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Georgia Tech is so good it didn't even need its leading scorer to reach the regional finals of the NCAA tournament.
Marvin Lewis had 23 points and Will Bynum made a huge layup with 65 seconds left to give the Yellow Jackets a 72-67 victory over Nevada on Friday night in the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament.
The third-seeded Yellow Jackets (26-9) are in the regional finals for just the third time in school history and the first time since 1990.
They'll play fourth-seeded Kansas in the St. Louis Regional final on Sunday. Kansas (24-8) demolished upstart Alabama-Birmingham 100-74 in the early game to advance to the regional finals for a third straight year.
The 10th-seeded Wolf Pack (25-9) knocked off Michigan State and routed Gonzaga to make the round of 16, and it seemed as if another upset was in the making early -- especially with Georgia Tech forced to play without B.J. Elder.
Elder, who is averaging 16.2 points, sprained his right ankle less than two minutes into the game when Kirk Snyder landed on it.
The Wolf Pack led by as much as eight in the first half. But they cooled off in the second and Georgia Tech's stingy defense finally kicked in. The Wolf Pack was a dismal 7-for-33 in the second half, and Snyder was just 2-for-12. Snyder didn't score his first points until there were 6 1/2 minutes left.
Todd Okeson, who had 11 points in the first half, was 1-of-10 in the second, including 0-for-5 from 3-point range.
Lewis made back-to-back 3s to give Georgia Tech a 63-58 lead, its largest of the game, with 5:20 left. But Snyder, so quiet most of the half, came back big. His 3-pointer with 3:26 left pulled the Wolf Pack within 67-65, and he made a pair of free throws 90 seconds later to tie the game.
But then Bynum came up with the play of the night. The 6-foot spark plug hasn't gotten as much playing time as maybe he'd like, playing behind Jarrett Jack. But when he does get the ball, good makes things happen.
Driving hard to the basket, he leaped over Okeson, knocking him over while making the layup. Bynum looked as if he might land on his head, but he somehow managed to right himself while the ball swished through the net to give Georgia Tech a 69-67 lead with 1:04 to play.
The Wolf Pack was forced to foul, and Lewis missed the first, drawing a loud groan from the vocal Georgia Tech contingent. He made the second, giving the Yellow Jackets a 70-67 lead with 49 seconds left.
Nevada had one last chance, but Okeson missed a long 3-pointer. Moore was fouled, and he made the first to seal the victory.
Snyder finished with 21 points and when the final buzzer sounded he sat on the floor, watching the Georgia Tech fans celebrate.
Okeson had 13 points and 10 rebounds.


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Test Drive: 2012 Dodge Journey R/T AWD
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Review and photos by Chris Chase
Introduced in early 2008 as a 2009 model, the Dodge Journey crossover quickly became one of Canada's best-selling vehicles, for two reasons. One was its attractive starting price of $19,995, and the other was its role as the ostensibly replacement for the short-wheelbase Dodge Caravan, which disappeared when that minivan was redesigned in 2008.
To start, the Journey could be had with a choice of 2.4L four-cylinder (173 hp/166 lb-ft), or 3.5L V6 (235 hp/232 lb-ft) engines. The former came with a four-speed automatic, and the latter with a six-speed auto.
This was a well-equipped vehicle for the price, coming standard with air conditioning, power windows, heated outside mirrors, variable intermittent wipers, rear wiper/washer, power locks, chillable beverage holder (in the glove box), tilt and telescopic steering, and a six-CD stereo. Standard functional and safety features included four-wheel disc brakes with anti-lock, front-seat side and front and rear head curtain airbags, and traction/stability control.
2009 Dodge Journey SE Plus. Click image to enlarge
Trim levels were SE, SXT and R/T; all SE models were four-cylinder and front-wheel drive, and SXT and R/T got the V6 and could be optioned with all-wheel drive.
Dodge juggled options for 2010, so the SXT was front-drive only, and the R/T was AWD-only. A popular Canada Value Package added keyless illuminated entry, stain-resistant seat fabric a softer centre console armrest and a fuel saver indicator. SXT and R/T models got a few new standard features, too.
For 2011, the Journey got a styling update, a new Crew trim designation (slotting in between SXT and R/T), and the 3.5L V6 was dropped in favour of the Chrysler's then-new 283-hp 3.6L Pentastar V6.
Dodge sweetened the Canada Value Package pot with the addition of cruise, dual-zone automatic climate control and a driver's knee airbag, making this entry-level trim (at the time, priced at $21,000) a real bargain. Other trims received less-notable additions to their lists of standard kit, and 2012 models got similarly minor revisions in trim.
Natural Resources Canada fuel consumption estimates for the 2009 Journey were 11.0/7.9 L/100 km for four-cylinder models, 13.5/8.6 L/100 km for V6/FWD versions and 14.2/8.9 with the V6 and AWD. 2010 six-cylinder models got slightly better ratings, and 2011's Pentastar V6 brought another nominal reduction in fuel consumption. Meanwhile, the four-cylinder's ratings improved to 10.8/7.5 L/100 km for 2011 and 2012.

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New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Boston's Tuukka Rask, Colorado's Semyon Varlamov and Tampa Bay's Ben Bishop have been named finalists for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender.
Rask helped the Bruins to the Presidents' Trophy for the first time since 1990 with a record of 36-15-6 and was the only goaltender to rank among the top five in all major statistical categories. He led the league with seven shutouts, was second in save percentage at .930, finished fourth with a 2.04 goals-against average and was fifth in wins. The native of Finland allowed two goals or fewer in 37 of his 58 starts.
Varlamov led the NHL with 41 wins, surpassing Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy's previous franchise record of 40 set in 2000-01. His 2.39 GAA is the worst among the three finalists, but he had a .928 save percentage and saw the most shots in the league at 2,013, while posting a brilliant 32-4-4 record when facing 30 or more shots.
Bishop ranked fourth in the NHL with a franchise-record 37 wins and set a club record with a .924 save percentage, helping a young Lightning squad to a second-place finish in the Atlantic Division in his first season as a starter. He tied for fourth in the league with five shutouts and had a 2.23 GAA.
All three goaltenders are Vezina finalists for the first time. The Lightning and Avalanche have never had a Vezina winner, while Tim Thomas won with the Bruins in 2009 and 2011.
General managers of all 30 NHL teams submitted ballots for the award at the conclusion of the regular season.
The winner will be announced Tuesday, June 24 during the NHL Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.


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Bondi's bogus opposition to same-sex couples
Attorney General Pam Bondi's attempt to explain away her preposterous claim that recognizing same-sex couples would "impose significant public harm" doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Not even close.
In explaining her actions, Bondi claimed to be "defending the voters" who passed the 2008 constitutional amendment defining marriage in Florida as between a man and a woman. She stated that "anything less than the best defense of our voters' policy preferences would disenfranchise the electorate, undermine the judicial process, and cast aside the professional responsibility that guides me every day as attorney general."


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Chinese telecoms firm ZTE Corp (中興), accused by US lawmakers of doing business with Iran and posing a security threat, says US network giant Cisco Systems Inc has ended a cooperation deal with it.
In a statement late on Tuesday, ZTE confirmed media reports that Cisco earlier this year scrapped a 2005 strategic cooperation agreement that included purchases of equipment from the US company.
"In July 2012, Cisco informed the company [ZTE] that it terminated the strategic cooperation agreement entered with the company in 2005, mainly in relation to the company's purchase of routers and other products," ZTE said.
Soon after the agreement was signed, ZTE described the cooperation in far broader terms, saying it included jointly expanding in telecommunications markets in China and the rest of Asia.
ZTE in its latest statement said it would not be hurt by Cisco's move since it had alternatives to the US firm's equipment.
Media reports said the termination came after Cisco found ZTE had sold its equipment to Iranian companies in violation of US sanctions. A top ZTE executive denied the claims last month.
Cisco in China could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The announcement followed a US congressional investigation that concluded ZTE and another Chinese telecoms firm, Huawei Technologies Co (華為), pose a security threat to the US and should be barred from US contracts and acquisitions.
The report by the US House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee, officially released on Monday, said the two firms "cannot be trusted" to be free of influence from Beijing and could be used to undermine US security.
ZTE said sales revenue from the US market was "relatively small" so any US moves would not hit its financial results, according to the statement issued through the Hong Kong stock exchange.
In a separate statement also released on Tuesday, China's Commerce Ministry said China expressed its strong opposition and serious concern over the report.
"The US Congress investigation report, which is merely based on subjective suspicions and false foundations, has in the name of national security made groundless accusations against China," Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman Shen Danyang (沈丹陽) said in the statement posted on the ministry's Web site.
However, the congressional report has triggered a fresh wave of complaints against the firms, opening a second phase to the panel's investigation.
A staff member of the intelligence committee said the panel has been receiving "dozens and dozens" of calls from current and former employees and customers reporting supposedly suspicious equipment behavior, chiefly involving Huawei.
"I don't think the companies should expect our attention to stop," the staff member said, adding that the panel would follow up on new leads.
The staffer was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Adding to Huawei's problems, Canada indicated on Tuesday that it would exclude Huawei from firms allowed to build a secure Canadian government communications network, citing possible security risks.
Canada has invoked a national security exception to let it discriminate, without violating international trade obligations, against companies deemed as too risky to be involved in putting together the network for carrying government telephone calls, e-mails and data center services, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman told a news conference.


