Feb 2, 2011
I write this during the first hour that we as Egyptians have had the internet back since last thursday. For that I would like to thank the current regime for being oh-so-generous. You guys are awesome. Thanks.
Nubians ask Mubarak to leave
For the past eight days Egypt has seen an unprecedented uprising. I don’t know if you can call it a revolution if we haven’t overthrown the government yet. But I would personally call it a revolution where the current government is being stubborn and the protestors want to keep it peaceful.
Mubarak has addressed the nation only twice during the past eight days. Once on Friday night at midnight, after lives had been lost, people had been shot and unlimited amounts of expired tear-gas was inhaled by thousands. He did not address the protestors needs, only a fraction of them. The uprising continued for days after that, and we only heard from Mubarak last night at 11 pm.
There are so many things that have been taking place, and so many things that were failed to be addressed with his second address to the nation. With my replies to his speech I wish to shed some light on the situation in Egypt and the challenge we are facing as a nation.
Mubarak’s Speech (Arabic – Translation in Italics)
“I talk to you during critical times that are testing Egypt and its people which could sweep them into the unknown.The country is passing through difficult times and tough experiences which began with noble youths and citizens who practise their rights to peaceful demonstrations and protests, expressing their concerns and aspirations but they were quickly exploited by those who sought to spread chaos and violence, confrontation and to violate the constitutional legitimacy and to attack it.
- Interesting. So the “noble youths and citizens” were practicing their rights. Okay. That’s why expired tear gas was thrown at them with unlimited amounts. That’s why they were shot at with rubber bullets that killed hundreds and injured thousands. That’s why they were beaten with sticks. All of this happened before any vandalism or before any violence. The protests from all over the country were chanting “Selmeya” which means peaceful. They were putting their arms up in show of no violence and making peace signs. The violence started from the Policemen, or more specifically the Central Security Forces who are in charge of controlling these kinds of riots. Any rock throwing or violence from the protestors were in self-defence and to defend their right to protest and to have their voices heard.
“Those protests were transformed from a noble and civilised phenomenon of practising freedom of expression to unfortunate clashes, mobilised and controlled by political forces that wanted to escalate and worsen the situation.”
- All I have to say about this, is that it was the government’s wish to stop those “noble and civilized phenomenon of practicing freedom of expression”. So please stop kidding us. Egyptians have their eyes open and we will not believe these lies anymore. This was a grassroots movement. It may have been started by the youth, but it is no longer just about the youth. All ages, religions, cultures and a range of political beliefs were represented in this revolution. However, none of these sects tried to pass it as their own or even tried to ride the wave to fulfill their own political aspirations. If anyone attempted to do that, the protestors stopped them saying, “This isn’t the time, we have a bigger goal now”.
“They targeted the nation’s security and stability through acts of provocation theft and looting and setting fires and blocking roads and attacking vital installations and public and private properties and storming some diplomatic missions.
- “They” are the government, and the ministry of interior. After the initial acts of looting and vandalism, citizens all over Cairo formed check points and acted like citizen police. Since the actual police force as a whole was off the street. What kind of government does that? There was only one element of the police force that people had clashed with on Friday, the Central Security Forces. But to take the entire police force off the streets is a crime, and the ministry of interior and the president should be punished and prosecuted for this. In the citizen check points, many of the thugs and looters they caught turned out to be with the police force and begged the citizens not to kill them saying “We were just following orders”. I got this information from an eye-witness.
- Not only that, they also released many prisoners from different prisons to terrorise the Egyptian people. This was all it is. Since of course if someone is in prison for years they first thing they do won’t be to go loot or attack homes. It will be to hide and see their loved ones. So this was simply a tactic to frighten people. And it is not being run by protestors or opposition movements.
“We are living together painful days and the most painful thing is the fear that affected the huge majority of Eyptians and caused concern and anxiety over what tomorrow could bring them and their families and the future of their country. The events of the last few days require us all as a people and as a leadership to chose between chaos and stability and to set in front of us new circumstances and a new Egyptian reality which our people and armed forces must work with wisely and in the interest of Egypt and its citizens.
- The fear and instability was a product of the current regime to get people to stop protesting to maintain the status-quo. He is giving us a choice to chose between chaos and stability. If you read between the lines what he is saying is that stability can only come with him and his regime. He is acting like this is our only option for stability and that is not true. How can we be stable and safe knowing that the people running our country are the same people who took food off the shelves, who terrorised people by sending forces to loot their homes and businesses. Mubarak and his regime have proven to be unfit to lead a great nation like Egypt, or even a children’s football game for that matter.
“Dear brothers and citizens, I took the initiative of forming a new government with new priorities and duties that respond to the demand of our youth and their mission. I entrusted the vice-president with the task of holding dialogue with all the political forces and factions about all the issues that have been raised concerning political and democratic reform and the constitutional and legislative amendments required to realise these legitimate demands and to restore law and order. But there are some political forces who have refused this call to dialogue, sticking to their particular agendas without concern for the current delicate circumstances of Egypt and its people. In light of this refusal to the call for dialogue and this is a call which remains standing, I direct my speech today directly to the people, its Muslims and Christians, old and young, peasants and workers, and all Egyptian men and women in the countryside and city over the whole country.”
- This was definitely my favourite part. He formed a new government. So what? The people have spoken that he is illegitimate, so any government he brings in is illegitimate as well. Why should we now accept a government formed by Mubarak when the governments he brought in brought us corruption, oppressions, brutality and unfairness? It’s completely ridiculous to even bring that up.
- As for the opposition movements part. This is just brilliant and hilarious. He is actually trying to pin the current situation on the opposition movements, and trying to call on Egyptians to pressure them to cooperate with his bullshit government. If the people do not accept you and your government, then why should the opposition even bother to interact with you. The Egyptian people have spoken and the opposition are supporting the uprising. The “delicate situation” Egypt is in, is Mubarak and his government’s fault, and the fact that he is trying to pin it on other people is downright pathetic.
