Thursday - May 19, 2011
Attack of the Acronyms
The crew of a Navy helicopter launched from the destroyer Bulkeley fired upon and is believed to have killed four pirates who were in the process of attacking a crude oil carrier while it was transiting the Gulf of Oman on Monday, according to Combined Maritime Forces.
The interdiction took place at 10:35 a.m. local time. The Norfolk, Va.-based Bulkeley, assigned to Joint Task Force 150, had received a mayday call from the German-owned, Panamanian-flagged crude carrier Artemis Glory, which said it was being chased and attacked by pirates.
Bulkeley responded to the mayday call, first heard by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship and relayed to Combined Maritime Forces, by launching an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Squadron Light 48, Detachment 4, to investigate. When it arrived on station — a command spokesman could not provide the distance or transit time — the crew saw four individuals in a skiff firing at Artemis Glory, using small arms.
The helicopter crew opened fire on the skiff under what command spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Sam Hearn of the Royal Navy said was the principle of “extended unit self-defense” on behalf of the crude carrier. All four pirates are believed to have been killed, Hearn said. Hearn said he did not know which weapon system was employed but noted that the SH-60B is equipped with a single M-240 machine gun.
Officials do not believe the helicopter was fired upon by the pirates, Hearn said.
Hearn said Bulkeley did not pick up the bodies, and could not say whether the skiff was sunk. Once it was determined that Artemis Glory was out of danger, the ship continued on its way, Hearn said. The ship is transporting a cargo of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to China.
The M-240 is our standard 7.62 NATO (.308) air cooled medium machine gun. Typical mounting on a helicopter uses a door gunner. The Seahawk does have several hardpoints, so it could easily mount small missiles like the Hellfire as well. Either armament has approximately equal range to an RPG and only slightly greater than an AK-47, so this was not a stand-back-at-a-safe-distance-and-shoot engagement; the Seahawk crew did the job in an up close and personal manner. It is entirely possible that the helicopter came under fire, whatever officials choose to believe. It was certainly within range.
But I do like the outcome. I don’t know if there is a new SOO (Save Our Oil) doctrine in play, or if the fact that this VLCC tanker was taking oil to our new financial overlords in China contributed to the action, but the pirates were caught shooting at a merchant ship and the Navy blasted them right out of the water. And left their bodies to rot and sink, while the tanker went on its merry way. Nothing to see here, move along. Next!
I had thought that Extended Unit Self Defense, EUSD, only applied to American military vessels. Extending the concept to foreign flagged merchantmen is something new. And it’s about time.
The Bulkely is getting a lot of anti-pirate action on this cruise. I wonder if they get to paint little Jolly Rodgers kill flags on the side of the ship’s bridge after each take down?
Go Navy!
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Permalink • Iorich, Vlad Taltos 12, the deleted scenes
I don’t know how many of you have read Steven Brust. His Vlad Taltos series is a must-read for any fantasy buff.
Anyway, at the end of the book twelve, Steve Brust included some ‘deleted scenes’.
DELETED SCENES
Various scenes had to be deleted for length or content. I thought some of you might be interested in them. They may appear when I release the Director’s Cut of this book. But don’t hold your breath.
—SKZB
Prologue, Outside Whitemill, Page 13
I pulled the arrow from my eye, hearing myself scream. At that moment, a blast of magic from one of them hit me, and I saw my leg fly off at the knee. I fell to the ground, reaching for Lady Teldra, but one of them came in with an ax and took my right hand off at the wrist.
The air seemed to take on an odd golden shimmer, and I heard the Necromancer’s voice come out of nowhere. “Through the Gate, Vlad. Hurry!”
“Uh, what?”
“You have to get out of here, Vlad. You’ve landed in a Tim Powers novel.”
I moaned even as I felt the Gate form.
Hard gray walls appeared around me, and I heard voices speaking a language I didn’t know. “Am I going to be safe here?”
“Well,” she said, “Not, you know, safe exactly.”
“Whose novel are we in now?”
“Uh ... John DeChancie’s, Vlad. Best I could do on short notice.”
I whimpered. “You couldn’t manage Louisa May Alcott?”
Chapter Two, Imperial Palace, Page 51
“I’m glad you’ve offered,” said the Empress. “Yes, there is a service you could do.”
“I’m listening.”
