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Good morning, and welcome back to the Griddle, a menu of fortified items for the busy person's media diet. Many sustainability strategists we interview say they feel emboldened by increased attention to the topic even during the Great Recession. But corporate actions don't always match their intentions. GreenBiz this month downgraded six of 20 environmental indicators in its recently released State of Green Business Report 2012. The group's research showed performance declines among companies in clean energy investment, energy efficiency, green offices, packaging, toxic emissions and toxics in manufacturing. The authors wrote: "Simply put, sustainable business is suffering a recessionary hangover."
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Now the Sydney Morning Herald's Jessica Irvine has actually tried to use it.
Her colleague Annabel Crabb details the joke:
The "special hotline" number just turns out to be the ASIC general phone number.
Try dialling it; at first you'll get a list of options asking you whether you are an ASIC agent or a company director, or are ringing to report a scam, in which case you should press "3". Even at this early stage, bank switchers, the urge to press "3" will be quite strong.
Resist it; stay on the line. When an operator arrives, and you mention that you're calling about bank switching, you will elicit first a brief silence, then a pleasant musical interlude, and finally an extremely nice young woman who explains that you might be better off consulting a website called "Fido".
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Catfish Delta
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 12 mins
This is served all over the south. I had it first at the crown restaurant in Mississppi and fell in love.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 709.77 ml corn flakes cereal, finely crushed
- 158.51 ml grated parmesan cheese
- 4.92 ml paprika
- 2.46 ml salt
- 118.29 ml mayonnaise
- 4.92 ml Worcestershire sauce
- 0 catfish fillet
- 7.39 ml cajun seasoning
- vegetable oil cooking spray
- 44.37 ml chopped fresh parsley
- lemon wedge
- Preheat oven to broil. Stir together first 4 ingredients in a large shallow bowl or pie plate. Whisk together mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce in a small bowl.
- Brush mayonnaise mixture onto both sides of catfish fillets. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon Cajun seasoning onto 1 side of each fillet.
- Dredge fillets in cornflake mixture; transfer to a wire rack coated with cooking spray. Place wire rack in an aluminum foil-lined pan.
- Broil 6 inches from heat 6 minutes on each side or until golden brown and fish flakes with a fork. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately. Garnish, if desired.
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22 reviews | 4.5 out of 5
Excellent motor, very pleased with infinite speed control makes trolling much better. Motor runs super quiet and with very low vibration. Very efficient with battery use.
What a great motor! I just got back from a ten day fishing trip at Big Lake, AZ with my 12.6 ft inflatable boat. My wife and I went out a few times, but that was no test as she is slender. I went out with my two college age sons... the three of us are big men... totaling over 750lbs with our gear, the battery and the motor. I charged the deep cell battery every night and this motor never used more that 23% of the battery on any day! That included one day of non-stop trolling for over five hours! All the power to push us around trolling at about 35%, and to get us in when the storms started to blow without getting too wet. It is very quiet, very strong and easy to put on and off the boat. Everything you would expect from a MinnKota with the Wal-Mart corporationt to back it up! I am very happy and looking foreward to many years and many fishing trips with this quality motor.
I replaced my older Minn Kota 30 with this Max 55. The 55 is a nice trolling motor if you are looking for that little extra emph,,,,, My 14' Radisson Canoe moves at a double time now. It's a lot of fun. Enjoy !!!
Paid $246.00 through Walmart for the Minn Kota Endura MAX 55lb thrust trolling motor. The performance was top notch. Very easy on power consumption. Very quiet and easy to transport. I shopped around the entire internet, and Walmart had an unbeatable price.
This is the only motor I have on my 16' Alumicraft and it works very well. I would recommend getting a really good battery. I use an AGM Deep cycle marine battery (1110 marine crank amps, 100 amp hours, 200 minute reserve capacity) and get more than 8 hours out of a charge. I even used it to push my son-in-laws 23' boat at 1.5 mph just to see if it would do it.
Great motor!
My Minnkota 3 hp electric died after 24 years. I bought this one not sure how it would compare. This one moves my boat faster than the 3 hp motor did. Smooth operating control handle. Very pleased with this motor.
Great for pushing my Sea Eagle ST10. I not a Walmart store shopper but their online sales department is awesome. Quick communication and fast shipping. Great prices too!
First trolling motor had a bent spinning pin. Walmart took the motor back and replaced it.
This unit performed flawlessly for countless hours of use on multiple lakes chasing bass. Its simple design and set up make it a must have.
The Minn kota endura maxx was a good purchase.very quiet motor.and it moves my 14ft heavy deck Jon boat good.
I haven't tried it yet. It looks and feels like a very high quality machine. I was pleased when i called the Minn Kota tech support and they were quick to get me a real person on the line. They were very friendly and the reason I called them was to ask if I could cut the shaft to fit it exactly for my canoe. I was told to my happy ears "Yes". They explained that there are wires that run down the shaft, not a cable like a weedeater., which I had thought. A weedeater shaft cable you can't cut, but wires you can splice.
I am very pleased and I am looking forward to getting this thing out on the lake soon. I'm trying to find the right battery because you need to look for a battery with 180 or higher R.C. rating. That's reserve capacity, or reserve current. The auto supply near my house had a farm battery with high R.C. but it was to big and very heavy. I'm going to find the right battery soon.
I have owned 2 minn kota 55 lb motors with the maxx technology. This motor pulls faster than my gas 3 hp and keeps going and going on an interstate 27 group deep cycle battery. Can't go wrong on the price and it's a minn kota. Quality product. No complaints.
