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Series, Teams, History, Behind the scenes etc. - all discussed here.
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Re:Best Series
Post by Pooka » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:47 pm
I think Series 6 was excellent, very haunting and had a genuinely dangerous feeling in it which was lacking in S4 and 5.
I didn't like 4 or 5 - although 5 was my first series and got me hooked, and it had lots of good characters in it, I suppose. 4 was just so repetitive - seen one quest: seen 'em all.
I liked 7, not sure why - I just did - probably because of Julie and Barry - and I really liked 8. I think the only problem with 8 was the fact that it was too short and a lot of quests needed to be sped up or killed off quickly in order to fit them all in. But I liked it. The CGI-type changes were a little skewed, but with the advance of the technology at the time, who can blame them for trying things out?
Which leaves me with the first three. Now, Series 3 is really good, but I've seen it all so many times it's getting boring - I prefer watching series I haven't seen for a long time so I'm not quite sure what's coming up next! Series 2 is perhaps the most underrated series, because it's as good as 3 (IMO) and not given the recognition it deserves.
And Series 1 - slightly repetitive (although not as much so as 4), so somewhat boring in some respects. Although you have to like Series 1 - after all - it started everything!
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Post by 123Pooka » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:25 pm
My opinion on best series I always find hard, but here is how i would rate my top three
1) Series 3
Most would seem to agree, it has everything a knightmare fan could dream of (except of course the corridor of blades). All the characters in this series provide convincing oscar winning performances. The fact no one won gives this series the undefeated element which is quite unique. There were some very memorable moments, and some brilliant nail biting quests. I think Leo's quest is possibly my favourite of all time. Almost a shame only three teams reached level three as it was thrilling to watch when they did.
Probably a very controversial choice- but series 7 was exciting and, and although level one was far easier than it should have been, i still love this series for things such as the rift of angar, play your cards right and bulstrow the troll. I remember series 7 well from when I first watched it (so i'm a bit biased), and I don't think I've ever been so glued to a tv programme before! Riveting stuff.
Fast paced, action packed, sometimes averaged a death an episode. What more can you want?
The only way is onward, there is no turning back. Oooh nasty, didn't realise the road ended there!
Post by me » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:06 pm
Series 3 was hardest and my favourite. I hated s1&s8 as they were too short and depressing.
Also, i think the dungeon got a lot EASIER from s5 onwards.
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andrewbuckley
Post by andrewbuckley » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:14 pm
Ah, it's the series that introduced me to Knightmare for me, series 2, closely followed by 3, then 6, 4,5,7,1,8. Series 2 and 3 taken together are kind of a golden age, but I see why it had to expand. I'd actually forgotten how much I loved series 2 till I got hold of the videos again in 1999. And now it's all constantly on Challenge. Hurrah!!!
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Re: Best Series
Post by s4t8brett » Mon May 29, 2017 7:48 pm
I would say, out of the first three (hand-drawn chamber) series, Series 3 was the best as it was the culmination of them, so I'm going to eliminate series 1 and 2.
However, I liked the way the game evolved in a gradual manner during those series, because it made the show seem familiar - as if you understood it well.
I also like the way you can fairly easily watch the pre-Spy Glass series (1-4) and generally know what the challenges are, without having to keep track of the clues and stories as they built up, as they were more localised.
Out of the Eye-shield-series-in-the-UK, namely series 4-6, Series 6 apparently had the highest viewing figures of any series at the original time of transmission and seems most cinematic of 4-6, although the gameplay has changed significantly from Series 3 and the dreadnort (a robot) seems anachronistic. The Lord Fear Spyglass seequences were overused in my opinion and I would have preferred a replacement wizard to Mogdred.
In series 7 and 8 we see the use of Eye-shield sequences in Spain rather than the UK, and the introduction of computer-generated chambers. For these reasons, I personally eliminate series 7-8 from being the best or most classic.
That leaves us with the range of series 3-6. Series 4 is interesting (despite the relative lack of variety between quests and the over-done discoloration in some places) because - in many ways - it is as if Series 3 has been projected into the outdoors, particularly with some of the characters (e.g. Motley now has an inn, and more authentic audience, for his entertainment; and Ariadne has her lair in the forest clearings). Yet it is also balanced in that it comprises 1) hand-drawn scenes by David Rowe (e.g. the Place of Choice, the exterior to the Crazed Heifer, the Bridge of Decision, the Transporter Pad Room), 2) Eye shield sequences in the UK, and 3) Computer-generated chambers (such as the Block and Tackle and the Corridor of Blades).
Series 3, if you prefer how it started (it does have the outdoors in a way and could even have incorporated some Series 4 outdoors scenes without the Eye Shield).
Series 4, taking Series 3 into the outdoors as an all-rounder that sums up Knightmare very well.
Series 6, visually very good and an understandable choice if you like the Lord Fear era.
For me, series 4 followed by series 6 and then series 3. But all of them have their sunshine and shade.
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Post by Picklemyfav » Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:27 am
i loved all of them........ so to me they were all the best for different reasons.........
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Post by DuxBellorum » Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:49 pm
It's hard to pick one series as there is so much to love about all of them!
Series 3 would probably be my pick. The introductions of Hordriss and the Goblins were fantastic additions and I loved the mine carts between levels 2 & 3.
Series 3 had the most atmosphere and is the most quintessentially Knightmare series of them all.
Of course we lost Cedric and Gumboil, but alas...
I'd say that Knightmare was at it's peak between series 3-6.
Series 7 was a slight step back for me, though I loved the additions of Lissard, Grimaldine, The Brollachan and of course Majida
But series 3 was when Knightmare really hit it's stride and if I was to pick a series to introduce somebody to Knightmare then this would be the one.
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Post by EvelynMason » Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:57 pm
Other than chosen clips from Youtube, have not viewed the original series in 'proper format' i.e. on a TV broadcast, since the original run in the early 1990's. By this I mean the latter series of the program, from 4 and beyond for example.
Therefore it's (often) awkward on specific areas of the program to make comment as others will possess a far more extensive knowledge having taking in shows more recently and in their entirety. Point I wanted to make was that from all collective viewing I could at this moment ascertain, I did like the earliest of the shows as they had some characters that at the time did provide genuine fear but as the years went by, the Series got a little too advanced and the technology of the day maybe caused override on the supposed fundamentals of the show. True by the mid-point of the Knightmare series, there were a lot of new characters and situations to indulge, but looking back now I never really took to Lord Fear as one example, or Treguards shift from an impartial observer, to one that frequently aided the team and applauded every mistake or setback the opposition would incur.
Obviously the different quest objectives they eventually brought to the show rather than just one prize goal from Series 1 was a nice touch but in truth, until somebody can provide that much needed DVD set to take in ALL that occurred, it's once again awkward to speak out on an issue such as this.
Say one thing, whatever series the Corridor of Blades was introduced, I'm prepared to vote on that as being a favourite set of episodes, easily one of the best and enthralling set-ups of the entire franchise. Not to mention the "outdoor" scenes, where the dungeoneer could venture into Forest glades and Castle ruins for examples, (where wolf howls and other sinister sounds could be heard), god forbid the Series had run for the entire duration where the team were restricted to the interior of the dungeon and it's interior.
Post by s4t8brett » Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:53 pm
Thanks Evelyn. That's kinda how I see it, too. Knightmare didn't evince credibility on a large-scale good vs opposition war. The dragon flights and spyglass sequences were easy to produce but passive TV, and Lord Fear spoiled Knightmare for me. There were other ways teams could gain insights into the opposition other than the spyglass; such as by disclosure from other characters. And that's why series 4 was, on reflection, so good: small-scale but featuring the outdoors, a projection of series 3 into the forest.
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Season 1 because it started it all off. I also like season 3.
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Post by wombstar » Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:10 pm
Series 2. it's pure Knightmare, without the bells and whistles.
Series 4 was when i started watching the show back in the day, but it's also my least favourite series, a bit too repetitive, no just in locations but in dialog, and those annoying doors.. .yikes.
But i loved series 5 on wards, i even like the digital locations of series 8.. but i hated the wand.
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Post by DuxBellorum » Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:53 pm
Yes, the 'Reach' Wand was a strange thing about series 8.
A fair enough idea in principle, but didn't seem to work very well in practice.
It just didn't seem to fit in, at least not in my view.
One thing I did love about Series 8 however was a return, albeit an updated return to the dungeon and individual chambers/rooms of the early series and I really enjoyed the new Opposition characters.
Maldame and Bartram could have come straight from series 3!
Post by wombstar » Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:59 pm
Reach wand might have worked better if it was more like a laser pen/pointer properly controlled by the dungeonner


