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    Getting Date Greater Than Chosen Date

    My mind is in a freeze, and I can't figure it out!

    Here's what I have:

    users- Table with username/passwords, etc;
    Data1- Table with user Posts
    Data2- Table with user Posts

    I want to have a contest of who posts the most in the two tables from Date1 - Date2. I can't seem to figure the logistics of this. Her'es what I have in a nut shell:

    $t = "";
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
    $result = mysql_query($sql);
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $username = $row['username'];
    $sql1= "SELECT FROM Data1, Data2 WHERE Date > 2001-05-01 AND username='$username'"
    $result1 = mysql_query($sql1);
    $posts = mysql_num_rows($result);
    $t[$username] = "$posts";
    // somehow sort out $t

    $i = "0";
    foreach($t as $username=>$posts){
    if($i < 11){
    echo("<b>$username</b> Has <b>$posts<b> Posts!");

    My major lack is how to sort these? And will this idea work?

    Thank you for all of your help!

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    A bubble sort compares successive array elements and switches them if they are not in the proper order. You would compare element 0 with 1, 1 with 2, 2 with 3 etc. When no switches are necessary the array will be sorted. Or, you can use one of many standard sorting functions for arrays: go to and look up "arrays".

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    Download a file from a remote server, then split the file

    I've currently got no internet connection and need to download some linux cds (the LFS liveCD to be exact). So unable to download it all in one go, or install applications on a public computer I thought about hacking around with PHP again, download the file from the remove sever to my PHP server, split the file, then download it in bits from my server.

    I can't really think of a more elegant solution, and I haven't touched PHP in years, so this sounds like a fun PHP hack job. Any idea's where I should start ?

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    I actually wrote a file-splitter in PHP a couple years back - needed to get around a 2MB limit on e-mail attachments. Anyway, this is how I would approach your problem:
    1) Open a file handle to the remote server. fopen
    2) Open a file handle to a local file.
    3) Read up to a megabyte at a time. fread
    4) Write the read bytes to the local file. fwrite
    5) When the local file reaches a certain size (whatever size you want your chunks to be), fclose that file and fopen another one.

    Remember that you'll likely also want to set_time_limit(0) and ignore_user_abort (the latter because I doubt you'll want to keep your browser open to your server the whole time, especially since your browser will likely assume the operation has timed out and terminate it). As you develop this, I'd recommend testing it on smaller files as you go so you don't discover after downloading the entire ISO that you screwed up royally. You'll also need to write something that will put the chunks back together on your local machine, but that should be trivial.
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It’s not a great stretch to imagine Maggie Gyllenhaal in a film with sexual overtones.

It’s not a great stretch to imagine Maggie Gyllenhaal in a film with sexual overtones.

After all, she first came to the attention of many of us with her weirdly smoldering performance in “Secretary.” Now she’s co-starring in “Hysteria,” a film about the events, in late-19th century London, that led to the invention of the vibrator.

Gyllenhaal had no trouble imagining it, or taking part in it. At a recent interview about “Hysteria,” she said, in her husky voice, “A lot of the movies I make have a lot to do with sexuality, because I’m interested in sexuality, and so is everybody else. I think that, for example, a sex scene can be like a soft core porn-looking thing, or it can be an amazing opportunity for a different kind of acting and communicating, which is what it can be in real life, too. I don’t know if porn speaks to that, but there are a lot of movies that do offer an opportunity to see what’s in a woman’s mind, sexually.”

Oddly, Gyllenhaal doesn’t have any sex scenes in “Hysteria.” The dramatic comedy focuses on a doctor and his associate (Jonathan Pryce and Hugh Dancy), who cater to women suffering from what science has since proved to be the imaginary disorder called hysteria – a condition that, in the based-on-fact story, could only be dealt with successfully by inducing utterly non-sexual orgasms in the doctors’ office.

Gyllenhaal plays the Pryce character’s daughter, a rowdy, outspoken woman who’s an early purveyor of women’s liberation.

“I really liked the character,” she said. “I also thought the script was great, and I was interested in how the vibrator was invented. That’s how it is with me. I’ll read something, and sometimes it’ll just pull me in and I’ll think I really have to do that. That’s how I felt about this when I read it.”

Though she appeared to be totally relaxed talking about the film, she admitted that it’s not all that easy when discussing it with friends.

“When I tell people what the movie is about, and try to think of what words to use,” she said, with a giggle, “that catches me up a little.

“We shot my scenes first and then I left, but we were all wondering, ‘How are you gonna do that?’” she added, referring to sequences where middle-aged Victorian women are eagerly climbing onto examination tables and doctors are literally warming up their hands. “We were all blushing and giggling about what these women were doing. I don’t think people talk about it very much and I think it does still make us kind of flushed and uncomfortable.”

But Gyllenhaal admitted that the situation presented in the film is both outrageous and kind of ridiculous when looking at it from a contemporary point of view. She then pointed out that she was referring to her character – Charlotte’s – political stances.

“The things Charlotte says are very simple, politically,” she explained. “They’re things that we all know now, and can all agree with, like women are equal. Nothing she says is radical now. So I wanted those simple political things to be like the life in her body. I wanted her to be excited and happy and overwhelmed with a passion for those things, as opposed to didactic. I wanted her to be like a dervish, like a wild person who could have been from anytime. But because of the perspective of the movie, which is a comedy, I felt that she could be sort of a magical person in the way she said the things she says.”

Asked what her husband, Peter Sarsgaard (who’s about to play the pornographer Chuck Traynor in the film “Lovelace”), thought of her being in this film, she said, “We’re both actors, and we’ve done two plays together. Being onstage with him, night after night, we both realized that we respect each other, and we think very similarly about our work. As far as this movie, he’s not a husband who would say, ‘Oh, you can’t make a movie about a vibrator, or don’t take your clothes off.’ I don’t think he would have married me,” she added, laughing.

Then another thought came to her.

