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A Proclamation
His Excellency Governor Deval L. Patrick
Whereas Since 1915, April 24th of each year has been imprinted upon the memory of the Armenian people worldwide. On this day the mass genocide of the Armenian people began in the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the first such genocide in the twentieth century; and
Whereas The Armenian citizens of the Commonwealth are dedicated to honoring the memory of the brave men and women who died; and
Whereas Armenian families were uprooted from their ancestral homeland, brutally exposed to all kinds of indignities with hundreds of thousands slain, resulting in more than half of the Armenian people killed; and
Whereas We consider all atrocities perpetrated by individuals or governments to be repulsive and abhorrent in civilized society; and
Whereas Americans of Armenian descent have contributed to the quality of life in Massachusetts in the best traditions of our state and nation, in times of war and peace; and
Whereas Our thoughts, offered in memory of the Armenian martyrs of 1915, will serve to remind everyone that persecution, torture, and killing must cease forever,
Now, Therefore, I, Deval L. Patrick, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby proclaim April 24th, 2012, to be,
Armenian Martyrs Day
And urge all the citizens of the Commonwealth to take cognizance of this event and participate fittingly in its observance.
Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston, this fourth day of April, in the year two thousand and twelve, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the two hundred and thirty-fifth.
By His Excellency
Deval L. Patrick
Governor of the Commonwealth
William Francis Galvin
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Reggie McKenzie, the Packers' director of football operations, could be on the Bears' GM radar. | Evan Siegle~AP
Updated: May 9, 2012 10:09AM
During his news conference Tuesday, Bears CEO Ted Phillips said there's no timetable for landing the next general manager.
''I want to make sure we get the right person in here,'' Phillips said. ''We're going to be thorough and we're going to be thoughtful about it and find the right fit.''
Time, though, might not be on the Bears' side.
The Indianapolis Colts, the Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Rams also are looking for general managers, and they initiated the process in earnest Wednesday.
As the Sun-Times reported in the morning, Reggie McKenzie, the Green Bay Packers' football
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In addition, multiple league sources claimed that clubs have started to request permission to speak to other candidates.
McKenzie and Eric Decosta, the Baltimore Ravens' director of player personnel, are among the highest-profile candidates available, and both would consider the Bears, sources said. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, DeCosta and Les Snead, the Atlanta Falcons'
director of player personnel, are set to interview with the Rams.
DeCosta has been a popular general-manager candidate for several years, but he has turned down
numerous opportunities to even interview because of his affinity for the Ravens and the Baltimore area, where his wife is from.
But one source said DeCosta would ''strongly consider" the Bears if the club expressed an interest. He doesn't have an obvious tie to Chicago — he's from Massachusetts — but he served as the Raven's Midwest-area scout from 1998 to 2002.
According to Pro Football Talk, the Rams and Colts already have requested to speak to DeCosta.
As for McKenzie, the Raiders have an obvious advantage because he played linebacker there. In addition, McKenzie developed under former Packers general manager Ron Wolf, who worked in the personnel department with the Raiders for a combined 25 years. Wolf is a consultant to Raiders ownership in their search for a general manager.
Two years ago, the Packers blocked the Bears' request to speak to quarterbacks coach Tom Clements for their offensive coordinator job. Per NFL policy, because they have granted one team permission to speak to McKenzie, they cannot deny other clubs a chance to interview him, too.
Because the Packers' season isn't over, McKenzie can't formalize a contract with another club until the team is eliminated from contention. That rule might be why Phillips hinted Tuesday that the Bears' hiring process could drag into February. Super Bowl XLVI is Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.
While there's a concern about up-and-comers being ready to become head coaches, the belief is that it's an ideal time for new general managers. There's a savvy veteran available in Bill Polian, but there are many other candidates who haven't yet held that position.
Notables include John Dorsey of the Packers, Marc Ross of the New York Giants, Ray Farmer of the Kansas City Chiefs, Will Lewis of the Seattle Seahawks, Louis Reddick of the Philadelphia Eagles, Sheldon White of the Detroit
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Interestingly, Dorsey reportedly turned down an offer to interview with the Colts for their vacancy, according to ESPN.
While there are restrictions on when an assistant coach on a playoff team can speak to another team about a head-coaching position, scouts and personnel executives aren't held to the same rules. That's at the discretion of each employer club to determine when is an appropriate time for an interview. But all requests to a club must be submitted in written form to an owner.
The San Diego Chargers were widely rumored to be ousting coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith, but they retained both for the 2012 season.
As for the Bears, while Phillips didn't address when they hoped to make a hire, he made one thing clear.
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"The EP is a collection of personal experiences opened up so that everyone can relate to them," says Brian.
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Manhattan Beach resident Gerry O'Connor solicits Representative Henry Waxman's support for Measure A, which would block AES from replacing its current power plant in Redondo Beach. Photo by Kevin Cody
Shortly after President Obama's second inauguration last month, the President approached Representative Henry Waxman during a luncheon in Statuary Hall, where the House of Representatives met until 1860. Waxman, a ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee told the President, "I want to thank you for mentioning climate change in your inaugural address."
"I didn't just mention it, I talked about it," the President responded. To which Waxman responded, "Now that you've talked about it, let's do something about it."
Waxman told the story Wednesday night during his first public address in the South Bay since his reelection last November, when his former Westside district was redrawn to include the Beach Cities, Palos Verdes and portions of Torrance.
Representative Henry Waxman with Torrance Democratic Club president Jimmy Gow, Beach Cities Democratic Club president Diane Wallace, LAX area Democratic Club president Al Lay and Palos Verdes Democratic Club president Connie Sullivan.
His talk was hosted by the South Bay Democratic clubs at the Hermosa Beach Community Center.
Waxman said the most important issues to him are climate change, Obama care and avoiding the "fiscal cliff."
"Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island and I have proposed a bicameral task force to develop a sustainable environmental policy. Tomorrow, we will send out 200 letters to business, industry and environmental leaders asking for their recommendation on what government agencies can do."
