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Adélie Penguin
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Weddell seals are known for their docile nature and are easily approached by humans.
Emperor Penguin Baby
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Wings spread wide, an Antarctic emperor penguin baby awaits its next meal.
Leopard Seal
Photograph by John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk
Leopard seals, named for their spotted coats, are one of the primary predators of Antarctica.
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Adélie penguin parents take turns sitting on their nest to keep the eggs warm. Constant care in their extremely cold habitat is crucial to chick survival.
Emperor Penguins
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King Penguins
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King penguins' flippers are distinctively large, helping them dive deep in the icy ocean. On land, they waddle and toboggan across the ice—sliding on their bellies, and propelling themselves with their flippers.
Killer Whale Breaching
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Largest of the dolphins, the killer whale, or orca, is a highly successful predator, feeding on fish, seals, and sometimes whales.
King Penguins
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King penguins live on the more temperate islands north of Antarctica. Although their habitat is warmer than that of emperor penguins, king penguins have four layers of feathers and huddle together for warmth.
Shrimp Krill
Photograph by George F. Mobley
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Hello fellow TDHers !
A couple weeks after completing my Jango.... I decided I needed another hole in my head. I purchased one of KW's Animated ARF kits a while back, and have been working on it whenever time allowed. I wanted to take more WIP photos, but the imperialsurplus web site has a plethora of images and tutorials that show more than I could ever hope for.
Let me first say a big THANK YOU to KW for this armor. It has been a pleasure to work with, and after a couple test fits, I can see it being really comfortable to troop in.
Here are some photos of the first test fit of the upper body parts. All I have left to do is install the visor, make the under-vest, mount the leg and hand plate straps.
The visor is photoshopped in...
Let me know what you think !
Scratch built DC-15. (Still needs some tweaks)
I tried a new (new to me at least) method of joining the armor - rare earth magnets. I wanted the wrists to be super-tight to look like the "real" thing, while maintaining the seamless look as much as possible. Let me tel you something about rare-earth magnets. When they claim they are the "strongest magnets on earth"... believe them. These things are 3/8" little barrels that want to be together from about 8" apart.... and when they want to be together, they SNAP shut. Like right NOW. I have to be careful, as they are brittle, and will break if allowed to crash together. I have caught little tufts of skin in between the armor, and it gives a whole new meaning to "armor bites".
Inside the arm:
Outside. Nice clean line:
I will be installing the magnets in my Jango Gauntles this weekend. I can't tell you how easy and secure this method is. (albeit a bit pricey... the rare earth magnets are not cheap, although I found the EBeast has the best deals)


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Every year for the past decade, volunteers from around the world have made a pilgrimage of protest to Japan, home to the eight-month bloodbath of whale and dolphin slaughter in the cove at Taiji. That hunt began again this month, and all eyes are on the infamous inlet—now more than ever—thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove.
But even as activists, scientists and movie stars rail against the brutal massacre of highly social and sentient animals, few campaigners know that some 500 miles to the north, in Iwate Prefecture, an annual slaughter of a beautiful species called Dall's porpoise has been taking place in numbers that dwarf anything found at the cove.
Operating somewhat under the radar of public opprobrium, Iwate has traditionally staged the largest cetacean hunt on the planet. That is, until the 2011 earthquake and tsunami eviscerated Iwate's coastal towns and destroyed much of the porpoise-hunting fleet.
For a while, it looked as though the hunt was gone forever, perhaps the only silver lining in a dark cloud of devastation. But now TakePart can exclusively report that operations somehow managed to resume last season, though on a much smaller scale, with a few hundred porpoises taken.
This season, however, on November 2012 to April 2013, the boats were back in greater numbers, killing about 1,200 porpoises, according to Clare Perry of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which is based in London.
Nobody knows if the Iwate numbers will rebound to pre-quake levels and once again outstrip Taiji's death rate, but it's possible. Before the cataclysm, in 2009-2010 for example, fishermen unseen off the coast hand-harpooned 9,129 Dall's porpoises, seven times more than the 1,242 dolphins, pilot whales and false killer whales (all members of the dolphin family) driven into Taiji's cove and butchered that same season.
In years past, when porpoise meat was used as a substitute for the more expensive whale meat, Iwate's numbers neared the annual quota of 16,000 porpoises. In 1988, two years after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) stopped the killing of large whales, more than 40,000 Dall's were dispatched.
With adult males reaching nearly 500 pounds, Dall's are the largest of the six species of porpoises, which are not to be confused with dolphins, though they often are. The porpoise family is closer to belugas, evolutionarily speaking, than, say, bottlenose dolphins. Dall's porpoises, named after an American naturalist, have gray-to-black bodies with gleaming white stomachs and flanks that flash in the water as they frantically dart about. They look like young, hyperactive killer whales, which many people mistake them for.
In addition to their lopsided death counts, another notable difference between Taiji and Iwate is that, in the latter, no animals are taken alive and sold for tremendous profit to aquariums and theme parks. Porpoises are not as trainable, sleek and acrobatic as dolphins, and relatively few have been put on display over the years.
It's unlikely that Dall's porpoises would survive in captivity anyway, says Dr. Naomi Rose of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). "Dall's are open-water, fast swimmers who are fairly social for porpoises," she says. "Their physical needs simply cannot be accommodated in captivity." That may be one reason why this hunt has continued so quietly, for so long. There is no visible drama of parents being killed and calves being ripped from their mother's side, destined for a tank somewhere.
The hunts are old. "Japan has a long history of coastal hunts of medium-sized cetaceans, (or) Small Type Coastal Whaling, or STCW," says AWI consultant Sue Fisher. Japan's "infamous large-scale pelagic [open ocean] hunts of great whales," she adds, "only really began after World War II, at the suggestion of the USA, to provide protein on a large scale."
