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OCEAN CITY –The Ocean City Police Department received the go-ahead this week to purchase eight more Taser devices only days after the request was tabled for more details.
Last week the City Council debated the purchase of eight additional Tasers for the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) while Mayor Rick Meehan, Council President Lloyd Martin and Councilman Joe Mitrecic were absent.
At that time, OCPD Captain Gregory Guiton presented to the council the department's desire to use funding in the current Fiscal Year 2013 budget to purchase eight additional Taser X2 Electronic Control Devices (ECD) at a cost of about $11,400 to equip eight certified ECD officers within the department who do not have devices.
The purchase of the eight Tasers under the current budget will reduce the number of ECDs requested in FY 2014 from 22 to 14, as the department continues to outfit all operational officers with the device. The department currently has 26 ECDs in service. The additional eight will allow the department to outfit 37 percent of the officers and first line supervisors serving in an operational role.
The decision was postponed last week as concerns arose among the council, such as is it a beneficial effect on workman's compensation costs when officers carry an ECD, as well as how the expenditure would impact the looming upcoming budget gap when the remainder of the Tasers are requested.
This week the entire Mayor and City Council returned to council chambers to further discuss the issue. Guiton took the opportunity to address a couple questions raised last week.
Since OCPD implemented the ECD program in February of 2012, the department has tracked 59 uses from simply displaying the device to a warning arc and/or targeting, and in 17 of the 59 uses the device was deployed sending an electrical energy charge to the suspect. This reflects about 71 percent of the ECD uses resulted in compliance by the suspect without deployment. A review of the 17 deployments revealed that alcohol use by the suspect was involved in almost 65 percent of the incidents.
Guiton furthered department records reflect that since the implementation of the ECD program, police officers have encountered 53 incidents involving a suspect actively resisting during an arrest where officers did not have an ECD available to them and injuries were sustained by an officer, a suspect, or an officer and a suspect during 25 of those encounters, representing about 47 percent of incidents. The records also reflect alcohol/drug use by the suspect was noted in almost 79 percent of those incidents.
According to Risk Manager Eric Lagstrom, within workmen's compensation claims from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2012, four of the most severe injuries were the direct result of officers having to physically restrain combative suspects. The total amount paid for those cases was about $117,500.
Councilman Brent Ashley presented the room with a report published by Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler in 2009 titled, "A Report from the Maryland Attorney Generals Taskforce on Electronic Weapons".
"The governor's taskforce gave some examples on workmen's comp where police departments have instituted Tasers, and for example Granite City, Ill., incurred $740,000 in workmen's compensation costs. After the department began using Tasers in December of 2002 they had no workmen's compensation costs for all of 2003," Ashley explained as he asked Guiton if it was his opinion that if all our officers had Tasers that Ocean City's workmen's compensation costs would drop considerably.
"I can give you another statistic that wasn't included in the report, in which officers arrived at a scene of an incident in which the Taser was available to our officers and in the cases where the ECD was on the scene and utilized 14 percent of either an officer or suspect sustained an injury as opposed to the 47 percent," Guiton responded. "So there was a great reduction when the ECD was available and deployed, and in all of those cases the injuries were very minor in nature … there were no injuries that required a hospitalization stay or a follow-up."
Lagstrom added Ocean City's workmen's compensation costs have risen over the years but for different reasons. The number of injuries in the OCPD since the Tasers have gone into effect has reflected a decrease as well as the severity of injuries.
"The trend of officers being injured when they are trying to make an arrest and there is an altercation that may take place, that's now being reduced because of the use of the Tasers," Lagstrom said. "We still have officers injured in different areas of their work. I think it [workmen's compensation costs] would be decreased, no question."
Mayor Rick Meehan voiced his support for the purchase of the eight additional Tasers recognizing the appropriate funding is available.
"The Mayor and City Council moved very cautiously before we implemented this program to begin with. We went through a couple of years of discussion and evaluating what we though the effect of Tasers would be and how they would benefit our department and our community … I was concerned about Tasers but I have seen we have been able to institute a program that is successful and has been working," he said.
The council voted 5-0, with Ashley and Councilwoman Margaret Pillas abstaining, to approve the purchase of eight additional Tasers for the OCPD. Pillas stated her abstention is due to her concerns over the upcoming budget procedure.


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Managers of the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, a temporary health insurance program for people who can't qualify for medically underwritten health insurance, have added a notice about the extension to the PCIP website.
PCIP will let enrollees stay in the program until March 31, instead of shutting down Jan. 31, officials say in the notice.
The transitional coverage will give PCIP enrollee more times to replace their coverage, officials say.
Enrollees who want to keep their PCIP coverage will have to pay extra premiums for February and March, but the monthly rate will be the same enrollees paid for coverage for this month, officials say.
Drafters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the program to provide individual coverage for uninsurable people until 2014. PPACA now prohibits carriers in the individual market from considering personal health information other than age when deciding whether to issue coverage or when setting rates.
PCIP enrollees have had to pay a subsidized premium comparable to what healthy consumers would pay for similar coverage in the individual market.
Originally, PCIP was set to shut down Dec. 31. In mid-December, because of concerns about exchange enrollment problems, officials at CMS said the program would remain open longer.
Kaiser Health News reported the new PCIP transition period change yesterday. Kaiser reporters attributed the news to a CMS e-mail.
In related news, CMS posted a memo aimed at managers of state risk pools.
In the memo, CMS officials are trying to offer some relief for Medicare enrollees who might lose access to the Medicare supplement benefits they are getting from the state risk pools.
The risk pools are special state-run health insurance programs designed for people who could not qualify to buy medically underwritten individual health insurance.
Many of the risk pools are now shutting down because PPACA gives people with health problems the ability to buy individual health coverage without going through a medical underwriting process.
The state risk pools provide Medicare supplement benefits, or Medigap benefits, for about 6,000 Medicare enrollees under age 65 who have disabilities or are on dialysis.