Waxman said he is not hopeful new climate legislation can be passed, but that pollution can be reduced if the administration uses the power it already has.
"The environmental protection agency should set standards for old power plants, not just new power plants, to reduce emissions. The Department of Energy and can order more efficient standards so we use less electricity and won't need to build new power plants."
He described the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as a "mistake."
"It uses too much energy to bring the fuel down the pipeline from Canada to Texas and this particular type of oil is dirty,' he said.
In response to a question from Manhattan Beach resident Gerry O'Connor about Redondo Beach Measure A, Waxman said he is sympathetic to the movement to have the AES power plant shut down, but would not take a position on the ballot measure because it is a local zoning issue best left up to local voters . Measure A will appear on Redondo's March ballot. If approved it would block AES's plan to replace its existing power plant with a smaller plant.
Henry Waxman addresses South Bay Democratic clubs.
Next week, Waxman said, he will propose House hearings on climate change, with testimony from scientists.
"We'll see if the Republicans will block the hearings, the way they have the past two years," he said.
"When future generations look back, they will ask what we did about climate change," he added.
Waxman also took a jab at House Republicans for "30 attempts, all failures, to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act — like we had nothing better to do."
He praised California for taking the national lead on the health care plan in setting up an insurance market place.
He said Congress avoided the fiscal cliff by "kicking [the debt ceiling vote] down the road three months because I don't think any reasonable group will want to cause harm to the economy, which will be the result if we don't resolve our differences."
"I'm not saying we can't make a lot of cuts to our defense budget, but arbitrary cuts, without regard to what should be in and should be out is nonsensical. On the domestic side, cuts to the National Institute for Health, education and nutrition programs would do a great deal of harm.
"The cuts were designed to be so stupid that responsible adults would avoid them. We're waiting for responsible adults to adopt a policy that will avoid them. I'm optimistic because I don't think the Republicans want their party to be discredited. They realized [in December] if we went over the fiscal cliff they would be held responsible."
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Simply Speaking: New, all-time highs (lows)
The current low-down presidential administration, headquartered in Washington (and Chicago; make that Chicogger), has reached new, all-time highs (lows) in punishing its detractors and rewarding its brain-dead adherents.
For example, we know the Gulf of Mexico has been virtually shut down to American drilling…and fishing since the president has "taken precautions," subsequent to the British Petroleum (BP) spew-out. Evidently Brazil can go ahead, full steam, in its exploration efforts, aided by OUR tax dollars, along with Obama's blessings and promise to do oil business with them once they bring in their gushers from those oil-rich Gulf waters.
Of course, this president has toured world-wide, exclaiming his unfeigned love for nation after (foreign) nation, then added fuel to the Middle East fire by declaring his adoration and support for the Muslim Brotherhood (oh brother!), then went down to Rio (no, wrong country), Sao Paulo and pledged American taxpayer funding to get the Brazilian economy (and employment) going.
Too bad his brand of socialism does nothing but quash and further depress our 9.2 (maybe it's really closer to 23 percent) unemployment numbers. Nevertheless, this administration manages to double-speak and turn those dismal figures into "creating" or "saving" (add your own Obamaspeak verb) to America's job void.
"But KNOW this, that in the last days perilous times will come…Evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving (lying) and being deceived." 2 Timothy 3:1, 13
One of the myriad of Leftist appointments by Obanana was Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, formerly a Colorado attorney general and US Senator. The guy is a first-rate job destroyer. Representative Devin Nunes (R.-CA) says Salazar's department has killed more jobs in the US than any other federal agency.
California's Central Valley, at one time at least, grew 300 crops, exporting carrots to China, for example. Now they import and eat Chinese carrots and 250,000 acres lays idle. Sound familiar? Why?
To "save" the Delta smelt lizard.
Salazar and company are responsible for diverting 200 billion gallons of water into the Pacific for that lizard-purpose, water drastically needed by thousands of (now) out of work farmers and the few remaining parched growers who're stubbornly hanging on.
I don't think the Interior Secretary has a clue as to just WHO is really endangered. Just keep buying the "electrics" and Prius-types and we'll all be just fine…Right.
Climate Change (formerly Global Warming) was Salazar's excuse for withdrawal of 61 oil and gas leases in Montana.
Wyoming lost 24,000 acres (same excuse) that could go to help relieve prices at the gas pump. Utah lost 77 oil and gas leases. Oil shale research and development has delayed. Energy production on three million acres of public land been prohibited.
Seems to me this is related to areas of America and its people who decided NOT TO VOTE for Obama in 2008.
Hmmmm, same for Gulf Coast.
This all seems to be adding up to pickin' on people who work (or would like to) and places where they live; people that cast their votes the other way (most working people voted the other way, if you know what I mean…and you do).
On the other hand, the welfare checks keep streaming into those places and to the people who (most likely) voted for the folks who they think keep sending the checks.
Gross tyranny at work.
May Yahweh bless His people (I trust that's us) through Yeshua, the Messiah.


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Report: PSP2 To Be Released By Year-End, With OLED Touchscreen And 3G
As reported last week, Sony is planning to hold an event (now dubbed "PlaysStation Meeting") in Tokyo this Thursday, probably to unveil the PSP2. Today, Japan's biggest business daily, The Nikkei, is reporting that Sony will indeed unveil the device on that day, and they also have some information on what features it will come with.
According to The Nikkei, a usually very reliable source, you can expect:
- an OLED touchscreen that will be larger than the 4.3 inches the PSP screen has
- 3G support (in partnership with NTT Docomo – in Japan), as the first game system ever
- no voice communication but support of game and movie downloads
- a new processor "powerful enough to display HD images"
The paper also says that the PSP2 will be more expensive than the $ 203 the PSP currently goes for in Japan (not really surprising) and that Sony plans to roll it out by year-end (in Japan, at least).
