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Hardly a day goes by without a new story dealing with mistreatment of individuals during the notorious Bush war on "terrorism." The full extent of what Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld did the to the human rights movement will probably not be known until years have passed and researchers have conducted extensive historical investigation into the entire process of dehumanizing people in the quest for "security." A witness has told a British court that suspects were tortured in Pakistan and then interrogated y M15 agents. The Home Office is investigating claims that UK intelligence services colluded with Pakistan interrogators in abusing the rights of suspects. An M15 agent, known as Witness B, admitted this in a court of law. He said that Binyam Mohamed, a British citizen, was beaten and tortured by Pakistan agents and then told if he cooperated "he would get more lenient treatment."
Donald Rumsfeld used to laugh off charges about mistreatment of suspects and joke that he too had to stand on his feet during the day. Binyam Mohamed is still in Guantanamo and President Obama has not yet moved to have this man returned to the United Kingdom. It is about time the United States government faced up to the disgrace of the Bush years and released those who are innocent.


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By Joe Brewin
Tomas Rosicky says a regular run in the side is the secret to his outstanding recent form.
The Czech international has been one of Arsenal's stand-out performers since the turn of the year and was influential again as Arsène Wenger's side came from behind to beat Newcastle on Monday.
Rosicky signed a new contract ahead of that match and he was delighted to pledge his future to the Club.
"I am very happy," he told Arsenal Player. "I wanted to continue here and I am enjoying it very much so I am glad that I am staying.
"I am trying my best and enjoying the run of games that I am playing. Sometimes in the past it has been difficult when you play once in two weeks, sometimes it is not easy.
"You can see now that I have the rhythm of the games and that is what I needed. As you can see I think I am contributing well and I want to continue like that.
"My fitness is obviously a big thing too; the first step is obviously to play football. I have got that right now, I had the chance and I took it. Obviously I would like to stay in the team and playing like I am right now."
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By Joe Brewin
Arsène Wenger believes Manchester City's toughest test is still to come if they are to emulate Arsenal's unbeaten season.
The 'Invincibles' recorded their incredible feat in 2003/04 - the first of its kind in the Premier League - but the current leaders are going well after recording 11 wins and two draws from their opening 13 fixtures.
Wenger has been impressed by Roberto Mancini's side but he thinks they could slip up at some point.
"As long as they have not been beaten then yes [it's possible to go unbeaten]," he told Arsenal Player. "It looks unlikely but you never know.
"You have to go through the whole winter when you play in the Champions League - we did that. In the FA Cup as well, the Semi-Finals of the Champions League - to do that together is very difficult.
"But I think in the modern game you need a bit of luck - watching the game against Liverpool they could have been beaten.
"Overall hopefully [they don't go unbeaten] because we want to get as close as possible to them and it's important to beat them."
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Hello all,
I work for an American technology company, and one of my responsibilities is developing a training and certification program for our employees. I have lots of prior experience developing technical training, but until now I've had the luxury of being able to assume that my audience is mostly native English speakers. However, this training is going to also be used by our offices in places like India and Poland. The curriulum will be delivered as a series of self-paced, online courses (using Moodle), with a local mentor for answering questions. I've already completed most of the written materials and we are going to begin work on video supplements.
Before getting moving on that, though (really I should have done this a while ago), I thought I would ask here and see if anyone had suggestions or resources that I should keep in mind. Most of the advice I've found when searching online has to do with developing ESL materials specifically, whereas my subject matter is very different.
Most of what I've got so far is pretty intuitive...
For video materials:
* Take care to speak slowly and clearly
* Include subtitles
* Use graphics
For text materials:
* Take care to write at something like a 6th grade level (this one's really tough for me, to be honest, and I think I'm going to have to revise a lot of what I have)
* Use graphics
Anything else people would suggest?
I'm also curious what people think about the optimal balance between text and video for non-native speakers. On the one hand, it's easier for a non-native speaker to read than listen (that's my understanding, at least), but on the other, I am very keen to avoid "text fatigue" from students being bombarded with gobs of reading in a stretch. There are also hands-on exercises and quizzes, but there's still a lot of text to get through in parts, so my reasoning is that it's a net-positive to at least give students a choice between watching a presentation and/or reading text for some of the longer topics. Does that seem sound?
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New Senate bill imposes punishment for trafficking firearm to prohibited person
Paul Joseph Watson
March 1, 2013
A draconian new gun control bill in the US Senate could see people who unknowingly sell guns to pot smokers be sent to jail for up to 20 years.
S. 54, or the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT), would impose a 20-year prison term if you planned (conspired) to purchase a firearm in order to give or raffle it to a person who, unbeknownst to you, is a prohibited person, reports Gun Owners of America.
Under 18 U.S.C. 922(d)(3) and (g)(3), marijuana smokers are considered prohibited persons because it is illegal to possess a firearm if you are an unlawful user of any controlled substance.
The list of prohibited persons would also include some 150,000 veterans because a psychiatrist appointed a fiduciary to oversee their financial affairs.
The bill would also make someone a prohibited person if they are barred from owning a gun under state or local law, meaning citizens of places like New York and Chicago, who have to obtain licenses to own guns, would automatically become prohibited persons.
Why do anti-gun senators and representatives continue to push language which they know is fatally flawed - just so they can say they broke the back of the gun lobby? asks GOA, which is encouraging its members to contact their Senators and urge them to vote against S.54.
Despite the seemingly draconian nature of the bill, the New York Times recently described Leahys legislation as a modest gun safety measure.
The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday postponed its work on gun control legislation in order to give senators more time to generate support for the bills, including Leahys legislation as well as California Senator Dianne Feinsteins controversial assault weapons ban.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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Tanvil; No matter your position on pot, (in which the gov brings into this country) you need to see where this is going.