All that great-whale meat drove many coastal hunts out of business. But some endured, not only in Taiji and Iwate, but also Hokkaido, Miyagi, Okinawa, and Chiba, where an additional 537 cetaceans were slain in 2009-2010. In Iwate and elsewhere, men on high-powered vessels head into the open sea, using tethered, hand-held harpoons to kill Dall's, who unluckily like to skirt about the bow-wake of boats.
So where's the outrage?
To be fair, there has been some, mostly in the United Kingdom, though nothing in Japan and little in the United States.
The Dall's hunt "is not as visible as Taiji, taking place far out at sea with small boats usually operated by two men. No one witnesses them being killed," says EIA's Perry. "The porpoises are landed early in the morning after being kept on ice and the whole process doesn't have the graphic element of the Taiji hunts. But there has been international attention on the hunts, through the IWC and its Scientific Committee."
Mark Palmer, of Earth Island Institute's Dolphin Project, explains that, "focusing on one place, Taiji, with the drive hunt, makes sense. Especially if we can make the case that Japanese should not be eating dolphin meat because of mercury contamination and other pollutants, the Iwate and other hunts should also be banned." The Iwate hunts "are much more difficult to monitor," he adds, "they are offshore… and scattered among several different harbors."
That's not to say that on-the-ground groups like Save Japan Dolphins, founded by The Cove star Ric O'Barry, or Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, founded by Paul Watson, have ignored the Dall's of Iwate.
In March 2011, "We sent one of our Cove Monitors, Brian Barnes, up to document the hunt," O'Barry says. Barnes made the trip with Sea Shepherd's Scott West and volunteer Tarah Millen, who also wanted to observe the operation. It was one of the few times the two groups had worked together in Japan. Sea Shepherd tends to adopt more aggressive tactics, while O'Barry's group tends to prefer persuasion and dialogue.
They headed for the port of Otsuchi, a major porpoise processing center in Iwate, where Sea Shepherd volunteers, Marley Daviduk, Carisa Webster and someone by the name of Mike XVX would join them.
Barnes, Millen and West arrived in Otsuchi on March 10 and "quickly located the 13 boats and the butcher house," West says. "The three of us made ourselves known by openly photographing the boats and facilities, which brought the expected police attention."
The following day, after the three other Sea Shepherd volunteers arrived, they conducted more surveillance. "There were no porpoises killed and brought into Otsuchi on March 10 or 11," West says. But they did see porpoise carcasses, which had been "brought to the large fishermen's union shed where they were butchered," behind stacks of plastic crates and out of view. "The meat then would be distributed to various merchants."
Then the earth rattled, hard.
"To the hill!" Barnes shouted as they drove through panicked streets amid blaring tsunami sirens. Barnes, who has an emergency-management background, says a small quake the day before prompted him to identify a nearby hill "as the safest vertical shelter for such an event." Once there, "we watched the entire coastline get completely destroyed," he says. "We were 170 feet above sea level. I could've laid flat on the road and extended my arm over the side of the hill and got my hand wet. We literally just barely survived."
The same can be said for Iwate's porpoise hunt.
So what now? Even as the hunting fleet regroups, demand for cetacean meat continues to drop. And Otsuchi is just 120 miles north of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which is "not far from an ocean point of view," Perry says. "The Japanese government has undertaken some cetacean tests, but to my knowledge not on Dall's porpoise," she adds. "I suspect they are not being tested, given the fact that the hunt operates in such a low-profile way. There have been many reports of caesium tests in minke whales, but none for Dall's."
Meanwhile, international efforts by the IWC, EIA, AWI and Whale and Dolphin Conservation, among others, will continue to apply pressure against the Dall's hunt within the international community. Save Japan Dolphins and Sea Shepherd expect to do the same.
"All along, we have planned, when Taiji shuts down permanently, we would turn attention to the northern hunts," Barnes says.
Sea Shepherd's West predicts that Taiji could prove to be a tipping point. "It's synonymous with the brutal greed that exists in the Japanese government," he says. "If Japan were to end the Taiji slaughter, there's a good chance that other such slaughters in Japan would end."


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text: Vaitsekhovskaya speaks to Volosozhar/Trankov `We argued with Mozer every day' for sport-express.ru (please be nice and open the link, apparently she needs clicks to prove something the publisher... I wasn't counting on the interview with the World champions in London - with all the mess of a major competition every agreement is forgotten. `We'll find you' promised Maksim, and I dismissed his words. Next day Volosozhar and Trankov showed up on time in the press room `We are ready...' EV: Maksim, quite a lot of time had passed, but I still can't stop thinking about your father who died just before the Europeans. More than that, now, when he is not here I think more often that your sports achievements, including the current one are thanks to him MT: I don't know whether any other worlds exist where the people go when they die, but I think my father helps me more now when he did while alive. Both in Zagreb and London I was thinking how unfair it is that he will never see me skate, never will be happy for my winning my first wolds. I was talking to him in my mind all the time. I was asking him to help me if he can see me. Perhaps it's what gave me the needed confidence. I could just feel that help from above. EV: It must be very hard feeling all that and understanding you will never get to thank him MT: It's behind me now and I can talk about it. Dad was my biggest fan. Another reason his death was such a blow for me is because I never needed figure skating. My father did. I was skating all those years because he wanted me to. This feeling that dad is gone and I have no one to skate for was especially hard. I didn't understand where to gain the motivation from and whether I can find it at all. On the other hand everyone called my participating the Europeans in Zagreb heroic.... It was nothing of the kind. I was just doing my job. EV: Were you hesitating about coming there? MT: Yes, but not for long. You know that I have a brother - Alexey. He was always very far from sports and what I do in general. For me and our parents he is a bit of a weirdo (his brother is a quite well known among the russian speaking computer geeks) with his own hobbies and stuff I don't understand. When he suddenly said I must go to Zagreb I was taken aback. He is the last person I would expect to hear those words from. I was sure he doesn't care about my life. EV: Perhaps we all underestimate our closest relatives? MT: Perhaps. Anyway, Alexey said all that back then and it was sobering. I realized that I must go to Zagreb and skate, no matter what. I guess my father would say the same. EV: He came to Moscow just before MT: