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The plot thickens in the Chris Brown and Rihanna scandal. Rumor has it that Chris Brown blew up at Rihanna because she gave him an STD - herpes to be exact. Various blogs claim that Rihanna got herpes from a famous rapper and passed it on to her current boyfriend. Guess who the rapper was. I'll give you a hint, starts with "J", ends with "Z". The R&B singer supposedly just started showing the symptoms and lashed out at his girlfriend as a result.
The story sounds a bit out there. But do you think it could be true and may explain his behavior? If so, do you think it's warranted for Chris Brown to blow up like that? Aside from the Rihanna and Chris Brown drama, if someone gave you herpes, would you want to smack the hell out of him or her?
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A community blood drive will be held at the Hilton Senior Center in Salisbury today from 1 to 6 p.m. The senior center is located at 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury.
To make an appointment to donate, call 1-800-Red-Cross (1-800-733-2767) or visit www.redcrossblood.org.
Snacks, fruit juices and bottled water will be provided by the Red Cross. The Lions Club will offer corn chowder courtesy of members Herman and Regina Fortin, owners of Lena's Seafood Restaurant. Donors will be entered into a raffle for a $50 gift card.
NAMI holds 'In Our Own Voice' program
The local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is hosting a free presentation, "In Our Own Voice," on Monday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank, 63 State St., Newburyport.
During "In Our Own Voice," two people who have lived with mental illness will discuss their experiences and their journey to recover. The 90-minute talk is appropriate for family members, friends, professionals, lay audiences and those living with a mental illness. It includes a video, personal stories and discussions that will enrich the audience's understanding of how people with these disorders cope while recovering and reclaiming productive lives.
Kids Night Out returns to YWCA
The Greater Newburyport YWCA is once again offering Kids Night Out sessions.
The program, which will be held on the third Friday of each month, is for kids in grades 1 to 3. Their evening at the YWCA will include pizza, music, activities, pool time and a movie.
All children should bring a bathing suit and towel. Parents can also send their kids with pajamas to change into after swimming.
The sessions will run from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each month. Registration is required. Visit the YWCA's membership desk at 13 Market St. The program is open to the public.


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Woman charged with malicious wounding
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A 38-year-old South Boston woman has been charged with malicious wounding, according to Halifax County Sheriff's Office reports.
Deputy T. H. Clarke served Philpott Road resident Joynita Smith Sydnor with the warrant on Friday.
According to Sheriff Fred Clark, the charge stems from an alleged altercation that occurred Friday at the American Best Value Inn on Philpott Road when a man was cut on the left hand and wrist.
A knife allegedly used in the altercation was found in a motel room, the sheriff said.
Sydnor was transported to the Blue Ridge Regional Jail where she is being held with no bond.
South Boston police officers assisted Halifax County Sheriff's deputies in the investigation, Clark said.
• David Wayne Howerton, 37, of Glen Hill Farm Road, South Boston, was charged Thursday with felony assault of a law enforcement officer and two misdemeanors, including violating the provisions of a protective order and misdemeanor public intoxication.
The alleged offenses occurred Thursday, and Clark served the warrants the same day.
• Deaundray Ontario Martin, 19, of Riverdale Drive in South Boston, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor assault and battery of a family or household member.
Deputy W.G. Yancey served the warrant for the offense, which allegedly occurred on Wednesday.
• William Brandon Chumley, 24, of North Main Street, South Boston, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor assault and battery of a family or household member.
The alleged offense occurred Tuesday, and Clark served the warrant on Chumley.
• A 31-year-old South Boston woman faces a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to South Boston Police Office reports.
Betty Jane Lacks was served the warrant by Officer A. E. Whitmore Friday.


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A Blake School student from Deephaven joined musicians from around the United States and the world in performing at New York's Carnegie Hall on Monday as part of the American High School Honors Performance Series International Honor Choir.
Michael Noaker was one of the finalists from 49 states, Canada, Europe and the Middle East selected for the choir. The musicians received three days of instruction from world-renowned choral directors and rehearsals, capped off with the Carnegie Hall performance.
"The feeling when I walked on the stage at Carnegie Hall was unbelievable," a news release quote Noaker. "I thought the best singers in the world have been on this same stage. Wow. When we began singing the acoustics were incredible. Even though we were a little tired from working so hard at rehearsals, when we took the stage the excitement took over and we got really energized. It was the experience of a lifetime."
This was Noaker's second time as a finalist in the Honors Performance Series. The senior also been selected for other national and regional honor choirs, and he sings bass and baritone in the Blake School a capella choir.
Noaker plans to study physics, chemistry and music in college.


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This year, it feels like Easter is coming too early and I don't feel ready for it. I have no candy stock-piled; no eggs colored, and our traditional hand-made baskets are still in storage.
Neither does it feel much like spring yet. In fact, as we exited church on Palm Sunday, there were snow flurries in the air presenting a stark contrast to the palm branches being waved around inside.
No, I am not yet feeling the joy of resurrection morning and it may be that one must experience the suffering of the savior in order to really appreciate the meaning of the empty tomb. It is only when we understand the road Jesus traversed that we can treasure the destination of that road.
In some ways, Easter reminds me that we are all traveling a road of our own. Sometimes that road is straight, level and easily navigated. At other times it takes us into deep, dark valleys that make us question our own faith.
No matter how difficult the road may be, our destination remains clear, and it is not a place. It is a person. Our destination is Jesus. To be like him, to be with him, and to be one with him. The women coming first to the tomb did not look for an empty tomb but rather they looked for Jesus.
"The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said." Matthew 28: 5-6.
This Easter season, many churches in our area are having special communion and Good Friday services that help us travel the road that brings us to the person of Jesus Christ. Make time to participate in these worship experiences this week and be in church Easter morning to celebrate where the road leads. Have a blessed Easter.
David Sandvick is the pastor of First English Baptist Church in Frostburg.
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This year, it feels like Easter is coming too early and I don't feel ready for it. I have no candy stock-piled; no eggs colored, and our traditional hand-made baskets are still in storage.
- David Sandvick - Life Lessons on Faith
- Don't just go to church, be the church We are in the middle of the summer Olympics and one can't help but root for the U.S. of A. (that is if you're from here, of course). I've watched some rowing, volleyball, gymnastics, swimming, and basketball and find it an extraordinary opportunity to see such gifted athletes gathered together in one place competing at such a high level in the most popular sports in the world.
- Make right choice with church On a recent visit to Tennessee, I spoke with the wife of a Christian camp director and she related this story to me. Her husband bought her an ipod Shuffle (one of the really little ones) for a birthday present.
- Join with God in his church July is a month that many people head to the beach or to a park to enjoy a summer vacation. As I think about my own recent vacation, I am reminded of a practical joke I played on my wife.
- Seek God, his kingdom, rest will fall into place On a recent shopping outing I was asked an interesting question. As we checked out, the cashier at the department store asked, "Did you find everything okay?"
- Bible School puts back what is easily lost Have you ever noticed how many food products are "enriched" with vitamins and minerals? Actually, the term might be "re"-enriched because much of the nutritional value of foods such as bread is depleted when it is processed to give it longer shelf life. Vitamins and nutrients that are lost in this manufacturing processing are restored.
- Listen to God's still voice: 'You can do it' It was the same day that I rappelled off the tower that I climbed up its rock wall side. I had come to the conclusion that a near-50- year-old man need not prove himself anymore, when a voice in my head said, "Do it anyway!"
- You should be real sure about going to heaven I recently returned from east Tennessee after speaking for a week at a youth camp. While there, I tried to get to know the young people and participate in many of the activities with them. Tubing on the lake, swimming, rappelling, rock wall climbing, and riding go-carts all combined to make it a truly exhausting work week.
- God looking for children love him Sunday is Father's Day and the television is filled with advertisements for potential gifts that seem to follow two lines of thinking. One line of gifts I've particularly noticed are handyman type gifts.
- Christians also have a natural enemy - Satan My garden plantings are growing like weeds. Oh, wait a minute, that one was a weed. A closer inspection reveals that something is gnawing on my plants. The leaves are missing on some of the vegetation and I suspect a wabbit! I asked my wife if rabbits had any natural enemies. She said, "Elmer Fudd." She's no help at all.
- Ready soil of heart to hear word of God I was working in my garden the other day. Well, it's not really a garden as much as a patch. Actually, patch may be stretching it a bit also. Perhaps bed is the most accurate rendering. A twin size bed to be exact.
