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Friday, February 08, 2008
We were each working on something different, each on our own laptop. At first, I wasn't really paying attention to my companion, as I was deep into editing a manuscript. Although there are times when I skip around from project to project, there are many times when I focus intensely on writing or editing or reading or thinking for a long period of time without interruption.
After I was finished editing, I glanced over to see what my companion was doing. He had said that he was going to work on a manuscript, but when I glanced at his laptop, he was reading a political blog. Seconds later he went back to his manuscript, wrote a sentence, then checked some news headlines -- then he went back to the manuscript to write another sentence or two, then he checked the weather online, then he went to some journal websites to scan the tables of contents, then he wrote a sentence, then he jumped up to get something to drink, came back and wrote a sentence, and so on. It was amazing. In the course of a few hours, he made progress on the manuscript, and entertained me with pieces of information gleaned from his internet expeditions.
Having ADD has long been a source of frustration for this person. There are times when it has made him extremely upset and angry with himself. The medications that he has tried over the years worked in that they helped him focus, but they also kept him awake for days on end and had other side effects that scared him. So now he just lives with it and, although he hates his inability to focus, if he keeps going back to his original activity, even if he can't sustain that activity for more than a few minutes, he gets things done. In fact, he gets a lot done. He published 10 papers last year and wrote at least 2 successful grant proposals. And he is very well informed about the news and weather.
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- Jonah said...
Is this ADD, or internet addiction? I am quite convinced I don't have ADD, but find myself struggling to get away from the endless pages and links of the 'net. Particularly when Facebook is involved.
- Cherish said...
It makes me feel better knowing that highly distractable people can still accomplish things.
Did you know that your blog also makes a good diversion when someone is unfocused? :-D
Your colleague and I are very similar. I might not be quite so affected, but I'm also not so great at coping with it. It is extremely frustrating to ask a question to a colleague, seriously want to understand their response, but not be able to focus on what they are saying. They will say something that sparks my interest and I will shut them out so I can think about it... then when I return to them, they have moved on to a point where I'm lost. Very frustrating, especially when I know it will happen as I'm asking the question. If I can, I ask questions by email, so that I can parse the response in a way that works for my brain. The more monotone the voice, the harder it is to listen. My favorite professors all had interesting accents. I believe that I couldn't shut them out while they were talking. So, I learned more in their classes and had very positive feelings toward their teaching skills.
- Lorie said...
I can also relate to this behaviour, although I've never been diagnosed with ADD. And I too am quite productive despite not being able to sit and work on something uninterrupted for long periods.
I think a lot of people function this way. Maybe it's a sign of genius? =P
- Ms.PhD said...
I do this too, but not to such an extreme, and not all the time. I'm not sure I have always done it, but in recent years I've become more aware of it since Mr.PhD is more like you- can be extremely focused for long periods of time without ever looking up. I think maybe it has gotten worse as I've gotten older. Where I used to be able to work for an hour without a break, now it's more like 30 minutes.
Then again, it could be a learned behavior from having to live at the beck and call of an impatient bench timer.
Post was too long for me to read it all at once ;-)
Yikes. Am with Jonah and the others who said they do this normally. It's inversely correlated to my confidence and/or knowledge about the topic at hand--e.g. writing the methods section of a paper, where I know every detail, I'm quite focused; but writing the discussion, especially in papers where I'm straying afield from home turf, I feel that the NYTimes just can't put up new stories fast enough.
So go ahead, ask me a delegate distribution, any state....
One of my nieces has ADD, and had a very challenging time getting established in a full-time job, for that and other reasons. As she and my sister have come to terms with her ADD, they've started to think of it as a condition of having too *much* attention, rather than too little - so much, that she can't focus on only one thing at a time. She's working at WalMart now, and her usual assignment is as the cashier watching over four self check-out stations. She does a fantastic job at this because paying attention to four registers at once comes naturally to her. Multitasking actually increases her productivity, whereas I'm not convinced it does so for most people.
You could suggest to your friend that a lot of bigger medical centers (Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, etc) have occupational therapists who specialize in ADD. They can be as (or more) helpful than meds and tend not to have side effects.
- ScienceGirl said...
My husband does this, and I have no idea how he ever gets anything done. But you are right, it is crazy to watch!
A very famous scientist I know has ADD. He has found coping mechanisms that work wonder for him, although they require self discipline. He uses timers, allotting a short amount of time for each task, and rewards himself with a (timed) distraction. He sets up continuous deadlines for himself, so that everything is very urgent (it would drive me crazy, but works for him). Other things include control of diet and caffeine intake. I think he has been professionally coached, and your colleague should think about it.
I've been at "important" meeting with this guy, and watched in amazement as he wiggled in his chair like a four year old, and then came up with very insightful comments.... ADD didn't stop him from getting to the NAS at a very young age.
My former roommate, an MD, also has ADD. He chose ER medicine because of that, and he's an excellent doctor. He can be very intense, but for a short time only, then he moves n to the next patient.
Sounds like most of us have some level of distraction disorder. A good time management coach/book can help!
You get some very intelligent comments. Any chance I could subscribe to a feed of ALL the comments? I don't want just the comments for a particular post, I want all of them. Checking the Blogger help, it looks like you can just click to enable that for me.
P.S. I really like your blog.
I'm also pretty sure I have ADD, or some related hyperactivity disorder. When I was a child I had the typical symptoms. I don't really remember a lot about that myself, but my parents remember this all too well :)
I do remember not being able to sleep well when I was just four years old. I was too busy in my head and I just couldn't fall asleep fast. These symptoms did improve gradually.
Other symptoms are talking while asleep, sleep paralyses, i.e. waking up but still being paralyzed as you are when you are in REM sleep (this is very scary, I had this quite frequently when I was young).
I think that my hyperactivity has moved into my head when I grew older. I.e. I don't need to run around; I can sit still for long times. Perhaps the fact that I work out a lot also helps.
