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There are tons of martial arts movies that come out all the time and much like all the others more often than not they miss the mark. One of the latest, Once Upon A Time In Vietnam not only stars Dustin Nguyen of 21 Jump Street fame, but he also wrote and directed it. He has showcased his martial arts a few times in his career, but does he have the chops to bring this martial arts epic to life or will it miss it's target?
Once Upon A Time In Vietnam follows a commander in the Emperor's army on a mission to retrieve fugitives in Vietnam who finds himself in the middle of a deadly conflict raging between a tyrannical crime boss and the peaceful town that he has under his thumb. But when he realizes that the beautiful monk warrior who fled the Emperor's army is living a secretive new life there, he must choose between upholding his oath to the Emperor and fighting to preserve the monk's cherished town. On the surface this film feels like it's going to be a traditional period martial arts film, but you quickly learn that it is more post-apocalyptic helping it to stand out a bit more. The story is simple enough and works despite being a bit all over the place at times. Nguyen does a decent job both in front of and behind the camera creating a world that is reminiscent of movies from the 80s like Steel Dawn. It's a bit all over the place at times and does take some time to actually get anywhere, but the different take on this universe and the well-choreographed action help it to step out of the norm and on its own feet. There isn't a ton of fight sequences, but the ones that are here work well and everyone brings their A-game. It's great seeing Nguyen taken the lead and does a great job with both the role and the action. He has all the makings of a great action star and hopefully this will step in the right direction.
While the pacing and some of the story are a bit all over the place, the action makes up for some of it making it a decent rental for any fan of martial arts. Those that are not fans of the 80s and 90s straight to video releases may not find the charm here, but those that do are sure to have a decent time. In addition to the film this DVD features numerous special features including behind the scenes and a trailer gallery.


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NY Gov. Paterson: "For The First Time Ever, At The End Of December New York State Will Have A Negative Cash Balance"
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Don't worry, Shalom will print the money and give it to him in no time
NY better get use to it.... Federal government is the only player left at the table.
Everything is temporary contained. Fed Reserve Z1 report still not looking pretty.
The credit market is still expanding at a negative rate of -$113B, without federal government creation it would been down -$492B for Q3.
The system is dying, eventually no matter what the government does it will collapse into a fireball.
The credit market was expanding at a $4.7T rate in 2007, it's over folks... the compounding equation is rolling over on itself.
It's over?!?! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Or when the Saudis attacked the WTC? Oh, wait...
Yeah, try not to mix the truth in it. Shoulda said "when the Iraqis bombed the WTC."
Yes, it is over... the rest of what you see is everyone going through the motions.
I would love to see Gov Paterson standing outside Macy's with a red bucket and a cup, begging for donations to NY State. Of course, it's easier to simply send a fax to Washington via CNBC. "Send money or I kill the hostage."
Hell, it worked for the bankers. Who would've thought high finance only required a third grade education?
If my scool taxes go up 1 more time.....or my property taxes.... Patterson will have more problems than just the fucking idiots in his state legislature.
Amen brother.
It's bad enough having to put up with shit awful weather, but getting taxed out the wazoo for the privilidge is testing my willingness to remain a resident of sunny NY.
Gov. David Paterson announced Sunday that he will withhold $750 million in aid to schools, local governments and other agencies throughout New York because the state doesn't have enough money to pay its bills this month.
Poughkeepsie will see a $424,587 reduction, and Beacon will lose $152,535.
City of Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik said he met with city department heads after Paterson first announced he might delay aid payments. Although the delay in payments will make things tough, Tkazyik said city officials are prepared for it.
"We had to put measures in place," Tkazyik said. "We put cuts across the board, and we'll be monitoring overtime the best that we can so that we'll be able to make it through the end of the year. We'll be fiscally responsible and put in measures that'll prepare us in the event that the funding does not come."
Joseph Phelan, the superintendent of Rhinebeck schools, said his school district had anticipated a payment of about $225,000 in state aid this month.
"That's $225,000 that we'd prefer to have, but given the small amount of state aid we get — and we're only talking about 12.7 percent of our revenue — it's something that we'll be able to deal with," Phelan said. "But I imagine that it will have more of an impact on other school districts that rely more on state aid."
A full list of reductions to schools will not be available until later this week, Paterson's aides said.
Advocacy groups said the governor's decision will cripple governments and likely lead to a lawsuit over whether the governor has the right to delay payments. The money was designated in April as part of the 2009-10 budget, which was adopted by Paterson and state lawmakers.
Paterson said he will unilaterally delay about 10 percent of anticipated payments to schools and cities so the state doesn't become insolvent.
Reimbursements to schools to fund the school-property-tax rebate program called STAR, along with payments for human-service programs and insurance carriers, will be reduced by 19 percent.
Cut salaries and benefits. They are out of control.
What kind of heartless capitalist are you...
I bet your against the 11.5 % raise for the MTA after the last state bailout,
We can always add a new sutax to the suburbs property assesment, its time those people who don't rides the rails to pay for it Dammit!!!
What we already did that oh well we will just take more its time they stepped up and paid there fair share.
Besides we can't have the Union Thugs, I mean leadership not have an increase of thier dues how will they re-elect our Dear Leader after the solid B+ job he's doing.
"We'll be fiscally responsible" Tkazyik said
Is he suggesting they weren't being fiscally responsible before the 'crisis' hit? (no need to answer that one).
The problem with school budgets, like just about every other government budget fed organization is that the motivation every year is to meet or exceed what has been budgeted. How else are you going to convince them that you 'need' more next year?
Michigan is in the same boat. Cuts in school and municipal aid on top of earlier cuts in services, support of parks system, everywhere possible.
Tax revenues are down. The state of the auto industry is well circulated news. Individuals must support the system. Deficit operation in the state is is illegal.
At least instate vacations are economical.
Michigan has already gone through this stage. Cuts to schools, park system, municipal support, state police, road maintence and ...and...
Deficit operation in this state is technically illegal. Last years tax revenues precipitated big reductions in services and this year is going to be even tighter.
Ed Whitaker has galloped in to save GM and has reduced costs there by firing Waggoner, Henderson and replacing the heads of the GMC, Buick and Chevrolet.
Moving Reuss up is considered to be positive step. Otherwise?
Whitaker says he doesn't want to head GM. Obama says the government is not going to run GM.
I have been buying the larger Buicks for about 20 years now because they had the features I wanted and have been very reliable - trouble free. I was ready for a new one.
My brother-in-law's Lexus had a ruptured break hose while he was driving in downtown Chicago. His drive in traffic using the emergency brake was interesting story. Once upon a time (long years ago) I had a broken ball joint on a Chrysler product. Never bought another Chrysler.
I have to wonder how well Whitaker understands the importance of reliability in automotive marketing
No problem Gov Patterson, not to worry.
Larry Summers said yesterday that "everybody" agrees that the recession is over and he is well known as the smartest guy in the room.
All's good.
I think they should invest the state treasury 50% in the /ES futures contract and 50% in EEM. That would solve ALL of their money problems. These things ALWAYS go up and they make you money. In fact, everyone should do it. The U.S. Treasury should do it, oh wait.... ;-)
Word 'round the campfire is that Iceman Miskin has been dispatched to solve New York's pesky revenue problem. Have no fear, New Yorkers...there is no fiscal problem that the Iceman's blue pills can't solve.
Different topic than current post.....
Morningstar is reporting huge inflows to funds and etfs in Nov, the "9th consecutive month" for the etf inflows. I've understood from reading here that there has been something like 14 consecutive weeks of fund OUT flows from funds. I find this site to usually be much more credible that industry mouthpieces like the MSM or services like Morningstar. But is there anything you could do to clear up the apparent discrepancy? Thanks, krb
The Gov. is a blind guy who can't read Braille. Way to go NY!
I don't remember anything like this, even back in Russia.
As someone who doesn't live in or near NY I have to ask if the reason "salaries and benefits are out of control" is due to the cost of living being out of control?
I would say that it is a downward out of control self-reinforcing death spiral. Jobs are sent oversees because of wage inflation and wage inflation is driven by many factors. NY and CA have boxed themselves into a corner they won't get out of without alot of pain.
Ny and CA are our future...Suggested reading, Doug Kass in Barrons over weekend....states are in deep do do. And, it is not getting better. Keep piling on the debt, as far as the eyes can see. Washington is totally tone deaf!
Amen. Paterson mentioned " CALIFORNIA " five times in the CNBC clip. Even called them a neighbor..... WTF ?? Mass is a neighbor. Cali is a foreign pen pal.
No matter. There is no recovery coming with CA and NY in the financial crapper. Layoffs will have to come in those two States......long term a good thing, short term more pain from unemployment.
Print, print, and print. No problem.
