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 How Important Are Same-Gender Role Models to Middle School Girls? Five Characteristics of Mentors Who Sustain Middle-School Girls' Interest in Science Careers http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jet/article/view/5423
Content area specialists (scientists) are often recruited to address issues of retention and recruitment in science education. Yet, guidance in the selection of these types of mentors or role models remains unpublished. One strategy for selecting scientists/role models is to select them on the basis of same gender as the participants. This study examined eight scientists (four gender-matched and two gender-mismatched) as they worked with middle-school girls. The data was collected during 'Side-by-Side' interaction with content specialists and has implications for classroom practice. These experiences demonstrate that working with highly-skilled, highly-trained scientists reveal that unless the scientists understand the difference between content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, they are not open or sometimes unwilling to learning science-content pedagogy. The Mentor-Approach-to-Teaching Continuum as developed in this study can be used to better help teachers understand and assist scientists in their teaching roles. As middle-school girls' experiences with science content specialists helped the students shape their perception of scientists, careful consideration, preparation, and maintenance of these relationships were critical to the girls sustaining an interest in science. This paper provides suggestions for helping teachers achieve success with science content specialists and provides answers to the question of the importance of same-sex role models in mentoring young girls in science. It also identifies five characteristics educators should look for in selecting science mentors who would be successful in broadening students' perceptions of scientists.
 Donna Farland-Smith 2014-08-28 2014-08-28 2 A Model for a Novel Communication Training Program Focused on Accent Modification for International Medical Professionals http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jet/article/view/6261
Effective communication is a core component of quality healthcare. It is a major determinant of patient satisfaction as well as career advancement for physicians and researchers. The demographics of the healthcare scenario in the United States have changed in the last decade. There is a dramatic increase in the number of International medical graduates (IMGs). While IMGs bring with them all their knowledge and expertise, their pronunciation and intonation patterns often create a barrier to their communication. Paradoxically, very few programs exist in the U.S. to provide communication skills training geared to the IMGs' needs. To fill this void, a training program that targets the communication gaps of non-native English-speaking medical professionals with accent modification as the starting point was developed at Indiana University. This manuscript offers a blueprint for the development of this cutting-edge program and outlines its mission, structure and research findings. The paper also seeks to raise awareness of the needs of IMGs who are essential to the US healthcare system. The program described is offered as a resource for these professionals and for institutions of higher education seeking to invest in the professional development of their international faculty and students.
 Poonam Khurana Edgar Huang 2014-09-02 2014-09-02 2 Student Praise in the Modern Classroom: The Use of Praise Notes as a Productive Motivational Tool http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jet/article/view/6142
Student motivation continues to be a vital topic throughout all levels of education. Various approaches to motivating students have been articulated in education circles but educators are still coming to terms with best-fit models to inspire students in classroom settings. One particular often employed form of student motivation, praise, has been a point of contention and scrutiny in the modern classroom. Praise has the potential to be a productive source of student motivation but only when used in certain capacities and with specific outcomes in mind. This article outlines research on the use of praise by instructors in the classroom in the context of student motivation and specifically discusses the use of praise-notes to productively induce student performance and engagement. The merits of praise notes as a motivational tool are discussed and demonstrated through applicative suggestions for classroom practice.
 Matthew R Hodgman 2014-09-05 2014-09-05 2 Enhancing Inquiry-Based Language Learning With Educational Digital Library http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jet/article/view/6199
As the amount of information available in online digital libraries increases exponentially, questions arise concerning the most productive way to use that information to advance learning. This study investigated the value of an organized educational digital library in supporting and improving EFL students' inquiry learning process. Ninety-eight participants in two groups were compared in their learning performance. One approach used traditional open access to information while the other used an online digital library to accessing information during their inquiry-based information search process. A One-Way ANCOVA and an Independent-Samples t-test were used to examine the two groups on their English reading comprehension and learning attitudes. Results indicated students who used structured search strategies with digital libraries had higher learning performance in English reading comprehension. Digital libraries can also increase the quality of learning process and enhance the students' learning with more positive attitude.
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The Other Side of Faith Is Doubt
One sunny afternoon when I was a naive and relatively content eleven-year-old, quite by accident and to my own horrified shock, I became an atheist. The familiar image of God who had always hung around the peripheries of my vision, propping up the sky, vanished into thin air when I tried to look him in the eye, and by no conscious act of will was I able to bring him back into view. I whimsically tried on atheism for size as a way of testing its certain absurdity, and before I knew it the absurd had become the completely natural and even obvious: the world around me simply did not need a supreme being to continue to operate. I began to doubt compulsively.
Over the course of the following months and even years a chilling haze of panic, ranging in intensity from vague to acute, gathered around me and gripped me from time to time with its promise of oblivion or damnation. During Sharing Time in senior primary I sat at the back of the room, surveyed the attendees, and reproached myself severely with the suspicion that every single one of them had faith except for me. Something was terribly, sinfully wrong with me. Try as I might, I simply could not force myself to believe.
For some reason I had convinced myself (or been convinced by well-meaning leaders?) that the only acceptable level of faith was to believe "beyond a shadow of a doubt," and strive as I might to eliminate those shadows of doubt, they leered at me from every corner. And, in a way, I felt cheated by God. He had refused to provide certain evidence of his existence and commitment to the Church, and yet, if he did exist, he would nevertheless hold me accountable for reaching the right conclusions about him in spite of the threadbare nature of the evidence. It sometimes seemed as if he'd set up a cosmic guessing game with hundreds of doors to choose from, intending to punish me if I could not guess which door he was standing behind.
My primary teachers emphasized that the most important principle of the gospel was to exercise faith in Jesus Christ. I wasn't sure exactly what this entailed, but I was becoming increasingly terrified that whatever it was, I was simply not capable of it.
