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The Color Run™ 5k is coming to Sentosa! The only question is "Are you ready for the craziest, colorful, 5k of your life?" You bet you are. Race it solo or with your Color friends. Check out the race details below & we'll see you all squeaky clean at the start line.
Venue: Sentosa Beach Station, Open air carpark
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Date: Saturday, 22 August 2015 & Sunday, 23 August 2015
Time: 4pm (Village opens from 12 noon)
You can download your Event Day Guide here.
Less about your 10-minute-mile and more about having the time of your life, The Color Run is a five-kilometer, un-timed race in which thousands of participants, or "Color Runners", are doused from head to toe in different colors at each kilometer. With only two rules, the idea is easy to follow:
Participants of The Color Run Singapore can expect a new and unforgettably shimmering memory this year. Designed to uplift and inspire Color Runners further, participants will literally sparkle on the run as they pass through the new "Shine" color zones.
Public registration closes on 3 August 2015!
You can choose to sign up as an individual regular or the Super Sparkle.
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Super Sparkle - $98 (Regular package + additional merchandises, special lane at Race Pack Collection, Start Line & Baggage Drop)
Once you finish the run you will be able to participate in the famous Color Throwing Festival! This will be located near the stage in the event village area. There will also be food and beverage outlets in the event village for those runners who have built up an appetite after their 5km.
We will do everything in our power to hold the event as it is scheduled although runner safety is our highest priority for this event. Whilst the presence of lightning in the area may cause us to modify or postpone the event, rain will make the run all the more enjoyable as the color sticks to you better! If lightning is in the area, runners will hear the siren and be directed to safe shelters both throughout the course and near the event village in the Beach Station Car Park. In this situation there will be a maximum 40 minute delay for runners. In the event that it would be unsafe to carry on after 40 minutes we will postpone the event. Safety of the participants is our ultimate priority.
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Venue: City Square Mall, B1 Fountain Square
Date: 14-16 August 2015
Time: 10am to 8pm
* Please bring along your confirmation page and photo ID to validate your registrations.
** Remember to sign the pick up waiver if you have someone collecting on your behalf or get your parent's signature if you are under 18.
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On behalf of the participants, The Color Run Singapore will be donating to our official charity partner, Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth (CABCY)
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V IRTUALLY FROM THE DAY the book Dear Mr. Lincoln1 was published in the fall of 1993, I have been urged to undertake a second volume of citizen correspondence to America's sixteenth president. And I have been armed with so much wonderful material ever since that the challenge has become a most welcome opportunity.
Dear Mr. Lincoln opened a window onto citizen sentiment during the Civil War, but could not hope to provide the final word. Thousands of remarkable letters remained all but hidden within the microfilmed reels of Abraham Lincoln's private papers, unread except by historians and archivists. Thousands more had been separated from the official White House files when they were dispatched by clerks to other branches of the government for action. Later they were found or purchased by souvenir hunters desperate to possess relics of the martyred president. Not included in the official Abraham Lincoln Papers in the Library of Congress, they have ended up scattered among private and public collections across the country. They revealed constituent yearning then and deserve no less attention today.
Unavoidably, the first book omitted as much as it included. The economic constraints of commercial publishing limited the size of the book and compelled its editor to delete many of the letters to Abraham Lincoln that deserved inclusion. Such material was anything but dross. In many cases, a rationale driven only by the vagaries of page layout dictated last-minute decisions to cut worthy and compelling letters. They remained unpublished, available only to scholars.
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P.S. It's not needed at the French Open.Sarahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253867020130053273.post-729309217331059282008-09-15T15:31:00.000-07:002008-09-15T15:31:00.000-07:00GAH!!!!!!!I HATE Mary Carillo. I mute the tv if sh...GAH!!!!!!!

I HATE Mary Carillo. I mute the tv if she's on.

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MiMi's forthcoming set, The Art Of Letting Go is still on the way, but today she revisits her brand new single and brings along A$AP Rocky for the official remix of her current single.
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Now featuring Rocky, that good ol' Kush gets the best of him and Danny on this final version. Premiered on Tim Westwood's BBC Radio 1. Danny Brown's debut album Old coming soon. hhd
A$AP recognized the thugs from Cleveland by bringing out Layzie, Bizzy and Wish for "Thuggish Ruggish Bone". Below, A$AP Ferg ran through his "Work (Remix)" with Trinidad James and ScHoolboy Q.
J.Cole and A$AP Rocky held things down across the pond last night at Radio 1's annual Big Weekend music festival. In the clip above Cole performs his gold seller "Power Trip". After the jump, Rocky recites "Wild For The Night".
Over A$AP Twelvyy's "YNRE", A$AP Rocky rolls out another freebie, this time for the LA Leakers' upcoming Leaks Of The Industry mixtape on June 3.
From the Rucker to L.A., A$AP Ferg and his troops bring the ruckus across the country in their new video. Ferg's Trap Lord is scheduled for a Memorial Day release.
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Marcus DH 40
Jordan DS 11 (eating off the adult menu for the 1st time)
Thursday, August 28th
Since wed had such a bust of a day at AK the day before, we decided to head out again today to try our luck.
First thing we did was make a beeline for the first show of Festival of the Lion King. We only made it a few minutes before the show started and they were out of spaces for ECVs. The CM asked me if I could walk, told me to leave my ECV there and exit out the same way we came in and it would be there waiting for me. I took my cane, and walked into the theater. The show was wonderful, as usual and we exited out the in side just as we were instructed. My ECV was gone! :shocked025: I spoke to the CM (of course, a different one than Id talked to before the show) and he said it had been moved over to the exit. This really upset me, as now I had to stand painfully while Marcus went to the other side and drove my ECV back to me. I conveyed my disappointment to the CM as Id only done what I was told. He was nearly rude and just had absolutely no sympathy for the situation. :angry-smiley-053: I wish that CMs would pass on information from shift to shift.
