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Is there a term that describes someone who enjoys intellectual arguments, e.g. how physicists would like debating about theories they're working with or how people enjoy arguing over the meaning of a literary text? For example,
This student in my class is ____ - they get along with others while stimulating discussion.
Everything I've found so far seems to have negative connotations. Is there any word that has neutral or positive connotations?


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Bloodshed erupted today in Nebraska after a Lincoln resident found an image of the Muslim prophet Muhammad emblazoned in his morning breakfast. After just a few bites of a bowl of Fruit Loops (certainly not our sponsor), an integral component of a balanced breakfast, our source found something oddly biblical about his morning bread products. Only rather than the more frequent gluten-based deities; Jesus, or the Mother Mary, it was Muhammad.
Not long after speaking out about his wonderful journey of enlightenment and fiber, religious extremists had already begun to fight back. Just hours after the first picture of the prophetic morning provision surfaced on Twitter, several Wonder Bread employees had received threats of violence from an unnamed [Al Qaeda] militant group. Shortly after, twin bombs exploded at a Wonder Bread factory in Virginia. Luckily the employees were saved by the protective coating of dough that accompanied the blast, but the act is still a sobering reminder that no one is safe when it comes to misinterpretation of holy texts and blind zealotry.
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A result of this is that there will be a few changes to available training times in other disciplines this week. First, there will be no Jujutsu on Saturday as Michael will be participating down the hill.
Second, Jujutsu will also be cancelled for Thursday, as we have a visit by Greg Nicholas, sensei from the Kenshinkai, who is in Toowoomba this week with work. We will talk more about this in class Tuesday night.


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Slicing Vegetables and Power Outages
· Anderson Hall seemed to survive the 6 PM to 5 AM power outage without difficulty. It was a bit like living in a developing country, except that the hall and lounge lights continued to burn and we had water. When I was living in Sri Lanka, one fall (2002) we had 12 hours of outages each day – in six hour blocs. They were not announced in advance. For those who did not have generators, the principal light was from artificial fluorescent 'wands' which we charged up whenever the power came on. None of the houses had screens, of course, and these lights seemed particularly attractive to the night bugs that proliferate in tropical climates. There would be hundreds of them sitting on the wands and buzzing around – and a goodly number of corpses to be swept on the floor in the morning. The activity of choice during outages, for those who could afford it was dinner at a generator equipped restaurant. There was a very good and modestly priced Chinese one a short walk from my home, the Flower Song, which I frequented regularly. Since there wore no street lights, one did need to be cautious not to break an ankle in a sidewalk hole, which could be both wide and a foot or more deep.
Slicing vegetables
· Tomorrow's North Africa meal uses a mix of vegetables almost completely different than the Italian, Spanish, French and South Asian meals that I more customarily cook. There are turnips, onions, eggplant (which is used in South Asia ) and several different kinds of squash (North Africans use a squash like vegetable called calebeza. ) This meant almost two hours of vegetable peeling and slicing. The Tenleytown Whole Foods market had about eight different kinds of squash and some wonderful looking New Zealand Lamb as well. There is nothing like Whole Foods if you are doing some off the beaten track cooking, especially with vegetables. Having a 'neighborhood market' like this is one advantage of living in a cosmopolitan city. I get to have the best of both worlds, of course.
Thanksgiving plans
· Some families make holiday plans well in advance, but we are more last minute types. I called my father this evening – he is a vigorous 93 - and we made plans for me to come and pick him up from his assisted living apartment and drive with him down to Virginia. He still drives – quite well in fact – but has accepted the idea that a long drive over unfamiliar terrain in hliday traffic is not a great idea. Some day, many years hence, most of my student friends and neighbors will have to cope with your parents aging process including, driving, possibly nursing home care ultimately, the death of these personalities who have loomed so large in our lives. If your parents are as responsible about this as mine have been, you will be blessed.


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A suburban Chicago police officer has been disciplined after a video went viral showing him yelling at a group of teenagers, threatening to arrest them and saying they were being detained based on their race.
On Tuesday, Lake Villa Police Chief Craig Somerville said an officer was conducting a theft investigation when he ordered five teenagers to sit down on the curb.
Dezi Baczek, 18, who recorded a video of the incident and posted it online, said that when they left the pawn shop, the officer made them all sit down "without any reasoning."
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Full time parent
I'm sure you have heard that 'Better Person = Better Parent'. The only way you can sustain the energy needed to do the 'parenting job' well is to create some pockets of "me time" where you can get in touch with who you are as an individual, fuel your passions, and replenish your energy levels. After having some 'me time' in fact you will be better able to remain focused and calm when kids push buttons.
Here is what you can do to get more time for yourself, starting even tomorrow:
- Use Your Shower Time
Those few minutes you spend in the shower each day are probably the most regular "alone time" you get. Plan to use it well! Create your routine, purchase some energizing aromatherapy products that you love and make the most of the few minutes you have to yourself. While you're there, take some deep breaths and let the water wash away some of that tension you're carrying.
- Take a Walk during Your Lunch Hour
At least once a week, go for a short walk on your lunch hour. Eating a light meal and going out for a brisk walk is a great way to clear your head and exercise your body.
- Introduce Quiet Time
This is when your kids read or play quietly in their rooms for one hour in the afternoon. You can then use that time to relax, read a magazine, or do something special for yourself. Celebrate/reward their cooperation with a trip to the Park after several argument-free Quiet Time periods.
- Get your spouse on board
Personal time won't work unless your spouse supports this goal as well. One-on-one time with just dad or mom can strengthen the child's bond with each parent as individuals, who can share their own special passions or interest with the child. Simply said that, take the time for you to recharge and explore other things that interest you, besides parenting. Then switch to set up your spouse's 'me time' so you both will feel that it's going be completely guilt-free.


