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The last time I went to our local grocery to get some grass-fed steaks the guy behind the counter wanted to make sure I had cooked them before. Now that people know how much more omega-3s are in grass-fed meat, how much fewer scary bacteria are in there, and how much better it is for the planet, people are buying more of it.
I smiled and told him that when I was done pounding with the toothy end of a meat tenderizer they would marinate in a soy sauce based marinade overnight.
He was relieved and shared his tales of woe from angry customers who were confused by the toughness of the steaks. They are healthier but they are also tougher.
This is the issue of grass fed beef, It is less fatty and tougher than grain fed beef because the cows are older, they have to actually graze which means they walk a lot more, and they basically ate nothing but health food.
Which is where the soy sauce comes in.
Grass-fed beef needs to be tenderized. Most commercial meat tenderizers contain either papain or MSG. Papain is an enzyme that breaks down proteins. The problem with using it as a meat tenderizer is that it works extremely well and if you leave the steak in it long enough it will start to dissolve. Yuk.
MSG makes you hungrier (the "Chinese-food effect"), makes you gain more weight from the same number of calories and can give people headaches. I can gain weight without any help at all. I can gain weight from black coffee. I don't need any MSG.
Soy sauce (tamari as most commercial soy sauces contain wheat) tenderizes and flavors the meat without dissolving it or making me want thirds. That said if you cannot eat soy anything with salt and acid will do such as salty balsamic vinegar or wine.
So if you want to truly enjoy your grass fed steaks (which at $22 a pound you probably do) here are my tips.
1) Tenderize the meat with a mallet. Pound away. Use the toothy side.
2) Create a marinade and put the pounded steaks in a ziploc bag with the marinade. Make sure the meat is surrounded by marinade.
3) Marinate the steaks overnight and until dinner time the next day.
4) Grill or pan fry the steaks (I pan fry in bacon fat, but any high heat oil will work). Do this a bit longer than for corn fed beef. For some reason they take longer.
5) Allow the steaks to rest under foil for 15 minutes
6) Slice and serve
Interestingly there is increasing evidence that marinades reduce the amount of carcinogens (heterocylic amines) in meat so all meat that is going to be grilled should be marinated anyway. We are just doing it for a longer time with the grass fed meats.
Once you properly prepare a grass fed steak there is no going back. They are a little more work, but they are fantastic.
So here is my recipe for marinade. I try to get the steaks into the marinade the night before I plan to eat them
Like every other recipe on this site this one is gluten-free and dairy-free
1/2 cup tamari (without MSG)
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
Just put the ingredients in a zippered plastic bag along with 2 1/2 lbs steak and let it marinate for at least 12 hours in the refrigerator. Then cook however you prefer.


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Are You Stressed? Identify The Signs And Symptoms
Modern life is replete with deadlines, frustrations, hassles and demands. Stress has become a matter of everyday life. It however, is manageable only if one recognizes the symptoms fast and reacts promptly.
Modern life is replete with deadlines, frustrations, hassles and demands. Stress has become a matter of everyday life. Individuals of all age groups feel stressed at certain points in their lives. Workers at the workplace are stressed, so are schoolchildren and teenagers. Children too are sometimes stressed and it has a negative impact on their mental and physical health.
If you feel that your body is continuously in an emergency mode; then the strain will become obvious on your nervous system in the form of signs and symptoms of stress.
Three commonest symptoms suggesting that you are stressed are:
Stress Related Trivia-
It has been seen from statistical records that 1 out of 75 people experience panic disorder.
Stress is a top health concern for teens between 9th and 12th grade. Unless these teens learn to de-stress themselves, they can be subjected to intense mental pressure.
About 80% of workers feel stressed at their workplace. China has the highest recorded workplace stress.
- Constantly being irritated and unable to sit quietly. Restlessness too is a sign of depression.
- Sometimes, you are depressed due to stress and you lack in energy.
- At times the stress response makes you freeze. You look calm on the outside, but you are disturbed inside.
According to psychologists symptoms of stress can be categorized as Cognitive, Emotional, Behavioral and Physical. These can be explained as follows:
- Cognitive symptoms include: memory problems, poor judgment, lack of concentration, worries, racing thoughts, becoming negative and anxiety.
- The emotional symptoms can be: mood changes, short temper, a sense of isolation, depression.
- Behavioral symptoms of stress are: over eating or under eating; living in isolation, over sleeping or under sleeping, procrastinating and shunning responsibilities, using alcohol or cigarettes as an excuse to escape the tension.
- The physical symptoms of stress are: diarrhea, nausea, aches, palpitation, loss of libido, catching cold frequently, etc.
It is important for us to be aware of these signs and symptoms of stress before it is too late and one becomes a victim of stress related ailments. It is necessary to take medication to relieve yourself from the symptoms of stress. The smooth functioning of your nervous system can be impaired on account of stress. Do not allow stress to get the better of you and take timely action.

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Published 3:46 pm, Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Straight from The Egg: While everything he does, he might not be doing it exclusively for you, Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a big-time charity to help educate the world's children. But he will be doing his solo acoustic thing for you — and hundreds of others — when his tour comes to The Egg in Albany on Monday, Dec. 9. Tickets go on sale 11 a.m. Friday.
What's it all about?: British tenor Alfie Boe has been on Broadway, sang in the 25th anniversary performance of "Les Miserables" and is the latest classical crossover performer to stir the souls of female PBS viewers of a certain age. See him at The Egg on Friday, Feb. 28.
Yuks for the yokels: Country comedian and send-up singer Rodney Carrington is booked at The Palace Theatre in Albany for Thursday, Feb. 20. Among his safe-for-work song titles are: "Gay Factory Worker," "Dancing with a Man" and "Put Your Clothes Back On."
