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Ladera Resort, the legendary St. Lucia hotel that is a fixture on every major top hotel and awards list, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary Year in 2012. The groundbreaking luxury resort, a haven for celebrities, honeymooners and trendsetters, is situated on a forested ridge 1,100 feet above the sea, perched above the port town of Soufrière. Originally designed and built 40 years ago as a development called Dasheene, Ladera opened as a resort hotel in 1992.
"Throughout this Anniversary Year, we're taking the Ladera guest experience to an even higher level of luxury, comfort and authenticity," says Olivier Bottois, Ladera's Vice President of Marketing & Operations. Ladera is "20 years young" as Bottois sees it. He adds that "this year we'll be introducing new suites, product enhancements and service innovations that are consistent with our signature guest experience and eco‐friendly approach."
Ladera has received numerous outstanding awards over the years, including Condé Nast Traveler Reader's Choice award when Ladera was voted not only the "Best Hotel in the Caribbean," but given the ultimate accolade "Best Hotel in the World". The honor marked the first and only time in the 18 year history of the awards that a Caribbean hotel was given the number one position in the world on the "Best of the Best" list.
Pioneering the Authentic St. Lucian Experience
Ladera's striking infinity pool, the very first in the world in 1972, was used in the film Superman II when Christopher Reeves flies to St. Lucia to gather flowers for Lois Lane, and is still the dramatic centerpiece of the resort surrounded by lush tropical gardens.
New Hilltop Dream Suites to be Unveiled in 2012
"Each new Hilltop Dream Suite will feature the famously breathtaking vistas from the open living rooms and will include private infinity pools," says Bottois. "The open‐air bedrooms are designed and appointed with furnishings and fixtures consistent with Ladera's sustainable practices." That includes using locally‐woven textiles, custom hardwood furniture crafted on site at Ladera, such as elegant Colonial four‐poster king beds. The en‐suite bath areas will be equipped with water‐efficient Kohler fixtures.
Other noteworthy developments in Ladera's 20th Anniversary Year include a new fitness room, outfitted with state‐of‐the‐art workout equipment. Yoga classes are also now on offer. The Ti Kai Posé Spa, which now incorporates more natural, organic treatments, will offer new outdoor Couples Massages on Paradise Ridge, a completely private retreat area of the resort which overlooks the Caribbean Sea and Pitons.
Dasheene, Ladera's award winning restaurant, will be taken to even higher culinary acclaim says Bottois, a past board member and Vice Chancelier Culinaire of the Chaine des Rotisseurs and member of The James Beard Foundation, noting that "celebrated guest chefs from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe will be featured at the restaurant."
Giving Back to St. Lucia
More recently, Ladera launched the new book "A History of St. Lucia". The resort donated 100 of the books to schools on the island at a private ceremony held at the Governor's home.
Twenty years ago the Ladera's mission was to create a showpiece property that was quintessentially St. Lucian, one that embraced the magnificent views and offered a seamless experience with the natural beauty and bounty of the island. Under the guidance of Olivier Bottois this 20th Year, Ladera is ready to reach even greater heights as the "Best of the Best" hotel in the world.
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Bioluminescent bacteria are widely used in scientific research, usually as internal cellular markers. By inverting this practice and employing bacteria as an external light source, objects and bodies, surfaces and skin are exposed to the soft ethereal glow of the bacteria, establishing new points of contact and visual punctures. What is usually seen under the lens of the microscope is here the source of light that reveals the features of human bodies and enters the world of domesticity.
Exploring the Invisible was a Wellcome Trust funded collaborative project between Artist Anne Brodie, Microbiologist Simon Park, and Writer and Curator Caterina Albano, using a strain of bioluminescent bacteria, Photobacterium phosphoreum, to
explore our ways of interacting with bacteria. Through enquiry and experimentation that transcended the traditional boundaries of art and science, the project developed a body of photographic and video work and live installation that reimagine our encounter with bacteria. The only light used to create the photographs and films came from living bacteria. The images restage the long exposure of the camera lens in the improbable and at times disquieting bioluminescence that gradually fades as the bacteria die.
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A Coup Over Land: The Resource War Behind Paraguay's Crisis
Police evict landless farmers from settlement in San Marcos, Paraguay, 2008.
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Each bullet hole on the downtown Asunción, Paraguay light posts tells a story. Some of them are from civil wars decades ago, some from successful and unsuccessful coups, others from police crackdowns. The size of the hole, the angle of the ricochet, all tell of an escape, a death, another dictator in the palace by the river.
On June 22 of this year, a new tyrant entered the government palace. The right-wing Federico Franco became president in what has been deemed a parliamentary coup against democratically-elected, left-leaning President Fernando Lugo.
What lies behind today's headlines, political fights and struggles for justice in Paraguay is a conflict over access to land; land is power and money for the elites, survival and dignity for the poor, and has been at the center of major political and social battles in Paraguay for decades. In order to understand the crisis in post-coup Paraguay, it's necessary to grasp the political weight of the nation's soil. Here, a look at the history of Paraguay's resource war for land, the events leading up to the coup, and the story of one farming community's resistance places land at the heart of nation's current crisis.
The Coup and the Land
Hope surrounded the electoral victory of Fernando Lugo in 2008, a victory which ended the right wing Colorado Party's 61 year dominance of Paraguayan politics. It was a victory against the injustice and nightmare of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship (1954-1989), and a new addition to the region's left-leaning governments. The election of Lugo, a former bishop and adherent to liberation theology, was due in large part to grassroots support from the campesino (small farmer) sector and Lugo's promise of long-overdue land reform.
Yet Lugo was isolated politically from the very beginning. He needed to ally with the right to win the election; his Vice President Federico Franco is a leader in the right wing Liberal Party and was a vocal opponent of Lugo since shortly after Lugo came to power. Throughout Lugo's time in office the Colorado Party maintained a majority in Congress and there were various right wing attempts to impeach the "Red Bishop." Such challenges have impeded Lugo's progress and created a political and media environment dominated by near-constant attacks and criticism toward Lugo.
