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Monday, October 27, 2014

Windows Phone Updated with Evening Reminders for Cortana in the UK

Monday, October 27, 2014
Britons who are using Cortana on their Windows Phones to keep things organized should start seeing the evening reminders these days, as microsoft is now rolling out a new pack of improvements in the United Kingdom. As Reddit user Inhopeless writes today, Cortana is now showing evening reminders to Windows Phone customers in the United Kingdom, but some could not get them just yet, as the update is being released to users gradually. As a reminder, in the United Kingdom, Cortana is only availa... ( read more ) ...

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Microsoft Global Readiness: Diverse cultures. Many languages. One world. Part 2

Monday, October 27, 2014
I recently heard about a study looking at how newborns may already be familiar with the sounds of their native language at birth, and may even cry in melodic patterns consistent with those sounds. An affiliation to language and culture would thus be present from the beginning, and become core to who we are. Similarly, research suggests that language profoundly influences how people see their world: not just how we talk, but how we think and relate to concepts such as time, space, and causality—among other notions. At the same time, in this world of technology, services, and cloud connectivity, there are no borders around our communication; it's global in nature, while locally experienced. Even if a product is originally intended for a single market, it's smart to build it so that it can be customized for other markets in the future. To be successful in diverse markets means adapting products to local requirements and expectations, while maintaining standards for global acceptability. Customer experience within a market should be consistent across offerings, though this can be a challenge, given the broad range of microsoft's portfolio. The microsoft Global Readiness team does not do this work alone. There is a company-wide community of experts in the topics of Global Readiness (for example, language or internationalization engineering). microsoft also benefits from its diverse and global workforce. We are a multi-lingual, multi-g ...

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Microsoft Launches Azure Cloud Services In Australia - (The Hosting News) – Micr...

Monday, October 27, 2014
microsoft Launches Azure Cloud Services In Australia - (The Hosting News) – microsoft has launched its cloud service, Azure, in Australia through a data center in Melbourne and anther in Sydney, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. In a recent interview, microsoft executive vice president of cloud and enterprise Scott Guthrie stated that Australian users would be able to start using the service starting October 27th. Guthrie noted that Azure is now available in 19 differe... http://ow.ly/2PJn5j microsoft Launches Azure Cloud Services In Australia www.thehostingnews.com (The Hosting News) – microsoft has launched its cloud service, Azure, in Australia through a data center in Melbourne and anther in Sydney, the Sydney Morning ...

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Monday, October 27, 2014
Xbox One : nouvelle baisse de prix (-50$) aux USA pour les fêtes de fin d'année www.gamekyo.com microsoft le sait : sur cette génération, le leadership US va être bien plus compliqué qu'avec la Xbox 360 et histoire d'assurer un minimum... ...

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Microsoft now giving Office 365 users unlimited storage with OneDrive

Monday, October 27, 2014
microsoft has announced today that if you subscribe to Office 365, you will now get unlimited storage with OneDrive - a considerable increase from the 1TB limit previously in place. Read more... ...

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Microsoft brings Black Friday early with another Xbox One price cut

Monday, October 27, 2014
This holiday season's Xbox team is different than last year's Xbox team for one simply reason: microsoft got a new CEO and a new head of Xbox. Here area those two new execs giving you all the info you need to get the Xbox One for a measly $349! The price cut applies to Xbox One Kinect-less version, as well as all Xbox One bundles. It is a U.S.-only promotion that lasts from November 2nd to January 3rd. ...

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An Offer You Can't Refuse? All Office 365 Subscribers Will Get Unlimited OneDrive Storage

Monday, October 27, 2014
It's Game Over for Dropbox and the storage pretenders Well, this much is clear: microsoft can't possible escalate its cloud offerings any higher than this. On Monday, the firm announced that all Office 365 subscribers—consumers, businesses, whatever—will now get unlimited OneDrive (or, for business users OneDrive for Business) storage. Not 25 GB. Not 1 TB. Unlimited. read more ...

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Storage Wars: Microsoft offers unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 custome...

Monday, October 27, 2014
Storage Wars: microsoft offers unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers http://livesi.de/1v5fXkS Storage Wars: microsoft offers unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 customers - LiveSide.net www.liveside.net First it was a terabyte of storage, and now microsoft has one-upped itself, announcing today that its offering unlimited storage for Office 365 customers. The offer includes both OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, according to Chris Jones in a post on the OneDrive blog, and is "rolling out over the coming months". If you're a current Office 365 customer you can… ...

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Microsoft’s Bing beats Google to emoji search

Monday, October 27, 2014
microsoft today added emoji support to Bing, allowing users to search using the characters and get back results based on the semantic meaning of the emoji. The feature has been added to Bing search in all English markets, both on desktop and mobile. For those who have never used emoji before, they are small pictures used to express an idea or emotion. They started being used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages, but their use is spreading outside of Japan. You can search for individual emoji: You can also search using a combination of multiple emoji characters, or even emoji and words: Searching for individual emoji usually returns results helping you understand the meaning of certain characters. This can be useful if you're not sure what someone just sent you. It can also be a quick way to find more information about a term if you simply prefer using the emoji rather than typing out the full word. Combination searches just show how much effort microsoft put in to get this feature right. If you're going to add emoji support, you might as well implement it in a way that lets users do anything they would normally do with any other search. So yes, you can string emoji characters together to create new meanings. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: More to follow. Mobile developer or publisher? VentureBeat is studying mobile marketing automation. Fill out our 5-minute survey , and we'll share the data with you. Mic ...