Graffiti on Tanks
“I have never, ever been seeking power and the people know the difficult circumstances that I shouldered my responsibility and what I offered this country in war and peace, just as I am a man from the armed forces and it is not in my nature to betray the trust or give up my responsibilities and duties. My primary responsibility now is security and independence of the nation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in circumstances that protect Egypt and the Egyptians and allow handing over responsibility to whoever the people choose in the coming presidential election.”
- This one is also hilarious. Never been seeking power? Then why the hell did you stay on for thirty years? Why are you clinging to your position when it is clear that millions of your people no longer want you? Doesn’t he see that people have died so that he would leave and that millions of others risked their lives so that he would leave? He has already lost our trust and betrayed us all. The owth he took as president to the people is no longer valid when you betray the country. And he should not only leave, but he should be prosecuted for his actions against the Egyptian people.
“I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend to nominate myself for a new presidential term. I have spent enough years of my life in the service of Egypt and its people. I am now absolutely determined to finish my work for the nation in a way that ensures handing over its safe-keeping and banner … preserving its legitimacy and respecting the constitution. I will work in the remaining months of my term to take the steps to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.”
- Thanks for not running again at 85. That’s super generous. Why does he think he has the right to ensure the transition of power? It is no longer his role when the people of Egypt called on him to step down. Then it is a job of a transitional government. The people have expressed through eight days of protests so far that they don’t want him nor trust him.
“According to my constitutional powers, I call on parliament in both its houses to discuss amending Article 76 and 77 of the constitution concerning the conditions on running for presidency of the republic and it sets specific a period for the presidential term. In order for the current parliament in both houses to be able to discuss these constitutional amendments and the legislative amendments linked to it for laws that complement the constitution and to ensure the participation of all the political forces in these discussions, I demand parliament to adhere to the word of the judiciary and its verdicts concerning the latest cases which have been legally challenged.”
- The funny thing is, both the Parliament and Shura council had an unfair and rigged election, so why should they be discussing our constitutional change when they are not democratically or fairly elected. Why should the old regime with its bodies that made the country reach where it is now be the ones working towards our future? I believe the Egyptian people have proven they do not need anyone to take care of them, and they can take action and initiative no matter what. No garbage men? No problem, we will clean our streets. No police men? No problem, we will protect our streets. We are at a point where we are empowered and ready for anything. We do not need an illegitimate government to help us through a transition, we will take care of it ourselves.
We clean our streets
“I will entrust the new government to perform in ways that will achieve the legitimate rights of the people and that its performance should express the people and their aspirations of political, social and economic reform and to allow job opportunities and combating poverty, realising social justice. In this context, I charge the police apparatus to carry out its duty in serving the people, protecting the citizens with integrity and honour with complete respect for their rights, freedom and dignity. I also demand the judicial and supervisory authorities to take immediately the necessary measures to continue pursuing outlaws and to investigate those who caused the security disarray and those who undertook acts of theft, looting and setting fires and terrorising citizens.”
- Maybe Mubarak entrusts the new government with certain duties, but the people of Egypt do not trust them to carry them out. Why should they trust them now? When they lied and corrupted our country for so long? The judges were out there protesting and chanting with the people who want to change the entire regime. The people they need to investigate are the ministry of interior. They need to be asked why the entire police force was off the streets in one second, and why they were given orders to attack houses.
“This is my pledge to the people during the last remaining months of my current term. I ask God to help me to honour this pledge to complete my vocation to Egypt and its people in what satisfies God, the nation and its people. Dear citizens, Egypt will emerge from these current circumstances stronger, more confident and unified and stable. And our people will emerge with more awareness of how to achieve reconciliation and be more determined not to undermine its future and destiny. Hosni Mubarak who speaks to you today is proud of the long years he spent in the service of Egypt and its people. This dear nation is my country, it is the country of all Egyptians, here I have lived and fought for its sake and I defended its land, its sovereignty and interests and on this land I will die and history will judge me and others for our merits and faults. The nation remains. Visitors come and go but ancient Egypt will remain eternal, its banner and safekeeping will pass from one generation to the next. It is up to us to ensure this in pride and dignity.”
"Control your thugs Mubarak"
I won’t even comment on this last paragraph since it is just insulting to our intelligence. Here are some of the points Mubarak’s speech failed to address:
- What about freedom of expression? The internet and sms services have been off for days. SMS services are still off and last Friday mobile phones were off. The Egyptian media channels are not portraying the truth behind what is happening, and channels who were portraying the truth (to a large extent anyway) like AlJazeerah were shut down. He did not even address this issue which not only weakens his position but also makes people wonder.
- What about political freedom? There is so much restrictions on forming political organiations and parties. Actually you need the government’s permission to do that. Is that really a democracy? How is this not part of the reform he mentioned?
- What about Emergency law? Egypt has been under a state of emergency for thirty years since Anwar El Saddat was murdered and he took over as president. He made no comments of lifting the state of emergency or even plans to take care of it in the future.
- What about the fact that the thugs turned out to be police affiliates? The looting and thugs that have been roaming the streets the past days, many of them turned out to be policemen. One eye witness I talked to in Tahrir two days ago told me they caught one under their house and he told them he was “following orders”.
The Waving Flag
This man took no responsibility for any of the events taking place the past days, and pinned it all on opposition and protestors. He did not even take responsibility for being the head of such a corrupt government that caused the first real Egyptian grassroots movement.
He is now trying to cause chaos in the country, trying to divide us. We cannot let him manipulate us. We cannot let him win. If we want change this man needs to not only leave his position, but he and his corrupt government need to be prosecuted for their crimes.


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05 Feb, 2008
Published: 10:45 Tuesday 05 February
By: Iain Martin , Reporter
Financial planners and professional
standards bodies have praised the 'manifesto for advice' launched
last week by the Association of Independent Financial Advisers, but
Aifa's timetable for change has been criticised.
