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Skip to comments.Destruction of the US Dollar
Posted on 10/15/2012 2:04:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The picture below shows $15 trillion dollars worth of $100 bills on $10 million dollar pallets stacked on top of each other over an area that is one third larger than a regulation football field. An electronics van is parked between the stack and the Statue of Liberty. A single $100 million dollar pallet rests in front of the trucks cab. See it?
Recently, I reported that the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) secretly gave ten trillion dollars of interest-free loans to over a dozen European banks to shore up the Euro and keep them financially solvent. I later found out that the lending activities elsewhere added another six trillion in junk loans totaling $16 trillion dollars.
Here is the link to the summary of the GAO Audit Report to Congress with a link to the full report unabridged (all 250+ pages) of it:
Here is an article that claims it is $16 trillion, not $10 trillion:
Here is an article from Senator Bernie Sanders (Democrat) from Vermont that says the same thing:
Neither one likes the FED behavior for different reasons.
Some essential facts bear repeating.
1. Only the US Congress can raise the ceiling on the National Debt. The US Treasury cannot increase the national debt beyond that limit by law as defined in the US Constitution.The US Treasury has no other options than to shutdown the government until spending (including interest on the National Debt) matches revenue income..If that cannot be achieved, the US Government is in default.
2. The US Treasury has to borrow US Government obligations that it cannot cover with internal revenue. If the US Treasury cannot sell US Treasury bonds to borrow what it needs to remain financially solvent, the Federal Reserve is required by its charter to become the lender of last resort. This includes the obligation to buy US Treasury bonds needed to pay off maturing US bonds.
3. US Dollars are the property of the FED, not the US Treasury. The FED can pretty much do whatever it wants with the US dollars it creates without much oversight by any other US Government agency. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has relatively little oversight responsibility . . . that is until now. Note that the FED allowed the GAO special audit with high reluctance and imposed limitations on its scope.
4. Anywhere between $4 to 6 trillion dollars float worldwide in transit to support international trade, dominated by petro dollars. This is the equivalent of an interest-free loan from the rest of the world so long as this money remains in circulation. This practice continues only so long as the US dollar remains the preferred reserve currency for international trade.
5. When trading partners sell more stuff to the US than the US sells to them, the difference creates a balance of payments deficit. The USA needs to either borrow through a line of credit or buy the country's home currency from someone else at LIBOR exchange rates with US dollars. The largest creditor of the US Government is the FED who holds over $6 trillion of US debt in its account. The second largest creditor is Communist China with about $900 billion. Altogether, the United States owes obout 60 percent of the total debt of all other debtor nations combined.
6. When the FED buys bonds from the US Treasury, in excess of bond maturities, that money is spent for goods and services that are deposited in the banking system. These banks can lend up to ten times the amount of their deposit balance (or more, depending on the FED funds rate). That action inflates the currency thereby reducing its purchasing power. That is what quantitative easing is all about. It is a tax on the earnings, savings and investments of US citizens, Theoretically, the weaker US dollar encourages more exports for trading partners with stronger currencies. Actually, they do the same to their currency to maintain their market share. A currency war follows that benefits no one.
7. The FED executes a bond swap when it exchanges short-term bonds or bonds nearing maturity with new long-term bonds. This action reduces the pressure on the US Treasury to sell bonds to refund maturing bonds due to foreign debtors.
8. The US Government financials do not take into account the cost of servicing entitlements beyond the current fiscal year. Although our US government claims to use fund accounting principles, the "funds" only are allowed to invest their reserves in US government bonds. It is borrowing money from its funds to finance its national debt. Some people call that practice "creative accounting." I call it fraud. The GAO estimates the total cost of entitlements to be somewhere near $115 trillion US dollars.
Ok, what are the consequences? As my mother would say, "Well, let me tell you." It doesn't matter who wins the election. The consequences of damage already done is going to happen. If the US Government does not drastically change its fiscal policy, it will be even worse. Here is what leading economists project.
If this currency war blows up, it will make sequestration look like a walk in the park by comparison. From my perspective, the current US Government already did us in. Expect 10 percent inflation per year for at least the next three years as a result of quantitative easing and the two debt swaps alone. Add in the other stuff and we could have hyperinflation as bad as 10% PER MONTH as early as first qtr 2013.
Already, our nation is experiencing the start of a run on our currency via international trade. Food commodities such as wheat, corn, soybeans, and other grains are going through the roof. It is not just supply and demand caused by draught conditions; it is inflation of US currency resulting in higher prices for oil, food, and non-food commodities. Consider the price of bread. A 1-1/4 pound loaf of bread cost 34 cents in 1960. That same loaf cost $1.39 in 2008. Now it costs $4.25 per loaf here. For the first time since the 1960s, more gold is leaving the US than is coming in. Economists are predicting a rise in the price of gold to reach $3,000 per ounce in early 2013. Foreign corporations are buying up US farmland, mineral rights, common stock of US corporations, and other assets of the US that economists call Capital Stock. Interest rates will have to rise to avoid a stampede run on our currency. When that happens, the cost to service our National Debt will suck the life out of tax revenue at all levels of government. Will wages keep up with cost of living? Only for unions with cost of living clauses in their contracts, if their members still have jobs.
Defined pension funds with built-in cost of living adjustments (COLAs) will be broke. Local and regional government with teachers union and public service union contracts and defined-benefit pensions will become insolvent trying to rebuild the corpus of the pension funds and other entitlements.
Seniors and retirees will be hard hit with the loss of the purchasing power of their life savings. Worst case, the combination of these events will create another type W recession that could easily result in a real unemployment rate of 50% for US citizens. The USA is faced with a battle on at least two of the following fronts:
1. Cyber warfare that attacks our infrastructure,
2. Economic warfare that debauches our currency,
3. Portable energy warfare through denial of access,
4. Military insurgency from without and within by government-sponsored terrorism of Hezbollah, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda, and
5. Political corruption and treason via a hostile government conversion from our representative republic bound by a confederation of States to a socialist federal republic with provincial States (Agenda 21).
