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|2011-10-07, 12:41
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Junior Member
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I'm not sure if the threatened thing is right, I just can't think of any other explanation. Maybe he were too scared to tell them? But you're right this is a weak link in my logic.
|2011-10-07, 12:49
|Link #24922
Senior Member
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RK07 stated a lot of hints about the story in his last interview with Keya. He also said the manga version of the later chapters would probably have more clues as to what actually happened.
Some other things.
Rosa most certainly checked the door before going in. Remember, she goes to the trouble of getting the key and opening the door. She also had no need to lie about meeting Kinzo either, that is if she wasnt trying to hide something. The problem I have with Rosa in here is that it doesn't feel like she's covering for Shkanon. She even goes and fingers Kanon as being the most likely culprit in Jessica's murder and ostracizes the rest of the servants because she quite logically suspects something wrong with them. Well it could all be a some sort of eleventh dimensional chess thing going on to trick Battler
|2011-10-07, 12:54
|Link #24923
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
As for Will he was talking about someone else. Wanderer said it was George, I personally think Will was talking about Battler. He never got close enough to Shannon's body.
|2011-10-07, 13:20
|Link #24925
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
|2011-10-07, 13:27
|Link #24926
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
I already went over the Rosa points that Wanderer alluded too. There really isn't a simple way to describe her actions. She's "in it" because there's substancial evidence that points to her lying. She isnt in it because she logically points out weaknesses to Shkanon's plan! She mentions that we cant trust that Kanon is dead and that he's the most likely culprit to Jessica's murder. She points out that unless we find a body she wont discard the possibility that Kumasawa and Nanjo are alive.
We can try to actually go inside her head and think a reason that would fit both scenarios. For example, in the morning Genji wakes her up by telling her that he cant find any of the other adults. She joins him in the search till they arrive at the chapel, they find it open. Rosa checks inside and sees the corpses, freaks out and asks Genji about the door. She says that the door should have been closed like it usually was, Genji mentions that the door was locked when he checked the night before. He also mentions that the key wasn't where its usually stored. Rosa freaks out and remembers Maria's letter, goes out and verifies the contents of it.
e- Actually there would still be issues, she goes pretty in depth telling Battler that the door was closed when she arrive so no. It would have to be something else entirely.
e2- Eeeeh thinking a little deeper brought me into the possibility that she might be going along with them at first just to feign ignorance while still suspecting them. Isn't this something that she would do as a child to deflect some of her older siblings attentions? So assume she's innocent and a scenario like the above happened. She'll go trough a few possibilities like "Maria did it and re-sealed the letter, Someone else did and re-sealed the letter, the door was never locked" Obviously she'll never think that her child has a part of it (a mother would never implicate her daughter, as hinted in EP1). So she'll naturally assume that the most likely course of events was that she was lied to, so she goes along with the servants. As more and more evidence points at them as being complacent she locks them out and arms herself.
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|2011-10-07, 13:34
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Yasu Pity Party destroys her character and makes her just another in a sea of Japanese VN characters I've seen who hint at being dynamic and interesting while not actually being those things at all.
Although if Pity Me Yasu is herself just another fictional front for Badass Hoaxmaster Yasu, I retract that statement, because that person would be freaking awesome.
|2011-10-07, 13:40
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|2011-10-07, 14:03
|Link #24929
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
There was no need to go over the windows in every case because they basically skimmed through the six rooms, but that means it is implied they are in the same condition. However the boiler room was not in the same condition as the other rooms because it was supposed to have another door which required a special mention since the other rooms did not have a door leading to the internal courtyard. Courtyard that was stated to be connected to the Mansion by doors devoid of any lock.
This is what was stated. The idea that the door to the boiler room was an exception to that statement is just your own unsupported assumption.
P.S. What is that supposed to mean that I'm "obsessed" with that door? I'm not even the one who brought this argument up. If it's just because I'm insisting on my point, you are as obsessed as I am. Refrain from adding unnecessary comments on my persona please. Let's try to keep a civil tone at least.
|2011-10-07, 14:15
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Though what implies that Yasu just wrote a few tales and just playing with Battler? Didn't the games begin when the Ushiyomiya family went to purgatory where the Witch's reign.
My simple theory to the whole story in its simplest form when reading through it
-rokkenjima incident happens(Yasu killed everyone )
-everyone dies
-Yasu keeps the whole family within purgatory with the power of witches in the form of games. That Yasu wants Battler to realize the truth even in death.
Which would explain why Battler gave up on returning to his little sister once he knew the truth. He isn't leaving and it certainly explains his passive attitude towards Ange with the key without any intentions of leaving. Either giving her the choice to die to join them or give her a chance at life.
Though I bet that the latter half of Ep 8 would probably disprove my theory since I bet the end will be ambiguous as hell. Although I have been right about the culprit, and the word play in Ep3.
|2011-10-07, 14:21
|Link #24931
Senior Member
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"Purgatory" is Battler's mind as he tries to to find out what the truth is. Everything in the meta world could be some metaphorical construction of Battler getting his ideas straight of what might or might not have happened. For all we know, a game was made that wasn't entirely deadly and someone hijacked it. Maybe Battler himself is the one that killed everyone! Maybe it really was Kyrie and Rudolph! We dont know, what we do know is that someone wrote some tales. Thats really all we can be sure off.
Of course there still might be the possibility that Beatrice actually carried out a murder game. This doesn't make much sense in light to how Battler has acted or how some of the later scenes with Ange play out.
|2011-10-07, 14:24
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The True Culprit
Yasu also constantly boasts that Battler should believe in her so he doesn't have to blame his relatives.