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FORT DE SOTO PARK — Christopher Columbus appears uncertain about stepping into the New World.
Should it be his left foot? No, the rowboat's bow is too high, and stumbling is no way for Columbus — actually Clearwater actor Corey Dykes — to make a historic entrance. More like a two-footed conqueror's stomp, then a hero's stride out of the camera frame.
Welcome to America, rather what the world might be like had America never existed. It's a $7.5 million what-if question from conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, who gave President Barack Obama what-for in the election year documentary 2016: Obama's America.
D'Souza opened up to the Tampa Bay Times about his new movie, which concludes four days of filming at Fort De Soto Park today.
Last year, 2016: Obama's America stunned Hollywood with $33.5 million in ticket sales. It became the second-most successful political documentary ever, lagging far behind Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119 million) yet well ahead of liberal-leaning Oscar winners Bowling for Columbine and An Inconvenient Truth.
"After 2016 a lot of people expected we would do (a sequel), a film narrowly about politics: Obamacare or taxes," D'Souza, 51, said Wednesday, relaxing in Fort De Soto Park while extras costumed as conquistadors, Lucayan Indians and Columbus' crew milled about picnic shelter No. 12.
A nearby stretch of beach where Nina and Pinta replica ships anchored was the locale for Columbus' true New World landing. A temporary Asian-Indian village was built in the Arrowhead picnic area, as part of D'Souza's docu-fantasy vision.
"We decided to step back and do a big film about the meaning of America," he said. "How do you structure a film like that? What's the question you ask to get people thinking?"
D'Souza, director John Sullivan and producer Gerald Molen (Schindler's List, Jurassic Park) came up with a doozy: What if a sea quake 10,000 years ago sank America's land mass? Columbus sailing west might land in India. Civilization would be forever altered.
"It's a way of asking: What has America meant to the world?" D'Souza said. "That way we link it to the question: What will happen in the future if the influence of America shrinks?"
Which is how D'Souza's skepticism of the president in 2016: Obama's America could re-emerge. D'Souza denies that's his plan.
"There will be continuity but it will be much broader," D'Souza said. "One theme I'm exploring is (contrasting) the principles of America in 1776 and the principles of 1968, the year of cultural revolution. . . . I picked that year to create a tension between two poles of America. ... Obama simply becomes a fulfillment of the ideology of 1968. . . . He will make appearances because he's in power but he won't be a central figure anymore."
Instead, D'Souza says America will examine the nation's role as an "engine of modernity," listing innovations through the centuries ranging from modes of transportation to the Marshall Plan, pharmaceuticals and the civil rights movement.
"At the earliest times, going back to the 15th century, many people of Europe . . . began to say: 'There's this place called America that we can try. It's a new world, and we can almost start history all over again.' I love that idea."
A softer approach to Obama is dubious, given the rhetoric of D'Souza's earlier documentary, accusing the president of weakening U.S. influence in the Middle East, allowing a "United States of Islam" to develop as a result of guilt over past colonialism. 2016: Obama's America also excoriated the president for tax increases and indifference to rising national debt.
Simon Maloy, research fellow at mediamatters.org, a Washington, D.C., agency monitoring conservative media, doubts D'Souza will be kinder with America.
"His routine for the past few years has been sort of this steady drumbeat of false and outrageous attacks against the president," Maloy said in a telephone interview. "I assume it's possible that his new project will be a sunny and positive look at American greatness.
"But so much of what he's done recently defines America as something in opposition to Barack Obama that, I don't know, maybe it'll be a companion piece or something."
On the other hand, America may not turn out as inflammatory since Obama's own sequel — his 2012 re-election — renders such accusations moot. Like Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004, D'Souza's movie ultimately didn't lead to the filmmaker's choice of candidate. D'Souza makes America sound like defending the concept of American exceptionalism that conservatives claim Obama undermines.
"There's no question that in America now ... the principles responsible for American greatness are threatened," D'Souza said. "They're threatened by more than Obama; they're threatened by a more pervasive sense that not only is the pioneer spirit outdated but that it's kind of a bad thing. . . . That's part of what we want the film to question"
Most of the $4.5 million D'Souza raised so far for America comes from 2016 investors, who "thought they were making donations" and ended up with surprising profits.
America's theatrical debut is expected around July 4, 2014, so there's still time to shape its message and to influence next year's midterm elections, although D'Souza downplays this.
"If we release it around the Fourth of July it becomes a patriotic film; it's not just about politics," D'Souza said. "And the film, in fact, won't be just about politics. But there's also a midterm election debate, and there's no question we're going to be talking about what America means to us. We'll look at things that built America, and things that seem to be weakening us."
Observers like Maloy expect those themes to lead to the anti-Obama sequel D'Souza insists America isn't.
"It's difficult for me to think that he'd produce something that would be truly laudatory of the country and steer away from the sort of shenanigans he's performed in the past," Maloy said. "As long as he gets the facts right — and that I have very little faith in — if he does that's fine. His track record wouldn't lend itself to that conclusion."
Steve Persall can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8365. Follow him on Twitter @StevePersall.


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Jason Nasworth knew it was meant to be when his then-girlfriend, Jessica, would routinely order the same protein-packed meals he required in his bodybuilding pursuit.
Jason Nasworth knew it was meant to be when his then-girlfriend, Jessica, would routinely order the same protein-packed meals he required in his bodybuilding pursuit.
After three years of dating and working out together, the couple married a year ago and now both are focused on bodybuilding. On Wednesday, the pair will head to Northern Ireland to compete in the World Police and Fire Games on Aug. 3 in Belfast.
Jason is a sergeant at the Marion County Sheriff's Office and Jessica is an officer for the Ocala Police Department.
"This will be my first world competition. They hold worlds every two years. I was going to the 2011 games in New York, but it was canceled due to the hurricane (Irene). I didn't think I was going to be able to go this time until I got sponsored," said Jason Nasworth, who was born and raised in Marion County.
Those sponsors are Al and Judy Dunlap. Al Dunlap is a retired corporate executive who has run companies including Scott Paper and Sunbeam, and who now lives in Marion County.
"I've very grateful to them. They donated a K-9 officer several years ago, and we got to know each other. Without them, I wouldn't be able to afford to go," Jason said.
While Jason competes in traditional bodybuilding, Jessica competes in the figure division, where women are judged on muscle tone, rather than mass.
"I'm excited. But what I'm looking forward to is eating after the competition," she said.
The two have been on a strict, low-calorie, high-protein diet while preparing for the competition.
"A lot of lean chicken, a lot of fish, plenty of greens. But I probably eat less than 2,000 calories a day," said Jason, who is well over 6 feet tall.
That, combined with frequent training, is draining.
"Getting the energy is tough. We drink lots of coffee. Caffeine is a natural fat burner too," Jason said.
Judges for the men's competition look not only for mass, but also low levels of body fat and balance of muscle groups.
"It's really, really hard. Harder than you would think. It's not just working out. There is a lot of cardio, and nutrition is the most important part. Genetics also plays a part. You have to have the genes for it to begin with," he said.
More than 7,000 athletes are expected to compete in the games. It is one of the largest athletic events in the world, usually second only to the Summer Olympics.
The Nasworths work out at The Body Factory in Belleview with their trainer, Jordan Adams, who has been bodybuilding for nearly 30 years.
"They are both doing well. This competition will give them a sense of where they stand against higher-level competition. It's a good way for them to see how they stack up and then come back and work on what they may need more work on," Adams said.
Jessica, being newer to the pursuit, is still learning how to eat for competition.
"It takes time to learn your body. I can eat peanut butter and not have a problem, but she eats peanut butter and she gets bloated," Adams said.
The Nasworths will stay in Northern Ireland for a week, and they plan to do some sightseeing and eating.
"They have some castles in the area that I would love to see, and hopefully some pizza and burgers," Jessica said.
Jason is looking forward to trying some of the local delicacies.
"Corned beef and cabbage, shepherd's pie. We'll try some," he said.