Some states give people under age 65 with Medicare an automatic right to buy supplement benefits, but other states don't, officials say.
Normally, federal law would block carriers from selling individual coverage to Medicare enrollees, but, in states where the people losing state risk pool coverage cannot automatically buy private Medicare supplement insurance, CMS will suspend enforcement of the "anti-duplication" law until Dec. 31, 2015, officials say.
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Water bills make up a tiny fraction of operating costs even for companies that use vast amounts of the stuff, and ample supplies have traditionally been taken for granted. But in many areas of the United States and around the world, fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce, polluted and contested.
According to a recent study led by McKinsey, the world may face a 40 percent shortfall between forecast global water demand and available supplies by 2030. In this high-risk environment, companies with water-intensive operations and supply chains – energy, mining, manufacturing, food and beverage, electric power – have the most at stake.
Some in the business world are starting to realize this, with companies from Levi Strauss to PepsiCo to IBM acknowledging the challenge and seizing the opportunity to act. Institutional investors including the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund and the California State Teacher's Retirement System are also taking on the issue, asking companies in their investment portfolios to better manage water risks.
To create real, large scale, lasting change, however, these organizations need tools to plan, track and measure success. To help companies and shareholders like these create real, lasting change on a larger scale, Ceres and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development recently released a new roadmap for 21st century corporate water management, the Ceres Aqua Gauge. It's a practical (and free) self-assessment tool that outlines detailed steps for effective water risk management, from the boardroom to the factory floor to the farm field.
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The Aqua Gauge is the result of extensive interviews with leading companies and NGOs and is backed by investors managing $2 trillion in assets. It emphasizes a strategic approach to water risk, and highlights some of the companies that are leading the way in 21st century water management. These exemplars are:
- Establishing responsibility and creating incentives at the top. Water poses risks and opportunities that merit board-level oversight and integration into executive compensation. In a recent study by Ceres and Sustainalytics, 170 out of 600 U.S. companies assessed had some degree of board level oversight for sustainability, including on water issues. And a growing number of firms, including Campbell Soup and Danone are tying water and other sustainability metrics to how executives are compensated.
- Improving water performance in the supply chain. Companies should set standards for performance improvement with critical suppliers. Nike, for example, set a goal to work with its footwear and textile suppliers to achieve a 15 percent improvement in water use per unit of production by 2015. The company has also implemented water quality guidelines for its suppliers and has committed to working with industry to achieve zero discharge of hazardous chemicals anywhere in its supply chain by 2020.
- Addressing water risks "beyond the fenceline." Companies that depend on ample clean water for their operations are working with stakeholders and communities to support collective efforts to protect or restore their water source. Greg Koch, the Coca-Cola Company's Global Director of Water Stewardship, discussed these efforts at the Ceres Conference in late April in Boston. "Our company is the canary in the coal mine of water risk," said Koch. "Ninety-nine percent of our volume is produced in the markets where our plants are located, but it's not enough for us to say we need water for our [bottling] plants. We have to engage the community and be a part of their water issues and solutions."
For Coke, this means not only reducing its own water use inside more than 900 of its own bottling plants, but also requiring its bottlers to develop concrete plans that routinely include engagement with local water agencies, communities, and other outside partners to address local water challenges. Watch an interview with Koch here.
Coke is also using the Aqua Gauge to advance its own water management and to encourage its suppliers and customers to do the same.
"Water is complex. It's both local and global. We use Aqua Gauge to communicate where we are on the maturity continuum of water stewardship," Koch said. "It helps us to take some of the mystery out of the steps we can take to support better water management."
These examples of engaged water management remind us that fresh water is much more than a budget line item. Its value is far greater. By looking at the cost of water alone, companies might ignore the very real risks of business disruption from a lack of clean water, or the increased capital costs of replacing it.
Aqua Gauge and other tools are enabling companies to take action on water management, no matter what today's "price at the pump" may read.
This article originally appeared on the EDF+Business blog and is reprinted with permission.


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FIVB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Mazury | 1 - 7 July 2013
Lausanne, Switzerland, July 4, 2013 – The much awaited Beach Volleyball World Championships are currently in progress and former Brazilian legend of the sport, Sandra Pires provides her views on the action so far.
"It has been a fantastic start to the World Championships and even the weather, which has been temperamental at times, has not dampened the tournament's spirit and atmosphere. And the sporting action just gets better and better with some of the more unexpected pairings challenging the established hierarchy on the sands.
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Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoliovs have really come into their own since the
start of the season and they look set to top their pool in the competition. It
could not have been easy for Smedins to play a match against his brother or
Samoliovs to see his former partner on the other side of the net. But they kept
their focus and cohesion, two qualities which have allowed them to blaze ahead
of the competition this season even though they have only playing together
since the beginning of this year.
"They have taken gold at the Corrientes Grand Slam, bronze at the World Cup and then silver at The Hague and Rome Grand Slams and I will not be surprised to see them on the podium in Mazury in a few days' time.
"Another new pairing that has achieved a remarkably high level of success this year is Brazil's Taiana de Souza Lima and Talita Antunes da Rocha. They will face some stiff competition in the elimination round of the World Championships from Germany's Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst, but having won gold at the Shanghai, Hague and Rome Grand Slams I think they know what they need to do to pull another victory out of the hat. They have superb technique and team play and they know how to keep their calm, motivate each other and work with the other's strengths when it matters most.
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backing down in the face of increased competition. If anything, it seems to
have steeled their resolve to continue winning and performing at the highest
level possible.
"Brazil's Alison Cerruti and Emmuel Rego are not giving the competition an easy time and are determined to defend their World Championship title. They have had a rough start to the season, missing out on the opening events of the year on account of Alison's finger injury. But they have sent a clear signal that they can still cut a swath through the competition by taking gold in the World Cup Final. If they have taught the young generation of players anything it is that stamina and physical power is important, but experience, technique and solid team play are still viable in the long run.
