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This is part of a series titled "Getting Started with Arduino!" by John Boxall – A tutorial on the Arduino universe. The first chapter is here, the complete series is detailed here.
Welcome back fellow arduidans!
This chapter we will examine piezo buzzers, continue with our alarm clock, and then spend more time with the wireless radio modules by creating some remote control systems and sending various data over the airwaves. So let's go!
Sometimes you would like to make some noise. For warnings, fun, or to annoy people. A very simple and inexpensive way to do this is with a piezoelectric buzzer. In simple terms, it contains a disc of metal that can deform when a current is applied to it. If you apply an alternating current at a high enough frequency, the disc will move fast enough to create a sound wave, something we can hear.
This is an example of a small piezo buzzer:
This example was very cheap, less than $2. Here is the data sheet: PS1240.pdf. It can run from between 3 and 30 volts AC – which thankfully the output from our Arduino falls between. But how do you output AC from an Arduino? There are several ways, however the easiest is using pulse-width modulation (PWM). If you look at your Arduino's digital output sockets, some are labelled PWM. Using the function analogWrite(); you can send a PWM signal to the buzzer. For example:
/* Example 13.0 Drive a piezoelectric buzzer with Arduino https://tronixstuff.com/tutorials > Chapter 13 */ void setup() { pinMode(11, OUTPUT); // sets the pin as output } void loop() { analogWrite(11,128); delay(500); digitalWrite(11, LOW); delay(500); }
The sketch above will beep the piezo on and off, and be somewhat annoying. Perfect. However with the analogWrite(); function it is impossible to use the full frequency range of the piezo buzzer. With a value of 254 for the duty cycle, the frequency generated is around 1500 Hz:
Later on we will explore ways to create a better range of sounds. But now to use that buzzer in our alarm clock to help wake people up.
Continuing on from exercise 12.1, this chapter we will add some more features to the clock. First of all is the piezo buzzer. As we just discussed above, using it is quite simple. On the hardware side of things, we can replace the resistor and LED connected between digital pin 6 and ground with our piezo buzzer. On the software side of things, instead of digitalWrite(6, HIGH); we use analogWrite(6,128);. Very easy. And here is a short video – with sound!
Moving on, it's time to clean up the alarm function in general. Most alarm clocks have a snooze function, so let's add one as well. When the alarm sounds, the user presses button four to turn off the buzzer, and is then asked if they want to snooze. Button one is yes and four is no. If yes, add ten minutes to the alarm time and carry on as normal. When adding the ten minutes be sure to check for increasing the hour as well, and also take into account the jump from 2359h to 0000h (or 2400h). If the user presses no, the alarm is switched off and the user warned with the flashing "OFF".
Example 13.1 – Here is a demonstration of what I came up with:
The hardware is the same as exercise 12.1, except the LED and resistor from digital pin 6 to GND has been replaced by the piezo buzzer as described earlier. You will find the snooze function is controlled in the checkalarm(); function in the sketch.
In chapter eleven we started to examine the inexpensive serial data transmitter/receiver pairs. In this chapter we will continue working with them, to create the backbone of various remote control and data transmission ideas for you to use. For our next example, consider a simple remote control with four channels. That is, it has four buttons, and the transmitter will send out the state of the four buttons, high or low.
This would be useful for a remote control toy or a perhaps robot. The sketches are quite simple. The transmitter reads the buttons with digitalRead(); then transmits a single letter a~h – which is code for a button and its state. For example, a means button 1 is low, h means button 4 is high. The receiver just decodes that a~h code and sends the result to the serial monitor window. Here is the sketch for the transmitter and receiver.
To save time I will use the button board created in example 12.3. Here are the schematics for the transmitter and receiver sections:
And set up:
And finally a video of the serial monitor showing the button states:
Now that we have the data being sent across, let's get some switching happening. Using the same transmitter system as example 13.2, we will turn on or off four LEDs at the receiving end. Of course you could use relays, transistors, 74HC4066s, etc instead. Our sketch decodes the transmitted data once more, but sets the digital pins high or low depending on the received code. Here is the schematic for the new receiver:
… and the board laid out:
And again a quick demonstration video:
Now that you can turn the LEDs on or off with a push of a button, there are a few other ways of controlling those digital outputs with the remote control rig without altering the hardware.
