It's his raisin d'etre.You do have a good raisin for hating raisins.The worst part is they act like I'm the weird one for hating raisins.No wonder you hate them.My family insists on putting raisins in the stuffing.
I f#+!ing hate raisins.
I am not sure if I have him fig-ured out.
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Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.
I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.
Even?
Especially.
Ok, I might not be fond of peanuts in the first place, except when salted and dry-roasted, and even then not that much.
Yes. Even. Because what you classify as bread, we would classify as cake.
So. Much. Sugar. Groooooooosssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Hey now, I've seen The Great British Baking Show, Europeans eat some f!%+ed up s*+* don't act all high and mighty. :-)
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Hey now, I've seen The Great British Baking Show, Europeans eat some f#$~ed up s~#* don't act all high and mighty. :-)Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.
I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.
Even?
Especially.
Ok, I might not be fond of peanuts in the first place, except when salted and dry-roasted, and even then not that much.
Yes. Even. Because what you classify as bread, we would classify as cake.
So. Much. Sugar. Groooooooosssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Hey, the British claim a lot of weird things as food.
We dutch people just stick to a cheese sandwhich.
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This question is completely random, and will mean nothing to FaWtLers outside the USA, but I'm taking an informal survey related to a minor running joke in the book I'm working on.
The topic is Thanksgiving turkey *stuffing*, and the plot point has to do with pinatas and turkey farming and a protagonist with a screw loose, and we're just not going to go there right now.
I'm looking for a percentage of folks that go with what I think of as the "traditional" sage-onion-and-celery (or, more accurately, celery, onion, and "poultry seasoning"), and of those folks, the subset that add mushrooms. (My mother's family, for example, is staunchly pro-mushroom, and only sourdough croutons will do, but they had been in northern California since the late 1800's.)
If your family does something other than this, say with cornbread, or chestnuts, or oysters, or sausage, would you please say what the main ingredients are/were, and what region of the country your family comes from?
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^.^o.o
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I just got weirded up by a person that I haven't seen in years PMing me on facebook with "what's up"...
Uh, a small talk? I can't really into small talk...
Advantage of facebook is that I don't have to respond immediately.
This question is completely random, and will mean nothing to FaWtLers outside the USA, but I'm taking an informal survey related to a minor running joke in the book I'm working on.
The topic is Thanksgiving turkey *stuffing*, and the plot point has to do with pinatas and turkey farming and a protagonist with a screw loose, and we're just not going to go there right now.
I'm looking for a percentage of folks that go with what I think of as the "traditional" sage-onion-and-celery (or, more accurately, celery, onion, and "poultry seasoning"), and of those folks, the subset that add mushrooms. (My mother's family, for example, is staunchly pro-mushroom, and only sourdough croutons will do, but they had been in northern California since the late 1800's.)
If your family does something other than this, say with cornbread, or chestnuts, or oysters, or sausage, would you please say what the main ingredients are/were, and what region of the country your family comes from?
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^.^
o.o
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Okay, here's a similar question for you, Drejk:
How many different ways have you seen people in Poland stuff the carp for Wigilia? Just on the expatriate Polish cooking listserves here in the States, I've seen variations on "traditional" recipes containing carrot, celery, and onion; recipes using mushrooms, recipes using apples and onion... it goes on.EDIT:
I'm not actually asking for an answer, because smalltalk. :)
I'm just attempting to provide context.
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This question is completely random, and will mean nothing to FaWtLers outside the USA, but I'm taking an informal survey related to a minor running joke in the book I'm working on.
The topic is Thanksgiving turkey *stuffing*, and the plot point has to do with pinatas and turkey farming and a protagonist with a screw loose, and we're just not going to go there right now.
I'm looking for a percentage of folks that go with what I think of as the "traditional" sage-onion-and-celery (or, more accurately, celery, onion, and "poultry seasoning"), and of those folks, the subset that add mushrooms. (My mother's family, for example, is staunchly pro-mushroom, and only sourdough croutons will do, but they had been in northern California since the late 1800's.)