I wonder what this means for my pending tax refund? I guess I'll just be another unsecured creditor....
Hey, give Arnie a call. He's been running with a negative cash balance for years.
Less bad is good - they are better than California. Things will work out obviously.
Oh please tell me Mr. Blind guy in more ways than one - what is the difference between a handout and a handback - please tell us oh educated one! You don't oppose handouts so now that you have pissed away your money you want a new invented word "handback" How pathetic can you get a blind guy begging for handout - really!?
Guess this is what happens when you pay RETIRED POLICEMEN over 200k a year

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Furry Tails: Dog Struck By SUV In Troy Hill, Being Treated For InjuriesThe Western Pa. Humane Society is asking for help from the public to find the owner of a dog that was struck by a vehicle Friday morning in a hit and run accident in the city.
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When I connect 2 PCs with each other through a 1GigE crossover cable and transfer large files (often larger than 1GB) through FTP, I often got transfer speed of around 70MB/s, which is likely limited by the hard drives and not by Ethernet's bandwidth.
I don't have a USB 3.0 device at hand, but we can safely assume that the limiting factor is still the hard drive's spinning speed (we aren't talking about SSDs here).
So, ceteris paribus, which protocol taxes the processor more (given the same transfer rate ?)


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HP Adds Cloud Specializations, Incentives To PartnerOne ProgramTo accelerate the solution provider transition to cloud-based business models, HP is officially bringing new cloud computing specializations to PartnerOne with new training, incentives and rebates.
Solution Providers: HP Has An Edge In Cloud Battle With CiscoHP partners say the company's broad product portfolio, including critical cloud and big data software, gives the company a big advantage over Cisco.
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text: What Economists Know about Open Source Software Its Basic Principles and Research Results Volume 5 Jena Economic Research Papers 2011-01-25 2011 2007 2011-005 open source open source software intellectual property rights information and communications technologies For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is well established in the ICT sector and represents a new intellectual property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called 'proprietary' software). After a brief history of OSS and CSS, the differences between the open and the closed source principles and the basic logic of OSS business models are explained. Next, the paper presents what economists know about the OSS phenomena, i.e. gives an overview of the motives of the (non-paid) OSS developers, the institutions of OSS, the effects of OSS on competition, the incentives and role of firms, and finally of open source principle beyond software. jportal_jpjournal_00000016 2011-02-08T08:21:45.173Z 2011-02-01T07:16:52.604Z


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The Automated ScoreBook
Buffalo at Northern Illinois
Apr 03, 2010 at DeKalb, Ill. (Mary M. Bell Field)
Score by Innings R H E
Buffalo............. 050 000 0 - 5 8 2
Northern Illinois... 023 210 X - 8 8 4
Umpires - HP: Dave Seldon 1B: Dennis Hall 3B: Mike Whalen
Start: 2 p.m. Time: 1:58 Attendance: 102
Weather: 60 degrees, sunny
The Automated ScoreBook
Buffalo at Northern Illinois
Apr 03, 2010 at DeKalb, Ill. (Mary M. Bell Field)
Buffalo starters: 2/lf BERTOT; 3/c WALDRON; 9/dh BARR; 22/p DIAZ; 23/1b
GRIFFIN; 11/3b WARD; 21/cf SHEFFLER; 16/2b SAUCIER; 18/rf SHEEHAN; 15/ss
Northern Illinois starters: 3/cf PARRISH; 1/ss MATSUI; 21/2b COLOSIMO; 6/rf
BARNETT; 15/lf SINNER; 23/dh WILLIAMS; 22/3b SANCHEZ; 13/c PARKER; 24/1b
WULBECKER; 2/p BITTNER;
Buffalo 1st - BERTOT singled to shortstop. BERTOT
stole second. WALDRON flied out to 2b. BARR struck out swinging. DIAZ grounded
out to 3b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Northern Illinois 1st - PARRISH grounded out to 1b
unassisted. MATSUI grounded out to 2b. COLOSIMO walked. BARNETT flied out to
cf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Buffalo 2nd - GRIFFIN singled to left field.
GALLIPANI pinch ran for GRIFFIN. GALLIPANI stole second, advanced to third on
an error by c. WARD homered to right center, 2 RBI; GALLIPANI scored. SHEFFLER
grounded out to 3b. SAUCIER hit by pitch. SHEEHAN reached on a fielder's
choice; SAUCIER out at second p to 2b. BERTOT singled to right field; SHEEHAN
advanced to third. BERTOT stole second. WALDRON singled to left field, advanced
to second, 2 RBI; BERTOT scored; SHEEHAN scored. BARR reached on an error by
3b, RBI; WALDRON scored, unearned. DIAZ struck out swinging. 5 runs, 4
hits, 2 errors, 1 LOB.
Northern Illinois 2nd - GRIFFIN to 1b for GALLIPANI.
WELSH pinch hit for SINNER. WELSH struck out looking. WILLIAMS walked. SANCHEZ
doubled to right field; WILLIAMS advanced to third. NORTON pinch hit for
PARKER. NORTON singled to left field, RBI; WILLIAMS scored. WULBECKER struck
out swinging. PARRISH walked; NORTON advanced to second; SANCHEZ advanced to
third. MATSUI singled to left field, RBI; PARRISH advanced to second; NORTON
advanced to third, out at home lf to c; SANCHEZ scored. 2 runs, 3 hits, 0
errors, 2 LOB.
Buffalo 3rd - SHEPPARD to lf for WELSH. NORTON to c.
GRIFFIN out at first p to 3b to 1b. WARD flied out to ss. SHEFFLER grounded out
to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northern Illinois 3rd - COLOSIMO homered to left
field, RBI. BARNETT reached on an error by 3b. CANN pinch ran for BARNETT.
SHEPPARD out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt; CANN advanced to second. WILLIAMS
homered to left field, 2 RBI; CANN scored, unearned. BARR to p. DIAZ to dh.
SANCHEZ grounded out to 3b. NORTON walked. WULBECKER singled to left field;
NORTON advanced to second. PARRISH struck out swinging. 3 runs, 3 hits, 1
error, 2 LOB.
Buffalo 4th - BARNETT to rf for CANN. SAUCIER
walked. CARCONE pinch ran for SAUCIER. CARCONE out at second c to 2b, caught
stealing. SHEEHAN singled to left field. BERTOT popped up to 3b. WALDRON
reached on an error by 2b; SHEEHAN advanced to third. BARR struck out swinging.
0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Northern Illinois 4th - SAUCIER to 2b for CARCONE.
MATSUI grounded out to p. COLOSIMO singled to right field. CANN pinch hit for
BARNETT. COLOSIMO stole second. CANN reached on an error by p, advanced to
second, RBI; COLOSIMO scored. CANN stole third. SHEPPARD grounded out to 2b,
RBI; CANN scored, unearned. WILLIAMS grounded out to 3b. 2 runs, 1 hit, 1
error, 0 LOB.
Buffalo 5th - CANN to rf. DIAZ flied out to ss.
GRIFFIN singled. WARD reached on a fielder's choice; GRIFFIN out at second ss
to 2b. SHEFFLER hit by pitch; WARD advanced to second. SAUCIER reached on an
error by 1b; SHEFFLER advanced to second; WARD advanced to third. FRANICH pinch
hit for SHEEHAN. FRANICH reached on a fielder's choice; SAUCIER advanced to
second; SHEFFLER out at third 3b unassisted. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 3
Northern Illinois 5th - SHEEHAN to rf for FRANICH.
SANCHEZ grounded out to ss. NORTON singled. NORTON advanced to second on a wild
pitch. WULBECKER out at first c to 2b; NORTON advanced to third. NORTON scored
on a wild pitch. PARRISH struck out swinging. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0
Buffalo 6th - BERTOT grounded out to 2b. WALDRON
doubled, out at third lf to 3b. BARR hit by pitch. DIAZ flied out to lf.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Northern Illinois 6th - MATSUI grounded out to 3b.
COLOSIMO grounded out to 1b unassisted. CANN flied out to 3b. 0 runs, 0
hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Buffalo 7th - GRIFFIN grounded out to ss. WARD flied
out to rf. SHEFFLER grounded out to p. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0


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|Diagnosing Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is often misdiagnosed because symptoms are attributed to other diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia or arthritis.
Diagnosis of exclusion
The only way to diagnose sarcoidosis is by excluding other diseases that might possible explain the symptoms. For example, cancer or infection must be ruled out because chest x-rays appear similar to lymphoma (enlarged chest lymph nodes) or tuberculosis.
Doctors usually insist on a definitive diagnosis before treatment because the drugs used have so many adverse effects. A definitive diagnosis requires a biopsy of non-necrotizing granulomas.