“People with vibrator stores kept sending us vibrators while we were making ‘Hysteria.’ By the time I finished the movie I had been sent about 15 vibrators. It was the beginning of a pleasant surprise.”


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This week is the 30th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week, and we want to thank our 20,000 plus volunteers who work year-round to provide first aid in communities up and down the country. Hear from our volunteers, in their own words, about what their role means to them.

Jacqui Clare, Community First Responder

Two years ago, I made a phone call that changed my life.  Suffering with severe chest pains, I felt I needed medical help when the pain radiated into my lower jaw.  As it was a Sunday, I called NHS Direct who advised me that I needed an ambulance.  Hours later, hospital tests proved that I was alright and not in danger, thankfully!

I couldn’t forget the care, attention and kindness of the ambulance crew that helped me.  The next day, I went onto the London Ambulance Service website to thank them and came across their volunteering page, and I haven’t looked back. I became a Community First Responder with both St John Ambulance and the London Ambulance Service, to provide other people with the help I received myself.

I volunteer with the Havering CFR unit and I feel privileged to now be in a position where I can help members of my community when they are at their most vulnerable – I enjoy treating, supporting and assisting them in their ambulance ride to hospital. I have attended many callouts and these have taught me a great deal about the resilience and humility of people in my community.

I remember one particular call to an elderly couple who had been together for 60 years.  The wife had suffered a stroke and was paralysed, but her husband worked around-the-clock to care for her.

Suffering from exhaustion, the husband had called an ambulance because he had heart palpitations one morning at 5am.

Both of them were distressed about being separated. I held the woman’s hand and tried to comfort them both whilst the paramedic looked after her husband. It was a sobering moment and that day has stayed with me for a long time. I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to provide some comfort and reassurance in their time of need.

Last year, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  This meant that I had to suspend my active volunteer duties while I recovered.

Despite this, I stayed very much involved with the Community First Responder scheme, taking over administration duties and liaising with London Ambulance Service. I enjoy being part of a team of like-minded people, and working alongside the dedicated professionals of the London Ambulance Service.  I am very proud of my team - we all work so well together and everyone gives their own time so freely.

To learn more about Jacqui’s role, please visit our Volunteering section. The Volunteers’ Week is an initiative of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.


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Slap Magazine Issue 78 March 2018, March 2018

First of all let’s get this out of the way... I've learned it’s probably best not to puncture one's lung and break several ribs in the run up to a deadline during the shortest month of the year. That said, I have thoroughly enjoyed putting this issue together thanks to the sheer diversity of its content. In the arts alone we have costume art, performance art, Asian art, contemporary art, sculpture, and even art in pubs! Check out too, our featured artist Tracey Passey, who’s wonderful mixed media masterpieces are inspired by the coast.

As well as art, there’s news of acting courses, a dance feature, spoken word and poetry is also covered. Last minute news just in for any budding writers of a Short Story Competition for Evesham Festival of Words - open to adults and juniors. Closing date is midnight on Friday 23rd March. For more info visit:

Diversity isn’t just restricted to the arts as we jump from Ensemble Échos at St Martin's, Worcester to the Damned at the O2 and everything in between! As always we bring you the news, reviews, previews and features from the local music scene. Our featured band are Bewdley’s Cantaloop. See mainstays Dannie & Justin on our front cover - inviting you in...

Also featured is International Women’s Day which again shows the rich, mixed culture bag, where dance, comedy, film and music are all represented.

Have you started planning your festival season yet? Well Andy O’Hare has put together a quick summary of what to expect on the local festy scene this summer. In this issue we feature the uncomparable Noztock.

We reported in the February edition of the sad closure of Worcester’s Rise Records; well rumours have reached Slap HQ of the possibility of an independent store opening soon. Watch this space...

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My fellow Slate And Main producer Keith Eveland and I were having lunch at a sports bar in the Nashville area several years ago. We chowed down on a plate of nachos as big as your head (or whatever) and happily polished off every last morsel.  We sat and chatted, and then sat and chatted a little bit more. About 30 minutes later we began to wonder about paying the check. When a not-our-server dude wandered nearby, we summoned him and asked for our real server to come over with the bill. So, this guy walks over to our server and relays the information to her.  She nods and starts to walk toward us.

We watched her approach our table and walk on by (like Dionne Warwick). Our heads swiveled in amazement as we followed her to another table several yards behind us.  We chuckled a little bit and thought maybe she’ll come to us next.

"Somewhere a clock chimed three...No wind stirred as she stood near a casement window...A minute passed. Then another."  We sat in the bar, dimly lit. Clearly, we weren’t going to have a visit anytime soon. I started humming the Specials Ghost Town. Keith looks at me weirdly and blankly as he often does when I toss out ancient obscure pop culture references. So he gets up to find  someone else to track down our waitress. It was eventually successful. She comes over to us.

We say to her, “We would like to pay our bill, now.” She says to us in this high-pitched squeek, “Oh, are you my customer?”  We could only hold a straight face until we reached the door. We were laughing so hard we collapsed into the fetal position.

Perhaps it was just one of those things or perhaps it was complete incompetence. It doesn't really matter. The damage was done and that moment has become a metaphor for us every time we do content marketing. Never forget the customer. It is so easy to do.

You want to get your message out but you unfortunately become so gripped with what and how you do things, you forget why your company even exists or what your customers need. So, here are three quick things to help you to be more customer-oriented and audience-driven.

1.  Know Your Customer
Pretty obvious, eh? But seriously, if you’re asking the question, “Are you my customer?” then you are in big fat Elvis trouble. T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Trouble. You have to get to know them. What are their needs, wants, and fears? For example, are they concerned about making a bad decision or trying new things? What makes them tick? What is motivating them? What problems do your solve. At the restaurant- we wanted food and were willing to pay for it in a timely manner.

 Serve your customers some yummy content kinda like these 'nachos as big as their head'! They'll remember you.

Serve your customers some yummy content kinda like these 'nachos as big as their head'! They'll remember you.

