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There isn't much history available for the site, but we think it was built in the late 1980s and vacated from 2014. Apparently there are 14 bedrooms, each with on-suites and owned by some Latvian men, who live in the security house joined to the manor.
From what I've heard, following the trespass strain of the mansion, they are trying to push demolition forward, and have increased security presence until then. Here's some pictures:
The fountains at the front and back were cute
The treehouse. Imagine having this in your garden as a kid...
Doors are ripped off the hinges around the property. The first one we saw took us into the central staircase, topped with a domed skylight.
A lounge, with fake bookshelf cupboards
In one section of the house, there was a lot more deterioration. Someone had definitely been catering to the building after it became unused, with buckets placed down to collect the surging water.
According to some of the people we met inside, this graffiti had occurred the day before, with the mansion cropping up two days prior. It had to be a Facebook world record.
That's all for the photos. Here's the link to the documentary styled video we made here. We cover what we could find of the past, present and future through cinematics and narration:
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Euzebe - Thursday 05/04/2012, 16:49
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Hello all,
After the (chaotic) release of the Standard mode and the first feedbacks, we have taken decisions on several things we want to let your know. We think you will be satisfied with the future improvements we will add first.
• Improvement of the quickbattle system in DTs.
We already made corrections, it seems that the small decks vs big decks problem is far less met. We will keep on working on it until the partition T1/T2 is not a problem any more.
• Penalties on some characters in DTs.
The first 2 points penalties per character are already operational and you can find the list here: http://www.urban-rivals.com/help/?category=9-0
Except for Leader, for the moment there are no penalized Standard characters. It may change, we give ourselves time to analyse DTs.
• DTs divided in two.
Finally we won't alternate DT's. We will let you have two DTs at the same time, 1 Standard, 1 Extended. With two different rankings.
• Length of a DT shorten but increase of its frequency.
DTs length will decrease from 1 hour to 45 minutes with a 15 minutes break between each tournament and then you can play again. It means there will be 24 Standard DTs and 24 Extended DTs per day.
To prevent abuses, a limitation of 8 DT credits per day and player will be added (you will receive all other rewards if you play more than 8 DTs).
• Survivor Standard and Deathmatch Standard rooms.
They will be open soon, we are working on an update of the flash game.
Questions you may want to ask:
• The number of CR remain at 5. It might change in the future.
• A PM will be sent to you each evening if you made a top 150 during the day so as to inform you if you have won a collector (or not).
• The timer will be reduced from 60 to 50 seconds again.
Have fun
Zoidberg1 - Monday 23/04/2012, 19:47
Legend - the courtyard of shadows
On the collar and Cap idea for minimum and Maximum points scorred per fight, you will need a wide range so that people don't go for the Jackie Vickie etc deck in Extended and use that to bludgeon through a lot of quick games and be at the top of the leader board
Zoidberg1 - Monday 23/04/2012, 21:20
Legend - the courtyard of shadows
I thought I would check your claim about how hard it is to do well in a DT in standard mode, (I've never failed to get into the top 150 when playing the whole hour before) so I put together a decent deck
and for the first time ever finished outside the top 150, I got in 19 fights (I'm disappointed in this as I hoped with the new time format I wouldn't have to wait so long for opponents, but it doesn't seem to make much diffrence) over half of these my opponents drew 16 stars or more (The most was 19 and I faced a couple of 18 star hands) which makes me think that the opponent selector still needs alot of work. But even with decent results against continuously higher stared decks I couldn't get close to my usual positioning.
Please can you look into the deck selector again I can't be that unlucky that my opponents keep drawing their highest star cards to their hands.
Also please can we have something done to take the DT's back to what they were, you face a Caelus Askai, etc every fight we need the points deductions in force to make it more even like it was before
DivaDestiny - Tuesday 24/04/2012, 09:18
I just started playing in a standard tourney and for some reason all the players I faced were newbies playing with starter characters, Vansaar and such. Sure it was easy to get points- but it didn't really seem fair.
It didn't seem to be a star count issue, since most the decks I faced were much higher in star count. My winrate? I am not really sure how that's counted since I just started playing in tourneys again. Global deck winrate? I was playing low-star Berzerks with Spyke, Lola and lots of commons. Not a "power" deck but not bad either.
How are these factors being calculated?. It seems like there are still some bugs here and unfortunately there are probably lots of players taking advantage of them.
scratches1972 - Wednesday 25/04/2012, 17:47
Imperator - Time Conquers All
After reading many of the same points over and over, let me express a few quick observations, points, and opinions:
1. Many people obviously don't want to feel like the Standard format is being pushed upon them. Reduction of previous prizes in other modes by "transferring" some of them to Standard format rooms is disliked (or worse) by many players (including me). If prizes and opportunities were not lowered in the "old" (now "Extended" formats, then I think there would be less opposition. However…
2. ...UR wants to limit the amount of "free" rewards they give away. UR does not want to increase the number of "free" prizes by giving the previous rewards for both Extended and Standard rooms. The elimination of ELO as a DT qualifying room is clearly ONLY meant to lower the free credits and clintz UR gives away by lowering the number of players in DTs; I see no other rational explanation. The obvious objective is to increase the purchase of credits and increase UR's profits. They are a company trying to boost revenue=pure profit. That's what companies do.
3. The Standard format is severely "broken" in its current state. If the goals are to increase deck diversity and make new players more competitive (as I believe were among UR's stated purposes), then so far it is a complete failure. I've never played Standard myself. From everything I've read, the clan imbalances in competitiveness and the relative variety of options is extreme.
To Be Continued
scratches1972 - Wednesday 25/04/2012, 17:47
Imperator - Time Conquers All
4. Let's look at a great example of an obvious problem: Let's evaluate the full power (all cards are younger and eligible for Standard) of the best of Skeelz decks (using all 35 cards) Vortex (all 27 cards allowed) or Berserk (all 26 cards legal too), then compare them to the underpowered Root's ridiculously limited NINE eligible cards (Yes, really only 9 cards, lol) or La Junta's measly 12 cards. Who couldn't see a problem there before the format's release? Now we need to play this nonsense for a while as a beta to see that the 3 year limitation has killed older clans since their powerful "core" cards are not eligible for Standard.
