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Energy production is one of the burning issues for humankind. There has been some talk about future energy technologies including Fusion, Anti-matter annihilation and Zero-point-energy (from most to least plausible). I'm interested in hearing what people know about developments in the field what they think will be the next real breakthrough in energy technologies.
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I find the idea of a breakthrough technology presented by the other answers to be extremely modest. I'm almost positive that I'll get downvoted and flamed for my answer, but I have a strong desire to impress the potential for, and the implications of, a truly breakthrough energy technology.
I want to begin calling attention to Jevons Paradox, as well as the larger context of Jevons and other early commentators on early expanding coal power. The fossil fuel age started with coal, and it started with steam cycles, not internal combustion engines. Early coal engines were teeth-grindingly inefficient. Here is an example, the Savery pump, which Jevons references.
1700s versus now, continuous flow steam cycles were a breakthrough technology
You can probably see it already, but this is a batch process. It used coal to pump water upwards but did so with less than 1% efficiency. It had extremely limited ability to replace labor. When more efficient steam engines were developed, getting up to 10% efficiency, they could replace labor and do so very well. Not only that, but those engines fueled a feedback where transportation, steel production, coal extraction itself, and a host of other economic inputs all became drastically cheaper, and led to greater demand for the fuel, coal itself. The big picture, however, is that this lineage of efficiency improvement was a major catalyst for the entire industrial revolution. Human population grew many-fold and this is pretty much the defining aspect of our current existence and challenges.
We have no such efficiency improvement available anymore. We use thermal power with efficiencies of 30-60% and because of that, and the Carnot limit itself, no society-changing breakthrough will come from direct efficiency improvement. That means that energy breakthroughs need to come from opening up new resources.
High altitude wind and solar
There are ventures currently pursuing high altitude wind with wing designs and kite designs. There is enough resource to power the world with current 3-blade tower technology, but high altitude designs could make costs plummet and allow us to use far more of the resource.
I'll take a moment now to laugh at the idea of orbital solar power beamed back to the surface, haha. Now, I'll mention that tethered high-altitude solar is a viable option. Solar has several problems today, including the difficulty of pointing the PV panels or collector into the direction of the sun. A floating platform has so such challenge, and can also rise above cloud cover which limits isolation otherwise.
Hot fusion
Tokomak is not a breakthrough technology. Sorry. I realize this is subjective, but if it works, then the cost of electricity from such plants will be 10-15 cents/ kWh. Tokomak fusion will be more expensive than electricity today. I don't know of a single person educated on this subject who argues otherwise.
Currently, national labs are studying laser inertial confinement, which could possibly be less expensive, although I doubt it would be breakthrough. General Fusion is working on a mechanical acoustic approach that could be cheaper. Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC), using the polywell would be revolutionary if it works. You might have noticed a trend in the examples I'm giving. These are all becoming progressively higher payoff and higher risk, and at long last I come to focus fusion. Focus fusion is the most risky / highest payoff energy technology I know of that has some amount of decent science and credibility behind it.
Fission power
Aim High! LFTR reactors using Thorium is about the highest you can aim with fission power. High risk and high payoff. Small modular reactors, floating plant, and things like that can expand the use of our current Uranium resource which is not limited to the point of being economically prohibitive yet.
Biology advances
Craig Venter leads possibly the most technologically advanced research project in the world. This has already led to creating "artificial life" meaning that we have cells with a genome that was printed by a computer. He was funded to the tune of $100s of millions by Exxon. Algae biofuels are a powerful potential technology, but the breakthrough part won't be the physical bioreactor design (although there is room to improve refining processes), it will be the algae genome design.
Sum of low probability events
If you take lots of technologies that could be breakthrough but have low probability of success, then the probability of ONE of the succeeding might be very significant. ARPA-E was a federal program to use a competitive process to select the most likely breakthrough energy technologies.
To the question - many of these are rather close to being realized. It differs from one to another. Bad information, however, is quite rampant. Everyone has their own personal opinion and the technologies listed here are presented as my own favorites unashamedly. Things like zero-point, BlackLight Power, almost every LENR, orbital solar, and many others are hogwash. There are too many credible potential breakthrough energy technologies to waste our times with the nonsense. Too few people know how to disseminate between these.
An energy "breakthrough" would be a loaded development. We already use lots of energy, and if we found it economic to use more we probably would. The last breakthrough shift in our ability to exploit energy resources rocketed the entire planet into a new geological era, the Anthropocene. We called this change the industrial revolution. Some obscure project that ARPA-E funded with $500,000 could cause the next industrial revolution. The implications of such a change would probably be beyond any of our imaginations.
There are quite a few novel energy technologies coming through. I guess that without quantification, "breakthrough" is a subjective term. Below, I've tried to list all the energy technologies that I know of, that are not yet at commercialisation, but could be within 50 years, and that could offer at least tens of gigawatts of power. They are, in descending order of readiness:
Wave power
Converting kinetic energy from (near-)surface waves to electricity. First grid-connected prototypes went live in 2008, off the coast of Portugal. Theoretical UK resource (at 100% efficiency) is thought to be 40GW (at 50% efficiency), but this is subject to revision as better data is collected.
Tidal stream
Converting kinetic energy from daily / twice-daily tidal movements, with underwater turbines. First grid-connected prototypes went live in 2008. UK resource estimated in the range 4GW-400GW at expected efficiencies.
Not a generation technology in itself, of course, but a technology offering potential breakthroughs within the energy industry. Superconductors are being trialled as fault-current limiters; may have a role to play in HVDC circuit-breakers; and offer lots of potential in all sorts of turbines: trials are being done now with superconductors in run-of-river hydro turbines; and in wind turbines.
Deep (100m-700m depth) offshore wind
Offshore wind turbines, floating, moored to the seabed at depths of 100-700m. The first operational full-size prototype, HyWind, was deployed in 2009 in deep water off the coast of Norway. Theoretical UK resource at expected efficiency rates is over 1000GW. Global resource is one or two orders of magnitude higher.