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Intel Says New Software Updates Make Computers 'Immune' to Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
Thursday January 4, 2018 1:46 pm PST by Juli Clover
Intel today announced that the firmware updates and software patches that are being released for its CPUs render Intel-based computer systems "immune" to both the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that were widely publicized this week.
Intel has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems -- including personal computers and servers -- that render those systems immune from both exploits (referred to as "Spectre" and "Meltdown") reported by Google Project Zero. Intel and its partners have made significant progress in deploying updates as both software patches and firmware updates.
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Intel today also reiterated that the updates that are being released for Mac, PC, and Linux machines should not significantly impact day to day usage and should, for the most part, be unnoticeable. That seems to be true of the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update, as there have been no reports of slowdowns from Mac users.
Intel continues to believe that the performance impact of these updates is highly workload-dependent and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time. While on some discrete workloads the performance impact from the software updates may initially be higher, additional post-deployment identification, testing and improvement of the software updates should mitigate that impact.
While hints of an Intel CPU design flaw and security vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday, it wasn't until Wednesday that full details were shared on the Meltdown and Spectre exploits, which take advantage of the speculative execution mechanism of a CPU.
Meltdown impacts Intel CPUs, allowing a malicious program to access data from the memory of running apps, providing passwords, emails, documents, photos, and more. Meltdown can be exploited to read the entire physical memory of a target machine, and it can be done through something as simple as a website. The vulnerability is particularly problematic for cloud-based services.
Spectre, which breaks the isolation between different applications, is a wider hardware-based problem impacting all modern Intel, ARM, and AMD processors. Spectre is harder to exploit than Meltdown, but it is also harder to mitigate.
While patches are going out that appear to prevent the current known Meltdown and Spectre exploits, these speculative execution vulnerabilities will continue to be a problem for years to come, according to security researchers. Similar vulnerabilities will surface, and while performance impacts from software-based workarounds are minor, they're still present.
Paul Kocher, one of the security researchers who helped discover the flaws, told The New York Times that this will be a "festering problem over hardware life cycles." "It's not going to change tomorrow or the day after," he said. "It's going to take awhile."
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Getting blown into a much bigger deal than it is.
I think that is going to depend on your definition of a "big deal". I know this is going to be a big deal in my world of pen testing for some time to come as exploits get released. Being able to jump from ring 3 to ring 0 is the main goal once gaining a foothold on a system. Additionally, Mozilla has stated they have proven that a browser can be used to exploit these so if XSS can be used to pull memory contents, I'm going to have some fun engagements coming up.
EDIT: I forgot to even discuss the potential issues with host and guest systems. Popping a guest OS and being able to access memory on the host, now we're really talking full compromise.
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Intel today also reiterated that the updates that are being released for Mac, PC, and Linux machines should not significantly impact day to day usage and should, for the most part, be unnoticeable.
However, if you are running any kind of significant workload that access the kernel frequently, such as frequent I/O requests used in database applications, then the impact is actually quite severe. People have seen their cloud services go to crap as the providers apply the patches.
I get that most day to day users may not care about this on their desktops, but step back and think about this a minute. You have a potentially 20-30% CPU performance hit on the cloud. That means that in order to achieve the same performance this week as they did last week, cloud computing providers will have to bump their capacity by potentially 20-30%. Along with that comes more power demands which renewable sources may or may not be able to meet...
Some of you are saying "this is getting blown out of proportions." I say the impacts of this are just starting to be felt.
jclo
I pretty sure that so far they have only worked to patch Meltdown. My system is up to date and the Spectre PoC released by Google still works on my MacBook Pro.
Another instance where I really wish Apple would provide us with some clarification and additional information.
EdwardC
But then I would have to update to High Sierra..... What to do.......
Possibly not.
For Mac users, Apple has already addressed the vulnerabilities ('https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/03/intel-design-flaw-fixed-macos-10-13-2/') in the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update, and further updates will come in macOS High Sierra 10.13.3.
coolfactor
Is there something stopping you from updating to High Sierra? It works great.
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Does this affect a Mac running Mavericks?
I'm really curious to see some benchmarks of before and after. Gladly with this amount of people with too much free time on websites such as this I can be confident there will be plenty soon.
Benchmarks will be pretty non-informative, as benchmarking software tends to max out the CPU and therefore may over-exaggerate the effects that one would experience. It's been reported that the fixes are "barely noticeable" in day-to-day computing. Only very specific applications may run into a performance reduction, and likely not as noticeable as media wants us to believe.
What about people that don't want to upgrade to 10.13? My 2013 MBP is still running El Cap. We're these released in security updates??
Do yourself a favour. Update to 10.13 AND ensure you are using an SSL internally, and your four-year old computer will feel newer than new. Performance will be incredible.
Is there something keeping you on El Cap other than fear?
OldSchoolMacGuy
What's the nature of the complaint?
I saw some sysadmin saying the servers were 60% loaded before and now they are stressed, for example.
For the Pentium laptop, it was barely usable before and now it seems it needs to be replaced.
stevet
I wish whomever is creating the headlines would take more care. You're doing the readers a disservice.
From yesterday:
Intel Memory Access Design Flaw Already Addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2
Today's Article:
Apple Confirms 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' Vulnerabilities Impact All Macs and iOS Devices, Some Fixes Already Released
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Trying to put things into perspective.
More than half a year ago, a team of researchers reported the Meltdown and Spectre design flaws to Intel, Kocher P. et al. reported in their paper that a permanent fix for Spectre was not possible for the current microprocessor design. Intel had roughly 1/2 a year of ample time to come up with "temporary solutions" to their problems - until January 3. 2018, the date the public was informed about the issues. Three days later Intel say abracadabra we have a fix that makes our hardware "immune" to potential attacks.
Smells very fishy to me; Dear Intel, I'm not buying it.
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If a person is having serious and intense thoughts of suicide, particularly when they have formulated a plan, or if their depression involves delusional or psychotic thoughts, a hospital admission may be necessary. In some less common cases, a person with milder depression who has not responded to antidepressant and psychological therapies may also be admitted to the hospital. Other instances where you may be admitted to the hospital are if you suffer from any physical coexisting conditions and need additional monitoring. In this way, both your depression and other condition can receive careful observation and more extensive treatment during your hospital stay.
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You may receive any number of talking and behavioural therapies and these can be a great source of learning and emotional support during your time in the hospital. You will usually be able to visit with friends and family each day and it can be helpful for sharing your concerns and even just for the warmth of a hug from someone you love. If, however, any family or friends have been direct triggers for the depression itself, your medical practitioners may advise that you take this time away from triggers so that you can better address your depression and strengthen your own coping abilities.
You may be undergoing intensive psychotherapy during your hospital stay, as well as going through various assessments and observations to more accurately diagnose your condition and provide effective treatment. You will likely have a great deal of time to yourself and may wish to have friends or family bring in books or any other hobbies that you can enjoy within your hospital room. You might want to consider a diary to write down your feelings and experiences and to help you make sense of what is happening.
For most people with depression, a hospital stay will be for several days to a week, or a few weeks at most. For others, particularly those who are unable to function at all on their own or are at high suicide risk, a longer stay will be necessary to stabilize their depressive symptoms. Try to approach a hospital stay as you would any part of your treatment-with the knowledge that your stay is meant to improve your well-being. Any short-term challenges involved in being in a strange place away from familiar surroundings will hopefully be worth the benefits of hospital treatment for your depression.