Will the clueless and poorly educated voters wake up and see the danger? Will those who realize the danger get out and vote? Will our election be stolen by voter fraud? We will find out in November.
We'll never know for sure until we audit the Fed.
One thing I DO know- and that is this: If the people of this nation ever truly, internally, viscerally realized what has been done to them in terms of the federal debt, there would be severe shortages of tar, feathers, stout rope, lamp posts and politicians.
That graphic is the closest representation I've seen of the Total Perspective Vortex (Financial Edition). It needs a sign on top of it with 30 foot tall letters written in fire that says, "YOU OWE THIS MUCH!".
"5. When trading partners sell more stuff to the US than the US sells to them, the difference creates a balance of payments deficit. The USA needs to either borrow through a line of credit or buy the country's home currency from someone else at LIBOR exchange rates with US dollars. The largest creditor of the US Government is the FED who holds over $6 trillion of US debt in its account. The second largest creditor is Communist China with about $900 billion. Altogether, the United States owes obout 60 percent of the total debt of all other debtor nations combined."
In short we must pay for what we consume with our production or borrow the difference. Exports pay for our imports or borrowed money does.
It is not a difficult concept but it is absolutely true and unchangeable. It is one reason why the U.S. is slowly slipping into impoverishment.
It really doesn't matter who wins in November, the damage is done.
So while our infrastructure deteriorates Americans are walking around in hundred dollar Nikes and seeing their tax dollars go just to pay interest on the dollars held by those still willing to loan money to the U.S.
My comment remains, MOOTA is the only weapon which can and will destroy USA. This isn't even discussed by DemoPublicans because it isn't known or they support the endless supply of MOOTA. Just like many here on FR?
Money Out Of Thin Air
Economics is not a difficult subject except to those who make a living making it so. Money spent servicing the debt on my credit cards is money that is not spent on something else, like reroofing the house.
So maybe I can put the cost of a new roof on the card but then my problem is worsened even if put off into the future.
Lower the water and the rocks will be visible but they were there all the time.
Those nations, such as Russia, cannot hope to thrive outside the G7 with QEs propping up our system.
While there may be a bubble, it probably will not be worst than 30% inflation to the consumer, in the US. Those poor nations in the world who feed their populations from Australian and American grains will suffer the most, since their nations cannot implement QE on scale to keep up the the proverbial Jones's.
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One such tool is called Underscore.js and that's what we're going to take a look at today. Let's get started!
Meet Underscore.js
So what exactly does Underscore do?
Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
One of the nicer things about working in Python or Ruby are the fancy constructs like
map that make life a lot easier. The current version of JavaScript, sadly, is fairly barebones when it comes to low level utilities.
As you read above, Underscore.js is a nifty little JavaScript library that brings in a ridiculous amount of functionality at a mere 4kb.
Underscore in Action
"Enough yapping about the library", I can hear you say. Right you are! Let's take a look at Underscore in action first before I resume my yapping.
Let's assume you have a random array of test scores and you need a list of those with 90+ score. You'd usually write up something like so:
var scores = [84, 99, 91, 65, 87, 55, 72, 68, 95, 42], topScorers = [], scoreLimit = 90; for (i=0; i<=scores.length; i++) { if (scores[i]>scoreLimit) { topScorers.push(scores[i]); } } console.log(topScorers);
It's pretty simple and even with optimization, it's fairly verbose for what we're trying to do.
Let's look at what we can achieve with Underscore next.
var scores = [84, 99, 91, 65, 87, 55, 72, 68, 95, 42], topScorers = [], scoreLimit = 90; topScorers = _.select(scores, function(score){ return score > scoreLimit;}); console.log(topScorers);
I don't know about you but I just had a nerdgasm. That's some incredibly concise and readable code right there.
Sweet but Do I Really Need This?
Well, it all depends on what you're trying to do. If your use of JavaScript is limited to merely playing around with the DOM, then the answer is mostly no since jQuery does most of what you'd want to do.
On the other hand, if you're dealing with non-DOM code or even complex, think MVC, front end code, Underscore is an absolute boon.
While some of the functionality exposed by the library is slowly making its way into the ECMA specifications, it's not available in all browsers and making your code work cross browser is another nightmare on its own. Underscore provides you with a nice set of abstractions that work everywhere.
And if you're a performance oriented person, as you should be, Underscore falls back to native implementations, if available, to make sure performance is as optimal as possible.
Getting Started
Just grab the source here, include it in your page and you're good to go.
If you were expecting a big set up process, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Just grab the source here, include it in your page and you're good to go.
Underscore creates and exposes all its functionality via a single object, in global scope. This object is the titular underscore character, _.
If you're wondering, yes, this is quite similar to how jQuery works with the dollar [$] symbol. And just like jQuery, you can remap this character in case you run into conflicts. Or if you're like me and have an irrational love for the tilde.
Functional or Object Oriented?
While the official marketing blurb for the library states that it adds functional programming support, there is actually another way of doing things.
Let's take our earlier code as an example:
var scores = [84, 99, 91, 65, 87, 55, 72, 68, 95, 42], topScorers = [], scoreLimit = 90; topScorers = _.select(scores, function(score){ return score > scoreLimit;}); console.log(topScorers);
This method above is the functional, or procedural, approach. You can also use a more straightforward, probably more apparent, object oriented approach.
var scores = [84, 99, 91, 65, 87, 55, 72, 68, 95, 42], topScorers = [], scoreLimit = 90; topScorers = _(scores).select(function(score){ return score > scoreLimit;}); console.log(topScorers);
There is no real 'right' way to do things but keep in mind that you can jQuery-esque method chaining with the latter method.
