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	<title>the stavros messinis weblog</title>
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	<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com</link>
	<description>Stavros is a Tech Geek based in Athens - Greece</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mygazines is a real winner and a game changer</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/21/mygazines-is-a-real-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The perception we have regarding cost of magazines is that the cover price is the cost of the content within the magazine. The truth is that the cover price of a magazine these days reflects little more than the cost of printing and distribution. Few magazines actually make money from the cover price, they make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scratching your own itch</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/05/239/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently reading Getting Real from 37 Signals and wanted to share some phrases from it. Here&#8217;s a first 
&#8220;Build software for yourself
A great way to build software is to start out by solving your own problems. You&#8217;ll be the target audience and you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s important and what&#8217;s not. That gives you a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never again will they &#8220;Just not get it&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/04/never-again-will-they-just-not-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/08/04/never-again-will-they-just-not-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have resolved to never again say that someone &#8220;Just doesn&#8217;t get it&#8221;. Saying someone &#8220;doesn&#8217;t get it&#8221; implies that you&#8217;ve decided that you won&#8217;t take the time (or any more time) to convince them of the merits of your position and thereby proving that it&#8217;s the superior one. If your take on things is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowd-Trusting</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/22/crowd-trusting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowd trust is the trust I place in the crowd that has gone before me and not been burned. For example: EULAs. I never read them fully, I trust someone before me has already read it and if there was something there that was so wrong the crowd would make a fuss and get it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new way - cut and skydive</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/the-new-way-stop-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/the-new-way-stop-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues will recognise the concepts listed below. 
Taking a pragmatic approach, one can see where it&#8217;s going and why it&#8217;s going there. 
The aim is efficiency, to be more targeted and achieve more where it matters most.




1) Clarify: - Identify objectives to do and Identify objectives to stop doing. Now execute both.
2) List tasks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L. Take a lesson in this image and let us get on with it.</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/l-take-a-lesson-in-this-image-and-let-us-get-on-with-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/14/l-take-a-lesson-in-this-image-and-let-us-get-on-with-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Goudi Park, OLPC at the Athens Anti-Racism Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/05/goudi-park-olpc-at-the-athens-anti-racism-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/05/goudi-park-olpc-at-the-athens-anti-racism-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Athens anti-racism festival is happening right now and it&#8217;s being held in Goudi park, right across the street from where we live. Some of you may already know I&#8217;m involved in campaigning against commercial developments in Goudi Park and as such we were offered a booth and projection screen at the festival. First off, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Direct Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/01/more-direct-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/07/01/more-direct-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no doubt that the internet and the social networks it helped create have done two things: brought people closer and brought about much more democracy.
A new political party in Australia called Senator Online is taking this to new extremes, it will allow each member to vote on each and every bill that is tabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst &#8230; Something wonderful is happening &#8230; pass it on</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/22/something-wonderful-is-happening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/22/something-wonderful-is-happening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take 4 minutes to view this great video.
 
Now if that has whet your appetite, take a look at this: Charles Leadbeater at TED talks
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		<title>Teach the machine</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/20/teach-the-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/20/teach-the-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great video about Web 2.0, the social / semantic web (4 minutes)

