As a person with MS I think I get a little leeway in my comming in on this late ~_^
MS symtoms are elevated by emotional inputs like Stress. I'm sure that the case is putting her into undo stress and in turn making life VERY hard. When you know that something like this is hanging over your head even a "normal" person would freak out. Imagine (if you can or even want to) trying to deal with this while being litterally parilizaed by it. The longer this drags out the more she has to go through physical suffering as well as the emotional suffering of feeling wrongfully accused. She has my support and well wishes (and as much solumedrol as she needs to help)
My mother had Secondary Progressive MS. In addition to the exacerbation of physical symptoms the emotional effects of stress on someone who has already been robbed of her physical self reliance cannot be overemphasized. After living with MS for forty of her sixty-two years my mother could no longer take it and killed herself. Since she was physically incapable of any active suicide method (opening a pill bottle, holding a razor or even a fork) she had to starve herself to death.
Unless things have drastically changed since I was young, having MS is also very expensive. In 2005 constant dollars my mother's 1974 medical care cost was about $166,000. Since healthcare costs have risen much faster than inflation over that period I can only believe that would be much higher today.
Impoverishing victims of expensive and debilitating diseases with frivolous lawsuits is reprehensible behavior to say the least.
If the story is true, even if this guy didn't pay his licensing fees, does he really need to be arrested? The last time I checked copyright infringement was not a criminal offense but a civil offense. Large scale bootleggers are usually charged with something more substantial like fraud, mail fraud, etc which make their actions criminal. IANAL. Somebody inform me on this.
I can't inform you on Japan, but you are wrong about the US. Criminal copyright infringement has existed in the US since at least 1976 and is often enforced. Check the laws. Sad but true.
I'm an electric bassist and personally, I care not for Guitar Hero.
An anthropologist was conducting research in the Lower Congo when, to his delight, he managed to find an obscure, previously unrecorded tribe. One exciting aspect of the tribe's culture was its musical traditions, which included constant drumming from a nearby hilltop.
On his first night in his makeshift camp, he thrilled to the sound of the drums, but didn't manage to sleep a wink. The next evening he went to the tribe's chief and asked when the drumming would stop. "You don't want to hear drums stop," the chief informed him in his click dialect. "After drums stop, something terrible happens."
One week later, crazed by lack of sleep, the anthropologist returned, offering gifts he'd kept for emergencies: a top hat, coloured beads, and a set of cigarette cards. Once again the chief said, "After drums stop, something terrible happens."
Over the next four weeks, the haggard, twitching, anthropologist returned to the chief, offering his Amex gold card, his sister, and his family home if only the drums would stop. Each offer received the same reply.
Finally, convinced that the termination of the drumming must involve a human sacrifice, the anthropologist gave away his possessions, penned his farewell letters, and approached the chief once more. Breaking into tears, he offered his life to the chief, and asked once more what would happen when the drums stopped.
The chief frowned. "When drums stop, bass solo starts."
I wouldn't say that, most US soldiers are Republican.
Only if you count officers as soldiers (mistake few enlisted men would make). Or at least that is what the last Army Times poll I read said. That was back in 2004 and although the plurality of GIs polled identified themselves as Republicans, they did not constitute a majority. I suspect that number has dropped quite a bit since then. In that same poll the majority of soldiers and officers approved of the Bush administration's handling of the war. By contrast, this last April %63.28 of Army Times readers polled felt the "U.S. war effort is grounds for Secretary Rumsfeld to resign." Tomorrow's issue will carry an editorial demanding Bush Fire Rumsfeld. Of course, right now the Army/Navy/Air Force/Marine Corps Times web sites are down. Hmmmm...
Maybe I am showing my age. I just took a scientific study of my quahog co-workers (sample size of one) and he had no idea what I was talking about. He calls it "soda-pop." According to this survey only four of 656 Rhode Island respondents call soda tonic. However, the term is holding its own in Mass, where 1129 of 5196 surveyed say tonic. AFAIK this is only an eastern Mass phenomenon. Kelly's Roast Beef lists tonic on the menu, although not on their web site. Not sure what you are talking about regarding Rhodie's diminutive proportions. I don't think anyone was criticizing them. Only her history of massive corruption, which personally I find quaint.