Manditory piss testing as a 'pre-qualification' to own a gun.


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Hi everyone. My name is Will. I'm guessing most of you on here don't know me but some of you might. I have been around on the CT.net for a while as well as the BHG and am a member of the Mountain Garrison.
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|A good way to find out how well your present handicapping system is working is to run one of the races (usually at the end of the series) as a Pursuit (stern-chaser) race. If your handicapping is close to correct, everyone "should" - barring major incidents - finish within minutes of each other..
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......I think awarding a first place flag for consistently inadequate boat preparation, tactics, and crew work won't make anyone a better sailor.
A better idea might have a racing class and a casual cruising class for those who don't want to put the effort in to win.
I've had a lot of experience in handicap and OD racing. Early in my racing life I was racing at a club where racers weren't that good including me. For whatever reason I climbed to the top of the fleet in short order, winning a lot racing with my wife and 2 girls as crew. The next year the fleet captain institutes results based handicapping similar to what others propose here. To start the year my PHRF number was to be adjusted 65 sec/mi from my closest competitor. I immediately joined another club where the racing was more competitive. I got the message. 4 years later the 20 boat racing program at my old club was gone. 15 years later none of the original 20 are still racing with exception of me. There might be a lesson there. I've seen a study where over a 3 year period 35% of a 20 boat OD class never win a race or place in the top3, 40% rarely win or finish in the top 3 and 25% win 90% of the races.
I have had my head handed to me many times on the race course since. I win some and I am consistently in the money. I work hard to make it happen. My skills are light years ahead of 20 years ago and still need work. Winning is always a moving target which keeps you on your toes.
I think awarding a first place flag for consistently inadequate boat preparation, tactics, and crew work won't make anyone a better sailor.
A better idea might have a racing class and a casual cruising class for those who don't want to put the effort in to win.
You're doing the right thing - it sounds like you need more data.
Personally, I don't think a Skipper's handicap will ever work, simply beacuse you can't track people swapping boats. Besides, depending upon the course set, how well a boat does often has very little to do with the skipper and more to do with the crew - fast kite hoists, quick tacks, no foul-ups, etc.
The system we use for Classic Yachts over here - where you can have everything from +50' Gaffers to 26' Folkboats racing together - is a straight time-based Performance Handicap, and there is well-proven software available that will do all the hard work for you:
Top Yacht Software
The web site isn't flash (personally, I think the people there are too busy doing real work), but the software geniunely IS used for both club local and major race events all over the world.
I hope this helps.
Thanks everyone
Thanks to all of you for your input. Tomorrow is our first race day of the season and the initial thought is we will stick with PHRF for the Spring season and adjust for the Fall season and see how it works out.
One thing: I worked out some Skipper's handicaps based on some old data I had and two things jumped out at me. The Skippers in the very long race (25 miles) were grouped together quite well but in the very short race (2.1 miles) were way apart in seconds per mile. In retrospect, the short race was unusual for us and was most likely a very light air day so the small, light boats did real well and the rest of us were way behind.
If I remember this Fall, I'll update the thread.
|We prefer not tinkering with the ratings too, but we think having lots of lazy people come out to race is better than having one boat sail the course by itself. The handicapper needs to apply some judgement, so as to get more people racing, but still be fair to the people who sail well. If you've got a foul bottom, a rating assigned after the first month's results isn't going to help you in the second month unless you clean it off.
I don't like the handicap beyond the PHRF rating because a lot of people are just lazy and it rewards them
I have another friend with a J24 who always finishes last and when i have had time i try and help him out BUT when its two much trouble to even clean the bottom what you gonna do ?
|Our club did a similar maneuver in a similar effort to boost interest and attendance. We scored everyone based on their standard PHRF handicap the first month of the season. Then, based on those results, we assigned a "Club" handicap to apply for races the following month(s). The head of the Race Committee worked out the numbers. As I recall, our rating was adjusted by about 45 seconds per mile, because we'd been beating everybody. Others might have had their rating moved in the other direction to compensate for a variety of issues. (Old sails, old crew, foul bottom, sagging forestay...) The adjustments meant that if we made any mistakes, like getting a mediocre start, not tacking on a header, or taking too long in a tack, we got beaten. If the others got a good start and sailed the favored side of the course, they prevailed. Making it possible for more people to win made the racing more appealing for more of our members, who came out to race instead of going home to cut the grass Wednesdays. It meant we had to stay on our toes if we wanted to win. After several seasons of this, an interesting thing happened. More and more people came out to race. They improved, because they raced more. The club handicaps became smaller, and, essentially unnecessary. Now we have enough boats to run both spinnaker and non-spinnaker fleets. We haven't used the Club ratings over the past few years, but they certainly seemed to work to get our act in gear.
We had a similar situation at our club years ago, and for a season (or a series... I forget) what we did was back calculate a bunch of results to the same corrected time and assigned the resultant average rating to everyone.
It worked alright, but for some reason everything reverted soon after.....
We looked into the time-on-time method and it certainly has some benefits to allow boats of significant ratings race together but it just doesn't go far enough.
Dividing into pros vs newbies wouldn't work either since a big field is 6 or 8 boats at a time.
As far as golf handicaps, the system we would adopt would still require the good sailors to sail good to beat the not so good ones and the not so good ones would have at least some chance to win now and then. We feel it will bring some fun back into the day for all those that just have no chance now of winning and of course, we will adjust the handicaps for the not so good now and then as then get better to not allow them to win just due to their handicap rating.
Again, have any of you tried this and if so what are the pitfalls?