I also need a lot of time time to fall asleep and I actually won't fall asleep at all unless I go to bed at the right time. This is great when travelling for a few days ad odd times, but it will break me up if it lasts for too long. I cannot count on catching up on sleep while sitting in a plane or train.
When I went to Australia a few years ago, I dind't sleep at all for 4 days due to the jet lag. This caused me to have hallucinations for a while. When I was lying in bed and my eyes were closed, I was just seeing images but I was awake.
The only thing that people notice about me today is that I am chaotic and that I work on many things at the same time. I'm unable to give an improvised talk, because then I will give a very unstructured chaotic talk that no one exept myself can understand.
The reason is, I think, that most people's thoughts are already pretty much organized. If you talk about something, you tend to just say what you think, unless you have prepared what you are going to say in advance.
I don't like to listen to talks, visit seminars and conferences. Unless I'm very interested in listening to some talk, I will just not listen at all and do something else instead in my head. Even in case of interesting talks, I'll get stuck at some points as the third poster pointed out.
Another thing is anomalously low scores at intelligence tests. I just don't have the patience to complete the test or I'll get stuck on some interesting questions. So, when moving to the next question, the previous question that I answered is still in my head...
I think that my IQ is about 70 or so, even though I'm about to get my Ph.D. in theoretical physics and have published 14 peer reviewed papers :)
- EcoGeoFemme said...
I sat next to someone like this during a whole day of talks today. I felt bad thinking it, but his figeting drove me crazy!
- Emily said...
I'm taking a break from a fellowship application to read your blog. Thanks for the reminder to get back to work!
- steppen wolf said...
I do not have ADD, but that guy really sounded like me. And I am also one who cannot stand to work on something for hour and hours without frequent interruptions.
I guess...whatever works!
- --elf-- said...
Hmm, I'm a bit late to the game here, but I am *exactly* like your colleague when I'm working on something I don't like. Such as writing papers for peer review, or programming. When doing something I enjoy, I can be engrossed for hours--teaching or otherwise talking to people and my hobbies, of course (knitting, reading). So I'm starting to try to let that fidgety stuff be a guide as to what I might rather spend my time on rather than fighting the fidget.


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Home to the Beatles, Liverpool Football Club, and a vibrant cultural scene, lovely Liverpool has something for everyone! Treat yourself to a luxurious stay at the cutting-edge Radisson Blu Hotel in the city centre. While you're there, take a cruise on the River Mersey, stroll around the UNESCO-listed waterfront, enjoy world-class shopping, experience Tate Liverpool and take in a thrilling football game!
Liverpool in a nutshell
Liverpool is famous for its Merseyside Beat, the Beatles, its football teams and its ferries. It's a bold daring port city, bursting with colour and culture and its story has been one of great ups and downs. Liverpool has a maritime history of over 800 years and for centuries the economy was centred on the docks. It grew into a major port for the British Empire, trading with the Far East, West Indies and Africa while at the same time it was successfully selling its cotton to the expanding textile factories in Manchester and Lancashire. When the industrial revolution hit the mills and shipping favoured container ships, the docks went from great loud and productive powerhouses to still ghostly warehouses, and Liverpool's economy went into decline. Today it is thriving; its riverfront became a World Heritage site in 2004 and it was European Capital of Culture in 2008.
What to see and do in Liverpool
The Albert Dock is Liverpool's most famous waterfront attraction – this is where you'll experience the Beatles Story, the world-renowned Tate Liverpool and where you may find yourself on a Magical Mystery Tour. The Radisson Blu Hotel, Liverpool is a great place to be based to explore the city. From the hotel you are just a short walk from the waterfront and right by Liverpool ONE – a central shopping and entertainment district full of restaurants, popular stores and cafes. Liverpool is a city of diversity. You can take a stadium tour at Anfield, look around the interactive Liverpool FC Museum, visit the Merseyside Maritime Museum or take a ferry across the Mersey. You can sip a cocktail in a quirky bar or stand in silent awe of the gigantic cathedral. You can also get creative at the Ropewalks, a bohemian centre with cool music venues, boutique shops and quirky cafes filling the old rope-making warehouses with chatter and laughter.
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- Liverpool One is the hugely popular shopping, restaurant and entertainment area of the city. There are 160 fashion names in this modern open air shopping centre and it's a great place to wind down after a busy day sightseeing.
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- Liverpool is famous for its art and the galleries are a must while staying here. The Tate Liverpool is cutting edge and the new Museum of Liverpool has more than 6,000 objects for you to discover from the city's dockland days to its famous music scene and its successful football clubs. You will feel you know the city after spending time here.
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JoEllen (Fitts) Mickelson, 89, of Rancho Cordova, passed away peacefully in her sleep Wednesday August 6, 2014. She had been recovering from Heart and Stroke events at Casa Coloma Care Center in Rancho Cordova.
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Time ManagementJanuary 29, 2003
Expounding on a cliche, Jeremy Wright wrote an article for A List Apart last year detailing his strategy for time management: The Pickle Jar Theory.
Lately I've had to reconsider my own time management, and come up with a way of getting through the day without cracking under the stress. I jump back and forth between large, make–or–break projects that take ultimate priority, and menial, every–day tasks that distract from everything else but still need to get done.
What I've found myself doing is falling into the trap of stressing when I have 8 things on the go at once, without pausing to consider that 6 of those 8 things are two hour jobs at best, and I can have them all done by week's end.
Taking a breather and prioritizing helps. But my best method of coping is this: 25% to 35% of my day is spent addressing odd jobs, the rest on bigger projects.
If I spend my entire day on the big ones, the little guys keep piling up and stress me even more. If I spend the whole day catching up on the little ones with the thought that I'll work on the larger projects the next day, my plan is inevitably crushed when I get a whole new slew of little jobs immediately after I finish.
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Rainfall records tumble as storm heads south
A slew of January rainfall records have been broken as the remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald heads south along the NSW coast.
