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Reaching for an orange, gripping a fork, holding a pen – all are everyday activities we take for granted. Yet for an individual with limited hand or arm control, they are challenging and frustrating endeavors. Occupational therapists at Helen Hayes Hospital have an innovative device to help their patients regain the arm and hand function needed to perform tasks such as these – the Armeo R – -developed by the Swiss company Hacoma Inc.
The Armeo was designed for patients with hemiparesis, or muscle weakness on one side of the body, including individuals with stroke, traumatic brain injury and other neurological and orthopedic disorders. Through intensive, repetitive and task-oriented therapy, the goal is to enable patients to regain functional use of their weakened arm and hand.
The Armeo works the shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers simultaneously, or separately. It neutralizes limb weight, enabling the patient to use residual arm and hand control to complete functional exercises, thereby regaining use of their impaired arm."
The patient sits in a chair or a wheelchair directly in front of the Armeo, while an occupational therapist places their affected arm into the spring-loaded, adjustable arm support. Therapists can select from a range of exercises, all virtual reality simulations of real-life activities. One exercise mimics a food shopping excursion, with the patient picking up fruits out of a display case. In another activity, the patient is collecting raindrops in a paper cup. In all exercises, the patient receives immediate feedback on how they are doing. The therapist can alter the level of difficulty based on the patient's cognitive and physical condition and progress. The Armeo also stores the patient's therapeutic and performance data, allowing the therapist to accurately track and document the patient's progress.
Patients enjoy this new, virtual reality based therapy as they feel more like they are playing a game than performing therapy, motivating them to continue and have fun with it. It acts almost like a diversion from the hand-on therapy they also receive. Because patients enjoy working with the Armeo, they stick with it and complete the exercises. It is being used with both inpatients and outpatients and has been shown to improve limb function.
The Armeo is one more tool we have at our disposal to help patients regain their mobility. It is an adjunct to our comprehensive rehabilitation services.
The Bioness device helps individuals with stroke and other neurological disorders.
The NESS H200TM is an addition to the many treatment modalities utilized by occupational therapists at Helen Hayes Hospital. A neuroprosthetic and rehabilitation system distributed by Bioness, Inc., the NESS H200 facilitates improved motor control and function for individuals with stroke, acquired brain or spinal cord injury or other disorders of the central nervous system resulting in impairments of the arm or hand. When there is little or no movement in a hand, this device can give survivors hope and potentially more function.
The device is a portable, custom-fit wrist/hand orthosis (splint). It is noninvasive and functions utilizing a microprocessor that activates the muscles of the forearm and hand. The H200 can be used in two different ways: as a therapeutic modality to assist in improving the motor recovery of a weak or paralyzed hand, or as a functional tool for performing activities of daily living. It can also provide other benefits, such as increased range of motion, reduced stiffness, increased local blood circulation, improved awareness of the limb, reduced spasticity and muscle re-education.
Use and training are initiated during either inpatient or outpatient therapy by certified occupational therapists. Ultimately, the goal is for patients to use the device in a therapy-directed home program. Progress will be monitored at regular intervals and the program will be revised to maximize continuing progress. A typical outpatient program would be 12-16 sessions with periodic follow-ups.
Patients may continue to use the H200 as long as they are showing improvements in function and those with chronic disabilities may use the device for the rest of their lives to manage or minimize their impairments. While many factors affect outcome, including the severity of the initial impairment, time since injury and the patient's follow through with the program, the H200 is one more tool therapists can use to improve function.
Evaluating and treating swallowing disorders:
A New Approach
Speech-language pathologists at HHH now offer Flexible Fiberoptic Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing, or FEES. The non-radioactive examination allows for the direct visualization of the pharyngeal and laryngeal structures in order to assess an individual's swallowing function.
FEES is a valuable tool that enables a trained speech-language pathologist to evaluate a patient's swallowing impairment, determine the best intervention, measure the effects of treatment and identify appropriate dietary modifications. The procedure may also be used as a therapeutic tool by providing visual feedback to show patients the effects of utilizing different swallowing maneuvers.
Individuals who report trouble or pain while swallowing are candidates for FEES, including patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury. In addition, patients who experience persistent coughing or throat clearing during meals, patients with tracheotomy or patients with a history of swallowing difficulty related to progressive neurological disorders can also benefit.
FEES is a safe, reliable and effective tool for the management of swallowing disorders and is available at Helen Hayes Hospital for both inpatients and outpatients.
Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
State-of-the-art Functional Electric Stimulation (FES) equipment is currently helping many patients at Helen Hayes Hospital regain their strength and cardiovascular fitness. While FES technology has been around for more than thirty years, recent advances have made the equipment much more user-friendly. Physical therapists, who have received specialized training in the use of the equipment, including how to monitor the settings to ensure maximum benefit to the user, use the FES bicycle with inpatients and outpatients.
FES technology can help people with many levels of disability, including those with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, brain injury, Parkinson's Disease, stroke and other conditions. It is also being used to help children with cerebral palsy improve their motor skills.
This high-tech bicycle provides patterned electrical stimulation to the surface of muscles, enabling adults and children as young as four to work their muscles. Surface electrodes are placed on one or both sides of the patient's upper or lower body by the therapists. The electrodes are then connected to the computerized brain of the machinery that controls speed and resistance. It also measures the amount of effort the cyclist is exerting and automatically measures each patient's progress.
Even patients who have lost voluntary control over their muscles due to spinal cord injury are able to bicycle with the help of the FES system. Patients can even use the FES equipment without transferring from their wheelchairs. The exercise relaxes spasms, improve circulation, maintains or increases range of motion, and prevents muscle atrophy that often accompanies lack of use.
Once patients leave the hospital to return home, they can access FES as an outpatient, or even obtain the equipment for home use. With computerized connections, the patient's safety can be monitored and through feedback, resistance and stimulation can be adjusted remotely. Medicare now covers FES therapy for patients with spinal cord injury.
For more information about the outpatient FES Program at Helen Hayes Hospital, call (845) 786-4799.
