There are lots of people around but not many tourists," said Johnny Giacaman, a disappointed 37-year-old souvenir vendor. "Last year I was here and it was definitely a lot busier."
Most visitors entering Bethlehem, including the top Roman Catholic official in the Holy Land, had to cross through an Israeli-controlled checkpoint to reach town.
"We ask the child of Bethlehem to give us the peace we are in desperate need for, peace in the Middle East, peace in the Holy Land, peace in the heart and in our families," Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal said as he crossed through a massive metal gate in the barrier in a traditional midday procession from Jerusalem. Later, he went to the Church of the Nativity to celebrate Midnight Mass.
Israel allowed about 550 Christians from Gaza to cross Israel and enter Bethlehem. Israel rarely allows Gazans to enter.
The Palestinians have subtly tried to draw attention to their plight with this year's Christmas slogan, "Palestine celebrating hope," a veiled reference to their bid to win U.N. recognition. With peace talks at a standstill, the Palestinians are seeking membership as a state in the United Nations and recently gained admission to UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency.
"We are celebrating this Christmas hoping that in the near future we'll get our right to self-determination, our right to establish our own democratic, secular Palestinian state on the Palestinian land. That is why this Christmas is unique," said Mayor Victor Batarseh, who is Christian.
In all, Israel's Tourism Ministry said it expects 90,000 tourists to visit the Holy Land during the holiday season, which stretches through Orthodox Christmas in early January. Ministry spokeswoman Lydia Weitzman said that number is on par with last year's record-breaking tally, but was surprisingly high considering the turmoil in the Arab world and the U.S. and European economic downturns.
As Christians throughout the world prepared to celebrate, Pope Benedict XVI was to begin a busy two weeks of celebrations at the Vatican with an evening Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Midnight Mass was moved up to 10 p.m. a few years ago to spare the 84-year-old pontiff such a late night.
Then after a few hours rest, Benedict was to deliver his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech ? Latin for "to the city and the world," where the pope usually reflects on the hardships facing the world, and ends with Christmas greetings delivered in dozens of languages.
President Barack Obama was spending the holiday with his family in Hawaii. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama wished all Americans a merry Christmas and happy holidays, with a special message of thanks to U.S. troops.
"Let's take a moment to give thanks for their service; for their families' service; for our veterans' service," the president said Saturday. "And let's say a prayer for all our troops standing post all over the world, especially our brave men and women in Afghanistan who are serving, even as we speak, in harm's way to protect the freedoms and security we hold dear."
The president noted that with the Iraq war over, the last troops from that conflict are home for the holidays.
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Deal: NJ nurses can skip aiding hospital abortions
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Twelve nurses who sued one of the state's largest hospitals after claiming they were forced to assist in abortions over their religious and moral objections reached a deal Thursday with their employer in federal court.
Under the agreement, 12 nurses in the same-day surgery unit of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey can remain in their current positions and not be compelled to assist in any part of an abortion procedure. The nurses must only help in a life-threatening emergency if no other non-objecting staff members are available and only until which time one can be brought in to relieve them, according to the agreement.
Fe Esperanza Racpan Vinoya, one of the plaintiffs who said she opposes abortion on religious grounds, said she was happy that the agreement meant she and her colleagues would not have to assist in any aspect of an abortion procedure. Despite the ruling specifying that the nurses wouldn't be discriminated against, Racpan Vinoya said she was still nervous they would be transferred, have their hours cut or otherwise be punished for having sued.
"I'm still scared about the part of them having four nurses brought in and we might become the surpluses," Racpan Vinoya said, referring to the hospital hiring four nurses who do not object to assisting with the procedure.
Matt Bowman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of Christian lawyers and organizations that represented the nurses, said they were satisfied with the agreement.
An attorney representing the hospital, Edward Deutsch, said his client was pleased the case was resolved.
"I think it's an appropriate resolution, and the hospital has been very accommodating," he said.
The hospital issued a statement saying the agreement addresses the best interests of the patients it serves, while respecting the beliefs of its nurses.
Attorney John Peirano, who also represented the hospital in the suit, said the hospital had a mission to treat all patients who come in, regardless of whether they share the nurses' views.
The ACLU, which was not party to the suit, said it was concerned about a growing number of similar cases around the country as what the organization sees as an effort to use religion to discriminate in a health care context.
"No one should ever have to worry about facing discrimination when they check into the hospital," said Brigitte Amiri, an attorney with the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. "No woman should have to fear that medical staff will place ideology over duty or deny her care."
Bowman said his clients would never compromise their duty as nurses to care for patients or their oath to respond to medical emergencies.
The agreement was mediated by U.S. District Judge Jose Linares in Newark federal court. Linares said his understanding of the agreement was that the nurses would be allowed to remain in the unit and wouldn't be discriminated against because of their position on abortion, but he declined to rule on how the hospital had to staff its shifts, saying that was an issue governed by contract rules and subject to collective bargaining. Linares said he would retain jurisdiction over the case to rule on enforcement or any disputes that might arise.
Racpan Vinoya and two other nurse plaintiffs attended court Thursday. All but four nurses in their unit had signed on to the lawsuit filed Oct. 31 after they said they were notified in writing the previous month that the hospital's new policy would require same-day surgery unit nurses to assist in abortions.