Bradley blossoms: The career of funk and soul singer Charles Bradley might have flown under the radar for most people until a 2012 documentary exposed his decade-long musical journey to the masses. Now the Otis Redding-echoing performer is bringing His Extraordinaires to the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Friday, Jan. 24.
One Day of many for Matisyahu: If by chance you've missed reggae-rocker Matisyahu and any of his other frequent area appearances, here's another: he's at Helsinki Hudson in Hudson on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
Valentine's gives another Figg: Valentine's in Albany recently hosted a solo show by The Figgs bassist and singer Pete Donnelly, so now it's time for one from that Saratoga Springs-born rock band's guitarist and singer, Mike Gent. Catch him on Friday, Nov. 1.
The real McGee: Does it get any more progressive than ... South Bend, Ind.? That's where prog-rockers Umphrey's McGee hails from, but they owe just as much to the jam band scene, too. Catch them at Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park on Thursday, Feb. 6. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1.


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Lil Rounds, Casey Carlson Lead Second Night of American Idol Auditionsby Hilton Hater at . Comments
While the opening night of American Idol was dominated by Katrina Darrell and her bikini, the second installment of season eight auditions revealed a few contenders.
Foremost among them? Lil Rounds, a singer Randy Jackson referred to as a mixture of Fantasia and Mary J. Blige. Wow. Should we just hand her the trophy right now?
Here's a look at the five contestants that impressed us the most last night:
- Ashley Anderson: From Clarksburg, NJ; sang "Footprints in the Sand " by Leona Lewis
- Casey Carlson: From Minneapolis, MN; sang "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton
- Asa Barnes: From Kansas City, MO; sang "The Way You Make Me Feel" By Michael Jackson
- Von Smith: From Greenwood, MO sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
- Lil Rounds: From Memphis, TN; sang "All I Do" by Stevie Wonder
Von Smith, left, was all business last night; while bikini photos of contestant Casey Carlson have already surfaced online. Might one of these be the next American Idol?


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Is cold funsion possible? A report on cold fusion — nuclear energy like that which powers the sun, but made at room temperatures on a tabletop, which in 1989, was presented as a revolutionary new source of energy that promised to be cheap, limitless and clean but was quickly dismissed as junk science. Today, scientists believe that cold fusion, now most often called low temperature fusion or a nuclear effect, could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
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text: Bio-Reference Laboratories Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:BRLI) Previous CloseN/AToday's RangeN/A52-Week RangeN/AVolumeN/AAverage VolumeN/AMarket CapitalizationN/AP/E RatioN/ADividend YieldN/ABetaN/A Company Profile Financials Analyst Ratings Dividend History Earnings History Earnings Estimates Insider Trades Headlines SEC Filings Social Media Chart About Bio-Reference Laboratories (NASDAQ:BRLI) Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. is a clinical testing laboratory, which offers testing, information and related services to physician offices, clinics, hospitals, employers and governmental units. The Company offers a range of laboratory testing services utilized by healthcare providers in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring and treatment of diseases. It is focused on esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, genetics, women's health and correctional health care. It offers a list of chemical diagnostic tests, including blood and urine analysis, blood chemistry, hematology services, serology, radio-immuno analysis, toxicology and other tissue analysis. It operates a clinical knowledge management service through its PSIMedica business unit. It also operates a Web-based connectivity portal solution for laboratories and physicians through its CareEvolve subsidiary. Its laboratory testing business consists of routine testing and esoteric testing. Receive BRLI News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for BRLI and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Industry, Sector and Symbol Industry Medical & Diagnostic Laboratories Sub-IndustryHealth Care Services SectorHealthcare SymbolNASDAQ:BRLI CUSIP09057G60 Webwww.bioreference.com Phone+1-201-7912186 Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current RatioN/A Quick RatioN/A Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E RatioN/A Forward P/E RatioN/A P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual SalesN/A Price / SalesN/A Cash FlowN/A Price / CashN/A Book ValueN/A Price / BookN/A Profitability Trailing EPS$1.82 Net IncomeN/A Net Margins4.67% Return on Equity12.67% Return on Assets8.38% Miscellaneous EmployeesN/A Outstanding SharesN/A Bio-Reference Laboratories (NASDAQ:BRLI) Frequently Asked Questions What is Bio-Reference Laboratories' stock symbol? Bio-Reference Laboratories trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BRLI." How were Bio-Reference Laboratories' earnings last quarter? Bio-Reference Laboratories Inc (NASDAQ:BRLI) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, December, 18th. The medical research company reported $0.66 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.03. The medical research company had revenue of $227.60 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $228.81 million. Bio-Reference Laboratories had a net margin of 4.67% and a return on equity of 12.67%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 18.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.40 earnings per share. View Bio-Reference Laboratories' Earnings History. Who are some of Bio-Reference Laboratories' key competitors? Some companies that are related to Bio-Reference Laboratories include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Novartis (NVS), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Pfizer (PFE), Roche (ROG), AbbVie (ABBV), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), Amgen (AMGN), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Eli Lilly and (LLY), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), AstraZeneca (AZN), Sanofi (SAN), Bayer (BAYN) and CSL (CSL). How do I buy Bio-Reference Laboratories stock? Shares of Bio-Reference Laboratories can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. How can I contact Bio-Reference Laboratories? Bio-Reference Laboratories' mailing address is 481 Edward H Ross Dr, ELMWOOD PARK, NJ 07407-3118, United States. The medical research company can be reached via phone at +1-201-7912186. MarketBeat Community Rating for Bio-Reference Laboratories (BRLI)Community Ranking: 2.8 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 73 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 57 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 130MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Bio-Reference Laboratories and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. 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How fun is it to actually have a starter controversy to deal with? I don't remember the last time it wasn't a foregone conclusion who would start a game for this team. It was probably Eric Williams vs. Walter McCarty or something. What a horrible time to be alive.