Yasu is taking the fall for someone else.
|2011-10-07, 14:37
|Link #24933
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|2011-10-07, 14:43
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Join Date: May 2009
Doesn't ep2 sort of suggest Rosa may have actually met Beatrice in person right at the start, and then again later? Granted, she might not know who she is, but unless that part was all complete jack, she'd met her before she had opportunity to lie about Kinzo.
|2011-10-07, 14:44
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Lying about Kinzo is easy enough, what would happen if she really is innocent and everyone else found out that Kinzo is dead or missing?
|2011-10-07, 15:00
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Anyway which scenes do you mean exactly?
More so we know with two other women such as Kirie/Natsuhi that they both wrote into a book to express their feelings. I feel that Yasu did that fro the same reasons. That he/she wrote them and threw into the ocean as way to express her/his feelings.
Also Yasu constantly boasts that Battler should believe in witches since that is part of the game he/she created. It been mentioned in Claire's confession that talking with Gaap that she entertains the thought of making murders look like magic.
|2011-10-07, 15:16
|Link #24937
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
The main reason for the transformation he goes through when learning the truth is kind of simple; he figures out that Beatrice (Yasu) is actually a decent person, and that her motives are not as malicious as they initially appear to be. Battler's transformation and acceptance of Beatrice is actually a huge hint that Yasu is innocent. His approach to helping Ange also changes from defeating the witch (revealing the truth) to protecting the witch (hiding the truth). Basically, he figured out that Beatrice was hiding the truth and why she was doing it, and he decided he should do the same for Ange's sake.
Of course this implies that she wrote her fictions post-incident.
|2011-10-07, 15:31
|Link #24938
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
Sure, you can force Rosa to be innocent if you try hard enough, but you have to pile up numerous awkward explanations in order to do that. It's hard to tell exactly how deeply involved Rosa is, though.
I don't think it's that strong of a theory. If you have a better explanation for Rosa's behavior in episode 2 then I would love to hear it.
EDIT: Oh yeah.
|2011-10-07, 15:37
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The True Culprit
This is a girl too timid to make a phonecall to a boy she liked and you expect me to believe that she can murder eighteen people, including people she loved and an innocent nine year old girl, without any hesitation?
|2011-10-07, 15:38
|Link #24940
Senior Member
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EP1 and EP5 with Natsuhi, EP2 with Rosa, EP3 with Eva. Hell even Battler in EP5 draws the fire to himself at one point.
There is a certain scene in EP2 that foreshadows Beatrice 2, she might really think that this Beatrice might be doing the actual crimes too.
Neither of these seem to be possible if the truth was just "Random maid in the island was actually the head of the family and she murdered everyone after having a existential crisis over which cousin he/she would have preferred to bone"
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Fear & Movies: Morocco, Hollywood and Me/
By John Slattery
Having been overseas for three and a half years, I returned to the United States. When I came back, I came straight to San Francisco.
In the first few weeks people would ask, "So, where'd you move here from?" When I told them I'd just come from a year of teaching in Paris, 99% of their responses had a similar theme, which all fit into one category: I LOVE PARIS!
Typical responses were:
"Paris! Wow, lucky you!"; or
"You know my wife and I had our honeymoon in Paris"; or just,
"Man, I love Paris!"
Often in the same conversations, their follow up question had to do with where I was before Paris. When I told them that I'd been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco for two and a half years—they had a very different kind of response. They usually all fit into two different categories:
One sounded like this:
"Morocco?… Were you scared?"
"Morocco, hmmmm…. and you lived to tell the tale?
"You know, my wife and I, we were in Paris on our honeymoon and, we - got a ticket to go to Marrakesh for the weekend… but then, well, you know, we decided not to go."
I call this category: FEAR.
The second category sounded like this:
"Morocco? Did you ever see that mummy movie with the guy…. In some desert and there is this windstorm coming…? That was all shot in Morocco"; or
"My wife and I, we were in Paris on our honeymoon… and we went into this great little theatre in the 5th… and we saw Laurence of Arabia there….Wasn't that made in Morocco?; or
"Morocco yea!...Black Hawk freakin' Down!"
This category I call: MOVIES.
My first feature length film Casablanca Mon Amour is a non-traditional road movie, shot in Morocco, which explores the entwined relationship between FEAR & MOVIES. The film will have a special preview screening at the on Saturday November 10 at 2:30 pm at the New People Cinema in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Film Society's Cinema By The Bay Festival. (Tickets are onsale now.)
Looking back at my return to the United States in 1998, I am surprised so many Americans associated Morocco with FEAR, inasmuch as the events of 9/11 had not yet transpired.
Before spending those two and a half years in Morocco, I'd spent a year of high school living with relatives in Ireland. When I returned from that first sojourn, nobody said, "Oooooh, Ireland, scary..."
My experience in Morocco reminded me of time spent in Ireland. Both the Moroccan and Irish cultures take hospitality very seriously. Neither culture has any regard for time. The Irish saying, "If you are only a day late, you're still too early," has a near exact translation in Moroccan Arabic.
Strangers and relatives took great care of me in Ireland; strangers and friends took great care of me during my time in Morocco.
When going to another land to experience its culture or to make a movie, factor these two things into your equation: a serious regard for hospitality and serious regard for good food. You will find both of these in Morocco!
We are now two wars and more than ten years past the events of 9/11. And the landscape of the entire Middle East—of the world—radically changes every day.
Casablanca Mon Amour addresses what is perhaps the most pressing social issue of our time: The history, strength and quality of a particular relationship between an Arab/Islamic and a Western society. The relationship (between the U.S. and Morocco) is examined through the cultural lens of cinema.
Get this: From 1896 to 2000 over a thousand U.S. films showed Arab / Muslim characters. Of these, only 12 films showed positive characters, 52 were neutral, and more than 900 were portrayed negatively.
