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Virtually all netbooks shipping today feature integrated graphics by Intel as a cost-effective and easily implemented solution. Intel's integrated graphics, while providing a minimal amount of performance, are adequate for most netbook buyers who are looking for an affordable and portable secondary or tertiary system.
Nvidia has wanted to challenge Intel in this growing market, which will ship 35 million netbooks this year. The first step was the release of the 9400M GPU in October, featuring 16 CUDA capable cores and taking up half the space of previous integrated GPUs. However, to replace Intel's integrated graphics, Nvidia needed to replace the entire chipset, which they are planning to do with the Ion platform, featuring the 9400M. NVIDIA expects that designs using Ion will be much thinner and smaller than current systems. It will be used in sub-notebooks under twelve inches, netbooks under ten inches, and small form factor desktop and media PCs.
Microsoft has now certified the Ion platform as being Windows Vista Capable, as its graphical capabilities allow the use of Windows Vista's Aero interface or the upcoming Windows 7. It has also qualified WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) drivers for the Ion platform. Currently, most netbooks run Linux or Windows XP Home Edition.
Netbooks using the Ion platform are expected to be available in the summer. It will face strong competition from the next generation Atom platform, codenamed Pineview.
Pineview Atoms will integrate a GPU core and a memory controller into either the die or chip package. It will be produced on Intel's low power 45nm process, and feature an extremely competitive price at a much smaller form factor. Ion will have to be extremely price competitive, even though it offers much better graphical performance.
Whichever the market chooses, netbooks will be cheaper, faster, lighter, and have longer battery life this summer. The winner will be consumers.
quote: As great as an advancement the Ion is, its not necessity for netbooks, nor will it make them any smaller (perhaps thinner, but not smaller dimensions wise) or faster.(still the same Atom CPU that netbooks with Intel chipsets have)
quote: Plus webcam performance might improve as well, not sure if you have used an Intel IGP, but whenever those IGP's attempt to run anything 3D with a 2D overlay (Perhaps a video time counter mover the video stream?) it suffers from incredible performance losses.
quote: Games like Bejeweled, Tetris, Various card games are all starting to become more and more reliant on 3D Accelerators as time goes on, plus they are perfectly capable of being played on a tiny screen.
quote: That being said, don't expect a boost as a result of the use of Aero. I expect users will quickly find it much slower than having it disabled.
quote: No, but it is a great tiebreaker, or enough to make a waverer purchase. And something I'd have paid for, were Ion available when I needed a netbook to take on trips.
quote: It is clear an Ion-based system isn't going to be desirable to you. Don't know why it bothers you so that people whose needs are different from yours be given the choice to buy hardware that will help obtain them.
quote: Congrats though, on Nvidia being able to get articles on Ion out each and every week, considering that "Netbooks using the Ion platform are expected to be available in the summer."
quote: and WHQL doesnt mean anything, as Ive used certified drivers that cause more crashes than non certified.
quote: However, a company can choose to sign their own drivers rather than go through the WHQL testing process. These drivers would not qualify for the "Certified for Windows" logos, but they would install on 64 bit versions of Vista and install without a warning message on 32 bit versions of Vista and XP. [1]


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#6586 closed Cleanup/optimization (wontfix)
extends tag should compile static parents
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Extends tag compile its parents always on render. This is slowly. It should do this on init, if it is possible.
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Changed 8 years ago by fredd4@…
patch for extends file
Changed 8 years ago by fredd4@…
Previous patch has a bug. Here is a good one.
Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
Caching on render works better (more correctly)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by forgems@…
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- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
Render method for extends tag is called exactly once per template ( because only one extends tag can exist in template), so template processing is called exactly once. So your code will always call process_parent. No speed gain here.
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by anonymous
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
- Resolution invalid deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Not exactly. There is no speed gain if you use render_to_response function. But when you are using once init:
t = get_template(template_name)
and then many times render:
The extend tag read and parse html file every render call. It shouldn't. Extend should keep in memory parents nodes.
In my path, here you have:
if self.parent_name: self.compiled_parent = compiled_parent
Let's look at my test. I render page from admin, firstly using standard extends tag, and then using my extends tag.
Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
Performance extends test
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by forgems
You can use this snippet http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/507/ to have globally enabled caching for templates. Imho it's not worth to change extends tag when you can simply monkey patch the loader system.
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
This snippet does not fix it. Try run my test.
comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by forgems
What if extends argument is a variable (changed on every request) from context. Your code will not work correctly.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by forgems
You can pass a compiled template object as a variable to context and use as an argument for extend. You will save time for template lookup and parsing.
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
My code will work correctly. I think, You don't check it.
If argument is variable, then it is save to variable named parent_name_expr, otherwise it is save to parent_name.
In my code, there is something like this:
if self.parent_name: self.compiled_parent = compiled_parent
So I check it.
comment:9 Changed 8 years ago by forgems
I have cheked it and it seem ok. The only problem is when you change the parent's template code. You have to restart the server, so maybe you should change:
if self.compiled_parent: compiled_parent = self.compiled_parent
if self.compiled_parent and not settings.DEBUG: compiled_parent = self.compiled_parent
comment:10 Changed 8 years ago by SmileyChris
See also #6262 - a more broad way of caching templates.
comment:11 Changed 8 years ago by fredd4
To cache template I use my decorator: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/596/
But it is like Your caching using Your snippet: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/507/
There shouldn't be settings.DEBUG, because it is cached only if you cached main template.
If you use render_to_response without modification, it never happend.
In other words, my patch works like that: if you have some template in cache, the parents are in cache too, otherwise they aren't.