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Last week, I wrote Max SEO with 8 simple Google+ steps before Google opened up G+ Brand Pages, so first go read what I wrote in the previous post (because all of the advice still applies). In this post, we'll work on setting up your brand page right away in the right way. If you follow these steps, you'll be as well-placed as possible.
First, did you notice that there's a new button on your Google+ profile? Go ahead and click "Create a Google+ page" and we'll get started.
Your first option is to create a page. Be careful here, because it isn't simple to change the sort of page you have. Continue reading


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We don't know why Adam Lanza decided to kill his mother Friday and then 20 first-graders and the six women who tried to protect them at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
We don't know why Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother, felt the need to legally own several handguns and rifles, one of which, a Glock 10 mm, the handgun Adam Lanza used on himself, is issued to rangers in Greenland in case they encounter a polar bear, said John Miller, CBS senior correspondent.
And we don't know why these mass shootings seem to be occurring more and more frequently with more and more victims.
All we know is that this nation is not doing enough to deal with our love of bigger, badder guns, or our urgent need to help minister to the mentally ill.
We no longer feel safe as a nation and the less safe we feel, it seems, the more guns we buy. The more guns we buy, the more likely someone with emotional issues will have access to a firearm and use it on innocent people. And then we buy more guns.
It is insanity. But the blame is placed everywhere but the where it belongs.
My adult Sunday school class blamed the mass killings on the absence of prayer in our schools. It is a debate we have whenever our children or youth are caught up in negative activities.
They believe everything started going downhill when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against religion in our schools. By limiting prayer, my classmates said, some of the children don't learn about God and his salvation.
I've heard others blame the Newtown public school system for not having security at the school. They want to make our schools more like jails to keep our children safe. Let's arm school administrators and teachers because we all know they won't go off.
Let's do everything but address the elephant in the room.
If we are a frightened people, if we no longer feel safe in our homes, schools or churches, buying more guns is not the solution.
I agree with President Barack Obama and all the politicians with an ounce of integrity who are calling for talks about our love of guns and our disdain for limitations on that love. But even that is not enough if we resist examining the human element as well.
No one loves chess pie more than I do. But I also know a couple of pieces twice a year is my limit. Otherwise my health will pay dearly for it.
We must allow folks to have a gun or two, but restrict the types of guns. Who needs a semi-automatic rifle for protection? Some of these weapons are meant to protect us from dangers that are not present. Why would anyone in a city need a pistol that can take down a bear? How many bears have been spotted in that area of Connecticut?
We need restrictions, folks, on the types of guns we can buy and who can buy them. And then we need to take a hard look at how we address mental illness in our society.
I read the touching account of the mother of a son who has mental and emotional issues that aren't being addressed. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, Idaho, said talking about guns and gun control is easy. Talking about mental illness is not.
Long has a 13-year-old son who scares her to death. She has taught her two younger children how to run to the car and lock the doors when the teenager becomes unhinged. But she has not been able to find a correct diagnosis for his illness, nor much help in controlling him.
She was told her best solution was to have her son charged with a crime and then the system would act.
"No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail," she wrote. "But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, 'Something must be done.'
"I agree that something must be done. It's time for a meaningful, nationwide conversation about mental health. That's the only way our nation can ever truly heal. God help me. God help Michael. God help us all."
But we must make an effort to show our children we care enough about them to find a better way to protect them than with a weapon.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Traffic deaths fell slightly in Wisconsin in February. Twenty-eight people died during the month, eight fewer than last year and four fewer than the five-year average. Sixty-nine people had died this year by the end of February, also down from a year ago. State transportation officials say the numbers are preliminary. They're still determining if all the deaths were directly caused by crashes.
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PORTLAND, Maine — A 7-year-old water bottling company has taken legal action against Nestle Waters North America, seeking to resolve a legal conflict that it says has been boiling over for years.
Maine Springs, with water extraction permits in the towns of Poland Spring and Poland, filed a lawsuit against Nestle in U.S. District Court Tuesday, alleging the bottled water giant that owns the Poland Spring brand has interfered with its business and falsely labels its Poland Spring water.
Maine Springs, formed in 2007 with extraction permits at two springs, states in its lawsuit that its efforts to sell its water have been complicated by a threat of legal action from Poland Spring. To bottle its water, federal and state law requires it identify the physical source of its water.
By listing its source in Poland Spring, Maine, Maine Springs said it received threats of a trademark violation lawsuit from Nestle. Maine Springs alleges in its lawsuit that Nestle also interfered with its attempts to supply water to other bottlers, including Niagara Bottling Co. and Crystal Rock.
In 2011, Maine Springs said it received a letter from Nestle.
"While we appreciate that there is a geographic location known as Poland Spring, Maine, the predominant associations created by the statement are that the 'Poland Spring' is the source of the water and that its contents are associated with the Poland Spring brand," the letter stated, alleging violations of false designation of origin and misleading labeling under the same law Maine Springs is now seeking to sue Nestle.
Jane Lazgin, a spokeswoman for Nestle Waters, wrote in an email that Maine Springs owner John Juliano previously said he would bottle and sell water in a similar trade dress or file a lawsuit against Nestle if the bottling giant did not buy his company's water.
"We will seek all appropriate remedies in this meritless matter," Lazgin wrote.
In addition to allegations that Nestle interfered with its business, Maine Springs further alleges the Poland Spring brand mislabels the source of its water and misrepresents it as 100 percent natural spring water.
It's not the first time that Poland Spring has faced such allegations. In 2003, it settled a class action lawsuit alleging that its water doesn't come from a spring.


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A New Urgency To Connect With Customers And Partners
HP paid dearly for CEO turnover and what Whitman called a "lack of consistent strategy" over the last five to seven years. That inconsistency "really hurt us here," she said. "The good news is now the entire company is focused on reconnecting to our customers and to our partners. Nothing is more important for the future of HP."
This year alone, Whitman said, she has met with over 1,000 customers and partners. That kind of engagement is taking place at not only the senior executive level but also throughout HP, said Whitman.
"Our focus is on delivering great experiences to our customers with every single interaction, whether that be in delivery of product or services or whether that be in a sales call or selling a solution," she said.


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One senior from each of 49 states that sponsor high school state wrestling championships were selected for this honor by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.
Giraldo lives in Guttenberg, attends High Tech High School, and wrestles for North Bergen. He won state championships in both 2013 and 2014 and has signed a Letter of Intent to wrestle for Rutgers University.
The Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award was named for the late Olympic and world champion wrestler. Award recipients are evaluated on excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, character, citizenship, and community service.