Checking Out the Functionality
Underscore provides a little more than 60 functions that span a number of functionalities. At their core, they can be classified into groups of functions that operate on:
- Collections
- Arrays
- Objects
- Functions
- Utilities
Let's take a look at what each does and if applicable,one or two of my favorites from each section.
A collection can either be an array or an object, an associate array in JavaScript if I'm to be semantically correct.
Underscore provides a lot of methods that operate on collections. We saw the
select method earlier. Here are a few more incredibly useful ones.
Let's say you have a nice little array containing key value pairs and you'd like to extract just a specific property from each. With Underscore, it's a cinch.
var Tuts = [{name : 'NetTuts', niche : 'Web Development'}, {name : 'WPTuts', niche : 'WordPress'}, {name : 'PSDTuts', niche : 'PhotoShop'}, {name : 'AeTuts', niche : 'After Effects'}]; var niches = _.pluck(Tuts, 'niche'); console.log(niches); // ["Web Development", "WordPress", "PhotoShop", "After Effects"]
pluck is as simply as passing in the target object or array as well as which property to pick out. Here, I'm merely extracting the niche for each site.
Map creates an array from a collection where each element can be mutated or otherwise changed through a function.
Let's take the earlier example and extend it a bit.
var Tuts = [{name : 'NetTuts', niche : 'Web Development'}, {name : 'WPTuts', niche : 'WordPress'}, {name : 'PSDTuts', niche : 'PhotoShop'}, {name : 'AeTuts', niche : 'After Effects'}]; var names = _(Tuts).pluck('name').map(function (value){return value + '+'}); console.log(names); // ["NetTuts+", "WPTuts+", "PSDTuts+", "AeTuts+"]
Since I noticed the names missing the plus sign at the end, I'm adding them in the extracted array.
You're not limited to simple concatenation here. You're free to modify the passed value to your heart's desires.
all is useful if you need to check every value in a collection passes a certain criteria. To check whether a student has passed in every subject, for example.
var Scores = [95, 82, 98, 78, 65]; var hasPassed = _(Scores).all(function (value){return value>50; }); console.log(hasPassed); // true
Underscore has a bunch of functions that work exclusively on arrays which is highly welcome since, compared to other languages, JavaScript provides awfully few methods dealing with arrays.
This method basically parses an array and removes all duplicate elements providing you with only unique elements.
var uniqTest = _.uniq([1,5,4,4,5,2,1,1,3,2,2,3,4,1]); console.log(uniqTest); // [1, 5, 4, 2, 3]
This comes in extremely handy when you're parsing huge datasets and need to weed out the duplicates. Keep in mind that only the first instance of an element is counted so the original order is kept.
An extremely handy method that lets you create a 'range' or list of numbers. Let's look at a super quick example.
var tens = _.range(0, 100, 10); console.log(tens); // [0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90]
The method's parameters are, in order, starting value, ending value and step value. If you're wondering, using a negative step value leads to a decrementing range.
This method compares two arrays to each others and returns the list of elements that are found in all of the passed arrays i.e. an intersection in set theory.
Let's extend the earlier example to see how this works.
var tens = _.range(0, 100, 10), eights = _.range(0, 100, 8), fives = _.range(0, 100, 5); var common = _.intersection(tens, eights, fives ); console.log(common); // [0, 40, 80]
Easy, right? You just pass in the list of arrays to compare and Underscore does the rest.
In addition to the fairly expected is
Here are a few of my favorites.
Keys and Values
Have a massive object where you need only the keys or only the values? It's so darn easy with Underscore.
var Tuts = { NetTuts : 'Web Development', WPTuts : 'WordPress', PSDTuts : 'PhotoShop', AeTuts : 'After Effects'}; var keys = _.keys(Tuts), values = _.values(Tuts); console.log(keys + values); // NetTuts,WPTuts,PSDTuts,AeTutsWeb Development,WordPress,PhotoShop,After Effects
This method is quite useful when you need to create objects with sensible defaults when one might not be used when creating it.
var tuts = { NetTuts : 'Web Development'}; var defaults = { NetTuts : 'Web Development', niche: 'Education'}; _.defaults(tuts, defaults); console.log(tuts); // Object { NetTuts="Web Development", niche="Education"}
As wonky as it sounds, Underscore has functions that work on functions. Most of the functions tend to be fairly complicated to explain here, so we'll take a look at the simplest.
this is an elusive part of JavaScript and tends to leave a lot of developers really confused. This method seeks to make it a bit easier to tackle.
var o = { greeting: "Howdy" }, f = function(name) { return this.greeting +" "+ name; }; var greet = _.bind(f, o); greet("Jess")
It's a bit confusing so stay with me here. The bind functions basically lets you keep the value of
this whenever and wherever the function is called.
This is specially useful when you're working with event handlers where
this is hijacked.
And to further sweeten the deal, Underscore provides a ton of utility functions. Since we're fairly out of time, let's just look at the biggie.
There are already a ton of templating solutions out there but Underscore makes its solution worth a look by being fairly tiny in its implementation whilst being fairly powerful.
Let's take a look at a quickie example.
var data = {site: 'NetTuts'}, template = 'Welcome! You are at <%= site %>'; var parsedTemplate = _.template(template, data ); console.log(parsedTemplate); // Welcome! You are at NetTuts
First up, we create the data to populate the template followed by the template itself. By default, Underscore uses ERB style delimiters though this is entirely customizable.
With those in place, we can simply call the
template passing in our template and the data. We store the result in a separate string to be used later to update content, as needed.
Keep in mind that this is an extremely simple demonstration of Underscore's templating. You can find use any JavaScript code inside the template using the
delimiters. When you need to iterate over complex objects, say JSON sources, you can pair up with Underscore's excellent collection functions to create templates rapidly.