Pine Ridge, south of Tamworth, copped a January record of 131 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, according to Aaron Coutts-Smith, NSW manager of climate services at the weather bureau.
Other notable falls include Wyee, near Lake Macquarie, which received 171.8mm, its highest January tally in 113 years of records. Grafton's Olympic site also notched its highest January rainfall - 131mm in the 24 hours to 9am on Monday.
Old Koreelah, inland from Byron Bay, collected 205mm in its rain gauge in the 24 hours to 9am Monday - the highest daily rainfall measured in a century of records.
Initial numbers point to Crystal Creek on the mid-north coast's Bellinger River as recording the highest rainfall total of 288 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday.
Sydney's Observatory Hill recorded 95 millimetres for the period, the highest level since last March's severe rainstorms. In the Sydney region, the north shore's French's Forest and Castle Cove both had 161 millimetres land in their rain gauges.
The Upper Rous River had the state's heaviest falls from the storm, with 944 millimetres landing in the border zone site near Queensland in the past three days.
"It's not far short of a metre of rain," said Dr Coutts-Smith. "When you think of those volumes, it's no wonder there has been flooding."
That tally, though, fell short of the state's record over three days, Dr Coutts-Smith said – 1090 millimetres was recorded in December 1975 at Bowraville.
Katoomba in the Blue Mountains recorded 239mm in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, potentially setting a new high for January in 127 years of records, although the weather bureau is yet to confirm the total.
The storm's slow speed rather than the initial strength of tropical cyclone Oswald was the main factor in the unusually heavy rainfalls over so wide a region.
"It's uncommon but not unprecedented," Dr Coutts-Smith said.
The highest rainfalls from the storm were in Queensland, at Boolaroo, about 780 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, with 1360 millimetres recorded in the three days to 9am on Sunday, he said.
Boolaroo's three-day totals did however fall short of the all-time high of 2517mm, tallied in the period to January 5, 1979 at Mt Bellenden Ker, Queensland's second-tallest mountain.
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A conversation with Aaron Rothman and Michael Lundgren
Editor's Note: Earlier this year The Studio Art Department at the University of Virginia mounted a collaborative installation by Aaron Rothman and Michael Lundgren. (An essay by Josh Wallaert accompanied the exhibition — Read it at Places.DesignObserver.com) Rothman and Lundgren have spent the past decade engaged in a common photographic exploration of landscape. At times, their work has been very similar in approach and process and at other times has diverged to opposite ends of a continuum representing a shared vision of photography as an essentially transformative medium. The following is a reflection on the collaboration moderated by curator William Wylie.
William Wylie: Any major thoughts about the work and collaboration after seeing the exhibit on the wall? Does it speak to the ideas you had when you were conceiving the show?
Michael Lundgren: If There Be Such Space was an experiment. Could we make something together that dealt with our individual visions while at the same time threading both the differences and similarities in our work? Having spent so much time with these pictures before the exhibition in the form of small work prints, my first impression on seeing the show was that we had created something unexpected, a strange vision into a landscape that neither of us could predict — some sort of hybrid child, whose origin has roots in each of us.
Aaron Rothman: It was really interesting to see what shifted and what held for the photos relative to how we each think about them in our own work. We made these pictures over a number of years as part of our own individual bodies of work. In editing the show, we tried as much as possible to put the original intent and context of the images out of our minds to create something truly collaborative. The pictures definitely work together, but in a more complex and open-ended way than if Mike and I were just doing our own things. One surprise for me was that pictures I had originally thought less important to the sequence ended up being crucial to how I understood the show in the space of the gallery.
William Wylie: Let's talk about this 'strange vision' or hybrid effect that resulted from your collaboration. I think it is interesting how a collective group of images or in this case, two discrete bodies of work, can become something new and unexpected, yet still have a relationship to your individual visions. I also find Aaron's comment about previously 'less important' or minor images becoming key images to be intriguing, because I never thought of this as a two person show but as a collaboration and that is what it clearly was, a sort of unknown landscape that exists nowhere. How do you think that happens?
Aaron Rothman: We wanted to see if we could build something new out of the material of our existing work — to see if we could shake up our own ideas about the photographs we're making independent of each other. The images that ended up surprising me most in their importance were the two diptychs — Mike's hides and my grayed out meadows — both of which we considered excluding at a late stage in the editing process. After seeing the show I realized their importance, in part because they represent the essence of each of our visions: Mike's saying, "Look at this thing", and mine all but dissolving any sense of figure and ground. The way they work as diptychs is also critical. One of your students, Bill, brought up stereo images in relation to these prints. Like, in stereo images where your mind puts together two photographs, creating a third image that doesn't really exist, the subtle differences between these pairs force your mind to construct a space — not literal but metaphorical or experiential — somewhere between these images.
Michael Lundgren: Perhaps it has something to do with our individual motivations — which are less driven by the notion of place as geography and more connected to place as perception and mythology, relying on metaphor more so than referent. With that kind of intention there exists flexibility in the connotations of and between each image. I'll concede to the landscape being unknown, but does it exist nowhere? For me it exists in the center of the gallery, surrounded by those pictures.
William Wylie: One thing that sticks with me about the show is how you are using photographic images of specific things to refer to an 'otherness'. This has turned the 'geography' depicted in the images into a referent. When I am in the gallery space I am aware that something is odd with the world as represented. It is clear to me that I am experiencing artifice, and as such the landscapes don't need to represent specific landscapes. The photographs are no longer representing something real. They are something real.
Michael Lundgren: This gets right to the heart of the matter. For a photograph or a group of photographs to become something real in themselves is of great interest to me. I'm always baffled when it happens and at the same time astonished that more photographers don't hold pictures to this standard. In a sense, all pictures are artifice and it's our job to assemble the artifice into something meaningful. I think of Joseph Campbell and his description of myth as metaphor and his insistence that mythology is real. Yet many people see myth as a series of lies. This is at the crux of contemporary photography — we either want to firmly believe what we see, or firmly establish that it is a fiction. What is possible in between?
