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Expectations coming into this season were high for Allie Scott, a junior standout on the Pusch Ridge Christian girls tennis team.
So far she's lived up to the hype, winning all but one of her matches, the lone loss coming to Sabino's ace, Susanna Studwell. With Scott at the No. 1 spot, the Lions have worked their way to a 9-1 record.
"It's been a joy to coach Allie and watch her grow as a player," said David Towne, head coach of both the boys and girls teams. "She's really focused on tennis, and you can see the results. As a coach, it's great to have a player like her leading the way for our team."
Scott made an early mark at Pusch Ridge, placing third in the individual state competition in her freshman and sophomore years. She also helped lead her team to a state title her freshman year and a second-place finish last year.
Earlier this week, Scott sat down with the Star and talked about the pressures of heightened expectations, her teammates and how tennis has affected her life.
What got you started in tennis?
A: "My dad played tennis, and when I was little, he got me one of those tiny rackets. He would hit with me, and I took lessons. Then I took a year off before I started playing competitively when I was like 14 or so. So him and Jennifer Fuchs (director of tennis at the Hilton El Conquistador), who has been giving me private lessons for a long time. She's also helping me put together a tape for colleges."
As a leader on the team, what kind of responsibilities do you have?
A: "I do the countdown for our cheer before matches because I have a man voice, which I guess you wouldn't expect that from me. I also try to help out the younger players with advice if they need it. I'll try to help with specific shots or anything like that. When I was a freshman, we had a great group of seniors that helped me out, so I want to pass that on."
Best memory tennis has brought you so far?
A: "Tennis has just become part of my life now. Last year the pressure of everything, school, the team and basically all the regular teenage drama got to me, and I just broke down. I'd never really shown emotions like that before so when I broke down crying, everyone was like, 'What's going on?' but the team and coach Towne brought me back in, and I think we're all closer because of it. My first emotion is to get frustrated at myself, but they help me stay calm."

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Chapter IV: Blood Rain
The rain fell from darkened clouds,
She walked alone,
From nowhere,
Going nowhere.
The rain ran through her veins,
Diluting her life source,
Beating through her heart,
A dying drum of war.
She wore a cloak,
Of dying stars,
Dead dreams,
And Lost memories.
She wandered across ghostly dunes,
Surrounded by ghosts of glamour,
Melancholy poltergeists,
A dying essence of endless humanity.
The crash of midnight waves,
Against echoes of war,
Tears of a thousand souls,
They fell from the twilight skies.
It washed the blood from her hands,
Darkness from her soul,
But it could never wash the chaos that plagued her mind,
Because in the rain, no one knows you're crying. No one knows your heart is bleeding.
No one knows you are dying inside.
'Her hands are rinsed of all men's crimes...How blind.' - Deadsy


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European Union Export Program
Exporting Honey to the EU
In June of 2003 the European Union banned imports of honey from the United States into E.U. member countries. Although there was not a demonstrable issue with U.S. honey quality, there existed differences in the regulatory approach taken by the European Union and the United States in guaranteeing product purity.
Concerned about both the trade barrier itself and the potential "black-eye" given to the long-standing positive reputation for quality that U.S. honey enjoys worldwide, the U.S. honey industry, the National Honey Board and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration crafted a proposal to demonstrate and assure the purity of U.S. domestic honey to the European Community.
In late September 2004, the European Commission accepted the proposal and re-listed the United States as a third country eligible to export honey to the European Union (Click here to view the official GAIN Report).
Program Requirements
Under the program, companies must adhere to specific requirements for each shipment destined to a European Union member country. In general, these requirements include:
- Obtaining a binding Producer Purity Certification on a per contract or per crop year basis
- Adhering to the Batch Control and documentation procedures
- Providing testing and residue data and documentation for each shipment per the sampling and testing protocol described
- Provide Sanitary Certificate and Certificate of Origin for each shipment
Also see USDA's "Mandatory Procedures for Domestic Honey Exported to the European Union"
GAIN Report: Ban on U.S. Honey Lifted
The European Commission passed a decision amending the approval of residue plans of third countries. This amendment effectively re-lists the United States as one of the third countries eligible to export honey to the EU.
Producer Purity Certification Form - per contract
Producer Purity Certification Form for certification per contract.
Handlers must obtain a certification of honey purity from each producer whose honey will be shipped to the European Union.
Producer Purity Certification Form - per crop year
Producer Purity Certification Form for certification per crop year.
Handlers must obtain a certification of honey purity from each producer whose honey will be shipped to the European Union.
Batch Control Form
Sample Batch Control Form. A Batch Control Form will be intitiated for each batch of honey processed for shipment to the European Union.


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Jornal de Pediatria
Print version ISSN 0021-7557On-line version ISSN 1678-4782
J. Pediatr. (Rio J.) vol.83 no.6 Porto Alegre Nov./Dec. 2007
The use of bioelectrical impedance to detect excess visceral and subcutaneous fat
Rômulo A. FernandesI; Clara S. C. RosaII; Camila BuonaniII; Arli R. de OliveiraIII; Ismael F. Freitas JúniorIV
Centro de Educação Física e Esporte (CEFE-UEL), Londrina,
PR, Brazil
IIAcadêmica de Educação Física, Departamento de Educação Física, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
IIIDoutor. CEFE-UEL, Londrina, PR, Brazil
IVDoutor. Departamento de Educação Física, UNESP, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
analyze bioelectrical impedance performance in detecting the presence of excess
visceral fat and overweight/obesity in young Brazilians and how its values are
related with them.
METHODS:Study sample consisted of 811 adolescents of both genders (11 to 17 years of age). Nutritional status was determined based on triceps skinfold thickness (TSF), relative body fat (bioelectrical impedance), and excess visceral fat as determined by waist circumference. Statistical analysis was performed using means, standard deviations, linear correlation, Student's t test, and ROC curve.
