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Upland Chronicles: Bozeman legacy detailed in new book

Jul. 13, 2013 @ 11:04 PM

Dr. Charles Bozeman began his medical practice in the Emergency Room at Sevier County Medical Center in 1977. Two years later, he established a private practice near the hospital and he has treated thousands of Sevier County patients for over three decades.

Although Dr. Bozeman grew up in neighboring Knox County, his family name was widely known throughout Sevier County due to the fact that his father Judge C. Howard Bozeman held the longest tenure of any County Judge serving Knox County.

When Judge Bozeman passed away in 2011, he left behind a legacy of dedicated service to his community that reached far beyond the office in which he so competently served.

Recently, a biography written by Debbie Patrick chronicling the life of Judge Bozeman was published by the Knoxville Downtown Sertoma Club, of which Judge Bozeman was a charter member.

All proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to benefit Judge Bozeman’s favorite charity, the Sertoma Center, through the work of the Knoxville Downtown Sertoma Club.

“Knox County Grows Up: How One Man from Happy Holler Made a Difference,” tells the fascinating story of one of the 20th century giants in Knox County politics.

Born June 27, 1918, Judge Bozeman grew up on Baxter Avenue in a working class section of town known as Happy Holler. His father worked for Brookside Mills and later for the railroad.

Beginning at age 7, he delivered newspapers in the morning before attending school. After graduating from Knoxville High School, Bozeman took a job in the management-training program at S.H. Kress Five and Dime located on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. The business operated a popular lunch room in the basement.

Like many eating establishments at the time, there were company polices that called for separate seating areas for blacks and whites. The future judge found this policy troubling when he observed black customers hungry and waiting to be served when there were seats available in the “whites only” section.

He thought the section divisions should be flexible enough to accommodate all the customers depending on demand.

“If these folks would scoot over, it would make room for them,” he reasoned. For this, he was overruled by upper management. When told he couldn’t do that because there was a law against it, he said, “Then this isn’t the place for me.”

He therefore negotiated an agreement to work fewer hours so he could attend the University of Tennessee. Bozeman quit S.H. Kress the following year. He worked for a shoe store on Market Square during the Easter season and in the summer left to work for the government-run WPA.

In 1941, when Bozeman received his undergraduate degree, the University asked him to be their auditor, to take the place of a man who had been called to war. He also enrolled in law school, and graduated in 1943.

By 1946, Bozeman was a lecturer in both law and accounting for UT. After that he began the private practice of law with two partners. Two years later, he decided to try his hand at politics and ran for county trustee. Although Bozeman lost the election, he became known in the county.

Despite the fact Bozeman was a life-long Democrat in a largely Republican town; he was elected County Judge in 1948. Once elected, Bozeman soon learned that the Knox County government was so adrift with corruption and neglected infrastructure; he considered resigning the first year.

The tireless and selfless acts of community service performed by Judge Bozeman are in large part responsible for the establishment of Knox County Health Department, the Knox County Library System, and the Knox County Utility Districts. On his watch some 3,000 miles of county roads were paved. And he oversaw the building of numerous schools and parks through the county.

He was married to Barbara Ann Newman for 67 years. In addition to Dr. Bozeman, the couple had three other sons: Barry Russell, David Bryn and Samuel Ross The couple raised their family in the Chilhowee neighborhood and faithfully attended the First Baptist Church in Knoxville.

Judge Bozeman served as Knox County judge from 1948 to 1966 and 1974 to 1982. During his years in office he worked tirelessly with like-minded politicians such as Mildred Doyle, a die-hard Republican who served as superintendent of Knox County Schools for many years. At the same time he was challenged impiously by his adversaries, most notable of who was legendary groceryman Cas Walker.

Following his own advice to get involved and stay involved, Judge Bozeman was quite active into his 80s. He remained active physically, socially, and in the community. Remarkably he continued the traditional annual family hikes to Gregory’s Bald, a grueling 11.3-mile round trip and often hiked to Mt. LeConte as well.

Judge Bozeman felt strongly about not having any buildings, projects or parks named for him. He embodied the quote credited to English novelist Charles Montague,” There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.”

Carroll McMahan is the Special Projects Facilitator for the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce and serves as Sevier County Historian. The Upland Chronicles series celebrates the heritage and past of Sevier County. If you have suggestions for future topics, would like to submit a column or have comments; please contact Carroll McMahan at 453-6411 or email to cmcmahan@scoc.org; or Ron Rader at 604-9161 or email to ron@ronraderproperties.com.


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Patricia Ann Bradley

Dec. 20, 2013 @ 11:55 PM

Patricia Ann Bradley, age 57, passed away Friday, December 20, 2013.

She lived her life for her granddaughter, Kailee Grace and dogs, Scooby and Stabler.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Aileen Parm; brother-in-law, Jim Bradley; father-in-law, Sherrill Bradley

Survivors: Husband of 40 years: Terry Bradley; Son: Travis Bradley and wife Samantha; Granddaughter: Kailee Bradley; Brother: Tommy Parm and wife Lisa; Sister: Lyn Satterfield and husband Geno; Mother-in-law: Agnes Bradley; Brothers-in-law: Dan Bradley and wife Kay, Jerry Bradley and wife Tiffany; Sister-in-law: Pam Bradley; Special niece: Amber Parm; Best friend: Marsha Huff.

Funeral service 11 AM Monday in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Shiloh cemetery. The family will receive friends 2-5PM Sunday at Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.

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Saturday, 30 January 2010

Circus Trees

As a hobby, bean farmer Axel Erlandson [wiki] shaped trees – he pruned, bent, and grafted trees into fantastic shapes and called them "Circus Trees." For example, to make this "Basket Tree" arborsculpture, Erlandson planted six sycamore trees in a circle and then grafted them together to form the diamond patterns.

Giant Sequoias: General Sherman (tree)

Giant Sequoias [wiki] (Sequoiadendron giganteum), which only grow in Sierra Nevada, California, are the world’s biggest trees (in terms of volume). The biggest is General Sherman [wiki] in the Sequoia National Park – one behemoth of a tree at 275 feet (83.8 m), over 52,500 cubic feet of volume (1,486 m³), and over 6000 tons in weight.

General Sherman is approximately 2,200 years old – and each year, the tree adds enough wood to make a regular 60-foot tall tree. It’s no wonder that naturalist John Muir said "The Big Tree is Nature’s forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things."

For over a century there was a fierce competition for the title of the largest tree: besides General Sherman, there is General Grant [wiki] at King’s Canyon National Park, which actually has a
larger circumference (107.5 feet / 32.77 m vs. Sherman’s 102.6 feet / 31.27 m).

In 1921, a team of surveyors carefully measured the two

giants – with their data, and according to the complex American Forestry Association system of judging a tree,
General Grant should have been award the title of largest tree – however, to simplify the matter, it was later determined that in this case, volume, not point system, should be the determining factor.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Half-breed lions and tigers-Hercules LIGER

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo) and a tigress (Panthera tigris), hence has parents with the same genus but of different species. It is distinct from the similar hybrid tiglon. It is the largest of all cats and extant felines due to hybrid vigour.
Ligers borrow characteristics from both species. Ligers enjoy swimming which is a characteristic of tigers and are very sociable like lions. However ligers are often faced with a variety of health risks and other issues. Ligers only exist in captivity because lions and tigers live in different regions and would never breed voluntarily in the wild[citation needed]. Ligers are larger than both their parents, which is usually dangerous to the pregnant tigress and may make it necessary for offspring to be delivered via caesarean section.
The liger often has a very limited life span as well as birth defects and other mutations.
The history of ligers dates to at least the early 19th century in Asia. In 1799, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and a tiger.
In 1825, G.B. Whittaker made an engraving of liger cubs born in 1824. The parents and their three liger offspring are also depicted with their trainer in a 19th Century painting in the naïve style.
Two liger cubs which had been born in 1837 were exhibited to William IV and to his successor Victoria. On 14 December 1900 and on 31 May 1901, Carl Hagenbeck wrote to zoologist James Cossar Ewart with details and photographs of ligers born at the Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg in 1897.
In Animal Life and the World of Nature (1902–1903), A.H. Bryden described Hagenbeck's "lion-tiger" hybrids:

It has remained for one of the most enterprising collectors and naturalists of our time, Mr Carl Hagenbeck, not only to breed, but to bring successfully to a healthy maturity, specimens of this rare alliance between those two great and formidable felidae, the lion and tiger. The illustrations will indicate sufficiently how fortunate Mr Hagenbeck has been in his efforts to produce these hybrids.

