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Meninga's Origin tip for rivalDaniel Lane
Published: February 3 2013 - 3:00AM
MAL MENINGA bled too much alongside Laurie Daley during their time in the lime green jumper of Canberra during the 1980s and '90s to allow a triviality such as fanatical state pride to stop him from offering advice, as a mate, about the challenge Daley had accepted as coach of the NSW Origin team.
The one-time Maroons superstar, who has guided Queensland to seven straight Origin series wins since 2006, advised Daley to just be his own man.
''Laurie will be under a lot of scrutiny and, at the end of the day, it's his head in the noose so he needs to be his own man and have no regrets about what he does,'' Meninga said. ''He won't lack passion and he has a fantastic attitude. Laurie was highly successful as a player and captain of the NSW side that went through a golden era under his leadership.''
Unlike Daley, Meninga, who boasts a 71 per cent winning rate from the 21 games in which he has coached Queensland, had NRL coaching experience at the Raiders.
However, the 52-year-old said State of Origin was essentially about what a coach could extract from his players when a game had come down to a battle of wills and guts. ''It's a different type of job, [coaching] Origin isn't about club footy,'' he said. ''It's about making sure the preparation is good, getting their heads right, plus it is about emotional attachment to the jersey and state. It is about making sure the players are in the best possible shape when they play because attitude and skills take over. I'm pretty sure Laurie will have the skills to do [all] that.''
The former Australian skipper said his passion as coach of Queensland meant he never worried about being pitted against old teammates as he was when former Canberra players Craig Bellamy, then Ricky Stuart and now Daley were recruited to the Blues.
''It's about what I can control, how I can deliver the program we do in camp, making sure our preparation is spot-on, our attention to detail is important,'' he said.
''The players have to be in the best possible shape they can because we know by the end of 80 minutes they're going to be mentally, physically and emotionally exhausted.
''NSW has a good footy team, we have a good footy team and at the end of the day it will come down to the players and their attitude. And I know Laurie will do a very good job.''
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/meningas-origin-tip-for-rival-20130202-2dr9e.html


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Coming into the season, LSU's offense was preparing for a transfer of power.
Alfred Blue emerged as the new No. 1 running back; former quarterback Jordan Jefferson handed the reins over to Zach Mettenberger; and Odell Beckham Jr. was set to fill the massive shoes of Rueben Randle, who took off for the NFL.
Beckham had all the credentials for the position, tallying 41 catches, 475 yards and two touchdowns as a true freshman in 2011. But the beginning of the 2012 campaign didn't quite go as planned.
Beckham did rack up 286 yards in the first five games, highlighted by his 128-yard, two-touchdown performance against Towson, but the 5-feet-11-inch sophomore struggled with dropped passes throughout much of the first-half of the season.
"I've watched the film over and over," Beckham said. "It was all just a lack of focus and not looking the ball all the way in. When you have confidence in your hands like I do, you sometimes don't look the ball all the way in. As soon as it hits your hands, you think you caught it. There were some plays earlier in the earlier in the year where it just didn't happen that way."
Beckham removed himself from the media spotlight, enforcing a self-imposed ban from interviews after the Florida game, when his frustrations came to a bitter climax. He fumbled away a 56-yard reception in the third quarter of the contest, leading to Florida's eventual game-winning touchdown drive that delivered LSU a 14-6 loss.
Beckham said he has not felt too much pressure on him this year, but he called the Florida fumble the low point of his season.
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Beckham denied that he was ever in a slump, per se, but followed up the Florida game with performances of 21 yards and 35 yards and hasn't cracked the 75-yard mark since Towson.
Beckham still leads the team with 561 receiving yards this season but has relinquished No. 1 wideout duties recently to his roommate and fellow sophomore Jarvis Landry, who has reeled in 245 yards and two touchdowns the past four games.
"Watching him and all the things that he has done within these two years, it makes me look at myself and say, 'What do I have to do? Get better, get better,'" Landry said. "I think that brings motivation or fuel from both sides. Looking at both of us and my success and him feeding off that and him bouncing back and me feeding off his success, it's just one of those things that kind of carries over with us."
Just because the numbers haven't been what Beckham may have hoped for doesn't mean his success has faltered. He ranks No. 5 in the conference in punt returns, averaging 10.3 yards per return and is second in the SEC with two touchdowns — one of which came Saturday.
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Beckham's time to shine may come quickly, as LSU will face an Arkansas squad ranked last in the conference in pass defense, giving up 292.1 yards per game through the air.


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For us they are interchangeable. I dunno about real soldiers. After you die the group channel is for other dead people, when you're alive it's just your FT. Though Arma has positional audio for in-game VON, so you'll hear other nearby people talking but won't have a name pop up unless its in your channels.
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Vanguard (Coop)
FTL MAT. After a blown up helicopter and subsequent mission restart we set off... doing nothing. Sam (my squaddie and carrier of the RPG warheads) and I didn't do much of anything for a bit. We were then reinforced by two JIPs, Phalanx and Faenix. After a bit of standing around we get orders to move up to Alpha, Bravo and Charlie's position where more nothing was happening. Then all of a sudden, boom noise in-game and quiet on Mumble. Uh-oh. Turns out the BMP-2 got blown up along with half our forces (E-D + support folks). The new commander orders a glorious charge towards a hilltop full of enemies. We move through a village and take up position on a hill overlooking the squads and the next objective over. To our left (in the north) we spot a tiny village with a squad of baddies and a baddie T-34. My squaddies open fire on the infantry and I take out the T-34 at 500 meters with the first shot. All and all a brilliant success... until I realise we've almost gone off map. The nearest objective, where our teammates are dying, is 1km south of our position. The mission ends before we get a chance to link up.