If your family does something other than this, say with cornbread, or chestnuts, or oysters, or sausage, would you please say what the main ingredients are/were, and what region of the country your family comes from?
-.-
^.^
o.o
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Okay, here's a similar question for you, Drejk:
How many different ways have you seen people in Poland stuff the carp for Wigilia? Just on the expatriate Polish cooking listserves here in the States, I've seen variations on "traditional" recipes containing carrot, celery, and onion; recipes using mushrooms, recipes using apples and onion... it goes on.EDIT:
I'm not actually asking for an answer, because smalltalk. :)
I'm just attempting to provide context.
Carp is a mud-dwelling stagnant-water burrower, not a fish. No, thank you :)
I don't recall ever eating a stuffed carp (maybe I ate some as a child but I don't remember it). My family just fried carp in bread-crumbs (I remember the live carp swimming in the bathtub). And since the nineties, we moved away from carp completely because my mom disliked the carp and started buying sea fish fillets from things like cod or hake - so the very idea about arguments over carp filling is alien to me.
Sorry for breaking your example, but my family unit is quite atypical when it comes to Poland in that we keep almost no extended family relations, especially after the deaths of grandparents.
EDIT: I get your point, of course—I am just being smartass about the example you used.
EDIT2: Also, to prove that I can't into small talk.
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Me: "Reboot the computer if you haven't."
User: "She has already, didn't help."
Me: "Okay, let me see why this thing is going so slow then..."
Remotes in.
Goes to Task Manager.
Company antivirus/malware is stuck updating. 100% disk usage. 95% memory usage. 40% CPU. Yeah. Ok. Move over to the performance tab and notice the uptime of the computer. 7 days 19 hours 13 minutes and counting. Ok, so when I say "reboot the computer if you haven't", I mean...how do I put this...not a week ago.
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This question is completely random, and will mean nothing to FaWtLers outside the USA, but I'm taking an informal survey related to a minor running joke in the book I'm working on.
The topic is Thanksgiving turkey *stuffing*, and the plot point has to do with pinatas and turkey farming and a protagonist with a screw loose, and we're just not going to go there right now.
I'm looking for a percentage of folks that go with what I think of as the "traditional" sage-onion-and-celery (or, more accurately, celery, onion, and "poultry seasoning"), and of those folks, the subset that add mushrooms. (My mother's family, for example, is staunchly pro-mushroom, and only sourdough croutons will do, but they had been in northern California since the late 1800's.)
If your family does something other than this, say with cornbread, or chestnuts, or oysters, or sausage, would you please say what the main ingredients are/were, and what region of the country your family comes from?
My people do Thanksgiving as an affectation, and just go with whatever is on sale at the store.
My wife's family does it more seriously, with cornbread sausage stuffing.
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Please tell me you're not from Onarga.We have two different stuffings at my mother's side's festivities, and they won't tell you ahead of time which is which.
One is the traditional stuffing you're thinking of, but some years it has mushrooms and some years it doesn't.
The other one looks exactly the same, but it has oysters and mushrooms. This one is made exclusively by my uncle through marriage (Mom's brother-in-law). He's from the exact same town I grew up in. East Central IL, about 40-45 miles north of Champaign-Urbana.
what an Onarga?
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So, on the one hand, I'd strongly prefer to move to a strictly cashless lifestyle.
On the other, credit card company's absolute inability to secure their cards proves we're not ready to be there yet.
Yet again, GothBard and I are in physical possession of our two Disney cards. They're chipped, secured with the latest technology, etc., so in theory since every store should be asking for the physical card fraud shouldn't be possible.
Except for "convenience" many stores (such as gas stations) don't require the chip; just a magnetic strip and your ZIP code.
So yep, we just bought a $92 tank of gas in Bakersfield. Considering even the Celica can barely break $40, and even then only when it's near-empty, it's an obviously-fraudulent charge.