Osmotic power
Generating electricity from salinity gradients. First prototype went in the water in Norway, 2009. Expected global resource is about 200GW.
Novel photovoltaics (PV)
Huge amounts of work going on in labs around the world on enhancing photovoltaics:
The UK PV resource estimated at over 400GW, using 5% of land at 40% efficiency. Globally, the resource is orders of magnitude higher than global power demand.
Artificial photosynthesis
Building novel synthetic living photosynthesisers from basic genetic building blocks; or novel catalysts to harness sunlight to release hydrogen from water; various labs working on different routes. Potential resource: greater than current global power demand.
Nuclear fusion
For work in progress, see JET, ITER and CCFE. And our local giant fusion reactor, the sun, can provide us with absolutely vast amounts of energy for a very long time to come.
Tidal benthic friction
The hypothesis is that tidal water movements are mostly dissipated as friction against the bottom of the sea, and that by placing energy harvesters on the seabed, the kinetic energy can be converted to electricity. Specific harvesting technologies, scale of the resource, and the impact on benthic ecology, are currently unknown.
The next serious advance that is not an speculative/fringe idea is most likely to be fusion power. Harnessing the power of nuclear fusion has long been a goal for energy production since the first hydrogen bomb was created in the 1950s. Creating controlled fusion, rather than the chaotic variety has proven a rather challenging task here on Earth however. (The sun does it quite easily largely thanks to its huge gravitational field.)
Of particular note is the ITER project, currently ongoing in Southern France. It is an international collaborative project with the goal of creating a sustainable fusion reactor that produces net energy. (You can read information on the site for the specific target goals/criteria). This is essentially the last step in the 'proof of concept' stage of sustainable nuclear fusion for providing energy, and is to many looking quite promising. It is however only a scientific experiment still, and nuclear fusion power plants are a bit further off in the future, even given success of ITER.
In fact, the proposed successor to ITER is DEMO, a reactor that aims to produce over an order of magnitude more power. Once testing is complete, the idea is to turn it into the world's first fusion power plant. With any luck, this may just be the breakthrough humanity has been waiting for. It will certainly be a revolutionary event whenever it occurs, and likely render fossil fuels totally obsolete.
The most scandalously neglected source of energy which is available today with no significant new discoveries required, is the energy of H-bomb explosions.
Surprisingly, H-bombs can be exploded in a cavity, and the heat confined to a fluid in the cavity, and extracted to make electricity. Such a scheme would be much cheaper than current electricity production, since the fuel costs are negligible (bombs are cheap per megaton), but such a plant would pose a high risk of proliferation and theft.
When world powers can control arms-proliferation, and can produce safeguards for peaceful thermonuclear explosions without risk of theft, one could imagine a world run by thermonuclear weapons explosion. This type of energy production is the PACER nuclear power plant, and it is explained here: How much of the energy from 1 megaton H Bomb explosion could we capture to do useful work? .
That this project, like ORION, is neglected, must be difficult for those in the nuclear weapons community, who would probably like something useful and not world-destroying horrible to have come out of their decades of research.
I will add to the list of promising energy technologies for 21th century cold fusion. Short answer on question what is it would be it's a room-temperature fusion of atomic nucleus. But the real picture is bit more complicated because the so called cold fusion can comprise whole set of fissions in host metal. In no way it can be interchanged for a more popular hot fusion because the conditions it requires to happen are considerably different. Some people prefer alternative names chemically assisted nuclear reactions (in short CANR) or low energy nuclear reactions (in short LENR). We can say that this area of research is in its early stage. Even when we have a number of experimental results confirming its reality (we can count them to several thousands) there are many unexplained aspects of this group of phenomenons. We have more competing theories trying to explain cold fusion but none is to this day accepted from mainstream physics community.
Now some words from history of cold fusion. Cold fusion invention is traditionally attributed to group of electro-chemists from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. These were Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. They reported on March 23, 1989 on press conference that they found a new way for fusion at room temperature. Their paper was published on April 10, 1989 in J. Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry. Their experiment was from conceptual point of view very simple. It was essentially a heavy water electrolysis cell with platinum as anode and palladium as cathode. This doesn't mean it is amateurish. Successful setup of experiment requires considerable practical experiences in many at first sight unconnected areas like physics of subatomic particles and electro-chemistry. Researcher must intimately know various types of calorimeters and theirs pro-and-con (not common thing for most of atomic scientists). Japanese associate professor of nuclear engineering Tadahiko Mizuno needed 8 months (page 59, second paragraph) to prepare his electrochemical cell! Main observed things in Fleischmann-Pons type of experiment were:
Even when original experiment has some inaccuracies in neutron measurements pointed by MIT Plasma Fusion Center director Ronald Parker, experiments all around world showed that this small amount of neutrons can indeed be produced. From all of them I will mention work of Tadahiko Mizuno:
Mizuno, T., T. Akimoto, and N. Sato: "Neutron Evolution from Annealed Palladium Cathode in LiOD-D2O Solution", Denki kagaku, 57, No. 7, (1989) 742-743
Very precious kind of work in measuring excess heat was carried out by John Appleby and colleagues from Texas A&M University using world class micro-calorimeter. This device is so accurate that it can detect heat in sub-microwatt range and measure even extremely small heat resulting from steel oxidation!
Main problem in the first years of cold fusion was the reproducibility. In fact, back in 1989, estimates for the initial reproducibility of the Pons/Fleischmann effect ranged between 5-10%. This means that about 90-95% of the scientists who attempted to re-create the Pons/Fleischmann experiment did not succeed. Nothing happened. No heat. No particles. Nothing. This is now after more than 20 years of research much better (> 70 % but it depends on experimental setup and materials involved). Long-time researcher in this field Michael McKubre from SRI International in his lecture asserts that he personally witnessed excess heat in hundreds of experiments (he deals mainly with original experiment with palladium).