The oldest and biggest of the animals shown is a hybrid born on the 11th May, 1897. This fine beast, now more than five years old, equals and even excels in his proportions a well-grown lion, measuring as he does from nose tip to tail 10 ft 2 inches in length, and standing only three inches less than 4 ft at the shoulder. A good big lion will weigh about 400 lb [...] the hybrid in question, weighing as it does no less than 467 lb, is certainly the superior of the most well-grown lions, whether wild-bred or born in a menagerie. This animal shows faint striping and mottling, and, in its characteristics, exhibits strong traces of both its parents. It has a somewhat lion-like head, and the tail is more like that of a lion than of a tiger. On the other hand, it has no trace of mane. It is a huge and very powerful beast.[1]
In 1935, four ligers from two litters were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three of them, a male and two females, were still living in 1953. The male weighed 750 lb. and stood a foot and a half taller than a full grown male lion at the shoulder.
Although ligers are more commonly found than tigons today, in At Home In The Zoo (1961), Gerald Iles wrote "For the record I must say that I have never seen a liger, a hybrid obtained by crossing a lion with a tigress. They seem to be even rarer than tigons.

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

largest giraffe

Having 5.8 m height giraffe is considered as the tallest living animal on the land. Its weight is approximately 2,000 kg.
The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of al land-living animal species, and the largest rumainant. It is covered in large, irregular patches of yellow to back fur eparated by white, off-white, or dark yellwisch brown backgound. The average mass for an adult graffe is 1,200 kilograms (2,600 lb) while the average mass for an adult female is 8300 kilograms (1,800 lb). It is approximately 4,3 meters (14 ft) to 5,2 meters (17 ft) tall, although the tallest male recorded stood almost 6 meters (20 ft).
The giraffe is related to deer and cattle, but is placed in a separate family, the Giraffidae, consisting of only the firaffe and its closest relative, the okapi. Its range extends from Chad in Central Africa to South Africa.
Giraffes usually inhabit savannas, grassland, or open woodlands. However, when food is scarce they will venture into areas whith denser vegetation. The prefer areas with plenty of acacia growth. They will drink large quantities of water when available, which enables them to live for extended periods in dry, arid areas.

Belcher’s Sea Snake

This extremely venomous snake is also commonly called Faint-banded Sea Snake - it is the most toxicsnake in the world. It has a friendly temperament and would normally have to be subjected to severe mis treatment before biting. Because of its docile nature, it is generally not regarded as very dangerous. They can be found in the waters of Visayan and Panay areas in the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, Gulf of Thailand and Timor Sea.

characteristic white tiger

White tigers have a genetic condition that nearly eliminates pigment in the normally orange fur, although they still have dark stripes. Another genetic condition in snow-white or ‘pure white’ tigers also makes the stripes of the tiger very pale. When a tiger inherits 2 copies of the recessive gene for the paler coloration, they may have a pink nose, pink paw pads, grey-mottled skin, ice-blue eyes, and white to cream-colored fur with black, grey, or chocolate-colored stripes.

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Largest wingspan of the eagle in the world

An eagle may resemble a vulture in build and flight characteristics but has a fully feathered (often crested) head and strong feet equipped with great curved talons. A further difference is in foraging habits: eagles subsist mainly on live prey. They are too ponderousfor effective aerial pursuit but try to surprise and overwhelm their prey on the ground. Like owls, many decapitate their kills. Because of their strength, eagles have been a symbol of war and imperial power since Babylonian times.Eagles are monogamous. They mate for life and use the same nest each year. They tend to nest in inaccessible places, incubating a small clutch of eggs six to eight weeks. The young mature slowly, reaching adult plumage in the third or fourth year.
The harpy eagles, named after the foul, malign creatures (partwoman and part bird) of Greek mythology, are large, powerful,crested eagles of the jungles ofSouth America and the South Pacific. They nest in the tops of the tallest trees and hunt macaws, monkeys, and sloths. The great harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja; see photograph), which ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil, is about one metre (3.3 feet) long and bears a crest of dark feathers on its head. Its body is black above and white below except for a black chest band. It was becoming increasingly rare in the late 20th century, particularly in Mexico and Central America. The New Guinea harpy eagle (Harpyopsis novaeguineae) is about 75 cm (30 inches) long. It is gray-brown and has a long tail and a short but full crest. Very similar in appearance and habits is the monkey-eating eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi; see ) of the Philippines. It is about 90 cm (35 inches) long, brown above and white below, with a crest of long narrow feathers. It is an endangered species.
The harrier eagles, six species of Circaetus (subfamily Circaetinae, serpent eagles), of Europe, Asia, and Africa, are about 60 cm (24 inches) long and have short unfeathered legs. They nest in the tops of trees and hunt snakes.
The hawk eagles (genera Spizastur, Spizaetus, Lophaetus, and Hieraaetus, subfamily Accipitrinae)are lightly built eagles that have fully feathered legs and large beaks and feet. They hunt all kinds of small animals. Spizaetus species (as the ornate hawk eagle, S. ornatus, of tropical America) have short wide wings, long rounded tails, and ornamented heads. Bonelli's eagle (Hieraetus fasciatus) of Mediterranean areas and parts of southern Asia, is about 60 cm (24 inches) long, dark above and light below, has a broad tailband, and usually shows a white patch on the back.
The martial eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus; see photograph) of Africa is heavily built, brown above with black throat and black-spotted white underparts. It has a short, barred tail and bright yellow eyes. It is large and strong enough to kill jackals and smallantelopes, but its usual food is gallinaceous birds and hyraxes.
The sea eagles (sometimes called fish, or fishing, eagles), species of Haliaeetus (see photograph), of which one of the best known is the bald eagle (q.v.), are very large eagles that live along rivers, biglakes, and tidewater throughout the world except South America. Some reach one metre (3.3 feet) long. All have exceptionally large high-arched beaks and bare lower legs. Undersurfaces of the toes are roughened for grasping slippery prey. These birds eat much carrion but sometimes kill. They snatch fish from the water surface and often rob their chief competitor, the osprey. Asian species include the gray-headed, or greater, fishing eagle (Ichthy ophaga ichthyaetus) and the lesser fishing eagle (I. naga).
The serpent eagles, or snake eagles, Spilornis (six species, subfamily Circaetinae), eat mostly snakes, including large poisonous ones. They occur in Asia. Other birds called serpent eagles, notably the long-tailed members of the genera Dryotriorchis (e.g. African serpent eagle) and Eutriorchis (e.g., the endangered Madagascar serpent eagle) occur in Africa.
Verreaux's eagle (Aquila verreauxi) is an uncommon bird of eastern and southern Africa. It is black with white rump and wing patches. It reaches about 80 centimetres (31 inches) in length, and it subsists mainly on hyraxes. See also bateleur; golden eagle.

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Campus responds to firing with mixed feelings, confusion

Kody Kahle

Former Athletic Director Scott Eaton.

Claire Higgins, Editor-in-chief

Northern Kentucky University was stunned by the unexpected termination of Athletic Director Scott Eaton earlier this week. Since March 20, the university has not released any more information about the ethical misconduct Eaton participated in that led to the firing, which has sent the students of the university into a whirlwind of ideas on what might have happened.

On March 20, President Geoffrey Mearns released a letter sent to the Board of Regents stating Eaton’s termination and claimed ethical misconduct as the motivating factor in the decision.

In the letter, which was also sent to all NKU students, faculty and staff, Mearns said that Eaton failed to comply with NKU’s ethical principles and code of conduct.

At this point, Mearns said he is unable to provide specific information about the misconduct because the investigation is ongoing. But he did confirm that there is no information for NCAA compliance issues, no evidence of similar misconduct from other university employees, no evidence of conduct that would give rise to criminal charges and it is not related to university finances.

Because of these responses, students have started talking amongst themselves and some have taken to Twitter to voice their opinions regarding what they think may have happened.

Maggie Altimier, a senior history major, said she’s “…curious as hell. I think it did more damage sending out the email… causing so much speculation. When you don’t tell people the truth their minds go to the worse thing.”

The word going around is all speculation, as most students are unaware of the situation because President Mearns is the only official university member allowed to speak on it.

Starting with the letter and email to the NKU community, Mearns said he is working hard to be as transparent as possible, as opposed to “other institutions who have not acted with the same level of dispatch and have not been particularly forthcoming with the public.”

Compared to other universities that dealt with similar situations, Mearns said the university has taken three steps to set them apart: he acted quickly, he took action and he publicized the information.

“In my judgement, it is in the interest of the university to be honest with all of its constituents,” Mearns said.