For out next example, we will control two digital outputs with the four buttons, as each output will have an on and off button. Consider this sketch; and the following demonstration video:
So there you have various ways to control digital outputs and send basic data across a wireless radio serial data link.
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911 tapes depict response to collapse of vet
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Emergency dispatch tapes released Friday reveal further details about efforts to revive a Vietnam veteran who collapsed with a heart attack in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Albuquerque.
Two calls were made while 71-year-old Jim Napoleon Garcia lay on the floor as an ambulance was called to take him to an emergency room 500 yards away.
In the first, a female caller described how the man was unresponsive and bleeding from his mouth and nose. She also expressed her frustration that doctors at a cafeteria table weren't doing more to help.
"We called our rapid response here at the hospital but unfortunately they won't respond to him because he's out of the main medical building," said the caller, whose name was not provided. She added that the man was being hooked up to an emergency defibrillator.
"Paramedics are already on their way out there," the dispatcher told her.
"There's a table of doctors sitting right next to him and none of them are doing s—," the woman continued.
"OK, I'm sorry about that," the dispatcher responded. Neither the caller nor the dispatcher elaborated.
In a second call minutes later, a male caller said nurses were performing CPR but the man didn't appear to be breathing.
A hospital spokesman was not immediately available for comment Friday. Asked by the Albuquerque Journal about the table of doctors, VA spokeswoman Sonja Brown said, "Regardless of who was sitting at nearby tables, VA staff along with Kirtland AFB personnel immediately responded in providing basic life support to this veteran. The staff were heroic in their attempts to save the life of this veteran."
The hospital previously said the response to the emergency remained under investigation.
Hospital emergency experts have said it's standard for hospitals to require staff to call 911, even when patients are near an emergency room.
The death of Garcia on June 30 prompted new outrage against the VA as it faces allegations that veterans have endured long wait times and died waiting to see doctors around the country. The revelations have led to a major shake-up of VA operations.
The 911 records indicate an ambulance arrived to aid Garcia 101/2 minutes after the emergency call. Hospital officials said it is VA policy to call 911, although the emergency response team will be called to nonresponsive patients in clinics and five other buildings on the campus, not including the cafeteria.
Brown said its rapid response policy is under review.
The Albuquerque Journal first reported the tapes' content.
On Thursday, New Mexico's congressional delegation sent a letter to the acting VA director saying they have serious concerns about the handling of Garcia's death.

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For the last seven years we have implemented the annual Sainsbury's Active Kids programme. To date in excess of £155 million worth of sports and cooking equipment has been donated to over 50,000 organisations. THAT gets us excited.
But not as excited as Lucy Savage (our much-loved Account Director on the business) got when she spent the day on a shoot with the then ambassador David Beckham. Not long after Lucy left to have twins. We are absolutely sure the two things are not connected.
After a lot of research for this Trebor Mints Breathtaking Holidays campaign we created two pieces of key art for advertising and pos.
One was using Christ the Redeemer in Rio and the other was the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Both are of highly religious significance and we checked with the Embassies of both countries first to ensure no offence would be taken using them in our campaign. As it was about promoting travel to those amazing locations it was deemed totally acceptable.
In 2009 Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment created what was to become the global phenomenon Angry Birds. We leveraged the property to create on pack activity for Pepsico Lays that ran across Europe. But check out this clip. We didn't do it for T-Mobile in Barcelona, but we love it and wish we had!
In November 2012 we shot a film for Club Wembley to promote their Private Boxes, featuring the legend that is Sir Geoff Hurst. It was the day England were playing an evening friendly against Germany - think about it! At 10am, the time shooting was scheduled to start, the stadium was quiet and empty and the sky was blue.
Unfortunately Sir Geoff's car was late to pick him up and by the time shooting of him walking along the pitch talking to camera commenced, there were 7 lawn mowers working their magic on the pitch. Try asking them to stop. So there ensued a very comical 30 minutes of dodging tetchy groundsmen and timing takes when the mowers were the other end of the pitch.
Check out the results here and see if you can hear them:
When the 2013 Tour de France came to London, no one was expecting one of the teams to get lost along the route. And technically they didn't. Other than the one we created for a UKTV channel Dave social media stunt. And even we didn't expect the local constabulary to fall for it hook line and sprocket and offer the errant cyclists an escort back to the official track!
So when we created a set of fake sponsor branded cycling uniforms…who did we turn to, to model them for the cameras but our very own Ryan Newton and Head of Shopper Peter 'Lycra' Lidgey…check out these bad boys!