Casablanca Mon Amour offers a critical perspective—one often missing from the dialogue about Islamic World/West relations—on the unchallenged lineage of degrading images of Arabs in Hollywood movies. With a look toward how these images naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arab/Islamic culture in the U.S. as well as how audiences in Arab/Islamic countries interpret these images. Adding to the ongoing debate within the United States about America's national character and global role, the film connects to similar debates unfolding within the Muslim world.
Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie—using movies as a road map plotting the course between yesterday's Hollywood and today's Morocco—that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines and occupy imaginations.
John Slattery began work in television as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, where he wrote and hosted a pilot for a social-issue TV series at the Moroccan National Institute of Television.
While studying directing and cinematography at UCLA he received the Kenneth Macgowan Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, the Joseph Drown Award for Motion Picture Production as well as the Edgar Brokaw Scholarship in Film Production. John also worked in the UCLA Dept. of Film, Television as a teaching assistant.
Professionally John has collaborated with a broad range of talented producers, DP's and organizations on a number of short and full-length films, and TV shows, including: two-time Academy Award® winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler ASC, PBS/WNET American Masters, and MTV.
In 2004 John founded Zween Works, a multidisciplinary film and video production house that produces short and long format social-issue films. Zween Works focus is creating narratives which inform and connect people to issues and organizations that work for justice.
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Wainwright deals, Peralta powers way to series win
ST. LOUIS -- Given the team's recent output, it was as if the floodgates opened on Sunday as the Cardinals scored six times off Pittsburgh starter Edinson Volquez. Not that Adam Wainwright needs that much support these days anyway.
With eight more shutout innings, Wainwright pushed his scoreless inning streak to 25 as he pitched the Cardinals to a 7-0 win in front of 41,986 at Busch Stadium. It won St. Louis another series against division-rival Pittsburgh and helped Wainwright emerge as the Majors' first five-game winner. He'll finish April with a 1.20 ERA.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- Given the team's recent output, it was as if the floodgates opened on Sunday as the Cardinals scored six times off Pittsburgh starter Edinson Volquez. Not that Adam Wainwright needs that much support these days anyway.
With eight more shutout innings, Wainwright pushed his scoreless inning streak to 25 as he pitched the Cardinals to a 7-0 win in front of 41,986 at Busch Stadium. It won St. Louis another series against division-rival Pittsburgh and helped Wainwright emerge as the Majors' first five-game winner. He'll finish April with a 1.20 ERA.View Full Game Coverage
"It's been an absolute joy to watch," manager Mike Matheny said of Wainwright's season start, which has him one of four pitchers in franchise history to win five games before May.
"I'm getting results, obviously, but I'm really having more fun pitching now than I ever had," Wainwright said. "It's just such a chess match right now with me."
It's been entirely one sided, too.
But Wainwright's dominance risks becoming a story of old, only because of how routine the ace right-hander is making it look as he carves up one offense after another. However, the Cardinals' offense coming alive -- with the added enjoyment of seeing balls leave the park -- constitutes a novelty.
The Cardinals had scored just 15 runs over their last nine games, leaving them fortunate to have garnered three wins during that sluggish stretch. Only once over those nine games had the Cardinals scored four runs in a game.
They matched that in Sunday's sixth inning, which was punctuated by Jhonny Peralta's second homer of the game, a three-run shot into the Pirates' bullpen.
"The last week or so, we've been hitting hard balls right at people," Matt Adams said, who had a two-hit day. "It felt good today to have some of those balls land and cross the plate a couple of times."
It was Peralta who snapped the team's homerless skid of 366 at-bats when leading off the fifth. It took only eight more team at-bats for another. The homers were Peralta's fifth and sixth of the season, making him the first shortstop in franchise history to hit six homers in the first month of the season. Edgar Renteria hit five in 2000.
"My approach today was to hit the ball to the middle of the field," Peralta said. "I tried to make good contact with the ball. The home runs, I don't try to hit home runs. The only way is I try to make good contact and the home runs come."
Before Peralta powered the Cardinals to a comfy cushion, it looked like run support would be at a minimum yet again. The Cardinals manufactured a first-inning run after Matt Carpenter led off with a double, his second of the season. Jon Jay's sacrifice bunt and Matt Holliday's sacrifice fly moved Carpenter home.
The club would not have similar scoring success with Yadier Molina's leadoff double an inning later.
But Peralta's first homer padded the lead, and the Cardinals then had their biggest inning since April 12 with the assistance of a double play not turned in the sixth. Pirates first baseman Ike Davis wasn't able to keep his foot on the base -- despite his insistence that he had -- to finish off what would have been an inning-ending double play.
"What a huge play that is," Matheny said afterward.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle challenged the safe call, but after a near three-minute review, the umpires announced that the plate would stand as called. Allen Craig followed with an RBI single before Peralta's mighty blast.
"Been playing through calls you didn't like for 128 years," Hurdle said. "I understand 'clear and convincing,' there wasn't a shot they could use. [We've] got to have the resolve to finish an inning. We finish that [double play] right there, [four] runs never get on the board."
Wainwright looked the same before, during and after the Cardinals' scoring, and he showed no effects from hyperextending his right knee on Tuesday. He wore what he described as "an elementary brace" on his knee to keep him from getting full extension.
Only twice did the Pirates advance a runner into scoring position against him. As has been Wainwright's modus operandi, too, he silenced a lineup while tinkering with new way to use his pitches.
He varied the speed of his curveball -- going hard when he wanted ground-ball contact and slower to generate the swings and misses. He experimented with a slower cutter and garnered three outs on changeup. He has become anything but predictable.