Practical feasibility of this phenomenons is another issue. Even though heat is released in copious amounts in relation to weight of samples, this is a matter of weeks to months. Net power output is in most cases a few watts. But there are documented results like that of professor Piantelli from University of Sienna that this could be increased at least one order higher.
Excellent website with hundreds of scientific papers about cold fusion ready for download is lenr-canr.org. An accessible manual for beginners about cold fusion was written by retired Los Alamos National Laboratories researcher Edmund Storm. Recently also NASA confirmed that it believes cold fusion research can lead to practical applications. For NASA it is especially interesting as long-term power source for space probes. Currently they are using plutonium-238 heat source but this is problematic not only because of high prize but quickly reducing supplies. Jim Adams, deputy director of planetary science at NASA, says that there is enough of the fuel for NASA missions to around 2022. He says if NASA does not get more after that, "then we won't go beyond Mars anymore. We won't be exploring the solar system beyond Mars and the asteroid belt.

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I'm trying to find out the port number of my computer to which my ISP actually connects & provides the internet service, given my ADSL modem is operating in Bridge Mode instead of PPPoE. I want to find out others users' port numbers, but I thought first I'd find out my own.
I'm on a windows machine, so I used the command
netstat -a -b -n but could not figure out the port id. I suppose if there IS such a port number, there must be some sort of internal port forwarding being done. So then how do I find out my port id?
Edit: Basically my question is, How does the ISP send data packets to a computer..I ask this since I had figured out a way to impersonate someone using his MAC address and session id (my ISP is BSNL). So there could also be a way of hijacking someone's connection & breaking into his system. That depends a lot on how ISPs actually send data to different clients.


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8. MIMO Detection
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gedit? I don't need a user interface... What did it also install automatically? Should I've used some other command for installation?


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I am trying to understand Horrocks's construction of vector bundles. However I have been stuck on the proof the first theorem in the paper.
In the paper, a trivial bundle is a direct sum of Hopf bundles $\mathcal{O}(p)$.
Theorem: Let $E$ be a vector bundle without a trivial direct summand. Then there exist a trivial bundle $T$ such that $E\oplus T$ has a filtration $$E\oplus T=F^0 \supseteq F^1\supseteq F^2\supseteq\cdots\supseteq F^N=0$$ with $F^i/F^{i+1}$ a twisted exterior power of the tangent bundle $T_{\mathbb{P}^n}$.
Here is his proof:
Take a resolution $L$ of the dual of $E$ by trivial sheaves which is exact as a resolution of graded modules. The dual $L^*$ can be dismantled into Koszul complexes.
Here are my questions. How to break up $L^*$ into Koszul complexes? What are the Koszul complexes? Where does the $T$ come from?
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Say you are using C/SDL for a 2D game project. It's often the case that people use a structure to represent a frame in an animation. The struct consists of an image and how much time the frame is supposed to be visible. Is this data sufficient to represent somewhat complex animation? Is it a good idea to separate animation management code and animation data? Can somebody provide a link to animations tutorials that store animations in a file and retrieve them when needed. I read this in a book (AI game programming wisdom) but would like to see a real implementation.
Yes. When you get down to it, everything on your computer is just data.
I develop a pair of projects for animating sprites in a data-driven way. There's a sprite maker (not recommended), and a sprite library for XNA that I think works quite well. Here's a copy of some of the documentation. The high-level concept is quite portable:
That is to say that menu items, HUDs, buttons, text, loading screens, all of that is not a
Also, each
Any of the above can be left as "Default" if they aren't useful for your application. Every frame can be accessed by using a 4-dimensional array like so:
Where the
This concept can work well for frame-based animations, but will require some more thought to be functional for skeleton animations.
My SpriteLib project consumes XML that looks something like this:
And splits the SpriteDefinition from the SpriteAnimator because you can have multiple sprite animators working off the same sprite definition.
This is just one way to think about 2D animations, but hopefully it will give you a place to start.


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sudo apt-get install php5-gd && sudo service apache2 restart
To install under Ubuntu 14.04.
To enable GD-support configure PHP --with-gd[=DIR] , where DIR is the GD base install directory. To use the recommended bundled version of the GD library (which was first bundled in PHP 4.3.0), use the configure option --with-gd . GD library requires libpng and libjpeg to compile.
In Windows, you'll include the GD2 DLL php_gd2.dll as an extension in php.ini. The GD1 DLL php_gd.dll was removed in PHP 4.3.2. Also note that the preferred truecolor image functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor(), require GD2.
Enhance the capabilities of GD to handle more image formats by specifying the --with-XXXX configure switch to your PHP configure line.
|Image Format
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|To enable support for jpeg add --with-jpeg-dir=DIR . Jpeg 6b, 7 or 8 are supported.
|To enable support for png add --with-png-dir=DIR . Note, libpng requires the zlib library, therefore add --with-zlib-dir[=DIR] to your configure line.
|To enable support for xpm add --with-xpm-dir=DIR . If configure is not able to find the required libraries, you may add the path to your X11 libraries.
|To enable support for webp add --with-vpx-dir=DIR . Available as of PHP 5.5. As of PHP 7.0.0 --with-webp-dir=DIR has to be added, i.e. support for libvpx has been removed in favor of libwebp.
Hinweis: When compiling PHP with libpng, you must use the same version that was linked with the GD library.
Enhance the capabilities of GD to deal with different fonts by specifying the --with-XXXX configure switch to your PHP configure line.
|Font library
|Configure Switch
|FreeType 2
|To enable support for FreeType 2 add --with-freetype-dir=DIR .
|To enable support for T1lib (Postscript Type 1 fonts) add --with-t1lib[=DIR] (Removed as of PHP 7.0.0).
|Native TrueType string function
|To enable support for native TrueType string function add --enable-gd-native-ttf .
sudo apt-get install php5-gd && sudo service apache2 restart
To install under Ubuntu 14.04.