And this Bradley-Allen discussion is as interesting as it is unfamiliar. So far we've mostly heard arguments for Bradley surrounding the need for offense on the bench, the necessity of a starter who can check the other team's best player, and the name-checking of guys like Thabo Sefolosha and Jason Terry. But I'm mostly interested in which unit is better. This is how the debate should be settled: produce evidence for which unit is better, and give that unit more minutes than the other ones. There are hundreds of Trapper Keepers worth of data available on unit value. Unzipping a few of them could lend a lot to this discussion.
Because if you look at the numbers, the unit featuring Avery Bradley instead of Ray Allen has been much, much better. Like, coconuts better.
Lineup analysis is mostly based on the Offensive and Defensive Efficiency, or how many points the team scores or allows per 100 possessions when that lineup's in the game. Here are those figures, first for the Rondo-Allen-Pierce-Bass-Garnett lineup, then the Rondo-Bradley-Pierce-Bass-Garnett lineup (via BasketballValue).
Ray's lineup (269 minutes): 103.89 offensive efficiency, 101.78 defensive efficiency
Avery's lineup (78 minutes): 114.57 offensive efficiency, 89.86 defensive efficiency
That gives Ray's lineup a differential of 2.11, and Avery's a screaming 24.70. Keep in mind that these figures DO NOT INCLUDE LAST NIGHT'S GAME, the most dominant game of the Bradley era, so Bradley's differential is actually better than that. Plenty more after the jump.
Boston's average efficiencies (including last night) are 98.6 on offense and 95.8 on defense. Notice that the offensive rating of Ray's lineup is slightly higher than the average, as you'd hope. But if the offensive rating for that Bradley number, if we could extrapolate it to a full season, would make for easily one of the top three highest-scoring starting lineups in basketball. Miami's starters put up a 109.93, which isn't even close.
Same goes for Bradley's defensive rating of 89.86. Other than Philly's starters and Chicago's bench-with-Deng unit, that lineup would give up fewer points than any other high-rotation lineup in basketball. And again, the Bradley unit numbers are actually better than those after yesterday.
There are plenty of other factors flying around in these figures, the small sample size foremost among them. Bradley's had the good fortune of entering the starting lineup just as Kevin Garnett starting using his powers of concentration to herd the cells in his bone marrow and return his body to its high school powers. Rajon Rondo has also been playing basketball with a renewed commitment to playing basketball.
But wouldn't it be great to find out how much is noise? With a lineup this hot, a coach should send it on the floor until it stops crushing other teams, probably, right? Which is why I don't get this as a debate. If Ray Allen feels like coming off the bench would be an affront to his dignity, and preserving Ray's dignity is Boston's primary organizing principle, than the team should stop trying to win basketball games and start writing acrostic poems about the value of Ray's friendship. But if they want to win games, they should keep playing a super-dominant lineup until it stops being super-dominant.
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James (Bubba) Spears has been named the new head coach at Hillwood High, replacing Mose Phillips, who resigned recently and is the new head coach at Whites Creek, the school has announced.
Spears guided East Literature to a 5-5 record and nearly helped the Eagles get into the Class 3A playoffs in his first year. The school only began varsity play last year.
"I think there is a potential gold mine at Hillwood,'' Spears said. "There is an awful lot of talent in the west Nashville and Bellevue area, and I think we can do very well, given time.
But the good-byes at East Lit weren't easy.
"At the same time I hate leaving these kids at East Lit, it was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make,'' he added. "I think they have a great future."
Hunters Lane visits Overton for 12-AAA crown
Hunters Lane, trailing Overton by one game, visits the Bobcats Tuesday night for the District 12-AAA boys championship in one of the top games of the season.
Overton (23-2) which won the first game at Hunters Lane (19-3) earlier, can wrap up the regular season title with a win, while the Warriors can tie for first with a win.
Mitchell sets career scoring record at CPA
Senior Anna Mitchell broke the girls career scoring record at Christ Presbyterian Academy last week, held formerly by Annie Hardman at 1,315 points. Going into Tuesday's game with Lipscomb, Mitchell has scored 1,387 points.
CPA has already clinched the district regular season title at 13-1 and is 24-3 overall.
Ryan captures state wrestling
Father Ryan captured its seventh state duals wrestling championship Saturday at Franklin Expo Center, holding off Memphis Christian Brothers 29-24 in the final. The Irish' Will Mix clinched the title with a win at 171 after CBHS has crept to within one point at 25-24 of Ryan, which won its first duals title since 2004. No. 2 ranked Ryan won its first six matches, highlighted a pin by Mike Ayers at 103.
East Literature fell just short in its bid for a championship in the A/AA division, the Eagles best finish ever. Senior Christian Edafe scored a pin at 152 in one of the top East Lit highlights. Defending champ and top-ranked Bradley Central won its 10th straight AAA title.
musicmaniac Good riddance... I am sure you will fit right in in Hillwood area. A lot of parents were trying to figure out how to rid East of you anyway.............Hallelujah...
Wow! Coach Spears manages to guide his team to a 5-5 record in it's inaugural year and you claim no one wanted him as coach? You sound like a typical immature teenager (of which I have three, myself). I recognize this sort of inane comment when I see it. So, there is no need to address why you feel the way you do, musicmaniac.
Considering Hillwood was 0-22 in it's previous two years and finally enjoyed three victories this season, we will GLADLY accept coach Spears to take over the reigns of our football team. We DO have many talented players in our community, but their families have chosen private schools over Hillwood. Hopefully, more families will allow their sons to attend public schools with this prolonged weak economy and a good coach waiting for them to contribute. Lots of room for success and growth at the Green and White!! GO TOPPERS!!
You don't know that man. Let him coach your son for one year and see how much he's going to like him.