But just the idea that someone can still just skim my card to get the magnetic strip information, reproduce the card, and use it on the road is just... just... just... so 90s.
Grr...
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My family insists on putting raisins in the stuffing.
I f*+#ing hate raisins.
I have only encountered one stuffing with raisins, and it brought a lot to the dish.
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Hey now, I've seen The Great British Baking Show, Europeans eat some f#$~ed up s~#* don't act all high and mighty. :-)Ive been massively disapointed in american chocolate.
I mean, even your peanut butter is gross.
Even?
Especially.
Ok, I might not be fond of peanuts in the first place, except when salted and dry-roasted, and even then not that much.
Yes. Even. Because what you classify as bread, we would classify as cake.
So. Much. Sugar. Groooooooosssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Hey, the British claim a lot of weird things as food.
Such as?
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Me: "Reboot the computer if you haven't."
User: "She has already, didn't help."
Me: "Okay, let me see why this thing is going so slow then..."
Remotes in.
Goes to Task Manager.
Company antivirus/malware is stuck updating. 100% disk usage. 95% memory usage. 40% CPU. Yeah. Ok. Move over to the performance tab and notice the uptime of the computer. 7 days 19 hours 13 minutes and counting. Ok, so when I say "reboot the computer if you haven't", I mean...how do I put this...not a week ago.
Probably someone doesn't understand difference between shutting it down and putting it to sleep?
Or maybe simply logged out of account and logged in?
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Me: "Reboot the computer if you haven't."
User: "She has already, didn't help."
Me: "Okay, let me see why this thing is going so slow then..."
Remotes in.
Goes to Task Manager.
Company antivirus/malware is stuck updating. 100% disk usage. 95% memory usage. 40% CPU. Yeah. Ok. Move over to the performance tab and notice the uptime of the computer. 7 days 19 hours 13 minutes and counting. Ok, so when I say "reboot the computer if you haven't", I mean...how do I put this...not a week ago.
Probably someone doesn't understand difference between shutting it down and putting it to sleep?
Or maybe simply logged out of account and logged in?
I would like to give them that benefit of the doubt, but the user and her supervisor have both worked with me for almost 6 years now. Both of them have been in the company longer than I have. If they don't understand the difference at this point, then...well...it makes me question how they can perform more difficult tasks in their life.
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Regardless of your affiliation
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OK, credit where credit is due: After all my complaints about working with Indians and their insanely strict adherence to script and specs, the Chase call center was an Indian call center...
...where they'd actually trained their staff to chat with the customer, go off-script, and otherwise act much more natural with customers.
It was very nice, and just proves that gee, if you actually train your employees and pay them a decent wage, you get much, much better customer satisfaction.
What a concept! :-O
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what an Onarga?Please tell me you're not from Onarga.We have two different stuffings at my mother's side's festivities, and they won't tell you ahead of time which is which.
One is the traditional stuffing you're thinking of, but some years it has mushrooms and some years it doesn't.
The other one looks exactly the same, but it has oysters and mushrooms. This one is made exclusively by my uncle through marriage (Mom's brother-in-law). He's from the exact same town I grew up in. East Central IL, about 40-45 miles north of Champaign-Urbana.
It's the odd name of a town about 13 miles from where I grew up. In rural terms, it's just a couple towns over, and considered a short drive.
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And finally, just before two hours of meetings:
(1) There are some things I fundamentally don't understand, such as perpetually late people intentionally setting their clocks ahead to help themselves be more on time (which GothBard just asked me to do). It's easier for you to mis-set all the clocks in the house than it is to try to be ready 5 minutes earlier?
(2)
- If I'm not going to associate with a party, I should have no say in who they put forward
- It's just opening the door for the party with the incumbent to have all their voters vote for the most execrable opponent possible to ensure their incumbent's victory
- As a side note to VE, the primary elections also include many ballot measures so I don't mind tax dollars paying for them, but I'll at least agree in principle: If there's nothing on the ballot other than primary elections for major parties, then those major parties should be paying for the primaries themselves.