We then headed over to Kilimanjaro Safari. Without too long of a queue, we made it into a truck for our 2 week trip. I cannot remember the name of our driver, but he was the best we have ever had. He was very nice; spoke very distinctly so we could understand everything he said, and, even though he couldnt actually stop for the animals he slowed down to a minor creep to allow us to take better pictures whenever he could. We passed so close to a baby giraffe, we could almost touch it! :excited001:
By now we were hungry, and our dinner ADRs were for tonight at 6:20pm. We slipped over to Pizzafari for lunch as wed never been here before (and since Tusker House was no longer CS ). Jordan, of course, had the pizza. Marcus had the chicken parmesan sandwich with chips, and I had the hot Italian style sandwich, also with chips. I dont really trust Jordans opinion of pizza he always says its good no matter what. However, it looked ok. Marcus enjoyed his sandwich, although he wasnt fond of the multigrain bun. My sandwich was very good Im not sure Im remembering correctly, but I think it was some kind of foccacia bread. For dessert, Marcus had the frozen lemonaid, Jordan had the chocolate cake, and I had the apple pie. Somehow theyd messed up our order and given us two frozen lemonades, Jordan and Marcus saved it for later. I also dont trust Jordans opinion of chocolate cake but he devoured it. :wink: I was pleasantly surprised by my apple pie. It actually looked more like a tart or a Danish, but it was quite tasty.:thumbs_up:
Next, we headed for Dinoland. We rode Dinosaur again love that ride and then went over to Primeval Whirl hate that ride, but Jordan loves it so we have to ride it once. :rolleyes008: We were again starting to feel the heat, so we planned to head into Asia hit Everest and then go back to swim for a bit before dinner.
We didnt feel the park was nearly as crowded, but by the time we made it over to Expedition Everest, all the fastpasses were gone, and the standby line was a 90 minute wait. But with my ECV and GAC we managed to ride it twice in a row. We try not to abuse the privilege the card gives us (for I am very grateful for it) but since wed not been able to ride the day before and this was our last day in AK we made an exception this time.:gy:
After our swim, we headed off to the Polynesian for our Ohana ADR. We just love Ohana, and wed not been back since all of the menu changes we were eager to see how we liked it. Wed made plans while in the pool, that after dinner, Jordan and I would take the monorail to Magic Kingdom to watch Wishes while Marcus would go back to the hotel and read however, while enroute to the Poly, Jordan realized hed left his bum bag in the room, so he didnt have his Key to the World with him. Once at the Poly, we decided to leave my ECV in the car since we were going to have to run back to our resort after dinner for Jordan to get his ticket, and we didnt want Marcus to have to load and reload yet again. (That thing is HEAVY)
We arrived at the resort just in time to catch the tail end of the torch lighting ceremony I never knew such a thing even existed and it was fun to see. I made it up to Ohana with just my cane, and Marcus even volunteered to go to the podium and check us in so that I could collapse in a chair to rest. (Marcus volunteered to speak to strangers! You cannot believe what a momentous occasion that was!) We didnt wait long to be seated, and we actually had a very nice table. Had we been staying late enough, wed have had a great view of Wishes.
As soon as we sat down, we were brought our bread. I really dont care for this because of the coconut flavoring. I had a bite or two, but thats all. Once our drink orders were taken, the food began to arrive and although I still miss the little pineapple/shrimp wonton thingies, I must admit that the new accompaniments are very good. :p015: Of course, I was the only one to have any of the salad but I thought it was quite yummy. As for the chicken wings, Marcus and I both thought they were okay, but Jordan loved them and ate several. The pan-fried noodles were just fantastic. We all liked them a lot and had a refill of those. The pork dumplings were divine and we had a refill of those as well. The broccoli and peas were okay (tasted only by me again), but I thought had no real flavor compared to everything else. I easily could have made a meal out of just the starters and been happy, but the skewers started coming around as well. Quite honestly, I had very little of any of the meats I did have a taste of all 3 (steak, pork and turkey) and they were all pretty good. (We have been spoiled as we have a wonderful Brazilian Churascaria near us and it has many divine meat choices.) I refuse to tell you, however to even hazard a guess at how many shrimp I ate. :7: There are no words for how good these are. The banana foster bread pudding is so anti-climatic after everything else. I dont know how anyone can eat any of that after dinner. I had a bite or two, and it was very good, but I couldnt find it in me to even enjoy it. Had it still been the caramel and pineapple, I would have asked for it to go to enjoy later. Bill around $80, tipped around $15. Would we go back? Of course!
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Nearly a decade after the terrifying events of Pulse 2 the dead still walk the earth—having entered our realm through electronic devices. Justine, raised with her fellow human refugees in the remote no-tech survivor camp, is now a 17-year old girl who dreams of the world they've left behind. When an abandoned laptop links her to a mysterious outside caller, Justine risks everything to see if life has resumed back in the forbidden city. More frightening than ever, Pulse 3 is an intense and shocking conclusion to the Pulse trilogy.
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Year: 2008
Starring: Diane Ayala Goldner, William Prael, Dodie Brown, Laura Cayouette, Snowy Highfield, Georgina Rylance, Todd Giebenhain, Jackie Arnold, Rider Strong, Chuck Vail, Karley Scott Collins, Noureen DeWulf, Thomas Merdis, Courtney Shay Young, Brittany Renee Finamore, Lynn Blackburn, Robert Gibson, Marcus M. Mauldin, Winston Hall, Kaya Morri, Samantha Bell Leahy
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Yesterday, Pulse got underway with the solutions expo officially opening and a full house of customers and partners joining us, in Las Vegas It was a full day, but very well attended. The level of interest and engagement has been intense, with good questions and comments from the audience. My task the next several days is to staff a demonstration pedestal (#16) with James Pierce, and others covering the IBM Support portal and applications.