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Though close towards the end of the election cycle, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is creating a super PAC that will funnel millions of dollars to who he believes are centrist candidates in state, local and Congressional races, according to the New York Times.
Bloomberg is expected to spend between $10 million to $15 million of his money on supporting Republican, Democratic and independent candidates who support three of his biggest policy initiatives: same-sex marriage, tougher gun laws and fixing schools. To get Bloomberg's support they must have also demonstrated a willingness to compromise.
The candidates that he is expected to back come from across the country: former Gov. Angus King, an independent running for U.S. Senate in Maine; State Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod, a Democrat who the mayor believes will support tough gun laws, and Representative Bob Dold, a Republican from Illinois who has also backed many gun-control measures.
The new super PAC reflects a desire by Bloomberg to stay active in politics, even when his run as mayor is over, says paper.
"This spending sends a clear message that the mayor intends to keep his wallet open after he leaves office to influence national policy around issues like guns, education and marriage equality," a top Bloomberg adviser, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Times.
Howard Wolfson, a deputy mayor and a veteran of Congressional and presidential campaigns, will oversee the activities of the group, officially named the Independence USA PAC.
This week, a new analysis by Common Cause/New York found that 10 of the country's 39 biggest donors to super PACs – those who gave more than $1 million – are from New York. The top 100 New York super PAC donors also gave nearly $9 million to state and local campaigns since 2009.
How do you feel about Bloomberg's wealth affecting elections in other states? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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The stupid and ugly have one advantage in life: Teachers expect nothing from them, so they can fly under the usual indoctrination that accompanies education. Thus the stupid and ugly — if they aren't entirely stupid — have a greater chance of being original They are allowed to speak the truth because no one cares what they say. Because they are stupid, they are free. The major disadvantage, among many, is that uneducated behavior is often just rotten.
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Beavis and Butt-Head, two thunderously stupid and excruciatingly ugly pubescent males who live somewhere in the Southwest, do rotten stuff all the time. They are cruel to animals. They vandalize their neighbors. They torture their teachers. Their libidos rage unchecked, except by the uniform unwillingness of the female sex to associate with them. And they are the biggest phenomenon on MTV since the heyday of Michael Jackson. Where a normal video draws a 6 rating, Beavis and Butt-Head draw up to a 2.4. Kids are memorizing their dialogue and throwing Beavis and Butt-Head parties. Their laugh — low and breathy variations on "huh-huh" — has superseded Wayne and Garth's "Not!" as the comic catch phrase of the moment. An album and a movie are in the works, and their merchandising campaign is sweeping the malls. Yes, Beavis and Butt-Head are America's Inner Teenager. Because they are free, we will make them rich.
This article appeared in the August 19, 1993 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.
Every weeknight at 7:00 and 11:00, they set out on their mundane, sordid adventures, usually inspired by a commercial or soap opera plot that no non-stupid person could take seriously. Simultaneously they have become the most acute commentators on TV. For half of their 30-minute show, they sit on the couch and tell the truth about music video. They are the complete viewer service, right down to channel surfing for you. Butt-Head's philosophy of aesthetics goes thusly: "I like stuff that's cool" and "I don't like stuff that sucks." For Beavis, it's even simpler: He agrees with Butt-Head. What's cool is explosions, loud guitars, screaming and death. Who are cool include the Butthole Surfers, Corrosion of Conformity, Metallica and babes. What sucks is everything else. And they say so, suggesting that aging purveyors of pop metal like the Scorpions join the Hair Club for Men and that Edie Brickell, when bent over and straining at her deadly serious lyrics, looks like she's "pinching a loaf."
Photos: A History of Comedy Stars on the Cover of Rolling Stone
That Zen perfection — stuff that's cool being good and stuff that sucks being bad — has caused an earthquake in critical circles. Kurt Andersen, in Time, says Beavis and Butt-Head "may be the bravest show ever run on national television." And Chris Morris, in the L.A. Reader, sees them as the wonder drug to dissolve the great clot of semiotic theory clogging contemporary rock criticism, as capturing the true essence of rock: "volume, abandon, radicalism." Seeking even deeper wisdom, we caught Beavis and Butt-Head on their couch for their first in-depth interview. Because they're going to be rich, we must study them. Series creator Mike Judge and writer David Felton joined in for interpretive purposes.
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You're selling more posters than Jurassic Park. You're getting all-time high ratings on MTV. What does your success say about the current culture of American teenagers?
Butt-Head: Huh-huh, huh-huh.
Beavis: He said "suck." Huh-huh, huh-huh.
Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh ... could you repeat the question?
What I'm getting at is, there's a whole new group of kids in junior high now, and your success—
Butt-Head: Huh-huh. He said it again.
Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh, huh-huh.
Let me put it another way. Just this morning I watched a psychologist on TV talk about the horrible effect that heavy metal has on kids. Do you ever consider the influence you're having on today's youth?
Butt-Head: Uh ... uh ... well, I like to burn stuff, but that doesn't mean —
Beavis: I like it when stuff blows up and knocks people over. Huh-huh.
Butt-Head: [Smacks Beavis on the head] Shut up, Beavis. I was saying something. Huh-huh. Uh . . . what was I saying?
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Linux on a Fingernail
This issue of Linux Journal is all about how to get Linux in your pocket. In this article, I go one better and tell you how to get Linux on your fingernail. Now, before you get too excited, I won't be discussing some new nano-computer being used by James Bond, unfortunately. Instead, I discuss how to put Linux on a micro-SD card (or any other USB drive, for that matter). Using this, you can run Linux on any machine that can boot off a USB device.
One of the first utilities to receive widespread attention and use is UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net). This application is available under both Linux and Windows. It has built-in support for downloading and installing several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Linux Mint, Sabayon Linux, openSUSE, Gentoo, Arch Linux, MEPIS and many others.
Figure 1. UNetbootin
UNetbootin also has the ability to load several different system utilities, such as the following:
- Parted Magic: a partition manager that can resize, repair, back up and restore partitions.
- SystemRescueCD: a system repair, backup and recovery tool.
- Super Grub Disk: a boot utility to restore and repair GRUB installations.
- Backtrack: a utility for network analysis and penetration testing.
- Ophcrack: a utility to recover Windows passwords.
- Smart Boot Manager: boots off of CD-ROM and floppy drives on machines with a faulty BIOS.
- FreeDOS: an open-source DOS to allow you to run BIOS flash utilities or just plain-old DOS.
UNetbootin can download the correct ISO image for all of these distributions automatically, or you can download (or create) your own ISO image and hand the filename to UNetbootin. In either case, the next step is to extract all of the files from the image so they can be copied to the USB drive. The USB drive you want to use needs to be formatted with a filesystem already on it. Once the files all have been extracted, UNetbootin uses some heuristics to figure out where the kernel and initrd files are hiding and places them into /ubnkern and /ubninit. It then goes through the boot configuration files from the ISO to try to figure out what boot options need to be set on the USB drive. Once it figures that out, it puts those options into the configuration file /syslinux.cfg. Then, UNetbootin uses Syslinux to make the USB drive bootable, and you should be good to go.
Another utility that has started garnering a lot of attention is usb-creator (https://launchpad.net/usb-creator). This program is the official tool to create live USB versions of Ubuntu live CDs. This utility started with version 8.04 of Ubuntu. A KDE front end showed up in version 8.10, and a Windows version currently is in the works. This utility can do the same sort of work as UNetbootin. It has the built-in ability to create an Ubuntu live USB, but that's not all. Like UNetbootin, usb-creator can take an arbitrary ISO image and copy that onto your USB drive. It even can take a CD-ROM from your CD drive and copy its contents over to your USB drive. It's a simple matter of selecting the source and the destination, and then running.
Figure 2. usb-creator
One big advantage of usb-creator is its ability to create a persistent live USB for you very easily. Any extra space on your USB drive, above and beyond what is required for the OS files, can be used as writable space for persistent files. This means any changes you make to your system will be written to the USB drive. You even have the option of clearing the persistent space on shutdown. That way, you can use your USB drive as a complete operating system, exactly as if it were on your hard drive. And, there you go, Linux on a thumbnail.
All of these techniques require you to have either a live CD or an ISO
image of a live CD. But what if you want to go a bit more low-level, a bit
more from scratch? One of the tools available to you is Syslinux (
- syslinux: booting from FAT filesystems.
- pxelinux: network booting.
- isolinux: bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs.
- extlinux: booting from ext2/ext3/ext4 or btrfs filesystems.
- memdisk: a tool to boot legacy OSes from nontraditional media.