2.  Serve Your Customer.
They don’t exist to serve you, you exist to serve them.  Bring some value to their experience. Don’t just put on a show. You are not communicating at them, you are talking with them. Your customers are people. Be clear. Help them understand. Build the relationship. Make them glad they spent money with you.

3.  Remember Your Customer.
Yeah. Don’t forget your customer. Ever. Like ever. Just don't. It’s easy to think of them as just your source of income or part of your job. However, if you give your customers a bad experience, you will most likely never get them back.

Keith and I didn’t go to back to that restaurant and apparently, lots of other people didn’t either. Because that restaurant has since closed.  Gone for ever. Stick a fork in it. (Or In the words of the late legendary Chick Hearn,"Close the refrigerator door. The jello is hard and it's jiggling.") Hopefully, you get what I'm saying. Remember your customer and keep them satisfied.

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On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported a purported landslide revelation in the new book “No Easy Day,” which is taking Washington by storm (SEAL book depicts Osama bin Laden shot on sight in hallway, contradicting original account, Washington Post, August 29).  The manuscript, authored by a member of the special operations team who participated personally in the May 2, 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, divulges that the point man on the special operations assault team shot Osama bin Laden in the head on sight, contrary to prior reports that bin Laden was shot in self-defense after the terrorist resisted and reached for a weapon.  The Post reports this discrepancy as though it makes a difference.  In fact, there is no substantive distinction in terms of the lawfulness of targeting bin Laden with lethal force – bin Laden was killed lawfully in either case.  Moreover, the “new” account of bin Laden’s killing – on sight, without provocation – is preferable and constitutes a familiar reality of armed conflict.

Under virtually every mature system of law, killing another person is per se unlawful.  There are, of course, certain exceptions to this baseline rule which make killing lawful – the execution of a prisoner duly authorized by a competent court operating under the rule of law, killing an aggressor in self-defense or defense of another when presented with a threat of death or serious bodily harm, and killing an opposing combatant as an act of war or in armed conflict.  When U.S. armed forces kill an opposing combatant in armed conflict, properly authorized to do so by competent domestic authority, the killing presumptively is lawful under both domestic and international law.  The lawfulness of the conflict under the body of law known as jus ad bellum[1] is irrelevant to the issue of whether the individual U.S. combatant’s application of force against an opposing combatant is lawful.  If the American combatant properly is ordered to conduct combat operations under U.S. domestic law, including the killing of opposing combatants, and he does so in compliance with the law of armed conflict (jus in bello), his actions are lawful.  He is immune from criminal liability for such acts (the legal doctrine of “combatant immunity”).

As a matter of U.S. national security law, there are two methods by which a U.S. military force and its constituent members may be ordered to engage in lethal action against an enemy combatant.  First, the President may order such action without Congressional authorization solely on his authority as the Commander in Chief, under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.[2]  Second, the Congress may authorize the president to cause the armed forces to engage in warlike acts through its “warmaking” powers found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.  Until World War II, Congress often exercised this power through the explicit exercise of the “declare war” power, most recently against Romania, of the Axis powers, on June 5, 1942.  After World War II, Congress has exercised this power through other legislative actions which, in rough terms, have most of the practical effects of declarations of war, without explicitly invoking the “declare war” clause of Article I.  Congress’ authority to authorize lethal military action absent an explicit declaration of war is, in my view, nevertheless grounded in Congress’ explicit war power:  if Congress has the power to plunge the nation into a declared state of war, it necessarily enjoys “lesser included powers” to authorize other forms of armed conflict short of declared war.

There was authority under international law to conduct the strike and kill bin Laden under Article 51 of the UN Charter (national self-defense).  Though intelligence estimates and open-source analysis indicates al Qaeda’s effectiveness as an international terrorist organization was waning and that bin Laden’s role in Al Qaeda had been diminished in terms of influence and command and control, absent his disavowment of Al Qaeda’s organization and ideology or affirmatively disbanding the group, he is assumed to continue to embrace it and lead al Qaeda.  His continued membership in Al Qaeda, the organization which conducted the September 11 attacks, justifies national self-defense against the organization and bin Laden.

There was also ample authority under U.S. domestic law to kill bin Laden on sight.  In this case, the relevant Congressional act, which constitutes equal parts political imprimatur and legal act, is known as the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF-Afghanistan), enacted by Congress on September 14, 2001.  Under international law, this AUMF is grounded under a temporally, and perhaps conceptually, expansive interpretation of Article 51 of the UN Charter.  This theory of “continuing national self-defense” is based on the theory that, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, on Washington, New York, and Pennsylvania, Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations (Taliban) constitute a persistent threat to the United States that continues even until today.  This enduring threat justifies the enduring exercise of the right of national self-defense.

The AUMF-Afghanistan, like its predecessors and successors (the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the AUMF-Iraq, for example), defines a category of opposing combatant against whom military force may be used in the first instance – without provocation, without a requirement that the opposing force attack U.S. forces first to invoke a tactical self-defense option, and based solely on the individual’s status as a member of the group against whom force is authorized.  Osama bin Laden personified the category of people against whom military force was authorized – based solely on his status as a leader within Al Qaeda.  In terms of joint doctrine, he was effectively “declared hostile” – meaning he could be engaged with lethal force without resort to additional justification, based solely on his positive identification by U.S. forces.

The President’s authorization exercising his Article II Commander in Chief power (safely assuming the covert action finding which authorized the strike invoked or at least implied such authority), and the Congressional authorization found in the AUMF constitute dual, independent, and complementary U.S. legal bases sufficient to authorize a killing which would otherwise appear to be murder under U.S. law.  Moreover, bin Laden’s killing was lawful regardless of his activity at the moment he was killed.  He is represented to have been peeking out of a doorway when he was shot in the head.  His killing would have been equally lawful if he were in his bed sleeping, squatting on a toilet, playing chess, eating a meal, watching soccer on Sportscenter, or singing in a barbershop quartet (though due care would have been exercised not to engage the other singers if they were not Al Qaeda members).  His status was germane; his activity was not.