RESULTS:Bioelectrical impedance achieved good performance in identifying excess visceral fat associated with overweight/obesity in both genders, and was found to be more specific (male 92.4% and female 93.8%) than sensitive (male 86.1% and female 71.8%).
CONCLUSION: Our findings support the use of bioelectrical impedance to identify the presence of excess visceral and subcutaneous fat in adolescents.
Keywords: Abdominal circumference, nutritional status, obesity, adolescents, bioelectrical impedance.
Over the last three decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased at alarming rates around the world.1 Because obesity is associated with the development of risk factors for metabolic syndrome,2-3 elevated health care costs,4 and reduction of life expectancy,5 this increase has been a source of concern to health care professionals and must be monitored closely. Following this worldwide trend, overweight and obesity are already highly prevalent among young people in Brazil.1,6 Special attention must be paid to identification and management of childhood obesity, since it tends to persist into adulthood.7 Therefore, given the importance attached to obesity, the development of useful and reliable techniques for its accurate identification among children and adolescents also becomes relevant.
Because anthropometry (ANT) and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) are relatively simple techniques that show significant correlations with body fat,8-10 they have been widely used in epidemiological studies.9-13 However, in Brazil, although BIA has become more popular over the last years, no studies to date have analyzed the effectiveness of body fat values measured by BIA and how they relate to excess visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in young Brazilians.
Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze, in a sample made up of adolescents, the relationship of body fat assessed by BIA with excess visceral and subcutaneous fat, as determined, respectively, by waist circumference (WC) and triceps skinfold thickness (TSF), and the effectiveness of this method in identifying its presence.
This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the city of Presidente Prudente (population ~180,000) in 2006. The sample size of 805 subjects was calculated to detect a prevalence of overweight and obesity of 28.5%,14 with a sample error of 3.1%, and statistical significance level of 5%. Based on data from a pilot study, the loss rate was estimated in 6%. Hence, data were collected from 853 subjects.
For selection of the sample in the initial stage of the research project, data were collected and the municipality of Presidente Prudente was subdivided into five separate regions (North, South, East, West, and central). Base on the information thus obtained, it was noted that the central region was served by the greatest number of streets and throughways, and the most easily accessible from anywhere in the city by the main urban transport lines. Consequently, it was also the region with the largest portion of educational institutions of the private school network. Five schools were randomly selected for this study from within the universe of private schools located in that region.
All adolescents enrolled in middle and high school classes at the five schools chosen were invited to take part in the study. Of these, a total of 860 agreed to participate in the study, declared that they had never been diagnosed with any metabolic disease and returned an informed consent form duly signed by their parents or guardians. However, 49 subjects were excluded from the sample (30 male and 19 female) due to absences in the course of evaluations. Because they had been absent from evaluations it was impossible to detect possible differences in the variables analyzed between the excluded group (n = 49) and the sample studied (n = 811). The final sample thus comprised 811 healthy adolescents of both genders from 11 to 17 years of age (365 male and 446 female), which represents more than 15% of the total number of students in this age bracket enrolled in the municipality's private school network.
An informed consent was obtained from all participants and their respective guardians before beginning the research, and the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Universidade Estadual Paulista -UNESP (Presidente Prudente).
The adolescents' chronological ages were determined centesimally from birth and assessment dates. The main anthropometric variables studied were body weight, height, TSF, and WC. Body weight was measured using a portable digital scale accurate to 0.1 kg and maximum capacity of 150 kg. Height was measured using a wooden stadiometer accurate to 0.1 cm and with a measuring range of 200 cm. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as body weight divided by squared height (kg/m2). Body weight and height data were collected following standardized procedures described in the literature,15 and all measurements were performed with subjects standing barefoot and wearing light clothes. Triceps skinfold thickness, used as an indicator of excess subcutaneous adipose tissue, was measured using a Lange skinfold caliper (Cambridge Scientific Industries, Inc., Cambridge, Maryland) according to recommendations found in the literature.16 Waist circumference was used as an indicator of excess visceral adipose tissue and measured in duplicate at the narrowest point between the iliac crest and the lowest rib using a flexible metal anthropometric tape graduated in millimeters (mm).17
Body resistance and reactance (ohm) were measured with a portable body composition analyzer (BIA Analyzer -101Q, RJL Systems, Detroit, USA). The device was calibrated before testing using a 500-ohm resistor provided by the manufacturer. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) was performed in the morning after an overnight fast and the first urine void. All procedures were performed with the subjects lying supine on a nonconductive flat surface (mat) after their shoes, socks, and any kind of metal jewelry (earrings, bracelets, necklaces, etc) had been removed. The transmitting electrodes were placed on the posterior surface of the right hand at the distal end of the third metacarpal and on the anterior surface of the right foot at the distal end of the second metatarsal, at least 5 cm from the receiving electrodes, which were positioned between the radial and ulnar styloids and between the medial and lateral malleoli of the ankle.18 Percent body fat estimated by BIA (%BF-BIA) was calculated from the two sex-specific BIA equations developed by Sun et al.11 The presence of excess body fat was assessed using sex-specific cutoff points (> 25% for males and > >30% for females).19 The presence of excess subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues was estimated using two sex- and age-specific cutoff points: one for TSF (> 85th P), developed by Must et al.,20 and one for WC, developed by Taylor et al.,21 respectively. All subjects were classified according to these three cutoff points.
The Komolgorov-Smirnov (K-S) test was used for data distribution, and all variables were found to follow a Gaussian distribution. Quantitative variables were expressed as means and standard deviations, whereas qualitative variables were expressed as percentages. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationship between WC, TSF, and %BF-BIA. The Student's t test and chi-square test checked differences between means and percentages, respectively. The ROC curve and its associated parameters, namely, sensitivity, specificity, area under the curve (AUC), positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV), were used to assess %BF-BIA performance in indicating excess visceral fat, as determined by WC, and also its ability to discriminate between the presence and absence of excess visceral adiposity associated with overweight/obesity (TSF >85th P). Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software version 10.0 (Statistical Package for Social Science, SPSS Inc, Illinois, USA), and the significant level was set at p < 0.05.