It's clear?
comment:12 Changed 8 years ago by ericholscher
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
comment:13 Changed 5 years ago by julien
- Type set to Cleanup/optimization
comment:14 Changed 5 years ago by julien
- Severity set to Normal
comment:15 Changed 5 years ago by carljm
- Easy pickings unset
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from reopened to closed
- UI/UX unset
This is already solved in the general case by the caching template loader - works for all template loading and compiling, not just as a special case for extends tag. So there's no need to complicate the code with a special case for extends.


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SO last night I start working on a new HD. I was able to pull and unlock the orig xbox hd, then ran xboxhdm, did a clone, locked the new drive through xboxhdm, but did it manually where I type in the PW. Put the drive int he xbox- that didnt work, so I then did the xboxhdm build from scratch bit. For this process I reburned xboxhdm, with the epromm.bin. Somewhere in xboxhdm, I saw the password from epromm.bin, and it was nothing like the one I wrote down, and unlocked my original XBox HD with.
On the new drive, I get an error 6 upon booting.
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When: 3-5 p.m. Sept. 19
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Admission: $15 to taste and judge all the bacon entries.
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Professionals and amateur backyard grillers will face off in four different categories.
"The aroma of chicken, ribs, brisket and pulled pork will fill the air on that day," said Sharon Boudreaux-Stam, executive director of the West Baton Rouge Bureau, in a recent news release.
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A legal agreement between Lloyds Banking Group Plc, the European Union and the British government capped branch sales at 600 and not "even one branch more," according to the bank's Chairman Win Bischoff
Lloyds was told 18 months ago to sell the outlets by November 2013 as part of an agreement with the EU following its receipt of more than 20 billion pounds ($32 billion) of taxpayer aid during the financial crisis. Last month, the British-government appointed Independent Commission on Banking proposed that the London-based bank sell "substantially" more outlets.
"We've made a deal which is 600, anything, even one branch more is obviously not," said Bischoff in an interview at the bank's annual general meeting of shareholders in Glasgow today. "There is a legal agreement which was made between Brussels" the U.K. Treasury and the bank, he added.
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Daniels, 59, led the bank's takeover of HBOS Plc, the U.K.'s biggest mortgage lender in 2008, whose losses led the bank to cede a 41 percent stake to the government and seek a taxpayer-funded bailout. He was replaced by Antonio Horta-Osorio, 47, in March.
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IE 8 makes it simple to create great add on experiences for users. Specifically, a site can provide web slices, accelerators and visual search. If you want to learn more about these features look here.
I have heard a number of stories where people have written an add ons for IE 8 but then they have trouble posting them to the site http://ieaddons.com. In this post I will step you through the process so you can quickly make your add on available for download.
After navigating to http://ieaddons.com you need to create a user ID on the site. If you have not signed in before you click the Join link in the upper right corner. On this page you fill out the form entering the Username, password and email address. Of course you need to agree to the Terms of Use then you just click the sign up button. It's that easy and you don't even need to use a Windows Live account. : )
If you already have an account created you can just click the Sign In link in the upper right corner and enter your credentials.
Once you are logged in you will see your login ID in the upper right corner. Click that link and you will go to a page with an Upload Now button. Click that button and it will bring up a form. You need to fill out each of the fields so that your add on will be displayed in the gallery and available for download from the site. In the following section I will try to map each field to how it is displayed when the add on is displayed on the site and also provide some guidance on the kind of information expected. Once you submit your add on it goes through a review with some Microsoft personnel. If they find any of the fields lacking they will go to your homepage and look for more information.
The following screenshots show you how the fields you entered are displayed.
I hope this provides clarity for those that need it. Take care and start uploading!


text: Although the plugin is a relieve in terms of load time, I do miss the "Like" function. Clicking the Like button in the xfbml or iFrame FB-thingy gets me another fan. The button of this widget just brings the reader to my FB page - just as a simple textlink could do as well. Am I missing something or is there something missing that'll come with the next version?


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I added this line
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to my body in css.
However when I view my blog in IE7, only text without hyperlinks will make the cursor appear. If the cursor hovers over nothing (no text), it will become the standard cursor.
Anybody knows why?
Also, the layout (advertisements div and the search box) is weird as in off when I view it in IE7. Anybody can help me isolate the problem? I scanned my CSS using the validator and it's fine, HTML turns up some weird errors which I have NO IDEA how to fix.
The CSS can be found here: http://gameboyz.net/wp-content/themes/gameboyz/style.css


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Winter Culinary & Wine Experience invites foodies for a weekend getaway
This weekend Grand View Lodge hosts it's first Winter Culinary & Wine Experience
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Looking for a last minute winter weekend getaway? On January 25-27, the Grand View Lodge (in Nisswa, just north of Brainerd) will be hosting it's first Winter Culinary & Wine Experience. The event will feature a slew of wine and culinary professionals from around the state offering their expertise in the form of various demonstrations and seminars focused around food and wine.
The event will start at 11 a.m. Saturday with a full day's roster of events. Cooks of Crocus Hill will be doing a risotto demonstration, the Wine Company will be giving a lecture on how to read French wine labels, and World Class Wines will be doing a seminar on sushi making and saki pairing.
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Well, it is basically polishing and smoothing any rough edges and other areas of the pistol. The end result is a pistol that can be (depending on original condition of said pistol) dramatically smoother in overall operation.
For instance, I have a AMT .45 'Backup' stainless steel pistol which was completely unreliable. I shot a couple hundred rounds through it but still no good. Would FTF or FTE almost every mag. Then I found a nice 'fluff and buff' article and I performed the procedure on my AMT pistol. I found a high number of small trouble spots on the pistol, where there was binding and even some gouging of the metal. I corrected those spots. The results were absolutely spectacular. I could tell an INCREDIBLE difference the first time I racked the slide by hand. It was smooth as butter, whereas before it was always herky-jerky. I have fired a pretty good number of rounds (FMJ only) through the pistol and not one malfunction since the 'fluff and buff'.