All biopsies are invasive and uncomfortable to some extent, even a simple skin biopsy. A lung biopsy is an invasive and risky procedure that can have long-term consequences to lungs status.
Presumptive diagnosis
If symptoms involve tissues that are not easily biopsied (e.g., heart, liver, eye, joints), a presumptive diagnosis may be declared based on medical history and clinical signs such as symptoms and labwork.
Dysregulated vitamin D metabolism
Sarcoidosis always results in dysregulated vitamin D metabolism and abnormally high levels of dihydoxyvitamin-1,25-D (hypervitaminosis-D), a powerful hormone because 1,25-D is secreted by the inflammatory macrophages that make up the granulomas.
Kavathia D, Buckley JD, Rao D, Rybicki B, Burke R: Elevated 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels are associated with protracted treatment in sarcoidosis. Respir Med; 2010 Apr;104(4):564-70
A diagnosis of this systemic Th1 inflammation due to sarcoidosis can be made with a simple blood test for 1,25-D. See D-Metabolites Tests for details.
Inflammation Therapy
Neither a definitive diagnosis of sarcoidosis nor extensive (and often expensive) tests to quantify the location and extent of granulomatous tissue are necessary in order to prescribe Inflammation Therapy. D-metabolites results are definitive for systemic inflammation and (along with the clinical picture) is justification for treatment with safe and effective Inflammation Therapy. See Overview of InflammationTherapy.
Granulomas are tiny clumps of white blood cells - a sarcoid granuloma is less than 0.1mm (about 4 thousands of an inch) in diameter. They survive without a tissue-structure to support them because the inflammatory Th1 reaction has progressed to the point where the phagocytes can exist in clumps on their own. Lymphocytes are expelled to the periphery of granuloma and play little or no part in the Th1 immune system reaction.
Any disease where an extremely active bacterial infection is present can form granuloma. This includes tuberculosis, and a number of the other common infections. In the case of sarcoidosis, the granuloma are chronic and their bacterial pathogenesis is more important than the label that might be attached.
Non-caseating granulomas
There is some confusion about the use of the term "caseating." Caseation is what happens when necrosis changes what was once normal tissue so it looks "cheese-like" in appearance to the naked eye. (i.e., Swiss cheese.) Basically, caseation is what you get when there is necrosis.
A physician, Yale Rosen, M.D., who devoted his life to studying granuloma and granulomatous diseases explains, "The use of the terms "caseating" and "non-caseating" to describe the microscopic appearance of granulomas, although prevalent, is inappropriate since the term "caseous" applies only to the grossly visible cheese-like appearance that may be associated with necrotizing granulomas, necrotic neoplasms and other types of necrotic lesions. There is no typical microscopic appearance that corresponds to the gross appearance of caseation."
You might be interested in knowing that necrosis can occur in sarcoidosis, although it is small and involves few of the granuloma.
In summary, non-necrotizing (not dead/dying) is the best term to describe sarcoidosis granulomas viewed under the microscope and non-caseating (not cheese-like) is the best term to describe sarcoid tissue viewed with the naked eye.
See these photos of sarcoidosis gross pathology.
Sarcoidosis cardiac inflammation is very difficult to diagnose. Th1 inflammation in the heart is subclinical long before the damage it causes is detected by tests. It's only picked up by echocardiogram or MRI when it's in advanced stages. A biopsy of the heart is dangerous, often imprecise and unnecessary. A diagnosis of sarcoidosis heart involvement is usually based on symptoms which can include most heart symptoms, including but not limited to... chest pain, tachycardia, bradycardia, mitral valve prolapse, atrial fibrillation and premature beats.
Staging system
Dr. Marc Judson had this to say about staging sarcoidosis:
"It is important to make several points about the staging system. First, it is only a chest X-ray staging system. It tells you nothing about involvement of sarcoidosis outside of the lungs. Second, it is in general, a poor staging system. Most sarcoidosis experts do not use it because it's so poor. It has a few major problems. The first is that it's inaccurate. When you do much better views of the lungs by chest CT scans, you find out that the actual stage is different than what appears on chest X-ray. The next problem with the staging system is that it does not predict the need for therapy, the level of disability, or the prognosis IN AN INDIVIDAL PATIENT with any good degree of accuracy. That is, if you had 100 patients with stage 1 disease and 100 with stage 2, the stage 1 would have better pulmonary function, less pulmonary symptoms, and a better prognosis. BUT many in the stage 2 group would have better pulmonary function, less pulmonary symptoms, and a better prognosis than in the stage 1 group...you can't tell what will happen to one specific patient. Probably the most useful part about the staging system is that patients with stage 4 generally have poor pulmonary function and have the worst prognosis. But I don't put too much weight on this staging system...it is antiquated and doesn't help me much at all." 14 August 2003
Tests that may be done to diagnose sarcoidosis
PET (Positive Emission Tomography) Scan
Imaging is unavoidably imprecise and only a rough approximation of the inflammatory process. In a PET (Positive Emission Tomography) scan, a radioactive marker is combined with a metabolite, usually glucose, and the degree of release of positron energy indicates the usage of glucose in that area which images metabolic activity and often reveals the systemic nature of sarcoidosis. In a PET scan, FDG may accumulate in non-neoplastic tissue such as new granulation tissue, areas of inflammation, and early post-op scarring.
Gallium Scan
A gallium scan should be avoided because it presents a risk to compromised kidneys and patients suspected of sarcoidosis are likely to have kidney inflammation.
Kveim test
The Kveim test involves injecting part of the spleen from dead sarcoidosis patients and is to be avoided at all costs because sarcoidosis has been proven to be communicated by transplanted lungs and other organs. Drs. Kveim and Silzbach developed the Kveim agent as a test for sarcoidosis. The Kveim test is produced by collecting lymph node of spleen samples from people already diagnosed with sarcoidosis. The sample is supposedly processed to eliminate infectivity and is injected into the patient's skin, Approximately 4 weeks later a skin biopsy is performed; specific histological changes are considered confirmatory for sarcoidosis. The Kveim test is poorly standardized, is not FDA-approved and is rarely used in the United States. There is still one hospital in New York City that uses it but, if we accept that sarcoidosis is transmissible, it would be irresponsible to use the Kveim test.
Some patients with Th1 disease (sarcoidosis) have normal blood work for all tests (SED rate, CRP, etc.). SED rate and CRP and part of the body's reaction to infection and aren't generated when there is immune system dysfunction. The pathogens are so well secreted in the granuloma that the immune system doesn't touch them. There are no antibodies formed, and, since the pathogens delay apoptosis, the SED rate is almost always very low. When the immune system is enabled by inflammation therapy and begins killing bacteria the SED rate may elevate.
ACE test (Serum Angiotensin Converting Enzyme or S.A.C.E.)
Serum A.C.E. is often used to help diagnose sarcoidosis, a condition in which ACE levels are sometimes increased. Elevated ACE levels may also be seen in several other disorders.
The ACE gene encodes two isozymes; the somatic isozyme is expressed in many tissues, especially vascular endothelium.
ACE is produced by epithelioid cells of sarcoid granulomata. As granulomas are formed (surrounding an invading agent) in what was previously healthy tissue, the inflamed tissue creates an ever decreasing size of blood delivery. This "choking" of the blood supply is what causes ACE to increase and signals the adrenal glands to increase the body's form of anti-inflammatories.
The design is perfect except in the case when the body cannot perform the reduction in inflammation as a result of the invader remaining. The inflammation remains, the ACE is high, blood delivery is low and eventually the granuloma tissue becomes non-functioning as the result of insufficient blood flow; fibrosis (scar) tissue is the result. Serum ACE not only reflects the changes in the body; it causes many of them.
Serum ACE is often used by doctors as an indication of active inflammation but it is an unreliable test. Genetic differences among individuals affect the normal range of ACE. Genetic factors determine what is "normal" and unless your doctor checks your ACE genotype, the indications of active disease will only be good for that 25% of people who have the DD genotype, the one with the highest 'normal' values of ACE.
ACE often returns to "normal" when the disease is quiescent. ACE only identifies the granuloma activity at the time of the test. One can have a sarcoid-like illness and low or "normal" ACE at the same time.
While serum ACE level is elevated in some sarcoidosis patients, not all sarcoidosis patients have elevated ACE levels. As a result, serum ACE is not a reliable diagnostic tool or measure of disease activity.
The serum ACE test is a non-specific test used in helping diagnose sarcoidosis. The major problem is that it is unreliable -- in the sense that some people who are very ill with sarcoidosis do not always produce a high number on the ACE test. So the ACE test is not clinically reliable, either as a diagnostic tool, or to monitor how well a patient is doing. There are also genetic differences among individuals that affect the normal range of ACE, which confounds the problem.