If bin Laden did, in fact, reach for a weapon, or retreat to an area where weapons could be found, such action would constitute a second authorization to use force against him – individual and unit self-defense.  To be clear, this second legal basis is supportive, but unnecessary:  ample authority to kill bin Laden on sight, without regard to his attempts to resist, can be found through analysis of international and domestic law.  The analysis changes instantly if bin Laden had manifested a clear attempt to surrender.  An attempt to surrender would instantly render him hors d’combat under the law of armed conflict and would instantly transform his killing into murder.[3]  The burden to demonstrate a clear intent to surrender falls on the target of the killing prior to the use of lethal force, and unless and until he makes such a clear indication, he remains a lawful target for lethal action.

This legal construct for the authorization to kill bin Ladin is preferable to requiring a showing of self-defense to justify lethal action.  The standards of “status-based” killing of enemy combatants are more clear and less susceptible to controversy.  IF the legal authority exists to engage in armed conflict against a certain group, IF the individual being targeted is a member of that group, and IF the individual targeted has not taken action to remove himself from the targeted group (i.e., surrender), then the killing is per se lawful.  Requiring a showing of self-defense, on the other hand, invites fact-bound controversy:  how close was his weapon?  Was it really a weapon?  Was he trained to use it such that he really presented a credible threat?  Was he raising the weapon to use it or merely attempting to drop it and manifest a surrender?  Had he ceased aggressive action prior to being engaged by U.S. forces?  Second, it encourages an opponent to manifest his status as a member of the opposing combatant group clearly, or to abandon it, rather than permitting potential combatants to opt in and out of combatant status hour-by-hour or act-by-act.  Knowing that U.S. forces have authority to kill upon proper identification of a target is powerful incentive to remove oneself from the target group, which could ultimately result in less carnage because fewer targets will present themselves to U.S. forces.  The status-based query into the lawfulness of the use of force is far more clear and workable in terms of a legal standard than the conduct-based query that underlies a self-defense justification.

In summary, the killing of this (unprivileged, unlawful) combatant on sight and without provocation enjoyed ample legal authority under both international and domestic law, and is, as a matter of law and policy, uncontroversial.  Status-based targeting is preferable to the conduct-based targeting that underlies a self-defense justification for the use of lethal force.  Under status-based targeting, the standards for the use of force are clearer and more readily trained and applied by an armed force engaged the chaos of armed conflict.

[1] I.e. whether the conflict is lawfully authorized under international law in terms of national self-defense (Art 51, UN Charter), a UN Security Council authorization (Chapter VII, UN Charter), or an emerging body of law known to international policymakers and legal scholars as humanitarian intervention/duty to intervene (the legal and political foundation for intervention in Kosovo in 2001, for example).

[2] This doctrine is not without controversy, as Congress has sought to limit this power over time through the War Powers Act and other occasional legislative actions pertaining to the availability of appropriations to execute this authority.  However, in practice, it stands as a viable exercise of executive power, partially as a result of a pattern of Congressional acquiescence.

[3] The article notes the special operations shooters continued to fire at bin Ladin after he was initially struck with the mortal head wound, but before he actually was dead.  Given the reported proximity of weapons in the room, it is reasonable to assume this was a continuation of the combat engagement and not merely the execution of a wounded noncombatant who would otherwise be entitled to hors d’combat (protected) status.  Absent evidence to the contrary, that the engagement was continuing is a reasonable assumption that is supported by the book author’s account.

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Butch Bracknell is a retired Marine officer, an international law professional, a former international security fellow at The Atlantic Council of the United States, a member of the Truman National Security Project, and fellow at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.  These opinions are his own and may not be attributed to any organization or institution.

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 8:03pm

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My post is not about whether he should have been shot or captured. It was about the legality of the engagement. The first is a policy question; the second is a legality question. These two areas frequently overlap, but not in my analysis, on this occasion.

Sat, 09/08/2012 - 3:02pm

I don't think this either the authors of the article or the comments here have thought this out: OBL was the greatest possible source of intelligence that US could look forwards to in TWOT, so taking him alive should reasonably have been the highest priority for the operation. But instead he wasn't shot once - which could have been just bad luck - but finished at close range. Doesn't this strike anyone else as odd? Wouldn't you want to ask him a lot of questions about links with Pakistani and Saudi Arabian intelligence and sources of finance?

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 10:14pm

Somehow, the plain old truth is never good enough. Every story has to be jacked-up and embroidered. Makes our professional military look like school children.

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 8:05pm

In reply to by PATRIOT06

Thanks for your comment. It's nice once in a while for someone to click in and do something other than character-assassinate!

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 8:56am

Butch - stick to your guns. Great job. been hoping someone would do this analysis publicly.

Sun, 09/02/2012 - 10:38am

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We have been lied to often. It always surprises me that we accept it with such aplomb. It always disappoints me that the professional military (for whom the honor code is a fundamental at their various academies) participates in the lying with equal aplomb. We may never turn the corner on this which will be vary bad for us in a big war. We will know we have turned the corner when some star or multi-star is quickly cashiered in disgrace for lying.

As far as redaction goes, I would rather have a situation where redaction wasn't needed except in the rare case where somebody actually was going to reveal something that legitimately needed to be kept secret. In this case the book would be redacted in order to cover up an official lie. Official action to cover up official lying is not good.

Sun, 09/02/2012 - 8:33am

I am regularly astonished at the American habit of "shooting one's own foot" and this episode, an unauthorised book, is another.

For a nation that has so much to offer the world, so well shown in the media and by marketing - why were these aspects so clearly not planned for? As Carl rightly notes a lot of people were lied to.

The pursuit of OBL and fighting AQ is not a war IMO. To be frank I'm not sure what it is, not being a lawyer helps. The USA needs to decide what it actually is, then stick to it. If that means such books are redacted so be it.

Sat, 09/01/2012 - 11:37am

In reply to by Robert C. Jones

Your third paragraph makes a very good point. I would take it even further and say sometimes it seems that because we can do something it is therefore not only an efficacious thing to do, it is the moral thing to do.