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Research analysts at Gartner have forecasted that Google's Android mobile operating system (OS) will become the second largest platform in terms of market share by year-end 2010. Symbian, however, will remain number one. Garner also notes that by 2014, the end of the forecast period for this latest market research report, Android will vie for the top spot against Nokia's Symbian OS. Yes, Android …
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Is Toshiba Ready To Offer Glasses-Free 3D TVs By Year-End?
3D TVs that don't require glasses and thus eliminate the incompatibility problem between glasses offered by different makers: that doesn't sound too bad, does it? Rumors about such TVs coming from Toshiba emerged today in various media [JP] in Japan, and according to those reports, the devices are expected to arrive in Japan by year-end.
And if the rumors are to be believed, potential buyers will be able to choose between three different models, which could be sized at about 21 inches. The displays are reportedly offering a relatively wide viewing angle, which makes it possible to view 3D images for more than one person and from more than just one position (unlike in the case of the Nintendo 3DS, for example, which requires users to look straight at the device at all times).
This sounds like the glasses-free 3D display Toshiba showed back in April (pictured above) and which features WXGA (1,280×800) resolution, 480 cd/m2 brightness, and ±15 degrees (horizontal) 3D viewing angle.
Toshiba is apparently planning to price the 3D TVs at "several hundred thousand yen", whatever that may mean (100,000 Yen currently translate to $1,180).
Japanese IT news site Impress just posted an official statement [JP] from Toshiba. The company says it can't confirm the reports and that it's not able to go into details such as technical specs at this point. Toshiba also says it's currently investigating how future 3D TVs can look like and when it's the best time for commercialization.
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The company's not committing to any US carriers just yet (ahem), but LG is already puffing up its chest and talking big about its impending Windows Phone 7 release plans. To date, all we've had to go on was Microsoft's vow of seeing WP7 devices on store shelves before this holiday season, but now Ken Hong, an LG representative in Seoul, has offered a wee bit more insight regarding his company in particular. To quote: "We have a deep relationship with Microsoft so expect to have a couple [of Windows Phone 7 handsets] by the end of this year." That aligns rather nicely with what we heard ourselves back in Feburary, and given that LG's mobile division has seen some rather unsightly losses in its most recent quarterly earnings, we're guessing the company's more than eager to push out the next big thing.
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A smattering of pay-TV providers have already announced their intentions to start piping out 3D programming to their users (starting next week with The Masters), but up until now, neither of America's (two) major fiber operators had bit the three-dee bullet. Verizon's own Shawn Strickland, vice president of FiOS product management, has come forward today with a bit of news on the matter, and it's the kind of stuff you want to hear if you're a) lucky enough to already be in a FiOS TV market and b) one who cares about the third dimension. He notes that his company is "monitoring the early sales of 3D TVs and expects to announce a 3D offering well in advance of the holiday TV-shopping season," further saying that Verizon is already in "active discussions with a number of companies in the emerging 3D value chain." He makes no bones about the hurdles along the way, suggesting that "technological challenges remain, as technology that enables TVs and set-top boxes to adjust the set to display 3D content has not been perfected or distributed, causing a major viewing hassle for consumers." That said, we're pretty stoked about having a 3D FiOS TV offering "in the market in time for the holiday," with the company aiming for a product that has "fully automated HDMI format-switching capability that switches between 2D and 3D, not via ponderous access to the TV's setup menu." Now, let's see how many of these wishes come true, cool?
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Joan Wickersham's most recent book is The Suicide Index.
–Name a childhood hero.
Clara Barton and Edith Cavell. They were nurses, and I had biographies of them that I read over and over. I had no desire to be a nurse, but when I was a kid a lot of the biographies were about nurses.
–Name a work you wished you'd written.
There aren't any. The books I love, I love as a reader – if I'd written them I wouldn't enjoy them in the same way.
–If you had to order your work by how successfully you completed what you set out to accomplish, what would that list look like?
By the time I finished The Suicide Index, after ten years struggling with it, I knew I'd told the story in the way it needed to be told. But there were many earlier drafts that just didn't work. It couldn't be told in any straightforward way, because the experience of losing someone to suicide, and restoring your memories of that person, is so chaotic and shaded. I needed to come up with a structure and a way of storytelling that really reflected the nature of the experience. When I finally hit on organizing the book as an index, I knew it worked – it at once put my father's suicide in order and acknowledged that it's something you can never really put in order.
–Name a writer in history you would've like to have been a contemporary of and why.
Tricky question. If I'd been around at the same time as my favorites – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev, Tolstoy – my eyesight would have been too bad to allow me to read their books, and I probably would have died in childbirth. So as much as I love those writers, I'm happy to be a contemporary of all the writers working during an era of good optometry and obstetrics.
–Name a work of yours whose reception you've been surprised about and why.
I was so happy when The Suicide Index was a finalist for the National Book Award. There's a horrible, stigmatizing silence and recoil around the subject of suicide – it really is one of our last taboo topics – and I'd been afraid it would be pigeonholed as "a suicide book." But the book got a lot of nice attention, which not only put it in front of people who'd been touched in some way by suicide, but also out to a much wider audience of people who just like to read.
–Correct a misperception about you as a writer in fifty words or less.
To be well enough known that people have misperceptions about you as a writer? I should be so lucky.
–Name a trait you deplore in other writers.
–Name your five desert island films.
All About Eve, The Apartment, Ninotchka, Rear Window, The Earrings of Madame de…
–Name a book not your own that you wish everyone would read.
Eugenia Ginzburg's memoirs Journey Into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind.
–Name a book you suspect most people claim to have read, but haven't.
Proust. (And no, I haven't.)
–If you could choose one of your works to rewrite, which would it be and why.
There are things I did years ago that I could probably do better now – but I'm interested in different things now, so wouldn't want to spend time rewriting them.
–Share the greatest literary secret/gossip you know.