Yes, he spent a whole week in my flat, came to the practices. We left on Saturday and he was gone on Sunday. EV: What were you talking about in the last evening? MT: Something not related to figure skating. He suddenly told me `you'll win'. I started explaining him it won't be easy in Zagreb. That the Germans will compete there, they will probably have more complicated programmes and that Tanya and I were unable to pull a clean LP. He interrupted me and repeated `You'll win. It won't be a clean skate, but you'll be first'. And it's exactly what happened.... EV: The first part of this season when you were experimenting with the programmes and kept making mistakes during the competition was baffling. What did you feel? MT: We were not satisfied, even though we won all the competitions we entered. Every competition took off a bit from the confidence and made us more nervous. It was especially baffling that during the practices we skated well. That 3T that we first planned to put in the 2nd part of the programme I never failed to land in the practices. There were no mistakes. If anyone fell it was Tanya. And then I fell from that jump in two competitions... EV: When have you decided to stop chasing the content? What caused it? MT: We just took a look at the numbers. The contemporary figure skating is just maths. Tanya took the protocols of a whole year, analyzed them, compared the numbers and we realized that all our attempts to make the programme more complicated were for one point. ONE!!!!! Because of that silly one point we wasted so much time! (how much did they loose last year? I think it was far less than a point...) The trouble with the programme was also that the first part was quite easy. We couldn't get used to skate not holding back in the first part of the programme. So it ended up with us skating not giving 100% in the first part and then not being able to switch on the 2nd part. You have to show the emotions, give all you have in the 2nd part, yet we had to be concentrated on the elements instead. EV: All 12 elements of your LP were done textbook good with a huge amplitude in London. How did you do it? MT: Exactly like that - we were working on those elements during the practices giving the maximum effort. Both the throws and the splits. EV: Tanya, admit it, is it scary to fly so high? TV: Sometimes. But you know, when, say, in the throw jump I fly and feel very comfortable it's alerting. I stay too calm and the risk to fail the landing is higher. When something goes wrong in the take off and I have to change things in the air to correct the mistake the landing actually becomes easier. MT: Sometimes Tanya flies with her head down in the practice. I sometimes close my eyes - it's too scary to see. The thoughts I'll have to run to call the paramedics cross my mind. And then she puts her leg somehow and wow, she lands! Sometimes it's the opposite - you run after her, in high spirits... EV: ...And find yourself on all four as it happened in London? It's not the first time it happens to you. MT: Indeed. For the male partner it's important to catch up with the female partner after the throw jump and do the exit with her. When you are standing where you are you can see the fly and where she is gonna land better, so you understand where you have to run to. But then you need to run there fast. It doesn't always work. EV: Maksim, during the press conference you spoke in length how detailed was the plan your coach Nina Mozer wrote for you for the Worlds. How she took every little thing into an account, forcing the same schedule even having the practice and the skates at the same time it'll be during the championship. It's exactly how things were calculated back in the Soviet times. Many are trying to get away from that system calling it old-fashioned. What do you think? MT: Nina Mikhailovna is a very contemporary coach. On one hand she is trying to take care of every little detail. On the other she is very good in taking off all the redundant things. Of course she sometimes makes mistakes but she admits it, so we go with her, rather than behind her. We were even fighting before the Worlds. EV: What about? MT: Tanya and I wanted to change the entry to the throw jump, Mozer was against, saying we don't have enough time for the changes. She was right in a way - I fell in London doing that entry Tanya and I insisted on. Back then, before leaving to London we were arguing every day. I recall after one of the practices I was arguing in my usual overemotional manner with waving hands and eyes popped out I was shouting at her that she is not working right with us, that we fail the whole season and she doesn't think she should analyze things.... 10 minutes later Mozer came to our changing room and completely calmly, as if we were not shouting a couple of minutes ago said `fine, I'll write another plan'. I.e. she is a coach with whom you can discuss everything and who will listen, rather than say `Do as I say because that's what I decided'. I skated under some great coaches and I know what the coaching dictatorship is like. By the way after we won I told Mozer now she will become like all the great coaches. She laughed and said `I think I'll be able to follow my principles' EV: what was the hardest thing for you in London? MT: Nothing really. We even went to sauna with Tanya after the SP, even though we never do during the competition. We were that confident. EV: I would have thought for people who are so used to train home only the camp in the USA would be a challenge. TV: I used to be quite against those camps. I thought they would just break the routine. But after the current preparations I can admit being wrong. It's a huge bonus when you have nothing to think except for the skating. EV: Are you planning participating the Team Competition in Japan? MT: We are not particularly thrilled having to participate yet another competition -we are tired. But it's worth it. We decided we should participate it before the Olympics and then finish the season. EV: Are you ready for the new season work? Do you have ideas for the new programmes or you haven't thought about it yet? MT: This season we deliberately didn't try to create an outstanding programme. Nothing like the Black Swan or Romeo & Juliette. We thought that we should take it easy a year before the Olympics and not set the standards too high. We completed the LP in about just a week. Even though Nikolai Morozov insisted the programme should be as good as they go. EV: Do I understand it right you chose the Olympic season music then? MT: More like ideas. We have a few. EV: What do you think about another good pair joining your group? MT: I would love that. We've been asking Nina Mikhailova for that from the first season together. EV: You lack the competition so badly? MT: Our practices are very calm. There are no motivators. The only thing that can give us a kick is when Nina Mikhailovna gets upset with us. She has such a look and we feel so ashamed that we want to compensate for our faults and we work twice as hard. But it is indeed hard working alone. We can't really compete with the juniors, it's not the same as with the real rivals. Of course the junior teams learn from us all the time, but they have different programmes and they look up to us. You come to the rink and they say `Good morning' (he uses plural, which is the polite way to talk to someone in Russian). Just as well they