Here's a 'fluff and buff' for a Kel-Tec pistol, but if you Google, you can certainly find more: KTOG.Org - TecWerks - GL's Illustrated Fluff & Buff (fluff and buff) - Page 1 - Kel-Tec Owners Group


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- Commercials for Raid bug spray often featured cockroaches, which get killed dead by the product.
- In the early 2000s there was a series of TV ads for laundry detergent, bath oil, etc., that played out normally, when suddenly a realistic cockroach began crawling around on the screen. Eventually, an Orkin Man sprays it dead. Many people reported thinking it was real and threw things at the set. This commercial was withdrawn after Orkin was sued by a man who threw his shoe at the TV set and broke it. Another viewer threw her motorcycle helmet.
- And of course, followed up by commercials featuring giant, talking roaches, (and assorted other creepy crawlies) behaving much like sex offenders.
- Roach Motel bait traps: Roaches check in, but they don't check out!
Anime & Manga
- In anime, women are often deathly frightened of cockroaches in much the same way Western fiction has them scared of mice. One prominent example from Sailor Moon: Setsuna Meioh a.k.a. Sailor Pluto.
- In the second episode of Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh, Jin frightens Maria with what turns out to be a rubber roach.
- Azumanga Daioh has the infamous cockroach scene where Tomo smashes one with her workbook.
- Nichijou has a segment where Nano has a cockroach trapped under a bowl, but is too terrified of it to lift the bowl to kill it (or let someone else do so).
- Roaches, among other bugs, are featured on Franken Fran. They have built a human-like society within Fran's mansion.
- Toriko has Scorpion Roaches, which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin: cockroaches with scorpion stingers. They're about as big as an average person and eat people whole.
- In the Fruits Basket manga, Haru tells a scary story about a young man who innocently gulps down a glass of iced coffee on a sweltering summer day... and discovers a single black cockroach in the glass when he's done.
- In Parasyte, the first sign that Shinichi is becoming as cold and emotionless as the parasite inhabiting his left arm is when he nonchalantly and unflinchingly grabs a particularly large cockroach his mother was frantically trying to kill with his bare hands and throws it outside right into the mouth of a flying crow.
- Digimon had the Roachmon Brothers in the second series. They only attacked the main heroes because they fell under the control of the Digimon Emperor's mind control Dark Rings, and used such pleasant attacks as Garbage Dump and Junkyard Bomb.
- Taken Up to Eleven right past the Uncanny Valley with the cockroach Martians in Terra Formars, who were inadvertedly brought into existance when the governments of an overpopulated Earth tried to terraform Mars by releasing a type of moss and cockroaches into its atmosphere to increase carbon dioxide emissions around the planet by having said cockroaches barely survive in the Martian environment by eating the moss and expanding it across its living area and some other Technobabble concerning Rahab and its legacy that artificially evolved them. Somehow the cockroaches, or "black organisms", mutated into creepy, towering Blackface looking humanoids with huge staring eyes with oversized black pupils whose only indications of their cockroach heritage is their antenna and cersi located on their backside. Also, each of them is a near-unstoppable killing machine that can rip a human to shreds faster than the eye can see. When one of a pair of cockroach exterminators (who only expected to exterminate ordinary cockroaches) attempt to make contact with one of the cockroach Martians, said Martian greets them by nonchalantly snapping the female Love Interest's neck.
- In A Certain Magical Index, Hisako Yakumi uses pheromones to command a swarm of genetically modified cockroaches that can eat people alive and chew through metal, concrete, plastic, etc. Their creepiness can often disturb an esper so much that they cannot concentrate enough to use their powers, making them vulnerable.
- The title character of Gokicha is an inversion, being a cockroach who wants to make friends with humans. Unfortunately, she's hindered by the fact that humans treat her like they would any other roach, but she refuses to give up, even so.
- Arachnid has Gokiburi/Oki Megumi, an assassin girl who has abilities related to cockroaches. She's a smug perverted Psycho Lesbian who wants slaves and enjoys being hated, but gladly makes friends with the heroine, Alice, once she's defeated and dragged to her home for information.
Comic Books
- The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics had some side comics about a roach society which inevitably ended with some getting smashed, but the king laughing it off because "there's plenty more where they came from."
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures had the villain Scumbug, an exterminator who mutated into a roach-like being thanks to the mutagen. He eventually found his way into the original cartoon.
Comic Strips
- In Bloom County, Milo's grandfather considers the cockroaches that live in his boarding house to be annoying pests and tries to kill them whenever possible. Subverted with Milo's grandmother, who treats them like adopted grandchildren. One particular cockroach makes repeated appearances later, and while he is a well-mannered fellow, everyone tends to be disgusted by him and try to crush him.
- La Cucaracha stars an anthropomorphic roach named Cuco Rocha.
- In a Don Martin strip, a man just moved in a cheap hotel room, when the horde of cockroaches takes his suitcase and throws it out. He calls the reception - only to be thrown out himself by the roaches. Rightfully angry, he runs to the reception, calling for the boss, while shouting how he hates roaches and wants to kill every single one of them... only to see that the boss is a gigantic humanoid cockroach. Oh Crap!.
Fan Works
- In Ozzallos's Ranma x Sailor Moon crossover The Best Of Times, as part of an epic prank war between Ranma and Pluto, Ranma covers every inch of Setsuna's apartment in cockroaches.
Films — Animation
- Inverted in WALLE, where a cockroach is possibly the only living animal on Earth, and manages to be cute.
- Dr. Cockroach from Monsters vs. Aliens is actually quite nice, for a Mad Scientist with a taste for garbage.
Films — Live-Action
- Men in Black features a giant roach alien who devours a human and uses his skin as a disguise. He also leaves swarms of roaches wherever he goes, and loves sugar (preferably in water).
