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Definition of oaf in English:
A stupid, uncultured, or clumsy person.
Example sentences
- She smiled and sipped her coffee, but he still heard her murmur, 'Uncultured oaf.'
- Besides its not like me and you haven't done that before you stupid oaf!
- What a shameful exercise in valuing the life of a stupid and dangerous oaf over the lives of millions of others.
lout, boor, barbarian, Neanderthal, churl, bumpkin, yokel;
informal idiot, imbecile, moron, halfwit, lamer, cretin, ass, jackass, goon, yahoo, ape, baboon, clod, blockhead, meathead, butthead, meatball, bonehead, knucklehead, chucklehead, lamebrain, palooka, lug, bozo, hoser, boob, chowderhead, lummox, knuckle-dragger, galoot, klutz, goofus, doofus, dork, turkey, dingbat, scissorbill
archaic lubber
Early 17th century: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr 'elf'. The original meaning was 'elf's child, changeling', later 'idiot child' and 'halfwit', generalized in the current sense.
The word oaf goes back to Old Norse alfr 'an elf'. It originally meant 'an elf's child, a changeling', and from this came to be used for 'an idiot child', and then 'fool' or 'halfwit'. Finally, in the early 20th century, it acquired the general sense of 'large clumsy man', a sense used by Rudyard Kipling in The Islanders (1903) when he referred to cricketers and footballers as 'flannelled fools at the wicket' and 'muddied oafs at the goals'.
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Uchû kaizoku Captain Harlock: Arcadia-gô no nazo (1978)
This is not Arcadia of My Youth
For some reason, every other comment on this page (as of 02/21/09) referred to the theatrical feature Arcadia of My Youth, AKA My Youth in Arcadia, and the English dub Vengeance of the Space Pirate (these comments have finally been removed or reposted to the correct film). Please read the title at the top of the page; this is The Mystery of the Arcadia, a completely separate film featuring the same main character. This feature is a 35 minute theatrical short that was produced during the run of the 1978 Space Pirate Captain Harlock television series, which drew the bulk of its narrative from that series' thirteenth episode (Witch Castle in the Sea of Death) and added around fifteen minutes of new animation. The feature focuses on the relationships between Captain Harlock, his young ward Mayu Oyama, and the ship's mysterious central computer, climaxing with an undersea battle with the witch Aman in a story paralleling that of the famous Japanese folk tale "Urashima Taro." It's a non-essential but fun film aimed at fans of the original series, though it breaks with that series' internal continuity via its re-writing of the source episode.
Robotech: The Movie (1986)
'Nuff said.
There 's going to be spoilers, so just realize that up front.
I liked the TV show. I really did. I was sixteen, and somehow G.I. Joe and the Thundercats weren't cutting it for me in the entertainment department. For what it was, Robotech was way ahead of its peers.
Robotech the Movie might've been okay in concept, but the actual execution was awful. "A" Robotech movie, maybe, but not THIS Robotech movie. With the original show, the three series that comprised it were seen in succession. Here, we have two unrelated anime intercut, and it shows. One of the components, Megazone 23, was shot on 35 millimeter; the other, the Southern Cross series, was on 16 millimeter. The design sense was radically different between the two anime, as well, and of course characters from the two shows never interacted, even though Harmony Gold had about ten minutes of new animation made for the ending-since Megazone had originally ended on a cliffhanger, and its sequel had completely different character designs, they needed to wrap things up somehow, after all. You'd think-or wish-that they'd had the sense to make some new footage bridging this gap. (Note: the english dub of Megazone part 2 that was dubbed by Harmony Gold for the japanese market and has been floating around for ages contains this extra footage at the beginning, even though it cannot possibly fit into the continuity of the original story.)
It could be expected that the resultant film would bear little or no similarity to the original Megazone 23, but it also utterly fails to fit into the continuity of Robotech. Supposedly taking place between the Macross and Southern Cross series, we have the Robotech Masters showing up five years before they "finally reach earth" AGAIN at the start of Southern Cross. The fact that one of their ships is brought down on earth and the Masters themselves speak to the head of the earth military makes one wonder how our heroes manage to completely forget that they've met, fought, and defeated these same enemies when they show up again. We also see Southern Cross fighters that aren't invented until halfway through the SC series showing up in this alleged prequel, and the same stock footage used for the "cloning of Zor" bits dropped into the later Macross episodes gets used again for the "cloning of B.D." part of this film.
Yes, that's right, the fascist militant antagonist B.D. from Megazone is now a good guy who is captured, cloned, and sent back as a saboteur, using the Zor Prime/Marlene plotline from the show YET AGAIN. What's hilarious, however, is that we never see any of this take place onscreen. The "good" B.D.'s voice is heard coming out of a mech early in the film, though we never see his face, and we never see anyone getting kidnapped at all. We hear one of the other pilots yelling, "Look over there! They're kidnapping the commander!" without seeing any of it happen, since there was no actual animation depicting this wholly made-up plot point. And while all the events onboard the space-travelling city in Megazone are now transposed to earth, they managed to leave in the part wherein the hero punctures the hull of the ship and drifts out into space without explaining what the hell just happened.
This film is best viewed the way one would view Plan 9 From Outer Space; no other way is likely to be enjoyable. I'll point out in closing that while Robotech's creator Carl Macek has in interviews denounced the preposterous way in which the voice actors in the film constantly go "huh?" and "wha?" and "eh?" throughout the whole film, the anime he's dubbing in present times (up through 2003) still contains this obnoxious approach to voice-over. Some folks never learn.
Soul Survivors (2001)
It's a bad omen when the title is a pun.
***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Does anyone else notice that the first scene in this film is never explained, and makes no sense? Just curious.
Much that it might want to be, this is not a David Lynch film. It doesn't have the imagination. Near-death trauma causes hallucinations (or ARE they?) and the most exciting thing they can come up with is some weird-looking guys chasing you up various halls and alleys?
