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The on-the-go Zombies mobile spin-off, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, has launched for Android. The Ideaworks-developed and Glu Mobile-published App is available now on the Sony Xperia line of smart phones and Xperia Play Optimized devices exclusively for 30 days, and will then be available for other Android handhelds. Zombies includes the maps Ascension and Kino der Toten, as well as Call of the Dead: Director's Cut and the 50-level top-down shooter Dead-Ops Arcade.
Players can tackle the undead hordes by themselves or with up to three friends via Wi-Fi. Zombies also supports the CoD Point System, a six-tier system of purchasable options, including extra areas and faster access to weapons, in single player.
Official Site: CallofDuty.com – Black Ops: Android Zombies


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Looking for a hardtop
Anyone have one for sale or links to one? 1999 Z3 M
Hard Top
I have one for sale with mounting hardware and lift.
PM or email me.
Ed, are you selling your blue hardtop?? Just curious why??
Hard Top for Sale?
Am looking for a silver hdtp for a silver '01 Z3. Will pay up to $800. (Please be sensible with quotes. For $900.U.S. they're available from Europe including shipping.)
I haven't had the chance to check one out. What material are they made from and what is the added weight?
Local to NJ
Local to Los Angeles
MBZ prices for used BMW parts
If I wanted to pay Mercedes prices for used BMW parts I would've bought a MBZ :mad: Christ! $1850. and $1500 firm, for 12 year old tops with sagging headliners and deep scratches,
Don't people understand these are not luxury cars in any sense of the word in Germany? Nor for that matter, anywhere else in the world except here in the status conscious US. It is a quality built car as much as any other. No more or less! It is not a MBZ nor Lexus. And it's not a prizy car, either. It's meant to be driven! If you dont believe see what they drive in Hamburg for taxi's.
It's sad, too, because even with intl shipping I can get one(in silver), from the continent for less than $900.US! I expected at least a little bit cheaper here. My mistake. The same reason I sold a rare 1 of 9 built, 70 hemi Charger RTSE to the europeans than anyone here because all they wanted it for was to steal it for next to nothing and sell it for twice as much as what I did. I.m all for making $$$, but unbridled greed is why this country's going down the ****ter. And also, it's why all the rare quality collectible cars are disappearing overseas. Probably all the blame is on the mef=dia like America Pickers and Storage Wars?!
When I was in the market for a Z3 last fall, I looked at one at a used car dealer with a hard top on a dolly. At the time, I considered the hard top of no value, an encumbrance to be stored on an expensive hoist if it was to be used at all.
So to me a hard top is worthless. But then in 2003, after a long search, I paid that much for a 40-year old fairing shipped from Canada for my vintage BMW motorcycle to allow cold weather riding.
Original Post by Jason Ball
The key word is 'vintage'! My Z3 is NOT vintage. It's a 12 year old used car. It's meant to be raced - driven till the wheels fall off, modified, lightened - have fun with. It's an affordable cheap sports car. At best for old men to piddle with over the weekend like MG's in the 50's(and look at those same MGTD prices today). Z3's will never be worth 'vintage' in any sense of the word simply because they built tons of them. After ten years they're ralley racers, or for those struggling kids in college in need of a reliable car and at the same time with the hope of getting laid in. And no matter what "supply and demand" holds appeal, the fact remains for hard tops as well as the car, that no one wants. They weren't popular new just as they are now. They are practical in cold weather, but also the same for Ralleys Nobody wants them for anyother reason. They are impractical as well as inconvenient Sorry, I spend much of the year overseas and by the prices I quoted in my original post(with shipping), I point out what "supply and demand" really is!
Check scrapers around the E.U.. $300.-400.U.S. equiv. with approx. $500. shipping
I guess it is...."different strokes for different folks"
If all you grow up with are Fords all yuou hope for as an adult is a lincoln - no matter what shape or color it may come in. Of course thats why Ford produced the Mercury.
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Tori Spelling, pregnant with her fourth child, held a book signing for her latest book, CelebraTori last night (april 4th) in New York City. The sexless window of recovery after giving birth is six weekes, but Spelling didn't want husband Dean McDermott to think she was forever closed for business.
"The doctor said, 'Wait six weeks [to have sex],' and Dean was like, 'They tell everyone that.' We didn't wait that long with Stella or Liam. I was like, 'Well, I don't want him to think that the sex is going downhill,' so now we're on baby No. 4," Spelling said at the signing, according to Us Weekly.
Spelling found out she was knocked up when third child Hattie was just one month old. She was at the emergency room to treat a migraine, and hospital policy requires that patients pee in a cup. Then, tah dah!
Spelling has a bone to pick with critics who publicly state that Jessica Simpsonhas gained too much weight during her pregnancy. "When women are pregnant, people need to lay off," Spelling told our sister site, Celebuzz. "It's a really special time and you should be able to deal with it in your own terms."


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By Sonya Campbell
Killeen Daily Herald
BELTON - A list of about 3,500 names is posted on the city of Belton website - "all defendants with outstanding warrants in Belton."
Warrants are for outstanding traffic, parking, city ordinance and penal code violations, as well as other charges from participating jurisdictions.
The people on the list were reportedly mailed notices recently, and are urged to contact the appropriate jurisdiction(s) to dispose of their cases voluntarily.
Those who don't come forward soon risk being embarrassed in front of their family, friends and/or co-workers when law enforcement conducts a warrant roundup March 5.
This marks the fifth year for the Great Texas Warrant Roundup.
About 250 law enforcement agencies and courts statewide are combining efforts to carry out the roundup, including numerous counties, justices of the peace, constables and municipalities.
The Belton Municipal Court and police department are among the participants.
The roundup is believed to be the largest joint operation of its kind, with arrests expected to continue for several days, according to information posted on the city's website.
Specific information as to the number of outstanding warrants, how to take care of warrants prior to arrest, and any other special roundup activities or events, may be obtained by contacting the representative for each agency.
A list of defendants with outstanding warrants in Belton is available in the Belton Municipal Court office, 711 E. Second Ave., and on the city's website at www.ci.belton.tx.us.
For more information, call Police Chief Gene Ellis at (254) 933-5840 or the Municipal Court at (254) 933-5838.
Contact Sonya Campbell at email@example.com or (254) 501-7585.