- The "They're Creeping Up On You" segment from Creepshow features an hygiene-obsessed man being antagonized by roaches.
- In Joe's Apartment, Joe shares his apartment with some talking roaches. However, this is more of an inversion, since the roaches in question are friendly.
- Played with in Enchanted's "Happy Working Song" scene, in which roaches pitch in to help the rats and pigeons clean up the apartment.
- In MouseHunt, Ernie's restaurant gets shut down due to an incident where the mayor dies of shock after eating a cockroach head.
- Played with in Mimic. The movie's breed of man-sized insects (basically a termite-praying mantis hybrid) can be confused for giant cockroaches, but they were actually designed originally as an answer to the disease-spreading roaches in New York City. After the new biological weapon had consumed all the roaches, they continued to evolve into ever larger breeds and started preying on humans...
- In Cornered!, a junkie going through withdrawal finds himself continually harrassed by hallucinatory cockroaches.
- Debbie in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, who hates roaches, is turned into one in her nightmare and is then trapped in a roach motel.
- The made for TV film They Nest had cockroaches that nested inside people.
- The William Castle feature Bug has cockroaches that are able to set things on fire.
- The Silent Hill film has cockroach-like monsters with screaming human faces on their underside.
- In Hostel Part III, a woman is sprayed with something that causes a cockroach swarm to crawl into her mouth, suffocating her.
- There are several instances of disturbing cockroach morphing in Animorphs. Marco gets the roach as his cover morph in The Reunion.
- Gregor Samsa, in The Metamorphosis, is commonly depicted as turning into one of these. Kafka's original wording translates better to simply "vermin", and there's very little description given, but from what is said, it's safe to assume he's some type of beetle.
- The drog beetles in Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm aren't quite flying roaches, and not just in the Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" way, they breed faster and are more fragile than roaches, but they have similar feeding habits and a similar tendency to get into everything.
- In a non-fiction consumer advice book, John Stossel pretty much pegs why people hate cockroaches above most other pests: it's because they dart. "Disease-spreading" and "invasive" are bad enough, but throw in "fast-moving" on top of that, and it's easy to see why people spend so much money and effort to wipe them out.
Live-Action TV
- An episode of CSI NY feature jewel-encrusted Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches worn as jewelry, squicking out some of the team.
- ER had a woman who had a small cockroach removed from her ear. She immediately freaks out and stomps on it.
- How I Met Your Mother features a hilarious Mouse-Cockroach hybrid dubbed the "Cockamouse" by Lily and Marshall.
- Madagascar hissing cockroaches are a common source of an Eat That stunt on reality shows like Fear Factor.
- Cockroaches are a recurring motif in Heroes representing evolution and survival. This especially applies to Big Bad Sylar, who is resilient and hard to kill. One graphic novel had a character ride a giant cockroach in her dreams.
- One episode of the Animal Planet show Infested featured a roach-infested apartment building. The roaches actually came from the apartment of a man who was a member of the religion called Jainism, where it was against his religion to kill them. Jains believe that every living thing has a soul and must not be harmed.
- The myth that cockroaches can survive radiation was busted on Mythbusters, since there are other bug species that can survive much longer. All of the bugs, however, could withstand far more radiation than humans or other mammals.
- Cockroaches are one of the more prevalent insect pests shown on Billy the Exterminator.
- Hissing cockroaches were used as part of a prank on an episode of Tanked.
- A Running Gag on Taxi involved Louie trying to get rid of quite a few cockroaches who invade his "cage". It was even lampshaded by a "normal human question" made by Alex in one episode.
- Saturday Night Live featured a Parody Commercial of a Roach Motel-esque glue trap that does cruel things to the roaches as they lay stuck there, such as getting their legs pulled off by mechanical arms. It even contained a window so everyone can see.
- In an episode of The X-Files titled "War of the Coprophages", cockroaches were the Monster of the Week, and at one point one scurries across the TV screen (as if it's IN YOUR HOUSE!!!!).
- During their first appearance on David Letterman's show, Penn & Teller were told by Dave to surprise him with "anything" for their next visit. They obliged by producing hundreds of cockroaches out of a hat.
- Mexican folk song "La Cucaracha" features a cockroach who has lost two of his legs (or lacks marijuana to smoke).
- "Nothing Beautiful" by Odds is a dark, creepy and ironically very beautiful song from the point-of-view of a cockroach.
First I drank insecticideA little more each dayFollowed by dirty and sugary foodGrown where the light was grey
- Yoshiki and hide of X Japan were both terrified of roaches, which once led to an incident where a roach led to both running around a hotel room, then huddling terrified on the bed while someone else killed the roach.
Tabletop Games
- Invoked and lampshaded in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, where the Cockroach is the totem of the urban-dwelling Glass Walkers tribe. A discussion between the Glass Walker leadership on the spiritual powers of the cockroach devolves into discussing ways to keep cockroaches away without offending the tribe totem.
- Successor game Werewolf: The Forsaken offers up were-cockroaches - the Unclean - as a playable option in War Against the Pure.
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse got its own were-roaches, called Samsa, with the introduction of the Mockery Breeds in the W20 Book of the Wyrm. Though they're not explicitly a playable option, they're probably the most suited for it of the Mockery Breeds, being the only truly sympathetic example.
Video Games
- Junk Man's stage from Mega Man 7 featured Gockroach S., robotic roaches that emerged from nests.
- In Bad Mojo, you are the cockroach. In a Full Motion Video game with realistic graphics and settings.
- Breath of Fire:
- One segment of Breath of Fire I sees the party shrunken by one of the villains. You have to enter a mousehole and help the mice there fend off enemy roaches so that they will give you the potion to reverse it in return.