"And other members of the old guard like USA's Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal are also well placed to make it to the final stages of the competition. I do hope that Pedro Solberg and Bruno Schimdt will be able to add to their already impressive medal count from this season.
"It is difficult to identify a clear leader in these Championships. With so many quality teams on the sands this year our only assurance is that the competition will get more demanding as it does not appear to be stifling the talent of individual players but encouraging them to give their best. All players will be required to use their every reserve if they want to get to the podium. May the best team win."
Sandra Pires is a three-time Olympian from Brazil. She won gold with Jackie Silva at the 1996 Games in Atlanta – the first year beach volleyball was introduced as a medal sport – bronze with Adriana Samuel in 2000 in Sydney and fifth place in Athens with Ana Paula Connelly. As a commentator for Globo Sport TV, Sandra has covered the London 2012 Games and the 2012 Brazilian national tour.
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Sara Goller: Goller backs Chen Xue and Zhang Xi for World Champs
Sinjin Smith: Sinjin Smith: Beach Volleyball undergoing a changing of the guard
Nikola Grbic: "Serbia will play even better in the coming weeks" – Grbic
Gustavo Endres: Brazil on track to win World League title – Gustavo
Tom Hoff: "If there's anyone who can do it, it's John Speraw" - Hoff
Andrea Zorzi: Teams must 'give their all at every opportunity' says Zorzi
Martin Laciga: 'It was a result which I for one was not expecting to see' – Martin Laciga
Natalie Cook: Bring on the World Cup – Nat Cook
Sinjin Smith: Sinjin Smith: 'There's a lot of excitement this season'
Andrea Zorzi: Russia capable of dominating the volleyball world over the next few years
Tom Hoff: Change is difficult, but also necessary
Andrea Zorzi: Italy, Poland, Russia & Brazil picks for World League – Zorzi
Martin Laciga: Expect a Fuzhou-repeat in Shanghai
Natalie Cook: Natalie Cook pleased with "A great start to the new season"
Sandra Pires: "2013 can be anyone's year" says Sandra Pires
Virna Dias: Virna predicts another great year for Olympic champs Brazil
Andrea Zorzi: Andrea Zorzi looks forward to this year's World League action
Stacy Sykora: Women's volleyball looking forward to bumper year
Natalie Cook: Keep an eye on the Chinese in 2013
Hugh McCutcheon: Feeling good about US women's coach
Martin Laciga: It's time to pass the ball to younger players
Tom Hoff: This is volleyball, and anything can happen
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unemployment rate fell to 8.7 percent in January, down from 9.2
percent one year ago, according to preliminary data released last
week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois
Department of Employment Security. While employers reported 21,600
more jobs than one year ago, record-setting snow and cold restricted
construction growth, and the end of holiday-driven sales was felt in
retail trade.
In January, lower consumer spending
following the holidays was evident in trade, transportation and
utilities, down 12,500 jobs; professional and business services,
down 5,100; and leisure and hospitality, down 4,200. In these
sectors, employment contractions were significant in general
merchandise and clothing stores, as well as dining and
entertainment, and temporary help. Employers reported modest job
growth in construction, up 2,900. Significant to this growth was
activity connected with buildings, suggesting work continued inside
despite cold and snow that dampened construction and other job
sectors. Weather will be significant to the outside trades in
Illinois at least through April and possibly into May. As a result,
other sectors could be affected as well.
Illinois added 240,900 private sector jobs since January 2010,
when job growth returned following nearly two years of consecutive
monthly declines. In January 2014, the number of unemployed
individuals decreased 12,900, or 2.2 percent, to 567,100. Total
unemployed has fallen 186,400, or 24.7 percent, since early 2010,
when the state unemployment rate peaked at 11.4 percent in February.
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Students may participate in a course only after officially registering and paying through the proper procedures. The Office of the Registrar officially notifies an instructor of the names of the students enrolled in a course. Students will not receive credit for courses for which they are not registered.
Administrative Drop
Students may be dropped from a course for which they have not satisfied the prerequisites.
Auditing a Class
(See the "Courses" section at www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/undergrad10/policies/courses.html).
Classification of Students
Freshmen and sophomores are lower-division students.
Freshman: A student who has successfully completed fewer than 30 semester credit hours (SCH).
Sophomore: A student who has successfully completed 30-53 SCH.
Juniors and seniors are upper-division students.
Junior: A student who has successfully completed 54-89 SCH.
Senior: A student who has successfully completed 90 or more SCH.
Concurrent Enrollment Tuition
A concurrent enrollment agreement is in place between The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Texas at Arlington and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Branch. This agreement allows any student enrolled concurrently between these institutions to receive a waiver of certain fees. Students must be enrolled in at least one hour at their home institution to be considered. Students must apply for concurrent enrollment with The Office of the Registrar.
In addition, Texas Education Code 54.011 states that when students register at more than one public institution of higher education at the same time, their tuition charges shall be determined in the following manner:
- The student shall pay the full tuition charge to the first institution at which s/he registered; and in any event the student shall pay an amount at least equal to the minimum tuition specified in this code.
- If the minimum tuition specified in this code for the first institution at which the student is registered is equal to or greater than the minimum tuition specified in this code for the second institution at which the student is registered concurrently, the student shall not be required to pay the specified minimum tuition charge to the second institution in addition to the tuition charge paid to the first institution, but shall pay only the hourly rates, as provided in this code, to the second institution.
- If the minimum tuition specified in this code for the first institution at which the student is registered is less than the specified minimum tuition charge at the second institution (that is, if the second institution has a higher minimum tuition charge specified in this code), then the student shall first register at the institution having the lower minimum tuition and shall pay to the second institution only the amount equal to the difference between the total tuition charge at the second institution and the total tuition charge at the first institution, but in no case shall the student pay to the second institution less than the hourly rates as provided in this code.