"The best way to know if things are going to work is to try them at game speed," Wainwright said. "Luckily, things were working. I would hate to go out there and give up some runs, but I was confident it was going to work."
He needed 99 pitches to finish eight innings on Sunday, but did not get a chance to secure his second April shutout. Matheny, citing cautiousness with Wainwright's knee and an unnecessary need to push his ace, opted to have Carlos Martinez close the game.
"I didn't throw a fit about it or anything," Wainwright said. "I made him come over and shake my hand."
His outing was also more of the same for the Cardinals' starting rotation, which remains the club's pillar. The starting five entered the day trailing only the Braves in ERA (2.24) and batting average against (.210), which has kept the club afloat during this dry offensive spell.
Over the last 14 games, the Cardinals' starting pitcher has allowed one or fewer runs 10 times. Wainwright has three wins during that stretch, the team, seven.
"They have done a nice job of staying focused and not using that [lack of run support] as a distraction," Matheny said. "They continue to come out every night and give us an opportunity."
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The value of anything is established by its properties. If values aren't really arbitrary, then there is an absolute morality. The rest of this is trying to explain why values can't be arbitrary, they can only be misunderstood as arbitrary.
This thread is an argument that order is the basis of all concepts. Order is very rigid, so when you build a concept like a moral system on it, like all concepts should be built, it is going to lead to absolute results. Morality is based on values, and the only way to justify morality is to prove your values are accurate. My argument is that values aren't arbitrary, thus there is an absolute morality.
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Many atheists shy away from absolute morality because it sounds religious. I argue that there has to be an absolute morality because the universe is absolute. This may seem wrong as there are many subjective things. I am contending that this isn't true because subjectivity resides on the conceptual level and like disorder and change is not a part of actual existence, but rather merely descriptive. Absolute morality has to exist because the base foundation for morality is order, which enables it to have structure as a social concept. This means that even as a concept, it has to have an absolute and most perfect form as a social concept.
I have been working on this for a while, and I think I am nearing completion, but I am wondering what faults may be found with this line of thought... I have had to return to the drawing board to correct my errors a few times already.
This below is an addendum:
What I am contending is that once morality is conceived as a concept, the nature of order upon which any concept is structured necessitates a most perfect form.
Individual perception causes humans to see the concept with innaccuracy in contrast to the order with which the concept maintains structure in conceptual reality. This creates subjectivity.
But where I am really going with this is that order is the base functional principle of any structure in the universe.
At the very foundation of the level of actuality lies order. Without order, molecules neither form nor bind. Order enables structure, which in turn enables every other level of existence. Order permeates every level of existence as its foundation, including anything that exists on the conceptual level. For this reason, structural order serves as the archetypal basis that justifies having a moral system.
Disorder is mistaken as coexisting with order, but it exists on the conceptual level only and is a name given to an observation of change. It is not a counterpart to order. That means disorder is not actual. It is conceptual.
These things tie together to start to point out that best action can be established on the basis of the order of the universe, and the lack of actuality of disorder which would be its only challenger.
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No, you're the last person I'd ever think perfect --
The point is to be the best you can be. No ethical system has gotten it perfectly right. That doesn't mean they were pointless. It is okay to be evolving. We don't need to have arrived. It isn't all or nothing.
The justification I am working for is not the justification of why the system is right. What I am seeking to establish is that the aim to develop a more perfect moral system is justified in the first place.
Not only that, but that morality isn't just tied to personal benefit, but that there really is a notion of the "right" thing to do for which we can strive. It shows that morality isn't just about benefit. It is, and always has also been tied to what is right.
You used the term "more perfect." Perfection is an absolute, not a relative concept. There's no such thing as "relatively perfect."
If your system doesn't help us know with certainty what is absolutely right and what is absolutely wrong, then whence comes the word "absolute" in this thread's subject line, "There has to be an absolute morality"?
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union." More perfect works there so it can work here.
There is a difference between "there has to be absolute morality" and "This is absolute morality". The point is to say simply that there has to be courses of actions that are best. The point is that "best" while it is subjective according to circumstances, isn't as subjective as people think.
In the end, in any decision, people who fully understood the relationship that all the related factors had with each other, would all agree that the best action is the same thing. We can already do that with simple stuff.
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union." More perfect works there so it can work here.
It works politically perhaps, but otherwise that phrase is an oxymoron. If something is perfect, it's at its zenith. How much more zenithy can a zenith be?
I didn't know you were using absolutness in such a flexible, poetic sense. In that case, though, it's meaningless for this discussion. Absolute may mean a few things in ordinary speech but it means just one thing in philosophy.
Oh come on Unseen, even you're not that dense, though like a politician, if it will serve your purpose, you can pretend to be - you know that, "more perfect union" does not mean more than perfect, it clearly means, "closer to perfection."
I'm not in this debate, but if you're going to debate, don't try to switch the train to a different track!
I don't know what you mean by poetic. Having a "best" or right decision is pretty absolute. If there is a best decision, it is then sensible to try to make the best decision. If there isn't a best decision, there is no justification in trying to make the best decision.
Any individual should be able to review the circumstance and all the relevant data, process it all accurately and say "that person did what was best". Best is absolute, but not universal.
An 'absolute' ethical model should offer the 'user' a very nice computational method/calculus to determine best or optimum moral/ethical decisions.
But if you are just flying by the seat of your pants, why call it an absolute?
I figure that, if you atleast 'try' to make informed ethical/moral decisions, you are already a little taller the your other litter mates!
Morality is rooted in what is best. Best is "the absolute" that is strived for. Best has to be grounded. Even if we can't get to it, it is absolutely irrational to strive toward something that isn't real. If "best" isn't grounded in solid reality it has nothing to validate it.