- Breath of Fire II also featured roachs, with a roach queen as the second boss. You also have to kill a similar giant roach later on as a special ingredient for a gourmet meal from and for frog people.
- Featured in Breath of Fire III as enemies, found in a mansion of a decadent noble.
- Both supporting characters in Resident Evil 2 are forced to deal with a tunnel filled with giant T-virus infected cockroaches. And, oh joy, they're the flying kind! Ada is easily able to outrun them, but Sherry isn't, and while they don't do any damage just by landing on you, it's instantly fatal if enough of them manage to.
- The Reaper in Resident Evil 5 is the example above taken Up to Eleven. These roaches are accidental products created by Uroboros Virus, and they deliver a guaranteed One-Hit Kill should they grabbed you.
- They also appear as enemies in Earthbound and MOTHER 3. Apparently some of the ones in Mother 3 are robots...
- Roaches (possibly alien) appear throughout Half-Life. Surprisingly absent in Half-Life 2.
- The Creeper monster appearing in both Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2. They are said to be a manifestation of the town itself. Silent Hill: Homecoming has a variation with the Swarm, a leech/roach hybrid.
- Roaches hold the distinction of being the only monsters to appear in every entry of the Shadow Hearts series, Koudelka included. As a Genius Bonus, they are called Gregor in both Covenant and From the New World.
- The first Scarecrow sequence in Batman: Arkham Asylum features a swarm of cockroaches crawling out of the floor grates.
- The Halloween Hack: The Preemptive Scavenger is a Palette Swap of the Violent Roach. The Preemptive Scavenger is creepier because it looks very decayed.
- Fallout has the Radroaches, giant cockroaches mutated by radiation. Don't let the size fool you however, as they are no match to anything.
- Five-foot roaches are the first enemy introduced in every Deadly Rooms of Death game, and usually remain the most common monster throughout. In between games, the main character Beethro runs a restaurant in which he serves up the meat from all the roaches he's killed.
- Sam & Max: Freelance Police has Sal, a man-sized upright-walking cockroach who sounds like Patrick Warburton (but isn't voiced by him) and works as the cook in Stinky's Diner. He ends up performing a Heroic Sacrifice by walking into a radiation-flooded room. When the titular protagonists voice the well-known myth, Sal explains that it's incorrect... and dies.
- A Bonus Boss in Parasite Eve is a giant mutant cockroach that can whip you with its antennae and sometimes poison you. It can also lay an egg that can hatch very quickly and grow into a new cockroach (which can also lay an egg as well should the first roach die), requiring you to have a lot of firepower and speed to be able to kill the boss quickly and end the fight before you're caught in an endless loop.
- Averted by Lapoleon in Best Fiends. He knows he's destined to be Emperor of Everything when he's grown and cockroaches inherent the world, but at the moment, he's a bit nervous about growing into that role. But he gains a bit more confidence with each evolution.
- In The Sims 1 and The Sims 2, cockroaches appear on untidy lots and are very upsetting to Sims, who may cry, freak out, and/or stamp all over them if they encounter them. Averted in The Sims 3, in which roaches are just collectible bugs and don't cause histrionics.
Web Original
- Homestar Runner has Gavin, an ordinary cockroach who is sometimes seen in Strong Bad's room.
- The Order of the Stick has the demon roaches who follow the bad guys around and provide commentary. Though they do quite a bit of structural damage, especially to the fourth wall.
Western Animation
- Oggy and the Cockroaches is about three roaches named Dee Dee, Joey, and Marky who terrorize Oggy the cat, who wants nothing more to sit back, relax, and watch some TV.
- Roach Coach from The Powerpuff Girls was a villain who controls a whole swarm of roaches. Who turned out to be a roach in a Mobile-Suit Human.
- In Capitol Critters, a cockroach husband and wife come for a short time to tour the capitol, and she leaves millions of eggs everywhere.
- In CatDog, as the duo visit the city dump, Dog befriends and cares for a roach with a broken leg, much to Cat's dismay. Roachy here is an inversion, since he actually saves Cat's life near the end.
- In King of the Hill, after Dale is forced to quit his job as an exterminator (due to all the poisons he exposed himself to) and gets a desk job at an adhesives company, his son brings over some roaches which eventually get loose and swarm the place. Dale then kills them all off.
- In an episode of The Fairly Oddparents, Wanda takes a day off at the Fairy World spa, and Timmy and Cosmo promise her not to make any wishes. This promise fails, however, as Timmy wishes for a roach to be smart enough to tell him what he's thinking as part of a school project. The roach — along with several others — proceed to take over the world. Eventually, Wanda poofs them away to the spa, as you can't really kill them.
- From the Family Guy episode "Screwed the Pooch" (which provides the page image): As Brian and Sea Breeze move into a run-down motel, the owner warns them about the roach problem. They are encountered by some gigantic Hispanic-accented roaches in the bathroom wielding knives and wearing bandannas.
Roach 1: Hey, you're on our turf, man!
Roach 2: Hey man, I cut you- I cut you up so bad, you- you gon- you gonna wish I no cut you up so bad!
- On an episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Buzz is teleported to what he thinks is a planet of roach-like aliens, but it turns out to be actual roaches in the local Greasy Spoon.
- The Penguins of Madagascar once had to save some cockroaches from Officer X. It was especially hard on Private.
- Futurama features an alien race called Cygnoids, who resemble roaches and eat like them, too. They open a pizzeria.
- Kim Possible offers a subversion and an inversion. A mad scientist uses a device to enlarge and mentally enslave cockroaches for his own private army, but they're no bigger than a small dog. Ron, who in that episode showed an intense fear of bugs, isn't that frightened of them, but Kim is. Ron eventually befriends one of the roaches who strayed behind, noting that, at this size, cockroaches aren't that scary-looking. Kim still stays freaked out, as does everyone else, as Ron and Rufus bond with Roachie. Ron even learns to speak Roachie's language, and Roachie saves the day by being able to communicate with the one actual giant roach the mad scientist created. He convinces the giant roach to make a HeelFace Turn and go after the mad scientist.