The manifesto's six core principles are the clearest sign yet of
Aifa's embrace of professionalism and build on its recent campaign
for advice and sales to be clearly separated.
Aifa called for advisers to become better qualified with the aim
that 'chartered (or equivalent status) will become the preferred
trading style of firms' within 10 years.
But Nick Cann, chief executive of the Institute of Financial
Planning, questioned the 10-year delay and said 'three years is
more than enough time for advisers to get to the diploma level.'
A spokesman for the Personal Finance Society welcomed the manifesto
commenting it was 'in line with their strategy' towards
Keith Iles, from the JHC Partnership in Harrow, agreed the
'qualification ladder must be drawn up' but was unsure about the
timeframe and was concerned about the impact if advisers rushed to
The six principles seek to ensure that:
Professional financial advice is client-focused.
Advisers have an obligation to deliver the most suitable advice in
the interest of their clients.
Advice firms should be free to operate commercially in whatever way
best meets the needs of their business and clients.
Consumers should be able to obtain fair, expert advice from
financial advisers in order to become well-informed about what they
need to do to improve their long-term finances.
Providers of financial services and products have an obligation to
support the advice market.
Advisers have the right to expect a consistent, cost-justifiable
and fair approach to their regulation.
Pensions minister Mike O'Brien MP said: 'This is really good stuff
from Aifa. It represents an important step in the debate, setting a
vision for IFAs giving advice in the future.'
However, concerns have been raised about the 10-year time frame
Iles said 'For advisers in their late 50s and 60s it is bloody
difficult facing exams and running a business.'
Aifa made it clear it wanted to see 'firm first, consumer second
sales behaviour' consigned to the history books.
The manifesto made it explicit Aifa hoped advisers will 'move to
remuneration models that prize on going client service, recurring
incomes and reduce dependency on upfront initial


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By presenting such “researchers” as the arbiters of what is moderate, it makes opponents seem unreasonable and extreme, which is the goal.
Yet the cultural terraforming, by all objective measures, represents the greatest growing threat gun owners will face.
Beginning in August 2017, we are offering one-hour webinars every month on the Gun Control Act, National Firearms Act, and firearms and ammunition excise tax.
Once the headlines have been absorbed, reinforced biases will make unquestioning voters receptive to politicians promising more disarmament legislation.
The real objection is to any American having rights forcibly stripped without full due process.
Everyone has opinions. There’s no indication that the respondents have informed ones. And that’s what Watts is counting on.
The United States Concealed Carry Association has responded to an effort led by New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel to stop The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
He claims “over 95% of gun crime in Australia involves illegally imported guns” and then proposes what he calls “a happy medium” we all should be able to live with.
On June 14, 2017, these unelected bureaucrats issued a legal interpretation expanding the definition of the term “firearm” to include unfinished receiver blanks.
The decision of the court of appeals may be challenged by asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to consider the matter.
The plaintiffs believe that California’s confiscatory magazine ban is a taking of their property without just compensation and violates their constitutional rights.
It was just a few weeks ago that citizens from several different cities told us about gun bans on Idaho buses.
The elites who can afford armed security details aren’t affected by edicts imposed on commoners.
This marks the third consecutive Canadian government to defer these regulations and the second Liberal government to do so since Paul Martin.
So it’s not so much an “advocacy group” issuing organizational advisories as it is individual sellout “artists” assuming a role of masked propagandists in their “art.”
These elite establishment LEOs are the epitome of “Only Ones,” those who presume themselves to be trustworthy and competent enough to carry guns.
FPC has published the regulations at BulletButtonBan.com, a Web site it established in 2016 for tracking the new California assault weapon laws and regulations.
This bill will affect your ability to buy firearms or ammunition in Illinois and will add state regulations and fees for dealers and owners.
“Work on the bill represented coordination among the National Rifle Association, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, law enforcement organizations and victim’s rights groups.”
In law, words have specific meanings. As firearm owners, it is critical we understand those meanings. It’s also critical to understand the law pertaining to firearms.
The wet-dream of “gun-control” fits-in with overall objectives of all crypto-Marxists. It always ends-up in the same place!
These bills by Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) run counter to SCC’s position that state institutions should be required to honor state-issued concealed handgun licenses.
The one inescapable fact is Virginia Tech was a “gun-free” campus.
Note what it didn’t say? What additional laws they want.
The CBC, that government mouthpiece funded by 1.5 billion taxpayer dollars, continues to spread disinformation about Canada’s gun laws.

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quote: I expect it to me more like a graphics card where the integrated ones are useless and you need to spend upwards of $400 for a high end physics card.
quote: If you had told anyone 10 years ago that they would make $700 graphics cards (8800 Ultra) they would think you were crazy.
quote: With Dual and Quad core processors you don't need a dedicated physics processor...
quote: but from what I recall it does hamper performance significantly due to the fact that it utilizes a PCI interface.
quote: At this point, every AGEIA PhysX Accelerator is configured as a PCI 2.1 add-in board with 128MB GDDR3. The PCI interface is more than adequate for handling complex physics calculations, so changing the design to PCI Express would be simply to address slot availability on the motherboard, not to enhance raw performance.


We are going to be purchasing the Intex Krystal Clear Sand Filter Pump for Above Ground Pools, 2800 GPH Pump Flow Rate, 110-120V with GFCI to upgrade from the 1000 gph pump that came with our 14x42 ABG Intex Ultra Frame Pool. I am trying to figure out how to connect it and what additional adaptors/hoses I might need. Our current setup has 2 inlet holes that connect with a T-joint then 1 line to the pump and 1 return. We have the intex swg as well. I understand the hoses for the sand filter are 1.5 diameter and I will likely need the adaptors, but I can't really figure out what I need exactly.