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Microsoft Just Made Its Google Apps Killer Much More Attractive (MSFT)

Monday, October 27, 2014
microsoft and Google are in a price war over your office documents — and microsoft just took a big swing. microsoft says it is giving away unlimited storage to customers who buy the cloud version of its microsoft Office software, called "Office 365." This one-ups what Google is doing with its paid versions of Google Drive, called Google Drive for Work. Google Drive for Work costs as little as $5/user/month and restricts you to 30 gigabytes of online storage. For $10/user/month, you get 1 terabyte of online storage, until you add 6 people to the account ($60/month) and then storage is unlimited. To be fair, the paid versions of Google Drive are really geared toward business users, and businesses are biting. Google recently said it is signing up 1,800 new customers a week for the service. But microsoft is doing well attracting consumers to Office 365, too. microsoft launched Office 365 in early 2013, adding support for the iPad early in 2014. microsoft now has 7 million customers for the product, the company said last week , and grew by 25% last quarter alone. For those buying microsoft Office for personal or family use, Office 365 is arguably a better deal than a paid version of Google Apps. For the $6/month "Personal" version of Office 365, you'll get one account that has now has unlimited storage, plus copies of the microsoft Office software that runs on your PC (Mac or Windows) and a tablet (iPad or Windows), for offline usage. ...

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Friday, October 24, 2014

NYC has been struck by first case of Ebola

Friday, October 24, 2014
NYC has been struck by first case of ebola AP Officials confirmed Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, tested positive for the virus Thursday, but attempted to ease concerns about spreading. Three others quarantined Related coverage Who is Dr. Craig Spencer? CDC details new response teams ...

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How long can Ebola live on a surface?

Friday, October 24, 2014
How long can ebola live on a surface? Alamy As ebola spreads, everyone is wondering -- how long can the ebola virus live on a surface like a subway handrail? One body fluid survives several days In related news A crash course in fear ebola cases could spur lawsuits ...

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WHO sends medics to Mali; moves up Ebola vaccine trials

Friday, October 24, 2014
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After 1st Ebola case in NYC, 3 others quarantined

Friday, October 24, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City's first ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation's most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his illness began. ...

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NY governor: Doctor had 100.3 temp, not 103

Friday, October 24, 2014
NY governor says ebola doctor went out 'in a limited way' then sought help with 100.3 fever ...

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Doctors Without Borders: Ebola risk can't be zero

Friday, October 24, 2014
Doctors Without Borders says that while it takes measures to protect its staff treating ebola patients, the risk of contagion cannot be entirely eliminated. ...

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Retracing the Steps of Doctor Who Tested Positive for Ebola

Friday, October 24, 2014
Officials are retracing the steps of a doctor who tested positive for ebola Thursday, with the doctor in isolation at a New York City hospital and three others under quarantine, city and state officials said. ...

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Obama offers federal help to NY with Ebola case

Friday, October 24, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is offering federal support to New York as it responds to its first ebola case. Obama spoke Thursday night to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH'-zee-oh) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The White House says some officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were already on the ground, with another team expected to have arrived late Thursday. ... ...

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NYC man diagnosed with Ebola amid official reassurances

Friday, October 24, 2014
A New York City doctor has tested positive for ebola after returning from aid work in West Africa. Authorities are tracking his movements and reassuring the public the risk of contracting the disease... To view the full story, click the title link. ...

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New Linux Releases from Ubuntu and SuSE

Thursday, October 23, 2014
In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's good to see such a flurry of activity. The new releases all have a plethora of new features. Interestingly, Ubuntu is going after the Android developers with the new Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre which helps coders develop apps. The new Centre downloads the Android toolkits along with libraries and dependencies, bringing them into the launcher. Although first available for Android, the plan is to extend this to other platforms such as Go and Dart . A big win too is that Netflix now plays in Chrome without any trickery! From OpenSuSE , the new release focuses on the much-improved Gnome desktop (3.14), though KDE users aren't forgotten either with plenty of improvements there too. I think it would be fair to say that it's an incremental release but there's still plenty to look forward to – more will be revealed as the release gets closer. Reflecting on recent use, I don't get to use my desktop as much as I used to. Like many other people have found, tablets have taken over for day-to-day computing and the desktop has been relegated to occasional use. Between a Nexus 7, a Chromebook, a local NAS and the cloud, my big ...

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New Linux Releases from Ubuntu and SuSE: In the same way as you wait ages for a...

Thursday, October 23, 2014
New linux Releases from Ubuntu and SuSE: In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. New linux Releases from Ubuntu and SuSE - Geek News Central geeknewscentral.com Tweet In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the … ...

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How does Linux determine filename case on ISO 9660?