In summary: Over the last 3 years, the older, bigger clans have only received a few "replacement" (replaces another staple card) and some decent cards, but in "Standard" they have few choices (few eligible cards), lack their clan's top cards, and have several "non-viable" cards. They have not gotten too many great cards in the past years because their core was already strong because of the older now "non-Standard" cards like Shakra, Ratanah, Yookie, Jeena, Arno, Noodile, Rico, etc. While newer clans have all their cards allowed including their OP "core" cards such as Caelus, Spyke, Elvis, etc. which are now too old to qualify for Standard. The differences in choice and in competitive advantage seem clear.
To Be Continued
scratches1972 - Wednesday 25/04/2012, 17:48
Imperator - Time Conquers All
5. Will the Standard format be changed? Of course, it will. It must undergo tremendous changes to become viable and accomplish either of its stated purposes. Why UR could not see what is so immediately obvious in terms of the vast clan & Leader imbalances, I don't know. However, the last 3 years criterion for standard cards makes no sense except to drive credit sales and devalue older cards (especially those not good for Extended (or T2) . The clans must be balanced with a number of "equal" choices for the new format to work as advertised.
6. ELO participation is clearly down. It's only 3 weeks of new data (with plenty of old info), but the numbers are statistically significant. I've done enough statistical analyses to see that the steady numbers pre-changes compared to the significantly lower post-change numbers (which so far are trending down each week)[Numbers courtesy of elite's posts]. The fact that there has been a reduction in ELO play looks to be at least 99% certain. The fact that ELO no longer qualifies will reduce ELO play since during DTs, earning a credit plus clintz while boosting your ELO score was a productive strategy. Now you must choose between them, and some people fight for that credit instead of playing ELO. Whether the overall UR activity had dropped or not, I have no idea.
To Be Continued
scratches1972 - Wednesday 25/04/2012, 17:48
Imperator - Time Conquers All
7. What surprises me is the minimal number of "2 point penalty cards" listed for Extended DTs. From my personal perspective it's good: I have limited time to play and, for a nice change, I get to use some of my best cards for something worthwhile. I'm not playing enough to know which deck(s) are best, but if I can find more time I may find out. (I did make the top 150 in the few I have tried…decks with Lamar Cr with Eyrik or Tanaereva Cr with Wee Lee, etc. receive no penalties? – certainly okay with me who hasn't had time to play and try to find something that both works well and is fun.) However the list of 2 point penalty cards needed to be posted more clearly (such as a link/button in the battle window which shows the lists: I really don't want to see Jackie Cr with: Ambre, Zatman, Nellie, Ruby, Dorian, Maurice, etc. so often.
8. Personally, in DTs I'd like to see gaining 1 point for every "penalty card" that you face; shouldn't you get a few extra points for facing Jackie and/or Ambre and/or Nellie and/or Zatman (with Ruby, Maurice, Kazayan, etc.) or Lyse Teria Cr with Vickie Cr with Ambre.
To Be Continued
scratches1972 - Wednesday 25/04/2012, 17:49
Imperator - Time Conquers All
9. I hate the idea of pairing players based on either their winrates or the winrates of their deck. If a lesser player gets on a roll, they become more likely to run into strong players and stop his/her run. It fights against that "1 great DT" where somebody finishes "above their head". It also punishes people who play KO decks and depend on a high winrate to place well. A question: Where will the ratings of every possible deck that qualifies be listed…Nowhere...and even if it were, who would spend the time to even read the massive block of data? It's going to be hard enough for UR to frequently adjust the deck winrates internally; that's a lot of work considering every deck that gets played enough to qualify is a large amount of info. Another potential problem: What happens if I lose a bunch of battles before the DT and now have a bad personal winrate, will I tend to start the DT against weaker players with a lower rating in the pairing system?
I leave it to each person to decide what has been fact and what has simply been opinion.
YEA! No "To Be Continued" needed, lol.
Zoidberg1 - Thursday 26/04/2012, 00:04
Legend - the courtyard of shadows
A great summary of the sentiments on the boards and there is little you say that I do not agree with other than the lack of cards with a 2 point penelty, ok so potentially if I could motivate myself to play much at the moment (I am fed up with playing against 18-19 star hands with my T1 deck, the selection system is still broken) then with a large collection I could play a powerful deck and do well in the DT's
The problem again goes to the making it fairer for newer players, they can't compete in Standard as everyone I have played in that room is running decks with cards such as ambre askai caelus Michael and other extreamly expensive over powered and unbalanced cards and there is little chance of getting a good dt spot in that room, in extended it is likely to be just as bad with the old powerhouse decks and all the cards you mentioned running rampent.
I really feel sorry for new players starting now,
We really need several things to happen quickly:
Standard reworked to even out the clans and remove the overpowered expensive cards
Standard seperated from Extended in DT results so that people have a chance of getting to the top in that room
A proper 2 point penelty list to make DT's more balanced
The deck selector sorted out (Its killing the game and really isn't working) in my opininon you should not be able to face someone who has more than 3 stars different in their deck, its really getting dull pulling 9-10 stars against 18-19
ghelas - Thursday 26/04/2012, 04:10
Titan - E X C A L I B U R
I'm going to take this opportunity to... yes, yes, complain about "free stuff."
When I started UR, there were always ways to get credits occasionally -- sometimes more accessible to mobile players, but at least they were there.
I'm gonna go over this point by point, because it's a somewhat complicated idea... Read carefully.
Whereas before, we had videos that awarded a credit for watching them, they now award as little as 4 clintz.
As someone pointed out, the number of clintz in this game is always increasing. Fighting battles, spinning the lottery reels, etc, all generates more clintz. Where do these clintz end up? In the banks of the most seasoned players, because they have the most assets.
Players who have been playing for long time have big stashes of clintz available to them, and little motivation to sell new cards -- unless they sell for an exorbitant price. Changing video credits to video clintz means that the prices of new cards will continue to creep UP.
Players who are new to the game, on the other hand, now have less ability to compete than ever. As prices of new, powerful cards go up, it only ensures that newbies will continue to get crushed by cards they can't afford.