Aaron Rothman: The pictures create something real in themselves, but they do also represent something real. The work in this show very consciously occupies the space between photography's direct representation of the world and its complete transformation of it. The representation that happens in our pictures is not about naming or documentation, but all the pictures immerse you in specific, concrete details of a real landscape, even in the pictures that are obviously manipulated. So the photographs are directly from the world, while also being completely artificial creations. Mike and I are both invested in making sure that our work points to real experience of the landscape, but a type of experience that is slippery and can't be directly photographed.
William Wylie: But isn't that in the nature of a photograph? Try as the author might to do something different, the photographic image is always 'of' something. A landscape photograph always shows us the geography that was in front of the camera at the moment when the artist triggered the shutter. It may show more, as Robert Adams hoped, but often we get stuck in the 'fact' of the image. I think the way this exhibit works as a whole is helping to move your work away from that seemingly limited reading. Because taken alone, most photographs in the show, even with Aaron's strong manipulation of color, seem to be first and foremost images that reveal specific geographies.
Aaron Rothman: Hopefully, the way we've sequenced these images allows both an acknowledgement of the 'fact' of the image and a clear way beyond it. We built the show around the smaller groupings of images within the larger sequence, and these definitely work to create something greater than what is in the individual images. Too often, photographers are very literal in how they put pictures together — typically based on subject matter or visual style. Because of the way we collaborated on this show we had to build a much different kind of conceptual structure to hold these disparate images together. The result is a kind of multiplier effect in the images' impact.
William Wylie: I think this approach is somewhat novel in the history of photography…at least the history of photographing geography. Alternatively I think of Third View, Second Sights where the artists' individual efforts seem to blend into the whole but the history and specificity of the landscape is too important to the content of the work for the kinds of transformations you are talking about. Were there precedents in your minds? Are there particular exhibits or even books you have come across that influenced you, either collective efforts or by individual photographers, where the larger sequence creates something beyond the literal?
Michael Lundgren: My first thought is Mark Klett's Shikata Ga Nai, a fluid sequence that began as an intuitive response to the Kyoto earthquake. He later structured the work into interconnected groups of images dealing with the larger idea of ruin and memory. Yet precedent in the field of landscape is difficult and we might have to look outside the geographic to find one. Crucial to the way we're working is that photography is an ideographic language, relying on picture-to-picture associations rather than as Aaron described earlier, a continuity of subject or methodology. Photographing within the space and time of the world, pulling those traces out of their original context and later rebuilding those images in a new context is a seldom seen approach today. Perhaps the best example I can think of is Christian Widmer's Non Zero Sum, a decade worth of photographs distilled down to an extremely tight connotation-driven sequence.
Aaron Rothman: I can't think of any collaborative efforts quite like this. There are certainly touch points in terms of sequencing, though not too many in landscape photography. When I was starting college, I was hugely influenced by Minor White, both his own work with sequencing and what he was doing at Aperture. I would shy away from some of the more overtly spiritual claims he made, but the idea of structuring a sequence on a deeply metaphoric reading of the pictures still holds strong for me.
William Wylie: Reaction to the show has been interesting from both a pedagogical and aesthetic point of view. Having the show in a university gallery has allowed a lot of students to spend time with the work and many are preparing for thesis exhibits. Seeing your example of how pictures can work metaphorically and in relation to subject matter has been very exciting for them. It will be interesting when their shows go up, how they, in turn, will be influenced. Aesthetically, the exhibit has challenged a lot of artists who haven't spent much time with photography (don't ask me how this is possible in 2012) to see the medium in terms of larger aesthetic concerns. I think you two have found a wonderful space in your collaboration to encourage the reading of photographs in a very generous way, still functioning as discrete documents of the world in front of the camera while at the same time being a referent to something Frederick Sommer might have called a "subject that matters". Thanks to both of you, Mike and Aaron, for a wonderful exhibit and dialog.
Aaron Rothman is photography editor of Places/Design Observer. His photographs, video and installation artwork explore perceptual experience of space in both natural and built environments. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Gitterman Gallery in New York, and a solo exhibition at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee. After studying printmaking at Grinnell College, Aaron received a Research Fellowship at the Lacoste School of Arts in Lacoste, France. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at Arizona State University, and from 2003 through 2006 he taught and was head of the photography program at Memphis College of Art.
Michael Lundgren was born in Denver and spent his formative years in the hills of upstate New York. He received his BFA in photography from RIT in 1997 and his MFA in photography from ASU in 2003, where he has taught photography since 2004. His recent monograph, Transfigurations, is published by Radius Books. He is coauthor of After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake with the photographer Mark Klett. He is represented by ClampArt, in New York City. His work is included in the fine art collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, as well numerous private collections.
William Wylie lives in Charlottesville where he teaches photography at the University of Virginia. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in 2005 and was recently awarded a VMFA Professional Fellowship for 2011. His photographs and films have been shown both nationally and internationally, including A Complex Eden at The Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL, 100 Great American Photographs at The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, and Forged Power, New Video Work at Arizona State University Art Museum. He has published four books of his photographs, Riverwalk (University Press of Colorado, 2000), Stillwater (Nazraeli Press, 2002), Carrara (Center for American Places, 2009), and Route 36 (Flood Editions, 2010) all concerned with landscape and place. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and Yale University Art Museum, among others.
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Man admits to killing, dismembering celebrity chef, her husband, their unborn child
Robert Jason Owens pled guilty to murdering J.T. and Christie Codd
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Robert Jason Owens pled guilty to murdering J.T. and Christie Codd
A man admitted Thursday morning that he killed and dismembered a woman who was a celebrity chef, her husband and their unborn child.
Robert Jason Owens, 36, appeared before a judge in Buncombe County to enter the plea.