Thursday, October 23, 2014
Here is a quote from this article: ISO 9660 is not a complex file system, but has a few quirks that are worth remembering. It seems that some operating systems also create non-compliant CDs, so beware! The main example of this is the character set that is available for file names. Strictly,filenames may only consist of uppercase letters A-Z, digits, dots, and underscores. Further there is a semicolon which separates the visible file name from its version number suffix. Many operating systems also allow lower case letters and other characters. linux's VFS displays lower case filenames to the user despite the CD contents actually containing upper case characters. So my question is, how does linux know which letters are supposed to be uppercase and which letters are supposed to be lowercase, when on the CD they are all uppercase? ...

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Linux - select() call not returning when I expect

Thursday, October 23, 2014
I have a C++ application that is reading data from a serial port but I'm seeing some weird behavior with regards to the amount of time it takes to complete a select call. I'm trying to read some data from another device which is streaming out 5 kB blocks at 115200 baud, the device streams out a total of 200 kB total during an entire transaction. The actual read calls grab 512 bytes at a time. When grabbing the 5 kB blocks the first select call takes ~475ms then the subsequent ones take 48ms. So it looks like select is only unblocking once all the data reaches the port. Since 475ms at 115200 baud gets me about 5 kB. Then the 48ms gets me about 512 bytes which is the size of the UART buffer on my device. What's strange is that when grabbing the last 3-4 blocks the first select call returns in 48ms which is what I'd expect it to do in the first place. From what I gather it looks like select is blocking until the device is finished writing all data over UART since it's only the initial one in each block that's effected. Is select supposed to return once there's any data to read on the device? Or are there some other conditions it's looking for? Is there any way I can configure my serial port to return from select once there is data available on the handle? ...

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Very Large Linux Distribution Performance Comparison [1410247-SO-1306245SO67]

Thursday, October 23, 2014
Very Big linux distribution performance testing. Benchmarking many different BSD and linux operating systems for a future article on Phoronix.com. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel. ...

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IC Software: Validation Engineer - Linux / Android - Greater London

Thursday, October 23, 2014
£25000 - £50000 per annum: IC Software: Fancy a kick-starting your career with a world leading software organisation? London ...

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Troubleshooting INET Routing - Linux IPsec (Racoon) HQ to Cisco Router Remote Site

Thursday, October 23, 2014
I have two devices. I have a Cisco 29xx series router with datak9 and securityk9 enabled. I also have a linux machine acting as a server at the main location running shorewall. I am trying to configure the remote location (with the Cisco router) to connect to the linux server in order to communicate across the two LAN segments. I also would like to have all internet traffic routed from the remote location through the main location and through a firewall. I modified /etc/iproute2/rt_tables and added a separate line with: 1002 IPsec and configured an IP route and ip rules for this new table so that the IPsec traffic should use it. Code: #Configure IP Rules for Remote ip rule add from 192.168.5.0/24 table 1002 #Configure IP Routes for Remote ip route add default via 192.168.3.1 dev eth0 table 1002 I am seeing the traffic go from the 192.168.5.0/24 network through the tunnel, out to the HQ router and out to the internet, but when I do a tcpdump -i any, I see duplicate packets with the same sequence number. I can also ping and traceroute, but I can not get internet traffic working. If I set up the linux server to NAT the traffic out of its eth1 interface, internet works, but with a lot of latency due to a bunch of RESET packets being sent. Basic Topology Diagram: Attachment 16738 racoon.conf: Code: path include "/etc/racoon"; path pre_shared_key "/etc/racoon/psk.key"; log notify; # log verbosity and set to 'notify' when debug complete ...

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YiKai Chen replied to Secure setting issue with New Z-Stack Linux Gateway in ZigBee®, 6LoWPAN & 802.15.4 MAC Forum .

Thursday, October 23, 2014
YiKai Chen replied to Secure setting issue with New Z-Stack linux Gateway in ZigBee®, 6LoWPAN & 802.15.4 MAC Forum . ...

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Linux VPS Hosting - CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian|Fast & Stable Servers - Jumpline!

Friday, October 24, 2014
VPS gives you total control and isolation: install and deploy your own applications, restart the virtual server, and gain access to the underlying operation system. With VPS, unlike Shared Web Hosting, your data is protected and isolated from everyone else. Ready to graduate from Shared Web Hosting... ...

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U2 album stumbles in Billboard chart after free iTunes debut

Apple CEO Tim Cook stands with Irish rock band U2 as he speaks during an Apple event announcing the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch at the Flint Center in CupertinoBy Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U2's controversial free album on Apple's iTunes had a less than stellar performance once released for commercial sale, coming in at No. 9 in its first week on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday. Country group Florida Georgia Line far outperformed the Irish rockers by selling 197,000 copies of "Anything Goes" in its first week for the top spot on the chart, compared with U2's 28,000 units sold, according to sales figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. "Songs of Innocence," the 13th studio album from U2, became the largest album release in history after being made available for free in September on Apple Inc's iTunes online store to half a billion iTunes users. Billboard does not count sales of albums priced under $3.49 for its weekly album chart listings.


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Early Apple computer sells for $905,000 at auction

NEW YORK (AP) — A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs' garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding pre-sale estimates and outdoing a previous high price of more than $671,000 paid in Germany last year.