You don't know the half of it. Nonetheless, Rhode Island is still one of the very best places to live in the US. Especially if you like quahogs, coffee milk and johnny cakes. Also if you think a milkshake should be called a cabinet and soda should be called tonic.
My grandfather once had himself elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of the great State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations on a bar bet. Then he had the state build a bridge ease access to his house.
Yeah, I rememebered that after I posted. I should have said coil gun. IIRC, what you describe is a rail gun. What they describe is a coil or Gauss gun. Right?
That sounds like a big Gauss Gun, AKA rail gun to me. The Germans tried to build long range artillery and anti-aircraft artillery on on this principle during WWII. Makes sense I suppose, as Carl Gauss was German. Of course, it was quickly superceded by their deadly LePage Glue Gun Technology.
"Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers' club one night to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that the Germans had moved in.
What Lepage gun?" Colonel Korn inquired with curiosity.
"The new three-hundred-and-forty-four-millimeter Lepage glue gun," Yossarian answered. "It glues a whole formation of planes together in mid-air."
I discovered Svejk in college. I was waiting for a bus and asked a bookseller to recomend something. He asked me what my favorite book was and when I said Catch 22 he pulled out The Red Commisar changing my life in the process.
Regarding the links, prosím! And de'kuji vam for the link. I agree a little lingual effort goes a long way. especially in the Czech Republic where people tend to be both friendly and mannerly. Of course, I haven't been there in years, and Prague is a much busier and richer city now.
That site is by Zenny Sadlon, the gentleman who retranslated Svejk. I appreciate you linking it because I have not been there in years and it is much expanded. I do think he still has room for improvement in documenting Svejking and other resistance against the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968. The Czechs' and Slovak's humor and dogged devotion to freedom were remarkable. Czech patriots formed human chains, successfully blocking the Soviet advance in Bohemia. Mysterious technical failures prevented radio jamming equipment from reaching Prague by train, allowing the resistance to keep broadcasting. In Bratislava, locals disseminated pornography to the tank crews, then when the commanders ordered the soldiers back in their tanks, covered their periscopes. Also in Bratislava, locals cut off the water supply to Soviet troops, forcing them to fly it in from Hungary by helicopter. Later they spread rumors that the water supply had been poisoned by counter-revolutionaries convincing many Soviet troops to drink from the polluted Danube. In Roznava, Hungarian troops were assaulted by the ethnic Hungarian locals, who refused to be occupied. After negotiations with the Hungarian commander, the mayor agreed to allow the troops to sleep in an abandoned school and eat local food. However they had to obey a strict curfew. At sunset every evening the mayor would lock the soldiers in the school, returning in the morning to let them out. The Czech army supplied the resistance with mobile radio transmitters. People painted Swastikas on tanks stopped at traffic lights. They moved all the street signs around to confuse the invaders. Scores of villages renamed themselves Dubcek or Svoboda. The government continued to meet, often coordinating via pirate radio broadcasts. The Czech Communist Party denounced the invasion and encouraged resistance. It wasn't until April of 1969 that Dubcek was actually ousted, largely by economic pressure. Svoboda remained president until 1975!
Under Dubcek and Svoboda's leadership the Czech people mounted almost bloodless nonviolent resistance which proved far more effective than the Hungarian's paramilitary response to he 1956 invasion. In Hungary, the Nagy government lasted no more than three weeks after Soviet intervention, and the various anarchist communes and syndics were gone in another month. And although they managed to kill ~7000 Soviet troops in the process, 50,000-200,000 Hungarians died for a lost cause. While Dubcek and Svoboda lived out their days in peace, Nagy was executed.
funny that I see your username for the first time... while I'm search for travel information for my first visit to the Czech Republic in another browser tab
Are you Czech? / Jsi ech?;)
Not Czech, just a great admirer of Hasek and Czech culture in general. I am American, a Polish/Lithuanian Jew by descent. If you are interested in Svejk there is a new translation by a Czech-American which is supposed to be more faithful to the original. You can't go wrong reading Svejk before visiting CZ. If you don't have time to digest the novel there is a great book of Svejk short stories Hasek wrote before WWI. It includes some brilliant stories based on Hasek's adventures in the Russian Civil War and a great bigraphical piece describing Hasek and his anarchist drinking buddies' formation of "The Party For Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law."