I took this motor out in a river that had moss up to the top of the water and it cut through it like it was butter. Good power, easy to use, lightweight and fun to play with. With a standard 2 year warranty, I believe it will last a long time if properly taken care of. I wouldn't have any other trolling motor. And it left my friend with the 50lb thrust Minkota in the dust!! We both had 12 foot flatbottom boats.
In two trips I had to row back to the dock. I fish on a elec. motors only lake and have for years with an older Motor Guide. Never had that problem. I have two batteries in the boat one being an Optima Blue Top and the other an Everstart Maxx.
I find the adds amusing at best for this motor. #1, it has no reverse thrust power to speak of. Secondly, eel grass fouls it to a dead stop. So much for it's weedless claims. Battery power is down very fast. Motor Guide-----------never an issue. This boat is a Lowe 14-6.
If you buy one get a good set of oars!!!
One battery lasted all day in the wind. Minn Kota Endura MAX 55lb. Very Impressed
My older 48 lb thrust used 2 deep cell batterys, In same conditions and both of the batterys would be dead by end of day.
Vibration going In reverse, That does not bother me.
Good value for the cost
Over all, Glad Its mine.
It really vibrates bad at all speeds, and its not as fast as my old 55lb. Thrust. The battery did not last as long it usually did and it was fully charged to began with. To make this story short, I'm very disappointed!"
I bought this for my husband for his birthday and fathers day,he loves loves loves it!!!!!!!
battery meter s a great feature
Good power for my 10 ft. aluminum v-hull and and me (315lbs.). I primarily use this motor for trolling around on a 55 acre pond. I like the built in battery check too. Highly recommended!
I had the minn kota 30 and it just wasn't getting it done. Moved up to the 55 and picked the max since its supposed to better on the battery. I have been out only once and it was fairly windy and it did better than I expected. Worth getting. The adjustable shaft is a bit getting used to as it seems to get in the way of the bracket that lifts it up, but that might be operator error too.


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Calories 2096 Calories from Fat 1325
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Total Fat 154 g237%
Saturated Fat 87.3 g436.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 839.4 mg279.8%
Sodium 1035.9 mg43.2%
Total Carbohydrates 161 g53.7%
Dietary Fiber 5.6 g22.3%
Sugars 139.6 g
Protein 29 g58.5%
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Bag swipe
A sticky-fingered suspect made off with a 34-year-old woman's bag on July 5 as she partied at an Underhill Avenue nightspot.
The victim told police the unattended pocketbook disappeared from Woodwork between Pacific and Dean streets shortly before midnight and wasted no time using the ATM card found inside.
Laptop looting
A pair of thieves worked in tandem to swipe a laptop computer from a Flatbush Avenue Verizon store on July 3.
Police were told that the two suspects entered the store between Park and Prospect places together at 4:30 pm.
When one of the suspects distracted a worker with a battery of questions, his partner disconnected the computer from a display table.
Both fled together, cops were told.
Fierce foot
A burglar kicked in a St. Marks Avenue apartment door during a burglary over the Independence Day weekend, but took nothing.
The tenant in the unit which is between Flatbush and Carlton avenues, told police that she returned from a short trip at 2:30 pm on July 5 and found her front door opened and damaged.
The apartment was ransacked, but no valuables were missing, she told police.
Moped menace
A thief with a love for vintage mopeds swiped one off St. Johns Place on July 4, police said.
The owner of the yellow 1980 Yamaha Champ said that she parked her moped between Underhill and Washington avenues at 3 pm.
It was gone when she returned just before midnight.
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Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger announces international retirement
Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger has announced his retirement from international football.
Bayern Munich to block Paul Clement role with England - reports
Sam Allardyce's hopes of appointing Paul Clement as England assistant manager have been dealt a blow, according to reports.
FA chief Martin Glenn: Punditry more fun than coaching for ex-England stars
Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn admits top former players in England often find punditry to be more attractive than coaching.
Alex Ferguson backed 'winner' Sam Allardyce for England - Glenn
Sir Alex Ferguson was consulted by the FA and recommended Sam Allardyce as the next England manager because he is a "winner," says Martin Glenn.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson says Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the best player in Sweden's history and could be tempted to return to international duty.
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Sam Allardyce displayed the right amount of confidence in his unveiling as England's new manager, writes Nick Miller.


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Trump's 'Law and Order' Blind Spot
Yes, America has a problem with racism and violence. But police unions need fixing first.
Yes, America has a problem with racism and violence. But police unions need fixing first.
And her name is Theresa May.
The motive for the attack, which left five officers dead, is not yet clear.
The subcontinent's commitment to rule of law is stuck in a bygone era.
The decision seemed particularly unusual in contrast to the U.S. criminal justice system's response to crimes of necessity.
The Justice Department wants access to the iPhone 5s belonging to a methamphetamine dealer.
The Panama Papers confirm that the world's elite cheat, lie, and steal. Will the masses finally do something about it?
Republicans have expressed support for Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court pick, in the past. Will they give him a vote?
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Aug 29, 2003
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It evokes the atmosphere of a Sergio Leone Western, sneaking up under the movie's human comedy and adding a smile.
What really separates "Midlands" from Leone's desiccated, terse genre work is Mr. Meadows's doting attention to his characters' decency. It gives a demonstrative bittersweetness to a likable but small story.
Always predictable in its outcome, but it still retains a certain charm, mostly because of Meadows's cheerful sympathy and affection for his motley crew of characters.
There are instances when the filmmaker tries for Western iconography and settles for ''Full Monty'' ingratiation.
Meadows clearly has a flair for working with actors and for depicting the rough-and-tumble of ordinary provincial lives. If he could go just a bit deeper, the truly great Midlands movie just might surface.
Just Brit filmmaker Shane Meadows having some fun with the conventions of the spaghetti western.