It should be noted that it might be pretty easy to install gd without the need to recompile php, when using debian:
apt-get install php5-gd
Instructions how to compile bundled version on Linux:
I also had to install the libgd package in addition to php5-gd:
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev*
People having difficulties setting the --with-libdir option needs to set it like this :
That option works fine. Doing --with-libdir=/usr/lib64 doesn't work because the configure script prepends the --prefix option before the --with-libdir option. So, doing --with-libdir=/usr/lib64 makes the configure script to look for libs in /usr/usr/lib64, which is wrong of course, and not in /usr/lib64.
To get GD bundled under Ubuntu, the way to recompile php5 with gd is described here (french) http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/modules_php#php5-gd
If you have already compiled PHP and want to recompile '--with-gd', don't forget to run 'make clean' first!
jpeg [jpg] file processing doesn't work unless you build php with '--with-jpeg-dir=<path to jpeg library>'.
It still doesn't work unless <path to jpeg library> points to the directory holding the directory holding the library unless libjpeg.<whatever> is in either /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib. For instance, on a mac with libjpeg.a installed via mac ports, you need '/opt/local' rather than '/opt/local/lib'
On Ubuntu I was missing the libpng-dev, libjpeg-dev (and in my case) libwebp-dev libraries, all gettable with apt-get.
Also once those libraries are installed, including --with-png-dir --with-jpeg-dir --with-webp-dir, without any values (i.e. =/dir) appeared to be valid ... though admittedly I didn't try without (in case the configure script autodetected them).
While it is true that you can install GD with apt, that version comes without some of the traits of the internal, compiled version.
I noticed that when I tried to call method `imageantialias`
I installes php5-gd by adding
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main
in /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get install php5-gd
then i have troubles for starting apache2 but google find all troubles ...
cd /etc/apache2
mkdir conf.d
changes in apache2.conf :
LockFile ${APACHE_LOCK_DIR}/accept.lock
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
comment lines NameVirtualHost (with a #)
a2enmod suexec (correction Suexec....)
a2enmod rewrite (correction erreur dav)
a2enmod dav_fs (correction erreur filesystem)
service apache2 start
If you are using PHPBREW , the extension is called gd.
So you do.
phpbrew ext install gd
It will compile the extension to the core.
On Macox lion with mac port just use:
sudo port install php5-gd
I was running PHP on a SUSE box on amazon EC2.
to get gd to work all I had to do was to run:
> yast -i php5_gd
and when that completed I just restarted apache. voila!
If your are suffering with PHP53 on CentOS and GD,
yum install php53-gd
CentOS 6
yum install php-gd
worked, no need to recompile.
In Slackware 64bit (I tested 13.1) you need to make symlinks to libpng and libjpeg if you want to compile php with GD, even if you've already installed them, otherwise configure will give you a "libpng not found" error, even if you set --with-libdir=/usr/lib64 (it seems to have no effects at all). So, run these before configuring:
ln -s /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
ln -s /usr/lib64/libpng.so /usr/lib/libpngp.so
Everytime I try to install the gd-lib as a dynamic extension, I run into the same problem: It wont work.
I get the following error:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/pkg/lib/php/20040412/gd.so' - dlopen(/usr/pkg/lib/php/20040412/gd.so, 9): Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart\n Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices. framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO\n Expected in: /usr/pkg/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib\n in Unknown on line 0
I use pkgsrc for software package managment on my mac, as may be apparent from the paths.
The solution is, to edit the file /usr/pkg/sbin/envvars and remove or comment the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH because it is causing the error...
On 64bit centos, needed to create links from lib64 to lib. Php seems to insist on looking in lib, even with "with-jpeg-dir" config.
ln -s /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62.0.0 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so
ln -s /usr/lib64/libpng.so.3.10.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so
./configure \
--with-config-file-path=/etc \
--prefix=/usr \
--with-bz2 \
--enable-zip \
--enable-mbstring \
--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/include \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/lib64 \
--with-mcrypt=/usr/lib64 \
--with-mysql \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
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6 Insane Stereotypes That Movies Can't Seem to Get Over
#3. Non-Heterosexual Characters Either Die or Are Murderers
A few decades ago, it was still extremely rare to see gay or bisexual characters in movies, and if you did, they were never acknowledged as such -- you just knew it because they all acted like raging queens. Today, things are different, and Hollywood is more open to gay characters ... as long as they die or are psychopaths.
Seriously: Think about all the movies where the gay character ends up dead. First there are the obvious examples, like Milk and Boys Don't Cry, which are based on real-life hate crimes, so those get a pass ... but what about Brokeback Mountain, or Philadelphia, or A Single Man? Or the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where they spent two and a half seasons setting up one of the most healthy and complex lesbian relationships in the history of television, and then randomly killed one of the women and made the other murderously psychotic, abruptly fulfilling both stereotypes out of goddamn nowhere.
They go from "hugging" to "flaying a man alive" in one commercial break.
Then you have movies like Pulp Fiction and The Silence of the Lambs, where the only gay characters are murderously enforcing their gayness upon the straight folks and must die. There's also Basic Instinct, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Jennifer's Body, which use non-heterosexual tendencies as an explicit signal that a character is about to get stabby. Obviously there are plenty of movies with gay characters who aren't violent or dead, but the fact that this is even a thing is still troubling.
Gimp suit troubling.
So What's the Deal?
Simply put, killing gays is Hollywood's way of being progressive.
From the '80s to the early '90s, there was definitely a tendency to use gay characters as villains, from the gay serial killer in Cruising to the evil lesbian vampire in The Hunger. But then in 1995, the highly influential documentary The Celluloid Closet pointed out this problem, and its release coincided with a series of protests about the depiction of gay people in movies like The Silence of the Lambs and JFK (where a gay conspiracy is responsible for killing Kennedy).