“Far, far to the East—well beyond the kingdoms you know—there is ancient evil that is gathering power to itself. Its power comes from an Amulet of Evil that dates back to before the beginning of time. The power of the Amulet grows with each act of cruelty, or thoughtlessness toward another, or abuse of power, or greed. The sell-out of the writers’ strike didn’t do it any harm either. Soon it will become unstoppable, and using it, the ancient evil will enslave the entire world forever. You must destroy the evil, and take the Amulet and cast it into the Place Beyond Time.”
I nodded. “All right.”
It took six weeks to get there and an hour to do the job. Fortunately, I was able to teleport back.
“It is done,” I told Her Majesty.
“Thank you, Lord Szurke,” she said. “Evil has been banished forever.”
“Until the sequel, you mean.”
“Of course.”
I shrugged. “Just proving I’m willing to serve Your Majesty.”
Chapter Five, Dzur Mountain Stairway, Page 103
“Well met, friend.”
I looked around, and noticed a splotchy brown cat on the landing just above me. I stared at it.
“Something wrong?” it said.
“What the hell are you?”
It rolled its eyes. “This is a fantasy novel. I’m the obligatory talking cat. Get a clue.”
“Boss, can I—”
“Sure.”
When Loiosh and Rocza had finished their meal, we continued up the stairs.
I feel this needs some explanation. Loiosh and Rocza are Vlad’s small, venomous, flying pet dragons. Usually perched on his shoulders. Loiosh can talk to Vlad mentally. Such conversations are in italics.
Chapter Seven, South Adrilankha, Page 143
“Boss, isn’t there supposed to be a scene here making fun of the old ‘weapons that drink souls’ thing that always comes up in bad fantasy novels?”
“Loiosh, in case you haven’t noticed, there are weapons that drink souls in these books.”
“Oh. Yeah. Good point. Guess we stay away from that one, huh?”
“Probably best.”
Chapter Eleven, South Adrilankha, Page 209
“Maybe I’ll go walk up to the cottage and ask for sanctuary,” I said. “And then maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt. Wait. I wouldn’t say that.”
YOU JUST DID.
“I don’t care. I wouldn’t say that. It isn’t even a Dragaeran idiom.”
IT IS NOW.
“That’s stupid. There aren’t any monkeys here.”
SO NOW YOU’RE AN EXPERT ON DRAGAERAN FAUNA?
“I didn’t say that. Don’t put words in my mouth.”
THAT’S WHAT I DO.
“Yeah, you and Tom Cruise. Just lose the monkey bit, okay?”
I LIKE IT.
“You also like it when I figure out how to get out of those messes you put me in. Now, you want me on your side, or not?”
YOU WANT TO BE ALIVE AT THE END OF THIS BOOK, OR NOT?
I sighed. “Maybe I’ll go walk up to the cottage and ask for sanctuary,” I said. “And then maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.”
Chapter Fourteen, Outside the Imperial Palace, Page 262
I cut through the park, smiling at all the butterflies. I started skipping. It was such a beautiful day. A puppy barked playfully at me and I stopped to pet it. It seemed so happy, I couldn’t help but sing a cheerful song to it before I went on my way, still skipping.
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Permalink • Wednesday - May 18, 2011
Hear Ye Hear Ye
Miami Herald, please send me an email with your new email address.
I gather you’ve either changed your email address or you’re having trouble with the one you have.
Whatever, but I’m getting an inbox full of “Mail delivery failed” notices.
That is all.
Thank you.
Drew458
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Permalink • law and disorder .. 30+ cops, 1 guy with machete, guy lives. why?
Take a look at this and you’ll understand a bit more why I say this place is doomed. I mean muslims aside.
All these cops and not one gun. Scroll down to the video at the link. It’s about 5 minutes and not the very best quality, but you’ll get a graphic look at how screwed up they are.
The ass wipe should have been shot dead. But no. Softly, softly does it. And this being the UK, if they did delete the schmuck, there’s be investigation after investigation and inquiries and pot shots at the police and accusations of bad policing made by people who don’t have to face some large idiot with a two-foot machete.
Thirty riot police tackled machete-wielding man
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 3:50 PM on 18th May 2011He was sprayed with CS gas but still kept swinging the 2ft blade
The images shows a pot-bellied man in a distinctive floral shirt viciously swinging the huge blade wildly in the air in Brockley, south London.
As he lurches forward, officers resort to fighting him off with a wheelie bin in an attempt to subdue him.
Homeowners called police after the balding man was spotted standing in the middle of a roundabout holding the lethal weapon.
When officers rushed to the scene, witnessed said the man reappeared ‘out of nowhere’, waving the blade in the air.
The video footage shows the man frenziedly staggering around the normally busy main road grasping the blade in his right hand.