In 2011 we pitched for and won the chance to launch the Peugeot 208 in to the UK. It was a stunning success. The single we commissioned by Rudimental got to No.1 in the charts. The viral video achieved over 10 million views and Peugeot broke their 10-year pre-sales record.
Who would have thought it when, for the pitch we hired Super Malcolm at Pineapple Dance Studios to teach us to throw a few shapes and we made this little mood video of the results. Particularly worth watching is the Dad dancing by our CEO, Planner and Head of Experiential at the end!
From 2008 to 2013 we devised and managed the Cadbury Easter Egg Trails at National Trust properties all round the UK. In total over 2 million people engaged with the activity. But we wonder how many of them realised that the original thought was inspired by an idea that was voted one of the 20th Century's top promotions – created in part by our very own Non-executive Director Roger Hyslop.
The Cadbury Creme Egg Conundrum – itself inspired by the incredible 1970's work Masquerade by Kit Williams – garnered so much publicity it resulted in questions being asked in the House of Commons AND a change in marketing law.
In 2010 we ran a promotion for Quorn which resulted in us creating and designing a cookbook that was offered as a premium on pack. Shortly after launch the book went to No.1 in the Amazon cookbook charts and you can still buy a new one today for £10.00, or a used one for £4.82! What are you waiting for…
In a recent campaign for UKTV channel Gold, we created an experience where consumers could 'ave a laugh with a Graffe in a bath….as you do (see full details in the Emporium Showcase).
Consumers were given little rubber giraffes to play with in the privacy of their own bathroom. Feeling left out? Email us here and if there are any left we'll pop one in the post to you...
"Retail is detail"…or so will claim Peter our Shopper Marketing guru. "Ha…not just Shopper!" our experiential team will counter. In the spring of 2011 they door-dropped 250,000 UK households between the hours of 3.00 and 7.00am, placing two chilled bottles of Tropicana juice on the doorstep.
No mean task, but it was the attention to detail that made the campaign such a success. Firstly using Google Maps our team of intrepid Juice Elves discounted visiting any house with a gravel drive so as not to awaken the occupants. And every household was revisited before 11am to remove any bottles not accepted – so as not to alert any would be burglars in the area that the occupants were away.
Creating, organizing and implementing an event for 15,000 people at Althorp Estate featuring 16 brands, a 22-piece orchestra, 3 world-renowned acts, an Oscar-winning composer, a Hollywood superstar and a giant panda is just not enough for some people.
Pandamonium in the Park was devised as a vehicle for Sainsbury's to celebrate the launch of Kung-Fu Panda 2, with the film's star Jack Black (Po) addressing the audience along with the Chinese Ambassador to London and Justin King, the then Sainsbury's CEO.
As part of the activity we created a stand for Dettol to dramatise the launch of their new hands free soap dispensing bottles. The premise of the Guinea-Po Petting Zoo was that we hired some black and white Guinea Pigs representing baby pandas, that kids could pet – thus the requirement for washing their hands afterwards. Genius! (even though we say so ourselves).
Only, we started the day with 16 Guinea Pigs…and ended up with 15. Some furry-fingered pilferer had nicked one. We only hope Po doesn't find out who it was, or they could be for the chopsticks!
Creatures Of The Night was one of a number of large activities we created and implemented for Miller Genuine Draft under the global platform of Tonight It's Miller Time.
But our favourite idea never quite got off the ground. Check out this story posted a few years back. It tells of how the Miller Brewery in Millwaukee is haunted.
And that thought formed the basis of an idea we had for creating a Halloween event. We would leverage the back story of the haunting to launch our event, which this mood film gives you a little more insight in to. Sadly timings and budget were against us in implementing it to the full, although the subsequent Creatures of the Night campaign was a roaring (or should we say screaming) success.
With some ideas the simplest thought is often the killer. We were asked to come up with a way to encourage people to use more colour when painting outdoor projects. So if what Dulux gave you when painting indoors was INSPIRATION, for outdoors it had to be OUTSPIRATION.
You can download the subsequent App. we launched here:
Securing Beyonce to perform at the 02 exclusively for Mondelez brand Trident Gum was pretty damn exciting we think. The activity, although originated by Initials, soon had all of Trident's agencies working to integrate a huge campaign. One of the highlights from the PR was a flashmob of 100 single ladies dancing in Piccadilly Circus.