Conformational fingerprinting of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE). 1. Application in sarcoidosis
White blood cell count
Patients with Th1 inflammatory diseases commonly have low T-cells (e.g., lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, NK cells) because intracellular bacteria cause the phagocytes to produce cytokines without the need for stimulation of any other immune system cells. There is no need for any T-cell recognition of pathogens so the body down-regulates the number of T-cells it manufactures which results in a low white count (lymphopenia).
In sarcoidosis this causes the lymphocytes to leave the area of highest inflammatory action (in the center of a granuloma) and migrate to the periphery. The down-regulation also reduces the number of lymphocytes being generated from stem cells. In less intense Th1 inflammation, that does not form granuloma, the down-regulation of the T-cells is observable primarily by the down-regulation of the lymphocytes.
Granuloma sequester ferritin and iron, resulting in a low Hgb and Hct.
Elevated triglycerides suggests liver inflammation.
BUN is often elevated because the bacterial endotoxins cause nitric oxide (NO) to be generated in the inflamed tissues.
Abnormal kidney function tests suggest subclinical kidney inflammation.
Alkaline phosphatase
This article says, "In the serum of many patients with sarcoidosis, alkaline phosphatase activity is increased due to sarcoid liver involvement."
Cutaneous anergy
In 1916, Boeck first described cutaneous anergy to tuberculin in patients with sarcoidosis. It was later on realized that this phenomenon was not limited to tuberculin alone, but that anergy to a variety of other skin tests-antigens such was also typical.
In 1994, Kataria and Holter proposed a mechanism for the cutaneous anergy seen in sarcoidosis. At sites of granulomatous inflammation, there is a predominance of helper T lymphocytes, which proliferate and secrete large amounts of lymphokines, including interleukin (IL)-2, monocyte chemotactic factor (MCF) and migration inhibition factor (MIF). These lymphokines induce and amplify the immune response by enhancing T-lymphocyte proliferation as well as recruiting and retaining monocytes from the circulation. The lymphokines and monokines produced at sites of granulomatous inflammation have their highest concentration locally. Nevertheless, the protein molecules diffuse into blood, establishing a concentration gradient between the granulomatous inflammatory site and the remote site of the delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) skin test.
As a result, the traffic of T-helper lymphocytes and monocytes is preferentially directed towards site of granuloma formation. That leads to a preponderance of suppressor cells in the peripheral blood and competitively depletes the T-helper cells and monocytes available to sites of DTH.
Cancer and sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disease that can be confused with benign or malignant tumors.
Patients should make their doctors aware of any previous sarcoidosis diagnosis (even if only suspected) so sarcoidosis can be investigated as a possible cause of any lumps or tumors.
Patients should aware that some of the diagnostic tests used to identify cancers can be elevated in sarcoidosis, resulting in a "false positive."
Women facing a diagnosis of breast cancer will find the following references helpful:
Atlas of Granulomatus Diseases
A case of granulomatous mastitis mimicking breast carcinoma.
Lobular Granulomatous Mastitis Mimicing Advance Breast Cancer
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis lesion mimicking inflammatory breast cancer
Radiologic Evaluation of Uncommon Inflammatory and Reactive Breast Disorders
See Cancer and Diagnosing a biopsy properly in Lymph Nodes.
See also Coexistence of Sarcoidosis and Malignancy
Pregnancy and sarcoidosis
1,25-D is manufactured by the placenta during pregnancy, In a healthy woman the production of 1,25-D in the kidneys will be down-regulated to compensate.
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Palladium is a major component in catalytic converters, and global auto sales have been in the fast lane all year.
Hard-pressed consumers put off buying cars for too long, and now they're dumping their clunkers and buying new wheels.
Total October U.S. auto sales came in at about 1.23 million passenger cars and light trucks. That's up 12% from about 1.09 million a year earlier.
That puts car sales for the year on track to hit 15.4 million units, up from 14.3 million last year.
But what about China, the world's largest car market? It saw its auto sales rise 21% year over year in September, which put it on track for a total 20 million units sold in 2013.
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The auto industry accounts for 68% of palladium demand. (Platinum goes along for the ride, with 65% of total platinum demand coming from the auto industry.)
3. Palladium Supply Deficits Are Expected
Palladium demand will exceed output by 1.33 million ounces in 2013. There were only 8.55 million ounces of palladium mined last year.
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|9th July 2010, 06:22 AM
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Is there any advantage to going with the older guild as opposed to creating a new one? I mean, for example, do guilds accumulate some kind of points or something over time that creates an advantage for the members?
If so, maybe we should wait for Rickety to get on and turn the guild leadership over to an active member. Or maybe he'll be active enough himself if there are a few more of us playing.
For now, lets just create our characters there on Kyber and post the character names here and the hours we're likely to be on and hope that Rickety gets on to do the guild invites for us.
I dunno yet if I want a Monk or a Wizard. They're both fun. I might end up having to flip a coin for that...
|9th July 2010, 06:33 AM
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Well, there are guild banks and a new guild ranking system, so potentially, yes - there's a benefit to using the existing guild.
I've created Sangretu on Khyber, time to start playing catch-up, since all my other characters and equipment are on other servers...friend me if you're on!
|9th July 2010, 07:09 AM
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I created a paladin named Lendal.
I've never played a paladin and so decided to try one out.
-ps Forgot to mention that I'll be playing an odd mix of basically NA hours. Once in a while I'll probably even stay up late into the wee small hours to see if I can catch a few Aussie players on.
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|10th July 2010, 12:37 AM
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I might try and down load it sooner just need to wait and see, but it still looks like the 22nd will be the safest of me not to go beyond my usage, and have my connection slowed down.
I had a lil talk with Belark, earlier, he has already downloaded, and started playing DDO today.
I just have to wait.
I know Lotro has caught my attention, seeing it will be going F2P, but I kinda want a change now from Allods.
The only other game I might try out is AoC, if I can find a download for it and the size. Have an old friend playing that one I would like to play with again. but not sure of the game size of yet.
So see ya in 2 weeks
Playing now:
TSW - XaatXuun, XaatKuuf, Imfir, Simsiim
Defiance -(PC-NA) Xaat Xuun , Thomas Simsiim, (PC-EU) Xaatxuun II
AoC - Daxaat , Chanaakat, Xaatbear
Anarcy Online - about 4 dozen characters
Taking a Break - D&DO , LotRo
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|10th July 2010, 01:51 AM
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Imfir, is your ISP metering and throttling your bandwidth with some sort of monthly limit, etc.? That's pretty common in Australia but I noticed that you appear to be from Medford, OR.
What gives? We now have ISP's' in the US who are metering and limiting bandwidth? Man, I sure hope that idea doesn't start spreading.
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I want to spoof my internet ip on my Ubuntu 10.10 system so that I can access country specific websites. Can some one please tell me how to go about this?
You would either need a proxy server or a public vpn service. You cannot just spoof your IP address or the internet won't work for you.
There's always tor.
Its free and there's a setup guide for vidalia (the gui client) here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian-vidalia.html.en
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According to Tuesday's CBC News, the Langley, B.C. dog walker responsible for the death of six dogs who were entrusted to her care, may face charges.
The dog walker, Emma Paulsen, first told the authorities that she had stopped to use a washroom at a Langley dog park, and claimed that during the ten minutes that she was away from her truck, six dogs vanished from the back. Following her claim, an intense search of the area commenced.
Paulsen later confessed to Petsearchers Canada that the dogs had actually died from heat exhaustion in the back of the truck; she claimed to have panicked after their death and created the lie to cover up the truth.
Authorities believe that the dogs died while Paulsen's truck was parked in Richmond; the bodies were later discovered where Paulsen dumped them - in a ditch in the Fraser Valley.
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Comic from xkcd. Click to enlarge.
Vin Suprynowicz uses the term Baby's Daddy Removal Team.
There are still plenty of police apologists out there who simply cannot understand why the profession is losing all credibility (or has already lost it) among more and more of the public. "Just a few bad apples," is the usual mantra.
The basics of Vin's story are thus:
Sequioa Pearce was made to kneel before the Las Vegas police officers who held her at gunpoint in her bedroom Friday night, June 11, and watch them shoot her unarmed fiance in the head.
The 20-year-old, who was nine months pregnant, could see her fiance, Trevon Cole, reflected in the mirror from the bathroom, where he, too, was being held at gunpoint as officers told him to get on the floor. He met her gaze in the mirror. She watched him put his hands up.
"All right, all right," he said to police, according to Pearce.
Then she heard the shot. The man she planned to marry slid to the floor, blood pouring from a gunshot wound — some have reported a shotgun blast — to the face.
Officers rushed her out of the apartment. Trevon Cole, 21, employed as an insurance adjuster while working on a political science degree at UNLV, died minutes later.
Pearce will raise her daughter alone.
