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State Attorney Lawyers File The Legal Case of Tripa Peat Swamp This Week
JAKARTA – Deputy V heading the Legal Division of the Ministry of Environment, Sudariono, explained that a team of State Attorney Lawyers will file a lawsuit in the case of the Tripa Peat Swamp this week.
"The plan is at the beginning of this month, and within one to three days, the team of State Attorney Lawyers, as the legal representatives of the Minister of the Environment, will depart for Aceh," said Sudariono during a press conference after a Coordination Meeting on Environmental Law Enforcement in 2012 in Jakarta, last Tuesday morning, November 6, 2012.
He said, there are two lawsuits to be filed: a criminal case and a civil case related to PT. Kallista Alam (KA) and PT. Surya Panen Subur (SPS) 2. For PT. KA the case will be filed in Nagan Raya, Aceh Barat, namely the District Court of Meulaboh.
While for PT. SPS-2 the case will be filed in the District Court of Jakarta. But, Sudariono did not declare exactly which court. "In accordance with the deed," he claimed.
Sudariono said that for the criminal case, the team of State Attorney Lawyers is prepared with an Order of Appoinment for the Public Prosecutor to Observe the Development of the Investigation of the Crime, also known as P 16.
"The criminal charges are compiled together with BPLN LH, so hopefully," added Sudariono.
Currently, the Ministry of Environment ,with the Attorney General and the Supreme Court, are applying a Certification Programme for Environmental Judges.
The goal of this programme is to improve the legal handling of environmental cases at all court levels, including the Administrative Court, to better fulfill the sense of justice for litigants involved, and also to support efforts in environmental protection.
"There are still laws that are unclear, so this certification programme is important in order to build a common perception," said the Head of the Supreme Court, Hatta Ali.
Hatta Ali said that the enforcement of environmental law so far strictly refers to Law No. 32/ 2009, but there are still obstacles on the field. "Concerning expert witnesses, for example, what is the criteria? Does it fulfill the requirements for filing a "legal standing?" said Ali.
The Ministry of Environment indicated that the Certification Programme for Environmental Judges will be carried out for two months. This programme prioritises the judges in charge in the regions with the most severe envrionmental destruction, namely Sumatera, Java and Kalimantan.(bna)
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Aceh Government Officially Withdraw Kalista Alam's License
Thursday, September 27, 2012 19:52 WIB
MURDANI ABDULLAH | Free Translation by Adji Darsoyo
BANDA ACEH – The Government of Aceh has officially revoked the plantation permit of PT Kalista Alam in Tripa Peat Swamp. The withdrawal was marked through the issuance of a Governor Decree No. 525/BP2T/5087/2012 signed by the Governor of Aceh, Zaini Abdullah, on September 27, 2012.
"Correct, we have revoked the permit of Kalista Alam. We hope that this decision can be accepted by all parties," said the Head of the Legal and PR Office of the Aceh Regional Secretariat, Makmur Ibrahim.
According to him, the revoked permit is for an area within Pulo Kruet village, Sub district of Darul Makmur in Nagan Raya, covering 1,605 ha.
The reason of the withdrawal, add Makmur, is that, because PT Kalista Alam was considered violating the existing legal regulation.
The Article 45A Point c of the Law No. 5/2004 on the Supreme Court declares restriction for state administrative cases, which can only be appealed to Administrative High Court, but not to cassation at the Supreme Court.
Besides, PT Kalista Alam also violated the agreement to establish plasma plantation covering 30% of the total of 1,605 ha.
"Based on this we withdraw the permit of Kalista Alam, which also has never submitted any midterm report on their business development to the Governor of Aceh," he said.(bna)
WALHI Aceh Appreciates Revocation of Plantation License in Tripa
Banda Aceh – Almost a month after the decision of the Administrative High Court of Medan ordered the Governor of Aceh to revoke the Plantation Permit issued for PT Kalista Alam, the Government of Aceh has officially issued the Letter of Revocation of the controversial permit.
The Governor of Aceh has issued Decree No. 525/BP2T/5078/2012, dated September 27 2012 revoking Governor's Permit No. 525/BP2T/5322/2011 to PT Kalista Alam for a Plantation covering 1,605 ha, located in Pulo Kruet village within the Sub-district of Darul Makmur, Nagan Raya District.
The Decree stated that the revocation was executed based on the Article 45A of the Law No. 5/2004 on the Amendment of the Law No. 14/1985 on the Supreme Court, which states that in an administrative lawsuit, which covers a decision of a regional official that applies within the official's region of jurisdiction, is not eligible for appeal to the Supreme Court.
WALHI Aceh extends its appreciation to the Government of Aceh that has shown its compliance with the law. "The ruling of the Administrative High Court of Medan is clear, namely that the Governor had to revoke the permit of PT Kalista Alam covering 1,605 ha in Tripa Peat Swamp, so it had to be done. If not, the Government of Aceh would have been in violation of the law," said the Executive Director of WALHI Aceh, T. Muhammad Zulfikar.
Tripa Peat Swamp is part of Leuser Ecosystem which has been designated as a National Strategic Area for Environmental Protection, in the Law No. 26/2007 on Spatial Plan and in the Government Regulation No. 26/2008 on National Spatial Planning.
The withdrawal of the license sends a signal to 'naughty' entrepreneurs not to play around with the law and regulation in Aceh. "This is important for maintaining legal certainty in conducting business and in investing in Aceh, and thus benefits the common people" said T. Muhammad Zulfikar.
According to WALHI Aceh, there were several reasons to revoke the controversial plantation permit without the need for action in the courts. One of them is the failure of PT Kalista Alam to establish the required community-based "plasma" plantation in 30% of their total plantation area. Also, PT Kalista Alam has never submitted the required regular monthly report on the physical development of its plantation to the Government of Aceh, either to the relevant offices at district or provincial level.