At the same time, Lugo was no friend of the campesino sector that helped bring him into power. His administration regularly called for the severe repression and criminalization of the country's campesino movements. He was therefore isolated from above at the political level, and lacked a strong political base below due to his stance toward social movements and the slow pace of land reform. None the less, many leftist and campesino sectors still saw Lugo as a relative ally and source of hope in the face of the right wing alternative.
The issue that finally tipped the scales toward the June 22 Parliamentary coup against Lugo was a conflict over land. In April of this year, 60 landless campesinos occupied land in Curuguaty, in northeastern Paraguay. This land is owned by former Colorado Senator Blas N. Riquelme, one of the richest people and largest landowners in the country. In 1969, the Stroessner administration illegally gave Riquelme 50,000 hectares of land that was supposed to be destined to poor farmers as a part of land reform. Since the return to democracy in 1989, campesinos have been struggling to gain access to this land. The April occupation of land was one such attempt. On June 15, security forces arrived in Curuguaty to evict the landless settlement. The subsequent confrontation during the eviction (the specific details of which are still shrouded in confusion) led to the death of 17 people, including 11 campesinos and 6 police officers. Eighty people were wounded.
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The Gregg County Sheriff's Department has released the final autopsy results for Debra Ann Duffie, an inmate who died at the Gregg County Jail in August.
According to the autopsy, which was performed by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner in Fort Worth, Duffie died naturally of hypertensive and ischemic heart disease, a form of coronary artery disease. The disease causes a reduced supply of blood to the heart. The coroner noted there were no signs of notable trauma or foul play.
Duffie, 52, was transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center from the jail on Sunday, August 18 at 5 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the hospital at 5:12 the next morning.
On August 18, jail medical staff alerted the jail doctor, who ordered Duffie be sent to Good Shepherd for additional treatment. Longview Fire and EMS responded and Duffie was transported to the hospital. While en route, she suffered a cardiac event and was admitted for treatment at the hospital.
Duffie had a criminal record dating back to 1985 which included DWI, forgery, and assault. She had been booked into the Gregg County Jail eight times on various charges.
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze review: losing a-peel
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a mostly well-designed and often gorgeous platformer, with an unfortunate bout of second-finisher syndrome. While it is undoubtedly better in most respects than Donkey Kong Country Returns, that game spent its goodwill as a nostalgic throwback. Tropical Freeze is left suffering many of the same weaknesses, but without the sheen of a comeback story to set it apart.
What this newer entry does have is the transition to HD, and Nintendo continues to take advantage of the increased horsepower. DK and his cadre of pals look remarkably well-rendered, with textures that seemed so tactile I could almost feel the bristles of fur. The environments are lush and well-animated, especially since they're so differentiated. I had feared that the theme would lead to a game composed entirely of ice levels, but the worlds manage to be fairly inventive. I was especially taken with the second world's autumn theme, and the one of the worlds uses its stages to progressively tell a cute story of what the villains are up to.
The new band of enemies also fit perfectly into the slightly askew DKC character art style. The bosses are particularly expressive thanks to their large size. (They not very imaginative, though--imagine a handful of animals you'd expect to be part of an ice army and you'll probably guess at least a few of them correctly.)
It's unfortunate that the HD seems to be the only Wii U feature the designers were interested in. The GamePad is utterly wasted here, to the point that starting each play session begins with asking whether you'd like to play on the TV or pad. Depending on which you select, the other will simply turn off completely. If you're playing on your TV, the Wii U's defining function is nothing more than a controller with a black screen on it.
Donkey Kong Country never controlled quite as smoothly as Nintendo's other headline platformers starring Mario, and that much hasn't changed. That's mostly because Donkey Kong himself doesn't always feel matched to the stages. Our hairy hero just feels sluggish, a serious detriment to handling such fast-moving obstacles. Making it through a stage definitely takes skill, but I found myself relying just as much on luck and memorization.
Some of this is the product of its legacy. Ground pound and a rolling attack remain mapped to the same button, which means that I would often go into an uncontrollable roll right off a ledge when I didn't intend to. And strangely for a fully-rendered game, the hit boxes feel inconsistent. Sometimes I would be narrowly saved by a miss that I was sure would hit me, while other times I would lose a life seemingly because an enemy barely grazed my toe.
These problems can lead to some frustration in passing, but they aren't truly overwhelming until the late game. The harder stages in the second half are much more chaotic, and the occasional imprecision in control or feedback becomes much more galling. This is also sadly the half in which Tropical Freeze starts to over-rely on underwater stages as well, which control with all the grace you might expect from a swimming gorilla.
Even those are tight and responsive compared to the rocket barrel stages, though, which make their baffling return to Tropical Freeze without fixing any of their problems. Aside from the awkward control mechanic of mashing a button to keep your rocket in the air, these are a perfect example of trial-by-death. The rocket itself can't handle last-minute turns, and obstacles appear or change direction suddenly. The combination of these two factors mean you'll have to repeat the stage until you learn where the obstacles come from, to assure you're on the right trajectory. There are only a few of these stages in the entire game, but they're so frustrating they put a damper the rest of the experience.
About half of the stages feel perfectly tuned to DK's unique play style. When it hits the right tone, it's awfully fun to step into the hairy shoes of Donkey Kong as he swings, jumps, and rolls through obstacles. Dixie and Cranky are welcome additions to the cast, and in single-player they both imbue DK with extra abilities. Dixie's is fairly similar to Diddy's hover, with more lift, but that can be invaluable for reaching extra bananas or other collectibles. Cranky is a bigger change, having apparently taken cane-pogo lessons from Scrooge McDuck to reach higher areas or bounce on otherwise impassable grounds.