Warlords (Adv)
Commander (Warlord 1), insurgents. I volunteered to command for only the third time on my second ever ARPS night, and in a weird mission to boot. We were to hold in Nagara till we make contact with BLUFOR (ie. they start shooting at us), then we can break out. The objective was to get Warlord 1 and/or 2 to one or both of two designated safe zones. The plan was to take myself in one of two SUVs and go north along the forests and cliffs to the northern safe zone, using the other SUV as bait. Warlord 2 (Unaco) was to head west on foot through a large valley, slowly but surely making his way to the southwestern safe zone.
My plan did not survive contact with the enemy as BLUFOR started pouring down fire from the north, where I had planned to go. The fake SUV drove out of our Warlord compound first and got lit up not five meters outside. The real SUV with me in it, driven by my trusty bodyguard (whose name escapes me...) manages to slip out of Nagara to the south. 500 meters out on the main road we get ambushed by BLUFOR infantry who shoot us to bits. Unaco on the other hand manages to sneak through the valley and is almost at the safe zone when the mission is ended and Insurgents declared the victors! Not to toot my own horn, but that's 3 missions commanded with 3 victories. I assign all of the credit to my excellent underlings, ehr, teammates!
Cacheola (Adv)
FTL A1 on BLUFOR. This was a night mission, which was excellent fun, and the objectives were similar to Project Reality's insurgency game mode - find caches in Zagarabad and destroy them. Our commander sends us in a safe but roundabout way and we enter the city from the NW. Commander asks for a fireteam to take up overwatch position to the west/southwest, and I volunteer. Humvee gunner and the MG gunner get into contact almost immediately. We then route southeast and clear out the "rear" of the cache locations, while our team is busy attacking from the NW. I think my squaddies managed to score ten or so kills combined. Our team manages to wipe out the entire enemy force and the mission is a victory.
Feruzablues (Coop)
FTL LADA (Jackal). Land in Anar, take out enemies in Feruz Abad and rescue hostages in the nearby mine. The powers that be decided that I'd had too much success in one sitting and so the AI sneaked up on us in a BTR-40 as we were forming up in the staging area. I lose one man in my Jackal fireteam and the brit engineer loses another man. The Jackal is barely working, hull is dark orange, and so it could not be repaired. We charge over the hill from Anar into Feruz and lose a lot of people almost straight away. Moving down the hill I manage to get shot in the leg. I'm shouting for the only medic left alive to come save me, but by the time he's halfway there someone murdered me :(
Great fun was had! I will try to attend the Folk session on Sundays too.
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Hello this is your friendly neighbourhood Bodge, thanks to all for turning up; A few things the extra numbers has made evident.
Please let Admin do admin things. If people are asking for help let the host/admin respond, chances are they know the answer and they might be planning some thing that makes it different from the norm.
In case any of the new guys are not sure who that is -
Fer, Tigershark and Headspace are not necessarily ARPS admins but they are FOLK admin so should be afforded a similar level of respect.
30-05-2012, 04:10 PM #265Originally Posted by airtekh
Fireteam is a group of 4-5 people led by the fireteam leader (FTL). When you use the Group VON / text chat channel, this the level you're talking on. For simplicity's sake you can consider the attachments (special weapons / vehicle teams like MMG, MAT and IFV) fireteams as well.
Squad is composed of two or more fireteams acting together under a single squad leader. Typically the "highest" fireteam's leader is responsible for leadership. So if Alpha, Bravo and Charlie form a squad, Alpha FTL is in charge. Some people also like to call squads sections.
Calling a fireteam squad can be forgiven to an extent, as playing ARMA2 isn't our day job. It would be appreciated though if people tried to shift their use of the term into the right direction, especially since with these numbers we will most likely be using the commander->squad->fireteam organization a lot more than we have in the past.
With 20 people it was manageable to have 3 fireteams and 1 attachment led by the commander, but that's not feasible with 50 players.
This is the short version. You still probably have some mysterious words floating in your head, like attachment or element. I would highly recommend you read this excellent description of the Folk platoon, by Fer, to get to know these words and get a good idea of how we try to organize ourselves when playing. We use pretty much the same organization in normal ARPS sessions as we do in the Folk Sunday sessions, because it's been found to be a good way of getting things done.
This session was dying and screwup session for me. :D
- Vanguard (Coop)
I an AT guy in a fireteam. The fireteam itself was pretty large, we had 6 or 7 people in it, as we had JIPs. After the first unsuccessful "disembark" (lol exploding choppers), we had to flank a position where there are hostiles. A comrade right next to me, killa, died from an RPG or SPG that flew right pass me. We all took cover and I started to look around. Then I spotted an insurgent aiming at me, I saw the flash but it was already too late.
- Warlords (Adv)
I was on the Indie team, bravo squad (I think). Basically we were holed up in the village, while there was heavy fighting to the north and south bunkers (as seen in the video above). Then we moved up to support the south, then we were fired upon from the north hills. We returned fire and sprinted back to the village. The 'mericans arrived to the village, our FTL was killed. From a window I saw 2 US soldiers sneaking in the village, they were in the open, so they were easy kills. I ran to the balcony and opened fire, one was killed immediately while the other ran for cover, my spraying AK missing him, he then started firing in my direction and I hid, while the other guys in the fireteam shoot him. He was killed later on, after we suffered another casualty. But the mission was successful and we prevailed.
- Cacheola (Adv)
We're halfway to our destination when the commander pipes up in Mumble that we're going the wrong way! our FTL must have misheard the orders or something.
- Feruzablues (Coop)
I was LADA (Jackal) driver. We drove to the LZ, when I hear on the comms that we left someone behind. No problem, The other guys disembark, and I'm left with my gunner to pick up the abandoned comrade. We pick him up, drive back to the LZ. Then from nowhere a BTR-40 appeared right ahead. The gunner opened fire, and seconds later we were both killed, atleast the jackal survived. Fast mission for us :D
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The way Cacheola played out was eerily similar to several episodes of Generation Kill...
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I was busy from the moment we hit the LZ, running south to patch up a member of Delta who had managed to pick up an injury during the landings. Thereafter, I was ordered to tag along with C/D on the left flank of our advance, climbing with them and the rest of the platoon's dismounts to the ridge overlooking Feruzabad from the south-east.