Hollywood caved to the pressure and began including more non-psychotic gay characters, but only in supporting roles -- author Brent Hartinger argues that today, non-heterosexual characters are more likely to die simply because they are rarely the protagonist. Harting even points out that within a period of a few weeks in 2010, the shows Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Big Love, Law & Order: SVU and NCIS: Los Angeles all killed off minor characters who happened to be gay.
And to fulfill yet another stereotype, two were hung.
If a movie or show has to kill someone, obviously they'll go for the least important person, i.e., Willow's girlfriend in Buffy. So, in that sense, gay is the new black.
#2. Anything (Including Death) Is Better Than Being Disabled
In movie universes, there's two ways to get disabled: Either you get a sweet superpower out of it, like Daredevil, or it makes you absolutely miserable for the rest of your life. One of the most infamous examples is Million Dollar Baby, which ends with (spoilers) the protagonist becoming a quadriplegic and Clint Eastwood euthanizing her because, you know, what's the point of living like that? Never mind the fact that millions of people do just that every day.
Man, Clint Eastwood really hates chairs.
But this also manifests in subtler ways: Take the character of John Locke in Lost, a paraplegic who would rather stay on a remote island filled with smoke monsters, displaced fauna and all sorts of crazy bullshit because he can walk there, which many actual paraplegics found offensive. Something similar happens in Avatar, where the paraplegic protagonist leaves his entire life behind and travels across the universe to get a shot at walking again in the body of a blue alien. There may be other reasons why he made that decision, but they don't really tell us because "he can't walk" is enough.
"Actually, I just wanted a couple of extra inches down there."
Lots of times, the disability exists as something for the characters to overcome and show that they've changed: In The Goonies, when Mikey throws away his inhaler, we're supposed to understand that he's a stronger person for not needing it. What it's really showing is that Mikey is going to end up in the hospital if he doesn't get a replacement soon, because asthma is a goddamn medical condition. The people still using their inhalers aren't doing it because they're not brave enough to have their Mikey moment.
So What's the Deal?
Showing someone using sheer willpower to overcome something is a great character arc, and Hollywood applies that to everything, from learning kung fu despite being an overweight panda to "beating" a real-world disability. The problem is, this arc has some tragic implications for the real-world people who come out with the message that they are "too weak" to overcome their disabilities.
"The fact that your spine isn't regenerating says a lot about your supposed 'bravery,' Timmy."
The result is that moviegoers think that disabilities are way worse than they actually are, and filmmakers have to cater to that: For example, while filming an episode of Dollhouse where Eliza Dushku was blind, the producers brought in an actual blind woman to show the actress how to move and get around, but the result was that "she didn't look blind," and they had to make her act clumsier so the audience would buy it.
In the end, they just showed her a bunch of Mr. Magoo episodes.
Even in Avatar, real paraplegics thought that Sam Worthington's character was making way too much effort transferring from his chair, but that's the way we're used to seeing it in movies. It's a vicious cycle, and it isn't going to stop until either Hollywood wises up or people with disabilities stop living happy, fulfilling lives.
#1. In Fantasy Movies, Everyone Has to Be White
You've probably noticed this before, but there are no black characters in The Lord of the Rings. The only black actors involved in the movies are covered under 3-and-a-half inches of makeup.
LOTR Wikia
The same approach they took with the black characters in Friends.
But, you know, those movies are based on books written in the '40s ... so how about something a little more recent, like Game of Thrones? Well ...
That lady in the middle is winning the game.
The only non-white characters that have shown up so far are the Dothraki (who in the show at least are more like mocha) and a couple of shady foreigners who come to the land of rich white folks to take their women and their throne.
Or both at the same time, if possible.
Then you have The Chronicles of Narnia, where the only black character is a monster. The Harry Potter movies, on the other hand, do have black characters, like that one kid who announces the Quidditch matches, and, you know ... that other kid ...
Does Gary Oldman's character count?
So What's the Deal?
It's all Tolkien's fault, basically. Most fantasy is still pretty heavily based on the stuff Tolkien came up with, and even though he was pretty vehemently anti-racist in his life, he's still a product of his era: Because of him, when we think "fantasy," we think "white people with British accents dealing with savages and fighting monsters."
A good example of Tolkien's influence is the fact that the characters in Game of Thrones speak in British accents ... even though George R. R. Martin is from New Jersey.
Which does explain this douchebag.
This problem is a lot more noticeable in the adaptations than the books themselves because in TV and films, everything has to be standardized -- just like there's a special type of lighting that screams "THIS IS A SOAP OPERA," fantasy shows need to follow a certain aesthetic, and part of it involves "everyone is white." The Thrones books do have non-white characters, but so far they've been almost entirely written out of the show. On the other hand, the two shady black guys we mentioned before are white in the books ... and coincidentally, they have a much bigger role there.
And then there's the opposite scenario: Here's Harry Potter's classmate Lavender Brown as shown in the first five movies ...
... and here she is in the sixth movie, where she gets a bigger role and hooks up with Harry's friend Ron. Notice any differences?
"I suddenly require much, much more sunscreen."
Now, in the early movies she was just a background character with no lines, so there's a chance that the producers didn't even notice that her role had been cast before. Also, her race isn't described in the books. However, isn't it a little telling that when she was a minor character they said "Sure, let's make her black," but when she became important they automatically assumed that she was white?
Again, that's because this is the default mode for a fantasy movie: White people with British accents, fighting monsters.
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UWRF STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES DOES NOT PROVIDE EXCUSES FOR ABSENCES FROM CLASS. The notifying of instructors and arranging of make-up work in cases involving absence of students from class are the responsibility of the student. A student who is absent should notify instructors by phone, email, or in person of the absence as soon as possible. In serious situations where the student is incapacitated and temporarily unable to contact faculty, family members may contact the Student Conduct and Community Standards Office (715-425-0720) for assistance with these matters. This office then would provide notification (not verification) of the absence to the instructors involved. The Student Conduct and Community Standards Office does not provide excuses for absences from class. Arrangements for make-up work, make-up exams, or possible assignment adjustments are entirely the responsibility of the student. Medical excuses will not be written by staff or providers at the Vibrant Health Family Clinic in River Falls nor by UWRF Student Health Services staff.