Officers were serving a pot warrant on the apartment at 2850 E. Bonanza Road, near Eastern Avenue. The warrant was based on Cole having made three marijuana sales to undercover police, according to Deputy Chief Joseph Lombardo, who oversees Metro's narcotics section. (Marijuana, for the record, is not a narcotic. It's barely even illegal, anymore.)
The shooting poses a small problem for police. Ms. Pearce, who survives, says police were upset they could find no drugs in the apartment that night, that Mr. Cole was unarmed, that he put up no resistance, that he owned no firearms.
This would be more appalling, of course, if it were less common. And the "common" theme is what Vin was on about in his first piece on the matter.
An unarmed man was shot in the head and killed for making a "furtive movement" while on his knees with his hands up, surrendering? I seem to recall that also happened to Orlando Barlow, on his knees with his hands up while surrounded by Metro officers in a front yard, back in 2003.
Officer Brian Hartman of Southwest 11 nailed Mr. Barlow with an AR-15 rifle. The killers later sported "BDRT" T-shirts. A cop union spokesman said it stood for "Big Dogs Run Together," not "Baby's Daddy Removal Team," as widely reported.
Isn't it interesting that every single person shot in or near their home by a Metro cop in recent years "made a furtive movement" — in not a single case has an officer ever said, "I discharged that round by accident; in hindsight I shouldn't even have had my finger inside the trigger guard, since the suspect was unarmed"?
Could Las Vegas Metro Sheriff Jerry Gillespie please stage some big show-and-tells at local auditoriums, with officers demonstrating the kind of "furtive movements" that will get you killed in your own home late at night in Las Vegas, as well as some "bold and forthright" movements that won't?
The officer who shot Mr. Cole has been identified as 34-year-old Bryan Yant, a 10-year veteran of the department who has shot two other people. (One survived.)
Something is very wrong here, and no coroner's jury that rubber-stamps this shooting as "justified" (they're all found to be "justified") is going to explain why this made-his-bones member of the Baby's Daddy Removal Team is breaking into people's homes at night and holding them at gunpoint — let alone shooting them — over selling small amounts of marijuana.
Officer Yant said he was chasing Richard Travis Brown, dubbed "The Candy Bar Robber" by police for his 41 heists, in the early morning of Nov. 17, 2001.
After a vehicle pursuit, Yant chased Brown on foot. Yant told the inquest jury that Brown reached for a gun as the two ran down a sidewalk. Yant fired three to four rounds. Brown fell, face first. Yant said Brown then tried to re-aim the gun at him, requiring Officer Yant to fire three to four more rounds, killing Brown.
But crime scene analysts recovered Brown's handgun on the sidewalk 35 feet away from where he'd been shot.
That's almost as good as Ronald Perrin, the guy into whom Officer Bruce Gentner of the Southwest 11 Baby's Daddy Removal Team emptied his 14-round Glock on South Rainbow Boulevard while Mr. Perrin was "armed with a basketball" back in 1999.
Why was Mr. Perrin shot, with no witnesses? "Furtive movement," of course.
Will the jury "probing" Trevon Cole's death be told about the gun found 35 feet away from the earlier suspect who had just supposedly "re-aimed" it at Officer Yant? Of course not. Prosecutors lead them to their "justified" verdicts like children dressing up their pet rabbits and walking them through a tea party in the doll house.
And that was just one post about the unfortunate Sequioa Pearce. Not two weeks after watching her unarmed fiance murdered before her eyes for the (apparently capital) offense of doing peaceful business outside the state's sanction (nobody is suggesting that Cole ever actually harmed anyone), would you believe she had another run-in with yet more of the local finest?
At 11:45 a.m. Monday June 21, 10 days after they killed Trevon Cole, Metro police were at another Las Vegas apartment complex, near Owens Avenue and H Street, in the traditionally black West End.
A patrol officer "heard shots fired" and "saw movement at an open upstairs window" in one of the apartments there, said spokescop Sgt. Andy Walsh. Concluding that was where the shots came from, he called for backup.
The officers then approached the home with a bullhorn, demanding that anyone inside come out.
The only person home was Shannon Sutton, 18-year-old brother of … Sequioa Pearce! Yes! This was the apartment of Sequioa Pearce's mother, where she had gone to stay after Officer Bryan Yant killed her fiance. What a coincidence!
Well, the apologists will say, surely there was good reason to follow all this up...corroborating evidence that exculpates the officers involved...certainly everyone was acting in good faith.
Yeah, right. You're new here, aren'tcha?
Sgt. Walsh said officers did not need a warrant to check the home to see whether anyone inside was hurt, but they did need a warrant or written consent from a resident to search for guns or ammunition.
So, Trenia Cole — Sequioa Pearce's mother but otherwise no relation to Trevon Cole — said officers demanded she sign a written consent form in exchange for a promise not to transport her son to jail.
Spokescop Walsh explained it's not uncommon for officers to use that sort of leverage. "If they believe there's a gun in the residence, we would certainly offer what we could to get the consent to search," he said.
Trenia Cole signed the card, asking only "that you don't tear up my house," which of course they did.
No firerarm was found.
It doesn't matter whether this kind of police behavior is "not uncommon" — it's illegal, and it's fair to wonder why cops expect us to respect the law when their own attitude is "Screw the law, do whatever's most expedient."
Either they had a suspect who deserved to go to jail, and they let him loose in order to extort the waiver of Mrs. Cole's Fourth Amendment rights, or else they threatened to haul an innocent young man to jail in order to extort her waiver of her Fourth Amendment rights.
Either way, extortion under color of law.
And why?
Since there was no firearm found, clearly no shot came from that apartment, if the officer really "heard a shot," at all.
Okay, so the only thing any of us knows for sure is that we are never going to know all the details of what happened in this case. Well, that and something sure stinks to high heaven. But that's just the way of things these days, now isn't it?
See, here's the litmus test for the police apologists. If it really is just "a few bad apples" ruining it for the rest of the good ones, where the eff are those "good ones", who after all should certainly have enough professional pride to get ther Serpico on and purge their ranks of the rotten fruit? With all the press that systematic police abuse gets these days, one would think that there should be a bloody obvious clamor among the "professionals" to oust the rabble and restore a little dignity to what used to be quaintly called "keeping the peace".
Boy, it sounds ridiculous even saying it anymore, doesn't it?
What you will get, in response to your request to show you the evidence that the "good ones" are publicly denouncing and purging the "bad ones", is absolutely deafening silence.
You'd think that would clear things up.


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The fallout of the Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl swap for five Taliban terrorists incarcerated at Guantanamo, has taken a new twist. Yesterday it was widely circulated that Bergdahl had deserted his post in 2009, according to a number of his platoon members.
Today, his hometown of Hailey, Idaho has canceled a 'welcome home rally' planned for later this month celebrating his release from Taliban captivity. The allegations he was actually a deserter is the reason, a municipal official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The city administrator of Hailey, Idaho, Heather Dawson, said local officials cancelled the June 28 event at the request of organizers. The town "will be unable to safely manage the number of people expected," she said.
Hailey is a small mountainous community in central Idaho. Officials were under intense pressure to forgo the rally. Bergdahl's former Army comrades have accused him of deliberately abandoned his post in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, President Obama continues to stand by his decision as the five Taliban terrorists were flown to the country of Qatar where they will supposedly be confined for at least one year. The president intimated that if any of the five cause future trouble, somehow they are being watched closely.
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March 4, 2009
Questions concerning initial eligibility, the NCAA Eligibility Center, undergraduate admissions to UA, or transfer eligibility should be directed to Andree Pickens, Compliance Coordinator for Eligibility. All other questions concerning NCAA or SEC rules compliance should be directed to Mike Ward, Associate Athletic Director for Compliance.
February 10th, 2010
Question: May a current student-athlete use host money on an official visit to pay for the entertainment of other current student-athletes as well as the entertainment for the official visitor?
Answer: No, the host money may only be used to pay for the entertainment of the host and the official visitor. For example, if the host and several current teammates want to take an official visitor bowling, the host could pay for himself/herself and the visitor out of the entertainment money, but the other current UA student-athletes would have to pay for their own bowling.
February 25, 2009
Question: What is a "Dead Period?"
Answer: A recruiting dead period is a period of time when coaches may not make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus. In addition, prospects may not take official or unofficial visits to campus nor may they receive complimentary admissions during a dead period. However, it remains permissible for a coach to write or telephone a prospect during a dead period.
February 18 , 2009
Question: May a University of Alabama coach have on- or off-campus contact with a prospect who was a non-qualifier out of high school while they are in their first year of junior college?
Answer: No. The NCAA specifically prohibits coaches from having any sort of in-person contact with non-qualifiers who are in their first year of a two-year college.