I think a lot of people kept thinking I was trying to present a moral system. The point of this thread from the get go, is that what is "best" can be grounded to reality.
That means we aren't striving for something arbitrary. I am not identifying what is best, I am simply pointing out that what is best is tied to reality.
Best in what sense? From what or who's perspective? Best is a statement of value and as such it is subjective (from a mind).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to mean that you agree with Sam Harris that suffering could be considered a basis for morality?
I personally don't think we can take the subjectivity out of morality and I think that that is just fine, it allows us to learn and become better people over time. It would suck to already have all the (moral) answers, i'd much rather keep discovering.
Sadly, 'the best you can do', might be a far cry from what someone else might be able to do. Even if you are doing 'the best you can', total screw ups can happen. It would seem to me that for a system to be absolute, this could mean 'it does not screw up'. If the system is dependent upon a perfectly able human being for its application, then screw ups would be more common than hopped for.
The theist moral ethical model seems to expect some near -perfect result, else you could burn in hell. I expect that the subpar function for most of us would condemn most to hell by age 12. A very good ethical/moral model would atleast demand a significant mental ability in its users, waiting till age 18 for a condemnation to hell would be more christian.
I'll say what I said to Unseen but add this:
From whose perspective doesn't interest me. Flawed perspectives that fail to account for data will often come to flawed conclusions.
I think you are mistaking me as saying situationally subjective decision making will go away. It wont. In the end, in any decision, people who fully understood the relationship that all the related factors had with each other, would all agree that the best action is the same thing, unless you have a tie, in which all options that tied would all be agreed on as best out of all other available options.


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On Sept. 27, the Pocono Record ran a story that most Pennsylvanians support the voter ID law.
There are others who do not, and I'm happy to say that I'm among them.
To me, the issue is not the requirement that voters must have a photo ID — that's just an excuse to circumvent the real issue.
Rather, in my view, the photo ID law is a flagrant intrusion on a basic right of citizenship, a right that some people are hoping to deny others from having.
There have been many people who fought and died for that right, both in the military and as civilians. Some will say that's flag waving; if they feel that way, so be it.
But, that right is still part of our democratic system, and to restrict it in any way is, in my view, wrong.
It is Jim Crowism reincarnated. It is the majority trying to impose its will on the minority.
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Group Recommends Ways to Protect Texas Seagrass, Reduce Coastal User Conflicts
AUSTIN – An advisory group of fishing, boating and conservation interests has made nine recommendations to protect seagrass and five to reduce user conflicts along the Texas coast, Texas Parks and Wildlife Commissioners were told in a briefing here this week.
The 19-member Coastal User Working Group was created by TPW Commission Chairman Dan Friedkin of Houston and led by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Coastal Fisheries Director Robin Riechers, with representatives from the fishing, guiding, paddling, airboating, and birding communities, TPWD Law Enforcement, and various conservation organizations. The group met several times in recent months and recently completed a report containing its recommendations.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rock and roll legend Chubby Checker is twisting mad over a software application that allowed women to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size.
The singer, whose real name is Ernest Evans, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Hewlett Packard and Palm Inc. in federal court in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Tuesday, saying that the app 'adversely affects Chubby Checker's brand and value.'
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'We're going straight to the source,' said Gary.
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Checker did not give permission or receive compensation from the app, which purported to be for entertainment purposes only.
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Checker's song, 'The Twist' was at the top of the Billboard charts for 18 weeks in 1960 and became an iconic tune of the era.


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They are both really great songs about cheating and you'll be able to feel the anger these two women have about men who have cheated. It really makes you feel powerful and justified for feeling rage over infidelity. Sometimes, it's good to stop being depressed and start targeting your emotions to the person who has done you wrong.
You know, you don't have to have dumped the person who cheated on you to have rage. Like me, who is in the process of recovering from infidelity, I understand that I have a right to be angry, I have been betrayed by the one person who I never thought would have hurt so badly.
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United States Southern Cities in 1870 and 1880: A Study of Individuals and Families (ICPSR 7568)
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This data collection contains individual-level and family-level information collected from the 1870 and 1880 manuscript schedules of the United States Population Census for seven Southern cities: Charleston, South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, Mobile, Alabama, Norfolk, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Approximately 5,000 individuals and 1,500 families are represented for each of the two census years studied. Part 1 contains data for 1870, and Part 2 contains data for 1880. The data gathered for sampled individuals include age, sex, race, marital status, presence of health defect, school attendance, ability to read, ability to write, occupational classification (female and male), nationality, and real and personal wealth (for 1870 only). Both datasets include a variable that uniquely identifies each family in the sample to facilitate the aggregation of the data for the creation of family-level data for each member, e.g., sex, race, age, marital status, school attendance, member status in the family, occupation, health, unemployment, city of residence, nationality and parents' nationality, and real and personal wealth.
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In each file, Variables 1-4, 25, and 60 are for identification. Variables 5-24 pertain to the over 10,000 individuals and are presented basically as provided by the principal investigator. Variables 25-59 pertain to the over 3,000 families and were created by ICPSR staff by aggregating or redefining the individual-level data into composite variables for the entire family, or for the head only as the representative of the family. The individual and family data were then merged, producing the two final files. Both files have the same number of variables with identical numbering. Comparable variables for the two years were calculated with identical methods. If data existed for one year and not the other, a dummy variable was inserted as a placeholder for the year without data.
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Individuals and families in Charleston, South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, Mobile, Alabama, Norfolk, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1870 and 1880.