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Important changes to accessing personal medical records
Media Release
15 November 2012
Important changes to accessing personal medical records
An improved system for sharing medical records between health professionals is expected to enhance patient care on the West Coast.
A year on from the launching of Share for Care , a system designed to make it easier for health professionals to quickly access the information they need to know about a patient's health history, an important change will enable easier electronic sharing of these files.
From November 17 the records of all patients who have not opted out of electronic sharing of health records will be available to help authorised health professionals with a person's care. This will improve the treatment people receive across the health system; for example at the pharmacy or at the hospital's Emergency Department.
West Coast DHB Programme Director Michael Frampton says while it is important medical records are protected for privacy reasons, it is also important to make legitimate medical use as easy as possible to avoid delays and improve diagnostic and care decisions. A secure system is in place to ensure records are protected from being casually or inappropriately accessed.
"Share for Care does this. To be part of the process, patients do not have to do anything further," Mr Frampton says.
The process for people who do not want to have their records part of the system has also been simplified. Phoning a toll-free number 0508 837 872 (0508 TESTSAFE) will start the process whereby a patient's records will not be available to anyone other than the health provider who holds them (such as their GP).
Patients who have already chosen to opt out of Share for Care do not have to do anything further. Patients who have previously opted out and now wish to be part of the process can arrange this by phoning 0508 837 872 (0508 TESTSAFE)
"This change is a logical move to getting patient records more effectively stored for quick efficient access by those people providing health care," Mr Frampton says. "A small number of West Coast patients have chosen not to have their records shared but these changes will make it easier for the majority of people to have their records accessible when they are needed.'
Further information about Share for Care can be obtained online at www.shareforcare.health.nz , www.westcoastpho.org.nz or www.westcoastdhb.org.nz or from general practices and pharmacies.


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A job hunting friend wanted to Google details on a prospective company. A normal search yielded lots of search results but how do you get the latest up to date information? Google results quite routinely includes pages from the way distant past.
There are two faces to the 'date' conundrum.
1. How to find the date of the page I am reading?
2. How to search within a specific date?
As I set out to seek answers to the two, various 'solutions' came up. Not absolutely iron clad, because we must remember that the web is a dynamic medium and search engines have their own foibles which the boffins call search algorithms. Search engines or web bots pick up web pages for indexing and this date might be totally different from the actual date of publishing. But we can safely assume that it's close.
Standard hypertext has no codes for establishing the date of a web page. Meta tags for including copyright information exists but it is ignored by search spiders and more often by the designers themselves. More importantly, on the net there are different kinds of dates…publication date, indexing date, update dates…etc, etc. The results we get from our efforts may not be accurate but at least an approximation (however faulty) is something we have to live with for the time being. Back to the problems….
Is the page I am reading current – or not?
Blame it on the page designers who are lackadaisical about a small date line. If you don't want to read an antiquated website, use this handy JavaScript hint –
(2) Download the Link Diagnosis Firefox extension from LinkDiagnosis. Right-click on the webpage, and you get the page age. The add-on uses the 'inurl' string and the date filter of Google Search.
The better approach – search by date.
Here are a few ways to search for information using specific dates.
(3) Google (and most search engines) has a search by date function. Drill down to the 'Advanced Search' page and expand the 'Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more' link. You can search within the year, month, week and day. One wonders why Google hasn't included this on the first page.
(4) Use a third party website using the Google engine to do a date search by default. The four on my radar are –
# Gigablast – Fine-tunes the Google search by including a start date and an end date range.
# Spific – You can filter the search results further through a drop down box. A few extra filters of 2, 3 and 6 months are provided. An earlier post mentions it here.
# D8Search – Similar to Spific, but with the filter enabled on the first page.
# GooFresh – Another search box which gives you pages indexed within today, yesterday, seven days and a month.
# The Google Ultimate Interface – Although not officially endorsed by Google, it's a powerful interface and combines all major search strings through the page interface. Alternatively, its sister site is the Fagan Finder.
And if you like to get your hands dirty here are three tips to power your date search skills.
(5) To find indexed pages use the query – '&as_qdr=d' (without the quotes). Replace the '=d' with 'dx' (where x is any day, for example d2) and similarly with 'wx' (for any week) or 'yx' (for any year). Append this query string at the end of the search URL in the address bar as shown in the pic below.
(6) The little known Google 'daterange' operator is a nifty shortcut to use. You can restrict your search within a range of dates when Google indexed the page. A slight hitch is that it uses the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar (the one we use). But a simple calendar converter can be found on the web. Search with syntax "Query" daterange:startdate-enddate.
These workarounds help us to get an approximate fix on the date. Though not completely accurate, it helps us to peg down the results to more fresher ones. Using the date functions, we can jump over more 'popular' results to get the exact information we want. Just imagine you are searching for a namesake of 'Paris Hilton' through Google…wouldn't it help to use a date?
Do you have any more helpful hints for searching by date?
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Great tip! Just checked out Spific.. Terrific! Gonna tryout userscript for Greasemonkey..
I really like the website Spific. Thank you for pointing it out. I use it as my homepage now.
Thank You! Very Helpful.
This isn't exactly the same thing as finding a *specific* date, but I use a Greasemonkey script, "Google Filter by Date," found here:
It adds a drop-down with the following options: anytime, past 24 hours, past week, past month, past year, past 10 years.
Yes, another way. It returns all pages where "20/10" has been used...date or otherwise. Thanks for another tip!
This is how i do it
"20/10" site:makeuseof.com/


