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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
He dropped a jaunting 47 pounds to play AIDS patient Ron Woodruff in the film "Dallas Buyers Club" and now Matthew McConaughey is nominated for best actor at this year's Academy Awards for his role in the film.
The Golden Globe winner for Best Actor in a Drama explains to Piers Morgan how grateful he is for his success:
"I'm very engaged in what's happening, extremely appreciative, understand, you know, what the reasons are that someone would say - be deeming me with a nomination, you know, and what's been going on in my life."
But there are some moments, the most important ones, may be too powerful or too painful for McConaughey to want to re-live.
McConaughey's father died in 1992 before he was able to see his youngest son bloom into a movie star he is known as today. The Texas-raised star still feels the loss deeply:
"Anybody who loses a family member, if you lose a father, that's the main crutch in a man's life," the 44-year-old says, "And it's there for a reason, because you know if it ever comes down to it, you've got your own father to lean up against."
McConaughey tells Morgan that his father's death gave him courage and integrity, and that if his father were here to watch the Oscars, "he'd be loving it ... he'd be hamming it up."
What's McConaughey's secret to rapid weight loss?
"Go to Mexico and drink the water," says the actor with a wink.
Watch the clip and listen to the video as the two men share a hearty laugh, then tune to CNN tonight at 9 for the full interview.
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Piers Morgan go home to britain, we do not want you here and your comments anymore
I vote Mike as the biggest imbecile on the internet today.
I live in Mexico, the water's just fine. Mexicans drink bottled water (and yes they have also Fiji & Evian) or they have water filters installed in their homes. So stop the bad publicity
hahaah very funy stupid guy....
/Matthew-mcconaughey comment out of context. Ignorant! You need to travel more. Mexico water,as New York water, as Paris water is for bathing no for drinking.
I'm funny and I find this Mexican
Hey matthew McConaughey you are a bad actor i mean horrible actor you have a tick accent hard to understand. . have you drink your home town water in texas you must have..test like oil...so don't make stupid comments about drinking water in Mexico losser!!!!
"you have a tick accent hard to understand." LOL!
I thought McConaughey was going to punch Piers in the mouth when he started off with the bongos story. Piers never fully recovered from that..
You not only can't drink the water in Mexico, you can't eat the fruit... and I live in Mexico!
What's wrong with our water in México? And what part of Mexico you visited?? Be careful with your comments Mr. Matthew.
very stupid comment about mexico ...payaso!!!!
I can't believe he said that about Mexico! I loved his movie, but this? I mean like really? He's an ignorant.
Piers I like your show a LOT, and I like you a LOT. I was shocked your show is cancelled. We prefer you to Larry King. Be proud of the work you have done. Thank you for a few good years.
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"A small, wispy hole had appeared in the clouds, and Trevor saw something he'd only seen in his dreams. He saw a hint of blue." - The Purloined Boy by Mortimus Clay
"Boogie! Boogie! Boogie!" Don't mind me. I'm just trying to frighten the Boogie Man away (a.k.a. bogeyman, a.k.a bogey). You see, in middle school I became aware of a song specifically for occasions such as this. "Boogie! Boogie! Boogie!" by Wisconsin singer Tom Pease has a stanza that goes -
"So, when you get a little frightened or maybe real scaredYou know, usually that works. Too bad Trevor from The Purloined Boy didn't know the useful ditty. Maybe, just maybe, he wouldn't have ended up in a dark, terrible place called Superbia where bogeymen roam the land looking for children to devour and where the evil Lucian reigns.
Or wake up from a bad dream or have a nightmare
Sit up in bed and shout with all your might:
Boogie! Boogie! Boogie!" Then dive out of sight!"
The young adult/middle grade fantasy The Purloined Boy begins with the scene where young toddler Trevor is snatched from his bed by bogeymen and taken the the gray land of Superbia. He joins other children in a nightmarish orphanage full of stolen children and his memories of home nearly vanish. The children there are severely disciplined if they show any memories of home or use the forbidden words "home" or "parent." Unfortunately (or fortunately) for Trevor, at the age of 12 he starts remembering home and starts talking about it. He befriends a girl named Maggie who also lives in the orphange and, aided by a little mouse named Zephyr, he sets out on a complicated journey to find his home.
The Purloined Boy pulls readers into fascinating, albeit sometimes creepy new worlds. Superbia, a land of darkness and terror, draws from the things nightmares are made of -- child-eating bogeymen, an otherworldly ruler named Lucian, awful places called "the Pantry" and "the Blackwood". There are bright spots though, too, like "Troth" the great tree lit by golden fruit that exists in a place called Trothward where members of the orders of the Guild (Alchemists, Illuminators and Fishers) reside. And, who can resist a book that includes an "Office of the Inspector of Incorrigible Children?"
Clay's creative and interesting story snatched me up and whisked me away into a surprising adventure full of twists beyond my expectations. Really, I wasn't sure that I'd enjoy this book, the first in series called The Weirdling Cycle. Yes, I had my doubts. Add that to the fact that it is posthumously written by a supposedly dead author Mortimus Clay -- that just has odd written all over it. But, most kids like oddities, they like slightly terrifying stories and they love exciting plots. (Those sensitive types that don't shouldn't read this book.) Keeping track of all the characters and their crazy, meaningful names gets a little tricky sometimes, but if you can hang in there, I guarantee this read is worth it. I am eagerly and a bit fearfully awaiting the next title, wanting desperately to know what happens to my favorite little mouse named Zephyr and the bright young boy named Trevor.
The Purloined Boy: The Weirdling Cycle, Book 1 by Mortimus Clay. Finster Press (April 2009); 249 pages; ISBN 9780982159804; Middle Grade/YA
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Verdict waits: Judge hints at life for Dowdell
Three months after his sentencing hearing, the final sentence still hasn't arrived for Terry Dowdell, admitted mastermind behind a global Ponzi scheme. However, the court has sent an indicator that in a case where up to $120 million was stolen, lenience isn't an option.
"His conduct caused financial harm beyond any this court has previously encountered," writes federal Judge James H. Michael Jr. in his July 22 opinion rejecting defense motions for a moderate sentence.
At issue was an error that Michael attributes to both defense and prosecuting attorneys, who used an earlier– and softer– set of sentencing guidelines in November 2002 when Dowdell entered his guilty plea for his 20 felonies. Under the old guidelines, Dowdell might have been looking at eight years; if the new guidelines stick, he faces life in prison.
Michael blasted the idea, put forth by Dowdell's lawyers at a May 30 hearing, of a "hybrid" sentence. Michael found "nothing exceptionally mitigating" to justify the downward departure, and he pointed to this exchange during the plea bargain:
Court: If the sentence is more severe than you expect, do you understand that you will still be bound by your guilty plea and will have no right to withdraw it?
Dowdell: Yes, sir, I do understand that.
Defense attorney Fred Heblich has already filed a motion for Judge Michael to reconsider his stance. "We think he's misapplied the rules of criminal procedure," says Heblich.
Heblich says while his client is "upset" and "anxious," Dowdell is "hoping for the best."


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We are all oddly excited for the Silent Hill: Revelation movie. The creepy nurses are scary, the new mannequin monster looks excellent — and Sean Bean is reunited with his bastard son from Game of Thrones, Kit Harington. Check out the brand new trailer, which promises at least one scene of Harington whipping his hair back and forth.
Based off of the horror video game series, the second Silent Hill movie was actually filmed in 3D, and as long as creepy mush-faced nurses attempt to claw the audience's face off with 3D nubs, we're totally down. Here's the short synopsis:
When her father disappears, Heather Mason is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.
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VAIL – The Vail Recreation District is offering ongoing affordable opportunities to help ski and ride enthusiasts get ready physically for the upcoming winter season. Programs include TRX, yoga and cardio boxing at the Community Programming Room in Lionshead and open gym and trampoline classes at the Vail Gymnastics Center. Information is as follows:
TRX suspension training, 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Community Programming Room, Lionshead Welcome Center. TRX Suspension Training allows participants to use their own body as the resistance load to strengthen and tone with the core active at all times. Costs are $12 per drop-in, $100 for a 10 punch pass or $64 for an eight-week session. Space available on a first-come, first-served basis, and reservations are required. Call 970-479-2292, ext. 5, for more information or to register.
Gentle yoga, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Community Programming Room, Lionshead Welcome Center. Costs are $12 for drop-in, $100 for a 10-punch pass or $8 per class when you sign up for a session. Call 970-479-2292 for details.
Introduction to yoga, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Community Programming Room, Lionshead Welcome Center.
Introduction to Yoga works on the basics and foundations of yoga and will include breathing meditation, learning Asana poses, plus the history and philosophy of the practice. Costs are $12 for drop-in, $100 for a 10-punch pass or $8 per class when you sign up for a session. Call 970-479-2292 to register.