The climb itself was not uncontested, though as medic I hung some 50m behind C/D, so the first enemies I encountered were dead. Spotting an RPG and rockets that had been overlooked by C/D, I harvested what I could and resolved to hand over these supplies to Charlie. I also too this opportunity to discard the revolting plastic gun I'd been issued, and pick up a trusty AKS-47 (as endorsed by the Party).
However, when I arrived at the summit the level of chatter on CC was apparently so great that I couldn't get Charlie FTL's attention. Moreover, the whole of C/D was fixing to open fire on enemy positions to our west, including a truck-mounted ZSU. So I hung back and attempted to provide some security to the rear.
Note: In both our sessions, we need to get better about providing our own security. Too often, we assume the only enemies are to out front, leaving us vulnerable. We might get away with it in most (but by no means all) coop missions, but it's a habit that can bite hard in adversarial missions (see the Folk/ARPS/CiA vs. LDDK experience in Greenola).
Whilst I was looking back towards the route we'd taken to the summit, I spotted a lone figure about 100m distant. Knowing that all Folk/ARPS comrade mission maker engineers are sadists, I was ready to call out that we were being bounced from the rear. Thankfully, it was only comrade commander StrangLove. I walked down to meet him and make the suggestion that, as CO, he should not be without some personal security - even if it was just a case of him being near one of the fighting elements. This point was to be illustrated - brutally - later in the mission.
Back at the summit, the firing had started. Almost at once, C/D was assaulting across the face of the hill, heading for the little military outpost to our west where the truck-mounted ZSU was positioned. Charlie's FTL had been wounded, so I found myself sprinting across to the compound in order to administer aid. This was the start of a very busy period for me.
The assault now turned north, all elements moving down the slope towards the town. C/D was headed for the main military base, and it wasn't long before I was being called down to the fence line to attend to someone in Delta. As I ran down the hill, my element leader, comrade Draakon, informed me that he'd just assumed command of the platoon. Comrade StrangLove was dead.
As I was patching the guy in Delta, I was called to Alpha's position. This required me to traverse along the platoon's front line, which by this point snaked along the southern edge of the town. I knew this would be risky - friendlie might open up on me in the confusion, and there was always the danger of enemies. Asking comrade Draakon to warn Alpha that I was approaching from their left addressed the first risk, but for the second there was only my AKS.
A man appeared ahead of me, carrying an AK and moving up the slope towards Alpha. We spotted each other at the same time, but I was first to fire, my AKS-47 on full automatic.
As I patched the man in Alpha, I warned them about possible contacts to their immediate south. Comrade Draakon was already in my ear, requiring me to move on to Fox and Echo fireteams. Again, I traversed the platoon's frontline, passing the current CO, comrade Draakon, and the body of our former CO, comrade StrangLove, as I moved to where Fox had entered the town. The two surviving members of Fox didn't appear to be waiting for me, so I had to do some shouting.
"Fox. Fox. FOX! Where are your wounded?"
"Er ... dead, I think. They're not responding."
In fact, one of the survivors was wounded, so we took cover in a house whilst I patched him up. Then I was off again, back to the military base in search of Echo (yet another order having come in from comrade Draakon).
At the base the fighting had temporarily died down and elements were all jumbled up at the junction to its north. I found comrade Egg at the same time as the other medic, Feanix, but I'm not certain he got double the healing effect! Then I dropped back to the base entrance and waited for the platoon to reform its lines for the assault on the mine.
Before we could move off, the enemy contacted us from the rear and west, causing a brief exchange of fire. Once the threat was dealt with, the platoon divided and set off north, one half taking the direct route up a spur to the mine, the other on the adjacent spur (from where they could provide covering fire for the assault).
Initially, I was with C/D on the western spur, but comrade Draakon ordered me to cross the little valley and join A/E in the assaulting force. However, once I got there it was apparent that they already had medical support from Feanix, so I re-crossed and fell in with C/D once again.
As the assault began, C/D was ordered to 'charge' (which was a bit confusing, as I think they had been positioned as a base-of-fire element), but everyone cheerfully opened up and tracers streamed out across the valley towards the mine compound and groups of enemy infantry on the surrounding hillside).
Meanwhile, the enemy was sending its own projectiles across the valley: we spotted rockets being launched from positions to our north. Moving forward, I found myself with comrade IceRaiser, an AR, helping to guide the fire from his SAW as best I could without binoculars. I suggested to C/D that having an FTL here (with his binoculars) would be a very good idea.
Nobody from C/D arrived, but comrade commander Draakon did, and somehow comrade IceRaiser and I fell in with him as he moved north-east, down the slope, in the direction of then mine. Suddenly, we were contacted at close range by a small handful of enemy fighters in a wooded area immediately downslope of us. The CO was wounded, as was comrade IceRaiser - but both were still firing, two SAWs eventually cutting down the enemy combatants [Do not use SAW and 'cut down' in the same sentence again, please - Ed.]. I myself was still up, and managed to kill one fighter with another burst from my trusty AKS-47. At the same time I was frantically calling for C/D to provide immediate support on my marker, as the CO was in danger!
Comrade Mike, now in charge of C/D, arrived with his remaining men and finished clearing the woods whilst I patched up comrade commander Draakon and comrade IceRaiser. Falling in with C/D for the last time, I helped as they engaged some further contacts up the slope to our south-west, then moved on to the road leading to the mine entrance.
As I ran up the road (for some reason lagging a short distance behind C/D), I heard reports of a technical on the ridge above us. I tucked in closer to the hillside, hoping it would provide cover. That was fine, but when I reached the entrance to the mine compound everything went to hell.
Just in front of me men were being shot. I popped smoke and began applying first aid, hoping the guardhouse would provide sufficient cover. It didn't.
I was wounded and bleeding out, and all around me others were in a similar position. I crawled around to another side of the guardhouse and noticed at least one person who was still up and giving first aid. Over VON I asked him to patch me next, because as a medic I could help the others far faster. The mission ended as I was being patched up.