Study sample characteristics are shown in Table 1. Women accounted for 55% of the sample. Among anthropometric variables, only age did not differ significantly between genders. Considering the entire sample, 15.4% of the subjects had excess abdominal fat, as determined by WC (male 21.8% and female 10.3%; p = 0.000), 17% had high levels of body fat (male 23.2% and female 11.9%; p = 0.000), and 36.2% had excess subcutaneous adipose tissue, as determined by TSF (male 45.6% and female 29%; p < 0.000).
Pearson's correlation coefficient showed that %BF-BIA was positively and significantly correlated (p < 0.001) with TSF and WC, for both male (r = 0.76 and r = 0.82, respectively) and female (r = 0.77 and r = 0.82, respectively).
Sensitivity and specificity are directly related to the performance, or accuracy, of a test. Sensitivity is the ability of a test to identify true positive cases, and specificity is the ability of a test to identify true negative cases.
In the male group, regarding the presence of excess visceral fat (Table 2), BIA has shown high accuracy in identifying obese (81% sensitivity), and non-obese (92.9% specificity) subjects, as well as elevated values in the other parameters of the ROC curve: AUC (0.87), PPV (76.1%) and NPV (94.6%). When compared with the male group, %BF-BIA was more accurate in indicating non-obese (94% specificity) subjects in the female group, but with lower sensitivity (63%).
When BIA effectiveness in identifying subjects with both excess visceral fat and excess subcutaneous adipose tissue was tested in both genders (Table 3), it showed specificity greater than 90% and sensitivity greater than 70%, suggesting that BIA is more specific than sensitive in this function.
The identification and treatment of obesity during childhood and adolescence are strategies used to prevent it from continuing into adulthood and, thereby, avert its harmful effects on health and the world economy.5,22 Nevertheless, in large population-based studies, the use of more accurate techniques for assessing body composition and, as a result, identifying the correct nutritional status becomes impracticable due to the high costs involved. Because of this, and also because of its consistent relationship with percent body fat measured by more accurate methods,11,21,23-25 simple and easy-to-perform procedures for identifying obesity and body fat distribution have become widely used.
In young populations, WC is an effective indicator of excess visceral fat,21,24,26 which exhibits higher lipolysis rates than subcutaneous fat and, therefore, causes the development of components of the metabolic syndrome (hypertension, insulin resistance, and unfavorable lipid levels.27,28 Accordingly, the correlation coefficients found between %BF-BIA and WC, which were similar to those reported by Eisenmann et al.24 for children from 3 to 8 years old (r = 0.84), may be considered a positive indication of BIA's potential for identifying the presence of excess visceral fat in young populations.
Triceps skinfold thickness is a widely used measure of subcutaneous fat. Studies such as that conducted by Sardinha et al.10 have suggested that its values are strongly correlated with total body fat, and it has been successfully used as an indicator of nutritional status.20 In our study, %BF-BIA has shown a significant correlation with TSF, as was also observed by Pecoraro et al.8 in a sample of Italian children. This finding confirms the existence of significant relationships between body fat determined by BIA and visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues.
The high correlation values found between TSF, WC and %BF-BIA are a good indicator of the viability of this method. However, as pointed out by Sardinha et al.,10 these values by themselves do not determine the effectiveness of BIA in assessing the concomitant presence of excess visceral fat and overweight/obesity. For this purpose, more specific statistical techniques, such as the ROC curve, should be used.
In regard to the ROC curve analysis, according to Vieira et al.,12 choosing more sensitive or specific cutoff points has significant implications on the desired objectives. High-sensitivity values mean that the method is more accurate in identifying obese young people, making it an important tool for stratifying and referring these patients to health care professionals. Conversely, highly specific methods result in a lower number of non-obese subjects being classified as obese (false-positive), thus preventing health care systems from becoming even more overburdened unnecessarily.
Overweight and obesity are increasingly prevalent1,6 among young Brazilians, as Ferreira et al.27 have also pointed out, posing a real threat to their health. Therefore, methods that are more sensitive to the identification of obesity seem to be more appropriate to Brazilian reality.
Both the sensitivity and specificity values of %BF-BIA for identifying the presence of excess visceral fat associated with overweight/obesity were elevated, higher than those reported by Neovius et al.29 for BMI, which is the anthropometric index most commonly used throughout the world for identifying overweight and obese adolescents.
In our study, 90.5% and 91.5% of the adolescents with excess visceral fat and with combined excess visceral fat and overweight/obesity, respectively, had a high percentage of body fat measured by BIA. In addition, the AUC values, which represent the discriminative power of %BF-BIA, were usually high for indicating both excess visceral fat (male 0.87 and female 0.78) and combined excess visceral fat and overweight/obesity (male 0.89 and female 0.82). These high values of the AUC are reflected in the high values of PPV, which is the probability that a subject with a positive test will be a true positive, and NPV, which is the probability that a subject with a negative test will be a true negative. These results further indicate that, in population-based studies, %BF-BIA can be used with reasonable success to detect the presence of excess visceral fat alone or associated with overweight/obesity in Brazilian adolescents.
Our data point to the viability of using BIA in population-based studies; however, the lack of equations specifically developed for the Brazilian population is a limitation of this method, indicating that care must be exercised in drawing inferences from these data. The authors believe that the need for equations that are specific for the Brazilian population should prompt further studies.
In sum, this study indicates that, overall, %BF-BIA is highly correlated with visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in both genders, being reasonably effective in discriminating the presence or absence of excess visceral fat alone or associated with overweight/obesity.
Considering all the above, we conclude that %BF-BIA is a good indicator of excess visceral fat in Brazilian adolescents and that further studies aimed at developing equations that are specific for the Brazilian population are needed.