Still Not Convinced That You Should Pick This
jQuery and Underscore go hand in hand.
No, no, you've got it all wrong! If anything, jQuery and Underscore complement each other well and go hand in hand. Really!
See, jQuery does a few things extremely well. DOM manipulation and animation are chief amongst those. It doesn't deal with anything in the higher or lower levels. If frameworks like Backbone or Knockout deal with the higher level issues, Underscore tackles all the relatively bare metal ones.
For even more perspective, jQuery has little purpose outside the browser as the bulk of its functionality deals with the DOM. Underscore, on the other hand, can be used on the browser or on the server side without any issues. In fact, Underscore has the most number of Node modules dependent on it.
Well, that's about it for today. Considering the scope of Underscore, we've barely scratched the surface here. Make sure to check out more of the library and let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Thank you so much for reading!
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Madoff, a former stock broker and investment adviser as well as a onetime chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers, swindled thousands of investors out of billions of dollars in what was considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Madoff admitted he turned his asset-management business into a massive Ponzi scheme and was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison.
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The review assesses: (1) whether new information suggests that the species is increasing, declining, or stable; (2) whether existing threats are increasing, unchanged, reduced, or eliminated; (3) if there are any new threats; and, (4) if any new information or analysis calls into question any of the conclusions in the original listing determination as to the species' classification.
The five-year review provides a recommendation, with supporting information, on whether a species classification should be changed; it does not change the species' classification. A species classification cannot be changed until a formal rulemaking process is completed, including a public review and comment period.
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There's no doubting that Faith Hill is drop dead gorgeous. Heck, I've never known a woman to look that good in braces, well, ever. But it seems that those braces may be causing the country singer a BIG problem: dramatic weight loss. At last week's Grammy Awards, Hill showed up looking frail alongside husband Tim McGraw. Nutritionist Dr. Mahid Ali spoke with Radar Online saying that he estimates Hill weighs 115 pounds. WHOA.
Listen, I get it, braces aren't fun at any age. It's very common for adults wearing the mouth gear to drop weight because of how difficult it is to eat with them. Plain and simple, though, Hill is a role model and mother two three awesome kids and having braces is no excuse for becoming this frail. She needs to take better care of herself, STAT.
The thing that frightens me is how little Faith weighs for her 5'9'' height. At 115 pounds, the singer is drastically underweight and it's something she really needs to work on. I had a friend who had braces as an adult, and they drank many a protein shake to supplement the calories they were missing from solid foods. It's all about adapting to the change.
I just hope that she doesn't see the weight loss as a benefit to the braces. Faith has always been beautiful, and in my opinion a skinnier frame does NOT make her look better. Add on 15 pounds, and everything will be better. Not only will she look better -- but she'll have added energy to keep up with her kids.
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Modern algebra, also called abstract algebra, branch of mathematics concerned with the general algebraic structure of various sets (such as real numbers, complex numbers, matrices, and vector spaces), rather than rules and procedures for manipulating their individual elements.
During the second half of the 19th century, various important mathematical advances led to the study of sets in which any two elements can be added or multiplied together to give a third element of the same set. The elements of the sets concerned could be numbers, functions, or some other objects. As the techniques involved were similar, it seemed reasonable to consider the sets, rather than their elements, to be the objects of primary concern. A definitive treatise, Modern Algebra, was written in 1930 by the Dutch mathematician Bartel van der Waerden, and the subject has had a deep effect on almost every branch of mathematics.
Basic algebraic structures
In itself a set is not very useful, being little more than a well-defined collection of mathematical objects. However, when a set has one or more operations (such as addition and multiplication) defined for its elements, it becomes very useful. If the operations satisfy familiar arithmetic rules (such as associativity, commutativity, and distributivity) the set will have a particularly "rich" algebraic structure. Sets with the richest algebraic structure are known as fields. Familiar examples of fields are the rational numbers (fractions a/b where a and b are positive or negative whole numbers), the real numbers (rational and irrational numbers), and the complex numbers (numbers of the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers and i2 = −1). Each of these is important enough to warrant its own special symbol: Q for the rationals, R for the reals, and C for the complex numbers. The term field in its algebraic sense is quite different from its use in other contexts, such as vector fields in mathematics or magnetic fields in physics. Other languages avoid this conflict in terminology; for example, a field in the algebraic sense is called a corps in French and a Körper in German, both words meaning "body."
In addition to the fields mentioned above, which all have infinitely many elements, there exist fields having only a finite number of elements (always some power of a prime number), and these are of great importance, particularly for discrete mathematics. In fact, finite fields motivated the early development of abstract algebra. The simplest finite field has only two elements, 0 and 1, where 1 + 1 = 0. This field has applications to coding theory and data communication.
Structural axioms
The basic rules, or axioms, for addition and multiplication are shown in the table, and a set that satisfies all 10 of these rules is called a field. A set satisfying only axioms 1–7 is called a ring, and if it also satisfies axiom 9 it is called a ring with unity. A ring satisfying the commutative law of multiplication (axiom 8) is known as a commutative ring. When axioms 1–9 hold and there are no proper divisors of zero (i.e., whenever ab = 0 either a = 0 or b = 0), a set is called an integral domain. For example, the set of integers {…, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, …} is a commutative ring with unity, but it is not a field, because axiom 10 fails. When only axiom 8 fails, a set is known as a division ring or skew field.
|Field axioms
|axiom 1
|Closure: the combination (hereafter indicated by addition or multiplication) of any two elements in the set produces an element in the set.
|axiom 2
|Addition is commutative: a + b = b + a for any elements in the set.
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|Addition is associative: a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c for any elements in the set.
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|Additive identity: there exists an element 0 such that a + 0 = a for every element in the set.
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|Additive inverse: for each element a in the set, there exists an element -a such that a + (-a) = 0.