It has been good meeting with our users, many who have not explored the new site. Their feedback has been initial surprise and then impressed with the final solution the support portal now provides. Everyone we spoke to sees the value this new single support site offers, and wanted to understand how to get access use it. It has been surprising how many had not discovered the new site, so our presence here has been good for getting the message to the community.
If your at Pulse, please stop by the expo solutions center and look the support team pedestal up. We are at #16 and will also be presenting three sessions on Tuesday afternoon,
#1480- (3:30-3:50) Electronic Support- Avoid Problems & Resolve the Tough Ones Fast
Learn about IBM's portfolio of online support tools and resources that provides comprehensive technical information to ensure smooth operations of your mission critical applications.
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A few weeks later, "Idol" sent a camera crew to her home and interviewed her for a couple of hours in preparation for the event. She was still vacillating when travel arrangements were made for her to fly to L.A. in December to tape the show. They gave her a list of songs to learn, but she couldn't make herself do it. It didn't interest her.
She didn't believe the show was the best route to a sustained career as a singer-songwriter. Some of her Nashville confidants warned her that the show would saddle her with contractual obligations that would limit her artistic freedom, impeding her ability to record and perform as she chose. She believed "Idol" was more about creating a show than developing music careers and talent.
"I wanted to work with people who wanted what was best for me and not the show," she says. "And I wanted to be free to be the artist I want to be and sing the songs that come from me."
She finally told her family that she was bowing out of "American Idol." "I prayed about it a lot," she says. "I felt totally at peace with the decision."
By then, Ellee had other promising prospects and new opportunities were opening for her. After her "Idol" tryout, she flew to Nashville for the second time and recorded 10 original songs. Tipped off by a friend, veteran songwriter Will Robinson came to the studio to listen to her recordings. Robinson, who has worked with Reba McEntire, Alabama and Disney and produced eight No. 1 hits across several genres, listened to the songs and then turned to Ellee. "Did you write all those songs?" When she said yes, he replied playfully, "I hate you!" A week later he contacted Ellee and arranged to fly to Salt Lake City, where he spent two days co-writing songs with her at her parents' home. They have continued to collaborate via Skype.
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Madara Uchiha is the former leader of the Uchiha Clan and co-founder of the Leaf VIllage & the Akatsuki organisation. Before the era of the ninja villages, Madara was the most gifted member of the Uchiha who through constant battle and competition with his brother Izuna, gained the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan. Despite making peace with the Senju clan and forming the Village Hidden in the Leaves, Madara feared that his people would be oppressed by the Senju and tried to support for his cause but the Uchiha clan turned theirs backs on him in favour of peace.
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In A Rich Man's Baby, Tanisha and Adrienne are two sistahs tired of barely getting by. So they come up with a plan - have a rich man's baby and gain instant wealth through child support. Their plan starts off smoothly, but when things get complicated, Tanisha and Adrienne find out landing an easy life might be harder than they thought.
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The only way I would recommend this book would only be if there is a second book.
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Dish messing with Voom, All are now HD-Lite 1280x1080i
Posted 03 December 2005 - 07:16 PM
Posted 03 December 2005 - 08:21 PM
His point is: unusual for TNT not to strech.
Umm, unrelated, but that's because it's the HD version converted from the film and it's preserved in it's OAR, they've already shown the Wizard of Oz on TNT anyways..
Posted 03 December 2005 - 08:31 PM
Just say no to HD-Lite.
Posted 03 December 2005 - 08:49 PM
This Voom stuff will I am afraid open a new can of worms in regards to HD-Lite acceptance by Dish sub's, this sub will not accept it, I know that for sure
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 09:15 PM
Back to Voom...
I wonder how many of the running-with-arms-flailing-panicking folks actually knew anything was different until they read the posts here about it. I know some people can tell, I can sometimes myself... but I've found that a lot of people don't notice and don't complain until someone else tells them they should be complaining.
I've been flipping around the Voom channels periodically tonight... and I have to say that while I did notice the pixelating problems mentioned in another post... I can't say I'm seeing a major drop in quality. I do have a true 1080i 65" TV set... and I can tell a big difference between a CBS football game and an ESPNHD or FOX one... but since most of the Voom channels have been showing older movies that don't look as crisp as live programming anyway... I honestly can't say I've noticed a drop in quality today.
Maybe this is bad, if it means they are dropping quality and it encourages them to continue... but I have to be honest and say that I haven't seen anything that I could make a direct comparison and say I would have noticed any lower quality today had I not been reading this forum.
Posted 03 December 2005 - 09:25 PM
Munst Directv(with the exception of HDNet Movies) has bitrates around 16 Mbps on HD channels, they downconvert ALL 100% of their HD offerings, except the native 720p ones of course
We can debate whether or not changing the line resolution impacts PQ for the average user all day long. There is no way I'll believe D* has higher bitrates, however. Bitrates are what determines bandwidth used, not line resolution. Are you trying to tell me that D* purposely uses MORE bandwidth for lower quality than E*? This really makes no sense. You may be right about 1280 res harming PQ vs 1920. I think you are wrong about D*s bitrates vs E*, though.
Posted 03 December 2005 - 09:29 PM
Posted 03 December 2005 - 10:27 PM
My Bitrate page for Dish:
compare them
Holy Hell Directv's bitrate's have went way down, last time I compared them Directv was averaging 1 or 2 more Mbps video on lots of channels
some are better on Directv, lots are better on Dish
Directv Discovery used to have higher bitrate than Dish, now I see it is about equal
ESPN is better on Directv
Dish HDNets kill Directv, Showtime and HBO are a smidge better on Dish
This is all only speaking of bitrate and not resolution(of which Directv lowers), Dish does not downrez anything but Voom
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 10:34 PM
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 11:24 PM
A movie, for instance, that has a rather dark background and most of the "action" takes place in a smaller area of the screen would require less of the maximum bitrate/bandwidth in order to look good... whereas a live sporting event with bright lighting and lots of motion all over the screen requires more bitrate/bandwidth.