Bubba Spears is a joke!!!! I have his play book right here. Lets see, yea here it is, RUN LEFT, RUN RIGHT RUN LEFT, PUNT!!!
Now for page 2, It is different, RUN RIGHT, RUN LEFT, RUN RIGHT, PUNT.
Page 3, Our trick plays, RUN UP THE MIDDLE, RUN TO THE LEFT, THEN TO THE RIGHT, THEN WHEN IT IS 4TH AND 20+ WE WONT PUNT. WE WILL GO FOR IT WITH THE BEST PLAY EVER. A RUN TO THE RIGHT!!!!!!
It has to work, its the same play book we have used for the past umpteen years.
Wait, we can pass the ball. Oh wait, the QB cant throw.
PLEASE this is really the best " coach " out there. Wish we had Coach P back.
Oh I know one other thing. The whole team wants the back up qb out on the field. He can throw short,deep, and very accurate. best from the shotgun.
Oh thats right, we dont have that play in the playbook.


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Twitter is not a service that will appeal to everyone. Allegedly 60% of Twitter users leave after the first month (although this doesn't include those who switch to desktop apps like Tweetdeck). I'd argue it's because they only have Oprah and Ashton Kutcher showing them the ropes and need some better guidance; Twitter is intuitive to use but not to build a network or get the most value out of it. Here are some simple steps to show someone the value of Twitter.
- Pick a topic the person is passionate about.
- Go to http://search.twitter.com and run a search on the term.
- Find an interesting tweet or post about the topic, and click through to the profile of the person who posted it. If the profile looks interesting, follow that person. Follow a few folks like this.
- Start a conversation, reply to one of the posts as if you had started a conversation in line at the supermarket.
- Look for someone sharing a useful website or blog post related to the topic, click through to the blog and consider subscribing to it. Maybe reply to the author via comment or back on Twitter to let them know what you thought.
- Spend a few minutes in the conversation and see what happens. Try again the next day.
- Repeat.
Within a few minutes you'll likely get valuable content and conversation to you, relevant to a topic you are interested in. You might even find a job listing. I just tried this approach on 3 people – using photography, user experience and summer camp – and went 3 for 3 on "wows." New to Twitter? Let me know if this helps. Twitter veteran? What else would you recommend to get someone started?
ps. Try "ball bearings" – you'll find manufacturing suppliers, engineers, and people who like Fletch.
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Gilliland inks with ACU
Published 4:09 pm, Monday, July 19, 2010
College: Abilene Christian
Junior College: Odessa College
High School: Lee
On why Gilliland chose Abilene Christian: "I was going to another school, and coach (Bobby) Reeves got the job and then talked to me in the next couple of days and I committed. I played under coach Reeves before and I really liked him. He gave me an opportunity to see the campus and I just fell in love with it."
Gilliland on her chances to play right away: "I feel confident I will because Odessa College has helped me prepare and gave me the confidence I needed. Now I just feel like I have the confidence to go in and perform."
Notes: Gilliland, a 2008 Lee grad, has played the last two years at Odessa College, which included last season helping the Lady Wranglers make a return to the NJCAA Softball World Series. ... Gilliland was an All-WJCAC first-team selection in 2010 as a catcher. Gilliland will likely also catch at ACU as well. ... Gilliland said she played for Reeves on a travel team in 2007.


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By Andrew M. Schocket
The proposed tax deal between President Obama and congressional Republican leaders includes a revision of the federal estate (inheritance) tax. At stake are issues as old as the nation:
individual property rights versus the democratic ethos, and the need for savings versus the need for resources for the common good. For
many of today's issues — such as Internet neutrality or nuclear
disarmament — appealing to the founders seems clearly inappropriate.
But in the case of the estate tax, the founders struggled with the
same issues that we struggle with today. And many of them — though
not all — believed that taxing and reducing large estates was a good
idea, for it benefited society as a whole.
Today Republicans would like to repeal the estate tax completely,
while Democrats want to retain it. The proposed tax package would
exempt the first $5 million of estates and levy a 35 percent tax on
anything above that. Should the deal not go through, the inheritance
tax is scheduled on Jan. 1 to revert to 2001 levels, exempting the
first $1 million with a rate of 55 percent on the value exceeding that
For years, Republicans have loudly proclaimed their desire to abolish the "death tax," their name for the inheritance tax. And they and their Tea Party movement allies have called for a general reduction in taxes in accord with their view of the American Revolution as an anti-tax revolt. Furthermore, because the first modern estate tax was enacted in 1916, they have argued that it is merely a Progressive-era idea, foreign to the founders, who wanted to defend property at all costs.
But the actual history is more complex and more instructive.
Just as we do today, the American Revolutionary generation wrestled with the question of how much property the dead should be allowed to pass on to their children. For us, it is partly a fiscal
concern: requiring the wealthy to pay taxes on estates is a way to
lower federal deficits with minimal social cost. The idea of using an
inheritance tax to raise revenue occurred to the nation's first politicians, too. In 1797, the Congress voted and President John
Adams signed into law an estate tax to fund the building of a federal
Today's debate echoes that of the nation's founders in another, more
profound way. Does allowing a small number of families to accumulate
great wealth — increasing from generation to generation — harm
democracy? The U.S. Constitution's ban on inherited titles
met with unanimous approval because of the perceived threat posed by
lords and earls to a democratic republic. Similarly, Americans have
always understood that establishing a small group of families with
seemingly unlimited wealth, social privilege and political power
undermines a fundamental American principle: that all citizens are
legally and politically equal.
Some founders wanted to eliminate inheritance entirely. In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson suggested that all property be redistributed every 50 years, because "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living." Madison gently pointed out the plan's
impracticality. Benjamin Franklin unsuccessfully pushed for the first Pennsylvania constitution to declare concentrated wealth "a danger to the happiness of mankind."