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Apple computer sells for record $905K in NY: Bonhams

File photo of an Apple-1 computer, built in 1976, on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CaliforniaOne of the first Apple computers ever built has sold in New York for $905,000, leading Bonhams auction house to declare it the world's most expensive computer relic. The Apple-1 computer, built by hand in 1976 by Steve Wozniak in Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' garage or his sister's bedroom, fetched nearly twice its pre-sale high estimate, Bonhams said. It was bought by the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the auction house said. The Apple-1 is considered a vanguard of the personal computer revolution, being the first pre-assembled personal computer ever sold.


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Christian Bale to play Apple's Steve Jobs

Actor Christian Bale addresses a press conference for the film "American Hustle" in the Berlinale Special category at the 64rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, on February 7, 2014Oscar-winner Christian Bale -- best known for his star turn as Batman in the blockbuster "Dark Knight" films -- will play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic. "We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that's Chris Bale," the film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, in an interview with Bloomberg Television posted online Thursday. Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for "The Social Network" about Facebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, said giving the lead role to Bale was an easy call. "He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined," said Sorkin, who is writing the script for Sony Pictures based on the 2011 biography "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson.


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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Apple's iPad Air 2 has anti-reflective coating, a first for a tablet: Philip Schiller, SR VP

Apple's iPad Air 2 has anti-reflective coating, a first for a tablet: Philip Schiller, SR VP.

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Apple's new iPad Air starts at $499

CUPERTINO Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Thursday its new iPad Air will go for $499, and the smaller iPad mini will sell for $399 and above. Pre-orders begin on Friday. Executives introduced the new tablets that will lead Apple's battle for holiday-season spending. (Reporting by Christina Farr; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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iPhone rollout likely widened T-Mobile's growth lead

An iPhone 6 phone is seen on display at the Fifth Avenue Apple store on the first day of sales in Manhattan, New YorkBy Marina Lopes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple's iPhone 6 only went on sale in the last two weeks of the quarter, but the device's rollout may have been the U.S. cellular industry's top growth catalyst in the period, with T-Mobile US benefiting the most. Since the larger, slimmer iPhone was unveiled on Sept. 9, the U.S. cellular market has been flooded with deals for subscribers looking to switch providers ahead of earnings reports starting next week. Helped by T-Mobile's claim that it was offering the best repurchase terms on old iPhones, the No. ...


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APPLE LIVE: iPad Air 2, Apple Pay, new Macs debut

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new Apple iPad Air 2 during an event at Apple headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) â€" Apple unveiled a thinner iPad Thursday with a faster processor and a better camera as it tries to drive excitement for tablets amid slowing demand.


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New Apple iPad can switch wireless carriers with a touch

By Marina Lopes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple's new iPad Air 2, announced on Thursday, will allow subscribers to switch wireless carriers much more easily, by swiping an icon across the screen of the device. The feature, available thanks to a neutral Apple SIM card installed in the device, will allow customers to sign up for short-term service plans and switch carriers using their iPad, the company said. The SIM card supports AT&T , T-Mobile and Sprint high speed networks. For service from the largest U.S. carrier, Verizon Wireless , customers need to install a separate Verizon SIM card. ...

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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Patient isolated at Massachusetts clinic after displaying Ebola symptoms: newspaper

Source: www.reuters.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
(Reuters) - A medical clinic in Braintree, Massachusetts, near Boston was evacuated and a patient has been isolated because of his recent travel to West Africa and medical symptoms, the Boston Globe reported on Sunday. ...

From ebola phone call to the golf course — click to read

Source: gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Subject: In-town travel pool report #4 Motorcade has reached the Ft. Belvoir golf course. WH informs that members of POTUS' foursome today are Joe Paulsen, Mike Brush and Marvin Nicholson. Pool had been separated and will hold at a nearby shopping center. David McCumber The post From Ebola phone call to the golf course — click to read appeared first on Gretawire . ...

Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola

Source: io9.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
According to officials, a worker at the Texas hospital that cared for the United States' first Ebola patient has tested positive for the disease. Read more... ...

Ebola Response: Maining one ebola free area in Seirra Leone with methods not endorsed by pubic health community

Source: ghdonline.org --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
The Washington Post story is here: The fight to save the last Ebola-free district in Sierra Leone http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/10/the-fight-to-save-the-last-Ebola-free-district-in-sierra-leone/ A local business man convinced politicians and community leaders early on in the outbreak to implement a controlled quarantine with additional economic incentives to keep Koinadugu district free of Ebola. Among the activities are the following: The few roads leading in and out of the mountainous area are guarded Farmers are to paid to cover losses from the quarantine Traditional healers are paid in exchange for their not treating Ebola-like symptoms. Do the methods used in Koinadugu district correspond to a traditional quarantine? Are these methods ethical? Are temporary restrictions on healthy individuals a reasonable step to take if it prevents the population from the fate which has fallen on the rest of Sierra Leone? By Elizabeth Glaser on Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:04:50 -0400 ...