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Mr and Mrs de Klerk, members of the Board of the FW de Klerk Foundation and all esteemed guests present –
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to stand in front of you tonight to receive, on behalf of Studietrust, the FW DE KLERK GOODWILL AWARD for 2013.
It is indeed a great honour for us to be recognized in this very special way for the work that we've been privileged to do through Studietrust over the last 39 years. Momentous years. Years of bitter conflict, struggle and devastation… but also of opportunity and change! For Studietrust the opportunity to identify and recognize potential, youth potential, crying for affirmation instead of denial, for acceptance instead of rejection, for an open door towards education, development and fulfillment instead of a life of frustration and failure…
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My personal thanks also to my friend, Mike Morapeli, the patron of Studietrust, to my inspired successor, Murray Hofmeyr, together with Studietrust's staff, board members, donors and private sector partners, who over the years supported Studietrust in its urgent goodwill quest to give young people a new song to sing. A song of empowerment, achievement and dedication to follow our dream, so passionately shared with you Mr de Klerk, for a truly new South Africa with mutual respect among all of us working in unity to counter the many threats to our constitution and to unlock and realize the great potential of this land, especially of its young people.
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I only brought the question up, as I knew it would stir a variety of emotions among the board members.
I for one applaud the efforts to keep this forum as honorable and approachable as possible.
We come here to share and enjoy a common passtime/passion and make some friends along the way.
I also think that the mods here should stand a take a bow once and a while, who take on what sometimes may appear to be a thankless job which for many is voluntary. BRAVO.


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A signature, some handshakes, and four days of talks have raised hopes for an end to the Zimbadwean political crisis that was created by President Mugabe when he refused to accept the decision of his people they wanted someone else to lead the nation. The economy is in ruins, members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) are still reeling after the attacks on them from Mugabe's thugs, but there is a fragile hope some type of resolution of the conflict is still possible. Mugabe and his opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai, shook hands, but the question still remans as to whether Mugabe is willing to cede some power to the MDC.
There is no question, despite the bravado of challenging the world, President Mugabe is weaker than at any other point in his political career. His nation is under tremendous pressure from the outside world and from fellow African leaders for peace in Zimbabwe. But, as always, the issue comes down to the personality of the little tyrant who has never been willing to share power with anyone. Can he move away from the abyss of disaster and for once in his life act presidential?


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== Runtime and Library Support ==
Revision as of 01:35, 6 May 2008
What things need to be tested as part of this benchmark?
Fundamental Concepts
Most of these can't easily be tested.
- regular types
- basic math
- basic flow control
- dereference (pointer/iterator is a regular type that can be dereferenced)
- type conversion
- performance of type conversions (known to be a problem on certain compilers)
Language Concepts
- abstraction
- inheritance
- function calls
- exceptions
- rtti
- function objects
- template instantiation
- constructors
- Are empty constructors correctly optimized away?
Simple Idioms
These are building blocks, with more than one way to express them. These are commonly reused things, usually found in headers like "inlines.h", "math_utils.h", etc.
- swap
- absolute value
- min/max
- switch versus if/else trees
- pin values to range (max, min combo)
- rotate bits
- byte order reversal
- round up/down
- round float to int
- thresholding
- pointer alignment tests and comparisons
Complex Idioms
- hand coded memcpy, memmove, memset, memcmp
- simple types and user defined types
- arrays and containers
- safe bool cast from a smart pointer
- convolution
- 1D and 2D
- matrix multiplication
- min/max of a sequence
- summation of a sequence
- sorting a sequence
- reversing a sequence
- rotating members of a sequence
- find/search sequence
- lookup tables
- interleave/deinterleave buffers
- transpose block
- rotate a block +- 90 and 180 degrees
- histogram building
- stack like operations
- bitarrays and manipulations of them
- complex type and template
Runtime and Library Support
- allocation / deletion
- new, delete
- malloc, free
- mathlib
- string manipulation routines
- strcpy, strchr, strcat, etc.
- memory routines
- memcpy, memmove, memset, memcmp, etc.
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I like the artwork (and the color scheme definitely does work), but the androgynous nature of the bovine in question (beard *and* udders?) has me wondering a bit...
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Made me think of the paper chain people on fire. Great idea, cute design.. Birds are too simply drawn for me though.
Good luck!
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Hope you enjoy this.
Re: Different Taste
wasn't there a movie about vampires who drank ketchup instead of blood?
Re: Baa Baa Bad Sheep
Love your style.
Re: The Smart Cookie
I guess this will win. Nice work guys!
Re: Feathered Friends
This is very well done and just a plain awesome design! I hope it wins!! GMV!! The raptor is so pretty!! And, you may have forgotten, the raptors evolved some feathers in JP3!!
Re: Poo-too-weet
I'm so tired of low-grade shirts making it to the top. It's really refreshing to see a quality tee like this in the fog. GMV Good luck.
raerae104 wrote:wasn't there a movie about vampires who drank ketchup instead of blood?
Oh is it? Not sure about that. What is the movie name? Let me check it out.
Re: Creepiest Triplets Ever
Congrats and voted for creepiest triplet award.
Hehe...I like the reversal of fortune here that things took for the wolf. Also the fact that the sheep have a "Dude, that's messed up" look about them.
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Thank you all for the wonderful comment, and thank you for the valid critiques. I appreciate everyones input and support. Thanks again, all!
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Lol Nice! I want one!! For realzies :D
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The owl is so awesome! I want one of my very own!
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When I went to college, I had to catch the bus VERY early in the morning to make the trek to class...and one time I was robbed at that early hour...
Punctuality is overrated.. :D
Awesome artwork!
The little birds on fire are so cute!
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6 colors on royal blue.
Re: happiness
This is undoubtedly true...