Some students, like Norse Force President Sara Daugherty, trust Mearns’ decision, but are still anxious for answers.

“When I spoke to Dr. Votruba about it he assured me, and wants me to pass it along to NKU’s students, that we should trust President Mearns’ decisions…I’m waiting for answers just like everyone else,” Daugherty said.

Mirroring Daugherty’s response, John Jose, current SGA senator and university improvements committee chair, said “his [Mearns’] transparency has been awesome since the beginning.”

Mearns credited his decision to not release more information at the time of publication to protecting the confidentiality of the investigation and the privacy of the individuals involved in the situation.

The investigation into Eaton’s actions began March 8 and with the help of a law firm, Mearns received information that led him to suspend Eaton on March 12.

Mearns said he did not know when he would be able to release more information, the timeline depends on the Cincinnati law firm Dinsmore & Shohl’s investigation.

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Eighth graders at Abbott Middle School uses Chromebooks, phones in class

Megan Semeraz-The Oakland Press
Megan Semeraz-The Oakland Press

Eighth-grade students in Mark Rebtoy’s earth science class use their new Chromebooks on the first day back at Abbott Middle School in West Bloomfield.

The West Bloomfield School District is providing a 1-to-1 Mobile Learning environment for student in fifth to twelfth grades for the 2014-15 school year. This is the first year the technology has fully been implemented into the schools.

Rebtoy demonstrated that without technology, all students will not have a voice in class. Thanks to devices like Chromebooks, apps allow for all students to have a voice — allowing for the teacher to track progress of each individual.

Students will now use a mobile learning device in class every day as well as off site.

Elementary students grades kindergarten to fourth grade will experience a 1-to-2 ratio combination of Chromebooks, as well as tablets.

The Chromebook laptops, as well as other technology such as tablets, cost the district $2.5 million — paid by a $24 million bond that was passed by voters in 2009.

— Staff Writer Megan Semeraz


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Thursday, May 28, 2015
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. Rated R for language, some sexual content and violence.
Cast: Jude Law, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan
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"In the Valley of Elah" tells the story of a war veteran, his wife and the search for their son, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, and the police detective who helps in the investigation. Rated R for violent and disturbing content, language and some sexuality/nudity.
Cast: Charlize Theron, Jonathan Tucker, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Jason Patric
Produced by: Paul Haggis, Patrick Wachsberger, Steve Samuels, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Larry Becsey
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Lutheran Minister Arrested On Charges Of Boring Young Children

PERU, IL— St. Luke's Lutheran Church was rocked by scandal Tuesday, when Rev. Bob Tillich, the church's pastor of 12 years, was arrested on suspicion of boring as many as 23 children within the congregation. "Reverend Bob always seemed like the sweetest man," parishioner Vera Crandall said following the arrest. "When my son said he made him watch three 1975 filmstrips about the suffering of Job, I was shocked." In the wake of the arrest, seven former Sunday-school students, dating as far back as 1989, have stepped forward with charges that Tillich subjected them to inappropriately tedious parables.

Breakup Doesn't Seem To Have Changed Relationship

CARY, NC— Six weeks after their breakup, Daniel Bey and Janette Forsberg seem to have undergone no apparent change in their relationship, friends of the ostensibly ex-couple reported Monday. "They see each other all the time, and they still argue about every trivial thing, just like when they were together," friend Rich Gascone said. "Daniel even told me they're still having sex. But apparently, in some science-fiction way I can't comprehend, they're split up."

Either Jay Leno A Repeat Or P. Diddy Got Arrested Again

MOUNT LEBANON, PA— According to Pittsburgh-area TV viewer Erik Allen, either Monday's Tonight Show With Jay Leno was a repeat or P. Diddy got arrested again. "Jay's monologue had all these jokes about P. Diddy getting busted for some kind of gun possession," Allen said. "I hadn't really heard anything about another arrest, so I figured it was a rerun. But that was, like, more than a year ago, right? Plus, I think he was still Puff Daddy back then, and Jay called him P. Diddy." Allen said he had hoped to gain insight from Leno's interviews with guests Lisa Kudrow and zookeeper Jack Hanna, but "neither seemed to be plugging anything all that time-specific."

What Does Not Kill Me Only Makes Me Whinier

I've endured a great deal of hardship and pain in my life. I'll never forget the gastrointestinal distress I suffered two years ago after consuming an entire bag of caramel popcorn. Or the humiliation I felt in 1996 when I was stood up by a blind date. Or the time I spent an entire day wearing a shirt that, unbeknownst to me, was marred by unsightly deodorant streaks.

Clinton Dragged Up On Stage To Sing 'Sweet Home Alabama' With The Band

LITTLE ROCK, AR— Former president Bill Clinton joined local rock band Jimmy Ellis & The Houserockers onstage for a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" Saturday. "Come on up here, Mr. President!" Ellis urged Clinton, whom he spotted near the back of the crowd. "Show the nice folks how it's done!" Following the performance, Clinton remained onstage for a rollicking rendition of Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places."

Japanese Exchange Student Taken To Japanese Restaurant

BETTENDORF, IA—Takashi Miyazawa, 16, an exchange student from Nagoya spending six months in Bettendorf, was given the opportunity to experience authentic Japanese cuisine Monday, when host mother Bobbie Tucker arranged a visit to Edo, a restaurant in nearby Davenport.

Arafat Under Fire

Trapped by Israeli tanks in his West Bank compound, Yasser Arafat is under fire for not doing more to stop the recent Palestinian terrorist attacks. What do you think?

Tax-Code Changes

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  • Aries

    It's true that people often become what they hate. This explains why you're slowly becoming a pineapple-and-anchovy pizza.
  • Taurus

    You're not the kind of person who can wear those fashionably low jeans, mostly because you can't figure out how pants are supposed to work.
  • Gemini

    You will have one of those disorienting "through the looking glass" moments when you are thrown through a large looking glass.
  • Cancer

    The unexpected arrival of quintuplets in your life wouldn't be so bad if you could figure out whose they were.
  • Leo

    You're not the type to rest on your laurels when there are perfectly good couches available.
  • Virgo

    You will achieve modest fame as a lion tamer, but audiences won't like you nearly as much as the man who has absolutely no control over the lions.
  • Libra

    No one would go to Salina, KS, without stopping for a world-famous CozeeBurger–except you.
  • Scorpio

    The only thing worse than a trick yo-yo man is a trick yo-yo man who applauds after each one of his yo-yo tricks.
  • Sagittarius

    The men from the recliner company will stop laughing just long enough to claim they've never seen anyone lose a leg in one of their products before.
  • Capricorn

    You will find yourself in yet another argument over whether Murasaki's The Tale Of Genji is the world's first true novel.
  • Aquarius

    They will comfort you after the accident by saying there was nothing you could have done, leaving unsaid the fact that most people would have at least tried hitting thebrakes.
  • Pisces

    As you emerge from the womb, a doctor will strike you and make you cry. Serves you right for sleeping with his wife.
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When A.G. Kawamura was appointed California secretary of agriculture in 2003, the third-generation grower-shipper was unsure about the future of the family-owned Orange County Produce LLC, Irvine, Calif.

Ever-rising production costs had prompted Kawamura to consider moving the Southern California operation to Oxnard, Santa Maria or even Mexico.

But that has changed, thanks in part to the locally grown movement and his involvement with the Orange County Great Park, Irvine.

“Today I’d tell you I feel excited about the outlook for the long run growing produce in Orange County,” he said as he gave me a tour of the park.

“We hope we’ll still be here for a long, long time.”

Young people are taking a greater interest in agriculture, Kawamura said, and he believes the industry has a place in urban areas and not just as urban agriculture.

Instead, he said he preferred the term agricultural urbanization, which integrates the two seamlessly. It’s akin to edible landscaping where you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.

The Great Park is an effort by Orange County to convert the old El Toro Air Base into a park twice the size of New York’s Central Park.

Urban ag

Upon his departure as agriculture secretary in 2010, Kawamura and Orange County Produce bid on a proposal to farm about 100 acres in the park.

Originally, he said the county envisioned agriculture as an interim land use.

But Kawamura, being the visionary that he is, had more in mind.

“What we’re going to do here is to build a platform for 21st century ag,” he said.

Through his worldwide connections with groups such as Solutions From the Land, the American Farmland Trust and 25x’25, Kawamura drafted a blueprint.

For example, he began working with a colleague to develop an integrated biofuel system where algae for biodiesel is raised in conjunction with fish and hydroponic lettuce.

Eventually, Kawamura said he hoped to go off-grid, using only energy produced on the farm.