- If a student is considered to be a Texas resident and therefore qualified to pay Texas resident tuition rates by one institution at which s/he is registered, that student shall be considered a Texas resident at each of the institutions at which s/he is concurrently registered for the purposes of determining the proper tuition charges. Nothing in this subdivision shall be so construed as to allow a nonresident to pay resident tuition except at institutions covered by Section 54.060 of this code. Nothing in this subdivision shall be so construed as to allow a nonresident to pay resident tuition except at institutions covered by Section 54.060 of this code.
Dates for Registration
Registration dates are listed in the online Comet Calendar (www.utdallas.edu/calendar/). All dates and formal procedures for registration and late registration are listed in the online Class Schedule (www.utdallas.edu/student/registrar/lookup/) for each semester by the Office of the Registrar. New students will have an opportunity to register at orientation. All freshmen, undeclared, and transfer students are required to meet with their academic advisor prior to registering for classes.
Continuing and transfer students may register during the following registration time periods:
Week 1: Degree-seeking graduate students and undergraduate seniors
Week 2: Graduate students, undergraduate seniors, juniors and sophomores
Week 3: Graduate students, undergraduate seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen
Week 4: Graduate students, undergraduate seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and non-degree-seeking-undergraduates.
Students should take advantage of early registration opportunities to ensure enrollment in the classes they select. Web registration (www.utdallas.edu/orion) begins approximately one week after the Course Lookup goes live for the semester. Refer to the Comet Calendar and the online Academic Calendar for specific dates and procedures.
Deadlines for Adding or Dropping a Class
NOTE: Students should retain copies of all add and drop forms for at least one year following the end of the semester in which the student initiates a drop or add course action.
Deadlines vary during the shorter summer sessions. It is the student's responsibility to review the Comet Calendar (www.utdallas.edu/calendar/) or the online Academic Calendar for specific summer deadlines.
Deadlines for dropping a course are based upon the course and not the student. For example, when an undergraduate student takes a graduate course, the drop procedures for graduate courses take effect.
Beginning the first (1st) day of class through the sixth (6th) class day, students may add a class on-line without the instructor's or advisor's signature. However, students in the following categories must still meet with an academic advisor before adding classes:
- Students newly admitted to The University of Texas at Dallas (including transfer students and freshmen),
- Students without declared majors and those students who are not in good academic standing. Please see the Comet Calendar's academic section for specific deadlines.
Courses dropped on or before Census Day will not appear on the student's transcript.
Students may drop a class on-line without any permission required until the end of business on Census Day.
After Census Day, permissions to drop are required from the school or college in which the student is admitted.
W Period
Through the fourth class week of a long semester, students may withdraw from courses by completing a drop form and having it signed by their academic advisor and course instructor. A grade of "W" (withdrawn from course) will appear on the student's transcript.
WP/WF Period
During the fifth (5th) through ninth (9th) class weeks of a long semester, students who submit a completed drop form will receive a grade of "WP" (withdrawn passing) or "WF" (withdrawn failing) as determined and assigned by the course instructor. The student must obtain the instructor's and advisor's signatures on the form. If a grade of "WP" or "WF" is not recorded by the instructor on the drop form, then the default grade of "WF" will be assigned.
After the ninth (9th) class week of a long semester, a student may only withdraw from a class for non-academic reasons.
Dropping, Withdrawing, or Adding Courses
The University makes a distinction between dropping a class prior to the 12th class day (Census Day - Fall/Spring), an academic action that is not posted to the student's permanent record, and withdrawing from a class (following Census Day) at which point the academic action becomes a part of the student's transcript.
Texas law mandates that a student who enrolls in a Texas public institution as a first-time freshman in fall 2007 or later will not be allowed to withdraw from more than six courses over his or her entire undergraduate career including all courses taken at any Texas public institution of higher education. Legislatively-mandated reasons for withdrawing from a class that do not count toward the six-class limit include, among others, a severe illness or other debilitating condition that affects the student's ability to complete the course; the student's need to care for a sick, injured, or needy person if the care affects the student's ability to complete the course; the death of the student's family member or of a person considered to have a sufficiently close relationship to the student; the active duty service as a member of the Texas National Guard or the armed forces of the United States of the student, a family member, or a person considered to have a sufficiently close relationship to the student; or a change in the student's work schedule that is beyond the control of the student and that affects the student's ability to complete the course.
The University has an appeal process by which students can request exemption for a specific withdraw. See Non-academic drops.
As always, students may drop classes without penalty prior to the 12th class day (Census Day) in any semester.
Dates and time limits for dropping or adding courses are listed in both the Comet Calendar (www.utdallas.edu/calendar/) and online Academic Calendar (www.utdallas.edu/student/registrar/calendar/).
Newly-admitted students to The University of Texas at Dallas wishing to add courses or register for courses must do so prior to the first day of classes.
Students who drop all courses in a given semester must officially withdraw from the University. (See "Withdrawal/Resignation from the University" at www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/undergrad10/policies/registration.html).
Students who habitually drop a significant fraction of their schedules may lose the right to drop or may be dismissed from the University for failure to make adequate academic progress (See "Academic Progress" at www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/undergrad10/policies/index.html).
Drop Appeal Procedures
Students who believe they have dropped a course, but receive a grade for that course at the end of the semester, have one calendar year in which to provide documented proof of the processed drop to the Dean of Undergraduate Education to appeal the posted grade.
In Absentia Registration
In absentia registration provides an opportunity for a degree candidate to register for the semester in which the degree is to be completed without taking formal course work. In absentia registration is permissible for a degree candidate who is removing an incomplete grade (I) or for a degree candidate who has left the University and is transferring authorized and approved credit to qualify for completion of a degree. In absentia registration requires a nonrefundable/nontransferable fee (see "In Absentia Fee," located at www.utdallas.edu/student/catalog/undergrad10/policies/registration.html).
Non-academic Withdrawals
To withdraw from a course for non-academic reasons, students must complete a written petition detailing the nature of the request and include supporting documentation. Non-academic withdrawal petitions are to be obtained from the Undergraduate Student Advising Office (JO 4.800). The Director of Undergraduate Advising will distribute the petition to a committee whose members will independently review the petition and either approve or deny the request to withdraw. The Director will inform the student of the outcome.