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MITCHELL STARC believes this week's game will have him primed for a recall to the baggy green but the Test dream appears over this summer for another player on the cusp of a call-up, Andrew McDonald.
With the second Test to start next week in Adelaide, the progress of Starc and fellow young gun Josh Hazlewood will be closely monitored when they turn out for NSW in their Shield game against Victoria starting Tuesday at the SCG.
Starc admitted he struggled with his consistency in NSW's Shield loss to Queensland less than a fortnight ago but is confident another appearance in the whites this week will top off his preparation should he be needed for the second Test.
The left-armer's variety was missed in the first innings of the Gabba Test, but the 22-year-old did himself no favours in his final lead-up match, his first in the first-class scene in three months. Starc collected match figures of 3-82 from 18 overs but it was felt he had not made a smooth transition back into the long-form of the game after a schedule dominated by Twenty20 cricket.
Starc had trouble swinging the red ball, which is considered harder to swing than the white one used in the limited-overs format, in the first innings against Queensland, though found more lateral movement in the Bulls' second dig.
The exciting quick is still a couple of kilograms away from replacing the weight he lost while overseas due to illness, though Starc said national selectors were more concerned with getting him ''red-ball fit''.
''I've got a lot more energy and the amount of overs isn't going to faze me - it's more just getting that consistency and getting those areas and trying to work a batsman out,'' Starc said on Monday after training with the Blues. ''They're looking to build an innings so you're going to have to build a plan to get them out, it's not going to happen straight away all the time.
''You've got to bowl a lot more overs and [hit] more consistent areas rather than bowling your 24 balls and a yorker here, a bumper there and you're done.''
Meanwhile, McDonald has a hamstring injury and faces ''around eight to 10 weeks'' on the sidelines. Victoria coach Greg Shipperd said Bushrangers medical staff were considering surgery for McDonald though it was yet to be decided.
The injury appears set to wipe out the Test summer for McDonald, who had been identified as a possible replacement for Shane Watson should the all-rounder's injury woes continue. ''He could battle on and play under the duress that he's been playing under [but] with the risk of a major rupture,'' Shipperd said.
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text: Dictyostelium discoideum Raper (ATCC® 28368™) Strain Designations: Ax-3 / Product Format: frozen General Information Characteristics Culture Method Specifications History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Strain Designations Ax-3 Application produces calmodulintransformation hosthydrolysis of a phosphonate ester Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format frozen Type Strain no Preceptrol® no Comments Actin binding to plasma membraneThymidine kinase activitypart of Eumycetozoan Project Medium ATCC® Medium 1034: Modified PYNFH medium (Available from ATCC as ATCC cat. no. 327-X) ATCC® Medium 671: Dictyostelium medium Growth Conditions Temperature: 20.0-25.0°CThis culture contains food source bacteria and thus it is not axenic. Sequenced Data No DNA sequencing was performed in house on this product. Name of Depositor WF Loomis Special Collection Part of Eumycetozoan Project Chain of Custody ATCC <-- WF Loomis Cross References Nucleotide (GenBank) : D12883 gene coding for gp138 Nucleotide (GenBank) : D12884 gene coding for gp138 References Loomis WF Jr.. Sensitivity of Dictyostelium discoideum to nucleic acid analogues. Exp. Cell Res. 64: 484-486, 1971. PubMed: 5542656 Yarger J, et al. Observations on the growth of Dictyostelium discoideum in axenic medium: evidence for an extracellular growth inhibitor synthesized by stationary phase cells. J. Cell Sci. 14: 681-690, 1974. PubMed: 4857469 Fey P, et al. Green fluorescent protein production in the cellular slime molds Polysphondylium pallidum and Dictyostelium discoideum. Gene 165: 127-130, 1995. PubMed: 7489901 Kessin RH, et al. Linkage analysis in Dictyostelium discoideum using temperature- sensitive growth mutants selected with bromodeoxyuridine. J. Bacteriol. 119: 776-783, 1974. PubMed: 4859399 Michrina CA, Deering RA. Thymidine kinase activity in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Gen. Microbiol. 119: 263-266, 1980. PubMed: 7411120 Jacobson BS. Actin binding to the cytoplasmic surface of the plasma membrane isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 97: 1493-1498, 1980. PubMed: 6894237 Fang H, et al. Molecular cloning and characterization of two genes encoding gp138, a cell surface glycoprotein involved in the sexual cell fusion of Dictyostelium discoideum. Dev. Biol. 156: 201-208, 1993. PubMed: 7680629 Rossomando EF, Jahngen JH. Hydrolysis of a phosphonate ester catalyzed by an enzyme from Dictyostelium discoideum. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 197: 364-366, 1979. PubMed: 232405 Clarke M, et al. Isolation and properties of calmodulin from Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Bacteriol. 141: 397-400, 1980. PubMed: 6243626 Bazari WL, Clarke M. Characterization of a novel calmodulin from Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Biol. Chem. 256: 3598-3603, 1981. PubMed: 6259174 Loomis WF. Dictyostelium discoideum. A developmental system. Academic Press, New York, 1975. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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I'm an energetic, slim, reasonably pretty thirty-year-old. However, I reside in a rather shocking, obese, aching, apathetic 56-year-old body. I love living in Austin but I'm chock-full of criticism of America in general. The Rockies bring me to tears, but so does the health care system. I've adopted Thanksgiving, but not the Pledge of Allegiance. If I seem elated and unbearably grouchy in sometimes dizzyingly quick succession, this is why.
I love the usual: my husband, my children, my friends and our pets. I hate heat, willful ignorance, bone spurs, spiders, and walking or cycling in place.
I collect raft books and I've developed a weird obsession with the bottoms of bridges.
When I lived in the Netherlands, twenty-three years ago, I loved hot tea, wild camping in Great Britain, gardening, reading for days on end, and I walked and cycled everywhere. Now that I live in a pretty darn hot part of the US, with kids who have to be driven everywhere by car, I love reminiscing about hot tea, wild camping in Great Britain, gardening, reading for days on end and walking and cycling everywhere…
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The Sad Story Behind Labor Day
The Sad Story Behind Labor Day
by Claudine Zap
Sep 4, 2009
For most of us, Labor Day means backyard barbecues, weekend sales, and a last carefree day before school starts. But the laid-back holiday has some seriously sad history, including chaos, riots, and even death. Let us explain.
A tragic tale
Back in the days of the Industrial Revolution, workers were expected to put in 12-hour days, seven days a week (yes, including kids). Already sounds awful, right? It gets worse. In Pullman, Illinois, a company town that employed and housed workers to build posh railway cars, times had gotten tough. In response, George Pullman cut jobs and wages. It was 1893.
Thousands of workers walked off their jobs in protest, demanding higher salaries and lower rents. Other unions joined, refusing to work the Pullman cars, turning the small-town fracas into a national fury.
With mail cars backing up, and riots worrying train execs, President Grover Cleveland stepped in. He declared the strike illegal and sent 12,000 troops to break the strike. Cue brutal protests and bloodshed. The strike was broken, but so was the spirit of the workers. To reach out to the labor movement, Congress rushed the national holiday into law. The bad will resulted in Cleveland losing re-election. But the day off for hot dogs endures.
When is it?
Labor Day falls on the first Monday of September. This year, that would be Monday, September 7. According to the Department of Labor, Congress passed an act in 1894 making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday.
So, working stiffs everywhere, say it now, with feeling: Happy Labor Day.
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There's a lot of this from a historian's perspective I could say, but I'll sum it up like this: Read "The Jungle", kids. Just read "The Jungle".
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With an expected GDP growth of 7% per year over the next decade and an increase per year in job creation, the tourism sector in the Coral Triangle is considered by the governments as a major driver of the economy.
However, poor sanitation, improper management of tourism activities, and a lack of infrastructure development and effective management are causing major negative impacts on coastal and marine resources and the local communities that depend on them.
In the long run, these impacts may harm the future of tourism if the beauty of natural assets isn't preserved.
The role of Marine Protected AreasMarine Protected Areas or MPAs, serve a very important role of securing the welfare of our valuable marine resources while securing the food and livelihoods of people. However, MPAs in the Coral Triangle region are struggling to play their conservation role as a result of a lack of funding and capacity.
The WWF Coral Triangle Program, in support of the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, assessed the price tag for sustainably managing the MPAs of the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion, a priority seascape of the Coral Triangle. The conclusion clearly shows, with no room for doubt that the funding gaps for sustainably-managing these areas range from 20% to 48% depending on the country and type of MPAs.
Making tourism work for natureTourism-related mechanisms have been identified as part of the solution. WWF is working to increase tourism revenues that go back to conservation activities and develop financial incentives for tourism operators to lower their ecological footprint.
Tourism operators can reduce their carbon emissions and waste impacts on marine resources if they: i) invest in appropriate waste management and energy efficiency technologies; and ii) implement low/no cost changes to operational practices. A lack of investment funds and technical expertise are among the roadblocks that prevent tourism operators and commercial banks from taking action.
Investing in environment-friendly technologies to increase benefits to nature and peopleFocusing on Malaysia and potentially in Indonesia, WWF is assessing the environmental impacts of tourism and the willingness of tourism operators to invest in more efficient technologies. Appropriate financing mechanisms can unlock this potential and act as a catalyst for improved behaviors. The financing mechanism design is based on investment barriers and the willingness of operators to invest in environment-friendly technologies and best practices.
Through these pilot projects, WWF hopes to enlist the support of the entire tourism industry to give back to the environment and contribute to better-managed marine resources for the benefit of the millions of people.