Of course I did not so much as breathe a word of this to anyone. Surrounded by committed members in the "safe harbor" of Utah Valley, I had never met a real-life, self-acknowledged atheist, who, from my sheltered perspective, held the gruesome mythical sheen of an ogre or a goblin. I had not even encountered someone who admitted to having had doubts, ever, about anything. This quite naturally exacerbated my sense of isolation, my feeling that I was marked; I was committing a secret sin that was virtually unthinkable to the people with whom I went to church, prayed, and played. If I'd been a Calvinist I would have discovered that I was damned, while everyone around me glowed with the inscrutable and untouchable light of grace.
Over the next several years I experienced a number of intense spiritual witnesses that led me to a firm belief in God and his involvement in the Church, but, oddly, did not immediately assuage my fears. Perhaps, I reasoned, because I'd had such spiritual experiences, God would excuse no more doubts on any subject, and no more shadows of doubts. If I had to wonder whether I was certain, I wasn't certain, and it seemed to be my curse to wonder compulsively about all sorts of things.
It was not until, as a college student, I gave up entirely on the utility of faith that I was able to lay that old, familiar panic to rest. Faith, we're taught, is mutually exclusive with knowledge, but is invested in that which is nevertheless true–in which case by definition we can never know whether or not we have faith; we can only have faith in our faith. Why, I wondered, would God plop us down into an environment of deliberate ambiguities and then hold us accountable, as a moral issue, for selecting the right belief system when not all the evidence was available? Was God actually hankering to punish us for drawing false theological conclusions given our limited information? The thought, given the premise that God was good, made reason stare.
Instead I made a concious shift to a focus on fidelity or commitment to God, which certainly is volitional; I came to believe that our fixation on belief was merely the result of post-Enlightenment preoccupation with what is real and our response to a broader culture of skepticism and a marketplace of competing truth claims, in which expressions of commitment to stated religious tenets have become central gestures of commitment to a particular religious community.
It's frequently asserted that orthopraxis plays a more central role in defining Mormon identity than does orthodoxy. Yet conversion and deconversion are ubiquitously framed in terms of belief: one joins the Church as a result of gaining a testimony, and leaves upon losing it, to the degree that when someone apostatizes, their withdrawal is assumed to necessarily constitute a loss of faith, which theoretically need not necessarily be the case and is demonstrably not always at issue.
Is belief a choice? And as such, is it imbued with moral implications (i.e., is doubt a sin)? In addition to psychological research suggesting belief is not under our control, I also see potential philosophical problems with construing belief as a conscious act of will. If, from the myriad truth propositions in which I could invest, I select one to believe not because I find the evidence compelling, but because it appeals to me for whatever reason–perhaps I choose to believe there are unicorns living on Neptune's moons who suffer seizures anytime anyone on Earth steps on a crack–why does my awareness that I volitionally selected this belief (rather than "naturally" reaching a conclusion through examination of evidence) not compromise my conviction of its veracity? That is, if I know I chose it rather than opening myself to being led by the evidence (and of course my own inescapable personal biases), on what can I even base my belief?
To at least a large degree, it seems to me that belief is not only outside our volition but can even occur outside conscious formulation; I think it could be demonstrated that individuals hold particular beliefs, based on decisions they make, of which they are largely unaware. If this is the case, doubt in itself can hardly be considered sinful.
But whether or not belief is entirely under our control, how we choose to respond religiously to various pieces of evidence and the nature of our religious commitment and behavior most certainly are under our control, and this is one reason I prefer the construal of faith as fidelity in behavior to the more recent reconstitution of faith as fidelity in commitment to a set of truth propositions (although the two may exert mutual influence over each other). On some level I may not genuinely believe in those unicorns, but I can nevertheless choose to set my doubts aside and, for whatever reason, commit myself to behaving as though I do.
Is doubt, nevertheless, fundamentally corrosive to the community and a force to be entirely suppressed in favor of normalizing unwavering belief as the only model upon which to base a religious life? Is the social isolation and privacy of doubt necessary for the preservation of the community, and would the normalization of doubt attenuate communal commitment even as it served a salutary function for doubting individuals?
It seems unlikely that by its very nature doubt can ever serve as a basis for communal worship in the way that shared belief can, so a general normalization of doubt is hardly desirable. But, within the context of faith commitments, I think there's room for some cautious acknowledgment of doubt to play a legitimate role.
What, after all, is the purpose of faith, from God's perspective? We frequently hear that if God provided the answers there'd be no need for faith–but this assumes the need for faith rather than explaining it. But why does God not provide all the answers? Wouldn't that give us more reason than ever to worship him?
I have no idea how to answer this, other than to offer one tentative suggestion: perhaps the value of faith involves committing oneself to a moral lifestyle and a community without certitude that this commitment will result, quid pro quo, in eventual reward. If there's value in faith as it is commonly understood, there's value in religious commitment even in the face of a lack of certainty. It would seem that God is not a behaviorist, training us like Pavlov's dogs to salivate at the prospect of keeping the commandments. Perhaps God requires goodness and community involvement for their own sake. If so, there's room for doubt in the community in the very form of faith–that is, doubt in the context of fidelity. An expression of faith is, after all, like the half-empty glass, correspondingly an expression of doubt.
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10 Responses to "The Other Side of Faith Is Doubt"
A couple of points: I have had powerful spiritual witnesses that led me to believe that God is real and that He is behind the Restoration, grounded particularly in the Book of Mormon. But doubt, for me, has not been swept aside by such experiences. There are confirming experiences and there is the experience of doubt, and I've never been able to disentangle the two.