Health IT: Ebola technology survey

Source: ghdonline.org --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Ellen Ball < >: Oct 10 02:11PM -0700 Partners In Health (pih.org) is leading a coalition to combat the Ebola outbreak, working alongside two outstanding grassroots organizations—Last Mile Health in Liberia and Wellbody Alliance in Sierra Leone. These longtime PIH partners are already working to train health workers, identify sick patients, and deliver quality care. As the epidemic advances, these groups need support to provide comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment. We can and must stop the spread of diseases like Ebola — and TB, cholera, and malaria around the world. Everyone deserves high-quality care, and together we can make that happen.   If you are working on technologies for the Ebola response, please take the survey or share with your colleagues. Let's contribute resources and use them in the best possible way. All information will be available.   Ebola technology survey   Thank you,   Ellen Ball Partners In Health By Ellen Ball on Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:54:29 -0400 ...

Ebola Response: How can we Spiked M. tuberculosis into sputum

Source: ghdonline.org --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Dear all,is there any one who give me advise or guideline on how to spike M. tuberculosis into sputum? Thank you. By Dossegnaw Aragaw on Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:44:21 -0400 ...

Ebola Response: Maintaining one ebola free area in Seirra Leone with unconventional methods

Source: ghdonline.org --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Let's try that again? The Washington Post story is here: The fight to save the last Ebola-free district in Sierra Leone http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/10/the-fight-to-save-... A local business man convinced politicians and community leaders early on in the outbreak to implement a controlled quarantine with additional economic incentives to keep Koinadugu district free of Ebola. Among the activities are the following: The few roads leading in and out of the mountainous area are guarded Farmers are to paid to cover losses from the quarantine Traditional healers are paid in exchange for their not treating Ebola-like symptoms. Do the methods used in Koinadugu district correspond to a traditional quarantine? Are these methods ethical? Are temporary restrictions on healthy individuals a reasonable step to take if it prevents the population from the fate which has fallen on the rest of Sierra Leone? By Elizabeth Glaser on Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:09:07 -0400 ...

DOH rolls out multi-sectoral response plan versus Ebola - Palace

Source: news.pia.gov.ph --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
MANILA, Oct. 13 -- The Department of Health rolled out a multi-sectoral response plan against the Ebola virus disease, Malacaandntilde;ang said on Sunday, amid lingering concerns that it might enter the country.andnbsp;Health Secretary Enrique Ona announced during the first National Ebola Virus Disease Summit, which was held recently in Quezon City, that this plan contains the interim guidelines for disease surveillance, notification and reporting of suspected Ebola virus disease cases; clinical management including laboratory testing from susp... ...

CBS Medical Expert Praises Ebola Response, Discourages ‘Magical Thinking’

Source: www.mediaite.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
CBS chief medical correspondent John LaPook told Face the Nation' s Bob Schieffer Sunday morning that the public health community's response to the first case of Ebola was heartening, and tamped down on theories that the second case represented some mutation or undiscovered aspect of the virus. "This is a great time not to have magical thinking," LaPook said. "We have forty years of experience treating Ebola. We know how it's transmitted. There is no evidence from a huge New England Journal of Medicine review that this virus is any different than any of the previous viruses, that it's mutating or anything like that." "What protects the community is the public health system," LaPook continued, "isolating the person, making sure you track down their contacts. And I have to say after some missteps at the beginning, where the apartment wasn't clean, people weren't moved out, the health care system did a very good job of responding to this. In fact it only took forty-eight hours for the CDC to track down all forty-eight contacts." Compare with ABC News' medical expert's less sober response this morning. Watch the clip below, via CBS News: OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer-xjN2MycTo83hC7SxBeORrrR8-ov7O1FA', 'xjN2MycTo83hC7SxBeORrrR8-ov7O1FA'); }); Please enable Javascript to watch. [ Image via screengrab ] —— >> Follow Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) on Twitter ...

Breach in Protocol Led to New Ebola Diagnosis: CDC

Source: 7online.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
A breach in protocol resulted in a preliminary Ebola diagnosis for a female health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient in the United States, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. ...

Texas health worker with Ebola wore full protective gear

Source: medicalxpress.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
A Texas health care worker who treated a Liberian man who died of Ebola was wearing full protective gear but was infected with the dangerous virus anyway, health officials said Sunday. ...

Second US Ebola case raises questions about safety protocols

Source: medicalxpress.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
A Texas health care worker who treated an Ebola victim has tested positive for the deadly virus, dealing a blow to the global battle to stem the epidemic and sparking questions about safety precautions. ...

Dallas Health Care Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

Source: www.newson6.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
CDC Director Thomas Frieden told CBS' "Face The Nation" in an interview airing Sunday morning that the case is troubling "because clearly there was a breach in protocol." ...