Here is what it will look like. Do I need 2 more hoses, 3 adaptors and a split hose plunger valve? I can not tell if the pump comes with plunger valves. Are they necessary? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I want to make sure I have all the right parts before we fill so we are ready to rock and roll


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The Concerto for Percussion was written specially for Philips records in 1968 and appeared on a record issued in 1969. It been used several times as ballet music. Firstly by the Scottish Ballet for an experimental production, then by Norman Morrice for a ballet called 'Percussion Concerto' produced by the Batsheva Company in Israel. He subsequently produced the ballet for the Ballet Rambert but changed the name to the 'Empty Suit'. It has been produced by a university company in Johannesburg and most recently in Milwaukee at the University of Wisconsin.


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IBM has great plans for its quantum computing systems but acknowledges that a lot of work needs to be done.
IBM has announced its goal of building a 4,000 kbit system by 2025 at its Think! an event this week saying it wants to build hands-on quantum computing systems that feature a smart software orchestral layer to effectively distribute workloads and eliminate infrastructure challenges.
“We think that by next year, we will begin prototyping quantum software for specific use cases,” IBM stated. “We will begin to define these services with our first test case — machine learning — working with partners to accelerate the path to useful quantum software.”
The big goal is to build what in today’s terms would be a massive quantum computer – a 4,000+ quantum system built with clusters of quantum processors. IBM’s current quantum processor, Eagle, supports 127-kbit processing, and by the end of the year it expects to launch Osprey, a 433-kbit processor, which will be followed in 2023 by the 1,121-kbit Condor processor.
Achieving the huge goal that IBM envisions will involve connecting three 1,386-kbit multi-chip processors IBM calls Kookaburra for a total of 4,158-kbit.
To achieve this goal IBM and its partners will have to develop tons of new software that can monitor and link such systems together eliminating errors that can drag down quantum work.
“Our goal is to build quantum-centric supercomputers,” IBM researchers wrote in a blog about the company’s plans. “The quantum-centric supercomputer will incorporate quantum processors, classical processors, quantum communication networks, and classical networks, all working together to completely transform the way we compute.”
To achieve its goals, IBM said it must solve the challenge of scaling quantum processors by developing a runtime environment to provide quantum computing with increased speed and quality, and introducing a pointless programming model to allow quantum and classical processors to work together without friction.
IBM plans to build on its current Qiskit Runtime software to experiment with algorithms for creating and handling quantum programs.
IBM said in 2023 it will support direct Qiskit Runtime and cloud-built workflows to bring seamless access to the core quantum software and give developers a high level of simplicity and flexibility. This uninterrupted approach will also mark a critical step in achieving the smart and efficient distribution of problems across quantum and classical systems, IBM said.
In that time frame the company will also add the capability for quantum processors to run in parallel. In addition, IBM said it would develop short-range, chip-level couplers to connect quantum chips to form a single, larger processor.
“In 2024 and 2025, we will introduce error mitigation and suppression techniques in Qiskit Runtime so that users can focus on improving the quality of the results obtained by quantum hardware. These techniques will help lay the groundwork for quantum error correction in the future,” IBM said. declared.
The company said it thinks it will partner until next year to start prototyping quantum software for specific use cases, starting with machine learning. By 2025, IBM said, model developers will be able to explore quantum applications in machine learning, optimization, science, and more.
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Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Skin of Our Teeth” provides a study in “how we move forward through the problems of life with optimism and courage,” according to Jack Heifner, playwright-in-residence at Stephen F. Austin State University.
The SFA School of Theatre’s cast and production team for Wilder’s “funny, touching, sensible and absurd” play is learning that very lesson. From summoning the courage to develop multi-faceted characters to hanging a record number of lights in W.M. Turner Auditorium, everyone involved with “The Skin of Our Teeth” is beginning to understand Wilder’s vision as the play comes to life.
The play’s dramaturg, Marie Phillips, a junior theatre student from Lewisville, explains that Wilder wanted audience members to “see that there is a duality to humanity; we are both grand and faulty. We shall achieve, struggle, overcome and repeat.” That universal theme is evident both on stage and behind the scenes as students prepare for this large-scale production that features a 20-member cast, extensive scenery and multiple costumes and props, according to Heifner, the play’s director.
Maggie Strain, theatre education major from Port Aransas, describes her character of Sabina and Wilder’s play as both having “tremendous depth.” The maid to the Antrobus family, Sabina cycles between the different roles of unobliging family maid, temptress, and dedicated war follower and then eventually back to the role of maid, Strain said.
“Many if not all of the roles I have played throughout my career have been comedic characters,” Strain said. “This isn’t to say that Sabina isn’t funny from time to time, because I find great humor in her character. But she is so much more than that. For the first time I find myself being able to work on monologues that break my heart to deliver, and I have had to muster a new type of courage for seductive scenes.”
Between the play’s three acts, each character undergoes “colossal growth and change,” Strain said. The show is a play within a play, and the actors are playing both characters in the production and characters putting on the production.
“I have never had to play a character that is in such constant flux, and yet, is always the same,” she said. “To add to the complexity, not only am I playing Sabina, but often times I play the actress playing Sabina, Miss Somerset, who repeatedly stops the play in an effort to get what she wants.”
Sunnyvale junior Maddie Collins is stage managing the play, which she describes as “by far, the biggest show I have ever worked on.” It’s her job to communicate the director’s notes to designers, as well as act as a liaison between the director and actors, making sure everything runs smoothly and is organized.
“There are a lot of moving parts in this show, and it has been full of new experiences,” Collins said. “This show has put more pressure on me than ever to stay organized and get things done.
“Along with learning new things myself, I have two assistant stage managers who are learning so they can manage Mainstage plays in the future,” she said. “By teaching and explaining things to them, I am learning more about how to delegate and work closely with other people. Because ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ is such a big show, it has been difficult keeping everything organized. It has challenged me to be proactive about the possible problems that could arise, as well as problem solve on the spot.”