Thus... a live NBA game on TNTHD would show a lack of bandwidth/lower bitrate before an old movie on MonstersHD would.
Which is why I think not all of us see the flaws as quickly as others do, when they are tinkering with things.
Posted 03 December 2005 - 11:45 PM
This is exactly why I still haven't bothered getting an HD set for home. I see full resolution uncompressed HD all day at work and would just be so massively disappointed to watch over-compressed, down-sampled HD at home. Instead I bought my 924 and my HD packages to watch 16x9 letterboxed SD at far superior quality than the regular SD channels, and partly so I get to see the 30% extra that ABC cuts off the sides of LOST!
While I imagine that watching a compromised HD signal on a descent HD tube would ruin my every evening, anything I record from the HD channels looks 2 or 3 times better on my very nice SD set than the mush we now get on most SD channels.
I have taken a big step forward in the cost of watching TV just to regain the quality we lost as the broadcast industry has taken hundreds of incremental step backward in the ridiculous race to provide every single consumer with a unique channel devoted to their specific needs.
The exact same thing is happening to HD that happened to SD over the last five years. Did you notice how the word "digital" has replaced the word "quality"? And joe consumer ate it up... "500 digital channels! Where do I sign?" Never mind that they are all being sent down a pipe that was only intended to carry 50 channels of full res video. Because the people want choices more than they want quality AND IT MAKES ME MAD! Just as MP3s have replaced CDs, and you can download an "HD" movie trailer from Apple at just 200Mb. Makes me wonder why we bothered getting terrabytes of storage to finish HD trailers at work when all the public wants is a crummy little QuickTime movie that's CALLED "high-definition".
So now the same thing is going to happen to HD. Just as manufacturers start rolling out true native 1920x1080 LCD screens and projectors for the home market instead of 1366x768 which 90% are now, (and by the way, you find the trinitron HD tube TVs on the bottom shelf at the back of Best Buy marked for clearance) all the available sources of HD are going to end up downsampling to 1280x1080, 1280x720, or dropping the bitrate to SD levels or lower. What's next? Mini-HDV tape decks at the broadcast station? BluRay DVD players? "It's HD right?" Yeah, so is the stuff on the Apple trailers web site.
My "Wish for Dish" is that they take a stand and RAISE the bar, instead of trying keep their head barely above the average as the standards get slowly lowered by popular demand.
Yes, I want my local HD stations via my dish instead of an antenna, but I don't want it to be at the cost of everything turning to mush.
Our only hope... MY only hope, is that the market's declining advertising revenue forces 300 of the 500 channels to drop off the face of the planet and free up all that bandwidth for the remaining cream of the crop. That way we can have fewer, higher quality channels with more varied content that the people with money to spend on $5,000 televisions and $1000 satellite systems will actually enjoy watching. This model HAS TO BE the future of television. With DVRs making the exclusivity of prime time a thing of the past, they could fill the small hours with popular shows like "Battlestar Galactica" in HD (which they have on SKY-TV) instead of more infomercials.
Or even better. Split up all the bandwidth from those spare channels and let it take two hours to stream all the data for a one hour show, just so when I do watch it - it's full resolution, and full bit rate. Seriously, I can wait. I can't remember the last time I watched TV live anyway!
But that's a whole other topic isn't it.
This has been a rant. I thank you.
Posted 04 December 2005 - 12:25 AM
Posted 04 December 2005 - 04:32 AM
I sometimes forget that most folks have never seen good true HDTV, like D-Theater D-VHS for example, those who have lived with true HDTV since way back(1999 for me) find this downright insulting and unacceptable
Dish can take this HD-Lite Voom and stick it you know where, I will not pay for this garbage nor bare and strain myself to sit thru it and try to enjoy it's fuzzy qualities
to put this into perspective, I am a die hard near obsessed Red Wings fan and if Dish put up all 82 games in HD-Lite I wouldn't even so much as give it a glance
This is about providers ripping us off, selling HDTV and sending is putrid and downrezzed "near" HD quality
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Posted 04 December 2005 - 04:37 AM
my thoughts exactly have been put into your post
I am a HT hobbyist and enthusiast, it is basically the only thing I live for
I am not a casual viewer of HDTV programming
I do not care to watch downrezzed internet quality HD on my 20,000$ system that I have worked hard many many years to pay for and put together, I have spent thousands on Dish HD receivers and the like and like I said before, this is insulting
You can only imagine what these HD-Lite channels look like on the 9" CRT's in my display , it is not pretty
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Posted 04 December 2005 - 05:34 AM
but... is it fair to call it HD-Lite?
As I understand it, HD can either be 1280x720p or 1920x1080i... Anything less than 1280x720p would be HD-Lite in my book... but the 1280x1080i is somewhere in between the lowest and the highest HD resolutions...
So, while I prefer 1920x1080i... It is hard for me to say 1280x1080 isn't HD, when it is higher than the 720p resolution.
Posted 04 December 2005 - 08:06 AM
Posted 04 December 2005 - 08:38 AM
Bavaria you are incorrect, HD-Lite is no where close to the picture quality of True 1920x1080i HD, it isn't even in the same ball-park...