don't use the patronymic when talking to us. But we want some real fight from time to time. TV: I used to have such a sparring in Germany when I was skating with Stas Morozov. All our practices were together with Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szelkowy. It was very motivating. So indeed we keep asking Mozer to have another pair, even if it's not a Russians. EV: Usually the realization you are the World champions comes later. Your journey to the top was quite long. What do you feel now? TV: I was quite overwhelmed when we finished the skate. First I was a mess inside, but then I couldn't care less and just wanted to be back to the hotel and be alone. I didn't understand what was going on, why are there so many people around and why can't they all just leave us alone. I woke up the next morning with the understanding `We did it!' MT: I didn't care. Recently after every competition we win the only thought I have is that Tanya needs it. So I just skate for her. To make her dream come true. I like winning for her. I think I was euphoric after winning just once in my life: when I became the junior world champion. Maria Mukhortova and I didn't think it was possible for us to win that competition. I kept thinking about the unbeatable Chinese who were competing there with us who were making unbelievable throw tripple twists. That there are Petrova/Tikhonov in the Russian team, Obertas/Slavnov, who we'll never go through. That I will end up like all the guys from Perm - once the junior competitions will be over so will my career. I had a chance to skate in a show at the best case. When we were standing on the podium I imagined my dad opening the ISU site, seeing the results, runing to mom to tell her her son is the world champion... I became hysterical on the podium. Masha was scared, tried to calm me. I was crying and I couldn't stop. I went back to the changing room and everyone were looking at me as if I were mad. I told them `guys, sorry, but you'll never understand it' I keep waiting for those emotions to come back. And they don't. Guess they never will. EV: Could you please mark then in your diary Tanya really needs to win the Olympics in Sochi. MT: No problem.


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By Joe Brewin
Arsène Wenger admits he can see similarities in the path of Andre Villas-Boas' managerial career and his own.
Chelsea manager Villas-Boas joined the Blues in the summer after significant success with Porto and has set about keeping his new team as title contenders.
At just 34 the Portuguese boss has come a great way in a short space of time and Wenger - who took the reins at Nancy-Lorraine at a similar age - says his early desire to achieve is worthy of respect.
"I see comparisons a little bit yes," Wenger told Arsenal Player. "Certainly he started young and [that makes him] committed and passionate.
"There are similarities in managers' careers because this is a job that demands massive passion. Certainly there are similarities there.
"I don't know him very well, although I had contact with him at the manager's meeting in Geneva. I like him, he's an honest, open and competent guy - I rate him."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Arsène Wenger will "try everything" to bring in new players before the transfer window closes.
The Arsenal manager has brought in five new players this summer - Gervinho, Carl Jenkinson, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ryo and Joel Campbell - but he plans to add further reinforcements following the departures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.
Wenger has until the evening of August 31 to supplement his squad and he has every intention of doing so.
"I will try to strengthen the squad in depth because at the moment we are a bit short number-wise but if we get two or three players in we have the quality to challenge," said Wenger.
"I am anxious yes because I want to do it and I try everything to do it. But I am confident as well because we have some good young players who can make a big step very quickly."
But the manager warned that signings were not guaranteed. "There is a chance [we could make no signings] because again we are dependent on the desire of the people who have the players to sell the players," he said.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Every presidential hopeful looking toward the White House realizes that Iowa is the place to start. The state's residents are noted for their ability to measure the feasibility of a new initiative. Political advisers rely on the insights of the state's populace through focus groups to hone an idea into a viable cause.
For the last seven years, there's been a similar sort of research project happening in the state. Lee Bailey and his small group of business software developers have been focusing on a solution package that may not garner the attention of the nation's voters, but is of interest to those involved in concrete production.
Their company, Precision Development, has developed what many consider to be the first total management software program that can fully automate the business practices of a modern precast concrete business.
Late last year, Bailey and his product team introduced the Forcast Performance Management Software at the 2007 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Convention. "We received very positive responses from several producers who sampled the product in our booth," said Bailey, the product's development manager.
A good testing ground
Bailey admits that when Iowa Prestressed Concrete Inc. (IPC) first asked his team of experts to develop some management software, they knew very little about concrete.
"We realize that in most cases, our clients know a great deal more about their businesses than we do, so we just listen," said Bailey.
Managers at IPC had hired Precision, an 11-year old company in West Des Moines, to review their managerial accounting system. The producer wanted to streamline its information flow to reduce common production constraints, measure true product costs, and track both equipment and labor productivity.
"The IPC management team knew that to maximize profits throughout their operation, they needed a total approach that would increase efficiency for critical processes and give accurate, real-time information to support decision making," said Bailey.
His challenge was doubly difficult as IPC managers wanted to apply the management system to each division and location. True gains in productivity would only occur if the system was applied to their full range of products, from prestressed beams to common precast elements.
There also was the challenge of distance. IPC has plants in Des Moines, Iowa Falls, and West Burlington, Iowa, along with sales offices in Des Moines, Iowa City, and Kansas City, Mo.
While the casting operations may differ, the Precision team noticed that there were areas of commonality. IPC management teamed with Bailey's experts to develop and deploy a software that provides a continuous improvement approach to sales, estimating, production, and logistics.
IPC managers have been using the software to direct projects proactively and improve relationships with customers. It's more than a job status activity. The software enables real-time information-sharing across the entire organization, from sales and estimating all the way through product delivery to the jobsite.