Locomotor Training
Advances in research suggest that functional neuro-recovery offers tremendous potential in rehabilitation medicine. The rewiring of neural pathways or the recruitment of new pathways to control movement offer hope for the restoration of function following traumatic injury.
To harness this potential, Helen Hayes Hospital offers locomotor training using the state-of-the-art TheraStride system. The training is available to both inpatients and outpatients with incomplete spinal cord injury, as well as to patients with traumatic brain injury and stroke.
We now know that the central nervous system is malleable and can still adjust and relearn post injury. Locomotor training is an activity-based rehabilitative strategy that provides the sensory experience of walking, with the goal of re-training neural pathways, ultimately resulting in ambulation.
The TheraStride combines a support harness system and a treadmill with computer software that measures and evaluates the patient's progress. Trained physical therapists provide the necessary manual assistance, facilitating extension of the hip, knee and ankle. Following step training using body weight support on a treadmill (BWST), the patient then progresses to over-ground walking training and finally to community ambulation training.
Locomotor training helps to improve balance, motor control, weight-bearing ability and the re-creation of a natural gait. While it is extremely appropriate for certain spinal cord injury patients, it is also a viable rehabilitative tool for individuals with stroke and other neurological conditions.
For information on locomotor training, contact 845-786-4799
SaeboFlex Therapy
Occupational therapists have helped to restore functioning and independence to hundreds of stroke survivors. Depending on the location and the severity of the stroke, therapists have typically been able to provide treatment that has improved a clients' shoulder and elbow movements, however, the hand has presented more of a challenge. When a client presents with a tight fisted hand, therapists have had limited treatment options and success with making the hand more functional – until now.
The development of the SaeboFlex orthosis has changed this picture. With the SaeboFlex, a client can grasp and release objects for the first time since their stroke, providing them with new hope for improved function in their arm. The device and treatment makes functional tasks, such as dressing and feeding oneself possible.
The SaeboFlex is a mechanical, dynamic hand orthosis that is utilized to enable a person to incorporate their involved hand into grasp and release activities. It works based on a spring release system that positions the hand in the open, extended position. During therapy, the client then utilizes his or her increased muscle tone to squeeze a ball. Once the client relaxes, the springs move the fingers back into an extended position, allowing the client to drop the ball in a designated location. The client then reaches for the next ball and completes high repetitions of grasp and release activities.
This high repetition helps to improve the strength throughout the arm and generates more cortical (brain) involvement. Over the course of therapy, the client learns to control the increased muscle tone in their hand so they can regain functional use of their involved hand. Clients are encouraged to use the device at home, reinforcing their therapy.
A unique and valuable aspect of SaeboFlex treatment is that it can help individuals who are up to 20 years post injury. The length of time since the onset of injury does not matter as long as the client meets certain criteria. The most appropriate clients are those who are unable to open their hand, but have some shoulder and elbow movement. The device is also helpful for individuals who have had a traumatic brain injury or other neurological condition. The device is primarily used on an outpatient basis.
A potential client is evaluated by one of Helen Hayes Hospital's Saebo trained clinicians to determine their appropriateness for the SaeboFlex orthosis. Once determined appropriate, the device is ordered and therapy begins. The potential for improvement does depend on the follow through of the client. Clients who had a stroke several years ago are making progress and integrating their involved hand into every day activities once again.
Virtually Therapeutic
Video games have been added to the hospital's arsenal of equipment used to help patients recover from strokes and brain injuries. The games can help patients regain their balance and coordination.
The therapy team chooses the most appropriate games to help each patient recover from their deficits and regain motor skills. Game choices range from simple to complex. A camera, positioned on top of a TV monitor, focuses on the patient, so he or she instantly becomes part of the video game.
"Wishi Washi" is a favorite with many patients because it is easy and reminds them of familiar tasks. The goal is to remove streaks from a glass door, as if you were washing windows at home. It can even be used with a prop, such as a sponge or a sock, to simulate the real-life experience of washing a window or mirror. The game helps with balance, eye-hand coordination and further improves the patient's motor skills. For older patients, who may never have played video games, and who can be intimidated by this high-tech approach to therapy, "Wishi-Washi" is a good introduction.
"Kung Foo" helps improve the eye-hand coordination of patients whose visual fields may have been impaired as a result of a stroke. They learn to scan their entire visual field as they swat at video ninjas jumping at them. Patients' response time and balance improves, and weakened arms get stronger as they practice fending off the ninjas' attacks.
When patients play "Soccer Craze," they're having fun as they try to keep the soccer ball in the air, bouncing it visually off the top of their head. The rapid movements required to keep control of the soccer ball improves patients' ability to move left and right, their balance, and response time.
The therapists work with each patient to get them comfortable with gaming. The games can be used sitting or standing, with one hand or both, so they are easily adaptable to each patient's particular needs.
For young patients, who are often quite expert at video gaming, this new approach to therapy allows them to use familiar skills. Because the games are fun and challenging, the patients are usually eager to participate, and are able to make therapeutic gains quite effortlessly.
Neuro Prosthetics
Prosthetic Orthotic Center offers the latest in Neuro Prosthetics Technology
Individuals with neurological disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, stroke or spinal cord injury, often have difficulty walking. Specifically, they may have a condition called Foot Drop, which is characterized by weakness or paralysis of the muscles that control the foot. This may result in the foot or the toe of the shoe being dragged on the ground, making walking uncomfortable or even impossible.
A new Neuro Prosthetic device called the WalkAide is designed to restore a smoother, more natural gait, enabling users to walk faster, for longer distances with less fatigue. The device is now available through the hospital's Prosthetic Orthotic Center, which became certified in fitting, customizing supplying the WalkAide for patient use.
The WalkAide utilizes functional electrical stimulation to restore the nerve-to-muscle signal in the leg and foot. Walking becomes a smoother, safer and more natural motion. Basically, the gentle electrical impulses activate the muscles to raise the foot at the appropriate time.