The farm is divided into 10-acre blocks, each featuring a different crop family.

Kawamura returned to his childhood, remembering how the family used to grow about 25 crops.

As the years went by and markets tightened, Orange County Produce narrowed production to strawberries and green beans because of marketing windows.

Those older crops have been resurrected at the park.

Most of the produce is sold at local farmers’ markets or into commercial channels, he said.

What’s helped Orange County Produce and this endeavor succeed is consumers’ growing interest in locally grown produce, Kawamura said. In addition, all of the park’s produce is grown organically as are about 40% of the commercial operations.

“Customers are getting more savvy,” he said.

“Growers are getting more savvy. People will find the market, and you have some really innovative producers creating a market.”

The next phase will be to convert an old canal into an integrated biofuel system and waterway. Walkways will follow the canal, and avocado and other fruit trees planted along the paths will shade visitors.

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Comcast Corp yesterday became the world's largest cable company, following its merger with AT&T Broadband, which was spun off from parent AT&T Corp yesterday as part of the $29.2bn deal. The new Comcast Corp has 21.4 million cable TV subscribers and is worth an estimated $60bn.

The company obtained regulatory clearance for the merger from the US Federal Communications Commission last week. The FCC voted 3-to-1 that the merger was in the public interest as it would allow economies of scale that could speed up the rollout of broadband internet access services.

The merged entity has about 6.3 million digital video subscribers, 3.3 million broadband internet subscribers and 1.3 million cable telephony subscribers. It will offer services in 41 US states and, after 1,700 layoffs, will employ 59,000 people. Its nearest competitor, AOL Time Warner Inc, is about half as big in terms of subscribers.

Critics say the companies have created a powerhouse with the potential to abuse its size. FCC commissioner Michael Copps voted against the merger, saying: "The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits."

The stock transaction saw AT&T's shareholders receive 0.3235 Comcast shares for every AT&T share they owned. The combined company is owned 56% by AT&T shareholders, who receive a 66% voting interest. The Roberts family, which owned much of the old Comcast, get one third of the outstanding voting interest.

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Nvidia chisels away at ATI market share

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ATI's Q3 2004 lead over arch-rival Nvidia was eroded during Q4, the latest figures from market watcher Mercury Research suggest.

During the quarter, Nvidia added three percentage points to its share of the overall graphics chip market, taking it to 18 per cent, while ATI stuck at 27 per cent, its share in Q3, as did all the lesser players combined. Intel continued to dominate the arena with almost 40 per cent of the market.

The desktop chip sector's discrete segment saw Nvidia nudge back towards its Q2 share of 58 per cent from Q3's low 42 per cent share. During Q4 it accounted for 46 per cent of the market. ATI's still in the lead, but its share slipped from 55 per cent in Q3 to 51 per cent in Q4.

Nvidia took 25 per cent of the standalone notebook chip market in Q4, up from Q2's 22 per cent, while ATI's share slid slightly to 69 per cent from 72 per cent.

Combined discrete graphics chip sales were up 13 per cent on Q3.

In the integrated mobile market, in which Nvidia is not a player, ATI's share fell seven percentage points to 19 per cent, as Intel grabbed 11 more percentage points to come out of Q4 with 72 per cent of the market. That's likely to increase further now that its Graphics Accelerator 900-enabled 915GM, 915GML and 915GMS chipsets, part of its second-generation Centrino platform. ®

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Framework Design Guidelines

Conventions, Idioms and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

Book review While Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms and Patterns for Reusable.NET Libraries hardly rolls off the tongue, it has the obvious virtue of faithfully describing the contents. And while the subject of coding and design guidelines might not get the juices running in the same way as a tome on the latest scripting language or a fancy new web technology, it’s also true that a solid grasp of the subject is likely to be of more long term value to a developer.

Framework Design Guidelines book cover By frameworks the authors mean collections of components which are designed for reuse – in other words libraries, middleware components, toolkits and the like. In contrast to standalone applications, these frameworks are defined by their APIs, the public interface through which other developers can make use of them. And the prime example the authors refer to is, of course, Microsoft’s .NET Framework; as they make clear, the guidelines in this book are those developed, tested and refined by the development of .NET.

The book covers both design principles and more mundane issues such as coding standards, naming conventions and so on. The first couple of chapters focus on design and philosophy, describing both the desirable attributes of a well-designed framework (simplicity, consistency, built with evolution in mind), and some fundamental guiding principles (layered architecture, self-documenting object models). Design principles are also revisited in a later chapter on common design patterns, such as the use of factory methods for object creation.

The nuts and bolts of coding are not neglected. Naming guidelines include capitalisation rules, names for classes, interfaces, structs, assemblies, name spaces, and much more. On first sight there appear to be endless layers of detail – how hard can it be to come up with rules on how to capitalise identifiers? However, it’s a horrible fact of life that depending on common sense and good luck just isn’t enough. And once an API has been published, all kinds of inconsistencies and exceptions become glaringly obvious to your users, who’ll take no end of pleasure in pointing them out.

Of course, this isn’t the first book to cover this sort of ground. Steve McConnell’s excellent ”Code Complete” (reviewed here), has plenty to say on coding and naming standards. And Joshua Bloch’s ”Effective Java” (reviewed here), covers design object oriented design principles. Interestingly, both books are name checked and are clear influences. While the .NET focus is evident, it has to be said that the principles and guidelines are independent of language and, to a very large extent, independent of platform. So, not only is this a book that applies to all of the .NET languages rather than just C#, most of it makes good sense for Java, Python and the rest.

Given the subject matter, the writing’s on the dry side. But the solid technical content is leavened with comments and asides from a number of experienced developers and architects.

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BetonSports pleads to racketeering

Sells executives down river

House of Cards BetonSports pleaded guilty earlier today to racketeering charges.

BetonSports admitted to a "pattern of racketeering acts". The plea encompasses a variety of activities, including mail and wire fraud, operating an illegal gambling business, and money-laundering, US Attorney Catherine Hanaway said. The deal provides some cover for the Department of Justice, which has come under withering criticism for its hard line approach to online gambling activities.

As always, the deal includes an agreement to cooperate against other defendants, which in this case includes supplying witnesses and evidence against founder Gary Stephen Kaplan and the other nine co-defendants, including former CEO David Carruthers. Reuters has more here.

Hanway, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, said the deal allows the company to avoid further criminal prosecution. "This plea, combined with the terms of the civil junction should put an end to the BetonSports illegal gambling empire."

Carruthers recently sought support from EU governments in his fight against American authority, after the judge in the case ruled that he can use recent WTO rulings in his defense against the US government. The EU filed a brief against the US in its long-running dispute with Antigua over cross-border gambling services, and many have speculated about when the EU would play a more active role in the dispute. The EU has the most fertile gaming market in the world right now, and several prominent executives have been arrested by American authorities.

The BetonSports case has been particularly controversial. Former CEO Carruthers was a prominent proponent of legalization and regulation of the online gambling industry, and appeared regularly on American TV advocating for the industry. Federal marshals dragged him off of a plane last year in the Dallas airport, and he has been under house arrest ever since.

The case became a case study in how not to manage a prosecution, as the heavy handed prosecution led to massive capital flight from the company, rendering the company for all practical purposes bankrupt and harming the very people the DOJ is meant to protect: American citizens. Much of the money apparently ended up in the hands of less than scrupulous Middle Eastern payment processors.

This action appears to be something of a fig leaf for the DOJ, then; the once-reputable company was effectively destroyed months ago, and the admission by the company allows the DOJ to reclaim some kind of moral high ground in this mess. The endgame against the executives should kick into high gear now that their company has cut them loose.

Only time will tell if the EU will step in and throw them a lifeline. We wouldn't bet on it. ®

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Water found on extrasolar planet

Planet with sea views? Let's move

For the first time ever, water has been conclusively identified in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.

The presence of water on another planet is a groundbreaking discovery, and has fuelled hopes that one day we will find life somewhere out there. Water is widely regarded as being an essential ingredient for life. Certainly on Earth, wherever there is water and energy, there lurks something living, however slimy or weird.

Unfortunately for seekers of little green men to whom we could come in peace, the planet would be very unfamiliar to anyone who evolved in this neighbourhood. HD 189733b, located 63 light-years away, in the constellation Vulpecula, is a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter, and orbits its star once every 2.2 days.

The researchers, who made the discovery using NASA's Spitzer space telescope, say the discovery lays the ground work for detecting water, and possibly life, on more familiar, rocky worlds like Earth.