The Czech Republic is a great country and Prague a fantastic city. You are going to love it, especially if you like beer. Also worth brushing up on your Kafka before going.
This raises an interesting point. When I was a kid the school system actively taught us how to vote. In late October they brought in a lever based voting machine, explained how to use it and asked each of us to participate in a mock vote. They even showed us some of the internals. So I knew all about voting a decade before my first election. Of course, that was in the heady days of the early seventies when we were still riding the high of having recently achieved universal suffrage (via the Voting rights act of 1965). Back then the people in charge thought voter turnout and education was a good thing.
You seem to know a lot about this "Honest Bob." Or at least you post about him with undue frequency. I hereby officially finger you as an Honest Bob's Pet Repair astroturfer!
Sincerely,
Honest Svejk
Honest Svejk's Pet Parts
You are correct that M16s are generally more expensive, but that doesn't bear on the original poster's point. He merely said that the bulk of the weapons on the international market came through western arms dealers and governments. I believe he is correct. According to Amnesty International the US DOD itself is the among the largest buyers and suppliers of used Kalashnikovs on the international market, buying 350,000 such weapons in former Yugoslavia alone in 2004-2005.
"Kalashnikov purchase and supply dynamics have altered dramatically since the Cold War. Tens of thousands of AKs are now being bought, trafficked, and brokered by a new breed of middlemen. International networks of companies, government agencies, and individuals in Europe, the Middle East, North America and elsewhere are involved, augmenting the millions of assault rifles and other small arms currently in circulation. These Kalashnikov market facilitators are increasingly involved in complex supply chains to deliver AK-47 assault rifles and their variants across the globe using brokering networks, freight-forwarders, transport firms, off-shore bank accounts, and other inter-connected companies. Established arms supply networks in many countries are responsible for delivering vast numbers of these weapons to areas of conflict and repression. These are now increasingly joined by some Western governments and associated private contractors who trade in surplus arms from former Warsaw Pact countries. This challenges the assumption that the worldwide problem of Kalashnikov proliferation and abuse has been caused solely by the failure of Russia and its military allies, and China and its partners, to control and regulate it."
Really? How many M16's and M203's do you see insurgents using? None. They are not exported in any significant numbers and they're too expensive for most. By the way, which western arms dealer sells Soviet era weapons? Armorlite, Boeing, I don't know tell me.
The M16 is quite popular with Palestinian guerillas. The main reason for this is ready supply. They buy them from Israeli quartermasters. They also like it for the same reasons the IDF does, it is quite appropriate for the type of warfare they engage in (light and accurate with lots of neat accessories). If they were fighting in the Iraqi desert I am sure they would hold out for Kalashikovs. The parent poster was referring to private arms resellers, not arms manufacturers. You are wrong in saying that the AR15/M16*/M4* are not exported in quantity. The M16 family is the most widely produced and used 5.56 NATO rifle in the world and is standard in 15 armies within NATO alone. It is also widely used in Latin America and Asia. And of course there is Israel. Not only is the M16 exported, it is manufactured under license by FN.
He is also wrong. The military takes about that much of yearly discretionary spending. The poster was ignoring the non-discretionary spending. The items that are not voted on each year. If you look a proportion of total federal outlays the military comes in at about 20-25%
Since the income tax funds only a portion of discretionary spending (most of the rest the rest being borrowed from the trust funds and other sources) what you are saying is that his number is low, military spending accounts for more than 64% of income tax spent.
The "defoliants" were used to remove the jungle cover in a few areas in Viet-Nam where VC/NVA activity was prolific and hidden under the forest canopy. It is arguable that it achieved its purpose. It was "policy" not to spray it directly onto population. The lingering after affect is less about poisons than about the totally denuded terrain left behind, that saw topsoil torn away and lost in the following monsoons. Wet deserts. I don't know if the areas have recovered yet - maybe?
Agent Orange was simply a mix of 2.4.5-T and 2.4-D which are common farm chemicals used to this today as weedicides. (Haven't seen 2.4.5-T around lately, it may have been pulled). They really work well to kill off broadleaf plants (vines) amongst grass crops like sorghum and maize. They are systemic and apparently in effect starve the plants. As far as the literature that I have read relates, these chemicals do not have any such effect on animals and more to the point - humans. They would almost certainly be friendlier than spraying with diesel fuel and kerosene which was also tried. The great poison debate that arose over Agent Orange came from a contaminant - dioxin.