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The full trailer for the 23rd James Bond film, Skyfall, has hit the internet – revealing key details of the film's plot.
It looks like Judi Dench's M has been a bit clumsy – she's gone and lost a vital hard drive that compromises 007's fellow agents in the field. Daniel Craig's Bond has been lying low, faking his own death, but he's soon back in action. Cue lots of death-defying feats from 007, including motorcycle chases, leaps from viaducts and – of course – careening around in the Aston Martin DB5.
The trailers also afford us a first look at Javier Bardem's villain Silva – who looks to have caught Bond in a tight spot. Check it out below – and if it's whetted your appetite, check out our 5 of the best James Bond gadgets.
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Fritz the Blitz Adapter Kit : Light Up your Lomographic Photos and Decorate Your Camera with New Flash2013-02-01 2 6 Share Tweet
You tired with Diana Flash and want to have new style flash? Here you are, Lomography gives you the answer about your tiredness. Fritz the Blitz Flash now can be attached to your camera.
After the Lomography La Sardina and its Flash became famous among Lomographers around the world, much of them aspire to arm up their camera with Fritz the Blitz, the La Sardina Flash. Fritz the Blitz have a different shape and mechanism so it needs an adapter to use it for other cameras beside the La Sardina.
And that's why Lomography Released the == Fritz the Blitz Adapter Kit==. With this, you can build up your Lomography cameras like the Diana, Sprocket Rocket, Lubitel ,LC-A, etc, to use Fritz the Blitz. It's attached with standard hot-shoe and tripod mount of your camera. So you can enjoy the fantastic effect of Fritz the Blitz like using La Sardina.
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The Fritz the Blitz itself has three distance settings for maximum control over your flash (choose between 1.6m/1.2m and 0.6m distances). It comes with four color filters for fun experimentation. I know that you can expect wonderful results every single time with it? So, what are you waiting for? Grab it fast..


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Gcipher does not provide any strong encryption and should not be used to encrypt any private data.Gcipher can run as either a GUI, a command-line application, or a network proxy.
Install gcipher in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install gcipher
This will complete the installation
Using gcipher
gcipher [CIPHEROPTIONS]... [INPUT] [OUTPUT]
gcipher Examples
Encrypt a file using the Gie cipher:
gcipher -c Gie inputfile outputfile
Decrypt STDIN and output to STDOUT using Rot13:
gcipher -C Rot -k 13
Listen on port 1027 and act as a proxy for port 1028 on gnu.org. Decrypt the data coming from gnu.org and encrypt data going to gnu.org using Vigenere with key linux:
gcipher -c Vigenere -k linux -p gnu.org 1028 1027
Available CIPHERS
Gie -- a simple cipher doable by hand; no key is required
Ceasar -- Julius Ceasar's code; no key is required
Rot -- linear rotation; the amount of the rotation is given by the key which must be a number in the range [0, 25]
Vigenere -- a version of ROT that uses a private key; the key must be made of lower-case letters
Available options
-c CIPHER -- encrypt using the given cipher
-C CIPHER -- decrypt using the given cipher
-k KEY -- set the key for the previous cipher
-p PROXIEDHOST PROXIEDPORT LISTENINGPORT -- act as a network proxy
gcipher GUI
If you want open GUI go to Applications--->Accessories--->GCipher
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Without saying more, I merely begged him to mount upon the ant hill and look toward M'rooli.
Lads of Zuñi took my egg and hatched it under a turkey hen, at the ant hill.
On the ground before him was something that looked like an ant hill.
Hopalong began to itch and he saw that he was near an ant hill.
Like ants, the players swarmed toward him; the whole playing court, indeed, was curiously like an ant hill.
The camp had been like an ant hill all during that month of holidays.
On Sunday we gathered on the side of an ant hill, in the shade of some trees, and here a much larger number came for services.
There was a crude ladder running up the side of the ant hill.
I have, however, seen lions miles from game, slumbering peacefully atop an ant hill.
Hundreds of them were coming from the ant hill and were flying off.


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Teen singing sensation Miley Cyrus has been nominated for a prestigious Golden Globe award.
The 16-year-old has been put forward for the award for co-writing a song called I Thought I Lost You from the animated film Bolt.
The Hannah Montana star was shocked by the nomination: "I went to pick up my phone, I had like a ba-jillion texts. I was like, Oh my gosh! It's so cool!"
Miley performed the song with famous American actor John Travolta.
Heath Ledger has been put forward for best supporting actor for his role as Joker in the Dark Knight. He died in January from an accidental overdose.
The song Down to Earth from WALL-E is also up for a Golden Globe and the film is nominated in the best animated film section alongside Bolt and Kung Fu Panda.
Meryl Streep has also been nominated for best actress for her role in the musical film Mamma Mia.


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Medway man charged after petrol station robbery
PUBLISHED: 12:58 17 July 2013 | UPDATED: 12:58 17 July 2013
Kent News and Pictures Ltd
A man carrying a knife is reported to have entered the Maidstone Road Shell garage
A 29-year-old man has been charged in connection with the robbery of a petrol station in Medway.
Daryl Cook, of Simons Avenue, Chatham, was charged with robbery, being in possession of a bladed article and attempted robbery.
Police were called at 9.30pm on July 6 to reports of a robbery at a Shell garage in Maindstone Road, Rochester. It was reported a man had been threatened with what is believed to have been a knife, while a wallet and car keys were also reported stolen.
Officers were then called to an attempted robbery the following day in Lester Road, Chatham. It was reported that a woman driver was threatened with a baseball bat for her car keys, but the offender left empty-handed.
Cook appeared at Medway Magistrates Court on July 13 where his case was committed to Maidstone Crown Court. He is due to appear on August 2.