Pure bangers-and-mash realism: a spotty yet ingratiating working-class farce that suggests a Mike Leigh movie with opera buffa tendencies.
There are pages missing from this fable: Meadows reports that his financiers asked him to cut one-quarter of his original script just before production began, and his fondness for long takes sits uneasily beside the apparent gaps in the narrative.
It's a compelling and ambitious idea, but one that misfires because of its underwhelming characters and slack storytelling.
The sheer novelty of the enterprise is probably why Once Upon a Time in the Midlands has gotten so many rave reviews when it's actually sort of middling.
The story, which feels more like a sprawl of television episodes than a film, is a little tedious to sit through.
Midlands finds some measure of success in its use of regular, real-looking people -- as opposed to the oddly glamorous characters who turn up in most romantic comedies -- but it's as though the writer used up all the personality traits before he got to Shirley.
In the end, Meadows' film lacks the bite it needs to make us care about this oddball trio, endearing though they are.
The complications are predictable, as is the resolution; what keeps the film from sinking into its own inconsequentiality is the throaty-voiced Henderson, who can make the most preposterous behavior ring absolutely true.
After 45 minutes of incomparable boredom, the movie gets slightly better when it stops reaching for cheap yuks and lets the actors do what they do well.
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Aug 23, 2010Man returns to the Midlands from Glasgow to get back with his ex-wife after seeing her new man propose & fail to her on a TV show.
Usual ShaneMan returns to the Midlands from Glasgow to get back with his ex-wife after seeing her new man propose & fail to her on a TV show.
Usual Shane Meadows affair with a good cast, funny dialogue, moving & Mike Leigh-light grit.
For me, Rhys Ifans is just outstanding & after seeing him as Peter Cook recently & now this, think he's a very talented actor.
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⢠FRANKENSTEIN and THE CREATURE COMMANDOS must investigate suspected double-agents in SHADE field offices. Their first stop is the UNTROPOLIS â an exact copy of Metropolis that floats upside down in the 4TH CLOUD above Supermanâs home town.
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India's top court dismissed Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG's attempt to win patent protection for its cancer drug Glivec, a blow to Western pharmaceutical firms targeting India to drive sales and a victory for local makers of cheap generics.
The decision sets a benchmark for intellectual property cases in India, where many patented drugs are unaffordable for most of its 1.2 billion people, and does not bode well for foreign firms engaged in ongoing disputes in India, including Pfizer Inc and Roche Holding AG, analysts said. Among the chief beneficiaries of Monday's Supreme Court ruling will be India's Cipla Ltd and Natco Pharma Ltd , which already sell 'generic' Glivec in India at around one-tenth of the price of the branded drug.
"The multinational companies will have to find new ways of doing business in India," said Deepak Malik, healthcare analyst at brokerage Emkay Global, suggesting they may consider licensing agreements with local firms to offer cheap versions of branded drugs like Glivec. Ranjit Shahani, managing director of Novartis India Ltd , the firm's locally listed unit, said it will still file patents and carry on investing in the country, but with caution, and will continue to refrain from research and development activities there.
"The intellectual property ecosystem in India is not very encouraging," Shahani told reporters in Mumbai after the ruling. Healthcare activists have called on the government to make medicines cheaper in a country where many patented drugs are too costly for most people, 40 percent of whom earn less than $1.25 a day, and where patented drugs account for under 10 percent of total drug sales. "This appears to be the best outcome for patients in developing countries as fewer patents will be granted on existing medicines," said Leena Menghaney, Medecins Sans Frontieres' Access Campaign manager for India.
Over 16,000 patients in India use Glivec, the vast majority of whom receive it free of charge, Novartis says. By contrast, generic Glivec is used by more than 300,000 patients, according to industry reports. "It's a victory for patients who take these medicines and also for the government," said M. Adinarayana, company secretary at Natco Pharma. The Supreme Court's decision comes after a legal battle that began when Novartis was denied a patent for Glivec in 2006.
Novartis had argued it was entitled to a patent for the amended version of Glivec because the original patented compound was never suitable for making into a pill. Developing the final chemically stable form took years of extra work and it was this effort that marked the real breakthrough in developing Glivec as a life-saving cancer medicine, the Swiss company said.


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Economy Can Bailouts Have Do-Overs? This One Might.
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A few weeks ago, I had intended to track key metrics in the credit markets as a sadistic means of removing all joy from the world. Then I came to my senses. Calculated Risk beat me to it anyways, with a daily tracker. According to those numbers, while many things have improved in the credit markets since the bailout went into effect—from all-time historical highs to merely untenable highs—we're nowhere close to normal.
The bailout plan, first proposed by Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs banker Henry Paulson, was intended to loosen up these markets, returning them closer to normal. Thus far, the bailout measures have added about a trillion dollars to the national debt and left the credit markets improved, but still non-functional. And, it appears as if most of those credit improvements were due to direct governmental intervention, rather than a true improvement in investor confidence.
The two models of the bailout can be exemplified by the bailouts of Bear Stearns and AIG.
For Bear Stearns, the government bought up their impossible-to-value toxic debt. No returns on that investment yet:
The Federal Reserve reduced the estimated value of the Bear Stearns Cos. assets it took on in June by $2.7 billion, or 9.2 percent, as the worsening credit crisis forced more markdowns on mortgage-backed debt.
And with AIG, the taxpayers took control of the company in return for desperately needed cash to keep the enterprise running. Initially, we provided $85 billion for a controlling share of AIG, followed by an additional $35 billion. How did that work out? The heads of AIG apparently lied about just how ugly the situation was and is. The $120 billion or so of taxpayer dollars we lent to them is already gone, with the company still teetering on failure. Take it away, NYT:
The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.