Haha, cute!
Re: Nuts
Hahah, nice!
That is one hardcore sheep!
Re: Werewolf Astronaut
this is what would really happen if a werewolf were on the moon.
Re: Ginger!
i love gingers.
Re: Spork
I really like this one, but seeing the thumbnail I would really enjoy this piece more without the fork. I know it's supposed to be a simple joke, but I think it would be a bit more comical just focusing on the confusion and not what the fork is feeling. Maybe I'm just crazy. I dunno. I really do like this shirt a lot regardless.
Re: a monster in disguise
I love the eyes... they look so hungry.
Re: Ugly Duckling
I guess I will comment on this one since its mine! 6 votes thanks people you have class! All 6 of you. I am related to Hans Christian Anderson... who wrote the ugly duckling so I am paying tribute to an ancestor... and really I think it came out nice. Would I wear it? no... honestly I am not a duck person. but there it is, I promise to never do "cute" again.
Re: The Odd Ball
hey we had the same idea (:
please, take a loot if you want
Re: If Wishes Were Shurikens
@walmazan: Thanks! Coming from you, that's a huge compliment. -:] I wish it was doing better, but such is life. -:]
@blanked: No. We'd all be awesome. -:D
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The more I look at this, the more I like it. I really dig the different line styles that make up the lion's design. It's visually stimulating and very intricate, but also beautiully cohesive. Kudos. -:]
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A Texas Womanâs University graduate will exhibit new work in a Dallas gallery next month.
Sunny Jacquet, who earned both her bachelorâs and masterâs degrees in art at TWU, will have new paintings in a solo show at Norwood Flynn Gallery from Aug. 11 to Sept. 8.
In âPear-licious,â Jacquet returns to the theme of her favorite fruit, pears, in this new body of surrealistic, whimsical paintings. In these paintings, Jacquet explores the transformation of the flat surface into depth, fooling the eye.
âI attempt to investigate what is, or how far I can push my limit to create realisms that mimic pictorial reality, and also recognize a broader and deeper understanding of the meaning of what is real,â Jacquet says in her artistâs statement. âAt the same time, I hope to create both aesthetic and intellectual interest in my paintings, to invite the viewers into my world of imagination and artistic aspirations.â
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Swenson has had national and international acclaim for his sculptures. A graduate of the University of North Texas and a member of Dentonâs Good/Bad Art Collective in the late â90s, Swenson first gained international attention when his work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Swensonâs works often present fantastic vignettes of animals ensnared in strange, sometimes devastating circumstances. Or his creatures are caught in quiet, poetic scenes that evoke the beauty and tragedy of nature, and our own human condition.
His works take months, sometimes years, to complete, making new work by Swenson rare.
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Quick update. We were the first people to put a deposit on this litter, so the breeder agreed we could have first pick. I knew I wanted a male and there were only two males in this litter (one of which was long-coated). Went to see the puppies for the first time yesterday and to pick our guy.
Really liked both male puppies. They were confident, social and very people oriented. The long coated puppy in particular was very people oriented, a big personality and the more dominant of the two, although the other male was certainly not submissive. Unfortunately, neither showed a lot of prey drive, so I'm pessimistic about being able to possibly try SAR with this dog. But he's not even 7 weeks old, so he may still surprise me.
If I'd picked solely on temperment I probably would have gone with the long coated shepherd, who had a little more drive and was very people oriented. However, I definitely prefer the look of traditional WGSL dogs and IMHO the short coated puppy is going to develop into a really handsome boy. And the guy we picked will maybe be a little calmer and more independent.
At any rate, I'm very excited about being able to bring our puppy home in about 10 days.
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|I'm not into show lines. Karl sent me a pup from his last Zafra litter, I had requested a strong working pup and she has not disappointed me. Marion had also recommended a pup from Java. I think you would not go wrong with a pup from either bitch, if the stud is what you want. ie. show or working lines. Karl had the unique ability to combine both and still keep great dogs. My girl has never been formally trained, but she does read my mind and follows my old girls lead. (Another one of Karl's dogs) She is what a GSD should be IMO
Thanks for the info Cliffson...I had heard that some Kirschental dogs could be sensitive and I wonder if that is the effect of kennel life. We got Havs at eight weeks and he has been pretty solid. We had a major crisis which resulted in complete turmoil for a year right after he turned one. Consequently he is not as comfortable in public as I had hoped he would be--I'm talking about pubs, restaurants and crowded parks but that's a high bar. At home he is amazing and welcomed dozens of health care workers over the course of my husband's recovery. He's close tobombproof when doing Nosework and enjoys staying at nice hotels..he particularly likes room service.
It's pretty funny when he stays at a hotel. You can tell he is on vacation. He doesn't alert to hallway noises and sleeps on our bed instead of thresholds--we bring a sheet from home.
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|Well if you get your dog at Olympia, I know that Gina aways takes the puppies one at a time to spend some time with them in there home. hope to see you this Saturday so you can see Echo and one of his sisters and talk.
|John C.
It is pretty amazing when you think of the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of GSD out there that you can post on this forum and run into someone who has a puppy from these two dogs and someone else who owns a close relative. I guess the number of people who really try to research the various lines and kennels and do their best to find a dog that would be a good match for them is much smaller. I really appreciate everyone's help and generosity.