While it is true that dioxin contamination was the worst problem, it is not true that 2.4.5-T and 2.4-D are harmless to mammals. I did a literature survey on the subject about twenty years ago and there was ample evidence before 1962 that 2.4.5-T and 2.4-D exposure caused large scale birth defects in mice. Also, while it may have been "policy" not to spray Agent Orange on population centers, it certainly was practice. According to a National Academy of Science study the US sprayed 3,181 villages, between 2.1 and 4.8 million people, directly with herbicides. Of course, this includes Agents Blue, White, Purple and Pink as well. It was US "policy" to spray Agent Blue, a mixture of two arsenic based compounds, on food supplies. Oh, and IIRC, the diesel and kerosene were used as base liquids to carry Paraquat based defoliants. You are correct that the effect of defoliation, and the destruction of microorganisms in the soil had devastating long term effects. By the mid eighties, 30% of previously arable land in Vietnam had laterized (essentially turned to brick). However, the Vietnamese have also gathered shocking statistics documenting the prevalence of birth defects in the children of southern veterans. Of course, defoliants represent only a portion of the chemical assault on the Vietnamese environment, and those veterans were probably exposed to all sorts of nasty things, but we can't discount them.
I prefer the type of phone that you crank in order to get the operators attention, and then say "Maybel, connect me to my mother."
I have one of those, albeit not online. I also have the old Dreyfus-AT&T Model 302 rotary phone we leased when I was a kid. Your Maybel comment reminds me tof the MTS car phones my dad had. They operated sort of like ship top shore devices. To dial you lifted the reciever and asked the operator for your party, just like in the movies. The convention was to refer to the mobile operator as "Mobile" and this was when some New York phone numbers still had words in them, so it is entirely likely that in my youth I picked up a phone and said "Hello Mobile, give me Murray Hill-6-5555." Am I 2600 or what?!
DS9 was a "gem" because of competition. Babylon 5 was airing during the same period as DS9, thus Star Trek started to look a bit lame (compared to what it was before... ?). So they stepped it up a notch. And when B5 ended its run, they stopped competing and went back to... well, Voyager.
I don't know why this is modded funny. I think it is insightful. When DS9 and B5 came out read a comparative review in the DC City Paper (or maybe the Post). The reviewer said that to the casual eye the two series might appear similar, both detailing the intrigues of remote space stations (a departure from the Star Trek "Wagon Train In Space" formula). However, B5 was more interesting, better written and most importantly, serialized. I checked them out, agreed and added B5 to my TV schedule. Some years later I checked back in and noticed DS9 was now serialized and had a new darker feel, much more similar to B5. I don't think that was a coincidence.
Wikipedia and the Ubuntu foundation are non-profit organizations, but have nothing to do with any government agency.
Red Cross... Salvation Army... These groups have founders, board of directors, and technically a group of people that "own" (perhaps manage is a better term) the non-profit organization.
The NFL is a non-profit. Although I suppose there is an argument that it is an arm of the governement... or vice versa.
"Rockets" have no guidance system. They are purely ballistic. The various "Katyusha" Hezbollah fires are not noticably different from the types the Soviets fired at the German in WWII. Hezbollah does have a few cruise missiles and medium range missiles with inertial guidance systems, But I have not seen evidence that they have been using them against Israeli cities. They did successfully attack an Israeli warship with a cruise missile.
"But their computer didn't ship with one. Therefore you can't claim that "Apple was first to ship PC with a floppy-drive", since it didn't ship with a floppy, it was an add-on product. If we talk of add-on products, then I feel compelled to remind you that IBM was making floppy-drives back in the sixties.."
I'm sure the compulsion is strong, but it isn't relevant. IBM made floppies in the sixties, but they didn't work with PCs (obvously). I didn't claim Apple was the first to ship a PC with a floppy drive standard. I said they were the first to ship a PC with a floppy drive. In other words, They were the first company from whom you could buy a PC with a floppy. They were the first company from whom you could buy a floppy drive which worked with a PC and they were the first company from whom you could buy a PC that worked with a floppy drive. This was an important advance and Apple did it first.