The small, easily operated device is battery operated, with two electrodes and electrode leads. It is applied directly to the leg with a cuff holding it comfortably in place. The WalkAide can be worn discreetly under clothing. It also permits walking barefoot, something that cannot be done with conventional bracing. The WalkAide may improve not only gait, but also circulation and joint range of motion.
For additional information, contact the Prosthetic Orthotic Center at 845-786-4122.
VitalStim Therapy
A swallowing disorder, more commonly referred to as dysphagia (dis-fah-jah), occurs when there is a problem with any part of the swallowing process from the mouth to the stomach. Some symptoms may include coughing and/or choking during or after swallowing, pain or a sensation of food getting stuck in the throat and shortness of breath while eating. Recent research has concluded that dysphagia effects as many as 15 million Americans, with 1 million being newly diagnosed each year.
Dysphagia can arise from a wide variety of causes including stroke, traumatic head or spinal cord injuries, head/neck/esophageal cancers, degenerative neurological conditions (Parkinson's Disease, ALS, MS, Myasthenia Gravis), respiratory conditions (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and tracheotomies.
Dysphagia can have devastating side effects if not diagnosed and managed properly. The most severe is aspiration pneumonia, which is when saliva, food or liquid enters the airway and goes into the lungs. Aspiration pneumonia is a serious condition and has been cited for being one of the leading causes of death among the elderly. Other side effects of dysphagia may include choking, weight loss, chronic malnutrition, bronchospasm, physical de-conditioning and depression.
There are a wide variety of treatment methods utilized to treat swallowing disorders but one that is highly supported by clinical research is VitalStim Therapy (VST), which is a modified form of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) that has been designed to specifically treat dysphagia through muscle re-education. NMES is a type of therapy that has been used for many years by physical therapists to retrain the larger muscles in the body, such as the arms and legs. VitalStim Therapy is the only NMES device that is cleared by the FDA as a "safe and effective" treatment method for swallowing disorders.
So, how does VST work? VST uses non-evasive small electrical currents to stimulate and re-educate the inactive or atrophied muscles of swallowing. This treatment is conducted by a trained speech-language pathologist and should be used in conjunction with traditional therapeutic methods.
The validated contraindications for VitalStim Therapy are specific to patients suffering from dysphagia and are relevant to those who are severely demented, have significant reflux due to a feeding tube or for patients with dysphagia secondary to drug toxicity. The only side effect reported with VST is minor redness or irritation of the skin where the electrodes were placed.
VitalStim Therapy is a highly reputable treatment approach for the remediation of certain swallowing disorders. It is a safe, effective, painless and clinically proven treatment method that can improve a person's quality of life.The specific goals and length of treatment are tailored to each individual patient and should be clearly outlined by a certified speech-language pathologist.


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And if valve starts doing things like deleting your games in order to make you repurchase it or just don't want to keep game's authentication in their servers (and dont release non-steam fix), think valve is getting so big on online game distributing that EU would most likely notice that.
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Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez has begun additional treatment after surviving complications from cancer surgery in Cuba more than six weeks ago.
Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said on the sidelines of a summit meeting in Chile that when Chavez underwent surgery on Dec. 11, a "malignant lesion" with severe complications was removed from the pelvis.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's condition has improved and he is now optimistic as he faces more treatment following cancer surgery, his vice president said Saturday.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro said after meeting with Chavez in Cuba that the ailing president is now "in the best moment we've seen him in these days of struggle" following his Dec. 11 cancer surgery. Chavez hasn't appeared or spoken publicly since before the operation, and his government has said he suffered complications including a severe respiratory infection but has recently been improving.
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Maduro said Chavez also sent a message for Venezuelans, including that he was "very optimistic" about his treatment. Maduro said Chavez is "hanging on to Christ and to life."
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The vice president, whom Chavez designated as his successor before the operation, spoke on television surrounded by officials including Defense Minister Diego Molero and Information Minister Ernesto Villegas. Maduro said Villegas would give a more detailed update on Chavez's health later Saturday.
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1 cup fine almond meal
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the freakin awesome brass instrument that only freakin awesome people can play!
The french horn is the best brass instrument ever and its doesnt sound like some weird animal dying like a trumpet does!
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A misnomer for the Horn in F or F Horn; this instrument plays in the key of F and was invented in Germany. However, it was mistakenly called the "French Horn". The International Horn Society has declared the official name of this instrument to be the Horn.
A single Horn has 3 keyes, while a double Horn has 4. A talented Horn player can play over 6 octaves on this instrument.
A single Horn has 3 keyes, while a double Horn has 4. A talented Horn player can play over 6 octaves on this instrument.
Barry Tuckwell plays the Horn.
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The best instrument ever. Pitched in F with over 5-6 octaves, one of the hardest brass instruments to learn and master. (I havent mastered it myself. Another 10 years for me. :-D) Mastering could take years and years and many hornists havent ever mastered this beautiful instrument. Heard in Wind Ensembles, Orchestras and Chamber Ensembles as many people who play horn cannot play well. Only determination and will power can get you to play this instrument well. Most people dont know that embouchre and air are the key to this instrument. Hard to play in tune when you start off. Once mastered this instrument can bring the very best out of you. Word.
John: You play French Horn?!?!? Are you kidding me?!?!? That instrument sucks!
Evan: No. It's the best damn instrument ever. Get it straight.
Evan: No. It's the best damn instrument ever. Get it straight.
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2 Лютий 2006
God Created this instument with all his might to make a french horn it took seven day and seven nights and god said"let there be french horns!!!!" then he listend for awhile and then said"Let the be French Horns IN TUNE." then god got error pop up and it said invalid request try a different instrument.
Man 1:He plays the french horn
Man 2:what no way
Man 3:yep hes that awesome
Man 2:what no way
Man 3:yep hes that awesome
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11 Вересень 2011
The act of performing oral sex on a man while inserting your fist into his anus.
That dirty whore gave me a french horn for $15.
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7 Квітень 2014
Licking a woman's asshole while fisting her.
Holy cow, he really gave her the ol' French Horn when he fisted her while licking her asshole!