You dont just suddenly lose $120 billion overnight, said Donn Vickrey of Gradient Analytics, an independent securities research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The revelations that things were worse at AIG than expected led to the collapse of several insurance company stocks today, with many losing a quarter to a half of their total value.
How bad are the credit markets? Well, investors in the world's largest—and first—Money Market fund still cannot get their money back, over a month after it was frozen. The fund lost a tremendous amount of assets after Lehman Brothers collapsed. It gets worse. A second fund managed by the same company, that was supposed to only invest in government debt, also has been frozen—perhaps evidence the Reserve Fund company, in an attempt to hide their losses in their primary fund, took and lost money from investors in the government fund.
At least 400,000 people, and perhaps as many as a million, cant get access to their savings, a problem that has quietly persisted in spite of widely publicized federal efforts to restore confidence in money-fund investments….
Initially, the company simply announced that it would delay redemptions from the Primary Fund for up to seven days, as allowed by law. Customers were somewhat reassured, but anyone trying to get additional information was met with busy phone lines and unanswered e-mail.
The news occasionally posted on the funds Web site got steadily worse. On Sept. 18, investors in a host of other Reserve money funds learned that their money would be tied up for as long as a week; that delay later became open-ended. On Sept. 19, the fund delayed redemptions from both the Primary Fund and the US Government Fund indefinitely.
Why would anyone entrust their money to a system where the lies and deceit are still being uncovered?
In the meantime, enter Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke—former economics professor and expert on the Great Depression.
His prescription: The government should spend money, even if it means running up even more debt. Spend on everything, including another round of checks. Enough with trying to save the financial system. If the credit markets are beyond short-term salvation, it's time to try to save the citizens of the country. You know, the Democratic plan, costing a (now paltry-seeming) $300 billion.
And the man he endorsed to spend the money, as his choice for the next president? Obama.
To summarize, in the Golob-scale-of-economist-panic, after a brief bit of optimism in the shadow of the trillion dollar Hail Mary pass to save the financial markets, and its subsequent failure to help enough, we're at six beakers by now:
You don't have to take my word for it. Let the San Francisco Fed president Janet Yellen's gloom be your confirmation.
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Death of a Salesman
Millionaire Pitchman Rick Chance's Murder Exposes His Dirty Not-So-Little Secrets
So it came as a shock this summer when those same stations broadcast very different images of Chance: grainy surveillance video grabs showing him checking into a Tempe hotel with a bored-looking stripper on Aug. 8—hours before he was found murdered at age 44. Within days police located the woman—topless dancer Brandi Hungerford, 25—and charged her in Chance's death. On Oct. 30 prosecutors also leveled murder charges against her sometime boyfriend, stripper Robert Lemke, 25. Hungerford subsequently pleaded guilty in a case that has riveted central Arizona with revelations of the popular pitchman's secret life. "Rick had a dark side," says Jill Scott, a former Mrs. America who filed for divorce from him in 1999 after a two-year marriage, "and it finally caught up with him."
The ignoble end was a radical departure from Chance's image as a civic-minded tycoon. After starting work in 1981 at a Phoenix glass company, he launched his chain, building it into a $25 million-a-year franchise with ads offering free meals and coverage of insurance deductibles. "He was a master marketer," says Bob Hittenberger, who heads an auto-glass trade group. "He knew what buttons to push."
The wealth that followed bought Chance a lifestyle far from his upbringing in small-town Maricopa, Ariz., where classmates taunted him because he had lost his right eye to glaucoma. Living in the splendor of a $1.6 million home outside Scottsdale, he drove a Mercedes, sported a full-length sable coat despite the heat and donated as much as $60,000 at one time to charities. A devout churchgoer who could quote psalms from memory, he gave money to help turn a fundamentalist Phoenix congregation into an international ministry. "He believed that his success was directly related to his relationship with the Lord," says Sammy Moses, 66, who operates the evangelical ministry.
But behind that public persona lay a troubled personal life. A brief first marriage ended in divorce, and his second wife, with whom he had a son and daughter, left him after a May 1993 incident in which, police say, Chance picked up a 19-year-old girl who apparently drugged him and stole $71,000 in jewelry and his Mercedes.
Still, Chance "seemed so sincere and vulnerable," says Scott, who was a divorced mother of two sons when a mutual friend introduced the pair in 1995. Soon after they married in 1996, she saw signs of trouble. She says he made unusual sexual demands and that she once found him in their bedroom with another man, both naked except for towels. "He seemed to be battling his inner demons," says Scott. "His desires were strong and went against his spiritual life."
After that third marriage ended in July 1998, Chance turned more of his attention to a new love—designing and selling jewelry. "He had excellent taste," says Darrell Olson, a Phoenix jeweler who sold Chance's baubles. Yet Olson worried because Chance would carry so much merchandise with him. "I'm sure I said, 'Gosh, you have to be more cautious,' " Olson recalls.
Hoping to capitalize on his sales and marketing skills, Chance came up with a new scheme: going on TV to pitch an online jewelry store. On Aug. 8, the night before he was to film the first promotional spot, he left home at 7 p.m. carrying a satchel with about $1 million in jewelry. Approximately two hours later the hotel security camera caught him checking in with Hungerford, whom police say he had dated three previous times. Lemke subsequently met them in room 317, say police. The next day, when a maid found Chance's body—a single bullet in his throat—the jewelry was gone.
With the help of tips phoned in after a broadcast of the surveillance footage, police caught up with Hungerford and Lemke in a Tacoma, Wash., apartment. The couple had jewelry, several handguns and a fur hat stuffed with $20,000 in cash. Hungerford pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, landing 10 to 22 years in prison—in exchange for a pledge to testify against her alleged accomplice. Lemke pleaded not guilty to the murder on Jan. 6. His next trial date is Feb. 12.