Over 9 million have viewed the film on YouTube, but how many of those worked out the little teaser – 99 of them are indeed single laydees….but one is a man!...can you tell who it is?! The film is still on YouTube, but unfortunately the rights to use Beyonce's track has passed, so there's some other weird track on there now!...enjoy…
Putting a 55-ton surf machine in Broadgate for Naked Juice is undoubtedly one of our Experiential team's greatest achievements. Check out this film, shot for us over a whole day, featuring a very cool surf dude visiting our event.
To research for the original brief on this Cheetos activity we sent a team round Europe talking to groups of 12-14 year-olds. So was born 'Cheebay'…the chance for kids to bid for the prizes they wanted with points from the packs. The biggest success was in Russia where they went mad for it!...check out our first ever Russian TV ad…
Clerkenwell based artist, illustrator and storyteller Vic Lee is our hero. He managed to bring to life a load of crazy stuff that was in our heads and created the amazing 5m long mural that adorns our reception and welcomes you into the agency. Check out the video of the genius at work as he creates it from start to finish - although it took him 10 days, a bit longer than the three minutes of film. You could also visit his website at viclee.co.uk for a nosey around at his stuff - if you do, say hi from us.


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With Earth Day right around the corner, Sunday, April 22, now seems like the natural time to share our top picks in eco beauty. All week long, we'll be sharing our green recommendations in makeup, shower staples, skin care and more. Today, we're kicking off with eco-friendly options for bath and body. Read on to find out about "curoxidants," the best body scrub I've ever used and a cleanser you need for your shower.
1. Acure Energizing Body Lotion in Mandarin Orange + Mango. This zesty vegan moisturizer uses Fair Trade Certified ingredients and for every bottle bought, one tree is planted. This good for you and the planet moisturizer includes Acure's signature "Curoxidant Blend" of five certified organic superfruits and herbs: acai, pomegranate, blackberry, rosehips and rooibos. ($9.99, Acure Organics)
2. J.R. Watkins Naturals Grapefruit Sugar & Shea Scrub. In full disclosure, I am a proud member of the PR team for this brand. I am obsessed with every single Grapefruit product they sell (home + personal care!) but this scrub takes the cake. The sugar and shea oils are perfectly blended in the tube (no annoying separation like so many other sugar scrubs, wahoo!) and they melt into the skin both shedding dead skin and moisturizing at the same time. Also, it's grapefruit. Need I say more? ($13.99 J.R Watkins)
3. Suki Exfoliate Foaming Cleanser. This one is a shower staple. Sugars and lemongrass extract work to unclog pores, smooth and resurface skin. Rub a nickel size in your hands to break down the sugar a bit and you'll see it start to foam. Then massage gently into your face and it does the work for you. I have to resist the urge to use this every day (as the last time I did I had to go on an esthetician-mandated exfoliation diet!) ($30, Birchbox)
4. JASON Pure Natural Shampoo and Conditioner. (Super Shine Apricot and Long & Strong Jojoba) You may know JASON for its practically life sized bottles of body wash, but did you know the brand just re-launched its line of Shampoo and Conditioners? The Super Shine Apricot is a mix of organic botanicals, vegetable proteins and vitamins. Hair feels super clean and healthy…and smells great, too! ($7, JASON)


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Modeling Electrochemistry for Managing Diabetes
Edmund Dickinson August 14, 2014
Diabetes is an incurable global killer: the World Health Organization estimates 350 million diabetics worldwide, with an average annual fatality rate close to 1%. Fortunately, modern medical science enables diabetics to manage their glucose levels and intake, so many countries have seen greatly reduced danger of the disease. Many diabetics must track their glucose levels throughout the day, requiring an accurate method for measuring the concentration of glucose in blood. For modern sensor designs, the method of choice is electrochemistry.Read More
Edmund Dickinson April 17, 2014
What's a penny made of? Though they appear to be solid copper coins, they actually don't contain much copper at all these days. Instead, the U.S. Mint saves money by applying only a veneer of valuable metal onto a less expensive one. Have you ever thought about the manufacturing process by which this is achieved? Let's find out.Read More
Edmund Dickinson February 7, 2014
In electrochemical cell design, you need to consider three current distribution classes in the electrolyte and electrodes. These are called primary, secondary, and tertiary, and refer to different approximations that apply depending on the relative significance of solution resistance, finite electrode kinetics, and mass transport. Here, we provide a general introduction to the concept of current distribution and discuss the topic from a theoretical stand-point.Read More