And to the extent that Tropical Freeze is challenging, Nintendo has at least brought back the item shop, now run by the obviously-created-in-the-'90s Funky Kong. Banana coins are plentiful in stages, and the prices are set low enough that you can purchase helpful add-ons at a fairly regular pace. If you decide to challenge yourself by going without, the item shop has a vending machine that spits out random collectible figurines, so all of your coins won't just go to waste.
I would recommend going without as much as possible, though. Its longevity comes mostly from its difficulty, and a simple run through the six worlds would be a fairly quick trip. It does offer Time Trials and extra stages by obtaining collectibles, but the core experience is all about challenging yourself. The items are a useful lifeline, but over-reliance on them would make a somewhat short playtime even shorter.
It's enjoyable enough while it lasts, though. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a usually fun, too-often frustrating, and always beautiful game. Being the first HD entry sets it apart somewhat, but if Nintendo intends to keep iterating on this series, it needs to fix some legacy issues and study which stages work to make the entire experience more pleasantly consistent. [6]
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Toyota may seek to reposition Scion in the wake of slower sales, according to Automotive News. It's been 10 years since the Japanese automaker unveiled its youth-oriented brand, and Toyota recognizes that the original target demographic has officially grown up. After concluding a nine-month review of the Scion brand, the parent company has decided to move away from quirkiness and toward more mainstream creations.
Models like the FR-S and iQ serve more traditional buyers than the nameplate's best-selling xB, though Jack Hollis, Scion vice president, says the future of the boxy five-door remains uncertain. While speaking with Autmotive News, Hollis said the company may not replace the model with a "one-for-one" interpretation of the box as buyers are less and less interested in funky exterior designs.
Scion suffered dearly during the sales downturn of 2008 and 2009. By 2011, the company's numbers had fallen to within 25 percent of its 2006 volume. With consumer credit tightening by the day, recent college graduates have reportedly found it difficult to finance a brand-new Scion. Hollis says sales are on the mend, and the company is cautiously optimistic. In the meantime, expect to see Scion show off more mainstream marketing aimed at a wider consumer audience.


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Violation of natural law: The basis of all problems in society. A key feature of Maharishi's description of collective consciousness is that individual and collective consciousness reciprocally influence each other. Due to this reciprocal relationship between individual and collective consciousness, an increase in stress and tension in individual consciousness will be mirrored in the quality of collective consciousness, and vice versa (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, pp. 258-262; Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 6). Just as problems and suffering in individual life arise from violation of natural law, Maharishi emphasizes that all problems in national life arise from the accumulation of stress in national consciousness due to the continual violation of natural law by the people of the nation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, pp. 98-108; Maharishi University of Natural Law, 1982, p. 7). Maharishi explains (Maharishi College of Natural Law, 1982) that the prevalence of problems, disharmony, and unhappiness in the family of man is the consequence of pervasive violation of the laws of nature:
All problems in the world arise from violations of the laws of nature. Everywhere in the world today there is a lack of happiness, harmony, and real freedom. This shows that life on earth is not lived in perfect accord with natural law. (p. 2)
Maharishi (1979) emphasizes that inadequate education is ultimately responsible for the violation of natural law which gives rise to all problems in society:
All weaknesses or problems in society have their basis in a lack of culture of the human mind, and this in turn is the result of incomplete education. Education is incomplete when it fails to develop the full creativity of the individual and fails to nurture his ability to act in accordance with the laws of nature. (p.1)
Because the educational system of every country does not educate the individual to spontaneously think and act according to natural law, the whole population unknowingly, but inevitably, violates the laws of nature day after day, creating stress in national consciousness (Maharishi University of Natural Law, 1982, p. 7). The unfortunate consequence of this accumulation of stress in the collective consciousness of the nation is that disorder, problems, and negative trends become more prevalent in society (Maharishi University of Natural Law, 1982):
If the collective consciousness of the country is under stress, then incoherent and conflicting tendencies will predominate in society and problems, turbulence, and violence will characterize the nation. (p. 8)
Thus the build-up of stress and tension in national consciousness must result in the growth of negative trends and problems in national life (Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 6; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, p. 88).
Bringing national life in accord with natural law. By bringing individual life in greater accord with natural law, the practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program promotes more positive trends in society and contributes to the improvement of the quality of national life. Through this technology of consciousness, Maharishi (1982) explains,
Since the individual avoids violating the laws of nature, he does not sow any seeds of future suffering for himself, nor does he create tensions in collective consciousness which could burst into disasters, criminal tendencies, and war. Extended scientific research has demonstrated that as the individual's thought process becomes more coherent, collective consciousness too becomes more coherent. Since the laws of nature are silently organizing and putting perfect order into all of creation--from the galaxies to the individual--the practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme also exhibits more orderly and coherent behavior. As individuals become more ideal, society becomes more ideal. (p. 3)
Thus from the perspective of Maharishi's Vedic Science, the key to improving the quality of life in society is promoting greater order and coherence in collective consciousness through the practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program by a sufficient number of individuals in society.
Absolute Theory of Government
According to Maharishi's Vedic Science, there is an intimate connection between the functioning of government and the quality of collective consciousness in society. From the perspective of Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government, every action of the national government is seen as the expression of national consciousness, just as every action of the individual is an expression of individual consciousness (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, p. 81). Maharishi (1986) explains that
The government of any country, irrespective of its system--whether capitalist, communist, or any other system--is governed by the collective consciousness of the nation. Whatever the quality of national consciousness, that will always be the quality of national government and national law. (p. 80)Maharishi emphasizes that whatever a government does, it is the doing of the collective consciousness of the nation, in the same way as anything done by the individual is motivated by the mind.
Because the quality of government activity is merely a reflection of the quality of national consciousness, Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government suggests that misguided or ineffective government policy, administrative inadequacies, and all other forms of governmental failure have their ultimate basis in stress and disorder in the collective consciousness of the nation. Thus one of the important channels by which collective consciousness influences the quality of national life is via the influence of national consciousness on government (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1985, p. 206). This paradigm implies, for example, that to the extent that economic problems arise from, or are exacerbated by, the failure of governmental economic policy, the growth of stress in collective consciousness will adversely affect the economic health of the nation.