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|Multiplication is associative: a(bc) = (ab)c for any elements in the set.
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|Distributive law: a(b + c) = ab + ac and (a + b)c = ac + bc for any elements in the set.
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|Multiplication is commutative: ab = ba for any elements in the set.
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|Multiplicative identity: there exists an element 1 such that 1a = a for any element in the set.
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|Multiplicative inverse: for each element a in the set, there exists an element a-1 such that aa-1 = 1.
Quaternions and abstraction
The discovery of rings having noncommutative multiplication was an important stimulus in the development of modern algebra. For example, the set of n-by-n matrices is a noncommutative ring, but since there are nonzero matrices without inverses, it is not a division ring. The first example of a noncommutative division ring was the quaternions. These are numbers of the form a + bi + cj + dk, where a, b, c, and d are real numbers and their coefficients 1, i, j, and k are unit vectors that define a four-dimensional space. Quaternions were invented in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton to extend complex numbers from the two-dimensional plane to three dimensions in order to describe physical processes mathematically. Hamilton defined the following rules for quaternion multiplication: i2 = j2 = k2 = −1, ij = k = −ji, jk = i = −kj, and ki = j = −ik. After struggling for some years to discover consistent rules for working with his higher-dimensional complex numbers, inspiration struck while he was strolling in his hometown of Dublin, and he stopped to inscribe these formulas on a nearby bridge. In working with his quaternions, Hamilton laid the foundations for the algebra of matrices and led the way to more abstract notions of numbers and operations.
Rings in number theory
In another direction, important progress in number theory by German mathematicians such as Ernst Kummer, Richard Dedekind, and Leopold Kronecker used rings of algebraic integers. (An algebraic integer is a complex number satisfying an algebraic equation of the form xn + a1xn−1 + … + an = 0 where the coefficients a1, …, an are integers.) Their work introduced the important concept of an ideal in such rings, so called because it could be represented by "ideal elements" outside the ring concerned. In the late 19th century the German mathematician David Hilbert used ideals to solve an old problem about polynomials (algebraic expressions using many variables x1, x2, x3, …). The problem was to take a finite number of variables and decide which ideals could be generated by at most finitely many polynomials. Hilbert's method solved the problem and brought an end to further investigation by showing that they all had this property. His abstract "hands off" approach led the German mathematician Paul Gordon to exclaim "Das ist nicht Mathematik, das ist Theologie!" ("That is not mathematics, that is theology!"). The power of modern algebra had arrived.
Rings can arise naturally in solving mathematical problems, as shown in the following example: Which whole numbers can be written as the sum of two squares? In other words, when can a whole number n be written as a2 + b2? To solve this problem, it is useful to factor n into prime factors, and it is also useful to factor a2 + b2 as (a + bi)(a − bi), where i2 = −1. The question can then be rephrased in terms of numbers a + bi where a and b are integers. This set of numbers forms a ring, and, by considering factorization in this ring, the original problem can be solved. Rings of this sort are very useful in number theory.
Rings in algebraic geometry
Rings are used extensively in algebraic geometry. Consider a curve in the plane given by an equation in two variables such as y2 = x3 + 1. The curve shown in the figure consists of all points (x, y) that satisfy the equation. For example, (2, 3) and (−1, 0) are points on the curve. Every algebraic function in two variables assigns a value to every point of the curve. For example, xy + 2x assigns the value 10 to the point (2, 3) and −2 to the point (−1, 0). Such functions can be added and multiplied together, and they form a ring that can be used to study the original curve. Functions such as y2 and x3 + 1 that agree with each other at every point of the curve are treated as the same function, and this allows the curve to be recovered from the ring. Geometric problems can therefore be transformed into algebraic problems, solved using techniques from modern algebra, and then transformed back into geometric results.
The development of these methods for the study of algebraic geometry was one of the major advances in mathematics during the 20th century. Pioneering work in this direction was done in France by the mathematicians André Weil in the 1950s and Alexandre Grothendieck in the 1960s.
Group theory
In addition to developments in number theory and algebraic geometry, modern algebra has important applications to symmetry by means of group theory. The word group often refers to a group of operations, possibly preserving the symmetry of some object or an arrangement of like objects. In the latter case the operations are called permutations, and one talks of a group of permutations, or simply a permutation group. If α and β are operations, their composite (α followed by β) is usually written αβ, and their composite in the opposite order (β followed by α) is written βα. In general, αβ and βα are not equal. A group can also be defined axiomatically as a set with multiplication that satisfies the axioms for closure, associativity, identity element, and inverses (axioms 1, 6, 9, and 10). In the special case where αβ and βα are equal for all α and β, the group is called commutative, or Abelian; for such Abelian groups, operations are sometimes written α + β instead of αβ, using addition in place of multiplication.
The first application of group theory was by the French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811–32) to settle an old problem concerning algebraic equations. The question was to decide whether a given equation could be solved using radicals (meaning square roots, cube roots, and so on, together with the usual operations of arithmetic). By using the group of all "admissible" permutations of the solutions, now known as the Galois group of the equation, Galois showed whether or not the solutions could be expressed in terms of radicals. His was the first important use of groups, and he was the first to use the term in its modern technical sense. It was many years before his work was fully understood, in part because of its highly innovative character and in part because he was not around to explain his ideas—at the age of 20 he was mortally wounded in a duel. The subject is now known as Galois theory.
Group theory developed first in France and then in other European countries during the second half of the 19th century. One early and essential idea was that many groups, and in particular all finite groups, could be decomposed into simpler groups in an essentially unique way. These simpler groups could not be decomposed further, and so they were called "simple," although their lack of further decomposition often makes them rather complex. This is rather like decomposing a whole number into a product of prime numbers, or a molecule into atoms.