Thank you to the ARPS hosts for an excellent session. It was great to see so many relatively new faces; I hope some of you will have the time to join us for the Folk session on Sunday.
[AAR] Folk [Sun] 03 June 2012
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Before I start the report, I have to say sorting out the CC on teamspeak (with Draakon's help. Thanks!) and getting STHud working on ARMA 2:OA made a shit ton of difference and increased the enjoyment. Would recommend it.
Echo Fire Team Leader - We have to defend the airfield with all our might. Echo and Foxtrot were shooting the enemies in the east. So far, so good... then a t-55 tank popped up. Ordered my AT unit to fire and the tank got hit. Better yet, the tank can be hijacked and driven!
After ordering the engineers to our location to fix the tank (cheers guys!), I ordered my men to command it. Then we moved east shooting enemies, clearing the villages, joint up with Foxtrot, clearing even more villages. t-55 can only have 3 men, foxtrot offer me a space on the humvee, drove around taking commands and clearing villages. Overall, it was rather enjoyable and my men were top notch!
Black Folk Down
Engineer Leader - What can I say, this mission was one hell of a clusterfuck. It was fun being the engineers since our task was to fix up any helicopters (or enemy vehicles) that were broken (and somehow providing first aid to fallen men). thirdjke was my comrade and we drove around fixing helicopters, what could be more better? I got one request for this mission: Ambulance. Very fun mission despite it being chaotic at the time.
Echo Fire Team Leader - We all formed up on the road as the commander says. Split up into different sides, we took DC's side. Our task was to shoot down enemies on the hills. Simple enough.
I ordered my men hopping rocks to rocks, there was a small friendly fire incident from another group but I did shout down the CC "WE ARE FRIENDLIES NEAR ROCK, HOLD FUCKING FIRE". That somehow worked and they stopped firing.
We proceeded to move around carefully, hopping between rocks, shooting enemies. Got into position, waited for the other side to enter the mosque. Then proceeded ourselves. Managed to grab myself a golden gun, proceeded to the roof of the mosque with 5 enemies hidden. I managed to kill them all with the gun, but not quick enough as my comrade Black Mamba was down.
I was thinking the roof of the mosque would be a great idea for my AT unit thirdjke to fire his rocket, but with so many trees blocking the view of the tanks, I've decided to get down on the ground floor and... meet the tank face to face behind another scarred and broken tank.
AT fired his rocket. It connected... but the tank was alive. I chucked the grenade and hit my comrade. Sorry about that. Heard the DC fire everything at the tank, tank blew up. Ordered the medic to come down and heal us.
I was shocked. I thought for a moment that my golden gun shot the tank and blew it up. Turns out it was a friendly KORD that did the trick. Then I took a bullet in the skull, dead. Unaco did his treatment to the comrade and then proceeded to take the golden gun and using it to shoot upon enemies. VERY long mission but enjoyable with the right commander.
Delta Fire Team Leader - DEATH SQUAD. All we had to do was cross the river and wait until we spot the tank. AT unit fired his RPG with only 2 rockets and missed both. I decided to charge, got shot and said "This was a bad idea." I then died. Still brutal as ever.
Overall, another great session was had, improved by the fact my communication skills was lot more better and I was very effective as a leader!
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Second Folk session played, first AAR.
I was the LMG for x25Killa's Echo squad. Got a few kills while tactically being covered (aka hiding) by a building on the eastern side of the airfield. Great communication between the members of our squad. Lordhughes (i think) was awesome and gave me extra mags when needed. Missed the T-55 being killed but was lucky enough after our engies got it running again (although they did nothing to alter the char-broiled paint job) to play gunner with Capernations (i think) driving. Got a few MG kills but I really wanted to level something with the HE rounds. Spent most of the rest of the mission being chauffeured by Cap mostly to already emptied villages on our T-55 Freedom Tour 2012.
Black Folk Down
I don't wish to remember the events of this mission for fear of flashbacks of dying before I could exit our bird and then after watching sufficient causalities seeing the bird take off and staring at my bullet-ridden and crushed corpse below it.
Got to be the LMG for Dogface's Bravo squad. Things were going smoothly until....A Group of Wild Bushes Shooting 7.62 Rounds Appeared! After our encounter with those bushes Bravo was just Phalanx and myself. I received a battlefield promotion by default of being able to access the command channel. I tried to act like I knew what I was doing and hoped my American false bravado served me well. Phalanx and I became a quasi scout team bounding from rock to rock and mud hut to mud hut. We had the honor of being the first squad into the mosque and also the honor of failing to properly clear the mosque, sorry people who died on the walls. Phalanx and I parked ourselves on the western entrance and hid from the angry angry T-somethings blasting our Dome of the Rock from the east. After the tank anger subsided the remaining half squads reformed like Voltron into a super Alpha squad thankfully not led by me and we finished off the remaining objectives. Easily my favorite mission of the bunch.
Can't remember my squad or FTL, my memories are limited to faint odor of olives as I lay dying in an orchard as a flock of angry T-somethings rumble past my body towards bigger and better things.
Again thanks to all for involved in setting up and running these bad boys, Playing organized multiplayer ARMA has been one of the better gaming experiences I had in a long time. Can't wait for next Sunday.
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We lobbed over to our fine designated point and as i looked around the corner i saw a shitload of enemies on the hill to the east so ordered the oh so obliged comrade icerasier to shower them with his LMG while i sneakily snuck around the back and commandeered the MTR teams Humvee and proceeded to put death on everything with the grenade launcher then we mostly just crusied around and killed some last defenders in sultansafe before ending the mission
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Erm, i was AH-2 i flew around killed some taki M2 jeep that got too close. then did a epic attack run in the end before we called it.