Solving all problems of government. Since governmental achievements reflect the quality of collective consciousness in society, Maharishi (1982) explains that the government will be the first to benefit from an improvement in the quality of national consciousness:
The most frustrating and most regular experience of any government is that its best laid and noblest plans for the people fail because of disorderly social and individual behavior. When individual thinking is incoherent, governmental actions too become incoherent because the government mirrors the nation's collective consciousness. The government can only achieve as much as the collective consciousness will allow it to achieve. When collective consciousness becomes orderly and supportive, governmental achievements reach their zenith. Then all of the government's highest aspirations are fulfilled. Introducing the technology of higher consciousness into education and other walks of life is the sole method of maximizing governmental achievements. (p. 5-6)
Because all problems confronting governments have their ultimate basis in the violation of natural law by the citizens of the nation, "the only solution to problems faced by any government, therefore, is to educate the people to spontaneously become incapable of doing anything contrary to natural law" (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, pp. 194-195). Maharishi emphasizes that "economic policies, health policies, etc. will not solve the problems of society" (1978, p. 112). Bringing individual and collective consciousness in tune with natural law, adds Maharishi, "is the key to solving all problems of society on any level, be it social, economic, political, religious, or any other" (1978, p. 164). According to Maharishi's Vedic Science, government policies which do not address the fundamental cause of national problems--violation of natural law in society--cannot be fully successful.
Through educating the people of the nation to think and act spontaneously in accord with natural law, however, governments will become competent both to solve existing national problems and to prevent new problems from arising (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1985):
A government should not be satisfied only by solving the problems as they arise. The government should be competent to disallow the eruption of problems. As this competency rises in the government, problems will not arise. (p. 152)
Maharishi further explains (1985) that the practice of this technology of consciousness by a sufficient number of individuals in the nation will purify national consciousness, thereby enhancing governmental achievements:
The national consciousness will be more coherent, more supported by nature, and the governments will be the first beneficiaries. The governments will be supported by nature. All the plans and programs of the government will come to be materialized, and that will be the positive gain for the nation. (p. 204)
According to Maharishi's Vedic Science this approach will enable any government to ensure its success by harnessing the organizing power of natural law:
All that is required is to use the organizing skills of nature--which govern all the galaxies as well as our lives so perfectly--to administer society. That can be done easily by providing facilities to educate every citizen to enliven the laws of nature from the simplest state of his own awareness. (Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 7)
Maharishi describes this process of utilizing the evolutionary, organizing power of nature to enhance governmental achievements as "establishing alliance with nature's government," the unified field of natural law ("Maharishi Offers," 1990). As discussed in the following section, Maharishi explains that the practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program by only a small fraction of the national population will be sufficient to purify national consciousness and thereby bring the government of the nation into alliance with the government of nature. This approach to enlivening the evolutionary power of natural law in national consciousness offers to every government a practical and effective means to prevent and reduce problems in society and enhance governmental achievements.
with Nature's Government through the Maharishi Effect
In this section we summarize the principles of Maharishi's Vedic Science which explain how the practice of the TM technique, or the TM and TM-Sidhi program together, by even a small fraction of the national population, can neutralize collective stress, purify national consciousness, and thereby bring thought and action of the entire population into alliance with natural law, nature's government. We also describe how this positive, evolutionary influence of the Maharishi Effect will benefit society, improve the functioning of government, and enhance economic progress.
A small number of individuals practicing Maharishi's TM and TM-Sidhi program can positively influence the entire society because, as we have seen, according to Maharishi's Vedic Science, consciousness is a field which, at its most basic level--pure consciousness--is the unified field of natural law. Because pure consciousness is the common basis of both individual and collective consciousness, enlivenment of the omnipresent field of pure consciousness in individual awareness through the Transcendental Meditation technique simultaneously enlivens pure consciousness throughout the collective consciousness of society. This enlivenment of pure consciousness, the unified field of natural law, by a sufficient number of individuals practicing the TM technique brings the thought and action of everyone in society spontaneously into greater accord with natural law (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1975, p. 59).
This predicted effect on the whole of society of a few individuals practicing the TM technique provides an illustration in social systems of a characteristic property of fields in physics, "action at a distance." In physics, phenomena involving action at a distance, such as the gravitational effect of the earth on the moon, are typically explained by theories positing the existence of a field which mediates the interaction (Sudarshan & Mukunda, 1974). Likewise, Maharishi's Vedic Science explains that the thought and behavior of individuals throughout society can be positively influenced by a few individuals enlivening the field of pure consciousness, the unified field of natural law, which underlies both individual and collective consciousness.
The Maharishi Effect. The existence of this field effect in social systems was first proposed in the early 1960s when Maharishi predicted even a small fraction of the population practicing the TM technique, on the order of one percent, would produce an influence of positivity and harmony throughout society (Thirty Years Around the World, 1986, p. 430). This effect, named the Maharishi Effect by the first researchers validating it (Borland & Landrith, 1977), is produced by enlivening the omnipresent field of pure consciousness, the common basis of all activity in nature, subjective and objective (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1977):
When one per cent of a community practises the Transcendental Meditation technique the community's crime rate, accident rate, and sickness rate decrease. Consciousness is the basis of the whole creation; it is present everywhere--the most fundamental field of life. Enlivening the field of pure consciousness will enliven any aspect of creation and any aspect of behaviour, experience, and activity in the world. Transcendental consciousness, the field of pure consciousness, administers the trends of life of the whole creation. (p. 110)
When even a few individuals in society take their awareness to the level of transcendental consciousness, Maharishi explains, every aspect of creation is enriched, like watering the root of a tree nourishes all the leaves, branches, flowers, and fruits of a tree. Maharishi (1975) further explains the omnipresent nature of the field of consciousness:
Because consciousness is the basis of all that is there--here, there, and everywhere--it is the quantum level of life, the very basic level of life. If the attention reaches that level, what happens is like the small pebble falling on the silent bed of the water. A small pebble falls, creating impulses. Those impulses reach all the far places and all the water. Just like that, when the conscious mind of one single individual transcends, we can imagine the thrills being created on that silent level of consciousness, which is the omnipresent reality. This pulsating consciousness of the individual creates impulses of life all over, and because this is the very fundamental level of everyone, everyone's thinking, everyone's consciousness is influenced by that. It is very easy to understand. (p. 59).