In interviews with police, Hungerford said, "It was a calculated robbery, but murder was not part of the plan," says the Tempe police's Sgt. Dan Masters. For Chance, who enjoyed life on the edge, it was an outcome he apparently never suspected. "He believed he had a special protection," says Scott, his ex-wife. "But this time he had an appointment with death."
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Robbery surveillance photo released by policeStaff Report | March 28,2013
Vermont State Police released a surveillance video photograph depicting a suspect in an armed robbery that took place in Wallingford early Tuesday morning.
The unidentified man, who dressed all in black and covered his face with a mask, used a knife to threaten a clerk at the Smart Shop at 172 North Main St. The six-month pregnant woman is shown in the picture being led into a bathroom where her assailant left her while he robbed the store, according to police.
The man is described as being between 5-feet, 5-inches to 5-feet, 9-inches tall. No information about his age, race or other characteristics are known because the man covered himself completely with black clothing, gloves and a facemask.
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WraithLord Patrol by SolavWatch
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The avatar summons me, needing my blade tho for him I bring forth my twin blades, the blade of the moon and the blade of the sun to bring death and dismay to the corrupt and the forsaken. fear not the foe who is but mortal flesh. for my blades and my strength shall rend them, my guns the fury of my lords roar...
even now I serve
To make Marine players happy, replace the swords with Star Cannons. Replace the shoulder mounts with Star Cannons.
Nice work!
That sword in the front looks really cool.
very sharp. i really like it!
Clever use of Warmachine bits. Very nice paint job, too.
hahah nice! the RET stuff fits eldar well. i wonder if i can just use RET's jack as wraitlords.
there actually are ppl who do if game store friendly wise. I gunna build 2 more then ebay the lot wit avatar. avatar from forgeworld and 3 wraithlords hehee
nice paint scheme, love the base aswell
I have to agree with everyone else, the swords look great. Tell me though, how did you do the base for this? (and the other entries)
ahhh corkboard, d'en ya get glue te terrain gravel d'rough em and d'en ya prime black, paint dry brush'n d'en ya slightly brush glue again fer d'e snow te stick ^^
looking good man! (btw i got my fire prism ready)
such a lovely paintscheme reminds me of the second edition codex cover diggin the old school shoulder mounted misile launcher n las-cannon combo
ohhh would luv te see d'at sound'z intrigue'n.
I see force field generators from warmachine! Retribution of Scyrah for the win!
WHOAH!!! That is COOL MAN!!! : DDDDD
You base has dandruff... I like his choppah!
that is........amazing
hehee like?
This is absolutely brilliant!
that sword especially looks so badass!
great job!
that sword especially looks so badass!
great job!
nice one, but is that the sword from the kit? cause i recognize it, but from where I do not know...
So badass! Your work is nothing short of amazing, good sir!
Its Wraithlords like this that make me want to make an Eldar army... but I could never make one look this nice. Fantastic model!


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Reign Over Me [Blu-ray] (Bilingual)
~ Mike Binder
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good film that seems to have a great one frustratingly buried underneath
Nov. 4 2014
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It's all relative. For a Hollywood film with a big star, this look at a man deeply, profoundly scarred and damaged by loss (Charlie; Adam Sandler) and the slow rebuilding of his friendship with his dental school roommate who wants to help (Alan; Don Cheadle) is often refreshingly honest about the complexities of mental illness, and the fact that there is no magic bullet for pain for any of us.
On the other hand, there are a number of contrivances, forced plot twists and supporting characters that remind us we are indeed in a Hollywood dramady, not real life.
Cheadle does some amazing low key work in the less showy of the two main roles, giving us a man in mid-life crisis, disconnected from his family and his own heart, who perks up when he gets involved with the damaged Charlie. It's partly because helping someone gives his life meaning, but also because part of him envies Sandler's adolescent-like freedom to act out, even if it comes from a wounded and destructive place. Sandler struggles more with the pathetic Charley, partly because the character's pain and PTSD has created a man almost hollow. That may be accurate, but it can make him hard to identify with. Also, the ways Charlie's illness suddenly manifests can seem a bit 'story convenient'. There's no question Sandler has the chops to be heartbreaking as a wounded soul (Punch-Dunk Love, Funny People), but here the thousand yard stare and the mumbled words sometimes feel more like an acting choice than a real expression of pain so deep it can't be handled.
Another problem area are the women characters, who seem a bit trapped in the old Madonna/whore bind. They are either cold and unsympathetic, or a very male fantasy -- either gorgeous sexual predators, or beautiful nurturers or both.
A good solid film, but I can't help wishing the great one that seemed to be lurking underneath had found its way to the surface.
One Day Pina Asked (Bilingual) [Import]
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' terrific "Pina"
Nov. 3 2014
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An excellent companion piece to Wim Wenders' terrific "Pina". Both Wenders and Akerman, two of our best and most iconoclastic filmmakers take very different approaches to Pina Bausch's amazing choreography. Wenders film, made nearly 30 years later is longer and far more visually spectacular, using 3-D images to give us the full sense of space in Bausch's dances. But Akerman's is just as valuable.
In this frustratingly short (1 hour), intimate documentary, she films most of the 'dances' in medium and even close shots, which seems like a bizarre approach to dance, until you realize how much of Bausch's work is also theater, relying on her dancers to also be excellent actors (something discussed briefly in the film). By getting in close, Akerman emphasizes the theatrical and dramatic elements in the works, which are often both funny and deeply moving.
Very much worth seeing, and finally on DVD from Icarus Films.
Frank [Blu-ray]
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Odd, funny, sad and wonderful. Has stuck with me for days.