Dr Giovanna Tinetti, an ESA fellow from the Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris and UCL said: "The 'holy grail' for today's planet hunters is to find an Earth-like planet that also has water in its atmosphere. That discovery, when it happens, will provide real evidence that planets outside of our Solar System might harbour life. So the discovery that water exists on an extra-solar gas giant is a vital milestone along that road of discovery."

The watery gas giant is a transiting planet - it passes directly between us and its star as it orbits. This gives astronomers an opportunity to study the spectrum of light that passes through the planet's atmosphere from its parent star.

The researchers, led by Dr Tinetti, found that the planet absorbs the starlight in a way that can only be explained if it has water vapour in its atmosphere.

The starlight that had passed through the planet's atmosphere dimmed at two infrared bands: 3.6 and 5.8 micrometres. If the planet was rocky world with no atmosphere, both bands (and a third at 8 micrometres) would respond the same way. But in this case, the atmosphere absorbed less radiation at 3.6 micrometres than at either 5.8 or 8 micrometres.

Water is the only molecule that can explain this behaviour, the researchers say.

As for finding water on smaller planets, first we have to find the planets. Today's telescopes are not quite sensitive enough to detect the gravitational wobble exerted by smaller, rocky worlds that will be so much more interesting to us. But when the James Webb Telescope launches in 2011, some smaller planets might well become targets for this kind of analysis. ®

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TVonics MFR-300 micro digital TV set-top box

Bringing digital to Scart-free tellies

Review Thousands of Brits are going to find their analogue TVs incapable of picking up a signal come 2012. Clearly, that doesn't concern too many of us, since we're still buying plenty of analogue tellies.

This situation may have got Parliament in a panic but plenty of punters know all they need to go digital is to pick up a set-top box. Or how about a 'set-back' box - a compact unit that does the same job but is intended to fit onto the back of your set?

TVonics MFR-300

Tvonics' MFR-300: not so much set-top and set-back

Enter TVonics with its MFR-300, a shiny black gadget that's about the size of a pack of cigarettes and intended to bring digital TV to all those small, Scart-free tellies out there.

It also has a neat, niche feature: Audio Description - broadcast speech that provides folk who can't see so well with a guide to the on-screen action.

The MFR-300 comes with its own remote control, an external infrared pick-up and the inevitable AC adaptor - in this case, it's discreet, barely bigger than a standard three-pin plug.

Power and the signal from the IR receiver are fed into connectors on the back the MFR-300. So too is the aerial feed. There's an output port next to it, allowing the TVonics device to sit between antenna and telly. There's no Scart connector, but that's the whole point of this box: to bring digital TV to sets that were never intended to be connected to other devices except through the aerial socket.

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Report smiles on efforts to be less leaky

Measures put in place by the Government to better protect individuals' personal data have been successful but more work is needed, according to the first annual internal report due under the new regime.

After a series of embarrassing losses of personal information, including the 2007 loss of discs containing the names, addresses and bank details of 25 million child benefit claimants, the Government conducted a Data Handling Review (DHR).

The job of the DHR was to change the way that Government treated personal and sensitive data. The Review, completed in 2008, ordered that an annual report be published on the progress of the plans.

"The cultural, procedural and technical measures put in place by the DHR have led to a substantial improvement in the way that government protects information," said the report. "It is also clear that the landscape is continually changing and that we must adapt accordingly."

"A huge amount of work has been, and will continue to be, devoted to making sure the right protection for information is in place. There is no doubt that this task, and keeping pace with change is and remains, challenging," said the report. "The way that the internet has changed and shaped society over the course of the last decade serves to highlight the importance of information, how it is held, transferred and used."

The original Review did not examine the circumstances of previous data losses, but looked forward to proposed changes in Government behaviour. It was carried out by Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell and recommended the establishment of minimum security measures across Government for personal data; mandatory training for civil servants; and the establishment of standard data security responsibilities within departments.

"We have made significant and far-reaching progress in bringing about a culture change in the way that we value and handle personal data," said O'Donnell in the report on the progress made since 2008. "We have tightened processes and enhanced the skills of public sector staff that handle personal data with well over 450,000 civil servants trained in data security awareness since the publication of the DHR."

Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said in the report that his organisation still had work to do to ensure the full implementation of the DHR's recommendations.

"Armed with our new powers of assessment, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will aim to help Departments to live up to their commitments," he said. "In this way, the ICO will be helping to keep Whitehall up to scratch. But we also have a major job of education to do, helping organisations, both public and private, stick to the rules and keep out of trouble."

"It is clear that there remains no room for complacency," said Graham. "As organisations continue to use information, and do so in new ways, government must keep pace and ensure that the right protections are in place to safeguard public trust."

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Use of Weapons declared best sci-fi film never made

Iain M Banks tops Reg reader poll

Our poll to name the best sci-fi film never made has returned Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks as the book Reg readers would most like to see projected on the silver screen.

The 50 candidates attracted a whopping 27,088 votes, with the winner securing 10,032. Runner-up was Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye, which was honoured with 7,099 votes. You can see the full results right here.

So, Hollywood take note: scrap plans to "reimagine" Total Recall and get down to making something original.

I haven't personally read Use of Weapons, so I'll leave it to you lot to suggest how it might best be brought to the big screen. If we get some decent casting/directorial suggestions, we'll look into knocking up a poster to celebrate the movie which is yet to be. ®

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Apotheker prescribes transformation elixir for HP

Down the hatch, dinosaur

As everyone knows by now, Hewlett-Packard is trying to buy the British software company Autonomy as it shuts down its webOS hardware business and hopes to spin off its Personal Systems Group.

But here's a question for you: In HP's third fiscal quarter, which of its units actually showed year-on-year as well as sequential quarterly growth for operating margins?

Nope, it wasn't HP Software. It wasn't Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking, either. And it sure wasn't HP Services. Yup, it was Personal Systems Group (PSG) as well as the tiny HP Financial Services unit that gives leases on the company's gear.

The third quarter was not a great one for HP, but the outlook is even tougher, partly because HP is so tied to consumers that are skittish about the uncertainty in the global economies. HP booked sales of $31.2bn, up a point compared to the year-ago period, and net income hit $1.93bn, rising 8.6 per cent.

The PC business is cut-throat, and no IT giant wants to be shackled to the whims of consumers who cannot be goaded into buying new hard and soft wares even when they don't have the money. Corporate customers can always be lured by the promises of efficiency gains and lower costs in the long run. But PSG posted operating income gains on lower revenues thanks to a slowdown in consumer and public sector spending, and that is about as good as it gets on planet Earth right now.

In the third quarter, the PSG unit had sales of $9.59bn, off 3.3 per cent, but earnings from operations rose by 20.9 per cent, to $567m. That's not a great level of profitability compared to lucrative software margins, of course, which is why HP is considering all of its options in the PC racket. HP CEO Leo Apotheker saying on a conference call with Wall Street analysts that it would take the company between 12 and 18 months to sort out what it would do with the PC business, which includes everything from selling it to breaking it up to spinning it off to doing nothing at all.

HP's notebook PC sales were off 4 per cent, to $5.08bn, and desktop PC sales slumped the same amount down to $3.78bn. Workstation sales rocketed up 19 per cent to $547m, so HP will probably want to keep that bit – presuming that it is making money on workstation sales. For all we know, HP isn't.

Here's the real rub: Revenues of commercial PCs were up 9 per cent, but consumer PC sales were off 17 per cent. Maybe what HP really needs to do is sell off the consumer PC business to Lenovo or Acer.

It's the app and the cloud, stupid

The good news for HP is that after it shelled out $1.2bn for Palm last year, it did not merge this into the PSG unit, but kept it in the bookkeeping DMZ of Corporate Investments, where 3Com sat for a while until it was integrated with HP's ProCurve switching business and then melded with servers and storage to Create the ESSN Group. In the third quarter, Corporate Investments accounted for just $266m in revenues and booked $332m in losses from operations – which HP CFO Cathie Lesjak said on the call was entirely due to webOS software and devices.

Lesjak said that HP made a bet on webOS a year ago, and basically conceded that this bet did not pay off. HP believes that it would take one to two years of intense investments going forward to make a dent in the market peddling webOS devices and characterized it as a "risk without clear returns" that HP was no longer willing to take.

HP's TouchPad went on sale in July and was dead on arrival, and not because people don't want tablet PCs, but perhaps because they want tablet PCs that run iOS applications and have a familiar infrastructure that supports them and caters to their whims. Instead of buying Palm, maybe HP should have built a cloud. Or both. Five years ago.