Cardio kickboxing, 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursdays, begins Nov. 6, Community Programming Room, Lionshead Welcome Center. Get fit for skiing and snowboarding and express your aggressive side in the non-contact cardio class that will have you sweating and using your entire body. Costs are $12 to drop-in, $100 for a 10-punch pass or $8 per class when you sign up for a session. Call 970-479-2292 for more information.
Open gym, 8 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, Vail Gymnastics Center. Open gym offers athletes of all levels, ages 13 years and older, an opportunity to utilize the Gymnastics Center equipment including trampoline, tumbling mat, foam pit and more. Drop-in participants can customize their own ski conditioning workout routine utilizing the equipment in the gym. Costs are $10 per drop-in. Call 970-479-2287 for details.
Trampoline/tumbling classes, 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays and 5:15 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Vail Gymnastics Center. For younger athletes, the Vail Gymnastics Center's trampoline/tumbling classes are the perfect opportunity for young skiers and snowboarders, ages six years and older, to perfect their tricks off the slope. Classes cost $45 per month and include instruction on basic trampoline safety and tricks. Call 970-479-2287 for more information.
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07 December 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Melbourne University and Bio Farma, to develop immunity enhancing synthetic TLR2 agonist-based adjuvant
Singapore: Melbourne University entered into an agreement with Indonesian vaccine maker, Bio Farma, to develop a vaccine delivery system that can boost the vaccine effectiveness for a range of infectious diseases, including hepatitis B/C, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and haemopilus influenza type-B. The collaboration will run for 18 months as presently the research is still in the level of proof-of-concept. Upon getting a result, the next step will be enhanced to a technology license level.
Under the proposed arrangement, Melbourne University receives research funding to further evaluate and develop a proof-of-concept. The research agreement was facilitated by UoM Commercial, the university's commercial engagement service company.
The research was led by Professor David Jackson's team in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Melbourne. The team showed that a synthetic TLR2 agonist-based adjuvant can enhance immunity and protect animals from viral and bacterial infections.
"Bio Farma is proud to collaborate with the University of Melbourne. This agreement will surely give us an opportunity to enhance our research capacity," said Dr Iskandar Obih Buhori, president director, Bio Farma, Indonesia. Dr Iskandar expressed hope that in the future the collaboration on a vaccine delivery system to boost vaccine effectiveness (vaccine adjuvant), would lead into a real contribution in the prevention of communicable disease in the world.
Professor James Angus, dean of the faculty of medicine, dentistry and health sciences at Melbourne University, "This agreement reflects the desire for research at the University of Melbourne to be translated into impact and recognizes the importance of collaboration with leading vaccine companies to achieve this goal."


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In the new year, you will start to see some changes around Silver Boxes. I've decided to cut back a bit on the amount of postings I do in a week. I'm going to try three a week & see how it goes. Monday, Wednesday, & Friday will be the new schedule. I'll let you know if things change.
As we head full long into the heart of the Christmas season, let's remember the reason for our celebrations - Jesus. God sent His only son to the world, to live a sinless life, to die on a cross, to rise from the dead, & to be the Redeemer of the human race.
Jesus wants to be your personal Saviour too. This Christmas, open your heart to Jesus. If you haven't already, ask Him to forgive your sins & make you one of His children. When you do this, you will truly experience the true reason for Christmas.
From our family to yours, we wish you the very merriest of Christmases & a wonderful New Year!
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I am happy to announce version 8.1, the first official release of Quirky for the Raspberry Pi2 and Pi3.
The announcement and download links are posted to my blog:
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Man who sparked Rutgers flap 'not crawling into a hole'
- Eric Murdock%2C whose videotape led to firing of coach Mike Rice%2C has %22absolutely nothing to hide%22
- Former NBA player and Rutgers assistant now working on opening a restaurant
- Says Murdock of the firestorm%3A %22I didn%27t think it would get blown up to that proportion%22
RARITAN, N.J. — Clad in a black golf shirt, wielding a towel to wipe his head after a workout, Eric Murdock settled into a bar seat at the restaurant he is about to open.
Stapleton's Restaurant & Lounge, an intimate, well-appointed space in a strip mall, is where Murdock hopes to turn the page from the Rutgers men's basketball controversy that engulfed him in April.
Barring any unforeseen holdups, he and co-owner Eric Allena said in an exclusive interview Friday that the doors will open for business May 24 — to catch the start of Memorial Day weekend.
"It's something that's a great transition for me from playing and coaching to the rest of my life," Murdock said. "This is something I'll be hands-on with. I'll be here meeting and greeting people."
That might surprise those who expected Murdock to lay low after the events of early April, when ESPN aired the former NBA player's video montage of Rutgers head coach Mike Rice mistreating players during practice. The video ignited a national firestorm that led to the firing of Rice and the resignation of popular athletics director Tim Pernetti.
Murdock, who served on Rice's staff for two years before his contract was not renewed last June, also filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Rutgers after having sought a $950,000 settlement from the university.
"I have absolutely nothing to hide," Murdock said in his first extended interview since ESPN aired the video April 2. "I'm not going to crawl into a hole for the simple fact that I didn't do anything wrong. You can't go through life looking over your shoulder."
Murdock declined to discuss the specifics of his tenure at Rutgers or his lawsuit, which is still pending, but acknowledged how challenging the past five weeks have been.
"I couldn't believe that I was in the midst of all that," Murdock said. "Obviously I didn't think it would get blown up to that proportion. I don't want to say it's changed my life, but it's something I've had to deal with on a daily basis. Some people come up to me and thank me for what I did. It has come up and been a topic of conversation."
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Getting the restaurant off the ground has been a welcome distraction. Murdock's name, well-known in these parts long before the Rutgers controversy, is integral to its success. After leading Bridgewater-Raritan West High team to a state championship under legendary coach Vaughn Stapleton — the new restaurant's namesake — Murdock earned All-America honors at Providence and played nine seasons in the NBA.
"I'm really excited that we're keeping Coach Stapleton's name alive," Murdock said. "I want people to know how great of a man he was and how much influence he had on my life. Looking back on my career, he was the single-most important reason why I made it to the NBA."
Stapleton died in 1993 at age 71. He suffered a heart attack shortly after coaching a game. Murdock was playing in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks.
"I owe him everything," said Murdock, who is 44. "Mrs. (Gerry) Stapleton is still a mother figure in my life. I communicate with her once or twice a week. She's very excited about this, about keeping coach's name alive."
The restaurant venture was brought to Murdock's attention in January by Allena, a former high school baseball coach who works in commercial insurance.
"Eric's wanted to get into this," Allena said. "And the reality is with my ties to the area and his ties to the area, it's a good combination."
First, though, Murdock had to deal with the Rutgers fallout, including reports that the FBI investigated his settlement offer to the university. No charges have been filed.
"The people who know me deep down, they know I don't have a criminal bone in my body," Murdock said. "But when you see your name on ESPN in the same sentence with 'FBI investigation,' your image is definitely going to take a hit because people tend to believe what they see and what they hear, and not really decipher the facts. When your image takes a hit like that, yeah, it definitely affects you."
Murdock said a full accounting of his side of the story eventually will come out. In the meantime, he's rolling up his sleeves and getting to work as the opening date approaches.
"I'd come in here and we'd still talk about it amongst friends, but for the most part this has taken my mind off the subject," he said. "Making phone calls, going to see the contractor, I haven't had time to think about that. So this definitely has helped."
What's in a name?
Murdock hopes the focus will shift from him to Stapleton's and its namesake.
"He cared about his students," Murdock said, of his former coach. "He understood I didn't come from much, I grew up very poor. From the first time I met coach, he became an immediate mentor."
Stapleton built camaraderie by inviting players to help out on his 20-acre farm in Bridgewater.
"I learned how to drive a tractor; we built fences on his property," Murdock said. "We helped coach, but he also helped us. Mrs. Stapleton would come every day with a big sub. It was a family atmosphere."
Murdock added, "It was just them on that big farm, and to see them out there gave us a lot of inspiration to work hard. It opened our eyes to what life has to offer."
Through word of mouth and a Facebook page (Stapleton's Restaurant & Lounge), Murdock said he has connected with local residents who shared some of their Vaughn Stapleton's stories, including a former player who battled cancer as a teenager and got a boost by frequent hospital visits from the coach — who always came bearing food.
Stapleton's fare is seafood, "big portions at competitive prices," said Allena, whose father and uncle did much of the remodeling. It will be open for lunch, serve food until late in the evening and is available for private parties. It seats 50, including the bar.
For their chef, Allena and Murdock hired Ralph Fattorusso from Uncle Vinnie's, a popular restaurant in town.
Murdock's jerseys won't be hanging on the wall, although there are two flat-screen TVs on either side of the bar that will display NBA playoff games in a few weeks — and quite possibly Rutgers games next winter.