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- Goldin, Claudia. United States Southern Cities in 1870 and 1880: A Study of Individuals and Families. ICPSR07568-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07568.v1
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The Glimmerglass Festival Celebrates Young Artists with GL!MMERATA, 4/10
The Glimmerglass Festival, the Central New York summer opera company, will celebrate its Young Artists and Summer Internship programs at GL!MMERATA, its 2013 Spring Gala, April 10 at The Metropolitan Club in Manhattan. The 2013 season marks the 25th anniversary of the company's Young Artists Program, the acclaimed apprenticeship for emerging singers.
The event will be hosted by Glimmerglass Festival Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello with Gala Chairs Patricia Chadwick and Nina Lesavoy, and Co-Chairs Julie and Nathan Gunn. The evening will begin with cocktails and hors d' oeuvres at 6:30 p.m., followed at 7:30 p.m. by performances from Eric Owens, Julie and Nathan Gunn, Jay Hunter Morris, KLea Blackhurst, as well as Andriana Chuchman, DWayne Croft, David Pittsinger, Nadine Sierra, Noah Stewart and Peter Volpe. Following dinner with the performers and members of the Young Artists Program, the gala will culminate with dessert and dancing to the Peter Duchin Orchestra.
"GL!MMERATA brings together Glimmerglass principal performers, emerging singers, friends and patrons for a gala evening that is truly fun," Zambello said. "Especially gratifying is the event fully benefits our Young Artists and Summer Internships programs, which have helped launch the careers of many of today's stars and industry leaders. I am also pleased to have both our 2012 and 2013 Artists in Residence - Eric Owens and Julie and Nathan Gunn - performing that evening."
Zambello began The Glimmerglass Festival Artist in Residence Program with her first season in 2011. The Artist in Residence joins the company for the entire summer and is fully integrated into the Festival, working as a coach and mentor to the Young Artists, as well as performing in a mainstage production and concert. Deborah Voigt inaugurated the role, followed by Eric Owens. Julie and Nathan Gunn will join Glimmerglass in 2013.
Each summer, 40 emerging singers, pianists and stage directors and 60 production and arts administration interns arrive at The Glimmerglass Festival to be coached, trained and mentored by some of the world's finest talents and industry leaders. More than 1,500 students and recent graduates annually apply for the 100 positions.
The Young Artists Program has helped launch the careers of many singers, including Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sarah Coburn, Christine Goerke and Anthony Roth Costanzo. The Festival's production and administration internships provide the opportunity for young professionals and students to experience the fast-paced world of repertory opera and musical theater. Alumni of the Glimmerglass Internship Program work in esteemed theater and opera companies around the world.
Attire for GL!MMERATA is black tie or cocktail. Tickets range from $1,000 to $2,500; tables of 10 range from $10,000 to $25,000. For reservations and additional information, call The Glimmerglass Festival Development Department at (607) 547-0700 ext. 209. The Metropolitan Club is located at 1 East 60th Street.
The 2013 Glimmerglass Festival mainstage productions include Wagner's The Flying Dutchman; Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, featuring Artist in Residence Nathan Gunn; Verdi's King for a Day; and Passions, a double bill of David Lang's the little match girl passion and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The productions will run in rotation July 6 through August 24 in the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, New York. The mainstage productions will be supplemented by special performances, concerts and lectures throughout the season. Tickets start at just $26 and youth tickets (ages 6-18) start at $10 when accompanied by an adult. Call (607) 547-2255 or visit www.glimmerglass.org for tickets and additional information.


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Andy Murray dug himself out of a huge hole against Marin Cilic to reach the semi-finals of the US Open for the third time.
At a set and 5-1 down, the third seed looked in danger of suffering one of his biggest grand slam disappointments but he turned things around and levelled the match on a tie-break.
That made Murray a big favourite and he reeled off 11 straight games to win 3-6 7-6 (7/4) 6-2 6-0 and set up a last-four clash with Tomas Berdych, who upset world number one Roger Federer in four sets.
The Scot said: "He played very well at the start and I struggled a little bit. When I managed to get the breaks back in the second set I relaxed a little bit. I've been in that position before when you're serving for a two-set lead and someone comes back and it's tough. The fourth set I played better."
Murray had been due to play on Arthur Ashe but the match was moved to Louis Armstrong because rain had put things behind schedule.
This was the scene of Murray's third-round struggle against Feliciano Lopez, and the early signs were not good as the third seed won only one of the first 10 points, losing his serve to love.
Murray had beaten Cilic in six of their seven previous meetings, including in straight sets in the fourth round of Wimbledon. But the Croatian's only win came here three years ago in the fourth round, although Murray was hampered by a wrist injury.
The Scot had put in one of his best performances of the season to beat Milos Raonic in the previous round and he needed to rediscover that form quickly.
In truth, neither man was playing well, but Murray was just the more reliable.
There was almost a slight twist when Cilic had three chances to retrieve one of the breaks but Murray saved all of them and clinched victory after exactly three hours.


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Karen Keifer-Boyd Receives National Award for Outstanding International Contributions in Art Education
Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education and women's studies, was honored with the 2013 United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA) Edwin Ziegfeld Award at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, in March. Keifer-Boyd was also inducted into the Distinguished Fellows of the National Art Education Association, Class of 2013, along with Stephen Carpenter, professor of art education and John White ('94 Ph.D. art education).
The Ziegfeld Award acknowledges Keifer-Boyd's work has had a regional, national and international influence. Thanks to her efforts, Penn State now houses the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection, one of the most important private collections of archival materials on feminist art education. She has served as president of the National Art Education Association's Women's Caucus and is co-founder of the Graduate Research in Art Education annual conference. She has co-convened the Gender and STEAM Research Group, which fosters and facilitates collaborative research and teaching about gender representation and underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) at institutions of higher education around the globe. In 2005, she co-founded and co-edits the journal, Visual Culture & Gender [2] @ http://vcg.emitto.net [2].