J.T. and Christie Codd were reported missing on March 15, 2016.
Owens was taken into custody the next day. He worked for the couple as a handyman, and lived less than a mile from them, according to investigators.
Owens said he hit and killed J.T. Codd with a pickup truck at the Codds' home on Hookers Gap Road, according to warrants.
Christie Codd's manner of death has not been released.
Investigators said Jason Owens admitted to taking and destroying the bodies.
Human remains were found in a wood stove on Owens' property.
The Codds had recently moved to Buncombe County from California.
Christie Codd was a celebrity chef who had appeared on "Food Network Star." J.T. Codd worked in the film industry.
Owens pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of second-degree murder, murder of unborn child and twp counts dismembering human remains. A charge of robbery with a dangerous weapon was dismissed.
The victims' families addressed the court and him.
"I want him to suffer," J.T.'s uncle said.
"Men don't do what you have done," he said to Owens.
He said Christie and J.T. "misjudged Owens and overlooked evil."
Christie's dad, William Schoen, said Owens needs to be taken out of society and contained.
Christie's brother said "God will get his vengeance" on Owens. He called Owens a "piece of ----" to his face before the judge stopped him.
Owens faced the death penalty if a jury had convicted him of the murders.
Owens was also the prime suspect in the well-known Zebb Quinn missing person case in Asheville, but authorities never gained enough evidence to charge him in the 15-year-old case.


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Remembering Mothers: Stories from Our Prophets
Joseph Smith
As adults, the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum became ill with cholera. As they lay near death, Hyrum suddenly leaped up, saying, "I have had an open vision, in which I saw mother [Lucy Mack Smith] kneeling … asking God, in tears, to spare our lives. … The Spirit testifies, that her prayers … will be answered."* Both brothers soon got well.
Brigham Young
When young Brigham pulled his wagon up to a toll bridge, the bridge keeper asked why his wagon looked so odd. Brigham informed the man that he and his father, John Young, had turned the wagon into a bed for his sick mother, Abigail Howe Young. Touched by Brigham's kindness, the bridge keeper let him cross without paying the toll.
Joseph F. Smith
While on the trail, the oxen belonging to young Joseph F. and his mother, Mary Fielding Smith, wandered away from camp. Joseph F. searched for hours with no luck. When he returned to camp, he found his mother praying to find the oxen. Immediately after her prayer, she was guided by the Spirit and found the oxen.
Heber J. Grant
Heber J. Grant's mother, Rachel Ridgeway Grant, came from a wealthy family. After she was baptized, her family offered her a large sum of money to leave the Church. She refused. After her husband died, she worked hard sewing clothes and taking in boarders to provide for Heber.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Following his mother's death, Gordon B. Hinckley was called to serve a mission. He accepted but didn't know how his family could pay for it. Soon after, his family discovered a small savings account his mother, Ada Bitner Hinckley, had left behind. The money from that account helped to pay for Gordon's mission!
Thomas S. Monson
During the Depression, when many people had no money, men often knocked on the Monsons' door, begging for work and food. Tommy's mother, Gladys Condie Monson, never turned a man away. When Tommy repainted his family's picket fence, Tommy's mother instructed him to leave one slat unpainted. It was a sign to any passing men that there was work to do at their home.


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Roger L. Simon threw his inhibitions overboard and live blogged the Iraqi election via the television coverage on Fox News and CNN last night. I think Roger is somewhat further along in his anger management therapy than I am, but his live blogging is equally adept in its media commentary and celebration of the event. Here's a sample (the times from last night are Pacific):
I am watching Fox News where Geraldo has been up since before dawn in Baghdad covering the election. Rivera gets a lot of bad press, but the man has guts and he has a heart. In the old days he was considered a liberal… and he still is in my book. It's his critics who have gone the other way. I'm glad to have him as my guide to Iraq this morning (night here in LA) because I know that democracy is more important to him than party poltics, as it should be for all of us. I'm exceited. More to come.
CNN has Amanpour, a woman who makes my stomach turn…
8:07 – Some asshole on CNN has just announced that this is the "nightmare scenario" because some polling place in Baquba isn't open yet. This character… don't know his name… seemed almost smug that something was going wrong.
8:11 – Great day for the Kurds. They deserve it!
8:13 – It's amazing that CNN still uses Brent Sadler for its coverage. Doesn't he miss his buddy Saddam?
8:15 – Fox is not as good as CNN at location coverage. Murdoch doesn't seem to care. Too bad. This leaves a real hole in American television journalism. Maybe the blogosphere will fill it some day.
8:22 – Everyone is saying this vote is far from perfect, but what is a perfect vote anyway? I have no idea…
8:45 – It's weird watching an election when you really have no horse in the race (no candidate). You're only hoping a lot of people will vote and that they will be safe.
8:50 – Looks like a real line to vote in Sadr City. (Not as long as the one I saw today in front of NBC in Burbank waiting to be on some reality show, but long enough.)
8:55 – The idea that anyone is still interested in Jesse Jackson's opinion about anything amazes me.
9:00 – Frankly, I miss Geraldo. He is still the best guide for this event.
9:01 – Yes! Geraldo back from a jammed polling place. He's inspired. It's the Berlin Wall and the Civil Rights era… I want to believe you Geraldo. I want to believe! Now he's calling it Rocky.
Roger peaked again just before he signed off last night:
9:40 – Mubarak is getting dissed on Fox. He deserves it. Iraq gets democracy. Why not Egypt? Time to eliminate hypocrisy from foreign policy. We're on the way.
9:43 – There is an appalling Baghdad correspondernt on CNN who seems almost desperate for things to go wrong, but they're not. He keeps going on and on about the danger.
9:54 – Of course, this is also a great day for Paul Wolfowitz. It vindicates him.
9:55 – Susan Estrich is a tone deaf reactionary. What kind of bullshit is she talking right now about we didn't go to Iraq to bring democracy. Speak for yourself Susan. IF you expect people like me to ever go back to the Democratic Party, wise up. You sound stupid and out of it.