- In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Heffer gets his own apartment and his roommates are cockroaches, who seem to have a bad influence on his independence.
- The short-lived Santo Bugito features a group of mariachi-singing roaches who occasionally narrate the plot and action.
- Completely averted in one episode of Superjail! where the two gay prison inmates, Jean and Paul, bred the world's strongest cockroach to win a Superjail Science fair. Not only does it save them when it's hit by the Warden's Growth Serum, but its anthropomorphized behavior (lifting dumb-bells and smoking) make it more appealing than the assaulting mutant insects that grew and escaped from the Warden's terrorarium.
- In one episode of Justice League, Superman gets thrown 30,000 years into a post-apocalyptic red-sunned future, where he and Vandal Savage have to infiltrate a nest of giant cockroaches to recover the power-source for Savage's time machine.
- The Cleveland Show: Cleveland is too afraid to kill cockroaches, so he just puts bowls over them, resulting in the house becoming filled with slowly moving little domes.
- In the pilot episode of Total Drama Island, a normal cockroach "corners" Lindsay, and the other campers must "rescue" her. Duncan finally dispatches the insect with a fire axe.
- One of Raphael's greatest fears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012). Alas, fate has made sure that these are among the mutated monsters he faces in "Cockroach Terminator".
- Courage the Cowardly Dog has Schwick, a wanted criminal and a giant cockroach with a shifty and street-smart attitude who lurks in a dark alley and looks for unsuspecting travellers to lead to their deaths.
Real Life
- The American Cockroach plays this trope very straight, not only they are notorius for carrying diseases and being invasive species, they can fly.
- In some places, giant cockroaches are kept as bizarre pets. These are usually not the same kinds of cockroaches you find under the kitchen sink.
- In tropical north Queensland, these giant cockroaches are important members of the ecosystem as they mulch dead forest matter. So, quite an inversion in this case.
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches are a popular pet for bug enthusiasts due to their inability to bite, docile temperament, and easy handling.
- The Giant Cave Cockroaches are another popular pets for bug enthusiasts due to being non-invasive species and easy handling, they mulch dead forest matter too. The white-ish color and round appearance make them qualify as Creepy Cute.
- Russian idiom "tarakany v golove" ("cockroaches in one's head") means not quite sane, crazy, off kilter.


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Sprint Sues Time Warner, Comcast Over Digital Phone Technology
Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. wireless operator, accused Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corp. and two other cable-TV companies of infringing patents related to transmitting phone calls over digital lines.
Sprint filed separate lawsuits today in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, against Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cable One Inc. and Cox Communications Inc. Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint claims the companies are using technology it patented in the 1990s for transmission of voice data packets.
The companies "have realized the great value in this technology and have misappropriated it without Sprint's permission," Sprint said in each complaint.
The 12 patents include some that were asserted against Vonage Holdings Corp., which agreed to pay $80 million to license the technology after losing a 2007 trial.
Alex Dudley, a spokesman for New York-based Time Warner Cable, said the company doesn't comment on pending litigation. John Demming, a spokesman for Philadelphia-based Comcast, also declined to comment.
Rima Calderon, a spokeswoman for Cable One parent Washington Post Co., said the Washington-based company doesn't comment on litigation. Todd Smith, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Cox, declined to comment, citing the pending lawsuit.
The cases are Sprint Communications Co. v. Time Warner Capt Inc., 11cv2686; Sprint v. Cable One Inc., 11cv2685; Sprint v. Comcast Cable Communications LLC, 11cv2684; and Sprint v. Cox Communications Inc., 11cv2683, all U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (Kansas City).


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The actual uploading process is fine, but after that's through WP launches the full media panel asking you to caption and describe the image, and then puts a dinky "use as a featured image" text link next to the much bigger and much more prominent "Insert into Post" button.
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I am in Central Louisiana and wonder what winter losses some of you are getting.
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Will this also apply to so-called "sex tourism" (aka going overseas to be a perv)?
"Its now in play on the House floor.
Or, er, "now it's in the House's lap." Um. "The full House will now pick it up?" How about "now we'll see if congress is ready to throw some money at this still-maturing idea."
Even "The new bill heads to the house" sounds kinda dirty...
Incidentally, can anyone explain why it is that johns are hard to catch, but prostitutes aren't? Can't the cops just place a few lurid ads in the back of this here paper and roll the johns up like cheap carpets?
Stings work when the planets align and police actually do them. However, the city's vice squad is tiny. I won't reveal just HOW tiny right now because it would probably blow your mind out of the back of your skull. Needless to say, it's not easy for them to be everywhere at once and catch johns.
Er, OK, so the vice squad is tiny. But that doesn't really answer my question, does it?
Why is it easier for the vice squad to bust prostitutes rather than johns?
Well, let's see...
All you need is for a prostitute (usually female) to agree to do something sexual in return for money. This is very loosely defined and fairly easily done. Once she says anything that indicates sex for money, she's under arrest. Really. All she has to do is say "prove you're not a cop." That is clear indication that she's willing to engage in illegal activity. That alone is a ticket to jail.
In order to achieve the same result with a guy it takes a lot more effort. You've got to have female decoys (or guys that look really passable in drag, and I've never heard of that being done here) and a lot of back-up. Usually the decoys stand on the street and try and get the guys to meet them at a nearby hotel where the bust squad is set up.