The biggest problem with this whole situation is the the American gov may have lied to the American people and to the world. If so, the American military establishment aided and abetted the lie. This is not a good thing. Not a good thing at all.

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Fri, 08/31/2012 - 12:34pm

Personally, I'll never lose a second of sleep agonizing over the facts of Mr. bin Laden's death. It was justified by the facts of his life.

The thousands of others caught up in an ever-expanding scope of counterterrorism-justifed killings are another matter. The logic of who is a "terrorist" and is thereby a legitimate target for assassination is built upon a very wobbly foundation of assumptions and heavily shaped by what governments these men choose to oppose far more than by how the choose to oppose them.

I fear we are coming to associate being very good at a particular type of operation with that type of operation being very good for what we seek to achieve. We celebrate our tactical successes while ignoring the far more significant negative strategic effects associated with those same actions.

Bin Laden earned every round that entered his body. It is the justification of those who are many many degrees of separation from Mr. bin Laden that we need to bring into the public debate.

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 8:13pm

In reply to by Jim Gillcrist

Re: ROE -- did you read my post, or merely skim it? When hunting bin Ladin, the AUMF gives all the authority the team needed to shoot bin Ladin on sight. There is no requirement for self-defense, no requirement for escalation of force. Simply identify the target as one fitting within the scope of the AUMF, and unless that authority has otherwise been withheld, engage it with lethal force. The "declared hostile" construct from SROE is apropos.

Double tapping -- again, did you read my post? I specifically addressed the lawfulness of this. If the final shots were part of a continuing combat engagement, and the shooters believed he continued to present a threat, then there's nothing unlawful about it at all. If, on the other hand, he was clearly hors d'combat, a fact which I think is unclear at best, then we might have a law of armed conflict violation. In the absence of a clear violation, tie goes to the shooter.

Comparing OBL to a US President is farcical. One is a protected head of state; the other is not. OBL was an unlawful combatant exercising command and control of a decimated, yet still viable, AQ-PakAf. He was as much of a lawful target as a JTF commander.

I'm leaving all the morality/strategy stuff alone, as it was well beyond the scope of my article. I could certainly talk about it, but not here.

Jim Gillcrist

Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:16am

LTC Bracknell, there are three questions that must be raised and re-examined in light of the revelations, if true, as reported by Bissonette. One question is that of legality; the others are questions of strategy and justice and morality.

You have approached only the first question and, in doing so, have omitted a key part of Bisonette's account, which I will get to later. The question of whether it was lawful to kill an unarmed, unthreatening bin Laden can only be answered with reference to the specific Rules of Engagement, presumably cleared through the unit JAG and maybe the Pentagon for this mission, under which the SEALs were operating that night. If the ROE were as restrictive as the ROE for most forces, both conventional and non-conventional, operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, then bin Laden would have had to present a direct-threat and hostile intent to the Team, prior to engagement. Even then, so long as the threat was not immediate, the Team would have been under an obligation to follow escalation of force procedures (Shout, Show, Shove, Shoot, Shoot). Of course, this is under the assumption that the SEAL Team was operating under normal ROE (an assumption which is tenuous, at best). If they were, then their actions were unlawful.

Further, you omit Bisonette's account of the SEAL Team standing around and "double-tapping" a dying bin Laden ("By the time the soldiers entered, he was already dying of wounds to the head. Bissonnette says he and another team member then shot him several more times in the chest to ensure he was dead." -- courtesy of the Atlantic…). Surely, as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps you must admit that not only is such behavior grotesque, but it is explicitly unlawful. One can safely assume that such actions were not authorized in the specific ROE handed down to the SEAL Team for that mission. Thus, we find ourselves having to admit that bin Laden was killed at least one set of unlawful acts carried out by US troops and, more than likely, two.

The question of strategy must also be examined in light of these revelations. Is Osama bin Laden worth more to the the United States Government and Military dead or alive? Speaking from experience, I was repeatedly drilled and immersed in the line of thinking that COIN was an information war: he who has the most high-quality information and he who can turn that information into persuasive rhetoric/propaganda for the populous will win. If bin Laden could have been taken alive, it certainly seems reasonable to think that he would have provided a vast quantity of intel (if KSM eventually provided quality intel, then one has no reason to believe that OBL would not have broken as well).

Finally, there is the question regarding justice and morality. What rights do combatants and noncombatants possess? How should we categorize bin Laden?

First, do combatants have any right to life? If not, then they can be killed anytime, anywhere, while conducting any number of activities (as you explicitly state when you say that even had bin Laden been asleep, we could have killed him). If this is so, then bin Laden is only guilty, in the moral sense, of one act against the US (that of targeting noncombatants in the WTC). The rest of the "terrorist" acts we normally attribute to bin Laden (attacks on barracks, the USS Cole, the Pentagon) would be legitimate and justified: they were targeting combatants who possess no right to life. Of course, this still provides plenty of justification to label bin Laden guilty of crimes against noncombatants and, therefore, the presumption that he would be convicted of murder and sentenced to death if tried in court (I assume that innocent until proven guilty must be a concept that does not apply to all persons, but simply Americans).

Second, was bin Laden a combatant? Bin Laden was certainly not personally taking up arms against the US or her allies. He was the leader of a movement (a pernicious movement, but a movement nonetheless) and a director of activities. He was also the figurehead of the movement and a key decision-maker. At the time he was killed though, in Pakistan, removed from the fighting in Afghanistan, he was not a combatant. To declare him as such would be analogous to declaring Eisenhower a combatant while he was President. Certainly IKE had previously been a combatant; certainly IKE was sending troops to the far-side of the globe to fight in small and secretive proxy wars; yet, certainly has IKE been assassinated by a denizen of one of those places, the vast majority of Americans would have categorized the act as murder and illegitimate, not as a legitimate act of war. And, since reason must hold universally, one cannot simply prefer to treat such an assassination against IKE (or, GWB or BHO) as morally unjustified and illegitimate while at the same time declaring that the assassination of bin Laden is morally justified and legitimate. Reason and morality does not work that way.