Hutto senior Brittney Tennis is an assistant to guest lighting designer Luis Ramirez. Tennis answers inventory questions, updates changes to the light plot, and acts as the liaison between Ramirez and the play’s lighting team. It’s different from her previous duties as a production intern at The Long Center in Austin and as a master electrician for the Georgetown Palace Theatre in Georgetown where she was responsible for hanging, circuiting and focusing lights, and in charge of crew calls.
“I am more involved with the production side and helping the director’s vision come alive onstage,” Tennis said. “One the of the challenges that this play presents is the fact that we have 195 lights hanging in the air right now. We have never had this many lights hanging in Turner Auditorium, and it has been a new experience for all of us involved.”
Strain describes “The Skin of Our Teeth” as “one of those plays where knowing the history and context in which it was written gives it all the more meaning.” A product of its time, the play was completed two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Phillips, the dramaturg, has given the play “tremendous meaning and has shown me the importance of a play’s origins,” Strain said.
“The messages and themes in this play are so beautiful and powerful it brings me to tears nearly every day in rehearsal,” Strain said. “It isn’t often a play has such a profound effect on me. This play is about starting over; it’s about family, loss, courage, love, forgiveness in the face of hate, feminism and war. And it’s about us; it’s a play about the human race.”
“Thornton Wilder really wanted the audience to see and understand that even though disastrous things are happening in the world,” Tennis said, “we as humans will always find a way to survive and keep on going.”
The play is appropriate for anyone and all ages, Heifner said, but the subject matter may not interest someone younger than a teenager. He suggests the play would be rated PG13. There is no offensive language.
“The Skin of Our Teeth” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, April 25 through 29, in W.M. Turner Auditorium in the Griffith Fine Arts Building on the SFA campus. Single tickets are $15 for adult, $10 for senior and $7.50 for student/youth. For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.theatre.sfasu.edu.

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Indian Inc promoters rely largely on pledging of shares to raise debt: report
Updated : February 19, 2019 08:24 AM IST
The promoters pledged shares worth more than Rs 1 lakh crore in 2018-19.
The figures are 60 percent higher than the previous year's numbers.
According to the report, more than Rs 16,000 crore worth of shares were pledged by the promoters so far this year.
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In an interview with the Insider, Home Alone director Chris Columbus revealed that Donald Trump ‘bullied’ his way into a cameo appearance in the sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. When asked about Trump’s cameo in the 1992 movie, Columbus admitted that he had to get the permission from Trump, owner of The Plaza Hotel to shoot in the lobby. Columbus said that they couldn’t recreate the extravagant lobby with a soundstage, as a real-life hotel lobby was a crucial part of the movie.
Agreeing to the request of the director, Trump came up with a condition saying that the only way the director could use the Plaza was if he was in the movie. When the movie was screened for the first time, Columbus revealed that people cheered when Trump showed up on the screen and that was the oddest thing that happened. Columbus while speaking to his editor commented, “Leave him in the movie. It’s a moment for the audience,” but he ultimately bullied his way into the movie.
In the scene, Trump plays Kevin wandering through the lobby in need of directions. In the sequel, Columbus found another way to make the concept of the cameo character Kevin work again for his fans. In Home Alone 2, Kevin is seen mistakenly boarding the wrong plane at the airport. And rather joining his family in Florida, he ends up alone in New York City. The movie Home Alone completed 30 years of release this November. The movies are a Christmas favourites for many fans globally and fans are eagerly waiting for a reboot of Home Alone which is currently on the way from Disney.
Donald Trump has also appeared in Ghosts Can’t Do It, 54, Two Weeks Notice, Wall Street: Never Sleeps, Zoolander and Celebrity.
After a massive campaign, US witnessed a very close election battle between incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden on November 3. With record mail-in ballots being polled amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the results were inconclusive on November 3, as millions of ballots remained to be counted. Biden broke Barack Obama's record of 2008 elections getting over 78 million as the polls saw the highest voter turnout since 1908. As he inched closer to victory, he maintained 'Every vote must be counted'.
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A great deal depends on what you mean by the word “should.” If you’re asking whether Christians ought to believe in the rapture or have to believe in it in order to be saved, the answer is no. Despite everything that can be said in its favor, the doctrine of the rapture cannot be considered one of the indispensable essentials of the Christians faith. When the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas, “What must I do to be saved?” they replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
If, on the other hand, you want to know whether it’s reasonable, sensible, or biblically supportable to believe in the rapture, we would have to say yes. This teaching is based upon two important New Testament passages. The first and plainest is I Thessalonians 4:13-18:
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
The second, I Corinthians 15:51-52, is similar in content:
Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
In light of these passages, several other portions of Scripture have traditionally been understood as referring to the rapture. See, for example, Matthew 24:36-42, Luke 17:20-37, and John 14:3. But the two we’ve cited are the most significant. They provide the most solid biblical basis for the doctrine.
It’s important to add that scholars have interpreted these texts in a variety of ways. This in itself reflects the ambiguity of the scriptural teaching on the subject. This is obviously one of those issues which, in the words of The Westminster Confession, is “not alike clear unto all.”
We can relax with the thought that there is legitimate room for disagreement here.
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BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 Smartphone Images appeared on RIM’s Website
BlackBerry Bold Touch have been leaking and finally the Smartphone appeared on its Website itself but pulled back immediately, it may be an indication that the Smartphone will surely make its official debut at the BlackBerry World Event in Florida next week.
BlackBerry was either teasing it or accidentally published the Image on its website, anyway, Eagles who have been searching for prey caught it. The Images you see here are among them. early the Smartphone was leaked on images and even on hand-on from BGR early.