WALHI Aceh believes that each and every plantation company that flouts existing laws and regulations must be firmly sanctioned. "It should not be necessary to have to resort to the courts for permits to be revoked. If companies do not comply with what is agreed and inflict losses for Aceh, they must be sanctioned," he said.
According to WALHI's records, other there are many other problem plantation companies besides PT Kalista Alam, with violations such as illicit land grabbing, conducting development operations prior to receiving a permit, failure to develop community plasma plantations, and clearing by burning.
WALHI Aceh requests the Government of Aceh to thoroughly and firmly evaluate all the companies in the Tripa Peat Swamps. "The results of these evaluations will determine the direction of future policy in this peatland, especially related to its environmental protection," said T Muhammad Zulfikar.[]
Suspect on the Case of Clearing by Burning in Tripa being the Functional Perpetrator
Firman Hidayat | The Globe Journal
Friday, September 14, 2012 01:50 WIB | free translation by Adji Darsoyo
Banda Aceh – The 6th Deputy of the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) covering the Settlement of the Environmental Law, Sudaryono, stated that the Ministry has filed a criminal and civil lawsuit against two companies, PT. Kalista Alam and PT. SPS-2, related to the case of Tripa Peat Swamp.
He explained that the case was handled by the MoE base on a letter from UKP-4 from April 11, 2012, addressed to the MoE and to the National Policem which was followed up with field investigation in coordination with the National Police and the Attorney General.
"We have been conducting several field investigations, during May 3 to 5, June 9 to 10 and July 24 to 25 of 2012, in accordance with the letter of UKP-4," said Sudaryono to The Globe Journal onThursday afternoon (13/09).
According to him, there are 34 witnesses from both companies called for interrogation, 21 from PT. SPS and 13 from PT. Kalista Alam. "We only look from the perspective of the criminal and civil law upon the case of clearing by burning and there is strong indication of deliberate action in the case of burning," emphasized Sudaryono.
The civil investigators of the MoE are in the final process of determining the suspect to be handed over to the Attorney General. "The suspect leads to the functional perpetrator and the company, not field personnel," convinced Sudaryono. This means the person and the company responsible, while the civil lawsuit includes environmental destruction and rehabilitation.
Governor Revokes Plantation Permit of PT Kalista Alam
Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:12 WIB | Free translation by Adji Darsoyo
* Located within Protection Area
BANDA ACEH – The Governor of Aceh, dr Zaini Abdullah, immediately revokes the expansion permit for palm oil plantation of PT Kalista Alam covering 1,606 ha within the protection area of Tripa Peat Swamp in Nagan Raya.
"The withdrawal of the permit of PT Kalista Alam is not our what we want, but to execute the decision of the Administrative High Court of Medan on the favour of WALHI's legal standing on the cancellation of the particular permit within Tripa Peat Swamp," emphasized dr. Zaini Abdullah to the press after hearing with the Indonesian Regional Council (DPD-RI), the Provincial Attorney, Provincial Police, Military Commander, representative of the Ministry of Forestry and plantation companies related to the protection of the protection area of Tripa Peat Swamp of Nagan Raya District on Thursday (13/09).
The Governor explained that there are three recommendation taken into account during the hearing in regards to Tripa Peat Swamp, firstly the decision of the Administrative High Court of Medan of August 30, 2012, granting WALHI's legal request over a lawsuit against the permit issued to PT Kalista Alam by the former Governor of Aceh, in which the meeting forum urge dr Zaini Abdullah to immediately revoke this oil palm plantation expansion permitcovering 1,606 ha issued by his predecessor.
Secondly, the Governor of Aceh has been requested to immediately established an integrated team involving the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture, Land Registration Office, Team of National Spatial Planning and other technical ministries in Jakarta to evaluate and to conduct audit on the existing oil palm and other plantation permits issued either by ministries or Aceh Provincial and District Government, which are considered to be not eligible and located within protection areas.
Based on the fact that 62,000 ha of Tripa Peat Swamp are occupied by 5 palm oil companies and that the police and the Attorney General are investigating the case of clearing by burning carried out by two palm oil companies.
Representative of PT. Kalista Alam, Palaceta, who was attending the meeting, mentioned that the issued permit covering 1,606 ha in Tripa was not a new permit, but an expansion of the existing plantation area started in 2005.
Still, Palaceta said that the company is ready to sincerely accept the decision taken in the hearing. (her/swa)
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WALHI Aceh Press Release
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Aceh Governor has to withdraw the Plantation License of PT. Kalista Alam in Tripa and evaluate the entire existing licenses in Tripa Peat Swamp
Banda Aceh – WALHI's appeal (in this case as the Plaintiff) against Aceh Governor (1st Defendant) and PT. Kalista Alam (2nd Defendant) on the withdrawal of the Governor's Plantation License No. 525/BP2T/5322/2011 to PT. Kalista Alam issued on August 25, 2011 covering 1,605 ha in Tripa Peat Swamp's Pulo Kruet village has been granted by the High Court in Medan.
The ruling of the High Court of Medan No. 89/B/2012/PT.TUN-MDN has been recited by the Panel of Judges on August 30, 2012.
The ruling contains among others: 1). The granting of Plaintiff's (WALHI) appeal; 2). Cancellation of the contested license No. 525/BP2T/5322/2011 issued by the Governor of Aceh on August 25, 2011; 3). An order to the 1st Defendant (The Governor of Aceh) to withdraw the contested State Administrative Decision of the Governor of Aceh on the No. 525/BP2T/5322/2011 on the Plantation Permit to PT. Kalista Alam issued on August 25, 2011; 4). An order to the 1st and 2nd Defendants to jointly cover the cost of both court process of IDR 250,000,-.
(The ruling document in Bahasa Indonesia can be accessed here)
In response to the above mentioned court ruling, WALHI Aceh would like to address the following:
- WALHI Aceh kindly appreciate the ruling of the High Court of Medan. This result is to be taken gratefully, since it is not only a victory for WALHI but aslo for the whole community of Aceh and various national and international groups that have been so far very much and fully concerned about the relief and the protection of Tripa Peat Swamp. This is also a high appreciation for the collaborative struggle, especially of the community of the 21 villages in and around Tripa Peat Swamp. This decision is also proof that the law enforcement in environmental issue became a valuable effort and is expected to be momentum of law enforcement in a broader sense.