As a result of the enlivenment of pure consciousness and the neutralization of stress in collective consciousness through the practice of the TM technique by one percent of the population, individuals throughout society become more positive in their thinking, and the trends of life become more positive, more evolutionary:
The whole society becomes more positive in its trends, more positive in its thinking. The awareness of the whole population is influenced tremendously. That is why the criminals change; negativity changes. A man thinking like that today, he thinks in a different way tomorrow. So all the non-evolutionary procedures of thinking gets transformed. Non-evolutionary thinking becomes evolutionary thinking. That means thinking becomes spontaneously in accord with the laws of nature. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1975, p. 59)
In other words, society becomes more positive because with the enlivenment of the unified field of natural law by TM practitioners, the thinking and behavior of everyone in society become more in tune with natural law (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, p. 198).
In 1975, after introducing the more powerful TM-Sidhi program, Maharishi predicted that the same beneficial effects on society would be produced through the practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program by a single group comprising as few as the square root of one percent of the population (Maharishi European Research University, 1979, p. 160). While the TM technique enables the conscious mind to contact the field of pure consciousness, the TM-Sidhi program trains the individual to think and act on the lively ground of pure consciousness and amplifies the positive effects enjoyed through the TM practice (see Gelderloos & Berg, 1989).
Creating coherence in individual and collective consciousness. According to Maharishi's Vedic Science, the TM and TM-Sidhi program produces increased coherence in individual consciousness, as reflected, for example, in increased coherence of brain functioning as measured by EEG activity (Dillbeck & Bronson, 1981; Orme-Johnson & Haynes, 1981). Maharishi explains that the coherence produced in individual consciousness by the practice of this technology spontaneously extends to collective consciousness, purifying collective consciousness and enlivening natural law in society (Maharishi European Research University, 1982b, p. 13).
There are many examples of physical systems in which the more coherent and orderly functioning of even a small proportion of the units of the system will induce a transition to more orderly behavior of the system as a whole. In a laser, for example, quantum-mechanical coherence between a number of individual photons proportional to the square root of the total causes the entire system to undergo a phase transition in which all the photons begin to interact coherently, thus generating laser light. Analogous to principles of quantum field theory in physics, physicist John Hagelin (1987, p. 65) suggests that the spreading of coherence from the TM-Sidhi group to the whole of society through the Maharishi Effect is consistent with a field-theoretic model of consciousness in which constructive interference due to the coherent superposition of wave amplitudes generates a field effect with intensity proportional to the square of the number of participants.
How the influence of coherence travels throughout society. The process whereby increased coherence in individual consciousness leads to increased coherence throughout society corresponds to the property of "infinite correlation" in quantum fields. Infinite correlation means that the "correlation range" becomes infinite--an impulse anywhere in the quantum field instantaneously influences all other points in the omnipresent field (Maharishi European Research University, 1982b).The purification of national consciousness through the group practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program simultaneously purifies world consciousness of which it is a part (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, pp. 73-74). This influence of positivity travels, Maharishi adds,
through the same channels used by the evolutionary power of nature. From the most quiet, transcendental level, nature performs, and it performs within itself. It is the self-referral activity of natural law that is responsible for absolute order in creation. . . . It transcends all activity of natural law in the relative field, but yet is always lively as the basis of the classical, physical world. It is the most refined level of quantum-mechanical activity of nature, from where absolute orderliness controls, commands, and governs all affairs of the universe. This transcendental level of nature's functioning is the level of infinite correlation. When the group awareness is brought in attunement with that level, then a very intensified influence of coherence radiates and a great richness is created. (1986, p. 75)
In describing how this influence of the abstract field of pure consciousness travels throughout society and to the rest of the world, Maharishi (1986) explains :
The effect produced is from the level of the unified field. Because the unified field is the unmanifest basis of the whole creation, the influence spreads throughout the world. It's just like the effect when you water the root and the nourishment reaches every leaf, branch, flower, and fruit. The unified field is a transcendental reality, and the Technology of the Unified Field [the TM and TM-Sidhi program] produces lively impulses from that level. It's a level of infinite correlation which knows no barrier. . . . When the Governors of the Age of Enlightenment [practitioners of the TM and TM-Sidhi program] practice this technology, the influence travels from that level which is omnipresent. (pp. 163-64)
Maharishi further explains that through the group practice of this technology of consciousness the evolutionary force of natural law gets enlivened throughout creation, producing positive and life-supporting effects (1986, pp. 163-164)
. Maharishi (1986) notes that the group practicing the TM and TM-Sidhi program together performs "from that most quiet level to enrich positivity in nature and restore balance in nature's functioning," to restore balance between the creative and destructive forces of natural law which govern the evolution of all life (p. 76).