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Every business should have a business plan. Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they're printed on. Most "bad" business plans share one or more of the following problems:
1. The plan is poorly written:
Spelling, accentuation, linguistic use, and style are terrifically imperative with regards to getting your Business Plan down on paper. In spite of the fact that financial specialists don't hope to be putting resources into an organization keep running by English majors, they are searching for pieces of information about the fundamental business and its leaders when they're examining an arrangement. When they see one with spelling, accentuation and punctuation mistakes, they promptly ponder what else isn't right with the business. In any case, since there's no lack of individuals searching for capital, they don't ponder for long- – they simply proceed onward to the following arrangement.
Before you demonstrate your arrangement to a solitary speculator or investor, experience each line of the arrangement with absolute attention to detail. Run your spell registration which should discover spelling and accentuation mistakes, and have somebody you know with solid "English educator" abilities audit it for linguistic use issues.
Style is subtler, yet it's similarly vital. Distinctive business visionaries write in various styles. In the event that your style is "certain," "fresh," "clean," "legitimate" or "formal," you'll once in a while have issues. Assuming, in any case, your style is "egotistical," "messy," "folksy," "turgid" or "smarmy," you may kill potential financial specialists, despite the fact that distinctive styles claim to various speculators. Regardless of what style you decide for your business design, make certain it's predictable all through the arrangement, and that it fits your target group and your business. For example, I once met a moderate Midwest investor who financed an Indian-Japanese combination eatery somewhat in light of the fact that the arrangement was- – like the eatery idea – peppy, popular and unpredictable.
2. The plan presentation is sloppy:
Once you're written work's ideal, the introduction needs to coordinate. Nothing bothers speculators more than conflicting edges, missing page numbers, graphs without marks or with off base units, tables without headings, specialized phrasing without definitions or a missing chapter by chapter guide. Have another person edit your arrangement before you demonstrate it to a speculator, financier or investor. Keep in mind that while you'll without a doubt invest months taking a shot at your arrangement, most speculators won't give it over 10 minutes before they settle on an underlying choice about it. So in the event that they begin paging through your arrangement and can't discover the segment on "Administration," they may choose to proceed onward to the following, more composed arrangement in the stack.
3. The plan is incomplete:
Each business has clients, items and administrations, operations, promoting and deals, an administration group, and contenders. At a flat out least, your arrangement must cover every one of these ranges. A total arrangement ought to likewise incorporate a dialog of the business, especially industry patterns, for example, if the market is developing or contracting. At long last, your arrangement ought to incorporate nitty gritty budgetary projections- – month to month income and salary articulations, and yearly accounting reports – going out no less than three years.
4. The plan is too vague:
A Business Plan is not a novel, a lyric or a cryptogram. On the off chance that a sensibly wise individual with a secondary school training can't comprehend your arrangement, at that point you have to rework it. In case you're endeavoring to keep the data unclear on the grounds that your business includes profoundly classified material, procedures or advancements, at that point indicate individuals your official outline first (which ought to never contain any exclusive data). At that point, on the off chance that they're keen on adapting more about the business, have them consent to noncompete and nondisclosure arrangements before demonstrating to them the whole arrangement. [Be forewarned, however: Many venture capitalists and investors will not sign these agreements since they want to minimize their legal fees and have no interest in competing with you in any case.]
5. The plan is too detailed:
Try not to get stalled in specialized points of interest! This is particularly normal with innovation based new companies. Keep the specialized subtle elements to a base in the fundamental arrangement – in the event that you need to incorporate them, do as such somewhere else, say, in a reference section.
One approach to do this is to break your arrangement into three sections: an a few page official outline, a 10-to 20-page Business Plans and a supplement that incorporates the same number of pages as expected to make it clear that you comprehend what you're doing. Along these lines, anybody perusing the arrangement can get the measure of detail he or she needs.


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Preacher: Pastor Hannah Terry
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
Summary: In the midst of our diverse socio-economic situations, Jesus Christ invites us to wrestle in Christian community with questions regarding economic inheritance. Then he empowers us to repent of greed and make decisions together for the sharing of inheritance.
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Summary: This community of friends were so persistent, they were so willing to take risks, so wreckless in their love for their friend that they did whatever it took, any means necessary to get their hurting friend to Jesus. He was down on the mat and they did whatever they could to get him to the one they believed could make the difference in his life. You got any friends down on the mat? Are you down on the mat?
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Scripture: Matthew 18:18–20
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Scripture: Acts 17:22–31
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Haris Sohail has been named Umar Akmal's replacement in Pakistan's Champions Trophy squad, the country's cricket board announced on Tuesday (May 23). Akmal was dropped from the squad after he failed to pass the fitness test and was forced to return to Pakistan.
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"The NCA trainer conducted the test of all three players and based on the reports submitted by the trainer and upon Pakistan's team management request Haris Sohail has been selected to replace Umar Akmal for the Champions Trophy to commence from June 1, 2017 in England and Wales," PCB said in a release.