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use Madkom\EventStore\Client\Domain\Socket\Message\MessageComposer;
use Madkom\EventStore\Client\Domain\Socket\Message\MessageConfiguration;
use Madkom\EventStore\Client\Domain\Socket\Message\MessageType;
use Madkom\EventStore\Client\Domain\Socket\Message\SocketMessage;
use TrafficCophp\ByteBuffer\Buffer;

/**
 * Class MessageComposerTest
 * @package EventStore\ValueObjects\Tests\Identity
 * @author  Dariusz Gafka <dgafka.mail@gmail.com>
 */
class MessageComposerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{

    /** @var  MessageComposer */
    private $messageComposer;

    /** @var  SocketMessage */
    private $socketMessage;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->messageComposer = new MessageComposer();

        /** @var SocketMessage $socketMessage */
        $socketMessage = $this->prophesize('Madkom\EventStore\Client\Domain\Socket\Message\SocketMessage');
        $socketMessage->getData()->willReturn(null);
        $socketMessage->getMessageType()->willReturn(new MessageType(MessageType::HEARTBEAT_REQUEST));
        $socketMessage->getCorrelationID()->willReturn('1235');
        $this->socketMessage = $socketMessage;
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException \RuntimeException
     */
    public function it_should_compose_empty_message_without_auth()
    {
        $this->socketMessage = $this->socketMessage->reveal();