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To be honest, I prefer my sound to be continuous. I tried playing left for dead with a flickering sound card, and let me tell you, *silence* *silence* *silence* *Roar of Tank right behind you* *silence* Not a good way to play. Don't even get me started on Voice Chat.
Yeah, but sometimes I use the computer when others are sleeping. I need it to be discreet.
As opposed to what? Continuous sound card?
You know, do you need a sound card that doesn't let your roommate or neighbor know that you listen to porn all day?
That's actually not a bad idea. I wonder how complex your algorithms would have to be to determine if the sounds produced are of gunshots or female moans.
Too many times I've either gone from an FPS to a naughty website or vice versa and either the volume was left down or too high and either I can't hear the game or some horny girl can be heard all throughout the house.
What I need is a dedicated card that can handle all that for me - anytime I try to set up different volume controls per application in Window
I wonder how complex your algorithms would have to be to determine if the sounds produced are of gunshots or female moans.
They should give the Turing award to anyone that can produce an algorithm that can tell the difference between porn and women's tennis.
They should give the Turing award to anyone that can produce an algorithm that can tell the difference between porn and women's tennis.
You mean women's tennis isn't porn?
The music gives it away.
Analog of course. They've got this new qbits that can have literally any value between 0 and 1!
I don't think that I have put a sound card in a game rig in the past 5-8 years. Does anyone still use them besides people who have some some special need for them?
When I bought my last desktop (2008) I noticed a huge drop in audio quality and volumes going from my SB Live! in my Pentium 4 box to the Realtek HD onboard in the new system. A year ago I added an SB Audigy to my C2D box I noticed a huge jump in the sound output - I didn't have to crank my speakers up to understand speech, recording quality went up, and I started to notice the difference in 128Kb/s vs 192Kb/s (especially on percussion).
When I bought my last desktop (2008) I noticed a huge drop in audio quality and volumes going from my SB Live! in my Pentium 4 box to the Realtek HD onboard in the new system. A year ago I added an SB Audigy to my C2D box I noticed a huge jump in the sound output - I didn't have to crank my speakers up to understand speech, recording quality went up, and I started to notice the difference in 128Kb/s vs 192Kb/s (especially on percussion).
I have used many systems with integrated audio, mostly with Realtek cod
Sound cards used to be sold because their ability to decode sound was done on the card rather than having the CPU doing it, which would slow down the gaming performance (somewhat). I'm sure that sound cards also have other features not found in on-board chipsets, but most of those are for things like high end gaming.
About 7 years ago I remember getting an on-board NVIDIA chipset that had hardware decoding of mp3 files. The CPU utilization of the system without the hardware decoding the CPU jumped to about 45% continuous while playing back the mp3 file. On the rig with the NVIDIA chipset with hardware decoding the CPU utilization was nearly imperceptible. It became to expensive for NVIDIA to offer those for long so they replaced them with generic sound chipsets.
I might be the special need, but yes, I do. The reason is because I have my PC hooked into my entertainment center. The last time I bought a motherboard, I could not find one with the socket and memory type I wanted that also had a digital-output for the sound on the motherboard. I finally just picked up a used Turtle Beach off Amazon, and now I got surround from my computer again.
My own machine still has audigy2 I bought long, long ago, and that has been in at least 2 other systems before. My parents, who usually get my "hand downs" use ancient SB live!
Both machines have realtek on board audio, and even my father, who is not audiophile by any stretch noticed a difference in spite of using some crappy 50€ speaker+mic set on that machine after I put SB Live in (his words were something among the lines of "whatever you did to our computer, it sounds different. I like it more that
One reason is simply quality. The built in soundcards are fine, but they are optimized for cost, not quality. I had that problem at work. Figured I'd use the built in soundcard since I wasn't doing anything really critical. However it had an audible hiss with my headphones plugged in. It couldn't handle the low impedance load well, and an audible hiss was the result. Really annoying.
Another can be compatibility issues. Sometimes internal cards fall over on certain things for whatever reason. I again had thi
I was plagued with choppy audio under W7 until I disabled my Realtek sound chip and got a Turtle Beach PCI card. Actually, IIRC, CoD4 refused to run at all with Realtek. Never had a problem with it under Linux though. Of course, YMMV.
Only if what you listen to requires discretion.
My motherboard has optical SPDIF in and I'd never use a DAC in the PC environment, it's just too noisy.
I used to think the same thing too. Amazingly enough, you can engineer your way around the noise and create a very good sound card, at least from my informal experience with a handful of different cards. That said, most motherboard solutions (including laptop versions, unfortunately) are nearly worthless because of the price optimization pressure.
Some years ago, I had an undergraduate student design an audio I/O card for a research computer we were developing. She did a remarkably good job. Despite being buried in the middle of an environment with a fair bit of electrical noise, the card produced quite good sound that was essentially as quiet as it would be as if it were in a separate enclosure. She had proper power supply and ground isolation, local re-regulation, and ran all signal traces on internal layers with ground/power planes on the external faces of the PCB. Worked great.
I don't.
But I don't do anything that revolves around audio.
Of course 99.5% of the people who claim to be audiophiles and claim they can 'tell the difference' don't need one either. Its just a different type of epenis.
I've gone through various cards and I can definitely tell a difference between grades. The gold shielded $1000 cables are bullshit; but an obscenely thin aluminum cable will destroy sound and video quality (there are truly shit products out there), and the solution to that is a $12 RCA cable (audio/video/stereo) instead of the chinese crap that came with your game system.
A low-end SB Live! or SB Audigy card, however, works wonderfully. The Emu10k1 chipset in the audigy clearly provides a higher grade tha
Gold shield? I've never seen any cable that used anything for the shield other than either aluminum foil (with a drain wire) or a braided copper or silver shield. Even the expensive cables almost invariably use copper in one form or another. Gold is a poor conductor and would make an awful shield. It's only used to coat connectors because it doesn't oxidize.
Cheap cables can degrade the sound, mostly by having too small a wire gauge for the main conductor. Thus, on average, judging cables by their diame
... Gold is a poor conductor
Gold is a superior conductor to aluminum and not much worse than copper. I'm guessing its cost has more to do with aluminum winning out on low end shielding.
I put my PC into a wooden case so the bits would properly resonate before being sent to the speakers.
Years ago, I got Ghost Recon for Christmas. I had all the minimum specs of the game - and most of the recommended - but one thing never mentioned was a sound card. Now, for normal singleplayer gameplay there was almost never an issue. However, when playing online, where there could be anywhere from 16 to 32 sounds going at once, my game would slow to a screeching hault for the length of the gunfight - essentially making me useless online. I couldn't even play the support class because a full auto-machine gun tended to slow things down a bit, so I never went anything but the sniper and would always run to the flanks to try and avoid my game from hearing any sounds besides my own shots. Had to disable music and some ambient effects just to get that going.
Since then, now that I'm older and I can afford things on my own - I've never gotten a computer for gaming without a soundcard. I never want to be in that situation again, and I figure dedicated hardware was the way to go (like a good Graphics card helps with the display of things obviously, so I naturally assume a sound-card provides the same assistance with audio).
Now - whether that's still the case, could I go and grab the latest game, meet minimum specs, and have audio cause lag? I don't know. If so, I think soundcards are still necessary. Especially for the EAX effects and such.
Realtek's sound chips / drivers don't play nice with a few games I enjoy, namely NWN1 & other Aurora Engine games.
Asus' $30 Xonar DG and its considerably more expensive $280 Xense cousin. Everything from gaming performance to signal quality is explored, and it's the blind listening tests that prove most revealing.
They reveal the authors insistence on going into excruciating detail on everything. Maybe his attention to detail makes him a better audio engineer/evaluator, but honestly we would have been fine with "The subjects preferred X card for Y music by a substantial margin"...
If you buy a set of not-too-expensive surround speakers (I have the Edifier 501s - a bargain at $150 a few years ago) then you should go for a discrete soundcard imho. If you're just going to pipe the sound through a couple of $5 speakers, then don't bother.
Vinyl is strictly worse than any semi-modern solution when technical merits are concerned. The only reason you can have vinyls that sound better is because of the bastard recording industry and their loudness war [wikipedia.org].
Or because people prefer the sound of vinyl, coloration and all. You can measure the performance of a medium and determine which is the most neutral (or the "best" from a technical pov), but that doesn't always equate to the one which people think sounds "best" to their ears. I get into this a lot with audio fans who say that their $xxxx gear sounds "better" than something much cheaper, despite the test results saying the cheaper one is as good or better from a transparency pov - our ears don't always like transparent (tube amps are great evidence of that!).
I have a m audio delta 2940 PCI card I bought on ebay and hooking it up to my Tripath 2020 amp with fostex full rangers literally (figuratively) blew me away. The quality of the output compared to the rear output on the SBLive (kx drivers) was night and day. Amazing. I got it to do some digitisation of old audio recordings.
Does anybody have any quantitive measurements of the Apri 2010 Mac book pro As i'm interested in doing some recording with that wondered how good a quality I'm likely to get.
My HTPC uses my ATI card as the soundcard - HDMI audio. Which is nice because it does support the necessary protected path audio so I can play my blu-rays and send the Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio over HDMI.
My laptop has a USB dongle that encodes 5.1 audio into a DTS or DD stream so I can play games with surround. Again, not likely something to have onboard anymore (the old nVidia chipsets used to have a DD encoder).
And there's also the music (though usually they go for Firewire or USB interfaces?)
Which is nice because it does support the necessary protected path audio
The protected audio path is suddenly "necessary" and "nice"?!?
What the hell... man, please get an audio player software that disregards DRM (Blu-Ray DRM has been defeated) and you'll be able to send this to any sound card no matter if it degrades to the protected audio path or not.
used to spend $250 or so on a sound card in the old days but in the last few years the onboard chips have become good enough. the worst part about the old Audigy cards was you had to install all the crappy software that most people didn't use
How am I supposed to gloat about how awesome my sound setup is if I don't have a discrete sound card? Instead of wasting time with blind listening tests, they should go to a bar, walk up to a woman and say:
Hey, baby, wanna come home and listen to my 7.1-channel, 24-bit, 192kHz Xense sound card while I rock you all night long?
Excuse me, miss, would you like to come home and listen to my integrated sound card while I cry about my ex-girlfriend and prematurely ejaculate?
This is what I call real-life testing scenarios.
I think in this case, since you don't want to wake up your parents upstairs, the integrated option would probably be best.
Dude, I remember back in the day when I got a Creative AWE 64 Gold card. That's right, the ISA one with the gold-plated RCA outputs, expandable RAM, and general kickassery.
I still have the shiny plastic bit that came on the front of the box! It's sitting just to the left of the framed Fuckwad Theory print [livingwithanerd.com].
Despite Creative's very rocky buggy drivers early on and design issues with early X-FI's The Fatality Tittanium card has been incredible compared to my built in audio on my intel board.
I could NEVER get line in to work on the realtek stuff. It was always flakey, the drivers first said it wasnt possible due to a design bug, then a year later they updated and line in was there... but it barely functioned right. I use line in because I have 2 workstations next to each other.
So I went and bought an XFI... think
The main reason to get a discrete card is the noise. Onboard audio always puts out white noise to the speakers, which you really can hear in a quiet environment. My Xonar D2X puts out no noise at all; you can put your ear right to the speaker and hear nothing. This way I can leave the speakers on instead of having to turn them on each time I want to watch a movie and turn them back off again to avoid the damn noise grating on my ears. The card's sound quality is excellent and Linux fully supports it.
I do lots of stuff with DSP, playing with various sorts of digital modulation and demodulation. While the crappiest sound interface can capture everything there is to capture from a communications-quality audio signal, it's handy to have some extra signal-to-noise ratio or sampling rate for particular applications. I've played with PSK31 [wikipedia.org], HF weather fax [wikipedia.org] and weather satellites [wikipedia.org].
So yes, sometimes.
Naturally this answer will vary depending on job-type requirements, but in general, if you're playing games or playing back music, the answer is now a pretty cut and dry "No".
For many years integrated sound sucked. I would purposefully look for boards that didn't include it when motherboard shopping (didn't want unused ports on my board). Lately though, integrated sound - and network, has gotten to the point where it's good enough for anyone not wanting to indulge in a specialty/niche action.
Sound cards j
If you want digital surround sound for a HTPC, you want Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect to transcode into DD/DTS bitstream into your HT receiver.
AFAIK there are currently ZERO onboard sound chips that do this.
Yes, you could run 6 cables from the back of the HTPC into the analog preamp ins on your receiver (assuming it isn't a skinny modern HTPC-in-a-box that only has SPDIF or HDMI in) but you'd likely also end up with hum and other strange sound artifacts from the chintzy DAC..
These days, I'd _REALLY_ prefer a dump of 5.1 LPCM over HDMI, and it's technically probably easier to do to boot, or at least less license-y..
PC audio testers always forget to test for the influence of power supply on output noise. I noticed simply changing the power supply makes a big difference to the output noise level. Also some ventilators and other PC components draw current in bursts so there are nice clicks on transitions. This will affect both on-board sound and internal audio cards. I can tolerate a few decibels of white noise, but I don't like to feel like a doctor listening to PC internals. So I'd like to know how an audio component performs in worst case power supply scenario.
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A longstanding list from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis of 33 priests "credibly accused" of sexual abuse was incomplete, with the actual number of accused or suspected priests more than twice the official count, Minnesota Public Radio News reported Wednesday.
A longstanding list from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis of 33 priests "credibly accused" of sexual abuse was incomplete, with the actual number of accused or suspected priests more than twice the official count, Minnesota Public Radio News reported Wednesday.
MPR reported that its investigation found that the archdiocese dealt with allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse involving at least 70 clergy members since 1950. The station posted a searchable database on them. The priests served in nearly every parish of the archdiocese, according to MPR, which based its own list on a review of other lists compiled by church officials, court records, private settlements, police reports and hundreds of internal church documents.
The station said it also found more than a dozen other priests referred to as possible child abusers in private lists and memos but could find no information about their alleged crimes. MPR said it was not naming them.
But the archdiocese said the MPR report "includes numerous inaccuracies, misrepresentations and omissions." At least 16 of the clergy members identified by MPR were the subject of "false, meritless or unsubstantiated accusations against them," the archdiocese said in a statement released late Wednesday.
The archdiocese also said at least two people on MPR's list had never served in the archdiocese. The archdiocese stressed the care it has repeatedly taken to distinguish between priests who are credibly accused and those who are simply accused.
"The archdiocese is dedicated to accurate and responsible reporting of clergy against whom substantiated claims of sexual abuse of a minor have been made," the statement said.
The list of 33 was just one of many lists of accused priests stored on computers and in filing cabinets at the chancery in St. Paul. Church officials later stopped writing lists for fear they would have to be disclosed in lawsuits, said Jennifer Haselberger, a former canon lawyer for the archdiocese who resigned last April in protest of its handling of clergy sexual misconduct. She then became a whistleblower.
It's not clear why some men weren't named on the official list of 33, which was compiled by the Rev. Kevin McDonough, former vicar general of the archdiocese, at the height of the national clergy abuse scandal 11 years ago, MPR reported. The archdiocese acknowledged the existence of the list in 2003 but declined to release the names until a judge ordered the archdiocese to do so in December. Documents suggest that McDonough in several cases simply lost track of all the allegations, the report said.
Archbishop John Nienstedt, through a spokesman, declined MPR's interview request, and McDonough did not respond to its interview request. A spokesman for the archdiocese wouldn't explain how abuse claims were vetted for credibility.
Some of the accused on MPR's list remain in ministry. Others are long dead. Several have been included on other lists of "credibly accused" priests from other dioceses or religious orders but their assignments in the archdiocese were kept private.
MPR's Investigation found that at least 21 priests named as suspected child abusers by other dioceses and religious orders had served in the Twin Cities archdiocese. At least four priests have been the subject of lawsuits for alleged child sexual abuse but weren't on the archdiocese's public list. At least 10 of the clerics were criminally investigated, the report said.
MPR said it found only four priests who served or worked in the Twin Cities who were criminally convicted of child sexual abuse. In every other case, the report said, the archdiocese relied on changing, often vague criteria to determine whether allegations were credible, and that it set standards that were difficult for victims to meet.
The archdiocese hired a private consulting firm, Kinsale Management Consulting, last year to review its clergy personnel files. On Monday, the archdiocese disclosed nine more names of accused priests.
The archdiocese's statement said the list of 33 credibly accused priests was disclosed as part of an individual court case, while other disclosures are different.
"The latter is our promise to victims and the community at large to do all that we can to provide safe environments for children," the archdiocese said. "We look forward to fulfilling our promises to victim and the community as completely and as soon as possible."