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- You are intimidated because the prize is publication—to which I say, suck it up because if you want to be published you have to get past that and I promise to be gentle when I tell you your story didn't make the cut
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Winder-Barrow High School assistant principal and athletic director Rob McFerrin has been named the 2016 Region 8-AAAAA Athletic Director of the Year.
McFerrin was recognized at the Feb. 2 Board of Education meeting where principal Al Darby said, "This recognition speaks for itself and on behalf of our region we want to recognize you for your exemplary leadership and selfless acts of time and dedication. Your attention to detail and outstanding work ethic has driven this organization to a level that has prospered. Region 8-AAAAA is proud to call you our Region Athletic Director of the Year for 2015-2016."
McFerrin has been athletic director at Winder-Barrow since 2013 and has been in education for 20 years, teaching language arts and coaching multiple sports. As an assistant principal at Winder-Barrow, he works with the PE, math and social studies departments and with 9th grade students.
In his role as athletic director, he oversees the daily operations and grounds of the school and works with community and recreation programs.
During his time at WBHS, he has been working to renovate the weight room, a project with a five-year timeline.
McFerrin named Region AD of Year
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It all began when Lizi Patch's son, normally a gregarious young boy, became quiet.
A couple of weeks later, he sat down and confessed why his mood had changed: under peer pressure from some older boys at school, he had looked at a video clip of violent pornography.
The 11-year-old found the courage to tell his mother, theatre maker Lizi Patch, and it was the start of a journey that has led, almost three years later, to the story being told on stage.
Patch says: "After 30 years of working as a theatre-maker, I know the power of a good piece of theatre to tell important stories and reach out to hearts and minds in a way that no other medium can. The intensely personal nature of this simple story could so easily be any parent's story. It has real impact as a piece of theatre and a combination of live action, original media footage, animation and a beautiful score, means it is an assault on the senses, moving and funny in equal measure."
Back in 2013, when Patch's son told her what he'd seen, she wrote a blog about the experience and soon found herself recounting the story in national newspapers in England and Australia, and appearing on Newsnight to talk about the issue of pornography and protecting children from it.
Patch also realised she wanted to tell the story on stage and spent last year developing a show about the experience, called Punching The Sky, which embarks on a tour starting in Halifax next week.
"My job is to look after my sons. That means making difficult decisions," says Patch. "From the moment you become a parent you are responsible for your child's mental and physical well being and, as any parent knows, each day brings new challenges. Some decisions you make intuitively, some you make after a great deal of thought. Often you can only do what makes sense at the time. At its very heart this play examines exactly that."
Punching The Sky, which also features Patch on stage alongside two other performers, will visit Leeds, Doncaster, Barnsley, Hull and Harrogate. Patch says: "As long as we have an internet we have to build strategies to cope with the content, and I don't mean censorship I mean enabling young people to have strategies to cope and contextualize the digital world they are living in. We all have to take responsibility for the well-being of our kids. And that pretty much boils down to conversations – connecting with each other face to face, answering questions openly and honestly. The fact that my son trusts me to tell this story now is testament to our relationship, and that takes work.
"Crucially it has to stand up as a good play, or I'm not doing my job. A play I can be proud of that is testament to the bravery of my son for having the guts to speak out. It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my career. But it's my choice as an artist and – after two R&D periods it has become clear that the best way to tell my story is to be in it myself. I want to be honest. I want to do it justice. I love my children and if through seeing this show I can help other parents deal with these very same issues, then it's all been worth it."
Tour dates: www.lizipatch.co.uk/punchingthesky


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I am looking forward to the weekend and the warm temperatures. I started to get my gardening tools ready..rakes, shovels, gloves and muscles. As I walked around my yard, I spotted it - there it was my 25 pound bag of Rock Salt! The dreaded Rock Salt, which reminds me of snow, ice and below frigid temperatures. As I attempted to pick up the bag with all my might, so that I could put it away in the shed...something came over me and I stepped away from the bag. My superstitious mind started speaking to me. "Don't do it, don't put it away! If you do, a snowstorm will hit the Jersey Shore on April 29th!" Step away from the bag and remove on June 5th". And so my bag of Rock Salt will enjoy the sun and warm temperatures this weekend, as it watches me clean my garden. And if it was edible salt..I would use on my Margarita glass...the Margarita I will enjoy after I finish all my yard work!!!
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WASHINGTON (9/25/14)--Demand for new single-family homes spiked in August, according to Department of Commerce data, possibly assuaging fears that the housing recovery significantly stalled during the summer.
The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of new-home sales increased by 18% last month to 504,000--the fastest it has grown since May 2008, and the largest one-month increase since January 1992, according to MarketWatch (Sept. 24). The numbers pushed the Commerce Department's 12-month rate of sales in August to 33%.
The reported surge in transactions largely occurred throughout the country, with increases in the West, Northeast and South of 50%, 29% and 8% respectively. The rate of new single-family homes remained steady in the Midwest.
The supply of new homes on the market was up to 203,000 in August--a 1% monthly increase and a 16% year-over-year increase, according to Moody's (Economy.com Sept. 24).
The months-supply of new homes dropped to 4.8 months from 5.6 in July, and was down from 5.5 in August 2013. The median number of months that new homes were on the market remained relatively steady at 3.3, up by 0.1 from August 2013.
Despite the sales increase, the seasonally adjusted median sale price of new homes was down by a monthly rate of 1.6% to $275,000--a 7.9% growth rate on an annual basis. The same figure, unadjusted for seasonal fluctuations, was up by 11.9% on a year-over-year basis.
Home sales above $300,000 as a proportion of total transactions also increased on an annual basis--to 42% from 37% in August 2013.
August's data surprised analysts polled by MarketWatch and Moody's, with a survey taken by the former predicting that the Commerce report would show a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 426,000 new single-family home sales.
MarketWatch said that the report could build confidence in the housing recovery, but warned that new-home sales data often undergo revisions. It also cautioned that demand strength is precarious, with financial institutions being tight-fisted with credit, and that another government report showed construction on new homes dropped in August.
MarketWatch also reported concerns that post-collapse vacancy rates remain stubbornly high, and Moody's said that the new-home inventory must rise above its historical average of 300,000 to prevent a bubble from forming.
Still, analysts from both firms noted that a recent National Association of Home Builders' survey showed that confidence in the residential construction industry sits at its highest level since 2005.