Murdock will be rooting for new Scarlet Knights coach Eddie Jordan, saying, "I think it's a great hire, he's well respected in the NBA ranks." He also is glad Jordan elected to retain Rice assistants David Cox and Van Macon as well as several administrative staffers because "they're good at what they do."
That said, Murdock is ready to turn the page.
"This restaurant is a beautiful place," he said. "We're really excited about the direction it's going in, the buzz that's out there already. People are already calling, asking, 'When is opening day?' "
Jerry Carino also writes for mycentraljersey.com


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It comes from a plant which has nothing related to the tea, taste very nice and sweet. It does not contain caffeine so that children can take it. Used as an antioxidant and remineralizing. 20 Filters. GUARANTEE: ECO-BIO
Among the varieties of tea, this is one that has as many antioxidants. Can be taken any time of day and it is an excellent cold drink in summer. 20 Filters. GUARANTEE: ECO-BIO
Refreshing blend of Ceylon Green Tea and Mint, excellent as a digestive drink. 20 Filters. GUARANTEE: ECO-BIO
Ingredients: * Peppermint (Mentha piperita), * Cacao (Theobroma cacao), * Cinnamon (Cinnamomum sp) Aroma of chocolate and peppermint * *. * From organic agricultra.
Ingredients: * Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) * Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) * Anise (Pimpinella anisum) * Lemon Verbena (Lippia citriodora) and * Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra). * From organic farming.


text: nico 0 Posted August 13, 2009 Sorry to say this but FFG killed WFRP today. Been playing WFRP since 1988 when we had the awesome "The Enemy Within" campaign. WFRP2 was great with many good suplements but WFRP3 looks so bad that i cant find words to express my feelings. Shame on you FFG - you killed the best rpg of all times! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Automated Installer
If you are new to MinGW, see the MinGW Getting Started instructions to use the automated GUI or manual CLI (Command Line Interface) installers. What follows below are instructions for a very "manual" download, typically only attempted by more experienced users.
Manual Installation
Before you start this manual installation, read the release notes (at the bottom of the page).
- Determine which files below you need and download them.
- Extract the files into a directory such as C:\MinGW
- Add C:\MinGW\bin; to the PATH environment variable.
You will need a program that can extract .tar.lzma files, such as 7-Zip or one that provides command-line tar and lzma tools. A basic standalone tar program that includes lzma support is available from the MinGW project and is called bsdtar.
You must add C:\MinGW\bin; to your user PATH environment variable manually. You can permanently add C:\MinGW\bin; to your PATH by following the instructions in the "Environment Settings" section on the MinGW Getting Started page.
The resulting C:\MinGW subtree is fully relocatable which means that you can have multiple installations or versions of the MinGW suite. You can potentially have installations such as:
Switching between these is merely a matter of renaming any particular directory to C:\MinGW.
Files To Get
Download at least the following (or newer) packages from the MinGW Download Page. Where two or more component packages are indicated, you need both / all of them.
- binutils (bin)
- mingw-runtime (dev and dll)
- w32api
- Required runtime libraries for GCC:
- gcc-core (bin and dev and dll)
The above are the minimum requirements for a working C Language compiler using the MinGW GCC toolchain. The support libraries (mpc, mpfr, and gmp) provide also "dev" packages, but those are only needed if you want to link your program against those libraries. (You do need the "dev" package for pthreads, since link commands that use -pthread need to link against this library.) Likewise, the binutils package provides a "dev" package that includes libraries, such as libiberty.a and libbfd.a, and the corresponding headers; you may wish to install those if you want to develop programs that are linked against those libraries. If you don't find the linker scripts in the binutils "bin" package, they might be in the "dev" package.
You can also add one or more of the following optional compilers or tools. For each you choose to install, you need all three of the bin, the dev and the dll component packages:
- gcc-c++ (bin and dev and dll) for C++
- gcc-objc (bin and dev and dll) for Objective C
- gcc-fortran (bin and dev and dll) for Fortran 90/95
- gcc-java (not yet available) for Java
- gcc-ada (bin and dev and dll) for Ada
Note that the GCC versions of these files must match the GCC version of the gcc-core installed.
You can also add the following additional utilities:
- mingw-gdb and libexpat for debugger
- mingw32-make for make
- mingw-utils for MinGW Utilities
- msysDTK for Unix-style developer toolkit
- MSYS for Unix-style commands and shell. (See the MSYS page for installation instructions.)
You may also want the following features:
- translations of gcc, binutils, gdb, and make messages into languages other than English
- documentation for gcc-core, gcc-c++, and gcc-fortran
Getting Updates or Making Changes
Updating a single package (e.g. when there is a new version of w32api) can be done by extracting the new version to C:\MinGW to overwrite the older version. This manual update also works with an initial automated install.


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Mandy Patinkin has a beautiful voice, as warm and golden as honey spooned from a jar — the perfect voice to sing us through "The Tempest," the most musical of Shakespeare's late plays. Toplined by Patinkin's commanding Prospero, this Classic Stage Company production slips through some earthbound staging constraints to soar on the lyrical wings of the play's poetry. One might carp about certain visuals or cringe from the slapstick comedy, but what a joy to hear every line enunciated — and understood — by a cast whose ears are attuned to the music of the spoken word.
Helmer (and CSC a.d.) Brian Kulick appears to have been of two minds about how to present this piece, which is only superficially about a wise and powerful necromancer with the magic powers to tame the elements and walk among the gods. On a deeper level, it is also a profoundly melancholy play about an old man's wistful fantasy of using godlike powers to make his triumphant return to the world that cruelly rejected him.
So, while there are a great many things to admire about the staging concept — like the bed of white sand that symbolizes the beauty and purity of Prospero's island kingdom — there are also too many clunky attempts to convey a sense of majesty. Like the gigantic stretched and painted canvas hanging awkwardly (and precariously) over the actors' heads. Not to mention the toy boat that bobs to the surface in the fury of the storm that shipwrecks Prospero's enemies on his island.
A far better directorial impulse was to simplify the action and clarify the dialogue exchanges, letting the language sing for itself. The unhurried scene pacing and crystal clear delivery of the performers also work toward that objective. Visually, so do Jian Jung's uncluttered stage design and costumer Oana Botez-Ban's restrained color palette: bleached-white garments for the islanders, crimson and gold for the royal court.
This minimalist approach really pays off in the application of Christian Frederickson's original music and sound design. This cast is extraordinarily musical, its collective lyrical voice ranging well beyond Patinkin's own famously eerie tenor. So, when Angel Desai's beguiling Ariel literally breaks into song ("Full fathom five thy father lies …") or when celestial deities materialize to bestow their musical blessings on the marriage of Ferdinand (Stark Sands) and Miranda (Elisabeth Waterston), we feel the play's enchantments.
Shakespeare's words do not necessarily have to be sung, though, to convey a sense of their music. A well-spoken delivery will do just as well, and the real achievement of Kulick's production is that it is extremely well spoken, even by tyro thesps whose stage voices are still in training.
As Ferdinand, the young prince of Naples, Sands ("Journey's End") could easily coast on boyish energy and ardor, and at times he seems content to do so. But the language of the play gets to him, and, when he pricks up his ears to it ("This music crept by me upon the waters"), he seems properly transported.
The prince is even more transported, of course, by Prospero's virginal daughter, Miranda — and, as played by Waterston, who wouldn't be? Tall and a bit awkward in the coltish manner of post-adolescent girls, this young thesp has a bright, almost luminous quality that comes as much from intelligence as from youth.
For once, Miranda does seem to be her father's daughter, because the beauty of Patinkin's performance owes much to the sheer intelligence of the portrayal. He is, indeed, the great enchanter, but also a man of letters, a thinker, and a grave old philosopher.
If there is anything missing from this performance, it's a sense of the gut fury Prospero still feels at his brother's betrayal and the terrible struggle within himself to find the mercy to forgive his enemies. Although he beautifully renounces these unedifying emotions at the end of the play ("But this rough magic I here abjure"), he gives little indication that they have been gnawing away at his liver for 12 years.
The other missed connection in this production is between Prospero and Caliban. Not only is Nyambi Nyambi not the misshapen monster and imp of the perverse who tried to rape Miranda, he is gentle, rational and positively beautiful. With his sinuous body art and seductive manner of speaking, this rather noble Caliban hardly embodies the debased human urges that Prospero has to both acknowledge and exorcize in himself before he can reclaim his place in civilized society.
A pretty production this is, and an uncommonly musical one. But in important ways, it still leaves Prospero high and dry.


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Doesn't really matter what you had done previously. The CAF have their standards and requirements and if they feel you need to wait another 6 months, they will tell you to do so.The CAF doesn't owe you anything. You have the right to apply, but serving, is a privilege.