At the other end of the spectrum, the Constitutional Convention
decided to forbid the English practice of allowing the government to
seize the entire estate of a person convicted of treason. They
reasoned that the property even of citizens who had committed the
highest crimes against the nation should not be wholly confiscated.
But, again like today, most people held views in between. By the
1770s, because of the practices of primogeniture (requiring all
property to go to the deceased's first son) and entail (allowing
families to will property that could never be divided or sold), along
with rich families' penchant for land speculation, about
three-quarters of Virginia's good land was owned by only a few hundred
families, out of a population of around 400,000. Pressed by the small
farmers and landless men on whom it depended for military service,
Virginia banned primogeniture and entail in 1777. Virginia reached a
compromise: Rich families didn't lose their land, but large estates
got broken up over time, thereby loosening the richest families' grip
over Virginia's economy and politics.
So, as with other political issues — even independence itself — Revolutionary-era Americans held a range of views on how much
property people should be allowed to pass on to their children. But
one thing is certain: They hoped to prevent the emergence of a small
group of people with perpetual wealth and thus perpetual privilege.
Keeping a robust estate tax today would further that goal, and it
would be consistent with a long-standing tradition of American
Andrew M. Schocket is associate professor of history and American culture studies at Bowling Green State University. He is writing a book on the American Revolution in contemporary life.


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Have you ever found out you might be sick due to a rhinovirus, and really wanted to go on a safari deep in your lungs?
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That would be cool. Like inner space. Pew pew rhinovirrus
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What is a rhinovirus ? And would love a safiri in my lungs ,would probably get turned on by what I would see lol
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I'm not really sure ... (elephino) !
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Granted he was small but I'll take it. A minute later a larger 5x5 wanted to exit our direction and walked right in front of us for my friend to shoot. My other friend Dan had to hunt hard unsuccessfully for the rest of the season. Then on the final day he shot the famous "Bearded Bull" that we bugled in to us in Sept.
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A Mother's Love For Her Son
A mother's love for her son is pure and special.
It can not be broken or reckon with.
It's a kind of love that softens even the hardest of hearts.
Love between mother and son is strong and visible from the sea.
It brings peace of mind and drys sad tears.
It can bring a man to his knees and make him weep.
A mother's love for her son is not hidden or shy,
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Dog Training Survey- Importance Of Training
I was recently asked by www.pet365.co.uk to review some of their info graphics. When you head to the site you'll see that they've got all sorts of graphics from dog training to dog health to pet products and more.
I gave a quick visit and the graphic that stuck out to me was a dog training graphic that showed the results of a survey of dog owners. The survey was taken from over 1000 dog owners from all over the world. The survey asked about various dog training questions and some of the results surprised me. The results of the survey are shown on the graphic below:
Dog Training-The Results Of The Survey
Dog Training graphic created by Matt Beswick for Pet365. Click here to view the full post.
What do you think of the data collected? I'd love to see your comments down below this post. There were several things that surprised me quite a bit:
Dog Training- My Thoughts On The Results
- About half of the respondents admitted to have never taken their dog to a dog training class. My first thought about this was actually a selfishly positive take on this. I thought, "Wow, look at how many people DON'T invest in training their dogs. That means there are TONS of people who I can go after to buy various dog training services and dog training products we offer. I got to thinking, though, that this was also a sad statistic. I'm not saying that everyone needs to invest in a dog trainer but the reality is that most dogs who go to qualified training end up being happier, better balanced, and have a better quality of life. It made me sad to think that about half of dogs are missing out on that.
- Along with this first stat that caught my eye I found it interesting that close to 100% of the respondents claimed to be doing some training with their dogs in their home. Simple math tells me that half of those are training without the aid of a trainer. What that means is that they are going it alone. Again, I'm not saying that everyone NEEDS to have a dog trainer handy. In this day and age, though, there is no reason to go ANYTHING alone. If you want to figure out which plants grow best in your area you don't have to do trial and error, somebody already figured that out. If you want to craft a table in your garage there are already people who have figured out how to do that. And when it comes to training your dog there are already thousands of professionals who have figured out some of the best ways to get the job done. Why would you 'go it alone' when there are so many resources out there? Every day I read and accept the comments onto this website and people talk about the problems with their dogs and they talk about what they are doing to try to fix those problems. In most cases they are doing things so unbelievably wrong that I wonder how it occurred to them to try those training methods in the first place? So while I know that the average dog owner is attempting training in their home I'm also dismayed to learn that most of them are doing so without a strong foundation in understanding the dog mind.
- I found it interesting that 90% of the respondents claimed that their dogs know 'sit'. I always facetiously comment to my clients 'why bother teaching the dog sit?' In reality I do think that a dog should understand the command 'sit' but in the grand scheme of things it is probably the least valuable dog obedience command out there. What good does it do you if your dog sits? Now, if your dog lies down and stays for 5-30 minutes that solves some problems. If your dog comes when called or doesn't pull on the leash that helps you out. But a dog that sits really doesn't do a whole lot to improve your life or your dog's life.
Overall, I found the data interesting. I see that the trend is that people understand the need for solid training and they are attempting to do it. Unfortunately, I still think that many go about this task the wrong way but it's good to see the 'dog culture' changing for the better.
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As the bitter harvest of the "Arab Summer" is brought in there are signs that the seeds of a true Arab/Muslim "Spring" may already be sown.
Things are getting… interesting, Virginia; all is not as the talking heads (as opposed to Talking Heads, a Punk group in the 70's – 80's of truly original musical genius) would have us believe. It seems that not only have the people of Egypt tossed out the cleric-backed Morsi, they are turning a deaf ear to their imams' efforts to "twist the population's religious arm" to support the Muslim Brotherhood's political influence.