I'm not very plugged in on current stuff, so I guess it would have to be that George Eliot and George Henry Lewes weren't legally married. (Pass it on.)
–Name a book you read over and over for inspiration.
Great Expectations and Middlemarch are the two I read over and over – but just because I love them, not really for inspiration.
–Name the writing habit you rely on to get you through a first draft.
Be willing to write it wrong.
–Name a regret, literary or otherwise.
I'm sorry I didn't learn other languages when I was young. My father was German, but I never learned it; and I wish I'd studied Italian.
–Name your greatest struggle as a writer.
"Be willing to write it wrong" is great advice – but so hard to actually adhere to. Writing it when you know it's wrong is just unbearable. And believing it's terrific, and then figuring out later that it's wrong, is also awful. But necessary.
–Name a question you get about writing to which there really is no good answer.
"How did you know you wanted to be a writer?"
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"What are your fifty favorite books?"


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Google's first "for real" public demo of Google Glass during Wednesday's developer conference generated three genuine gasps from the crowd. Remember Google Glass? It's the computer you wear like a pair of eyeglasses. It can take photos and live video from your personal perspective, and post directly to Google Plus and other social sites.
It'll also annotate your field of view with augmented reality data. Stuff like a green line on the street that helps you navigate from the subway station to the coffee shop where you're meeting your friend, and a text from that same friend saying "Why are you late? I thought you said that those crazy Google glasses you insist on wearing everywhere made that impossible."
A skydiver leaped from a plane circling San Francisco and transmitted live video of his descent to a rooftop next to the convention center through the Google Glass he was wearing. He handed the glasses off to a BMX rider, who jumped the roof gap over to the adjoining building where Google's presentation was underway (gasp number one). The rider handed the pair to someone who repelled to the sidewalk, who then handed them to a second biker who tore off down the sidewalk, into and through the lobby, nearly crashing into several unaware pedestrians on the way (gasp two), before leaping triumphantly to the stage.
(Yes, several innocent people died, but oh, boy, the looks on their faces, captured with agility and clarity by Google Glass, were priceless. The imagery was so good that a hundred personal-injury lawyers instinctively filed to subpoena the video evidence before they realized that no injury had actually happened.)
What an interesting trip Google Glass has taken. When Google first shared the details of Project Glass to the world, many people scoffed. And why not? It was a PowerPoint presentation. There was no indication of how these things worked, their limitations (Battery life? Connection to the Internet? Do need to be wired to another device in your pocket? How heavy are they?) or even if Google had anything functional. Comparisons were made to Apple's Knowledge Navigator video, in which Apple demonstrated a futuristic computer they had no intention of ever making (the thing in the video was a prop made out of wood) simply as a way of illustrating important technologies. As well as Microsoft's Courier demo video, which showed a research group's concept of a two-screen tablet that could be opened and written in like a book.
The PowerPoint edition of Project Glass left everyone with one key question: Is this thing for real? Will it ever be a commercial product, or is it just a research project developed by a core team of Google employees who want to tell their friends they're working on something more interesting than "a new analytic that correctly places an ad for patio furniture in front of people who've recently had a new deck installed"?
The on-stage demo of Google Glass was unusually detailed. It appears to be a self-contained device (no external wires and batteries). It's lighter than many pairs of sunglasses (we hopefully assume that we're talking about Ray-Bans, not the solid gold frames favored by Kanye West). It can be intimately connected to Google+ for live posting. Yes, you can wear them over your prescription glasses.
And as the skydiving demo demonstrated . . . the damned things actually work. CEO Sergey Brin apologized that many of Glass' features are hard to demonstrate in front of a crowd ("You'd need to wear a pair in front of a pair"), so Google didn't show off things like street directions and text messages.
But they did the most important thing of all: They explained the core philosophy of the device. Augmented reality glasses have been the stuff of science fiction for decades. Popular skepticism has dismissed them as a means to cut off people from their environment and feed their vision with distractions.
This perception was certainly fed by videos of professor Steven Mann, an augmented-reality pioneer who's been building wearable computers since the days when the computer had to be carried in a backpack and the video was delivered by the CRT eyepiece from a camcorder, hard-mounted onto a bicycle helmet, which obscured half of his vision. Videos of Mann wearing his (increasingly svelte) devices usually showed his eyes darting left and right, never making eye contact with the person he was speaking with, his tongue even sometimes darting in and out as he immersed himself in a reality that seemed completely disconnected from the room he was in.
The second perceptual difficulty of Project Glass? Well, we already own some wonderful and mature augmented-reality devices: smartphones. We can easily snap and share a photo from wherever we are, collect new and helpful information about our immediate environment, and throw birds at pigs. Why replace this with a pair of super-digital-specs?
The point of Google Glass, as explained by Brin, is to allow people to maintain eye contact with their world. Smartphones work great, but they're useless to you unless you take your focus off of the person you're talking to or the space you're in and spend a minute staring at your hands.
In a sense, the difference between Glass — as explained by Brin — and a smartphone is like the difference between a set of iPhone earbuds and a set of noise-canceling Bose earmuffs. The Bose headphones completely replace all environmental sounds with artificial ones of your choice and when you're not listening to music, it replaces sound with silence.
Earbuds simply add a soundtrack to the natural sound environment. And when you don't want anything added to the natural environment, they block nothing.
Google played dirty during their keynote. The skydiving demo was cool in a Red Bull Axe Body Spray kind of way. But then they called out another demo of a Google engineer who'd just had a baby. Yes, she wears her prototype Glass from time to time. She captures smiles and moments that would ordinarily be fleeting. Best of all, she can maintain eye contact with her (oh-so-cute widdle) kid while they're playing, rather than fishing out a smartphone and placing this sheet of technology between herself and her youngling. Five seconds of video of a baby making eye contact with the camera, and realizing that this is the delighted facial expression of a kid looking into its mother's eyes, is enough to make silly technology columnists sigh.