I would really like to know is if the interviewer will make the decision of me being fit to serve, or having to wait more time; based on my performance during the interview.
None of us here are your Military Career Counsellor. None of us have access to your file.You will just have to be patient like all of us were before Al Gore invented the internet. Yaahhhh, you are right. Go out for a run.Have lunch.Have a beer.Relax.It's Sunday.
It's Sunday.
But does anyone have any answers to this stuff?
I got a letter saying Im getting scheduled for an Interview and medical on may1st.
I used marijuana since high school and beyond (quit in May 2017 when I decided the army was the way I wanted to go) and tried Magic Mushrooms twice (over 4 years ago). Seems long to me but oh well.
Consider this your first life lesson in "your choices have consequences".
I am don't worry pops! I promise I'll keep off the grass. I'm not sure what tone you think I was trying to strike but just so we're all crystal clear I want this more than anything so yeah, 10 months sucks, but not joining because of a stupid reason like continuing to smoke pot is way worse. Besides now I have 10 more months to run my *** off, work out, and generally prepare myself to become a better person weather I get in or not. Just saying, I know I ****ed up and now I have some decent time to turn my life around, I fully expected a hold for this but everyone I talked to had said 3-6 months so I was a bit shocked but again, I accept it. There's no need to be condescending about it though Puck.
I think you are reading a bit too much into the comment. If you think that was condescending, you are going to be in for a shock in the future career with the forces. There can and will be much more 'condescending' things said to you. 2 months isn't a reliable amount of time to prove someone has quit. I personally would argue 1 year isn't, but that is besides the point. The military has enough issues with drug use as it is, so consider yourself lucky that admitted drug use in your past don't exclude you in total. As I was lucky it didn't exclude me.Also, just because you feel someone was condescending to you, Don't give you the excuse to be condescending back. I guarantee that when you serve that won't help you in the least. There are many times where there are one way conversations, and a few of those times you will feel they are treating you like a child. Even with that, the best, and most prudent thing is to keep your ears open and mouth shut during it. You'll understand this if you ever get to a point where you have to lead others. Anyways, I wish you the luck on your application, 10 months isn't the end of the world. I've waited much longer from my initial application for other reasons. Like you mentioned, use that time to work on things.
One Piece of advice though, if you still want to be in near the end of the year, or early next year, Give the recruiting center a call. Just because they can't process your application at the time, it is good that you 'kick the tires' so to speak to show you are still interested.
Oh? That seems like an awkward kind of phone call but I get your meaning. Just call them and tell them I'm still interested or ask about my hold? Thanks mate!
You're not wrong. Thanks Gryphon!Just one addendum however, once my 10 months is up how do I address the past use going forward? I assume it may come up in medical and/or interview? Basically the form on past use I found super weird. It doesn't really give a good look at specifics. Basically, I fell in with the wrong sort in high school and smoked it up without much care about it. After high school was much the same until 2013. In 2014 I cut down a lot and I quit completely in 2015 (just bored of it) only beginning to smoke again in social situations in 2016 & 17. So I put on the form 1-5 x week for 2008-13 and then 0-3 x week going forwards. I smoked at a birthday party in May so last use was recent unfortunately then I made the decision to quit completely again so I could join.Long story short I only smoked in social situations as something to do, I can and have left it behind without issue in the past. I know it doesn't look or sound good, I have no justification for it. Vancouver has a huge marijuana culture and I suppose group think contributes to the fact that no one here really sees issues with it. I know the onus is on me I guess I'm just wondering how to show them I'm willing to own my past and ease worries about future use as I know it won't be a problem but they obviously will have reservations.
You have a chance to talk more about something that someone else might not. You have a chance to demonstrate that, while you have made some mistakes, you seek to improve yourself. You have a chance to show that you make no excuses and do not try to provide logic to a behavior that is forbidden.


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Super news from supermodel Adriana Lima!
The Victoria's Secret Angel and husband Marko Jaric welcomed their second daughter together Wednesday afternoon in New York City.
"Marko and I are overjoyed to welcome Sienna into our family, and Valentina is looking forward to becoming a big sister," Lima tweeted today.
Battle of the Victoria's Secret baby bumps: Adriana vs. Alessandra Ambrosio
Pretty names, dont you think?
According to Us Weekly, which first reported the happy news, Sienna was born at 1 p.m. and weighed about 7 pounds.
Sienna joins 2-year-old Valentina in the family fold. And it's possible that the toddler didn't know what she was in for--a little sister or a brother--until today.
"For the rumors about the gender of my and Markos baby I would like to make clear that both me and my husband don't know," Lima tweeted Aug. 30.
Well, to whomever was spreading rumors that it was a girl--well done. And congrats to the proud parents, as well!
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Build from Source
This page is up-to-date to MythTV version 0.21, the current release is 31.0
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Prerequisites
- 3 Getting and compiling the source code
- 4 Post-install tasks
- 5 Something didn't work?
- 6 System settings
- 7 Setup MythTV backend preferences and tune TV cards
- 8 More info
- 9 Previous information to integrated in the text above
There are different ways to get Mythtv installed on your system:
- From source;
- Using apt-get;
- Using a MythTV Linux distribution (e.g. MythBuntu, MythDora, etc.) more info.
In this guide we will discuss how to install from source.
This guide is will allow you to build the latest version of MythTV on Ubuntu and Fedora.
First install required packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential liblircclient-dev libasound2-dev libdts-dev libdvdnav-dev \
libxv-dev libxxf86vm-dev transcode libmp3lame-dev subversion qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libsamplerate0 \
libxvidcore4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libfame-dev libcdio-dev msttcorefonts libasound2-doc libmad0-dev \
libid3tag0-dev libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libcdaudio-dev libcdparanoia0-dev fftw3-dev libfaad-dev \
libsmpeg-dev libmp4v2-dev libtag1-dev mysql-server libvisual-0.4-dev libexif-dev libxvmc-dev \
libxinerama-dev uuid-dev libicu-dev
Note: Version 0.24 requires also libfreetype6-dev; not required but advised: yasm, ccache.
Note: Version 0.21 and earlier use QT3 instad of QT4, so you need: libqt3-mt-dev and libqt3-mt-mysql.
To install css support use:
or on newer distributions:
If you want mythweb as well - you need
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql
On some systems (might be already installed on your system) you have to install the following to prevent issues with downloading recordings
sudo apt-get install libcpandb-perl
If you want VAAPI support you will need libva-dev
sudo apt-get install libva-dev
Getting and compiling the source code
Get the latest code for MythTV. In general, you should probably choose the stable version. If you don't mind if your MythTV system is non-functional or has serious bugs that may prevent proper operation/result in lost recordings or inability to play back recordings, you may try using the unstable, development code. If using unstable, development code, you should follow the mythtv-commits and mythtv-dev mailing lists.
Then, simply go in each directory and configure and build each component:
./configure --enable-proc-opt
make install
Note that adding any other configure arguments (with the possible exception of --prefix) to the main MythTV configure command is almost definitely a bad idea and shouldn't be required.
For mythplugins, if you don't want some modules you might want to disable them (run "./configure --help" in each directory to see the options you can set for the build). For example:
./configure --disable-mythgame --disable-mythnetflix
make install
Note: If you want to be able to easily uninstall later, for example to update to new set of fixes, use "checkinstall" rather than "make install". "checkinstall" keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or distribution. "checkinstall" will prompt for a package description, and then you must supply a version number by following the prompts.