- Based on the decision of the Administrative High Court of Medan, WALHI Aceh request the Governor of Aceh to immediately follow up on the decision by cancelling the Plantation Permit issued to PT. Kalista Alam in Tripa Peat Swamp. Further, the Governor of Aceh is expected to evaluate all existing permits of various plantation companies in Tripa Peat Swamp, which are allegedly violating the procedures.
- WALHI Aceh also hopes that the entire legal cases, both civil and criminal cases currently undertaken by the Ministry of the Environment against several plantation companies in Tripa Peat Swamp, as well as the reports of the community and the Coalition for the Protection of Tripa (TKPRT) to the police, can be seriously processed and followed up upon.
We thank you very much for all supports and attentions.
Banda Aceh, 5 September 2012
WALHI Aceh Regional Executive,
Teuku Muhammad Zulfikar
Executive Director
Mobile: +62 812 690 128
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The first two weeks of this new year, I was uncomfortable. I was living without a calendar on my home-office wall. My motor doesn't run right until I have a calendar, and it needs to be the right kind.
This new calendar doesn't hang from a nail. It's a wall calendar, measuring 3 feet wide and 2 deep, and it shows me every month and week and day of the year. And each day has a nice white square that I can write in: Where I'm supposed to be, and when, and why. Also a note about what I wrote that day, so I can keep up with what I've already done. Plus a lot of other personal stuff.
For 40-odd years, I've operated with a big flat calendar like this, that takes up 6 square feet of wall space. I know, my computer has a nice digital calendar that will work just as well. But I don't trust it.
I have the nervous notion that if I kept my daily record in the computer, one day something deep inside the machine would go pop! glitch! and its calendar would be fried forever. I'd feel personally fried, too, if that happened.
A few things that are important to a life need to be kept. It may be that the first written words I ever read were on a calendar, hanging on a country kitchen wall. The record of lives was kept there, written with a stubby pencil.
Birthdays. Anniversaries. When the corn was planted. When the sow was bred. Dates of the first frost. When school started. When the tree by the back door was planted. Date of the storm that wrecked the chicken house. When the colt was foaled.
In 1947, when I came to Houston and got a job writing stories for the Houston Post, I kept my records on the same kind of hanging country calendar. Eventually, when I discovered the big flat wall calendars were available, I switched to them because I liked being able to look at the entire year all at once.
I suppose most people discard calendars as soon as December is done. Not me. I store them away. They hold information I might need. What kind of information? Well, what if a cop said to me, where were you and what were you doing on May 6, 1972? I could dig out the right calendar and get the answer. Maybe.
In the house where we lived before we moved into this high-rise apartment, I had a fine roomy home office, and I was papering it with these calendars, adding 6 square feet per year.
When I had visitors, they would stand in the middle of my room and study all those old calendars, and they'd often say, "That's interesting." Probably what they meant is that it was pretty screwy.
But I loved the way the calendars looked on the walls. When I was doing three or more columns a week, instead of the one like now, and spending a lot of time on the road, almost every square on those calendars had something written in it. The record of busy times.
Then we sold that house and moved. Downsized, as they call it. We sized down so far that there's no room in my home office now to do any wallpapering with calendars.
The house we left is gone now, destroyed in three or four noisy hours and replaced by a new and bigger one. Some days, I catch myself wishing we were still there. It's been 11 years since we left. By now, I'd have had 66 more square feet of wall space covered.
Right now, my new 2013 calendar is looking mighty bare. This used to worry me. All that white space to fill? Would I last long enough to get it done? But that was long ago, when I was in my 50s and 60s. Now I don't worry about it at all.
I'm not seeing anything special about this new year. The calendar tells me that we have the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Feb. 25-March 17. Daylight Saving Time starts March 10. Spring begins March 20. Easter Sunday comes March 31. Summer begins June 21. Fall begins Sept. 22. Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 3. Another winter begins Dec. 21.
And Christmas comes on Wednesday.


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Carbon Emissions From Deforestation Revised Down
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Initially estimated at about 20% of total CO2 emissions, then revised downwards to about 15% last year, new research claims that the carbon emissions from deforestation may be just half of that lower estimate. There's a whole array of good, bad, and muddled news here.First the research, quoting New Scientist:
Ecologists at Winrock International, a respected US consultancy based in Arlington, Virginia, whose work was funded by the World Bank and the Norwegian government, says a more detailed analysis puts [the emissions from deforestation] for 2000 to 2005 at around 8 percent, with a possible range between 5 and 12 percent. Nancy Harris of Winrock said in Cancun that the estimate was "the lowest reported to date."
The good news in that is that in the narrowly defined terms of effect on climate change, deforestation may not be as bad as we thought.
The bad news in that is that if the Winrock analysis turns out to be correct, the argument that preserving forests for their carbon value alone--something that the UN REDD program, Prince Charles' Rainforest Project, and several carbon offset programs count upon both financially and ideologically--all of a sudden becomes a bit more difficult to make.
Which gets us to the muddled part of the news.
Muddle one: As scientists referenced in the original article mention, the Winrock analysis well may be right for deforestation by farmers, but may underestimate the emissions from logging and conversion of forests (particular forests grown on peat soils) to plantation agriculture where emissions have been documented to be significantly higher.
photo: netlancer2006/Creative Commons
Muddle two: There's some unfortunate compartmentalized thinking perpetuated here potentially causing some people (forgive the pun, really) to miss the forest for the trees when it comes to assessing the value of intact forests.
The carbon storage potential is only one part of that value, even if all to often in that latter part of the year when there's a UN climate conference underway, the only thing anyone seems to be able to report upon or release reports about is carbon.