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Former Vancouver Sun columnist Jamie Lamb on surviving the 'most frightening moment' of his life, thanks to the angels in our health care system.
'I'm in trouble': A harrowing story from the heart
I was washing the dog on Monday, May 1, when I suddenly felt light-headed and vaguely nauseous, then began to sweat profusely. I sat down on the edge of the tub. I knew something was wrong, but being a guy — and therefore stupid — I sat for five minutes on the bathtub and waited for the feeling to go away.
It didn't.
So I stood up, told my wife my symptoms, and she said she was driving me to Emergency at Delta Hospital.
I walked up to the ER registration desk, produced my beat-up 1976 Care Card, recited my symptoms and said, "Something's wrong." They took me into the treatment area, put me on a gurney, and a doctor told me I was having a cardiac "event" and that an ambulance had been summoned to take me to Royal Columbian Hospital. I was saying something to my wife when I lost consciousness.
When I came partially awake, I was mistily aware of many people doing things around me, calling out numbers, giving orders, and I seemed to be the focus of their attention. This was, I thought, like a scene out of Knowledge Network's excellent Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH. I was also aware that someone was sitting astride my stomach and pounding on my chest.
It was only then that the situation hit me. I'm on a gurney in the ER and they're pounding on my heart.I'm in trouble.
Then, through the dimness, I heard one very distinct word.
There was an instant of white light and white heat, a thunderous crack — as if a fresh young lightning bolt had leapt into existence in my right ear and bolted through my brain to the left ear — and I felt myself convulsing like a bloated fish on a boat deck. I also heard myself shout, "Je-sus Ch-rist!"
What an odd thing to say, I thought. It's something my father would have said. Then I realized: They just shocked my heart.I'm in big trouble.
Actually, this had been the third time they'd used a cardiac defibrillator on me, but I didn't know that then. All I knew was they'd stabilized me and were putting me on an ambulance gurney, strapping a Lucas machine to my chest — if my heart stopped again, the Lucas would pound my heart/ribs like a pile-driver — and were trundling me out to an ambulance for a rush-hour run along the South Perimeter highway to New Westminster and the Royal Columbian Hospital's cardiac catheter lab.
In the cath lab, they put me on a slab, administered sedation, ran a catheter from the groin up to the heart, and with an X-ray machine swivelling here and there above my chest, installed a stent in my heart. I was awake but it wasn't painful, and afterward I was wheeled into a ward where I was able to talk to my wife, daughter, son and friends.
Next morning, having had no sleep, I told my daughter I wasn't feeling well, the same symptoms as the day before. My daughter convinced a nurse I was in trouble and I was sent down to the holding area in the cath lab while my family waited outside. Just as I was being wheeled into the operating area, I said, "I think it's happening aga …" and promptly went into cardiac arrest.
With the exception of one moment — and this would be the single most frightening moment in my life — I was unaware of anything for the next 20 hours, unaware I was repeatedly arresting and prompting "code blue" alerts, unaware that multiple cardiac surgeons and nurses and technicians were inserting more stents and attempting to rein in and stabilize my heart's wildly erratic electrical rhythms.
The "frightening moment" is indescribable but I can outline its basic emotional and visual content. I heard medical voices in the dark and heard the word "intubate" and I know now this was when they were putting in a breathing tube and placing me on a ventilator. At the time it was happening, the sensation was as if I had been hung upside down in complete blackness, unable to draw a good breath, unable to talk or scream no matter how hard I tried. The frustration was overwhelming. In that complete blackness, shiny black tiles began to fall past me. Think of glossy domino tiles, but instead of white dots on the tiles these had glowing white words, phrases and sentences on them. They were all falling away from me in vertical columns. Dozens of columns. Hundreds of columns. All of the words burning in intense electrical whiteness against a liquid darkness, as vivid as any James Cameron hi-def, 3-D, hyper-real visual effect.
These were my words, my phrases, my sentences, and I knew I'd never get to say or write them if I didn't fight for them. There were things I had to say to my wife and daughter and son, and to my friends. Before he died, my father said a few words to me that meant the world to me, and I'd be damned if I was going to nonchalantly die of some heart ailment without telling my family and friends a few important words that meant something to me and, hopefully, to them.
I woke up in the ICU, was transferred to a room with pressure cuff and external pacemaker and enough leads and IVs to ensure I couldn't sleep a moment.
But here's what I knew. I knew I was one of the luckiest people in the country. Each time my heart stopped, I was in a place where they could do something about it — the small Delta Hospital ER geared to stabilize you and get you to where you need to be for specialized work, and Royal Columbian's cardiac catheter lab, one of the places to be if your heart is failing you.
One week after my heart first stopped, they wheeled me down to the operating theatre — the last operation of the day in a busy OR — to install a pacemaker. Sedated but wide awake, I was aware they were carving out a little pouch in my upper chest to implant a watch-sized device and its attendant leads into the heart when the monitors started making funny noises and a voice said, "No, no, no, no …" and I felt myself arresting again. The surgical team scrambled to attach defibrillator pads, the anaesthesiologist quickly upped the sedation — including a hit of nitrous oxide — and they zapped me.
"Sorry about that, Mr. Lamb," somebody said.
"Hey, I've been shocked by tougher guys than you over at Delta Hospital," I replied. Not a perfect line, but not bad under the circumstances. I told the night nurse about it, and she laughed.
Next morning, the day I was due to be discharged, a different cardiac doctor was on the morning rounds and mentioned he'd heard I'd made a joke about my heart failing during the pacemaker procedure. I told him about it, he made a call to the surgeon who'd installed the pacemaker, then returned saying he couldn't in good conscience discharge me yet. He wanted to get me into the hospital's cardiac electrophysiology lab before shipping me home.
Two days later, I was on the table in the cardiac electrophysiology lab, surrounded by a young and confident team who were going to "tickle" my heart to find the electrical problem that was causing me to arrest every time I found myself on a gurney or operating table. Took them eight minutes to find it, and I was in and out of cardiac arrest in a defibrillator's heartbeat.
Two days after that I was wheeled back into the OR where they removed the pacemaker and installed a larger device —about the size of a deck of cards that's been cut in half — that combines cardiac resynchronization with an internal defibrillator. I was discharged the next day.
So what have I learned that I can pass on to you?
Couple of things. Our health authorities tend to take a bad rap, particularly Fraser Health with its burgeoning population that forever drives a need for more facilities and more staff. It'll never be perfect or even sufficient to what we demand, but I'm here to say the system works.
You probably know someone who works in some capacity in some hospital but you don't really know what they do there. That's because you have to be in some degree of medical distress to find out what they actually do. I spent 13 days on N2, a cardiac floor at Royal Columbian, and I can say with confidence that the health system has changed radically in my lifetime and pretty much all of it for the better. Everyone works in teams now, across age and race and old medical silos, and it's a vast improvement over 20 or 30 years ago.
Doctors, nurses, techs, food and janitorial staff, without exception, they were friendly, efficient, and all-around great. (And while I didn't get anybody's name in the Delta ER, I'm compelled to say that RCH nurses Angela and Jennifer and Hyone and Tara and Lucas and Jas and Gavin and Edna and Serena, and doctors Leung and LeMaitre and Amin and Chan and Epstein and Latham and Karim and a bushel of others worked patiently to ensure I remained on the top side of my beloved B.C. soil.) Our health system — in this province, in this country — is terrific.
Also, all the trauma brought my family closer together. I wouldn't wish any of it on you or yours — way too emotional, way too frightening — but there's part of me that thinks it's one of the best things to ever happen to me.
Finally, and most important, never wait to tell the people you love — family, friends, neighbours — how much they mean to you. Don't sleepwalk out of your life without discovering and acknowledging those who make it worth living.
Live long and prosper.
Jamie Lamb is a former Vancouver Sun columnist.
By Maxwell Lamb
My father was a journalist at the Vancouver Sun for 20 years, and with that experience carried a few vices from the old press world.
Life was full of everything the old Press Club would be proud of. Cigars and scotch, Steely Dan and steaks — big ones.
I adopted all the same vices over time, and it happened that all the most important and treasured father-son conversations were at the end of our garage where he smoked his Old Ports and I smoked my Belmonts. The cornerstone of our father-son bonding is an embrace of sickly vice, the likes of which the women of our family would no doubt disapprove. We are both stupid, careless punks in that way.
Yet in every one of our sessions, the menace of health concern over these vices is quietly looming. I know that one day, far down the road, I will get a phone call, and it will be the most damning phone call of my life. But it's always down the road. Not when my father is only 64. Not when I'm in a classroom. Not when it doesn't make sense.
It's the final block of the day on May 1 and the class has completely lost interest in completing the task. There are those who have claimed to have finished their projects at home, and others who argue that previous arrangements had been made to allow for extra time. As a teacher on call, I have no way of verifying anyone's substantiations, and I immediately revert to my default teaching discipline: Get them writing something, anything.
When I'm pushing this practice on a particularly lethargic student in the front, that's when the phone in my pocket rumbles. I'm so used to telemarketers at this point of the day that I'm tempted to ignore it. The area code is local, and I briefly consider that it might be job-related, someone who obtained my business card from a previous substitute, or perhaps a district dispatch number that I never recorded.