Holistic benefits to society. In addition to reductions in the crime rate, accident rate, sickness rate, and other negative tendencies (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, p. 128), improvements in many other dimensions of the quality of the life are predicted through the Maharishi Effect. Maharishi (1978) predicts that when national consciousness is brought into greater attunement with natural law through the Maharishi Effect, social conflict will decrease, the economy will improve, and the nation's influence in international affairs will increase:
The tensions and disharmonies will be less, the flowering of business will be there, trade and industry will be increasing, people will be happy . . . the economy will be better, the nation's influence in the family of nations will be greater and more appreciated. (p. 66)
Maharishi (1978) further explains that balance in nature increases and "all of nature begins to support the nation's well-being. The seasons come on time, crops are abundant, and there are no calamities" (p. 128). By calamities, Maharishi refers not only to natural catastrophes but to "such disasters as poverty, disease, earthquakes, floods, droughts, famine, the economic or political collapse of the nation, and other collective calamities" (pp. 124-125).
The influence is spontaneously a total influence, which affects all aspects of life. Alliance with natural law [nature's government] means alliance with the total power of nature. All things will be enriched at one time. This is employing nature to work for us. All aspects of human society will grow in balance. Everything is going to be better and better as the light of knowledge grows with the purity of world consciousness. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, pp. 161-162)
According to Maharishi, among other specific improvements in the quality of life produced by the Maharishi Effect are decreased social unrest, turbulence, and terrorism (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1986, p. 162; Maharishi European Research University, 1982a, p. 2); increased harmony and peace in international relations (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1978, p. 105; 1977, p. 5); enhanced cultural integrity (1977, p. 5); more socially responsible thinking and behavior by the individuals in society, and the adoption of more positive social values (1978, p. 163; 1985, p. 206); and enhanced governmental achievements (1985, p. 206; 1977, p. 5).
Using the skilled hand of nature to administer society. This holistic improvement in the quality of national life is available to every government through alliance with the government of nature, natural law. According to Maharishi's Vedic Science ("Maharishi Offers," 1990), the basic problem facing every government is how to successfully integrate and harmonize the innumerable trends and tendencies in society. Only by creating coherence in the collective consciousness of the nation through the Maharishi Effect can a government hope to satisfy all its people and thereby achieve this goal of harmonizing the diverse trends and tendencies of the nation ("Maharishi Offers," 1990). The group practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi program neutralizes collective stress born of the violation of natural law and creates a fully integrated national consciousness which enjoys alliance with the unified field of natural law. This technology of handling the whole national consciousness brings the full support of the nourishing, evolutionary power of natural law to fulfill the desires of everyone ("Maharishi Offers," 1990).
By making use of the skilled hand of nature to administer society, any government can rise to a supreme level of success and achievement ("Maharishi Offers," 1990). Maharishi emphasizes that through his Vedic Science and Technology, any head of state can raise the administration of his government to alliance with nature's perfect government:
Here is a very beautiful, unique, and unprecedented opportunity for every head of state. I invite the leaders of the world to examine this offer of alliance with natural law in the light of the latest discoveries of modern physics--the discovery of the unified field of natural law. It is very easy for anyone with the slightest intelligence to understand that if the unified field of all the laws of nature could be accessible to anyone, nothing would be impossible for him. Through my Vedic Science and Technology--the science and technology of the unified field--any government leader can have easy access to the unified field and raise the administration of his government to be in perfect alliance with the administration of nature's government. (p. 19)
Maharishi points out that the entire universe is silently governed with supreme economy and efficiency from the level of the unified field of natural law and that any government can rise to this same level of efficiency through alliance with natural law (1986, pp. 124-125; "Maharishi Offers," 1990). According to modern quantum physics, the unified field of all the laws of nature, like any quantum-mechanical system, functions in accordance with the principle of least action, the universal principle of economy at the basis of nature's functioning (Hagelin, 1989, pp. 22-23). Because natural law is most economical, the administrator is not seen, but still the universe is well administered. By establishing alliance with natural law, nature's government, any government can govern with the same silent perfection with which natural law administers the universe ("Maharishi Offers," 1990).
According to Maharishi's Vedic Science ("Maharishi Offers," 1990), the technology for ideal government--unified field based administration--is to establish a creating-coherence group in the country which will enliven the unified field in national consciousness and thereby enable government to govern with the same perfection with which the government of nature administers the universe. Through alliance with nature's government, any government can now create peace, prosperity, and fulfilling progress in the life of its own nation, and enliven these same qualities in national consciousness and thereby bring national government in alliance with nature's government ("Maharishi Offers," 1990).


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Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax
Sunday - 2/24/2013, 9:36am EST
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- A false report of a gunman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that briefly caused a campus-wide lockdown Saturday stemmed from an electronic message sent to police, authorities said.
Officers searched for a man reported to be carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor but found nothing unusual, Cambridge police said. The report -- that alleged the gunman was barricaded inside a building on campus -- turned out to be a hoax, and there was no threat to public safety, state police spokesman David Procopio said.
Cambridge police received the tip in an electronic message around 7:30 a.m., but witnesses on the scene eventually contradicted it, spokesman Dan Riviello said. Neither police nor MIT specified how the tip was received, though the police department's website says anonymous tips may be made via text message or email, in addition to a telephone hotline.
"The MIT community was sent a precautionary text message at 8:52 a.m. asking them to remain indoors and shelter in place," the university said in a statement issued following online criticism over the delay in alerting the public that a gunman was possibly on campus. It did not explain why it took more than an hour to issue the alert.
A room-to-room search by MIT and Cambridge police, along with state police troopers, led officers to declare that the scene was clear at about 10:30 a.m., MIT said.
"No armed suspects were found in the building or on campus and police believe that the event, as reported, did not occur," according to a statement by Cambridge police.
Investigators are trying to identify the prankster and will pursue criminal charges if they do, Riviello said.
He declined to provide additional details or confirm reports that the IP address used by the prankster has been traced to New York, saying the investigation continued.
John DiFava, chief of MIT's campus police, acknowledged the delay in telling students about a possible gunman on campus. "I have to look into it and find out the reason for the lag," he told the Boston Globe.
Junior Zach Wener-Fligner told the newspaper that the delay was "a little worrisome."
"But I assume the relevant area was locked down," he said.