Intact forests are critical for preserving biodiversity of plants and animals, sustainably providing valuable natural resources (if managed well), provide livelihoods for countless numbers of people, help regulate weather, and (branching out from the biological and ecological) provide important place for contemplation, solace, recreation, and spiritual connection with the world outside of the confines of purely human creation.
Considering the fragmentation of thinking and reduction to human utility value that predominates in many environmental discussions, failure to mention the non-carbon value in such a situation is a serious omission.
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More on Deforestation:
Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Deforestation & Forest Degradation Overestimated by IPCC
Carbon Emissions From Amazon Deforestation Increase as Older Forest Cleared
Missing the Trees for the Forest: Emissions From Forest Degradation Just As Bad As From Deforestation


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I stalked this coat non-stop last year but unfortunately, my size was sold out so quickly. A windownpane coat has been on my mind since then. The minute I saw this coat, I knew I had to give it a try. The coat turned out to be a keeper. I wish you could feel the fabric. It's so soft, lightweight and comfortable to wear. I packed this coat with me for a weekend trip to San Francisco and it was perfect for the occasion. Outfit details: Make me chic coat *size XS*| ASOS jeans *my favorite* | Tom Ford sunglasses | Chanel wallet on chain
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I've left commenting on the result of the AV referendum so late because, to be honest, I haven't had the heart to put pen to paper, or should I say fingers to keyboard.
As regular readers of this blog will know, electoral reform is a cause I have campaigned for over many years. It now looks to have been stopped for in its tracks for many more years to come. I take no joy in pointing out how appalling Nick Clegg's judgment has been on this matter.
I wrote a post here in September 2009 which is a little prescient looking back now. Gordon Brown had just committed the Labour Party to AV and this became part of Labour's subsequent manifesto. I argued then that the way to secure electoral reform would be for the Liberal Democrats to work with another party which had the same objective. Quite why Nick Clegg and others thought the Conservatives would not fight a hard campaign against AV is beyond me. There is a touching naivety in their complaints about lies and negative campaigning. Can these Lib-Dem politicians be the very ones who used to put flakey bar charts on their election leaflets inflating Liberal Democrat chances of winning, not to mention their penchant for dirty campaigns when necessary? I have experienced negative Liberal and Liberal Democrat campaigns for 30 years. Now they're on the receiving end of criticism they seem quite unable to take it on board.
I remember saying in 2009 that almost every seat the Liberal Democrats won in 2005 from Labour had a substantial student population who voted for them as a result of the cocktail of Iraq and university tuition fees, which, of course, no longer exists. How true this proved. In the 2010 General Election Liberal Democrats gained two seats from Labour – Redcar and Burnley. Both of these gains were based on local issues and campaigns.
What is more, the shattering Scottish and Welsh results last week show that any Liberal Democrat in a seat with a large student population should immediately start looking for alternative career prospects. Now with first past the post re-established the only question surely is whether the Liberal Democrats lose a half, two-thirds or maybe even more of their current seats. Nick Clegg in the 12 months before the 2010 General Election fantasised that the Liberal Democrats would make considerable gains from Labour. In the end Labour gained one seat overall from the Liberal Democrats.
Nick Clegg's strategic mistake was of monumental proportions. He could have seized an opportunity to work with Labour to secure AV. Labour made a manifesto commitment that would have seen Liberal Democrats at the next election hold perhaps 80 seats, now it is likely to be 20. That's a massive blow to any party. I am unconcerned about Liberal Democrat prospects but I did want to secure a fairer voting system. So like many Liberal Democrat activists I am very disappointed at how badly Nick Clegg misjudged matters.


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The woman who invented the wheel was a genius.
The man who invented anything that was intended to work on four wheels was a knucklehead.
The wheel works mighty well – where would we be without it?
We would be without some terrific B.C. comics, that is for sure. Along with the bicycle, the automobile and one terrific invention – the lawn mower.
Except the lawn mower was built for four wheels.
And, as I discovered this past weekend, it doesn't work so well with three wheels.
When it comes to keeping up with the Jones' – and unless you're a minister or priest you know you do it, we ALL try to keep up… it's the American way – I never care much when a neighbor drives home in a new car.
But when I step outside and see a neighbor with a new tree, a dandelion free lawn or – and this one really gets me – a new and improved mulched front yard, I break into a competitive sweat.
Over the years, I have become a late starter in my competitive quest to have the best lawn on the block. Back in my 40s, I was out there in March, stomping around the yard, picking up loose leaves, cutting back a few dead limbs and looking for the right weekend to lay down my first bags of fertilizer.
What a joke. When I started in March, I had no more success, no more approval from neighbors – especially when I burned out on keeping the lawn beautiful like a Fourth of July sparkler every July 5th.
So I gradually talked myself into not even thinking about the lawn until April.
"The lawn will still be there in April," I would tell my wife during her Spring Break. "Besides, if I put time back into it next month, I'll still be going strong in late July and even August. Let's see old man Morgan down the street – he wilts when we have triple-digit temperatures and I'll just be getting started."
My wife has worked with me enough in the yard to know different kinds of fertilizers – and she recognized this fertilizer for what it was.
Which is how I became known as the Last Guy on the Block To Mow each spring.
While you could even hear a mower or two on those 70-degree days in February – who are we kidding, that was just for show, Mr. Billingham! – most on my block waited until the first weekend in April to break out the mower.
Not me.
Oh, I got the mower out. I took it to the guy who cleaned it up, changed the oil, sharpened the blade, etc. etc. When I got it back four days later, you could eat off that mower deck. The blade was as sharp as a new blade. Now, all I needed was to get the weather to cooperate. So, I waited. And waited. The baseball season started and those major league stadium fields looked inviting… and still, I patiently waited.
"OK, don't give me that 'patience' bit," my wife barked at me on Saturday. "It is time to mow the lawn. I can't see the dog when he steps off the deck," she added.