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3 Лютий 2010
When a man tucks his penis and balls in between his legs so they stick out from under his ass and another person blows him while squeezing his balls as if they were trumpet valves. Preferably the giver's nose is nuzzled tightly between the receiver's ass cheeks.
I had swamp ass that day, so when Jake decided to give me a,"french horn," I hestated, then quickly said yes anyway.
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I became quite captivated with the i-400 and the Seiran aircraft ever since (20 years ago) I walked past the huge fuselage of the Seiran at the NASM Garber Facility and the docent casually mentioned "That thing was designed to be launched from a submarine!!!"
I've recently been building electric R/C airplanes and it hit me that it might be feasible to build an i-400 large enough to have a workable R/C Seiran.
OK, get ready... the scale I'm thinking of would be a Seiran in the 30" wingspan range, and the i-400... over 20 feet long! I figure, broken into three segments, it will fit in the back of my truck.
I'm not thinking of making the i-400 submersible, just a big model ship. But it MUST have a working catapult and be capable of launching the Seirans!
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One never sees other athletes in the Olys crying publicly.
One never sees other athletes in the Olys crying publicly.
This has been a touchy subject for me. I particularly think back to ABC cameras intruding upon a private moment when Angela Nikodinov got very emotional backstage holding her face in tears when she learned she would not be a part of the 2002 Olympic team at Nationals or after Johnny Weir's disappointing LP at the 2007 Nationals when he broke down in tears in the kiss & cry. In the latter case, the editors of the tv broadcast had the nerve to cut right to a shot of Evan Lysacek mugging to the camera in joy over his own great performance only to try and make it look like he was ecstatic over Weir's meltdown. I think it is unfair to the athletes and lacks class on the part of the network to do that sort of thing.
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Once again the North American media has to insult Evgeni somehow with that misleading pic, as he *did not* cry, never shed a tear despite his loss. He took it all in stride, as can be seen in the interview afterwards, he smiled & said he would accept two silver & one gold, not bad.
You know I honestly don't think I've ever seen Evgeni cry; get emotional, yes, but never cry.
Gangsters don't cry! Lol.
I think it is worse when they keep showing the skaters who have already skated backstage and thier reactions to the scores of thier competitors. Nobody is going to be happy about being beat, it just makes for an uncomfortable situation especially with sneaky editing.
I have no problem with the K&C, especially since all of the kids know the camera is on. Like tinymavy here, it's the 'behind-the-scenes' that I wish they'd quit. Besides, who really complains about seeing someone be overcome with emotion when they have the skate of their life? I think it's sweet. I also think that skaters have to continue with the program, no matter what happens, and so they have some pent up emotion when they get off the ice. Hockey players, baskteball players, etc., just say an expletive out loud when they play goes bad and the cameras sure show that. I saw Sidney Crosby say the F-word the other day in an Olympic hockey game. Imagine if they had to keep smiling the entire game what might happen when they were done. Besides, it's not true other Olypians don't cry or show emotions like that. Remember the Italian downhiller who fell and threw her poles? Athletes are people, not automatons. They have feelings, too.I think it is worse when they keep showing the skaters who have already skated backstage and thier reactions to the scores of thier competitors. Nobody is going to be happy about being beat, it just makes for an uncomfortable situation especially with sneaky editing.
I m afraid with all this media crap that creates him like he is a monster, if evgeni will be booed in Gala, and that honestly would mean the end of fs for me. I hope audience is more clever.
People buy whatever a newspaper writes??there is some filter process alway to do.
The challenge is that skaters are required to sit in Kill and Cry. It used to be that some skaters just left. They don't anymore. I don't know if it is an ISU rule like attending press conferences or if each country has its own rules.
I think the wise coach would train a skater that the performance is not over until they are in the privacy (sort of) of the dressing room - or, like Brian Boitano, a bathroom stall
I highly doubt that will happen Seniorita. Canadian skating fans know that, gold or not, Plush is still a giant in the sport & will show their appreciation for that.I m afraid with all this media crap that creates him like he is a monster, if evgeni will be booed in Gala, and that honestly would mean the end of fs for me. I hope audience is more clever.
I know I should not generalize, but I honestly witnessed with my own two eyes a hostile crowd toward Evgeni on Thursday night, the mens figure skating final, and that from the pro-Canadian crowd with which I sat. I'll never forget that, especially the young Canadian lady making the most disgusting gesture with her thumbs & fingers when his name was announced. And the hostile silence that greeted me when I yelled out "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EVGENI"!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, when I waved the Russian flag; I was the only one to do so in my section.
I do think because of the North American media's bias toward him as a Russian he may not get received very well. I'm not saying booing, but definitely nothing compared to the reception for the North American skaters. JMHO.
EDITED TO ADD: just wanted to mention, don't be fooled (as I was), what goes on these boards actually goes on in real life. They're one in the same, which shocked the heck out of me, because I didn't expect to see that in real life, but, hey, sports brings out our true selves; both good & bad.
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I really think so too cause I will be very disappointed otherwise for the sport I love, I would never consider doing such reaction to any athlete.
Dont misunderstand my worry, I needed to hear your comment. I m still really puzzled with the video still that made him look like stallin in iron mask. Although I laughed at the end. Media has scary power. I should trust people more.
Gosh, I think it'll be great to watch Plush in the gala! I'm sorry if I've ever been overly harsh on Plushenko because I was a little upset about his reaction and that so many people have been minimizing Evan's victory .... (Seniorita, you never did that and I think you've been great... showed us all some real class.) I think Plushenko had an amazing comeback and I've always said it was delightful that someone his age is still showing younger skaters how jumping should be. He'll always be one of the greats.
Well I wouldn't minimize Evans win anyway because it was irrelevant to Plush losing, although it is easy to blame someone else, cause it was harder to blame Plushy for the loss, then I read Mathman's take and I decided I wont blame anyone. First day I thought I would feel better with all the stuff going on net, facebook etc about Plush wuzrobbed, eurosport polls and all that jazz but it was worse like a thorn on the throat, I realised it was too close and if plush had won with one point margin it would have been the same outcry from the other side, as it is now about evans edge call and axel, and I dont know what else, if plush had won would he be dragged the same for pcs scores and ur and who knows what else also, so would I like it? No. Thats why I dont feel Evan win worths less.