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Zurb Foundation is a framework that offers many capabilities for any website, and this book manages to illustrate the ins and outs of most of them. The book is structured well, and each example includes the code, and a description of what the result should look like. Unfortunately, for many of the early chapters there are no diagrams or screenshots of what the results should look like. The introductory chapters may actually be the chapters where readers run into issues, as opposed to the last chapters, and so it seems a little remiss.The language in the book is easy to follow, while remaining formal enough to sound professional. The examples given, as well as the premise of the book (prototyping via Foundation) are both applicable, and useful. The second half of the book is dedicated to creating a prototype, as well as focusing on what's required to run foundation in your project. Some of the chapters on configuring your project folder seemed a little brief for those unfamiliar with the tools being used, but overall conveyed all important information. This is hardly a fault, as the book is focused more on using Zurb Foundation than installing it (which is covered fairly well on their website as well).To sum up: The book is a well-written example of how to use Zurb Foundation to create a prototype, while offering some further information into the features available, as well as how to configure and test your website. While it could use a few more visual examples in the introductory chapters, it is otherwise a good resource for developers interested in using Foundation to prototype websites.
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New Jersey's Garden State nickname may seem an anomaly to some, what with towns such as Trenton and Paterson driving the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, and the surrounding East Coast "BosWash" megalopolis triggering the state's 1900s suburban boom.
Even the state government says there's "no definitive explanation for New Jersey's nickname." Perhaps it's the early farms, the southern interior's wooded Pine Barrens, the northeastern Meadowlands or the flowerbeds in all those neighborhood backyards. Or just maybe it's the potential for your New Jersey family tree to grow like a weed — thanks to the resources we'll show you.


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By Chris Harris
Lukasz Fabianski felt the full force of Thierry Henry's comeback on Monday night - and he wasn't even at the game.
The Polish goalkeeper has been recovering from injury and watched Arsenal's FA Cup victory over Leeds United from home. The Third-Round tie will always be remembered for Henry's match-winning contribution and Fabianski was as entranced as the 60,000 packed into Emirates Stadium.
"It looked really amazing," he told Arsenal Player. "I was watching the game at home, and first of all you could feel the buzz when Thierry was coming on and then when he scored the goal, it was an amazing feeling.
"That goal showed everything about him, his technique, his quality, his first touch, his confidence, his calmness - it was just amazing to see it.
"You could see with the goal his movement is fantastic, his timing as well to avoid being offside, the finishing to be so calm. There was pressure on him but he showed that he is so confident in his finishing that he didn't [allow] any negative emotions in, he just kept his calmness and finished like he has done before for Arsenal. It was pure quality."
Henry is the latest member of Arsène Wenger's 'Invincibles' squad to return to the first-team set-up following short-term deals for Sol Campbell and Jens Lehmann in recent seasons. Fabianski has made the most of having them around.
"They bring experience, they have been there before and had success," he said. "For the short period of time when they are back they are bringing experience. They talk to the younger players and tell them how to react on the pitch and where to move.
"You could see it in the Leeds game, you could see Theo [Walcott] and Thierry talking on the bench about some situation on the pitch and Thierry, with his experience, can tell us how to react in certain situations."
Watch the full interview with Lukasz on Arsenal Player from Friday.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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MICHELLE AND TYLER'S WEDDINGJune, 2009 in South Lake Tahoe
"North Lake Tahoe was a perfect place to get married! It was a destination for almost all of our guests, so most made a fantastic vacation out of the it, not to mention we were able to celebrate the entire weekend with our guests, instead of just one night! Be careful of certain times of the year in Tahoe--the weather is kind of tricky. July and August are the safest, but they are also the most crowded. We chose the last weekend in June, and it couldn't have been more beautiful outside (but it was still snowing just 2 weeks before!)
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For most genealogists the big question having read the title of this post is what are Patent Rolls? And why not ask the question because they aren't standard genealogy fare. Here is a description written by National Archives …..
Grants of official positions, or land, or commissions are made by the Crown as letters patent (i.e. open letters) issued under the Great Seal. They are addressed 'To all to whom these presents shall come'. Copies were and are enrolled (to act as a record) on the Patent Rolls, now in The National Archives, in C 66.
The Patent Rolls run in almost unbroken series from 1201 to the present day (although there are significant gaps for the Civil War and Interregnum period). Latin is the usual language in the early period, but some entries are in English even in the sixteenth century. In the 1650s and after 1733 all entries are in English.
They record a huge variety of documents issued under the Great Seal – treaties, charters, grants of land, offices, titles and pensions, judicial commissions, pardons, patents for inventions, licences, leases of crown lands, presentations to churches, grants of markets and fairs, etc.
I have no idea why the University of Iowa should have these Patent Rolls on their website, but they do and they are freely available for use by researchers and teachers. All they ask is that you acknowledge the source and of course as good genealogists you would do that


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I don't know what your budget is but I'll give you a short list of QUALITY handguns that I would rely my life on.
1. SIG 232. A little expensive compared to others but it is quality.
2. CZ 83. Another quality gun. Thicker grip due to higher capacity mag.
3. Beretta 84/85. Great guns! The 84 is thinner(8 rnds), 85 has a thicker grip(13 rnds).
4. Browning BDA. Another very good choice. Vertually a Beretta 85 made for Browning.
5. A Makarov. It comes in .380 or 9mm Mak. It too is a quality weapon. Just another one to consider.
I'm sure others will have more to select from but this is my list of ones I have owned and would consider quality handguns for CCW in the .380 range.
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Posted on: 10 November, 2012East Central University student Domineque Carey, a senior kinesiology major from Springer, Okla., works on a fireplace to be used in the set for a one-act play called "The Storm".
East Central University Flute, Clarinet, Brass Ensembles to Perform Free Concert on Tuesday, Nov. 13Posted on: 09 November, 2012
ECU Flute Ensemble (Left to Right) Catherine Melton, Moore, alto flute; Rachael Bessert, Midwest City; Erin Burton, Oklahoma City; Debbie Allen, Ada; Eric Gibson, Wynnewood, bass flute; Lauren Webb; Juliana Overmier, flute ensemble conductor.