I was MTR-2 sat around on road for the first 10 minutes or so while the inf pushed forward then i went on Fox(?) right flank and killed a bunch of enemy flankers then rejoined for the main attack and our gunner nicely took care of the most defenders on the walls, then we ran out of ammo and went back to get a new humvee
[AAR] Tactical Tuesday 05/06/2012 - Breaking the speed limit
Comrades, last week we broke the big five-oh for playercount. This week we broke 60, hitting a peak of 62 simultaneous players. We're growing faster than we can come up with new missions, so I encourage you all to try your hand at making a little something with the F2 frame work (I'll link it in a day or two, when the new version is released).
The number of missions we're getting done each session is falling because we're doing bigger missions to accommodate the higher player counts. Still, they're absolutely glorious.
I'd like to stress the importance of keeping banter to chat or (during missions) in-game group VON. This is becoming an increasingly important issue as our numbers skyrocket – it's imperative that we have a nice, clear briefing and clean comms so that the mission doesn't get bogged down. We don't want people sitting on their thumbs, we want them firing wildly into the sky!
As of the next few sessions we'll be enforcing a new rule with regards to slotting: you MUST have CC (last section of this post) set up if you want to pick an important role such as a leader or commander. Or even an attachment team! I know it's extra work, but it's difficult to communicate effectively through these numbers without these tools. For those of you who attend Folk Sunday, there's a similar feature you need to set up in TeamSpeak.
Now, to tonight's glory:
- Lead Stocks
- Greenola (Adversarial)
- River Assault
Lead Stocks was a meatgrinder across hedged fields. Many men lost their lives for the glorious revolution – but we still managed to capture one arms dealer and eliminate the other before he could complete his deals.
Greenola saw BluFor try to destroy caches at night, after inserting by Chinook. It was a slaughter, but against all odds, BluFor won. Their very last man on the ground destroyed the last cache. The very definition of a Phyrric victory.
River Assault was a combined arms river crossing. It should have been set to Hell March – lots of shooting, lots of death, and some unfriendly fire (be careful about that, Gents).
After the session there was at least one new adversarial tested, but as I had to run off to work I leave the description of that to Bodge.
Have some screenshots instead:
After I left, we apparently saw:
- Viva Pinata (Adversarial)
- Smile for the Camera (Adversarial)
- Tankicious (Adversarial)
Viva Pinata is a new mission by Bodge. It features exploding goats.
Smile for the Camera is a three-way hostage handover by StrangLove.
Tankicious is team deathmatch in up-armoured (or down-gunned) T34s, by Head.
I'm amazed to see we had more than 40 around for Pinata, with Smile and Tankicious still getting 20-30 each!
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Great evening tonight, the River Assault was a great mission. Lots of shooting and lots of screaming and astutecat got ran over by xkilla25, which was baffeling and ammusing.
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Wow, people usually leave after 10:00 but they really stuck around last night.
I had yet another great time with you folks. I somehow, miraculously managed to stay alive in all four of the missions I played, despite getting shot twice in Greenola (one of which was a friendly fire incident and I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO SHOT ME).
However, I have yet another round of newbie questions:
1. Attachment units. What Mumble channel are they supposed to join? Support? I was part of SAM 1 in River Assault and we basically received no orders for the entire game. (Not that we could do anything anyway, seeing as there were no enemy aircraft for us to shoot down). We eventually ended up following Charlie squad and joined their Mumble channel.
2. CC. From reading the Mumble thread I think I understand how it works in co-op, but how does it work in adversarial? Often I've seen everyone just sit in OPFOR/BLUFOR and not divide into subchannels. If this is the case, and you have CC set up to 'shout to parent + subchannels', then surely everyone on the opposing team with CC will be able to hear you. What's the solution here? Always divide into subchannels?
3. If I'm in a non-command role and I have CC set up, will I still hear CC in game? If so, should I disable it?
4. If you're in an attachment unit, should everybody have CC set up or just the leader?
1. When groups are being split up in the briefing phase, you should be told where to put yourself. If this doesn't happen, badger the commander I guess?
2. The latter, probably.
3. If you want. It's a bit of a hassle to alt-tab back out and turn it off, though. Makes me wish for a shortcut key to toggle it, a la Teamspeak.
4. Just the leader I guess?
Harlander's guesses are mostly right, to elaborate:
1. Depends on how commander wants it. Typical scenarios are a) attached to a squad / fireteam. You should be in the squad/ft channel, b) directly under the commander. You should be in commander's channel. Whenever you're not clear on where you're supposed to be, ask the commander.
2. The reason we don't always split to subchannels in adversarials is that the number of people is sometimes small enough to manage without using CC at all. This may be compounded by team leaders not having CC set up (boo!). You are correct though, CC from main channel would carry to all ArmA channels.
3. You will always hear CC if you have the cc token in Server->Access Tokens. We don't require non-leaders to disable CC, but it is still probably a good idea to do so, in order to hear your FTL clearly.
4. Only leader needs to have CC.
As a general note, it would be appreciated if absolutely everyone would have the CC shortcut keys set up, so they can easily take over team lead if needed. It's a war out there, people tend to die.


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Scuffling Giants lose fifth straight as Padres sweep
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SAN DIEGO -- The reality of the new season is dawning upon the Giants.
The reigning World Series champions no longer lead a charmed life. Their fabled starting pitching is erratic. Their defense is less than airtight. They've lost the knack they displayed in last year's second half for collecting that decisive hit.
So they're vulnerable to being subdued by ordinary teams such as the San Diego Padres, who completed a three-game series sweep Sunday with a 6-4 victory. Ryan Vogelsong surrendered three home runs as the Giants' twin losing streaks grew to a season-high five games overall and six on the road.
Plenty of time remains for the Giants to regain their equilibrium. They've lost eight of 12 games since starting 9-4, suggesting that their luck can again change. Though it's ridiculously early to dwell on standings, they trail first-place Colorado in the National League West by a mere two games.
Moreover, examine San Francisco's five-game losing skid. Three games extended into extra innings; three ended with one-run margins and two featured two-run differences. Annoying but rare outfield mistakes contributed to three defeats. The Giants conceivably could have won all five games.
