Make wrongly describing a casserole with a pastry lid as a pie a
criminal offence.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/64629
On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 13:28 +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote:
what if I want to fetch an artist's details and his latest album? I
can select the artist from the artists table and then join the albums
table. But to get the latest album I'd have to use a max function (say
on the album's date), with
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 17:06 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Is anyone still using this? Seems the last unauthorised release
was 2007 and CPAN testers is not looking good.
I seem to recall that state51 use it for a bunch of stuff, although they
may have forked it internally by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMSrKqpl_c
Regards,
Denny
mainly use irc.perl.org (where we have our own #perl)
I got the distinct impression that it would be seriously cruel to direct
anyone who wanted to discuss Perl problems to that channel.
Regards,
Denny
* I'm part of the freenode staff team.
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 15:57 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
I'm trying to diagnose a potential issue in my mail set up which seems
to mostly manifest itself by silencing you rowdy group of degenerates,
miscreants and ne'r-do-wells.
s/issue/feature/;
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 20:15 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
It appears that my esteemed government has changed the rules about about
which pets one might keep at home. Apart from all the usual suspects, it
appears one may keep a water buffalo but, crucially, one will *not* be
able to keep a
is company name, location (in a weird format), and whether
they're hiring or not. I'm very reluctant to mark my company as
'dormant' or 'inactive' on a list of information about companies that
use Perl just because we're not hiring.
Regards,
Denny
there?
People with almost 0 IT expertise don't generally do that sort of
thing. I would assume that's why Aaron is asking for professional
recommendations.
Regards,
Denny
On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 13:00 +, dave.lamb...@gmail.com wrote:
I did a thing about 10 years ago using HTML::TreeBuilder to
remove elements and attributes which aren't on a whitelist.
There's a module for that. Well, several actually, but I settled on
HTML::Restrict when I was looking at
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 13:08 +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
Secondly, I don't think anyone was suggesting we remove the Perl page from WP,
rather that we make one the main page and the other point to it. In effect
having both pages/solutions at once and having our cake and eating it too.
Not
IME, about a week or two after your 30 day terms expire. Sometimes much much
later, very rarely sooner.
Bizarrely, agencies are often more reliable about paying invoices promptly (or
at least within the terms) than any company I've worked for directly in the
last 4 years.
Alex Brelsfoard
You do know what $status contains in the example (so you could hardcore it in
the SQL anyway). $id is up for grabs though.
Simon Wilcox es...@ourshack.com wrote:
On 24/01/2013 03:01, Sam Kington wrote:
I mean, sure, this is safe:
if ($status eq 'foo') {
$dbh-do(UPDATE table SET
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 10:59 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
I'd assumed -discuss was for talking about the jobs posted on jobs
and attempting to unpick who the company was.
Short memory.
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On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 19:10 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On 31/08/2012 11:54, Mark Fowler wrote:
= Q. Won't publishing a code of conduct indicate that there's a problem?
That London.pm is the kind of place where such a conduct occurs?
A. I'm afraid, through no fault of its own, London.pm
coming up in the immediate future, but there's a mailing list you
can subscribe to.
Regards,
Denny
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 00:53 +1000, Toby Wintermute wrote:
On 21 August 2012 01:17, James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote:
They're claiming truly unlimited actually. For an extra fiver they even
officially permit tethering.
Are they likely to even notice if I'm tethering it, sans that
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:58 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Is there an etiquette for advertising one's availability for slavery here?
Post an 'available' ad to jobs-discuss?
Or post a meta-question here, of course :)
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 18:50 +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
Also Please if you think this mail is not good for the mailing list let
me know i will not post mails like this next time here.
There's a jobs-disc...@london.pm.org list* which might be more
appropriate. Good luck with the job-hunting -
makes them a slightly different shade of recruitment
agent. I'll let them know about the list, anyway.
Regards,
Denny
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Denny
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On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:55 +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote:
Can anyone make suggestions for where we can advertise to attract
people with these skills?
Perl
Catalyst
DBIC
Moose
The Catalyst mailing list? They seem to be okay with occasional job ads
as long as they're from active
of things.
I'm usually in #shinycms on irc.perl.org if you want to chat.
Regards,
Denny
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On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 12:07 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
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On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:59 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
from the File::Slurp synopsis. can't get much cooler, short or useful
than this. :)
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map $_=$conf{$_}\n, keys %conf ;
It's kind of horrific
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
if you think those are complex, you haven't seen enough perl! :)
I'm trying to think about the target audience, rather than show how
clever I am.