It's none of those things. The voice on the other line is my mother. She doesn't even say my name. The words are broken up with breathlessness and what I can only describe as sheer, unbridled terror. "Your father. He's had … he's had a heart attack." Anybody who didn't know my mother's cadence would have missed the last two words altogether, because she's lost all control with her words.
I'm immediately in a daze. I agree to meet her at the hospital. I speak to my class in a most unfeeling and distanced voice: "I have to go now. I'm sorry. My father just had a heart attack."
Curiously enough, this is the catalyst that prompts the academic juices to flow as everyone is suddenly civil, writing and undeniably sweet. They offer premature condolences, helpful travel routes and reassurances that they'll complete their tasks independently. Two things occur to me at this point: One, this is a terrific tactic to save for future unruly classes; Two, my father is dying and I need to function through my own sheer, unbridled terror.
I'm in the hallway by the catheter labs at Royal Columbian Hospital with my mother and my sister when we hear the Code Blue on the intercom. Code Blue is now my least favourite phrase in the English language. It's called a Code Blue, I think to myself, because his skin is going blue. His heart is not working. Whatever part of this that was supposed to be routine has gone horribly wrong somehow as his body enacts further revenge.
Waves of doctors pour through the doors. My sister collapses into me. The social worker places her hand on my mother's shoulder … my breathing … now I've lost control.
Everything in this hallway is a nightmare, and no medical drama can capture the feeling of a real Code Blue. A Code Blue crushes you. It crushes everything in the hallway, and we're suddenly looking death in the face.
And then they bring him back. This is the miracle. An entire staff of scientific scholars using impossible technological tools repeatedly start him up again. His body decides that it's not done yet. My father, the most gifted writer in the family, has not finished telling his story yet.
We meet him in the ICU. He's out cold, but he's working again. He's hooked up to machines with a team of experts watching his every breath, for he is breathing. His heart is connected to every kind of electronic monitor, for his heart is beating. These machines will ultimately shrink to an unbelievable size and stay inside of him to keep his heart in check while he walks, for he will be walking.
My mother reassures us, as a mother will, that he's surrounded by the best of the best. She looks at him on the bed. It's true love at its finest. My sister whispers something comical into his ear, something just between the two of them. I whisper something to him knowing that he will never hear it, but without any semblance of finality. Two days later I will be showing him movie trailers in his room and talking about Led Zeppelin and Steely Dan. Ten days after that we'll be having dinner at his home.
There is an ongoing conversation down south about the standard of quality in a universal health care system. The politics of health care in the United States is a dollars-and-cents issue with enough people screaming that this is a system that can't possibly work, that puts people in danger, that breaches below their standards.
This is a love letter to that system. I've never been so proud of our health care system from what I witnessed in Royal Columbian Hospital as they brought my father back to life. Everything at play, from the surgeons to the nursing staff, the technological feats to the personal care of the social workers, the medical equipment to the people who deliver it, everything right down to the lukewarm food they serve at dinner: The system is life itself.
Everything is a part of a beautiful, indescribable network that keeps our darkest hours at bay for as long as it can. It defies the natural order of what our bodies deserve, what they don't, and it breaks the impossible every minute of every day. It's a beautiful thing, a very Canadian thing, and something that leaves me with nothing but ecstatic gratitude.
I'm grateful we don't have to have the same conversation as a country that lacks such a system. We live in a country that has a contingency plan for every one of us. There's a team of people that are ready to do the impossible for you. There's a system that cares that you live.
My family gets to move on in a tighter embrace, for such skirting of tragedy brings us all together in the closest way. We move on in love, pride, good health, and never, ever again looking at anything in shades of blue.
Maxwell Lamb is a teacher.
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Top-rated radio personality Wendy Williams has been called The Queen of Dish.‿ Shock-Jock Diva.‿ Even The Mouth Almighty.‿
During her afternoon drive-time show, The Wendy Williams Experience,‿ on New York Citys WBLS-FM, shes a gal on the loose. In a rapid-fire voice thats all brass and sass, she bounces from gossip, to advice, to in-your-face commentary, to interviews. Sometimes she even spins a song or two. Whether shes talking about celebrities or herself, you can bet it will be blunt.
Wendy Williams TELLS ALL!!! Hold on to your seats everyone, Wendy has released the names of the Gay & Bi Celebs.. and lots more juice!
This is in the industry....(Gay and Bi Males) Rappers who are bi or gay lets go with the men because the women are obvious:
Method Man
Puffy does it for control I think
Dr. Dre is straight up living a big lie Tyrese hit Sisqo for coming on to him in a studio
Actually I think McLyte is still with Pam from Martin
Russell Simmons throws gay parties
I heard things about LL too
Marlon Wayans (not Shawn)
of course Will Smith
Tyson Beckford
* NBA Players:
Chris Webber..Steve Frances..Mobley guy from Houston...Damion from Portland
And I'm sure there are a lot more, and they all date woman or are married .....
groupies beware !!! >
There is a crew of bisexual actresses that hang out together and most of them are married. They include:
Jada Pinkett
Jasmine Guy
Cree Summer
Tichina Arnold
Tisha Campbell
Debbie Allen, who apparently turned out the whole cast of A Different World.
Beyonce is NOT the only one with a bad breath problem, Juvenile's breath is WORST
Larenze Tate is FINE but he is an arrogant a-hole
Alicia Keys DOES, I repeat DOES have a boyfriend, whether or not it's a cover-up,
I don't know but the both of them seem really serious about each other, so I doubt it..
By the way she is NOT 22, she's 26...
Kelis is NOT 23 she's 28...You can even look it up yourselves,
She graduated from her high school class of '92
Nas is one of the coolest mofo's in the industry. He doesn't socialize with everybody (which I can 't blame him for) but he has ! to be one of thee most laid back people I know. One problem though, he 's just a weed and dust addict
Kelly Rowland is a nice person, but I think she's a lesbian
Michelle Williams is extremely skinny and she has serious self-esteem problems
Mark Wahlberg aka Marky Mark has a huge d **k for a white boy..I've seen it
I also heard that Brandy has a funky cooch..don't know how true this is though..
I honestly never met the chick.
More Gossip from Wendy Williams:
Wingo from Jagged Edge is a weed attic, he loves strip joints and taking exstacy,
his shower has hair all in it and he is having sex with his cleaning
lady/interior decorator, who is 40 years old......
Mya gets around. Ever wonder why such a pretty girl is s!ingle in the industry...well hold on to your hats for this cause here's her "hit"list...Jayz, Damon Dash, Sisqo, 50 Cent,
Just Blaze, Silk tha Shocker, and Lil X (the video
director)....I hear she stooped even lower and has added Lil' John now...
Alot of them Lakers are cheats I know first hand.
I'll tell you a secret I know....Shaq has a mistress in Dallas,TX. He bought her a house and he spends his time with her when he is in town. He called up one of the stations one time
and asked if he could dedicate "Piece Of My Love" by Guy to her. (off air, of course).
Allen Iverson is rude.....he told "us" he hated white
girls and refused to tip one at the strip club one night hanging......
Tyrese has white bumps on his "manhood". A female voluntarily told me she had sex with him and saw it.....
DMX isn't the only one smoking crack rock.....(drum roll) his wife does it too....
Mr. Irv Gotti was caught by his wife at! a hotel a couple years ago with a groupie. She banged on the door and beat him down and was arrested for it, but her dumb butt went back to him anyway. He is still with the groupie
till this day......
Serena has dated Keyshawn Johnson, Corey Maggette and a couple of other no name athletes....word on the street is they all talk about how fine
she is but how bad she smells during sex.......
Beyonce is not innocent - she had an abortion at age 18. She was pregnant by her ex, Lindell who resides in Houston,
Kelly Rowland is now dating Roy Williams of the Dallas Cowboys....
Laker player, Rick Fox and wife, Vanessa Williams are both infected with herpes. She contracted it from her ex-hubby which was one of the reasons they split. Somehow Rick didn't care and married her for love anyway. They
have one child named Sasha together, who she delivered through c-section.....
Halle's no good in bed. She refuses to give brain" and when she does she's ! lousy. Ms. Berry acts too good now, but back in her Jungle Fever days she was boning both Wesley
and Spike...........Wesley beat her when he found out.... Loon has a male lover. Yes. Mr. Loon prefers to be on the bottom and hopes this secret never gets out."
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As of end of June, India's grid interactive solar PV installed reached a capacity of 1,030.66 megawatts with a large percentage almost 65 percent located in Gujarat. Bridge to India tells pv magazine this achievement comes earlier than planned as the MNRE targeted a capacity of 800 MW by end of FY2012-2013.
Bridge to India, in its latest report (The India Solar Compass July 2012),
expects an additional 598 MW of PV capacity to be commissioned between
now and the second quarter of 2013, keeping in mind that 340 MW worth of
projects under batch two of phase one of the National Solar Mission also
have a commissioning deadline of March 2013.
The company additionally states, "Few had expected India to keep up with the ambitious targets when they were announced under the NSM. This perception has changed due to the willingness and commitment that the project developers and investors have shown with regards to investing in solar in India. As an example, for an allocation of 350 MW under batch two of phase one of the NSM, bids totaling of 1,905 MW were received. This goes to show that the investor community believes in the role of solar power as a serious alternative source of energy for India and is willing to take a strategic bet on it."
A report released in April by the U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) emphasized the government policy has played a pivotal role in India's solar market and impressive strides have been made to attract new domestic and international players into the market, and lower the price of solar energy faster than anticipated.