The box copy is rather deceptive, too, claiming this is the version that "couldn't be seen in theaters." It's simply the version that WASN'T seen in theaters; there's nothing extreme in this film at all, especially compared to the slasher films of the 70s and 80s. While the filmmakers seemed to be trying to get all artsy rather than gory, it doesn't really pay off in either way. Plus Eliza Dushku doesn't get the least bit naked in this film, so be forewarned (though she does dance nicely, if the camera would just slow down and let us watch her doing so.)
SPOILER COMING: What kind of a twist ending is it to have the character simply mistaken about which of her friends actually died? So you get two deaths instead of one...I guess that's worse in real life, but hardly what I'd call dramatic. And can you count the times a "horror" film has ended with the sudden reappearance of the villian, which suddenly turns out to be "Whew! Just a dream!" No, I expect you probably can't.
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Who could believe this was real?
Who? Apparently, over half the viewing public, which led to the second airing of this absurd hoax. As an amateur filmmaker myself, I spotted the tricks immediately, especially the intensely fake "light ball," (an Adobe Premiere PRESET, no less,) which cast no shadows. The sudden intrusion of overlaid static just before every special effect just screamed "the effect didn't work the first time and we had to cut to take 2 without obviously stopping the camera." The scene where it becomes abruptly foggy so the laser pointer the aliens are using (to cut up an invisible cow) has a visible beam was rather amusing. The points where the camera cuts to a new shot (complete with sound bridge) but the time counter still clocks a full minute across the cut waves a flag saying "the time counter was added later" (it's also a Premiere preset.)
I expect the creators of this flick were trying to make a work of fiction-what gets me is the fact that UPN aired this thing without any disclaimer whatsoever. The whole time, they implied it was a real occurrence, the only hint of honesty being the credits at the end, which apparently a lot of people missed. Curiously, the only real people involved were Stanton Friedman (big-time UFO nut) and Michael Shermer (big-time UFO debunker,) who didn't appear in the credits at all. In fact, I don't think either of them actually comment on the content of the tape itself-their interviews might well have been culled from elsewhere. Is this not fraud of some sort to deliberately lie to the viewing public?
This pre-Blair Witch Blair Witch flick is even less scary than BW, but if you liked that film, maybe this is for you. Just don't believe it's the real thing.
The Abyss (1989)
Could've been Cameron's best. But isn't.
Much of this constitutes a spoiler. READ NO FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW CRUCIAL PLOT DETAILS!
Am I the only one who thinks that the inclusion of friendly ETs in this film was utterly superfluous?
Perhaps so. Nevertheless, this film could've been a nice Cold War drama without the danged aliens making so much as a cameo, which, for the first ninety minutes or so, is about all they do. Snip the rest and simply allow the human conflict to play out; there's plenty of it, and it's by far Cameron's most tension-inducing work. The much-praised drowning sequence is truly grueling to watch, and the claustrophobic atmosphere exceeds that of Aliens, probably his best movie. But the horribly awkward dog-leg turn at the end threw my suspension of disbelief right out the window, and the director's cut is even more egregious in this respect, with an entirely new plot line that had not really even been hinted at previously suddenly appearing and then being abruptly resolved within minutes. Another "Architects of Fear" we don't need.
Some directors do a good job at incorporating a moral within their narrative, but Cameron isn't one of them. His comments on human aggression and non-cooperation reduce to "people being mean bad! People saying 'I love you' to family good!" Frankly, most of us have figured that out independently. "Show, don't tell," is a technique Cameron has never seemed comfortable with, as if he doesn't trust his own ability as a director to convey the idea he wishes to promote without writing it on a baseball bat and clubbing you about the face with it. Good performances, photography, and effects aren't enough to save a potentially great movie about interpersonal conflict from the preachier aspects that, as the director's cut makes clear, were Cameron's most favorite parts of the story. Too bad.
And I hate when violation of physical law is explained away with dialogue like, "they must've done something to us." Thank you; that explains everything. JC really needs to hire a dialogue writer to take the burden off of his own skills; they just don't rise to the occasion.


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Dangerous competitions, subterfuge, and the Dark Mark mingle in this fourth explosive installment of the internationally adored Harry Potter series. The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is hosting the first Triwizard Tournament in a century, a contest that pits Hogwarts against two other powerful schools of the magical arts. By tradition, the Goblet of Fire names the one lucky student from each institution--three in all--chosen to participate in the prestigious event. However, this year, the Goblet calls out a fourth name as well--that of 14-year-old Harry Potter. Terrified of magic far more advanced than anything he's mastered, Harry must put up with school-wide suspicions that he cheated his way into the event. And then he must face life-threatening tasks. But at the same time, Harry develops a crush on the lovely Cho Chang of Ravenclaw, and this distracts him from his mounting difficulties. Both a year 2000 New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2000.
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Entropy 2014, 16(6), 3482-3536; doi:10.3390/e16063482
Entropy in the Critical Zone: A Comprehensive Review
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AbstractThermodynamic entropy was initially proposed by Clausius in 1865. Since then it has been implemented in the analysis of different systems, and is seen as a promising concept to understand the evolution of open systems in non-equilibrium conditions. Information entropy was proposed by Shannon in 1948, and has become an important concept to measure information in different systems. Both thermodynamic entropy and information entropy have been extensively applied in different fields related to the Critical Zone, such as hydrology, ecology, pedology, and geomorphology. In this study, we review the most important applications of these concepts in those fields, including how they are calculated, and how they have been utilized to analyze different processes. We then synthesize the link between thermodynamic and information entropies in the light of energy dissipation and organizational patterns, and discuss how this link may be used to enhance the understanding of the Critical Zone.
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The police claimed to have busted a kidney-sales racket here with the arrest of six persons on Saturday. Among those held were two city-based women, who were about to sell their kidneys to female renal patients undergoing treatment in a hospital at Kilpauk. Three women intermediaries and the husband of one of the women kidney-sellers too were nabbed.
Police said three women intermediaries — Girija, Sophia and Devi — were running the racket by contacting families of patients and coercing gullible women to sell their kidneys to patients.