Muslim Brotherhood's bid to scapegoat Christians failing, say Egyptians
By Lisa Daftari
As their nation descends into violent chaos, Egyptians are increasingly blaming the Muslim Brotherhood, despite attempts by the Islamist group to scapegoat Christians and the military, according to several sources …
"The Muslim Brotherhood has lost all sympathy with their points due to their violence," said a Long Island, N.Y., Egyptian-American [visiting] in a Cairo suburb…"
The man, a Coptic Christian who asked that his name not be used until he and his family are safely back in the U.S…. arrived in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis last weekend, just days after Muslim Brotherhood supporters began clashing violently with security forces. Since then, nightly curfews, angry mobs and closed roads that cut off supplies to restaurants and groceries have made his homeland unrecognizable… The violence began when, more than a month after the military stripped President Mohammad Morsi of power and took him into custody, authorities cleared camps of protesters in Cairo.
Take note that it was only after a full month, when the camps of core protesters themselves were dispersed, was there any violence from the citizenry; they had rejoiced in the streets, and on TV during that month. This would lead one to believe that the violence is coming from a small (in relation to the population as a whole) core of Brotherhood supporters and will crumble swiftly unless given life-support by massive foreign intervention of some sort; both weapons/cannon-fodder smuggling and 'sanctuary' in some nearby sovereign area come to mind.
That action prompted a violent uprising in which more than 1,000 people have been killed. Morsi, who(m) critics said had put the nation on a path toward Islamist rule, is now facing accusations of conspiring with Hamas to escape from prison during the 2011 uprising and complicity in the killing and torture of protesters outside his Cairo palace in December.
…Christian and Muslim … are solidly behind the military, which has been criticized by the west for its decisive crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
"I am Muslim and I am against terrorism and I support the revolution [which ousted Morsi] and I support all the decisions of the Egyptian army forces," … "We love Egypt so much and we hope the foreign countries stop misunderstanding about us and the situation now in Egypt."
The fact is that in Egypt, like in Iran the actual people of Egypt overwhelmingly prefer a more "enlightened" version of Islam despite being dominated, and often hoodwinked, by a "tiny minority of radicals"; I am referring to the Imams not terrorists, who are just the 'useful idiots' the Imams use to steal power.
Even at mosques, the tide seems to be turning against the Muslim Brotherhood, according to one man who spoke from Cairo.
"They gather around mosques, from five to 100 of them, to show they are important and the goal is to go and cut off the roads and rally to get more supporters," he said.
"Sometimes during Friday prayers, the sheikh wants to push people to support the Muslim Brotherhood, but modern Muslims are dominant and not deceived anymore with fake words that defending the Muslim Brotherhood is defending Islam," he said.
One former jihadist and Salafist cleric who spoke to Mid-East Christian News said the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to focus anger against the nation's Christian minority, which did not support Morsi, but was hardly alone in that stance.
"The Brotherhood lost everything, politically and economically," Osama el-Quossi told MCN. "They lost the citizens' sympathy, so they used religion to gain support of ordinary people."
Methinks, Virginia that when yo add in the polls showing the vast lack of support for groups like CAIR and MPAC amongst the deen it looks like the clergy of Islam might be facing a "stockholder" revolt that will replace all the "board-members" with Imams who actually share the same reality that Muslims-as-people live with every day, and enjoy.
In sum; While Pakistan and Afghanistan are cultures long used to ongoing sectarian strife other nations like Turkey, Egypt and most of the more Eastern Muslim countries are seeing mostly problems fomented by power/money from outside their own borders and ethnic/religious groups. I want to make note though that Egypt's record under Mubarak in its treatment of the Copts (the original Egyptian culture before the forced Arab cultural assimilation introduced by the invasion of Islam).
In fact, it seems that if President Obama had supported the grassroots revolt in Iran a couple years ago, and not thrown his weight behind the Muslim Brotherhood after Mubarak was ousted, we might already have seen a real Arab Spring; I have high hopes for the next 12 months though; the 'Black Hats' (Imams) are starting to realize that the "townsfolk" (deen) all hate them, even if the 'White Hats' (secularists) can be jerks themselves often enough. I can see their point; far preferable is the religious nut who is a total pain in the neck when compared to someone who wants to cut off your head.
To the Muslim world; Good Luck with your Enlightenment and Reformation, I promise you, it will be interesting.


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Historian clears path through fog of war
Charles Townshend, equally at home with wars of words as with weapons, has written the indispensable account of the Irish revolution
Repuclicans man a barricade in Dublin. Photograph: Walter Doughty / Manchester Guardian
Anti-Treatyite Paddy Rigney on the roof of the Four Courts, Dublin, 1922. Photograph from 'Revolution in Dublin: A Photographic History 1913-23' by Liz Gillis (Mercier Press, €15.99)
The bodies of IRA leader Sean Treacy (left) and British intelligence officer Francis Christian lie on Talbot Street, Dublin, in 1920. Photograph from 'Revolution in Dublin: A Photographic History 1913-23' by Liz Gillis (Mercier Press, €15.99)
In 1975 Charles Townshend's first book, a deceptively slender volume called The British Campaign in Ireland 1919-21, set a benchmark for studies of the Irish revolution (as the events of 1912-22 were not yet called). Quarried from archival sources and employing insights from the developing genre of "war studies", it examined the Anglo-Irish war in a new manner: laconic, sceptical, realistic and unflinching. It took the "Old IRA" seriously, in a new way.
Since then Townshend has produced a stream of brilliant books on war in the Middle East and elsewhere, but Ireland has dominated, notably in his classic Political Violence in Ireland (1983) and his magisterial study of the Easter Rising eight years ago. His contribution to modern Irish historiography has been immense and unparalleled.