Gary, technically speaking you are correct when you say 1920x1080 is better than 1280x720 but quite frankly I can't tell that much of a difference. Perhaps my eyes are not as good as they used to be but IMHO I really don't think E* is "ripping" those of us who are paying whole $5 a months for the old Voom channels. Heck, I would hate to see their current business case on keeping the Voom channels. I certaining don't have a $20K system ($2295 return special is what I have). If you pissed over the $5 bucks for Voom then I would assume you are livid over the $10 for the 5 other HD channels. I'm just thankful E* decided to keep the old Voom programming, 1920x1080 or 1280x720. - Art
Posted 04 December 2005 - 09:27 AM
Bavaria, all in all I am happy with Dish, and considering they are the only ones that carry the international channels I desire I am not leaving all that soon. And just to say if you are unhappy leave, I always thought you should voice your opinion, not just take your ball and go home. JMHO
Posted 04 December 2005 - 09:42 AM
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Posted 04 December 2005 - 10:29 AM
Fine. Go. Bye. Nobody is stopping you. Don't let the door hit you where the doctor slapped you. If you don't like the way you perceive E* is operating you can always try someone else.
Dish can take this HD-Lite Voom and stick it you know where, I will not pay for this garbage nor bare and strain myself to sit thru it and try to enjoy it's fuzzy qualities
There are only two reasons why you wouldn't just make the switch:
1) E* is still the best HD option available
2) You would rather scream your head of than lose (not loose) Voom
By your definition, millions of satellite customers have been watching SD-Lite channels for years. It is part of the business. And at this point you don't know where E* will leave the channels. Calm down and react intelligently.
Posted 04 December 2005 - 10:30 AM
The vendors that are doing it (both DirecTV and DISH and some cable companies) need to know that this is NOT what we want and something that we are not willing to pay for.
Posted 04 December 2005 - 03:46 PM
I have spent thousands of $'s on Dish and their HDTV offering's and have been with them since the day Discovery HD Theater was lite up and this is downright insulting
1280x1080i is actually much worse than 1280x720p, because if you factor in the interlaced vs progressive stuff, you are comparing:
Dish would have been better off having Voom or themselves convert to 1280x720p
I do not think that Dish would suddenly switch all Voom to this garbage if that is not where they were going to leave them, I won't have to wait long for my decision to dump Dish's HD, CES is where the Voom 21 will be announced and things will be set by then
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Posted 04 December 2005 - 04:30 PM
Not arguing that Dish isn't downrezzing the Voom HD right now....
but... is it fair to call it HD-Lite?
So, while I prefer 1920x1080i... It is hard for me to say 1280x1080 isn't HD, when it is higher than the 720p resolution.
I'll say it then. 1280 x 1080 ISN'T HD! It's not even the same aspect ratio. It is not one of the many white paper defined HD standards for broadcast. IT IS NOT HD - and if it's being sold as HD then there is a strong case for a charge of false advertising. 720p or 720i on the other hand IS one of the HD standards, and if your TV only displays 1366x768 natively you are probably better off trying to watch 720 than 1080 anyway.
Let me take you on a journey in the life of a pixel in this resize scenario that we've all been moaning about.
In a true HD 1080 image you have 1920 pixels of clean, crisp horizontal resolution. For argument's sake we'll say that this image is TRUELY a 1920x1080 image such as a frame from a Pixar film, or a nice bit of branding on HDNet. NOT from a film telecine transfer, or from an Sony F900 HD camera (I'll get to that in a minute).
These crisp 1,920 pixels are the best looking thing you're ever likely to see, and the only way you will be able to see them is if you have the chance to run uncompressed dual-link HD-SDI 4:4:4 into a monitor like this one from DataCheck: http://www.datacheck...cts/21245a.html playing the media directly from hard drives as uncompressed data. Try and hit an HD trade show if you want to see this, it's pretty.
So, anyway, you take those 1,920 pixels and you squeeze them to fit into 1,280 pixels. That's a 1/3 reduction per line. So you're dropping one pixel for every two that you keep on any given line. But you can't just drop out every 3rd pixel and keep the nice clean ones you have left, because you would see the damage clearly when fine detail moves horizontally, or as jagged edges on curves and diagonals. So you have to throw out ALL the clean pixels and blend the color values that they represented. Your new pixel A gets some of the color value of pixel B and your new pixel C gets some of the value of pixel B to make two new pixels that are a "blur" of the three that used to define that part of the image. Of course it doesn't stop there because you have to spread the old pixels' data more evenly than that, but I'm not going to do that kind of math in my head and you get the point anyway. The new 1,280 pixels are a blurred version of the old ones. They look okay from a distance, but they are a "mushed" version of what used to be there. It's called interpolation and it's the reason a lot of things look blurry on TV, on film, in magazines... all over the place, it's done all the time. Everyone knows that when you take you 2.3 magapixel photos and reduce them to e-mail them to your mom they aren't as good as the originals. But you never think about it because you aren't going to blow-up that lower res version of the photo to the size of the original to look at it are you? You'll look at it at the new smaller size and it looks fine, maybe even better.
But that's not what Dish is doing. They ARE blowing it back up to the original size.
And this is where it gets very ugly, you have to stretch those 1,280 pixels back out to 1,920 pixels to return it to an HD standard. So (you guessed it) you take your new blurred hybrid A and B pixels and you move them apart and you make a new pixel to go in the middle that's a blend of the two colors and you have 3 pixels again where there only used to be 2. 1,280 becomes 1,920 again. But you have now blurred the image twice. Twice the damage, the second compounding on the first.
I would say tough, almost none of the source material out there is truely native 1920x1080. The vast majority of film transfer machines used for HD (The "Spirit" from Thomson/Grass Valley) are actually not scanning film at resolutions any higher than about 1440 pixels of horizontal resolution, and then only on the luminance channel. There are very few (if any) cameras in the field that have imaging sensors that come close to 1920x1080 native and until very recently they only recorded to HD-CAM (see below). So almost everything has already been interpolated once, BEFORE it get's to tape. This is SLOWLY changing as more movies are using digital post production techniques that allow HD masters to be created directly from true high-res scans rather than telecine, but they are few and far between right now.
No we get to compression.