Not only did Standard fail to make the game more new-player-friendly, but the changes that accompany it are threatening to put the last nail in the coffin. I think we all understand what it means for UR if the game suddenly becomes less likely to attract new players.


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In the beginning I got into the union because there were a lot of things wrong with the way we were working.
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I was born in the Middleton area of Hartlepool.
I started work when I was still at school, when I was only 11. I used to get up at 5.30am and deliver papers from 6-8am, then work as a butcher's boy during my lunch break, and then deliver papers again after school.
The paper job earned me 4s 6d. I also got 1s 6d from the butcher. But I had to give it all to my mother. I was allowed to keep 3d from each job for myself - just 6d pocket money.
I was only 14 when I left Middleton St Johns School, but couldn't get an apprenticeship.
I got my first job at the South Durham Steel and Iron Company when I was 17 - and I started right at the bottom.
I was classed as a 'spare man' and you just did what you were told. I had to work my way up.
I became a crane driver and was eventually driving the cranes that carried big ladles of steel.
I wanted to help make things better and so became a local official for the ISTC. I then moved up to branch secretary and got on to national negotiations for wages.
I was very keen and there were opportunities if you were interested. I was learning all the time - which was great as my schooling had been very poor and Iundefinedd come out with no qualifications.
When a vacancy came up for a full time officer I got the job and was based in Middlesbrough - it became my second home.
I was based on Albert Road looking after around 90,000 workers, most of which were employed in the steel industry. Today that number's probably just a few thousand.
The main issues was negotiating wage problems.
I had the job from 1963 to 1970. It was hard work and a time when there was a lot of difficult changes in the industry.
They wanted to close down the old melting shop at Lackenby. It did eventually happen but we managed to do it in such as way that we looked after our own people.
But then I had to leave Teesside to take up a post of divisional officer in Manchester. That was a big change.
Despite what people say it doesn't rain there all the time - just most of it. But it's not like Teesside rain.
In Hartlepool the rain comes straight at you, blowing at you from all directions. In Manchester it comes straight down so at least, unlike Teesside, you could use an umbrella!
I think people from the North East must be more hardy. I used to swim in the sea at Hartlepool until I was 55 - even in the middle of winter!
When the chance came up for the post of assistant general secretary I had to take an exam set by the TUC. I was lucky and got the job so moved to London in 1973 where I was dealing with problems across the full range of industry.
Two years later I moved up to be general secretary.
It was a difficult time to hold that position.
People were beginning to recognise that the UK steel industry had too many works, many of which were old, and the industry was overmanned.
In 1983 we faced the 13-week steelworkers strike.
We had 100,000 workers out on industrial action - the longest 100pc strike in history.
We had nothing when we started negotiations. At the end we'd agreed a 16pc annual pay rise.
In 1985 British Steel wanted to get rid of 20,000 people in one go. I had some of my longest ever meetings during those times. I had two that ran for 36 hours non-stop!
After ten years in the job, at the age of 65, I retired.
I've done some voluntary work, but now my main duty is president of the seniors golf club at the Panshanger club at Welwyn Garden City, near to where I live in Hatfield in Hertfordshire.
We don't have any arguments. But the members know I know how to deal with things.
I do still try to get up to Hartlepool. The town has changed so much since I used to run around on the beach - and it's still in the process of change.
Steel on Teesside has been through a very difficult time in the last few years. It's sad to see what's happened. And I donundefinedt think the formation of Corus has done us any favours.
I have always thought the Teesside beam mill was one of the finest in the world and a recent visit to the area confirmed my opinion. Teesside can be proud of the mill which is capable of taking on any competition.
We still have an excellent workforce - we've always had good workers, that's one thing that's not changed.
I hope Corus keeps faith with the magnificent traditions of Teesside steel making by continuing to invest in this crown jewel and its efficient workers who are its lifeblood.


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As I push through the heaving Christmas throng in a department store, I am possessed with a sudden urge to hunt down and maim Michael Bublé. Damn his silver tonsils! What is it about updated Christmas songs that cause them to adhere so securely to one's grey matter? Is it the simple, cheerful melodies? The sickly sweet sentimentality? Or the nausea induced by the thinly veiled attempt to cash in on the 'spirit' of Christmas? Whatever the reason, once heard, they are almost impossible to dismiss.
It could be argued that the rise of the light-hearted, cheesy Christmas song and the subsequent demise of the traditional, reverent carol, is indicative of our relationship with Christmas overall. In a nation where it's estimated only 9% of the population regularly attend church services, the idea of a religious holiday seems more and more like something that belongs to the annals of history. Though we cling fast to Christmas, the same cannot be said for Christianity. So have we replaced giving thanks for the life and death of Jesus with supermarket Santas? Have we all fallen victim to the bewitching fairy lights of consumerism?
Or perhaps it's just not that straightforward.
I suspect we extract the bits that suit us from the plethora of Christmas traditions, tailoring the festive season to meet our own personal desires and agendas, making it a kind of postmodern celebration. And why shouldn't we? After all, haven't traditions been borrowed from culture to culture, faith to faith throughout history? Isn't the Christmas feast borrowed from the pagan winter solstice anyway? Personally tailoring Christmas needn't be synonymous with irreverence.
I'm not denying for a moment that we are bombarded with all manner of commercial ploys at this time of year. We are guilt-tripped into buying presents for everyone down to the neighbour's cat. Big business will hop on the back of pretty much anything they think will earn them a dollar – it is a free-market economy after all. But this doesn't mean commercial interests can dictate to us what something means, unless we look to them for a definition.
I would describe myself as an agnostic raised in a secular household. Yet I still relish Christmas. Yes, there are the infernal yuletide jingles that rattle around my brain – and the gross, unabashed consumerism lurking around every corner. But there is also a pervading sense of charity, a heightened sense of community, family and generally being decent to one another that is evident around this time of the year.
Very few of my family, friends or colleagues are practising Christians. But, still, Christmas parties, lunches and gestures of goodwill abound. No matter what our religious beliefs, or lack thereof, I think the modern Australian celebration of Christmas is about more than its Christian origins, and more than shiny things under plastic trees. For me, it's about spending time with loved ones, working less and relaxing more.