His new book returns to the subject that first made his name, at much greater length and covering a wider span, but the Townshend trademarks are there: a beautifully crafted style, uncompromising judgments (sometimes inserted stiletto-style after an overblown quotation), erudition lightly worn and an unforced clarity throughout. This is a historian to go tiger-shooting with (and you could also trust his choice of weaponry, since he writes about Thompson sub-machine guns, "Howth Mausers" and Mills bombs with an affectionate familiarity). But, as the title suggests, his new study is equally at home with abstractions, and wars about words. It should become the indispensable account of the five not-always-glorious years that preceded independence.
To assume that the creation of the Free State brought "independence" is, of course, debatable. The notion and definition of a "republic", and the feasibility of attaining it, lie at the heart of this study: the title hints that it might be read as an interrogative response to Dorothy Macardle's venerable and pietistic The Irish Republic (1937) .
Townshend begins by looking at the inspiration behind the idea of a republic, and its contradictions. He ends with the way it apparently faded from view in the early 1920s, when the concept had become a "rock" in the road, as well as a rock to found one's irreconcilable faith upon. Throughout, the ideas and tactics propounded by radical but almost-forgotten theorists such as Bulmer Hobson are re-examined, along with the flexibility favoured by Arthur Griffith – posited against what Townshend terms the têtes exaltées, such as Ernie O'Malley and Rory O'Connor. He is interested in the people who were considered important at the time but later lost to history, such as Darrell Figgis or Fr Michael O'Flanagan. He also characteristically expands the perspective by placing Irish ambitions for independence from 1918 in a European context, during the era of dislocation precipitated by the end of a world war and the collapse of ancient empires. Towards the end there is a sober and sobering discussion of the way violence operated in Ireland as compared with central and eastern Europe in the same era, and why Sligo's experience was not Smyrna's.
Grand narrative
But the main impact of the book lies in its control of grand narrative, and the authoritative but pacy handling of the rush of events. The range of sources embraces the view from the barracks as well as the hillside bivouacs, and also the surprisingly shambolic and irresolute workings of Dublin Castle. Lord French's regime has never been so bitingly characterised, nor the "mild Orientalism" with which the official mind viewed Ireland. This is balanced by a thoughtful discussion of the psychology of Sinn Féin, following Michael Laffan's classic analysis of the transformation of the movement in these years: Townshend describes it (after Weber) as a coalition held together by "elective affinity", which could crumble under stress. Some contemporaries saw it as "millenarian", an approach that would be tested when the time came for negotiation.
It is also salutary to be reminded of the ominous implications of tracts like Aodh de Blacam's What Sinn Féin Stands For (1921), announcing that parliamentary democracy was "played out" and "centralised and ironhanded authority" the obvious revolutionary future (European parallels, again). But "the Movement" was far more than the sum of its few theoreticians, and Townshend's account gives full consideration to the attempt at protosocialist theory, the revival of agrarian radicalism, and the decisive contribution of women (which appalled some of their patriarchalist colleagues, as well as their opponents). These were not the least of the elements in the visionary "republic" that were trumped by the increasing Catholicisation of the movement, culminating in the powerful influence wielded by the church during the traumatic break-up after the Treaty.
Throughout, the book charts the implicit tensions as well as the symbiosis between the cultures of Sinn Féin (several of whose leaders clung to the "passive resistance" policy till a very late stage) and the revived Volunteering movement , which became the IRA. The rich sources of the Bureau of Military History enable Townshend to profile the structure of the army in far more detail than before. He pinpoints the importance of an elective officer corps and analyses how far it can be seen as a citizen militia – as well as the variable nature of its organisation from place to place, and the complex relationship with the IRB. The structures of the "invisible state" manipulated through Dáil Éireann are brilliantly conjured up – and the fact that it was held together by a belief in the importance of oaths and abstractions, as well as the organising genius of Collins ("a finance minister with the unusual advantage of also running a death squad").
Imaginative panache
The book is divided into four long sections; 100 pages deal with the events of 1920, highlighting the tenacity, imaginative panache and occasional spectacular success of the "self-created, self-justifying militia" that was the IRA. This is patterned against the vital activity of the desk men at GHQ – many of whom, such as WT Cosgrave, would wield far more influence in the new state than the "gunmen". Townshend also gives more credence to the power of the Dáil courts than sceptics such as David Fitzpatrick and Peter Hart, not least in "preventing the eruption of general gang warfare or vendetta".
The British responses to the republican challenge, notably the drafting of the Black and Tans, and Lloyd George's often feckless analysis, receive particularly caustic treatment. (How different would things have been if full dominion status had been offered at the start of this period instead of at the end?) While Townshend's military binoculars rake authoritatively across the country as a whole, there is a chilling section dealing with intimidation and reprisal in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo, as a "representative example". This is the kind of analytical detail that vindicates the great length of the book, and prevents it becoming a catalogue of "raids and rallies".
Much more could be said of Townshend's exemplary and forensic treatments of iconic and terrible events such as Bloody Sunday, the Kilmichael ambush, as well as the running themes of military-political tensions, the propaganda war, and the uncertain status of Dáil elections; there is also a carefully considered discussion of intracommunity antagonisms and intimidations in Co Cork that, with any luck, might be taken as the last word on that controversial subject. His account of the Treaty negotiations and the response to them is lapidary but electric. In the end it comes back to forms of words. The fact that "the Republic" had never really been defined left it, so to speak, up for grabs. Fifty years ago Erhard Rumpf posited that attitudes towards the Treaty were principally dictated by "temperament" (a more analytical concept than it may sound); Townshend takes this further, returning to the difference between those for whom Ireland was "an abstraction" and those who saw it as "a population" (and a population that was overwhelmingly pro-Treaty at that). But he also shows the importance of calculations based on expectations that never came to pass (such as Partition not lasting, or Collins managing to get a neorepublican constitution past the British in 1922).