Cliffson, thanks for the insightful comments and the benefits of your experience. Our plan would be to get a puppy and bring him home at 8-9 weeks, where he will definitely not be spending his time in a kennel. In fact, although we started our puppy search almost a month ago, we have ruled out actually getting a puppy until late May or early June, since we are planning to spend 7-8 days traveling to Portland, Oregon for our daughter's graduation from college and some sightseeing, and would not want to get a new puppy only to immediately put him in a kennel.
|If getting a puppy try to make sure you can get your pup between 8 and 10 weeks.....I have seen and worked two different Kirschental dogs in past 10 years that were brought from the Kirschental kennel ( while Karl was still active) at 5 months and 6 months. I feel they showed the effects of kennel life during puppy developmental periods. I have seen many Kirschental dogs that were received at 8 to 10 weeks and had the traits you are looking for. Good Luck!
|I think that Java might actually be Havoc's "aunt"! Small world.
|John C.
Great, thanks for the replies. My wife and I have visited Olympia Kennels, got to meet the owners and both Java and Bara. We were very impressed with the owners and their dogs. And of course it was great that they had both dogs on the premises. It's nice to have our initial impressions confirmed by a current owner of a puppy from this breeding, as well as two other owners of pups from the Kirschental lines.
I've been trying to do some research on my own, and I have to say I've read nothing but good things about Kirschental dogs. And they seem like they would be a perfect fit for us. We love the looks of the WGSL dogs, but also want a dog that's trainable, loves to work, is healthy and has a solid temperment. Everything I've read about Kirschental dogs seems to tick all these boxes. These dogs all have a working background (HGH not Schutzhund) and come from a breeder that has been CONSISTENTLY producing quality dogs for 50 years. Surely that kind of depth and consistency has to count for something.
|My boy Havoc is closely related to Java. Great dog. Loves Nosework, loves his family. Aloof towards strangers but a goof with friends. Excellent companion who has gotten more and more affectionate with age--he was three in December.
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Bara von der Sandsteinkust and Java vom Kirschental?
I've done a little research on the Kirschental lines and like that, while they have the looks of WGSL dogs, they were all actively involved in herding, and the fact that the Kirschental Kennels has been breeding dogs for 50 years. I've also read somewhere that Kirschental dogs have the reputation for being somewhat handler sensitive, but do have a strong desire to please their handler.
However, I know almost nothing about the various GSD bloodlines and would love to get the input of breeders and others who know far more about this than me.
I did get to meet both of these dogs and a 4 month old puppy from a prior paring of these two dogs and was impressed by their calm demeanor (although I suspect that none of these dogs possess over the top drives).
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This book is about writing software that makes the most effective use of the system you're running on -- code that interfaces directly with the kernel and core system libraries, including the shell, text editor, compiler, debugger, core utilities, and system daemons. The majority of both Unix and Linux code is still written at the system level, and Linux System Programming focuses on everything above the kernel, where applications such as Apache, bash, cp, vim, Emacs, gcc, gdb, glibc, ls, mv, and X exist.
Written primarily for engineers looking to program (better) at the low level, this book is an ideal teaching tool for any programmer. Even with the trend toward high-level development, either through web software (such as PHP) or managed code (C#), someone still has to write the PHP interpreter and the C# virtual machine. Linux System Programming gives you an understanding of core internals that makes for better code, no matter where it appears in the stack. Debugging high-level code often requires you to understand the system calls and kernel behavior of your operating system, too.
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Robert Love has been a Linux user and hacker since the early days. Heis active in, and passionate about, both the Linux kernel and GNOMEdesktop communities. His recent contributions to the Linux kernelinclude work on the kernel event layer and inotify. GNOME-relatedcontributions include Beagle, GNOME Volume Manager, NetworkManager,and Project Utopia. Currently Robert works in the Open Source ProgramOffice at Google. As an author, Robert is responsible for Linux Kernel Development(SAMS), now in its second edition, and Linux System Programming(O'Reilly). He is also a coauthor of the fifth edition of O'Reilly'sLinux in a Nutshell. He's a Contributing Editor for Linux Journal, haswritten numerous articles, and has been invited to speak around theworld on Linux. Robert graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. inMathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science. Hailing from SouthFlorida, he currently calls Boston home.
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I quickly read though this book over a weekend. It has a smooth and comfortable flow. I have been a Unix/Linux systems programmer and administrator for over 20 years, and I found the approach in this book clear and concise. The underlying concepts were fleshed out well, and the heavy duty details were left for some of the other more in depth books out there.If you want a good basic understanding of how programs "talk" to the kernel this is a great book.
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This is what I was looking for, for a long time. A succint book, not bloated and with code that does require arcane libraries to run, for me it was a godsend. Got the ebook edition, worth every penny. I was lacking in understanding of how the linux os really works under the hood and the book quenched my thirst thoroughly. It is a book definatly for beginners, so advanced users wont find that much of a challenge. For beginners its a fantastic read. Two thumbs up, quenched my thirst, looking forward to the next release!
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The reviewer who said 'Beware' not only didn't read the book (as he readily admits) but didn't read the description thoroughly. Here is the offending line:Even with the trend toward high-level development, either through web software (such as PHP) or managed code (C#), someone still has to write the PHP interpreter and the C# virtual machineThis book in no way covers C# or PHP. It is strictly system level programming in C.
Good book for userspace developers
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I liked Robert's book. This is a good book (quick reference) for userland developers. I liked his approach.In my opinion, he could improve his book going deeper on some examples, adding sockets chapter, mix more userspace and kernelspace.I agree with last comment too, there are others books around this topic that could explain more in details some topics.In the Bibliography section, the author did not include two of the most important books that cover related material: 1. "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment," by W. Richard Stevens, and 2. "Programming with POSIX Threads," by David R. Butenhof.
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Global economies and global leaders are failing the people. The current turmoil happening in the markets has shown this to be sadly true.
During times of economic growth the problems were hidden or mostly ignored. Now that the depression has led to millions of people joining the unemployed ranks, economists need to sit up and take note. This present model is not working.
