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What are the great issues facing the world vs.

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http://www.realchange.org/

All the Dirt on All the Candidates -

Because character DOES matter

You've come to the right place for dirt, attitude and opinionated character reviews of all the Presidential Candidates.

http://www.wiredbrain.com/reform.htm

If we can see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger universe what kind of world would we see ?

If we can look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known now if we had paid attention ?

The elements in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint action we are able to make. These factors are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.

The ideas that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken), Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626

English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience as the sole source of knowledge

The first issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.

We can not control the engines of change. The image of Frank·en·stein

Frank·en·stein (fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.
2. A monster having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein, the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.]

 Word History: The word Frankenstein has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.” The word has gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.” Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.

Machinery The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Culture of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
 
 

Modern Times

Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher. The Conduct Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern city.

Individual development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.

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Key word "infrastructure" http://www.wiredbrain.com/information.htm

All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world

What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ? http://www.wiredbrain.com/image.htm

CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.

What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something. The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something. The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales. Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.

In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.

AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content. The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.

It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars. They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.

Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html

"Nortel has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with 10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton, director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.

If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham Bell.

That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.

I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political system. The new world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -

http://mediafusioncorp.net/ http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.com/nano.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.com/symbian.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.com/disintermediation.htm

Disintermediation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html

Broadband frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.

Broadband Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong

Last week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5 licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites). The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.

http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong

The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day. The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers.

``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy.

``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning to dream about, he added.

With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said.

Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.

http://www.fwdconcepts.com/

Broadband in the Local Loop 98:

Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm

New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start of cable modems http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm

According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1 worldwide by the year 2003. The five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.

The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically

optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications. Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question.

DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos. The cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.

Part-time remote consulting:

Advanced technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game.

I have been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.com/nano.htm and a few other pages

I could do remote education and training - project projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.

AOL can do what Sears did. The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.

Symbian joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2

For Example: Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service. With Dialpad.com, you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US. Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software. You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!

Religion and theology

[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.

Religion is one area of human experience, theology is another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics is about power, Ideology about beliefs.

We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control of choices in life, government, education, health and science.

People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced. They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.

Politics is one thing, ideology is another.

Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead, influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion, desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what we do.

Theology is about power in the church as an institution - Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.

Ideology is about control of social power by law and police and military force. The God police of the Christian activists would control the bedrooms and doctors offices, The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China, The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.

Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions - sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.

OUT of the box -

In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a more perfect union.

People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced. They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.

  • 1Cor.13
  • [1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
  • [2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
  • [3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
  • [4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  • [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
  • [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
  • [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • [8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  • [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
  • [10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
  • [11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  • [12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
  • [13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
  • 1Cor.8
  • [1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
  • [2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
  • [3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
  • 1Cor.10
  • [1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
  • [2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
  • [3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
  • [4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
  • Rock was Christ.
  • (12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
  • [5] And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
  • [6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
  • [7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
  • [8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
  • [9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
  • weirdbrain ' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates. n.

    Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly. These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).

    http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?

    * Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS. These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).

    Behind the news: a common thread of interconnectedness

    Imagine a fat monitor or a hand held device or a card which is a personal linking device that plugs into the electrical system and a USB ( universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) that creates the connection to the life force. The device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions. The device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay by use applications.

    Crank up the broadband

    Third-generation services are coming

    soon to a mobile phone near you --

    but first the platforms and standards

    have to be resolved.

    Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing double encoded packets travel fast and faster. The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the internet.

    A machine called NEXUM

    The comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board, INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide, global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption, gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig, that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine. The true paper-less banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.

    We talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Check on the price of dry wall. What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What’s on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead. Who has the best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell ? How is the car doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?

    When connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links with nodes and storage and services at my command charges by the micro-penny. Always on with a flat connection fee.

    How our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones, broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber,  DSL or all of the above ?

    The news tracker connection then runs everything. The Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.

    In doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.

    How about http://www.wiredbrain.com/battle.wav

    and too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..

    This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other.  The system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are ( kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference, word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.

    The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead. The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.

    Tomorrow's story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:

    Finance Physics:

    Of course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder reality.

    In the current context the following will happen - the only question is when:

    1.) The misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:

    2.) Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar securities have to pay;

    3.) The higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction" of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.

    We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim. The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections between utility network computers.

    NEXUM

    Like the human brain, the internet's packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called

    "packets,"

    each containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the Internet, click here for the emerging history of the 21st century.

    Something missing:

    An astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.

    Most people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a fifty mile range. Their perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm. The irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and commercials.

    NOW as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little understood as the physical. The new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]

    The technology itself is revolutionary.

    The global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance. The leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive of the existing order.

    StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at

    http://www.sun.com/

    65 MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html

    StarOffice has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.

    StarOffice 5.1 includes:

          • StarOffice Writer for document editing,
            • StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets,

            • StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,

            • StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,

            • StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,

            • StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,

            • StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,

            • StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and

            • StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,

            • StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment

    http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html

    http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html

    It's really good !

    The integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.

    And it's free

      What science knows

    MSN search now does the best jobMSN now does the best search

    OUR Social ergonomics

    Research methods for the Internet:

    Many students and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool. There are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.

    First you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both ? ) Then look at http://www.wiredbrain.com/portals.htm for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea of their advantages and limitations.

    Then find and down load:

    http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/

    http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html

    The GO networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.

    http://express.infoseek.com/

    After you have downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.