Unfortunately, watching the parties put forth their own execrable candidates anyway, at least with open primaries as an independent I can vote against the most-execrable candidate on the list and possibly be heard.
The caliber of candidates from both parties has plunged so deeply I wonder whether they have a portal to the abyss where they find these losers.
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OK, credit where credit is due: After all my complaints about working with Indians and their insanely strict adherence to script and specs, the Chase call center was an Indian call center...
...where they'd actually trained their staff to chat with the customer, go off-script, and otherwise act much more natural with customers.It was very nice, and just proves that gee, if you actually train your employees and pay them a decent wage, you get much, much better customer satisfaction.
What a concept! :-O
Doesnt that mean they were on script by going off script?
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Gods, is there anything more irritating than aggressively-helpful people?
Yesterday I noted that my new microphone is hissing, and I was wondering whether anyone had any ideas I could try.
Video Guy: I want to see your setup! Right now!!!
NobodysHome: I'm in meetings all morning. I'll be free at 1:00 pm.
VG: Why aren't you answering?!?!!?
NH: As I mentioned, I'm in meetings all morning. Please WAIT.
VG: Ok. I guess you're busy. Call me when you aren't.
Manager: Why aren't you letting the video guy help you?
NH: Because I'm the meetings that you ordered me to attend?
M: Well, call him the moment you're free.
NH: I'm pretty sure I already figured out the problem.
M: Well, call him anyway.
Nothing like wasting everyone's time with a problem I've already resolved.
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All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.
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All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.
1986, youngster!
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All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
Well, you know, I had two years where I was trying out being an anarchist.
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I tried that too, for a bit. Didn't work out.
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(2) ** spoiler omitted **
I don't [yet?] have a strong opinion on the matter of closed/open primaries, but I find it a fun topic so:
If I'm not going to associate with a party, I should have no say in who they put forward
This was one of the two main arguments against filing the suit and opening our primaries: Party primaries are for party members, and it's free and easy to be a party member. Though the delay between registering with a party and gaining membership & primary voting privilege can take people by surprise. And then there's the consequentialist angle: Opening our primaries would be just another way of chasing the center, which is a losing strategy we Dems use too often.
Unfortunately, watching the parties put forth their own execrable candidates anyway, at least with open primaries as an independent I can vote against the most-execrable candidate on the list and possibly be heard.
I've always been able to find candidates I like, so I find this perception very hard to relate to. What is it about candidates in general that is so uniformly execrable in your opinion?
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All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
I'd feel a whole lot better about this country if everyone voted so consistently.
Though I admit, I can't say for sure how many off-POTUS years I voted in until last year.
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<Open Question>
Opening our primaries would be just another way of chasing the center, which is a losing strategy we Dems use too often.
That's it in a nutshell. I am not a leftist. Per FaWtL rules I won't go into details except insomuch as to say that watching the Democrats skew farther and farther left in pursuit of votes makes me happy I'm not one of them.
EDIT: I used to tell people that I was an "anti-Republican", but that just made them assume I was a Democrat. In the 1980s, the Republicans favored strong personal restrictions (war on drugs, anti-abortion, many, many more) and deregulation of industry. I was/am strong personal freedom and pro-regulation of industry. This hasn't been the Democratic platform in my lifetime, so I'm not a Democrat.
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Well, you know, I had two years where I was trying out being an anarchist.All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
This was funnier the first time, when I read it as "trying to be an antichrist".
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This was funnier the first time, when I read it as "trying to be an antichrist".Well, you know, I had two years where I was trying out being an anarchist.All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
For CY, it's extra-appropriate!
Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
It has also been suggested that is has something to do with preempting the media hype two days before an Obsidian game releases. This was linked to me shortly after I mentioned this elsewhere: bear in mind I have no idea about its veracity, but it is interesting.