With two squad cars parked in the middle of the road to act as cover, police officers continue to scream at the attacker during the seven-minute video urging him to lay down his weapon.
But ignoring their pleas, he strides around lashing out at anyone who dares step near him.
He can be heard screaming ‘come on then’ before cornering one policeman behind a wheelie bin.
Acting instinctively a brave colleague dashes to hit the machete-wielding man with his baton - before being driven back as the man turns and lashes out.
Officers wielding riot shields and batons can be seen slowly surrounding the man in a horse shoe shape - before rushing him and pushing him to the ground.
Eyewitness Mark Pether, who filmed the astonishing footage from his home overlooking the incident, said: ‘Me and some friends were having a barbecue in the back garden when a friend phoned to say she had just seen a man holding a machete stood on a roundabout nearby
The two foot machete used in the incident is discarded on the road
‘We thought she was joking - but moments later a load of police cars came screaming around the corner looking for him.
‘We then heard this really loud high-pitched yelp and he just came out of nowhere. Eight of them quickly sprayed him in the face with CS spray - but he didn’t go down.
‘Even though he couldn’t see, he was still thrashing around swinging the machete at anyone who came near him. They tried to knock it out of his hand and one even tried to ram a bin in to him.
‘Only one guy had a shield - the rest were unarmed apart from these small batons. It is crazy no one got seriously hurt or even killed. It was a terrifying experience.’
Another neighbour, Margaret Brachaniec, said: ‘If he had hit someone he would have killed them. He was just crazed.’
The incident happened on Monday, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.
Mr Pether, 21, who attends Goldsmiths University, added: ‘By the end there was at least 35 police officers at the scene - it was mad.
‘They eventually got him to lay down his machete and then all the police just rushed him. They pushed him up against a lamppost and put him in a van.
‘I don’t know what made him take to the streets with a machete but he was clearly angry and upset about something.
‘At first I was in complete shock. I thought the stand off was going to go on for an hour, but it was over in 20 minutes once back up arrived.’
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Permalink • Gypsy swindlers fly into Britain from Romania to steal. europe’s cancer
I’ve had so much to say and have said over the years, that I don’t know what I can add to the story. A story that appears to have no end.
It could have if authorities made the punishment mean something. What a year or two in jail for these life forms? Meaningless. They’ll be back. Of course they wouldn’t be if deleted when found.
One of the things aside from the subject matter is the wonderment that anyone might want to or be physically able to breed with any of these.
Here ya go. Gypo Eye Candy.
And the men aren’t much better.
The £800,000 benefit cheats: Gypsy swindlers flew into Britain from Romania just to pick up their cheques
By CHRIS GREENWOOD
WOW! What a treat guys. Sisters and you have your choice.
A family of professional benefit cheats who made regular flights into Britain to collect state handouts was jailed yesterday.
The Romany gypsy gang – also suspected to have been involved in a child-trafficking ring – swindled taxpayers out of more than £800,000 in a ‘flagrant and persistent’ attack on the benefits system.
Some members were based in Britain while others flew in from Romania to collect tax credits, income support, child benefits and housing benefit.
They used forged Home Office documents and job references to obtain National Insurance numbers illegally before applying for payments.
Several fraudsters made claims under two aliases and were said to have boosted payments even further by inventing children, using photographs of other youngsters.
The judge noted ‘the possibility that the children are the subject of child-trafficking and are not your own’, although the defendants denied this.
The family was traced to the town of Tandarei, in eastern Romania, a notorious base for crime gangs whose tentacles reach across western Europe.
Sentencing the gang at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Gregory Stone said they were responsible for a ‘large-scale’ and ‘professionally planned’ fraud.
Romania joined the European Union in January 2007, meaning all citizens can travel to Britain as tourists. However there are restrictions on the jobs they can take and the benefits they can claim.
Well apparently those restrictions don’t mean much. Brits need to make a surgical military strike on the town they come from, clean out that nest once and for all. The rest of the scum will take note and go somewhere else. Like France and Italy. Oh right. They already have done that. Gone to France and Italy I mean.
Brits are too civilized for their own good to do what really should be done.
Gypsies. Europe’s Cancer.
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Permalink • the result of following where drew has led …..
Drew beat me to this goddess but he left out two pix or maybe didn’t see em. I can’t resist sharing them here.
This girl is awesome in every sense.
Former Israeli IDF. Heck, I’d surrender to her without a shout being uttered.
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Permalink • Speaking of Looking Familiar
Hey, remember her?
best recruiting poster evah!