Syslinux installs into the boot sector of your device and puts a copy of the file LDLINUX.SYS into the root directory. It then loads the kernel and other OS files from the actual filesystem. Because the filesystem is just a simple FAT filesystem, all the files, including the kernel, can be manipulated using standard DOS tools. By default, Syslinux assumes the kernel is in the file named LINUX on the boot disk. This default can be changed in the config file. If you hold down the Shift or Alt keys during bootup, Syslinux displays a LILO-style "boot:" prompt where you can enter a kernel filename and options.
Syslinux searches for its configuration file in the following order: /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg, /syslinux/syslinux.cfg, /syslinux.cfg.
In this file, you can set parameters to change all the default settings. Any filenames in the configuration file are relative to the directory that syslinux.cfg is in, unless it is a full path. A basic example looks like this:
DEFAULT linux LABEL linux SAY Now booting the kernel from SYSLINUX... KERNEL vmlinuz.img APPEND ro root=/dev/sda1 initrd=initrd.img
The kernel types that Syslinux supports don't need to be a regular Linux kernel image. They can be a PXE bootstrap program, a boot sector or a COMBOOT image.
These techniques and utilities should give you a good start at putting your USB drives to their best use. You now can carry around your whole OS in your pocket. This is essentially what I've done for my old Eee PC. With Linux on USB, I can keep the same system there, and on my MacBook through Parallels. You also can use the same system on basically any machine that you can get to boot off of USB. Have fun and be creative.
Joey Bernard has a background in both physics and computer science. This serves him well in his day job as a computational research consultant at the University of New Brunswick. He also teaches computational physics and parallel programming.
good program
I used it to install an iso of linux on my 2G USB flash drive. It worked flawlessly. It is a simple interface. You tell it what iso to install and what drive to install it onto and it does the work.
- Patricia
Linux-Fingernail LiLi Linux Live USB
LiLi is excellent, (ironically it's Windows only !!).
It's just about the only time I use Windows these days
Many Distros, often with persistence, and a built-in VirtualBox.
Other ISO's and Img files dealt with automatically usually.
Fabulous for DistroHoppers.
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I use puppy linux. It's my
I use puppy linux. It's my favorite linux distro yet and it makes things so easy for me. I love the portability and ability to use any computer I have boot access to.
Me too!
I've used a few other distros, and I like Puppy best. It has everything I want, and I can carry it with me on a very small usb stick.
linux on usb
I use Multisystem to run about 8 distros on one usb thumb drive. Just take your pick at boot.
Split the drive - you can use it as a jump drive or boot linux
I have a 16Gb usb stick that is split. So if I insert my stick in a PC that is already booted, then it shows up as a data jump drive (FAT). While if I want to boot my linux os, I would just reboot the machine from the same USB stick. Great way to have Linux AND ability to quickly copy files. Also a have Antivirus installed in Linux side so if I need to clean scan a windows machine I simply boot to linux and run commandline scan of the mounted windows drive!
Got to love linux.
Mandriva Seed
Another program for putting a Linux distribution on USB which isn't mentioned in this article is Mandriva Seed. While ymmv, I've found it more reliable than either unetbootin or usb creator, though I haven't tried to use it for distributions other than Mandriva.
I bought a class 6 micro SDHC
I bought a class 6 micro SDHC card and a reader that is almost flush with my notebook for the exac reason to have Linux on a fingernail.
Even if the performance are really good with large files (22MB read/6.5MB write), the system with slow files is awfully slow (I also did a full install on a Toshiba branded microSDHC card and the installation took 6 hours).
I would reccommend a Cosair Voyager GT for this kind of "experiments".
Universal USB Installer
I have been using Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux.com for as long as they've first pulished it. I've been running Linux from a couple (4GB and 8GB just recently) microSD cards for a few months now. April 28th they released version 22.214.171.124 to include the new Ubuntu 11.04 releases. They have a large selection of distros to download and put onto your USB device. One thing about the Universal Installer is that it tends to keep the original syslinux config intact as opposed to the modification that UNetbootin has done in the past for me. All in all, great article! Thanks for the last little bit on syslinux.
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Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers left Heinz Field on Monday night with his sprained right shoulder in a sling. When he walks back in ready to play is anybody's guess.
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M.A. English (Delhi University, India) PhD. (University of Texas at Arlington)
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- Critical and Literary theory & postcolonial cultural criticism
- Global literatures from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean
- Early twentieth century British Literature
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Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English and teaches critical and postcolonial theory, postcolonial African, Caribbean, and South Asian literatures as well as early twentieth-century British literature. His essays have appeared in journals such as Boundary 2, Criticism, ARIEL, Women: A Cultural Review, Colby Quarterly, Mediations and Journal X. His book entitled Civility and Empire (Routledge: London and New York, 2005) is a literary exploration of the culture of civility operating in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British colonial society. The book examines the manner in which civility came to define the ethos of the modern colonial state and emerged as a key discursive idea around which questions about education, citizenship, gender, race, labor, and bureaucratic and civil authority were negotiated. The book focuses on a wide array of colonial texts, including nineteenth-century oriental tales (e.g. Walter Scott's The Surgeon's Daughter), narratives about cadetship in the East India Company and about Jewish "stock jobbers," John Stuart Mill's Autobiography and his colonial writings, parliamentary debates about free trade, popular Anglo-Indian poetry and romances, Kipling's imperial fiction, and the colonial stories of E.M. Forster and Leonard Woolf. His essay on the cross-dressing Victorian poet, Adela Cory Nicolson who wrote under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope," was reprinted in an anthology titled "Writing Desire." His most recent publications include an article on the postcolonial Nigerian novelist, Helon Habila, in the journal ARIEL, and an essay on the transnational Indian poet and writer, Meena Alexander.
Current Research
My most recent research includes (1) a project that examines ways in which critical theory, particularly Adorno,reflects the concerns, aesthetics and critical energies visible in modernist narrative, as exemplified in Virginia Woolf; (2) a series of essays that explore the political implications of contemporary "third generation" writers from West Africa recasting the dominant mode of historical realism that dominated African postcolonial fiction, & (3) using the postcolonial critique of "national development" in the global south to explore the Indian feminist writer, Mahasweta Devi's representations of the relationship between land, indigenous people's rights, and the postcolonial State.
|Civility, a normative code of behavior in 19th century Britain became a means of imposing control and effecting exclusion when transferred to the colonial world. Civility and Empire examines the manner in which civility emerged as the ethos of the British colonial state in the 19th century and formed the key discursive idea around which questions about citizenship, education, inheritance, labor, and civil authority were negotiated. The discourse of civility also provided the basis for establishing disciplinary mechanisms that were essential to managing the historical exigencies confronting the British Empire in India. The book traces the genealogy of civility in 19th and 20th century British literature that includes writers such as Walter Scott, Kipling, John Stuart Mill, E.M. Forster and Leonard Woolf, and also the history of the colonial archive that includes official documents, poetry, romances, and travel narratives from this era.
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EXCLUSIVE: The genre-leaning production company founded as The Woodshed in 2010 by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller has undergone an identity change. The outfit has been rebranded SpectreVision and has also added a music division, teaming with Redbird Music Management's Tim Husom to form SpectreVision Management. The name change reflects a wider scope as SpectreVision expands into music while continuing to build a film production portfolio.
"As our company began to expand its horizons, the name SpectreVision served to exemplify more our broadened platform: technology capturing the ineffable," said Elijah Wood. Among SpectreVision's current slate are horror-comedy Cooties starring Alison Pill and Rainn Wilson; Toad Road, which is set for a theatrical/VOD release this year by Artsploitation; and Iran-set vampire love story A Girl Walks Home At Night which is in post-production. Read More »


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My Little Pony Comic Reaches One Million Copies Sold!
Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2013
IDW's Breakout All-Ages Series Hits Major Milestone October 2nd
San Diego, CA (October 2, 2013) - When the first issue
of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was the
best-selling comic in IDW's history, and went into four printings,
it was clear that IDW and Hasbro had a hit on their hands.
Now, less than one year into the series, IDW is proud to
announce that My Little Pony: Friendship is
Magic has reached a monumental milestone of selling
over one million copies at retail, and the
pop culture phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down. MY
LITTLE PONY is an evergreen lifestyle brand that continues to be a
worldwide perennial favorite. The "My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic" animated series is created by Hasbro
Studios and is currently airing on The Hub TV Network in the United
States and can be seen globally in over 170 countries. To
celebrate the occasion, IDW and Hasbro have collaborated on a very
special promotion.