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12. Vieira ACR, Alvarez MM, de Marins VMR, Sichieri R, da Veiga GV. Desempenho de pontos de corte do índice de massa corporal de diferentes referências na predição de gordura corporal em adolescentes. Cad Saude Publica. 2006;22:1681-90. [ Links ]
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14. Fernandes RA, Kawaguti SS, Agostini L, Oliveira AR, Ronque ERV, Freitas Júnior IF. Prevalência de sobrepeso e obesidade em alunos de escolas privadas do município de Presidente Prudente -SP. Rev Bras Cineantropom Desempenho Hum. 2007;9:21-7. [ Links ]
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When we finally arrived in Phonsavan before the driver had even turned off the engine the mini bus was surrounded at every exit by men with clipboards trying to take you to a hotel so that they could get a commission, having already booked our hotel we just waved them off but they were pretty insistent and one told us that he would take us to our hotel for free, what the hell let's do it.
It turns out the free ride meant we had to listen to the guy try to sell us a tour to the Plain of Jars and given that that is exactly what we were looking for, we weighed up the options and decided that whilst we might be able to save a couple of pound by trawling the street for a travel agent we may as well just go with it.
We went out to explore and discovered that Phonsavan is pretty much a one road town, with not much on it. A few restaurants, bars and hotels and a local market were pretty much all there was to see. The local market was as rustic and old school as a market gets, with chickens and pigs for sale alongside the fresh fruit, vegetables and pots of strange chilli and fish concoctions.
We did also visit the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) who are a non-profit organisation who aim to save lives and build futures by working with others to, Reclaim land contaminated with the remnants of conflict, Find ways to reduce the daily risk of death or injury for civilians and Create safe and secure conditions for development, free from armed violence. Laos was bombed for a total of 9 years in the North and South. During those nine years a bomb was dropped every 8 minutes 24 hours a day. Around 30% of the ordinances did not explode and remain active hidden in the land today. MAG really do change the lives of the locals by clearing their land and giving them the ability to earn a living without the fear of UXO's. Thankfully MAG have begun work to clear the Plain of Jars sites so that we are able to visit this amazing wonder, at the moment there are just 3 sites that have been cleared but there are another 87 sites in the area.
So the next morning we awaited our minibus for our tour and it seems that we actually did pretty well by booking with our little man and we had a totally private tour, just us and our driver. Our first stop was the tourist information office where I assume our driver had to go to register us(presumably because of the possibility of being blown up by a UXO)?! We had fun taking photos of all the random bombs and UXO's around the office.
On the road again, well strictly speaking a mud road we set off towards the Plain of Jars site, we did them in reverse as site 3 is furthest away and worked our way back to the site one which is closer to Phonsavan. When we arrived at Site 3 our driver pointed us over a strange looking bridge which looked like it went nowhere… we set off and found ourselves in the middle of a dried up rice paddy with some concrete square markers on either side, we soon worked out that these were the markers placed by MAG
The area around Phonsavan and the Plain of Jars was so heavily bombed they locals make as much use of the bomb remnants as they can, we particularly liked the Bomb House where the stilts of the house where bombs cut in half.
Another enterprise is to melt down the bomb remnants and to make spoons and bracelets
The Russian Tank was a little bit of a disappointment mainly because there is not really much left of it other than its main body. The sheer size of it was fascinating and I am sure it was once a monster of a machine, but it looked a little sad just perched on a random hillside with its lid 30 feet further down the hill.
It has been at least 3 days since we were subjected to Lao Lao, so where else to go than a Whiskey Village! This was actually just a ladies house rather than a whiskey village, although I suspect that all the neighbours have Lao Lao breweries in their garden sheds. We were shown the fermenting rice, the home made still, and the terrifying huge jars of Lao Lao just waiting to burn the throats of unsuspecting Farangs. Enter unsuspecting Farangs! As much as we tried to tell our driver we had already tried it there was no getting out of having a shot of the burning hot delight, in fact I took one for the team and Tim got out scott free.
Next we went to the second site which is split into two areas, again lined with MAG markers for our peace of mind or to instil utter fear when you lost sight of them! The bonus of taking a private tour and being in Laos at the end of the season meant that we pretty much had the Jar sites to ourselves, giving us ample time to look around at our own pace and play camera club
At the final site number 1, there are the most amount of pots but as you can see the city it is not as remote as the other sites, but there are so many bomb craters it is terrifying. There was also a huge cave we went and had a look inside and it seemed to be treated like a temple with lots and lots of cigarette offerings to the gods, the cave was stunning with two big holes in the ceiling which we figured were maybe bomb holes which had blown out the cave. Having looked it up when we got back to our hotel it seems that the holes in the roof were man made and the cave was used as a crematorium! Hmm!
One of the best things about Phonsavan was that as it 1100 meters above sea level which meant that being up in the mountains the temperatures were considerably lower than elsewhere in Laos. For the first time in months we actually stopped sweating and slept without air-conditioning on and felt a bit chilly which is odd as it was still 18 degrees and back in jersey I would have considered that a hot summers day and been sunbathing!
We were heading south from Phonsavan, but sadly there is no direct road and no public bus which goes that way so we had to go back to Vientiane to start our onward travels. Rather than subjecting ourselves to a 15 hour bus back through Laos we treated ourselves to a flight. The airport left quite a lot to be desired. There were chickens wondering around the entrance and the man who checked us in actually prepared our tickets using a typewriter from circa 1965. Thankfully the plane was significantly more impressive than the airport and 30 minutes later we were back in the rock and roll world of Vientiane.


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Captain Otto Rentsch, Flight Safety Manager, Swissair
"Smoke is coming in, I can barely see the instruments and I would not be able to see outside at all, now I can't even see across the cockpit, but if I put my face up to the inflatable bag, the instruments are all visible and I've got excellent visibility outside. It's amazing!"