Not that I m happy with all the newfound plush hate, but well..if Mathman survived the MK crap, i can do it too.
It's part of the game.
What I did NOT like was the cameras following Joannie onto the ice to see her weep for her mother as she practiced.
I don't think Canadians are that ungracious. Don't worry, Seniorita. It will be fabulous.


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"[T]hey saved the world from economic collapse in 2008." My, such a grand-sounding accolade! Truly gods these must be!
Saved the world? Please. Central bankers did nothing of the kind. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve, panicking amateurishly, merely substituted a much greater and more destructive future collapse of the dollar, and perhaps the Republic, in order to prevent their favored industry colleagues from what would have been a few healthful and long-needed bank failures that could have by now cleansed the toxic mortgage waste out of the system and restored sanity. Now the central-bank balance sheet consists largely of mounds of garbage; banks, rather than intermediating and allocating credit are hoarding reserves to earn a tiny but guaranteed return from the Fed; and the only thing that makes the dollar look any good is the even-lousier and even more-debased currencies of other basket-case countries. Yeah, three cheers for these heroes.
Their only success is masking the real underlying problems; tricking people into maintaining unjustified spending levels (GDP is everything, right? Balance sheets be damned!); propping up prices to maintain the bubble, the illusion; choking banks and creating jobs for themselves with insane new regulations; and blaming others when it was their bubble-blowing (combined with insane GSE mortgage programs) that caused the mortgage crisis in the first place.
I wonder how much praise TE will heap upon central bankers when they try to undo the mess they have made. Oh, wait: That's right. Central banks never do that. They just keep buying and printing happily away, bolstered by sycophantic praise from writers who, it seems, have little idea what money is and what monetary policy is supposed to be doing. (The irony of The Economist having a column by "Bagehot," who in real life actually did know, is not lost on we readers).
Another point: The political backlash from the politicians is hardly the story. Worry about the citizens. On the ground level (far beyond editors' field of vision), the people, especially young people, are questioning the functions, the intentions, and the legitimacy of central banks like never before. The more they are learning about the Fed, the less they find they like and the more they consider and adopt alternative monetary arrangements to pursue their safety and happiness.
The article is entirely legitimate. The process you advocate would also have resulted in a great depression to mirror the one from the 30's. Fiscal and monetary policy has to look forward, not back to eras which were less flexible and less sound.
To the Economist,
As you are aware, central bank independency in it of itself is not an objective for an economy. In general, the role of a central bank is to contribute to sustainable economic growth through maintaining stable prices and currency, and secure the stability and viability of the financial system in the economy. Independency is one of useful means to aim at and best achieve the above ultimate objectives of an economy. The central banking independency is not the one of the final objectives for a society.
Abe is right in advocating for increased collaboration between the BOJ and the government in boosting economic growth in Japan. The issue in Japan is that the BOJ currently enjoys too much independency and that the scale of monetary policy thus far has been too small or too slow in addressing the deflation and stagnation of the economy. The BOJ has to be accountable.
As you know, the BOJ has been extremely bureaucratic, has been too closely following the precedents , and has not done enough to arrest the deflation. The BOJ, however, has not been penalized at all, but has been overprotected due to its independency.
I do not believe that Japan will be able to fully recover with only monetary policy to be conducted by the BOJ. Fiscal policy has to become more expansionary to stimulate aggregate demand. After all, we are all in a liquidity trap with zero policy interest rate, where monetary policy is less effective, while the fiscal multipler can be very large.
On the fiscal front, I suggest that both permanent and tax cuts should be implemented on corporate and individual taxes rather than public works, which are more likely to be wasted.
In addition, nominal GDP targeting policy, which requires intricate collaboration between the BOJ and the government is preferred to the inflation targeting policy, which tends to put less emphasis on the responsibility of the government for combating deflation and stagnation.
In this context, central bank independancy may not a solution, but it could be a problem. More collaboration between monetary and fiscal policies will be necessary to best achieve sustainable growth in Japan and elsewhere in the future.
Tomo Nakamaru
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When narrow political considerations ride higher than the time tested economic principles, the real problems start. An independent Central bank is a must for economic stability.
The goal is simply to prevent inflation. The problem is the economics employed denies the quantity of money can effect asset prices and for far too long bankers have allowed monetary growth to exceed economic growth, which means we have debt unsupported by economic growth.
The world will now pay for this basic failure with a depression the like of which we have never experienced.
How do we know that central banking is better than a money supply created by private banks? Univ. of GA professor George Selgin has just written an excellent post on this at freebanking.org (Dec. 3, "Fedophilia").
Why do all Int'l Trade textbooks assume that free trade is best, yet all macro and monetary econ books take the existence of a govt monopoly on money creation as a given?
Surely, before we can assume that a central bank is necessary, we must first demonstrate why the free market alternative is unworkable, no? If not, please explain how we can know a priori that central banking is better.
No one will ever answer you. There is no explanation.
Why so few responses to a hugely important subject? One might suspect that "we don't know where to begin." More the reason to thank The Economist for raising a complex subject that impacts all the seven continents.
This reader would modestly expand upon your assessment and recommendations. Confining observations here to The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commercial bank supervision – lost in all the recent discussions and analyses - must be elevated to equal stature among our central bank's responsibilities. Sheila Bair, while leading the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, publicly identified the too rapid growth in mortgage debt as cause for concern. What did the collective heads of state at the Federal Reserve miss and why?