About 11,000 people attend the prestigious school outside Boston where students are famous for their smarts as well as their stunts, including once putting a police car on top of a domed campus building.
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One million pounds worth of fake hair straighteners seized
Potentially dangerous products have been removed from shops and markets after trading standards officers seized a million pounds worth of fake hair straighteners and hairdryers.
Potentially dangerous products have been removed from shops and markets after trading standards officers seized a million pounds worth of fake hair straighteners and hairdryers.
St Ann's Square will become a city centre hotspot for cool kids and trend-setters when it hosts its first ever Vintage and Fashion Week.
Soap star favourite Kevin Kennedy is just one of the names backing an event this weekend to raise awareness about long-term recovery from alcohol and drug problems.
Three drug dealers have been banned from Piccadilly Gardens and surrounding streets as part of ongoing work to crack down on crime and antisocial behaviour in the city centre.
People of all ages enjoyed a celebration of nature's home as the RSPB and Manchester City Council invited everyone to discover the wildlife of the Mersey Valley.
The news that a £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre is to be created in Manchester has been hailed as a significant moment for the city.
Manchester is in the running to be the first ever City of Football and to celebrate our love of the game Friday 12 September will see Cathedral Gardens packed with footie-fans for a fun filled day.
Nearly half of Manchester will benefit from reduced speed limits after hundreds more streets across the city are set to be made safer for children.
An exhibition to commemorate World War One and the poetry of Wilfred Owen is being launched at Central Library by the Lord Mayor of Manchester.
A new report sets out how a co-ordinated three-year programme of works known as Grow will help the city centre to flourish for years to come.
Greater Manchester has become the first UK city to join the United Nations' Making Cities Resilient Campaign.
The sensitive relocation of the cenotaph from St Peter's Square to its new location in front of the Cooper Street entrance to the town hall has been completed.
Ten Acres Lane Sports Centre, Newton Heath, will see its new full 3G football pitch officially opened on Saturday 6 September at 9am by Deputy Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Paul Murphy.
Manchester City Council has handed a letter to protestors who have set up a camp in a prominent city centre site.
Muslim residents preparing to go on Hajj pilgrimages are being advised to book using reputable travel agents.
The Summer Festival of Markets is set to transform St Ann's Square this September with a selection of local traders, an exciting programme of live entertainment and a variety of cafes and bars.
Work to create a new combined library and leisure centre for Moss Side and Hulme is under way.
"So many of the cues to a patient's health are non-verbal," says Dr Sirfraz Hussain, who is a partner at Moss Side Family Practice in Manchester.
The latest version of the annual report that looks at Manchester's progress has been released online.
Few people could ever describe cancer treatment as a blessing - but, for one Manchester pensioner it was exactly that as it eased his illness and brought a fresh start to life.
The Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Sue Cooley will mark the astounding rejuvenation of Alexandra Park with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2pm on Sunday 31 August 2014.
Manchester's youngsters are celebrating as provisional results show that 51 per cent of students achieved five or more GCSE grades A*- C including English and maths.
Households across Greater Manchester have the opportunity to turn their big bill into a 'Little Bill'.
Young entrepreneurs have gone head-to-head in Wythenshawe to compete for a place in the national final of TestTown, the UK's biggest initiative to help young people bring their energy and ideas to the country's high streets.
Parents across the city are being urged to turn their thoughts to school in order to ensure they don't miss the 31 October deadline for applying for their child's secondary school place next Autumn.
Manchester is celebrating as confirmation is received of funding success that will see nearly 600 affordable homes built across the city.
Core Cities, the group of large British cities outside London, has expanded its membership beyond England for the first time in its history.
Students across Manchester are again celebrating academic triumph as top results across the city improve year-on-year.
A compensation company discovered where there's blame there's a fine when they were ordered to pay more than £9,000 for illegally putting up adverts across Manchester.
Manchester's bid to be the country's first City of Football is gaining momentum and residents are being encouraged to help shape the city's final submission to Sport England.


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Artist to Artist with Spencer Finch
Tuesday, April 13, 6 p.m., Corcoran Auditorium
Open to Corcoran students and faculty.
Leading up to his exhibition at the Corcoran this September, Spencer Finch will be the first speaker in the new Artist to Artist series with students. Following a brief dialogue with Curator of Contemporary Art Sarah Newman, Spencer Finch will engage in a casual and open discussion with students about issues of process, method, and career. Come with questions and topics for debate! Discussion will be facilitated by Adjunct Professor Mark Cameron Boyd.
Spencer Finch will be creating new site-specific work for his exhibition at the Corcoran this fall. Finch's installations, photographs, and drawings seek to capture the elusive space between perception and the outside world, probing the intersections of science, nature, and memory. Using industrial materials to recreate individual experiences or particular sensations such as candlelight or the smell of the ocean, he also draws from historic accounts by poets, artists, and philosophers to explore the persistence of human curiosity. Finch's sculptures and site-specific installations use light, color, and time to remind his viewers that looking is never as simple as it looks.
Spencer Finch was born in 1962 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Hamilton College, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, and has exhibited internationally. Finch had a major one-artist exhibition, What Time is it on the Sun?, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007. His recent solo exhibition, As if the Sea Should Part and Show a Further Sea, was exhibited at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, in 2009. Finch was also included in the Making Worlds exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and has created several works of public art, including the recent project for the High Line in New York with Creative time. His work is held in many museum collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.


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Household hazardous waste collection
On Saturday, Sept. 14, the Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca Joint Solid Waste District is sponsoring a Household Hazardous Waste Collection. The collection will take place from
9 a.m. to 12 noon. In order to bring materials to the collection you must be a resident of Ottawa, Sandusky or Seneca County. Collection times are as follows:
Last name A thru M (9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.)
Last name N thru Z (10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.)