I'm reminded of the story of the hemorrhaging woman in Mark chapter 5. Jesus commends her faith but equates it not with assent to the abstract proposition that He was Messiah or had power to heal but with the strategic action of pressing through the crowd and giving herself access, against great odds, to the healing power of his body/garment/person.
The reconfiguration of faith as belief and of true religion as correct belief or intellectual assent to correct principles is a hot topic in the anthropology and sociology of religion these days. My own sense, in the case of our Church, is that the accommodation ("transition") of Mormonism at the turn of the 20th century was, to a considerable extent, a kind of Protestantization — not in the sense that we began to take up Protestant beliefs (though fairly persuasive arguments have been made that on some level we did), but in the sense that Mormon religion was privatized and interiorized, shifted into the realm of the mind. Faithfulness was reconstrued as belief in correct principles, orthopraxy as an outward manifestation of an inward spiritually orthodox state, and a gospel in which planting crops and building grist mills were once considered exalting acts of worship was reconfigured as a set of abstract, theoretical, timeless principles.
Perhaps the most salient example of the phenomenon described in my last sentence involves plural marriage. Once believed to be a practice that exalted practitioners, in itself making them more Godly and Godlike, Mormons responded to the belief/action distinction codified by the supreme court case upholding antipolygamy legislation by stating that people only had to believe that polygamy was a true celestial principle rather than practice it to achieve total exaltation.
By Protestantization, I mean that we privilege belief and compartmentalize it in its own private, subjective, non-political sphere like good, proper religious (read: Protestant) folks, but said beliefs are still uniquely Mormon theological concepts.
This is fairly descriptive of my interface with the Gospel.
I don't "know the Church is true." I don't "know Joseph Smith is a prophet." I don't "know that Jesus is my Savior." I don't even "know that God lives" (although I'm a bit closer on that one).
At some level, I "believe" all of these things. But the "belief" part is not the most important to me.
For me, the whole Restored Gospel package is a commitment. A choice of affiliation that I have made. A reasoned, thoughtful, questioning, but ultimately loyal CHOICE I have made. I have chosen to throw my lot in with God, Jesus, Joseph Smith, and the modern Church. "Belief" is really of secondary importance to the whole question.
For me, it's an identity choice, not a belief.
You are working with a lot of dichotomies here that I don't necessarily accept. As an example, I don't see doubt as self-evidently bad, nor do I accept the notion that evidence exists without interpretation. While we both see the same glass, our choice to understand it as half-empty or half-full is just that, a choice. Our reaction to that choice is also a choice and so on ad nauseam.
I once had a strong spiritual impression that the Reverend Sun-Yong Moon (sp?) was a representative of God on Earth. Obviously, I chose to discount that impression, while I have generally favored impressions that support the truth claims of the LDS church. I have had my share of moments of doubt, where the silence, the obstinence, the neglect, and the mystery of God have irritated the crap out of me. Nonetheless, I am still here.
Unlike Seth, I don't pretend I chose this path. Faith is, profoundly, something that happened to me. That said, it is also something I daily chose for reasons that only make sense to me. And that is just fine, because that is what is happening. I wouldn't dream of choosing this identity if I didn't think there was something to it; I bear the believer's self-delusion founded in the ethnocentric notion that everyone else has it easier than me.
I suppose that, ultimately, I am not moved by your argument. I am trying to pinpoint why. I think it is because we always seem to use the language of agency in the discussion of our faith and our doubts, but we rarely take that language seriously. I dunno. I'll think on it and see if I have more to say (because surely, everyone is hanging on my every word in this matter )
Very interesting comments, Brad!
What you say makes a lot of sense to me, Seth–that the level of choice that's important in our religious behavior operates on that level–behavior–more than on the level of belief. (Of course the two undoubtedly influence each other, although not necessary in intuitive ways: I've read social psychology research suggesting that people formulate in response to their own behavior, rather than behaving in accordance with belief. This is just fascinating!)
Thanks for responding, John; although your post provided the stimulus for putting up my own post, I hope you didn't read it as a direct attack–I've actually had this post in an almost finished state for a couple of months now.
Although I'm not entirely certain I've parsed your position on faith correctly, here's where I think I'm in disagreement with you: I think it's already problematic to discuss faith bereft of context. It's easy to argue that information exerts no influence whatever over belief, and thus that the individual bears total responsibility for her/his belief, when we've neglected to specify belief in what, since belief can't exist without context. As I see it, information most certainly can and should play a role in the formation of belief. Currently I believe there are no unicorns on Neptune's moons. This is because I have at least tentative confidence in the astronomical authorities I've consulted. But information furnished by the astronomy community and interpretations of the data offered by astronomers could potentially upset my faith and cause me to reevalute my position.
The dichotomy I'm uncomfortable with is our predilection for talking about testimony as an all-or-nothing affair: you either have it or you don't. In contrast, I see faith as complex, multifaceted, and entailing doubt. An individual may exercise faith that God's just character would prevent him from ever denying access to the temple, and thus by implication to exaltation, on the basis of race. Encountering information about Church policy prior to 1978 could throw this belief into serious question. So I think it's fair to say, contra the opening paragraph of your post, that a person could reasonably trace a loss of faith, or a reevaluation of faith and reinterpretation of evidence, to a "blog post," or to "blacks and the priesthood." I think we absolutely do influence each other's faith, and that the very idea that there's value in bearing testimony is predicated on this assumption.
It's hard to disagree with the statement, "[If] you lost your faith, [it is] because you lost your faith." If by this you mean that belief (or lack thereof) is completely a choice, I absolutely disagree.