NOTE: It is extremely important that students petitioning to withdraw from a class for non-academic reasons continue to attend and perform in the class if possible, until the petition request is resolved. If the petition is approved, the student will receive a withdrawal designation commensurate with the request (see "Grading Scale" in "Academic Policies and Procedures") for the course. Otherwise the student will receive the grade earned in the course.
Non-academic withdrawal petitions may be submitted at anytime during the semester.
Visiting UT System Students Program
The Visiting UT System Students Program is designed to allow upper-level and graduate or professional students enrolled in an institution of the UT System to take courses or engage in research at another institution within the UT System during a regular semester or summer session. Each campus must appoint an individual designated to coordinate the visiting student program at both the home and host institution. Every campus has the responsibility to determine the academic qualifications necessary for their students to participate in the visiting program. Approval of a student's proposed visitation will be contingent upon space and desired courses being readily available in the proposed visitation program and, for participation in a research laboratory, upon approval of the director of the laboratory (Regent's Rules 50701).
Withdrawal/Resignation from the University
A student who wishes to withdraw entirely from the University must submit a completed Registration, Drop/Add and Withdrawal Form (www.utdallas.edu/student/registrar/forms) to The Office of the Registrar. Resigning students must withdraw on or before the last WP/WF withdrawal day for that semester.


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Application of concepts through participation in communities, institutions, agencies, schools, or businesses. Supervision by faculty and sponsoring organizations. Includes interpretive journal and summary paper and presentation. Those students enrolled in the Communication/Spanish degree will intern at Spanish-speaking organizations.. Evaluation of performance in this course is on CR/NC basis. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: A completed and approved Internship Agreement.
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Water: A Limited Resource for Kakuma Refugees
Water is the source of life. Everyone depends on it, including the Kakuma refugees. In a desert environment, with no direct water source and reliable rainy season, the residents of Kakuma (locals and refugees) have great difficulty obtaining the water they need to survive. The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), in conjunction with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), is assisting the people by trying to find solutions to create water points and establish proper hygiene and sanitation systems to safeguard the health of the people.


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Ginger Snaps
Dir. John Fawcett
When film critic and writer Laura Mulvey said that 'Monstrosity is explicitly associated with menstruation and female sexuality... woman's monstrous nature is inextricably bound up with her difference as man's sexual other', (Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema) it's like she was specifically referring to John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps; a film about a young woman who is attacked by a werewolf on the night she begins to menstruate. Links between the menstrual cycle and lycanthropy cunningly swirl together to form a twisted tale of monstrous pubescence filtered through a chilling body-horror narrative. The result is a dark, savagely funny and haunting film that staggers blinking and bloodied into the unkind light of day as the most significant 'menstrual horror' since Carrie (1976).
In classic horror cinema, the figure of the werewolf is used to signify a collapse of order and the boundaries between animal and human. Lycanthropy has been used as a metaphor for the onset of puberty in a number of films before (I Was A Teenage Werewolf, 1957 and Teen Wolf, 1985), but aside from Neil Jordon's lyrical The Company of Wolves (1984) - which utilised a complex narrative structure of dreams within dreams and stories within stories within dreams to convey the anxieties of a young girl's burgeoning womanhood - it is rarely presented from a young woman's point of view. The Company of Wolves was of course inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, a cautionary morality tale warning young girls of the dangers of straying from the conventions of conservative society. In Ginger Snaps, Little Red Riding Hood IS the wolf. Karen Walton's screenplay slyly highlights the parallels between menstruation and lycanthropy, with Ginger's (Katherine Isabelle) transformation into a werewolf serving as a darkly humorous and eventually horrific metaphor for the on-set of menstruation and adulthood. Captive to the wax and wane of the moon, and with much talk of 'the curse', Ginger's body gradually transforms, unfamiliar hair sprouts and aggressive sexuality flows free in a frenzy of bloody mood-swings and uncontrollable primal impulses. In a way that is strikingly original and yet so obvious in hindsight, Walton has penned a cutting commentary on the very real horrors and anxieties of growing up female. She deftly highlights the alienation, humiliation and often violent disruption caused by the onset of puberty. Two curses for the price of one.
While moping about with her broody sister Bridgette (Emily Perkins) one night, Ginger is attacked and mauled by a large beastie in a moonlit playground (corruption of innocence, anyone?). Soon after she begins to change in strange ways. Her sister is convinced she is transforming into a werewolf, but Ginger insists it's just part of growing up and entering womanhood. With no one to turn to, Bridgette befriends the local intellectual slacker/pot dealer (Kris Lemche) and the two brainstorm ways in which they can help Ginger and stop her transformation before it's too late. Meanwhile Ginger is embracing her new found confidence, blossoming sexuality and the attention it enables her to command from her male peers. She becomes what psychoanalyst and film critic Julia Kristeva describes as an 'abjection' of female sexuality; 'something which does not respect borders, positions, rules… that which disturbs identity, system, order', (Powers of Horror). A few fumbled sexual encounters turn bloody, the distance between Bridgette and Ginger grows and things get very nasty indeed when the high school bitch sets her jealous sights on Ginger...