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I hope you will allow me to ask another question. We all know that there are many harsh statements in the Bible (Matthew 12:31-32, Hebrews 10).
Sometimes, these harsh statements are along the lines of "If such and such a condition is fulfilled, then there is no hope left for such and such a person to whom the condition applies" - i.e. the implication is that such and such a person is doomed to hell.
My question is: Sometimes, a given person does not even know if he or she has fulfilled one of those conditions. To my knowledge, people have tried to give explanations of these scenarios, but I do not know if there is a total, definitive, absolute, verdict, on what these conditions actually are that doom someone to hell without hope.
In life, we usually do not know things with absolute certainty, and a certain amount of belief in positive outcomes of uncertain events is usually needed to preclude a descent into total nihilism. Colloquially, one might say that as long as a person believes there is light at the end of the tunnel, he or she would be able to pick himself or herself up the next day and make an attempt to continue walking with God.
But if this person is faced with uncertainty over eternal salvation, can it trigger nihilism and despair?
Is there ever a situation (or can there be such a situation) where fear over damnation to hell due to the scenarios described led a person who need not have borne such fear, to descend to unnecessary nihilism and hence give up on Christianity with the attitude "well, since I am already condemned unconditionally, what is the point of seeking God any longer?"
(It is true that no one can really be sure of having been condemned unconditionally by the scenarios in Matthew 12 and Hebrews 10, but what if pessimism led the person to progress from the idea that he or she might have committed an unforgivable sin to a belief that he or she had committed it, with the resulting nihilism described above?)


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I'm only a ballet and dance lover and I'm reading with much interested all your opinions as experts in this art. I even recognize that when I first read Alexandra's post I thought it was true but then I realized she was sarcastic about the decision taken by Mrs. Monica Mason.
Dear Carolina M,
Almost everybody that contributes to this forum is like you a ballet and dance lover and
the beauty of ballet talk. is that everyone can contribute a view.
I cannot agree that Alexandra's post was sarcastic, but I do believe it was satirical and given the seriousness of the discussion I think it is an apposite response.
Firstly the Royal Ballet is a classical ballet company that has performed new works in its history created by choreographers who had a history of working in or studying classical ballet. New ballets in the RB repertory in the past that would be considered to have been fairly ground breaking, were created by choreographers who knew how classical ballet dancer's bodies worked and that their works would fit in the overall RB canon.
Wayne McGregor has no such background in classical ballet.
Modern dancers cannot in general, perform classical ballet at a level that would be acceptable in a Petipa ballet. Likewise I am never really convinced when classical ballet dancers appear in overtly modern dance works. Skills may be present in such cross-over performances and perhaps also personality, inspiration and star quality. I am however, generally left with the feeling that I have witnessed a 'stunt' to attract popular media coverage, rather than a wider dance audience, or an artistic theatrical experience.
Many 'great works' of the classical and neo-classical repertoire remain 'modern' because they speak as loudly to today's audience as they did to audiences in the past.
'Chroma', whatever you may think of this work (I thought it poor on several levels) was undoubtedly a stunt. The publicity and marketing confirm this and the announcement of Mr. McGregor's appointment as 'Resident Choreographer' two days after the works premiere, confirms this. The whole affair smacks of the current 'celebrity making event' that has infected the media in outrageous proportions and to which once respectable bodies are now ready to stoop.
'Chroma' was given at a subsidised performance (especially low prices were introduced) which mean that the standard repertory of the Royal Ballet, the Petipa classics, and the standard repertory of 19th century opera enabled this. I do not see such sibsidising practice as wrong, if it is truly necessary to introduce new works that will enhance the repertoire and it is the repertoire that is the important matter in this 'McGregorgate Affair'.
On the same bill as 'Chroma' was a new work by Christopher Wheeldon that was as entirely 'modern' as McGregor's but used the training and the skills of the company that suited the dance genre they belonged to. Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments' completed the bill and confirmed that there is no such thing as a 'modern' work meaning contemporaneous to the actual day, as Balanchine's work is convincingly as modern as both McGregor's and Wheeldon's works might be called , yet was created 60 years ago.
The question is are new 'stunt' works equal to necessary works, that will expand the repertory of a classical ballet company and give audiences and dancers new challenges. I would say not at the expense of the plenty of appropriate works from the historic RB archive of ballets and elsewhere, that can make the real contribution to the repertoire that an inappropriate 'stunt' work cannot. The answer to my question therefore is no. That is of course if you believe in the ethos and value the history of the Royal Ballet.
I have sat through very many uneven full length works and failed works by Kenneth MacMillan that drove me to despair as the Royal Ballet lost its uniqueness of style established by the works of Ashton, DeValois, Cranko and indeed MacMillan who had earlier contributed so much. From the 1970's the RB went into a performing and aesthetic decline, during which time the Ashton repertoire and the 19th century ballets lost style and detail.
Of course the Royal Ballet has changed over the years as the Royal Ballet School, especially in recent years, has lost its way and no longer produces dancers of the calibre of Bussell and Cope that alone Sibley or Dowell. Without the import of some excellent dancers from other traditions, the Royal Ballet could not exist, but this has to some degree added to the gap in the performing tradition of the RB's core repertoire which undoubtedly will improve as dancers frow further into roles.
These are matters which reflect upon the Board of the Royal Opera House who in the last 36 years have as far as the Royal Ballet are concerned made only one appropriate major appointment and that is Monica Mason as Artistic Director.
Unlike previous incumbents, Miss Mason is identified with and has shown that she identifies with, the defined 'uniqueness' that once separated the Royal Ballet from other classical ballet companies.