The Smartphone is expected to be powered with 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage, 768MB of RAM, a microSD expansion slot, 5 megapixel camera and a 35-key backlit keyboard. You’ll also get a microscopic 2.8-inch LCD with a woeful 640 x 480 resolution, Bluetooth 2.1, a 3.5mm headphone jack, A-GPS, dual-band 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a 720p movie mode.
The Smartphone is also expected to be running on BlackBerry OS 7 and will feature fluid“Liquid Graphics” touch-screen. Anyway, let’s wait till the event for more on the new BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900.


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Which dress should you choose for this very special day? This game about fashion and dressing the girl for the most important day of her life. Choose the dress, accessories and many more items to glorify her beauty. Get her ready for this special event !
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WASHINGTON, March 21 — The dismissal of eight United States attorneys has elicited a long and ever-growing list of theories by Democrats on Capitol Hill about ulterior motives and suspicious coincidences. Now there is a new one: the document gap.
Democrats on Capitol Hill were privately urging reporters on Wednesday to press the Bush administration to explain why in the thousands of pages of e-mail messages and documents turned over to investigators, there is almost nothing from Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, the day seven of the firings occurred. In contrast, there are hundreds of pages from the weeks after the dismissals. One of the last e-mail messages before this period was sent by D. Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, to Harriet E. Miers, then the White House counsel, and includes a request that the White House approve the plan. “We’ll stand by for a green light from you,” said the Nov. 15 e-mail message.
A little more than a half-hour later, Ms. Miers replied: “Not sure whether this will be determined to require the boss’s attention. If it does, he just left last night so would not be able to accomplish that for some time.”
It is not known whether Ms. Miers was referring to Mr. Bush.
White House travel records show that Mr. Bush was traveling for most of the next two weeks. Mr. Sampson did not receive authorization for the firings until Dec. 4.
An e-mail message that day to Mr. Sampson from Ms. Miers’s office said: “We’re a go for the US Atty plan. WH leg, political, and communications have signed off and acknowledge that we have to be committed to following through once the pressure comes.”
From Nov. 16 to Dec. 7, there are only a handful of e-mail messages, a fact that Talking Points Memo, a Web site that has been following the furor with microscopic attention, pointed out Wednesday morning.
“Shades of Rose Mary Woods? An 18-day gap?” said a posting by the blog’s owner, Joshua Micah Marshall, referring to President Richard M. Nixon’s secretary, who found herself on the spot after the discovery that 18 1/2 minutes of crucial White House tapes had been erased.
Asked Wednesday about the apparent gap in the documents, Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, referred the question to the Justice Department.
Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said, “The department has provided or made available to Congress all the documents responsive to Congress’s requests over the time period in question.” He added, “To the extent there was a lull in communications concerning the U.S. attorney issues, it reflects the fact that we have found no responsive documents from that time period, which included the Thanksgiving holiday.”


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Oak Brook police vote 'no confidence' in chief
Oak Brook's village board plans to hire an outside investigator to look into police department matters in response to officers' vote of no confidence in Chief Thomas Sheahan.
Fraternal Order of Police Attorney Gary Bailey announced the no-confidence measure, which he said passed by an overwhelming margin, at Tuesday's village board meeting. The Oak Brook police department suffers from a "glaring morale problem" stemming from Sheahan's "arbitrary and selective" discipline, Bailey told trustees.
"They took this vote to alert you that the problems they have endured have reached a stage where they are genuinely concerned for the future of this department and the village," Bailey said.
Trustees, meeting in closed session until late Tuesday night, discussed bringing in "an unbiased third-party" such as a member of the retired police chiefs' association, Village President John Craig said.
"The investigation should be done quickly," said Trustee Gerald Wolin. "We cannot allow a morale problem to continue for any period of time."
Wolin suggested hiring former Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Collins, who successfully prosecuted former Gov. George Ryan, to investigate police department operations.
Sheahan blamed the no-confidence vote on "a perfect storm" of events, starting with the difficult and lengthy contract negotiations.
"Our guys made a lot of concessions that really helped out the village -- a lot of concessions," Sheahan said. "I'm proud they did that."
On Feb. 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against former Police Sgt. Randy Mucha, whom Sheahan fired in 2007. And on Feb. 19, the police commission fired Officer Stephen Peterson after finding him guilty of withholding information in the disappearance of his father Drew Peterson's fourth wife.
Sheahan, who characterized himself as a "fair disciplinarian," said such firings understandably stir emotions among the officers' colleagues.
"We're like any family; we're going to roll our sleeves up and work together and get through this thing," Sheahan said.
But Bailey downplayed any connection between the no-confidence statement and the Peterson firing, which he called "the circus that played out this past weekend on every media outlet in the Chicagoland area."
"No matter when we issued it, it would have been timed in relation to something," he said.
Police morale has deteriorated steadily since Sheahan became chief six years ago, Bailey told trustees. Sheahan is "indifferent to the concerns of the rank and file" and fosters "a climate of secrecy," Bailey said.
"At one time, (Oak Brook's officers) felt that they worked for the premier police agency in this county," he said. "No longer."

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"My mom always made these crisp pickles when we were kids, and she gave me the recipe," says field editor Karen Owen of Rising Sun, Indiana. "They're pleasantly tart and so good."
- 4 pounds cucumbers, sliced
- 8 small onions, sliced
- 1/2 cup canning salt
- 5 cups sugar
- 4 cups white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons mustard seed
- 2 teaspoons celery seed
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- In a large container, combine the cucumbers, onions and salt. Cover with crushed ice and mix well. Let stand for 3 hours. Drain; rinse and drain again.
- In a Dutch oven, combine the sugar, vinegar and seasonings; bring to a boil. Add cucumber mixture; return to a boil. Remove from the heat.
- Carefully ladle hot mixture into hot pint jars, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles, wipe rims and adjust lids. Process for 15 minutes in a boiling-water canner. Yield: 7 pints.