Edmund Dickinson November 20, 2013
In my work at COMSOL, it's always interesting to see how broad the field of heat transfer can be. Far from being limited to steel ingots and CPU fans, researchers often use COMSOL Multiphysics to study heat transfer in food manufacturing. One good example of this is the study of thermal and mechanical effects in the production of puffed rice, which was presented at the COMSOL Conference 2013 in Boston.Read More
Edmund Dickinson June 27, 2013
During my time as a PhD student, a blue "Chemical Landmark" plaque was fitted to the building a couple of hundred yards down the road from my lab. The plaque commemorates the achievements of the researchers who made the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery viable. Whether or not you know about the electrochemistry of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, you probably rely on one. We carry them around in our phones and laptops, and ride in cars and planes that use them for power. […]Read More
Edmund Dickinson May 27, 2013
If you're not an electrochemist, chances are you've never come across cyclic voltammetry. But look at any electrochemical journal, conference proceedings, or company website for manufacturers of electrochemical sensors. Somewhere near the front, you'll see a distinctive "double-peaked" graph.Read More


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Its no secret the Four Corners is a treasure trove of history and culture. But many sites are isolated and receive little publicity, and finding them can be a challenge.
A new partnership between the National Geographic Society, city governments and a regional tourism council is trying to simplify the search.
On June 2, an event will take place at Aztec Ruins National Monument to celebrate the completion of a two-year geotourism initiative. National Geographic will unveil a content-packed map, and supplementary website, highlighting about 800 destinations, or assets, across the Four Corners.
Assets can be natural (canyons, rivers, rock formations) or man-made (restaurants, lodges, indigenous art). The common denominator: Each one must showcase the authentic Southwest. No gimmicks.
Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon are household names. But many assets will be less familiar to all but the most avid history buff or culture connoisseur. Ever heard of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness? How about Navajo (or Diné) rug weaver Genevieve J. Hardy?
Lifting native voices and remote vistas out of obscurity is one of the maps primary goals. Jim Dion, sustainable tourism program manager for National Geographics Maps Division, said travelers can be reluctant to visit the unfamiliar.
(National Geographic) is a trusted and well-respected brand. Our stamp of approval assuages the risk aversion to trying off-beat places, he said.
John Cohen, executive director of the Durango Area Tourism Office, says the ruggedness of geotourism is gaining popularity: More travelers nowadays are looking for something genuine.
Dion agrees.
Ive worked in the tourism business my entire adult life. We tend to travel as our parents traveled, he said. After World War II, people were conditioned to buy vacation packages with all-inclusive resorts. It was about sun, sand and sea. Relaxation above all. What were seeing lately is an emphasis on experiential travel.
The project began two years ago with the creation of a regional Geotourism Stewardship Council, which spent three months collecting more than 1,000 nominations for the map and website.
Its very grass-roots, said council manager Susan Thomas. An organization with as much knowledge as National Geographic could easily have chosen the content. But they left it to the locals to tell their stories.
Visitors to the Aztec Ruins on June 2 will find tables staffed by map-destination representatives. Other festivities include Navajo singers and storytellers, ceremonial dancers from the Zuni Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, the Southern Ute tribe and an appearance by Fort Lewis Colleges Ballet Folklorico.
Dion believes the project will bring interest, and the revenue that comes with it, to struggling local economies. In exchange, travelers will find a true sense of place.
Whether they are from Paris, France, or Paris, Kentucky, the idea is to foster awareness, he said.


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This assignment really surprised me, and made a big impression on me. I'm not talking about being surprised by the locations that I shot at, or some impossible circumstances that came up during the assignment. I'm just talking about being surprised by people, and gaining an appreciation for the fact that everyone is different. Vicki and Janis love cats. As do many Americans. I am actually allergic to cats, so although I do not hate cats, I don't really get excited about them either.
These two ladies love cats so much, they pour almost all of their time and energy into making the lives of feral cats as comfortable and safe as possible. As the tear sheet indicates, they trap, neuter, and release or find homes for feral cats.