Mark Korstvedt, Corporate Pilot, during an EVAS® smoke demonstration
"The fact is that we twice landed an aircraft with a visibility of less than 30 cm in the cockpit. The demonstration has shown that EVAS® - under certain circumstances - may be of great help in preventing possible smoke-related accidents. Therefore, [major European airline] intends to go ahead with the purchase of EVAS® for the entire fleet."
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"It's an amazing device... I will be willing to bet you that one day we are going to report to you that this Emergency Vision Assurance System is going to save some lives."
Bruce Erion, Pilot/Reporter, NBC-Atlanta
"Bottom line: it worked."
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"It gives added assurance to the crew knowing that something is available and works when they get into a situation that requires the use of the system. ... During the smoke portion of the demo, I was amazed that (without the EVAS®) I could not see anything in front of me. ... It goes without saying that this device would be invaluable to the crew in the event of severe, unremovable smoke in the cockpit. ...as a Captain, if I am faced with a cockpit smoke situation, I hope we've bought an EVAS for that plane."
Major US Airline Pilots/Safety Officials, following EVAS smoke demonstration (all landings with EVAS® were successful [8]; without EVAS®, all failed)
"EVAS® positively displaces all smoke from the vision path."
Hugh Waterman, FAA-DER, President, Aircraft Certification, Inc.
"A cockpit full of smoke... has been a major potential safety hazard since the earliest days of aviation. ... A Boeing 737 simulator was filled with smoke so dense that seeing a hand six inches in front of the face was impossible. An EVAS®... was activated and a clear view was available instantly through the envelope of the instruments and the simulated scene outside." Air Transport World (May '92), after attending a smoke demonstration with British Civil Aviation Authority officials and major European airline representatives.
"With this unit inflated, I was able to see all my flight instruments... as well as clearly seeing outside of the aircraft... in a smoke environment like we just had, there would be no way that somebody could land this aircraft under those circumstances with that much smoke in the cockpit unless they had a unit like this."
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Another second-round pick, another cornerback.
With tons of speculation that New England would trade No. 33, the Patriots ended up selecting Virginia cornerback Ras-I Dowling.
While many thought Jabaal Sheard or Brooks Reed would be the top choice, Dowling isn't a bad move at all.
The 6-foot-1, 198-pounder has great measurables and would have been a first-round pick if he hadn't been injured his senior year.
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The 2012-13 season starts anew for America East's men's basketball programs Wednesday as conference play begins for eight of the league's nine teams. The 16-game round-robin schedule begins with Albany hosting UMBC, Binghamton visiting Hartford, Boston U. going to Maine and New Hampshire entertaining Vermont. All four games tip at 7 p.m.
America East teams begin league play after combining for 53 wins during the non-conference portion of the schedule, an 18-win improvement from last season. Getting off to a good start has proved crucial over the years as only four times in the conference's 33-year history has a team lost its league opener and gone on to win the league title, although Vermont and Boston U. pulled off the feat the last two seasons. Finishing among the conference's top two as been even more important as just twice has a team finished third or lower in the regular-season standings and gone on to hoist the championship trophy.
Albany (11-3), which enters league play with the best record of any America East squad, has its most non-league wins as a Division I program. Ranked 20th in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25, the Great Danes have won eight of their last nine games overall and each of their last six meetings with the Retrievers. UMBC (2-11) will try to stop a six-game losing skid Monday and post its first win over the Great Danes since a 2009 America East semifinal victory at SEFCU Arena sent the Retrievers to their second-straight league title game. The game will feature three of the league's top five scorers as UMBC's Ryan Cook (17.0 ppg), Albany's Jacob Iati (16.1 ppg) and Mike Black (16.1 ppg) rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
Hartford (7-6) is coming off its most successful non-conference showing in a decade and a half. The Hawks carry a winning record into conference play for the first time in 16 seasons after registering their most non-league wins (7) since the 1989-90 campaign. Hartford, which has won three of its last four meetings with Binghamton including both get togethers last year, has had success in large part due to improvement on the defensive end as it is limiting foes to just 61.6 points per game, which is nearly six points better than last season. Binghamton (2-11) hopes to end its seven-game losing streak in its league opener, which it has won three of the last four seasons. The Bearcats, who have already matched last season's win total, are led by one of the most exciting freshman in the country in Jordan Reed, who is just one of 20 players in the country averaging a double-double (17.3 ppg, 10.3 rpg).
Maine (5-8) and Boston U. (6-7) enter conference play both playing well. The Black Bears, America East's top scoring team (69.1 ppg) have won back-to-back games, posting wins over Florida Gulf Coast and Quinnipiac behind the play of America East's leading scorer Justin Edwards (18.5 ppg), who scored 27 and 26 points, respectively, in the two victories. The Terriers, who begin their conference slate with their most non-league wins (6) since the 2004-05 campaign are trying to stop a six game losing skid in league openers. Winners of six of its last eight games, Boston U.'s success can be tied to defense as the Terriers has held teams to just 56 ppg in its wins this season. Boston U. holds a 58-40 all-time series edge and has won 10 of the last 12 meetings with the Black Bears, whose two wins in that stretch came at Alfond Arena in 2010 and 2011.
New Hampshire (4-8) will try to end a three-game losing streak tonight. The Wildcats, the lone America East team with four players averaging double figures in scoring (Ferg Myrick - 15.8 ppg, Patrick Konan - 11.5 ppg, Chris Pelcher - 11.4 ppg, Chandler Rhoads - 10.8 ppg), the America East and ranks in the top five nationally holding foes to 23.7 percent shooting from three-point range. Vermont (7-5) has won three of its last five games but is coming off a loss to College of Charleston Saturday. The Catamounts, who have had six different leading scorers in their 12 games this season, have won 11 of their last 13 league openers and 22 of their last 26 meetings with the Wildcats. The two teams split last year's meetings with each team winning at home.
