[donspatch] 2010-02-15
- From: "Don (& Lisa)" <dondashguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Donspatch <Donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:13:57 -0600
#135 February 15, 2010 from http://www.don-guitar.com
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but only published once a month? Should we change...
Anything? Everything? Nothing? I'm talkin' to you
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whipped cream filling and drizzled with chocolate frosting.
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Section One by Don.
Wanna give your grandkids a head-start on computer
tech? http://www.alice.org/
A math site. http://www.mathcats.com/
Do you have a right to copy?
http://tinyurl.com/yfhkrzs [freesoftwaremagazine dot com]
Geeky cartoons.
http://tinyurl.com/yb7khq7 [freesoftwaremagazine dot com]
Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10436425-240.html
Anybody want to learn Chinese?
http://www.chinese-tools.com/
Using technology to advance higher educaton.
http://www.educause.edu/
Surf dog Ricochet. http://surfdogricochet.com/
Waaay too much cute. http://cuteoverload.com/
Louis Prima was once a popular singer.
http://www.louisprima.com/
Keely Smith, popular in he own right, was his partner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keely_Smith
They both appear in this cute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodmlmxpZeQ
Here's another of Louis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnw50VM-21A
For more, just search his name on youtube.
Trying to improve education in NYC and beyond.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/
Paul Dawkins' online math notes.
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/mystudents.aspx
Online textbooks, lecture notes,
tutorials, and videos on mathematics.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html
More where that came from.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/index.html
On-Line geometric modeling notes.
http://idav.ucdavis.edu/education/CAGDNotes/homepage.html
General Chemistry.
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml
I'm not sure how I feel about sites like this one. I'm sure
teachers are equipped to spot outright plagarism but one can
paraphrase a document one sentence at a time without ever
actually learning what the document actually has to say.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/
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Section Two by Lisa
Permanent online access to the full text of research
articles. http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/
Calculate anything anytime.
http://www.calculateforfree.com/
Licensed programs you'd normally have to buy
are available free, one every day.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
A resource designed to help people find all
kinds of photoblogs. http://photoblogs.org/
The development of Google Wave has been expedited
by the acquisition of EtherPad, an online realtime
document editor that already works well.
http://etherpad.com/
Get ranking and info stats on any website.
http://www.woorank.com/
Step-by-step Internet tutorials and advice.
http://www.eztechtips.com/
Huge free stock photography site.
http://www.sxc.hu/
Articles, tips and advice for and about pets.
http://www.petplace.com/
Web Album Generator provides software
for your online photo album.
http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/
Google waves for artists.
http://www.poojasrinivas.com/artisticwaves/
Art goodies from Designious Times.
http://www.designioustimes.com/freebies
Used cars in your area for $1000 or less.
http://www.carsforagrand.com/
Take polls or design your own.
http://www.pollsb.com/
Selected free University courses from BYU.
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/ocw/
Learn about hearing.
http://bit.ly/bkz4ux
http://www.hearingconservation.org/
http://www.babyhearing.org/
http://www.drf.org/magazine/
Plus a hearing test on YouTube. Read
the directions (more info), please,
and don't turn up the volume at first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G60hM1W_mk
End of Section Two.
At the time this issue was posted,
the current subscriber count for
this publication was 381.
This issue's collection of online news, blogs,
magazines, videos and/or other informational
sites. These are chosen for maximum diversity
regardless of 'spin' and in some cases may
have offensive or questionable content.
Section Three by Don.
The Economics Network of the UK's Higher Education
Academy. http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/
Webhosting for teachers.
http://www.classnotesonline.com/
A repository of population statistics.
http://world-gazetteer.com/
The perfect internet business model calls for finding a
way to persuade people to pay for something of virtually
no value (pun intended). These folks seem to have it down.
http://www.towndeeds.net/
The world's smallest political quiz.
http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html
From Advocates for Self-Government.
http://www.theadvocates.org/index.html
Valerie Ramsey became a super-model in her 60's.