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On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:35 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
No but lots of people appear to find if to be more readable
It's not a choice between
.
Regards,
Denny
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On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:26 +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
As demonstration of cpan6, I have created a full backpan archive, where
you can get the 02packages of any day in history. So you can then say
install DBIx::Simple with the knowledge of 2001-02-12 as yum
That sounds really useful!
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 15:32 +, David Cantrell wrote:
Permanent employees are entitled to 20 days (I think) paid leave every
year at minimum, including public holidays.
28 including. Used to be 20 excluding.
(Which is the same thing for office worker purposes, but the new
phrasing means
-term than that initially, it's usually a permanent
role, which has (usually) more benefits such as holiday and sick pay,
and a lower daily rate for that reason.
Regards,
Denny
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On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:00 +, John Imison wrote:
Out of interest, does anyone use CGI::Application? What are the general
thoughts on that?
It's called Titanium now isn't it? Seemed nice and simple when I last
used it.
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On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 08:28 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Nominations for the leadership election closed at midnight. I have
received the following valid nominations.
* Leo Lapworth
* Amelia the stuffed camel
* Egbert the BBC stuffed camel
If I vote for a human, the wrong camel might win!
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 21:17 +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
Can we vote for the stuffed Camel?
You have to nominate it first.
I second.
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On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 15:25 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
However, it can't organise pubs or techmeets, which makes it of limited
utility.
But *seriously*, it's all very well having a joke candidate, but if there's
no-one actually getting the thanks (and CV points) for doing the work,
,
Denny
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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:40 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 25 Aug 2010, at 14:28, David Cantrell wrote:
Dear interwebs, please point me at a Thingy which will allow me to point
a tiny script at a database and have it do CRUDdy web stuff.
A while back I would have pointed you to
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:50 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Can anyone recommend an application (for OS X, but cross-platform is
better) I could use to keep track of what delicious boozes I have?
Ideally it would be something like Readerware http://readerware.com/,
and obviously it must be easy
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 15:25 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked
what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy?
and I had no clue.
I'm no expert, but the Online Galleries xmas event one year took us to
this
:
http://queensheadrye.com
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/4632066301_48dc4f3646.jpg
(list of beers and/or brewers)
If you know anyone in the general vicinity who might enjoy such an
event, please do pass the word around.
Cheers,
Denny
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On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:16 +, Dave Cross wrote:
On 03/27/2010 09:10 AM, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
On 03/27/2010 08:13 AM, Uri Guttman wrote:
and paul and i share the same birthday. not sure what that means.
I expect you'll find it's a coincidence :-)
As a
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 19:30 +, Christopher Jones wrote:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem?wasRedirected=true
Co-incidentally, I may have said much the same thing.
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On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:51 +, Edmund von der Burg wrote:
http://www.yournextmp.com/data
PS Who knows what you might unearth? - there is this chap for example:
http://www.yournextmp.com/candidates/denny_de_la_haye
I confess, I have used Catalyst. But I didn't inhale. Much.
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:25 +, James Laver wrote:
As I shall shortly be leaving london for somewhere with no PM group, I
thought it might be nice to create one.
How do I go about it?
http://www.pm.org/start/ would seem like the obvious place to um, start.
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On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:29 +, Raphael Mankin wrote:
It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets
pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return
to work.
The government is in the process of making it possible for the maternity
and paternity
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:02 +, Philip Potter wrote:
Statutory paternity leave is up to 2 weeks. There may be more
generous employers but the law does not require it.
Right now yes, but looking forward, wrong:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/28/fathers-six-months-paternity-leave
Forwarded Message
From: Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com
There is a new mailing list on the block called eve...@lists.perlfoundation.org
The objective of this list is to make sure Perl and projects written
in Perl are well represented on events such as FOSDEM in Belgium
(
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:08 -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools?
...
Or, is bugzilla or whatever that easy to set up that I should JFDI?
Bugzilla is sadly a bit of a sprawling monstrosity these days, although
not that hard to set up iirc.
Is RT not
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:37 +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
- which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m²)
apartment for under £800/month, within a half-hour commute (by
train?) to the centre?
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:50 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
It does surprise me a bit that over the past five or more years none of
Foxtons' competition ever manage to escape rule 1 long enough to ask
why doesn't our site work as well as theirs?