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Lions volleyball stays positive after tough year
Dave A. Vance, [email protected]
The young Ennis Lion (2-12) varsity volleyball team wrapped up a tough 2013 district season with a positive attitude Tuesday night. Although the Lions lost 3-0 against the Mansfield Lake Ridge Eagles (7-7), the Lions progressively performed better throughout the evening. The Lions struggled to keep up with the Eagles during the first two sets after Lake Ridge took early leads. Ennis lost the first set 25-10 and fell 25-17 in the second set.
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The prices of Australia's export commodities headed lower in June for the sixth month in a row.
That left the RBA's commodity price index, in foreign currency terms, at its lowest level since March 2010, and 32 per cent below its July 2011 peak.
The biggest contributor to the 1.8 per cent fall in June, a repeat of the decline in May, was a drop in the price of iron ore, the RBA said.
Rural commodity prices also fell, but the price of base metals rose.
The RBA's price index is based on preliminary estimates of prices received for bulk commodities in recent months.
But it said if spot market prices had been used instead, the fall in June would have been bigger, at 2.1 per cent.
The fall from the 2011 peak would also have been steeper, at 37 per cent rather than 32 per cent.
The firmer exchange rate meant the index priced in Australian dollars fell more than the foreign currency index in June, dropping by 2.8 per cent in the month to be down by 26 per cent from the recent peak in September 2011.


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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill Celebrate 15 Years of Marriage
Congratulations to Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill. The lovebirds celebrate 15 years of marriage today. Over that time, they've created three beautiful little girls, two co-headlining tours and two charting duets. They've also been the Nashville standard for balancing family life and a successful career — one will rarely find either on tour during the school year, and they've almost never spent more than three days apart.
The couple's wedding took place on Oct. 6, 1996 in Rayville, La. "We got married under the locust tree in my aunt's backyard," he said recently on 'Regis and Kelly.'
We wish the couple a lifetime of happiness. To celebrate, we've put together this gallery of pictures of the couple from the early days of their marriage through early 2011.


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Personality development and the acquisition of social skills, especially for transnational and multicultural surroundings are essential goals of the study program. Graduates have an excellent command of communication, negotiation and presentation techniques in English and in a second foreign language. Case studies, integrative project assignments and transdisciplinary projects guarantee excellent opportunities on the international job market for the graduates.
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Senate moves on Tipton's hydropower bill
October 1, 2012
"Canals and pipelines in the State, if developed, can generate as much power as the Glen Canyon Dam — enough emissions-free power for a million homes."
— Congressman Scott Tipton, R-Colo.
Last month the Senate Energy and Resources subcommittee on water and power held a legislative hearing bringing small hydropower development one step closer to reality.
H.R. 2842, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower and Rural Jobs Act, is being carried by Congressman Scott Tipton, R-Colo.
The bill passed in March in the U.S. House of Representatives and has been endorsed by the Family Farm Alliance, the National Water Resources Association, the Association of California Water Agencies and the American Public Power Association.
If passed by committee, and later by a full Senate, H.R. 2842 would streamline the regulatory process for small hydropower development.
"Today's hearing was a major step toward advancing the production of affordable and renewable hydropower in this country, and creating needed rural jobs," Tipton said in a news release. "I'm encouraged by the momentum that this common sense clean energy legislation has in the senate, and we are moving closer to establishing a key piece of an all of the above American energy solution."
During the hearing Tipton told the senate subcommittee on water and power:
"Hydropower is the cheapest and cleanest source of electricity available through modern technology. According to the Energy Information Administration, it's the highest source of non-carbon emitting energy in the world and accounts for approximately 70% of the United States' total renewable electricity generation, making it the leading renewable energy source of power.
"Canals and pipelines in the State, if developed, can generate as much power as the Glen Canyon Dam — enough emissions-free power for a million homes.
"What's stopping this low-hanging fruit from being picked? We are by allowing the federal regulatory framework to stifle development and entrepreneurial spirit.
"For this reason, I introduced my bipartisan legislation, The Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act."