That said, based on your comment here, I'm having difficulty understanding exactly where we disagree, or which dichotomies I've advanced to which you object. I haven't argued that doubt is bad–I'm merely accepting the assumption that expressions of doubt are generally frowned on in the Mormon community. I'd love to hear other people's experience to the contrary, though. Nor have I argued that evidence exists without interpretation. What I meant by pointing out a half-full glass (faith in Jesus) is also half-empty (doubt in Jesus) is merely that faith and doubt are different facets of the same phenomenon, and this may offer an acceptable avenue for incorporating acknowledgment of doubt into discussions in the community: to the degree we place value on faith (lack of knowledge) we are implicitly placing value on doubt. And the point of my post is that our reaction to information and even to the formations of our own beliefs is most certainly a choice–this is exactly why I prefer the model of faithfulness (we can choose how or whether we commit to the community) to faith (in the sense of mental subscription to truth propositions). Like you, I'm arguing that we can discount certain impressions in favor of others, and we can choose to participate in the community even when the heavens seem unresponsive. So I guess I'm still confused about where you disagree with Seth? As I read your comments, you both might experience at least occasional doubts but you've both chosen commitment to the community nevertheless. Also, I'm at a loss to understand what you mean that "faith happened to you" (thus is not a choice?) in light of your contention that loss of faith is a total choice.
I'm not sure which argument you're unmoved by, since my rather long-winded post ranges all over the place! I don't think we have complete choice over what we believe, and I do think other people's conclusions and information influence those beliefs, but I do think we have choice over how we respond to that information, whether we choose to commit to the community and how we negotiate that commitment, and whether we cultivate an environment conducive to spiritual witness and how we respond to and interpret that witness (or lack thereof). My argument is that we have more agency, and thus more moral accountability, when it comes to faithfulness than to faith.
To clarify, I'm simply describing the way things work for me. I'm not trying to suggest one way is better than another.
I tend to think that many of our beliefs are potentially self fulfilling, meaning that good (or bad) things happen because we believe in them and work to make them happen. I suspect that God works mostly by inspiring us and takes little, if any, direct action on our behalf.
Good questions, K. I would like to think that I was clear in my objections, but I know I wasn't. I was groping for words/explanations.
As I tried to explain over at BCC, I imagine faith events (and lack of faith events) as things that happen to us, but the issue is that we put them through a filter and that filter is colored by our previously made and current decisions regarding the meaning and manner of our faith. Certainly, I agree that faith happens in a context, but I doubt there is any determinism in the faith environment. Whether a given event causes me to believe or not is dependent on my willingness to believe, my willingness to interpret as a faith event, my decisions regarding what God can and cannot do, and my desired understanding regarding the situation, amongst a host of other things. While I wouldn't dispute that events, people, and reality influence, the fact that you may see the cup as half full and I as half empty indicates to me the inescapability of personal choice.
I suppose I thought I disagreed with you on the faith/doubt front because I object to the notion that being Mormon equates to a denial of doubt. That notion is obnoxious to me because I believe it equates to a denial of the rich, serious spiritual lives of most Mormons. It is a case where, I think, I didn't actually respond to what you said, but what I saw in it. Sorry about that.
Anyhoo, I am finding that I am in agreement with most of the people who objected to the post on most of the issue. The dividing line seems to be my insistence that agency/choice plays some crucial role in the falling away (or joining) of people. Certainly, faith events are things that can happen to us (just ask Alma the Younger or Paul). But what we do with them is, often, something that we determine. Or, at least, I think it is.
Thanks for your thoughtful response, John. It appears that we're likely not as far apart on this issue as it originally seemed! I absolutely agree with you that we make choices about which beliefs to invest in, emotionally and behaviorally, and on the basis of those beliefs we interpret and reinterpret evidence (thus presumably belief and behavior mutually influence each other).
In my own case, my decision to suspend my relationship with God was, I feel strongly, absolutely a conscious, considered decision for which I take full responsibility. Given the evidence as I interpret it and that I personally feel I have available to me, I've chosen to invest my behavior in the belief that God is untrustworthy and amenable to cavalier misogyny. And yet I'm extremely ambivalent when it comes to religion: a significant part of me still hopes, even believes, God is good and even loving. I don't feel particularly capable of eradicating that belief entirely, even on the basis of disturbing evidence to the contrary. But I also don't feel it would be prudent to invest energy in it, and I've chosen not to. (This may not be the best example, since it highlights my hubris and it's the virtual complement to the situation we're describing among committed Church members, but there you have it!)
So even though I don't think there's always choice involved in belief itself–I doubt I could will myself into genuinely believing in unicorns on Triton, given the absence of any evidence–I could nevertheless absolutely choose to behave as though I did. And who knows? Perhaps my behavior would influence my belief. So I think it's possible for people to lose their faith against their wills, although they are likely engaging in behaviors that influence that loss, such as examining their faith in detail (I personally would not have lost my belief in God at the age of eleven if I had not started contemplating the issue), and those behaviors are under their control–but I think their faith might evaporate virtually against their wills even as they try desperately to contain it.
In any case, we should all observe that a half-full glass is simultaneously half-empty, rather than being one or the other.
just wanted to say, thank you for this very well worded treatise on faith and doubt and hope and belief etc…
I must say it is has been refreshing to see a bit of discussion between JohnC and yourself on the topic of belief and choice in a venue where comments do not pile up so vociferously fast (200 is getting a bit much for me)


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Exciting new features in iPhone app version 1.2.7
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HM: The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan from Wrestlemania 18 - This match doesn't belong in the top 5, but it's still one of the most entertaining matches in Wrestlemania history and it absolutely deserves a mention for this topic.