The league's only team not in action Wednesday, Stony Brook, picked up a 50-44 win over Manhattan Tuesday. Despite shooting just 32 percent and not placing a player in double figures, the Seawolves (9-4) rode their lockdown defense en route to the win, holding the Jaspers to just 34 percent shooting and forcing 17 turnovers. The victory was Stony Brook's ninth non-league win of the year, its most in its Division I era. It was also the Seawolves' sixth true road win of the season, which is the most in the country.
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When tuners build a power package, it's HP that sells kits. There is no doubt about that. How's the car going to drive on your way to work everyday? That depends on torque. Old saying: "Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races." So why is the venerable IHI VF35 overlooked so much? Well, for starters supply and demand have made it one of the more expensive IHI turbos. Since IHI builds solely based on demand, the 35 still fetchs almost $1000 even today. So why not get a VF34 instead, right? Maybe not. If you drive an automatic, the VF35 is a far better choice.
I've taken a look at a few dyno plots for the 34 vs. 35 and the VF35 continues to impress me. It provides a near flat torque curve from very low in the rev range and pulls almost all the way to redline. ALSO, you can run it on STOCK FUELING and still reap a lot of the benefits of running a "bigger turbo." The VF35 uses a unique bearing and exhaust housing and spools VERY VERY fast, just as the TD04 does, but can handle 18.5 psi on track days (with fueling).
VF35 Just Installed - Initial Impression
Want a Streetable Turbo...Shouldn't I Get a VF-35?
I'd like to hear some IHI VF35 owners chime in on this thread. I think the VF35 does not get the credit it deserves. If I can build some interest in this turbo, I'm going to run a groupbuy.


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By: Dave Johnson
April 25, 2011
There is a deficit of jobs AND the deficit is jobs. The public is so much smarter than the geniuses in DC. Washington talks about the deficit but the public knows that the deficit is jobs.
That huge deficit jump to over a trillion that happened in Bush's last budget (2009) changed the national discussion from jobs and stimulus to worries over spending. But the deficit jump was caused by the financial crisis and recession and jobs and turning that around means addressing the recession and jobs.
See for yourself. Go to the White House Taxpayer Receipt page. Look at Health Care at 24.3% of the budget and Job & Family Security at 21.9%. There is almost half the budget right there. Not all of that is from the recession but a lot of it is. (Military is 26.3% but if you add Veterans it is 30.4%.)
Yes, Bush's tax cuts and huge increases in military spending turned Clinton's surpluses into big deficits. But no one seemed to care about that at the time. It's the deficits in the trillions that are scaring people. The trillion-dollar-deficits is because there aren't enough jobs. So we aren't bringing in tax revenue and we're paying out huge amounts for unemployment, healthcare assistance, food stamps, etc. Cuts only make all of that worse because cuts cut the economy and jobs. If you want to fix the huge deficits you have to create more jobs, and better-paying jobs.
Meanwhile the geniuses in DC are talking about cutting the things that create jobs, which just makes the problems worse. And worse. And they don't touch military spending. Their approach is not really even about cutting the deficit it is about preserving tax cuts for the wealthy and keeping the wasteful, corrupt military contracts flowing. The just use deficit fear as cover to steer people away from real solutions.
The Real Solutions
Look at this chart of jobs. The downward slope is when we were losing more and more jobs every month. The upward slope is when we were losing fewer jobs, up to where we were actually gaining a bit. The sideways slope is the standstill we saw for 2010, going into 2011. See if you can guess when on this chart the stimulus started, and when it stopped?
The only solution to the huge jump in deficits is to restore the jobs. That starts to restore the tax base and stops the emergency spending on the unemployed. Just cutting them out of the economy doesn't fix the problem, it shifts the problem.
And the only way to restore the jobs is for the government to step in and do something. We have millions of unemployed and underemployed and those are people. That's the third word in the phrase, "We, the People."
We have to invest in rebuilding our infrastructure if we want to continue to be competitive in the world, so right there are millions of jobs that need doing. And the payoff from doing that pays for doing that.
We need to retrofit our economy to be energy efficient, so right there are millions of jobs that need doing. And the payoff from doing that pays for doing that.
We need more teachers, more police, more firefighters, more judges, more scientists, more social workers, more park rangers, more noise abatement and met and safety and environmental and other kinds of inspectors and so many other things that We, the People do for each other -- so right there are millions of jobs that need doing. And the payoff from doing that pays for doing that.
The People understand this, that's why all the polls show that these are the things the people want done. And The People's Budget starts to address these problems, helps put people back to work, and that is why it balances the budget by 2021.
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Ah ha! Caught them sleeping on the job again. :lol:
Daisy & Tigger (9 mos old)
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Ah ha! Caught them sleeping on the job again. :lol:
Daisy & Tigger (9 mos old)
Look at those two sweet tuckered out little furbabies!!! Poor things!!! You must be working their little paws right down to the bones!!! :cry: :cry: Bad mommy!!!! :evil:
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They are so precious!! (and smart hahaha)
Thanks for the darling pic!! :D:D
so cute
Not only sleeping on the job, but sleeping on each other.
Precious picture.
lol sew cute
Yeah they sleep like that all the time and sometimes the 3rd one does too. (I have 3)
I think what REALLY happened was they were so thoroughly inspecting everything that they just got worn out :D:D
They are still working. Just testing the sleepability of your quilts.


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$2 billion. That's billion with a "B". That's a lot of money. That is also what Aaron Levie's Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year company, Box Inc., is being valued at today. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Box has said it recieved a fresh round of $125 million in investment, with $100 million of that money coming from a single private equity firm. Also according to the article, Box is expecting to close out 2013 with approximately $100 million in revenue, giving the company a 20x multiple. The numbers are certainly impressive, but is this a bubble or are we seeing a fundamental shift in how businesses of the future will operate, thus justifying the big dollar signs?
A recent article in Forbes stated the following: "Taking a cue from the Dot-com bubble's playbook, investors have resorted to valuing today's profitless tech companies on a price-to-sales ratio basis, yet even this metric shows that Twitter's valuation is quite overvalued at 22 times its expected 2014 sales, which is approximately double the multiple carried by Facebook and LinkedIn (which have high multiples in their own right)."