This picture was all over the internet 4 years or so ago. Women in uniform, Women of the IDF, girls with guns, etc. A heart stoppingly adorable young woman serving her country.
Well, um, it didn’t happen by chance.
The young woman’s name is Agam Rodberg, and before joining the IDF she was one of the top teen fashion models in Israel. They have a universal draft over there: graduate high school and go do your hitch in the service. No exceptions. Well, that’s the theory. The reality is that almost one in four young Izzies avoids serving. Draft dodgers. Some of those young folks have a bit of a legitimate excuse; they are out there earning fame and fortune from a young age, and a couple years absence could be a career killer. Others (women) who get married very young do not have to serve. The IDF thought about it, and made an honest effort for youths like that. They devised a special “light duty” branch of the service, with unlimited time off for performances and shows. So all the musicians, actors, models, and generally famous types can fulfill their service requirement with the least amount of career interruption. Kudos to the IDF for being upfront about a practice which many countries do surreptitiously.
After the special service program for exceptional athletes and gifted musicians, the IDF has begun working on a similar program for exceptional celebrities.
Athletes and musicians recognized by the army as highly talented are given the possibility of enlisting to an “easy” military service, which enables them to continue training and practicing while serving in the IDF.The new plan was created in a bid to deal with the growing rate of draft dodging, which has recently reached 25% of all youth. One of the main problems identified by the officers was the shirking of military duty by the teenagers’ role models, particularly young artists who have chosen not to serve in the army in order to pursue their career.
“We must make an effort to enlist the public opinion leaders,” a senior officer said Monday.
That was 4 years ago. Did it work? Hmm, maybe we should ask swimwear model and former Leonardo DiCaprio arm candy Bar Rafaeli who avoided serving by a quickie sham marriage and divorce ...
Given her history with the Israeli Defence Forces, some may perceive Bar Refaeli’s latest photoshoot as a bold manoeuvre.
In what may be seen as an act of defiance, the Israel-born model poses topless for GQ Italia in nothing but a helmet and shorts - seven years after managing to dodge national service in her home country.
While military service is a must for both men and women Israelis once they reached 18, it emerged in 2007 how Bar had managed to avoid doing a three year spell by marrying an acquaintance.
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According to Jewish news site ynet.com, Bar said she didn’t regret getting into an arranged marriage to avoid national service.‘I don’t regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time,’ she is reported as saying. ‘That’s just the way it is, celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army. Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn’t it better to live in New York? ‘Why should 18-year-old kids have to die? It’s dumb that people have to die so that I can live in Israel.’
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[ In 2009 ] a feud developed between Refaeli and fellow Israeli model Esti Ginzburg, who served in the army and criticised Bar’s avoidance tactics.
But this was a post about the girl behind the salute. She was very successful as a teen model; she isn’t insanely tall or mind numbingly beautiful or skinny as a stick. No, she’s of normal height, cute as a button, and she has a damn good figure. In other words, she’s one of the best normal girls going. And that sells very well too. Looks like she tried her hand at acting too, and did a few TV commercials. Where is she now? I have no idea. Maybe she’s out of the Army and has gone back to modeling. But she still shows up at the top of various celebrity sites, even some of the more unusual ones.
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Permalink • A remake almost as good as the original
Watch it now before it disappears. The Israeli music group Fishman and the Pioneers recast their Yalla Ya Nasrallah tune from a couple of years ago. This time they did it for dear old Osama. The graphics aren’t quite as good as the first one, but it’s still a great tune. It’s a rush job, but timeliness matters more sometimes. The original Yalla Ya Nasrallah video was pulled from YouTube for “violations of terms of service” but can still be found on Google Video.
Stolen from Jewlicious, a decidedly pro-Israel blog, who aren’t quite wetting themselves with laughter over the news coming out about Osama’s porn stash, but they sure are having a good snicker. Goats Gone Wild!
In public, bin Laden is the pious, self-proclaimed vanguard of a violent Islamic uprising. Alone in his compound, he’s beating it like it owes him cash.
PS - that girl on the train at 1:42 looks familiar, doesn’t she? 
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Permalink • Question of the day
I was listening to Neal Boortz while out doing errands this morning. As I was getting out of the car at home Neal posed this question:
We’ve already seen that a black man, with no qualifications, can become President. Why not Herman Cain?
Well, BMEWSd and BMEWSettes...why not?
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Permalink • Fifty Seven And One Half Percent
Fox News runs the story and misses the real point.
A Michigan man who won $2 million from a state lottery is reportedly still eligible to receive food stamps.