HP expects to eventually take a $1bn charge relating to the shutdown of webOS devices and says that there is $1.2bn in goodwill on its books relating to the webOS business that may need to be impaired at some point – and yet still insists that there might be some strategic way to license webOS and extract value from it.

Perhaps by selling it as a patent portfolio.

Printing money in the data center?

Apotheker might be a software guy, but he is going to have to make his numbers on enterprise IT gear and printer ink.

Margins took a hit in the third quarter in HP's ESSN group thanks to lower than expected sales of its Itanium-based Integrity server line, which is part of its Business Critical Systems unit. ESSN had $5.4bn in revenues, up 7 per cent compared to the year ago period, and earnings from operations fell by a point to $699m.

The Industry Standard Servers unit (Xeon and Opteron boxes) raking in $3.3bn, up 9 per cent. The BCS unit posted a 9 per cent decline, to $459m, and Lesjak said that HP's ability to close deals was impacted by Oracle's decision back in March to cease development of its database, middleware, and application software on future Itanium processors, including next year's eight-core "Poulson" Itanium chip.

Lesjak said some customers delayed Integrity server purchases and others canceled them because of Oracle's actions, and said that there was a "knock-on" effect in its Technology Services unit (now part of ESSN organizationally but still with its revenue reports in HP Services for the moment) because new server sales and upgrades drive services deals.

HP Networking posted a 15 per cent revenue gain in the quarter, to $659m. This is one of the few really bright spots in terms of growth for HP but it is still a tiny business compared to PCs and servers. HP's storage unit had $976m in sales, up 8 per cent. External storage array sales rose by 17 per cent in the quarter, with tape and EVA products showing softness and 3Par arrays showing triple-digit growth.

HP Services had $9.09bn in sales in fiscal Q3, with Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing up 5 per cent to $3.88bn, Technology Services up a similar 5 per cent to $2.75bn, Application Services up 2 per cent to $1.7bn, and Business Process Outsourcing off 9 per cent to $658m.

Earnings from operations for HP Services fell 11.3 per cent, to $1.23bn, and it will now be the job of John Visentin, who has been running the Enterprise Services behemoth in the Americas region since the departure of Tom Iannotti earlier this year, to knock this services biz into shape since he is now in charge of it. Visentin previously ran North American operations for IBM's Integrated Technology Services business.

The software is the hard bit

There's not enough money in the world – or in the HP coffers – to build the kind of software business that will make Apotheker comfortable, but the massive expense in buying Autonomy is a start. The British company has over 25,000 customers using its tools, which manage and archive unstructured data, and currently has on the order of 30PB of data under management, according to Apotheker. It remains to be seen if this company, which is on track to break $1bn in annual sales, is worth the hefty premium that HP is paying to acquire the company.

In Q3, HP Software had $780m in sales, up 20 per cent, but operating profit fell 17 per cent to $151m. Whoops.

Thank heavens for printers and ink, then, although profits are a little harder to come by because of shortages in LaserJet and InkJet ink components in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March and because of a slump in consumer spending. The Imaging and Printing Group raked in $6.1bn in sales (down 1.3 per cent) but more shockingly for HP operating earnings of only $892m (down 14.2 per cent).

Maybe HP has figured out that it needs Autonomy to be the corporate digital equivalent of printer ink because this is how we are going to keep data in the cloud age. Or maybe it is just guessing, like it was with the Palm acquisition.

Because of the uncertainty in the US and European economies and the disruptions and transitions in many of its product lines, HP is dropping its revenue and profit guidance for the fourth fiscal quarter and full year. HP now expects for Q4 sales to be in the range of 32.1bn to $32.5bn, with earnings per share between 44 cents and 55 cents. For the full year, the bar is lowered to $127.2bn to $127.6bn on the revenue front, with EPS expected to be between $3.59 and $3.70. ®

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Apple iPad 3 to sport 3D screen a 'dead cert'

Studios gagging for it, insists movie biz mole

By Tony Smith

Posted in Laptops and Tablets, 5th May 2011 09:39 GMT

If claims that Apple's next iPad will sport a 2048 x 1536 display containing four times as many pixels as the current one stretched credibility, one rumour, that successor to the iPad 2 will incorporate a glasses-free 3D screen, takes it to breaking point.

The claim comes from an alleged Hollywood insider who told RCR Wireless: "The fact that the iPad 3 is 3D is a dead cert."

The mole also said studios were busy preparing lots of 3D content to be released in time for the tablet's launch, whenever that is.

We're not convinced, though if anyone can do a good job of presenting display that can do good glasses-free 3D without messing up all the 2D content, it's Apple.

3D is a feature that would bring limited value to the iPad - far more buyers won't want it than will - and it could up the cost considerably.

Besides, Hollywood studios seem to have enough of a problem with the notion of Apple as a leading supplier of 2D content let alone 3D material that the notion they're all going ape for a 3D iPad seems unlikely.

3D in general, perhaps, but not specifically for the iPad 3. ®


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UK watchdog grills big biz: So HOW do you use their 'consumer data'?

The UK's main competition regulator is looking to build its knowledge of how consumer data is collected, used and traded by businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has asked businesses, trade bodies and other stakeholders to provide it with information about the commercial use of UK consumer data (10-page/262KB …
OUT-LAW.COM, 30 Jan 2015

POODLE vuln dogs Australian consumer modems

The persistent awfulness of consumer broadband modems is once again in evidence, with the Poodle and Freak bugs present in a huge number of Australian households. The issue has hit Twitter, with some people reporting that ISPs are notifying them of possible malicious traffic – but without useful information on what to do. TPG …

BENDY iPhone 6, you say? Pah, warp claims are bent out of shape: Consumer Reports

Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus mobes do not bend out of shape quite as easily as was claimed by bloggers earlier this week, according - that is - to a more rigorous test carried out by Consumer Reports. The US product reviews outfit used its lab equipment to see if there were obvious design weaknesses in Apple's anodised …
Team Register, 28 Sep 2014

Bullish Vodafone barges back into UK consumer broadband market

Vodafone is plotting to re-enter the UK's competitive broadband market in 2015 – with a little help from arch enemy BT. The mobile operator said this morning that it would use the Cable & Wireless Worldwide network it bought in 2012 to tout its rival service at Brits. That acquisition gifted Voda with access to nearly 13,000 …
Kelly Fiveash, 11 Nov 2014
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BT's consumer mobe network suffers tech snags – but telco denies delay claims

BT's return to the consumer mobile market is reportedly being hampered by technical difficulties but the company has denied that the problems could force it to delay its plans. According to the Telegraph, which cited anonymous sources, BT is continuing to wrestle with carrying voice calls and data traffic over Wi-Fi networks. …
Kelly Fiveash, 06 Oct 2014
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Consumer group SLAMS NASA for letting Google rent $1bn 'playground'

A consumer watchdog has slammed NASA for signing a whopping $1bn deal that will see a historic airbase turned into Google's space "playground". Mountain View has inked a deal with the space agency which will see it rent Moffett Federal Airfield for 60 years. The massive site is home to the Ames Research Center, where the Kepler …
Jasper Hamill, 11 Nov 2014

Windows 8 or nowt: Consumer Win 7 fans are OUT OF LUCK

It’s Windows 8.x or nothing for PC shoppers, says Microsoft, which has announced that it's no longer offering Windows 7. Friday 31 October was officially the last day when Microsoft made Windows 7 available for sale through retail outlets, meaning consumers can no longer buy discs of download versions of Windows 7 Home Basic, …
Gavin Clarke, 03 Nov 2014

Did you know Twitter has a 'consumer product division'? Ex-Google Maps boss now runs it

Profit-impaired Twitter has poached Google's Maps director Daniel Graf to head up the micro-blogging site's consumer product division. Graf – who is rarely seen Google+ing, facebooking or indeed tweeting – confirmed via his Twitter account on Tuesday that he was moving on. "Followed Maps to find that the flock was just around …
Kelly Fiveash, 16 Apr 2014

Keep that consumer browser tat away from our software says Oracle

Oracle has announced that it has certified four versions of Firefox's Extended Support releases, but can't be bothered even trying to keep up with the open-source browser's consumer version. Mozilla describes Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) as “intended for groups who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in large …
Simon Sharwood, 10 Sep 2014

THUD! WD plonks down SIX TERABYTE 'consumer NAS' fatboy

In a move that will get well-heeled Drobo owners salivating WD has announced a 6TB Red drive costing just $299, setting the industry a new high water mark in the areal density stakes. This is a 5-platter drive, with 1.2TB/platter areal density, intended for NAS use, and coming in both 5TB and 6TB versions. It spins, we …
Chris Mellor, 22 Jul 2014
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Haters of lurid supershow CES: The consumer tech market is still SHRINKING