Nov. 2 2014
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An odd and wonderful mix of comedy and sadness, absurdity and reality, playfulness and originality. The acting is terrific throughout, the cast creating slightly larger than life comic characters that somehow still feel real enough to invest in emotionally. It's a tone few movies get right. "Harold and Maude" comes to mind.
Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) wants to be a pop star in the worst way (literally). He walks around writing amusingly bad pop tunes in his head. Life as a musician seems only a dream when as luck would have it a band, playing in his home town for just one night, needs a replacement when their keyboard player goes bonkers, and Jon is in the right place at the right moment. Thus begins Jon's journey with a band of misfits, who may be geniuses or just delusional... or both.
They are led by Frank (Michael Fassbender) an amiable if deeply odd fellow, who wears a giant plaster head that he never takes off, even to sleep. His counterweight is the angry, punky and edgy Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is fiercely protective of the fragile Frank, and sees Jon's attempts to get the band to go mainstream as dangerous to both their artistic integrity, and Frank's well being. All this leads to adventures, changes, discoveries and insights that are often outrageous and darkly funny, but ultimately quite moving as well.
Also to be noted is just how great the music and songs created for the film are. They have to be "off" enough to be funny, but good enough for us to believe there really is something to Frank's talents. This is done very well, both in the writing and performing, the actors showing some musical chops, and the film creating tunes that, to my surprise have been caught in my head for days.
Indeed, the whole film has stuck with me far more deeply than I imagined while I was watching it. There's a haunting quality behind the humor that captures what special about "outsider" art, and it gives the film a resonance and gravity to go along with it's light-handed playfulness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Poetic tone poem of a film
Nov. 1 2014
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Stunningly beautiful and powerful images highlight this examination of how mankind re-shapes water and how it flows – for good and ill, more often ill - and in turn how the water re-shapes civilization and human behavior.
There's no real story, just a series of visits to locations around the world where water powerfully interacts with humanity, like the pilgrimage of 30 million people to bathe in the Ganges river.
Without narration and a specific focus the film could be accused of being too diffuse. But for me the raw power of the images – Burtynsky is one of our greatest still photographers who has spent much of his career creating huge images of humans and nature clashing and interacting - give the piece a poetic, if not literal, power and solidity. The film manages to be a wake-up call about our use and abuse of water while rarely giving in to traditional lecturing. It trusts us to look into its images and interpret for ourselves.
Also, if the film is not enough, there's an almost 40 minute gallery of Burtynsky's amazing still images, which look great blown up on a HD set, as he explains the photographs and how they were taken. That extra alone is reason enough to own the blu-ray. It's like the world's best photography book, with the images at least a little closer in size to Burtynsky's massive prints.
Watermark / Trajectoires (Bilingual)
~ Various
5.0 out of 5 stars
Poetic tone poem of a film about water and human beings
Nov. 1 2014
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Stunningly beautiful and powerful images highlight this examination of how mankind re-shapes water and how it flows – for good and ill, more often ill - and in turn how the water re-shapes civilization and human behavior.
There's no real story, just a series of visits to locations around the world where water powerfully interacts with humanity, like the pilgrimage of 30 million people to bathe in the Ganges river.
Without narration and a specific focus the film could be accused of being too diffuse. But for me the raw power of the images – Burtynsky is one of our greatest still photographers who has spent much of his career creating huge images of humans and nature clashing and interacting - give the piece a poetic, if not literal, power and solidity. The film manages to be a wake-up call about our use and abuse of water while rarely giving in to traditional lecturing. It trusts us to look into its images and interpret for ourselves.
Also, if the film is not enough, there's an almost 40 minute gallery of Burtynsky's amazing still images, which look great blown up on a HD set, as he explains the photographs and how they were taken. That extra alone is reason enough to own the blu-ray. It's like the world's best photography book, with the images at least a little closer in size to Burtynsky's massive prints.
Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger [Blu-ray]
~ James J. Bulger
18 used & new
4.0 out of 5 stars
Always engaging on an intellectual and moral level.
Nov. 1 2014
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Interestingly, this focuses more on the crimes (or potential crimes) of law-enforcement, especially the FBI, than on the admitted crimes of terrorizing mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger.
Bulger's trial is highly unusual, in that the defense is making no effort to say their client is innocent, and they know he'll spend his last days in prison (he's 83 at the time of the trial). The issue is really; instead of being an informant as claimed by the FBI and others, did Whitey really have them all on his payroll? Is the government more worried about cleaning their own dirty laundry without blame than in getting Whitey behind bars? And the larger moral question, even IF Bulger was an informant, was that really worth letting him run free, killing 19 people and raining fear on the residents of South Boston?
There's no conclusive smoking gun of a conspiracy, but there sure is a ton of circumstantial evidence, and Berlinger gives a good job of presenting it in a building, cinematic fashion – starting with the simple fact that everyone knew Whitey ran the neighborhood for years and years, yet he was never once charged with anything. And then somehow he knew to run just before the authorities rounded up all the leadership of his gang, surviving as a fugitive for 16 years.
Not as emotionally powerful as Berlinger's great "Brothers Keeper" and very strong "Paradise Lost", but always engaging on an intellectual and moral level.
The Lunchbox [Blu-ray + DVD] (Sous-titres fran�ais)
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12 used & new
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet, sad, funny, and very human "indie" film from India
Oct. 28 2014
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Good hearted and well told, subtle 'dramaedy' about the on-paper relationship between a lonely, ignored housewife, and a grumpy older insurance case-worker who starts getting the lunchboxes meant for the woman's husband.