ABC Chief Medical Expert: CDC Wrong, All US Hospitals Can't Treat Ebola Safely

Source: www.breitbart.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas -- Dr. Richard Besser, the chief health and medical editor for ABC News, told WFAA-Dallas on Sunday that he found the second Texas Ebola case "very concerning." As reported by Breitbart Texas, the latest patient diagnosed with Ebola is a female nurse at the Texas Presbyterian Hospital who treated Thomas Eric Duncan before he died from the disease. Besser, having recently returned to the United States after visiting Ebola-stricken areas of Liberia, expressed sharp disagreement with the protocols being followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dissatisfied with their admission that they needed to adopt enhanced protocols  in a press conference Sunday. Besser told WFAA that he had been anticipating the news of a second Ebola case. "I don't find it surprising, but I find it very concerning," he said, continuing that it was necessary for health authorities to cast "a very wide net" to search for anyone who may have had even the most incidental contact with either Duncan or the nurse. The difficulty in containing the spread of the disease, according to Besser, is that it takes special training and experience to follow the isolation protocols and use the protective gear properly.  "The idea that this could be done by any American hospital that has an isolation room and can be done safely, I was skeptical about that," said Besser, in a clear departure from recent statements by the CDC that any Americ ...

Suspected Ebola case isolated at Braintree clinic

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
A man who turned up at the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates urgent-care offices in Braintree this afternoon complaining of a headache and other Ebola-like systems has been quarantined as a precaution, according to the Braintree Fire Department. Firefighter Joe Zanca said the man was isolated "based on his travel history." Zanca said the patient showed up at the Grossman Drive facility shortly after 1:30 p.m. The building was evacuated and the patient was isolated at the scene. ...

The Extremely Remote Accuracy of Ebola Predictions

Source: www.dailypundit.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Expert: 'Very real' chance U.S. soldiers deployed to African hot zone will get Ebola « Hot Air While the potential for an African-style Ebola outbreak in the United States remains extremely remote, American health and defense officials do not appear to be taking the appropriate precautions in order to prevent one. Note the goalpost whiplash: First, Ebola would burn out in Africa soon enough. Then, there was only an extremely remote chance that Ebola would break out of Africa into the western world. Then there was almost no chance that Ebola would evade airline screening procedures and come to America. Then, even if Ebola did somehow, by some miracle, make it to America, we would catch it before it did any damage. Then, we absolutely know how to stop Ebola from spreading. (Note: this involves a miracle that includes perfect humans in perfectly designed systems using perfectly unfailing equipment and procedures). And now, well, the possibility of an African-style Ebola outbreak in America, with millions of infections, remains "extremely remote." I personally think that what is really "extremely remote" is that the situation is as under control as they keep telling us it is. I wonder what they'll tell us when third generation infections start popping up? ...

Scientists in Russia developing three Ebola vaccines – Health Ministry

Source: healthandmedicine.org --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Scientists in Russia developing three Ebola vaccines – Health Ministry ...

2nd Ebola case in Dallas: Nurse tests positive

Source: www.turnto23.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
A health care worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive, officials said. ...

NIH Official: ‘The System Worked’ on Ebola

Source: pjmedia.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
I think it pretty obvious by now that everyone in the executive branch who is going to go before the media and talk about Ebola has been instructed to deliver nothing but happy talk pronouncements and soothing bromides about how the government has everything under control. The confidence may or may not be justified. But the infection of a second American in Texas wasn't supposed to happen. The unidentified health care worker who was infected with the Ebola virus took every precaution a modern, 21st century health care system could take. And yet the virus found a way. So it is faintly ridiculous for a representative of the National Institutes of Health to go on camera and say something silly like this: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday the system put into place to slow the spread of Ebola transmission in the United States was working. "The system worked," Fauci said on ABC's "This Week." On Sunday, officials in Texas announced that a second person in Dallas had tested positive for the deadly virus — a health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week. "She was on voluntary self-monitoring," he said about the latest victim. "She found she got infected, and she immediately did what she was supposed to have done." "So even in this troublesome situation, t ...

Second case of Ebola in Texas

Source: media.brisbanetimes.com.au --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Texas health officials say a health care worker who provided care for the Ebola patient who died there has now tested positive for Ebola. ...

At Least 100,000 Snapchat Photos Hacked

Source: www.newsfactor.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Hackers are threatening to post online at least 100,000 photos, including nude images, sent by SnapChat users and apparently intercepted via third-party apps. Many images are of underage users. ...

v1: Ebola screening for NHS 111 calls announced

Source: www.newssniffer.co.uk --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
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Snapchat videos and pictures stored on a third party website posted online

Source: www.theguardian.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Images from up to 200,000 teenagers leaked on to internet after users lured into saving images on Snapsaved.com Videos and pictures of as many as 200,000 teenagers posted via the SnapChat service and stored on a third party website have been put online, apparently by the same people who were behind the posting of nude celebrity photos in August. The photos and videos were captured after some users of SnapChat a mobile phone app which allows people to send photos to each other but which delete themselves within seconds of being viewed were tempted into using a site called Snapsaved.com. That offered to let them use the service on a website on a desktop computer, rather than just on a mobile phone. Continue reading... ...

Get up to speed on Ebola outbreak

Source: www.wdsu.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Concerns about the Ebola virus were heightened Sunday when a health care worker in Texas had a positive preliminary test for the disease. If confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the worker's case would mark the first known tra... ...

SNAPCHAT LEAK Hackers get their hands on 100K 'deleted' images

Source: www.foxnews.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
FLASHBACK: SnapChat CEO 'mortified' by leaked emails from fraternity days British Police use SnapChat to fight crime FLASHBACK: SnapChat adds regular text, video chats ...