The problem with this approach is that it only gets the clueless newbies, the drunks, and the terminally stupid. The first rule of thumb among experienced johns is NEVER say anything more than "you want a lift?" until the prostitute actually gets in the vehicle and you are moving. So unless the cops are willing to let a their decoy get into the vehicle (fuckin' unheard of) and then get felt up or undergo a good pussy grab (sometimes the girls will actually have the guy stick a finger in, under the mistaken assumption that a cop can't do that -- they can and will), it is substantially harder to bust the guys.
(Don't ask me why the cops are willing to let vice officers pick up girls. That's a double standard I'll let you parse on your own.)
The other force operating against prostitutes are SOAP orders. SOAP stands for Stay Out of Areas of Prostitution and are probation requirements that can be slapped on individuals (hookers or tricks). You are required not to enter certain areas and you can be arrested on sight if you're in a SOAP zone (even if you're just riding on a Metro bus through one). The johns are shielded by virtue of being in their cars and less visible. The prostitutes are out on the street. All a cop needs to do is see a girl on the street, stop her and run a probation check. If she's SOPAed, she's busted.
There are other reasons, but these are the most typical.
And in case anyone is wondering why I know so much about this...I've been a close follower of SOAP and SODA (Stay Out of Drug Areas) for almost 20 years and have studied their implementation and application (as has Nick Licata's honey). They are a travesty. And if you think the male cops don't have sex with the girls before they 'cuff 'em, I got a great little floating bridge up for sale. Prostitution laws are every bit as insane and rife with corruption as our drug laws.
thanks for your thorough breakdown of the problems with the current policing solutions to prostitution.
Hey Jonah -- thanks to you for covering the issue and for your intelligent perspective. I hope your paid overlords allow you to keep pursuing it.
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WashPost: Senate needs to act now on climate bill
Quotes IEA: "Every year the world fails to seriously deal with climate change raises the price tag by $500 billion — a lot of which, no doubt, Americans will be on the hook for"
Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) have provided Congress with an opportunity. Their climate bill, released last week, is imperfect. But it offers a start, very much in the right direction. Contrary to popular wisdom, acting on global warming is not going to get easier after this year's election. Legislators should seize this moment.
Since its opinion pages have been quite dreadful on this issue, the Washington Post's editorial on the climate and clean energy jobs bill deserves to be read in full:
The burning of oil, natural gas and coal for industry, transportation and modern life generally gives off gases that get trapped in the atmosphere, keeping heat in and warming the Earth. The consequences of this human-induced influence on global climate are difficult to predict with precision but are likely to be disruptive, possibly catastrophically. Scientists are clear enough on this to make it obvious that people should begin to reduce their dependence on these carbon-based fuels. Every big country will have to play a role — but many won't get started unless the United States gets serious.
The most rational action, as we've said before, would be to put a gradually rising tax on carbon emissions and let the market find the cheapest alternatives. The Kerry-Lieberman bill doesn't go that route. But it does, through a system of tradable emission permits, create a gradually rising price on carbon emissions that, if properly administered, could have a similar effect. This is crucial, because left to their own devices, legislators will merely subsidize some of the most expensive alternatives to carbon-burning: new nuclear plants (Republicans), solar plants (Democrats), carbon sequestration (coal-state legislators of both parties). If the market is allowed to work, on the other hand, cheaper and more efficient methods — conservation, converting the dirtiest coal plants to natural gas — will probably be used while the rising price of carbon spurs research into currently more expensive solutions, with time bringing down the price of at least some of them.
The longer Congress waits to pass a comprehensive climate bill, the less time America will have to cut its emissions — and the more expensive the process will be. According to the International Energy Agency, every year the world fails to seriously deal with climate change raises the price tag by $500 billion — a lot of which, no doubt, Americans will be on the hook for. And then there's the politics. The House already has passed a climate bill. President Obama has said he supports action this year. And the next Congress, possibly with a sizable caucus of newly elected climate-change skeptics, could make any sensible environmentalist nostalgic for 2010.
See Each extra year of climate inaction adds $500 billion to final cost "" IEA.
There's a lot we would change about Kerry-Lieberman, starting with the way it would hand out valuable emissions permits. The legislation can and should improve via amendment. But the bottom line is that Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) should get the process started now.
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If it is that expensive, we need to run from it. 7,000 dollars household. It will be a job killer for sure.
Can anyone point me to expressions of this "popular wisdom that acting on global warming would become easier after the 2010 midterms"? I wasn't aware that anyone believed this to be the case, let alone that it was a popular viewpoint.
Continuing to Contemplate the "Wisdom" of The Times?!
A considerably-better-than-usual article, titled "U.S. Science Body Urges Action on Climate", by John Broder, ran in The New York Times today. It was fairly short, and it could have been better, but it was pretty darn good in most respects.
That said, the rather modestly-sized article ran on Page A19!
The article begins:
"WASHINGTON — In its most comprehensive study so far, the nation's leading scientific body declared on Wednesday that climate change is a reality and is driven mostly by human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation."
The article went on to say that the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, issued reports … "arguing for strong immediate action …".
That's Page 19 material, no doubt: The leading scientific body in the U.S. Humans are altering the Earth's climate. Strong immediate action is urgently recommended. Yawn.
(If a huge meteorite were on its way to hit Earth in 48 hours, I would hope that would make it to page 18, or maybe even page 17, unless of course the Yankees had a close game yesterday. And, we wouldn't expect The Times to put an article such as today's on the front page, where ExxonMobil ads routinely appear, because it could all get a bit too confusing, and after all we have to have our priorities.)
Can someone please tell me: Who runs the front page of The New York Times? Or do they throw darts to figure out what to cover?
I mean, really! The Times didn't cover (in the paper) that letter from over 250 scientists. They didn't cover the letter from the AAAS and seventeen leading scientific organizations, sent to all members of the U.S. Senate by the AAAS late last year. And they put announcements and information such as those mentioned above on Page A19.
What is wrong with those folks? (Or perhaps, what is wrong with me, for thinking that such information should be on the front page?)