According to the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, only blood relatives and close friends can donate kidneys without monetary consideration. Police said the three women had forged documents to show that the recipients and the donors were close relatives. The forgery was identified during scrutiny by an authorisation committee, whose permission is mandatory for any hospital to transplant organs donated by a live person. The committee was verifying kidney transplant proposals for two renal patients — Jayamani, a resident of Erode, and Chandra, a resident of Kolathur — both undergoing treatment in MR Hospital in Kilpauk.
While interviewing the donors, the panel found that they gave conflicting replies. "They claimed they were close relatives and submitted documents to establish it. But when we asked searching questions, it was clear they did not know each other for long," said Dr V Kanagasabai, dean of MMC and RGGGH and a member of the committee.
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Amid some heavy snow and dipping temperatures, Ronnie O'Sullivan washed up at the Masters at London's Alexandra Palace back in January during his 11-month absence from snooker to watch a semi-final between Mark Selby and Graeme Dott.
It was a turgid match that saw 10 frames take over five hours to see off, and one completely at odds with the flamboyant nature in which the world champion likes to perform. It conspired to produce the sort of fare the game's blue-chip figure loathes participating in, far less watching. Selby v Dott on BBC2 highlighted why snooker missed 'The Rocket'.
On a self-enforced sabbatical, O'Sullivan said he only turned up because he lived in the vicinity and his mate wanted to watch some snooker. He remains nothing if not unpredictable.
As O'Sullivan sat chatting to players from yesteryear in the form of television pundits John Virgo and John Parrott in the media room, who looked as startled as everybody else by his unannounced arrival, it was difficult to escape from the conclusion that here was a man who was missing snooker.
Not only the sport, but the limelight it provided for him, an unusual form of oxygen for the attention seeker.
He may claim otherwise, repeatedly over the years with his tiresome threats to retire, but suggesting O'Sullivan does not like the fame snooker brings him is like actors claiming they do not like watching themselves in movies.
Left out in the cold in January, he prefers some heat. O'Sullivan loves publicity, sometimes to his own detriment as we witnessed on Tuesday. Here is a figure who should not be clamping himself to issues that do not really concern him, but he could not resist the temptation to involve himself in the Stephen Lee match-fixing disgrace.
I've heard there's many more players who throw snooker matches .. I suppose Steve lee was just caught out
— Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 17, 2013
I just love putting it out there bring it all out in the open.. Nothing like a bit of transparency is what I say.. — Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 17, 2013
His comments on Twitter yesterday in the wake of Trowbridge's Lee being found guilty of "frame and match-fixing" remain ill-advised. And unfounded.
No need to worry if you got nothing to hide. But plenty of people have got loads to hide. That's why there is no free speech . There hiding
— Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 17, 2013
They will prob fine me for talking about it.. They don't like you doing that.. Like to keep things under the carpet.. — Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 17, 2013
Free speech is all well and good, but the main point the World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn will be putting to O'Sullivan is that there has to be a responsibility when making such claims. Spouting insinuations on social networking sites from the comfort of your own living room without offering supporting evidence of the players in question is a dangerous business.
Since Hearn, the former manager of Steve Davis, returned to snooker back in 2010, it is also an offence for professionals to keep such knowledge to themselves. O'Sullivan has probably left himself snookered because he could not help himself. His claims are damaging and unsubstantiated.
He is only tweeting hearsay which is likely to see him scalded by the authorities for bringing the game into disrepute unless he is willing to provide a dossier on the figures who he knows are involved.
His outburst does nothing to help his fellow players, the best of whom are competing this week in the Shanghai Masters in China. While the fall-out from Lee's shenanigans and the damning 35-page dossier that is likely to see his career effectively ended for throwing frames and matches begins to take effect, O'Sullivan suddenly becomes part of the plot for no apparent reason.
Most players are honest triers attempting to make a living from the game who would never dream of throwing a frame, but mud sticks. It will not take much for Joe Public with a passing interest in snooker to think: 'If one's at it, they all must be at it.' O'Sullivan has fed the beast with his tweets.
O'Sullivan has a brilliant brain, frequently turning snooker into an art form. He is probably the greatest player in the history of the sport with his five world titles, easily the best to watch, but like some of his compatriots picking up a cue, he is not the brightest of characters away from the baize.
No concrete evidence of match fixing in snooker But just like everyone one who works in an office they have a good idea who's shagging who
— Ronnie O'Sullivan (@ronnieo147) September 17, 2013
Will sponsors be attracted to a sport when the world champion is claiming players are throwing frames? Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are toxic by their very nature, good it seems only for highlighting a lack of basic intelligence and common sense.
In the aftermath of the wretched and unfounded Twitter campaign against Lord McAlpine, do some of these characters think before they tweet or post? Obviously not. The ongoing TV presenter Phillip Schofield showed an astonishing lack of judgement when he became a celebrity nonce hunter 10 months ago by brandishing a list of suspected paedophiles assembled from internet hearsay in front of the Prime Minister David Cameron.
O'Sullivan's outburst on Twitter was unnecessary, unhelpful and self-harming. It paints an untrue picture of a sport that has made him over £7 million in career earnings. Biting the hand that feeds him springs to mind. There are a smallish number of corrupt figures in every sport. Not just snooker.
Alleging that the game is bent says more about O'Sullivan than snooker. It says more about the toxic brand that is Twitter. If O'Sullivan has time to tweet, he has time on his hands.
It would not be absurd to suggest he would be better off playing the sport he loves rather than needlessly harming it.
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Brussels, 15 November 2000
Main EU
legislation on BSE
This list gives an overview of the
main European Union (EU) legislation on Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as the main
elements of the decisions. A complete chronological
overview of all the BSE legislation is available on the
internet at:
Decision 89/469 28 July 1989 (live
cattle UK)
The United Kingdom shall not send to
other Member States live cattle born before 18 July 1988 or
born to females in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy
is suspected or has been officially confirmed.
Decision 90/134 6 March 1990 (notification of BSE)
All outbreaks of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy shall be notified.