We should accept that it's a personal choice. The benefit of living in a rich and diverse society is having the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of perspectives and beliefs that differ from our own. It is all too easy to make criticisms and condemnations based on assumptions and decontextualised half-truths. While history and tradition provide us with a depth of social understanding that is undeniably important, a society's collective moral and spiritual framework must remain in flux. We need to challenge established belief systems if we are to learn and grow. But to be effective, this needs to be done as respectfully and inclusively as possible. Perhaps, at this time of year – when spirits are high and social occasions more frequent – we should take time out to notice how others celebrate, or indeed how and why they choose not to celebrate.
It's a shame that we need a special occasion to remind us to be good to each other, but the fact of the matter is that we do. So until that need abates and there is no more crime, selfishness or indifference, why not make the most of our national summer holiday?
Spend it the way you want to spend it. Not the way you're told you should.
Jacob Harris is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. He enjoys fly-fishing and writing short fiction. He also has a fine collection of hats.
This article was first published in Ed#473.
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The Denver disco-funk band formerly known as Filthy Children has seen a shift in its sound and lineup, including a new lead singer. The group was reborn as SuperMagick at the beginning of 2016, the new name better representing the fusion of soul and disco elements the seven-piece outfit injects into its jazzy tunes.
"We've kind of just gone through the motions, but last year we really started getting into some new material, writing new music," founding guitarist Bryant Walker says.
Formed in 2003 by Walker and his friend trombonist Jon Braddy, Filthy Children was more of a "drunken jazz band," Walker says, playing the local club scene.
After vocalist Micah Munro stepped away from the band in 2010 to focus on motherhood, the group hit a lull.
Braddy and Walker started auditioning vocalists to replace Munro, but she had already hand-picked her successor.
Enter Jenny Anderson. The dynamo vocalist was performing with her former band, the Atomic Brass Project, when Munro spotted her.
"She told me who to contact and everything," Anderson says of Munro's christening.
Just one thing: The band didn't know about Anderson and her chops yet.
"These guys wouldn't call me back because they were auditioning other cool people and hot chicks," Anderson jokes.
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A Boston native, Anderson has been singing since she could muster enough breath to belt out a note, and continued through high-school jazz-band competitions on to American Idol, where she finished in the Top 100.
When she moved to Denver a decade ago, she started to perform at Mead Street Station's open mic nights. A friend helped her find a steady gig with a brass band before Munro recruited her.
"Jenny commands the stage," Walker says.
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Over the past six-plus years, Anderson has become more comfortable with the band's process, which has allowed her to bring some personal flavor to songs and performances.
"They've given me so much creative decision on songs, and saying what works and doesn't," she says.
The band has been performing new material live over the past six months and there are plans to hit the studio in 2017, with an early 2018 release date for a new album.
SuperMagick will perform at Tony P's Uptown, Saturday, March 18. Music starts at 9 p.m.; tickets are $5 at the door.


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In case you haven't heard about Pi Night, it is on Tuesday March 14, 5-7pm, in the PVCICS gymnasium. The event is free for students and their families to attend. Dinner is included as well as games, crafts, Pi memorization competition, pie eating contest, etc.
The Family Association will be giving the proceeds from the Pi Night event to the 8th grade class to be used toward an end of year trip or graduation celebration. Please go to the sign up link below if you are able to volunteer to provide a pie for the silent auction. It would be best to have a variety of different kinds of pies. It's okay to sign up to make/provide the same kind of pie that someone has all ready signed up for though. Berry pies, cream pies, chicken pot pie, etc. For more ideas, just Google Pi Night ideas or something of the like.
Eighth grade students are also needed to run the silent auction table. Sign-up to volunteer is also included in the link below.


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A Little About Me
I passionately promote lesbian fiction. You can see my paid for services here.
Why Lesbian Fiction?
I grew up in a wonderful and loving family however, there wasn't a single queer person in my life. No family friends, no relatives, not even anyone on TV or in the movies.
So, when I started having these feelings for girls I was uncomfortable. I was not at all keen on being different from everyone else I knew.
I was not interested in being labeled as an outsider for feelings that ran deep and passionate. I mean, boys were fine, I had some guy friends who would inevitably try to kiss me and this would make me really angry. I didn't know why. And then there were the girls who I thought were pretty and I would get tongue tied around them and want to run away because they made my heart beat a little faster.
And when, as they inevitably do, my hormones surged and I became a teenager then it just amplified these squishy feelings I had for girls. But I wanted to bury them deep because being "not normal" is really difficult. Even when you are from a loving home.
Then, when I was about 19, I discovered lesbian fiction. It was the first time I had come across anyone else who had feelings like I did. This discovery gave me hope and I read every single lesbian novel I could get my hands on. For the first time in my life I didn't feel like a strange person. For the first time, I felt like I wasn't an "other". I was normal. Look, here were women from all over the world who knew what I was feeling and could describe it in incredible, heartbreaking detail.
I was normal.
This revelation changed my world.
And so I write and do podcasts and review books with the aim of reaching other women who feel like strangers in the world. Other women who just want to be normal. Other girls like me who have yet to discover that they are not "others". That they are not pariahs or weirdos or freaks.
That they are normal too.
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Thanks for all the visitors, good trading,
Jack R.
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This is My Last Post
I really enjoyed posting here a couple of times a week over almost a year and a half. I intended to educate myself with my posts but in the meantime a realized that there were a lot of people around the globe who were interested in my writings. My main goal with this blog was to describe what the market was doing using mainly technical analysis. I almost always included a chart to visualize where things were going. I was using these observations in my own trades. Since I have been blogging here I refined my technical analysis and I developed techniques I feel very comfortable with. This blog also served as a journal for me although I didn't go into details about my personal trading. During the past few months I realized that I got distracted and I started to focus on what my audience would like instead of what I would benefit from the most. After all this about trading and making money. As a result I decided that I will take my future posts private. I will go into more detail specifically about my trades. These posts would be too personal to share. I will leave this post open to public so everybody can search it and I will probably search it too.