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The closer suburban school systems come to reality, the more the specific terms of their existence shift and move.
The closer suburban leaders get to forming separate school districts, the more the details of those districts shift and change.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
Voters in the six suburban towns and cities in Shelby County go to the polls Thursday, Nov. 7, to elect school boards for their six school systems.
Because so many of the school board positions are one-candidate unopposed races, some of those presumed school board members have already been talking with leaders of their respective communities about a quick move to get the school systems up and running.
It is when the early voting period opened last month that the changes began to emerge in the idea that the suburban school systems would continue to educate children from unincorporated Shelby County who attend those schools now.
That's when Shelby County Schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson and his staff unveiled the plan that would keep those children in the Shelby County Schools system and keep four schools – three in Germantown and one in Millington – within Shelby County Schools as well.
Hopson contends – and the board agrees – it has to have a plan to educate those children who could get squeezed out of suburban school districts as the schools fill with students who live in the six communities.
Germantown Elementary, Middle and High schools remaining in the Shelby County Schools system affects the plans for a Collierville school district because, according to Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy, about 1,000 students living in Collierville attend Houston High School in Germantown, the only other high school within the Germantown city limits.
If Germantown High School remains part of Shelby County Schools, high school-age students living in Germantown presumably would attend Houston.
"I think it's a little bit early to look at exactly what that effect would be," Goldsworthy said.
"We were going to take them," she said of the high school-age students from Collierville now at Houston. "At first glance, we are most hopeful of continuing this informal – not agreement – but understanding we have had with Collierville. It's been mayor to mayor."
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald has been the most vocal among the mayors of not only negotiating terms of the school buildings and what happens with students in the unincorporated county but also ending the part of the federal lawsuit being pursued by Shelby County Commissioners.
The legal claim by the commission is that the suburban school districts violate the U.S. Constitution because they would racially "resegregate" public education in Shelby County.
Lakeland Mayor Wyatt Bunker, elected in September, is also a Shelby County Commissioner. He is among the minority on the commission opposed to the legal claim.
He thinks it is irrelevant to the talks that will begin shortly after this week's school board election results are certified.
"It's becoming less and less of a factor as we move forward," Bunker said, adding that Shelby County Schools board members he's spoken with agree.
"Whether it served a purpose in the past is debatable. Some people believe it brought everybody to the table in a manner in which they wanted to work towards an agreement towards the settlement," Bunker said. "I can argue another position and say that would have happened anyway. … Is this having an impact on the process? Is it negative or positive? I don't think it's either. I think it's just out there lingering, costing the taxpayers money."
Bunker likely won't have a vote on any resolution that could come to the commission to end the litigation. A Shelby County Attorney's opinion holds that it is a conflict of interest for Bunker to vote on the matter given his new position as mayor of Lakeland.
Some on the commission have argued that without the lawsuit still pending, there would be nothing to stop suburban leaders from going to Nashville seeking legislation to get schools from Shelby County Schools at no cost. The lawsuit continuing is a hedge against the suburban leaders doing that because it would mean possibly years of continued legal fees for all sides in what would be a complex case involving experts and the history of segregation and desegregation in public education as well as demographics past, present and future.
McDonald has said if suburban leaders end up having to pay a negotiated price for school buildings, as it outlined in the Shelby County Schools framework approved by the board last month, it should be accompanied by the lawsuit coming to an end.