Leroy Fick of Bay County, Mich., said in an interview with WNEM-TV that he still uses his bridge card at stores despite winning a jackpot on “Make Me Rich!” last June.
“I even called them and asked about the bridge card and (the Department of Human Services) said you can go ahead and keep it if you want to,” Fick reportedly told the station.
Fick claims he paid more than half of his winnings in taxes—leaving him about $850,000—according to the station.
State Department of Human Services spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau told MyFoxDetroit.com that under federal guidelines, lottery winnings are not counted as income if a person receives a lump-sum payment.
This is just another one of those not-really-news articles designed to keep people riled up, and it works quite well that way. The comments are immediately hate filled and racist (the guy is white, doncha know). The point that the vast majority of commentators miss is that Mr. Fick is completely following the law. He was aware that it didn’t seem right, so he checked it out and that’s what the authorities told him to do.
The real news in the story that no one is reacting to is the part that should really get people riled up. Large lump sum distributions get taxed 57 1/2 percent. Far more than half. That’s highway robbery. I don’t know how Michigan does it, but in many states the lottery winnings are exempt from state tax. So that 57.5% is all the federal bite. “Tax the rich” indeed. Outrageous.
On the other hand, 850 grand in my pocket sure would soften my life up a great deal. Yours too. But I’d like to see some “truth in advertising” applied to the lottery payouts. Calling this one a $2M prize doesn’t seem very forthright. Hey, how about a new numbers game called Forty Two Five? That’s your slice when all is said and done. Make TV ads to push the game that stress how your winnings help pay down the federal deficit by taking huge amounts of money out of your state and sending it to DC. You could also call the game Fair Share. Everybody would be eager to play, right? Win big, and live like the rich folks do: pay more taxes in one shot than you otherwise will your entire life combined.
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Permalink • Calling Alex Trebek
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 17, 2011
I’m losing it
I STG I put a post up this morning on the continued rain here, and the flooding along the Mississippi River in the middle of the country. How one of the floodgates had been opened, creating a slow flood in a large area upstream from NOLA and Baton Rouge, to lower the water levels to save those cities and the oil refineries. And with them in mind, I stuck in a couple of swamp pop videos. It was up, I know it was. And now it’s gone. All these posts have a number provided by the server, and there is one missing. So I know I wrote it. And I got an email from my brother with more links about the flood situation out there. So somebody must have seen it. And now it’s gone. Utterly. WTH?
I can’t find the crockpot. How on earth do you lose a crockpot? Its still in its original box, with a recipe booklet and accessories. Gone. I searched the whole house, even out in the garage. No esta aqui.
So I’ll have to make sausage and peppers in a pan, which means I’ll have to watch them cook for 2 -3 hours. Gee, fun. CRAP! WTH is the damn crockpot??
I’d better go look in my marble bag to make sure my last 3 are still there. Cuz if I lose the last of my marbles, it’s over.
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Permalink • Expand Your Horizons
If you were an Australian guy in his late teens to early 20s, this girl would probably be one of the ladies who helped imprint your heterosexuality. She’s the pretty girl you’ve grown up with. Indiana Evans has been doing commercials and TV shows Down Under since she was a little kid, and now she’s got a slew of pop music videos out there as well, which are a bit unusual in that they all seem to be barely a minute long. And a short film or two. Right now I think she’s the lead in a teener show called H2O: Just Add Water, in which she plays an ordinary teenage girl who is also a part time mermaid with magical powers. And a rock star. Because life isn’t complex enough when you’re 17. I think. Hey, what do I know about Aussie TV? Hannah Montana with a Splash. She turns 21 this summer.
And here she does a pretty decent 54 second rocker on her show. Guess they ran out of lyrics or something.
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Permalink • Tuesday WhatsIt
I found this little beauty on a ramble around the internet this morning. It’s made from sturdy ceramic, with a smooth porcelain glaze all over. I don’t have exact dimensions, but my guess is that the opening on the small end is about 2”, maybe plus or minus a little, and the opening on the large end is about 5”, thereabouts. So the whole thing stands about 5 - 6” high. It might weigh a pound or more; a heavier one of these is probably a good idea.
This design ought to be a significant improvement over the standard model. I hid the company name, but they are quite famous in certain circles for their expensive first class product line which completely modernizes an ancient, ancient process by using one core technology left over from the late steam age mixed with another core technology that finally emerged in the mid 70s.
What is it? What is the actual name of the product? Who makes it?
UPDATE! And the answer is ...
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
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- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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