(Oh, shut up. The baby was adorable.)
The presentation came during Google IO, the company's annual developer conference. There are several Oprah moments during any Google developer keynote. They don't show off a new piece of technology without ultimately saying to the audience "YOU get a new phone and YOU get a new notebook and YOU get a new tablet and YOU…"
Suffice to say that there was a certain amount of new excitement in the room when Sergey Brin started talking about hardware availability, and how eager they are to put Project Glass in the hands of developers.
Alas, he didn't end this spiel by saying "Check underneath your seats." But all U.S. developers who were at Google IO could pre-order special early, development-grade (meaning: flaky, but useful enough to test out and write code for) Glass.
They'll ship out early next year.
The cost: $1,500.
And yes, that was the third gasp. Followed by a clinical silence, as thousands of people in the room thought about the free Nexus 7 tablet and the free Nexus phone and the free Nexus Q device they were promised at the end of the earlier keynote, and they did the math to work out whether they could get $1,500 for the three of them on Craigslist.
In a followup with reporters, Brin said that Google was hoping to release Glass to consumers in 2014, and that while the consumer edition would sell for less than the developer edition, they considered it a "premium device" that would cost more than a smartphone.
And many other problems need to be solved. Beyond things like battery life and software. What happens when a roomful of people contains a nonzero number of folks wearing Glass? What happens to public social interaction when people don't really have a clue as to when they're being photographed, or when everything they say and every move they make is being transmitted live to a Google+ hangout? When someone is holding up a smartphone in your direction, you have options. Such as: quickly pulling your finger out of your nose.
But Google's trying something brand-new, and that's usually a good thing. And unusually, they're doing it completely in the open. Apple wouldn't let you see a new product until millions of shrinkwrapped units are sitting in warehouses ready to ship.
Good for Google. And good for us. I suspect that it's going to take us all a year or two to get our heads around Project Glass before we decide to put our heads inside them.


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Bible win ushers in new era for Will County Democrats
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The victory by Democrat Reed Bible after Tuesday's final vote count will usher in a new era of politics in Will County, with Democrats more in charge than they have been in 32 years.
Bible was a little in shock and Republican incumbent John Argoudelis was on the verge of tears after the final total showed Bible won the hotly contested Will County Board District 5 race. The district includes a section of Aurora's far East Side.
Democrats will have the majority on the Will County Board for the first time since 1980. The board is tied at 13-13 for each party, but Will County Executive Larry Walsh, a Democrat, can cast tie-breaking votes.
"I'm obviously thrilled," said Bible, 58, who is a retired criminal investigator for Homeland Security. " ... It's been exhausting and I'm a little stunned. It will sink in probably in a couple of hours that I've won."
Argoudelis, who has been on the board for two years and also serves as Plainfield Township supervisor, said he was disappointed with his loss.
Because the party is tied, Argoudelis said he thinks there will be more pressure on members to vote along party lines than there had been in the past with a 16-11 Republican majority.
"I think that's sad," he said. "I think that's what's wrong with politics."
Election night surprise
The roller coaster race had Argoudelis ahead on election night. In an election night surprise, Bible jumped ahead by 247 votes when the Aurora portion of Will County was counted separately by the Aurora Election Commission.
Even then the race wasn't over. Final absentee, grace period and provisional votes counted Monday in Aurora put Bible up by 500. After the same types of votes were counted Tuesday by 21 teams of bi-partisan judges at the Will County Office Building, Bible's lead grew to 634.
The final unofficial vote total was 8,576 for Bible and 7,942 for Argoudelis.
Scott Pyles, chairman of the Will County Democratic Party, said Bible's victory means Democrats have a clear board majority. He likened it to the U.S. Senate. When the Senate is split 50-50, the vice president is the tie-breaker and his party gets to elect a majority leader, Pyles explained.
Will County Board Chairman Jim Moustis, R-Frankfort Township, who has held the board's top spot for 12 years, isn't so sure. He thinks the board's executive form of government, the only one of its kind in the state, is more like state government where the county executive would act as a governor. Walsh shouldn't be voting on board leadership decisions or rules because he's not a member of the board, Moustis said.
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I love this picture. The colors of the boats are so joyful.
Sunny :)
beautiful thanks i did see as well some boats at the lake
Nice Rob, You just about covered the whole rainbow in one shot. I wouldn't mind taking that little green number out for a nice relaxing afternoon.
Nice and colorful, much better than anything of that size we have here, said with a bit of envy for these images...
I like that red one!
Colorful, beautiful boats! Great for photo snapping, Roberto di Catalunya!
Love the colours!
So colourfull and nice.
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Man waives right to jury trial
October 13, 2006
By Julie Shaw INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The man accused of strangling La'Toyia Figueroa, the 24-year-old pregnant West Philadelphia woman whose disappearance became a cause celebre, waived his right to a jury trial yesterday. With that, testimony began in the trial of Stephen Poaches, 27, of West Philadelphia, who faces two counts of murder and related offenses in the July 18, 2005, deaths of Figueroa and her unborn child. Poaches was the father of the child and Figueroa's former boyfriend. Michael Coard, Poaches' lawyer, said in a telephone interview yesterday that he and his client always wanted a trial by judge alone, not jury, because of the "legal niceties" involved in the case that a judge would probably better understand.
Kerns chooses a judge over a jury trial
November 20, 2014
By Jessica Parks, Inquirer Staff Writer
When former Montgomery County Republican Chairman Robert J. Kerns goes to trial next week on sex charges, he will have to convince only one person of his innocence. John L. Braxton, a Philadelphia senior judge, was assigned to the case after the Montgomery County bench was recused to avoid any potential bias for or against the onetime political heavyweight. Court documents show that Kerns, 67, has opted not to take his case before a jury, a strategy one criminal defense expert said could be risky.