Thanks for all the visitors, good trading,
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Sector Performance this Month
The chart below shows that all nine sectors of the S&P 500 are in the black this months. Industrials, Cyclicals and Financials are the leaders, Energy and Utility sectors are far behind.
The CBOE Options Total Put/Call Ratio confirms the recent advance of the overall market. Investors are buying less puts as they believe that the market could move even higher. The daily chart below shows $CPC with a couple of moving averages. The 10-day SMA sharply turned down and is moving lower. The correlation coefficient between $CPC and $SPX the S&P 500 index is back to normal which is negative.
The daily chart below shows the 21-day EMA of the S&P 500 Advance-Decline Percent . The Advance-Decline Percent is a breadth indicator that measures the percentage of Net Advances. The calculation is simple:
AD Percent = (Advances Less Declines) / Total Issues
In this case we are looking at the Advance-Decline Percent for the S&P 500 which measures the degree of participation of the S&P 500 stocks. When $SPXADP is positive and advancing it shows that more and more S&P 500 stocks participate in the uptrend as was the case during the past week. Earlier, starting in June there was a divergence between the 21-day EMA and $SPX (in the background) which foreshadowed the recent pullback.
$VIX sharply moved lower during the past week showing that investors are having more confidence in this long-term uptrend and the recent "fear" of a deeper correction is now in the past. Even sudden geopolitical events only moderately affected the market as it was evident this past Friday and it was quickly absorbed showing how resilient is this equity market. $VIX spiked above the 200-day moving average but finished the day below that as fear dissipated during Friday.
$NYA - Is the Bottom Near?
The daily charts below shows $NYA, the NYSE Composite Index. The indicator window shows the New 52-Week Highs and New 52-Week Lows of the NYSE. I am trying to use these breadth indicators to gauge the bottom of this pullback/correction. The New 52-Week Highs are still way under the 50-day SMA and the New 52-Week Lows are still above the 50-day SMA and increasing. There was a similar situation back in February, see the circled areas. I am still waiting until the New 52-Week Highs are increasing and eventually move above the 50-day SMA and the New 52-Week Lows move way below the 50-day SMA.
$SPXA200R Sharply Declined
$SPXA200R is a breadth indicator showing the percentage of S&P 500 stocks above the 200-day moving average. $SPXA200R declines when more S&P 500 stocks cross below the 200-day moving average. Notice that in July a divergence developed between the S&P 500 and $SPXA200R. $SPXA200R probably will move lower along with $SPX the S&P 500 index.
The McClellan Oscillator is a breadth indicator, calculated from Net Advances. Net Advances are the number of advancing issues less the declining issues. When the McClellan Oscillator is negative declining issues are dominating.
$SPY - Large-Caps are the Leaders
The performance chart below compares four ETFs representing the Mega-Caps, Large-Caps, Mid-Caps and Small-Caps. Large-Caps are the best and the Meg-Caps are trying to catch up. On the other hand Small-Caps are not doing so good.
$SPXA50R - The Number of S&P 500 Stocks Above the 50-Day Moving Average is Decreasing
The daily chart below shows $SPXA50R, the S&P 500 Percent of Stocks Above the 50-Day Moving Average. It has been declining since the end of June showing a divergence with the S&P 500 index. You can read more about the $SPXA50R if you search this site. The horizontal lines are for reference. The upper half is bullish and the lower half is bearish. During pull backs $SPXA50R can decline below 40%. In an uptrend this could be a good buying opportunity.


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STEWARDSHIP: Gratitude in Action - Our Way of Life
Our Ministry of Hope & Joy is born of a desire to assist those in need in our community. In addition to coordinating Our Mother's Pantry, the Ministry of Hope & Joy also oversees the Blessing Baskets at Thanksgiving and the Angels of Christmas in December.
The food pantry, Our Mother's Pantry, is coordinated by Judie and Tom Witt through the Ministry of Hope & Joy. The pantry shelves are stocked with donated items and those purchased through the monetary generosity of our parish family. Our Mother's Pantry, on the third floor of the Scanlan building, is open Tuesday mornings 9:00-1:30, Wednesday afternoons 1:30-4:00m and Thursday mornings 9:00-11:30. If you have questions or are interested in assisting Judie and Tom, please visit Our Mother's Pantry during these hours to meet them and become more familiar with the operation and needs of the pantry.


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Appetites Duly Satisfied at Hungry Man Gallery
After a terrible night of being lost again (I think my Friday Night Army nickname should be The Lost Critic), I found Hungry Man Gallery. I was first struck by the pulse of the place at the opening on February 19, 2010. But there was good reason for such a partied pulse — they were launching their journal of art and poetry, In Preparation. Because of my MIA status, I got to the gallery late and missed the reading, but was taken around the gallery, piece by piece by one of the editors, Mark Schettler who added a nice warmth to the commotion of the successful and well-attended opening.
Much of the artwork included in the journal also adorned the walls of this apartment gallery in Logan Square. The cover art by Garrett Durant hung proudly and seemed to set a kind of pulse for the evening with its bright primary colors playing up the excitement, the movement of the work itself adding to the excited motion throughout the gallery.
A highlight were two pieces of complete serendipity, an accidental conversation that was occurring between Juho Heikkinen's Untitled and B. Ingrid Olson's Chorus. These pieces were hanging together in the gallery and are also center stage in the journal. The story goes that these two artists were both living in the Netherlands and did not know one another. Each of them submitted these pieces and the Editors were amazed at their conversation with one another. The illustrations, however individual, had the look of being executed together, as if the artists had collaborated. But of course, this was an instance of total and beautiful happenstance that brought these pieces together. Both pieces show a kind of chaos, an internal chaos specifically, terrorizing the subjects in the piece. Putting them side by side makes this narrative grow, a narrative that fits perfectly in this issue of In Preparation and in the show.