In most horror films, and arguably in conservative society as a whole, women are pigeon-holed and marked out as various 'types', by men and each other. Ginger Snaps acknowledges this when Ginger states that 'a girl can only be a slut, a tease or the virgin next door', while her female school mates are portrayed as petty and insecure and are constantly harassed by men, their own bodies, and each other. Tori Amos eat your heart out. As well as coming to terms with her burgeoning sexuality, and all the isolation, humiliation and loneliness that can bring, Ginger and her sister also struggle against conventional traditions imposed upon them by 'normal' society, especially their doting mother (a fantastic comic turn from Mimi Rogers). They appear to embrace the fear that manifests itself when they see themselves as 'different.' They actively go out of their way to set themselves apart from their dull, stiflingly conservative surroundings. This is perfectly highlighted in the way they dress, the morose conversations they have, the fact that they've made their basement their bedroom and in their class photography project which unspools beneath the opening credits. It depicts them in various staged death poses, as they live out their morbid fantasies of ending their lives when they feel like it. The ultimate 'fuck you' to their peers.
|'I get this ache. And I thought it was for sex, but it's to tear everything to fucking pieces…'
Isabelle and Perkins deliver believable and strong performances as the troubled siblings whose relationship is disintegrating as fast as Ginger's body and personality. We feel nothing but sympathy for them, particularly as matters draw to a dark close and things become fraught and desperate. Their private little world has been torn apart forever and that alone ensures Ginger Snaps is a harrowing and haunting tale that lingers long after the credits roll. Its emotional resonance creates as much of a wallop as that of Carrie. As Ginger's transformation develops at an alarming rate, and as the realisation that she's essentially trapped in her own body as it morphs and changes into something unfamiliar settles in, the film races towards its grim denouement as Bridgette realises what she has to do to help, and stop Ginger. A highly suspenseful climax ensues as Bridgette comes face to face with her sister in full wolfen form... She's relegated to the shadows for the most part, just as the werewolf that attacked her at the beginning of the film was. Ginger Snaps is not about special effects, the drama is pushed along by the characters and the increasingly horrific situation they find themselves in. Throughout the film, both sisters undergo a transformation. Bridgette's may be the least horrific, but its no less traumatic as she finally finds it within herself to step out of her sister's shadow and stand on her own two feet. By the end, both sisters are killers and the concept of the female castrator/vagina dentata is strongly evoked.
Robin Wood said it best when he stated: 'The release of sexuality in the horror film is always presented as perverted, monstrous and excessive; both the perversion and the excess being the logical outcome of repression.'
Ginger Snaps succeeds admirably as both an edgy metaphor and as a moody werewolf tale with more bite than most.


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In keeping with the working farm aspect of the park, the farrier or blacksmith is responsible for the hoof maintenance, shoeing, and, most importantly, keeping a balanced trim on his equine charges. The adage "No hoof, No horse" is true, and proper hoof care is one of the most important elements in maintaining a healthy horse.
Working with red-hot iron, he uses his anvil, hammer, and tongs to custom-shape individual horseshoes to provide protection and support for many of the horses at the park. His expertise ranges from the Miniature Horse to the Clydesdale draft horse and every type in between. Interaction between the visitors and the farrier provides a unique opportunity for the farrier to educate visitors on proper equine hoof care and for visitors to understand why this necessary trade is both an art and a science. Feel free to stop by the Farrier Shop anytime during your visit to the park to watch our blacksmith in action and discover some very unique horseshoes!
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Boy Trapped Beneath Sand Dune May Have Been Saved By Air Pocket, Officials Said
The boy was trapped beneath at least 11 feet of sand for more than three hours.
A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition today at a Chicago hospital after he was trapped for more than three hours beneath a massive sand dune that collapsed on top of him at an Indiana park, a hospital spokeswoman told ABC News.
The boy, whose name has not been released, was walking with his parents along the sand dunes by Lake Michigan near Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Park on Friday when a 124-foot sand dune swallowed him and took him under.
"[The boy's parents] didn't actually see the initial collapse," park ranger Bruce Rowe with the National Park Service told ABC News' Chicago station WLS-TV. "But when they got to him, they could actually see him for a little bit, tried to dig him out and that's when the total collapse, as they described it, happened."
Boy Pulled From Sand Dune Hole on Indiana Beach
Rescuers using heavy equipment worked to locate the boy buried deep beneath at least 11 feet of sand.
When they pulled him out from the sinkhole after three and a half hours of digging, he appeared to have vital signs, Laporte County Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Huffman told ABC News.
The boy, who is from Illinois, was taken to Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Michigan City, Ind., before he was airlifted to University of Chicago Children's Hospital, where he is currently recovering, Huffman said.
Huffman said the boy had ingested sand, and he will likely undergo extensive therapy to restore his lungs back to their former strength.
The boy may have been saved by an air pocket that was created by an old tree that was buried deep beneath the dune, Huffman said.
"We honestly don't know exactly what happened," Rowe told WLS-TV. "This is unprecedented. We've never had anything like this."
The area where the boy fell was off-limits to the public, Rowe said.
ABC News' Rachel Katz and Michael James contributed to this report.


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Throughout this treatment option illustrations of generic fracture patterns are shown, as four different types:
A) Unreduced fracture
B) Reduced fracture
C) Fracture reduced and fixed provisionally
D) Fracture fixed definitively
2 Principles of joint-spanning external fixation topenlarge
A joint-spanning external fixator is fixed to the femur and the tibia while the fracture zone is left virtually untouched (it is bridged). Provisional reduction is achieved with distraction.
Details of exernal fixation are described in detail in the basic technique for application of modular external fixator.
Specific considerations for the tibia and the femur are given below.
Teaching video
AO teaching video: Femur--Tibia Articular Fracture Large External Fixator: Knee-bridging Modular Frame
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This procedure is normally performed with the patient in a supine position.
4 Pin insertion (tibia/femur) topenlarge
Pin placement
For safe pin placement make use of the safe zones and be familiar with the anatomy of the lower leg and the femur.
The safe zone for the femur is lateral. In temporary external fixation, the pins should be placed so that they do not interfere with planned later definitive fixation; this may mean placing femoral pins anteriorly or anterolaterally.
Soft-tissue dissection
In the femur, blunt dissection of the soft tissues and the use of small Langenbeck retractors will minimize muscular damage.
Using a straight clamp, prepare a channel for the insertion of the pin.