More Than 200,000 Snapchat Accounts Hackeds

Source: www.bidnessetc.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
Hackers at 4Chan have struck again and released a massive database of videos and images intercepted from the popular photo-messaging application SnapChat. Anonymous users on 4chan claimed that the database compromises the privacy of more than 200,000 SnapChat users. Last month, the world was shocked by the news of a  massive leak of scandalous celebrity photos  on the notorious web forums 4chan. The photos were claimed and later confirmed to be obtained through hacking of Apple, Inc.'s ( AAPL ) iCloud user accounts. The nude celebrity photo-leak was dubbed "The Fappening" by 4Chan users. The new leak has been called "The Snappening." As opposed to "The Fappening," hundreds of thousands of users have been affected by the "The Snappening." The photos are supposedly collected by a third-party SnapChat application that has been building its database of photos and videos over the years. The database had accumulated over 13GB of compromising data during the time. SnapChat has denied that its own servers were hacked, and the company has blamed third-party applications for the breach in privacy. However, it has recognized that users' data has been compromised. The official statement by SnapChat said, "We can confirm that SnapChat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms o ...

There is still uncertainly over whether there will be further Snapchat photo leaks.

Source: www.facebook.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
There is still uncertainly over whether there will be further SnapChat photo leaks. Is the 'Snappening' just a hoax? www.independent.co.uk Fears that nearly thousands of naked videos and images sent via SnapChat and reportedly leaked could be released this weekend remain shrouded in confusion. ...

SnapChat Pics Leaked From Hacked Archive

Source: blog.gadgethelpline.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
SnapChat, an app which allows you to send images and videos to your friends which have a set expiration date for deletion, has no real dedicated archive service. Indeed, one of the reasons people sue the app is because their images are not saved and don't permanently exist. Cue a raft of naughty photos. A recent hacking attack may have caused some SnapChat users to think twice about the safety of the app. Some users signed up their SnapChat account to third-party archiving site SnapSaved.com, which lets users register for the site to save the images and videos they create and/or receive with the service. SEE ALSO: Apple October Event Will Be Livestreamed We're not 100% clear on exactly how SnapSaved works, as the website has been down following the attack, but what we do know right now that over 200,000 photos were ripped off from the third party service's servers, some allegedly of a sexual nature with subjects who are underage. Not good at all. This means that even if you don't use the site, someone who has received photos of you could have saved them with SnapSaved, and hackers in turn may have made off with pictures of you. It's not really much comfort that the hacking hasn't affected every SnapChat user, since there's no way to confirm which users use SnapSaved. iCloud has also suffered from hacking attacks recently. The photos have been circulating the internet, including web forum 4chan, where some users are claiming to be ...

Snapchat is the latest service to have images leaked to the Web

Source: www.digitaltrends.com --- Sunday, October 12, 2014
We've barely recovered from the last photo hacking scandal, and now there's another one to contend with: SnapChat is the latest service to get hit, with a third-party add-on to blame. The post SnapChat is the latest service to have images leaked to the Web appeared first on Digital Trends . ...

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Snapchat leak affects tens of thousands of people, including minors: http://wjax...

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
SnapChat leak affects tens of thousands of people, including minors: http://wjax.tv/ZV7QQd Do you have the SnapChat app? ...

Snapchat photo leak: Company says its servers are not compromised

Source: tech.firstpost.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
Mobile messaging company SnapChat blamed third-party software apps for possible security lapses that may have led to its users' private photos being at risk of online publication by hackers. A file containing at least 100,000 SnapChat photos has been collected by hackers who were preparing to publish them online, according to a report on the Business Insider blog. SnapChat lets users send photos and videos that disappear in seconds. "We can confirm that SnapChat servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks," the company said in an emailed statement. Users were "allegedly victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our terms of use precisely because they compromise our users' security." A SnapChat representative noted the company's statement was based on reports of leaked photos, and that it could not verify whether hackers had breached third-party software containing stolen SnapChat photos. SnapChat, one of a crop of new apps that compete with Twitter and Facebook, is popular among teenagers. Some media reports raised concerns that the hackers' file could contain nude "selfie" pictures of teens who expected the photos to be deleted. Leaked photos could also become problematic for SnapChat, which has faced criticism over privacy practices. It is now raising money in a funding round that would give it a $10 billion valuation, according to repo ...

ICYMI: Still trust Snapchat?

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
ICYMI: Still trust SnapChat? SnapChat blames users of 'illegal third-party apps' for nude photo hack venturebeat.com Last night a slew of nude pictures started showing up on 4chan. Not terribly unusual, except these were images purportedly snagged from hundreds of thousands of SnapChat users. The event has been d... ...

skypestripper: snapchat must be fun for hot people

Source: dorkface.tk --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
skypestripper : SnapChat must be fun for hot people ...

Snapchat hacked

Source: fox10tv.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – SnapChat is the latest victim of hackers. At least 100,000 private pictures were leaked online, some of them were nude photos. With a photo messaging app that is designed to delete photos within 10 second, many users are left wondering how this happened. Released in 2011, SnapChat blames the leak on an unauthorized third-party app, which saved the users photos and videos. It is believed the leak includes illegal child pornography, including many photos teenagers took of themselves. However, SnapChat says their servers were never compromised. Apple was hacked last month. Over 100 celebrity iCloud accounts were allegedly hacked for nude photos.     Filed under: National , News ...