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My name is Cindy and I have been married for almost fifteen years now and I am 37. My husband and I have a decent sex life but it has been losing its luster over the years and I was always ok with it. My husband, come to find out wasn't and wanted more. Now you might be thinking that he wanted another woman but it turned out to be the opposite. He wanted to bring in another man and that is where my story begins...
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I like reading the stories on this web site and I thought I would send one in for your reading pleasure. My name is Cindy and I have been married for almost fifteen years now and I am 37. My husband and I have a decent sex life but it has been losing its luster over the years and I was always ok with it. My husband, come to find out wasn't and wanted more. Now you might be thinking that he wanted another woman but it turned out to be the opposite. He wanted to bring in another man and that is were my story begins.
One night in bed he started talking to me about what I thought might be a good way to improve our sex life. I told him I was open to any suggestions he had, he responded by saying I have this fantasy I would like to try and it involves another man, I stopped him cold, and said I to him, so what do you want, another woman if I get a man. He turned to me and said, I knew you would say that. I have been thinking about this and I want to bring a man into our bedroom, so I can watch him and you have hot passionate sex. I sat there for a few moments thinking about how I could answer this. I told him that he was more than enough man in bed and I didn't need someone else. My husband responded and said that it is his fantasy to do this and really wanted to try this idea out. Now I must say that for a long while my husband has been average in the sack and I have not had an orgasm in some time, but I also felt that this could hurt our marriage and was not sure if it was something I would be interested in. I told my husband I would have to think about it and we could discuss it at a later date. My husband is a great guy who always tries his best to make me happy and I try to stay hot for him, I am about 5'5 with brown hair, green eyes. I am about 120lbs with nice tits and a round ass that he loves to spank.
Some time went by and I thought about my husband's idea and I was just not sure if it would be good or bad. I am an old fashion girl and don't believe in doing things that could upset our marriage. But he talked about it all the time and I started thinking more about it, at work their was a co worker I was hot for and every time I saw him my pussy would get wet. I thought about what it would be like to ride him and realized it could happen if I wanted it to. My co-workers name was Brian and he was so cute, he was ten years younger then me and he was about 6 foot tall, large chest, nice legs. He had black hair with brown eyes and a hot ass. If it were going to happen, he would be the one I thought. That night I talked to my husband and told him I was ready to do this if he was. He was so excited he took me to our bedroom and started fucking me doggy style and I started thinking about Brian, I was getting so hot I thought I was going to cum but hubby pulled out before I could. I thought to myself I hope the man I do this with will make me cum, more then my husband does.
My husband and I talked the next night about whom it would be, and I told him about Brian. I said I was a little worried that Brian might not want me or he may tell other co-workers about it. My husband said he understands what I was saying and I should pick someone else, but it was Brian I wanted. I went to work that night and saw Brian and started chatting like normal with him and he told me he was being transferred to the other office, I asked him which one and he said it was a few towns over. I thought to myself that this was to perfect to let go. It took a few days to get the courage up to ask him about it. A day later I asked him if he would like to have a drink after work, I said I wanted to talk to him about something and he agreed, he asked me if it was all right with my husband and I just said it was fine. I got to the phone as quick as I could and called up hubby.
I told hubby about the drink, and he said just go there and he would meet up with us soon after, I told him I didn't know if I could bring myself to ask Brian about this. My husband told me not to worry he would take care of everything. He told me, when I give you a sign, just go to the girls room and take your time. I meet Brian at the club, and we got a booth and sat down and ordered our drinks. Brian looked at me and said, well Cindy what's going on, I said to him my husband would be joining us soon and he wanted to ask you something. Brian asked me what it was all about; I just smiled and said we have a favor to ask you about. Just then my husband came in and I introduced him to Brian, we talked for a while and hubby gave me that look, I got up and headed to the lady's room and stayed in there for ten minutes, I looked out the door and started walking out and my husband flagged me over. I sat down and Brian had a big smile on his face and said to me, your husband and I was just talking about this Friday night for a few drinks and then possibly going back to my place, What do ya think Cindy. My face must have been turning red, and I was feeling like a little girl on my first date. I said to Brian I was up for anything he had in mind and looked forward to Friday. We drank for a while and nothing more was said. Well Friday came and I called into work so I could go shopping for some new panties and sexy things to wear. I kept wondering what his cock was like; it was driving me crazy all day.
I spent hours getting ready, looking at myself in the mirror wondering if Brian was going to like what he saw, my husband came into the room and said, babe you look so hot tonight, Brian is going to love you. I said I hope so and he asked me if I was still OK with this. I told him I was fine but worried about him getting jealous. My husband looked at me and said, Cindy please don't kill this by not having fun or making this difficult, what do you mean I said. Cindy look, for this to be great you need to forget that I am even there, just have hot passionate sex and enjoy it, if you do that, I will enjoy it. I said OK I will, and we headed off to meet Brian at the club for a few drinks.
We got to the club and found Brian at the bar, I sat next to him and he gave me a big smile. How are you guys tonight, he said. I looked at him and said, getting ready to have some fun Brian. And fun we will have when I get you naked in bed. I smiled and started getting turned on. For the next couple of hours we drank and had allot of fun, I was feeling pretty horny and asked my new toy if he wanted to go to his place and play. My husband said, let's go Brian; we will follow you in our car.
We got there and walked up to the door where Brian was waiting for us. We went in and sat down on the couch and Brian asked me how I was doing, this was getting real very fast and I said I need a drink. Brian brought me my drink and said I looked so hot he could not wait to start. I said, I need another drink, I felt like this was my first time for some reason. We all drank for a while till I felt really buzzed and Brian was sitting beside me playing with my hair. I was getting so turned on I could feel my pussy getting wet. My husband went outside for a smoke and Brian started kissing me on the neck as he slipped his hand down the back of my sweats, he was grabbing my ass and it felt unbelievable.
Brian asked me if I was ready and I said yes, I didn't know where my husband went off to but I new I wanted to get started. We walked into the bedroom and my God what a sight, he had all these candles burning and mirrors on the ceiling and along the walls, a very large bed. I have never been so turned on in my life, I sat on edge of the bed and Brian went into the bathroom for a minute and came out in just his underwear.
His underwear had a very large bulge in the front, I sat there and thought, that can't be how big his cock is. It was long and hard as a rock, my God it was big. He came over and stood in front of me. It was happening, what I have dreamed about for so long was coming true, I still didn't know where hubby was but I new I wanted his big dick. I pulled the front of his underwear down with my teeth and could not believe how big his cock was. I thought my husbands was big but Brian was bigger. A lot bigger. I slipped his big cock into my mouth and tasted his pre-sperm as I suck his hard cock. As I sucked on him his dick got bigger and I got wetter. I just couldn't believe I was in Brains room sucking on his big dick. Brian asked me if I liked his dick and I said I couldn't wait to feel it deep inside me. Brian then turned me around on my hands and knees and rubbed his hard dick along my asshole and then he pulled my sweats down slowly, I then felt him kissing my asshole with my panties on till he started pulling my panties down, I was so hot, I wanted to feel him eat my pussy, he rubbed his finger up and down my asshole and pussy getting me wetter & hotter then I have ever been. A few minutes went by and I was in heaven, he was eating my pussy and ass nice and slow and driving me crazy, but I wanted to suck him off some more.
We got into a 69 position and we sucked on each other for a long time before I looked over and saw my hubby looking though the door jerking himself off watching us, I wanted to give him a good show so I rolled off of Brian and said, I want to feel your cock baby. He bent me over on the edge of the bed and the anticipation was killing me. I looked over to the mirror and watch as he got ready to fuck me, I felt the head of his big cock rub along my pussy and then he started pushing it in very slowly, I put my face into the pillow screaming, I could not get over how big he was. I was watching Brian fuck me in the mirror and it was driving me crazy. Within a minute Brian was making me cum, I cried out to him, I'm Cumming Brian, fuck me harder, and he did. Hubby must have loved watching us fuck, with in a few minutes Brian had me cumming again, as I was cumming I said to Brian, nobody ever fucked me like this. We fuck in every position possible for hours and he stayed hard the whole time. I never knew a man could stay hard for so long and make me cum so many times, Brian was a sex goddess. My husband blew his load twenty minutes after we got started and went to watch TV. But Brian and I just kept fucking and I have never came so many times in one night. What a lover Brian was. He fucked me so hard I didn't want to go home. When the night was over we kissed passionately and I said I hope we can do this again some time. We said good-bye and driving home hubby asked me all about it, so I sucked him off in the car as I told him how great the sex was. My husband asked me if I expected him to perform like Brian and I said no baby, my husband looked at me and said, whenever you need a good fuck, let me know and we can go over Brains house. So every three or four months we all get together for some fun and it keeps my husband happy watching and it keeps me happy fucking Brains big dick. If you're wondering about any private sex that might have gone on, you thought right. I get together with Brian every other week without hubby so Brian can fuck the shit out of me. Don't get me wrong, I love my husband, but I love Brian's hard cock. A girl has needs you know!
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The New Red Moons rise with a long-awaited second album
Published July 9, 2014
Back in 2011, The New Red Moons released its self-titled debut album to happy listeners and some strong local reviews. With the first album a success, attempt number two would seem to be the obvious next step, so a year later, the trio hopped back into the recording studio. Nearly two years later - after a successful Kickstarter campaign, years of mixing and production, a new child and more - the resulting songs are finally ready to go.