According to the Introduction by the Editors, the catalyst for this issue was the artwork of Dutch artist and engineer Theo Jansen who creates what the Editors discuss as "Strandbeests — artificial life made of plastic, wire, and scotch tape. The work raises questions not only about what defines evolution, but what defines organic life." The English translation of "strandbeets" is "beach animals". These are people who walk the beaches in search of wind. This romantic idea in these resulting works by Jansen were indeed a nice introduction to the show as well as the journal, the organic growth of every piece speaking back to these notions. In these works as well as the poems in the journal speak of waiting, chaos, and searching, and this is especially palpable in a poem by Emma Furman called, "Abe Fuckin' Lincoln." The poem closes, cinching these sentiments:
Ben Bertin's artwork, Sketch for Moon follows this poem, and its loneliness speaks well the the loneliness of wait and creation in Furman's poem. I was first struck by its resemblance to a Radiohead-esque record cover with its obsessive illustrations of circles and shapes, organic forms looking for the moon just as the strandbeets look for wind. This piece is across the gallery from another piece that continues these sentiments, a piece that was my favorite in the show, Robin Juan's Mirror. This photograph shows a mirror on a sheet, and on this mirror is a found squirrel's skull and a wish bone. The truly organic quality in this piece shows the artist's maturation with the control and meditation. There is nothing impatient or obsessive in this piece, but it is instead celebratory and poetic.


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The premise of this post will seem silly to some people. It seems slightly silly even to me. But it is a response to a lot of crap written about rioters from both left and right. This post is about what I and the participants in the recent riots have in common. The point is not to obsess about myself. I want to do it because so many people have been talking about 'them', as though they are fundamentally different from 'us', whoever the hell 'us' is (I know I have more in common with an ocelot than I do with David Starkey and I barely even know what an ocelot is).
A lot of the speakers and writers have sounded very sure of themselves too, especially when demonstrating their moral superiority to rioters, whether referring to them as animals or as lumpenproletariat. It is a politician's job to sound sure of themselves so that we don't guess they wank over their work colleagues and aren't sure what life is about and wake up in the night with the horrors just like we do. There's far less justification for those outside the Parliament of Performing Seals to sound so sure of themselves.
While thinking about what I could be sure of I realised that I was more sure about what I had in common with the various rioters than what separates us. What separates us on the surface seems very obvious: I have a good and expensive education, largely paid for by the state – I was almost the last intake with LEA grants. Most of the people on the street probably don't have that and will probably never get the chance. But then, maybe there were more people of my 'demographic' out there but their sense of self-preservation was stronger – perhaps they looked over the shoulder for the police more because they had more to lose. We have no idea whether the arrests reflect the people out on the streets looting.
I'm a bit older than your average rioter, but then, some of the rioters (Or people, as they are also known) arrested were around my age, so let's not generalise. Because I look a bit more middle class and white than most of them, I suspect I get less harrassment from the police. Police harrassment was a huge factor in the riots in some areas, and those on the street attacked the police because that was what they most wanted to do. Let's not generalise though: in some areas the focus was more on looting than on fighting the police.
Another difference between me and most of the rioters is that I have a job. That's not true of all of the looters: the employed were there too, though no one took a straw poll of what their jobs are and whether they are better or worse than mine. Because I have a job and most of them don't, I have more money than most of the people out on the street. I am able to buy what I need with some left over and on balance the work I do is not bad.
There is a difference between me and a few of the rioters: I have the empathy and impulse control not to take out my anger and frustration through violence against people. I would not burn down shops with homes above them. Nor, of course, would most of the rioters (people, remember?). I would want to check a retail park thoroughly for human occupants before setting light to it. I would assume that a combination of their family and peer environments has created most of the difference. But this too is a guess, and I am sure that some of the respectable middle class people who expressed such disgust at the rioting would look on rioting very differently if other respectable middle class people were doing it too. Something most people share is a shit ability to resist peer pressure.
I'm not crazily sure about a lot of the above differences. There's a lot of guesswork in there, and different people are…different. You know? As the above issue of mob behaviour hints at, we should be very careful about assuming that what is going on in the minds of rioters and looters we haven't met is really that different from what is going on in our minds. Middle class people can also do horrible things because everyone around them is doing it too, and they do it from their position of comfort, not from a collective outburst of pent-up frustration.
But now onto things I have in common with the people who were out on the streets last week. There may be things I share that I can't know since I didn't ask people: taste in music, hatred of Michael McIntyre, a dislike of complacency, a caffeine addiction. Who knows on these counts? But it is obvious I would share some of these things and not others. To me at least it is obvious: I'm not sure it is to the baying mob calling for their blood. I suspect they see most of the 'rioters' as fundamentally alien to them. Who knows what horrible vices lurk in their dark, immoral hearts etc etc.
But on to the more general commonalities, and a few of these I can feel more sure about – while remembering that all the rioters were different. Despite a 'middle class' upbringing my family had neither money nor power. I have no contacts in high places. I have no powerful friends. I can't call a journalist up and ask them to defend me. By dint of my education I may be able to phrase myself in a way more acceptable to mainstream discourse (See, I used the word discourse! Clever old me!) and yet despite this I feel that the difference in powerlessness between me and those other people on the streets is actually quite marginal. They are not 'important' and nor am I.
This leads to us sharing certain things whether we want to or not. The politicians do not give a fuck about us. The big media organisations do not give a fuck about us. Any campaigning organisations that attempt to 'represent' us get sucked up into a state machinery that removes them from us and undoes their work. As for parliament representing me, the idea just strikes me as fucking absurd. I don't think it would help if I voted either, and I don't think it would help the rioters. That is not the problem. The problem is that 'representation' is a con. It always was. It doesn't work. I feel it and so do plenty of others.
There is something fundamental we also share in our relationships to companies and corporations. Those companies and corporations make things for me when I have the money or will to pay, but as soon as I don't they are not interested in me. That seems obvious of course – but is it so obvious that our main economic organising units, as legally created by the state, should be founded upon pure selfishness? Whether or not you think it reasonable, you've got to agree that once you are not suckling at their tits any more, the relationship between us and the corporations is over. They don't feel they owe us anything – despite occupying the physical and mental space all around us and controlling most of our resources – so we don't feel we owe them anything. Why should we? There is nothing between us. Except the advertising we can't escape. We owe them nothing.