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Canon ImageRUNNER 2030i Copier, Canon 2030i Printer, Scanner
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- 11 X 17" Document Scanning
- 256MB CPU - Shared With Main Unit
- 5 Jobs Copy Reservations
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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Green leader is calling for a judicial review to determine if a former Liberal government violated regulations by giving up its first right to money owed by the Atcon group of companies.
The auditor general said in a report this week she believes a regulation was violated when the cabinet of then-premier Shawn Graham gave Scotiabank first right to money covered by loan guarantees from the province to Atcon.
Green Leader David Coon says as a result, there needs to be an investigation into the legality of the change made by the cabinet in October 2009.
But Finance Minister Roger Melanson says there have already been many reports into the Atcon collapse that left taxpayers on the hook for almost $70 million.
He says the CEO of Opportunities New Brunswick is meeting with the auditor general to see how the recommendations in her report on Atcon can be implemented.
On Wednesday, Premier Brian Gallant rebuffed Opposition calls for a forensic audit of the financial assistance for Atcon.
He said the issue has been discussed for years and there was no new information in the auditor general's report.


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An appointment for vaccines or physicals require particular information as well as a standard update of your medical records. You can print the forms before your appointment and fill them out if you would like. Or you can simply review the forms to be sure you have the necessary information in order to complete the forms at our office. We are happy to assist in completing the forms.
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On a cold day, there is absolutely nothing better than this West African Groundnut! It's nutty and delicious and is the perfect comfort food!
West African Groundnut
Would you like something creamy, peanutty, vegetably, and easy? If so, make this West African Groundnut.
One good thing about eating Keto is you get to eat a spoon of peanut butter by itself with no guilt. You're supposed to be eating fat by golly. So I typically have one at night, at least 3-4 times a week. Years ago I made some ground nut stew and loved it. So I decided to try it again.
Want to try some more African recipes? Check THESE out!
The beauty of this dish to me, is that it can be made with whatever meat or non-meat you want. I use it sometimes when I'm trying to use up leftovers in the fridge, like the Swiss chard I had that needed using up. I've made it with chicken, with just veggies, with stewing beef, with whatever sounded good.
Mine was made with frozen hunk-o-chicken as the pic shows below, (thank you Instant Pot!) so it took a while to cook. Ended up taking 15 mins but the rest of the stew still tasted fantastic.
Does West African Groundnut taste like peanut butter?
You'll have to adjust the peanut butter in your West African Groundnut based on how much liquid you get. The best way I can describe this is that the finished product should have a clear hint of it, but not be overwhelmed by it.
You don't want people to go "Oh peanut butter!" Rather you want them to say "Mmm, delicious! Do I taste…peanuts maybe?"
So this is how I made mine, but sub whatever you want that sounds better/meets allergy needs etc., such as sunflower butter for peanut butter if you need.
It has such a wonderful peanut butter taste that if you went easy on the cayenne, pepper, and cloves, you could easily feed it to kids, especially if mixed with rice.
You may also want to check out my Keto Instant Pot Cookbook–the only Keto Cookbook authorized by Instant Pot. This cookbook is full of delicious recipes that even your non-keto Family will love.
- Instant Pot Mini Duo, or Instant pot 6 quarts, or Instant Pot 8 Quarts
- Measuring Cups
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- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons Garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger minced
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoons Ground Cumin
- 1/2 teaspoons Ground Coriander
- 1/2 teaspoons Ground Black Pepper
- 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoons Ground Cloves
- 1 tablespoon Tomato Paste
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken pieces, either breasts or thighs, cut into large chunks
- 3-4 cups swiss chard, chopped (or other leafy greens of your choice)
- 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables
- 1/2-1 cup water
For finishing
- 1/3-1/2 cup Crunchy Peanut Butter
- Yes, another dump and go recipe.
- Put in all ingredients except peanut butter into your Instant Pot and set your cooker to High Pressure for 10 minutes. I used a frozen block of chicken thighs which took about 15 minutes, so just adjust based on what cut of meat you're using.
- Allow it to release pressure naturally and open lid carefully.
- Mix in the peanut butter a little at a time. Taste with each addition, as your reward for cooking. Taste the peanut butter too, make sure it's good stuff.
- The final sauce should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon in a thin layer.
- Enjoy!