The two soon start writing letters back and forth, which are carried in the filled and emptied lunchbox, and an odd friendship develops. At the same time, the self-isolated insurance worker (Irrfan Kahn in a lovely, understated performance) starts to reluctantly form a friendship with an ambitious, poor young man who has been hired to replace him when he retires. There have been films using the gimmick of two leads having a non face to face relationship before (e.g. 'You've Got Mail'), but this is both quirkier and more low key. The focus is less on romance, and more on these two lonely souls simply getting to know each other, and to tell their stories to someone in a world where no one seems to care.
Nimrat Kaur does a terrific job as the lonesome housewife, as does Nawazuddin Siddlqui as the orphaned worker slowly taken under the wing of his older counterpart.
This isn't a film that will make you laugh out loud, or reduce you to tears. But under the excellent direction of first timer Ritesh Batra, this Indian "indie" film will touch your heart and make you smile as you slowly get to know these sad, sometimes foolish, often wise, and always very human characters.
The Fault in Our Stars (Extended Edition with Limited Edition Bracelet) (Bilingual) [Blu-ray]
~ Shailene Woodley
5 used & new
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply moving, but also very alive and often funny
Oct. 27 2014
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If you choose, you could be snarky about this film. Characters about to die of cancer somehow look better than most of us on our best days, and the selection of (excellent) indie songs used as score gets a bit too constant and insistent on telling us what to feel.
But at it's core this is a good-hearted, wonderfully acted, funny, human and very, very sad film about being adolescent and trying to open your heart to love while facing a life span measured in months, not decades or even years.
Josh Boone does a very nice, subtle job as director, getting nuanced performances from all, and finding visual touches that enhance without being self-conscious. Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff and Willem Dafoe all provide terrific work in supporting roles. Ansel Elgot takes a role that is much trickier than it looks – as one critic put it he's an actor playing a kid who himself is playing a character - Gus is doing his best to play the brave, cocky optimist, but there's clearly a much more vulnerable young man underneath. Elgot walks that tightrope very well. And Shailene Woodley brings tremendous depth and complexity to Hazel. She takes a character it would be hard not to love, but makes her something much more; a multi faceted, very real human being.
While it has it's occasional Hollywood moments, it's deeply moving and life affirming without denying the suffering, loss and pain, which is all one can really ask of a film about death.
Belle (Bilingual) [Blu-ray]
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
3 used & new
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thoughtful, moving and well acted
Oct. 23 2014
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I've read some valid criticisms of Amma Asante's "Belle"; you know how it will end by 20 minutes in, at times it can feel stuffy and Masterpiece Theater-ish, it isn't as edgy as its subject really needs, it talks about the horrific obscenity of slavery, but never makes us face it as more than a concept, it plays a bit fast and loose with history to make its points, its villains are little more than cartoons. Fine, I think all those have some truth.
But… in the end I found the film very moving, thought-provoking and uplifting in a way that felt earned. The film is the fact based story of a mixed race girl being brought up in upper- class England in the mid 18th century by a judge who would eventually make some key legal decisions about slavery.
There is more than a touch of Jane Asustin-equse social comedy in the drama, which observes that women of the time were also no more than property, if wildly better treated than slaves.
The acting writing and direction combine to create some memorable and complex characters. Their complexity becomes all the more apparent on 2nd viewing, when we can catch the flaws in those who are 'good', and the maddening strangeness of being a person alone in their own world in a way few people can imagine.
If the film takes a naive and then intellectual attitude towards slavery, it does so because that is also the experience of the heroine. On some level an outcast in her upper-class world, she begins as an innocent to the horrors around her. As she learns about them they inform who she is and who she becomes in ways that are moving and powerful.
The film may be imperfect, but it does a great job of combining a lush romanticism, with emotional weight, wit and righteous ideas.
I'm so excited!/ Les amants passagers (Bilingue) (DVD)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Uneven but a lot of fun
Oct. 22 2014
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Uneven, but a lot of fun, with some serious thoughts about politics, class and the economy of modern Spain nicely hidden in the mix of sex and absurdity.
This (very intentionally) harkens back to Almodovar's anarchic, rough edged early sex farces like Pepi, Luci Bom, but now he's re-approached that kind of story with the technical mastery of a lifetime making ever more sophisticated films.
That cuts both ways. On one hand the gorgeous color-popping polished visuals, and high-level performances make this even more of a joy to watch. On the other hand, it's very smoothness takes some of the bite out of Almodovor's early punky biting the hand that fed him, pushing the limits of film in post-Franco Spain.
But forgetting all that serious mumbo-jumbo, this is fun sexual and political farce, 90% of which takes places on an airplane that may be doomed. Led by three very funny, very gay flight attendants determined to keep the upper-class passengers distracted from what's really going on, using everything from musical numbers to mescaline (the economy class passengers have simply been drugged and put to sleep; a heavy handed but effective comment) – the flight gets wilder and wilder as those ruling class passengers reveal their secrets – sexual, social and personal - and their libidos. As do the flight crew.
Certainly not Almodovar's best work, but often filthy, funny and smart. And if a good number of the jokes don't quite hit, those that do, will sometimes make you laugh, while others will make you smile ruefully.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Raymond Piper, U.S. Army Marksmanship UnitJuly 2, 2014
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (July 2, 2014) -- Music fans at the 2014 Country Jam had the opportunity to meet U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit members and get a glimpse into Army life, here, June 19-22.
"People usually get their perspective (about the Army) from a local Army recruiter," said Sgt. 1st Class Chris Ortega, accessions liaison. "The marksmanship unit had the opportunity to share what they do and their experience, with the public, which gave the audience and the American people a (different) perspective of what opportunities the Army provides."
The event not only broadened the understanding of Army life for many of the nearly 100,000 people who attended the four-day event, it also exposed the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, or USAMU, Soldiers to outreach engagements beyond competitive shooting.