"The dog is a punk Boston Terrier," I noted, lying on the couch, wishing anybody but Matt Adams would be playing left field for the Cardinals.
"The dog has allergies and can't take more than five breaths of air because he has to use his head to plow through the grass that's up to my knees!" she argued.
It was time to mow. It's one thing to have a fuzzy-faced dog crawl over you in the middle of the night, it's whole other party to have him sneeze his way to a spot on the bed.
The mower started perfectly. The blade sliced through the grass better than new. Not halfway through the front yard, my rear wheel broke.
Right off the mower.
I stopped. Tried to pick up all the parts and, like a certain President of the United States, stupidly exclaimed: "Who knew that rear-wheel assembly was so difficult?"
While I tried to piece the mess back together, there was no wing-nut or enough duct tape to keep that wheel on my mower.
After an hour of work, I was smart enough to realize that a mower on three wheels could still complete the front yard.
However, I quickly learned that holding up one left rear wheel really meant supporting the entire back end of a heavy, walk-behind mower.
The mower done, I felt as though I had gone through one of Kip Batye's YMCA weight training workouts.
At least we won't lose the dog in the tall grass. Sometime in May, before I mow again, I've got to figure out how to replace that wheel.
I'll get serious about having the best lawn on the block around Memorial Day.


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Building Surveying
Richardsons Building Surveying captures a wide range service for the built environment and local construction industry.
From undertaking the pre-purchase survey and advising on how to conserve or convert a property, to drawing up plans for construction projects and managing building works, we turn your plans into reality.
Our professional services include:
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For further information regarding our professional services
or for a free no obligation fee proposal, contact us.
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Like the UK, Gibraltar is a place where more and more people and commercial organisations demand greater professional standards and ethics in the construction industry. With this in mind, qualified members regulated by RICS are the best choice to safeguard your property interests and gain the most from our unique built environment.
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Maintenance and refurbishment of historic buildings require a good knowledge of traditional building materials and techniques to ensure the end result compliments the buildings architectural merits.
We adopt modern construction methods and high quality materials in our innovative designs. Learn about cutting edge building technology in your next project.
Richardsons have the multi discipline expertise to deal with all of your property needs. As a buyer or seller you may wish to have a professional report and valuation of your property prior to the transaction. As an investor you may want feasibility studies and budget estimates carried out as a first step for your project.
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Whilst the first two report types are typically used by potential purchasers and investors, the Building Survey is geared towards buildings that require considerable maintenance, a refurbishment or adaptations for a change of use between the residential and commercial sectors.
There are times when property owners or tenants require specialist advice for rectifying a particular problem with their building. In these cases we can provide a defect diagnostic survey and report. These surveys look at a specific problem and recommend cost effective and long term solutions. They can assist in disputes between landlords and tenants over repair obligations or other clauses in their leases. We also act as independent experts and provide evidence to the Civil Court in the form of a professional report.
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To help describe the condition of the home, the surveyor gives condition ratings to the main parts (or 'elements') of the building, garage, and some parts outside. Some elements can be made up of several different parts. For example, a home can have a pitched (sloped) roof to the main building and a flat roof to an extension. In this case, the surveyor will give each a condition rating and use the worst one to define the element in each report section.


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Life-Writing as a practice and discipline has been intimately bound up with notions of fame and celebrity. Our fascination with biography is often driven by ambivalent motives, ranging from a desire for emulation, hero-worship, and semi-religious veneration to a hunger for gossip, revelation, and social levelling through a 'dethroning' of famous individuals. We are drawn towards the extraordinariness of exemplary lives, while, at the same time, the appeal of individual life narratives is rooted in their 'ordinariness' and the democratic attainability of fame.
Closely connected as life-writing and celebrity are, through their shared concerns with authenticity and intimacy, public and private selves, myth-making and revelation, their many overlaps have only recently begun to be addressed. This OCLW strand examines their complex intersections across historical periods, disciplines, media, and genres, exploring ideas of image, persona, self-fashioning, myth, mediatisation, and commodification. It addresses the influence of these concepts on the writing and reading of lives, thus shedding light on aspects of agency, industry appropriation, and identity politics. Through a series of termly events, this strand offers a forum for a more sustained dialogue between these two closely interconnected areas, highlighting possibilities of theoretical and methodological cross-fertilisation.
The strand is co-ordinated by OCLW Visiting Scholar Sandra Mayer, who is a senior teaching and research associate in English Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has just completed her monograph Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience (Rodopi) and, in collaboration with OCLW, is currently working on a project – Art and Action – that explores the interrelations of literary celebrity and politics in and through autobiographical life-writing genres. Her co-edited journal special issue on the theme of "Life-Writing and Celebrity" for Life Writing is forthcoming in 2018.
Upcoming Life-Writing and Celebrity Events:
Saturday 4 November 2 – 6pm, Life-writing and Female Celebrity
Part of OCLW's Life-Writing and Celebrity strand, this half-day colloquium, convened by Sandra Mayer in collaboration with TORCH Oxford, will explore the gendered dynamics and cultural values at work in the creation, representation, and consumption of celebrity. Featuring a keynote lecture by author Patricia Duncker and contributions by Stella Tillyard, Ruth Scobie, Mary Luckhurst, Oline Eaton, and Hannah Yelin.
To view the colloquium programme, please click here.
To view the poster, please click here.
Tuesday 7 November 5:30 – 7pm, Ghost Writing panel
Andrew O'Hagan; Brett Kahr; Claire Squires.


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Viral Implosion - chapter one
It started with Big Business, controlling six terms of Republican administrations and boycotting Democrat initiatives. They managed to repeal a lot of legislation, such as that which restricted banks from working across state lines, and laws against monopolies. Now one company can own all kinds of media, from press to radio to television to movies to Wi-Fi. They can control what news you get no matter how you get it. Such legislation originally may have violated the tenth amendment, but since it infringed on large companies' profits and their ability to hide the same from the public, the amendment was left to answer to the Supreme Court. Along with helping big business gain control, laws needed to be repealed which protected workers.