20x revenue is a very large multiple. It's the type of price-to-revenue multiples we start to see when a technology bubble is in place. In most cases I'm a bubble believer; however, in the case of Box, I think there might be some real merit to this size of valuation. What is giving these companies the high multiples and expectation of success is the fact that they have a high potential to turn into an Internet enabling protocol.
Box, and some of the other competitors in this space, are well positioned to capitalize on the mobile, cloud, and consumer transformation that is occuring. By providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) to developers world wide, Box is enabling the mobile application ecosystem to be built on top of the Box "protocol". Box is making a play at becoming the de facto business and personal storage cloud for any application looking to store data.
Applications and data in the cloud are taking over the concept of files. A perfect example of this is Evernote. I'm writing this blog post in bed at 5 a.m. on a Saturday in Evernote from my tablet. This content will never be stored on my laptop hard drive, it will never hit my traditional computer file system. It will only ever be stored as a data object in the cloud at Evernote and eventually moved over to a data object in the Forrester online blog system. Evernote has to store the data object somewhere and it is future storage protcols such as "Box" that will enable the transition from file system storage to data objects in the cloud. If it doesn't end up being Box as a protocol, then look for Amazon.com and other major online data storage providers to excel here as well.
A better metric of success for companies like Box, Twitter, and others looking to become an Internet enabling protocol isn't the price to revenue multiple, it's the price-to-usage ratio of the API and SDK they provide to others. If this ratio improves dramatically, the company is really beginning to see the lock in network effects that will drive revenue for a very long time. While the future is never certain, I do believe that Box is one company that gets this vision and can make it happen. If Aaron and team focus their attention on these network effect measurements, they will become an indispensible part of the future of the Internet.
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Me and my buddy went to taos today and were pretty much poaching all morning. Then we decided to do some slack country off the north ridge but to get there we had to go through a closed part of the ridge. upon returning the ski patrol pulled my buddy aside and revealed a picture they had of him in the closed area. Then they pulled his pass. I somehow avoided the camera. The patrol were very secretive about the camera and refused to tell us about it. We learned about it later from some dude at the bar who worked at taos.
anyway as we all know taos is not the most progressive resort so I'm sure there are other resorts using them. Which is quiet frankly BS. So please share any experiences or intel you guys/gals have regarding these implementations of big brother in the ski area.
Poacher Unite!
:dunno: Stay in bounds?
I can't say I blame the resorts. They don't want to waste their time dragging idiots who got in over their heads from the out of bounds areas.
See the thing is that it doesn't prevent people from going out of bounds because its done in secret. People will still get in over their heads. It just gets those people who don't in trouble.
Poaching is all about personal responsibility and understanding consequences but I don't want this thread to be about the merits of cutting lines. We can start a new topic to discuss that so, let's stay on this topic
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Securing a toilet flange
I'm in the process of retiling my bathroom floor. Right now I'm in the process of laying the cement board. I took a level to the flange and it it 100% level, however the subfloor is not. The flange sits 3/16" above the subfloor on one side and 5/16" above the subfloor on the other. I'm able to squeeze a piece of cement board under the 5/16" side with delicate prying but not on the shorter side. What should I do? Do stores sell some sort of rubber gasket I can put under the flange? Should I use wooden or plastic shims the appropriate size for each side? I'm at a loss and REALLY need my bathroom back! Any help is greatly appreciated!
The toilet wax ring can and will make up for 1/8" out of level--so you could easily lift and attach that to the underlayment if you wish--- or shave the underlayment on the thin side and tuck it under the flange.
The toilet flange is there to make the connection between the toilet and the waste line. This connection does not need to be level.
The toilet may or may not sit level on the floor.
If you want to level your floor, then you can use some self-leveling compound.
It is more important to me to have the floor immediately around the toilet FLAT. This is because I don't want to rock and roll on the toilet.
The bolts that stick up through the flange and through the toilet base get cut last and will be slightly different lengths. So what? Doesn't matter as others have stated.
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I own a 2013 XTS. I have a problem figuring out how to save maps with a name (such as "Marriott in Yuma") to the vehicle contact list for recall later. The CUE manual is not very clear on what steps to follow. Any help would be appreciated.
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I own a 2013 XTS. I have a problem figuring out how to save maps with a name (such as "Marriott in Yuma") to the vehicle contact list for recall later. The CUE manual is not very clear on what steps to follow. Any help would be appreciated.
Ah yes. This one threw me for a bit of curve when the XTS first came out, because it's more like creating a contact on your phone than a traditional GPS system that only saves the address. For CUE contacts, you need to pay attention to exactly what you're inputting where (name, address, email, etc).
This video should help. You'll see I initially did "Mariott Yuma", but there were a bunch of extra steps to change the Nav from Florida to Arizona, so I just used a local hotel for the sake of brevity. Hope this helps.
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great video Tony
The heck with the manual. Just keep giving us these these informative videos.
You are a lifesaver! And yes, I wanted to treat this like a GPS. Your video has answered my questions and probably also for a lot of others. Thanks once again. Great job!
Any idea how to turn the CUE home page off and just display the clock with the audio on. I did it once before XM was playing but just a simple screen with only the clock and temp displayed. I can't figure out how I did it and so far haven't been able to do it again.
Try pressing the time
It seems more complicated than the iDrive BMW system. Cadillac Tony - did you figure out the saving a destination by trial and error or with the manual or Ipod?
For those of you that have an Android Smartphone or iPhone take a look at the On Star Remote Link App. Once logged into the app go to the navigation tab and you can select a contact. If the contact contains an address you can download it to either Turn by Turn or On Screen Navigation. Car does not have to be running but must not be in garage. Once car is started the download to navigation will start almost immediately.
One thing I've learned is that every human interface system has its own quirks and "language", so to speak, be it an iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, iDrive or CUE. Switching from one to the other can be frustrating, but once you un-learn your old habits and start thinking like the designers of the system did, it all falls into place.