I spent two days shooting this assignment, and on the second day, Janis drove me around her hometown to show me some of the feeding spots and cat shelters that she frequents. As we drove around, she would stop every few blocks, and fill up empty feeding dishes. I was amazed by the number of cat shelters and bowls that were hiding in the bushes, and behind businesses. Sometimes there were bowls right out in front of a business. It was a hidden world, like the Troll Market under the Brooklyn Bridge in Hellboy II, for those of you who saw it. You might walk by a cat shelter, or food bowl in public every day, and never even notice it. I can't recall ever seeing one in my life, but there were dozens of stray cats living behind, under, and in front of buildings just within a few blocks. And all of these cats are given fresh food and water every single day by Janis and some of the other ladies who are involved. That's a lot of money when you think about feeding hundreds of cats everyday.
While we were driving around from location to location, it really hit me. Every day, for years, these women have been caring for cats all over the city, and making a big difference. They prevent thousands of kittens from being born into difficult situations, and provide much better care for those cats that are already living without homes. While we were at a trailer park on the first day of shooting, a lady came out of her home, and thanked Vicki and Janis for what they are doing. She said that since they started fixing and caring for the cats in her neighborhood just weeks earlier, things have gotten much better. Cat's were no longer urinating all over the place, and the frequent cat fights had pretty much stopped.
After my shoot with Vicki was over, I thanked her for what she is doing. Her work may not affect me directly, or at least in a way that I would have ever known about, but it is so good to see people caring for others (cats in this case). Trapping cats, and feeding them is not something that I will ever do, but I am thankful that there are people who do. That's what I love about photography. I get to meet so many different people, and experience life from so many different points of view. I can just imagine what I would have thought when I was younger about "cat ladies". Remember when so much of the country would laugh at "tree huggers". I'm grateful for a new perspective. If everyone could find just one small way to care for people, animals, or the earth ,the changes would be great.
I have just been thinking about these things lately. Interestingly enough, some of my work has allowed me to experience first hand the needs of others, and what some people are doing to help. Thanks for reading.
You can read the entire article about TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) (here).
* If you are using a blog reader, you may need to visit my actual blog to see the cat slide show above.


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DEKALB – The DeKalb City Council postponed another vote on the proposed Irongate subdivision, which would add 1,273 homes on about 458 acres north of DeKalb High School.
The next public hearing and vote on the issue are scheduled for May 28, at which point ShoDeen President Dave Patzelt will present his development plan to a City Council with some new faces, including a new mayor.
Patzelt was largely silent as members of the public railed against his plan at Monday night's meeting. A number of aldermen, including Brendon Gallagher and Tom Teresinski, of the 4th and 2nd Wards, respectively, backed the new development.
"I don't think we can stay neutral," Teresinski said in regard to growing the community. "It's very difficult to stay status quo, you're going up, or you're going back."
But it was 5th Ward Alderman Ron Naylor who sealed the deal Monday by stating he could not vote for the agreement in its current form.
Annexation agreements for developments require six affirmative votes, and with Kristen Lash and Monica O'Leary, of the 3rd and 7th Wards, respectively, already opposed, Irongate would not have been approved Monday.
Naylor said he thought there were issues that still had to be addressed, including concerns about drainage in the area, and he moved to postpone the hearing.
"My concern is that there are a lot of the issues in the development plans," Naylor said.
Former DeKalb Mayor Bessie Chronopoulos has been a fervent opponent of the Irongate agreement, and she restated her position Monday night. Like others who spoke during the public hearing, Chronopoulos said the city should focus on rehabbing existing houses and selling them.
"All you need to do is look at the classifieds and see houses for sale," Chronopoulos said.
But not everyone at the public hearing opposed the project. Laura Boyer, a managing broker for Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, a real estate firm based in Sycamore, said older houses are not selling, and there is a demand for newer houses. She said she based her findings off of some of her real estate agents.
"The demand will continue to grow. Buyers are finally jumping off the fence and taking advantage of still very low interest rates," Boyer said. "Why not encourage them to jump off the fence and land in our own backyard?"
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Gender equality was discussed as a prominent factor of food
security at FAO's celebration of World Food Day 2011 and throughout the 37th
session of the United Nations Committee on Global Food Security (CFS), held at
headquarters 17-22 October.
24 October 2011, Rome – Gender equality was discussed as a prominent factor of food security at FAO's celebration of World Food Day 2011 and throughout the 37th session of the United Nations Committee on Global Food Security (CFS), held at headquarters 17-22 October. The week-long event kicked off with a launching ceremony headlined by Michele Bachelet, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, and featured a round table policy discussion on gender, food and security and a presentation of the recently released World Bank World Development Report 2012 (WDR), dedicated to gender equality and development.