In 1963 a landmark paper by the American mathematicians Walter Feit and John Thompson showed that if a finite simple group is not merely the group of rotations of a regular polygon, then it must have an even number of elements. This result was immensely important because it showed that such groups had to have some elements x such that x2 = 1. Using such elements enabled mathematicians to get a handle on the structure of the whole group. The paper led to an ambitious program for finding all finite simple groups that was completed in the early 1980s. It involved the discovery of several new simple groups, one of which, the "Monster," cannot operate in fewer than 196,883 dimensions. The Monster still stands as a challenge today because of its intriguing connections with other parts of mathematics.
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Surf JapanBy Ben Martin
Dome Surfing - It's Pumping!
It's great being a surfer in Miyazaki. There are so many breaks scattered along the beautiful coastline. The water is clean and warm all year 'round, and there's enough swell to keep the average wave rider more than happy. If it does go flat, there's even a simulated beach paradise just 300 meters from the real shoreline.
The Ocean Dome is a giant indoor wave pool. In 1993 when it was built for a mere $2 billion U.S., it was the world's largest water park also boasting the largest retractable roof, opened only on days when the weather outside does not threaten the carefully regulated climate inside.
Despite losing money from day one, every night for eight years the Dome hosted a spectacular surfing show featuring Australian pro-surfer Mathew Pitts whose dream job was to showcase the advanced wave-making technology for amazed crowds.
Although most surfers won't admit it, there is a certain allure to the Dome. Inside its curved white walls lies the secret dream of every wave rider: technology capable of producing realistic waves you can surf any time you like.
It had been the topic of many a late night conversation among my surfer friends. Although we imagined surfing the Ocean Dome, we never thought it possible. Usually the closest you can get is to rent a body board and share a one-foot wave with six or seven others.
When a friend called one evening to say he had managed to rent the Dome for one night, I was beside myself with excitement. He was looking for enough surfers to make it work. "Sign me up!" I replied immediately.
Three days later I was standing on the artificial shore waiting to step into the chlorinated waves. It was my first time inside the building, and I was impressed. A long, palm-lined beach (complete with imitation sand) stretched out before me.
Looking out to "sea," one can notice the bay was given shape by large artificial rocks on both sides. If it wasn't for the music eerily drifting in from hidden speakers and the shooting stars continually flashing across the two-dimensional sky, I might have believed I was on a real beach.
The technology creating the waves at the Dome is incredible. Twenty huge pumps suck up massive volumes of water (1,800 tons for every wave), and then release it from a height, sending it surging into the pool.
When the water meets with the concrete "banks" on the bottom of the pool, a wave forms, and its size can even be adjusted to a maximum height of eight feet.
Lifeguards were in the water to help us keep our positions. One signalled for me to paddle out to a marker on the bottom of the pool and wait. Each set would contain four waves: a right and then a left peeling across from either side of the bay followed by an a-frame peak in the middle. A loud klaxon soon fired to announce the oncoming set.
I sat ready to take the left break. Before I knew it, the water was swirling around beneath, and I was urged to paddle. Unlike the ocean where you can see the wave coming, here the wave suddenly appears from behind a wall. I just had to go for it and trust it was coming.
Sure enough. I soon saw the familiar shape of a steep drop appear beneath me. I scratched into it, then raced along the fast wall breaking over the shallow bottom. There was nothing artificial about my smile as I kicked off and went back for more.
The Dome was a fun wave with good shape and power. In fairness, it's not quite the absolute perfection of which I had dreamed, even when they cranked it up, but surfing there was an amazing experience, a literal step into a world of fantasy.
It also cemented (pardon the pun) for me the fact we have a way to go before we can match nature's way. The surfer's dream of a perfect wave is out there but, for now, I'm happy to make do with the less reliable, but much cheaper, ocean breaks. .
Getting there
The Ocean Dome is situated in Miyazaki's Seagaia complex, beside the Sheraton Hotel. From Miyazaki City follow the Hitotsuba toll road north to the Seagaia exit and turn into Gate 4 of the Ocean Dome.
Getting wet
It is possible to rent the Dome on weekdays, and ¥100,000 buys you two hours and 160 waves to surf. To inquire about the Dome, call (0985) 21-1177.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Prior to today's Birmingham-Southern men's soccer game against Rhodes, Head Coach Preston Goldfarb was honored for his 31 years of service to the college as the field at BSC Soccer Park was officially named Preston Goldfarb Field.
Goldfarb, who came to the Hilltop to start the men's soccer program in 1983, is in his 31st season as Head Coach. He owns a career coaching record of 337-236-49 and has excelled at three different levels of collegiate competition. In the NAIA from 1983-2001, the Panthers won 10 conference titles, appeared in the national semifinals twice, and played for the 1996 national championship. At the NCAA Division I level from 2002-2007, Goldfarb led BSC to back-to-back Big South Conference regular season championships in 2004 and 2005. And now in NCAA Division III, BSC was ranked in the top 25 this season for the first time in program history after starting the season 6-0.
In 30 seasons, Goldfarb has coached 30 All-Americans, 41 Academic All-Americans, and 11 soccer student-athletes who were members of Phi Beta Kappa. One of the highlights of his career happened this past summer in Jerusalem, where he coached the U.S. Men's Soccer team to the gold medal at the World Maccabi Games. It was the first gold medal for the U.S. in men's soccer.
Goldfarb and his Panthers won today's game against Rhodes College, 3-0, and now stand at 7-3-1 on the season. They are in action again at home next weekend, facing Centre on Friday, Oct. 11, at 5 p.m., and Sewanee on Sunday, Oct. 13, at noon on the newly-minted Preston Goldfarb Field.


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|Military bases in the California desert could host seven gigawatts of solar power installations--roughly equivalent to the output of seven nuclear plants--according to a study commissioned by the Department of Defense. Study director Robert Kwartin discusses the report.