During the industrial revolution the ordinary working person traded the anxieties and ups and downs of having ones own small business for the security of full time employment. For that deal to work, it seems, the worker had to give up all rights.
Sure the trade unions have won some rights back. But during the present economic times the trade unions are back-pedaling rapidly and many of those rights are being eroded again.
The original deal went something like this. You can kick me around, mistreat me, pay me a slave wage as long as you employ me for the duration of my work life and then pay me a below cost of living pension.
A few people managed to start at the slave level and work their way up, but not that many. Mostly the top positions have gone to the previous ruling class. Those are the ones who can afford the right education and to pay for the favours required to reach the top. How do you think George W Bush got his MBA from Harvard Business School?
This system is still in place. The ruling class, now no longer royalty but represented by wealth, continues to pick up the good bits leaving the scraps for ordinary people. And even the scraps can disappear leaving the people without anything.
What in fact has happened is that the worker has lost his job. First he lost all his rights, now he has even lost his job and this while the ruling class are still retaining their jobs and receiving enormous bonuses.
But that's not all. As economies grew the hunt for profits has increasingly become the main reason for businesses to exist. To maximise profits the overheads had to be cut. Guess who fell into overheads. You got it. The workers. I always want to vomit when some self-important CEO proclaims that his staff are their biggest asset.
As GDP grew and countries became wealthier, no such growth and wealth distribution happened in the lower ranks of the people with other words the large base of the pyramid.
A prime example of this is South Africa. During recent years economic growth hovered around the 5% and unemployment at the same time at about 40%. All this economic growth has done is hugely enrich a small band of people who managed to be the first in the queue when the tap got turned on.
Not only is the global economy not serving the people of the world but education is failing the people. Before the industrial revolution the ordinary people learned their trades and professions while working. They learnt everything about it, the skills as well as how to manage the money.
Nothing about the education system nowadays teaches young people how to survive in the modern world. All preparation goes into ensuring the school leaver can enter a college or university or to become a worker in a factory.
Not much effort is put into equipping the school leaver with skills to earn a living on their own. With other words the education system produces drones that the global economy can use to further enrich the few leaders pulling the economic strings.
Yet the modern economy has moved away from providing large scale employment. In the USA the unemployed numbers are nearing 10 million. But none of these people are able or have the skills to make a living on their own. They have never been taught or encouraged to be independent.
It's broke. In more ways than one. One thing is for certain though, the ordinary people out there will have to take back responsibility for their lives and start making things happen for themselves again.
We know one thing for sure. The leaders of the global economy are not going to do it for the workers. They haven't for the last few hundred or so years and they are certainly not going to do it now. They haven't even bothered to reduce their huge bonuses while scores of people lose their jobs.
We all need to wake up to the realities and start doing it for ourselves again.


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Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy most often gets its power from X-rays, but the power can also come from protons or other types of energy.
The term "radiation therapy" most often refers to external beam radiation therapy. During this type of radiation, the high-energy beams come from a machine outside of your body that aims the beams at a precise point on your body. During a different type of radiation treatment called brachytherapy (brak-e-THER-uh-pee), radiation is placed inside your body.
Radiation therapy damages cells by destroying the genetic material that controls how cells grow and divide. While both healthy and cancerous cells are damaged by radiation therapy, the goal of radiation therapy is to destroy as few normal, healthy cells as possible.
More than half of all people with cancer receive radiation therapy as part of their cancer treatment. Doctors use radiation therapy to treat just about every type of cancer. Radiation therapy is also useful in treating some noncancerous (benign) tumors.
Your doctor may suggest radiation therapy as an option at different times during your cancer treatment and for different reasons, including:
Side effects of radiation therapy depend on which part of your body is being exposed to radiation and how much radiation is used. You may experience no side effects, or you may experience several. Most side effects are temporary, can be controlled and generally disappear over time once treatment has ended.
Source: National Cancer Institute, 2007
Some side effects may develop later. For example, in rare circumstances a new cancer (second primary cancer) that's different from the first one treated with radiation may develop years later. Ask your doctor about potential side effects, both short and long term, that may occur after your treatment.
Before you undergo external beam radiation therapy, your health care team guides you through a planning process to ensure that radiation reaches the precise spot in your body where it's needed. Planning typically includes:
Radiation simulation. During simulation, your radiation therapy team works with you to find a comfortable position for you during treatment.
It's imperative that you lie still during treatment, so finding a comfortable position is vital. To do this, you'll lie on the same type of table that's used during radiation therapy. Cushions and restraints are used to position you in the right way and to help you hold still.
Your radiation therapy team will mark the area of your body that will receive the radiation. Depending on your situation, you may receive temporary marking with a marker or you may receive small permanent tattoos.
After the planning process, your radiation therapy team decides what type of radiation and what dose you'll receive based on your type and stage of cancer, your general health, and the goals for your treatment.
The precise dose and focus of radiation beams used in your treatment is carefully planned to maximize the radiation to your cancer cells and minimize the harm to surrounding healthy tissue.
External beam radiation therapy is conducted using a linear accelerator — a machine that directs high-energy beams of radiation into your body.
As you lie on a table, the linear accelerator moves around you to deliver radiation from several angles. The linear accelerator can be adjusted for your particular situation so that it delivers the precise dose of radiation your doctor has ordered.
You typically receive external beam radiation on an outpatient basis five days a week over a certain period of time. In most instances, treatments are usually spread out over several weeks to allow your healthy cells to recover in between radiation therapy sessions.
Expect each treatment session to last approximately 10 to 30 minutes. In some cases, a single treatment may be used to help relieve pain or other symptoms associated with more-advanced cancers.
During a treatment session, you'll lie down in the position determined during your radiation simulation session. You might be positioned with molds to hold you in place.