To deliver HD masters to a broadcaster you have few choices; HD-CAM, D5 or HD-CAM SR. They are all compressed, some much more than others, HD-CAM being the worst. HD-CAM is also the cheapest... guess which one is most popular.
So by the time the the master sources get to the broadcaster they have for the most part already been interpolated from a lower resolution and they have all already been compressed.
So then they squeeze it to 2/3 of the original horizontal resolution, and compress it to send it you us.
In actual fact, the reduced resolution helps a lot in cutting the amount of data needed to represent the image, not just because there are fewer pixels to store, but because after the interpolation those pixels are less crisp, less contrast between them... they are blurry. So the compression algorithm can more often look at a small area of the picture and say "Hmmm... this bit of contrast falls below my threshold to try and maintain the detail, I'm just going to blur it into a solid area of one color" than it would if the image were sharp. Sharp, detailed images are much more diffiult to compress and take up much more bandwidth. So the saving in bandwidth by doing this reduction and mushing is two fold. And so is the damage it does to the image.
Now, don't get me wrong... the guys who worked all this stuff out are geniuses. This hardware/software all works very very well and is probably doing the best it can possibly do to keep the image as clean and crisp as possible. But that doesn't mean it going to come out the other side looking as good as it did on the way in. It's just not possible.
All you users who are saying "it looks fine to me" are probably watching the image on a lower resolution screen, through hardware that was doing a bad job of displaying the detail of an HD frame to begin with. I wouldn't expect you to notice the difference. But I also wouldn't expect you to get upset at the complaints of people who CAN tell the difference and are unhappy about it.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I haven't bothered to buy an HD set for home for EXACTLY this reason. If I don't display the image on a system that can show me every pixel then I will never be able to tell that the source image is garbage. And in the mean time, everything that's broadcast in HD looks like uncompressed, clean, sharp SD. And I'm happier with that than I would be with garbage HD.
It just burns me up that just as the technology that can display HD at it's native resolution is gaining popularity, so the sources for that content are disappearing.


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I'm intentionally not posting this in the "folding bike" forum since they'll just tell me to Do It
Does anyone keep a folding bike more or less permanently in the trunk of a car?
I'm getting annoyed with this pattern in my not-daily errand run:
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2. In the second car, I drive my mom to the elderly care home for the day.
3. Drive back home.
4. If I have an errand to run downtown, I consider if I have time/energy to bike there. It's 10 Km away, 200 meters ascent, and takes me half an hour. The ride is okay minus a few stressful spots, but the roundtrip takes slightly more than one hour.
5. Get back home and work (I work from home).
I'm thinking that if I had a folding bike, I could drive to the limits of downtown, park there, run my errands on the bike, and save some time.
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Looking for something to do with your pet, or fun events that help support animal rescue groups?
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Wine Social & Fundraiser: May 19
All proceeds will go to help the Friends of the Eden Animal Shelter
continue their work for the animals in Eden. They provide support of abandoned, abused, lost, stray and surrendered animals in the Eden community. Through this small army of volunteers, dogs and cats are vetted and networked to be returned to an owner seeking their lost pet, to potential rescue organizations or adopters and to help raise money for the animal's care.
Seth Williams, a local musician will entertain while event goers will have the opportunity to purchase a chance to win a top quality bottle of wine, as well as peruse Paisley's painted furniture, home decor, gift items, Southern ladies fashion and so much more!
When: Thursday, May 19, 2016
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: $15.00 at the Door
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HERO Open Horse Show: May 21, 2016
The Horse Education and Rescue Organization (HERO) will be holding their open horse show at the Thoroughbred Training Center (TTC) in Mocksville, NC. It will include a tack sale and really good food!
CLICK HERE for a list of classes, or visit http://www.heroequinerescue.org/ for more information.
5K Walk/Run: May 21, 2016
Join Ruff Love Rescue and The Fort-Fortitudine Vincimus Rescue Center for the first 5K walk/run to benefit the animals. Randolph Co really needs everyone to work together! Dogs are encouraged to participate and there will be several rescue dogs who would love a walking or running partner! Dogs need to be up to date on vaccinations and proof of rabies required.
WHEN: Saturday, May 21, 2016 from 9a - 11:00a
WHERE: Bicentennial Park
151 Sunset Ave,
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Runner will have the opportunity to start in front walkers and dogs unless of course you run with a really fast dog! Running etiquette will be in place.
Registration is now open. Registration until April 22nd is $25.00. On Aprill 22nd the cost will increase to $30.00 and day of registration will be $35.00. The cost of registration includes your entry into the race and a t-shirt and lots of fun swag goodies!!
Register: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/Asheboro/RunYourTailOff5k
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Farm to Table Dinner: June 9, 2016
Rescue Ranch will play host to an inaugural Farm To Table Dinner presented by
Wix Filters, Thursday, June 9 at 6 p.m.
One hundred guests will experience Iredell County's local agriculture, farms and vendors over dinner at Rescue Ranch.
"We're delighted to work with and support our Iredell County neighbors to prepare this meal," said Krissie Newman, co-founder and president of the nonprofit organization. "This dinner is a great way to enjoy a delicious and locally-sourced meal, while learning about our mission and how programs impact and incorporate the local community."
Tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased by calling (704) 768- 0909. A $25 discount applies if purchased by April 30.
All proceeds from the dinner benefit Rescue Ranch's mission. The nonprofit animal welfare organization promotes respect for all animals through education; is committed to agricultural, environmental and wildlife conservation; and facilitates rehabilitation, rescue and responsible pet ownership in order to enhance the human-animal bond.