Post-install tasks
Creating the mythtv user
to run MythTV as its own user I created one (so the backend doesnt run as root)
sudo useradd mythtv
MythTV database setup
You have to create a file for mythtv for database connections
DBHostName=localhost # By default, Myth tries to ping the DB host to see if it exists. # If your DB host or network doesn't accept pings, set this to no: # DBHostPing=no DBHostName=localhost DBUserName=mythtv DBName=mythconverg DBPassword=mythtv # Set the following if you want to use something other than this # machine's real hostname for identifying settings in the database. # This is useful if your hostname changes often, as otherwise you # will need to reconfigure mythtv (or futz with the DB) every time. # TWO HOSTS MUST NOT USE THE SAME VALUE # LocalHostName=MYCOOLMYTHTVHOST # If you want your frontend to be able to wake your MySQL server # using WakeOnLan, have a look at the following settings: # # # The time the frontend waits (in seconds) between reconnect tries. # This should be the rough time your MySQL server needs for startup # #WOLsqlReconnectWaitTime=0 # # # This is the number of retries to wake the MySQL server # until the frontend gives up # #WOLsqlConnectRetry=5 # # # This is the command executed to wake your MySQL server. # #WOLsqlCommand=echo 'WOLsqlServerCommand not set'
Then you have to create a database and let the user set above access it
mysql -u root -p create database mythconverg; create user 'mythtv'@'%' identified by 'mythtv'; create user 'mythtv'@'localhost' identified by 'mythtv'; set password for 'mythtv'@'%' = password('mythtv'); set password for 'mythtv'@'localhost' = password('mythtv'); connect mythconverg; grant all privileges on *.* to 'mythtv'@'%' with grant option; grant all privileges on *.* to 'mythtv'@'localhost' with grant option; flush privileges; exit;
mythbackend to test. This will automatically upgrade your previous mythconverg database schema to the latest version:
If mythbackend is running OK, test mythfrontend:
Running MythTV on start
I use a slightly modified script from mythbuntu for that. Just copy the content to
/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend - chmod it with
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend
To start every time you still have to add it to the rc:
update-rc.d mythtv-backend defaults
Also create a log directory for mythtv:
sudo mkdir /var/log/mythtv
sudo chown mythtv:mythtv /var/log/mythtv
#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: mythtv-backend # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network # Required-Stop: $local_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/Stop the MythTV server. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend NAME="mythbackend" DESC="MythTV server" test -x $DAEMON || exit 0 . /lib/lsb/init-functions set -e prime_firewire() { if [ "$ENABLE_FIREWIRE" = "TRUE" ]; then log_daemon_msg "Priming Firewire " su - $USER -c "/usr/bin/mythprime" log_end_msg $? fi } USER=mythtv USER_HOME=$(grep ^$USER /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{print $6}') RUNDIR=/var/run/mythtv ARGS="--daemon --logpath /var/log/mythtv --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid" EXTRA_ARGS="" NICE=0 if [ -f /etc/default/mythtv-backend ]; then . /etc/default/mythtv-backend fi ARGS="$ARGS $EXTRA_ARGS" mkdir -p $RUNDIR chown -R $USER $RUNDIR unset DISPLAY unset SESSION_MANAGER #create a symbolic link for mysql.txt so it can't be overwritten mkdir -p $USER_HOME/.mythtv chown -R $USER $USER_HOME/.mythtv if [ ! -e $USER_HOME/.mythtv/mysql.txt ]; then ln -s /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt $USER_HOME/.mythtv/mysql.txt fi case "$1" in start) if [ -e $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid ]; then PIDDIR=/proc/$(cat $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid) if [ -d ${RUNDIR} -a "$(readlink -f ${RUNDIR}/exe)" = "${DAEMON}" ]; then log_success_msg "$DESC already started; use restart instead." exit 1 else log_success_msg "Removing stale PID file $RUNDIR/$NAME" rm -f $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid fi fi prime_firewire log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME " start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \ --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS log_end_msg $? ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC: $NAME " start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \ --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS log_end_msg $? test -e $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid && rm $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid ;; restart|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC: $NAME " start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \ --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS sleep 3 prime_firewire start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid \ --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE --exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS log_end_msg $? ;; status) # We want to maintain backward compatibility with Hardy, # so we're not going to use status_of_proc() pidofproc -p $RUNDIR/$NAME.pid $DAEMON >/dev/null && status=0 || status=$? if [ $status -eq 0 ]; then log_success_msg "$NAME is running" else log_failure_msg "$NAME is not running" fi exit $status ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2 exit 2 ;; esac exit 0
Autostarting the frontend in Xubuntu / Ubuntu
Create a file in
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.9 Type=Application Name=MythTV Frontend Comment= Exec=mythfrontend StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false
For mythweb I just created a symlink to the checked out mythweb in the
sudo ln -s /usr/local/src/mythtv/mythplugins/mythweb /var/www/mythweb
# make sure data is writeable
sudo chown -R www-data /usr/local/src/mythtv/mythplugins/mythweb/data
you have to enable mod-rewrite
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
you also need to have a version of php which has session, mysql, pcre, posix and json support
and copy/edit the apache config
sudo cp mythplugins/mythweb/mythweb.conf.apache /etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythweb.conf
after that restart and have fun:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Something didn't work?
With this you should be able to compile and install mythtv on a new (x)ubuntu box. Most problems come with mythtv setup (config files, database initialization etc.) Please refer to the other wiki pages/documentation for info on that. Before doing that It's best to do some investigation yourself.
The best way to debug problems is to check the output of the backend and frontend tasks:
To check the backend for error messages:
tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
To check the frontend for errors, you have two options:
1) run it from the command line. You can ALT+TAB to see the output in the terminal window while the frontend is running:
2) check the frontend log for error messages:
tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log
System settings
When setting up your HTPC / MythTV system, its best to set the following
For Ubuntu Volume: the volume control is on the top panel by default. Set this to max. Power Management: System->Preferences->Power Management - "Put display to sleep when inactive for" move the slider to the far right (never) Screensaver: System->Preferences->Screensaver - uncheck "Activate screensaver when computer is idle" System Bell: System->Preferences->Sound - in the "System Beep" tab, uncheck "Enable system beep" and check "Visual System Beep".
Setup MythTV backend preferences and tune TV cards
Open a Terminal Window and type
> mythtv-setup
You will now see the GUI for MythTV to setup the backend server and in particular the channel tuning for our broadcast streams. You will need to set up:
- General — General Backend settings, most user can use the defaults
- Capture Cards — you will configure your capture cards/devices here
- Video Sources — create guide data.
- Input connections — connect the Capture Card name to the Video Source
- Channel Editor — scan for your channels here
- Storage Groups — Configure which folders your recordings will be saved.
On entering each screen, the cursor is positioned at the bottom right on the "Next" button. The cursor may not be visible. Use the up, down, left, and right cursor keys to make selections. Fields marked with up and down arrows can be modified by pressing the PageUp and PageDown keys or the left and right cursor keys; in some cases, the action is different. For example, when setting times, cursor left and cursor right change the time by minutes, while Page Up and Page Down change by half hours. Some fields, notably text fields, accept direct keyboard input. For many fields, context-sensitive help appears in the bottom part of the screen when you position on the field.
Multiple tuner cards
If you have more than one TV card, you only need to do the channel scan on one of the cards. All cards of the same type should point to the same video source. For example let's say you have two cards both for Freeview (UK Network). Create a Video Source called FreeviewUK, now connect both cards to this Video source.
[DVB1] DVB card 1->FreeviewUK
[DVB0] DVB card 2->FreeviewUK
When you scan for your channels make sure that you put in a frequency that corresponds to the transmitter that you will be receiving from, for instance Crystal Palace. You can find out the frequency on the web for your country and region.
Older TV cards may need all of the parameters from the transmitters tab to be entered, and not just left as "auto". The next version of MythTV (0.19) should have a "blind" scan, and it should just find the channels for you.
Alternatively users in the USA using Schedules Direct can fetch there lineups form Schedules Direct in Input Connections to automatically configure channel lineups.
More info
[1] See Ubuntu Installation Guides for installing on other Ubuntu versions.
Previous information to integrated in the text above
The setup
There are four key parts to MythTV, and setup roughly in this order:
- Start system services that MythTV needs
- Initialize the system database, mythconverg
- Setup system preferences and tune your TV card using mythtv-setup
- Start main MythTV server, mythtvbackend
- Start MythTV, mythfrontend
Create a user called mythtv and do all of the following steps as this user
Its a good idea to run these from a terminal window to start with, so we can see that everything is as it should be. Once all has been set up and complete, then we can run mysql/mythbackend/frontend as background server processes.
Start system services
We need to have both "mysql" and "mythbackend" running on startup
Start YaST -> System ->System Services ( RunLevel)
Select mysql click "enable" Click OK after popup dialog
Select ntp click "enable" Click OK after popup dialog
Notice there is a mythbackend option, would suggest that you do not enable "mythbackend" just yet, until you have tried running in a terminal window as below. If all steps below work then enable this to run.
Setup mysql database mythconverg
Set the root password for the mysql database. (replace mysqlpassword with your own)
Open a Terminal window
> mysqladmin -u root password mysqlpassword
Setup the initial database. Note - the mc.sql file should have been installed along with the mythtv documentation onto your system. The default location for this file is shown below, however it may have been relocated elsewhere according to your distribution's documentation rules, so you may have to use a search (find, locate, etc) tool to reveal its whereabouts. Suse 11.0 -- mc.sql is at "/usr/share/doc/packages/mythtv-doc/database/mc.sql" (The following command will prompt for password)
> mysql -u root -p < /usr/share/mythtv/database/mc.sql
How to Reset the Root Password (Slackware):
Login as a root
> su -
Stop the database
> /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld stop
Set the initial file for a new root database password
> echo "SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('new_password');" > /var/lib/mysql/mysql-init
Change the user and group ownership
> chown mysql.mysql /var/lib/mysql/mysql-init
Start a database manually
> /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --init-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysql-init &
Login to the database as a root with a new password
> mysql -u root -p new_password


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Mycosphaerella graminicola is a haploid, hemibiotrophic ascomycete with both filamentous and yeast-like growth phases (yeast-like growth at 15 ° C and mycelial growth at 25 ° C). The fungus is easy to culture on both liquid and solid media. It has a bipolar, heterothallic mating system and crosses can be made easily on wheat leaves. Sexual recombination occurs frequently - several times per annum - in nature, and the population genetics of M. graminicola is better understood than that of any other fungus. Lab culture collections contain more than 5,000 field isolates and several invaluable mapping populations, which are available to the worldwide community. Other laboratory strains are available, including knock-out strains and experimental evolution populations that are expressing high levels of resistance to two classes of fungicides through accumulation of mutations during asexual reproduction. These strains will allow an analysis of the number of mutations involved in fungicide resistance. This is a first for a plant pathogen (as well as for a filamentous fungus) and puts M. graminicola in the same league as Candida albicans and S. cerevisiae as a model system for in vitro experimental evolution studies in fungi.