Judge Approves Jury Trials For All Drunk-driving Cases
December 7, 1989
By Connie O'Kane, Special to The Inquirer
Broadening a controversial decision he made earlier this year, a Burlington County judge ruled this week that an accused drunken driver has a right to a jury trial even if the driver is only a first offender. Superior Court Judge Martin L. Haines wrote in an opinion released yesterday that the penalties drunken drivers face are serious enough to require a jury trial, even if these trials are more time-consuming and expensive than the nonjury municipal court trials that take place now. Haines had earlier ruled that only second offenders had a right to juries.
Jury Trial In Shooting Of Cheerleader Is Set
December 4, 1988
By Mark Fazlollah, Inquirer Staff Writer
A 17-year-old Chester boy accused of participating in the August shooting death of a former Chester High School cheerleader is scheduled to go on trial in Delaware County Court this week on a charge of first-degree murder. Five teenagers were acquitted of first-degree murder but were found guilty Nov. 3 of aggravated assault in a nonjury trial stemming from a gang shootout in which Carla Carrington, 17, of Chester, was killed by a stray bullet. Common Pleas Court Judge Domenic Jerome found a sixth youth not guilty of any charges.
Twins Sign Carlton For One Year; Candelaria Acquitted In Jury Trial
January 30, 1988
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The Minnesota Twins agreed to contract terms yesterday with veteran lefthanded pitcher Steve Carlton, who had become a free agent after not receiving a contract offer from the Twins at the end of the 1987 season. Terms of the one-year pact were not disclosed. Minnesota acquired Carlton, 43, at the beginning of August from the Cleveland Indians. He was 5-9 with the Indians in 1987 but went 1-5 with the Twins and was not on Minnesota's playoff roster. He had a combined 5.74 earned run average with the two teams last season.
Ballot Questions Center On Courts, Polls At Issue Statewide Are Changes In Bail Policy And The Right To Waive A Jury Trial
October 28, 1998
By Robert Moran, INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU
The rights of the criminally accused in Pennsylvania are at issue with two ballot questions that voters will decide Tuesday. Both questions are proposed amendments to the state constitution. As required, they have passed two consecutive sessions of the General Assembly. The first change to the state constitution would allow for the denial of bail if a defendant is charged with an offense punishable by life imprisonment or if the safety of any person or the community cannot be reasonably assured.
Jury's Out Prosecutors Should Not Have The Right To Demand Jury Trials. It Would Erode Judicial Independence.
May 22, 1998
For now, the judge is still the person for whom all stand in a Pennsylvania courtroom. But imagine a different start to a trial: Order in the court. All rise, for the honorable . . . district attorney. Sound far-fetched? Well, if a proposed amendment to the state constitution goes ahead giving prosecutors the right to demand a jury trial, court criers might as well herald the prosecutor's arrival. Judges - not to mention defendants - may be asked to knock before entering the room.
Jury-rigged Politicians' Directives Are Forcing Courts To Reduce Sentences For Defendants Who Waive Jury Trials.
February 7, 1997
When the Philadelphia courts make headlines, the folks in black robes often light up the office switchboard, calling one another to discuss the news. But following a Sunday Inquirer report about the breaks judges sometimes give people convicted in robbery, assault and drug cases, the phones didn't jump off the hook. Judges know well this is the way the system works. The shock, maybe, comes for the rest of us, lulled by all the tough-on-crime talk by elected officials.
Lawyer: Bagley May Seek Non-jury Trial Bagley Is Accused Of Drowning His Wife In A Whirlpool Bath. He Says She Was Electrocuted Accidentally.
March 25, 1993
By Suzanne Gordon, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The lawyer for Charles Bagley, charged with murder in the 1989 death of his wife in a whirlpool bath, said yesterday that he might ask for a non-jury trial when the case goes to trial April 12. Neil Jokelson said yesterday during a pretrial hearing in Delaware County Court that it appeared likely that Bagley would waive his right to a jury trial. Judge Joseph P. Cronin said he would advise Bagley whether he felt such a decision was wise. In the hearing that began yesterday and is expected to continue today, Jokelson contended that the prosecution had not provided the defense with a theory as to how the alleged crime was committed.
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Kerns chooses a judge over a jury trial
November 20, 2014
By Jessica Parks, Inquirer Staff Writer
When former Montgomery County Republican Chairman Robert J. Kerns goes to trial next week on sex charges, he will have to convince only one person of his innocence. John L. Braxton, a Philadelphia senior judge, was assigned to the case after the Montgomery County bench was recused to avoid any potential bias for or against the onetime political heavyweight. Court documents show that Kerns, 67, has opted not to take his case before a jury, a strategy one criminal defense expert said could be risky.
Kid of one of 'worst people in the city' sought in killing
September 12, 2014
BY MORGAN ZALOT, Daily News Staff Writer firstname.lastname@example.com, 215-854-5928
IT TURNS OUT that in Philadelphia being "the worst people in the city" may run in the family. Police this week obtained a warrant to arrest Jason "Cassius Jr. " Broaster, 18, of Harold Street near 26th in North Philadelphia, for the shooting death Monday night of Naaire Murray, 17, outside the victim's rowhouse on Huntingdon Street near 24th. Police found 19 spent shell casings both at 24th and Huntingdon and outside Murray's house after the fatal shooting. They also found a gun on his front steps, Chief Inspector Scott Small said at the scene.
Montco D.A. drops death penalty bid in triple slaying
August 9, 2014
By Carolyn Davis, Inquirer Staff Writer
The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office dropped plans Thursday to pursue the death penalty in the trial of an Upper Merion man accused of killing his parents and twin brother in 2011. Prosecutors withdrew the death-penalty notice after Joseph McAndrew Jr. waived a jury trial and agreed to have his case heard by a judge. McAndrew, 27, contends that he was insane when he used a sword to stab his father, landscaping business owner Joseph McAndrew Sr.; his mother, Susan; and brother James in their Holstein Road home in March 2011.