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BRISTOL, PA -- AMI Entertainment has released an update for its NGX Face Place, which combines a digital jukebox with Apple Industries' photobooth technology. The new software improves Facebook interaction and streamlines purchasing options, allowing a patron to buy photos and music in a single transaction.
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Suns Retorter: Draft Just the Start
If you want a draft report card, go somewhere else.
That's because grading a draft within hours, days or weeks of when the player walked across the stage and shook Commissioner Silver's hand is an exercise in futility, like most exercise that I'm involved in.
Imagine if you were a student and you received a grade the second you walked in the classroom before you ever had a chance to prove anything. If you're like me, getting that grade based on appearance and assumptions wouldn't have been very favorable.
The truth is, especially in Phoenix, that the draft marks the beginning and not the end of a long summer process of determining what rosters will look like for the 2014-15 season. A process that will continue with free agency starting July 1, trades and Summer League evaluations.
All along general manager Ryan McDonough said the team would draft the best player available regardless of position when they were on the clock. He held true to his word.
With the fourteenth pick he and his staff nabbed small forward TJ Warren from North Carolina State. He's a slasher who can get hot on offense faster than the metal in your car under the July sun in Phoenix. He showed as much last year in college, where his 24.9 points per game were third best in the NCAA and earned him ACC Player of the Year honors. The kind of guy who can help fill the team's need of getting buckets at the rim and making the tough scoring plays.
At 18, Syracuse guard Tyler Ennis was a surprise for some when the Suns called his name. It shouldn't have been. It fit exactly what McDonough had said. The 6-2 Canadian facilitator brings a confidence and maturity beyond age of 19. In his one year as a member of the Orange -- yes, it is nice he doesn't have to get used to a new color -- he had a 3.6/1 assist to turnover ratio, meaning he's more efficient than a hybrid KIA. In an offense predicated on having two guard capable of handling the ball on the floor at any time, he'll fit in nicely with the current mix of guards on the roster and give added passing with limited turnovers off the bench.
At No. 27 and No. 50 the Suns went for potential and future value. In Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanovic the Suns picked up a guy who can do a little bit of everything, including taking some of the most entertaining pictures from the NBA Draft this side of Andrew Wiggins suit. At 22 years old he can pass, shoot and defend both guard positions and averaged almost 21 points in Euroleague and he'll likely have a chance to develop even more there over the next year or two.
Alec Brown is an intriguing prospect at the No. 50 spot. The seven-footer out of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a unique combination of long-range shooting and interior defense. At the NBA Combine he hit 18-of-25 three pointers, he averaged over 40 percent in college, and in his final season in the Horizon League he was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year while averaging 2.8 blocks a game.
What does it all add up to? The Suns being deeper than the Grand Canyon. That's good news on many fronts. Depth was a key in the team's resurgence last year and just got stronger for year two under McDonough and head coach Jeff Hornacek. It also means more flexibility and assets available for potential trades in the offseason. Oh yea, and the team has more cap space to play with in free agency than money Scrooge McDuck had to swim in.
Go ahead and assign a grade if you must, but doing so seems short-sighted regardless of where it falls on the scale. They're like appendix, fairly useless. This is just the start of an exciting summer and there will be plenty of time to make judgments when the basketball actually begins.