East Central University Professor Dr. Michael D. Bay Commissioned into U.S. Navy (Reserve) Medical Services CorpsPosted on: 09 November, 2012
East Central University's Dr. Michael D. Bay was recently commissioned into the U.S. Navy (Reserve) Medical Service Corps as a medical entomology officer. Bay, a professor of biology at ECU, was sworn in as a lieutenant commander in front of his class on Sept. 26, 2012. He is making a lateral transfer from the U.S. Army Reserve, where he had eight years of service as a medical entomology officer (major) with a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2009-2010. Bay has been on the ECU faculty since 1995. Swearing in Bay is lieutenant commander Sharon Chan.
International Teas and Desserts, Alternative Christmas Market, Gift Fair Set for Nov. 16 at East Central UniversityPosted on: 09 November, 2012
Two events at East Central University will enable participants to explore the world through Exotic International Teas and Desserts and an Alternative Christmas Market and Gift Fair on Friday, Nov. 16.
The Exotic Teas and Desserts will be prepared by ECU's International Student Connection Club and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Stanley Wagner Ballroom of the Memorial Student Union.
Posted on: 07 November, 2012
The late Virgil Taylor made an impression on Michael O'Brien as a friend and colleague.
Now O'Brien, executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services, makes sure that Taylor's legacy is being carried on through East Central University's Virgil Taylor Scholarship, which has grown to $15,000.
Posted on: 07 November, 2012
East Central University students now have the opportunity to gain early admittance to the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health and Sciences in Tulsa.
The OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine seeks to admit students who desire to become primary care physicians in rural and underserved Oklahoma. The Rural and Underserved Primary Care Early Admissions Program allows ECU students to complete pre-doctoral medical training in seven years.
Posted on: 07 November, 2012
The 2012 Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, hosted by the East Central University Human Resources Club, will take place on Monday, Nov. 19, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Pontotoc County Agriplex, located at 1710 N. Broadway in Ada.
The meal is free to everyone in the Ada community as turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables, rolls and dessert will be served.
Posted on: 07 November, 2012
The East Central University Dance Ensemble, Collage, is currently engaged in fundraising efforts in support of an artist-in-residency project. The ensemble is offering academic year calendars at a cost of $8. The project will provide support fees/expenses to bring Jon Lehrer of LehrerDance, of Buffalo, N.Y., to the ECU campus. Lehrer will set new work and conduct a four-day intensive clinic to Collage members.


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tomamundsen wrote:Anders Honore wrote:Soto Zen is obviously a sudden path.
It is obviously sudden and subtly gradual.
It is easy to find gradual elements. Thankfully. A school that only taught sudden approach would be a dangerous thing for many people, I think. My point was simply that I don't think Soto Zen is any less of a sudden path that others who carry that moniker.


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How to be in control while going faster
So I'm up here at the US open for snowboarding at Stratton and just feeling completely out of my element with all of these amazing young riders. Quite a humbling experience. At 34, this is only the latter half of my third full season of riding. When there is powder, I can ride many of the blacks here at Stratton, today was an ice fest because of the ice storm two days ago so I wasn't even feeling comfortable anywhere. But the competitors, most of which are 10-20 years younger, fly around on the ice like it is nothing. Seriously I am just amazed out how fast everyone is going.
I have never been very comfortable with speed, but the more chopped up the snow the more comfortable I am going faster.
I feel like there is a connection between being better at going faster and being better at riding on ice, and just want to get some feedback here. I think the key to both, is being able to carve on your edge. I think riding on powder for me, just allows me to be sloppy and do more skidding turns rather than actual carving. But ice, is not so forgiving and when skidding it sucks and slows you down horribly. I'm not very good at actual dynamic carving. Only when I am most comfortable, on easy blues or greens, when it is not too icy, I am able to make tight turns and transition from one edge to the other, make the 'S' type riding, where I can be on my heels and then switch to my toes before my board actually points down the hill and then the turn happens.
But when it gets steeper or it gets icy, I freeze up and resort to skidding turns.
Does this sound right to people? Is this the key to going faster and also controlling on ice? making the turns be edge only carving. Any advice on how to progress at this and get more comfortable doing it on steeper stuff would be good. I feel I can do it but only on easy trails and not when going too fast. I just don't feel comfortable at all with speed. If I start going to fast, it's weird, it like I somehow the speed causes me to forget how to snowboard. It is hard to describe. When I am going slow, everything feels right and I feel in control. But if I start to go to fast, I just forget everything. How do I get more comfortable at going fast? I can only guess feeling in control will allow me to go faster. is dynamic carving the key?
I'll leave the technical stuff to people who can explain it well like Snowwolf. But you say this is only your third season. For me, muscle memory made a huge difference in my comfort level riding at speed...so the more you ride, the more comfortable you will become as your feet and legs develop a mind of their own and you give less conscious thought to avoiding catching and edge or slipping out. The answer to everything...RIDE MORE!!! :D
I agree with justdust, plus I found that what helps me a lot is riding on the roughs, i.e. off the groomed slopes. I made a point of always hitting the sides of the runs this year, and the payoff has been a huge improvement in my stability and my ability to recover my balance when things start to go south.
When you're going faster, bumps and jogs on the slope hit you harder and faster and more often. At some point you start to feel like it's coming faster than you can react to, and that's when you shut it down. But practicing things that improve your reactions will improve the speed that you can handle.
Yeah, the ice has definitely magnified ever little bump tremendously. This is something that I read online and I think it might apply to me, I over think things, "The harder you try and more tense you are, the worse you're going to do. Just relax and try to have fun and really feel it out as you ride."
if you really wanna get some good speed, you have to avoid riding lazy and get a nice squat going... especially in the ice coast when you're not really floating on powder. really gotta dig those edges into the groomers or crappy ice tracks and just ride it out. personally i hate bombing it cause my quads and hamstrings get real tired from squatting... i'm a pretty lazy rider and the only time i really get a nice squat going is when i'm on a box or going into or landing a jump
Try to put some angle on your highbacks, it will force you to a lower position and bent knees which will help when riding on bumpy terrain. Also if you find rollers (shaped like ~~~) try to practice there. Bend your knees over the bumps and extend between. Try to keep your upper body in a straight line and you legs working. Straightlining through rollers is a great exercice to get your riding more dynamic.