    All the multi-search work like http://www.multicrawl.com/

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    Tomorrows story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:

    As important as the transistor ?

    Imagine 3.4 terabytes in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!

    FROM

    http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/

    Videos would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel, using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is. The connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door ), or recording that recharge themselves.

    Fast transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications. The concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into new flexible patterns of organization in the small business sector are presented.

    While it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could be on the market in two years!

    According to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."

    And to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power storage solution "...can be put onto virtually every surface," essentially providing massive data storage for almost anything.

    Indeed, CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that, 
    "The technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."

    It also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second, could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?

    Of course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.

    IF this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density" hopes, imagine the implications: storage could become so inexpensive and so pervasive that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant wealth.

    Note that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations, this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to "change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.

    In the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...

    Ah, how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7 )

    [Image - Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg ]

    It was the size of a matchbox.

    Now, but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches in that box!

    [Image - U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg

    Brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory, serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html . And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.

    Of course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers, so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling" just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.

    In fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly not all that far away...

    The best loan and phone rates

    Action at a distance

      You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months

    Real people, real schools:

    We have 15,000 school boards and committees. They oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a forth of students are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower. There is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables, reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling. These standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what they are expected to know or do. They are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.

    The reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready for post secondary education.

    What it would take to made schools work is no mystery. The secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents, principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad grades, will be held back ! There is no way that is popular. The student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault, it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity contest.

    State and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools, and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards. NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults, you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot of bitching.

    As everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year, or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior, learning - like the real world.

    Extremism and critical mass:

    Mother tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century. The problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application, and political ideas are very similar. The early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage- automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage. The political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme views become common and take over a critical mass. The drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for such ideas.

    Liberal become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities. The party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.

    The rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and militarism caused great world wars. The war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.

    So the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact enemies of social peace and order.

    The civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.

    People behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior. The existence of a national state means succession is not a option.

    Perhaps the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American experience in the last half of the 20th century.

    It is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.

    The American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse, half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive, arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -

    We weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the safety of others

    Show business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.

    John Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics, cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what ever means necessary to sell the product. The industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media. The death of JFK is no different.

    The "news" has become an soap opera. There is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.

    While the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down. The Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds. The cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be telling the truth at the same time.

    http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl

    What's New on the Concord Coalition Web Site

    The projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the  next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.

     [Discretionary spending is the budget minus interest on the debt  and entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other  words, the politicians would have you believe they can either give  you a tax cut or spend more money on your favorite programs  first, then cut other spending later.

    Welcome to the National Budget Simulation!

    Issues 2000: The campaign

    THE REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )

    240,000 more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die

    Since 1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to 6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day: The birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate its passenger capacity is limited

    http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm

    With a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four ) important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies: 
    1.)  We have money driven political systems, 
    2.)  We don’t have a health system, or a National Educational program, urban policy etc. 
    3.)  We allow open sales of firearms.

    Senator McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health, education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven by money in politics.
    http://www.itsyourcountry.com/

    Today, special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington. Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form

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     John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty

     By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

      WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.

     Kennedy, 38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to a cousin's  wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard. His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,  two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.

     Kennedy, son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and its curse. The public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.

     Guiding his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron of the arts.

     But like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his burden as an American icon.

     "It's hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993 interview. "It's my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer."

     He was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics, but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing was merely a prologue to a career in politics.

     While he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He made his political debut at  the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, where he  introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.

     Cameras swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called him "the sexiest man alive."

     John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president. He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.

     President Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising his hand in  a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many times as military escorts  greeted the commander in chief.

     After his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation. When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other way around."

     He attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle, was assassinated in 1968.

     "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."

     On Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to provide the family security.

     Mrs. Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.

     According to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."

     As an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York. "I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.

     He attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored in American history and was a member of the Phi  Kappa Psi fraternity.

     He once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually, he enrolled in law school at New York
     University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.

     He failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."

     After four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger on a linear."

     At 34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi, a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's past and enabled him to strike out on his  own.

     Kennedy, who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards, observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."

     He appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."

     He seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced "a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.

     On Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. The couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations and a number of nonprofit organizations.

     Since 1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities. William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always concerned with the working poor, and his family always 
     had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein said Kennedy helped expand the organization.

     He also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance and throw footballs.

     Not long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington.

     He was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's Vineyard.

     Although he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato, the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor to George, said Kennedy would make a
     strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy laughed off.

     "A public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."

     Kennedy is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.

    Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company




    Perhaps the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American experience in the last half of the 20th century.

    Kennedy, American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37). He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).

     His son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article KENNEDY).

    His son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64) as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.

    Joseph Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.

    The Kennedy Family

    We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.

    P. J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might have been hoped, after due process of law."

    The Kennedy Family

    Ask every person if he’s heard the story, 
    And tell it strong and clear if he has not, 
    That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
    Called Camelot . . . 
    Don’t let it be forgot 
    That once there was a spot 
    For one brief shining moment that was known
    As Camelot.

    Alan Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of musical Camelot (1960). The song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F. Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond. Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining Moment.




    Issues 2000: The campaign

    http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm

    With a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four ) important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies: 
    1.)  We have money driven political systems, 
    2.)  We don’t have a health system, or a National Educational program, urban policy etc. 
    3.)  We allow open sales of firearms.

    Senator McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health, education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven by money in politics.
    http://www.itsyourcountry.com/

    Today, special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington. Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form

    http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/platform.txt

    http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/plan.txt

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