This leads on to my dislike of the police. I hate the Met for being racist. I hate them for their role in keeping a lid on 'social disorder' that usually appears in response to organised theft from above. I hate them because I have witnessed them mobilise large numbers in defence of corporate property and not care who they had to hurt to defend what is only stuff. I hate them because their role is to freeze power relations where they are. And I don't have any. We don't have any.
There is something that most of us in Britain share at the moment. While I do have a job, I would like to move jobs but I can't. There aren't any jobs to move to. Boohoo, you say. But it stings because a few years ago it would have been easy. Someone else fucked up my economy (it was never mine, it turns out) and as a result the horizons of my present have contracted. Having got myself into a good position just before the Credit Theft (as we should rightly call it) I have not yet had my present crushed into a small box on a benefits application form, but I am aware of the loss of opportunity and aware it might get worse yet. I am aware too that the price of food and fuel and transport is going up while my income stays the same. We are all getting poorer by the day. This hasn't reduced my standard of living yet but some people will already have reduced their food expenditure because of it. They won't have had a choice.
One thing we share looms largest of all. I might phrase this a little differently from a lot of the people on the street last week, but we are still aware of the process we are undergoing. A particular form of governing has arisen in which the balance of powers and the triumph of certain rhetoric within public debate actively facilitates the removal of wealth from us so that it can be handed to those who already have most of it. This is an ongoing project, currently undergoing considerable intensification, with us as the target. We have lost free education, we are in the process of losing welfare, and the NHS is being sold off, one billion pounds at a time. Housing policy is deliberately tilted towards those who own much of the property already. I do not expect to have universal healthcare when I am older. I do not expect to own a home that will fund my retirement. I do not expect to have a welfare safety net worthy of the name. I do not expect to have a pension that will feed and house me decently. Nor did anyone on the streets last week. Perhaps they're not fucking idiots after all. Not nearly as idiot as the people who think the government is saving them from the evil deficit and who blithely assume that their lives are going to stay as comfortable as they have been for the last fifty years.
My future is diminishing as my present is contracting. And I have no idea how to fight it yet.
Our future is diminishing as our present is contracting. And we have no idea how to fight it yet.
The last thing we share is this: I need a new computer. One from PC World would do just fine.


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Talk:Joe Strike
I removed this as it was, well, silly. Appropriate for a user page, but not an article page. :-) --GreenReaper(talk) 03:03, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Little is known about Joe Strike beyond his dramatic-sounding name. Overheard whispers in disreputable dives speak of a mysterious figure whose lack of talent is only exceeded by near-limitless ego. Despite the slight impediment of not being to draw, JS was admitted to the inner sanctum of Rowrbrazzle membership, thanks to the intercession of the Stonecutters and large bales of unmarked currency to people in a position to help him out.
As he is currently negotiating a peace treaty between two hostile star clusters on the verge of an intergalactic war, JS is only interimtently active in Rowrbrazzle at the moment. However there are those who are hoping his peace effort will prove unsuccessful and that quintillions of souls on thousands of worlds will perish, enabling JS to return to fully active Rowrbrazzle status.


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The retail industry is undergoing a major transformation, changing how customers shop and how retailers run business. More and more retailers continue to invest in enhancing their operations by optimizing the personal experience of their customers. Given the fact that 70% of buying decisions are made on the spot, in-store promotion activities play a key role in contributing to a consumer's purchase intention, and digital signage displays use targeted messaging to influence customers' decision making. Advantech DS-570 ultra HD signage player, combined with RFID technology, can now interact with customers at the point of decision to create a personalized shopping experience.
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India benefits from having a fewer number of e-waste processing units, but of much larger capacity and closer to generation hotspots.
E-waste in India, as in other countries, is the fastest-growing waste stream. Though the current generation of e-waste is not as high as other waste streams like municipal solid waste, industrial waste or construction and demolition debris, its current state of management is causing environment pollution while recovery and recycling of value from it in informal sector remains a cause of concern. An ASSOCHAM-KPMG study suggests that the current generation of e-waste in India is around 1.85 million tonnes per annum. Cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru alone account for 0.3 million tonnes per annum—17% of the national generation.
As per the Central Pollution Control Board records, there are currently 178 e-waste processing units in the country. The capacity of these units to process e-waste is around 43,800 tonnes per annum. The states dominating the e-waste processing units are Karnataka (57), Maharashtra (32), Uttar Pradesh (22), Haryana (16) and Tamil Nadu (14). Interestingly, if one looks at average per unit e-waste processing capacity in the states, Uttarakhand leads with around 9,333 tonnes per unit per year processing capacity, followed by Rajasthan at 6,867 tonnes per unit per year. This indicates the prevalence of larger units established in these states to process e-waste.
This raises the pertinent question on how large a typical e-waste processing unit should be in order to economically recover and recycle resources from e-waste. Typically, an e-waste processing unit in India recovers plastics, copper, aluminium and iron, which are sent for further refining and smelting. As the recycling statistics reported for China sales show, the income-generating materials are plastics (48%), copper (39%), aluminium (7%) and iron (6%). The e-waste recycling units in India still do not cater for the recovery of precious, semi-precious metals (gold, silver, etc,) and rare earth metals, as they are not equipped with technologies to do this, thereby losing high-value resources and affecting recycling viability.
The economies of scale for material recovery/recycling would essentially be a function of size of the facility, investment requirement, type and amount of pollution control and occupational health expenditure, kind of environmental and other clearances required, access to sufficient quantity of waste and the transport distance over which waste is required to be hauled for resource recovery. A 2007 study by DEFRA, UK, suggested that the optimum size required for a material recovery facility should be around 50,000 tonnes waste per annum. Certainly, the e-waste recycling units set up in India do not cater for such an intake for recycling. As far as the economics of waste recycling is concerned, transportation costs greatly influence economic viability of products recovery. Reverse logistics is one of the most important parameters in the management of waste equipment, accounting for 50–70% of the total costs. This figure is relatively high, especially when compared with logistics cost of a new product that represents only 10–15% of its price.