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by Paula Bianca Lapuz
Years ago, it would have been unbelievable to see Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi stepping out of her house in Rangoon again where she has been detained for more than 15 years by the military junta.
Suu Kyi has been a democracy icon not just in her home country, Myanmar, but everywhere else in the world where democracy is recognized and practiced. She is the daughter of General Aung San, the leader of the modern Burmese Army, and responsible for the independence of Burma, who is revered as a national hero until today.
Unfortunately, Suu Kyi has been banned from participating in the last two national elections in Myanmar for the last three decades. Both of these elections were allegedly rigged by the junta, despite Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy gaining an upper hand in the first elections in 1990. Even with constant suggestions by the government for her to leave the country to live with her family, Suu Kyi did not even consider leaving her homeland. Her husband Michael Aris died of cancer in 1999 without seeing her (Burma Campaign UK n.d.).
In August of 2009, Suu Kyi was found guilty of breaking her house arrest terms, prompting the junta to extend her house arrest to one and a half years, which effectively prohibited her from joining the scheduled election in November 2010 (McCurry 2009).
In November 13, 2011, Suu Kyi was released from her house arrest, almost a week after the national elections. This was the first initiative of then the military junta to transition to democracy.
The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party won the elections and has since been trying to prove to the world that the wheels are moving toward reforms. For many years, the United States has placed economic sanctions on Myanmar to defy the military dictatorship, but following the "democratic elections," the US is being asked by sympathizers to the new government and to the junta people to lift the sanctions. The US, however, remains adamant against starting any form of trade with the new government, pending real tangible reforms (Channel News Asia 2011).
In August of this year, Myanmar's newly elected President Thein Sein invited Aung San Suu Kyi to a one to one discussion, but details of the meeting were not disclosed to the public (MOE 2011).
But this is not the first time that followers of Myanmar politics are caught by surprise. In April 2011, President Thein Sein appointed, Dr. U Myint, a well-respected scholar, who has served in the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) as a senior economist, and who is consequently a close friend of Suu Kyi, to head his economic team (Allchin 2011).
The TIME has indicated that all these, including a freer media and the recent granting of a permission to a United Nations human rights envoy to visit Myanmar's "most notorious" prison, is sending positive signals to the world, that indeed, the government is open to "dialogues" (Marshall 2011).
When asked by the BBC News on how substantial she thought the reforms were, Suu Kyi stated that they are beginning to see "changes" and had urged the international community to monitor the situation in their country (Harvey 2011).
The question however, is how serious the new government is in pushing for reforms. The Economist stated that no matter how little the movements are, the new government should still be applauded for the movements ("at least there are movements"). Such recent movements also included the instruction of the government to abandon a Chinese funded dam project which invariably raised the eyebrows of the country's powerful partner in Asia (The Economist 2011).
Of course any movement toward any form of reform should prove to be positive. But this will not be a complete transition to democracy anytime sooner. The influence of the military junta lurks behind the government leadership, casting doubt on the sincerity of the new regime. As long as repressive laws are not repealed completely, the political reforms will not be taken seriously and distrust will continue to linger among hardliners. Before any political reform is achieved, a national reconciliation and healing must start.
Myanmar cannot afford to earn the ire of the international community. It may have very well been able to resist globalization in the past, through its engagements with China, but with the ever-expanding global interconnectedness, there is no way that Myanmar can stay out of touch with the rest of world. With its poverty rate standing at 26% in 2010, Myanmar truly needs the capital to invest on infrastructure and other social development projects (The News Today 2011).
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After it passed both houses of the California state legislator, SB910 (see this web site) has been sitting on Governor Brown's desk for several weeks. A mere formality? Maybe not: word is that the AAA and the California Highway Patrol are both actively lobbying for the governor to veto the bill.
I've been a big fan so far of Governor Brown, and have supported some of his vetos so far. But vetoing this bill would be irrevocably sever my support for him. As I've described before, none of the arguments which have been made against this bill hold water. Indeed, CA is being left behind as Nevada's 3-foot passing law just this week went into effect. Passing such a law has ceased to be a statement of progressive advocacy of cycling as transportation and is more and more becoming simply following the herd.
So if the arguments proposed against the bill don't hold water, why the continued resistance? Simple: the AAA and CHP are both organizations of drivers. In the case of AAA, people who drive more than average are more likely than average to be members, and in the case of CHP, driving is what they do for a living. People who do something don't like feeling constrained in that activity, and members of both organizations would prefer to not have their right to endanger cyclists curtailed. Sure, the law already requires a "safe passing distance" but that's so fuzzy it's easily side-stepped. Without a firm number there, any pass can be claimed to have been safe, any collision due to the actions or lack of actions of a cyclist.
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Some gun retailers this week are reporting a spike in store traffic, in excess of the usual holiday rush, driven at least in part by fears of future firearms bans and other restrictions in the aftermath of the Newtown murders.
But even as foot traffic into some shops grew, a couple of large gun sellers pulled back.
Dick's Sporting Goods on Tuesday announced that it had removed all guns from sale at its Danbury location and was "suspending the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide," while the nation mourns. Cabela's noted on its website that the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle — the type used in the Newtown attack — and a number of other semi-automatic rifles would not be available at its Connecticut location, in East Hartford.
Since Friday's shooting, customers have crammed parking lots and thinned out inventories at some stores. Both enthusiasts and first-timers put in orders, bought firearms, and signed up for pistol permit classes.
Doug Odishoo, owner of Delta Arsenal in Meriden, said he noticed an increased interest soon after the shootings. "As soon as this shooting happened on Friday, I almost sold out of everything. Saturday I couldn't keep up with it."
He said people walked into hisshop, looking at the AR-style guns and saying, "I better get one before I can't."
Odishoo said customers looked at smaller, concealable handguns and rifles that they think might be banned. He said there was also more interest in both handgun permit classes and military- and police-style tactical training.