The linear accelerator machine may rotate around your body to reach the target from different directions. The machine makes a buzzing sound.
You'll lie still and breathe normally during the treatment, which takes only a few minutes. For some patients with lung or breast cancer, you might be asked to hold your breath while the machine delivers the treatment.
Your radiation therapy team stays nearby in a room with video and audio connections so that you can talk to each other. You should speak up if you feel uncomfortable, but you shouldn't feel any pain during your radiation therapy session.
If you're receiving radiation to a tumor, your doctor may have you undergo periodic scans after your treatment to see how your cancer has responded to radiation therapy.
In some cases, your cancer may respond to treatment right away. In other cases, it may take weeks or months for your cancer to respond. Some people aren't helped by radiation therapy.
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
At Mayo Clinic, doctors who specialize in radiation oncology care for people undergoing radiation therapy for cancer. Other experts may be included, as needed.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 800-446-2279 (toll-free) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
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Mayo Clinic doctors and scientists are studying new ways to use radiation therapy to treat cancer.
Cancer research is conducted in coordination with the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives funding from the National Cancer Institute and is designated as a comprehensive cancer center — recognition for an institution's scientific excellence and multidisciplinary resources focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic authors on radiation therapy on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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Hi everyone!
I recently became interested in Buddhism, particularly Zen Buddhism.
I've bought a few books:
- Buddhism Plain & Simple
- The Teachings of the Buddha
- Siddhartha
I live in Miami, FL and we have a few Buddhist temples around here, and I'm actually going with a friend of mine to a local temple to take an introductory course to Zen living.
Is there anything you all recommend to read or do?
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Billy Baldwin heads over to Alec Baldwin's house to see if he needs help moving.
Brooklyn Decker makes a rare appearance in the photos.
Chris Noth and his baby bump.
David Beckham tries his hand at soccer/volleyball.
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I run steel cased ammo only in my ar though my ar is a 5.45 lol
Edit: for the couple months I had a colt barrel on mine it ran wolf perfectly with the original gas hole. It was a pencil profile 1 in 7 16inch barrel
as predicted --
now that the 'crunch' is in full swing --
the mall ninjas who thought all "steel cased ammo is crap" have changed their tune.
i wounder how many colts who are 'built for battle" and not a range toy are getting their gas ports opened up to run that crap wolf/tula right now?
you don't see the ninjas pulling out that "god chart" much anymore either , or saying they shoot 40,000 rounds a year on training--LOL
an el-cheapo SMG barrel and model 1 bolt can probably shoot all the ammo they got and then some and not even be worn--
i think our colt m4s got their barrels pulled @ around 6,000-7,000 rounds mostly due to throat erosion . we had quite a few of those MPI colt "god bolts" snap too.
at that time it seemed that colt was making the bolts extra hard to meet some obscure 50,000 round wear rule for m193. that didn't go over all that well in the m4s firing mode "0"--
so we rotated bolts and barrels like you change oil in your PU.
don't ever tell a ninja that though or you'll be banned for 'dissing' the god chart--LOL!
one mystery about the old ar/m16 to me is why some of them will run with that small .063 gas port and low pressure wold/tula ammo and others with the exact same set up need a bit more port.
my lmt 16" needed a tiny bit more, the LMT 14.5" no problem with the .063, i don't know what the DSA 14.5" has--but whatever it is --it sure runs good.
all the ninjas want you to know that if you open up a colt .063 port to a .078 to get it to run--you have just 'bubbaed up" that colt and are now an outcast--LOL
I run steel cased ammo only in my ar though my ar is a 5.45 lol
Edit: for the couple months I had a colt barrel on mine it ran wolf perfectly with the original gas hole. It was a pencil profile 1 in 7 16inch barrel
"Always forwards, never backwards." Erich Honecker
I've seen a few AR's and never seen a colt not run.. but I've seen lots of clones not run.. I don't run wolf in the AR, but I will run it in a AK anytime.. I guess the M-4 was after my time.. but the A2 rifle was a dam good rifle.. if I had to go to combat I'd rather have the A2/A4 anyday.. I'd rather have the 55 grain ammo for personal also.. I've seen a few bolt break also mostly at the cam pin hole.. and a lot of it due to running the old wolf.. with a Laquer coating.. from what I've seen it is mostly when a rifle is shot and the chamber has gotten hot and then the rifle is allowed to cool with a round melted in the chamber,, then the bolt cam pin is stressed.. Army's broken bolt would be a heat treat issue... as only brass case ammo is used.. B2B


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Do notation considered harmful
From HaskellWiki
1 Criticism
Haskell's do notation is popular and ubiquitous. However we shall not ignore that there are several problems. Here we like to shed some light on aspects you may not have thought about, so far.
1.1 DidacticsThe
This is wanted in order to simplify writing imperative style code fragments. The downsides are
- that, since notation is used almost everywhere, wheredotakes place, newcomers quickly believe that theIOnotation is necessary for doingdo,IO
- and that newcomers think, that is somehow special and non-functional, in contrast to the advertisement for Haskell being purely functional.IO
These misunderstandings let people write clumsy code like
do putStrLn "text"
instead of
putStrLn "text"
do text <- getLine return text
instead of
do text <- readFile "foo" writeFile "bar" text
instead of
readFile "foo" >>= writeFile "bar"
1.2 Library design
1.3 SafetyWith
The silent neglect of return values of functions. In an imperative language it is common to return an error code and provide the real work by side effects. In Haskell this cannot happen, because functions have no side effects. If you ignore the result of a Haskell function the function will even not be evaluated.The situation is different for
You can write
do getLine putStrLn "text"
The same applies to
do System.cmd.system "echo foo >bar"
Is this behaviour wanted?