Decision 90/200 9 April 1990 (products UK)
The United Kingdom shall not send from
its territory to that of other Member states: brains,
spinal cord, thymus, tonsils, spleen, intestines derived
from bovine animals aged more than six months at
Decision 94/381 27 June 1994 (feed ban)
Member States shall prohibit the feeding
of protein derived from mammalian tissues to ruminant
Decision 94/382 27 June 1994 (Processing of ruminant
approval of alternative heat treatment
systems for processing animal waste of ruminant origin,
with a view to the inactivation of spongiform
encephalopathy agents
Decision 96/239 27 March 1996 (UK embargo)
the United Kingdom shall not export from
its territory to the other Member States or third countries
bovine animals and bovine products
Decision 96/449 18 July 1996 (processing of mammalian
processing conditions for mammalian
animal waste with a view to the inactivation of spongiform
encephalopathy agents: 133° - 3 Bar - 20 minutes - now
replaced by 1999/534 (introduces processing conditions for
Decision 98/256 16 March 1998 (partial lifting of UK
embargo - ECHS)
First amendment of the UK embargo:
Reinforcement of controls and first steps towards lifting
of the ban under Export Certified Herds Scheme (ECHS) of
Northern Ireland
Decision 98/272 23 April 1998 (epidemio-surveillance
of TSEs)
Lays down general rules for the
epidemio-surveillance of all Transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs). Amended by 2000/374, introducing
rapid tests (see below)
Decision 98/653 18 November 1998 (Portugal
Ban on the dispatch of bovine animals
and bovine products from Portugal
Decision 98/692 25 November 1998 (partial lifting of
UK embargo - DBES)
Second amendment of the UK embargo:
Adoption of the principles of the second step towards
lifting of the ban under the Date-Based-Export-Scheme
(BDES) applicable in the entire UK.
Decision 99/514 23 June 1999 (date for dispatch of
DBES meat and meat products)
Fixing of the date on which beef and
beef products of UK origin under the DBES may commence: 1
August 1999
Decision 2000/374 5 June 2000 (reinforcement of
surveillance by rapid testing)
Reinforcement of the epidemic
surveillance of BSE in cattle by introducing a monitoring
programme from 1st January 2001, through rapid post mortem
tests. The Member States will carry out annual monitoring
programmes on a targeted sample of animals, with a
particular focus on animals which die on farms, sick
animals slaughtered as emergencies and animals displaying
behavioural or neurological signs.
Decision 2000/418 29 June 2000 (SRMs)
Member States shall remove animal
tissues which are most likely to present a BSE risk
(summarised: the skull, the tonsils, the spinal cord and
the ileum) from the feed and food chain as of October 1st.
Meat imports from third countries will be subject to
similar requirements as of 1 April 2001, unless scientific
assessment indicates such measures are not
Proposal 19 October 2000 (Fallen stock)
The draft Regulation proposes to
prohibit the recycling of fallen stock and condemned animal
material in animal food. The only animal material allowed
to be used for the production of animal feed would then be
material derived from animals declared fit fro human
consumption following veterinary inspection. (Only a
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Entertainment 4 Days Box Office Collections: 7th Highest Opening Of Akshay
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The movie opened at the first day and made a business of 11.16 crore at the Box Office. The weekend was impressive as Entertainment did 11.53 crore on Saturday and collected 14 crores on Sunday.
With the commencement of weekdays, Entertainment, the comedy movie made a business of 7 crore on Monday, its forth day. Trade analyst and Bollywood's movie critic Taran Adarsh tweeted, "#Entertainment has a SUPER-STRONG Monday. Fri 11.16 cr, Sat 11.53 cr, Sun 14 cr, Mon 7 cr. Total: ₹ 43.69 cr nett. India biz."
Even after the box office collections dropped by almost 50 % when compared to Sunday, Entertainment has been doing a fare and steady business at the Indian box office. If we count the 4 days collections, Entertainment has made 43.69 crores at the domestic box office.
Despite Raksha Bandhan, the movie managed to pull the crowd in theaters and if the movie maintains a steady pace, then it will do a good business till Friday. Akshay Kumar's Entertainment might get a huge Kick once Rohit Shetty's Singham Returns releases on 15th August.
However, Akshay Kumar's Entertainment's opening weekend collections has been his 7th highest till now with Rowdy Rathore, Housefull 2 and Holiday in the Top 3. Entertainment is all set to cross 50 crore mark at the Indian Box Office on Tuesday.
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President Barack Obama fired back at Republican Mitt Romney over criticism of his administration's handling of the situation in Egypt and Libya.
Mr. Obama, in an interview with CBS News, said Mr. Romney tends to "shoot first and aim later."
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"And as president, one of the things I've learned is you can't do that," Mr. Obama said, "that, you know, it's important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts. And that you've thought through the ramifications before you make 'em."
While aboard Air Force One to Las Vegas, Mr. Obama offered his condolences to the family of two of the diplomats killed in Libya, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. Mr. Obama called the wife of Sean Smith, a foreign service information-management officer who was the father of two, and the parents of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.
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The Changing Face of Ground Zero - Sep 10, 2002
Marc Santora captures the scene at Liberty Street near Ground Zero yesterday.
(New York Times)
More Human Remains Found Near World Trade Center Site - Aug 30, 2002
Three bone fragments found on a Lower Manhattan roof are human remains that may be from one or more victims of the World Trade Center disaster, the Medical Examiner's Office concluded yesterday.
(New York Post)
A Grim Job Done, as Dust Is Returned Unto Dust - Jul 16, 2002
For the workers at the Fresh Kills landfill who sifted through 1.62 million tons of rubble from the World Trade Center for remains of those killed on Sept. 11 and for clues about those responsible for the attack, the official end of their job yesterday seemed a sad graduation of sorts. Politicians joined them, along with the family members of some of the victims, for a solemn ceremony at the landfill in Staten Island at the completion of an operation that had continued nearly nonstop since Sept. 12.