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Using half of the fireworks allocated for the Fourth of July display that was canceled, Frisco is putting on a show to mark the end of summer on Saturday.
In response to the record-breaking wildfire season in Colorado, town officials canceled the July Fourth show but are ensuring that this new display has met safety requirements.
A decision to organize the show came from the consistent moisture to the area, the now "low" fire danger status and the availability of the fireworks and desire to bring the community together.
"Firework shows are a great way to get locals outside and together to say good-bye to summer," said Suzanne Lifgren, marketing director for Frisco.
Safety though, and preventing the risk of wildfire has been the main focus for the display's organizers.
"The likelihood of a fire starting is very low, we certainly have safer conditions now than we did in July," said Jeff Berino, lead pyrotechnician for the show.
With $5 million insurance covered by an umbrella policy for the display and a fire engine standing by during the event, Berino said he is "not worried at all."
Permits for the display were granted by Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue and the permit to possess and handle the fireworks were given by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"In case anything sparks, fire authorities will be aware instantaneously and will mitigate any chance of fire spreading," Berino said. "But the likelihood of anything happening is very small."
The recent conditions have also put organizers at ease.
"Night temperatures are much lower now and the relative humidity at night is in the 30 percent range, compared to single digit humidity we saw in July," Berino said. "The fireworks are being deployed from behind the middle school where there is little risk and not any highly flammable areas and we anticipate the fire danger this weekend will be 'low' or 'moderate'."
Frisco has divided the fireworks allocated for the July Fourth display into two shows: Saturday to mark the end of Fall Fest in Frisco, and another slated for the beginning of December to mark the opening of the tubing hill on the peninsula.
"Bringing the community together by celebrating our changing seasons means a lot to the town," Lifgren said. "The winter fireworks show will celebrate the excitement going into winter with the opening of the tubing hill – we're lucky to have these fireworks to use in safer conditions."
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka won their opening matches Saturday in the BNP Paribas Open.
Federer, the four-time champion seeded seventh, beat French qualifier Paul-Henri Mathieu. The Swiss star was coming off his 78th career title last week in Dubai.
"It's important to win," he said. "It's a lot different from Dubai. You have to force a bit more, but I'm satisfied."
The fifth-seeded Murray regrouped to top Lukas Rosol 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. The third-seeded Wawrinka, playing for the first time since winning the Australian Open, was a 6-3, 7-5 winner over Ivo Karlovic.
Kevin Anderson and Tommy Haas also moved into the third round. Anderson spoiled two-time tournament champion Lleyton Hewitt's bid for his 600th career match win, topping the Australian 7-6 (5), 6-4. Haas, who will be 36 on April 3, rolled to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Jeremy Chardy.
In women's play, top-seeded woman Li Na beat countrywoman Zheng Jie 6-1, 7-5, and fourth-seeded Maria Sharapova opened her title defense with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Julia Goerges. Fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber dropped out, falling 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 to Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor. Aleksandra Wozniak also beat No. 15 Sabine Lisicki 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (5).
Murray reached the final in 2009, but has mostly struggled in the event.
"I think it's important sometimes to think about it, because when you're not expecting it to happen and then it does, that's when it can kind of take you by surprise and you might panic a little bit or worry," Murray said. "But I don't feel like (that happened) today. I was a set and a break down. I got broken three times in a row the end of the first set, beginning of the second. I just kind of kept going and found a way to win, which is always the most important thing."
Mikhail Youzhny, seeded 14th, withdrew because of a back injury and the American men's contingent was trimmed from its initial 14 members to one after losses by Michael Russell, Sam Querrey, Tim Smyczek and Ryan Harrison. The only U.S. player remaining is 12th seed John Isner, who will face Nikolay Davydenko on Sunday.
Li is playing her second event since winning the Australian Open.
"This is the first match after Doha, two weeks, and of course for I cannot be 100 percent for the first match," Li said. "But I was happy. At least I can learn something from today's match."
Li will face Karolina Pliskova, a 7-5, 6-2 winner over No. 28 Klara Zakopalova.
Eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova, No. 11 Ana Ivanovic and No. 12 Dominika Cibulkova also won early matches.


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The behavior program at the Eaton County Youth Facility is predicated upon the cognitive model of Psychology. The cognitive-behavioral framework is a model for describing, understanding, and changing behavior. It operates on the fundamental assumption that thinking and attitudes influence our behavior, and therefore we can change behavior by changing thought patterns and attitudes. Simply put, the cognitive model states that prior to all human behaviors, a person is presented with an antecedent situation. Based on that situation, a person has certain self-talks (thoughts) that give rise to feelings and then to the behavior that they chose to exhibit. This behavior then results in consequences, which then introduces a new antecedent situation, and the cycle repeats itself ad infinitum. For the purposes of behavior modification, then, we seek to change individual thinking patterns and therefore behaviors by manipulating the antecedents to their thoughts and the consequences that result.
Research indicates that the highest risk factor for re-offending is criminogenic thinking and attitudes. Therefore, we use the cognitive model because its goal is to change such thinking. It uses techniques to monitor thought patterns, recognize the connections between thinking and behavior, and replace distorted thinking with rational thinking in order to foster more appropriate behavior. We challenge our residents to pay attention to the thought patterns they have and the behaviors and consequences that result from them. This further challenges residents to reduce the "automatic" thinking they have to certain situations and recognize the thoughts that they have that put them at risk to doing something hurtful or irresponsible.


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Corporate America is letting the sun shine in on second-quarter profit outlooks, raising hope that the first quarter's storms are past.
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Second-quarter outlooks for S&P 500 companies so far are much more optimistic than the last two quarters. Fewer companies are cutting estimates and those that are reducing forecasts haven't done so as aggressively as in the past.