Privacy Breach: Hackers Plan To Leak Thousands Of Snapchat Photos

Source: www.latfusa.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
Victims of the nude celebrity photo hacking scandal are still recovering and speaking out against what has been referred to as a "sex crime." In more recent days, another hacking case has surfaced, but has yet to affect what could be thousands of SnapChat users. SnapChat is a popular mobile app that allows people to share video and photo content with a friend database. According to reports,... ...

Latest Snapchat photo leak shows why you don’t use third party apps for sensitive data

Source: www.nexus-one-central.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
If you're not like me and don't live by the "nothing is ever truly deleted on the internet" mantra, then perhaps you need to simply watch what you're doing online. SnapChat has worked hard to improve their security since being a victim of a data breach last year. The breach allowed a group of no-gooders to leak 4.6 million usernames and the phone numbers associated with them. So what's going on today? Well, another leak has happened, but it's important to note that this isn't a "breach." A large database of over 100,000 photos was posted online by people at 4Chan and consists of photos sent to and from many of the service's users. The photos weren't swiped from SnapChat's servers, but from the servers of third party apps and sites that allow you to save SnapChat photos for long-term keeping. Here's SnapChat's take on the issue: We can confirm that SnapChat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed. Indeed, one 4Chan user confirms that the photos originate from SnapSaved, not to be confused with a similarly named app with a similar purpose named SnapSave (the latter of which ...

Snapchat Warning....

Source: board.fierce-brands.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014
Just a reminder that in this digital age NOTHING is private or forever deleted. This could be very bad and embarrassing for many people. SnapChat Hacked: 'The Snappening' - Business Insider ...

Friday, October 10, 2014

Illinois Official Warns of Ebola Email Scam

Source: www.wifr.com --- Friday, October 10, 2014
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois attorney general is warning residents of possible email scams related to the Ebola outbreak. ...

Ebola Death Toll Eclipses 4,000 With No Signs of Slowing

Source: mashable.com --- Friday, October 10, 2014
Deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including recent fatalities in the United States and Spain, have exceeded 4,000 for the first time, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The announcement came one day after World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim issued a dire warning that if the epidemic is not contained soon, "nothing less than the future of not only West Africa, but perhaps even Africa is at stake." On Wednesday, the World Bank published a report that found that the shuttering of stores, vanishing infrastructure investments and other economic ramifications of the Ebola epidemic is having a profound impact in the hard-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. "We're still way, way behind the curve, and we have to quickly speed up. We have to scale up the global response," Kim said. Read more... More about Sierra Leone , Guinea , United Nations , Africa , and Liberia ...

Return of the Android SMS virus - self-spreading "Selfmite" worm comes back for more

Back in June 2014, we wrote about an Android virus that worked a bit like the email worms of the early 2000s. Well, that Android virus has made a comeback, and this variant is both pushier and more flexible than before...

Police thwarted by remote wiping of tablets and phones

Several UK police forces are left baffled after evidence on phones and tablets has evaporated into thin air, even after suspects have been taken into custody.

FBI's warrantless 'hack' of Silk Road was legal, prosecutors claim

Even if FBI agents did hack their way into the Silk Road without a warrant - and they're most certainly not confessing to that, mind you - the intrusion would have been an upstanding, law-abiding, Fourth Amendment-respecting act of criminal investigation, the government argued in a Monday court filing.

Reminder: iCloud's going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps

Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don't support Apple's new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You'll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data.

Thursday, October 09, 2014

Adobe will update e-reader to mop up clear-text data spillage

Adobe is working on an update to fix the latest iteration of its e-book reader, which has a gluttonous appetite for readers' data and the slovenly habit of reporting our reading habits back to Adobe - in plain text.

Chinese workers strike at Foxconn factory after HP cuts orders

About 1,000 workers at a factory of manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group went on strike on Wednesday demanding better wages, after production orders from Hewlett-Packard were cut, according to a labor protection group.

Foxconn had allegedly been reducing workers' overtime at the factory, located in Chongqing, China, as a tactic to encourage employees to voluntarily quit and forfeit their severance pay, said New York-based China Labor Watch in an online posting.

Many workers had relied on the overtime pay for the bulk of their earnings, the labor protection group said. "Workers demonstrated with holding banners, including one that read, 'We aren't robots. We need to eat and feed our family,'" the group added.

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Omron image sensors designed to be 'eyes' of IoT

Intelligent image sensors that can tell everything from your age to how you feel may give "eyes" to the Internet of Things (IoT) if technology from Omron is anything to judge by.

The healthcare electronics maker has been showing off a smart image sensor this week at the Ceatec 2014 expo outside Tokyo. It can automatically determine a subject's age, gender, age and facial expression, a sign of his or her state of mind.

The HVC-C, or Human Vision Components Consumer Model, fits in the palm of one's hand. It contains a small camera and modules for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity with apps on Android and iOS smartphones.

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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

SeaMonkey 2.30 Beta 1

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