HM: Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage from Wrestlemania 3 - I wasn't even born when this match happened, but the styles of these two men arguably age the best of anyone from the eighties. While this was clearly the best match of the first 9 Wrestlemanias, I think this match has been topped several times since then.
HM: Edge vs. Chris Benoit vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Jericho vs. Christian vs. Kane from Wrestlemania 21 - This match is hard to rewatch because of Benoit, but it will always be a favorite of mine. While it's missing the emotional context of the early TLC matches, this is easily the best Money in the Bank match in my mind.
5. Edge & Christian vs. The Hardys vs. The Dudleys from Wrestlemania 17 - Are these matches stunt shows? Yes, but these three teams always managed to make their crazy matches seem much more than that. This 18-month rivalry saw some of the craziest matches in WWE history and this may have been the craziest of all them. Some don't like the interference from Rhyno, Spike Dudley, and Lita, but I thought they added to the match. These 6 men set the standard for these types of matches, and I don't think anyone since has been able to create the same magic since.
4. Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin from Wrestlemania 13 - It's a somewhat popular opinion that is one of the greatest matches in WWE history and it's hard to argue with that. These two were arguably, along with Shawn Michaels, the best performers of their generation and they certainly delivered one of the best matches in Wrestlemania history. The double turn at the end of the match also makes this one of the most significant matches in WWE history.
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1. Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker from Wrestlemania 25 - Every once in a while, I watch a match and think, "That was perfect." This is one of those matches. In fact, after recently rewatching this match, I've decided that this is my favorite WWE match of all time. These two went out and absolutely saved Wrestlemania 25. They took the live fans and the fans at home, on a wild, emotional roller coaster that reached heights that few matches in WWE history have ever been able to match. To me, this match is the definitive answer to this question.


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Now Chuck, I think you should start to take note of some of these inspirational stories and maybe ditch the scooter and get a proper bike.
I now there is a hunk in that body of yours somewhere. so bring him out chuck and show the world that you can do it.
That isn't quite how I'd been picturing you Chuck! I thought you already had a proper bike!


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Donald Driver in all his elegance, grace, honesty and integrity gave all he had for 14 years with the Green Bay Packers.
He told every fan in Packers Nation today that this day wasn't all about him; it was also about the fans. For without the fans, Driver understands he would be just another man going about his business.
But because of his tremendous skills on the gridiron, his life skills elevated him to another level … something few could ever experience. People love Donald Driver not only because of his ability to catch footballs; they love him because he cared about those around him. He was right – though it was declared as Donald Driver Day here in the state of Wisconsin – this was about much more than just Donald Driver. He said it in his speech today. He didn't talk about the 700-plus catches for more than 10,000 yards – he talked about all of the individuals who made those feats possible. Those who believed in him as a young man, those who gave him the chance, those who believed he could do it.
Everyone likes to be loved; Donald understands that, but he knows it must be reciprocated for it to mean anything. He did just that.
So, as we close out this Donald Driver Day, let's take his message with us; Let's make the spirit of Donald's message our rallying cry as we move ahead.
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Sex Education in America: A View from Inside the Nation's Classrooms
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Post-Election Survey: Priorities for the 106th Congress
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KFF- What Teens Know and Don't (But Should) About Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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By JAKE SHERMAN | 8/8/14 4:13 PM EDT Updated: 8/8/14 5:05 PM EDT
House Republicans will package together all their energy and "jobs" legislation and send it to the Senate, an election-year move to try to highlight a contrast with Democrats.
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By JAKE SHERMAN | 8/8/14 4:13 PM EDT Updated: 8/8/14 5:05 PM EDT
House Republicans will package together all their energy and "jobs" legislation and send it to the Senate, an election-year move to try to highlight a contrast with Democrats.
Published: Aug. 2, 2014 Updated: Aug. 3, 2014 8:33 a.m.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Kevin McCarthy marked the start of his tenure as the No. 2 in House leadership with a prayer and a tweet: "Humbled & blessed to have my friend Pastor Roger Spradlin of Bakersfield deliver the opening prayer this morning."
By Dan Walters
Published: Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2014 – 9:27 pm
Last Modified: Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2014 – 12:06 am
Kevin McCarthy may be a one-man refutation of the old adage that "nice guys always finish last."
By MIA SHAW
July 1, 2014
Kevin McCarthy, the newly minted House Majority Leader, rose speedily through the GOP ranks during his time as a California legislator – and used political instincts he honed in Sacramento to achieve power in Congress.
Published: June 21, 2014 Updated: 9:18 p.m.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite the coming exodus of three stars from California's delegation, Kevin McCarthy's elevation to the second-most powerful position in Congress marks a historical peak in the Golden State's political clout.
By Aaron C. Davis
June 21, 2014 at 7:56 PM
During his first year as the Republican leader in the California State Assembly, Kevin McCarthy sent flowers to the wife of a fellow GOP lawmaker in honor of the couple's anniversary. The woman called her husband gushing over the bouquet — only to learn that he did not deserve the credit.
By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published: Thursday, Jun. 19, 2014 – 3:17 pm
Last Modified: Thursday, Jun. 19, 2014 – 10:27 pm
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday elected Bakersfield, Calif., native Kevin McCarthy as majority leader, giving California's Central Valley a leg up on Capitol Hill.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 – 02:00 p.m.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), as expected, was selected Republican Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Thursday afternnon.
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Posted at 5:50 p.m. on June 16, 2014
Raúl R. Labrador is gunning to make Thursday's House GOP majority leader contest an electoral upset on par with Eric Cantor's primary loss last week to Dave Brat. But Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is not just trying to win the race — he wants to make a statement.
Melanie Mason
June 13, 2014
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the leading contender to be the next House majority leader, slammed Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers Friday for striking a budget deal that includes hundreds of millions of dollars for the controversial high-speed rail project.