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River Rafting at Hebri near Udupi
Visit Hebri to experience the best of the best river rafting experience in India. Hebri is located at the foothill of the Western Ghats on Udupi - Agumbe Road. It is just beneath the Agumbe where the river Sita originates and cascades its course of over 70 kms creating one of the top bio diverse rain forests in the world then meeting the Arabian Sea.
Undiscovered forests and untouched streams of water attract many people to Hebri a small village in Udupi.
Best time to visit: From June to October. Although river rafting is open throughout the year but it is good to see Sita Nadi swell in monsoon. It is during this time of year when one can experience the thrilling and adrenal rushing experience of white water rafting.
White water rafting is monsoon water rafting which is neat and white. Sita Nadi offers a good platform for first timers and non swimmers. River rafting can be a good family weekend activity or corporate team building activity after all it’s about team effort.
Where is it located:
It is located in Karkala Taluk of Udupi district which is around 65 kilometers in distance.
River rafting at Sitanadi Nisarga Dhama camp starts at two different points:
- Nisarga Dhama to Belinje Bridge (14 kms)
- Nisarga Dhama to Jomlu Tirtha (22 kms).
It can take between 6 to 8 hours depending upon the stretch of the chosen water course. The most important part of rafting is security and safety. There are many experienced & certified organizers available to teach instructions on rafting and they also provide the participants with safety and other equipment (such as life jackets and helmets) along with a guide on each rafting boat. Just be careful of leeches which can feast on rafters anytime. Sitanadi nature camp is located within the Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary.
One can easily enjoy the awe-inspiring nature, the awesome greenery and radiant luster of water while staying at the Sita Nadi nature camp. The camp provides accommodation facility in the form of farmhouse, home stay or heritage stay at economical rates. The Someshwara Sanctuary is host to semi-evergreen and evergreen forests.
The sanctuary includes of two unconnected parts, the smaller part being situated to the Southwest of the major part. The Kudremukh National Park lies to the Southeast of this sanctuary. One can also opt for trekking to nearby locations like the waterfalls at Kudlu Tirtha, Onke Abbi Falls and Jogigundi.
Hebri is known to be a major trade centre of Udupi district. It camps many agro-based industries such as cashew processing, rice mills, oil mills, cattle feed manufacturing and others. The forest department is promoting to develop Hebri as good adventurous sports spot as no other river offers such an incredible platform for river rafting and forest trekking. Situated right beneath the Augumbe Ghats the place receiving the second highest rains in India is sure a place for adventure loving people.


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Cloud giant AWS has a lust for Rust Programming Language so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language.
Amazon Web Services has quietly revealed that it has hired Rust compiler co-lead Felix Klock.
AWS’s Matt Assay wrote that the company “increasingly builds critical infrastructure like the Firecracker VMM using Rust because its out-of-the-box features reduce the time and effort needed to reach Amazon’s high security bar, while still delivering runtime performance similar to C and C++.”
AWS likes Rust so much it sponsored the project and said the company has even “started hiring Rust and Tokio committers to ensure they’d have the time and resources necessary to further improve Rust.”
Among those AWS says it has hired are Sean McArthur, who is named-checked in the “Thank-you” list of the Rust 1.0 release, plus prominent developers Lucio Franco and Jon Gjengset.
The post also revealed that AWS recently hired Klock, currently the project’s compiler co-lead.
Klock previously worked at Mozilla and his LinkedIn profile says he finished there in August 2020 – when the organization made a big round of job cuts – before arriving at AWS in October.
“Let’s be clear: We understand that we are net beneficiaries of the exceptional work that others have done to make Rust thrive,” Assay writes. “AWS didn’t start Rust or make it the success that it is today, but we’d like to contribute to its future success. We are convinced that investing in the wider Rust ecosystem helps our customers and those who may never become our customers. That’s OK. That’s how open source is supposed to work.”
AWS senior software engineering manager Shane Miller chimed in, saying: “We’re not just hiring a couple of folks for Tokio and the Rust compiler.”
“Rust is a critical component of our long-term strategy, and we’re investing to deliver Rust engineering at Amazon scale. That includes developer tools, infrastructure components, interoperability, and verification.”
Why AWS loves Rust.
One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see by. For similar reasons, at AWS we increasingly build critical infrastructure like the Firecracker VMM using Rust because its out-of-the-box features reduce the time and effort needed to reach Amazon’s high security bar, while still delivering runtime performance similar to C and C++.
Though AWS has benefited from Rust for several years, we’re looking for ways to contribute in meaningful ways. As Shane Miller, Senior Software Engineering Manager at AWS, says, “Rust helps us deliver fast, robust services to AWS customers at Amazon scale,” and we’re committing to further strengthen a community that has greatly benefited us and our customers. This commitment has included code contributions to Rust and Tokio, a runtime for writing asynchronous applications with Rust, but our commitment to the Rust community goes beyond code. In partnership with more than 5,500 contributors to Rust, we contribute in a variety of ways, all intended to enable AWS and others in the Rust community to build systems with confidence.
Rust’s popularity grows
Here at AWS, we love Rust, too, because it helps AWS write highly performant, safe infrastructure-level networking and other systems software. Amazon’s first notable product built with Rust, Firecracker, launched publicly in 2018 and provides the open source virtualization technology that powers AWS Lambda and other server-less offerings. But we also use Rust to deliver services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, and more. Recently we launched Bottlerocket, a Linux-based container operating system written in Rust. Our Amazon EC2 team uses Rust as the language of choice for new AWS Nitro System components, including sensitive applications such as Nitro Enclaves.
Why has Rust proved so popular at AWS and elsewhere? As mentioned, this comes down to Rust’s cardinal virtues: performance and reliability.