The ACLU could do no more than support existing laws, which were dwindling in numbers day by day. The mom-and-pop companies were closing one by one as taxation kept increasing to pay the specialty bills tacked on to every piece of legislation passed, conning voters into thinking that their senators and representatives were busy fighting for their states and constituencies. With control of most of the media, voters heard more about what was being done "for" them than "to" them.
Banks started playing games with their monies, and lent to people that couldn't support their mortgages, in the hopes of gaining control of the real estate industry. They presented themselves as the generous souls who wanted everyone to own a home, while hiking up mortgage rates. Interest rates kept climbing. Eventually people were losing their homes and real estate bottomed out. Realty investors had the cash to buy property on short sells and hold them until the market gained its footing again.
Global companies and enterprises began hiring only contractors with no benefits. This made stockholders very happy. They now had a cache of expendable employees that could be fired without cause if the company needed the money. There were still laws protecting retirement funds, but not retirement benefits – which started shrinking as medical costs rose faster than inflation. Political action committees such as AMA, oil and NRA started pouring money into legislators who turned a blind eye to their actions. Again, media presented only slanted information, sometimes just because they didn't understand what was happening.
American automobile companies were fighting the government's laxity with Japan and other Far East countries. Detroit was union-strong and Democratic. The Detroit companies tried to compete by dropping models and variety as well as quality. While Detroit fought for survival, Big Business created an undertow that eventually drowned the automobile manufacturing industry. Only one American company survived. The opportunity to break the unions of the others was ripe.
The oil companies were perhaps the cruelest. They managed to thwart the development of electric, hydrogen and hybrid cars for decades. Whenever OPEC was planning to meet, gas prices welled up even before there were any conclusions from OPEC. The United States government tried to move as much gas supply as possible to domestic companies. The promise of the Alaskan oil pipeline benefited only the Alaskans. Prices continued to soar. Home furnaces still relied on heating oil; switching to natural gas became illegal, and the home gas prices of existing abodes were increased concurrently with oil so that there was no advantage to having a home heated or cooking with gas. This kept real estate prices of homes more consistent.
All of this caused a "recession", a word denied for four years, until a democratic administration was in place to blame. The rich got rich and the middle class disappeared completely. The poor, the majority, had little recourse and those avenues of help were drying up quickly, either through legislation or centralization of money.
Retired persons were no longer on a fixed income – the income was actually shrinking. Income tax became flat – 30% for all – and even those on Social Security were paying it. The poor had no more tax breaks.
When a child graduated high school, there were no funds to go to college, and the only work he could get was for minimum wage. Rents were increasing rapidly, as landlords realized that people couldn't afford to get their own homes any more. So children didn't leave home; they couldn't afford their own places, and their parents needed help with the mortgage. Pretty soon houses were as overcrowded as prisons. Cars and rides were shared. Food and medical expenses kept growing, unlike the drop during the Great Depression.
Federal funding for education also shrank. State schools closed one by one. Only those prestigious colleges and universities with strong alumni support survived. Community colleges and technical colleges closed their doors. Only children of the rich could afford to attend higher education. Colleges had to open their arms to the finances rather than the intelligence of the prospective students.
Fine arts suffered along with everyone else. Only large organizations such as the Metropolitan and New York Philharmonic still performed. The National Endowment for the Arts was one of the first 'overhead' agencies to be discontinued.
Transportation had to be balanced out to fit these needs. Tax breaks were given for independent truck drivers, again to break unions. Trains became product movers instead of people movers. In order to get the poor to work, however, some leniency had to be made, and this was done with lower fares on the bus lines, since fewer people could afford their own cars or gas. Subways in the cities were still available. Taxis virtually disappeared as buses were offered even to the rural areas. The wealthy few used 'personal taxis', which were compact limousines.
The industrial/military/political complex was alive and well, breathing in smog and exhaling tear gas. People in the military who supported corporations and right-wing politics by voice or force found guaranteed positions upon retirement, high enough to continue the conservative control. Children of corporate executives who wanted to enlist were guaranteed a commissioned rank. When Democratic seats opened up mid-term, high-ranking loyal corporate executives would be appointed to fill them, knowing that incumbents had a better chance of being elected in when the term ended. If they didn't go into congress, they were awarded ambassadorships, keeping an eye on the needs of big business worldwide. Ambitious Democrats would switch to the powerful Republican party. Politicians who had demonstrated their loyalty to big business would be rewarded at the end of their terms with high-ranking, well-paying positions in those corporations, where they could continue their influence with politicians they had gotten to know so well.
Around the world the effects of the trends in the United States were being felt. In Beijing, children were wearing face masks to protect them from the uncontrolled smog. They were not allowed any outdoor school activities, so parents devised indoor entertainment. All countries concentrated on the internal unrest, maintaining their borders. More highly developed countries started adapting changes similar to the United States.
Feral boars of 200 pounds and more were roaming the United States from Michigan to Texas, colliding with cars, rooting up cemeteries, rototilling fields, digging up lawns, decimating wetlands, killing livestock, sometimes attacking humans, while spreading diseases like pseudo-rabies. Farmers and suburban homeowners wanted the right to kill the boars, a good food source, as a defensive measure. But hunters wanted to maintain them because they were great prey in hunting ranges, where there was a control over the number of boars allowed loose at any one time, and probably the source of the wild hoards. While the discussion continued, the boars increased in number and territory.
Congress passed a bill empowering states to collect sales taxes from Internet purchases even if the retailer was in a different state. Advertising for cigarettes and liquor was once again allowed in magazines and television. Meanwhile insurance companies enforced no-smoking bans in buildings they insured, and all general smoking bans were instituted in restaurants and municipal buildings. Helmet, seat belt, and padding laws were strictly enforced. All of these actions brought fresh income to the police departments and saved insurance companies serious payouts.