As for the ice some speed might actually help you since you wont slide out and fall. Try to look for buildt up snowpiles on the ice, aim for them and make your turn there. Also keep your edges sharp.
Carving on steeper hills is a challenge, in the beginning try to make a C shaped turn, in the beginning and end of your turn your board will be traversing across the hill. This will keep the speed down which is important at the beginning, as you progress try to ride more down the fallline as you get more comfortable with the speed. Riding fast is also a lot in your head, you need some mental toughness to be relaxed at high speed so take it in small steps and dont try to race everyone else. Ride just outside of your comforzone all the time.
Balls out halling ass on ice is more like a death wish then skill. Sure, there is a certain level of skill required where you actually feel somewhat comfortable doing that, but ice is highly unpredictable and if you can't hold an edge, you can't snowboard, regardless of how good you are. Knowing conditions and how your board reacts to them is essential in snowboarding. You ride different types of terrain differently, and accommodate your speed to them. In fresh powder or crunchy groomers, I can go as fast as want because I know how the snow is going to react. On ice or chewed pow however, I check myself and ride with a certain level of caution, because all it takes is once inconsistency to throw you off the horse.
Snowboard progression is weird too, because you always feel like your not progressing that much, or not fast enough, but take a look back at your skills like 1-2 years ago. Big difference right? Just takes time and practice, the more time you spend programming your brain, the better it will naturally react.
Thanks for the replies and advice everyone. I really appreciate it. And realize I need to not be so hard on myself with the ice. Today started out like a nightmare, no control, no confidence, braking all the time, afraid I was going to take another bad fall like I did earlier in the week so I sat in the lodge mopping for an hour. Than smacked myself out of it and forced myself to go back out there. Basically I just wanted to get back to the bottom of the half pipe so I could watch some more runs, made it there eventually, not happy. After all the sessions were done, and getting ready to leave I start talking with this older guy on a snowboard who was apparently one of the officials. He asked me how things were and I told him horrible, but that I'm a beginner, so I'm not handling the ice well. He offered me a piece of advice, not having seen me ride at all. Told me to really sit into it more. Keep the upper body straight and just sit my butt down more toward the board, knees bent. Even told me to do it, just standing there. Had me compare my ankle mobility while standing up straight vs a knees bent sit down position more, and yeah, it is way easier to move my ankles when I am sitting down into it. I was kind of amazed, because here was a guy that didn't know me at all, and in the matter of a few minutes he gave me some advice and had me try movements that demonstrated the advice. He was an older guy who has been snowboarding for 25 years.
So my wife and I went for two more runs and even though it was still the same ice out there, I actually felt more comfortable trying to do what the guy said. It made a huge difference. On the steep parts I had to brake mostly anyway, but I went from 90% of the time breaking, to 50% of the time breaking, this is a huge change of speed. I'm sure I knew about this proper form before and did it, but I don't think I was really aware of it.
Definitely because of the ice I was tensing up and standing to tall and not bending the knees to absorb. And I've never heard about the sitting into the board, that is a great way to think about it. And really it looks like what most of the people just riding straight are doing. I still find it tough to ride mostly straight while switching edges. But thinking about this form, I can at least imagine it happening now.
Hellude, I'll take your advice on the lean, that will hopefully help with keeping my knees bent.
Snowolf, you're right, I am really hard on myself. I guess part of me just feels, that because I'm older, I'm so behind on the sport and I just want to get better so much faster.
Hobomaster, just to give you an idea of scale, I didn't want to go all out on the icy trails. Just ride a normal pace, basically not be a hazard skidding sideways for everyone to try to avoid.
I only started going really fast (relative to me) this season and I am about 3 seasons in.
BIG thing for me, as another poster said, was don't be lazy and bend your knees. If I really want to bomb I get real low. It's not for wind resistence or anything like that, but my knees can absorb anything that comes up.
The other one for me is the board. I went from an all moutain freestyle board to a Never Summer Raptor, which is a great charging board. I am way more stable at fast speeds on that.
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Well, I finally had time to pick up the harness up at my bro's place, who knows how long it's been in the city.:angry (I had to ask my sis in law if anything came for me)
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Anyhow I'm at work but I'm wearing it as I type... Just to get use to the feel.
my co-workers think I'm a freak...lol,
Well i do have a Boba Fettish;)
First off i want to say how awesome it looks and feels, true quality leather work, Awesome work John!:thumbsup
The fit is great, I think I may have to add shoelaces to the front when I have the Jet Pack on... but i'll do a test fit once I have the hardware on my pack.
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KINGSTON, R.I. – Winning can be contagious. Proof can be seen through the VCU track & field programs.
Winning Stage 1: Two summers ago, then freshman Kiara Porter earned a spot in the IAAF World Junior Championships as part of the United State squad. That opportunity led to a gold medal on the 4x400 meter relay squad.
"Kiara's work ethic and track IQ takes this program to the next level. She's had quite a number of firsts in program history and the gold medal is really the one that stands out. Her success on and off the track motivates the younger athletes to achieve at the highest level," Head Coach Jon Riley said.
Winning Stage 2: Porter (400m) and teammate Jalessa Williams (discus) became the first pair of VCU track athletes to earn All-American honors in the same year.
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Everything I've read about the Vietnam issues weren't due to the weapon itself per se... many if not most of the issues were due to misinterpretations of the "self cleaning gas system" evolving into "gun that never needs cleaning".
I also read that a huge issue was when *someone* decided a different gun powder was better than what the manufacturer specified, and so the recipe was changed. The result with the aforementioned "never needs cleaning" FUD was a large number of fouling-related issues and jams.