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The Scenario:As travel costs rise and environmental concerns grow, more organizations seek to conduct meetings between employees, customers, clients and satellite offices via teleconferencing. An example of this, Home Properties (a Real Estate Investment Trust) based in Rochester, New York. Home Properties approached AV Solutions, a provider of teleconferencing system, with a challenge, provide a teleconferencing system that:
The Challenge:Many teleconferencing systems require unsightly equipment and cords, expense setup and maintenance, constant fiddling and tweaking plus a steep learning curve to configure and use. These factors do not provide an image of elegance and transparency that is often desired. What most organizations want is a robust conferencing system that provides power, flexibility, reliability and extraordinary sound quality combined with a look that compliments their meeting room and blend into the background.This was the challenge put to AV Solutions. Home Properties simply wanted what many other businesses have been asking all along: Form, features and functionality in an environment that suit business and aesthetic requirements. The Solution:After reviewing Home Properties requirements and surveying the meeting room, AV Solutions recommended a system customized to meet their needs. This system consisted of low profile table microphones, ceiling mounted loudspeakers, a gooseneck microphone at a podium, a wireless presenter's microphone, and a custom programmed touchscreen control system.Equipment included:
The Reason:AV Solution's choice for the audio system came from many years of experience. ClearOne product's were selected by them due to repeated success in using them, even in the most difficult of acoustic spaces and the innovation and quality of the Converge Pro systems. Other key factors included:
The Integration:A corporate board room conveys an image. Even from a thousand miles away that image must be heard and seen. AV Solutions had the task of making sure Home Properties' image came across.System setup was easy. The audio conferencing equipment includes an internal database of configuration setting for audiovisual objects like microphones, DVD/CD players and video conferencing systems. The equipment type and model to be connected to the audio conferencing units is simple selected from this database to configure the input and output channels. Once they had the system in place it was merely a matter of making finely-tuned adjustments to the installed equipment: a process that could have taken hours was reduced to minutes, thanks to the simplicity of the Converge Pro configuration software.The audio system also has the ability to perform a self-test that includes verifying that microphones, loudspeakers, amplifiers, telephone lines and network connections are working properly, another great time saver. Interfacing the audio components to the touch panel control system was simplified, due to an intuitive control interface, internal programming with macros, USB, Ethernet and RS-232 control ports. During the initial tests, the system provided superior audio the first time activated.
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Against Earned Paid Sick Days? Try Waiting Tables With Torn Tendons In Your Leg
For nearly a year, Ariel Kempf was a server at a very busy breakfast and lunch café in Portland when, one day, while playing with her dog on the beach, she tore several tendons in her right leg. She had no health insurance, so she went to an urgent-care clinic where she was told she couldn't put pressure on her leg for at least ten days and that it might take up to six weeks to heal. She had no sick days.
Without delay, she called her coworkers who agreed to cover her next few shifts. She hoped to return in a week or so. But when the busy weekend came around and nobody was available to cover her shifts, her boss told her to come in and prove that she was "really injured."
"He suggested I was lying," Kempf, 35, said. "I was in disbelief. I had no health benefits or insurance from this job. So I had a $100 doctor's note and no money coming in and I was still asked to prove to my boss that I had a valid injury. It was insulting."
Not long after, Kempf joined Working America, which is part of a larger effort in Portland working to pass an earned sick days ordinance. The proposal allows workers to earn one hour worth of sick time for every 30 hours worked – for no more than five days per year. Kempf is one of 3,000 people who have signed personal letters appealing to the Portland city council to pass the ordinance.
About 40 percent of private-sector workers in Portland and 80 percent of low-income workers nationally can't earn a single day of paid sick leave.
"In the food service industry, you're really expected to come to work sick – to be there no matter what," she said. "If people had options I think it would relieve that tension and be better for all involved."
"I joined this effort so that others don't have to endure this type of treatment. Really, if I had been able to use sick days without these abusive repercussions, it would have been much easier to heal."
The lack of earned sick days doesn't just affect those in the food service industry; it also prevents parents from caring for their sick children, adding economic and personal stress to low-income families.
It's been six months and Kempf is now back on her feet – literally and figuratively. She is in the process of starting her own business and works part-time to keep the bills paid.
"If there's one thing I know it's that everybody gets sick and everybody deserves time to heal," she said.
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Africa House
Living/Learning Center Programs
The University of Vermont
The Africa House and Seminar has three purposes: (1) to offer students a sense of the richness and variety of African culture, (2) to provide an introduction to different topics in African studies, and (3) to provide advice for students who would like to spend some weeks or a semester in an African University. Through its residential component, the program offers students shared experience and an opportunity for participation in the exploration of Africa's incredibly rich and diverse culture. The Introductory course offered in the Fall Semester, and the Seminar offered in the Spring semester provide a grasp in interdisciplinary fashion of the situations and problems in Africa. Regular brown-bag and discussion series, organized jointly with the African Studies Program, on topics of African relevance take place throughout the year. The program promotes interactions between participating students and Africans and Africanists in the community. Africa House and Seminar combines the traditional humanities and social science concerns of African Studies with environmental, agricultural, health and technological issues and highlights women's roles in development, politics and culture.
An important aim of education is to refine the empathetic responses of students. This can be achieved through immersion in and appreciation of cultures different from their own. Such a comparative dimension as contact with another culture provides means for the students' critical re-evaluation of the assumptions and prejudices by which they live; contact with other cultures can serve to provide a window into their own souls. Students from monocultural backgrounds, as in most Western technological societies, need to acquire some degree of cultural diversity as well as an education for global awareness. The Living and Learning Center provides an environment and opportunity for such intellectual growth and the experience of a communal way of life. When properly planned and implemented in the future, the study abroad program will further enrich such an experience.
The fullest exploration and exposure of the African experience in an educational environment occurs when the academic and cultural dimensions of that experience are systematically linked. Africa House and Seminar Program brings together professors and students of African origin and Americans under the tutelage of leading Africanists, who themselves spring from a variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. The interdisciplinary nature of the program offers a panoramic view of Africa rather than a fragmented approach to the subject.
- Africa has an elegant performance tradition of poetry, story-telling, music, dance, and theatre. A few workshops on each of these and other areas are planned. Students are also encouraged to attend African performance.
- Africa has a growing indigenous film industry to which students are exposed. Students are also encouraged to expose themselves to non-African film productions that deal with African issues.
- For centuries, African cuisine and culinary practices have influenced the food culture in America. Students explore the food cultures of Africa and prepare African dishes