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Hooting Back at the Owls
From a tree just beyond the stone wall that marks our property line, there came an astonishing series of barks and growls. A couple of possibilities flashed through my brain. Coyotes? Raccoons? Then I heard the diagnostic "Who cooks for you?"
Two barred owls – males, I surmised – were going head to head. I called downstairs to my wife, Gina, so she could listen. They were so close we could hear their voices quaver. They sounded like monkeys, like dogs, and occasionally like barred owls – "aw-aw-aw-aw-aw-aw—whooah!" – the "aws" ascending in pitch and culminating in a burst followed by a low sustained hoot filled with vibrato. It was as if we could hear their vocal cords quivering.
We live in a part of the outer suburbs with enough protected land, watershed property and big unsubdivided tracts to support a satisfyingly large number of animals that are qualitatively different than the standard deer, raccoons and skunks of suburbia. On our three acres alone we've found box turtles, wood frogs and gray tree frogs, ringneck snakes, luna moths and walking sticks, and an easy walk brings us to places where wood turtles and spotted turtles, marbled salamanders, bobcats and river otters can be found. Broad-winged hawks and red-shouldered hawks nest in our neighborhood, and in just about every month of the year we've heard the barred owls' "Who-cooks-for-you? Who-cooks-for-you-all?" hoot.
But for reasons I can't explain September has become the month for barred owls. Last September we heard them for 10 days in a row, or until their calls became so commonplace that I stopped counting. We heard them at three in the afternoon, and we heard them at 7:30 in the evening. We heard them before we went to bed and we heard them in the early morning.
One morning I woke up at 3:45 and couldn't fall back asleep. An hour or so later, one of our cats wanted to come in, so I got up and opened the door. A barred owl was hooting. From down the driveway I heard it make what I think of as the other distinctive barred owl call, the ascending "aw-aw-aw-aw-aw-aw—whooah!" Then from the woods to the west an owl responded with a single syllable: "whoaw." I stood listening for a few minutes and then stepped onto the deck. I realized there were two owls calling from down the driveway. They were regaling each other with the same "aw-aw-aw-aw-aw-aw—whooah!" call. The early morning was humid and cloudy but bright – there was a big moon behind the thin clouds. Every few minutes a slight wet breeze blew. The owls went back and forth, over and over. Finally, as I was preparing to go back in, I heard another one, far to the south, call "who-cooks-for-you, who-cooks-for-you-all."
Four barred owls or had one flown away and resumed this interaction at a distance?
I couldn't tell and, since I was wearing nothing but boxers, I was too chilled to linger to see if the answer revealed itself. Whether it was three or four, I was glad to know they were there, that I was living in their woods. But I wanted them to know they were in my woods too.
I cleared my throat and cupped my hands to my mouth and as best I could called back, just once – "Whooa!" And went back to bed.


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More than 1,000 high school students from across Massachusetts marched from Faneuil Hall to the State House Thursday, calling for increased funding for youth jobs and asking that more companies create summer positions for teens.
"This is important for me to be here, begging these legislators for more jobs, because we are the future," said Sheraine Blake, 18, a senior at the Boston Community Leadership Academy, as she stood on the State House steps. "And to save kids from being out on the street and doing things they shouldn't be doing, why not open up more jobs for us?"
"It will cut down on drugs and all the violence," she added.
The students, who hailed from at least a dozen cities and towns, chanted "We want jobs" as they wound through downtown on their way to the State House. Once there, they were briefed on how to approach elected officials about their concerns. State Representative Elizabeth A. "Liz" Malia, a Democrat who represents Jamaica Plain, met with the students, as did several other state legislators.
The annual demonstration, organized by the Boston-based Youth Jobs Coalition, began in the summer of 2009, when the Legislature proposed cutting 2010 state funding for youth jobs by 50 percent, because of a lack of federal money.
About 700 youths showed up that year to protest the cut to $4 million, and the Legislature eventually found $4 million in an unused emergency fund to restore total spending — used for the creation of municipal jobs for teens —
Even with that funding, the coalition says employment of high-school age youth has fallen dramatically, citing a 2012 report by Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies that put teen employment at a record low of 27 percent, compared with 54 percent in 1999.
A second component of the youth jobs program, subsidies from the state to private companies to hire and train youth, has been slashed, from $7 million to $2.8 million, said Lew Finfer, an adult leader of the Youth Jobs Coalition.
"That has really hurt the effort," he said.
Finfer said the coalition is seeking summer jobs that pay about $2,500 for up to seven weeks. He said that in Boston, there are 45 companies that have workforces with more than 500 employees that are not hiring young people, and 357 companies that have more than 100 employees that are not hiring teens.
"We are really pushing on those companies to consider creating jobs for youths," he said.
To pay for state subsidies for those jobs, Finfer said students are urging legislators to accept Governor Deval Patrick's $1.9 billion tax hike proposal, and the 'Act to invest in our Communities,' which was cosponsored by 50 legislators. That act proposes increased income tax and capital gains tax on higher-income residents.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino spoke inside Faneuil Hall before the youth march Thursday, saying that every year of his administration, creating jobs for youth has been at the top of his to-do list.
"It's a no brainer . . . when you put young people to work, it creates opportunities for you, it's a learning process, to build up new relationships," Menino said. "When January starts, my number one priority is getting summer jobs for our young people."Brian Ballou can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeBallou.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Feb 2006 18:23 UTC
Sun's ambitions have grown another size larger. The server and software company launched its servers based on its own UltraSparc T1 'Niagara' chips in December, a major part of a drive to restore its lost luster and financial strength. But alongside the hardware launch came a more quiet software push: an attempt to make the Linux and BSD Unix open-source operating systems a serious option for buyers of Sparc-based computers. To promote the technology combination, Sun is trying to coax an accompanying software business into existence.


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In a world seemingly gone mad, a comedian now rules one of the greatest capital cities in the world for a second term. I am not amused.
As if this isn't bad enough the rest of the country is being run by a bunch of smooth-talking identikit Conservatives and Liberals who don't even have a majority. Just when you thought the world of politics might be turning a congenial corner, Boris Johnson blunders back into power, with his bikes, blonde bouffe and bad jokes to reign victorious over my beloved London.
Maybe the biggest joke of all is being saved for David Cameron. The chilling sight of a woolly hatted Boris cycling back to City Hall after his victory being heckled by a loitering reporter who shouted "see you in Number 10 next Boris", might be a portent of things to come. The Conservative party is already exploring what it is that Boris has and David hasn't - it clearly hasn't been on the menu for the party faithful all over the country. Now, like in When Harry met Sally, the rest of the restaurant wants it!
If it had been a choice between real-life funny men, say jocular livewire Peter Kay and the sharply witty Jimmy Carr - who would have been voted mayor? Both are great comedians but who has the most people appeal? Humour just like politics, divides and conquers, and an election between these two funny men would be close to call.
It's therefore a shame we didn't get to compare Boris and Ken in a like-for-like comedy situation because it's my betting that Ken Livingstone has better and pithier jokes. Ken, like Boris, is in demand for panel shows and talking head stuff and hosts a radio show on London's LBC.
Yet he hasn't been able to compete with the attention seeking banter and childlike blondness of Boris. The Mayoral election was, despite a great fight and more Assembly seats won to Labour, to be Ken's political swan song. It's like watching Benny Hill winning over Dave Allen, spanking and winking his way to victory rather than relying on well-crafted comedy.
So, as Ken licks his political wounds and considers his next move, London holds its breath in anticipation of a new onslaught of Boris buffoonery. And, boy, the opportunities abound with the Jubilee and the Olympics fast approaching, so let's pray that Boris doesn't play his comedy cards at the capital's expense.
At best Boris might commit to some of Ken's dreams for London - lowering fares, replacing EMA so that young people can travel to their studies, increasing police presence so that we can feel safe on the streets and providing more affordable housing. I don't think I can take much more conservatism or even liberalism, not to mention the jokes! London is a vibrant and social city with a comedy club on every corner, so please, Boris, leave the jokes to the people who earn a living telling them.