Put that smack in the middle of the "bigger is better" mindset at the time which built strong resistance to such a profound change and you'll understand why the issues arose.
Now, what I would like to know is how many of those reports from Somalia are true:
- takes multiple hits to knock down the "skinnies"
- doesn't effectively penetrate the mud huts
... etc.
And what of the Iraq stories we've all probably heard about soldiers having jams during combat - are they all due to poor cleaning habits? Really? Remember that's what allegedly caused that one female soldier (forget her name now) that was all over the news to get captured... gun was jammed and she couldn't fight.


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text: Now through 11 games (55% of this stretch), we are still tracking .5 games behind the predicted outcome. 4-6 through the first 10. We really should beat Milwaukee, so we'll be back on track if that happens. But get ready for some extreme unrest from the fan base and here on the forum over the next 9 games. Even though it is predictable, losing multiple games in a row causes anger and makes people look for escape goats and such. Curry is not really doing Dyess (or himself) any favors by starting Dyess on the eve of a possible 7 game losing streak.


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VALPARAISO, Ind. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Senior Adrian Ritchie (De Pere, Wis.) finished just two rebounds and two assists shy of a triple-double as the Green Bay women's basketball team defeated Valparaiso 78-55 on the road for its 10th straight win. The victory improves the Phoenix, which is receiving votes in both Top-25 polls, to 15-2 overall and 5-0 in the Horizon League, while the Crusaders dropped to 7-11 overall and 2-3 in conference play.
"Defensively we weren't as sharp today, you have to give Valparaiso credit," head coach Kevin Borseth said. "They were stronger than us in a lot of areas, but our kids adjusted well. Any time you win on the road-especially when you win by 20-that's significant."
Green Bay opened the game with an 11-4 lead after three three's from seniors Sarah Eichler (Grafton, Wis.), Stephanie Sension (Hopkins, Minn.) and Jenny Gilbertson (Wabasha, Minn.). The Phoenix made its first three attempts from behind the arc, and finished the game shooting nearly 43 percent from long range.
Ritchie used a no-look pass to Sension and hit a three on the next possession to extend the lead to 17-4. Green Bay held Valparaiso scoreless for more than six minutes in the first half on an 11-0 run.
"She (Ritchie) really fills the stat sheet and does a lot of good things for us. She had four rebounds in a row for us, and overall she's just an outstanding player. She deserves all the recognition she gets because she really works hard for us," Borseth said.
Valparaiso cut Green bay's lead to 10 at 24-14 with 5:35 remaining in the first half, but Lydia Bauer (Lake Zurich, Ill.) responded with an open three from the corner. Bauer finished the game with 11 points and five rebounds.
Ritchie scored five consecutive points for the Phoenix to close the half, snapping a 6-0 Crusaders run with a layup and then another layup and the foul on the next trip down the court. Valparaiso's Gina Lange, who finished with a game-high 18 points, hit a jumper to cut Green Bay's lead to 34-22 going into the half.
The Phoenix opened the second half with five unanswered points after Sension scored in the post on a feed from Bauer and a Bauer hit a three on the next possession. However, the Crusaders used an 11-2 run to bring Green Bay's lead to single digits at 41-33 with 15:18 remaining. Two free throws from Megan Lukan (Barrie, Ontario) answered the run, and sparked a 16-2 streak for the Phoenix over the next 4:17 to push the lead to 57-35.
Redshirt junior Breannah Ranger (Skokie, Ill.) didn't attempt a shot in the first half, but helped fuel the Phoenix run with 13 points-just two shy of tying her career high. Ranger shot 5-of-6 from the field and 3-3 from the charity stripe and blocked a shot while playing 19 minutes.
With the shot clock winding down, Eichler sank an NBA-length three to extend the lead to 20 points at 71-51 with 3:33 remaining. Eichler had 11 points in the game, giving her 958 points for her career. From there, Borseth was able to give all 11 players time on the court and seal the 10th straight victory for the Phoenix.
Sension finished the game with nine points and two blocks, while Lukan added eight points and seven assists. Gilbertson had five points on a perfect day from the floor, while redshirt junior Sam Zastrow (Algoma, Wis.) was one point shy of tying a career high with four points on the day. Redshirt freshman Taylor Thomas (Wausau, Wis.) also scored two points late in the game.
"We need to have as much production from as many people as possible," Borseth said. "All of these kids work really hard in practice and in the game when they see minutes on the court, so it's great to be able to give them a chance to play."
Valparaiso became the first team since Central Michigan on Dec. 5 to score more than 50 points. The Phoenix entered the game with the nation's best scoring defense at 46.7 points per game and have held 12 of 17 opponents below 50 points this season. Green Bay shot 59.6 percent from the floor, including a 66.7 (16-24) mark in the second half.
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Tax Identity Theft
New York, New York - (NBC News) Identity thieves have found a weakness in the IRS's tax return procedure.
They know that returns filed electronically don't immediately require the all-important w-2.
"When you file your tax return online, you don't have to actually file your w-2 electronically. So, they can make up the payroll information in order to get a tax refund in your name," said Maneesha Mithal, of the division of privacy and identity protection.
That's why the tax refund you'll soon be filing for with the IRS has become such a popular target of identity thieves.
Identity Protection specialists at the Federal Trade Commission say in the last two years, stealing someone's tax identity has become the fastest growing form of I.D. theft.
It all starts with a thief getting your social security number somehow, then filling out online the phony info on wages.
It leads to, what privacy experts call, a near hopeless situation.
"The truth is if an identity thief has your number and your address, and they're clever, you very well could be a victim and there's not much you can do to prevent it," said privacy expert Bob Sullivan.
That's why the FTC is launching a campaign this week, urging consumers to protect their social security numbers, and also to act quickly on doing taxes this year.
"If you get a jump on the identity thief by filing your tax return first, you can get your refund first," said Mithal.
The IRS has added staff to help, but only after a tax filer figures out they're a victim.
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