        $binaryMessage = $this->messageComposer->compose($this->socketMessage);

        $buffer = new Buffer($binaryMessage);
        \PHPUnit_Framework_Assert::assertEquals(18,$buffer->readInt32LE(0));
        \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::assertEquals(MessageType::HEARTBEAT_REQUEST, $buffer->readInt8(4));
        \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::assertEquals(MessageConfiguration::FLAGS_NONE, $buffer->readInt8(5));
        \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::assertEquals('12350000000000000000000000000000', bin2hex($buffer->read(6, 16)));

        //should throw exception out of range
        $buffer->read(22, 1);
    }

}

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Karol Murgaš (* 12. September 1899 in Budapest; † 27. Juli 1972 in Skokie) war ein slowakischer Journalist, Jurist, Politiker und Vertreter des radikalen pronazistischen Flügels der Slowakischen Volkspartei. Er war 1938 neben Alexander Mach, Ján Dafčík und Karol Sidor einer der Hauptbegründer und engagierter Organisator der Hlinka-Garde. Von 1938 bis 1939 war er deren Stabschef und von 1940 bis 1941 Chef des Propagandaamtes des Slowakischen Staates.

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Im Jahr 1929 kam Murgaš in die Redaktion der Hlinka-Parteizeitung Slovák (Der Slowake) und wurde dort als Redakteur tätig. Schon damals stand er gemeinsam mit den Brüdern Ďurčanský und Šaňo Mach an der Spitze der Nástupisten (den politischen Schülern Vojtech Tukas), die konsequent die Forderung nach einer vollen Souveränität der Slowakei vertraten.

Von 1938 bis 1939 war er neben Šaňo Mach Stabschef der Hlinka-Garde unter Karol Sidor. Durch sein offenes Paktieren mit dem deutschen Sicherheitsdienst rief er bei den katholisch-konservativen Regierungskreisen zunehmend Misstrauen hervor. 1939 ließ der slowakische Ministerpräsident Jozef Tiso Murgaš wegen seiner pronazistischen Aktivitäten im Konzentrationslager Ilava internieren, er wurde aber kurz darauf von Angehörigen der Gestapo wieder befreit.

Von 1940 bis 1941 war er Chef des Propagandaamtes der Slowakischen Volkspartei, als welcher er in Medien und in der öffentlichen Meinung einen "Slowakischen Nationalsozialismus" zu verankern suchte. Zum Jahreswechsel 1940/41 war Murgaš gemeinsam mit dem deutschen Gesandten in Bratislava, Manfred von Killinger, eine der treibenden Kräfte hinter den Putschversuchen der Radikalen gegen den Staatspräsidenten Tiso. Ab 1941 war er Gesandter der Slowakei in Zagreb. 1946 wurde er von den Amerikanern an die Tschechoslowakei ausgeliefert und von einem Gericht zu 15 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Nach seiner Freilassung zog Murgaš 1966 mit seiner Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten.

Ideologie
Murgaš sprach sich im März 1939 für einen unabhängigen slowakischen Staat unter der schützenden Hand "des großen Beschützers Adolf Hitler" aus. Weiters sprach er sich mehrmals gegen die Art und Weise aus, wie die slowakische Regierung unter Jozef Tiso die "Jüdische Frage" anhand eines Numerus clausus zu lösen versuchte und forderte gemeinsam mit Alexander Mach radikalere Maßnahmen. Am 5. Februar 1939 erklärte er in Rišňovce vor Mitgliedern der Hlinka-Garde:

Literatur
 Jörg Konrad Hoensch: Studia Slovaca: Studien zur Geschichte der Slowaken und der Slowakei, Oldenbourg, München 2000, ISBN 3-486-56521-4.
 Karol Sidor: Denníky 1930–1939, Ústav pamäti národa, Bratislava 2010, ISBN 978-80-89335-23-7.
 Peter Sokolovič: Hlinkova garda 1938–1945, Ústav pamäti národa, Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-89335-10-7.