February 11, 2008
Question: May the University of Alabama purchase parking passes for its student-athletes who are on scholarship?
Answer: No. Having a vehicle on campus is not considered to be a necessity by the NCAA, therefore schools may not purchase parking passes for their student-athletes.
February 4, 2008
Question: What is "Grayshirting?"
Answer: "Grayshirting" is a term used in the recruiting process to describe situations in which a student-athlete delays initial enrollment in a collegiate institution to the winter or spring term after the traditional academic year begins. Students who "grayshirt" often use the fall to take classes part time or choose not to enroll in college at all. "Grayshirting" is not a formal designation by the NCAA or the National Letter of Intent program.
January 28, 2009
Question: What are countable athletically related activities?
Answer: The NCAA defines countable athletically related activity as any required activity with an athletics purpose involving student-athletes and at the direction of, or supervised by one or more of an institution's coaching staff (including strength and conditioning coaches) and must be counted within the weekly and daily limitations under Bylaw 126.96.36.199 and 184.108.40.206. Administrative activities (e.g., academic meetings, compliance meetings) are not considered as countable athletically related activities.
January 21, 2009
Question: May a fan have a UA student-athlete sign an item and then sell that item through an on-line auction site such as eBay?
Answer: No. The NCAA does not permit the sale of a student-athlete's autograph except in very limited circumstances and never for commercial purposes. If a fan does try to sell a student-athlete's autograph, the University is required to take steps to stop the sale or the student-athlete could be declared ineligible.
January 14, 2009
Question: If a booster's child attends high school with a prospective student-athlete, may they bring that prospect to a University of Alabama game?
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MAZOMBWE's body in Chipata
The body of Merdado Cardinal Mazombwe has arrived in Chipata for a funeral Mass at Saint Anne'S Cathedral.
Cardinal Mazombwe's body was transported aboard a Zambia Air force Plane at 10:45 hours.
The body was accompanied by priests, family members, friends and Nuns from the congregation of the good shepherd.
Prominent among the people who accompanied the body was former Chief Justice Ernest Sakala and Zambia Episcopal Conference president Bishop George Lungu.
His Grand Nephew Almond Sitima who accompanied the cardinal when he was being conferred with the position of cardinal in Rome told ZNBC that the family is grateful with the support government has rendered since the death of the Cardinal.
Mr. Sitima says the decision to airlift the cardinal's body is highly appreciated as the people of Chipata will be accorded a chance to pay their last respects to the cardinal who served in Chipata for a number of years.


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Dos Rios Cantina and Tequila Lounge, located at 316 Court Avenue in Des Moines, will host an Aire Libre Tequila Dinner on Wednesday, June 18. The dinner will pair five courses prepared by Executive Chef Mike Holman with five tequilas from El Mayor. The meal will be served outside on the patio in front of the restaurant starting at 6 p.m., and fourth generation El Mayor ambassador Graciela Gonzalez will be in attendance to talk about the El Mayor brand with diners. The tequila dinner will be $55 per person, and reservations are required. Reservations can be made by calling the restaurant at (515) 282-2995 or by emailing the restaurant at email@example.com. Space is limited for this event, so make your reservations early.
Here is what Executive Chef Mike Holman has planned for the event's menu (complete with tequila pairings):
Course 1
Seared Scallop Tiradito with coconut habañero sauce and lime sorbet
Cocktail: El Mayor Welcome Cocktail
Course 2
Braised Chivo Albondigas with artichoke, fennel, fresh cheese, black truffles, and salsa albondigas
Tequila: El Mayor Reposada
Course 3
Sous Vide Halibut Paella with Spanish chorizo, calaspara rice, saffron broth, and shellfish
Tequila: El Mayor Blanco
Course 4
Crispy Duck Breast with mole negra, white bean ragout, fried shallots, and micro greens
Tequila: El Mayor Anejo
Course 5
Vanilla Soaked Sponge Cake with rice sauce, orange honey meringue, dark chocolate ganache, and rose air
Tequila: El Mayor Extra Anejo
This is a great opportunity to sample some fine Guadalajaran cuisine and some fine, imported Mexican tequila. To learn more about Dos Rios Cantina and Tequila Lounge and the Aire Libre Tequila Dinner, go to Dos Rios' website or Facebook page.


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The Role of Fluency in the Emergence of the Derived Relations of Stimulus Equivalence
Date: December 1995
Creator: Burkett, Leslie Stewart
Description: Fluent component performances may be more readily available for recombination into more complex repertoires. This experiment considered the stimulus equivalence preparation as a laboratory analog for the co-adduction said to occur in generative instruction. Seven adults received minimum training on 18 conditional discriminations, components of 9 potential stimulus equivalence classes. Training was interrupted periodically with tests to determine whether fluency of original relations predicted emergence of derived relations. Fluency predicted emergence in 2 of 17 instances of emergent derived relations for 4 subjects. One subject demonstrated fluency without derived relations. Training accuracies as low as 58% preceded emergence for 3 subjects. Fluency appears to be neither necessary nor sufficient for derived relations. Fluency's role may be in retention and complex application tasks rather than acquisition of behavioral relations.
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Knowledge-of-Correct-Response vs. Copying-of-Correct-Response: a Study of Discrimination Learning
Date: August 1996
Creator: Geller, David, 1952-
Description: Copying prompts with subsequent unprompted practice produced better learning of simple discriminations than feedback only of a correct response without subsequent practice. The Copy condition promoted faster acquisition of accurate performance for all subjects, and shorter response latencies and durations for 3 of 4 subjects. The data support the findings of Barbetta, Heron, and Heward, 1993 as well as Drevno, Kimball, Possi, Heward, Garner III, and Barbetta, 1994. The author proposes that response repertoires are most valuable if easily reacquired at times after original learning. Thus, reacquisition performance data are emphasized. The data suggest that discriminations acquired by copying prompts may result in useful repertoires if a practice procedure is used which facilitates transfer of stimulus control from a formal prompt to a naturally occurring stimulus.
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Assessment and Treatment of Object Mouthing in the Classroom
Date: August 1997
Creator: Naftolin, Stacie (Stacie A.)
Description: The object mouthing of a developmentally delayed 8-year-old girl was assessed and treated in a classroom setting. Two pretreatment assessments were conducted: A functional analysis indicated that object mouthing occurred across test conditions and persisted in the absence of social contingencies, and assessment of stimulus preference identified reinforcers to be used during treatments. Based on assessment outcomes, two treatments were implemented. Noncontingent sensory reinforcement was implemented during free-time and group activities, resulting in a 74.3% decrease in object mouthing across three settings. During one-on-one educational activities, presentation of academic task-trials at a high rate decreased object mouthing by 85.7%, relative to a condition in which tasks were presented at a slower rate.
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Programming Common Stimuli to Promote Generalized Question-Asking in a Child with Autism
Date: August 1997
Creator: Hagen, Prudence (Prudence Bennett)
Description: A 5-year-old child with autism was taught to: (a) ask "What is that?" in the presence of unknown objects and (b) name the objects he did know. Generalization in the presence of the experimenter was probed across four new tasks. The child's performance generalized to the first 3 tasks without additional training. The fourth task required programming of common stimuli before generalization occurred.
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Second-Order Conditional Control of Members of an Equivalence Class
Date: August 1997
Creator: Cammilleri, Anthony Peter
Description: The conditional control of equivalence has received much attention in the analysis of verbal behavior. While previous research identified conditional control of relational responding and conditional control of equivalence class formation, this study investigated the possibility of conditional control of members of an equivalence class. Following baseline conditional discrimination training and equivalence testing, subjects were taught to select a particular member in the presence of a Green background screen and another member in the presence of a Red background screen.
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The Use of an Applied Task as a Test of Stimulus Equivalence
Date: August 1997
Creator: Luby, John M. (John Martin)
Description: Four college student subjects were trained to match graphic figures (A stimuli) to other figures (B stimuli), and then to match the B figures to numerals (C stimuli). Then in a test of application subjects answered simple math problems, presented as novel sample stimuli, by selecting one of the A figures, presented as comparisons. The application test was an analog for the academic task of answering math problems with newly learned Spanish number names. Three subjects performed accurately in the application test, which required the emergence of CA equivalence. All subjects demonstrated equivalence in test sessions after the application test. The study examined whether accuracy, fluency (rate of correct responding), practice, or stability of original relations performance corresponded to test accuracy. Accuracy, fluency, practice and stability corresponded to test accuracy for two subjects. Fluency corresponded to test accuracy for one subject, and stability corresponded to test accuracy for another subject.
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Examining the Relationship between Variability in Acquisition and Variability in Extinction
Date: December 1997
Creator: Neff, Bryon (Bryon R.)