In an unprecedented move, issue #12 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, due in stores out this month, will boast an extremely rare variant cover that will be limited to twelve copies total! These twelve copies will be dispersed via multiple contests and charity auctions to those fans and retailers responsible for the incredible success of the series. Fans can look for additional details at IDW's website (http://www.idwpublishing.com/).
"We have a great relationship with Hasbro, one we've always been very proud of," said IDW CEO & PublisherTed Adams, "so selling a million copies is a really big deal, but to be able to celebrate the achievement with Hasbro makes it even sweeter. "
"We're excited to be celebrating this important milestone with IDW," said Michael Kelly, Hasbro's Director of Global Publishing. "They've understood what MY LITTLE PONY is all about from the start, which is proven by the fact that their comics appeal to fans of all ages, including young girls who traditionally haven't had many comics directed toward them. Also, we love the fact that we can commemorate this special event by benefiting others in need of the magic of friendship."
As IDW begins work on the next million copies, it's obvious there has never been a better time to be a fan of My Little Pony!
Watch this space for more information! Or better yet, make sure and follow us on Twitter (@idwpublishing) and like us on Facebook (facebook.com/idwpublishing)!
About Hasbro, Inc.
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company dedicated to fulfilling the fundamental need for play for children and families through the creative expression of the Company's world class brand portfolio, including TRANSFORMERS, MONOPOLY, PLAY-DOH, MY LITTLE PONY, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, NERF and LITTLEST PET SHOP. From toys and games, to television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and a comprehensive licensing program, Hasbro strives to delight its global customers with innovative play and entertainment experiences, in a variety of forms and formats, anytime and anywhere. The Company's Hasbro Studios develops and produces television programming for more than 170 markets around the world, and for the U.S. on Hub Network, part of a multi-platform joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK). Through the company's deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world for future generations and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families every year. It has been recognized for its efforts by being named one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" and is ranked as one of Corporate Responsibility Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens." Learn more at www.hasbro.com.


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PROVIDENCEŌĆöThe Supreme Court granted the town of North Kingstown a stay of Judge Brian SternŌĆÖs Feb. 7 order to put an end to the three-platoon, 24-hour shift system for town firefighters. Negotiations over the past months between the North Kingstown Firefighters Association (NKFFA) Local 1651 and the town have failed to produce a new collective bargaining agreement, and the stay ensures that the firefighters remain under the townŌĆÖs preferred work system until the Supreme Court makes a final decision.
NORTH KINGSTOWNŌĆöThe North Kingstown Planning Commission continued its discussion on the proposed Commons development on Frenchtown Road, debating potential zoning and Comprehensive Plan changes necessary for the mixed-use retail project to move forward. Developer Frenchtown Road Partners, LLC, has been working over the past two years with the towns of North Kingstown and East Greenwich to agree upon an acceptable site layout and makeup for the construction which aims to bring in large retail businesses such as CVS and McDonaldŌĆÖs to Frenchtown Road.
NORTH KINGSTOWNŌĆöOn the evening of Wednesday, May 1, the town council spent nearly three hours discussing potential reductions and the townŌĆÖs financial stability moving forward into the next fiscal year. The council approved approximately $520,000 in cuts to the fiscal year 2014 proposed budget, which totals nearly $97.5 million, in order to make additional tax increases less burdensome on North Kingstown residents.
PROVIDENCE ŌĆö This past Friday, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), in conjunction with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and the Rhode Island Trails Advisory Committee, announced that it is awarding $1.52 million worth in funding for recreational trail projects throughout the state. In South County, five initiatives have received money, including the refurbishment of 3.5 miles of trails in North Kingstown and creation of a new trail on the Whale Rock Preserve in Narragansett.
Tsarnaev family prepared to receive son TamerlaneŌĆÖs remains
PROVIDENCEŌĆöAccording to statement released on Tuesday by her attorney Amato DeLuca, Katherine Russell and the Tsarnaev family will be able to receive the remains of her slain husband, the Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlane Tsarnaev. Russell, a native of North Kingstown, has been the center of an FBI investigation regarding her knowledge of her husbandŌĆÖs activities leading up to his April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon and subsequent evasion of police, resulting in four deaths and over 170 people injured.
By the time the explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Caitlin Wilson was already safely on a train back to Wickford Station.
She admits though, itŌĆÖs eerie thinking what could have happened had a few things gone differently Monday afternoon.
As the events of yesterday's bombings at the Boston Marathon surged throughout the world, thoughts have turned in communities throughout Rhode Island to local residents, families and loved ones who were running in the Marathon. From North Kingstown, six were registered:
Frank A. Coseglia, 60
Dianna Glass, 43
Linda Huiteau, 56
Ian Kulin, 48
Gail C. Long, 42
George Marr, 38
Town teams up with URI to better understand sea level rise
NORTH KINGSTOWNŌĆöAt Monday eveningŌĆÖs town council meeting, Teresa Crean of the University of Rhode IslandŌĆÖs Coastal Resources Center (CRC) presented the town with an initiative that research group has been working on in conjunction with the townŌĆÖs planning department. Last year, the CRC received a $100,000 grant to develop a program which examined sea level rise and associated climate change effects in North Kingstown.
Opinion divided on benefit of Post Road lane reductions
NORTH KINGSTOWNŌĆöOn Monday evening, the town council listened to representatives from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) outline their plans for a new look to Post Road, giving the townŌĆÖs main thoroughfare what is called a ŌĆśroad diet.ŌĆÖ
NORTH KINGSTOWNŌĆöIn light of a report released last week by Governor Lincoln Chafee this past week uncovering fraud and mismanagement in the stateŌĆÖs food stamp (EBT) and Medicaid programs, Sen. James C. Sheehan (Dist.36ŌĆöNarragansett, North Kingstown) has introduced legislation which would establish a state inspector generalŌĆÖs office to help bring a higher level of consistency and efficiency to the stateŌĆÖs finances.


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This Day in History
January 6, 1942
Computer Researcher Peter Denning Born
Peter Denning is born. He received a BEE from Manhattan College in 1965 and a PhD from MIT in 1968. He was head of the computer science department at Purdue University (1979-83), co-founder of CSNET and first chair of the CSNET executive committee (1981-1986), and the founding director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at the NASA Ames Research Center (1983-1990). Since 1991 he has become Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University. He was president of the Association for Computing Machinery (1980-1982), and chair of the ACM publications board (1992-1998) where he led the development of the ACM digital library. Denning has published six books and 260 articles on computers, networks, and their operating systems. Denning published two well-received papers that established a scientific and rational basis for virtual memory computer operating systems in 1966 and 1970.


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Head Coach Rachel Pacheco
Phone: 408.864.5605
Assistant Coaches Kevin Newman and Kent Shain
About De Anza Softball
Welcome to the De Anza Dons Softball website.
Our Lady Dons had a fantastic 2012 season with a 20-14 record, finished 3rd in their division, and are 14th seed in the North Conference Championships.
Leading the way is Tawni Jobke, the MVP of the Coast North Conference, Casey Showalter and Taylor McCould, our First all league players.
Additionally, Mary Schoenberg, Kelsey Shain and Marianne Llavore were named to the Second Team All-League, and Kirstie Zimmerman our Honorable Mention Player.
Now, the Lady Dons are heading up to Rocklin on Saturday, April 5, to play the number 3 seed Sierra College. Go Lady Dons!!
About The Coach
As a student-athlete starting out at a Junior College, I had the chance to grow and develop both on and off the field. I feel as a Head Coach I have a lot to offer my athletes. I have played at the highest level possible. I understand what it is like making the transformation from a Community College to a Major Division I University. My job is to get the absolute best out of my student-athletes and developing them for future opportunities at a four-year educational institution. My goal is to have a winning program on and off the field.
Building: PE-51-K
Contact: Rachel Pacheco
Phone: 408.864.5605


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Here is Today's MoneySmart tip of the day:
The Discount Diva's favorite band of all time is playing at the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf tonight. Don't miss George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic tonight, playing for free! Opening bands start at 5 p.m. If you see me, come and say hello!
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In a hospital somewhere, you opened your eyes.
The white ceiling, the white walls, the white curtains flitting about at the window - it all seemed so familiar. Yes, because you had once read about them.
The feeling of waking up in the unfamiliar yet recognizable place.
Yet, it annoyed you that you could not remember how you got there.
In fact, you could not remember much, except for reading about hospitals and people who woke up in them.
"You're awake!" A voice startled you.