By Matt Fuller
Posted at 8:29 p.m. on June 12
Updated 9:49 p.m. | Rules Chairman Pete Sessions of Texas has dropped out of the race to replace Eric Cantor as majority leader, helping clear a path for Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California to ascend to the No. 2 post in the House.
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6/11/14 – 8:09 PM EDT Updated: 6/12/14 – 8:44 AM EDT
On June 19, Kevin McCarthy was scheduled to headline a birthday fundraiser for his friend Eric Cantor on the rooftop of 101 Constitution, a swank office building with sweeping views of the Capitol.
Instead, that day will be all about McCarthy.
By Robert Costa
June 11, 2014
Midnight had long since passed, but the lights were still on at the Capitol, where House Republicans were already planning — and tensely arguing about — how to move ahead amid the chaos of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning primary loss.
By SEUNG MIN KIM | 1/22/14 9:34 AM EST
The third-ranking House Republican is offering support for a path to legal status that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants in the country to work and pay their taxes.
By Evan Halper
October 4, 2013, 9:16 p.m.
WASHINGTON — For the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency, Rep. Kevin McCarthy traveled the country recruiting and coaching anti-establishment, tea party-backed candidates for the 2010 election.
By JAKE SHERMAN | 8/8/13 4:49 PM EDT
Labor unions say they are going to flood House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield, Calif., district on Wednesday, in an attempt to persuade him to support a pathway to citizenship for the nation's undocumented immigrants.
Carla Marinucci and Wyatt Buchanan
Updated 10:37 pm, Sunday, March 10, 2013
There are the old standbys of sex, money and power in politics. But lately there's a new addiction in the halls of power: a video series – fictional, of course – that stars power-hungry politicians, unethical journalists and a wily political insider who always seems to get what he wants.
By Torey Van Oot
Published: Friday, Mar. 1, 2013 – 5:45 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, Mar. 2, 2013 – 12:25 am
California's highest-ranking House Republican has a message for fellow members of the GOP still reeling from November losses: "We can only go up."
Carla Marinucci
Updated 11:22 pm, Sunday, January 13, 2013
While California did not determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, the state had no shortage of political dramas last year, from the state's budget woes to the debut of the "top two" primary election ballots that send candidates with the most votes, regardless of political party, to the general election in November.
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December 6, 2012 | 4:06 pm
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), the third-highest-ranking Republican in Congress, suggested on Thursday that the federal government should "cut its losses" and not provide any more money for the state's high-speed rail program.
Published: 20 July 2012 07:26 PM
It's been a grim couple of weeks for San Bernardino as city officials decided to declare a fiscal emergency and file for bankruptcy due to a cash-flow crisis and budget deficit. Still, even amid serious discussions, the council found a few moments to debate 19th Century military history at its July 10 meeting.
Echoing a phrase used by one public speaker, Councilman Fred Shorett suggested that this could be a "Waterloo opportunity" allowing the city to get its financial house in order.
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 4/3/12 11:30 PM EDT
As a fast-rising lawmaker early in his congressional career, Kevin McCarthy vigorously cultivated friends in the 87-member Republican freshman class, an effort that catapulted him into one of the most powerful positions in the House.
Now the ambitious California congressman is setting his sights on his home state, looking to rebuild a Republican Party in desperate need of repair.
Published: 09 January 2012 08:26 PM
SACRAMENTO — Republicans are well-positioned to win two newly drawn congressional swing seats in Inland Southern California this fall, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said Monday.
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January 9, 2012
With less than six months to go until the June primary, viable Republican challengers to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein aren't exactly rushing to file nomination papers.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the No. 3 ranking House Republican, suggested Monday that fellow House Republican David Dreier could be a formidable challenger.
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
November 23, 2011
California's proposed bullet train, the nation's largest public infrastructure project, has become the focus of an intense federal funding battle that could undermine its survival, as Republican leaders in Congress attempt to claw back as much as $3.3 billion in federal grants already approved for the start of construction next year.
By PE Politics
June 1, 2011 12:40 PM
Inland Southern California's five-member House delegation voted last night against a measure to lift the nation's national debt ceiling.
BY VIC POLLARD, Contributing writer | Sunday, Mar 20 2011 08:11 PM
Last Updated Sunday, Mar 20 2011 08:15 PM
SACRAMENTO – The California Republican Party dealt a major blow Sunday to an effort by the Kevin McCarthy-Mark Abernathy political organization to prevent a merger of two groups of young GOP activists.
By Michael Doyle
Published: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
WASHINGTON – Rep. Kevin McCarthy is a youthful-looking, silver-haired gent still finding his way as California's highest-ranking GOP lawmaker.
Following some embarrassing new smudges on his Capitol Hill won-loss record, the Republican representing Bakersfield, in California's southern Central Valley, must demonstrate anew the vote-wrangling skills demanded of him as House majority whip.
By Michael Doyle
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
WASHINGTON – Bakersfield is in, the Bay Area is out. But California as a whole could hold its own in the new Congress that starts Wednesday.
The shifting Capitol Hill currents are summed up in the demotion of soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the ascension of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, as the next House majority whip.
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Posted By: Joe Garofoli | January 04 2011 at 05:56 PM
Bakersfield — As we told you the other day in our profile, Bakersfield's own Rep. Kevin McCarthy becomes the House Majority Whip at 9 a.m. (Left Coast time) Wednesday — the No. 3 Republican position. You can watch the swearing-in festivities streamed live here.
By PE Politics
on November 30, 2010 4:11 PM
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger remains a big supporter of the $787 billion federal stimulus legislation passed by Congress in early 2009.