The Indian scenario can be compared with e-waste recycling in China. Like in India, the e-waste collection system in China is driven by the interests of the various players, including consumers and formal/informal waste collectors & recyclers. Thus, consumers are most willing to sell waste products to the collector offering the highest collection prices, which is usually the informal collector whose costs are lower, leading to most of the e-waste, especially the products containing high-value materials, flowing into the informal sector. Research shows that in China each truck can transport approximately 150 units of e-waste, and that the maximal logistic cost of each truck is $102–141. As the truck maintenance and labour fees are usually contained in the operating cost of the enterprises, the logistics cost in China would be mainly determined by the cost of diesel fuel and highway fees. Taking an average US$0.34/km cost for diesel fuel and US$0.25/km for the highway fee, the optimal transportation radius would vary from 173-239 km.
It is therefore crucial to look at the present capacity created for e-waste processing, with respect to their locations vis-à-vis hot spots for e-waste generation. It would also be useful to locate these units in say a 250 km radius from the bulk e-waste collection points and upgrade them with technologies to recover semi-precious, precious and rare earth metals to address our resource security of the future. Units processing less than 20% of the designed capacity can be subsequently phased out—a fewer number of larger units would also ensure better environmental monitoring of such units.
Suneel Pandey is Director (environment and waste management division), TERI
Source: Financial Express


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School Nutrition Weekly Update - December 10, 2015 - Issue No. 2015.12-1
In This Issue:
Equipment Assistance Grant Application/Proposal Deadline Extension
*REMINDER* Reports Due
Pre-K Meal Pattern
NC K-12 Culinary Institute Workshops
Vacancy Announcement: Cabarrus County School Nutrition Director
Continuing Education Opportunities
Important School Nutrition Dates
In the Previous Issue of SN Weekly…
SNWU 12-10-2015 Print Version
Equipment Assistance Grant Application/Proposal Deadline Extension
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the School Nutrition NSLP Equipment Assistance Grant (EAG) Application/Proposal due date was extended to Wednesday December 16, 2015. All applications must be received before 5:00 pm.
***IMPORTANT NOTE*** The applications should be mailed by a traceable means to the following address:
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
School Nutrition Services Section
301 N. Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
*IMPORTANT NOTE* Please be reminded that any mail sent to us via the US Postal Service is routed through the State Mail Service Center which may delay the arrival of packages to our office in a timely manner. For that reason we strongly encourage the use of a traceable mail delivery service that delivers directly to the NCDPI street address. Also remember, all Grant Applications/Proposals must be in the School Nutrition Office by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 16, 2015. Applications/Proposals that are arrive after that will not be considered.
If you have already submitted your application/proposal and have confirmed it has arrived, please disregard this notice.
*REMINDER* Reports Due
Please review the following reports that are due in December:
|Due Date
Twice Yearly Analysis Report (Submit to Nutrition Specialists)
Dec. 15
Verification Report (Submit in SN Tech System )
Dec. 18
Pre-K Meal Pattern
The Pre-K Meal Pattern section (Menu Planning & Production page) on the School Nutrition website has been revised. The revised information as well as the Pre-K Meal Patterns for Breakfast and Lunch are available at http://childnutrition.ncpublicschools.gov/information-resources/menu-planning-production/pre-k-meal-pattern .
NC K-12 Culinary Institute Workshop
We are excited about our upcoming NC K-12 Culinary Institute workshops during summer 2016. The workshops will be scheduled at a variety of locations over the state and will be available to school nutrition managers and/or training managers who will "teach it forward" using information and materials obtained during the instruction. If you would like to have one or more of your schools considered for hosting a workshop, please complete the Culinary Institute Site Application and return to firstname.lastname@example.com by December 15, 2015. If you are recommending more than one site, please complete a separate form for each. We will review all applications and select those that seem best suited to location and facility/equipment availability.
Thank you very much for your consideration and potential assistance of this learning opportunity!
Vacancy Announcement – Cabarrus County School Nutrition Director
Position Title: School Nutrition Director
Please review the VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT for details and application instructions.
Continuing Education Opportunities
Please consider the following continuing education events. NOTE: CLICK the course title for registration information and more details.
Course Title
|Dec 17, 2015
|Creating a Food Safety Culture in Your School Webinar
|January 11-12, 2015
|Procurement for School Nutrition Programs in the 21st Century
|January 20, 2015
|Smart Options: Teach the Leader
Important School Nutrition Dates
Remember: Any time a due date/deadline falls on a weekend or a holiday, the deadline automatically moves to the next business day.
|December 2015
|Dec 10 (Thurs)
|NSLP/SBP/ASSP/SFSP/SSO - Deadline to submit claim for reimbursement (for Nov 2015)
|Dec 15 (Tues)
|FFVP - Deadline to submit claim for reimbursement (for Nov 2015)
|Dec 15
|Twice Yearly Analysis Reports Due (Submit to Nutrition Specialists)
|Dec 17
|Webinar: Creating a Food Safety Culture in Your School Webinar
|Dec 18
|Deadline to complete online Verification Report (SN Tech System Verification Report will close)
|Dec 23, 24, 25
|Christmas Holidays – State Offices Closed
|January 2016
|January 1
|New Year's Day – State Offices Closed
|Jan 10 (Sun)
|NSLP/SBP/ASSP/SFSP/SSO - Deadline to submit claim for reimbursement (for Nov 2015)
|Jan 11-12
|Procurement for School Nutrition Programs in the 21st Century Workshop
|Jan 15 (Fri)
|FFVP - Deadline to submit claim for reimbursement (for Nov 2015)
|Jan 17-19
|2016 School Nutrition Industry Conference (San Diego, CA)
|Jan 18
|Martin Luther King Birthday - State Offices Closed
|Jan 20 (Tues)
|FFVP - Deadline to submit claim for reimbursement (for Nov 2015)
|Jan 25-27
|2016 SNA-NC Industry Seminar (Pinehurst)
In the Previous Issue... November 23, 2015
- Memorandum of Agreement - NAEP
- Memorandum of Agreement - Testing/EDS
- Verification Answers and Helpful Tips
- USDA Policy Memo SP 03-2016
- Continuing Education Opportunities
Have Questions? Need Assistance?
Please remember to always contact your regional consultants or specialists first for any questions or assistance unless directed otherwise.
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