Turning to the anxious voice, you found yourself looking at a very handsome boy. His gorgeous brown eyes were filled with happiness, the grin he wore showed off his neat and white teeth. The plain black shirt looked impossibly good on him, and you wanted to compliment him about it - until he leaned over you to kiss you - and you realized -
"I'm sorry, but who are you?"
"She doesn't remember me." You heard the boy's voice from outside the room. His name was Joon, or so his friend - Mir said. Another friend of his - Seung Ho, was outside with Joon. You imagined the gorgeous boy looking dejected, and his friend comforting him.
You felt guilty.
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MORRISON, Ill. — The Whiteside County Sheriff's Office is asking that motorists refrain from any unnecessary travel until Tuesday morning.
The county highway department and the township road commissioners are attempting to keep the roads clear but the winds are making this a difficult task.
If you need to travel please be prepared with a winter emergency kit in your vehicle.


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By Bill Bradberry
Niagara Gazette
Niagara Gazette — You've seen them standing at the podium, politicians taking turns claiming to be speaking for the American people, dividing us by political party, race, religion, philosophy, some even by the food we eat.
But, turns out, we're not as divided as they think according to a new Esquire-NBC News survey; in fact, despite our obvious differences we're more alike in the middle than ever before, so they say.
Yeah, I know another survey; this one by Esquire! Aren't these the folk who used to publish those sometimes risqué "Gentlemen's magazines" that curious Boy Scouts like me used to squirrel away in our knapsacks during our annual fund raising paper drives back in the day?
Apparently they are one and the same, still offering flattering glimpses of the feminine mystique while also honoring their time tested tradition of exploring other less pictorially attractive, though graphically persuasive serious food for thought likewise available in a wide array of media at esquire.com where you can interact with the very survey that they used to arrive at some very interesting conclusions about whom we are and how we think we think.
Not surprising…with the prolific growth of all sorts of new mass media sprouting up all over the place from your smart phone, to your smart television and tablets, much of it tailored to match your very own specific political persuasion or "agenda", it's almost impossible to avoid being bombarded with messages that attempt to squeeze us into convenient little Pigeon-holes whether we like it or not.
The survey challenges the conventional Washington wisdom that we are hopelessly divided, torn apart by irreversible political conflict causing a near total collapse as evidenced by the almost civil war like governmental shutdown-showdown and what some claim could result in an otherwise, totally avoidable global economic meltdown.
Contradicting the conclusion of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report on Civil Disorders which warned in part that, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal", Esquire seems to suggest that we've overcome that hurdle.
Generally refuted by some who rejected the premise that racism was the chief cause of the riots forty-five years ago, most agreed with the conclusion; that we were moving toward two societies with class, not race as the primary cause for the growing separation.
The Esquire Report seems to suggest that the gap has been steadily shrinking since the Kerner Commission's dire forecast as our more racially diverse, but more culturally homogenous middle, 51 percent find comfort in common ground, closer to each other in the vast center, not defined by the extreme positions taken by the few who prefer to reside on the fringes.
According to Robert Blizzard, a partner at Public Opinion Strategies, the lead pollster for Mitt Romney in 2012, whose firm co-created the survey with the Benenson Strategy Group, pollsters for President Obama, "Just because Washington is polarized doesn't mean America is."
The survey (The Benenson Strategy Group and Public Opinion Strategies conducted a nationwide survey from August 5-11, 2013, with 2,410 registered voters) breaks the country down into eight distinct segments: "two on the far right "The Righteous Right" and "The Talk Radio Heads", two on the far left "The Bleeding Hearts" and "The Gospel Left", and four in the middle that represent nothing less than a new American center "Minivan Moderates," "The MBA Middle," "The Pick-up Populists, and "The Whatever Man."
It characterizes the people in the center as "patriotic and proud" highlighting these little gems:
• 66 percent brag that America is "still the greatest country in the world."
• 54 percent see America as a model that other countries should want to be like.
• 81 percent agree that we cannot continue to spend money on foreign aid.
• 49 percent believe that the political system is broken.
• 50 percent believe the economy is bad.
• 41 percent believe the economy won't get much better any time soon.
• 70 percent fear another 9/11 or Boston-style bombing is likely.
• 62 percent fear their children's lives will be more difficult than their own.
• 70 percent believe the rich keep getting richer at the expense of everyone else.
The survey also discovered that America supports gender neutral marriage, 64 percent, paid maternity leave, 70 percent, tax subsidized childcare to help women return to work, 57 percent, abortion rights for any reason within the first trimester, 63 percent, equal pay for equal work among women, 62 percent, a federal minimum wage hike to no less than $10 per hour, 67 percent, and the legalization of marijuana, 52 percent.
Meanwhile, the center tends to be more conservative on some other issues such as on the environment, capital punishment, and diversity programs. NBC News Senior Staff writer, Tony Dokoupil reports, "Majorities support offshore drilling (81 percent) and the death penalty (90 percent), and the end of affirmative action in hiring and education (57 percent). Most people in the center believe respect for minority rights has gone overboard, in general, harming the majority in the process (63 percent). And just one in four support immigration reforms that would provide a path to citizenship for those who came here illegally."
While Dokoupil notes that the center is mostly white (78 percent), "so is most of the American voting public (72 percent) — and the center is changing. Already it contains a fifth of African-American voters, one in two Latino voters, and half the women in America. The center is roomy, or in other words, welcoming."
The bottom line, says Dokoupil, "The center is real, passionate and persuadable. It leans Democratic but a majority of those in the center agree with a mix of Republican and Democratic ideas, and about the same percentage self-describe as neither liberal nor conservative making the political days ahead look like a, "nimble political platform" more likely to swing either way, based more on class than anything else.
Read the full report and take the interactive test to discover your own place on the spectrum at esquire.com/blogs/politics/new-american-center.
Voters and politicians at EVERY level should take heed; it's a new day!
Contact Bill Bradberry at email@example.com Bill at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Bay Shore
Two men were charged last week with stealing packages from residential doorsteps in Bay Shore, police said. According to police, an off-duty New York State Trooper spotted Albert Munoz and Freddy Benavides, Jr. allegedly stealing a package from the doorstep of a home in Bay Shore. The trooper called Suffolk County Police and Third Precinct Patrol Officer Arthur Martrano arrested Munoz and Benavides when the suspects pulled into the U. S. Post Office in Bay Shore. Further investigation revealed that the suspects were following a UPS truck around the Bay Shore area and stole the packages after they were left on the doorsteps, police said. An Apple EarPod, Apple iPad Mini case, and two pairs of Skechers sneakers were recovered.
Two store employees who work at the Westfield Sunrise Mall were jumped by a robber who stole store proceeds Thursday night, police said. The employees, a 24-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman went into a trash disposal room on mall grounds when they were surprised by a man who knocked the male victim to the ground and kicked him several times. He wasn't hurt badly, police said. The robber took an envelope containing cash from the man and two handbags from the woman.
A 20-year-old Hempstead man was shot and killed Saturday evening. According to detectives, the victim, Quavis Ford, was in front of 100 Terrace Ave. when he was shot by a man around 4:23 p.m. Ford was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead by hospital staff. Detectives ask anyone with information regarding this crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.
Garden City
Dominic Barbara, a high profile attorney from Garden City who once represented Joey Buttafuoco and more recently Howard Stern, attempted to extort $200,000 from his ex-wife and destroy her reputation and career when she didn't meet his demands, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. Barbara, 67, threatened to file false police reports and a false order of protection against his ex-wife, Rice said, and was arrested last week. The celebrity divorce lawyer has been charged with grand larceny fourth degree, two counts of aggravated harassment second degree and two counts of stalking fourth degree.
Rockville Centre
Community National Bank in Rockville Centre was robbed Friday morning after a man told the bank manager he had brought a "device" into the bank. Police said that after entering the manager's office, the man placed a brown folder on the desk, told the manager it was a robbery and demanded money. The man also indicated that the folder contained a "device." After obtaining an undetermined amount of cash, he left the folder on the manager's desk and fled the bank on foot heading westbound on Merrick Road, police said. The arson/bomb squad responded to the scene and determined the folder to be non-hazardous.
Valley Stream
Police are searching for two men who assaulted a 28-year-old Valley Stream man last week. According to detectives, the victim was inside his home on Dec. 5 when two men began banging on his door around 3 p.m. The victim left his house and approached the men. The first assailant, described as black, 5' 7", 160 lbs. and wearing a black and red hooded sweatshirt, punched him in the face. The second, described as black, in his 20's, 5' 9", medium build, and wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, displayed a handgun and fired one shot at the victim as he ran back to his home. The men fled in a late model dark blue BMW 5 series driven by a third black male. No injuries were reported. Detectives ask anyone with information regarding this crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS.