As a result, the market has rebounded from its recent selloff. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has climbed 3.5 percent in the last eight trading sessions, leaving it less than 1 percent from its all-time closing high.
"The downward revisions for the second quarter right now are very, very mild," said Nick Raich, chief executive officer of The Earnings Scout, an independent research firm specializing in earnings trends, in Cleveland.
"That's the positive for this earnings season."
Negative outlooks still outnumber positive ones for the second quarter, but at a ratio of 2.9 to 1, they are well below the 4.7-to-1 ratio at a similar point in the previous earnings period and the 7.8-to-1 ratio for the one before that, Thomson Reuters data showed.
Surprisingly strong results have come from many high-profile names, including Apple, Caterpillar, Netflix and United Technologies.
That's offset what Wall Street had expected to be a lackluster first quarter. Estimates were slashed, heading into this earnings period as the unusually harsh winter hampered transportation, kept people out of stores and raised heating costs.
First-quarter earnings are in so far from just about 200 of the S&P 500 companies.
So far, 69 percent of companies have beaten analysts' expectations, above the long-term average of 63 percent, Thomson Reuters data showed. Growth is forecast to come in at 2.9 percent, compared with forecasts for sub-1 percent growth before earnings started.
"It's not a dismal first quarter," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president of BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama. But "it's still skewed with the reductions in estimates."
Estimates for the second quarter, meanwhile, have barely moved since April 1 at a time when they'd be expected to drop.
Among the 83 S&P 500 companies that reported results through last week, Raich said the average drop in earnings estimates was 1.1 percent - the smallest in three years.
Expected growth in second-quarter profit is currently 8.1 percent, compared with 8.4 percent on April 1, Thomson Reuters data showed. Forecasts have increased for three of the 10 S&P 500 sectors - healthcare, industrials and telecommunications - since April 1.
Helping to relieve concerns, United Technologies, Coca-Cola , General Motors and McDonald's all reported strong results from their China operations. That's negated one of the market's primary worries that weak demand from the world's second-largest economy would hit profits.
"It is still a little surprising how strong China remains, given what you read," United Technologies' Chief Financial Officer Greg Hayes said in an interview, in reference to the conglomerate's building systems businesses.


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RIM has announced the availability of BBM 7. After a month of beta testing the new BBM 7 is ready to go. Its most impressive feature is free WiFi calling between BlackBerry users. You can now switch from text based messaging to voice calling over WiFi for free. Check out the video for a demo.
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The girl is all about posing for pictures. Seriously. She points her toe, puts her hands on her hips and smiles. I can't help but smile too.
As always, thanks for stopping by!
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- Heidi said...
I love this paper! Perfect for your photo. I like the flowers too.
- April 24, 2012 at 3:11 AM
- Lisa Rukin Swift said...
What a natural! :) Love what you did with the doilies on here, Mary Ann. Fun page!
- April 24, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- Connie Mercer said...
so cute~picture is darling!! Great LO!!!:):)
- April 24, 2012 at 4:55 AM
- Cindy said...
I love your layout-the photo is adorable! Cute design and love the colors and patterns you chose!
- April 24, 2012 at 5:05 AM
- Norma G. said...
I love those papers and she is just too cute :D
- April 24, 2012 at 6:32 AM
- Christina Collins said...
This is so fun!
I love the crochet doilies.
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Love the mix of doilies! Cute pics, great page!
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- Gina Lideros said...
love that title, cute stuff!
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This is so sweet!
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Love the layout. How lucky you are to have and work at an LSS. A few years ago, I worked at an LSS in the back taking care of all the CHA orders and reorders...I saw everything first! Too bad they went out of business. Love the layout!
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Sweet page! The overlapping doilies are great!
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This is so sassy and cute! Great choice of PP and love the little flowers!
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Scott Fortino, a Chicago police officer for more than 30 years, is known for his stark photographs of institutional spaces which explore the psychology of confinement and protection. He uses his lens to capture the interiors of police holding cells, jury rooms, and other places that his badge allows him to enter. Employing a long exposure in the color photograph Advocacy Interview Room for Victims of Domestic Violence (2005), Fortino captures the unoccupied interior with precision and a heightened depth of field.
Laura Letinsky says she is interested in looking at what is after the fact, at what (ma)lingers, at what persists and by inference, at what is gone. Untitled #14 (2005) is part of Somewhere Somewhere, in which Letinsky photographed homes after their occupants had moved out but before new residents had moved in. Devoid of people, the photograph allows the viewer to contemplate the physical properties of an empty room, such as the rays of light streaking though the window blinds and the stripes on the wallpaper.
Installation artist and photographer Jane Calvins Dis-Location (2004) is an intricate color image that disorients with its fragmented spaces, Wonder Woman comic, acrobatic clown, reversed text, and formal gown. Calvin constructs her complex photographs without the use of darkroom or digital tricks. Instead she builds room-sized assemblages with found objects, projects slides onto them, and photographs the resulting tableaux into which layers of meaning are woven.
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If you are dealing and hurting with a breakup it is not as difficult to move on from the breakup as you may believe.
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- And this is extremely essential, let yourself feel the pain.
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Go get that box of chocolates (or two boxes or so) and listen to old love songs or watch old love stories on TV until you've had enough.
The "hurt we feel which does not kill us makes us more powerful," and I understand you have heard that saying before, and it is true.
Dealing with your pain properly can be empowering.
Like I said, if you are healing after a breakup, be sure to ask for inner Guidance that you may see things more clearly and begin to move on in life.
The Course in Miracles teaches that, "The invitation is accepted immediately, and the Holy Spirit wastes no time in introducing the practical results of asking Him to enter."
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But you never know what yet is in store for you.
Previously I discussed the idea of getting back with your ex and sure ways to rekindle a relationship.
I think, like many people do, that whatever happens in life takes place for a cause and its effects will be on the way to you in its due time.
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