"Once you engaged them, and were able to tell your story about not only your Army life but being able to compete in the Olympics and represent your country, it just opened up tons of doors," said Staff Sgt. Josh Richmond, USAMU Shotgun Team member and 2012 Olympian. "I would say 95 percent of the people there had no idea about our unit or that we have these special jobs inside the Army."
He added that the people he talked with were from all walks of life, so it was interesting to see their expressions when they explained what the unit does.
"It made for some good conversation, and it allowed for the recruiters to have somewhat of an open door to be able to then engage them as well," Richmond said.
Ortega believes that the diversity at the concert was extremely positive and allowed them to reach more people beyond the footprint of Grand Junction.
"The ability to market ourselves and the Army in a positive way at a national event was great for our unit and the Army as a whole" he said.
The USAMU worked alongside the Denver Recruiting Battalion, the Grand Junction Recruiting Center, and the Army's Science, Technology, Engineering and Math vehicle, to create a dialog with concert goers. The trailer puts people in a scenario where they can put their knowledge and problem-solving abilities to the test.
Ortega explained that the USAMU is a great tool because of people's interest in marksmanship.
"We would really love to have some more demonstrations and clinics at local gun ranges or gun clubs and bring out [centers of influence] and VIPS from the local community," Ortega said. "There is nothing more exhilarating after seeing one of our demonstrations and then being able to get behind the gun and shoot with one of our team members."
The U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit is part of the U.S. Army Accessions Brigade, Army Marketing and Research Group and is tasked with enhancing the Army's recruiting effort, raising the standard of Army marksmanship and furthering small arms research and development to enhance the Army's overall combat readiness.


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Graphic Festival Lacks the Sparkle of Comic-Con, but That's How Its Fans Prefer It
Two months ago, the annual New York Comic Con filled the Javits Center to capacity for three days with its deluge of graphic arts, movie stars and comic obsessives. But for graphic artist Charles Burns, this Saturday's single-day Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, to be held beneath Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg, is the event of the season.
"My feeling is that anything in a church basement is going to be good," said Mr. Burns, veteran of the highly influential alternative comic omnibus "Raw" and author of the current best-selling graphic novel "X'ed Out."
Saturday's event, the brainchild of Gabriel Fowler, owner and operator of the Williamsburg comic-book store Desert Island, is a departure in both attitude and business model from the more-is-more aesthetic of gatherings like New York Comic Con and Comic-Con International in San Diego.
"Ours is outrageously small compared to Comic-Con," Mr. Fowler said. "Part of my interest in this is that I have no idea how other people do this. I'm totally making this up, and that's part of the fun for me."
Instead of exclusively addressing the bottom line by pre-selling scores of folding-table spots to dealers on a first-come, first-served basis, Mr. Fowler and co-curator Bill Kartalopoulos solicited interest from a wish list they complied of fellow enthusiasts and purveyors to fill the 40 spaces that the church's common area can accommodate.
"If we just accepted the first 40 people through the door, they wouldn't necessarily be the best people, they'd just be the best people at self-promotion," Mr. Fowler said. "We wanted to basically hand pick those 40 people so that it would end up being a room that was the most potent concentration of art work that we could get."
That selectivity carries over to a list of visiting artists including Mr. Burns, Lynda Barry and Adrian Tomine, and to scheduled discussion topics like "How Nancy Is: The Semiotics of the Gag," a symposium seeking to parse out the lingering appeal of the late Ernie Bushmiller's iconic and profoundly banal mainstream comic strip "Nancy."
"We're trying to push it all a little further into intellectual territory," Mr. Fowler said.
Like Mr. Burns and most of the artists who either emerged from or were inspired by 1980s alternative comics publications like "Raw" and "Weirdo," the Brooklyn-based Mr. Tomine doesn't draw a hard line between adult vocation and childhood avocation. "When I first walked into the show last year, I had this weird wave of nostalgia, like these church-basement comic conventions my parents would take me to when I was a kid," he said. "I'd be going anyway, whether as a professional or as a fan."
Mr. Burns also noted the appeal of making a social occasion out of a medium that, at least in practice, is not conducive to one-on-one interaction. "Doing comics, and I guess any kind of writing, is a solitary activity," he said. The Williamsburg gathering, "feels intimate and relaxed."
It's a sense of community that, for Mr. Fowler, grew from his experiences hanging out in sympathetic retail environments during his youth in Florida. "Record stores, comic stores—those were places that have their own personality," he said. "They're mom-and-pop stores that are usually almost a medium of expression for the owner."
Today, his own goals as retailer and event organizer remain inseparable from his aesthetic passions. "It's kind of the opposite of a populist model," he said. "I'm just trying to not be afraid to express myself through my own store, as opposed to opening a general-interest store that attempts to please everyone on the planet. The festival is just an attempt to make a one-time-a-year freak-out session that has all that."
According to Ms. Barry, perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip "Ernie Pook's Comeeka," small comics gatherings like this one usually include an intimate exchange of work along with fellowship. "When you get together with other cartoonists, people often have tiny little handmade books in their bag that they give you" she said.
Ms. Barry, Mr. Burns and Mr. Tomine all acknowledged the primacy of the similar self-published work that preceded their alliances with publishers and other commercial patrons. "That's been the starting point for most of the stuff that I've come to love over the years," Mr. Tomine said. "A good part of the artists I love started out in some capacity in the self-published world."
And despite today's point-and-click allure of comic-book blogs and individual artist websites, self-published graphic art remains popular with today's emerging comics practitioners.
"What's really nice about comics is that it is something you can do yourself," Mr. Burns said. "You can walk down to the copy center and staple together your comic and have something very accessible. That hasn't changed."


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