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I tap on the home button and then the time in the upper right corner. It then brings up the clock for setting time and date. After about 15 seconds the time and date adjustment words go away and the clock stays on the screen with radio still playing. For some reason while the radio screen is displayed, taping the time doesn't respond as quickly. Try going back to home and then taping the time, Works for me.I have also hit the power bar or mute bar and then taped the time to bring up the clock. Then unmute.
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How to Convert GPT to MBR or Convert MBR to GPT Disk?
About MBR and GPT Disk
MBR - Master Boot Record: it is a guide sector in the very front of drive. It was named in 1983 when partition the hard disk or flash disk of IBM compatible personal computer. At that time, PC DOS 2.0 was able to support hard disk. MBR describes the information of logical, including file system and organization type. Besides, MBR also contains the executable code produced when computer loads operating system in the second stage of start or the boot record connecting every partition (VBR). Such MBR is usually called boot routine.
Note: MBR cannot exist in a media which cannot be partitioned, such as soft disk.
GPT - GUID (Globally Unique Identifie) Partition Table: it is a new standard of disk partition table originates from EFI (Extensive Firmware Interface). Compared with MBR, it provides a more flexible disk partition principle.
What are the limitations of MBR disk?
MBR disks only support up to 2TB partition size and support only four primary partitions. If partition size surpasses 2TB, the start cannot be read and displayed. If more partitions are needed, you have to build a secondary structure known as extended partition, and then you can create logical partitions. MBR partitioning rules are complex and poorly specified. Therefore, MBR partition style is gradually replaced by GPT in such a large-disk generation.
What are the advantages of GPT disk?
It can make use of a very large size to break the 2TB limit of MBR disks.
GPT disks allow an almost unlimited number of partitions. Though Windows implementation restricts the number to 128, it is completely sufficient for using.
Each GPT partition has a unique identification GUID and a partition content type. And you can have more primary partitions.
There nearly isn't any limitation to the size of partition. The sector is numbered by a 64-bit integer. A partition with such number of sectors, can it be small?
Partition on GPT disk has self-contained backup which is stored on the end of the disk while the original one is saved on the start. When one of the two is destroyed, you can restore it with the other.
Every partition on GPT disk can has a name which is different from partition label.
Why Do You Need to Convert MBR/GPT Disk?
As mentioned above, MBR disks only support up to 2TB partition size, so if you have a disk which is MBR formatted and larger than 2TB, you could only use 2TB disk size among it, but the rest of it could not be used. Converting MBR disk to GPT disk is considerable necessary to make full use of the disk space.
On the other hand, since Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 32-bit, or Windows XP 32-bit version does not support GPT partitions. A GPT disk will display as GPT protective partition in these systems, thus you could not access the data until you convert it back to MBR disk. In such situation, you have nothing to do but to convert your GPT disk to MBR one. But note if you want to convert any larger than 2TB GPT disk back to MBR disk, you'd better ensure that the data does not account for space more than 2TB. Otherwise, the overloaded data will get lost. However, if you really want to convert your GPT drive, on which there are more than 2TB data, into MBR disk, you can transfer the extra data to other place before you start to convert.
Before you do
The following tutorial applies to converting data and system disk between MBR and GPT styles. However, if you want to convert system disk between MBR and GPT styles, please change boot mode between UEFI (United Extensive Firmware Interface) and Legacy after conversion is completed for GPT disk can only be booted by UEFI.
How to convert disk between GPT and MBR?
First, please Download AOMEI Partition Assistant.
Tips: If you're an individual user, please select AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and if you're a business user, please select the edition of Sever, Unlimited or Technician.
Tips: If you're an individual user, please select AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and if you're a business user, please select the edition of Sever, Unlimited or Technician.
Step1: Launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. Select the data disk you want to convert and right click it. And then select "Convert to GPT Disk" (or Convert to MBR Disk) in the drop-down menu.
For system boot disk conversion between MBR and GPT styles, to guarantee system bootable, you need to enter BIOS and change the boot mode after the conversion is completed.
For conversion between MBR and GPT disks on Laptop, please make sure the power supply is sufficient.
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The Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery in circa 1935. Soon after the Oregon Capitol was destroyed by fire in 1935, state officials began research for a replacement. The work eventually included comparing other state capitols and commissioning an architectural design competition. The Capitol Reconstruction Commission later replaced the Oregon State Planning Board as the central body responsible for planning the new state capitol. (Oregon State Planning Board Records, State Building Planning Records, State Capitol Group Reconstruction Correspondence, separated photograph from box 21, folder 11)


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I just had a little fun with a 06 Mustang GT.. after work around 1-2 in the morning, he started it and I was bored so what the heck.
My mods_
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-- exhaust
from a 70mph roll I pulled 2-3 cars and let off at 100mph. I thought these cars were pretty quick stock, esp on the highway.. anyway he wanted to run from a stop and that wasnt any good news for him either by the time I hit 80mph I was already 4 cars ahead and slowed down. It was pretty fun night, I did better than I thought I would have


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So I have been given an idea for a Tumblr theme, that can go straight to code. I am thinking about live streaming the whole thing, in 12 hours, tonight.
Anyone interested if I hook a stream up?
The theme is called 'Fredrik'.
I'm in, awesome idea!
Awesome! The idea got the green light!
Should be on here around 7pm GMT – http://www.justin.tv/mikedidthis/
Will post a link to confirm later, or follow on twitter @mikedidthis
It means you'll start streaming in an hour? I'll be there.
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It means you'll start streaming in an hour? I'll be there.
Stream is go! – http://www.justin.tv/mikedidthis#/w/3285408448
let's see
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well, this was an interesting idea.
Sorry, this is my first time streaming, so a few teething problems, we should be back now
Stream and build is still going strong, if anyone is interested! Hopefully pushed to TF in the morning
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