"I don't see a color-screen in the picture you linked to."
What's your point? The Apple ][ had color graphics. Look it up.
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Unless things have drastically changed since I was young, having MS is also very expensive. In 2005 constant dollars my mother's 1974 medical care cost was about $166,000. Since healthcare costs have risen much faster than inflation over that period I can only believe that would be much higher today.
Impoverishing victims of expensive and debilitating diseases with frivolous lawsuits is reprehensible behavior to say the least.
On his first night in his makeshift camp, he thrilled to the sound of the drums, but didn't manage to sleep a wink. The next evening he went to the tribe's chief and asked when the drumming would stop. "You don't want to hear drums stop," the chief informed him in his click dialect. "After drums stop, something terrible happens."
One week later, crazed by lack of sleep, the anthropologist returned, offering gifts he'd kept for emergencies: a top hat, coloured beads, and a set of cigarette cards. Once again the chief said, "After drums stop, something terrible happens."
Over the next four weeks, the haggard, twitching, anthropologist returned to the chief, offering his Amex gold card, his sister, and his family home if only the drums would stop. Each offer received the same reply.
Finally, convinced that the termination of the drumming must involve a human sacrifice, the anthropologist gave away his possessions, penned his farewell letters, and approached the chief once more. Breaking into tears, he offered his life to the chief, and asked once more what would happen when the drums stopped.
The chief frowned. "When drums stop, bass solo starts."
Maybe I am showing my age. I just took a scientific study of my quahog co-workers (sample size of one) and he had no idea what I was talking about. He calls it "soda-pop." According to this survey only four of 656 Rhode Island respondents call soda tonic. However, the term is holding its own in Mass, where 1129 of 5196 surveyed say tonic. AFAIK this is only an eastern Mass phenomenon. Kelly's Roast Beef lists tonic on the menu, although not on their web site. Not sure what you are talking about regarding Rhodie's diminutive proportions. I don't think anyone was criticizing them. Only her history of massive corruption, which personally I find quaint.
You don't know the half of it. Nonetheless, Rhode Island is still one of the very best places to live in the US. Especially if you like quahogs, coffee milk and johnny cakes. Also if you think a milkshake should be called a cabinet and soda should be called tonic.
My grandfather once had himself elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of the great State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations on a bar bet. Then he had the state build a bridge ease access to his house.
Yeah, I rememebered that after I posted. I should have said coil gun. IIRC, what you describe is a rail gun. What they describe is a coil or Gauss gun. Right?
"
I discovered Svejk in college. I was waiting for a bus and asked a bookseller to recomend something. He asked me what my favorite book was and when I said Catch 22 he pulled out The Red Commisar changing my life in the process.
Regarding the links, prosím! And de'kuji vam for the link. I agree a little lingual effort goes a long way. especially in the Czech Republic where people tend to be both friendly and mannerly. Of course, I haven't been there in years, and Prague is a much busier and richer city now.
That site is by Zenny Sadlon, the gentleman who retranslated Svejk. I appreciate you linking it because I have not been there in years and it is much expanded. I do think he still has room for improvement in documenting Svejking and other resistance against the Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968. The Czechs' and Slovak's humor and dogged devotion to freedom were remarkable. Czech patriots formed human chains, successfully blocking the Soviet advance in Bohemia. Mysterious technical failures prevented radio jamming equipment from reaching Prague by train, allowing the resistance to keep broadcasting. In Bratislava, locals disseminated pornography to the tank crews, then when the commanders ordered the soldiers back in their tanks, covered their periscopes. Also in Bratislava, locals cut off the water supply to Soviet troops, forcing them to fly it in from Hungary by helicopter. Later they spread rumors that the water supply had been poisoned by counter-revolutionaries convincing many Soviet troops to drink from the polluted Danube. In Roznava, Hungarian troops were assaulted by the ethnic Hungarian locals, who refused to be occupied. After negotiations with the Hungarian commander, the mayor agreed to allow the troops to sleep in an abandoned school and eat local food. However they had to obey a strict curfew. At sunset every evening the mayor would lock the soldiers in the school, returning in the morning to let them out. The Czech army supplied the resistance with mobile radio transmitters. People painted Swastikas on tanks stopped at traffic lights. They moved all the street signs around to confuse the invaders. Scores of villages renamed themselves Dubcek or Svoboda. The government continued to meet, often coordinating via pirate radio broadcasts. The Czech Communist Party denounced the invasion and encouraged resistance. It wasn't until April of 1969 that Dubcek was actually ousted, largely by economic pressure. Svoboda remained president until 1975!