http://www.valerieramsey.com/index.html
This is her blog. http://valerieramsey.blogspot.com/
An education-related social network for teachers
and students. http://www.edmodo.com/
I think Voicethreads could be a very cool
teaching tool. http://voicethread.com/
[Lisa says 'There's a free version but it's hard to find;
click 'Pro', then 'Learn more, then 'purchase options']
Greeting cards on steroids. http://animoto.com/
Glogster seems to be a sort of virtual collage.
http://edu.glogster.com/
DIY comics. http://pixton.com/
Historically speaking, American music has often profited
from foreign influences like, for example, João Gilberto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Gilberto
http://www.joaogilberto.org/
http://www.last.fm/music/Jo%C3%A3o+Gilberto
http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/gilberto.html
http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/artistas/ver/joao-gilberto
http://www.lala.com/#search/Jo%C3%A3o%20Gilberto
Many Americans have also figured prominently in our
musical influences, like, for example, Stan Getz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Getz
http://www.stangetz.net/
http://www.nndb.com/people/814/000085559/
http://www.lala.com/#artist/Stan_Getz
PDF documents are a popular format because they normally
appear the same on whatever type of computer one happens
to be using and that's more important now than ever but
the acrobat reader has grown into a large, cumbersome,
resource hungry behemoth. Here's a possible alternative.
http://www.visagesoft.com/products/pdfreader/
Lisa and I sit next to one another at our computers so
when one of us is listening to something and doesn't
wish to distract the other we use headphones making
this a very handy little gadget which is also useful
for turning your headset microphone on or off.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/8054/
http://www.katerno.com/detail.php?s=72812
Don't care for the pop-up but the site's ok.
http://www.mindtools.com/
An animated gif is a like a little stop action
animation and while I'm no artist, even I can
make a little rectangular box, paint it different
colors, rotate it different amounts and make
seven little images from which to use this nifty
little Windows app (which runs fine on Linux under
wine) to make an animated gif.
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
Here's my little animated gif image.
http://www.don-guitar.com/images/spinner.gif
Or, you can make an animated gif online.
http://www.gifninja.com/
Street art (may not be family friendly).
http://unurth.com/index
Multi-platform recipe manager.
http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/
Meal planning template for Open Office.
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/1360
More cool Open Office templates.
http://templates.services.openoffice.org/
An electronics hobbyist on aardvark asked how to build
his own trickle charger for a lead/acid gel-cell battery.
http://cs.yrex.com/ke3fl/htm/TRICKLE.HTM
A nice electonics DIY site.
http://electronics-diy.com/index.php
The Hexayurt isn't just a low cost domecile, it's a
manifestation of a concept called 'Open Hardware'.
http://hexayurt.com/
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Section Four by Lisa.
About and how to play Wiffle Ball.
http://www.wiffle.com/
And the NJWA.
http://www.wiffleballusa.com/
Order your very own Weaselball.
http://www.weaselballs.com/
Approaches to restoring critical Coral Reefs.
http://goo.gl/6imq
http://goo.gl/hRI9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuQiyvbq9ro
http://goo.gl/TS0R
Selected web sites about Google Wave.
http://go-wave.net/
http://www.theshinywave.com/
Ball Corp. shows you how to preserve it.
http://www.freshpreserving.com/
Discover information that matters to you.
http://www.twine.com/
Depictions of slavery in Confederate currency.
http://goo.gl/zhQO
Information about the U.S. Census. Of
particular interest, check out the
'Fraudulent Activities and Scams' page.
http://www.census.gov/
Watch all the Superbowl ads, past and present.
http://www.superbowl-ads.com/
Understand, prevent and resolve life's challenges.
http://www.helpguide.org/
An easy way to do some very simple
image editing. http://www.reducephoto.com/
How to reduce computer eye strain.
http://goo.gl/yNlJ
Reduce unwanted mail.
http://www.catalogchoice.org/
Useful and attractive Digital Photography School.
ttp://digital-photography-school.com/
Understand your mind.
http://www.spring.org.uk/
A fabulous personal collection
of Hawaiian shirts.
http://www.vintagehawaiianshirt.net/
Save money at the pump.
http://www.dailyfueleconomytip.com/
In-depth PhotoShop tutorials and resources.