For more information on the Farm To Table Dinner, please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/217764315269270/
Unity in the Pet Community: June 11, 2016
Join the Humane Society of the Piedmont for an evening of good music and family fun at the first Unity In The Pet Community event where they will be raising money for local spay and neuter efforts. There will be live music by Big Betty & Punchbowl. vendors, food trucks, raffle prizes, games, inflatables and more. All proceeds will benefit Loving Pet Inn Adoptions,
Animal Rescue and Foster Program,Break the Chain Kennel Kru, Feral Cat Assistance Program, Project BARK and SPCA of the Triad
When: Saturday June 11, 2016
Time: 4pm – 8pm
Cost: $10 minimum per family of 5 is requested at the gate
Location: World War Memorial Stadium
510 Yanceyville St., Greensboro, NC
For more information, CLICK HERE
Paint Your Pet: July 23, 2016
Join Break The Chain KRU for a fun evening enjoying some sweets (provided) and painting a portrait of YOUR pet to benefit a chained dog in need!
Limited spots, so don't wait to sign up. No painting experience is needed as a professional painter will be there to guide the class. Everyone will need to email a photo of the pet they want to paint and that will be transferred in gray scale on a canvas.
For more information and to sign up, CLICK HERE
Barks & Brews "Pop-Up" Dog Park: EVERY FRIDAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER
Starting April 22nd, Barks & Brews "Pop-Up" Dog Park will be at Natty Greene's
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Ever been the San Francisco? Great place, huh. Well, even if you haven't I'm sure you'd recognize an image of the Golden Gate Bridge without fail. Among many other unique characteristics it's got that unmistakeable burnt orange exterior and seems to perfectly blend in with the environment around which it stands. Stunning. Built AND assembled in America soup-to-nuts. A feat of engineering representing man's force of will in de facto equilibrium with nature. The same can be said about the Golden Gate Bridge's lesser known sister bridge, the Bay Bridge. But, the Made In America stamp on the Bay Bridge is soon going to change. As reported by David Barboza in yesterday's New York Times, the massive outsourcing project that's in place today to build the "eastern span" of the San Francisco Bay Bridge - Yuerba Buena Island to Oakland - is being done not in America or Canada or close by Mexico (Hello NAFTA!) but in...(wait for it)...China. Shocked? Doubtful.
This 21st century go-to-production model is certainly not a new wave in business strategy but it's certainly a trend emerging more and more as the rule more than the exception. Think Apple and its product development and manufacturing strategy for starters. Many others are right there too but this is the first multi-billion dollar municipal project farmed out to a foreign country thousands of miles away in Shanghai, China. As Bob Dylan said, "The Times They Are A Changin" ...and are gonna keep on...
I am not looking to discuss the virtues of outsourcing nor am I wanting to discuss the potential risks resulting from a heavily-weighted strategy leveraging a long line of supply chain partners in a corporate build strategy. What I'm more interested in is that there are changes in the way we run our businesses to adapt to this new outsourcing, global supply chain-dependent strategy that we need to consider. The changes are that the United States and many, many other countries around the globe are becoming more and more knowledge-based in their corporate philosophy and less and less manu
Given these shifting sands, what we can do is think about whether or not we now have the proper instruments in place to measure and monitor how these businesses are operating and performing. Currently, our external reporting requirements here in America are based upon early-twentieth century created Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, which are designed to reveal important information about companies (think railroads, automobile makers, and manufacturing enterprises of all kinds) that then dominated the U.S. economy. These companies were from the old school industrialized economy model where their value was inherently based upon the assets on their balance sheet. (Think purchasing plant, machinery, equipment, rolling stock, and other units of production from suppliers.) WYSIWYG. 'What you see is what you get' transparency where the costs of these assets were recorded on balance sheets and depreciated over time as they were used to generate revenues. Balance sheet values thus roughly reflected the cost of replacing the company as a whole, and the company's earnings reflected the costs of producing the goods and services that were responsible for its revenues. Pretty simple, huh? Nice. Well, that reporting model works nicely when you're in a simple manufacturing-based economy but what about now when we've changed the game and added complexities like outsourcing, deeply entrenched supply chains, and global operations all doing mostly knowledge-based work where the real building is done in far flung locations by 3rd parties?
This is the Knowledge Economy. A change as profound as the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century Britain. We're at a new juncture and yet we don't have the right instruments in place to manage, report, and analyze our businesses differently given this monumental change in global business strategy? Do we really look at the business with an up to date view or are we just doing what we're told. Frankly, I think the entire finance department should rethink the reports they're generating in partnership with their IT counterparts and ask what the viability of these reports really is. Love this one, "We do things this way because it's what we've always done." Imagine if that's how the Beatles or Elvis or even the Rolling Stones thought. Heck, forget them. Imagine if that's how David Bowie thought. He's masterminded the art of adaptation over the years. Cha
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I finally am just about done with decorating the nursery, and am going to try to patiently wait the next two weeks out :) In the meantime I feel like I'm being soooo lazy, lounging around reading magazines and books, watching tons movies of movies in bed with DH, *trying* to sleep in on hte weekends (though I can never manage to stay in bed past 9am!), take walks with DH and our two dogs, sit outside if it's warm and just enjoying the sun, baking the occasional batch of cookies (when my back's not killing me!!).
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The Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) in collaboration with the world body Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) will host a six-day beach volleyball training course at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Thomas Lands.
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The sessions will start at 9am and end at 4.30 pm daily.
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Cities, States Still Grappling With Budget Woes
State and local governments are continuing to cut jobs and spending as they struggle to close budget gaps, according to a report by the National League of Cities.
The report, released Monday, included a survey that showed three out of four cities said they faced worsening budget woes over the past year, with seven in 10 cutting jobs and capital projects in response.
The report underscores how a retrenchment in the government sector, combined with higher taxes, is weighing on the economic recovery just as the private sector has begun adding jobs and showing other signs of a turnaround.
Cutbacks "are a concern for the recovery," says William Fox, an economics professor at the University of Tennessee who focuses on state budgets. "But states are doing the right thing—states' responsibility is to balance their budgets."