Simply put, asset growth cannot outstrip the income supporting it for any extended period of time, for if so freely underwritten, such trends will define the crisis soon to arrive. Consider the 1920s. Or consider the commercial real estate bubble in the 1970s, side-by-side with the "growth stock" bubble. And the junk bond and thrift crises of the 1980s, hyphenated by the 1987 stock market crash, not to mention the open commercial bank vaults afforded the Emerging Markets, then known as "Less Developed Countries". The extreme over-capitalization of the dot.com's followed in the 1990s. And Fannie and Freddie recklessly operated without audited financial statements in the 2000s. Is it that they knew they were not "going concerns" before the fact? Near the top of the list, however, must rank the global explosion in the underwriting of mortgage debt by out-sized financial institutions – firms born of the mergers between investment and commercial banks in the United States - that led to the most expensive financial bust in world history.
Simple observation should have raised concerns enough in each of these cycles to sound alarms, pointing to the need to closely review the banking industry's role in each: In what were the banks involved? Where were they involved? How and how much? Where were the risks? What were the risks? Who was at risk? If nothing else, timely "jawboning" – once the central banker's often used tool - would have put bankers and all investors alike on notice: BEWARE.
Jawboning is an art form, but one grounded firmly in simple arithmetic. In turn and most potent would be the follow-through with institutions identified as potential "problem banks," where issues were unearthed in the normal course of on-site supervision. (Note: Cycles cycle. We should not expect cycles to be eliminated. The cycle is the phenomenon that exposes the strong and otherwise invisible hand at its best. Attempts to over-compensate for cycles will likely to continue to be followed by ever larger downswings, set up by the very efforts to avoid them.)
But what are we to do with the "Too Big to Fail" - the ones that have already failed us at huge costs in one way or another? One answer: undo the mergers of the conflicted bankers. A commercial banker is allowed to keep his or her job when loans are repaid, while an investment banker is compensated handsomely solely for pushing money out the door – other people's money. Their frames of reference are at opposite ends. The former assumes material risk for misguiding depositors' funds; the latter does not. The former's asset turnover is the lowest of any economic sector. Further, it is capital intensive and leveraged. The latter's turnover is high, made higher still by deals presold. Moral hazard in extremis.
We must come to grips with the conflicting motives and compensation schemes substantially levered to both sides of big banks' balance sheets. In theory, this would be simple. In practice, not so as politicians, politics, and revolving doors divert the motivation, energy, resources, and time to do so. There are solutions, but they are another matter, one that should be – and could be - addressed if we desire a robust, healthy private sector that is self-sustaining.
Commercial banking is central to all developed economies. Therefore, central banking deserves protection and independence from political forces. To these ends, it should attract the best and most practiced in the real world. Just as smart fiscal policy supports counter-cyclical budgets, so does monetary policy require the barkeeper to empty the punchbowl just when the party's getting good.
where is the line that politicians should set clearer goals to central banks and leave them alone? I think what they need is concrete suggestions to this complex relationship between the both.
In % terms this thread has more (silly) 'wall of text' posts than any other I can recall - so why not add one more? -
"... There were a few stars (such as Alan Greenspan) and a few controversies (whether to prick asset bubbles). " (Great Leaders)
Umm ... and no controversy at all about the wisdom of creating those asset bubbles that burst (and barfed) all over all of us. Everyone in authority loved the '.dom' bubble and the housing boom, and sub-prime loans demonstrated what properly-PC caring people we are by enabling folks who had no business owning a house to get so f**kin'-far-in over their heads that ... - if only those bubbles were made of unbreakable cast-iron; if only ....
"By providing massive liquidity to the financial system, they saved the world from economic collapse in 2008." (Dear Leaders)
On another thread it was observed that the criminal organization that is the Red government of Han-land, cranks-up the rhetoric of its drone NK whenever it wants to remind the world that Han-ass must be kissed to keep NK from going totally ape-****. CB-sters have embraced this ploy - create bubbles via QE and then proclaiming their indispensable virtue as our saviors when those bubbles burst and wreck destruction far-and-wide. How many times you gonna fall for this scam, Exalted Leaders?
"The squalls will get worse when central bankers start selling the bonds on their balance-sheets or tightening lending rules to prevent a new housing bubble." (W(ho)TF are these Leaders?)
No CB has even considered any such thing since Volcker's 'October Decision', back in '79. Allowing/promoting new bubbles is so much easier than preventing their formation, and it earns the guilty CBer the title 'Maestro' (until it all falls apart - once again). You Leader-types really think it's gonna be different this go-round?
"Societies give unelected technocrats power over monetary policy because they think they will do a better job than politicians with an eye on the next election." (Boys in 'Leader-hosen')
No, that is the public rationalization given for the current format - nobody 'in power' believes it works this way. Quite the contrary - CB bosses are the most reliable, pliable political brown-nosers on God's Green Earth. Only when CBers get up off their knees do their pols, as in Japan now (or in the US during Volcker's early years), make any fuss.
"Price stability is now widely considered insufficient to ensure overall economic stability." (Guys who wish they were 'Leaders')
Bullshit. That nonsense is "widely considered" only by those whose bad advice has brought us the misery we now enjoy - and their apologists of course, like our own RA and Sanjait.
"Setting the central banks' goals is the politicians' job." (Them)
This - ^ ^ - may well be the only bit of unadulterated truth in the entire piece. IMO the tighter and more modest the goals are set the better the long-term outcome will be. CBs don't create wealth - people do. F**kin' around with money supply or anything else has proven to be beyond the capability of any CB in history to manage without causing disaster. Past time to take their toys away from them, and send the academics who have destroyed out finances back to their Ivy League sinecures - with the warning that they (and all their lineal family members) will be shot if they ever again stick the hooked-beaks into public policy decision-making.
Long/short/medium-term, the supply of money should rise in line with the potential output of the economy. A single mandate to attain that will make bubbles of the lethal variety we have recently experienced practically impossible; any that do form will burst without taking the rest of society over the edge with them. The 'Tulip Bubble' didn't cause a 'systemic crisis', did it?
Central bankers are presently tasked with the impossible - covering up for corrupt and incompetent politicians, and structural deficiencies of their economies. Overweight government and its useless leeches sap resources and distort the economy. Central bankers are explicitly or implicitly tasked with maintaining price and financial stability, and they do this by flooding the world with cash (along with measures that temporarily mop up excess liquidity, so the skyocketing inflation is yet to come), thereby making sure that nothing changes and bad habits are conserved.