Phylogenetically, M. graminicola is distantly related to the other fungi proposed for sequencing. Thus, its genome would greatly expand the range for comparative analysis. The genus Mycosphaerella is in the order Dothideales, which contains no other good model species. In contrast to other model fungi, penetration of the host by M. graminicola occurs directly through the stomata without a melanized appressorium. Growth is symptomless and intercellular for 8-10 days before rapid collapse of mesophyll tissue occurs in compatible interactions. The rapid tissue collapse suggests an active role of toxic compounds, which are produced in vitro and could act as virulence factors. Lack of symptoms during early pathogenesis suggests that, if toxins are involved in the pathogenicity of M. graminicola , their production may be initiated by morphological or developmental triggers. Possible developmental regulation of toxin production late in the infection process may be an unusual characteristic of the wheat-M. graminicola interaction that cannot be analyzed in other model systems.


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The UK's Data Protection Act turned ten years old on Wednesday amid calls to either update the legislation or enforce the rules it established.
The DPA was created in 1998 as a means to impose checks on how business and government handles personal information. Widespread data loss by organisations, most graphically illustrated by last year's HMRC data loss debacle, has illustrated shortcomings in the enforcement of the law that have only very recently been partially addressed.
In addition, the law predates the ubiquitous use of data mining techniques in the private sector as well as plans by the UK government to impose a ID card regime on UK citizens, to quote but two examples.
Jamie Cowper, marketing director EMEA at data protection firm PGP, said that the increased amount of data handled by organisations since the act was enacted means that many are inadvertently falling foul of the law. "I'd be surprised if nearly all companies aren't in some way contravening the Act as it currently stands, whether they realise it or not," he said.
Dai Davis, a partner at commercial solicitors Brooke North, agreed that many firms routinely breach principles established by the law when they outsource data processing to India. "The DPA, at least up until very recently, is 'mostly harmless'," he said. "Few organisations, outside of the financial service industry, have much need to consult on it. It's the culture around the law rather than the Act itself that needs reforming. The UK does not have the same data protection culture as, for example, Germany.
"Data is more valuable now than it was ten years ago so the commercial impetus to breach data protection rules is stronger."
According to Cowper, the DPA helped to raise awareness about how consumers' personal information is used - and sometimes abused - by organisations but has arguably become outdated over time. Few organisations have ever been hauled over the coals for breaching data protection rules. For instance, data protection watchdogs need to request permission for inspections before acting, giving organisations suspected of mishandling data a chance to clean up their act, he said.
"For the DPA to be more than a symbolic reminder that companies should safeguard and control the data in their possession, it needs to be given much sharper teeth," Cowper concluded.
Compliance with the DPA is enforced by an independent government body, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which issues guidance on how companies can maintain compliance with the DPA.
Davis explained that changes introduced in May made breaches of any of the eight data protection principles established by the law a criminal offence. "For the last ten years the act has mostly been a sop. Even over the next ten years I don't think we'll see many prosecutions, except occasional action to make an example because the Information Commissioner's Office doesn't have the funds or resources to pursue people through the courts."
He added that the law had many ambiguities - such as whether or not employers are entitled to monitor their workers - that are "never likely" to be resolved.
Speaking at the launch of his annual report on Tuesday, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said his office was serving enforcement notices against HMRC and the MoD following recent well-publicised data breaches at both organisations. The notices require both organisations to supply reports explaining in detail what steps they are taking to achieve compliance with the Act.
The ICO report (pdf) said the body had received 24,851 "enquiries and complaints" concerning personal information during 2007/8. These reports resulted in the prosecution of 11 individuals and organisations for breaches to data protection rules over the last 12 months, it said. ®


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Calibration of robots has become a research field of great importance over the last decades especially in the field industrial robotics. The main reason for this is that the field of application was significantly broadened due to an increasing number of fully automated or robot assisted tasks to be performed. Those applications require significantly higher level of accuracy due to more delicate tasks that need to be fulfilled (e.g. assembly in the semiconductor industry or robot assisted medical surgery). In the past, (industrial) robot calibration had to be performed manually for every single robot under lab conditions in a long and cost intensive process. Expensive and complex measurement systems had to be operated by highly trained personnel. The result of this process is a set of measurements representing the robot pose in the task space (i.e. world coordinate system) and as joint encoder values. To determine the deviation, the robot pose indicated by the internal joint encoder values has to be compared to the physical pose (i.e. external measurement data). Hence, the errors in the kinematic model of the robot can be computed and therefore later on compensated. These errors are inevitable and caused by varying manufacturing tolerances and other sources of error (e.g. friction and deflection). They have to be compensated in order to achieve sufficient accuracy for the given tasks. Furthermore for performance, maintenance, or quality assurance reasons the robots may have to undergo the calibration process in constant time intervals to monitor and compensate e.g. ageing effects such as wear and tear. In modern production processes old fashioned procedures like the one mentioned above are no longer suitable. Therefore a new method has to be found that is less time consuming, more cost effective, and involves less (or in the long term even no) human interaction in the calibration process.
The IEEE 802.11 networks have a tremendous growth in the last years, but also now there is a rapid development of the wireless LAN technologies. High transmission rates, simple deployment and especially low costs make this network technology an efficient and cheap way to get access to the Internet. Fon is the world-wide greatest WIFI community and in January 2007 this community offers more than 11.000 access points in Germany and nearly 55.000 all over the world. However, this technology has also his shady sides. For example, it is possible for everyone to receive data from the wireless medium. So a protection against this open data traffic is a encryption mechanism called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). The tragic end of theWired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and the simplicity of various Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on the wireless medium have resulted in giving up the security at the logical-link layer and shifting it to upper layers (or in the best case leaving it within virtual private networks (VPNs)). Nevertheless, there is an enormous growth in using public access to the Internet via HotSpots in cafés, libraries, schools or at airports, train stops etc. Therefore, it is important for the Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) to make sure that anyone with a usual wireless device can connect to their access points. Offering this service to anybody makes giving a sufficient level of security very difficult. On the one hand it should be easy for everyone to use this access, on the other hand there is, in most cases, no security. A businessman is not very pleased about phishing his account data for a great enterprise or for his online office like the KIS at the University of Technology in Kaiserslautern. In most cases the WISPs use a simple web based authentication mechanism. By connecting to the WISPs services, the user is redirected to a webpage requesting his login data or credit card information. Therefore the user only needs a wireless LAN device and a webbrowser to authenticate. An attacker could sniff on the wireless medium to phish delicate data from a legal connected user or use DoS attacks as initial point for various other attacks. In most cases, this can be done with no or only small effort. On the other side, in some cases, the WISP has to do a hard reset on his wireless devices after a DoS attack. Therefore an analysis of access points is done in this work. So, the first part is to show how "'new"' access points react to flooding attacks and what mechanisms are used to protect them. The second part implements an attack using an anomaly of some access points that are discovered in the first part. And the last chapter deals with some information about using an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to protect the devices against such attacks.
We consider a Darcy flow model with saturation-pressure relation extended with a dynamic term, namely, the time derivative of the saturation. This model was proposed in works of J.Hulshof and J.R.King (1998), S.M.Hassanizadeh and W.G.Gray (1993), F.Stauffer (1978). We restrict ourself to one spatial dimension and strictly positive initial saturation. For this case we transform the initial-boundary value problem into combination of elliptic boundary-value problem and initial value problem for abstract Ordinary Differential Equation. This splitting is rather helpful both for theoretical aspects and numerical methods.