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		<title>What is twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/16/what-is-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/16/what-is-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started using twitter as a microblogging service and for status updates. One really cool feature is the free sms feature for those following you. Can you imagine the creative ways this can be used? Think updating a family member about how late you&#8217;ll be or getting a direct message to bring home some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children and the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/14/children-and-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/14/children-and-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet generation is here and many children from as young as about three years are spending more and more time online. This holds both risks and benefits and so needs to be carefully managed so that children are protected from the risks while still being permitted to enjoy the benefits of the internet. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coincidentally, Zografou City Council website finally live TODAY</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/05/coincidentally-zografou-city-council-website-finally-live-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/05/coincidentally-zografou-city-council-website-finally-live-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say coincidentally because, I went by their offices today and complained about their site not being available for the past year or so. I&#8217;ve recently moved to Zografou and have often needed to talk to someone at the council for various things. Naturally, being a geek, I would look to their website to provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenCoffee virgin</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/03/opencoffee-virgin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/06/03/opencoffee-virgin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attended my first opencoffee event tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. What a group of smart kids, some seniors, some money guys. A good crowd. One minor negative, nothing serious. I felt that 10min presentations aren&#8217;t enough for the motivational speakers - give them  more time. [Post edited]
Still, the event was great and I&#8217;ll make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>too many tweets</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/30/too-many-tweets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/30/too-many-tweets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 16:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many tweets again today. I&#8217;m beginning to realise the benefits of this platform. Twitter is fast becoming defacto goodness for all. Guys, it seems youcant handle the load more often than not. Either sell to Google who can handle the load or take the platform peer-to-peer and let everyone share the burden.
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		<title>Apple is Listening</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/28/apple-is-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about this almost a year ago :
NY Times reports new iPhone Patents
ZDNET Reports on new iPhone:Will the sun power your future iPhone?
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		<title>Solar</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/22/solar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 20:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
40 minutes of solar radiation has enough energy content to power the world for a whole year.
How do we store this energy. Storage is the problem. As photo-voltaic cells (PV&#8217;s) get more efficient, we need creative ways to store this energy. 
Here&#8217;s the cycle: during the day - use super efficient PV&#8217;s to collect energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Speeches and Presentations</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/22/on-speeches-and-presentaions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/05/22/on-speeches-and-presentaions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 20:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only two things about speeches and presentations matter. Your audience is subconsciously asking:
A. What’s your point?
B. Why does it matter?
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		<title>Google Feature Missing</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/04/16/google-feature-missing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/04/16/google-feature-missing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the most used web app for me is probably my Gmail. I use GoogleDocs quite a bit as well. One thing that is missing is a full text search across a users GoogleDocs folder directly from the Gmail interface. Gmail search is brilliant but adding an option to add Docs search would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Listings Software - TVBrowser</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/04/16/tv-listings-software-tvbrowser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/04/16/tv-listings-software-tvbrowser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greek TV is terrible. After a long day, when you just want to flop in front of the TV it&#8217;s a real shame that you are presented with total crap and more advertising than content. We used to buy the weekly TV guide, pick what we wanted to see and just watch it.
However, in Greece, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A website is like a baby. It needs love, care and feeding</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/03/19/a-website-is-like-a-baby-it-needs-love-care-and-feeding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/03/19/a-website-is-like-a-baby-it-needs-love-care-and-feeding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked if I would help with setting up of a new website. My first response: Does your organisation have the commitment and resource available to follow the process through? Can you or someone here look after this new child of yours? One that needs love, care and feeding? If not, then it&#8217;s best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook seems to be getting it</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/03/17/facebook-seems-to-be-getting-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I think I&#8217;m getting a lot less facebook spam. Seems those little &#8216;thumbs down&#8217; icons I&#8217;ve been clicking are working. It&#8217;s kind of scary to think that facebook data is really a relationship map. Take a look at &#8216;friend wheel&#8217; see how everyone you know links to eachother, really good app.
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		<title>72 billion consuming</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/02/17/72-billion-consuming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/02/17/72-billion-consuming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The population of the world, currently six and a a half billion, is due to rise to nine billion by the middle of the century. 
The developing world, by definition, aspires to western standards of living. Some economists suggest that nine billion people all consuming resources at peak developed world rates would be equivalent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Eco Energy Camp 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/01/26/aa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2008/01/26/aa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Facebook- Cool and Not so Cool</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/18/facebook-cool-and-not-so-cool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/18/facebook-cool-and-not-so-cool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has brought me back in touch with many high school buddies I had long lost touch with but it can be such a damn waste of time. Take a look at the video below, really true, really funny.

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		<title>I wish !! Mesh Networks - Cell phones and Cars</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/06/mesh-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/12/06/mesh-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When are our cellphones going to have mesh network capability? Imagine thousands of cellphones connecting to eachother, sharing connections, perhaps bridging to a home aDSL / cable / Wireless connection and sharing it on. It will kill the ISP&#8217;s. Cell phones should be relay devices. Check out these links along similar lines Brad Templeton&#8217;s entry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Quotes #303 - On Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/09/10/great-quotes-303-on-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/09/10/great-quotes-303-on-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
US politician (1916 - 2005)

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		<title>Wednesday August 29, 19:00, Syntagma square</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/28/why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/28/why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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Protest demonstration, Wednesday August 29, 19:00, Syntagma square, and on every central square all over the country. Wearing black.
Συγκέντρωση διαμαρτυρίας, Τετάρτη 29 Αυγούστου, στις 7 το απόγευμα, στην πλατεία Συντάγματος και σε κάθε κεντρική πλατεία, σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα. Φορώντας μαύρα.
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		<title>Burning greek &#8220;Bushes&#8221; and dirty politics</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/28/burning-greek-bushes-and-dirty-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/28/burning-greek-bushes-and-dirty-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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Fires rage across southern Greece, klling 60+ and we find ourselves consuming the ultimate reality show, a gory game show where the score is measured in lives lost and acres burnt. Three days later and not much besides the mercy of the winds have changed. Cries of terrorism, Greece&#8217;s Sept11, Greek flags on TV screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flattening the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/13/flattening-the-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stavros.messinis.com/2007/08/13/flattening-the-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stavros Messinis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this flat world we live in, you would think that Amazon.com would get it.
What I mean is that if Amazon knows where I live (and they do), they can keep all my profile info and credit card details across all sites (and they do), why can&#8217;t they  put my orders via the  closest  location  [...]]]></description>
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