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/
Create free webpages. Dinkypage makes a site
that lasts as long as you want it to. Do be
sure and make a custom name or your site will
be named 'dinkypage.whatever'.
http://www.dinkypage.com/
DisposableWebPage is just that, it's
designed to provide a web page for 90
days. Perfect for short-term personal,
business. or educational use.
http://disposablewebpage.com/
Create beautiful online presentations, free or
very inexpensively for the premium versions.
http://prezi.com/
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Section Five by Don.
Vintage valentines. http://tinyurl.com/9ml4f9
What flaws?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_PpRpYME10
http://www.loveyourflawz.com/
The web is filled with friends I haven't met
yet. I think this fellow is one of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZvtdBQusM
Love rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEIx-ioVN90
A few more good videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Pacificmusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UccVUT8Q988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AszqfR6as8k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efQ_GyQW3o
http://www.youtube.com/user/xplanevisualthinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0
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The idea which was born with and nurtured by Open Source
sofware is growing by leaps and bounds in all directions.
The Open Design Alliance is and idea which includes
software. http://www.opendwg.org/home
Open Source apps for 3-D modeling.
http://www.opencascade.org/
The stuff that think tanks tell the government.
http://opencrs.com/
Open standards are making the world a better place.
http://www.opengroup.org/
What is Open Diary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Diary
This is Open Diary.
http://www.opendiary.com/
Open Social is a standard, and a means, whereby
data from one social network can be shared and/or
integrated with other social networks.
http://www.opensocial.org/
Interesting? Yes. What is is? Um, I'm not exactly
sure. http://openatrium.com/
Textbooks that anyone can access, reuse and
redistribute. http://www.opentextbook.org/
Business, it seems to me, is proprietary by its
very nature. These folks disagree with me.
http://www.openbusiness.cc/
I'm very much in favor or political debates, even
though I'd do anything to get out of watching one.
http://www.opendebates.org/
Here's a work-at-home opportunity for creative,
intelligent persons. http://www.innocentive.com/
A non-profit corporation formed to educate about and
advocate for the benefits of open source and to build
bridges among different constituencies in the open-source
community. http://www.opensource.org/
The largest human-edited internet portal
on the web. http://www.dmoz.org/
Open Education. http://www.openeducation.net/
Open Culture. http://www.openculture.com/
Open Architecture. http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/
The Open Knowledge Foundation. http://www.okfn.org/
The Open Science Project. http://www.openscience.org/blog/
Open Adoption. http://www.openadoption.org/index.html
An open forum for small business from American Express.
http://www.openforum.com/
Open Yahtzee. http://www.openyahtzee.org/
The Open Web foundation. http://openwebfoundation.org/
Open Hand; promoting better health through better
nutrition. http://www.projectopenhand.org/
Open Law. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/
A nice collection of Open Source apps for Mac users.
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
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Section Six by Lisa.
Wonder what the Doobs are up to these days?
Wonder no more, they're still smokin'.
http://goo.gl/1e0t
These color palettes inspire by clothing
varied from inspired to hideous. Interesting.
http://home.wearpalettes.com/
Earth as Art.
http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
Jason and Evan Wear Your Shirt.
http://iwearyourshirt.com/
Civil War books for boys and girls.
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/chlit/home.htm
Assorted skeptics and mythbusters.
http://www.skeptic.com/
http://www.skepticality.com/
http://www.skeptics.com.au/
http://www.youngausskeptics.com/
http://actionskeptics.blogspot.com/
http://freethoughtfortwayne.org/
http://www.clevelandskeptics.org/
Sensational cultural stuff.
http://weburbanist.com/
Crime Historian Laura James.
http://www.laurajames.com/
Educational material you will enjoy. Promise.
http://hug-machine.livejournal.com/66293.html
http://goo.gl/9YvV
I got lost for awhile in this elegant site
of modern international design. Nice vacation.
http://www.yankodesign.com/
Gadgets, toys and cool stuff.
http://dvice.com/
The art of making a Cream Tea.
http://www.east-devon-guide.com/cream-tea.html
http://creamteacafe.com/
http://www.joyofbaking.com/EnglishTeaParty.html
A site to help young people stay safe online.
http://www.carnegiecyberacademy.com/
Tips and habits for effective living.
http://artofgreatthings.com/
Convert YouTube videos to mp3s.
http://www.mp3ify.com/
From The Simple Dollar; 'Our Towels Don't
Match Our Bathroom Curtains." Well, yeah.
http://goo.gl/9A6T
Healthy eating can be fun!
http://www.whfoods.com/
Left that stuff in the freezer too long?