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Tag Archives: leadership
The Bird-Worm Matrix: What's your quadrant?
You've probably heard the old adage: the early bird catches the worm… And if you're anything like me (a perpetual procrastinator with a sophistic bent), you probably cannot not help but pose the question: Well what about the early worm? See it all laid out in a convenient matrix. Continue reading
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Don't Panic Fridays: No managerial experience.
It's almost the weekend, and we know you want to set aside those business school applications, take a break, and have some fun. So every Friday we make it our mission to give you a reason not to panic. Today's topic: No managerial experience. Continue reading
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Brookhaven Arts Festival 2019 Agreement
I have read, understood, and hereby accept the policies of The Brookhaven Community Foundation and the liability limits as stated and agree to hold Brookhaven Community Foundation, city of Brookhaven, MARTA, and Dekalb County harmless for any claims for damage, loss or injury arising from my participation in the Brookhaven Arts Festival. The festival is a rain or shine event and will remain scheduled as planned, regardless of inclement weather. No refunds shall be given due to interruption of the festival or cancellation for reasons beyond the control of Brookhaven Community Foundation. These reasons include, but are not limited to weather, acts of God, acts of terrorism, or governmental intervention. I further understand the Brookhaven Arts Festival Committee reserves the right to make final interpretation of all rules. I grant The Brookhaven Arts Festival, the Brookhaven Community Foundation, and Kelly Marsh permission to reproduce submitted images for publicity or educational purposes.