(New York Times)
Search for Remains Ends With Ceremony - Jul 15, 2002
The city will mark the end of its efforts to recover human remains from the rubble of the World Trade Center today with a ceremony at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where more than a million and a half tons of debris have been sifted for clues
(New York Times)
Ceremony to Signify End of Search for Remains at Staten Island Landfill - Jul 11, 2002
The end of the search for human remains from the World Trade Center will be marked by a police department ceremony at Fresh Kills landfill on Monday, officials said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and trade center victims' families all are expected to attend the 9:30 a.m. ceremony.
Search for Sept. 11 Remains Set to End - Jul 10, 2002
The search for human remains in World Trade Center debris at Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill will end Monday, concluding the 10-month recovery effort, officials said yesterday.
(New York Daily News)
Last Recovery Crew Leaves Ground Zero - Jun 25, 2002
The city and the nation at large marked the end of the recovery effort at ground zero nearly a month ago. But it was only yesterday, as a crew of four firefighters carefully supervised the collection of the last bags of possible human remains from a bank building next door to the site of the towers, that the job was complete.
(New York Times)
Recovery And Cleanup Officials To Determine How To Clean Up Deutsche Bank Building - Jun 9, 2002
City officials are slated to meet tomorrow to resolve a conflict over searching a contaminated building near Ground Zero for remains, the latest tangle in the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site. Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management officials are to meet tomorrow with management of the Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St., across from the southern edge of Ground Zero, to figure out when that building can be searched for remains, sources said.
(New York Post)
More Remains Found At Ground Zero, Ten Days After Official Closing - Jun 8, 2002
Workers searching through debris in buildings adjacent to the World Trade Center site this week found the remains of about a dozen people, city officials said Saturday. In the past week, workers thoroughly searched 90 West St. and 130 Cedar St., two office buildings that were heavily damaged on Sept. 11, said Megan Sheekey, a spokeswoman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Crews searching those buildings over the past week have found bone fragments, teeth and even parts of a plane's luggage rack. The remains will be turned over to the city Medical Examiner's office for identification.
(Associated Press)
Ground Zero Oil Leaks Need Cleanup - Jun 6, 2002
A recent environmental report said that the Seven World Trade Center site requires ongoing environmental cleanup. The collapse of the 47-story tower there resulted in the release of 130,000 gallons of oil from the Consolidated Edison substation, while an unspecified amount of oil leaked from two damaged storage tanks formerly owned by Salomon Smith Barney.
Ceremony Honors Those Lost As Recovery At WTC Site Ends - May 31, 2002
A solemn and wordless procession punctuated by tears, the tolling of bells and muted applause rose out of Ground Zero and up into the sunny streets of lower Manhattan yesterday on a morning as bright as the September day terror shattered the city. There were no speeches by the many elected officials and dignitaries present. The only words uttered aloud called those assembled to attention. The removal of debris remaining after the clearing of nearly 2 million tons of rubble is expected by the middle of next week.
Heartbreak, Anger, Timing Keep Many Away From Ceremony - May 31, 2002
As the city paused yesterday to remember the 2,800 innocent lives lost at the World Trade Center, families of several hundred victims stayed away from the tribute at Ground Zero. Their reasons varied. A few boycotted what they called a political event. Many couldn't make it because the tribute was scheduled on a weekday. Others were too overcome with grief
(New York Daily News)
Ceremony Without Words Marks End Of Recovery Effort at World Trade Center Site - May 30, 2002
There were no prayers, no speeches, and no words spoken. But the symbolism of the 20-minute ceremony sounded loud and clear as one last stretcher, carried by 10 people, was slowly removed from the World Trade Center site this morning, marking the official end of the recovery effort. Hundreds of people gathered to witness the ceremony, which included a slow-marching bagpipe unit whose progress was marked only by the muted sound of drums and an empty stretcher draped in an American flag that symbolized the victims of the terrorist attack whose remains have not been either found or identified.
(New York Times)
Ground Zero Ceremony Stirs Emotion - May 30, 2002
The place where the World Trade Center once towered evokes a flood of contradictory emotions. The recovery effort ends today, but no matter what building, park or memorial is erected on its site, Ground Zero will never disappear from New YorkersŐ collective consciousness. People whose lives changed forever at that spot describe whatŐs being left behind.
Recovery Effort Goes To The Last Minute - May 30, 2002
Ground Zero crews worked into the early hours this morning, and they will be back again tonight, combing through the final, shrinking pile of debris in the search for human remains. Recovery work at Ground Zero has moved far faster than anyone could imagine - but not quite fast enough to be done in time for today's ceremony to mark the end of the massive effort.
(New York Post)
Last Steel Column From the Ground Zero Rubble Is Cut Down - May 29, 2002
Column No. 1,001 B of 2 World Trade Center, the last symbolic piece of the recovery effort, was cut down at 8:17 p.m. yesterday by operating engineers, ironworkers, teamsters, laborers and dock builders. The 58-ton piece of steel from the south tower was laid on a flatbed truck, wrapped in black muslin and an American flag, and tucked in a corner of the pit.
(New York Times)
Last Girder Coming Down At Ground Zero - May 28, 2002
The last girder from the World Trade Center at Ground Zero will be removed at a somber ceremony that will be the first of three major tributes over the next few days marking the end of recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site. Sometime before 8 p.m., a procession of workers is scheduled to march from Vesey St. down to the bedrock floor of the 16-acre plot before cutting down the girder and carrying it from the site.
(New York Daily News)
Tribute Ceremony To Mark End Of Cleanup And Recovery At Ground Zero - May 17, 2002
On May 30, families of World Trade Center victims and workers who toiled for the past months at Ground Zero will take part in a ceremony held by the city to commemorate the dead and signal an end of the recovery and cleanup. At 10:29 AM, the time the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, the last steel beam will be removed from the site and a stretcher symbolizing the unrecovered remains and draped with an American flag will be carried out of the site into an ambulance.
(New York Times)
Closing Date For Ground Zero Cleanup To Be Announced By Mayor's Office - May 14, 2002
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city may announce Wednesday the anticipated final day of debris removal at Ground Zero, but he stressed that notifying the families of those killed on Sept. 11 must come first. The city is also planning a Ňfinal dayÓ ceremony, which will likely involve thousands of relatives of those lost on Sept. 11 and workers who labored at the site over the past eight months.