Demand for firearms swells with just a whiff of conversation about gun control. Background checks for gun sales jumped about 25 percent in November 2008, when Obama was first elected, according to FBI statistics. They were up nearly 30 percent when he was re-elected.
Recent tragedies in Tucson, Ariz., and Aurora, Colo., preceded jumps in applications as well.
Sales tend to jump "whenever there is increased talk or action about ownership to firearms being restricted in some way," said David Mustard, a professor of economics at Terry College of Businessat the University of Georgia. "What we are anecdotally experiencing now is consistent with what has happened in the past."
Resurrected talks of gun control, some shop owners said, are pumping up the market for rifles, especially AR, or assault rifles, like the Bushmaster's civilian version of the military's AR-15 that Adam Lanza used on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In Worcester, Mass., at Pullman Arms, co-owner Alicia Merritt called the jump in business "dramatic." She said she did $30,000 in business on Monday — up from a usual Monday of about $2,000.
Most of her sales, she said, were assault rifles, though she said she was also selling a number of handguns. "People want ARs because people are afraid there will be a ban on assault weapons," Merritt said. Like others, Pullman Arms said it was running low on inventory.
At Hoffman's Gun Center in Newington on Tuesday, the parking lot was full and overflow vehicles were parked on the grass. It had been that way for two days.
Asked whether the crowds at his store were normal for the holiday season or were due to fears of gun regulations following Friday's shooting, Scott Hoffman, the shop's owner, said, "It's a little bit of everything."
At Connecticut Sporting Arms in North Branford, owner Arnie Willhite said Tuesday that the stream of people buying guns and ammunition have left little stock for him to work with.
"We had a little left going into today, and most of that is gone," he said, attributing the spike in demand to the perceived possibility of new gun regulations.
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The see saw battle continues in the SK Light division at Stafford Motor Speedway, and Southington's driver has one more chance to make his bid as the top driver.
On Sept. 6, Tony Membrino, Jr. regained the points lead with two races to go. On Friday, Sept. 13, the tables were turned. Chase Dowling scrambled for his seventh victory of the season in the 20-lap feature, while Membrino battled steering issues just to stay in the top five.
With one race to go, Membrino trails by four points in the standings. Dowling has shown an ability to win races, but Membrino has proven to be the most consistent.
How will it end? We'll find out this soon.
"Our game plan doesn't change," said Membrino. "As soon as that green flag drops, my goal is to get to the front and win the race. A win will get us the most points, and ensure we did everything we possibly could to come home with the jackpot."
On Friday, Membrino never really challenged the lead. With the Valenti Modified Racing Series showcasing their 80-lap event as the featured race, the SK light racers had to adjust for the extra rubber on the track. In the practice rounds, Membrino seemed to have the answer.
"The car seemed to turn on a dime and go whereever I wanted to," he said. "The lap times weren't blowing everyone away, but I knew I could race to the front with a car that handled like that."
Unfortunately, cooler temperatures at race time forced a number of early cautions. Membrino fell to the middle of the pack on the restarts but managed to battle into the top five by the midway point. He managed to pick off one of the leaders on the final lap, but had to settle for fourth place on the night.
"At first, I was losing grip and couldn't get any drive up off the corners. As the race went on, I was losing grip in the center of the corners too," he said. "I tried searching around the track for a better line, but it wasn't sticking anywhere. We were hanging with the leaders, we just couldn't close in and make a move."
Membrino has one more chance to capture the points title. He'll test his resolve at the 41st annual CarQuest Fall Final on the final weekend in September. Practice and heat races will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28 with the feature race scheduled for a 4 p.m. start.
"I feel very fortunate to be able to contend for a track championship for the second year in a row," said Membrino. "Whether we close out the year with a championship or not, I am super proud of what we accomplished this season."
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Dr. Richardson is an integral member of our esteemed faculty in the Department of Neurology. She serves as the Director of the Movement Disorder's Division based at Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital at West Haven, a Yale School of Medicine Affiliate. She initially joined the faculty and established her clinical practice at the West Haven VA in 2007 and at Yale in 2008. Dr. Richardson later made a shift from Yale to the VA to assume the full time role as Director of the Movement Disorders Program. Since the inception of the Parkinson's Disease Consortium at the VA in West Haven in 2008, Dr. Richardson has established and maintained a thriving clinical practice specializing in Parkinson's Disease and other Movement Disorders. She is also a lead injector in the administration therapeutic botulinum toxins. As an injector, she is recognized amongst her peer for her level of expertise. As a sub-specialist in Movement Disorders, she receives many referral s from Neurologist in the state of CT, NY, MA and RI.
Dr. Diana Richardson is considered a leader in her field both locally and nationally. Nationally, she has served as the interim Medical director for the National American Parkinson's Disease Association Connecticut Chapter. She is the Director of the Parkinson's Disease Consortium at West Haven which functions under the auspices of the national VA Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers network. Locally she has been coordinator of clinical Research- for the Yale Neurology Movement Disorders Division, 2008-2015. Dr. Richardson is regularly invited as a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine (Physician and Physician's Assistants programs); Yale school of Nursing; and, Yale and West Haven VA Departments of Medicine, Geriatrics and Neuropsychology. Dr. Richardson has been also been an advocate to encourage healthcare providers, patients and caregivers to be active participants in management of medical illnesses. She promotes education and support group activities within the medical and non-medical communities. At several of these programs has been the guest speaker.
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Before She Was Such a Mess, Amanda Bynes Was a 10-Year-Old Standup Comedian [VIDEO]
Amanda Bynes is now famous for wanting rappers to do damage to her genitalia, wandering around aimlessly, and having serious workout moves. But before that, she was famous for being funny.
And it started early.
A video of a 10-year-old Bynes, introduced as "Amanda Burns," has surfaced.