Because Rust does not require a runtime or garbage collector, it is able to achieve runtime performance similar to C and C++. At the same time, Rust uses a strict type system and ownership model to achieve compile-time verification of memory and concurrency safety, making the cost of testing and validating Rust implementations significantly lower than C/C++. Carl Lerche, a principal AWS engineer, says Rust and Tokio give AWS the ability to write services that respond fast, reliably, and that help us offer a better customer experience.
But there’s more to Rust than code. David Barsky, a software engineer at AWS, says that Rust really focuses on providing a great experience for people. “So much so, it attracted a whole of bunch of people to systems programming who’ve never done it before, myself included,” he adds. The Rust community is particularly welcoming, reaching out to those that haven’t traditionally participated in systems programming or open source.
For these and other reasons, we’ve looked for more ways to participate in the Rust community.
Building for the builders
In 2019 we announced our sponsorship of the Rust open source project. Such funding helped the Rust community to run ecosystem-wide regression tests with Crater on Amazon EC2, for example. It was good, but we wanted to do more.
Ultimately, open source communities like Rust are about people, and we started hiring Rust and Tokio committers to ensure they’d have the time and resources necessary to further improve Rust. This led us to build a team around Tokio, hiring contributors like Sean McArthur, Lucio Franco, Jon Gjengset, and Lerche to continue to work side-by-side with developers from Buoyant, Dropbox, Confluent, vector.dev, fly.io, and more.
More recently, we’ve been fortunate to hire key Rust maintainers such as Felix Klock. Given our dependence on Rust, we need deep in-house Rust expertise, just as we have with Java and other foundational technologies. Marc Brooker, a senior principal engineer at AWS, explains, “Hiring engineers to work directly on Rust allows us to improve it in ways that matter to us and to our customers, and help grow the overall Rust community.” At the same time, these investments for customers dovetail nicely with community priorities.
Let’s be clear: We understand that we are net beneficiaries of the exceptional work that others have done to make Rust thrive. AWS didn’t start Rust or make it the success that it is today, but we’d like to contribute to its future success. We are convinced that investing in the wider Rust ecosystem helps our customers and those who may never become our customers. That’s OK. That’s how open source is supposed to work.
“We’re not just hiring a couple of folks for Tokio and the Rust compiler,” Miller says. “Rust is a critical component of our long-term strategy, and we’re investing to deliver Rust engineering at Amazon scale. That includes developer tools, infrastructure components, interoperability, and verification.” And, as she’s quick to highlight that Rust is community-built: There have been more than 5,500 contributors to Rust since its inception, with an average of 350 contributors to each release.
At AWS, we are grateful to be part of this welcoming, productive Rust community. If you’d like to help make Rust even better, there are a number of ways for you to get involved. And if you’d like to join our team, please see the open positions on our Rust/Tokio team.
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Once every few decades or so, a new technology comes along that is truly revolutionary. 3D printing is one such technology. With the potential to change a number of modern industries, 3D printing can truly change the world. One area where it has already begun to do so is in the medical field of prosthetics.
Thanks to 3D printers, engineers and doctors are now partnering to create artificial limbs more quickly and cheaply than ever before. This is allowing people from all over the world greater access to replacement limbs. Not only that, but these new prosthetics are custom-built to individual specifications, making them more comfortable from the very beginning.
3D printing works by spraying melted thin plastic filament through a nozzle. This filament is built up
layer by layer using computer-generated renderings of an existing object. This allows the printer to create almost anything – including limbs. Because the limbs are customized for a single person, they are far less expensive than an artificial limb that has been mass produced and then sized.
This is particularly helpful in the area of child prosthetics. Because children grow so quickly, they need new prosthetics fairly often. This can be extremely expensive, and in many cases results in a child having to make due with an ill-fitting prosthetic. In some cases, they may even go without. A traditional prosthetic can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000. In contrast, a 3D printed prosthetic can be produced for a few hundred dollars at most, and in some cases quite a bit less.
Another amazing example of how 3D printing is revolutionizing the prosthetics industry can be found in the
Sudan. Robohand is a 3D printed alternative to traditional prosthetic devices. These prostheses are custom fitted, anatomically driven, functional devices. For the first time, patients with a prosthetic hand will have the ability to open and close all of their fingers. Their Roboarm device provides this gross grasp capability with both palm up and palm down capabilities, and their Robofinger allows for improved fine motor skills.
To do this, existing joint motion mechanically moves the custom-made prosthetic. This allows for a more natural movement and feel. Even more incredibly, these devices do not require surgery, motors, or battery packs. This greatly reduces their cost as well as maintenance requirements. They are designed to be comfortable, affordable, and incredibly durable.
Prosthetics cover far more than missing limbs, however. 3D printing is also a godsend for people who are missing facial parts such as ears. This technology allows a patient’s remaining ear to be scanned and then flipped to a mirror image, which is then printed. 3D printing is also being used to create devices such as cranial implants. It is expected that very soon, 3D printed hip and knee implants will become common.
One of the biggest advantages to 3D printed prosthetics and implants is how quickly they can be made. Instead of taking weeks to be manufactured and customized, a 3D printed prosthetic device can be created and shipped out to the hospital within a day. Not only that, but because these devices can be customized to the individual’s needs, they are far more comfortable. Studies have shown that nearly a quarter of the people who have a prosthetic device currently do not wear them because they’re uncomfortable. 3D printing can greatly reduce that number by providing patients with devices that are more comfortable from the very beginning.
3D printing technology is continuing to improve, and is becoming more and more accessible. Only a few years ago, these devices were only available to schools or large corporations. Now, anyone can pick one up online for around the same cost as an average computer. It may be possible that some day, patients will be able to print their own prosthetics at home after downloading an existing model. When combined with 3D scanning technology, you could create almost anything.


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Besides revealing about Fiona, Desmond also recently spilled the beans about six other local actresses in a Lianhe Wanbao report last week – namely, Jeannette Aw, Felicia Chin, Joanne Peh, Jesseca Liu, Rui En and Dawn Yeoh.
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