When I was house-hunting I got the impression that
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 23:23 +, Victoria Conlan (vi...@comps.org)
wrote:
In particular I had a mail a couple of days ago from everyone's favourite
we
don't use Perl any more - it's all Java and PHP now broadcaster. It was
about
a Perl role.
Was it a permanent or contract role?
by some guys in the states who have managed
to piss off the UK volunteers so much that most of the UK groups broke
away last month and formed their own organisation, called Freegle:
http://www.freegle.org.uk/
Sadly still based on Yahoo groups :)
Regards,
Denny
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On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 14:40 +0100, James Laver wrote:
When my domains come up for renewal, I'll be looking to switch to someone
else.
...
Gandi are top of my list but I have doubts since the furore with the
perl domain names. Who are we currently least hating?
I use and like Gandi. I
on the electoral roll, I'm
fairly sure my credit card company didn't tell them that.
Regards,
Denny
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On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 08:45 +0100, Andrew Black wrote:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:19:00AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Having spent 45 minutes failing to get through to Demon's tech support
people last night I've finally come to the realisation that they aren't
still the company that I
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 08:24 -0700, Ovid wrote:
Seriously, though, the London police Web site indicates that
Westminster has the highest crime rate in London. Who would have
thought?
Are they counting fiddling your expenses? Because if so... :-p
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On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:26 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
well that begs the question. i can easily cron this to whatever schedule
people think is fine. the issue with once a week is that it will take a
long time (2+ years!) to cycle through the faqs. maybe 3 times a week
would work if that is ok
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:10 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services?
I'm using sipgate.co.uk, at a friend's recommendation. I only signed up
last month and I don't use it heavily, so I can't say much beyond 'it
works and it was
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 20:30 +0100, James Laver wrote:
It's for a good cause doesn't justify spamming a list that frankly
has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Fundamentalists in the US
think they're doing the right thing by shooting abortion doctors.
That was more than a little
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:49 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and
well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord
knows, there's enough scope for that.
Sign: YOU CAN EARN $$$ WITH PERL!!
JAPH: *places sticker reading
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 07:32 -0700, Ovid wrote:
On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would
be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads.
Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of
I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc.
In
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 12:12 -0400, Casey West wrote:
I'm quite happy with Slicehost: http://slicehost.com
This is who the Dreamwidth project are using for all their beta-testing
servers. They seem to be holding up fairly well under significant load,
although they did have a few disks fail early
. He's on the list, so will probably reply for himself, but here's
his URL:
http://mag-sol.com/
Cheers,
Denny
to the bit about use.perl.org, here:
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=42810cid=68273
Earle sums up, here:
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=42810cid=68277
Cheers,
Denny
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:38 +0200, Abigail wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:20:03PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
BTDT. Is this any better ?
http://www.digitalcraftsmen.net/perl.org/slice.png
IMO. No. Not by a long shot. It's screamy, it hurts your eyes,
and doesn't invite you at all to
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 16:21 +0100, Paul Orrock wrote:
A silly friday question to settle a discussion
If you have an event that will happen at a future point in time, say 4 am
and you move it to run at 2am that same day, have you moved the event
forwards or backwards ?
Yes.
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:17 -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:38:40 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
http://www.dev411.com/blog/2009/01/14/perl-5-for-the-future-the-enlightened-perl-organization
Umm, this:
The goal is to modernize Perl 5 and make it competitive with new
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 09:52 +, Andy Wardley wrote:
/*
This table defines users of the
system who are Buffy fans.
*/
$ mysql my_db_schema.sql
It's interpreting the line system who are Buffy fans. as a shell command,
even though it's inside a comment.
I thought ;;
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:59 +, Matt Lawrence wrote:
mysql /*
/* I am in your mysql
/* writing a comment
/* use mysql
[...]
Database changed
/* end of comment */
mysql
Wow. At this point I think the discussion moves to hates-software.
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:13 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Get a bicycle or a scooter. Do your level best in the meantime to ignore any
commentary from anyone who hasn't actually ridden in London.
P, one minor accident in six years; 6,000+miles covered; god knows how much
time saved
I was
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 22:36 +, James Laver wrote:
I *have* had a call been unable to connect because O2's network was at full
capacity, but it only happened once and it was christmas...