In it, Bynes bounds and bounces to the stage and deadpans, "Maybe I shouldn't have had that thirteenth candy bar." She delivers lines beautifully on topics ranging from hyperactivity to school to other 10-year-old kid topics.
Even though the subject matter may not be hilarious to adults, her comedic timing is undeniable.
It's a bit tragic to watch, knowing she was pretty much a prodigy and is now, well, getting haircuts and extensions every two days, taking topless selfies in public bathrooms and coercing Drake over Twitter to have sex with her.
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January 29, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — All seven communities in the Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) have crafted proposed 2007-2008 school budgets that are below the state's per-pupil spending guideline, though some of the towns may be in store for hefty education tax jumps — particularly if they haven't recently conducted town-wide reappraisals.
ACSU officials recently unveiled school spending plans for the towns of Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge. The K-12 budgets showed increases ranging from 2 percent (Shoreham) to 6.3 percent (Bridport), though local taxpayers would see education property tax rate increases ranging from 2.7 percent (Cornwall) to 15.9 percent (Shoreham) if the budgets are approved as submitted.
By JOHN FLOWERS AND JOHN McCRIGHT
MIDDLEBURY — For the second time this month local economic development officials and a contingent of more than 100 manufacturing workers are rallying to pull things together after the announcement of a Middlebury plant closure.
Standard Register Co. on Friday said it will close its Route 7 South plant in March, putting 112 people out of work. The Middlebury facility, which prints customized checks and forms, primarily for businesses, hospitals and government agencies, "will continue to perform limited production through March," a corporate press release said.
The announcement from the Dayton, Ohio, corporate headquarters of Standard Register provided a second dose of bad news for the Addison County economy this month. Bristle-maker Specialty Filaments closed its doors on Jan. 5, sending 175 people in search of new jobs, though an Illinois-based company is making a strong push to acquire and reopen that operation (see related story, this page).
January 29, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — Two local lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the Vermont Electric Power Co. (VELCO) on Friday, arguing among other things that the company had "misrepresented the scope of its condemnation authority" in acquiring land for transmission lines that will also carry fiber optic wires.
The four-page complaint, filed in Addison County Superior Court by attorneys Peter Langrock and James Dumont on behalf of as many as 1,000 Vermont landowners, asks that a judge:
• Prevent (VELCO) from further construction, installation and leasing of fiber optic lines along its electrical transmission rights-of-way across plaintiffs' land and to remove any lines that are not directly needed for the transmission of electricity.
January 25, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — Local economic development officials, union representatives and corporate lawyers were working feverishly this week on a deal through which an out-of-state company would buy, and resurrect, the former Specialty Filaments plant at 3046 Case St.
"The development corporation is working closely with a potential buyer of the facility," Addison County Economic Development Corp. (ACEDC) Executive Director Jamie Stewart said on Tuesday. "If we can put together a deal that is viable, there is a possibility of the re-hire of all of the former Specialty Filaments employees."
Stewart said the name of the prospective buyer is being kept under wraps pending the purchase of the Specialty Filaments business out of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Rutland, along with negotiation of a financial incentives package that would give the buyer tax credits and some short-term reductions in electricity rates.
MIDDLEBURY — Faced with what they said have been numerous roadblocks thrown up throughout the years by state officials, Middlebury selectmen are exploring whether the community can build a new in-town bridge on its own.
"This is uncharted territory, and it's a course that we cannot at all be sure where it will lead," Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny said on Tuesday. "It may in the end show that it is not a viable path. But we do not feel, at this point, that we have any good options trying to continue on the standard course — working with the state. We are not being supported there, and it doesn't look like we will gain support in any reasonable time."
January 22, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — More than 30 employers from throughout the state converged upon Middlebury on Thursday hoping to recruit some of the 175 people who lost their jobs when Specialty Filaments closed its doors earlier this month.
Husky of Milton, Vermont Teddy Bear of Shelburne and Johnson Filaments of Williston joined Addison County companies like Goodrich Corp., Autumn Harp, Middlebury College and Carrara & Sons Inc. at a special job fair held at the Middlebury American Legion Hall on Boardman Street.
Fifteen minutes before the fair opened, an estimated 50 people were waiting to enter the hall and one observer said it was busy all day.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON — The town of Addison on Dec. 8 again won in court against farmers Mark and Paul Boivin, who for more than a decade have battled with Addison unsuccessfully — at one point all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — about the town's property tax assessments on their 467-acre No-Mon-Ne dairy farm.
In addition to winning the 2003 tax case in last month's ruling, the town of Addison also prevailed in two earlier court cases in which the Boivins challenged the 1996 and 2000 valuations of their Goodrich Corners Road farm.
And the Boivins aren't done in court yet. Before the Dec. 8 rule, they appealed the town's 2006 assessment on the largest of the three parts of their farm despite their past losses in court; that latest Addison Superior Court tax case is now in the discovery phase, Mark Boivin said on Thursday. The Boivins are not appealing the value of one 80-acre part of their farm, and last year successfully had the town reduce the value on another 98-acre portion of their farm.
January 18, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — Three incumbent Middlebury selectmen confirmed on Monday they intend to seek re-election to new terms in office, while there remains a decided lack of takers for other municipal and school offices that will be up for grabs on Town Meeting Day.
Candidates for local office have until the end of the day on Monday, Jan. 29, to submit signed petitions to get on the election ballot.
Middlebury Selectmen Janelle Ashley, Don Keeler and Bill Perkins announced they will all seek another three years on the board. None of the three faces any competition at this point.
Ashley is finishing out her first term on the board. She has been a quick learner, and believes she can make even more of an impact with the experience she now has under her belt.
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The New Teacher
A tiny ladybug flew into my class
And out the window went my lesson plan, alas
All attention went to her
As every child went running, a blur
Was all that appeared before my eyes
And my ears heard only delighted cries
As she fluttered and pranced across the glass
With no effort at all – she took over my class.
My dear ladybug, when do you plan to leave?
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