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/616006
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/376057
End of Section Six.
The Linux Corner.
How to ask questions the smart way.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
A relavitively easy way to install
IE, to run under wine, on Linux.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
Introduction to Linux.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/intro-linux.html
Linux links (a Linux portal). http://www.linuxlinks.com/
Linux users, in general, tend to develop a DIY mentality.
It's not that they can't get help; help is everywhere
(users of other operating systems should be so lucky), I
think it's just an independent attitude which comes as a
natural consequence of using Linux. Still, this contest,
from the folks at Linux Mint, may be taking it a little
too far. The first and second place winners get computers
with Linux Mint installation CD's.
http://tinyurl.com/yffjfhj
Linux news with a fairly technical bent.
http://linuxinstall.net/
Things Open Source. http://www.junauza.com/
A Little Humor.
The humor in this issue comes from our web-sibling Bob
Tegner. ( http://bobtegner.wordpress.com/ )
The Southerner's Handbook
Southern
women know their summer weather report:
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity
Southern women know their vacation spots:
The beach
The rivuh
The crick
Southern women know everybody's first name:
Honey
Darlin'
Shugah
Southern women know the movies
that speak to their hearts:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Gone With The Wind
Southern women know their religions:
Baptist
Methodist
Football
Southern women know their cities
dripping with Southern charm:
Chawl'stn
S'vanah
Foat Wuth
N'awlins
Addlanna
Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:
Men in uniform
Men in tuxedos
Rhett Butler
Southern girls know their prime real estate:
The Mall
The Country Club
The Beauty Salon
Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food
More Suthen-ism's:
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie
fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't 'have' them,
you 'pitch' them.
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens,
turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up 'a mess.'
Only a Southerner can show or point out
to you the general direction of 'yonder.'
Only a Southerner knows exactly how long 'directly'
is, as in: 'Going to town, be back directly.'
Even Southern babies know that 'Gimme some sugar' is not a
request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits
in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
All Southerners know exactly when 'by and by' is. They
might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best
gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is
a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold
potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real
crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between
'right near' and a 'right far piece.' They also know that
'just down the road' can be 1 mile or 20
Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the
difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and
po' white trash.
No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the
flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
A Southerner knows that 'fixin' can be
used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
Only Southerners make friends while standing in
lines and when we're in line we talk to everybody!
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will
discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
In the South, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.
Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits,
and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is
also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are
not a breakfast food.
When you hear someone say, 'Well, I caught myself lookin',
you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
Only true Southerners say 'sweet tea' and 'sweet milk.'
Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it,
we do not like our tea unsweetened. 'Sweet milk' means
you don't want buttermilk.
And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities
at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You
just say,'Bless her heart' and go your own way.
To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your
Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage
gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
...and to those of you who are still having a hard time
understanding all this Southern stuff, .... bless your
hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on
Southernness as a second language!
...and for those that are not from the South but have
lived here for a long time, all y'all need a sign to
hang on y'alls front porch that reads 'I ain't from
the South, but I got here as fast as I could.'
Southern girls know men may come
and go, but friends are fahevah!
Tips for This Issue.
25 health tips for computer nerds.
http://tinyurl.com/6v7ud9 [rewardprograms dot org]
On speeding up Windows.
http://www.computertooslow.com/
Ergonomic tips for computer users.
http://www.ehs.pitt.edu/workplace/ergo-tips.html
Gardening tips. http://www.helpfulgardener.com/
Contributions From Our Readers.
Links from readers are always
welcome and you can even write
your own link descriptions if you
like (just tell me when you send
them if that's what you intended).