The plight of state and local governments matters greatly to the broader economy. The nation's 89,000 cities, school districts and other local governments are big employers and spenders. The state and local government sector employs about 20 million people, representing 15% of the jobs in the U.S. State and local governments spend or give out about $2.2 trillion a year, everything from gas to fill up police cars to health insurance for their employees.
Cutbacks in state and local government spending subtracted half of a percentage point from U.S. gross domestic product in the first three months of the year, and various economists expect that drag to continue. GDP expanded at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter. Macroeconomic Advisers, a St. Louis forecasting firm, projects that curbed state and local government spending will shave 0.2 percentage points off 2010 GDP.
Monday's report suggests that city budgets still face a long road to recovery. About half of the survey's respondents suggested that city services will need to be cut over the next two years.
States collected $686 billion in tax revenue in 2009, down 11.4% from the year earlier. Despite the improving economy, the phasing out of the federal stimulus program through 2011 will force many governments to make fresh cuts in the coming months as assistance begins to wane. State budget gaps are projected at some $160 billion over the next two years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
State and local governments have cut 234,000 jobs between April and their peak employment in late 2008, including 6,000 last month.
For instance, Spokane County, Wash., has cut positions throughout its government over the past year, including an 11% cut—yielding $250,000 in savings—in the County Assessor's office. Seven of the department's 54 positions were lost to attrition last year, including five appraisers.
County Assessor Ralph Baker says those jobs are gone for good, as his office has replaced many of its appraisers with an aerial-imaging program that allows his office to gauge property values using pictures instead of more costly and time-consuming site visits.
"There are people out there that could use those seven jobs, I'm sure," he says. "But the citizens would object if I opted to try to fill positions rather than take advantage of technology that would let us do it cheaper."
In many places, the funding shortages are leading to tax increases that have crimped consumer spending. Some 29 states raised their taxes or fees in the fiscal year ended 2010, raising an additional $24 billion in revenue, including $11 billion in personal income taxes, according to the National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers.
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MILTON — Middlebury Union High School track and field athletes won a dozen events on May 7 as both the Tiger boys and girls earned overall victories at a three-team meet hosted by Milton.
The Tiger boys scored 84 points to defeat Milton (40) and Hazen (31), while the Tiger girls picked up 68 points to top Milton (57) and Hazen (10).
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MILTON — Middlebury Union High School track and field athletes won a dozen events on Tuesday, May 7, as both the Tiger boys and girls earned overall victories at a three-team meet hosted by Milton.
Max Moulton led the boys' team by winning at both 800 meters (2:08.36) and 1,500 meters (4:32.78). Moulton also met the state championship meet qualifying standard by running the 3,000M in 10:47.96.
MIDDLEBURY — The Mount Abraham Union High School softball team snapped what had been a four-game losing streak by blanking host Middlebury, 3-0, on Thursday, but the Tigers bounced back on Saturday to defeat visiting Rice, 10-5.
The Eagles' win came behind the three-hit pitching of sophomore Haley Davis and boosted their record to a misleading 2-4.
Three of Mount Abe's losses have been either one or two runs to Division I teams with winning records, BFA-St. Albans, Colchester, and Spaulding.
ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham recorded a shutout win at Middlebury to highlight local high school baseball action late last week. In other action, Otter Valley remained unbeaten, Vergennes lost a pair of contests, and MUHS also dropped a weekend home game.
ADDISON COUNTY — Things did not go well for area teams in recent high school softball action, as Mount Abraham and Otter Valley each lost a pair of games while Middlebury and Vergennes dropped a game apiece.
MIDDLEBURY — Last weekend, 10 students from Middlebury Union High School joined over 500 teenagers from 35 different schools in a three-day Model United Nations conference run by Dartmouth College. In Model United Nations, students act as diplomats and negotiators from different countries, coming together in a simulated effort to solve world problems. MUHS students participated in a variety of committees, and took home two awards.
ADDISON COUNTY / BRANDON — Otter Valley and Middlebury Union both claimed victories in high school softball action late last week, while Vergennes and Mount Abraham both suffered setbacks.
Junior Taylor Aines had an excellent outing on the mound for OV on Friday, allowing only two hits in a 10-0 shutout vs. Rutland in Brandon. She struck out eight and walked none.
Rutland did not get to first base until the fourth inning, when Rutland's Karli McGinnins and Bree Crossman both singled.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School baseball team gave new coach Charlie Messenger a win in his first game this past Wednesday, 10-5 over visiting Fair Haven, but came up short in its next two games.
On Thursday, visiting South Burlington struck early in an 11-1 win, and on Saturday, host St. Johnsbury snapped a 2-2 tie with a pair of unearned runs in the fifth inning to win, 4-2.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School boys' lacrosse team on Tuesday earned one of the program's biggest wins in recent years, knocking off perennial Division I contender Champlain Valley, 10-7.
The Tigers spotted the Redhawks four quick goals, and still trailed at the end of the first quarter, 6-3. But they rallied to tie the game at the half, 7-7; held CVU scoreless in the second half; and scored three times in the fourth period to nail down the victory.
MIDDLEBURY — In a rematch of the 2012 Division I semifinal, the host Middlebury Union High School girls' lacrosse team opened this past Wednesday with a convincing, 12-7 win over Rutland.
Next up for the Tigers, whose Friday home game with Woodstock was postponed, is another rematch: Defending D-I champion South Burlington, the team that knocked off MUHS in the 2012 final. The Tigers will visit the Rebels on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
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When I ask this, I mean do you think it is reasonably catchable. Is it within reason to think he could make that catch? I am interested in knowing this for a purpose. Everyone's arguing about this catch, if we can establish a HEAVY majority that says one of the other, it'll be clearer what the truth of the matter is.
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