Better yet, send central bankers into retirement by going onto the gold standard.
Or a currency that is based on a index of 1 year commodity futures
I agree, so long as the gold standard is democratically controlled by the people and not by a totalitarian "global state"
"By providing massive liquidity to the financial system, they saved the world from economic collapse in 2008"
Saved the financial system, yes. But you cannot simply state that economic collapse was inevitable had the liquidity not been provided. This is theory, perhaps the best theory ever, but still just theory.
This is the point we are at. Such honor is bestowed upon Central Bankers that we cannot even question the "success" of their interventions into the free market.
I think the "success" of central bankers' market intervention has been, and still is, a deferral of actually dealing with the root cause of economic debt and instability by providing non-durable "quick fix" quantitative easing and a whole range of taxes all dressed up in various guises to increase liquidity and put off the otherwise inevitable financial crisis (if the same course of action is continuously pursued) to a later date.
What central bankers really did, was ultimately switching off the most important market signal, the price of capital by unwarranted digital liquidity. Were this simplistic solution so successful, why not to have it extended to private uses too and let pc printers do their job and wipe out all private debts as well? The only real difference between these two QEs is the central bank action´s not labeling to counterfeiting as widely. The world already witnessed twenty years ago an empire´s fall caused by the lack of market signals, but this time following the same path in global scale, the results would be different even, when expected growth figures now only keep on accumulating in debit columns.
The central banks did not save anything.
Instead together with the politicians they have been causing immeasurable harm by taping over the cracks, giving pain relief to a terminally ill patient.
The only thing "liquidity injections, stimulus packages" are doing is delaying the inevitable. Actual growth, actual meaningful progress has stopped long time ago, all the necessary factors driving a constant quantitative growth economic model have been exhausted. What keeps numbers at acceptable level today is either previous momentum in the developing part of the world, or cosmetic surgery creating more and bigger bubbles.
If instead of trying to pretend everything is all right, and we can still recover, and return to growth people looked straight into the mirror and accepted that we have to change ourselves and the system, we could already be progressing on a different path towards a more predictable and sustainable future.
Instead we keep pretending, wasting all remaining resources on futile institutions, "solutions" until we fall into such a deep hole that any recovery, rebuilding will be extremely difficult and unpredictable.
"Instead we keep pretending, wasting all remaining resources on futile institutions, "solutions" until we fall into such a deep hole that any recovery, rebuilding will be extremely difficult and unpredictable."
Thank you for such a poignant comment.
One leaves people in and with power alone at ones peril. Certainly people with absolute power should be controlled. Central bankers, bankers in general and rating agencies got the world economy into a terrible mess.
Politicians were left to bail them out with tax payers' money and loans. And now The Economist has the temerity to headline this article with the message to leave them alone. What are they thinking?
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The European Commission and ECB participate in mind control of important politicians. It is done with implants and wireless network (they call it "Converging Technologies"). It is really disgrace and shame for the Commission, because they cooperate with criminals such as Soros or Mobile operators as Telecom Austria with drugs involved in their Bulgarian Telecom (owned previously by the convicted in money-washing Chorney see him in Interpol)
I found that I have an implant for mind control in Budapest CEU. I worked for Ministry of Finance in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Central Bank. I measure the waves on Telecom Austria wavelength. It also works on a airplane. Many top politicians, businesspeople are mind controlled incl financial Ministers of Hungary, Poland.
The most interesting is the reply of the European Commission to my complaint. They say "it is an internal to Bulgaria problem" and I clearly state it works with me even in the building of the European Commission and there are Commissioners with mind control on the same network. It is a shame European Institutions to be involved with criminals and crimes. Just measure the wave-lengths of politicians or use FRMI. Tomorrow everything will be clear, even who organized the crisis and who benefits from it. What about our "common future"?
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In today's interconnected world of business there is a large emphasis on central bank policy. These policy makers seem to have the world's markets around their fingers. If the Federal Reserve says they will be implementing more quantitative easing the markets tend to rise. This makes the policy makers out to be rock stars, however as described in the article this wasn't only the case. As of now politics is playing a more and more important role in influencing central bankers. However most of these politicians aren't educated in economic theory and finance, and have very little experience in this field. Before the financial crisis the central bank policy makers were widely unknown by the general public, but today you can't mention Ben Bernanke without at least the majority of the people knowing who he is. These policy makers have the most influence on financial markets and the world economy that I have ever seen. The markets move with every Fed announcement. In my opinion what makes central banks so great is there level of independence from politics. Politicians in my opinion are worried about their public appearance and approval ratings, but more importantly they are concerned with re-election. Central bankers are more long term orientated and don't run for their positions. When the independence of the central bank is threatened, the probability for detrimental effects on the economy increases. With the central bank holding so much power it is a necessity to keep the politicians out of the Central Bank's business. It is important for the Fed to become more transparent and explain to the people what the goals of each action are. The Fed needs to explain that when they buy these government bonds that they are trying to keep the interest rate low so it can induce companies to borrow money at a very cheap rate. In conclusion the Fed and other Central Banks must keep their independence from government in order to be the most effective.
"The more important central banks become, the more important it is for politicians to keep their noses out of the bankers' business."
Oh, if only that were actually true. Unfortunately, it is not—even when interpreting the idea from several different perspectives. First, the central banks have been the most important enforcers of monetary policy ever since the gold standard was abandoned during the Great Depression and since the current fiat monetary system was established separately from it. This means that central banks had (and still do have) central control over the fiat money supply unlike gold (which is a finite commodity, becoming ever increasingly difficult to source, and not promoted by central bankers precisely because it is outside of their control).