Einzelnachweise

Politiker (Slowakei)
Journalist (Slowakei)
Slowakischer Diplomat
Person (slowakische Kollaboration)
Tschechoslowake
Slowake
Geboren 1899
Gestorben 1972
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If we are to protect and uphold the unalienable rights wrested by our oppressed forebears on the road to independence and re-establish the people's paramount sovereignty over our democracy, this is the time to do so
Every year Government and the authorities diligently commemorate the anniversary of the arrival of Indian indentured immigrants in Mauritius on 2 November 1834. On Sunday 2 November 2014, it will be the 180th anniversary of their arrival in Mauritius. What are we exactly commemorating? We know that the indentured labourers from India were not the first Indians to come to Mauritius. As from 1695, there is evidence of the presence of some slaves from India during the Dutch period.
During the French period, Indian slaves, skilled artisans from Pondicherry and Konkan carpenters arrived as from 1728 and were used in the construction of Port Louis by Mahe de Labourdonnais. Indian sepoys helped the British conquer Mauritius in December 1810 and as from 1816, Indian convicts were used during the British period as forced labour to undertake the public works and road building of the time on the island till 1837. They belong to our common heritage.
What is important to remember is that during half of the 180 years i.e. 90 years from 1834 to 1924 when the widely decried Indian indentured immigrant system was abolished by the Government of India, the Indian immigrants lured by promises of a better life in Mauritius and their descendants were subjected to an abject system of human servitude and a shameful exploitation by their planter employers with the ignoble connivance of the British colonial establishment in Mauritius. Far from buckling under the combined might of the sugar oligarchy and the British colonial authorities, the labourers showed tremendous fortitude and solidarity to bravely and tirelessly fight for their rights against formidable odds and devious stratagems.
As Indians were citizens of British India, the Government of India enacted Emigration Acts to establish the conditions of transit aboard ships and the terms of the contract of work of the indentured labourers as well as provisions for their return passage. The Emigration Acts provided that a designated Protector of Immigrants (usually a senior Police officer) in the selected ports earmarked for the embarkation of emigrants in India would first ascertain that prescribed conditions of travel aboard ships concerning space, diet, rations, medical supplies, the services of a medical officer and an adequate number of women in each consignment were respected before issuing emigration permits. The Protector also had to ensure that work contracts which as per law were to be lodged with him comprised a monthly salary, agreed rations, return passage as well as the provision of a hospital and lodging on estates.
Muscles and Sinews
However, during the 90 years that the Indian indentured system was in operation, the promises made were never honoured as the white planters continuously watered down the agreed terms of employment including wages of Rs 5 per month which they found excessive through sly ploys and gambits aided and abetted by the colonial establishment. The latter passed, at the behest of the cane planters, shameful laws such as the double cut system whereby a planter employer was allowed to cut two days pay for a day's absence which was insidiously extended to encompass all possible offences real or imagined with the result that the labourer found himself 'robbed' of a large portion of his hard earned wages. They also controlled the movements of the labourer through a pass system and restricted their visits to relatives residing on other estates.
The upshot was that the Indian labourers who, through their disciplined and diligent hard work, are credited by the Chamber of Agriculture to be 'the source of our agricultural prosperity' have been systematically short-changed in their earnings and unalienable rights. Rev Patrick Beaton (Minister of the Church of Scotland in Mauritius) speaking of the Indian immigrants wrote in 1859: 'These swarthy Orientals are the muscles and sinews of Mauritius body politic. They are the secret source of all the wealth, luxury and splendour with which the island abounds' and towards the acquisition of which 'the Indian has, by his labour, indirectly contributed… Respect that swarthy stranger, for without him Mauritius would soon be stripped of its wealth.'
Instead, the sugar planters working hand in glove with the colonial establishment were intent on imposing a new form of slavery on free workers. The unjust and repressive system was robustly combated by the Indian labourers. In those 90 years, the plight of the Indian indentured labourers in Mauritius was a woeful continuous cycle of broken promises, repeated reneging of contractual terms agreed and consequent angry protests by them. Each wave of revolt raised concerns in India and Britain and in the British Parliament leading to the setting up of successive Commissions of Enquiry, Committees and Royal Commissions who made fresh recommendations.
New legislations were enacted to protect the immigrant workers' rights which were again flouted by the sugar planters leading to fresh protests and new commissions of enquiry. This ignoble cycle of systemic duplicity was finally broken by Kunwar Maharaj Singh, the first Indian official to be sent by the Government of India to Mauritius in December 1924 to enquire into the conditions of Indian labourers in the country. He was appalled by the general conditions of the workers, the hovels they lived in on the estates, at the scant medical care and the employment of children in factories. He made a series of recommendations to address these shortcomings in his report. As a consequence, the Indian indentured immigrant system was ended forthwith.
However, as the indentured system was not abolished, the general conditions of employment and exploitation as well as the status of the fundamental rights of the people were largely unchanged. This led to the sugar industry labour unrest in 1937. As a result, a new labour law was enacted in 1938 finally breaking away from the framework of indenture and assuring the protection of the payment of wages and working hours under the aegis of a newly set up Labour Department. The battle for fundamental rights provoked the unrest of 1943. The rising clamour for constitutional change led to the introduction of a new Constitution in 1948 providing for literacy franchise and general elections won by the Labour Party in that year. This opened the way towards the independence of the country.
For 134 of those 180 years until independence in 1968, the Indian indentured immigrants and their descendants endured and relentlessly fought against an oppressive and inequitable system bent on bridling their rights and systematically exploiting them. It is therefore not surprising that driven by the kinship of so many common battles fought against the sugar oligarchy and the colonial powers that most descendants of indentured immigrants voted massively in favour of independence for the country at the 1967 general elections. In spite of being rivals during previous elections, the Labour Party, the Independent Forward Bloc and the Comite d'Action Musulman joined hands to form the Independence Party to win freedom after decades of oppression and exploitation of generations of indentured labourers, at the crucial 1967 elections.