CES 2014 As the tech world revels in its orgy of big screens, baffling gadgets and marketing hype that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, analysts predict further decline in the, er, consumer electronics market. Market research firm IHS forecasts that worldwide manufacturing revenues in the consumer electronics ( …
Shaun Nichols, 08 Jan 2014
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BT consumer biz saves day: Grr, if it weren't for that meddling Ofcom

Former state-owned telco monopoly BT reported top line declines across the majority of operations for the opening three months of its new financial year with only the consumer biz - fuelled by broadband demand - bucking the trend. Sales for Q1 ended June were two per cent adrift of revenues in the same period a year ago at £638m …
Paul Kunert, 31 Jul 2014
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Consumer disks trump enterprise platters in cloudy reliability study

The chaps at Backblaze have cracked open a spreadsheet and fed it some log files again, this time coming up with the assertion that contrary to expectations hard disks designated as destined for “enterprise” use don't always outlast cheaper kit directed towards everyday punters. A recap for those who aren't familiar with …
Simon Sharwood, 05 Dec 2013

Systemax CEO: Can't get consumer biz out of the crapper

It is a new calendar and financial year for shape-shifting box-shuffler Systemax but the same problem remains: it is hamstrung by a "weak" consumer division that is a burden on the relatively fit B2B operation. The New York-listed reseller last night reported Q1 results ended March with sales declining one per cent to $873.4m, …
Paul Kunert, 30 Apr 2014

ISPs failing 13m Brits on broadband speed, claims consumer group

Fast and reliable broadband connections remain a distant dream for far too many Brits, researchers at a consumer group claimed on Friday. It's estimated by Which? that around 13 million households across Blighty are saddled with slow access to the country's networks. The issue was compounded by poor service, the outfit added. …
Kelly Fiveash, 21 Mar 2014
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Trevor contemplates Consumer Netgear gear. BUT does it pass the cat hair test?

Sysadmin blog Is consumer networking gear really crap? As technologists, we tend to have a chip on our shoulder about it because it can't do all the things the latest, greatest enterprise stuff can do, but does that really matter? The capabilities of consumer gear have been steadily increasing, and perhaps some of our ire is unwarranted. …
Trevor Pott, 30 Nov 2014

Apple bests Dell for first time as preferred US consumer PC choice

Apple is now the preferred choice of US consumers shopping for desktop PCs, according to a nationwide survey of 2,500 "US broadband households" conducted by the research firm Parks Associates. "Apple topped the list of intended brands for desktop purchases for the first time this year," said Parks Associates' director of …
Rik Myslewski, 05 Dec 2013

HP UK channel man Bourguet to be crowned consumer veep

HP UK's local channel PC and printer bigwig Pascal Bourguet is set to move into a senior position in the firm's EMEA retail biz. Bourguet rocked up at HP in 2001 as a retail manager and went onto look after major accounts including CarreFour and Dixons in Europe, as well as overseeing consumer PC sales in Blighty. He was made …
Paul Kunert, 01 Aug 2013
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FTC calls for Congress to crack down on consumer data harvesting

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling for stricter regulations on companies that gather and sell personal information. The FTC said in a recent report (PDF) that it believes Congress should look to enact a new set of laws that will allow consumers to control when and how their personal information gets used for …
Shaun Nichols, 27 May 2014
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Save Ofcom! Telcos and consumer groups call for end to legal disputes

Consumer groups and two telcos have written to the government in support of Ofcom's attempts to revamp its appeals process and stop legal challenges from obstructing its rulings. Which?, Consumer Futures, Three and TalkTalk have all signed a letter to culture secretary Maria Miller and business secretary Vince Cable that says …

VAT's all folks: Telecoms and services tax to be set at consumer's homeland rate

VAT relating to cross-border business-to-consumer transactions will be charged at the rate in the country where the customer is based, rather than that of the supplier, under new EU rules to take effect in 2015. Explanatory notes on new VAT rules for telecoms, broadcasting and electronic services have been published by the …
OUT-LAW.COM, 08 Apr 2014
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Nokia on phone return mutterings: They LIIED. We won't be BAAACK

Nokia has dismissed claims that suggested the company was "currently" planning a big, splashy return to the smartphone business next year. As of the second half of 2016, the Finnish firm will no longer be saddled to a deal it inked with Microsoft – which bought Nokia's devices and services unit in 2014. However, Nokia attacked …
Kelly Fiveash, 26 Apr 2015
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Tab for Xmas, Mr Consumer? Yes please. And Mr Busin... NOPE

The slab revolution in UK consumer land continued over Chrimbo but many biz customers are still struggling to justify wider deployments and most of those that did steered well clear of Windows 8. Disties shipped a total of 1.5 million tabs in Q4, a hike of 53.1 per cent on a year ago. Some 16.4 per cent of these went via biz …
Paul Kunert, 26 Feb 2014
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Apple accounts for 20% of all US consumer electronics cash

The latest research data on US consumer electronics spending from analyst house NPD shows that Apple has a commanding market position, taking 19.9 per cent of all sales in 2012. The top five companies by spending last year were Apple, Samsung, HP, Sony, and Dell, but of those only Apple and Samsung actually saw their market …
Iain Thomson, 20 Feb 2013
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Experian subsidiary faces MEGA-PROBE for 'selling consumer data to fraudster'

Several US states have launched an investigation into a subsidiary of credit reference bureau Experian after a fraudster allegedly bought millions of consumers' personal data from it. Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo allegedly used information obtained through Experian subsidiary Court Ventures to run two identity fraud- …
John Leyden, 07 Apr 2014
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German watchdog rips off Facebook's thumbs after online fracas

Five German companies have removed Facebook’s “like” button from their websites following pressure from the niftily-named Consumer Advice Center of North Rhine-Westphalia (Verbraucherzentrale NRW). Two weeks ago, Belgium’s data protection authorities said the social network was breaking national and EU law by tracking users on …
Jennifer Baker, 26 May 2015

Apple blacklisted by Chinese consumer watchdog

A Chinese consumer rights group has slammed Apple’s after-sales service as unfair and placed it on an “integrity blacklist” after numerous complaints about maintenance and support. The China Consumer Association in the southern province of Guangdong released a report into the tech giant’s support policies last week, citing …
Phil Muncaster, 30 Jul 2012
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Australia deflates Valve with Steam sueball

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has fired the sueball-gun at Valve, accusing the game-maker of trying to dodge Australian consumer law. The consumer watchdog has announced a filing in the Australian Federal Court, in response to terms and conditions it says violate Australian consumer laws. In its …
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Intel delays consumer TV box yet again – report

Intel is reportedly delaying the launch of a planned set-top box with pay-per-view content after a distinct lack of interest among partners. Bloomberg reports that the previously planned launch of the box in time for this year's holiday season has now been delayed until at least 2014. Attempts by Intel to find partners for the …
Iain Thomson, 28 Sep 2013
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ACCC slaps iiNet over prices in ads

Second-tier telco and major ISP iiNet has forked over AU$204,000 to settle infringement notices from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The notices were issued as a result of iiNet's advertising for its Naked Broadband 250GB plan, which the consumer watchdog says didn't “prominently state the total minimum price …
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HP prosecuted by Australian consumer regulator

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the nation's guardian of consumer rights and regulator of competition and consumer law, has commenced legal action against HP over its warranty and repair practices. The ACCC is upset with HP for five reasons, namely: The remedies available for a faulty HP product were …
Simon Sharwood, 16 Oct 2012

Consumer Affairs Victoria says App Store contains malware

Consumer Affairs Victoria has claimed Apple's App Store houses "counterfeit or 'cloned' apps" that "look like real apps but don't have the same kind of security as those made by established software programmers" and "can expose personal data to malware or predatory, virus-like software which can be used to steal personal …
The Register breaking news

RIM insists it is not exiting consumer market - just 'refocusing'

RIM has reassured shop-wrecking hoodies everywhere that it is not in fact planning to exit the consumer market - after a comment during the BlackBerry-maker's earnings call was misconstrued. Pundits were widely anticipating the sharp exit of the Canadian firm from consumer smartphones, withdrawing from its fight against Android …

Microsoft set to penetrate Cyanogen, promises app-y ending

Perverse as it might seem for mighty Microsoft to be courting geek-niche Android developer Cyanogen, the inclusion of Microsoft Apps on future distributions of the Cyanogen flavour of Android is an important win for Microsoft. The deal has been a while coming. We reported in March that it was pending despite Microsoft having …
Simon Rockman, 16 Apr 2015