I'd never had a mobile call drop until I moved onto O2 a few months ago,
now I've had it happen dozens of
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 14:57 +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
Anyone got any experience of mobile broadband providers? Any good ones,
good deals, horror stories, don't-use-this-if-you-have-a-Mac stories,
etc.?
My girlfriend has a Vodafone contract, with a 5GB cap (I think the only
people who offer
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:53 +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
2008/12/19 Simon Wilcox es...@ourshack.com:
I have a t-mobile dongle thing which is OK but they have a trans-proxy on
the web interface which compresses images and inserts javascript into the
page to allow you to click them for the
onion (yes, it's another 'glass onion' theme from the Cult of Wardley),
but if anybody would like to email me off-list I'll be happy to provide
a link to the dev version of the site so you can take a look. Obviously
there's not much content yet.
Regards,
Denny
* Digital Craftsmen, aka Simon Wilcox
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:06 +, Denny wrote:
If you have any tales of high-profile, large-scale, or otherwise
interesting Perl systems you've deployed recently then we'd love to hear
them.
It's been pointed out to me that projects which were not started
recently, and which are still going
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:25 +, Dave Cross wrote:
Denny wrote:
Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites,
we* have started Yet Another Perl Website.
Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/.
So it does! Damn your prior art! :)
So, people
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:09 +, Andy Wardley wrote:
Andy Wardley wrote:
I can help there.
How about this?
New Perl Slogan FTW :)
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:12 +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
The strap line should be Perl is Alive! rather than the shortened
version though, should it not ?
No*
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MFnmT82yGpk
* or 'yes', if you want to keep the number of syllables the same rather
than keep the use of
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:28 +, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Although I think there are two further things that would help:
* A Perl user group that didn't just insult n00bs when they turned up
I agree with this very strongly. In which context, can I call to your
attention that 'n00b' isn't
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 14:36 +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
So, we all think that a site with no O'Reilly branding [...]
The first image I can see on that page is the O'Reilly 'Programming
Perl' image. The second link on the page goes to oreilly.com. Call me
gullible, but it wouldn't have
year or two, but they do tend to stand out as
exceptions to the rule.
IMHO, YMMV, HAND.
Denny
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:02 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On another maybe more interesting topic: so seriously, this site's been
around for ages, why haven't O'R done something about it? Or have they, but
just unsuccessfully? It's not like UA doesn't have copyright laws and
police.
(There's
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:20 +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
And no, setting up yet another blog aggregator or yet another obscure
site that occasionally publishes an article, those don't count.
perlbuzz's existence hasn't fixed any problems.
So fixing use.perl is what we
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 07:40 -0800, Ovid wrote:
I can't say I know anything about slashcode, but [...] Maybe there's
some incredible plugin architecture which allows you to scrap most of
the current 1995-era functionality/look-and-feel without sacrificing
content?
If the content is all we care
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 04:43 -0700, Ovid wrote:
--- On Fri, 31/10/08, Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/notlimited/
Next we should create a petition which bans pet stores from labelling
termites as cats. [...]
Or we could just pay attention to the f***ing
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:51 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
This sounds more appropriate with the Advertising Standards Agency, which I
suspect already has this covered.
FYI, most recent example I can find of this type of complaint:
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_45008.htm
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:09 +, Paul Orrock wrote:
The ASA stand seems to be that provided the user is never stopped or
charged for downloading more, then an unlimited claim can be made
provided you link to a FUP.
Yarp:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:10 +0200, Hermann Ingjaldsson wrote:
In Perl.
How do i change (in code) which program the user is looking at?
print Please look at a different program now.\n;
?
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 06:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 21, 2008 3:23pm, Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:10 +0200, Hermann Ingjaldsson wrote:
How do i change (in code) which program the user is looking at?
print Please look at a different program now.\n
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:36 +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
I'd be happy, in Windows (probably in other OSes as
well, but it seems to happen mostly in Windows for me) that I could
stop other applications bringing themselves to the front.
Linux has definitely got quite naughty about this lately.
OS X is the greatest guys - buy apple shares if you have any money !
On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Tom Hukins wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:13:10PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
You may want to have a look at fink
perl.h can be found in /System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h - adjust
the search path in your makefile to look in this directory
PS :
a few more sites with precompiled mac os x stuff :
http://macosx.forked.net/
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.macshare.com/
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Dear Friends,
I have just read and signed the petition:
CALL FOR PEACE!
I personally agree with the petition, and think you might too.
Please take a look and consider signing it yourself.
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