After independence there was no witch-hunt or a vengeful program of confiscation of land and other assets as in Uganda by Amin Dada or Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Governed by their traditional tolerant ethos, the majority who won independence turned the page on the sufferings and infamies of the past, confident that they remain vigilant and ready to defend their rights should circumstances warrant it.
New vision, democratic legacy & 44%
A new vision
We seem to fear the teaching of history in secondary schools. Nobody can escape the cold and objective judgement of history. Isn't it time to have a re-think about the best manner to keep alive the history and multifaceted dimensions of the Indian indentured immigrant lineage and heritage for present and future generations? This is too important a cause for us not to mobilise the best resources and intellect available to brainstorm an imaginative way forward. Beyond the various laudable initiatives being taken in this respect, it is for example time for us to conceive and create a comprehensive and dedicated museum which would showcase akin to the story of sugar at L'Aventure du Sucre, with the support of interactive media tools the history and many facets of the culture and lives of the Indian indentured immigrant diaspora in Mauritius, in the ex-colonies and across the world.
Beyond the simple historical facts and chattel used or varied cuisine, research should show light on such diverse and esoteric aspects of their lives such as the prevailing Panchayat system brought by them from India to arbitrate differences, the template used for the vivid preservation and propagation of language, faith, traditions and culture or the living conditions in a sugar estate camp or the bonding, kinship, solidarity and organization of the indentured labourer fraternity to fight for their rights in the face of common trials and tribulations or trace the genealogy of lost cousins scattered in the ex-colonies, etc.
Such a project must also include the Indo-Christians and those who recognize their Indian origin. It is equally important that GOPIO be revisited to turn it into a more vibrant platform of cultural, business, academic, professional and people to people interface among the descendants of the indentured diaspora. Such a platform will unleash multiple opportunities in a broad spectrum of activities. It is time for this rich heritage to be brought to light and for the diaspora to connect in an imaginative and synergic mode with their roots. Let's make it happen.
Safeguarding our democratic legacy
Our democracy which our forebears vigorously battled for and fashioned in a collegial manner is under serious threat by the constitutional and electoral reforms bilaterally agreed between the two leaders of the Labour-MMM alliance without seeking and obtaining the legitimacy of the people's assent through the due process of referendums. The reforms being proposed do not mirror our collective democratic ethos but that of Napoleon's Animal Farm.
The leader of the MMM has been able to obtain the agreement of the Prime Minister and the Labour Party for the introduction of a dose of proportional representation (PR) to bend the prevailing rules of elections through 20 PR nominees to the National Assembly and tip the scales of the election outcome as was the case in colonial times. This has been done with the support of the Prime Minister who has been voted three times to power by the electorate. Has the fort been invested from within?
It is crucial to remember that if the Labour-MMM alliance were to obtain a three quarters majority at the forthcoming polls and have the proposed constitutional and electoral changes voted, these changes will become irreversible as it would be quasi impossible to obtain the required majority in an enlarged National Assembly to undo them. The electorate and our democracy once again face a momentous election which requires the collective judiciousness of the people's vote (and veto) to thwart such an outcome.
As expected, the electoral debate is deliberately sidetracking the core issue of the serious threats posed to our democracy by the proposed constitutional reforms. Instead, the debate has already sunk to abysmal depths of sordidness. Worse, communal angst was being stoked recently in the context of a religious festival in a condemnable bid to obtain votes whilst extolling unity and nationhood in the same breath. Isn't it high time for politicians to have the courtesy not to mix politicking and political speeches with the solemn and pious occasion of religious functions they are invited to attend?
All religious dogmas abhor tainting the sacred (Pavitra) with what is certainly not. Our democracy will consequently gain in stature and republican values.
The bogus 44% argument
This week Dilma Rousseff won a second four-year mandate as President of Brazil (against seven years being proposed in the context of the 2nd Republic) obtaining 51.64% of the votes against her opponent Aecio Neves who polled 48.36%. In the recent referendum in Scotland, the 'No to independence' vote polled 55.3% whereas the 'Yes' vote polled 44.7% of the votes.
This political bi-polarisation is normal in closely contested elections in democracies dominated by two parties as in the UK, France, India, or the United States. None of these countries has witnessed or engineered an alliance between traditionally opposing parties as the Republicans and the Democrats in the US or between the PS and the UMP (which polled 48.36% of the vote at the 2012 Presidential elections) in France or the BJP and UPA in India on the tenuous argument of fostering national unity.
In plain terms the glib and untenable amalgam made by the Labour-MMM alliance between the divide at the time of independence when 44% of the electorate scared by rabid and false communal propaganda of hegemony voted against independence with say the 42% of the votes obtained by the MMM-UN-MMSD alliance in the 2010 elections is basically flawed and balderdash. Any simple analysis of the results shows, for example, that in 10 rural constituencies where the Labour-MSM-PMSD (LMP) alliance won all 3 seats, the MMM-UN-MMSD alliance obtained between 10,754 and 21,630 votes. In the 10 urban constituencies,the LMP won 12 seats in 6 constituencies obtaining between 6,917 (40.248%) and 21,145 (50.919%) votes. These results surely attest that the pattern of voting is materially different in nature and plurality than in 1967. The Mauritian nation has since long moved away from these hangovers and fixations of the past and except for those who have boxed themselves in their own apartheid, is already united. It is time for the political leaders to wake up to this reality.
The recent unprecedented events regarding the proposed changes to our Constitution show that even after independence, our democracy and the values the nation fought for can be put in jeopardy. If we are to protect and uphold the unalienable rights wrested by our oppressed forebears on the road to independence and re-establish the people's paramount sovereignty over our democracy, this is the time to do so.
Main source – 'Mauritius in Transition' by Jay Narain Roy
* Published in print edition on 31 Ocotober 2014
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Q: Hide Currency Records from User I have one new user in our Salesforce org that we only want to see records with the ZAR (south africa) currency. Our org has multi-currencies enabled (our business trades in USD and AUD), but we only want our new user to be able to see records with the ZAR currency. How do I go about achieving this?