John Pappias, the Northport man who pleaded guilty to a felony hit and run charge in October, was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in prison last week. Pappias was arrested on Jan. 14 after police linked his Chevy Tahoe pickup truck to debris at the scene of a Oct. 28, 2011 hit and run on Fort Salonga Road that killed construction worker Victor Schultz of Massapequa Park.
West Babylon
The New York State Department of Conservation announced two individuals were charged for attempting to sell 150 blackfish to a Queens-based wholesale food dealer. A third person, the dealer, was also charged for attempting to purchase the fish. The DEC's Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) pressed charges on Nov.11 as fishermen Matthew Ervolino, 34, of West Babylon, and Matthew Savarese, 36, of Holbrook, began weighing the fish. The two were expecting to exchange money with dealer Ding Hai Yen, of New Harbor Food in Flushing, for the sale of 150 blackfish, weighing a total 382 pounds. The blackfish would have a $2,000 value on the black market, according to the DEC.


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Maxine Smith, 93, of Groves, Texas passed away Saturday, May 11, 2013.
Maxine was born August 23, 1919 in Mineral Springs, Arkansas to C. E. Sutton and Mattie Willett Sutton. Maxine attended business school and was a bookkeeper while living in Arkansas. She was a resident of Groves for 63 years and was a charter member of Friendship Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, George H. Smith and her daughter, Phyllis Kroh; also three sisters and one brother.
Survivors include two grandsons, Brian Todd of Saipan and Kevin Baxter of Groves; one brother, Gene Sutton of Fordyce, Arkansas; several nieces, nephews and a host of friends.
A visitation for family and friends will begin at 12:00 p.m./noon on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at Levingston Funeral Home in Groves followed by the funeral service at 2:00 p.m. with Reverend Travis Cox officiating. Burial will be in Oak Bluff Memorial Park.
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Maxine Smith, 93, of Groves, Texas passed away Saturday, May 11, 2013.


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/var/opinion - Do Not Forget What People Fetch
Let's talk about protecting your network from what people can fetch. I'm going to take a twisty road to get there, so please stick with me.
I wrote a lengthy report published at www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux that you might want to peruse. Allow me a couple caveats. The report is old, dated October 2004. Don't e-mail me about the minor editing errors in the text that I never went back to fix. They don't affect the thrust of the report.
Anyway, I hope you read the whole report, but I reference it primarily to draw out a single point. The Summer 2004 Evans Data Linux Developers Survey states that 78% of Linux developers have never had a Linux machine compromised. The Evans survey didn't explore the nature of the very few Linux incidents that did occur. For example, some may have been victims of an Apache worm. Apache runs on both Linux and Windows, so those incidents would not be unique to Linux. More important, the same Apache worm that made the rounds many years ago could do much more damage on Windows than on Linux.
There's a reason for that. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Windows is far more vulnerable to serious security breaches than Linux. Vista will not improve things. Microsoft seems more interested in preventing users from bypassing DRM restrictions than preventing crackers from breaking into Windows.
You can probably protect both Windows and Linux users from outside attacks simply by putting them behind a NAT-enabled router. A Linux-based router or even a cheap OTS box will usually do. The problem is that many security breaches occur not due to incoming attacks, but because people fetch tainted Web pages, download infected software or fetch myriad other file types with embedded code that exploits all the holes in Windows that allow people to escalate privileges and compromise the entire Windows box. If everyone ran Linux, this might not be such a big problem. Not everyone runs Linux. My kids use Linux, but they also use Windows. This is not only a family issue though. You may be in charge of a network where employees run Windows.
Here's what I've done to protect my kids. First, I have taken great pains to limit their Web browsing to Firefox and their e-mail correspondence to Thunderbird. This avoids the common IE and Outlook exploits. Second, even though they access the Internet through a wireless NAT-enabled router, that router is connected to a Linux server that examines and filters what gets through before passing the traffic on to the Internet. I use tinyproxy with DansGuardian to block content. I use MIME filters to prevent potentially dangerous e-mail attachments from getting in. But, the coup de grace is what I can do with iptables.
Before I continue, let me add a little perspective. I'd never consider myself competent enough to be a Linux kernel developer, but I have contributed a few lines of code to the kernel, and I have patched my own kernel to work around things like a stubborn ASUS motherboard that refused to shut down (the patch was too quick and dirty to be worthy of the kernel but it worked for me). I have also contributed code in various languages to projects like Xoops, Lphoto and more. My point is that I'm not just an editor; I'm a programmer and an incurable geek.
I'm a lazy geek, however. I would much rather defer to a GUI program to generate firewall rules than write my own. But iptables has become so intuitive that even lazy geeks can write their own rules. All I had to grasp was how iptables processes traffic in terms of prerouting, forwarding and postrouting. For example, the following rule is one of many that preroutes various attempts to access the Web through DansGuardian. I have many such rules, and they're more specific (they specify the source IP address of various computers), but I'll list a simplified version of the obvious one:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp ↪--dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
Beyond a little knowledge of syntax, that's almost an English expression. It says to redirect the NAT traffic coming in through eth1 from port 80 to port 8080. If your kids or employees are clever enough to try to access the Web through an external proxy, simply redirect those ports to port 8080 too. You can use DansGuardian to block most other attempts to sneak around this protection.
Our article "Starting a Linux Firewall from Scratch" on page 78 should help you get started with iptables. There are far more comprehensive iptables tutorials on the Web, one being iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html. But most of them explore the complexities of iptables that only a security expert would need. If your needs are light, like mine, don't be afraid to explore iptables and take a shot at writing your own rules. You'll find iptables much more friendly than you've ever imagined, and they're indispensable as part of your security framework.
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Haverhill, MA — Lynda A. Dondero left this world on June 15.
She was born on July 3,1943, and was the daughter of the late Attorney John Dondero. She was raised in Haverhill, where she attended school and held the office of class vice president in her junior and senior year and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1961.
Lynda attended Boston University School of Nursing, where she was the president of her sorority and the editor of the school newspaper, Brown and Gold.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1965, and then lived in the Boston area where she worked at B.U. Medical Center and Boston City Hospital until her return to Haverhill in 1985. She was then employed by Di An Realty as a licensed sales agent, Abbey Home Health Care as a visiting nurse, and Claddagh Health Care as the RN healthcare supervisor. In 1987, she joined the staff of Penacook Place as a nursing supervisor until illness forced her retirement earlier this year.
She will be remembered by many, as thoughtful and compassionate. She was an inspiration to the many lives, young and old, that she happened to touch throughout her life.
She leaves behind many beloved friends including Jeanne B. Charnigo of Salem, Mass., and her dog, Tyler.
Contributions may be made in her memory to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston MA 02284-9168, or Penacook Place Resident Funding/Tree of Dreams, 150 Water St., Haverhill, MA 01830.
ARRANGEMENTS: At Lynda's request funeral arrangements are private and are under the direction of the Paul C. Rogers Family-Scatamacchia Funeral Home, 334 Main St., Haverhill, Mass. www.scatamacchiafuneralhome.com.