Guidelines are available here:
http://www.don-guitar.com/descriptivetext.html
From our web-sibling Patrick Barden.
( http://lookeewhatifound.blogspot.com/ )
Ever find an article or page you wanted to read,
but lost track of it when you finally had the time?
Sign up, create a free account and save the two
bookmarklets that they offer. When you want to
save an article click on the "I Need To Read
This" and it saves it to your account. When you
have the time, just click the "Read An Article"
bookmarklet to pull up the oldest article you
have not read. That simple.
http://ineedtoreadthis.com
A stunning true story, Inside Hana's Suitcase.
http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/
From our web-sibling Jo-Ann (Jo) Burton:
( Jo's site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/ )
This youtube channel belongs to the Queen of England.
http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel
Oxford University Press blog. http://blog.oup.com/
The World of global English.
http://www.languagemonitor.com/
Collections of flash games.
http://www.gamesforwork.com/games/
http://www.dinosaurdesign.com/
An interactive adventure game. http://games.lapl.org/
The story behind the Mother Goose story.
http://www.rooneydesign.com/MotherGoose.htm
Tony B's fancy music machine (play your computer
keyboard). http://www.tony-b.org/
A sort of youtube for Christians. http://www.tangle.com/
Astronomy picture of the day archive.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Our friend Betty Davee is a delightful senior citizen who's
having a wonderful time keeping in touch with her far flung
friends and family on her Linux computer. She loved this
video and so do we... http://tinyurl.com/yl6xfds
...and there are many more great videos on the growing
bolder website. http://growingbolder.com/
From our 'other brother' Bill (Beeyil) Lanoue.
( Bill's blog http://ncvietvet.blogspot.com/ )
The first redneck on the internet (video).
http://tinyurl.com/ydqbahn [metacafe dot com]
The Laryngospasms, a rock group for the medically
inclined. http://www.laryngospasms.com/fr_index.cfm
A beer commercial but also an impressive animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANe3o1dgG0
From our web-sibling John Lepse.
( John's blog: http://hucknjim.blogspot.com/ )
The cold war (it's not what you think).
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6136446n
Impressive quick-change artistry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p40L8amjjA
John insisted Jake Shimabukuro is worth seeing again
even if though we've mentioned him before. We agree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5d80mqGQLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBe2qAz_jtc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4NxmawgzI
From our friend Lee Parmeter who is also the
mind-behind our local Highland Lakes Linux
Users Group. ( http://www.hllug.org/ )
Free training for Linux professionals.
http://tinyurl.com/yzw4m9r [linuxjournal dot com]
From our web-sibling Bawb (Bob) Tegner.
( http://bobtegner.wordpress.com/ )
Words in Words Machine.
http://www.wordles.com/getWordsInWords.aspx
Thank you Patrick, Jo, Betty, Bill, John, Lee and Bob.
Last word, from Lisa:
Did I mention it's cold here in Texas? Bbbrrrrr...
We've been hibernating-in front of the computers of
course. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and went
back to bed, smart boy!
http://www.groundhog.org/
I coulda tol...never mind.
I've been having lots of fun learning more about
Google Wave. There's been some excitement lately;
the trolls and miscreants have shown up. While
it's in its infancy, Wave's been wide-open, depending
upon community to police itself. Nefarious persons
have been fiddling with and breaking people's waves.
Fortunately the first adopters have taken a stand
to expose them and Google staff have begun to track
them down like the dirty dogs they are.
When Wave is a mature platform and a mainstream
communications vehicle, the security issues will
be worked out. Until then, there will be some
challenges for those of us who are fascinated
by Wave.
The adventure continues...
Lisa
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http://www.myspace.com/81825549
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Miller/100000537499890
blogger:
http://thedirtgoddess.blogspot.com/
Don on...
myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/donguitar
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Crowder/1321324044
twitter:
http://twitter.com/eldergeek
blogger:
http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/
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http://www.google.com/profiles/dondashguitar
Don Crowder and Lisa Miller
Monday, February 15, 2010
12:15 AM CST - Buchanan Lake Village, Texas, USA
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