"Ziegfeld's work is a commitment to ideas of social justice, and that the visual arts can speak across borders: national, political, cultural, geographical, disciplinary, linguistic, and personal—a belief that I share and embed in all the work I do," says Keifer-Boyd.
Graeme Sullivan, director of the Penn State School of Visual Arts, credits Keifer-Boyd's dedication and long-term association with Judy Chicago for the artist donating materials from her teaching projects (1970-2005) to Penn State. As a result of the collection's placement at Penn State, Keifer-Boyd initiated Teaching Conversations, with feminist colleagues from across the university's disciplines engaging in conversations to find ways to use the collection in their curriculums. "Art education is what we make it," Keifer-Boyd states, "and we are making a feminist art education that promotes eco-social justice."
Sullivan also notes Keifer-Boyd's international experience – she was a Fulbright Scholar in 2006 and 2012. "Her extensive international experience and strong collaborative skills are evident in the teaching programs she initiates, and in recent years, many of these have involved faculty and students from overseas who are beamed in online to be a part of Karen's global classroom," Sullivan says. "Her status at the university reflects, in part, her philosophy and vision that art learning is a connective experience that unites, and thus empowers, and this is a central part of Karen Keifer-Boyd's legacy."
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Digital Project Life Scrapbook
Enter Project Life by Becky Higgins. Basically it is scrapbooking made simple--putting the focus on the pictures rather than on all the finicky crafting supplies. You can do it in a picture a day format (the 365 projects a lot of people do) or in your own format.
I first heard about Project Life on Erin's blog: Sunny Side Up. Erin has three children and manages to find time to scrapbook using a modified version of Project Life--all of a sudden this scrapbook thing started to seem more doable...so I ordered a Project Life kit. Um, that was over a year ago...and I haven't used it yet. *sigh* THEN, for some crazy reason, I ordered a second kit a couple of months ago. I'm not really sure why because now I have TWO unopened Project Life kits. At least they're different colors...
Then--THEN--I saw a video Becky Higgins posted on her Facebook page. That video is what made me realize I can love scrapbooking again. I can keep up with my pictures and not be years and years behind. I can scrapbook and use doo-dads...or not. It is totally up to me!
I am NOT a digital scrapbooker. Not. However, even I was able to make a digital yearbook (easily!!) for my family and it is beautiful. Seriously, BEAUTIFUL. Now I can make digital yearbooks for each year and save my paper scrapbooking for major family vacations or our Christmas album and not worry about scrapping every family moment.
Look at that beautiful book! I was able to customize pretty much anything I wanted on it--and could have done even more than I did. LOVE it.
(Don't mind my finger...just covering up our last name...) The printing in this book is so lovely. Everything is crisp and the pages have a great weight to them.
Here is the month of January, complete with journaling! I thought it would be difficult to select just seven pictures, but it really wasn't...by the end of this book I really felt as though this gave an excellent picture of our year. I did these monthly pages pretty much using the existing templates, but you can toss the templates and just cover the pages with pictures if that is your choice.
In September we went to Disneyland--here is the regular monthly layout for September. This was the first month where I felt as though I couldn't summarize our month in just seven pictures...so I added some extra pages!
Here are the Disneyland pages I added right after the September monthly pages. I still plan to do another traditional paper scrapbook for our trip, but I like seeing the trip represented in this yearbook, too.
I covered up the last page that was in the album with more of our own pictures--this album is so easy to customize!
Even the back cover has a full color picture of my babies (yes, they're tossing leaves into the air)!
And of course the title is on the spine of the book--I'm already looking forward to having a whole row of these yearbooks lined up on our shelf.
This yearbook is called "Digital Project Life" on Becky Higgins' site and Facebook page. You can make an entire book and preview it before you pay anything--this is what I did...however I loved the end result so much that I ordered three of them. One for each of my children and one for me to keep.
I shared the finished book with my children last night as they were finishing their dinner--I treated it like storytime. It was so fun to see their faces light up as the pictures sparked various memories. This is something that NEVER happened with the digital pictures all closed up in my computer and the bins and bins of unused scrapbooking supplies. It feels SO GOOD to have my family enjoying these memories because that is what scrapbooking truly is about--it isn't about cutting and pasting and fancy fonts.
4 comments:
- Debbie said...
Very nice, I did one similar but on a smaller scale through Shutterfly for a trip we did to Florida for my husbands grandfathers 90th birthday. The kids do love to look back at the pictures and relive the moments. Kudos to you for taking the time to complete it!
- June 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Sandy said...
Love it! I am doing the binder version of Project Life this year....I'm really enjoying it but am finding that getting to the store to print the pictures is where I'm falling behind. The more I see the digital version and how beautiful it is...the more I think that's the route I will take next year. Thanks for sharing!!
- June 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Erin said...
Oh it turned out so beautiful!!! I love it! And you are so right about your kids actually enjoying the book. That is my favorite part too - seeing my girls light up when they look at their albums. I love the idea of a "family yearbook" for each year. And doesn't it feel so great to have the year scrapbooked!!? So cool. Thanks so much for mentioning me! I LOVE your book. Almost as much as I LOVE that picture of your little ones tossing leaves at the end of it. :)
- June 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- Colleen said...
I could have written this!! I started (as in ultrasound pics) my son's album and he is 2! I hate that I haven't done it. I follow Erin's blog too and I am intrigued by Project Life but haven't made the move just yet. Nice to read your take on it.