"It's always frustrating when you lose, but I don't sense any tension or anybody overly frustrated," said Giants catcher Buster Posey, whose eighth-inning, two-run homer stoked San Francisco's comeback hopes. "It's more a drive and a willingness to work to get back on track."
That largely explained second baseman Marco Scutaro's presence in the lineup. Manager Bruce Bochy had planned on starting rookie Nick Noonan at second. But Scutaro, whose 12th-inning fielding error Saturday enabled San Diego to score the winning run, told Bochy that he wanted a chance to atone for his mistake. As last year's Most Valuable Player in the NL Championship Series, Scutaro inspires respect and bears credibility. Bochy honored his request.
"The veterans wanted to break this streak," Bochy said. But Scutaro went 0-for-4 as his batting average plunged to .215.
Vogelsong, another trusty veteran, matched a personal worst by allowing the trio of homers that gave San Diego a 5-1 lead through four innings. In five outings, Vogelsong already has yielded seven homers, a total he didn't reach last year until July 1 -- 15 starts into the season.
Vogelsong admitted that he has struggled to repeat his pitching delivery.
"I'm just off, man. I can't get anything really going," he said.
As a result, Bochy said, Vogelsong "didn't have his stuff or his command."
Vogelsong experienced similar doldrums last year, when he recorded a 6.75 ERA in his final 10 starts. He recovered to post a team-high three postseason victories.
"I don't feel like I'm as far off as I was last year," Vogelsong said.
Neither were the Giants in this game. After Posey's homer trimmed San Diego's lead to 6-4, the Giants moved runners to second and third with two outs against setup reliever Luke Gregerson. Padres right fielder Chris Denorfia then raced to his right and dove to snare Andres Torres' line drive, denying the Giants a hit that surely would have tied the score.
"Luke and I were talking about it and that pitch [that Torres hit] was just about on the ground," said Denorfia, who entered the game in the sixth inning. "I was fortunate to get a good jump on it."
The Giants had some bright spots amid their doldrums. Posey is hitting .400 (12-for-30) during a season-best nine-game hitting streak. Pablo Sandoval matched a personal high with four hits to lift his batting average to .316, tops among the regulars.
And Matt Cain will start Monday's series opener at Arizona. The Giants are winless in the five games started by Cain, who bears an unsightly 6.59 ERA. But they firmly believe that the three-time All-Star is due to pitch the game that will begin his ascent.
"He's been working his butt off every day to straighten out," Vogelsong said. "Hopefully it translates for him tomorrow."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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(An excerpt from Adnan Oktar's conversation on 13 May 2011)
He has given you everything you have asked Him for. (Surah Ibrahim, 34) Allah gives eyes, He gives ears. There are the cases, the fingers. There is the light, electricity, if we try to count them, it never ends; neither today nor tomorrow. Even if we group them we cannot count them.
If you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count them. Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful.
Allah says that people are not interested in them although He gives so many blessings, even though He continuously grants blessings. Allah continuously presents images, sounds, blessings, feelings but they are not interested in them. They are in a reckless mood, they employ an indifferent style. Allah mentions this. We see these images, hear these sounds in a place as tiny as a lentil in our brains, in the place called consciousness. We experience these right now. Allah shows us the pure air, the noise of cars, tallymen, costermongers. Allah shows us the fights of people. Just as how there are natural scenes in movies, like the ones in Westerns. For instance there are the dogs, those wandering on streets; a natural look is given in movies; that is the same. Allah also grants us similar images in this world. But those people who are resolute in heedlessness insist on not thinking with might and main. Allah constantly provides food for thought but they do not think. Then Allah now and then gives sicknesses, He visits scourge on them, so that they may think but they still resist. Allah creates death; they witness death in no time but again they refuse to think. With death Allah creates a dreadful end so that they may think. For instance the scent of a dead body is quite disgusting, the worst smell ever. The image that comes into being with death is horrible; eyes flow out under the effect of pressure; the content of the intestines come out of mouth. The womb is pushed out. The eye becomes like jelly and flows out. The hair becomes like a dirty piece of felt under the earth. The flesh disintegrates, so do the bones. This takes place in a very short while. For instance a woman of 30 years becomes 40, 50, 60...let's make it 70. The life ends in four decades; it ends in no time. Despite this people feel madly attached to this world. For instance they wear clothes; but they are simply made of challis or linen. They are torn apart in a short time. They purchase a car, it becomes old. The world; it also ultimately crushes on the Day of Judgment. It happens in a short while. For instance there are 70 years left to the termination of religions. Bediuzzaman says that the Day of Judgment will happen in 1545. But no matter how Allah warns people, the majority of people are utterly inclined to heedlessness. For instance people have lots of weaknesses. Women try to become beautiful by dying their hair and make-up. Allah created people with many weaknesses on purpose. For instance butterflies are not so; a butterfly is extremely magnificent and fine. Its make- up is perfect. There is no need for any make-up. There is nothing you can additionally do on a butterfly to make it beautiful. For instance a pheasant is glorious; what can you do more to make it more beautiful? It shines like gold...But man is especially created with many weaknesses. For instance he needs to clean his ears, he needs to clean his nose, he needs to clean his armpits. He needs to clean every part of his body and he continuously suffers from weaknesses. A bug has no such problem. If you notice, a bug shines brightly. It is immaculately clean. For instance ants; they are like varnished. They neither need to brush their teeth nor wash their faces and hands. They only clean them with their paws a few times, that is it. They become pure right away. These are the weaknesses of this world.


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This research guide is created for the Clinical Law Program of the University of Maryland School of Law. The guide is directed to provide the student attorney in Maryland with a starting point for practice-oriented legal research, with special emphasis on the practice areas of housing law, criminal justice, immigration law, family law, and landlord/tenant law. It also provides help in understanding the Maryland legal system.