Vivid witness
Towards the end he quotes Ernie O'Malley, that most vivid of witnesses: "Fighting was so easy compared with that soul-numbing, uphill fight against one people's ignorance and prejudice." But Townshend characteristically adds that the very process dismissed by O'Malley "might be taken as a definition of political action". In the early summer of 1923, after a civil war more traumatic than anything that had preceded it, the hostilities came to an end without negotiations. "The Republic simply melted back into the realm of the imagination." But in Ireland the imagination remained, as many observers noted during these extraordinary years, a domain exercising its own reality. The achievement of this magisterial and essential book is to recognise this aspect of "temperament", and anchor it in the world of actuality.
The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923, by Charles Townshend, is published by Allen Lane, 536pp, £25
Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford. His book The Vivid Faces: making a revolution in Ireland 1890-1923 will be published by Penguin next year.


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How about some non-exclusive news? I'm hitting the road today for a quick business trip to the other side of the Mississippi (the east side). I'll be in DC on Sunday and Monday, and then in Nashville on Tuesday, meeting with day-job clientele, and most probably wearing a suit.
The good news is that just over a week after my return from Nashville, I'll be road-tripping it to San Diego for the 2nd Annual KeenCon (also known as Comic-Con International). I'll be there from Wednesday the 31st through at least Saturday the 3rd of August, and if you're going to be in the area, by all means, stop by the KeenSpot booth.
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Guy could tell us all about his troubles with Jacques Lemaire, about why the team hasn't won the Cup since 1993, why Rejean Houle didn't get enough in return for Patrick Roy, why Steve Shutt was hard on rookies, what he thinks Michel Therrien is doing wrong, why sometimes there's not enough foam on the Bell Centre beer. All kinds of stuff.
Imagine the readership he'd get. We'd rush to open his blog to see what he says. It might be the most fascinating blog in the history of blogs.
"You can't keep guys like Vanek and Pacioretty on the team," Lafleur now says. "They should stay home if they're not willing to pay the price. Your team won't win with players like that who disappear under adversity."
Guy would get a million hits for that story alone. Advertisers would flock to him. He'd be the king of bloggers.
Lafleur was basically talking about game six of the Rangers series that ended the Habs year. New York threw a blanket over the Canadiens and that was that.
The problem, I think, is that some of the true greats like Lafleur sometimes expect others to step it up in superstar fashion, and I guess lately he's been stewing about the team, Max and Vanek in particular, not pulling out all the stops in that final game.
Max, however, had scored the winning goal in both the Tampa and Boston series which eliminated those teams, so it wasn't like he was going through the motions. He's enjoyed some fine moments. But Guy was focused mostly on game six of the Rangers series when all the boys, not just Max, were stuck in mud.
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Lafleur's very much like Maurice Richard in some ways. Rocket sometimes couldn't contain himself either, and after too much criticism in his ghost-written newspaper column, sometimes about other players and teams but particularly about league prez Clarence Campbell, Rocket was told to forget the column or else.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Brian Dozier was a wanted man when the Twins promoted him from Class AAA last May but was left wanting following a messy debut as the Twins' everyday shortstop in 2012.
Dozier struggled at the plate and in the field during roughly half a season in Minnesota. He was demoted in August, banished to straighten out his swing and his confidence.
All the former minor league player of the year wants is another look this year, and he is getting one at second base as the Twins reconstruct their middle infield from new and used materials.
Dozier spent two weeks in Venezuela this winter learning the fundamentals of his new position, then teamed with Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Paul Molitor for more instruction at the University of Minnesota.
The biggest challenge was reconditioning his body to see the field and receive throws from a new vantage point after years of having everything flow to a different area.
"For so many years on the other side of the bag, everything's in front of you and feeds to second. Now it's the exact opposite," he said Monday, Feb. 18. "You get your mind trained, your body trained to go the other way. I've been doing it a lot the last few months, so it feels good."
Dozier, 25, is the leading candidate to nail down second base, but he will be challenged by Eduardo Escobar, the switch hitter acquired from the Chicago White Sox last July in the Francisco Liriano trade.
Pedro Florimon, a slick fielder with a light bat, is getting the hardest look at shortstop.
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Veteran utility infielder Jamey Carroll, who turned 39 Monday, is back for his 12th major league season and in the mix to fill in at second, third and shortstop.
"We've got some good athletes, and we'll figure that out," Gardenhire said. "There are probably going to be a couple of combos that haven't seen a lot of each other. I'll do that as much as I can this spring. There are new people at new positions and that's one of the things we're going to have to work out."
Gardenhire raved about Dozier last spring and was downright giddy when the club promoted him in May. But Dozier hit just .234 in 84 games. His swing and plate discipline fell apart. Worse, Dozier carried his misery onto the field where he became crossed up on defensive plays.
He was sent down to Rochester after his decision not to throw home on a ground ball cost the Twins a game, and he was not recalled with other prospects in September. It was humbling and a lot to process for a player expected to contribute right away.
"It's how you deal with failure and how you bounce back. Limit it and learn from it," Dozier said. "The biggest thing for me is, you've got to make adjustments in the league but you don't want to try to overdo things and get completely out of your element. I got away from being the fundamentally sound player that you have to be."
Dozier said he strayed from spraying the ball when he started hitting a few home runs, and pitchers quickly exploited that tendency, feeding him a steady diet of breaking balls away.
He worked in Venezuela at using the whole field again and at determining when to pick his spots and unload in hitter's counts.
"You have to be consistent throughout your game," he said. "That's not just hitting. It's fielding. It's getting bunts down, getting guys over, drawing your walks. That's what a fundamentally good player does."
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By working closely with university-based and non-university-based research bodies, the energy industry, and other Austrian companies, and by acting in an advisory capacity to politicians and public bodies, UAS Technikum Wien is constantly striving to expand R&D activities in this key area in accordance with the strategic direction set by the national and European innovations.
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