Of course, the way out of this trap is to accept that such assassinations would be legitimate and justified and to simply stand with the confidence of the US ability to protect its President and elected Officials. Yet, as a Representative Republic, blessed with universal suffrage, our President is nothing more than a representative of our citizens. Presumably, then, if it was legitimate to assassinate the President, it would be legitimate to target and kill those who elected the President and supported the policies of the administration. If that is the case, then the attack on the World Trade Center is justified, so long as the intended target was limited to those who voted for and supported those actions of the administration with which bin Laden was aggrieved; and, the rest of the casualties were just unfortunate victims of collateral damage (a song the US Government and Military has tuned to perfection). If OBL was justified, then he is not guilty of any wrongs; thus, what justification is there to shoot him, unarmed, and then to stand over his dying body and riddle it with more bullet holes?

This is the trap of extra-judicial killings, targeting-killings, and assassinations. They are wrong and any defense of such actions is bound to both incite moral revulsion and question-begging.


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Closure of Banks in Andhra

     Written by : IANS | Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 01:55 AM

Pawan Kalyans Daughter Aadhya Birthday

Vijayawada, Nov 14 : Closure of banks in Andhra on Monday further added to the woes of people reeling under a severe currency crunch while in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh long queues were witnessed outside the banks for a fifth consecutive day.

With no cash in hand for their daily expenses, people turned out in large numbers at banks and post offices for exchange of demonetised notes but were disappointed to learn that it was a holiday on account of Guru Nanak jayanti.

Though banks functioned over the weekend, this was not sufficient to meet the requirements of the people. Hoping that banks will function normally, many turned up at bank branches since early morning.

With no small currency to buy the essentials, the lower middle class and daily wage earners were hit hard.

"I neither have a debit nor a credit card to make purchases like others. No kirana shop is accepting the old notes," said Pochamma, a housewife, who came to exchange the money at State Bank of India branch in Toli Chowki but returned disappointed.

With ATMs remaining closed, there was no relief for the people. Narsing Rao, a retired employee, made several rounds to ATMs in AKoti and surrounding areas in Central Hyderabad but found all of them closed.

'Out of service' and 'Out of cash' hanging from the doors of ATMs greeted the customers. Some banks preferred to close and lock the ATMs.

The situation was no different in other towns across Telangana. Traders complained that the shortage of small currency has hit hard the businesses.

In Hyderabad, police arrested Telangana unit Congress President Uttam Kumar Reddy and other leaders for staging a protest against demonetisation. The protestors raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress leaders said people were suffering due to ill-conceived move of the Centre.

The Congress party also staged protests in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Long queues were seen at banks and post offices in Vijayawada, Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati and other towns in Andhra Pradesh.

Police were having a tough time in controlling crowds as utter chaos prevailed at almost all bank branches. With ATMs remaining closed, people had no alternative but to stand in queues and wait for hours for their turn to exchange the demonetised notes.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday reviewed the situation. He asked the bankers and other officials to be on alert till the situation returned to normal.

The Chief Minister directed officials to ensure that no inconvenience is caused to people. He said separate counters should be opened for women and senior citizens.

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Sheeper Peepers: Looking for Big Horns in the San Gabriel

Chanelle Davis was trying her best, but I was getting nervous. The wildlife biologist with the Department of Fish and Wildlife was giving us newbies a crash course in how to identify big horn sheep, particularly the delicate differences between the young males and the females.

It’s all about the horn size, Chanelle told us, as she posted slides up at the Forest Service Headquarters in Arcadia on a Saturday night. How far the horn curls around the animal’s head determines if it’s a class one, two, three or four.  I was guessing three instead of a four, one instead of a two. Oh, how was I ever going to accurately do my job the next day? I didn’t want to fail…

Along with about a hundred or so fellow volunteers, I was getting an overview of a herd of big horned sheep that call the San Gabriel Mountains their home.  This workshop would prepare us for the annual Big Horn Sheep Survey that has been taking place since the 1980s. Citizen volunteers trained in spotting and categorizing the hoofed mammal, help biologists learn more about the herd that has a mountain top view of Azusa, Rancho Cucamonga, Duarte and other eastern San Gabriel suburbs. Often helicopter counts are held in conjunction with ground counts – but not this year.

We volunteers were pumped up with information (“Rams can be as large as 300 pounds,” “They only eat grasses and shrubs”) but the most interesting facts was the herd had been as big as 700 in the 1980s. A big crash in sheep numbers from 1986-1993 brought the herd to dangerous low numbers of 100 or so.  Since then, sheep population has been on the upswing every year. Last year, the estimate was 418. (2013 numbers will be soon available. Watch this spot for updates!)

The reason for the decline and upswing? Old growth and fire, we were told. In the late 80s, the hills and mountain tops were getting too thick with vegetation, making it hard for the big horns to move around, let alone reproduce and care for young. With the fire of 2003, the area was cleared out, new growth came and with that, higher numbers of sheep.  As strange as it seems, fires can be great for wildlife.

We sheep spotters also learned that we may see collared sheep, big horns that are part of an on-going research project. More than 60 were collared in 2006 – about 14 still have radio-activated collars.

Before the workshop concluded, we signed up for our research group locations. Did I want to scramble over boulders, hike through streams or blaze through thickets? Naw, I wimped out and opted for the relatively “easy” location off Highway 39 near Crystal Lake. Six viewing sites were available on a three-mile paved road, not used anymore by the public. Yeah, I wasn’t ready to do the Hard-Core Get-Up-At-Crack-Of-Dawn-Loaded-Down-With-Gear-And-Hike-For-Hours route. Not this year, anyway.

Next morning, driving up to the location, I saw snow in the distant mountain tops. Little did I realize that the temperature conundrum I was about to enter. Sure it’s 80 degrees down in the basin…but up near 5,500 feet, life is completely different.