Description: Using the "revealed operant" technique, variability during acquisition and extinction was examined with measures of response rate and a detailed analysis of response topography. During acquisition, subjects learned to emit four response patterns. A continuous schedule of reinforcement (CRF) for 100 repetitions was used for each pattern and a 30 min extinction phase immediately followed. One group of subjects learned the response patterns via a "trial-and-error" method. This resulted in a wide range of variability during acquisition and extinction. Only one subject emitted a substantial amount of resurgent behavior. A second group of subjects was given instructions on what keys to press to earn reinforcers. This group had less variability in acquisition and extinction and resurgent responding was prevalent.
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The Role of a Point Loss Contingency on the Emergence of Derived Relations in the Absence of Original Relations
Date: December 1997
Creator: Michniewicz, Leslie (Leslie A.)
Description: The role of point loss for symmetrical relations introduced simultaneously with probe trials in the absence of original relations on all probe trial performances was evaluated. Training was completed after six conditional discriminations were established in two contexts. Point loss was introduced simultaneously with probe trials in the absence of original relations in the first context. Probe trials with no point loss in the absence of original relations were introduced in the second context. The simultaneous introduction of probe trials and the point loss contingency may in some cases prevent the emergence of an equivalence class in the context that contained the point loss as well as in the context where no point loss occurred.
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Should Corrective Feedback Come Before or After Responding to Establish a "New" Behavior?
Date: December 1997
Creator: Roberts, Pamela J.
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal form and timing of feedback to establish a "new" behavior. It examined the relative effectiveness of delivering a corrective feedback immediately before the learner responds to a previously incorrect trial as compared to delivering a corrective feedback immediately after the incorrect response is made. Corrective feedback delivered immediately before the next opportunity to respond produced better learning than corrective feedback delivered immediately after a response. The Feedback Before condition decreased errors during training and increased acquisition rates. Results also indicated an interaction between time of feedback delivery and the complexity of the task. As the task complexity increased, the results were more dramatic in favor of the Feedback Before condition.
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The Effect of Decreasing Defect Probabilities on Quality Control Inspection
Date: May 1998
Creator: Segal, Jo Ann
Description: This study was a follow up to P. C. Dams' (1996) unpublished University of North Texas masters thesis, The effect of defect probability during training on inspection accuracy in a quality control simulation. Graphics of computer circuit boards were presented in dyads with an error free sample on the left and a comparison on the right. Comparisons had either a rotation or transposition defect, or were error free. Subjects had 10-s to accept or reject the comparison as identical to the sample. They were trained using two different stimulus fading procedures (using descending defect probabilities) and immediate feedback. Defect probabilities for the Tens were 0.60, 0.50, 0.40, and 0.30 and for the Twenties were 1.00, 0.80, 0.60, and 0.40. The last 4 pretraining and posttraining sessions were compared and the posttraining performance of the Twenties, as compared to the Tens, demonstrated greater improvement over pretraining performance. No firm conclusions could be drawn as to the effectiveness of either training procedure. The significance of the current investigation and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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You are now now rocking with Azealia and Britney, bitch.
22-year-old rapper Azealia Banks has just released a remix of Britney Spears' occupational anthem "Work Bitch." It's not a terribly surprising choice – the track gave us "212″ vibes instrumentally from the first listen. The delivery is just a little strange. Banks sings "doot doot doot doot" over the song's main guitar hook, and then raps (well, to be sure) for two-and-a-half minutes without a peep from Britney. The remix finishes with Britney singing the song's bridge, which is far less memorable than its verses.
Give it a listen and let us know if you agree.


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Saturday 2nd to Sunday 24th of June 2012
Throughout June, we continued our tradition of hosting the annual DIT BA photography Exhibition at the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar in association with the Gallery of Photography.
The 2012 BA Photography Graduate Exhibition showed a diverse collection of photographic work which represents the culmination of four years of study. What emerged was an emphasis on social engagement with current political issues, both directly and indirectly, but also the weight of photographic histories which themselves take up physical and intellectual space. On a fundamental level many of the projects were engaging in a dialogue, a constant re-evaluation and reconsideration of the nuances of the medium of photography itself.
The 2012 BA Photography Graduate Exhibition featured the photographic projects of seventeen final year students.
A new feature of the exhibition included a photobook library sited in the National Photographic Archive.


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2012 trends of US green business development
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- 29 January 2012
By Changhua Wu, Greater China Director, The Climate Group.
(January 29, 2012)
Here are some key points (in note form) that I have taken away from the American Sustainable Business Council report which I recently read, and which proposes some notable market trends in 2012 based on the annual green business development previously announced:
- Carbon intensity: Instead of declining, US carbon intensity increased last year. With further economic recovery in 2012, carbon emissions will remain on the rise, thus augmenting the pressure on America's promises of carbon reduction to the world.
Note: Please see the Low Carbon Economy Index claimed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in November, 2011, and results from the 2012 COP on climate change in Durban. Also, the continuous decline in the price of silicon.
- Carbon disclosure
Note: See the CDP Leadership Index and the recently announced Value Chain Standard.
- Investment in clean technology: Through 2011, there was a huge strike on the investment in the wind technology. However, the amount of investment as a whole will keep growing in 2012.
Note: It is harder to finance wind technology. Nevertheless, with the maturity of clean technology, capital will flow into relevant fields.
- Patents on clean technology: More great leaps in innovation.
Note: Patents with regard to solar power technology will increase, batteries will be improved and smart IT will move towards maturity.
- Corporates report: The disclosure of information on business environment, the society, and the economy is slowing down. However, investors will urge corporations to reveal more with their interest on the rise.
Note: Copenhagen Exchange ask all OTC companies to either report the problems on the environment of materials and the society, or provide explanations on why the problems are irrelevant. The US Government, the major purchaser in the world, is also shedding lights on making a green supply chain.
- Efficiency: Due to decrease in investment, there is much more energy waste.
Note: According to President Obama's Better Buildings Challenge, $2 billion will be spent on improving the efficiency of the Fed's buildings. Another $2 billion, which comes from the private sector, will also be used to make buildings more eco-friendly.
- Electronic wastes: Although partly reduced, the number as a whole remains high.
- Vehicles: Carbon emissions produced by cars surges even though the number of cars is growing at a low rate.
Note: Especially relevant to delivery companies such as FedEX and UPS.
- Green IT: Corporations' interest in green certification keeps rising.
- Green offices: The slowdown of the registration of the US green building standards brings about potential problems.
Note: Citigroup along with other financial institutions invest in efficiency improving programmes through a device similar to the one used by energy service companies. Johnson announced salient profits made in the fourth quarter last year in the building conservation field.
- Applications of clean power: It is rapidly growing, yet still merely accounts for less than 5% of the US power consumption. The portion is quite small.
Note: The 1603 financial program expired by the end of 2011, but still continues to provide results.
- Organic agriculture: The growth rate does not account for much.
- Wrapping intensity: Lacking in rooms for improvements since the light wrapper reached its cap.
Note: Application of recycled materials to the wrapping field. Coca-Cola and Pepsi use agricultural materials as a substitute for fuel materials, as well as Wal-Mart's sustainable wrapper accumulator. Also, IT products do not really bring down the use of paper.
- Emissions of toxic pollutants: After years of decline, the emissions are once again increasing.
Note: Toxic Materials used by manufacturers skyrocketed to 80% after several years of reduction. With the revival of manufacturing however, the trend is going to be difficult to reverse.
Back to Changhua's Blog


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Anime fans rejoice! Eighting has released its third Bleach game for PSP! Bleach: Heat the Soul 3, or HTS3, is the import fighting game based on a similarly named anime series. If you're unfamiliar with Bleach here's a synopsis: Bad souls eat good souls. Shingami (Japanese for Death God) protects good souls. Human boy unexpectedly becomes Shingami. Bad-assedness ensues.
Whether or not you watch the series, HTS3 is an entertaining game. It plays like Soul Caliber or Guilty Gear. There's a button to slash with your sword (most Shingami use swords), kick, jump, and charge your spirit gauge (more on that later). Stronger and more sophisticated attacks are performed using combinations of these buttons with those of the directional pad. Pressing the right shoulder button activates your partner character (if you have one).
A match begins with each player having two full life bars. When one player's bar runs out, the round ends and a new one begins. However, the first-round winner doesn't start at full health. All damage in HTS3 is carried over round to round. This means you've got to play smart. Beating an opponent when you're close to death means, next round, one kit can kill you – giving meaning to the cliché: it's not over until it's over. Here's something else that adds depth to the game: players share one power gauge. The Spirit Gauge measures your spirit power, which can be charged a-la Dragonball by holding down the square button. A lot of strategy goes into using your spirit power. Because it's shared, only one player can have a full spirit gauge. More spirit power means your special attacks do more damage. In HTS3, anyone can perform a super move at any time. The catch? Performing super moves with no spirit power is equivalent to shooting toothpicks at Master Chief - you'll only get him angry.