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There are probably a lot of things we've believed about money over the years ... many of which have proven false, or at least flawed. Though we may not say it out loud, we've likely believed that money can make us happy ... and more money surely means more happiness. We've heard and probably believed that money is the root of all evil. But actually Paul told Timothy that the "love of money" is the problem. Most of us probably define "poverty" as a money issue, but Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett's book, When Helping Hurts, reminds us that true poverty has more to do with broken relationships than just lack of money.
So what is the truth about money? Is it okay to have money? Should I feel guilty about having it when so many around the world don't? Does money itself have a power or is it neutral? Should I try to earn more of it or not? Sometimes even churches give confusing answers to these and many other questions.
Solomon has some good things to say about money in Ecclesiastes 5:8-20. He gives some strong warnings about the vanity of money but he also tells us that we can actually enjoy money. This Sunday we will examine the truth about money ... both the good and the bad. Please read the passage in preparation for worship and come prepared to wrestle with your present perspective about money. Ask God to give you clarity about your finances.


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October 20, 2012 1:09
In Russia, this business has become a stream. Two weeks ago, caused a scandal at the Moscow Planetarium. The neighbors can count to five major sites that offer money in your honor to the name of the star. And each of the sites says that he has the exclusive rights to the catalog of stars, naming competitors charlatans. Belarus has managed to find only one "star representative," and only one "lunar consulate" — to the "Lunar Embassy" we still have not grown.
I'll give you a star. Any sort of
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Continue reading For the money, everything is possible: how to sell star names and lands on the moon


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"Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Perspective of the Symmetry Protected Topological Phase"
This event is part of the Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Series.
We ask whether a local Hamiltonian with a featureless (fully gapped and nondegenerate) ground state could exist in certain quantum spin systems. We address this question by mapping the vicinity of certain quantum critical point (or gapless phase) of the d−dimensional spin system under study to the boundary of a (d+1)−dimensional bulk state, and the lattice symmetry of the spin system acts as an on-site symmetry in the field theory that describes both the selected critical point of the spin system, and the corresponding boundary state of the (d+1)−dimensional bulk. If the corresponding bulk state is a trivial state instead of a bosonic symmetry protected topological (SPT) state, then a featureless ground state of the spin system is allowed; if the corresponding bulk state is indeed a nontrivial SPT state, then it likely excludes the existence of a featureless ground state of the spin system. From this perspective we identify the spin systems with SU(N) and SO(N) symmetries on one, two and three dimensional lattices that permit a featureless ground state. We also verify our conclusions by other methods, including an explicit construction of these featureless spin states.


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Australia's attorney general, George Brandis, appears to have granted the country's domestic spy agency access to journalists' metadata in a small number of cases, the agency's head has revealed.
Duncan Lewis, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Agency (Asio), confirmed in parliament on Tuesday that the agency had been granted some journalist information warrants.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon has been pursuing Asio over the details of the warrants, and focused repeated questioning on Lewis in Senate estimates on Tuesday.
They warrants came into force in October 2015 in part to secure passage of Australia's sweeping data retention laws that require telecommunications companies to store phone and web metadata for two years.
The changes now require law enforcement to obtain warrants from a judge if they are seeking access to a journalist's phone or web metadata. But Asio is not required to go to a judge, and must instead approach the attorney general directly to obtain a journalist information warrant.
After facing repeated questioning from Xenophon about why he could not specify the number of warrants, Lewis said: "I can answer that very promptly. The number is small. Because of the small nature of the number ... it would be very easy to start identifying who and what cases were involved. So I'm just not prepared to go to the issue of numbers where it will clearly ... it could clearly point to an investigation that is underway."
Xenophon said he was "not asking you to break down how many were from Newscorp, or Fairfax or the Guardian".
"I just want to know how many journalist information warrants have been issued."
Lewis said: "I cannot and I will not in a public setting provide the number of investigations into a class of person ... The numbers as I said are small and a simple exercise in deduction would start to throw light on the investigations that are currently underway."
It is the first time Asio has confirmed that it obtained access to journalists' phone or web records. The Australian federal police has confirmed to date that it has not sought a journalist information warrant since they were introduced.
But it has previously confirmed accessing journalists' phone records prior to the introduction of the warrants in order to pursue whistleblowers who disclosed government information.
While the AFP has generally sought information for the purposes of investigating leaks of commonwealth information, the nature of Asio's investigations remain opaque.
Lewis told Xenophon the agency had provided details in the agency's classified report, which is available only to the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security. "In the classified report there is something of an answer to your question, but I am not prepared to discuss it in this environment," he said.
- Contact Paul Farrell securely using the Signal messaging app on +61 457 262 172 or using the Guardian's Securedrop server


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Thursday Reveals – Time to Reveal the Answer
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Question: Which of the following TV Lift Cabinets are included in our trunk collection?
a) Antiquity, Bermuda Run, Carlton, Carousel
b) Aviator, Bermuda Run, Carlton, Crystal Pointe
c) Antiquity, Aviator, Bermuda Run, Carlton
The correct answer is: c.) Antiquity, Aviator, Bermuda Run, Carlton
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