Arriving at our rendezvous point, big chunks of snow lined the side of the road. A fierce Santa Ana wind was blowing, swirling snow crystals up and around. The higher we walked up the road, the stronger the wind blew nearly knocking us off our feet.BHS_pass

The recent snow, we were told, may give us peepers an advantage. Snow at higher elevations should bring the sheep down to hunt for food. But we soon learned that blowing, below-freezing wind would just keep the sheep in our area hunkered down and immobile.  I imagine them snuggling together, reading a good book with a cup of hot chocolate. (“No scampering for us today!”)

Still,  trained sheep spotters were here and we had to try. I opted to join Group Number Three about two miles up the road, a spot where historically sheep have been recorded. I stomped through snow piles in my tennis shoes to find a rocky overlook where I placed my foamy garden kneeling mat and was set for spotting action.

Where are you? Sheep? Sheep? PHOTO: BRENDA REES
Where are you? Sheep? Sheep? PHOTO: BRENDA REES

The wind was torrential, but I was up for the challenge. Binoculars in hand, I scanned the hills, the bushes, the brush, the erosion lines of the surrounding landscape.  I looked for white rumps, long legs or anything that moved. Alas, in the hour I sat there, I only witnessed a car moving up on Highway 2.

Fellow Sheeper Peepers scanning the landscape. PHOTO: BRENDA REES
Fellow Sheeper Peepers scanning the landscape. PHOTO: BRENDA REES

I kept imagining the moment when I would see a small group emerge from underneath a grove of Coulter pines. I envisioned me grandiosely recording the number, accurately categorizing the males with no hesitation and then, and then, even spying a lamb. I thought if I imagined it hard enough, I could will it to happen. No such luck.

After more than an hour, I attempted to eat my lunch, but because of the bitter wind, I didn’t want to take off my gloves. I regrouped with my fellow sheep-less peepers and we finally decided to head back down.

And that’s when it happened.

Group Two was packing up their site, when one volunteer thought she’d scan the nearby hill one more time. As we approached, we heard her joy in discovering a small herd. My camera and binoculars were around my neck and, Halleluiah, I spotted them, too. Far off in the distance, they effortlessly moved over a thick rock slab and wandered between trees. Three rams, I saw, but more were out there. “I counted eight,” said someone. “I counted 10,” said another.  “I just saw wild sheep!” I told myself.

Sheep spotters discover a small herd. Halleluiah!  PHOTO BY BRENDA REES
Sheep spotters discover a small herd. Halleluiah! PHOTO BY BRENDA REES

I was overjoyed on the ride back down and the rest of the day. Later, I heard from Chanelle Davis that her group saw sheep right near their rendezvous location.  Sheep were everywhere at her location…and no blowing snow‼! “We just looked up and there they were!” she said. “Don’t rub it in,” I told her.  Of course, she had to gloat and sent me photos from her excursion. Show-off.

Chanelle's group of 8 (7 visible) sheep seen in Middle Fork Lytle Creek near the trailhead. One sheep with PINK COLLAR. Note the lack of snow! PHOTO: CHANELLE DAVIS
Chanelle’s group of 8 (7 visible) sheep seen in Middle Fork Lytle Creek near the trailhead. One sheep with PINK COLLAR. Note the lack of snow! PHOTO: CHANELLE DAVIS

Still, as Chanelle and I talked, I realized that even though I didn’t hit a mother lode of sheep my first time out, the experience reinforced the notion that wildlife is everywhere around us in Southern California. Maybe as I was sitting there in the freezing wind, a sheep was observing me from a high perk. We humans just need to sit still more and observe.

Yes, there is something to be said for being in the quiet of nature, even when the wind whistles through the pine branches and stings your face. You know what nature is saying? I’ll tell you what nature is saying: “Where is your scarf, you big dope? Don’t you know it’s cold up here? What an idiot….”

That said, yeah, I probably will sign up for the survey next year. I mean, come on. Nature can’t certainly have the last laugh, can she?

To register for the next big horn sheep survey, visit here.

— Brenda Rees, editor


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9th March 2018

The UN FAO’s Global Soil Partnership on the occasion of the Global Symposium on Soil Pollution (GSOP18) is organizing an online photo contest as a pre-event. The theme of the contest is “Soil Pollution” and will serve to increase awareness and encourage people to take action against the hidden reality of soil pollution, which aggressively impacts human health, food safety and security, and the environment.


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Corn for ethanol demand driving prices higher

An insatiable demand for corn for ethanol production combined with projected record exports is likely to drive U.S. corn stocks-to-use ratio down to 10 percent this season.

The last two times that happened, prices soared.

CBOT corn futures peaked at $5.545 per bushel in July 1996 when the stocks-to-use ratio fell to 5 percent. When the 2003/04 stocks/use ratio fell to 9.4 percent, it produced a high of $3.3525 in April 2004.

The 15-year stocks-to-use ratio average is 15 percent.

According to Dennis Morrison, trading and transportation manager for Integrated Grain and Milling, Fresno, Calif., there will be many “dramatic forces” in the grain and protein meal markets during the 2006/07 crop marketing year.

Morrison made his observations in a grain and protein meal outlook for the 25th Agribusiness Management Conference held recently in Fresno.

“Adverse global growing conditions have resulted in severe shortfalls in feed grain and wheat supplies in much of the world,” Morrison said. This means export trade in feed grains will be the highest in decades due to the lowest world ending stocks in 30 years.

On the other hand, global soybean supplies are seemingly plentiful. However, world trade in soybeans and products continue to increase, driven mainly by China’s expanding economy and improving diet, Morrison noted.

The United States is harvesting its third consecutive corn crop of more than 11 billion bushels; however, the burgeoning corn ethanol industry is taking an ever increasing share of the U.S. corn production.

USDA projects 2.15 billion bushels of corn will go into producing ethanol this season. However, a private forecaster says the United States will need 2.233 billion bushels of corn to turn out 6.114 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006/07. If realized, this would be a 35 percent one-year increase in corn demand for ethanol and a 240 percent increase since 2000/01.