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Spireites too strong for Bees
Second-half strikes from Jay O'Shea and Sam Togwell reignited Chesterfield's play-off hopes with a 2-0 victory at Barnet.
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Second-half strikes from Jay O'Shea and Sam Togwell reignited Chesterfield's play-off hopes with a 2-0 victory at Barnet.
The visitors started brightly with Sam Togwell testing Graham Stack inside four minutes with a 30-yard drive that the keeper did well to turn round the post.
Just before the half hour, Barnet player-manager Edgar Davids and John Oster combined from a short corner, with the latter smashing a swerving shot at goal that Tommy Lee batted away.
Barnet began to dominate possession and five minutes before the break Oster's corner was met by Jake Hyde but his downward header was well saved by Lee.
Soon afterwards another Oster cross found Hyde, unmarked in the six-yard box, but his misjudged effort was easily cleared.
The hosts started the second half well with Mark Byrne twice coming close, first heading wide from an Oster corner, and then driving a low shot straight at Lee.
But it was the visitors who broke through just before the hour when O'Shea received a Drew Talbot pass with a neat turn before curling a shot over Stack.
Barnet should have levelled 10 minutes later but, when Byrne was played through by Curtis Weston, he elected to cross rather than shoot and his pass was cleared.
And Chesterfield made their hosts pay in the 78th minute when Tendayi Darikwa's driven cross found Togwell, who fired past Stack from close range to move the Spireites within striking distance of the play-offs.


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|Fred Kohout (left) and Gregg Ambulos discuss the new EMC Business Partner program.
EMC for now is quiet about the details of its planned restructuring of its channel program, but it is clear on one thing: It will be a comprehensive program that will bring partners together not only on its products but also on its core big data, cloud and trust.
Gregg Ambulos, EMC senior vice president of global channel sales, and Terry Breen, EMC's senior vice president of strategic sales, alliances and service providers, this week used the EMC World conference to introduce the EMC Business Partner initiative, which is scheduled to replace the decade-old EMC Velocity channel program starting Jan. 1.
Ambulos told CRN that the EMC Business Partner program is still in an exploratory phase, and so the company is hesitant to release details at this point, even if it had any.
[Related: EMC Q1: Channel Now Over 50 Percent Of Sales, But No Impact On Margins]
However, he said, the new program will encompass all the storage vendor's upcoming strategic initiatives better than was done in the past.
"EMC has a strategy around big data, cloud and mobility," he said. "Our program will be focused more on the platform."
One thing going away with the new program is the old "Velocity" name, Ambulos said. "'EMC Business Partner' leverages the EMC name," he said. "If there's a way to have one holistic program, we want it to be around the EMC name."
Milton Lin, a master cloud architect at Force 3, a Crofton, Md.-based solution provider and EMC partner, said EMC is a master of branding and developing programs and the packaging around them.
That is likely what will happen with the EMC Business Partner program as EMC moves its partners closer to the cloud, Lin said. "Most companies, when they want to tie you to the cloud, want you to get close to their entire family of products and services," he said. "Otherwise, the tendency is to tie you to point products."
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The Price Of Winter
By RJ. Langston, Kenai
Winter brings us closer, to reality, I know.
Stark can be the beauty of the trees all wrapped in snow.
While I can SEE its wonder, my outlook's pretty grim ...
The lights are out, the toilet's plugged, and frozen to the rim!


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Workflow::Context - Data blackboard for Workflows, Actions, Conditions and Validators
This documentation describes version 1.05 of this package
# Create your own context and merge it with one that may already be # in a workflow my $context = Workflow::Context->new(); $context->param( foo => 'bar' ); $context->param( current_user => User->fetch( 'firstname.lastname@example.com' ) ); $wf->context( $context ); # In a Condition get the 'current_user' back out of the workflow's context sub evaluate { my ( $self, $wf ) = @_; my $current_user = $wf->context->param( 'current_user' ); ... } # Set values directly into a workflow's context $wf->context->param( foo => 'bar' ); $wf->context->param( news => My::News->fetch_where( 'date = ?', DateTime->now ) );
Holds information to pass between your application and a Workflow, including its Actions, Conditions and Validators.
Merges the values from
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The Central Library Teen Room is hosting the Boston Youth Fund(BYF) on Saturday, February 16th. From 11:30am-2pm we will be having a job fair where Boston resident teens, age 15-17, will be able to register for a summer job through BYF and check out the various organizations that BYF works with.
As the City of Boston's teen employment program, the Boston Youth Fund provides thousands of Boston teens between the ages of 15 and 17 with job opportunities during the summer months. The Boston Youth Fund participants work in a variety of jobs within community, faith-based, and government agencies. Positions include administrative assistants, mural painters, peer leaders and many more!
At the job fair:
- More than 100 organizations will be present to talk to about summer job opportunities for Boston resident teens.
- Bringing a resume with you is recommended, but not required.
- Some organizations will either conduct a short onsite interview or will schedule one for another date.
- Computers will be available in the Teen Room for filling out job applications via the Hopeline, and BYF staff will be able to help with the process.
Boston Youth Fund • Mayor Thomas M. Menino


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So, were in Philly and Kyle Lowry says no way I am not playing in this one. Well not exactly sure what he said, but he will be playing coming off the bench and thus T.J Ford and Jose Calderon memories flood your mind. Just a logical guess though that we see Lowry back as the starter by Friday against Detroit. Lowry's return does nothing to solve the Raptors issues entirely though. Still have a serious hole at the small forward and Andrea Bargnani is still a problem. Dominic McGuire played well against Orlando and Linas Kleiza since his return from a family matter has been in the line-up and producing. Will Lowry's return provide a spark to get the Raptors over the hump against Philly? Time we find out.
After a 4-4 start to this one the Raptors got on a roll and went on an 8-0 run with everyone contributing. A DeRozan dunk and even a Bargnani baseline mid-range jumper and that made it 12-4 Raptors and time out for Doug Collins. Raptors run would end at 10-0 with a Jrue Holiday jumper. Dominic McGuire who showed some signs of looking good against the Magic was doing that same so far tonight with a score.
Lowry checked in with Jose still on the floor and the Raptors lead at 7 points. Good News you would think, but not so much as the Raptors small line-up give up 6 straight to the Sixers. Raptors balancing act of getting Lowry and Calderon time may prove to be a problem. Just like it was with….you knows where this was going. Raptors got away from the two point guard experiment and build the lead back to 8. The Raptors with a good first quarter minus the terrible stretch with the small line-up on the floor. Raptors on top 29-22.
Casey tried going with Lucas and Lowry to some better results and the reason why is simple: defense. Raptors were maintaining a 7 point advantage till Thaddeus Young got a steal and a dunk. Casey would call a time out with Raptors leading 40-35 with 5:43 to play in the half. Jose Calderon scored on a nice drive to keep the Raptors ahead as Philly had got the lead down to just two. Lowry meanwhile may have hurt his wrist will see what happens there. Philly was charging hard and had lead back down to just two now it was Casey needing a time out with 2:35 to play in the half. Sixers finally got this game tied at 46. Raptors shooting 1 for their last 8 attempts weren't helping. Philly would take their first lead of the night with just about a minute to play in half. Bargnani would tie it up but then Holiday would hit a three. Jose would answer with a three and this was an entertaining finish to the half ending up all even at 51.
Sixers got the early jump in the half with the first four points it would be a back and forth battle the rest of the next 6 minutes. Raptors had Lowry go down as did Jason Richardson but Lowry was ok. Raptors were as well with a 71-65 lead and Jonas had his second career double-double and was just in the third. Andrea Bargnani with a burst of output with a three Raptors was getting a good overall team effort to this point up 76-65. Raptors would let the lead slip to just 7 entering the final quarter.
Raptors were drawing fouls to start the fourth and with 8:13 left they were already in the bonus. Bargnani missed a pair with Raptors up 87-80. That would start a little push from Sixers to cut the lead down to just three. Nick Young was doing the damage again, as he had 17 in this game to this point and was killing the Raptors.
DeRozan tries to reverse the curse as he is fouled and makes both. It was Thaddeus Young from Nick Young for the easy two points. DeRozan replies with a rare three…Young answers with a three. Nick Young was hot as hell with another three and it was tied at 92. Sixers would take lead on next possession. Adding insult to injury Amir Johnson fouls out and was banged up on the play. Sixers lead 99-96. Raptors perimeter defense was awful and Sixers hit yet another three from Holiday and fall behind 6 late in the fourth with just 1:20 to play. Raptors would make a turnover late and Sixers an uncontested hoop ending this one with Sixers going up 8 with just 24 seconds to play.
Sixers on the strength of a 33-18 fourth quarter take this one 106-98. An all too familiar end for Raptor fans and they fall to 0-4 in the division, 0-2 vs. Sixers and just 3-8 on the season.
Raptors Still Have No Answers For The Sixers Or Atlantic Division
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