- June 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM


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Thursday, February 19, 2009
To FB or Not to FB
I probably won't be one of them. Not that I disagree with those who do – their beef is legitimate, and I agree that Facebook has bungled this issue in a major way. And I'll probably be a little less free in posting some of the documents I have been transcribing. But Facebook is a good fit for me. Not that I'm one of those people with 100+ friends (or, as in the case of my daughters' generation, 500+ friends!). As of last count, I have 30 friends. That's family (husband, one of my daughters, in-laws, cousins), friends, schoolmates, and comrades from the genea-blogging community. These are all people I want to keep up with, to know what and how they are doing. And most of them are more diligent about FB-ing than e-mailing, so this works for us. A few are the other way around, and we e-mail. I still love getting what I have come to call a "real" letter, i.e., a nice e-mail that in length and content resembles the snail-mail letter of old.
I'm not one of those people who makes a lot of status posts ("Greta is … clipping her toenails."), but I do like to share some things – a good visit with friends or family, a productive Graveyard Rabbit expedition, or a sighting of bald eagles. And I definitely want to hear from my college daughter – through checking out her FB page, posting, or IM'ing with her on FB. That's another thing I like about Facebook – it appeals to younger and older generations, is not too "old-fogyish" for young people or too "skanky" for older people. I also post some of my favorite ethnic music clips from YouTube there to share with friends and to listen to myself when I am on the computer.
I'm not a professional genealogist or in some other profession that can benefit from networking, so the only thing I get from this type of networking is the pleasure of contact and correspondence – the social aspect – and, as a side benefit, an educational aspect as well. Lacking a professional need, I have been reluctant to subscribe to Twitter – I'm not saying I won't eventually, especially if I feel I'm missing out on something - but corresponding and blogging keep me pretty busy. On top of that, I have problems with that whole 140-character limit thing.
Last August, when we had completed the college application and selection whirlwind and my research was beginning to take off again, I made a decision about how to share my research. I decided that there would be three levels:
1. The most general outlines would be published in a blog, through which I hoped to contact other people researching in the same areas and other bloggers who would share their experience and expertise. If people who read my blog wanted to receive more information on my research than I posted on the blog, they would have to contact me. If they don't feel like contacting me, they are welcome to the information they find there nonetheless.
2. Somewhat more detailed information, particularly document transcripts, and family pictures would be posted on Facebook to share with family and friends and some of the distant cousins with whom I have been sharing research on a regular basis.
3. The really detailed information is shared with those among my family who are "really into" genealogy and with my regular "research buddies" through e-mail, as it was before.
I really love sharing genealogical research, both in the form of telling my relatives about what I have found, and actually working on problems together with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th cousins. With a blog, people can take your information without contacting you and sharing what they have. With e-mail, I cannot always remember whom I have told and what, I can't be sure that all the people I'm writing to are really interested, and I have to keep up with their e-mail addresses. So, without taking the place of blogging or e-mail, Facebook is a convenient "middle way" to share – it is a "window of possible interest" without being as invasive as e-mail or as broadcast-y as a blog. The photos-sharing part in particular has really taken off among my group of cousins.
Then there are certain groups I enjoy participating in – Genea-bloggers, Grave Mappers, Unclaimed Persons, and my high school band group.
Of course, Facebook could still screw all this up. The issue of ownership of content is not going to go away. I am glad that dissatisfied users are making their discontent felt one way or the other and I do plan to voice my criticism. And I'll be keeping an eye on what I do post; I'll probably return to e-mail for some of the meatier and juicier stuff.
[Note - immediately after I posted this I found a Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Group on FB. Hmmm ... must mull this over.]
7 comments:
Great post, Greta. It's a big issue and it will be interesting to see the long terms effects. I think I feel the same as you. I've always been pretty careful what I put on Facebook, but I find it a good way to connect with people who have the same interests as me. We'll keep watching!ReplyDelete
Nice to meet you Greta. I ate a bit of that cake and had to quit. It really will serve 2 people.ReplyDelete
I agree with you on this Facebook thing. People need to remember that anything they put on the internet is destined to be there forever when people save items and then they resurface later on.
Well said. I'm inclined to feel the same way. My sisters, nieces, nephews, etc. really find it easy to keep up with one another on Facebook and several of us love to play Scrabble. In fact, Scrabble is the thing that drew us all there to begin with. But the genealogy group I've found there is an answer to prayers for me. If Facebook self-destructs we GeneaBloggers will still be able to connect, I'm sure. Right now, I'm staying.ReplyDelete
Well said, Greta and I feel the same way. I'm not a professional either, but sure enjoy the contact, support, education, information, sharing, notices of new things, all the good stuff of Facebook. It's a good fit for me too. In fact it's been a blessing. I've connected with so many relatives that I was not in touch with. Love it. Thanks for a great post. I'm glad I'm your friend!ReplyDelete
Thanks, all, for your wonderful comments and all the support you give me and other geneabloggers. JoLyn - whodathunk that this would have become such a big issue? I didn't see it coming. Lori - I'll have to make that cake when I know one of my daughters will be here to eat it with me. It looks almost as much fun to make as to eat. Judith - Scrabble, eh? Another temptation.... And Becky - Just tonight I connected with yet another cousin on FB - it's almost like the old days when my mother's family would all get together.ReplyDelete
I wish Facebook would just get it together and stop trying to own our stuff. But then again, anything on the internet will pretty much be there forever and even if copyrights exist, it is so easy to steal.ReplyDelete
I think I'll stay on Facebook, but limit what I do there. I can easily share pics and stories through email.
Great post!
I agree, Elyse. It's difficult to know what to post because of all the ownership questions. I'll still probably put pictures on Facebook, because that's an easy way for my cousins and me to exchange pictures and identify people for one another, but I'll be more careful about posting research and document transcripts.ReplyDelete


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