Tibial pin placement
Drilling a hole in the thick tibial crest may be associated with excessive heat generation and there is a risk the drill bit may slip medially or laterally damaging the soft tissues. As the anteromedial tibial wall provides adequate thickness for the placement of pins, this trajectory is preferable. A trajectory angle (relative to the sagittal plane) of 20-60° for the proximal fragment and of 30-90° for the distal fragment is recommended.
Alternatively, in order to avoid the frame catching on the opposite leg, the pins may be placed more anteriorly. The drill bit is started with the tip just medial to the anterior crest, and with the drill bit perpendicular to the anteromedial surface (A). As the drill bit starts to penetrate the surface, the drill is gradually moved more anteriorly until the drill bit is in the desired plane (B). This should prevent the tip from sliding down the medial or lateral surface.
5 Frame construction / reduction and fixation (tibia/femur) topenlarge
Frame assembly
Pearl: oblique distal tube
Angle the rod over the tibia such that it is attached to the pins one on the lateral and one on the medial side. This results in a larger window over the condyle which can be beneficial for later (minimally invasive) surgery if it is necessary to maintain the external fixator during definitive osteosynthesis.
Reduction and fixation
Restore length with a bolster behind the knee to give slight flexion.
It should be understood that a perfect reduction will not be obtained.
Pitfall: Flexion of the articular block
Care must be taken that the fracture is not too distracted, since the pull of the gastrocnemius muscle would hyperextend the condylar block.
Insufficient distraction leads to insufficient reduction.


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Or just this: enjoying solitude on a bike ride in a sunny and warm place, seeing what there is to see, feeling the wind blow and trying to take in the thousand and one things happening all around?
|This happened while I was thinking that: evening liftoff
Just listen: it rings and laughs, as it plays its solo song out to you, with a rhythm that matches the spinning of your pedals, with a brightness that matches the sun. The truth is funny and strange when it comes to me, but it must be true: your music becomes my music, warm and blue as this sky, and mine becomes yours, as we sing to each other with our voices, and ride off on our own solo exercises of existence. How weird to need other people to be alone; how perfect.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker junior Tony Nolan (Olathe, Kansas) belted a pitch into the left-center field gap in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cobras an 8-7 win over Anderson University on Sunday afternoon. The win gives Coker the series victory 2-1 and also gives the Cobras their third walk-off victory of the season.
Leading 6-1 heading into the sixth inning, the Cobras looked to have a win well in hand, but the Trojans had other plans. Anderson scored three runs in the sixth, one in the seventh and another two in the eighth taking a 7-6 lead heading to the ninth.
Coker was not about to give up the fight, as Fico Kondla (Miami, Fla.) led off the final stanza with a double down the left field line and then scored a batter later off an RBI single by Nathan Wilson (Milliken, Colo.) making it a 7-7 ball game. Wilson would advance to second on a failed pick-off attempt, putting the winning run in scoring position. Coach Dave Schmotzer then lifted Wilson for the speedy De'Ante Scott (Bluffton, S.C.) and Nolan sent the very next pitch deep into the left-center gap bringing home Scott for the win.
Matt Bowman (Streator, Ill.) (2-0) picked up his second win in relief with an inning and a third of work, allowing just one hit.
Kondla was 2-for-5 at the plate with a double and two RBI's, while Keith Wolf (O'Fallon, Ill.) was also 2-for-5 with two RBIs and two run scored. Nolan and Jake Frazier (Indian Harbor Beach, Fla.) also had two hits each, with Nolan driving in a run and Frazier scoring two.
The Cobras will be back at home for their 10th consecutive home game on Wednesday at 2 p.m. against UNC Pembroke.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Tony Nolan
Nolan had a pair of hits with an RBI, including the walk-off double to win the game.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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Jennifer Rowley is to replace Diana Damrau for all performances of Robert le diable following the German soprano's earlier withdrawal due to pregnancy.
The American soprano will make her Royal Opera debut in the role, previously appearing as Magda in La rondine at Teatro Comunale di Bologna; the title role in Maria di Rohan at Caramoor Music Festival; Musetta in La bohème in Norway and Toledo; and Orasia in Telemann's Orpheus for New York City Opera.
The rest of the cast remains unchanged with Bryan Hymel in the title role, John Relyea as Bertram, Marina Poplavskaya as Alice, Nicholas Courjal as Alberti and Jean-François Borras as Raimbaut.
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"At Middleton" is formulaic and contrived. It's also worth seeing because it breathes a little, and because Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia know what they're doing as they guide this appealingly simple brief encounter of a romance.
Their characters, Edith and George, meet in the parking lot of fictional Middleton College, where they've come with their respective offspring for a tour. Both Edith and George are married, not miserably but not happily. Taissa Farmiga, Vera's younger (by 21 years) sister, plays Edith's daughter, and when the two actresses share a scene the familial resemblance — and the easy rapport, even when they're spitting nails at each other — accomplishes a lot in between the lines.
The lines were written by director Adam Rodgers and his co-author, Glenn German, and "At Middleton" follows a carefully prescribed narrative. The contrasts are established early and often. Edith, a seller of high-end furniture, is a two-stairs-at-a-time bounder-upper, more of a free spirit than bow-tied and slicked-back George, a cardiac surgeon. As their kids get to know each other on the college tour, the adults do too, on their own time and in their own way. Edith suggests "borrowing" a couple of bicycles for a while. Later they smoke marijuana with a couple of friendly students, one of whom they meet at a campus screening of "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," that paragon of romantic longing in cinema.
Rodgers and German are interested in exploring the possibilities, in a cozy, middlebrow vein, of the campus setting, as the younger characters are beginning their adult lives and the older ones are beginning to question the solidity of their marriages. A lot of "At Middleton" (unfortunate title) feels slightly pushy in the comedy. It's the more plaintive exchanges between Farmiga and Garcia that provide the glue.