The storage is alive? Flash lives longer than expected – report

StorageBod The Tech Report has been running an ‘SSD Endurance Experiment’ utilising consumer SSDs to see how long they last and what their "real world" endurance really is. It seem that pretty much all of the drives are very good and last longer than their manufacturers state. It's a fairly unusual state of affairs – something in IT that …
StorageBod, 19 Mar 2015
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LenovOUCH expands bits-blistering bodgy battery boomerang

Lenovo has extended the recall for bodgy batteries it shipped with ThinkPad computers between 2010 and 2012. The company's once again alerted the world's governments, and their product safety agencies, that plenty of ThinkPads shipped with Lithium-ion batteries that “may overheat, posing a fire hazard” and therefore “pose the …
Simon Sharwood, 24 Apr 2015
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Let downloads roam free, says ACCC

Australia's consumer regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, is pushing back against calls to ban accessing offshore content with means such as VPNs, in a submission to an inquiry into copyright legislation. The competition regulator reckons parallel importation should be available in every market, …
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Huawei? Apple and Samsung's worst nightmare, pal

Huawei claims to have banked over $11bn in smartphone revenue in 2014 despite falling short of its volume prediction. Consumer chief Richard Yu says the Chinese giant shifted 75 million units in the year, a little short of the 80 million it had predicted - but still up 40 per cent from 2013, the WSJ reports. Three of the top …
Andrew Orlowski, 02 Jan 2015

Consumer Affairs Victoria drops App Store malware claim

Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) has taken down a page on which it alleged Apple's App Store contains "counterfeit or 'cloned' apps" that "look like real apps but don't have the same kind of security as those made by established software programmers" and "can expose personal data to malware or predatory, virus-like software.” The …
Simon Sharwood, 20 Jun 2012

Keurig to drop coffee DRM after boss admits 'we were wrong'

Coffee machine maker Keurig's attempt to lock customers into its proprietary K-Cup coffee pods was a failure, the firm's CEO has admitted, and the company is dropping the practice. "Quite honestly, we were wrong," boss Brian Kelley told analysts after Keurig's latest quarterly results were released, the Washington Post reports …
Iain Thomson, 07 May 2015
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Have it all: BlackBerry to port crown jewels to iPhone, Android

MWC 2015 At Mobile World Congress, BlackBerry said it will port key client platform features – like its soft keyboard, Universal Search and Hub – to iPhone and Android, and also throw them into its enterprise software bundles. It marks a huge leap along BlackBerry’s transition to a software services company – but CEO John Chen denied the …
Andrew Orlowski, 02 Mar 2015

Uncle Sam spanks PayPal for credit scheme cockup

Updated PayPal is going to surrender $25m to settle charges it enrolled consumers into its credit platform without their knowledge or consent. The US government's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleges the online payment house used its "Bill Me Later" feature to lure consumers into its credit operation illegally. The …
Shaun Nichols, 19 May 2015

Sacre vache! Netflix ne parle pas le Frenchy ... zat is against ze LAW

Netflix's seeming inability to parle Francais has landed the US video giant in trouble. The French national consumer protection association, CLCV, is suing the online goggle-box for breaking French consumer law. According to CLCV, Netflix imposes “malicious and illegal clauses” in its contracts with customers. Apparently …
Jennifer Baker, 25 Nov 2014
The Register breaking news

Hard-up Kodak selling consumer film biz

Hard-up Kodak is selling its consumer film, scanner and photo kiosk businesses as part of a restructuring. Chief executive Antonio Perez announced the news on Thursday, saying Kodak was shedding its personalised imaging and document imaging units as part of restructuring to help the company exit US Chapter 11 bankruptcy …
Gavin Clarke, 24 Aug 2012
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Symantec: Look at our Q4 numbers ... no, not those ones

The road to separation continues to be anything but smooth for Symantec’s security operation, particularly on the consumer front, as it again suffered from sales shrinkage, unlike the breakaway storage biz. In the last set of full year numbers from the firm, sales fell three per cent to $6.5bn, including a four per cent slip in …
Paul Kunert, 15 May 2015

Oracle snaps up Facebook data slurper Datalogix

Oracle has snapped up data slurping company Datalogix - an oufit best known for collecting info from retailers and sharing it with the likes of Facebook. Datalogix measures the offline purchasing data of more than $2tn (£1.3tn) in consumer spending against social media ad browsing. The company has 650 customers, including 82 of …
Kat Hall, 23 Dec 2014

Trade body, universities row over US patent troll act proposals

A spat has erupted between US universities and the trade body representing the $286bn (£193bn) consumer electronics industry, over a proposed crackdown on patent trolls. The row is centered upon the proposed Innovation Act, a bill which collapsed and died last spring in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but which has now been …
Kat Hall, 09 Apr 2015

Oculus Rift VR bucket will be seen on noggins near you in 2016

Oculus has announced that its Rift VR headset will ship to customers in the first quarter of 2016. A consumer version of the headset, which has slowly crawled towards the market since developer kit was flogged using Kickstarter, has been settled on. Oculus promises it will soon be strapped to noggins everywhere. Today's official …
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Nissan CEO: Get ready, our auto-wagons will be ready by 2020

Nissan's CEO has said the company is on track to deliver its driverless cars by 2020, although he expects government regulation to be a stumbling block to their usage on public roads. Whether driverless car technology will achieve any sort of road-worthy licensing from different regulators around the world is still a cause for …
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Security software's a booming market. Why is Symantec stumbling?

Worldwide security software revenue totalled $21.4bn in 2014, a 5.3 per cent increase from 2013's revenue of $20.3bn, according to the serious bean counters at Gartner. A decline in consumer security software and endpoint protection — areas that together account for 39 per cent of the market — was more than offset the strong …
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Monday, 30 September 2013

Sitting on the kitchen floor

Sitting on the kitchen floor. I've just come back from my "leaving do". I'm now unemployed.

I guess the question is "how do I feel?". To be honest I don't know. It changes from moment to moment.

I feel bitter that after 7 1/2 years at my company so few people made an effort to say goodbye. Even my last 2 managers.

I feel touched by some of the messages from those that did make the time.

I feel so so sad to say goodbye to people who I will inevitably lose touch with.

I feel excited about what the future might hold.

I feel regret for missed opportunities.

I feel scared for my new world and I fear going to bed because of what will be my life when I wake up.

I'm listening to music because I don't want to be alone with me. I'm not sure I want to be me right now. I definitely don't want to be alone.

But tomorrow is a new day. A bright day. I will pick myself up off the floor. I will find the strength and I will turn the page to write the new chapter of my life.

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When we run job on cloud we need to specify storage location for input as well as output, which is available for storage as well as retrieval. In this tutorial we will learn how to specify s3 for input / output.

What is S3: Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a data storage service. Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers

There are two ways that S3 can be used with Hadoop's Map/Reduce, either as a replacement for HDFS using the S3 block filesystem or as a convenient repository for data input to and output from MapReduce, using either S3 filesystem.

To Configure S3 as I/O for Hadoop Map Reduce job visit:


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40 Years of Service

GIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo government is considering its options following a Swiss court ruling which released millions of dollars stashed in various Swiss bank accounts of the former President Mobutu Sese Seko to his family.
In its ruling two weeks ago, the court said that too much time had passed since the charges were first filed.
''With due respect to a court decision,'' said Information Minister Lambert Mende, "the government is not happy with this decision because this money should have been sent to the Congolese people."
He said President Joseph Kabila was equally displeased with the court's ruling.
Human rights organizations sharply condemned the Swiss court's ruling. Transparency International called President Sese Seko the third most corrupt African leader who ruled from 1965 to 1997, adding that these millions were ill-gotten and needed by suffering Congolese. His regime led to the creation of the word ''kleptocracy.''
Manketa Rostin of the Congolese rights group Voice of the Voiceless said that the disputed millions should have been invested in DR Congo.
''We were expecting the money to be used for infrastructure here in Kinshasa because we have roads in a very bad state,'' he said. The money, he added, could have also been used to help victims of rape and other violence.
During the Cold War, Mobutu, a staunch anti-communist, was reportedly receiving half of the all U.S. aid to sub-Saharan Africa. Almost half of the $12 billion in aid money received from the International Monetary Fund also reportedly wound up in Mobotu's accounts.
After 32 years of authoritarian rule, he was ousted from power in 1997, to die later that year in exile in Morocco. The new rulers reverted the country's name back to Congo, from Zaire, a title chosen by Mobutu.

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