“If it were not for the robust corn export demand, 2006/07 may have become the first year for the U.S. to send more corn to ethanol production than export sales,” said Morrison. That distinction will likely come by 2007/08 “as new ethanol production continues to come online at breakneck speed.”

U.S. corn exports are expected to rise to levels not seen since 1990 due to foreign feed grain supply shortfalls, added Morrison.

Production of distillers grain (DDG), a byproduct of ethanol production, is also increasing. Most livestock feeders are experimenting with the use of DDG in feed rations, but its gaining in popularity due to its nutritional value, roughly 26 percent protein and 10 percent fat.

Morrison said one private forecaster projects DDG production will increase by about 4 million metric tons this year over 2005/06.

This will be offset by a reduction of some other feed ingredients. The same private analyst says that 527 million bushels of corn will be displaced by DDG this season. This is 185 million more bushels than was displaced last season.

As DDG supplies grow, not only will more corn in rations be displaced but it could result in some protein meals being replaced.

USDA, in its September production report, forecast the 2006/07 average farm price for corn to range from $2.15 per bushel to $2.55. This compares to about $2 when the United States started the crop year with record large corn supplies.

Beginning corn stocks this season are second only to last year’s record. However, projected record usage for ethanol production and large export sales will reduce ending stocks to just 1.220 billon bushels. This will result in the third lowest stocks to use ratio in the past 15 years and set the stage for a volatile futures market.

“World corn trade volume will set a new record and total coarse grain global trade volume will reach the lofty heights last seen near the end of the fabled ‘Russian deals’ of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Wheat did not fare as well as corn in the United States and joined the rest of the wheat-producing world in a weather-impacted smaller crop. Morrison noted that the poor crops will result in the lowest world wheat ending stocks in the last 25 years.

“Global demand for wheat will keep U.S. exports well supported despite our relatively tight domestic supplies.”

Global demand for wheat for the world’s main wheat exporting countries, excluding the United States will drop by more than 30 percent. “All of these conditions will keep wheat prices highly volatile as we have seen in recent market action.”

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Posted: January 16th, 2016 @ 6:17pm

St. Lawrence Vikings clearly are no longer in awe of the Algonquin Thunder.

Last year, the Vikings ended Algonquin’s four-year-old winning streak in a game at St. Lawrence. Saturday afternoon, the Vikings pinned another blemish on the Thunder’s distinguished record, handing the division-leading team a 74-67 Ontario Colleges Athletic Association women’s basketball defeat.

It was just the third win in eight games for St. Lawrence, and only the second loss in nine outings for Algonquin.

St. Lawrence led for much of the first half, but the Vikings had to rally to tie the game 34-34 by halftime. The home team led by as many as six points in a third quarter that ended with St. Lawrence ahead 57-53. Leading by five points, a three-point basket midway through the fourth quarter by Haley Gourdier gave the Vikings a 66-58 lead, a margin they sustained to the end of the game.

Tyler Simon had with a season-high 19 points, nine rebounds and six assists to lead St. Lawrence. Shian Noble, also a rookie, finished with a team-high 12 rebounds.

The Vikings resume play Saturday, Jan. 23, in Barrie against the Georgian Grizzlies.

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I have been wanting to make these little quinoa egg muffins since seeing them on Ratatouille & Cie's website.....however, they MUST be baked in silicone muffin cups.

I have tried mini quiches and other egg based muffins in paper liners and in straight muffin tins, with poor results. They always stick.

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You can basically make any recipe you like, using cooked quinoa, eggs and vegetables. Cindy used ham, but since I never make ham, I used chorizo instead.

Any herbs, cheese you like and greens.......I made a Southwestern style muffin with chile and corn, cilantro and bell peppers......a Mexican cheese blend of cheddar and Monterey Jack.

Delicious at room temperature or warm for breakfast or a quick snack.

These are a great idea when you have leftover cooked quinoa.

Southwestern Quinoa Egg Muffins: (adapted from Ratatouille et Cie) makes 14 muffins

1 cup cooked quinoa
1 package of frozen spinach, thawed and drained of liquid
1 red bell pepper, diced
8 large eggs
hot pepper flakes to taste
small can of corn, drained
1 cup diced ham or chorizo
4 green onions, chopped finely
2 cups Cheddar cheese, grated (any cheese you like)
1 tbsp olive oil
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp sugar
salt and pepper to taste

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Thursday , March 06, 2014 - 10:02 AM

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LOS ANGELES — Kevin O’Neill was fired as Southern California basketball coach on Monday after 3 ½ years during which he failed to turn around a program weighed down by NCAA issues that preceded his arrival and a string of player injuries.

O’Neill had a 48-65 record, including 7-10 this season after going 6-26 last year, setting a school record for losses.

Veteran assistant Bob Cantu will serve as interim coach while USC searches for a successor. Cantu took over for O’Neill during a Pac-10 tournament semifinal game against Arizona in 2010-11 when the coach was suspended after getting into a verbal confrontation with a Wildcats booster. He has remained on the staff through four coaching changes and is the longest tenured assistant in the Pac-12.

Athletic director Pat Haden said it became evident to him that the program needed new leadership.

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O’Neill had a full complement of 13 scholarship players who were healthy this season.

“It was hard for me to evaluate him as a head coach until this year when he had enough players and veterans to compete,” Haden said.

O’Neill, who turns 56 on Jan. 24, was hired by coach Lute Olson as an assistant at Arizona before the 2007-08 season, and became interim coach when Olson took a medical leave of absence.

O’Neill led the Wildcats to a 19-15 record and the school’s 24th consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, at the time the nation’s longest active streak.

He was designated Olson’s permanent successor, but when the Hall of Famer returned that spring he announced O’Neill would no longer be part of the program.

O’Neill had previous head coaching jobs at Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern. He has a 219-245 record in the college ranks.

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