Immigration was temporarily halted, as the country tried to determine if it had enough resources to maintain the existing population. No one was allowed to leave unless on corporate business with a guarantee to return. Executives traveling overseas were no longer insured, so many of them hired their own bodyguards. Import and export tariffs were suspended, to allow a balance of supply and demand. Military and federal forces fighting drug cartels were pulled off to handle the growing tension between nations. The National Guard was pulled off all international fronts to handle the unrest and desperation at home, its original purview.
Crime took on a new face. White collar crime increased, but corporations vigorously pursued anyone embezzling or otherwise undermining business. Salaried or hourly, no one was to take from the company. On the other hand, murder was not prosecuted as often as it occurred; most times the victim was only a strain on society anyway. Looting became rampant, often in gangs of five or more, and shoplifting food and clothing became the standard form of acquisition. One by one small businesses closed, starting with liquor stores, then drug stores, until even grocery stores shut their doors, in fear for the owners' lives. Police forces were redirected to protecting conglomerates, insurance company rules, and local politicians.
Some laws protecting the criminals were repealed, such as reading Miranda rights and bail bonds, which saved the courts time and money. In respect for public safety, the Justice Department allowed interrogation without informing the suspect of his right to remain silent.
With gas at $15.00 a gallon and runaway inflation, the population fled the suburbs either to move into the cities where there was housing and transportation available, or to communes in the country where people tried to become self-sufficient. The storefronts that were no more had been converted into apartments. Hunting and fishing laws and seasons were repealed. Sales of guns, knives and crossbows soared. Pets were let loose to fend for themselves.
Those few survivors of the Great Depression taught the younger generations how to make "victory gardens", how to practice first aid with home-grown herbs, how to recycle and how to prevent waste.
As the gap between rich and poor grew, so did the one between healthy and sick. The poor couldn't afford insurance nor major medical bills, so many infections were left to fester. To prevent spread of disease and infection, those who were sick were brought to colonies, so that they may tend to each other. Preventive injections, antibiotics and immunizations were in short supply and had become very expensive. So a person may be transported to a "leper colony", as they were satirically called, with a mild influenza, and end up dying at the colony from polio.
Since conglomerates controlled all news avenues, people began to think very locally, not knowing what was going on around them. People in the wealthy stratum were told that the people working for and serving them were well cared for and happy to be employed. People in the poorer stratum were told that the economy is turning around and all that was left was pockets of need. In reality, the poor were barely surviving and they were growing rapidly in number. Rumors abounded, but there were few avenues left to check out their truth or falsehood.
Many of the youth dropped out of school to help feed and house the family. Even those with bright minds and promise could not nurture their talents.
Whenever environmental issues interfered with corporate concerns, those laws were repealed or left unenforced.
The United States – and the rest of the world – had begun a downward spiral.
© 2016 Bonnie-Jean Rohner
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Optical health is an important aspect of general well-being and this is why more and more people have decided to spend more time choosing a specialist. With many eye specialists out there, it can sometimes be overwhelming for some people because they don't know what to look out for. There are some people who go with the first option they come across. This is never a good idea because you might end up with an eye specialist who is not in a position to provide quality services. If you are looking for an eye specialist Auckland but don't know where to look, below are some tips to help you make the right choice.
This should be at the top of the list of things to consider when choosing an eye specialist Auckland. Always go with an eye care specialist Auckland who has the necessary training needed to meet your individual vision needs. If you have an eye disease or health conditions affecting your vision, it is a good idea to go to an ophthalmologist. If you have vision problem you should go to a doctor of optometry. You should also go to them if you need a prescription for corrective lenses or pink eye.
Credentials is another important factor to consider when choosing an eye specialist. You need to make sure they offer the kind of services you need. Many optometrists and ophthalmologists will be ready to provide you with their certificates and licensure once you request for them. You can go an extra step and call the local state board of optometry or ophthalmology. The credentials will tell you what services they can provide.
Experience is one of the most important factors when choosing a specialist in any area. Experience means they have been able to deal with similar cases in the past and know the best treatment option. Choose an eye specialist who has been around for a couple of years, the more the better. Many people rely on their friends and family to give the reference to an eye specialist they have gone to see before.
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(ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL., JULY 27, 2015) – U.S. News & World Report has ranked three AMITA Health hospitals – St. Alexius Medical Center, Alexian Brothers Medical Center (ABMC) and Adventist Hinsdale Hospital – among the Best Hospitals in the Chicago metropolitan area.
For the third consecutive year, St. Alexius and ABMC ranked in the top 10 in the Chicago region, with St. Alexius finishing eighth and ABMC ranking 10th. The two hospitals hold the same positions in the magazine's statewide rankings for Illinois. Adventist Hinsdale Hospital tied for 16th in the Chicago-area rankings and tied for 19th statewide.
"These latest rankings reflect AMITA Health's commitment to delivering the most efficient, high-quality, faith-based care," says Mark A. Frey, AMITA Health President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals work tirelessly to implement and to follow best practices for ensuring patient safety and positive outcomes, and they deserve enormous credit for this achievement."
The Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 26th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging and medically complex patients. "A hospital that emerged from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of," says Ben Harder, U.S. News Chief of Health Analysis.
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St. Alexius, which is located in Hoffman Estates, Ill., is nationally ranked in Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (tied for #45) and is rated as high-performing in six adult specialties – Diabetes & Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Nephrology, Orthopedics, Pulmonology and Urology. St. Alexius also is rated as high-performing in two adult procedures/conditions – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Heart Failure.
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U.S. News publishes Best Hospitals to help guide the nearly 2 million hospital inpatients a year who need a high level of care because they face particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition or extra risk because of age or multiple health problems. Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, adequacy of nurse staffing and other data largely determine the U.S. News rankings in most specialties.
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The front brake rotors on this Corvette were rusted from years of sitting, and unfortunately not reusable. If your 1965-1982 Corvette has the original rotors, removing them requires drilling out rivets from the hub assembly. The reason why those rivets are there was for the factory to have an easy means to install the rotors. They were then trued as a hub and rotor unit so that there was no run-out.