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All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
There wouldn't be really a point in voting in '86 here, even if I were of age then.
Instead I was getting tan in Chernobyl's fallout.
All I'll say about my political affiliation is I've voted in every election since 1996.1986, youngster!
There wouldn't be really a point in voting in '86 here, even if I were of age then.
Instead I was getting tan in Chernobyl's fallout.
That was six years before I'd live in your neighbor-country!
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Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
This amuses me immensely, since Bethesda did everything it possibly could to alienate its user base with the Fallout 76 apocalypse and its unapologetic aftermath.
GothBard is supposed to play games as part of her job. She refuses to ever give another penny to Bethesda. Shiro is a whale, but ditto.
Bethesda really done messed up.
So the idea that now they're charging $100 per "season" for the "privilege" of using a Fallout 76 server that works is... amusing.
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Shiro
Speaking of, having absolutely zero knowledge of what they're like: Shiro games are also going on sale!
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ShiroSpeaking of, having absolutely zero knowledge of what they're like: Shiro games are also going on sale!
We might be spending too much time on FAWTL gossiping with NH, because I thought of Shiro too when I saw that banner.
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Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
This amuses me immensely, since Bethesda did everything it possibly could to alienate its user base with the Fallout 76 apocalypse and its unapologetic aftermath.
GothBard is supposed to play games as part of her job. She refuses to ever give another penny to Bethesda. Shiro is a whale, but ditto.
Bethesda really done messed up.
So the idea that now they're charging $100 per "season" for the "privilege" of using a Fallout 76 server that works is... amusing.
And I am considering if I want to buy (on sale) Fallout 3 to finally play it or not...
It's not like it is a proper Fallout anyway (i.e. isometric turn-based tactical game with a flexible story)...
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Doesnt that mean they were on script by going off script?OK, credit where credit is due: After all my complaints about working with Indians and their insanely strict adherence to script and specs, the Chase call center was an Indian call center...
...where they'd actually trained their staff to chat with the customer, go off-script, and otherwise act much more natural with customers.It was very nice, and just proves that gee, if you actually train your employees and pay them a decent wage, you get much, much better customer satisfaction.
What a concept! :-O
{thinks deeply, ears start to smoke}
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OK. Fair's fair.
Woran had us try some licorice in Amsterdam. I was... unimpressed.
This afternoon I had reason to move into the studio (where GothBard stashes all things tasty) and got a strip of the licorice Woran sent us.
O... M... G...
Calling it, "The best licorice I've ever had," would be a gross understatement.
That stuff is SOOOOOOO good!
'Scuse me. I think I hear a mouse in the studio...
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Impus Major: Last night I had a dream where we hired Dee Snyder to build a beehive in our front yard.
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Yeah, that licorice Woran sent me didn't last real long. It was fantastic.
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Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
This amuses me immensely, since Bethesda did everything it possibly could to alienate its user base with the Fallout 76 apocalypse and its unapologetic aftermath.
GothBard is supposed to play games as part of her job. She refuses to ever give another penny to Bethesda. Shiro is a whale, but ditto.
Bethesda really done messed up.
So the idea that now they're charging $100 per "season" for the "privilege" of using a Fallout 76 server that works is... amusing.
And I am considering if I want to buy (on sale) Fallout 3 to finally play it or not...
It's not like it is a proper Fallout anyway (i.e. isometric turn-based tactical game with a flexible story)...
I loved Fallout 3. Fallout New Vegas is better but I will always suggest Fallout 3.
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Linkin Park - Live Southside Festival 2017
RIP Chester Bennington
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I'd kill for a serious massage right now. Sundays at the gym are starting to catch up with me...
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~tries to keep my mind out of the sewer and holds back my snarky comments~ I hope that you feel better soon, Freehold DM.
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Freehold, PM!
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So does that sound like a nighttime incontinence medicine to anyone else?
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So does that sound like a nighttime incontinence medicine to anyone else?
~laughter~ Yes it does.