The alternative to appointing Wayne McGregor(by the ROH Board), is to recognize and begin to develop choreographic talent at the Royal Ballet School and give opportunities for public performances. To allow choreographic development for a wide range of RB dancers through opportunities such as the groups that Leslie Edwards once led. To also search out across the world for new choreographers that will enhance the RB repertoire in a way that sustains its difference in a classical ballet world where many companies are dancing identical repertoires.
I personally cannot see how Mr. McGregor can make the necessary sustainable contribution to the RB ballet, having seen his 'populist' work (with some members of the audience) at the Royal Opera House and Sadlers Wells and denounce his appointment as Resident Choreographer as wrong-headed and sending out the wrong message to the RB's expensive seat core audience.
The Royal Ballet is required to improve its audience attendance, especially for 'triple bills'. Does 'Chroma' presage future 'stunt' works with their attending publicity and subsidies. Will critics hoping to achieve the vulgarity of 'celebrity' status by association, support such events. I hope not and I doubt it.


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March 18, 2010
More than 80 Presenters from 17 Countries with 80 Works to Converge on NYC
Hosted by Tisch School of the Arts and the Department of Cinema Studies
The 7th Orphan Film Symposium opens April 7 with a culturally diverse group of international films, artists, archivists, and professionals from 17 countries in attendance. Hosted by NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and its Department of Cinema Studies, the biennial gathering will meet at the newly renovated SVA Theatre, located at 333 West 23rd Street, through April 10.
More than 80 presenters will converge to exhibit 80 works (film, video, and digital) dating from 1894 to 2010. Each work addresses the theme Moving Images Around the World. Topics to be discussed include: film repatriation; mobility, distribution, and travel; national, regional, local, and transnational cinemas; and neglected archival material that sheds light on international aspects of history and archiving.
Highlights include:
· Gustav Deutsch's Film ist. a Girl and a Gun (2009), a narrative collage constructed
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· The premiere of a new restoration of the landmark independent documentary The Cry of
Jazz (1959), with filmmaker Edward O. Bland. The film was restored by Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
· With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain (1938), the first film by noted photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson, presumed lost until recently rediscovered in NYU's Tamiment
Library by Juan Salas, a doctoral candidate in NYU's Department of History.
· From Argentina, film archivist Paula Félix-Didier (co-discoverer of the complete 1927 version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis) unveils previously unseen works from the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires.
· The premiere of Andy Warhol's Uptight #3 -- David Susskind (1966), newly preserved
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Have you ever gone on a wild goose chase to get an album that's hard to find but you don't know why because it's so good? That's what I had to do to own Take it from the Top by the Bob James Trio. How I heard it in the first place was by browsing the shelves at my Denver Public Library branch.
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I am Investigating the convergence of $$\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\left\{ 1-n\log \dfrac {2n+1} {2n-1}\right\} $$. Now as per Cauchy's test for absolute convergence. If $\overline {\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }}\left| u_{n}\right| ^{\dfrac {1} {n}} < 1,\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }u_{n}$ converges absolutely and obviously if $\overline {\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }}\left| u_{n}\right| ^{\dfrac {1} {n}} > 1,\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }u_{n}$ does not converge.
I observed $$\overline {\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }}\left| \log \left( \dfrac {2n+1} {2n-1}\right) ^{-n}\right| = \overline {\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }}\left| \log \left( 1-\dfrac {1} {n-\dfrac {1} {2}}\right) ^{-n}\right| $$
Could i take the negative power of n outside the absolute brackets here ? I guess even if i could establish log part converges that would only show that the overall series diverges right. Is that the correct result ? Any alternative lines of attacking this problem would be much appreciated.


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Hi! We just moved to N. Myrtle Beach and I'm looking for homeschoolers in the area...I have one boy, and he is 14. We originially moved to Conway a year ago which is a very remote area, so we had absolutely NO support there. Now that we are back to civilization I'm reaching out for some support. My son is unschooled, and as of yet has not been able to make new friends, and I would love to have other homeschool mom's to chat with! Is there ANYONE out there?? If so please shoot me an email at email@example.com it you can. I would like to also know of any support groups in the area..Thanks!!
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Posted 10 November 2013 - 02:57 PM
Hi, I've asked other homeschoolers in your area to post here if they live in your area. In the meantime, have you checked out my Community page to see if there are any support groups in your area? Here's the link: http://www.carolinah...acommunity.html
Posted 08 December 2013 - 01:24 AM
Hi there! Where do you currently live and what's your name? I'm Jamie McMahan and I live in Aiken. I have a ten, almost eleven year old boy and we do our own thing a lot. I haven't had the greatest luck finding people with kids my son's age that we mesh with. We're really easy going and open minded and open to new people. Hopefully you live close and maybe get to know one another. Best of luck and happy holidays!
Posted 11 December 2013 - 01:07 PM
Jamie - Have you tried the Odell Weeks homeschool group on Thursdays? I've only been a couple times but it seemed like a nice group. The reason why I've only been a couple times is that the North Augusta group meets on the same days, and I'm usually over there. (They take the summer off while the Aiken group does not). The Aiken group has a yahoo page. The North Augusta group has a facebook page - and I'm the contact for that anyway if you have any questions. The NA group is for anyone in the CSRA, though our weekly park days are in North Augusta. I have three kids, with my eldest being a 10 year old boy.
*There's also a facebook group called something like homeschooling in Aiken. Another group worth checking out on facebook is a CSRA middle/high school group.
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(Editor's note: The deadline for letters to the letter regarding the election was Oct. 25. An exception is being made with this letter because it is a response to an editorial that appeared on the day of the deadline. Any other opinions on this topic will be posted online only.)
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I am writing to rebut the Herald-Star's endorsement that Tom Gentile should keep his seat as Jefferson County commissioner ("Tom Gentile should keep seat Nov. 6," Oct. 25.)