Ex-Temple star Brunson pleads not guilty in assault
August 2, 2014
By Matt Breen, Inquirer Staff Writer
Former Temple men's basketball star Rick Brunson pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to charges of criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, aggravated battery, and domestic battery after his arrest in an encounter at a suburban Chicago fitness center. The 42-year-old Brunson was the leading candidate to be Temple's next assistant men's basketball coach before his arrest in June. His son, Jalen Brunson, is the nation's No. 1 high school point guard, according to some recruiting websites, and one of Temple's top targets.
Pa. man awarded $55M in suit against Honda
June 29, 2014
By David Sell, Inquirer Staff Writer
A Philadelphia jury said Honda should pay $55.3 million to a York, Pa., resident who was badly injured in 2010 when his Acura Integra rolled over during a crash while he was en route to work in Maryland. American Honda Motor Co. said it would appeal Thursday's decision. A native of the Dominican Republic, Carlos Martinez, 57, was working as a glazier for a construction company at the time of the accident, but now must use a wheelchair, according to his attorney, Stewart Eisenberg.
Heavy hand of justice
June 20, 2014
A MAN DIES in the street and another man is charged. A jury is impaneled and for three days listens to the prosecution's version of events. Before presenting his case, the defense attorney appeals to the judge for an acquittal and she takes the uncommon step of dismissing the case. The victim was an off-duty cop. The accused worked for Wells Fargo. They had a history - the accused was involved with the dead man's ex-girlfriend. The prosecution's case was this: In 2012, there was a late-night collision between a car driven by Kareem Alleyne and a bicycle ridden by Marc Brady, 35, an off-duty cop. Brady died from injuries and Alleyne was charged with vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter.
Drexel professor testifies in NCAA amateurism trial
June 19, 2014
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Columnist
Drexel sports-management professor Ellen Staurowsky couldn't have been surprised she'd get some pushback from NCAA attorneys when she testified Monday and Tuesday at the landmark Ed O'Bannon class-action antitrust trial. The main area she was asked to address by the plaintiffs' attorneys, she said, is whether the business practices associated with FBS football and men's basketball are consistent with the NCAA's claims about amateurism. Since Staurowsky is coauthor of a book titled College Athletes for Hire: The Evolution and Legacy of the NCAA Amateur's Myth , you can guess where she stands on the issue.
'Black Madam' warned about violating gag order
June 12, 2014
By Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer
Just because they call it a "gag order" doesn't mean you're allowed to write. That's the message a Philadelphia judge delivered Tuesday to Padge Victoria Windslowe - the hip-hop performer "Black Madam" awaiting trial in the death of a woman allegedly injected with illegal cosmetic silicone - after she sent plaintive letters to the Philadelphia Daily News. Common Pleas Court Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi warned Windslowe she could have been held in contempt of court for violating the gag order.
Homeless man gets 8 to 25 years in LOVE Park slaying
June 1, 2014
By Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer
A homeless man convicted of stabbing and killing another homeless man in Center City's LOVE Park after an argument was sentenced to eight to 25 years in prison Friday. Frederick Mills, 47, apologized for killing Allen Jordan, 43, after a late-night confrontation in August 2011. During a jury trial in February before Common Pleas Court Judge Linda Carpenter, Mills testified that he got into the argument with Jordan after he was roughed up and robbed of jewelry. "He has no prior record and he's 47 years old," defense attorney Jay S. Gottlieb said of Mills.
Woman pleads guilty to hiring hitman to kill lover
April 16, 2014
BY MENSAH M. DEAN, Daily News Staff Writer firstname.lastname@example.com, 215-568-8278
A SOUTHWEST Philadelphia woman who in 2012 hired a neighborhood mechanic to murder her live-in boyfriend apparently looked reality in the face yesterday morning and called off her jury trial in Common Pleas Court. Instead of picking a jury, Desiree Arnett Hicks, 58, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for her role in the calculated May 31, 2012, slaying of Aaron Hayes, 52. Hayes, a SEPTA trolley operator, was gunned down just before 5 a.m. in front of the couple's Elmwood Avenue home as he opened the back door of his van to place work tools inside.
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UBS Completes Acquisition Of Link Investimentos In Brazil
UBS AG, one of the world's largest and best capitalized financial services firms with a market capitalization of CHF 54,73 billion and invested assets of CHF 2.2 trillion 1, announced today that the firm has completed its agreed acquisition of Link Investimentos, Brazil's largest independent brokerage firm.
The transaction strengthens UBS Brasil, a financial institution based in São Paulo, and establishes a strong platform for the expansion of UBS in Brazil, enabling the bank to provide a full range of wealth management and onshore investment banking services, operating in the equity derivatives, equities, options, exchange-traded fixed income, currencies and commodities in the local and international markets. Combining the operations of one of the largest global financial services firms with the operations of an institution with a strong local presence, UBS aims to become a leader in wealth management and investment banking in the Brazilian market, offering clients a full range of products and services, as well as access to its global capacities and resources.
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The unpretentious nature of an apple cider glaze is indicative of feel-good winter comfort food. It erupts with the aura of a high-brow meal, but it also settles in with the flavors of homespun American cuisine. That's a combination that will reel you in every time it's presented on a plate.
If apple cider is a component of upscale comfort food, then this is the season to flaunt this cuisine.
Late winter sees an accumulation of apple cider. It starts in the fall when the first frost nips the air, and our craving for the spicy sip of fresh cider starts up. But by midwinter, that same craving begins to wane. The flavors of apple and spice have become exhausted and banal, and half-gallons of the stuff begin to sour into vinegar when stowed away at the back of the fridge.
The practical thing to do is freshen up your winter flavors by using the savory side of cider. This unsung hero of American cuisine is so often typecast as a winter beverage that it sometimes get overlooked as a savory ingredient. Lightening up salad dressings, sweetening turkey stuffing and adding an earthy flavor to otherwise mundane meals, apple cider emerges from the season as one of its unprecedented ingredients.