With any project, unless you are already knowledgeable about the topic area, it's best to start with secondary sources and then to consult primary sources. Secondary sources such as handbooks, guides, and manuals, as well as sample forms and other practice materials, provide an attorney with rules and guidelines for law practice within certain jurisdictions. Articles and books can provide you with an overview of your topic and help you think of search terms you might not have thought of otherwise. They also cite primary authorities such as statutes and cases. You can use the primary sources cited in secondary sources as a jumping off point to find other primary sources in several ways:
Handbooks, guides, manuals, sample forms and other secondary materials provide an overview of practice areas. The following is a brief list of some secondary practice materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. For additional practice materials, please check the library's Catalog.
Use the online Catalog to find other law practice secondary sources available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. Practice materials are located in the Clinic Library and the Maryland section of the main library (call number KFM on the second floor). For research hints on how to use the catalog, see the Research Guide - Searching the Catalog. Some suggested searches in the Catalog follow:
The two main indexes to law journals are LegalTrac and Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (which includes books as well). These indexes include references to many journals not included in Westlaw or Lexis databases and in some cases provide access to the full text electronically. Each of these two online indexes has a parallel print version: the Current Law Index (K33 .C87), and the Index to Legal Periodicals (K9 .N32) are shelved near the print journals on level 1. The Index to Legal Periodicals is particularly helpful if you need to find articles published prior to 1980. For additional help on finding articles, visit Finding Articles in Legal Journals and Law Reviews.
Most print journals are shelved on level 1 of the library, in alphabetical order by journal title. To find out if the library has a particular journal title in electronic format, use the e-journals link on the Library web page or ask a librarian for help.
In the areas of housing, criminal justice, immigration, families and landlord/tenant law, there are a number of journals that are likely to contain relevant articles:
Note: Each of the files on Lexis and Westlaw linked below are combined files of journals focusing on these practice areas. It is also possible to search these journals individually.
For information on the Maryland legal system and Maryland materials at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, see Chapter 9 Maryland Legal Research of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
Statutes relating to practice areas in the Clinic exist at both the federal and state levels. Some useful electronic sources of statutory and legislative materials are linked below.
For more information on state legislative research, including Maryland legislative history, see Chapter 9 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
For more information on federal legislative research, including federal legislative history, see Chapter 5 and Chapter 10 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
For general information on finding and updating case law, see Chapter 7 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
Note: Free databases do not include cases dating back as far as the materials in Lexis and Westlaw databases. It is not recommended that you use free case law databases in your research.
Tip: If you find one good case on Lexis, you may be able to find others by identifying the headnote that best describes the issue of interest to you, then clicking "More Like This Headnote," or by Shepardizing the case to find other cases that have cited it for the issue represented by that headnote.
Tip: If you find one good case on Westlaw, you may be able to find others by identifying the headnote that best describes the issue of interest to you, then clicking "Most Cited Cases" for that headnote. You could also try clicking "KeyCite Notes" to find other cases that have cited your good case for issue represented by that headnote.
For more information on researching Maryland administrative law, see Chapter 9 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
For more information on researching federal administrative law, see Chapter 6 and Chapter 10 of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library Guide to Legal Research.
Listed below is a selected list of websites of organizations and other entities with collections specializing in clinic practice areas Housing Law, Criminal Justice, Immigration Law, Family Law, and Landlord Tenant Law.


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Pronunciation: lêv
Part of Speech: Noun & Transitive verb
Meaning: 1. A deep affection and respect for. 2. A sexual passion for someone or something. 3. Zero points in tennis scoring.
Notes: We picked this Good Word for today to make sure you are ready for tomorrow, St. Valentine's Day. Today you might want to play tennis, where you will have the occasion to use it frequently. This lovely word is used in scoring of tennis matches, where it has the unfortunate meaning of "nothing, zip, zilch, nada" (tennis scores are love, 15, 30, 40, game, rather than 0-1-2-3-4, win, and a tie is a deuce, probably because players often say that when they tie.
In Play: The first two meanings of today's Good Word reminds us that there is an easy 'love' and one that requires concentration: "The harder my wife and I work as loving each other, the deeper and more essential the relationship becomes." However, the second kind often ends up worth no more than the third: "He is a man who loves to love; he just doesn't know how."
Word History: Today's lovely word started out in Old English as lufu but, as many folks do, it improved with age. It is based on a root with sticking power: we see its original [l] and [b] in German Liebe, Russian ljubov, and Latin libido "pleasure". There once was a time when "love it or leave it" would have been redundant, since "leave" comes from the same parent word. "By your leave" once meant "by your pleasure", when love was associated with pleasure. The story of the tennis term is even more interesting. It is an English rendition of French l'œuf 'the egg', in a sense akin to English goose egg. The shift to love is the result of a process known as folk etymology, the conversion of


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Welcome to Friday's The Crap We Missed and let me just say we are ending the week titty strong. Maybe to make up for the criminal penisfication of Miranda Kerr, or maybe because my sharply trained eyes and hardened heart would never fail to bring you this perplexing combo. While you struggle with the weirdest boner ever, please also enjoy Nick Nolte just getting better and better with age, ditto for Bill Paxton, as well as Chevy Chase, because he looks like he's still doing alrig–AHHH!
For the love of God, could someone please make it illegal for John Travolta & Olivia Newton John to be in the same room?
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This article was published 22/2/2013 (1642 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeggers are being warned about a sex offender being released from jail who is considered a high risk to re-offend.
The Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offender Unit, a joint unit of the Winnipeg Police Service and the RCMP, said today that Winston George Thomas, 35, will be released from the Headingley Correctional Centre on Sunday.
The unit says Thomas is expected to live in Winnipeg.
Thomas has numerous criminal convictions including two counts of sexual assault.
While Thomas took some sex offender treatment programs in jail, he is considered a high risk to re-offend and women of all ages are being warned they "are at risk of sexual violence".
Thomas committed a sexual act with a 13-year-old girl in March 2007, after he and two other men met her at a Winnipeg shopping centre. He was sentenced to two years less a day followed by three years of probation. His latest sentence was for other unrelated convictions.
The public is being warned not to take vigilante action against Thomas.


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THE quality of British racing remains "second to none" – but "derisory" prize money levels remain a persistent threat to its future, guests at a prestigious York Racecourse dinner were told last night.