Andrew Revkin, John Broder, Bill Keller, Clark Hoyt, Curtis Brainard — ANYBODY! — can we get some answers, please? Is there some sort of "wisdom" that I don't know about that justifies putting this article on Page A19 and not even covering the other two things mentioned above? If so, please let us know.
Laramie Twanzick… That is what it will cost every household every year IF WE DO NOTHING! It's a little difficult to run away from doing nothing. It means you have to very rapidly run TOWARD doing SOMETHING!
So the choice is pass the bill now, or pay the bill later?
@Laramie Twanzick $500 billion for the worldwide cost, not the US cost. Nowhere near $7000 per US household.
FWIW … I didn't enjoy putting a roof on my house this year either, but it keeps me safe, warm, dry, and stops the rest of the house from crumbling in the coming years. It was the prudent thing to do, even though it was pretty expensive, and I had to finance some of it. Same kinda deal ….
For those who think "It will be a job killer for sure."
You should look at this:
"Senate climate legislation unveiled last week would spark a decade of multibillion-dollar investments to help overhaul how the nation produces and consumes energy, adding 200,000 jobs per year in the construction of new power plants and through greater demand for biofuels, according to a nonpartisan study released today."
@Jeff Huggins
You actually read the newspaper–on PAPER??
Because of known and unknown instabilities and disastrous amplifying effects and the enormous stakes the rational approach would be a war on business-as-usual with war-like initiatives to mitigate, adapt, and ultimately eliminate the environmental crisis.
A little OT but:
More "overt cheating" by climate change deniers: Easterbrook fakes his figures, hides the incline – http://bit.ly/a8Y6PZ
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At the same time that the editorial in question supports the climate bill, it slips some zingers in "under the radar".
Will the future cost of solar power plants be high? The editorial asserts that it will, but with economies of scale, solar thermal could be competitive, and solar photovoltaics have show startling progress in the last few years.
Carbon sequestration, if combined with biomass fuel sources, could be the key to solving the whole problem, and if the cost is high remember that the synergistic effects of carbon negative energy production change the math in startling ways. So far as I am aware, there have been very few studies of the effects of carbon negative energy production. The Wikipedia page on BECCS does show a graph that shows that costs for reaching 350 ppm CO2 rise asymptotically for all other scenarios other than carbon negative ones.
The editorial does not mention wind energy, possibly because it is already cheaper than coal, in many cases. This apparently disrupts the "fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables" conceptual frame.
Even when admitting something we agree with, the WP editorials still contain a lot of conceptual frames that are at least troubling. Personally, I avoid reading any of the output of the mainstream media whenever possible, simply because I accept no information from a source so obviously biased in the past, in the cheerleading leading up to the Iraq war and the WMD fiasco, for example.
hey jeff,
relax.. the real and growing threat of climate change is old news. if that article is on page one, no one is going to pick up the times and say "omg! climate change is real!"
what matters is everyone that already knows how serious the issue is to let their congressman know to pass the bill. i will certainly not vote for anyone that doesn't in my state's next election.


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i really have nothing constructive to say. because i don't see anything that could be improved. the graphics, are awesome. everything/one is so cute it's unbearable. even the evil dude is cute. the graphics kinda remind me of that zelda wind game. the one for gamecube... yep. they do, they do.
the sound was teh shiz. especially the mice singing. (oh how i do love those mice, yes i do, yes i do.) and the background music added to the entertainment, but wasn't complex to the point where it drowned everything out. which happens. probably.
violence was a ten because it was enough. -sniffle- poor little boy.
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This is one of my favourite flash movies now. The graphics ar very cool, very cartoonish. If this is your first flash - congrats. My first flash was far far away from something like this. But the main thing, which, i think, makes this movie so good, is music. It's damn good. Can you give me link where to get the Mistery Caaat, mistery caaaaat, mistery caa-aaat song!!?? (the outro song)
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Chronic constipation and IBS-C are two of the most common functional bowel disorders encountered by primary care providers and gastroenterologists, affecting up to 27% of the population in Western countries [1–4]. The treatment of these disorders is often empiric and most current therapies are indicated for episodic constipation. Over time, most patients become refractory to one or more laxatives. Lubiprostone (Amitiza) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of chronic-idiopathic constipation [6]. It is an oral bicyclic fatty acid that selectively activates type 2 chloride channels in the apical membrane of the intestinal epithelial cells, hence stimulating chloride secretion, along with passive secretion of sodium and water, inducing peristalsis and laxation, without stimulating gastrointestinal smooth muscle. Several trials have shown it to be effective in the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation, and recently also IBS-C. It has little systemic absorption and almost free of any serious adverse effects, however, occasionally can cause nausea. Based on the available evidence, it is reasonable to conclude that lubiprostone should be added to the short list of evidence-based pharmacotherapies for chronic constipation and IBS-C. Given the overlap between chronic constipation and IBS-C, clinicians can consider two strategies when deciding on the initial dose of lubiprostone. Based on current product labeling, it is recommended that 8 μg bid be started in patients with IBS-C whereas 24 μg bid be used in those with chronic constipation. Thus far, lubiprostone offers a novel approach to our therapeutic armamentarium, however, there is a need for more drugs with different mechanisms of action, in order to treat constipation that is often multifunctional.
KeywordsLubiprostone IBS-C Chronic idiopathic constipation Treatment Chloride channels (ClCs) Clinical efficacy Safety and tolerability
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- Ron Schey (1)
- Satish S. C. Rao (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, 4576 JCP, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA


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Minimalist Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is usually thought of as a complex, computer enabled technology, but it doesn't have to be. Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase has noticed a pure reality augmenting interface in a Japanese text book. By placing the red filter over the page, the answers, printed in red ink are hidden.
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