Design and Implementation of a Framework for Automatic Measurement of Embedded-Software Energy Consumption in an XScale Platform (2007)
Embedded systems are becoming more and more important in today's life in many ways. They can be found in dishwashers, mobile phones, coffee machines, PDAs, etc. Although there is no common definition of what an embedded system is, it can be generally defined as a special-purpose information processing system, containing both: software and hardware. Embedded systems are integrated in a larger systems which interact with environment for achieving a set of predefined tasks or applications. In general, embedded systems are characterized by resources scarcity, among which energy is becoming more and more important (especially the energy consumed by the processor). The energy consumed by an embedded system is strongly influenced by the software running on it (the embedded software). That is why it is crucial to explore the software characteristics that have an influence on the energy consumption, and to understand how this influence could be represented. In order to realize this task, there is a need for the construction of a reliable measurement platform for energy consumption by embedded devices. The target of this work is to design and implement a framework for measuring energy consumption of embedded software. This framework is based on the XScale architecture, a popular Intel platform designed for energy aware applications. The framework has a software repository which contains a number of programs (user-defined) that are supposed to run on the mentioned platform. These program codes are the input of the framework. Automated measurements for energy consumption are performed on all programs for gathering the required information. In the context of this work, a first evaluation of the framework was performed to make an initial check its quality.
GPU Stereo Vision (2007)
To analyze scenery obstacles in robotics applications depth information is very valuable. Stereo vision is a powerful way to extract dense range information out of two camera images. In order to unload the CPU the intensive computation can be moved to GPU, taking advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of todays consumer level graphics hardware. This work shows how an efficient implementation on the GPU can be realized utilizing the NVIDIA Cuda framework.
The prototype of a rapid authoring tool for reusable learning objects, LOXtractor was extended with the ability for importing PDF files and for direct input of plain text. The ability to process PDF files was a major step forward to the goal of creating an application that integrates the creation of small-scale learning objects, their annotation with metadata and their mapping to an ontology for later retrieval into the task solving workflow, as intended by the SLEAM process. Especially small and medium sized enterprises can profit from this easy and affordable way to conserve individual informal learning effort for the whole company.
The goal of a multicriteria program is to explore different possibilities and their respective compromises which adequately represent the nondominated set. An exact description will in most cases fail because the number of efficient solutions is either too large or even infinite. We approximate the nondominated by computing a finite collection of nondominated points. Different ideas have been applied, including nonnegative weighted scalarization, Tchebycheff weighted scalarization, block norms and epsilon-constraints. Block norms are the building blocks for the inner and outer approximation algorithms proposed by Klamroth. We review these algorithms and propose three different variants. However, block norm based algorithms require to solve a sequence of subproblems, the number of subproblems becomes relatively high for six criteria and even intractable for real applications with nine criteria. Thus, we use bilevel linear programming to derive an approximation algorithm. We finally analyze and compare the approximation quality, running time and numerical convergence of the proposed methods.


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Australian authorities have joined a co-ordinated global crackdown on computer hackers who use software known as Blackshades for sinister purposes.
Hackers in Australia, Canada, Asia and Europe have flooded chatrooms, online forums and websites in recent days complaining about their homes being raided and computers seized by authorities.
The FBI and federal prosecutors in New York plan to announce the results of US raids as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Blackshades is a remote administration tool (RAT) allowing hackers to take control of unwitting victims' computers, steal their passwords and personal information, launch hacker attacks from the hijacked computer and take control of webcams to spy on victims.
Victims can then be subjected to ransom threats.
Blackshades software can be used for legitimate purposes, including accessing a computer away from home.
The software was sold in underground online hacking marketplaces for $US40 to $US100.
An Australian wrote on a hacker forum how he "just got swatted" in a raid on his house by the Australian Federal Police and three laptops and a desktop computer were seized.
A Canadian told how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided his home.
"My son bought Blackshades and they had a warrant and searched the entire house," the Canadian told thehackernews.com website.
"They confiscated his computer."


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There's one subject I've meaning to bring up in regards to Boardwalk Empire, and since this is the last episode for a while, I'm going to lead with it. It has to do with the occasionally modern feel to the dialogue and cultural references. I can't always tell whether this is an intentional attempt by the writers to show that times haven't changed that much, or just a case of them sticking with what they know. I think it may be a mix of both. As I wrote early in the season, there are scenes in Boardwalk Empire that could have been inserted directly into an episode of The Sopranos with very few changes outside of costuming. Yet one of the reasons why I enjoy movies made in the '30s so much—especially the early '30s, closer to the era of this show—is that they often seem more current than the movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. The spaces the characters inhabit and the relaxed slanginess of their conversations feel familiar, almost as though the strictures and trappings of the modern world had just been established, and we Americans were still having a blast trying everything out.
Given that "A Return To Normalcy" wrapped up the first season of Boardwalk Empire—and given that season finales tend to engage in some summary—I thought more than usual tonight about whether this show means to frame its world against ours or if Terence Winter and company have just been enjoying 1920 as its own weird, well-defined space. The answer? I'd say it's mostly been the latter. True, you can hear some echoes across the ages in the way that the rich of 1920 take care of their own, regardless of political affiliation. And if you're a partisan type, you could probably find some significance in the show's depiction of corrupt Republicans. (But that would be a stretch, honestly. Politics may not have changed much in 90 years, but the parties and their respective platforms certainly have.) Mostly though, Boardwalk Empire has been a character piece, examining one elusive, multi-faceted, precariously powerful man by showing how his slightest moves ripple across everyone who enters his sphere of influence.
Superficially at least, it would seem that everything's coming up Nucky here in the last episode of the season. Sure, at the start of the hour, Nucky's sweating. He's still at war with the Rothstein organization and their proxies, the D'Alessio brothers. His own brother, Eli, is pissed at him for dropping him from his job as sheriff (and just for generally being a cocky, insensitive jerk). His mistress, Margaret, has left him, disgusted with the way he abuses his power in private and public ways. And according to the headlines, the Democratic candidate for mayor is a shoo-in to win election, putting an end to the era of Republican dominance in Atlantic City and putting Nucky out of a job. (Worse, Nucky's own hand-picked candidate Ed Bader doesn't seem overly concerned about his fate. While Ed's cracking jokes, Nucky snarls, "I hope you're half as amusing during your concession speech.")
But fortunes change during the course of "A Return To Normalcy." First, Rothstein buckles. The media and the public is calling for his head now that the rumors of him fixing the World Series have begun to spill out. Rothstein needs Nucky's political connections, and since Rothstein's weighing the possibility of extending an olive branch, Meyer Lansky seizes the moment to say what he's been thinking for months: that there's no percentage in war with Nucky. He suggests Rothstein call Johnny Torio, and set up a meeting. There, Rothstein promises an end to hostilities and grudges, in exchange for Nucky's influence with the Chicago district attorney's office. Nucky agrees, but also asks for a million dollars and the location of all the remaining D'Alessio brothers.
Emboldened by this turn of events, Nucky sees a way to sway voters with what later politicians would dub "an October surprise." (Though this one happens in November.) As drums beat on the soundtrack—and as we're treated to a spirited montage of Richard Harrow, Al Capone and Jimmy Darmody murdering D'Alessios with maximum badassery—Nucky calls a press conference where he blames the D'Alessios and the late Hans Schroeder for the rash of violence in Atlantic City and praises his brother Eli for leading the charge against the mobsters when he was in office. He ends with a rousing, "Thank you all and God bless America!" Then on Election Day, Nucky presses the flesh at the polls—and passes along his congratulations to all the new women voters—then retreats to his office to await the results. And whaddaya know? Ed Bader wins, and as his first act in office, he reappoints Eli as sheriff.
Perhaps the most significant change for Nucky though involves his once and future lover, Margaret Schroeder. The episode begins with Margaret taking refuge with Nan Britton, the secret mistress of soon-to-be-President Warren G. Harding. While walking through a graveyard with Nan on Halloween night, Margaret passes by the gravestone for Nucky's wife and son and sees that his boy lived only six days and that his wife died a month later. Shaken by this information, she goes to see Nucky and finds him wearing a mask and looking at himself in a three-way mirror, contemplating his multiple reflections. The look suits him, she half-jokes. "A dapper villain in a Sunday serial." He, unamused, cites all the different disguises she's worn over the 10 months he's known her. She then cuts through the banter and says she just wants to know "who Enoch Thompson is" before she leaves Atlantic City for good. And so he tells her.
Outside of the murder-montage and one final check-in with the various Boardwalk Empire characters, the dominant storytelling mode in "A Return To Normalcy" was in step with the way the show has worked best all season: with two people in a private space, telling each other stories. The difference is that in this episode, the stories are less allusive and more personally revealing. Nucky even hesitates in the middle of explaining what happened to his wife and son, unsure whether he can let down his guard all the way. Finally he gets it out: how he had just become treasurer when his son was born and how he wasn't home much during those first few days, when his son—a preemie—was at his frailest. When Nucky did go to his boy's bassinet to pick him up, he realized that the baby had been dead for days and that his wife had been in denial about it. They buried the child, and his wife cracked up, but Nucky wasn't around to prevent the further tragedy. "The doctor said time would heal her," he explains. "And I was very, very busy."