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Start by center-punching the center of the rivet. This will give you a guide hole. Use a good high speed steel bit (it will say HS or HSS on it). Sometimes a little WD40 or other penetrant on the bit helps it run cooler. Using an air drill is best.
You need to drill deep enough to get the heads of the rivets off. For my first pass, I used a 1/8" drill bit. Consecutive passes were made with a 3/8" and then a 7/16" bit.
After the rivet heads are drilled off, the hub will now fall away from the rotor. I used a drift punch and five-pound hammer to drive the rivet tails out.
If the rivet tails don't come out, you'll need to drill down deeper into the rivet tail after the head has been removed. Be careful not to damage the hub.
Unless you are building a 100-point concours show car, is not necessary to replace the rivets once the rotor is off. The Corvette service manual recommends simply using the lug nuts of the wheel to hold the new rotor in place. When the nuts get torqued down, it will center the new rotor on the old hub. When the wheel is removed again, mark how the wheel comes off and return it to the same position.
Another option is to tap the rivet holes in the hub (3/8"-24 tap) and use 3/4" length 3/8"-24 flat head socket head bolts. Countersinking the rivet holes will have the bolts sit a little lower than flush on the rotor. Now the rotor stays in place on the hub, eliminating any run-out issues. This also allows you to remove the rotor if you need to, but remember to mark how the rotor comes off so you return it back in the same position.
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Howe, James. 21A.211 Magic, Witchcraft, and the Spirit World, Fall 2003. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-211-magic-witchcraft-and-the-spirit-world-fall-2003 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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Birds of New Zealand
New Zealand has lost more bird species than any other nation. Of the those remaining we now have a higher percentage at risk than any other nation. The South Island saddleback and yellow-eyed penguin are now very rare. Kapapo numbers have recently increased from 50 in 1995 to 126 by 2012. The South Island kokako was listed as extinct in 2007. Takahe number about 200. Whio are recovering, as are the black robin that were reduced to one breeding pair. The black stilt have increased in number from 23 in 1981 to 55 by 2005. The storm petrel was first seen in 2003, and where they breed is still unknown. Tuatara photograph © Dr Paddy Ryan.
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The Post-Bloomberg debate tonight will feature a new element. Each candidate can ask a question of a rival. Whom you ask is as important as what you ask. Here are my suggestions for strategic queries.
Mitt Romney to Herman Cain: As one business guy to another, do you think Gov. Rick Perry should be doling out taxpayer money to business, some of which are big contributors to his campaigns or is this just Solyndra-lite? [This avoids the problem of punching down at a lesser rival.]
Cain to Romney: Wasn't it a mistake to mandate Massachusetts residents buy insurance they didn't want? [He says his only real competition is Romney.]
Perry to Cain: Why would you give the feds a whole new sales tax to hike? [Sure, he'd like to go after Romney, but if he wants to win, he shouldn't delude himself; Cain is his problem.]
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to Perry: Why would you subsidize illegal aliens in higher education and then complain that everything from the high rate of uninsured Texans to poor school results are traceable to the flood of illegal immigrants?
Rick Santorum to Perry: I'd like a straight answer to Michele's question. Actually, I want to know why you don't much care if low-income Americans or middle-income Americans wind up getting a bigger tax burden under 9-9-9.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) to Perry: Why did it take you several years and a few debates to decide mandating HPV vaccinations was a deprivation of basic liberty?
Jon Huntsman to Cain: Why should we go from one novice to another as commander in chief?
Newt Gingrich to moderators: I refuse to play these gotcha games. And why didn't anyone ask me anything?
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Hal Stark is a millionaire and the founder of Stark Aircraft. He was working on a stationary flight simulator when the device suddenly took off with him in it. Stark discovered that the flight simulator was being drawn to a crashed alien spacecraft, and the flight simulator crashed yards away from it. Stark was badly injured by shards of metal stuck in his chest. Curious to the end, Stark made his way to the alien spacecraft, where he came upon the dying alien Rhomann Sur. The alien died before he could speak with Hal, and Hal realized he was dying as well. With his last efforts, Stark designed a suit of armor out of the alien technology, powered by a battery he found in the wreckage, one which reminded him of a lantern. The suit of armor not only allowed him to survive, but gave him incredible powers, allowing him to create any object he pleased out of a green energy, due to the battery he used being powered by Oa the Living Planet. He battled and defeated the aliens that had shot down Rhomann Sur's spacecraft.
Stark, under the name of the Iron Lantern, became a superhero, fighting against numerous enemies such as Madame Sapphire, Great White, and his arch nemesis Mandarinestro, who is behind the series of events that creates Madame Sapphire, who in turn resurrects the Great White android. Hal Stark has also been associated with the Green Guardsman, who once took over for Iron Lantern, and later came back to steal the Iron Lantern's alien battery so he could be a hero again. Other foes that Iron Lantern has faced include Dr. Whiplash and H.E.C.T.O.R..
In Showcase of Suspense #29, Hal traveled into the year 5700. In this far-off future, there is another Iron Lantern known as Arno Manning, who Hal Stark temporarily took the identity of in his travels. In addition to the Iron Lantern's connections to Arno Manning and the Green Guardsman, Hal Stark is also somehow connected to the Golden Age superhero the Human Lantern in ways that have not yet been revealed.
Powers and Abilities
- Genius Level Intellect: Apart from the powers granted to him by his suit, Stark is an inventive genius, constantly creating new technology and looking for ways to improve it.
- Charisma: He is well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attentions when he speaks on economic matters. He is known for the loyalty he from and returns to those who work for him, as well as impeccable business ethics.
- Iron Lantern Suit: Iron Lantern wears armor that can generate a variety of effects, such as:
- Energy Construct Creation: Constructs of green "solid energy", often of tremendous size and/or complexity
- Energy Projection
- Flight
- Green Lantern and Iron Man were combined in a Marvel versus DC crossover.
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