The collection sight in Ottawa County is at the Ottawa County Fairgrounds on W. St. Rt. 163, Oak Harbor. Residents are asked not to smoke and to stay in their vehicles while they are being unloaded at the collection. The following paint and related products will be accepted during the collection in containers no larger than five gallons:
• Latex & oil based paint, sealers, primers, coatings & spray paint aerosol cans
• Household pesticides (bug and rodent killers), Herbicides (weed killers),
• Insecticides (bug killers), fungicides (mold killers)
• Varnish, polyurethane and shellacs, wood stains, primers and strippers, paint thinner, turpentine, kerosene and lighter fluid
• Household cleaners (oven and drain cleaner and muriatic acid)
• Hand-held propane cylinders
• Household batteries, fluorescent bulbs and compact fluorescent bulbs, cooking oil
• Automotive fluids including antifreeze and motor oil
• Mercury – solids, liquids and thermostats
• Any paint or household hazardous waste container that is completely dry and empty can be disposed of in your regular trash if lid is removed.
• NO Construction Materials (Shingles) or Asbestos Materials
This is a household collection only. Materials from businesses or institutions will not be accepted. Also note that any paint can that is completely dry can be disposed of in your regular trash if the lid is removed.
As a part of this collection you may bring your old mercury fever thermometer to the collection site and exchange it for a new digital thermometer, while the District's supply lasts. Remember to place your mercury thermometer in a double Ziploc plastic bag when you bring the thermometer to the site. Mercury is a danger in the household if a thermometer breaks, because mercury vaporizes at room temperature (70 F). Breathing this vapor can damage the brain, liver and kidneys. If there is ever a mercury spill in the home contact your local fire department for information on how to handle the spill.
For general recycling information, District recycling collections or sponsored events log onto the OSS Solid Waste District's website at www.recycleoss.org or visit facebook or twitter. For more information call the District's main office at 419-334-7222 or toll-free at 1-888-850-7224.


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Features Original Music by Fall On Your Sword
(October 1, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – Lakeshore Records will release the Nobody Walks – Original Soundtrack digitally on Tuesday, October 9, 2012. The album features original music by Fall On Your Sword (Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms, Another Earth), who were nominated for a 2012 World Soundtrack Award as Discovery of the Year for their work to Lola Versus and Nobody Walks.
Fall On Your Sword is the multimedia composing entity founded by Will Bates and Philip Mossman. Though originally from London, Bates and Mossman met in Brooklyn where they now record and reside. The duo has gained swift recognition as a rising force in the world of feature film scoring as well as recording/performing artists and viral video mavericks. Together they have amassed over 2 million You Tube hits.
Since opening doors to their new studios in 2010, Fall On Your Sword have scored no less than seven full-length feature films, including Lola Versus directed by Daryl Wein, Aardvark directed by Kitao Sakurai, Another Earth directed by Mike Cahill, The Normals directed by Kevin Connors and Generation Um directed by Mark Mann. Sundance 2012 saw two films featuring Fall On Your Sword scores; Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms directed by Matt Ross and Nobody Walks directed by Ry Russo-Young. This Fall, Fall On Your Sword will be speaking at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Music Conference about their impact in cinematic scoring.
"Having worked with Ry on her previous film, You Won't Miss Me," said Will Bates of Fall On Your Sword, "Ry and I developed a great work flow with a real sense of trust. She has good instincts. She knows exactly when something is right, whilst really giving me the freedom to explore."
Martine (Olivia Thirlby), a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter (John Krasinski), the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt). Martine innocently enters the seemingly idyllic life of this open-minded family with two kids and a relaxed Southern California vibe. Like a bolt of lightning, her arrival sparks a surge of energy that awakens suppressed impulses in everyone and forces them to confront their own fears and desires.
Exquisitely directed by Ry Russo-Young (You Won't Miss Mescreened at the 2009 Festival) and cowritten by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture), this potent charting of inner urges and sufferings links characters in an intricate dance of lust, denial, and deception. Despite their issues, each comes across as fundamentally human, urging viewers to appraise the characters' morality by evaluating their own motives. Sexually charged and rigorously composed, Nobody Walks boasts an impressive cast who deliver incisive performances in this absorbing tale, and a score to match.
"Finding the tonal palette on Nobody Walks was the real key," said Bates. "She [Russo-Young] wanted the score to evolve out of the movie as if it was born from sound design. We started with that simple idea, and the melodies and themes kind of just happened from there."
Magnolia Pictures presents Nobody Walks, currently available on VOD and in theaters on October 12, 2012. Nobody Walks – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Lakeshore Records will be available digitally on October 9, 2012.
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Logistical and frugal used car seekers, seek no further.. by An MSN Autos Consumer on 03/04/2013. Trim: 2006 Hyundai Elantra GLS 4-Door, Owned 7 years.
Pros: Roomy cabin, reliability just as good as honda and toyota for thousands less, a good looking car for good price, cheap repairs, very well put together machine with quality parts that will last a long time, you can get these for such a reasonable price, a lot of value for the money.
Cons: Weak acceleration compared to peers that get better gas mileage, sound system is ok at best, gas mileage is just average for a four cylinder economy car, turning isn't all that smooth, operating sounds are louder than expected considering it's a four cylinder
Overall review: If you're getting this car it's because you have good logistical reasons. This is an economy car through and through and if you want a reasonably priced used car that will reliably take you from here to there without using too much gas then this is it. The fact that it's good looking and compact on the outside but roomy on the inside is a plus. I fear some of my fellow male counterparts will grow slightly bored of this car after long use because of the notably weak acceleration and unimpressive sound system. Also It's not the most quiet ride and it doesn't handle or make sharp turns particularly responsively . These are prices you pay for such an affordable and dependable economy car and you've got to manage your expectations about how it will handle and accelerate if you have ever gotten use to driving something else with more pep. In summation, I love my elantra. I got a great deal on it and it does everything a full time student and full time worker like myself would need it to do.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are nationally recognized leaders in development, research and implementation of quality and patient safety processes and measures.
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