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Release Date : February 2013
Author(s) : Steve Ries
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise Products and Platforms, Oracle Database, Enterprise, Oracle
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Introducing the Oracle Relational Database System
Chapter 2: Installing the Oracle Database Software
Chapter 3: Creating the Oracle Database
Chapter 4: Examining the Oracle Architecture
Chapter 5: Managing Oracle Storage Structures
Chapter 6: Managing the Oracle Instance
Chapter 7: Managing Security
Chapter 8: Managing Concurrency
Chapter 9: Configuring an Oracle Network
Chapter 10: Managing Database Performance
Chapter 11: Understanding Backup and Recovery Concepts
Chapter 12: Performing Database Backups
Chapter 13: Performing Database Recovery
Chapter 14: Migrating Data
Appendix: Preparing for the Certification Exam
Test Your Knowledge – Answers
- Chapter 1: Introducing the Oracle Relational Database System
- Understanding the RDBMS
- The importance of databases
- Flat file databases
- Limitations of the flat file paradigm
- A new paradigm
- Introducing the Oracle product family
- Exploring the history of Oracle
- Understanding the Oracle Database product
- Understanding the different editions of Oracle Database
- Understanding Oracle Database options
- Examining the Oracle product family
- Understanding Oracle's hardware solutions
- Examining Oracle virtualization solutions
- Exploring Oracle operating systems
- Examining Oracle Application Servers
- Interpreting Oracle Database versioning
- Understanding the role of the DBA
- Examining the tools of the Oracle DBA
- SQL*Plus
- Oracle Enterprise Manager
- DBArtisan
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Introducing the Companylink database
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 2: Installing the Oracle Database Software
- Planning an Oracle installation
- Understanding Oracle installation concepts
- Acquiring the Oracle software
- Reviewing the installation prerequisites
- Reviewing hardware prerequisites for an installation
- Meeting the minimum hardware requirements for an installation
- Reviewing software prerequisites for an installation
- Using the Oracle Universal Installer
- Understanding how OUI works
- Completing final preparations to install the Oracle software
- Creating Oracle user accounts and groups
- Establishing Oracle directory structures
- Understanding the Optimal Flexible Architecture
- Using environment variables in Oracle
- Installing the Oracle Database software
- Running the Oracle Universal Installer
- Examining the installation
- Understanding the de-installation process – advanced topic
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 3: Creating the Oracle Database
- Planning for a database creation
- Understanding the memory requirements of a database
- Understanding the disk requirements of a database
- Running the Network Configuration Assistant
- Creating an Oracle database using DBCA
- Introducing the Database Configuration Assistant
- Examining a manual database creation
- Examining Windows Services in Oracle
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 4: Examining the Oracle Architecture
- Understanding the Oracle RDBMS
- Distinguishing between an instance and a database
- Examining the Oracle instance
- Recognizing the primary Oracle processes
- PMON – the Process Monitor
- SMON – the System Monitor
- DBWn – the Database Writer process
- CKPT – the Checkpoint process
- LGWR – the Log Writer process
- ARCn – the Archiver process
- Recognizing the secondary Oracle processes
- MMON – the Manageability Monitor
- MMAN – Memory Manager
- RECO – the Recoverer process
- Recognizing other database processes
- Identifying Oracle's memory caches
- Understanding the SGA
- Understanding the PGA
- Examining the Oracle database components
- Understanding the control file
- Exploring the redo logfiles
- Understanding the archived redo logs
- Examining Oracle's core infrastructure datafiles
- Understanding the SYSTEM tablespace
- Understanding the SYSAUX tablespace
- Exploring the temporary tablespace
- Understanding the Undo tablespace
- Understanding non-specialized datafiles
- Exploring Oracle Real Application Clusters
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 5: Managing Oracle Storage Structures
- Examining Oracle's physical space paradigm
- Understanding the database block
- Sizing the database block
- Examining the anatomy of a database block
- Understanding the database extent
- Understanding the database segment
- Understanding the database datafile
- Managing tablespaces
- Starting SQL Developer
- Creating tablespaces
- Modifying tablespaces
- Resizing datafiles
- Adding datafiles
- Automatically extending datafiles
- Managing tablespace availability
- Dropping a tablespace
- Using advanced tablespace management techniques
- Using non-standard block size tablespaces
- Understanding locally managed tablespaces
- Using Oracle Managed Files
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 6: Managing the Oracle Instance
- Understanding database startup and shutdown
- Understanding the startup process
- Controlling the startup and shutdown process
- Establishing a connection with SYSDBA privileges
- Controlling the database startup process
- Controlling the database shutdown process
- Controlling startup and shutdown on Windows platforms
- Setting database initialization parameters
- Understanding the PFILE and SPFILE
- Working with the PFILE and SPFILE
- Understanding the data dictionary
- Exploring the Oracle base tables
- Exploring the static data dictionary views
- Exploring the dynamic data dictionary views
- Querying the data dictionary views
- Listing common data dictionary views
- Object-related views
- Administration-related views
- Security-related views
- Storage-related views
- Understanding database diagnostic information
- Understanding the alert log
- Understanding the trace files
- Understanding the Automatic Diagnostic Repository
- Understanding the Oracle Support model
- Using My Oracle Support
- Patching Oracle
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 7: Managing Security
- Understanding the fundamentals of database security
- Exploring the principles behind security
- Creating and managing user accounts
- Creating users
- Understanding privileges
- Granting system privileges
- Granting object privileges
- Removing privileges with REVOKE
- Understanding role-based security
- Using system roles
- Managing user roles
- Enabling roles
- Understanding profiles
- Understanding password limits
- Using profiles to manage passwords
- Using profiles to manage system resources
- Understanding key security parameters
- Understanding auditing
- Exploring the audit trail
- Auditing database actions
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 8: Managing Concurrency
- Understanding the lifecycle of a transaction
- Examining the rules of a transaction
- Examining types of transactions
- Managing undo data
- Understanding undo-related parameters
- Managing undo tablespaces
- Managing serialization mechanisms
- Understanding Oracle's locking scheme
- Examining locking in action
- Recognizing deadlocks
- Understanding latches and mutexes
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 9: Configuring an Oracle Network
- Understanding Oracle networking concepts
- Exploring Oracle Net
- Understanding the dedicated and shared server architectures
- Understanding the listener
- Controlling the listener
- Understanding the networking configuration files
- Using Oracle name resolution
- Understanding Easy Connect
- Understanding local naming
- Using directory naming and external naming
- Understanding database registration
- Using static registration
- Using dynamic registration
- Using database links
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 10: Managing Database Performance
- Understanding object-level tuning
- Understanding the Oracle optimizer
- Gathering object statistics
- Gathering statistics manually
- Gathering statistics automatically
- Discovering invalid objects
- Managing the Automatic Workload Repository
- Understanding the AWR
- Using statistics, metrics, and baselines
- Generating an AWR report
- Understanding Oracle's Advisory Framework
- Understanding the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
- Generating an ADDM Report
- Using Memory Advisors
- Using the Buffer Pool Advisor
- Using the Shared Pool Advisory
- Using the PGA Advisor
- Understanding the Alert Framework
- Understanding Oracle Memory Management
- Using Manual Memory Management
- Using Automatic Shared Memory Management
- Using Automatic Memory Management
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 11: Understanding Backup and Recovery Concepts
- Understanding the redo-based architecture
- Adding redo log members
- Adding a redo log group
- Exploring ARCHIVELOG mode
- Converting to an ARCHIVELOG mode
- Understanding Flash Recovery Area
- Configuring the Flash Recovery Area
- Understanding instance recovery
- Understanding the categories of database failure
- Addressing statement failures
- Addressing user errors
- Addressing user process errors
- Addressing media failure
- Understanding RAID
- Understanding file-level media failure
- Introducing the Data Recovery Advisor
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 12: Performing Database Backups
- Creating user-managed backups
- Creating user-managed cold backups
- Creating user-managed hot backups
- Understanding Oracle Recovery Manager
- Introducing RMAN
- Understanding the RMAN architecture
- Performing RMAN offline backups
- Performing a tablespace-level RMAN backup
- Performing a full backup
- Performing compressed backups
- Backing up image copies
- Performing RMAN hot backups
- Performing full hot backups
- Creating incremental backups
- Performing backup maintenance activities
- Understanding RMAN Parameters
- Using the LIST command in RMAN
- Using the REPORT command in RMAN
- Checking files using CROSSCHECK
- Monitoring the Flash Recovery Area with Enterprise Manager
- Automating database backups
- Automating Backups With Scripting
- Automating backups using Enterprise Manager
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 13: Performing Database Recovery
- Understanding the recovery process
- Understanding the importance of database recovery
- Understanding the different types of recovery
- Performing RMAN complete recoveries
- Performing datafile-level RMAN complete recovery
- Performing complete recovery of the database
- Performing incomplete recoveries
- Understanding incomplete recovery
- Performing a time-based incomplete recovery
- Using the Data Recovery Advisor
- Performing recovery using the DRA command-line interface
- Performing recovery using the DRA with Enterprise Manager
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Chapter 14: Migrating Data
- Understanding external data access
- Creating directory objects
- Creating external tables
- Loading data with SQL*Loader
- Understanding the key command files used by SQL*Loader
- Understanding SQL*Loader's load paths
- Understanding the input data file
- Constructing a parameter file
- Constructing a control file
- Running a SQL*Loader job
- Migrating data with Oracle Data Pump
- Understanding the architecture of Data Pump
- Exporting data Using Data Pump
- Importing data using Data Pump
- Using Data Pump with NETWORK_LINK
- Certification objectives covered
- Summary
- Test your knowledge
- Appendix: Preparing for the Certification Exam
- About the exam
- Helpful exam hints
- A recommended strategy for preparation
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What you will learn from this book
- Learn about installation of the Oracle database software package
- Create and configure your very own Oracle database
- Discover how the Oracle database architecture provides a platform for high-performance, high availability databases
- Learn how to manage an Oracle instance, including startup and shutdown concepts
- Optimise performance and perform crucial database tasks including offline, online, and incremental backups as well as data migration
- Learn how to restore and recover an Oracle database from media failure, including point-in-time recoveries
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Oracle Database Server is the most widely used relational database in the world today. This book gives you the essential skills to master the fundamentals of Oracle database administration and prepares you for Oracle DBA certification.
"OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide" prepares you to master the fundamentals of Oracle database administration using an example driven method that is easy to understand. The real world examples will prepare you to face the daily challenges of being a database administrator.
Starting with the essentials of why databases are important in today's information technology world and how they work, you are then guided through a full, customized installation of the Oracle software and creating your own personal database.
We then examine fundamental concepts of Oracle, including architecture, storage structures, security, performance tuning, networking, and instance management. Finally, we take an in-depth look at some of the most important concepts in the daily life of an Oracle DBA - backup, recovery, and data migration.
"OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide" provides you with the skills you need in order to become a successful Oracle DBA, both for certification and real life tasks.
Developed as a practical book, "OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide" will show you all you need to know to effectively excel at being an Oracle DBA, for both examinations and the real world.
Who this book is for
This book is for anyone who needs the essential skills to become an Oracle DBA, pass the Oracle Database Administration I exam, and use those skills in the real world to manage secure, high performance, and highly available Oracle databases.


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Confined, stabled horses have to contend with a lack of fresh air and the inability to continually nibble on fresh grass.
In addition, they're exposed to potential contamination in their environment from dust; more than 50 types of molds; toxins
associated with dried forage, bedding and stale air; and a mixture of noxious gas (ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, methane, carbon
dioxide) and airborne dust—both organic and inorganic.
All these pollutants can negatively impact horses' respiratory systems. Indeed, such horses have an increased risk of developing
a chronic, recurrent and debilitating respiratory syndrome, says Jean-Pierre Lavoie, DMV, Dipl. ACVIM, professor of equine
internal medicine at Université de Montréal, Canada.
This respiratory syndrome, called recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), or heaves, occurs in up to 20 percent of adult horses
in the cold northern hemisphere and in temperate climes. Current thought, according to Lavoie, is that RAO "likely results
from complex interactions between innate and acquired immune responses, environment and genetic susceptibility." Horses with
heaves exhibit a chronic disorder of the airway and present with variable and recurring airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness
and airway inflammation. They also show increased respiratory effort at rest, cough and decreased exercise performance.
A horse with labored breathing at rest, without infection as a cause of these signs, is suffering from heaves, says Renaud
Léguillette, DMV, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, associate professor of equine internal medicine, Veterinary Clinical and Diagnostic
Sciences, University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine Department. Horses have such a large lung capacity that when their lungs
aren't functioning well enough to properly respire at rest, the problem of inflammation can become extensive.
"Once you see a horse with heaves, it's really too late, as the damage is severe enough to disrupt normal breathing," says
Léguillette. All of the lung tissue is severely damaged, affected by a lot of inflammation and lung tissue remodeling. The
damage is a triad of
Inflammation—inflammatory cell accumulation in the airway affects the small bronchi and alveoli
Mucous plugs, or overproduction of mucous in the small airways.
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Raising money for equipment, tournaments, or other club projects is a major task. At the same time, it can be a very satisfying activity involving your entire membership. The first job in fund-raising is to sell your cause. A regular publicity program is an important part of your fund-raising activity. Secondly, the project must give something in return for a contribution.
Before you start an activity ask:
Each project must have a dollar goal that is attainable. This gives the members something to strive for and, when achieved, a feeling of accomplishment. How many people that are willing to work may determine the kind of project you have. If an "idea clinic" is held in which the members participate in choosing the project, they will be more willing to work at it.
Consider carefully when you are going to hold your event. Be certain that it doesn't conflict with other community activity. Also consider when your workers are available. Perhaps you can coordinate your event with another community group.
During the course of a fund-raising project, be sure that the workers receive recognition for their efforts. Mailings, phone calls of encouragement, and progress reports will stimulate their interest. Remember too that workers enjoy seeing publicity for the cause they're working for.
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If you follow these recommendations, you will minimize the possibility of any legal problems with your fund-raising project. Before beginning the project, check with the appropriate government officials to see if there are any restrictions to the activity.
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Federal Officials
Keep in mind that regulations governing club activities vary from one community to another. Generally, any game of chance (raffles, door prizes, etc.) falls into the category of a lottery. Before using the phrase "contributions may be deducted from income tax", obtain a ruling from your district director of revenue.
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Behind the Wheel: Ed Welburn (Edward T. Welburn Jr.)
Title: VP of Global Design,
Job: Leader of 10 Design Centers in eight countries, Welburn oversees a team of 2,500 employees, primarily designers.
Notable: Only the 6th design leader in GM's 105-year history, Welburn is the first leader of global design centers and the first African American design leader at GM.
Origins: The Philly native started at GM in 1972 as an associate designer.
His mark: The new Corvette Stingray, the redesigned and resuscitated Chevy Camaro, all GM concept vehicles. And pancakes.
Work style: "I like a design organization where people feel free to come to me with ideas."
Driving style: Ed likes power, speed and style, evidently.
Behind the Wheel of: 1969 Camaro, 1995 Corvette, Cadillac CTS V Coupe
At an intimate breakfast over shrimp and grits at an upscale restaurant in Chicago's
"You see things you wouldn't normally see," says the soft-spoken VP of global design at GM. The 63-year-old bespectacled man with the trim mustache and the bald head is disarmingly youthful and infectiously energetic when he talks about cars. He owns three, and oversees design of the second largest automaker in the world, giving him plenty of opportunity to express that youthful enthusiasm.
That energy has helped bring GM out of bankruptcy and put iconic American cars like the Stingray and the Camaro back on the cool-car pedestal. Auto legend has it that as an 11 year old, Welburn wrote GM for advice on how to become a car designer. That became a reality at 21, when Welburn was hired on at GM.
The youth demographic has always been a big focus for design teams, but it is an especially challenging time in the current car culture. Car enthusiasts historically came from the youth movement but ah, these kids today aren't into cars as an expression of personality as they once were. "They travel in packs," Welburn explains, citing the lack of demand for two-seaters or roadsters. Instead they want cars that can carry their tech and their friends. "We haven't quite found the right thing that connects with them."
Welburn might've been playing coy: He was forbidden to discuss current or future plans and we were prohibited from asking. It was a fun little dance. What he did admit to was an inspirational conversation happening between GM and young people on what matters to them beyond the obvious economic limitations.
This dialogue is something fostered by Welburn's persona. His calm and open demeanor make him seem like the perfect company to crack a cold one and sit on lawn chairs in a garage. Open dialogue is one of the principles he cherishes in the design studios, where people are encouraged to come to him with ideas, which may or may not be shared with the highest reaches of the GM sphere.
That's what happened with the Cadillac CTS coupe. "I love the culture with design," Welburn says. "It's all about attitude." For the vehicles and the designers. GM designers are typically younger than the rest of the company except for guys like Bob Munson, a designer who'd been at GM for 41 years and who has Welburn's highest esteem.
It was Munson's attitude and idea for the CTS coupe, which might've been quashed by another department because coupes didn't sell well, says Welburn.
No one outside of design knew about it until it was complete and undeniable. Now Welburn drives the CTS V coupe, which has a 556 hp V8 engine. It gave the typically box-faced Cadillac a smoother, sharper face but still held Cadillac's distinctive shape.
The interiors are as important as the body. The space itself, specifically the interior comfort, has been one thing Welburn refuses to compromise on in the name of mass reduction, which is a priority as automakers meet ambitious fuel economy standards. "Interiors are a huge, huge challenge," Welburn says, adding that those challenges are part of the fun of design.
Everything from the visibility to the soft-touch material, from the centerstack to the vents has to be carefully considered and maximized. Even the cup holders are under intense scrutiny. "If they're not right don't even think about selling the car in North America," Welburn says.
The challenges for design are even greater when you consider the opposite end of the design world, the big picture. Models being designed now will be ready by 2017, and will be sold until 2022, approximately. Designers need to be looking into the future, which is a mindbender when you think of cars from 10 years ago then forecast when auto demand will be like 10 years from now. That's why it's nice to have classics like the Corvette and Camaro, which are eternally young, like Welburn.


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