A: You can't really do that. There's a very robust sharing model in Salesforce, but there's no such setting as "show users only records in a specific currency." You could set all objects to private, and then create some Criteria-Based Sharing rules, which would be the closest approximation, but it's probably better if you just use the Role Hierarchy and/or Territory Management to manage those shares. See the documentation for Role Hierarchy Sharing and Territory Management to figure out if one of these solutions may work for you.

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Co-founder of Apple told why flying cars are hopeless. According to Steve Wozniak, the serial production of such vehicles would be unprofitable.
Mass production simply will not yield the needed benefits because it is too expensive. Wozniak added that the safety factor on air routes is also overrated. In his view, the ground movement is no less dangerous than flying on flying cars. However, he noted another vulnerability of this type of air transport. Wozniak is confident that with flying in bad weather, these vehicles would have great difficulty.
Ostracized from Wozniak was subjected to artificial intelligence. Co-founder of "Apple" Corporation is skeptical about the rise of the machines, and stresses that modern robots not only have surpassed human intelligence, but not even close to it.
When it comes to talking about artificial intelligence, people usually imagine the high-tech industry — programming or robotics.
However, the artificial intelligence is able to transform such a traditional sector as agriculture. Wired writes about a new development that make it more effective in growing one of the most common crops.
About the technology discussed in the article that will be published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Plant Science. The authors have created a program based on smartphone, which can automatically and with almost absolute precision to identify diseased plants of cassava - the most widely grown root crop in the Ground. The most striking aspect of this technology lies in the fact that for neural network enough power smartphone. The researchers started from the Inception of the neural network v3 TensorFlow owned by Google library machine learning open source. Most neural networks need hundreds of millions of parameters that goes far beyond the capabilities of smartphones but for Inception v3 25 million. Thanks to this new program does not require access to large computing power.
To train a neural network to recognize specific objects, you need to show her millions of images. It takes a long time, besides, no one has so many images of diseased cassava leaves. Fortunately, there is a bizarre trick called transfer learning: if you train a network to recognize certain types of objects, for the formation of the skill of recognition of others will require much fewer images.
Due to the transfer of learning to the authors of the study turned out to be enough to "feed" the network 2756 images of leaves of cassava from the field in Tanzania, after which they began to teach her to recognize the damage from such diseases as brown streaking of cassava, cassava mosaic virus and destruction of ticks. In the end, the program learned to identify a brown leaf spot with 98% and the infestation of red mites — with 96% accuracy.
Agricultural technology based on artificial intelligence, are undergoing the testing phase. Special algorithms evaluate the germination of seeds, looking for pests and predict weather conditions.
According to the materials: hightech.fm.
Google Home has a great functionality and is the most popular column in the market. And now the owners of the gadget will be able to use another voice command: "Find my phone".
The new feature acts a bit more complicated than the existing "Where's my phone" and "Call my phone". Now column Home will be able to increase the volume on your smartphone during a call. Moreover, people will hear a call even if the phone was in silent mode.
Google Home probably uses user identification by voice, to make sure the rings need a smartphone. This is especially useful when the user has more than one house.
Currently, a call to the phone in silent mode works only on devices running Android. For Apple, this feature will be implemented later. In addition, the new command does not work with tablets – hence the name. The good news is that the feature is compatible with Google Home, Home Mini and Home Max.