Fiat money can be created almost exponentially (NB: I say "almost" here—because eventually even that will have run its course in terms of both its purchasing value and/or the physical resources available to actually produce it (even if the last remaining 5% of physical global currency were digitized). In that sense, it is not governments that direct central banks, but rather the central banks that have been directing governments for a very long time. Consider this: who does the government turn to when it requires a greater supply of money to be circulated in a nation's economy? It may tax its citizens more heavily or encourage greater borrowing, spending, or purchasing with attractive interest rates set in collusion with the central bank, and so on; however, as is widely known, the current debt to GDP makes it impossible under the current system for all the country's citizens to ultimately offset the ever-increasing national debt to GDP and the inevitable economic slows that ensue. Instead, what do governments do? They ask the central banks to conduct "quantitative easing" in order to provide them with a greater supply of money to distribute to corporations or to "bail out" 'too big to fail' institutions (which, frankly, should be left to FAIL), etc. This increases the monetary supply to temporarily "stimulate" the economy; however, it debases the fiat currency and decreases its purchasing power in the long-term due to consequent inflation. Furthermore, this course of action actually puts off dealing with the ever-increasing rate of national debt per GDP by creating temporary cyclical economic "bubbles" to give the misperception that the economy is "actually improving in the long-run", which it most certainly isn't.
If we really want to address current economic issues, we actually need to rethink the whole structure of our monetary system. A good place to start would be to do away with the totalitarian hold of central banks over their (supposed) nations' citizens and discard both "puppet" governments and a vast majority of politicians who merely dance to the tune of the central banks to the detriment of the masses. Instead, we should return control of the monetary system and supply to the true drivers of the economy—the nation's people.
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In almost all areas, you have to get a permit from the county or city to rebuild a septic tank or leach field - permit cost typically $150-600, though can reach $2000 in some areas for a new installation. The reason is they will then come out and inspect the installation and review the test results from the civil engineer, from whom a design and soil percolation test and construction inspection report will be required before they issue an operating permit.
If you have a question on the process, the county or city most likely has a permit requirements info sheet on their website describing the process and requirements - googel your locale name combined with a search phrase like this - leach field test
The real reason a permit is required is to be sure an engineer designs the field, that the leach field is designed to match the existing soil conditions, and that it is built to the design so hopefully it will neither break through to the surface, contaminate the groundwater, nor contaminate nearby wells or waterways, thereby creating a public nuisance and health hazard.
The reason for the initial presale infiltration capacity test you had done is to provide some assurance to the buyer that the system is likely to work as needed, at least for the forseeable future, and is based on the number of bedrooms and sometimes number of bathrooms in the house as the basis for estimating the "load" the system is likely to see. There are different tests in different locales - some use a minimal criteria of 3 or 4 gpm flow for 20 minutes, other use the more common design guide of 150gpd (gallons per day) per bedroom in the house- some prorated for a 1 hour period, some far more strict by requiring a 24 hour test. 300 gallons in 45 minutes is an extremely stringent criteria - I would check with the buyilding department that this is right, because this adds up to a rate of 9600 gallon sper day - of about 64 bedrooms worth of capacity ! I am sure I have never ever seen that strict a criteria for a residential (as opposed to resort/ hotel/ commercial) septic system, so I would check that the tester did not somewhere add a zero to the volume to be pumped or something.
Also, returning water is not a viable basis for failing the test - the proper way to conduct a test is to pump the specified amount of water, and verify that the water level at the discharge pipe has returned to the original level by the end of the specified time - usually to the invert (bottom) of the pipe, but generally a conditional or "warning" approval will be given to one that does not raise the water table above the top of the 4" discharge pipe during the test time. You might discuss this with the civil engineer before going ahead with a new leach field construction - to me it sounds like the test may have been rigged to fail,, because in-service leach fields would not take 300 gallons of water without raising the water level to the top of the pipe for a period, even though they could take that flow for an extended period ot time.
I would guess that the wrong term was used to describe your problem. What was probably meant was that the leach field was saturated. This is to say that the soil around your leach field is saturated with solids from the septic tank and you may have to have it replaced. If you do not have the tank pumped often enough this can happen as well as just aging of the system. Many people ignore the septic till there is a problem do to out of sight out of mind or the false belief they are saving money. If you have a large family you may have to have the tank pumped every 2 or three years. Some of the towns around here have passed laws to that effect to avoid such problems.
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Seems like a waste of time to me if it's only an XvMC driver.
XvMC is really useless today, the only time you would need mpeg2 acceleration is if you are on a 486DX.
I believe a UVD2 implementation is what Linux needs. Not another XvMC driver.
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Seems like a waste of time to me if it's only an XvMC driver.
XvMC is really useless today, the only time you would need mpeg2 acceleration is if you are on a 486DX.
I believe a UVD2 implementation is what Linux needs. Not another XvMC driver.
Does anyone know if the ati/radeonhd developers are planning to make use of Gallium3D?
This is actually pretty useful, since most of the work done for MPEG2 decoding via XvMC would also be re-useable for decoding H.264 or VC-1 via either an extended XvMC API or something new (VAAPI or whatever). It's also a good first step towards shader-based transcoding.
I think it would be better to first provide such features to the drivers of manufacturers that work with the free software community through development efforts or providing hardware specs.
People are of course free to code whatever they want, but I think it's a shame, all the skilled developer effort poured into reverse engineering Nouveau, that could have gone towards making the Intel or AMD driver implementation better.
This shit always sounds cool, but from an end user point of view, it always takes like YEARS to fully enjoy something on linux (especailly related to gpus) and when this support kicks in, there will be 5 other cool ideas about whatever new 3d api. or am I wrong?
I think this has more potential than UVD2. If I have understood it correctly, UVD2 is hardware that is limited to certain profiles of MPEG2/VC1/H.264. I have used another hardware solution (Popcorn Hour) and the profile constraints can make life difficult.
This approach could lead to much more flexible decoding of different formats and profiles. XvMC is a good starting point to figure out how to do this kind of processing with hardware in X/Gallium3d environment.
I'm hoping that Radeon drivers catch up soon. I have an NVidia 9600GT, which will probably take a long time to get free 3d support and the binary drivers are useless for this (and generally pretty bad quality.. can't wait to switch to ATI and free drivers).
Whatever it is, don't hold your breath.
How long has GNASH been going on for? a few decades now, and they can't even implement Flash 7 properly.
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