In safety oriented languages there are possibilities to explicitly ignore return values
EVAL in Modula-3).
Haskell does not need this, because you can already write
do _ <- System.cmd.system "echo foo >bar" return ()
(>>) :: m () -> m a -> m a
2 See also
- Paul Hudak in Haskell-Cafe: A regressive view of support for imperative programming in Haskell
- Data.Syntaxfree on Wordpress: Do-notation considered harmful
- Things to avoid#do notation


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July 6, 2013 from 10am to 6pm – MIA Arts Center, KL The forth zine fest held in KL, Malaysia (i think)... Organized by nizang mosh | Type: zine, fest, and, distro, day
August 24, 2013 from 2pm to 7pm – Pete's Candy Store Pete's Mini Zine Fest #5 is happening! Hosted by the zine-n-comic duo, Andria Alefhi and Marguerite Dabaie. The longest running zine fest in Brooklyn strikes again! Come by, buy a beer from the bar… Organized by We'll Never Have Paris | Type: mini, zine, fest
August 31, 2013 at 11pm to September 1, 2013 at 5pm – San Francisco County Fair Building Aug 31st + Sept 1st 2013 11am-5pm *********** San Francisco County Fair Building 1199 9th Ave and Lincoln Way (in Golden Gate Park) Free Admission! Note: I am not the organizer of the event. I… Organized by | Type: zine, fest, in, sf
September 7, 2013 from 10am to 5pm – Unitarian Universalist Church Free and open to the public. This is a kid friendly event. Zine tabling! Zine presentations and tutorials! More info to come. There will be a screening of the movie "Rez" directed by Dominique DeL… Organized by Joyce Hatton | Type: zine, fest
October 5, 2013 from 11am to 6pm – Gay Community Center of Richmond We're excited to kick off another year of the Annual Richmond Zine Fest! We invite all zine-makers and readers and even the zine-curious to attend our full day of good friends, good, workshops, and a… Organized by Richmond Zine Fest | Type: zine, fest
March 1, 2014 from 1pm to 6pm – Barnard College Do you like zines? How about feminism? Because second annual NYC Feminist Zine Fest is coming up! Mark your calenders for March 1st, 2014 at 1-6pm. This time we will be at Barnard College in uptown M… Organized by Sari of Hoax | Type: zine, fest
May 2, 2014 from 10am to 4pm – Flywheel Arts Collective Pioneer Valley Zine Fest 2014 Where: Flywheel Arts Collective, 43 Main Street Easthampton, MA 01027 When: Saturday May 3, 10AM-4PM Pioneer Valley Zine Fest 2014 is happening! Organized by the Flywhe… Organized by Dianne Laguerta | Type: zine, fest
May 10, 2014 from 11am to 7pm – Chattanooga Public Library, 4th Floor Chattanooga Zine Fest will host vendor tables that feature a wide range of independent publications. Experienced and novice zine makers alike are welcome to participate! To apply, send an e-mail to c… Organized by | Type: zine, fest
June 28, 2014 from 1pm to 5pm – Neighborhood House PFZF is: -a fundraiser for Project Safe. -a rad event for feminist zinesters, artists, crafters, and creative folks of all genre to table, attend workshops, play raffles, and make new friends. Organized by Sarah Arr! | Type: zine, fest
July 25, 2014 at 7pm to July 26, 2014 at 7pm – Pete's Candy Store It's back! The annual fest-in-a-bar, July 25 (reading) and zine fest July 26 (2-7pm). Free! Celebrating the release of the new issue of WNHP. You know the place! In Brooklyn, word! PMZF 2014 Organized by We'll Never Have Paris | Type: zine, fest, and, also, reading


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I love my jetta, but I'm sick of driving automatic and am not sure of long term reliability. I'm about to hit 42k which puts the value of my car at about 13000, maybe 12.
Here is what I want: Manual transmission, 13000 maximum pricetag, somewhat good gas mileage, (~25 mpg+) dont really care about body style, as long as it isnt a crossover, suv or truck. I would like something alittle more reliable that the 2.0t (even though it is a good engine imo) Must be somewhat fun to drive...
Here is what I have in mind...
-an unmolested mk4 R32 (problem is anything in my range usually has 100k+)
-8th gen civic si (these also seem to be pretty high mileage in my price range)
-any 2.5L, mkv/mkvi volkswagen (i hear these are somewhat slow?)
-clean 5th gen prelude
What am I missing? How reliable are mk4 R32's? Should I totally rethink what I want?
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From Holland Food & Wine festival
28 September 2013 | Celebrate a Dutch feast with us on your KLM flight from Amsterdam this autumn.
From Holland with love
Travelling with KLM this October and November? You can count on receiving our usual Dutch warm welcome on board. But, these months we'll add in a lot of 'gezelligheid' (typical Dutch 'cosiness') too!
From music by Dutch artists during boarding and disembarking to orange roses by Frederique's Choice in our inflight shopping assortment - everything will be themed Holland!
And of course we'll indulge you with typical Dutch treats such as little meat balls, Bossche bollen (a sinful chocolate and cream dessert), and more.
Dutch dining
If you haven't sampled the cuisine of the Netherlands yet, let our new chef Onno Kokmeijer of Restaurant Ciel Bleu (of Amsterdam's Okura hotel) surprise you.
On longer flights, you can choose a meal with beef from De Vrije Koe – a foundation that is committed to bringing 'Blaarkop' cows back to Holland's meadows. Happily grazing near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, these cows are given time to live and grow at their own natural pace.
In Economy Class, you can also admire some of Holland's famous old paintings while you enjoy your meal.
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