I would highly recommend a used bike first. I went that route and was very unlucky! I bought a 92 ZX6. Rode that for 1 season fine. Sold the next and bougt an 04 GSXR600. Rode that for a season and was fine. Had much more torque than the 92. The second season I had the GSX I went down doing less than 5mph. Took it out of the shed. Had to drive across the wet grass. Took a left out of my drive way, and another out of my street. Got 2 feet down the road and my rear end kicked out from under me. Did over 2k in damages. I was angry. Near Brand new bike and i was another 2k in debt. I would just recommend to you that you be safe and chose the one you like. I would also strongly recommend a used over a new for beginners.
Both bikes are awesome. If you plan on going brand knew i was told that you get more "bang" for you buck with the R6 by a sales person from a well-known company. In my opinion i like the GSXR600's! Going to go pick one up possibly within the next 2 weeks. Suzuki's having a decent deal, $99 for 60m. Wont pay it off but its very cheap!!!! Good luck!
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1867: Earliest known "Old Man House"
In a book search, 1867is the earliest occurrence I find of "Old Man House" / "Ole Man House" / "Oleman House":
"Last pillar of Ole Man House, Port Madison Reservation" photographed in 1903 by Edmond Meany (image credit: University of Washington Libraries).
Note Meany's explicitly Chinook Jargon-style spelling of the name.
POST [i.e. Port] MADISON,
or Old Man House reservation, as the Indians term it, is situated near the Post [Port] Madison mills, the proprietor of which is Captain [George Anson] Meigs (1816-1897). This gentleman has been a warm friend to the Indians on this reserve; he has been always ready to aid in adjusting any difficulty that might arise between themselves or the whites; is a strict temperance man; will not allow any man to bring liquor about his mills or upon his premises. His influence has had a very beneficial effect upon this tribe in the absence of an employé to reside among them. Their chief, Old Seattle, died last year; he was a man of fine natural ability, and exerted a great influence among his people, morally and religiously, for he was a strict Catholic, held morning and evening services…
— pages 38-39 of "Washington Superintendency: 2. Office Puyallup Indian Agency" report, July 28, 1867, in the federal publication "Annual Report on Indian Affairs" (Report of the Secretary of the Interior)
This 1867 passage tells us quite a lot in only a few words:
It reports that it's the Native tribe who refer to the place as Old Man House, thus giving pretty clear evidence that this is in Chinuk Wawa (úl-màn-hàws), not English. This was still early in the history of Native & Settler contact in the Seattle, Washington area, so CW was in very frequent use. Over and above this, it strikes me as unlikely that mother-tongue speakers of English would come up with a phrase "Old Man House" as opposed to the much more natural "The Old Man's House". And in Chinook Jargon, it's normal to find this Inalienable Possession form, i.e. omitting the word yaka 'his'.
From the above quotation, we also glean some of the likely origins of the Indian Shaker Church that was founded in the 1880s on Puget Sound by another Lushootseed Salish speaker. Catholic-style rituals being performed in the absence of any formally ordained priest are a phenomenon known even a generation earlier, circa 1840, following quickly after the first visits by missionaries Modeste Demers and/or Francis Norbert Blanchet, who preached in the Jargon and also gave the tribes copies of their newly invented learning aid, the sáx̣ali-stìk a.k.a. the Catholic Ladder.
Not surprising in light of the late arrival of printing presses out here, the earliest occurrence I've noticed for this place name in a Pacific Northwest periodicals search is in an 1878 newspaper (and this too involves a Catholic missionary) —
INDIAN PROGRESS. — A few days ago Father [Eugene Casimir] Chirouse [1821-1892] was in the city to purchase an outfit for two new Indian schools which have lately been built, one at Lummi reservation and the other at the "Old Man House" settlement near Port Madison. Both these schools are taught by Indian teachers from whose pens contributions have occasionally appeared in the INTELLIGENCER. The reverend missionary, we understand, has since departed for a new field of pioneer labor among the Indians of British Columbia.
— from the Seattle (WA) Daily Intelligencer of May 18, 1878, page 3, column 1
This father Chirouse was "The Elder" of two priests from France having the exact same name in our frontier era, "The Younger" being his nephew. Both were known as good Chinuk Wawa speakers, the elder due to his early work with Walla Walla and Yakima tribes and then at the new Tulalip Reservation, and the younger in southern BC at the same time period as his colleague JMR Le Jeune of Kamloops Wawa fame.
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Is the Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Process Dead?
September 19, 2022 Topic: Nagorno-Karabakh Region: Eurasia Tags: Nagorno-karabakhArmeniaAzerbaijanEuropean UnionPeace Process
The lack of a peace agreement might expand the theater of future hostilities between the two countries and lead to new tragedies.
by Farid Shafiyev Vasif Huseynov
On September 13, Azerbaijan's defense ministry reported that the Armenian armed forces committed large-scale provocations in the Dashkasan, Kalbajar, and Lachin directions of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border. The escalation resulted in the losses of military servicemen on both sides in one of the most severe hostilities since the end of the Second Karabakh War.
The clashes came after difficult negotiations in Brussels mediated by European Council President Charles Michel last month. While three previous meetings raised hopes for the prospect of signing a peace treaty based on a five-point proposal initiated by Azerbaijan, which rests on the mutual recognition of the territorial integrity of both countries, Armenia reintroduced the issue of the so-called status of Nagorno-Karabakh, which means returning to a conflict-related agenda. Moreover, beyond agreeing to a peace settlement, there are three other problems that must be addressed. First, the delimitation of borders, which was under Armenian control for thirty years and thus never defined. Second, the opening of transportation links, and third, the resolution of humanitarian problems such as landmines, detainees, and missing persons.
Following the April 6 summit in Brussels, Michel enthusiastically declared the beginning of preparations for a peace treaty that Azerbaijan had been calling for since the end of the 2020 war. In the days after the April summit, Azerbaijan established a working group to negotiate a peace treaty and called upon Armenia to follow suit (Armenia has yet to do so). The next summit, which occurred in May, also brought about positive developments and led to the establishment of an international commission on the delimitation and demarcation of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. The last summit on August 31 agreed "to step up substantive work to advance on the peace treaty governing interstate relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan."
Immediately after the latest summit, Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan made a number of statements that undermined these efforts and significantly exacerbated tensions along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. He declared that the Brussels summit on August 31 had failed to produce any major agreement between the sides, again raised the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, and basically rejected Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
Pashinyan also changed his position about the construction of a railway between mainland Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan exclave through the southern Armenian territories, known as the Zangezur corridor in Azerbaijan. It is worth recalling that last year he had declared that railway construction was acceptable and rejected the idea of paving a highway along this route. Following the May 22 summit, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev stated that the sides had agreed on the establishment of the transportation route along Zangezur (Armenians call this region Meghri). Apparently, the Armenian government has now stepped back from this agreement.
The two years since the Second Karabakh War have demonstrated that the bloodshed will not stop if the status quo persists. Both sides must reach agreements on a number of pressing issues as soon as possible in order to end the hostilities. It is necessary to resolve the most outstanding issue: Armenia must either recognize Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan or continue to pursue a conflict-related agenda. Previous attempts to postpone the resolution of the Karabakh issue to work on other problems have failed. The Gordian knot should be cut now to have durable peace in the future.
Further, the delimitation and mutual recognition of state borders would open a new chapter in bilateral relations. The international commission on the delimitation and demarcation of borders should continue to meet and work to build trust and confidence between the two countries.
Other major issues on the peace agenda concern the presence of illegal Armenian armed groups in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, the re-opening of regional transportation and communication links, as well as humanitarian problems. Armenia needs to abide by the agreements the sides reached in the European Union (EU)-mediated summits and in the three Russia-Armenia-Azerbaijan trilateral statements. Armenia's refusal to implement the fourth clause of the November 10, 2020 statement calling for the withdrawal of Armenian forces from Azerbaijani territory has already led to clashes between both sides on a number of occasions and runs the risk of future escalation.
It must be made clear that the latest clashes stemmed from the lack of a peace treaty and the absence of any meaningful progress in other negotiating tracks. Pashinyan should not employ the tactics of his predecessors who imitated the negotiations for up to thirty years and blocked the peaceful settlement of the conflict. This tactic eventually led to the war in 2020.
The lack of a peace agreement might expand the theater of future hostilities between the two countries and lead to new tragedies. While thirty years of military action occurred on the territory of Azerbaijan, the latest clashes have shown that Azerbaijan will not tolerate shelling and rocket strikes from the territory of Armenia and its response will affect Armenian military installations there.
Unfortunately, the major powers that previously dealt with the resolution of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, namely Russia, France, and the United States, have opposing interests in the region. Additionally, U.S. politics are occasionally affected by various domestic interests, such as Armenian lobby groups. The Brussels platform, which initially looked promising, is now endangered.
Farid Shafiyev is Chair of the Baku-based Center of Analysis of International Relations.
Vasif Huseynov is Head of Department at the Center of Analysis of International Relations.


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Kathy Shaidle explores two films whose stars died in 2019 – Eyes Without a Face starring Edith Scob, and The Brain That Wouldn't Die with Virginia Leith.
A Walk on the Wilder Side
In this week's Shaidle at the Cinema, Kathy Shaidle explores the genius and geniality of the late Gene Wilder.
Cléo from 5 to 7
Kathy Shaidle on a French pop star awaiting the results of a cancer biopsy in Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7
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Some of the more elevated observations about Psycho approach the level of poetry, but too often these critics are also, quite possibly, seeing things that not even Hitchcock himself conceived of.
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Dodsworth
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That weird title lodged in my brain; I never stopped scanning TV Guide listings for Champagne for Caesar, and it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I finally saw it.
Which is odd.
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