Margaret then gets to the crux of the matter. When Nucky says that he'd never been happier or more terrified than when he was doing normal everyday things with Margaret and her kids, she replies, "There's kindness in you. How can you do what you do?" And he doesn't hesitate to say, "We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with." Margaret gets to contemplate that firsthand later, when she's eating the Barnbrack Cake she baked for All Saints Day: a cake containing a coin, a rag, and a ring, meant to determine whether the eater can anticipate a year of romance, a year of good fortune, or a year of hardship. Margaret gets the rag. So on election night, she walks right into the Republican victory party in her best gold dress and says to Nucky, "You could offer me a drink."
What I've enjoyed about Boardwalk Empire all season is that even though the point of any given episode has often been rendered bluntly, there are always nuances within the individual moments, and within the characters. Here's Nucky now, at the end of "A Return To Normalcy," feeling on top of the world, and likely believing that Margaret has returned to him because she was touched by his story and his honest declaration of how much he valued their time together. And there's Margaret, who probably was touched by Nucky's speech, and probably does care for the skinny lug to an extent. But that's not why she rushes to his side. She shows up because she'll be damned if she's going to spend the next year eating rags.
Like I said, Boardwalk Empire defines Nucky in part by the people he affects: his multiple reflections. One of those is Margaret, who ends this season deciding to swallow her pride and sell her soul. But what she and Nucky don't realize is that their shared prosperity is about to become a shared burden, because his other reflections are starting to crack.
Jimmy, for example, is making his own earnest declarations, to his common-law wife Angela, and yet she's still pining for her lover Mary in Paris (who sends her a postcard reading, "Forgive me but don't forget me"), and when he tells her about how he dreamed about her hair during the war, she responds by getting a haircut. Plus, Jimmy is growing distant from his son, Tommy, perhaps because he never had a solid father-figure in his own life. He used to dread visiting The Commodore when he was a boy, because he found the house imposing and the animal-heads terrifying. And in Nucky, he has more of a pissy older brother than a dad: a man who takes care of him financially but makes him feel bad about himself the whole time. On election night, Jimmy finally blows up at Nucky for pimping out his mother, Gillian, when she was 13, and demands that Nucky "stop acting like you give a shit."
Jimmy's also mad at Nucky for making nice with Rothstein so quickly, when there's so much personal animosity between the two tribes. (Jimmy, for example, is going to find it hard to pretend that Lucky Luciano didn't screw Gillian in order to get information that would help Lucky track down and kill Jimmy.) And Jimmy's not alone in feeling slighted. Eli's not satisfied with the way Nucky threw him some of the Rothstein money and a re-hire as a make-good, without even trying to understand the underlying problems between the two of them. And The Commodore's pissed at Nucky for paying off the maid who poisoned him. At the end of the episode, Jimmy, Eli, and The Commodore are all conspiring to get rid of Nucky, whom they all resent for his brusque manner and—as it seems to them all—his fool's luck.
What's interesting though about the little cabal we see in the closing moments of "A Return To Normalcy" is that we also see Gillian, sitting by herself in the next room. Is she listening? Does she have plots of her own? Would she be inclined to side with Nucky, who's been generous with her, or with her own son? Nucky tells Eli earlier in their episode that blood is thicker than water. But Eli apparently doesn't agree. Does Gillian?
That's one of the many intriguing questions left dangling for Season Two, along with—among other things—the fate of Agent Nelson Van Alden. Apparently, the official story now is that Agent Sebso died of a heart attack, and in the wake of that devastating loss, Van Alden is planning to resign and move to Schenectady to become a full partner in a feed business, over his wife's objections. ("I like being the wife of a federal agent," she says, continuing the theme of characters speaking from the heart in this episode.) But at the end of episode, Lucy walks in—while Van Alden was expecting another woman, perhaps Margaret—and tells him flat out, "You made me pregnant." It may not be so easy for Van Alden to slip away from Atlantic City.
This matters—to me at least—because Van Alden is himself a fascinating reflection of Nucky. The episode opens with him quoting Saint Augustine about the decadence of Carthage and how Augustine succumbed to the pleasures (just as Van Alden did). Both Nucky and Van Alden are holding fast to ideals. For Van Alden, it's a Biblical notion of purity and morality that he hopes to revive in a place of sin. For Nucky, it's about maintaining the status quo: the "return to normalcy" that President Harding touts. It all sounds so simple as Harding phrases it in his victory speech. We don't want the dramatic, but the dispassionate. We want things to be calm, untroubled … as they were. But you can't expect to reap the benefit of changes like prohibition or suffrage or world war without some residual effects.
And so the first season of Boardwalk Empire ends with Jimmy walking the beach, picturing himself in control, mirroring Nucky in the show's opening credits. Because maintaining the status quo is fine, unless you're someone for whom the status quo won't do. Nucky wants to imagine that all is well, and that a new era is being born that will be just as good as the old—if not better. But what he may not realize is that at home, where he lives, that baby is already dead.
Stray observations:
- And now for one major nitpick: I feel like the first season of Boardwalk Empire pretty much wasted Chalky White as a character. He has mini-arc in this episode, in which he tells Nucky that the Democrats are trying to sway his vote with money (which he's pocketing) and that he wants Nucky to pony up some money, a new car, and an invitation to the Republican victory party, all of which he gets. But I feel like there's a lot of story there that's gone unexplored and that Chalky's fealty to Nucky hasn't been adequately explained. I demand more Chalky for Season Two.
- And now for one minor nitpick: The downside to Boardwalk Empire being yoked to history is that stories don't always get to develop in ways that are most effective from a dramatic perspective. Rothstein makes such a strong opponent for Nucky; it's a shame that he had to step away from the fray just because of dumb ol' historical facts.
- Sometimes "spooks" just means "dead people," not what Chalky thinks it means.
- In keeping with what I was saying up top about the past feeling just like the present, I loved all the Halloween rituals in this episode.
- Capone to Lucky: "Grow up. With your stupid jokes."
- Annabelle has found a new horse to ride in Mr. Baxter. I hope the poor sap gets more than a handjob this time.
- Never say "Bring on the dancing girls!" to Van Alden unless you want a smack in the face.
- And thus ends season one. Thanks to all of you who stuck with the show and these write-ups, despite the occasional overwrought metaphor (from the show) and shoddy amateur historian-isms (from me). It's been tricky trying to figure out the right mix of recap, opinion and analysis for a show so dense with incident, yet light on mystery. I'm not sure I ever completely cracked it, but I enjoyed trying, and I enjoyed checking out your comments and insights these past 12 weeks. Let's do it again next fall.


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I am looking to do this on create / modify of an item in the sharepoint list.
i want to send an email via Ms Flow with a link direct to that item in the app.
You mentioned the next release, is there any more information you can give with that? or is it still not possible?
@Anonymous have a look at this Blog Post by Mehdi, it's really good write up on "deep linking" i.e. getting to a specific item on a specific Screen
This is exactly it , thank you!
Do you know if it is possible to clear a paramter on button click.
E.g. i have the deep link working to go straight to the detail of an item based on parameter fed in the url, however if you then navigate fromt here the parameter still has a value.
I could get rid of some of the navigation when the paramter is set but i would rather clear it and allow free navigation from the app again.
thanks in advance
Although you cannot directly clear the parameter, you can instead use the Set() function to cache the value and modify it as needed. When you open the app, you could have the OnStart() function call
Set(someLocalVariableName, Param("parameterName"))
Then, when you are done and want to clear it out, you can call
Set(someLocalVariableName, Blank())
I see what you are saying , but this again doesn't seem to change the URL which keeps in the loop of the parameter driving the navigation of the app.
Receive link from flow to specific item through URL + Parameter. Once inside the app can't clear the parameter to resume normal navigation of the app.
I could launch the app again if the parameter has a value but then that is opening another window 😞
Anyone who has a solution to this please let me know
Correct, this behavior is by design. The parameter cannot be set within the app because it is provided by an external source. If you wish to have control, you need to use a separate variable which initially stores the passed in parameter and can be modified based on the flow of the app. Your detail screen can then operate based on this variable and not directly using the Param() function.
I did see someone mention use a variable to clear the parameter, is there any example or documentation around this?
Again, you are not clearing the parameter. The parameter will always be fixed as the URL does not change. Instead, you store the value from the parameter into a separate variable. You can do this using the functions I provided above.
Go to powerApp and copy the Web link
And Add : ?ID=628
Final Out put:
And the logic on the "Form" item capture the value of the ID:
If(Value(Param("ID")) > 0, First(Filter('ConnectionName', ID=Value(Param("ID")))))
If(Value(Param("ID")) > 0, FormMode.Edit,FormMode.New)
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