Under Dubcek and Svoboda's leadership the Czech people mounted almost bloodless nonviolent resistance which proved far more effective than the Hungarian's paramilitary response to he 1956 invasion. In Hungary, the Nagy government lasted no more than three weeks after Soviet intervention, and the various anarchist communes and syndics were gone in another month. And although they managed to kill ~7000 Soviet troops in the process, 50,000-200,000 Hungarians died for a lost cause. While Dubcek and Svoboda lived out their days in peace, Nagy was executed.
The Czech Republic is a great country and Prague a fantastic city. You are going to love it, especially if you like beer. Also worth brushing up on your Kafka before going.
This raises an interesting point. When I was a kid the school system actively taught us how to vote. In late October they brought in a lever based voting machine, explained how to use it and asked each of us to participate in a mock vote. They even showed us some of the internals. So I knew all about voting a decade before my first election. Of course, that was in the heady days of the early seventies when we were still riding the high of having recently achieved universal suffrage (via the Voting rights act of 1965). Back then the people in charge thought voter turnout and education was a good thing.
You seem to know a lot about this "Honest Bob." Or at least you post about him with undue frequency. I hereby officially finger you as an Honest Bob's Pet Repair astroturfer! Sincerely, Honest Svejk Honest Svejk's Pet Parts
You are correct that M16s are generally more expensive, but that doesn't bear on the original poster's point. He merely said that the bulk of the weapons on the international market came through western arms dealers and governments. I believe he is correct. According to Amnesty International the US DOD itself is the among the largest buyers and suppliers of used Kalashnikovs on the international market, buying 350,000 such weapons in former Yugoslavia alone in 2004-2005.
"Kalashnikov purchase and supply dynamics have altered dramatically since the Cold War. Tens of thousands of AKs are now being bought, trafficked, and brokered by a new breed of middlemen. International networks of companies, government agencies, and individuals in Europe, the Middle East, North America and elsewhere are involved, augmenting the millions of assault rifles and other small arms currently in circulation. These Kalashnikov market facilitators are increasingly involved in complex supply chains to deliver AK-47 assault rifles and their variants across the globe using brokering networks, freight-forwarders, transport firms, off-shore bank accounts, and other inter-connected companies. Established arms supply networks in many countries are responsible for delivering vast numbers of these weapons to areas of conflict and repression. These are now increasingly joined by some Western governments and associated private contractors who trade in surplus arms from former Warsaw Pact countries. This challenges the assumption that the worldwide problem of Kalashnikov proliferation and abuse has been caused solely by the failure of Russia and its military allies, and China and its partners, to control and regulate it."
NuBus is hardly proprietary. It is the IEEE 1196 standard originally developed at MIT.
"Rockets" have no guidance system. They are purely ballistic. The various "Katyusha" Hezbollah fires are not noticably different from the types the Soviets fired at the German in WWII. Hezbollah does have a few cruise missiles and medium range missiles with inertial guidance systems, But I have not seen evidence that they have been using them against Israeli cities. They did successfully attack an Israeli warship with a cruise missile.
"But their computer didn't ship with one. Therefore you can't claim that "Apple was first to ship PC with a floppy-drive", since it didn't ship with a floppy, it was an add-on product. If we talk of add-on products, then I feel compelled to remind you that IBM was making floppy-drives back in the sixties.."
I'm sure the compulsion is strong, but it isn't relevant. IBM made floppies in the sixties, but they didn't work with PCs (obvously). I didn't claim Apple was the first to ship a PC with a floppy drive standard. I said they were the first to ship a PC with a floppy drive. In other words, They were the first company from whom you could buy a PC with a floppy. They were the first company from whom you could buy a floppy drive which worked with a PC and they were the first company from whom you could buy a PC that worked with a floppy drive. This was an important advance and Apple did it first.
"I don't see a color-screen in the picture you linked to."
What's your point? The Apple ][ had color graphics. Look it up.