Addressing the 242nd Gimcrack Dinner, Rachel Hood, president of the Racehorse Owners Association, said that nobody connected with the sport should "ever forget that owners are the single biggest providers to the funding of British racing".
She revealed figures from a survey of owners' expenditure which said the cost of keeping a single Flat horse in training is nearly £19,000 a year and that, as prize money had fallen, so had the number of owners – by about 14 per cent since 2008.
Hood maintained that the level of contribution of racecourses to prize money was an issue that required "immediate attention".
While acknowledging the contribution from tracks and sponsors to prize money had increased by £15 million in 2011, with a small increase likely this year, Hood said: "The fact that a racecourse's allocation to prize money remains totally discretionary is, quite simply, wrong."
"Our host this evening is just one example of a racecourse that is committed to providing prize money at a level that will continue to attract the very best horses in what is now an extremely competitive international market," Hood told the invited audience.
But she added: "The RCA has recently confirmed that by 2013 racecourses will be receiving media rights of at least £84 million, nearly £30 million more than in 2010. Based on around 1,450 fixtures... this means that racecourses will receive something close to £60,000 per fixture.
"The fact that there are still a number of courses out there that don't even contribute £10,000 to prize money at their fixtures illustrates why many owners are disillusioned. Other owners, myself included, are pretty cross."
This year's Gimcrack, staged at the Ebor Festival in August, was won by Blaine, owned by Lauren Morgan and trained by Hambleton's Kevin Ryan.
She understood it was 40 years since a female speaker last addressed the gathering and added her experiences of racing had been "nothing but positive".
"At a time when many would wish to address what is wrong within racing I feel it is important to highlight what is right in the sport," she said. "The hard work that many are putting in to change the face of racing, and to make it appealing to all, is definitely working."
Gimcrack, born in 1760, recorded 27 wins from 30 races during an 11-year career. Despite never winning at York, his performances led to Lord Rockingham, twice Prime Minister and a leading figure on Knavesmire, forming a dining club in his honour in 1767.


text: Duncan Oliphant, a brewer, was the son of Jas. Oliphant (1719-1816) and Jane Wortman (b. 1722), of Saratoga Co., NY, and the grandson of Duncan Oliphant, Sr., a pioneer settler of Staten Isl., NY, and one of the founders of Hunterdon Co., NJ. Duncan Oliphant, of Ballston, Saratoga Co., NY, married Rachel Woodruff, with whom he had five children: Robert; David; Elizabeth; Sarah; and Mary. (He is said by some researchers to have had an earlier marriage to a Jane Vandenburgh, with whom he had a son James and a daughter Jennet Jane. But this Duncan Oliphant, apparently based in Northampton Co., PA, may very well have been another man by the same.)


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EARBY Town Council is to honour seven World War Two veterans with the freedom of the town next week.
The men have been traced in recent months after a similar ceremony in June at which other ex-service people were handed the accolade.
The Freedom of Earby awards, which the public are welcome to attend, will take place on Saturday, November 24 at the New Road Community Centre at 6.30pm. There will be a performance from Earby Band at the event.
The council has also revealed the sad news that three of the veterans given the award earlier this year, Jack Eastwood, Jim Wiseman and Billy Walton, have since died.


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Every where I go I see people with iPhones iPads compete rubbish
Most people who plan on buying a iPhone within the next few months are just waiting for the next one? I swear I see this same story every time a new iPhone is going to be released within the next few months...
Since the release of the first iPhone and subsequent release of a purported iPhone killer, this story has popped up. One week the iPhone is breaking records for still selling more 4S models than the new HTC One or Blackerry is selling combined. Now all of a sudden their demise is imminent. WTF??? Please find something relevant to write about.
Umm..last I checked its your choice to read or not to read. Simply scroll past articles that are of no interest to you. I know some of these stories get old but they are still relevant. I find the stories of Apple products more relevant than the actual Android hardware itself :]
I am so tired of seeing these articles comparing iOS to Android in terms of units sold. Android is OPEN SOURCE, and is running on 4,000 different devices, while iOS is only running on 20 (including Apple TV), and there are only 7 unique iOS devices that are currently being sold.
This is like trying to compare how many pencils are being sold vs how many BIC (and specifically BIC) mechanical pencils are being sold. It says absolutely nothing about neither the market nor how much money is being made by the companies.
The more accurate question is how many Nexus phones/tablets are being sold as compared to iPhones and iPads?
This is like comparing how many people are having free (open source) sex vs paying for sex. What the hell?
I have to say though, after using the Nexus and Note 2, holding an iPhone feels like when I got the iPhone 3G years ago and then holding my Motorola ROKR E6. The E6 felt so tiny and "low tech." Even my friend's iP5 felt low tech. It's pretty much the same design as the iP4 3 years ago and same iOS design since the beginning!
One thing I do give to Apple is that their stuff have great resale value. Sold both my iP4 for $300 a piece!
Several different manufacturers split sales of Android devices. Apple gets 100% of iOS sales. I don't get why that's so hard for people to understand. It's not a fair comparison. The only thing that matters is which platform(s) developers are creating apps for. As long as they're still making apps for iOS, Apple is fine. But if and when they start developing for Android over iOS, that's when Apple is in trouble.
I see more Hondas than Ferraris in my town.


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HOUSTON - An off-duty Houston police officer has been credited with foiling the plans of some armed robbers in southwest Houston.
Investigators said around 8:40 p.m. Saturday, an off-duty Houston police officer was working an approved extra job at the Radio Shack in the 1000 block of North Gessner near the Katy Freeway.
Three masked crooks walked in, and one of them pointed a gun directly at the officer, police said. That's when the officer pulled his own gun and opened fire, investigators said.
Police said the suspects decided to make a run for it. Two fled through a room in the back while the third took off through the front door.
Investigators said neither the police officer nor the two employees inside the store were hit during the confrontation. Police said they don't think any of the crooks were hit.
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