Shot on two separate campuses in the state of Washington, director Rodgers' feature film directorial debut was brought in for less than $3 million. The supporting cast includes Tom Skerritt, as a famous linguistics prof, and Peter Reigert, froggy-voiced and amusing as the campus radio station DJ. The music's a considerable plus; jazz veteran Arturo Sandoval composed the score, providing a rich variety of material, from lush strings (used sparingly, thank God) to catchy, bittersweet waltzes. Small as it is, the film itself functions as a catchy, bittersweet waltz. You've heard it before, but the dancers are fun to watch.
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There was a quote that made the rounds during Adaptive Computing's annual user conference, MoabCon, last week in Park City, Utah. Upon his departure from Facebook last year, founder of the social media behemoth's data analysis team, Jeff Hammerbacher, stated: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads…[and] that sucks."
During his keynote address, Adaptive Computing CEO Rob Clyde shared these words and then addressed the roomful of HPCers.
"Well, I can tell you that's not what we do in this business," he stated. "We are trying to cure cancer and perform rocket science, and do amazing things with predicting the weather, and ocean currents, and seismic research – some of the most relevant things that are happening in the world, and our industry is involved in that."
Adaptive's Cool Cred
Despite the long list of impressive accomplishments that middleware enables, it generally fails to elicit the same excitement as, say, brand-new leadership class hardware. But middleware is cool and you don't have to take Adaptive's word for it. This newfound status was issued by none other than technology analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., which included Adaptive in its "Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2013" report.
The report, which covers five vendors who are providing cloud management platform and/or cloud migration capabilities, is aimed at "CIOs, vice presidents (VPs) and directors of IT, as well as enterprise and infrastructure architects looking to deliver cloud-based, on-demand services that require infrastructure optimization (workload balancing)." Gartner notes that "service providers may also be interested in this solution, due to its ability to optimize the infrastructure, thus dropping service delivery costs."
The Adaptive CEO was honored by the recognition. As he shared with HPCwire, the company's cloud management product, Moab Cloud Suite, enables IT architects and the enterprises they work for to realize cloud's promise of maximum return on investment through the optimization of resource utilization.
At its core, Adaptive's cloud solution relies on the same Moab intelligence engine as the vendor's HPC suite, which supports ground-breaking science and technology by delivering policy-based governance to the largest systems in the world, the ones engaged in hero problems, like curing deadly diseases and protecting our nuclear arsenal.
On the analyst's website, Gartner Vice President Michele Cantara describes the qualities of a Cool Vendor. "A cool vendor is a smaller lesser-known vendor – someone who provides innovative technology or services," she says. "And they're lesser known because they're less mature and they haven't gotten attention from the media or Gartner."
The Adaptive CEO agrees with the assessment, noting that Adaptive's commitment to innovation is reflected in the company's extensive patent portfolio, one of the largest related to private cloud computing. "We work hard to push the envelope of what is possible and have invented many of the core concepts behind HPC scheduling and private cloud optimization," adds Marketing VP Chad Harrington.
Gartner observes that cool vendors are a good source of leading indicators about what's to come. On that note, Clyde says that private cloud will continue to grow. He observes that many of the problems of private cloud have already been solved on the HPC side, for example scalability and efficient use of resources. The CEO referred to a recent survey on server utilization put out by the Uptime Institute that showed a global average efficiency rating of less than 10 percent. As energy continues to be a constraint on systems large and small, efficient system usage will become essential, and this is a major focus for the company.
Getting the Cool Vendor stamp of approval is also a good indicator of a recipient's future success. The analyst has profiled more than 1,400 cool vendors since 2004, and 70 percent are still operating and in business, while 21 percent have been part of a merger or acquisition.
Adaptive @Scale
The past 12 months have been particularly fruitful for the company. The Oak Ridge Titan supercomputer, one of their customers, is the reigning TOP500 champ, and the University of Tennessee's Beacon machine, another Moab system, is number one on the Green500 list.
"We love big, complex systems," the CEO shared during his MoabCon keynote. "We certainly can handle others, but we want to make sure that we can run on the largest of the large. Our theory is if we can run on the largest systems, then we can run on everything else."
He observes that Adaptive's partners share a similar strategy: "Cut your teeth on the big complex tasks, and the rest falls into place."
If a prospective customer asks, "How do we know your product will scale?" Adaptive can respond: "Well we already run on the largest systems in the world."
For a small company of just over 100 employees, Adaptive has a big presence as the largest provider of HPC and private cloud workload management software. I ask Clyde how they do it, and he doesn't miss a beat: "It's our partners and customers," he responds. Adaptive has strong ties to nearly all the major labs and solid relationships with HPC rock stars such as Cray, HP, IBM and Intel.
Inaugural Adaptie Awards
The conference also set the stage for the first annual Adaptie Awards, which recognize organizations and individuals that have pushed the envelope on technological progress. There were three awards in all.
Best Use of Moab in a Private Cloud was given to Bank of America. The financial institution was honored for using Adaptive Computing's Moab Cloud Suite for its high density, service oriented virtualized compute platform. An early innovator in private cloud, the bank runs one of the most advanced, large scale privately managed IT setups of its kind.
Best Use of Moab in HPC went to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The federal agency was chosen for its pioneering use of Adaptive Computing's Moab HPC Suite to develop better models for predicting climate variability and change.
The Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Don Maxwell, HPC systems team lead at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), home of the Titan supercomputer. Maxwell has made many significant contributions to the HPC industry. He was instrumental in providing both requirements and testing for the initial port of Moab to the Cray X-series platform. In 2008, he was awarded the distinguished ACM Gordon Bell Prize for helping the ORNL Jaguar supercomputer achieve 400+ teraflops sustained performance. Currently, Maxwell is helping Titan achieve its performance goals. Maxwell is held in high-esteem by his peers, which was clear from the audience's reaction to his winning the award.


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United Performance Metals, Hamilton, OH, has opened a 14,000-sq.-ft. warehouse just outside of Los Angeles in Santa Fe Springs, CA. Its initial inventory includes specialty-stainless steels, high-temperature alloys and a limited amount of cobalt alloys in popular sheet sizes.
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