But boiled down and concentrated into a glaze, apple cider can shine. Cider glazes takes on a completely different constitution and flavor. Although the slightest hint of the sour cider still perseveres, that classic flavor becomes just a wisp of a taste in a considerably more savory-tasting food.
This recipe for sauteed butternut squash features an apple cider glaze that coats cubes of tender squash in a sweet and tart syrup—ideal for a winter meal. Caramelized with the cider, butter and just a pinch of sugar, the squash gets a shower of fresh sage at last moment, completing the harmony of winter flavors in quite a sophisticated fashion.
Who said apple cider couldn't go upscale? Flip your menu around and feature it in a savory role. It opens up a whole new world for gourmet comfort food.
Butternut Squash Sauté
1 small butternut squash (about 11/2 pounds), peeled and cubed
1 cup diced onion
1 tablespoon canola or peanut oil
3 tablespoon unsalted butter
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 cup apple cider
2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
Put all the ingredients except
the sage into a large, nonstick skillet. Cover, bring to a boil,
and cook over high heat for
about 6 minutes, until the squash pieces are somewhat tender. Continue cooking,
uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the liquid is completely gone. Cook for a few minutes longer, stirring and shaking the pan to prevent the squash from burning, until the squash pieces are caramelized to your liking. Sprinkle with the sage, turn off heat, and toss until sage is coated. Serve warm.
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It may be a galactic first - a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven robbed early Wednesday by a man wielding a Klingon Bat'leth blade.
It's the weapon of choice for the war-like race on "Star Trek," but fairly rare in stickups on Earth.
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It may be a galactic first - a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven robbed early Wednesday by a man wielding a Klingon Bat'leth blade.
It's the weapon of choice for the war-like race on "Star Trek," but fairly rare in stickups on Earth.
"They had to show me what it was on the Internet," said Colorado Springs police Lt. Steven Tobias.
The robbery happened about 1:45 a.m. at the 7-Eleven at 145 N. Spruce St., off Bijou Street near Interstate 25.
A clerk told police that a man in a dark jacket and a black mask entered the store wielding the long, curved metal blade conceived for the science fiction franchise that grew out of the 1960s television series.
The robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. A second attempt 25 minutes later ended unsuccessfully when the man ran away empty-handed from another 7-Eleven at 2407 N. Union Blvd. No one was injured.
"If this individual is arrested, the charge will be the same as if he carried a gun," said police spokesman Lt. David Whitlock. "It's considered a deadly weapon."
The knife-edged novelties are replicated for Star Trek fans with a yen for collectibles and can be purchased from Web sites, pawn shops and other weapons dealers.
According to Wikipedia, "Star Trek" lore holds the Bat'leth was forged about 625 A.D. by the Klingon Kahless, who dropped a lock of his hair into the lava from a volcano before he plunged the lock into a lake and twisted it into a blade.
Police said the weapon - crescent-shaped and about a yard long - seems ill-suited to robbing convenience stores.
"I can't imagine it's very easy to conceal," Tobias said.
In the fictional universe of "Star Trek," Klingons were initially portrayed as a threat to the peaceful members of the United Federation of Planets. Depictions of the Klingons changed over time, however, and they eventually became known more for their strict warrior code, said Mike Coco, the manager of Bargain Comics in Colorado Springs.
It's unlikely that such a code would allow for a common heist.
"They're set up along a kind of a clan system, so it would be putting your house in a bad light," said Coco, who said he knows "way more about 'Star Trek' than any normal person should."
"It wouldn't (fit), unless you could rationalize in your head that you were sort of a privateer for the Klingon cause," he said.
Police say the uniqueness of the weapon could be the key to their investigation.
"That's a lead that obviously we're going to jump on," Whitlock said. "We'll try to see if we can determine at least what the rareness is of these" - a probe that could take detectives to the very places where Trekkies like to window shop.
Surveillance images have been turned over to investigators but they will likely be of little use in identifying the robber because of the mask, Whitlock said.
Contact the writer: 636-0366 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Christopher Short contributed to this story.
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Animals and Your Health: Service Dogs
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Animals and Your Health: Service Dogs
What Service Dogs Can Do
- Alert people who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of others or to important sounds, such as sirens and alarms, a person's name being called, traffic, or a child crying
- Provide help with mobility, such as retrieving objects, helping a person to balance while walking, carrying items in backpacks, or leading people who have visual impairments around obstacles
- Provide stress relief for people with mental or emotional disabilities
- Provide protection during a seizure and helping someone become reoriented and mobile after the seizures
- Possibly alert people, and their caregivers of oncoming seizures, giving time to stop activities and assume safe positions before seizures occur
Thinking About a Service Dog?
- Cost —Training can run as high as $20,000, but funding possibilities exist.
- Care —Just like any dog, service animals require veterinary attention, feeding, water, walks, and play time.
- Love for animals —Dogs are not for everyone, especially those afraid of animals or anyone unwilling to accept care responsibilities.
The American Veterinary Medical Association http://www.avma.org
Delta Society http://www.deltasociety.org
C.O.P.E. Dogs http://www.copedogs.org
National Service Dogs http://www.nsd.on.ca
Service dogs. Assistance Dogs International, Inc. website. Available at: http://www.assistancedogsinternational.org/about-us/types-of-assistance-dogs/service-dog. Accessed August 14, 2014.
Historical timeline. The Seeing Eye website. Available at: http://www.seeingeye.org/aboutus/default.aspx?M%5FID=472. Accessed August 14, 2014.
History of dog guides. Companion Club website. Available at: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/studorgs/companion/ccfaqhistory.html. Accessed August 14, 2014.
Sachs-Ericsson N, Hansen NK, Fitzgerald S. Benefits of assistance dogs: a review. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2002;47:251-277.
Service Dog Central. How much does it cost to train a guide dog? Service Dog Centeral website. Available at: http://www.servicedogcentral.org/content/node/410. Accessed August 14, 2014.
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