Part of Staten Island Recovery Area For World Trade Center Debris Closing Soon - May 14, 2002
The Hill, an area of the Fresh Kills landfill connected to the recovery
effort, is soon to shut down. The operation,
"created in the genius of desperation, has sorted through 1.6 million tons
of material removed from the World Trade Center disaster site. That work has
uncovered more than 4,100 body parts, helping to identify more than 150
victims. Now, there are only 25,000 tons to be carted to the landfill from
Lower Manhattan, a small fraction of what was. In the next few weeks their
mission will be completed, their future certain only to the extent that it
will be nothing like what they have just gone through."
(New York Times)
Rebuilding Infrastructure and Wiring Downtown Is A Huge Undertaking - May 12, 2002
In this feature from the New York Times Magazine, author Robert Sullivan explores the mammoth effort of rewiring Lower Manhattan after September 11 by taking a look at one particular street. The article discusses the intricacies of wiring underground among decades-old structures and the efforts of Verizon and other communications companies to make sure one of the world's busiest telecommunications areas stays connected.
(New York Times)
Fungus Infestation Threatens A Building Still Standing At Ground Zero - May 8, 2002
A 40-story skyscraper at the edge of Ground Zero withstood the terrorist attacks -- but could be demolished because of a gross infestation of foul mold. While engineers have deemed the heavily damaged tower as stable, the outgrowth of fungus has spread such that Deutsche Bank, which owns the building, could end up knocking down the building.
(New York Daily News)
Search For Bodies At Ground Zero Near The End - May 8, 2002
Crews at Ground Zero have found no human remains other than a few small bones in the past two weeks, officials said yesterday -- signaling that the recovery effort is drawing to a sad end. Firefighters, cops and construction workers continue to rake painstakingly through the last heaps of debris at the 16-acre World Trade Center site.
(New York Daily News)
Barges Near Stuyvesant High School To Stop Transportation of Ground Zero Debris Next Month - Apr 25, 2002
The first of the barges which have towed away Ground Zero debris and have been the source of many complaints over the last seven months is about to be moved, possibly as soon as April 29. By all accounts, all three barges should be tugged out of the Hudson for good before the end of May.
(Downtown Express)
Ground Zero Cleanup To Cost Less Than Previously Estimated - Apr 25, 2002
Cleaning up and rebuilding downtown Manhattan is expected to cost up to $29 billion, $6 billion less than previously estimated, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. One reason the cost estimate has dropped since fall is that the cleanup of the World Trade Center site has gone more rapidly than expected. The report also said that 50,000 private jobs were lost in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, and 20,000 more were lost in early 2002. An additional 100,000 city workers were displaced by the attacks.
(New York Daily News)
As Recovery Effort Ends, Disappointment Among Some Recovery Workers - Apr 23, 2002
The overwhelming feeling at Ground Zero is not animosity or anger, say the laborers, machine operators, cops, and firefighters. It is frustration -- that many of those who died on Sept. 11 will never be found. "Over 2,800 people perished," said one recovery worker. "We've found about 900 of them. We had hoped to find more."
(New York Daily News)
Girder From World Trade Center Will Help Provide Insight Into Collapse - Apr 16, 2002
Recovery workers this week found a mauled, 4-ton column of steel that stretched from the 100th to 103rd floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Thick bolts fastened to the column more than 30 years ago -- securing it to a much thinner structural plate -- were still in place. But the plate ripped apart. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which investigates building collapses after disasters, will get the column -- along with about 60 other steel beams from important areas in the towers.
(New York Daily News)
Cleaning Set for Exteriors Near September 11 Site - Apr 6, 2002
Within a few weeks, efforts will begin to clean the exteriors of hundreds of buildings around the World Trade Center site, to keep pollutants like asbestos from blowing off them and into apartments, city and federal officials said today. "While the streets were cleaned up, the outsides of the buildings themselves were not cleaned up," said Christie Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. She said the buildings would be cleaned using giant vacuum cleaners equipped with high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filters, just as the Lower Manhattan streets were cleaned in the months after the Sept. 11 attack.
(New York Times)
Tent For Ground Zero Workers Will Remain Open - Mar 30, 2002
A giant tent where Ground Zero workers can find respite will remain open a bit longer instead of the site reverting to a parking lot, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. The 35,000-square-foot tent at West and Vesey Sts. was to close because the Battery Park City Authority wanted to reclaim the land as a pay parking lot for reopening businesses. The tent, where workers can eat and take hot showers, is run by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Following an outcry at reports the tent would be closed, officials said it would stay open several more weeks, or possibly a month.
(New York Daily News)
Tent for Food and Showers Used By Ground Zero Workers To Be Replaced With Parking Lot - Mar 27, 2002
A huge tent where Ground Zero workers can eat and take hot showers is being dismantled because the Battery Park City Authority wants to reclaim the land as a pay parking lot for reopening businesses. The 35,000-square-foot tent at West and Vesey Sts. -- nicknamed the Taj Mahal by recovery workers -- will close completely on April 14 unless the authority relents, officials said.
(New York Daily News)
Recovery Workers Using Global Positioning Satellite Technology To Locate Human Remains - Mar 26, 2002
Using global positioning technology, the Fire Department has created a detailed and gruesome index of exactly where nearly 4,000 body parts, personal belongings and pieces of firefighting equipment have been found at Ground Zero. The data is expected to be used for law enforcement and engineering investigations, identification by the medical examiner's office and for families who want to know where their loved ones were found. A visual depiction of how it works is presented as well.
(New York Daily News)
Chapel Near World Trade Center Site To Remain Open - Mar 26, 2002
The leaders of St. Paul's Chapel in Lower Manhattan, which has served as a haven for rescue workers at ground zero since September, said yesterday that they had decided to keep it open until the excavation of the World Trade Center site was completed. The Episcopal chapel was going to be closed for a cleaning after Easter Sunday services, but chapel officials announced last night that it would continue to provide food, rest and counseling to the workers until the end of May.