Charging your Spirit Gauge also creates a ring of reiatsu (spiritual force) around you. More reiatsu on your gauge's side means a bigger ring, and opposing players caught in this ring are momentarily stunned. Striking your opponent, which decreases their spirit power and provides a window to charge your own reiatsu, can increase your Spirit Gauge. Along with your Spirit Gauge, your Partner Gauge is also chargeable. Partners are assist characters that provide supplemental attacks, raise your attack strength, increase your speed or even teleport you behind an opponent. There is a partner version of almost every playable character and, like playable characters, some need to be unlocked.
Enough game modes exist in HTS3 to keep you busy for a while. There's Mission Battle (a story mode), VS CPU (with time attack, survival and free battle game-types), Soul VS (for fighting other PSP gamers), Training and a mysterious game-type called "Soul Road," which allows you to enhance your partner characters. Training is cool because the computer can be set to fight back and it puts up a very good fight, with selectable difficulty levels. Don't worry, you can't die. With every hit, your health gauge automatically recharges. Memorizing attack combinations is also unnecessary because a full-disclosure moves list is accessible throughout all modes by pressing START and selecting "Combo List".
Mission Mode follows the Bleach anime up until the Soul Society arc. Matches take place between cut scenes taken directly from the anime. Their original Japanese actors voice all characters throughout the game. The voice quality is impressive even though background music can get dull at times. Animation is simply superb. Characters are cell shaded and stages are detailed and varied. HTS3 intertwines graphical elements so well it doesn't look like a typical PSP game.
Each character in HTS3 is unique because of the unique abilities their weapons carry. A zanpaku-to, or soul slayer, is the predominant weapon of the game. There are also bows and more unconventional weapons like fairies and giant books. Depending on the character, you'll be limited to one or two super moves. The limited move library might be a turn off to some, but I think it's appropriate for a handheld game. If I'm playing on my PSP, it's in short bouts and not very often, so I'd like a game that doesn't require memorizing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, then tapping it out on the directional pad to execute techniques. Another way characters are differentiated is by speed and power. Quick, agile characters are almost impossible to touch, but their attacks may not be as powerful as their larger, slower counterparts. The difference between character performance isn't big (so you don't end up with one character that trumps everyone), but sufficient enough to make each one stand as an individual. Unlike games of the Street Fighter variety that carbon copy some characters. Ehem.. Ryu, Ken, Akuma, cough cough.
My motivation for playing HTS3 was to unlock and play with all the characters. This is not easy because there are so, so many to unlock…33 in total to be exact. Most characters are acquired by completing Time Attack mode with a specific character. Others are more difficult. Partner characters are unlocked when you unlock their playable character and some must be purchased from the Urahara Shop (the only menu option written completely in Japanese) with points you gain from winning matches. I didn't mention this before because I thought it was obvious, but please keep in mind that HTS3 is an import, so it WILL be in Japanese. However, it's easy enough to navigate if, like me, you don't speak the language since menu options are all in English.
With all these great things going for it, it's a shame HTS3 doesn't have better A.I. You'll either have really tough matches against your computer opponents or real easy ones. Most of the time, your opponent can be overcome by stringing attacks together, giving them little room to maneuver. Mission mode's fights are different because they place restrictions on your character. You might have one life bar while an opponent has two, or opponents might be tough enough to where you need partners to raise your attack strength.
Bottom Line:
Despite its shortcomings, Bleach: Heat the Soul 3 is terrific. Bleach fans can satisfy their cravings to wield a zanpaku-to and new comers are easily introduced to the show's flavorful cast of characters. Just remember you're buying an import here, so there will be parts of the game you won't understand.
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Now that you have all these global skills, use them in your professional life. The best place to start is to make an appointment with the Career Center. They can help you incorporate your study abroad experience in to your resume, job search and interviews.
Below is a working list of general work abroad search portals and international internship, volunteer and teach English programs for your reference:
Search portals sites:
Careers abroad:
World Affairs Council- International Career Night
The Big Guide to Living & Working Overseas
BUNAC: Working Adventures Worldwide
Internships abroad programs:
Teaching English abroad:
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)
AID: Youth English Teaching Volunteer Program in Taiwan
English Program in Korea: Teach English in Korea while adapting to a new culture!
Volunteer abroad programs:
Global Vision International (GVI)\
Graduate abroad programs:
Academic Ranking of World Universities
Diversity Abroad: Graduate Schools
Federal Funding for Graduate Schools Abroad
GradSchools.com-International Programs
Degrees Abroad-CIS(Mostly English-Speaking Countries)
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College Hockey:Walsh 'Getting Stronger'
BANGOR, Maine — Maine coach Shawn Walsh, hospitalized on Sept. 10 because he was having trouble breathing, is "getting stronger" every day, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News.
Neither the Eastern Maine Medical Center nor the Maine Sports Information Department have been authorized to confirm any details, but Walsh's younger brother, Kevin, told the Daily News that the Black Bear coach has responded well to antibiotics and has shown positive signs in his battle with kidney cancer.
"I'm very encouraged," said Kevin Walsh. "Shawn is in great spirits."
Reportedly, Walsh received precautionary assisted breathing while fighting the pneumonia.
"Because he has only one lung — [the other was removed on Mar. 29] — they didn't want to take any chances," said Kevin Walsh. "They didn't want things
to build up [in the one remaining lung]."
Following a stem cell transplant from his younger brother, Shawn Walsh underwent 100 days of chemotherapy to optimize the chances of his body accepting his brother's stem cells as his own, which would then fight the cancer. With his chemotherapy ending in mid-August, Walsh's body became more susceptible to rejection of the transplanted stem cells while also remaining at risk of infections such as pneumonia.
Walsh reportedly could return to the National Institute of Health where the transplant took place to receive white blood cells to assist his compromised immune system.
While the hospitalization could be viewed as a setback, a CAT scan of his lower abdomen showed no spread of the cancer.
"I'm more confident than ever that Shawn is going to beat this," said Kevin
Walsh to Daily News.
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Swedish Apple Pie
Carol Junkins @CarolAJ
Easiest apple pie you will ever make. Great if you have extra apples and want to use them up quick.
Blue Ribbon Recipe
- sprinkle over 4 or 5 apples that you have peeled and cored and sliced
- 1 Tbsp
- sugar
- 1 tsp
- cinnamon
- mix together:
- 1 c
- all purpose flour
- 1 c
- sugar
- 3/4 c
- margarine (i use butter) chopped up or can melt the butter
- 1
- egg
- pinch of salt
Directions Step-By-Step
1Mix flour, sugar, margarine or butter,(either melted or cut up) egg and pinch of salt together. Put the 4 or 5 apples in a 9" glass pie pan, sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar over them, then pour batter over the apples and bake: 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
About this Recipe
Course/Dish: Pies
Main Ingredient: Fruit
Regional Style: American
Collection: Member's Choice
Other Tags: Quick & Easy, For Kids
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French Lavender- Dried
Lavender has a relaxing and soothing effect, and dried, it can be used anywhere. These lavender buds can be crushed to release even more fragrance. According to Culpeper's "The Complete Herbal," lavender was beneficial to those suffering from "griefs and pains of the head and brain." We use these lavender flowers in assemblage, encasing in tiny bottles with vintage text, in beeswax collage and sometimes place a little in a vellum envelope, tucking into a book or special card. Charming! You'll receive about an ounce (weighs very little, so more than you'd think); also included is a recipe for lavender cookies using dried lavender.
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Larimer County Considers Exemption for leg of Ride the Rockies
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Larimer County considers exemption for leg of Ride the Rockies
By Pamela Dickman Reporter-Herald Staff Writer
FORT COLLINS -- The Larimer County Commissioners will consider exempting Ride the Rockies from a rule that allows only two bicycle events on any one stretch of county road within a rolling 30-day period.
The large bicycle tour moves around the state, and this June will wind through Rocky Mountain National Park and end in Fort Collins on Friday, June 15, after seven days across 445 miles.
The route that organizers prefer puts the final stretch near Horsetooth Reservoir west of Fort Collins. However, there are already two bicycle races in June that follow the same stretch of road, including the annual Lake to Lake Triathlon.
Instead of creating an alternative route, tour director Chandler Smith asked for the chance to convince the commissioners to bend the rule, adopted in recent years to balance the needs of neighbors and cyclists.
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The article is incorrect, in that Larimer County only allows two events of ANY type in a 30 day window. It is not just restricted to cycling events. The other two events that already have permits in the timeframe are the MS 150 and the Lake to Lake Triathlon. An alternate route through Rist Canyon was already looked at and decided against due to safety concerns.
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