But many of the governor's fellow Republicans in Congress, including members of the California delegation, don't share his enthusiasm.
Published: Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
It's not exactly Mega Millions or even Fantasy Five, but it will be a lottery-type atmosphere today when the first eight members of California's new redistricting commission are chosen.
Kevin McCarthy went out of his way to campaign for colleagues, something they aren't likely to forget.
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
November 14, 2010
Reporting from Washington —
Rep. Kevin McCarthy wasn't content to stay in his Bakersfield district this campaign season. Instead, he traveled to Frog Jump, Tenn., Lake Oswego, Ore., Sioux Falls, S.D., and dozens of other places to help elect fellow Republicans.
By Dan Morain, Senior editor
firstname.lastname@example.com The Sacramento Bee
Published: Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 – 11:00 pm | Page 1E
Visit Kevin McCarthy in his hometown of Bakersfield, and he might take you to one of his favorite lunch spots, the diner at the Westchester Bowl.
Chez Panisse it's not. But the fish and chips aren't bad, and Rep. McCarthy is no rube.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is eyeing the post of majority whip. Others are expected to chair key panels. These moves could boost Democratic-leaning California's clout among the new majority.
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
November 3, 2010|5:25 p.m.
Reporting from Washington —
Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield launched a bid Wednesday for majority whip, the third-ranking job in the new Republican-controlled House, as Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton kicked off a campaign for the chairmanship of the Financial Services Committee.
If successful, the moves could further strengthen Democratic-leaning California's clout among the new GOP majority.


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text: ESPN Senior Writer: 'Duck Dynasty' Patriarch 'Racist or Dumb,' 'Disgrace to the South' Print article Send a Tip by Breitbart Sports 2 Jan 2014 post a comment An ESPN senior writer said that Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson is a "disgrace to the South" and either a "racist or dumb" for saying that he did not witness the mistreatment of blacks in his personal experience in the Jim Crow South. Robertson described himself as someone who was "white trash" and worked in the fields with blacks in his controversial interview with GQ magazine. Thompson, who writes extensively on SEC football, the South, and about issues involving race, said that every Southerner should "condemn" Robertson before repeatedly bashing Robertson by tweeting that Robertson was either a "racist or dumb" or "dumb or a liar." Thompson also said those in the South who did not speak up against Jim Crow were "silent cowards," and he called Robertson an "idiot" before saying that Robertson should have said his experience was the exception because he said there were lynchings in Robertson's parish. In his interview, Robertson simply said he was "with the blacks" because the blacks he worked with in the fields were "singing and happy" and did not have vitriol toward "these doggone white people." Robertson was suspended from the show for supposedly "anti-gay" remarks in the same interview before being reinstated last week by A&E, which is owned by Disney, ESPN's parent company. Robertson's comments about the Jim Crow South have not been discussed as much as his comments about sexuality. Here were Robertson's brief remarks to GQ magazine: Phil On Growing Up in Pre-Civil-Rights-Era Louisiana "I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people'—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." Here are Thompson's reactions to Robertson's comments: Racist or dumb? "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." — Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson) December 28, 2013 The Duck Dynasty guy's opinion about the jim crow south is endemic & growing and flows from folks unable to look their ancestors in the face — Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson) December 28, 2013 @chadhaynie i never saw pol pot in person. His lack of curiosity ab his world isnt a defense. Hes a disgrace to the south. — Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson) December 28, 2013 @chadhaynie so he thinks that is real? Instead of learning ab what he didnt see? He gives the south a bad name. Idiot. — Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson) December 28, 2013 @deparr3 read something. About lynchings in his parish. — Wright Thompson (@wrightthompson) December 28, 2013 Writing at Breitbart News, Jerome Hudson noted that nothing from Robertson's interview would make one think that he is a racist: The fact that Phil Robertson has a mixed-race adopted grandson is also rarely reported. Does having a mixed-race grandson mean that Phil Robertson isn't a racist? No. But with no evidence to the contrary, the existence of racial animus should not be automatically assumed. If your claim is that Phil Robertson is a racist homophobe, then the burden of proof is on you. But until that evidence presents itself, can we please stop the witch-hunts? Photo credit


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Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley is doing his best to hype up his team heading in to the 2013 NFL season. Fairley previous predicted that the Lions would be making a trip to the Super Bowl this year and now he is claiming that he and Ndamukong Suh are the league's best defensive tackle duo. The latter statement is much more reasonable than the former.
"We're going to give guys trouble, man," Fairley said, according to the Detroit Lions official website. "It's like pick your poison this year with our defensive line. You cannot come in and double-team Ndamukong and you can't come in and double-team me."
Not only do the Lions have Fairley and Suh, they spent a first-round selection in this year's draft on defensive end Ezekiel Ansah. You put him in the defensive end rotation with Jason Jones and Willie Young and the Lions definitely are a scary front.
"You won't be able to double-team Ziggy [Ansah] or Jason Jones or Willie [Young]. You have to pick who you're going to bring your back to chip. We're going to feed off each other, and when we get that chemistry down, it's going to look real good for us," Fairley said.
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You may have heard that New York has had a bit of bad weather lately. Between last week's earthquake and this weekend's tropical storm, it kind of seemed that naturepocalypse was imminent. Frantic news reports predicted the destruction to be caused by Hurricane Irene. Stores sold out of water. The MTA, the main artery of the city, was totally shut down. Low-lying areas were evacuated (except for the chill bros who stocked up on brews and barricaded themselves indoors to weather the storm while wasted). Businesses closed up shop. I bought enough granola bars to feed an entire overnight camp for three summers. Some articles estimated that the wind, rain, and general storm shenanigans would leave billions of dollars of damages in its wake. Shit was poised to get real.