The nurses claimed in the suit that the hospital was compelling them to undergo training that involved assisting in abortions and had indicated they could be subject to termination if they didn't comply. Racpan Vinoya and others said they had made their objections known to their supervisor and to hospital officials and their concerns were dismissed or ignored.
The hospital denied those claims, saying nurses were not compelled to participate, or even be in the room, during a procedure to which they objected on cultural, religious or ethical grounds.
Linares complimented both sides for reaching an agreement after several hours of discussions. He said it wasn't an easy case to resolve considering it revolved around a highly emotional issue and involved the complexities of the hospital's obligations to its patients.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
US ramps up criticism of Assad regime in Syria (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration ramped up its criticism of the Syrian government Wednesday, accusing it of continuing to "mow down" its citizens despite promises to halt a brutal crackdown on reformers. The White House said President Bashar Assad cannot be trusted, does not deserve to rule and must leave power.
The new barrage of criticism came as the State Department issued a new travel warning for Syria repeating earlier calls for Americans to leave the country immediately and advising that it will further reduce its staff at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus.
"The words of the Assad regime have no credibility when they continue to be followed by outrageous and deplorable actions," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement that noted that the violence was getting worse just days after the government agreed to an Arab League initiative aimed at ending the crisis. "They have already flagrantly violated their commitment to end violence and withdraw security forces from residential areas," he said.
"The United States continues to believe that the only way to bring about the change that the Syrian people deserve is for Bashar al-Assad to leave power," Carney said.
He said the administration is deeply disturbed by continued reports of government-backed violence. Witnesses said more than 200 people were killed in two days this week. The violence came after Assad agreed to allow in foreign monitors under the Arab League plan, return troops to barracks and release political prisoners. On Wednesday, a witness and two activist groups said government forces surrounded residents of a Syrian village and killed more than 100 people in a barrage that lasted for hours.
"Time and again, the Assad regime has demonstrated that it does not deserve to rule Syria. It's time for this suffering and killing to stop," Carney said. He called on the international community to unite in warning Assad that Syria will face additional measures, including more punitive sanctions, unless the regime changes course.
At the State Department, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the stepped-up violence signaled that Syria's acceptance of the Arab League is merely a "stalling tactic."
"This is not the behavior of a government that is getting ready to implement the Arab League proposals," she told reporters, adding later that: "We've got lots of promises as the government continues to mow down its own people."
Nuland said the U.S. would continue to press for more action on Syria at the U.N. Security Council, including an endorsement of the Arab League plan. The Security Council has been unable to reach consensus on imposing sanctions on Syria, as the United States and Europe have done on their own, due to opposition from permanent, veto-wielding members Russia and China. However, Russia last week submitted a draft resolution to the council, which Washington sees as a sign Moscow may be ready to support U.N. action.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the proposed resolution by phone earlier this week, the State Department said.
Meanwhile the department, renewed its travel warning for Syria, repeating earlier alerts that urged Americans to leave while there is still commercial air service and limit their travel inside the country due to the violence. The warning also said that already limited services at the embassy in Damascus likely would be curtailed "as staff levels ... are being further reduced."
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Apple closes Anobit purchase for $400-500 million dollars
According to financial news site Calcalist, Apple has closed the deal to acquire Anobit, an Israeli based NAND flash memory firm, for upwards of $500 million dollars. The acquisition is reportedly based on Anobit’s innovative, efficient storage solutions based on its proprietary MSP (Memory Signal Processing) technology. The...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Spill reported at Shell Gulf of Mexico drill site (Reuters)
HOUSTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. Coast Guard was investigating a 13,000-gallon spill from an oil rig leased to Shell, operating about 26 miles southeast of last year's BP Plc Macondo oil well disaster, a Coast Guard spokesman said on Monday.
The spill of either drilling fluid or oil mixed with drilling fluid was reported Sunday by Transocean Ltd's Deepwater Nautilus rig, which was drilling a well at Shell's Appomattox discovery.
"Shell can confirm it has a loss of 319 barrels of drilling fluid," Shell spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh said by email.
The leak was from a booster line, which provides additional drilling fluid and is separate from the well, she said.
"The leak was isolated, stopped and remedial action has been approved by BSEE (the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement), which includes temporarily abandoning the well, and making appropriate repairs," op de Weegh said.
The Coast Guard was attempting to determine what material was spilled, Coast Guard spokesman Steve Lehmann said.
"An overflight from New Orleans spotted a very light sheen in the vicinity," Lehmann said.
He did not estimate the sheen's size.
The initial report filed with the U.S. National Response Center described the leak as a discharge of base oil mixed with synthetic-based (drilling) mud with an oil content of 180 barrels.
"Everything's pretty up in the air as to what the actual substance is and what the cause of it is, but that's what we're going off of right now," said Coast Guard spokesman Lehmann, referring to the report.
"The 'oil' referenced in the report is referring to the synthetic fluid," op de Weegh, the Shell spokeswoman, said. "The remaining amount in that discharge is water-based."
The BP Macondo well blew out in April 2010, killing 11 workers, sinking the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilling nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
(Reporting by Bruce Nichols; editing by Erwin Seba, Gary Hill)
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