(New York Times)
Fire Department Has Pinpointed 700 New Human Remains - Mar 26, 2002
The effort to find remains at Ground Zero has proven especially productive in the last three weeks, as Fire Department searchers mapped more than 700 new discoveries. In all, 3,069 remains have been cataloged during the cleanup, and searchers classified about 600 as remains of firefighters or police officers based on bits of clothing or equipment. The Times has a map of the discovered remains on its site.
(New York Times)
Twenty More Bodies Recovered From Ground Zero - Mar 24, 2002
Ground Zero rescue workers recovered 20 more bodies late Friday night and Saturday, bringing to at least 73 the number of remains found in the rubble of the World Trade Center this month. The bodies included nine firefighters, four Port Authority civilian employees, one Port Authority cop, one Emergency Medical Service worker, one court officer and four civilians.
(New York Daily News)
Return of WTC Cars Halted by EPA - Mar 18, 2002
Concerns about asbestos-tainted dust have slammed the brakes on the city's plan to return hundreds of cars towed from streets around the World Trade Center to their owners. The city planned to start giving back the dust-covered vehicles today. But a report about the dangerous coating of asbestos on the cars prompted federal environmental officials to step in. Many of the cars have little body damage.
(New York Daily News)
After Many Volunteers Have Left, Some Feel Compelled To Stay - Mar 18, 2002
Most of the far-flung volunteers who have come from all over the country to Ground Zero have returned home. And others have arrived to relieve them. But one of the striking aspects of the magnetism of ground zero and the impulses it has ignited is that a number of the itinerant do-gooders are still here, months after they arrived. Some intend never to leave.
(New York Times)
Renewed Feelings Of Loss And Urgency At Ground Zero As Cleanup Nears Completion - Mar 17, 2002
With more bodies being found in a newly uncovered area of Ground Zero, the feeling of urgency to recover the bodies has returned to the site, something not felt since the early days of the cleanup. At the same time, a feeling of loss hangs over the workers, and not just for their fallen brothers found in the site. With the amount of dirt and rubble rapidly diminishing, workers who have developed a kinship with their recovery team, many having worked seven days a week since September, are having a hard time letting go.
(New York Times)
Fifteen Bodies Recovered From Ground Zero - Mar 13, 2002
The discovery of a firefighter's boot touched off a painstaking, day-long dig at Ground Zero yesterday that led to the recovery of 15 bodies Ń 13 of them firefighters. It was the biggest single-day body find in months Ń and it gave grieving families hope that more bodies will be found.
(New York Daily News)
Last Large Pile of Rubble At Ground Zero To Be Cleared - Mar 2, 2002
The construction of a massive steel ramp that will allow Ground Zero workers to clear a large pile of World Trade Center rubble believed to contain human remains will be completed by tomorrow, the engineering firm overseeing its construction says. Monahan said the ramp will enable workers to start removing and sifting through the last mountain of Twin Towers debris.
(New York Post)
City Calls on eBay To End World Trade Center Auctions - Feb 22, 2002
The Bloomberg administration demanded yesterday that eBay, the Internet auction company, remove World Trade Center memorabilia from its Web site, calling some of the items for sale "blatant attempts to profit from mass murder" and "nauseating." In recent days, sellers have used eBay to try to auction a flight-simulator computer program that allows users to fly between the towers, graphic photographs of people preparing to jump to their deaths, recordings billed as "911 uncut rescue tapes" and a brass World Trade Center ashtray that is described as "a real conversation piece."
(New York Times)
Online Auctions of World Trade Center Items Draws Complaints - Feb 19, 2002
In the first week after the attacks, the auction site eBay banned the sale of Trade Center memorabilia, except for charity, through Dec. 31 after an initial outcry. Now hundreds of World Trade Center-related items are available, sparking criticisms from some quarters. eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said the company made clear from the beginning that the moratorium would end Dec. 31. The company raised $10 million for charity during a special auction during that period.
Focus Of Recovery Shifts To 45 Damaged Buildings Near Ground Zero - Feb 12, 2002
Five months after the World Trade Center attack, the focus of the recovery effort is moving outward from ground zero to another trauma zone: a ring of battered skyscrapers and other buildings that once held 10 million square feet of floor space, slightly more than the twin towers.These wounded buildings, which somehow remained standing, are no ordinary structures: two are landmarks, one is a key communication center and another held classrooms that served thousands of college students each day.
(New York Times)
New Wall To Keep Out Hudson Must Be Built, Says Head Engineer - Feb 6, 2002
According to George Tamaro, the engineer who directed the original construction of the World Trade Center, the "bathtubÓ which keeps out the Hudson River suffered so much damage on Sept. 11 that a new wall will have to be added before permanent rebuilding can occur. Tamaro, a partner at Mueser-Rutledge Consulting Engineers, believes that a second interior wall -- or "liner wallÓ -- must be constructed to augment the original "bathtub.Ó The project would cost $15 million to $20 million, he estimated. Such a project will add an unspecified amount of time to the overall reconstruction of the site.
City Clamping Down on Ground Zero Steel Sales - Feb 5, 2002
The city is telling scrap yards not to sell steel from the World Trade Center to companies that want to exploit the tragedy by turning the wreckage into things like souvenirs, says the Daily News. A Georgia company, International Agile Manufacturing, has been melting tons of the steel into commemorative medallions and selling the souvenirs for $29.95 each.
(New York Daily News)
Redevelopment Committee Wants WTC Debris Removed By May 31 - Jan 25, 2002
The Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Committee met Friday morning to set May 31 as a tentative deadline to remove all debris from the World Trade Center site. The committee also said it will begin moving its offices to One Liberty Plaza and the Battery Park Ritz Carlton Hotel sometime next week. Reports from the meeting indicate that recently two of the committee members made a trip to Oklahoma City to study the memorial built there for the victims of the 1995 terrorist bombing.