The Africa House Seminar I: Introduction to Africa (IS95) and Africa House Seminar II: Modern Africa (IS197) are offered under the auspices of International Studies and Continuing Education. These courses also count towards a Minor in African Studies. In the Fall semester, the course covers a wide range of the most important topics in African Studies. Topics include: Geography of Africa; Themes in African History; African Literature and Society; Cultures of Africa; African Art; Food and Agriculture; Environmental concerns; Women in Africa, Health; Education; African Economic Communities; Neo-colonialism; American Policy in Africa. The Seminar (IS197) offered in the spring is designed for students who have taken the introductory course, or some other approved course with an African component, and wish to explore current issues in Africa. Africa House students must take the Introduction to Africa and the Modern Africa courses. Although enrollment in all the two seminar courses is also open to Continuing Education students and other students, priority will be given to students who live in the Africa House suites. The Fall course enrolls 20-40 students. Enrollment for the spring course is limited to 20.
A number of visiting African scholars, who are already in the States, will be invited to participate in some spring/fall lectures and seminar discussions to expose students to up-to-date developments in Africa. Regular brown-bag presentations are held by leading experts in respective fields.
Students play a major role in planning and making necessary arrangements for the year-long extracurricular activities of the Africa House program. In November, all students in the Africa House program join in organizing week-long events focusing on African issues and Africa's heritage which involve public and guest lectures, videos and films, symposia, exhibitions, performances, African dinner and dance, etc. The political crisis in the Great Lake Region( Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda) and South Africa's management of its transition from apartheid to democracy will continue to receive particular attention this year.
Africa House Program relies on team effort, with the participation of experts on Africa, and provides valuable living and learning experience for faculty and students alike, through an overview of important topics in the study of Africa. For African and African-American students enrolled at the University of Vermont, Africa House aims to provide peer support and the opportunity to share their rich heritage with others. For other students, this program offers them an opportunity to learn and experience the heritage of their fellow Americans and world citizens.
Community Service
Africa House will encourage participation in some community service projects related to Africa. In the past, Africa House has participated in various community-based activities which included (1) guest teaching on Africa in middle and high schools around the state; (2) teach-in for Vermont teachers on Somalia; (3) guest-lecturing for a Summer Institute on Africa sponsored by the Vermont Council for the Humanities; etc. This year we will continue to look into ways of facilitating a quick integration of African immigrants in the larger Vermont community.
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Developers will pay to cut through the tangle of Victoria's planning laws, it was announced yesterday.
It will cost developers $3000 to get on the "major cases list" and a further $3000 per hearing day.
The major cases list – designed to reduce waiting times – existed under the previous Labor government and was government-funded.
It was suspended after the Baillieu government was elected last November.
Victorian Attorney-General
"The major cases list will help provide faster decisions on proposals for shops, offices, factories and other projects that will help create jobs and build productivity," he said.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal will hire staff to permit it to expand its workload.
Mr Clark said it would be at the tribunal's discretion whether new staff or experienced judges were assigned to the major cases. The tribunal handles 85,000 cases a year.
Its president, Iain Ross, had complained publicly about how long it took to handle cases and proposed the user-pay system to government.
Shadow attorney-general
"I think it's a shame when access to justice is determined by who's got the biggest wallet," he said.
Save Our Suburbs committee member Ann Birrell said fast-tracking disadvantaged residents.
"A developer who lodges a major case application at VCAT will have lawyers and witnesses ready. The resident may then have only a couple of weeks to assess the case, raise funds and consult lawyers," she said.
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More Digital Painting Meets Acrylic Painting
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Life gets busy and being a creative person makes it even busier. I don't go to work 9 to 5 and then get to come home and play. I work all the time but for me it's also play. So I started down some new roads and they got me side tracked but now I'm back with some new ideas and info.
I have many digital files of my paintings that have just been sitting dormant. To be clear, many of these are living, breathing three dimensional on canvas paintings. First I digitally paint them using numerous effects like Topaz, Alienskin Filters, and Nik Filters and Postworkshop 3 plus Corel Painter 12 and Photoshop. Then I have them printed on canvas. Next step is to paint on the canvas with wet paints to enhance and bring out the features of the digital file and then to get a high resolution file made of the original painting so I can reproduce the original many times over in other means such as gift items or matted prints.
So there is always just ONE original the way I have been working. Everything else is a copy of it. I wanted to be able to create some smaller originals but using the SAME digital files of the originals. Sounds confusing, doesn't it? How can I do that? Took me a while to figure it out also, but I did!
Here is the digital file of a real acrylic painting I have done. It's called Sunset Terrace and the reference capture was taken at the Grove Park Inn Sunset Terrace restaurant here in Asheville, NC.
I decided I wanted to make 5x5x2 Gallery Wrapped canvas boxes for future live and in person sales. So I learned the technique of making acrylic digital skins that can be printed on. Any color paint can be used to create these skins and it can be mixed, thinned or swirled. Using Golden Digital Grounds I can make the skin printable to go through a printer.
Here you can see another one of my paintings coming out of the printer. After it has been sealed and dried I can use it to make my boxes and then paint with more paint on the boxes and seal them to prepare for sale.
Notice that the yellow painting is not the same on the box. Like I said, you can use anything and the one on the box was printed on more bronze paint. Below is the finished box with the bronze painting on it.
These techniques are incredibly fun to work with and there are so many substrates that we can use to put them on. I am playing with many materials now seeing what I like best.
If all of this sounds difficult, it isn't. It's just a matter of learning the materials and then you can do this with any of your photographs also. Think beautiful landscapes that are printed and then mounted to canvas or masonite and glazed over. More originals!
Look for my new Golden Acrylic Painting Workshop Schedule coming soon! I will have short workshops in my Asheville studio plus longer ones so you can stay and enjoy the mountains!
This is one of my PIXIQ posts reproduced here and also was blogged on the Corel Blog. I am slowly moving my PIXIQ posts over to here and this will be my primary blog again.


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'The Voice's' Adam Levine Says He'll Miss Christina Aguilera 'Busting His Balls' (VIDEO)
"It's bittersweet," Aguilera told Celebuzz after Tuesday night's live finale, which crowned Cassadee Pope as the Season 3 winner. "I'm not going to lie, watching the footage – the happy birthday wishes – the guys, we have a lot of fun and a lot of laughs and we bicker, we love each other like family, like brothers and sisters."
Levine confirmed, "I'm going to miss it, I can't lie, I'm going to miss it."
Both coaches were extraordinarily happy to see Team Blake contestant Cassadee take the top spot on the reality show, beating out fellow Team Blake contestant Terry McDermott and Team Cee Lo contestant Nicholas David.
Aguilera will be taking a hiatus from The Voice to go on tour in support of her most recent album Lotus. Meanwhile, Levine and Maroon 5 will also be touring in the winter of 2013. So what can we expect from their respective tours?
"Awesomeness," said Levine. "Double quote that," Aguilera laughed.
Season 4 of The Voice premieres on Mar. 25, 2013 on NBC.
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