I recently closed my long-running business in Jefferson County so that my husband and I could retire, and through the hard work of Progress Alliance, I was able to sell my business property to an out-of-town company. However, there was one person who did everything in his power to prevent this company from locating in Jefferson County, Tom Gentile. He had knowledge of the possible sale of my property because of his appointed position on Progress Alliance.
It is not fair that he had knowledge of the sale of my building, nor for him to use his inside information to try to block the sale of my building. I am sure many of you are wondering why he would block a new business from opening in Jefferson County, and the answer is simple - personal gain. He had more than one opportunity to purchase my property, but continually told me he was not interested. Then, when he found out there was a possible buyer, he immediately pressured me to sell him the property below the offer price of the out-of-town company so that he could lease the property to the out-of-town company.
Again, he only knew about the out-of-town company because of his appointed seat through being a commissioner. If it were not for the dedication of Progress Alliance, my personal attorney and council members in Steubenville, Jefferson County would have lost dozens of new jobs. The company has plans to hire up to 200 local people to work for them. Yet there is the level of confusion that he was helpful and in favor of bringing this company to our area. He advertises that he is open for business and works well with economic development organizations, but I can honestly tell you that I know this to be completely false because of my first-hand experience.
So many people in Jefferson County want to move forward and away from elected officials helping themselves and their friends; however, the citizens of Jefferson County must get out and vote for new elected officials who want to put this county first. I am disappointed that the Herald-Star endorsed him, and I hope the readers realize this was a mistake and elect a new county commissioner for the Jan. 3 seat.
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Officials at a wildlife park near Frankfurt, Germany, are on the lookout for an escaped kangaroo believed to have been assisted in his getaway by a fox and wild boar.
According to Michael Hoffmann, assistant head of Hochwildschutzpark Hunsrück, three male kangaroos — Skippy, Jack, and Mick — made their way out of their enclosure through a hole dug by a fox that made its way into the park, no doubt to make mischief.
Two of the three bucks then exited the park grounds through a second hole made by a wild boar.
All kangaroos excepting one have been recovered. "He's super friendly, super nice," said Hoffmann of the missing animal. "Absolutely no danger at all," .
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I think this is a useful enough question, so I'm posing it. Some kid rear ended me, and it's going to cost more to repair the bumper and two package than my WJ is worth. Can I expect his insurance company to just cut me a check, or do I have to buy my own car back from them? It's perfectly drivable, should I have to go through all of this trouble?
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A lot depends on the insurance company and where you live. I have had it go both ways. In one case they offered a check, but wanted the vehicle. In another case they paid me and were happy I didn't make them tow it away.
Be aware that laws vary from state to state and it may be a hassle to reregister the vehicle as it will have a salvage title. This may require reinspection by a DMV officer. It may not pass without the repairs. You may get them to issue you a check without totaling the Jeep by making the payment a little less than the value. That way you have a clean title.
Take the oportunity to put an aftermarket bumper on it at the insurance companies expense.
Somthing like http://www.kevinsoffroad.com/cart/wj-grand-cherokee-rear-bumper-wo-tire-carrier-p-827/
It's cheaper, looks good, and is much stronger.
Insurance claims completly paid of my Dodge Ram for me, and I just fixed everything with aftermarket parts. (My truck has been hit 2 times now, while parked, while I wasnt in it, and someone broke into it and stole my radio). Tubing bumpers, stero system, dash, etc...
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I've been brewing for a while now, and would really like a comprehensive book on the history of brewing. Something that covers the development of different styles of beer, and delves into the science behind brewing as well. I read Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation and found it extremely informative, and would like other books along this line, but covering grains, hops, styles etc. Any suggestions?
A good book on English style beer is Amber, Gold & Black. It is a fairly comprehensive history of beer in Britain. I have taken a step further back to beyond the use of hops and just picked up Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers. This goes into more detail and includes the folkloric backgrounds of the individual ingredients.
For Belgian beers, pick up Brew Like a Monk. The author gives a detailed history of every brewery, their styles, etc. A lot of information crammed into this little book. The author also has a book on wheat beers, but I have not yet read it.
This is enough to get you started, hopefully. If you want information on American beers, just watch Beer Wars.
Radical Brewing by randy Mosher might be a good choice. He covers a lot of ground, so he doesn't ever spend more than a few pages on any given topic (malting, hops, etc), but he does a great job of covering the basics of pretty much all aspects of brewing. He even has some chapters on creating an automated home brewery and malting at home, I think.
I am not sure where you are located, but there was a book published in the UK in 1990 called "The Historical Companion to House-Brewing" There is a synopsis of the book on a more recent reprint.
I paraphrase from the inner cover blurb... "The book contains a wealth of detailed historical information on European beers, with recipes from the 15th to 19th centuries. It also has step-by-step instructions on making malt that can no longer be purchased in order to brew beers not now commercially available. There is also guidance on keeping a hop garden and drying the cones, plus numerous examples of how to make herb beers and using hop surrogates."
There are some very interesting old recipes. One, called Worker's Ale (c 1798), has a starting gravity of only 1028, uses Pale, Amber or Brown Malt, with adjuncts of chillies, coriander and salt, and uses kentish hops. Interestingly, the mash temp is 85 deg C for 2-3 hours. I would have thought this too high, but I guess this could well be a light in alcohol but full-bodied ale.
Anyway, it's a really good book which I shall hang on to. It might still be available somewhere.
You are almost exactly describing Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels.
This book has two parts. The first part goes into the science of malt, hops, water, etc. The second part describes all the classic styles, going into history, technical parameters, and ingredients that have won NHC competitions. The history is always very well researched (he cites all his sources) and very interesting. The technical style descriptions are highly useful also - a good friend recently won a gold medal at NHC by simply making a recipe using the parameters provided in this text (and perhaps also being a fantastic brewer ;)


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