Hazardous Chemicals Were Stored In 7 World Trade - Jan 20, 2002
Con Edison reports show that 7 World Trade Center contained 109,000 gallons of oil and hundreds of pounds of hazardous chemicals in two electrical substations operated by the utility company. It is unknown what happened to the substances after the building collapsed. The substances included PCBs and sulfuric acid, both suspected carcinogens. The possibility of contamination of soil or groundwater has not been ruled out.
Ground Zero Cleanup Defies How Jobs Are Usually Done - Jan 20, 2002
The cleanup job at Ground Zero is unprecedented in the history of the city - not only in its size and scope, but also in the speed and efficiency with which it is taking place. While initial estimates for time and cost hovered around $1 billion to $2.5 billion and a year's worth of work, it now appears that the job will be finished in nine months and cost only $750 million. Why? The primary reasons leading to this "construction miracle" have been oversight to prevent corruption, self-policing and unprecedented flexbility of the unions, and the government's willingness to expedite the cleanup.
(New York Times)
Contractors at Ground Zero Denied Insurance for Cleanup - Jan 18, 2002
For four months, contractors have been working without any liability insurance
covering injury and property damage claims. Insurance companies have simply declared the
risk too high and the project too big. Building contractors will now be turning
to Congress to provide them with coverage. They hope to convince Congress to indemnify the city
and the contractors for any lawsuits stemming from the cleanup. Workers for the contractors are covered
by workers' compensation and health insurance.
(New York Times)
Migrants Did Dirty & Dangerous Work
New York Daily News - January 11, 2002
Contractors have plucked up to 600 illegal immigrants off street corners to scrub potentially toxic dust out of buildings near the World Trade Center - without giving the workers safety training or protective equipment, the Daily News reported today. State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office is investigating labor law violations allegedly committed by several cleaning companies near the disaster site.
NYC to End Count of WTC Victims
Associated Press - January 9, 2002
City officials are close to determining a final count of the people who were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, police said Wednesday. The city's total has stood at 2,893 for three days, decreasing from near 7,000 in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 attacks. Officials eliminated mistakes and duplicated entries in missing-person reports, and the tally could still be reduced further, said police department Chief Charles Campisi, who heads the effort. "We're very, very close," Campisi told The Associated Press. "I would say we're 99 percent there."
PATH Train Found at Ground Zero
Associated Press - January 10, 2002
Recovery workers at Ground Zero have uncovered a commuter train lying underneath the rubble of the World Trade Center, but no bodies were found inside the train, officials said.
Still Digging for Lost Sons After a Million Tons of Pain
New York Times - January 8, 2002
There exists a sad fraternity of men at ground zero, a dozen or so who lost their sons or brothers in the cataclysm of Sept. 11. For almost all of the 118 days since, most of these men have spent the daylight hours in search of their kin. While the news turns to rebuilding and memorials, these firefighters and rescue workers continue their search.
Anguished Search for Traces of the Missing
New York Daily News - January 6, 2002
Investigators are combing through literally billions of pieces of debris at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, now home to the 900,000 tons of rubble carted away from the World Trade Center site. So far, 1200 wrecked and burnt-out vehicles have been found at the site, as well as 2900 human body parts. The effort includes hundreds of New York police detectives and federal agents working from 5 A.M to midnight every day.
Changes Continue at Ground Zero
Associated Press - January 4, 2002
Changes continue at Ground Zero as a viewing platform opened to the public at Church Street and Fulton Street last week. Now that most of the larger rubble has been cleared away, two of the largest cranes at the site are being dismantled. Cleanup work will now be consolidated under the direction of Bovis Lend Lease, one of the four contractors that have been assisting in the cleanup since September 11.
Toppling of 'Shroud' Stirs Emotions
New York Times - December 16, 2001
Work crews pulled down the last standing piece of the Twin Towers, four stories of steel known as "the shroud."
Tower Facade To Fall
New York Post - December 14, 2001
The last vestige of the Twin Towers - a haunting skeletal fragment of one of the gleaming buildings - will be taken down this weekend.
At the Pit, a Night Shift to Numb the Body and Soul
New York Times - December 10, 2001
There is no extra money for working the night shift, though there are extra and psychological challenges. There are the strained marriages, the spotty eyes from the floodlights, the cold and the wind. At night, the tourists don't line up to take your picture or slap your back. The movie stars rarely visit. At night, it is all about the work, work that the men and women at ground zero consider an honor to do.
Ground Zero Cleanup To Remain A City Job
New York Post - December 8, 2001
Mayor Giuliani is heeding the advice of federal experts not to replace city workers overseeing the World Trade Center cleanup and will not be hiring the Bechtel construction company for the job.
Firm bidding on cleanup promises recovery of remains will remain priority
Newsday - December 6, 2001
The company negotiating for the Ground Zero cleanup job says it will not try to speed up the recovery effort at the risk of compromising the search for human remains. Bechtel Corporation has in the past used incentive-based contracts that result in bonuses if a job is completed ahead of schedule. Incentive-based contracts are not uncommon in the industry, but at Ground Zero, where an effort to recover human remains continues, such a deal could be controversial. However, an official with the San Francisco-based firm, Bechtel, said yesterday that the firm will forego a schedule-based incentive formula in their contract if chosen for the trade center project.
Cleaning Up at Ground Zero
Village Voice - November 28, 2001
Mayor Giuliani is moving to award the city's biggest-ever emergency contract to one of America's most politically connected corporations. With barely a word of explanation and brushing aside four local firms that have been doing the cleanup since immediately after the attacks, Giuliani has moved to appoint the giant San Francisco-based Bechtel Group, Inc. to take over the lucrative job of cleaning up the World Trade Center site. Since the federal cleanup funds are being allocated by a Republican administration, Washington insiders see the award as a favor to a firm long close to the GOP. But whatever the rationale, Bechtel is a dream ally for someone like Giuliani with potential national political aspirations. The privately held contracting colossus was the fifth largest political contributor during last year's presidential race and poured an additional $449,000 in soft money into political coffers, two-thirds of it to Republicans.


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