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When I woke up this morning, the morbid anthropologist in me was eager to get out and survey the damage. I anticipated a sense of post-apocalyptic calm. I expected fallen trees, down power lines, and shattered glass. There wasn't much to see. Instead, I just encountered other adventurers sleepily emerging from the apartments where they'dhunkered down to wait out the rain. We grabbed some coffees and strolled around, lining up to snap shots of the one huge fallen tree—the surest sign that our careful preparations hadn't been silly or paranoid (even though I've got a few dozen juice boxes and fifty bottles of water to suggest that I might have gone a little overboard).
It's great that the storm largely bypassed this tiny, crowded island. Irene was more of a drizzle than a doozy, but in case you're curious, here are some shots from the morning after.


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dude , at shows i have had things thrown at me many times . Rude comments abound . I have security hassle me cause people can not see when i stand . Because I am tall (diffrent) I should nt have the rights others do ??? F' that , I'll stand , dance , close my eyes and its me in that neat and strange place that good music takes the soul . Thats where i escape to . My refuge . It brings tears to my eyes right now to think back to those tiimes That Furthur or Grateful Dead have rescued me
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11760 3 years, 6 months agoThat's awful. The ignorance of some people amazes me. You can have the seat in front of me next time man... I'm usually dancing with my eyes closed anyway (I like the light show going on in my head!)
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11774 3 years, 6 months agoI went to one in Paonia Colorado in the early 90's
Someone stole my favorite Yamaha acoustic guitar.
That ended my utopian world view of rainbow gatheringscut his buddy down
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11798 3 years, 6 months agoThank you JK for injecting some intelligence into this thread. I also love Rainbow Gatherings, though I've only been to two ('98 and '99) because of scheduling conflicts. This is my first free 4th of July in 11 years and I hope to go as well.
One thing about Rainbow Gatherings is that, like psychedelics, they can act as a catalyst to 'wake people up,' because until you've been to one it's hard to imagine that an event like this could still exist. You go into the woods with no running water, no electricity, no many things and you live with thousands of people in a world with no money where sharing and kindness are prevalent. You enter a society with completely different rules... it's a different world and it feels that way. All kinds of 'straight' people also go every year, and I've recommended it to a few of my 'straight' friends and family members because no matter what it will pretty much blow your mind, hopefully in a good way. It is at least a sociological and anthropological phenomenon.
I never heard about the Deadhead/rainbow feud... or maybe I've just forgotten. Most of the Deadheads I know love the Rainbow Gathering even if they don't go so much anymore. Some of my most vivid and wonderful memories are from my first Gathering in Arizona '98. It changed my life for the better, no question.
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11819 3 years, 6 months agoYou enter a society with completely different rules...<<
yeppers. esp. if you're a boy scout troop that had camping dibs/paperwork first
Ruined those kids weekend. But hey, least some out of work dingbats got smoke up, bang on some drums, and pass around a magic hat.Let fury have the hour. Anger can be power - the clash
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11824 3 years, 6 months agoHahahaha. This is best troll ever. Come on John, he got you.... I can't believe you formulated such a drawn out opinion because some fresh face tweener was talking shit. Sick first post...
Alright imagine this, your way the hell out in the woods munching on some organic popcorn with a bunch of the craziest melding of hippies, punk rockers, homeless Vietnam vets.... and you look over to your left and who the hell is picking kernels of the their teeth but JOHN FUCKING KADLECIK. Now that would be sound sweet.
I'm all for people doing whatever the hell they want to do, as long it does not infringe upon the rights of others. However I am also weary of large groups of people that get together for no real reason other then to not drink(sounds a little to christan to me), and not listen to music. I WORK for my money, and enjoy spending it on music related items; tickets, shirts, gas money, food, rent. I can't really understand taking time off WORK and traveling far away to not see a show. It's kind of like all the people that travel to the dead show and just hang out in the parking lot(don't get that crew either).
Non the less I still don't care what people very far away from me are doing in the woods.
as Les Claypool said
"There's a place. A wonderous place. Where Like minded individuals gather out on the playa. They subscribe to a whole new set of ideas. They represent a new found society Where creativity flows And parameters are as wide as the open terrain. That place. That wonderous place is called..... Buuurningman!"
I stole this next paragraph from Wikipedia and then found there source in another article.
The Forest Service Incident Management team cost federal taxpayers $750,000 in 2006, and the team handled the Gathering in Colorado that year and other large events in National Forests. By comparison, the Burning Man festival, unconnected to the Rainbow Family, is a commercial venture that operates each year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, pays the Bureau of Land Management $750,000 for a permit, and recoups the cost by charging attendees between $210 and $360. Controversies over the Rainbow Family's 1987 Gathering are discussed in the book Judge Dave and the Rainbow People.
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I'm sure you've calmed down by now John and have a smile on your face. That little bastard defiantly struck a chord with you(god, I love the internet). You've got to admit that freshy little strummer dude is pretty funny... So was Jonestown... boy scouts... Thanks for making the my WORK day a little more entertaining dude. You've got my vote for mayor.
Dammit. I wish one of those asshole's would have save a fucking brownie for me. They know how much I love brownies *sigh.
Question: Is the Rainbow Family associated with the Homosexual Family? It's cool if they are, I was just unclear. Thanks.
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11827 3 years, 6 months agothe akron area and n.w. ohio family pages are shut down
does anyone know if they were moved somewhere else ?Can't Live that Negative Way, Make Room for the Positive Day !
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Re: Any Rainbow Family here??#11828 3 years, 6 months agohaha good post
some fresh face tweener <<
i'm almost 40Let fury have the hour. Anger can be power - the clash


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