"Food prices – from crisis to stability," was chosen as the World Food Day
theme for 2011 following five consecutive years of unstable and rising food
prices that have pushed millions of people into hunger and threaten to affect
millions more.
What is the Committee on World Food Security
(CFS)?The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is an
intergovernmental body that was established in 1974 to serve as a forum in the
United Nations System for review and follow-up of policies on world food
security. The CFS strives to be the most inclusive international and
intergovernmental platform and brings together UN Agencies, Civil Society and
NGOs, research and financial institutions and the private sector to work
together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. For more information,
visit CFS Home
In attendance at the launching ceremony were the Heads of the United Nations
Rome-based agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food
Programme (WFP) and high level dignitaries including Michelle Bachelet and
Franco Frattini, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Discussions were opened by FAO president Jacques Diouf who offered an
overview of the current state of global food insecurity and its causes,
including low levels of food stocks, greater demand for food in emerging
economies, the growing use of biofuels, climate change and speculative trading,
and underlined that despite these factors, with the right measures "the world
has the knowledge and resources to ensure food security for all."
In her keynote address, Michelle Bachelet emphasized that unleashing women's
potential to better contribute to agricultural production is key to achieving
food security. She deplored the fact that only 5.6% of aid is currently targeted
to women in agriculture even as women make up the bulk of smallholder
agricultural workers in the world and produce about half of its food, and
reminded the audience that, as stated in The State of Food and
Agriculture 2011 (SOFA), if women farmers had the same access to productive
resources as men, the resulting gains in agricultural productivity could lift as
many as 150 million people out of hunger. "Since women are in the frontline of
food security, we need to put their rights and needs at the forefront of trade
and agricultural policies, an investment to move from crisis to stability," she
said. "It is time to make sure that women are at the table where decisions are
made, where policies are crafted, and funds are disbursed."
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran added that the world should not forget
the picture is not all bleak and that the tables can be turned on hunger as
number of countries including Ghana, Chile, India, Mexico and Brazil have
demonstrated. She also concurred with Ms. Bachelet that "women are the secret
weapon in the fight against hunger."
The World Development Report 2012: progress and gaps in gender equality
The CFS featured a presentation and panel discussion around the findings of the World Bank's recently launched flagship publication, The World Development Report 2012 (WDR) dedicated to gender equality and development with the participation of Ana Revenga, World Bank Poverty Reduction Group Director, World Bank Senior Economist Markus Goldstein, FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem, IFAD Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Region Josefina Stubbs, Dame Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB, Marcela Villarreal, Director of FAO's Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, Isatou Jallow, Chief of the World Food Programme's Gender Unit and Esther Penunia, Secretary
General of the Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA).
The WDR 2012 takes stock of the state of gender equality, and demonstrates that in some aspects, gender equality has evolved positively over the past 25 years with gender gaps having significantly decreased in education and health services, leading to better outcomes for women and girls. However, women's economic opportunities continue to lag behind men's, with women still largely segregated in lower paying, more precarious occupations with less access to resources and less decision making powers at all levels of society.
Ms. Revenga acknowledged the close collaboration with FAO and the SOFA team to produce the WDR and explained that the report, which articulates itself around three main questions–Why do gender gaps matter, why do they persist and what can be done to eliminate them?—analyzes the different ways in which formal institutions, social norms and markets treat men and women and how these differences lead to gender inequalities.
Panelists discuss the findings of the World Bank's
World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development during the 37th
session of the United Nations Committee on Global Food Security (CFS) at FAO.
"The cost of gender inequality to societies is getting larger," explained Ms. Revenga. "And economic growth will not solve the problem. We need actors and initiatives." She added that implementing gender equality was rarely a question of increasing resources, but of redistributing them more equally among men and women, and that the relatively low costs incurred in doing so would be amply covered by the long-term benefits.
Among other pressing measures, the WDR cites the need to relax time constraints on women through better access to childcare and other facilities as paramount to enabling their greater participation in economic activities, as well as the need to implement legal reforms to improve their access to land and credit.
Mr. Ghanem underlined the importance of gender equality as a means to improve life for everyone: "I think that it is very important that men enter this discussion because what the World Development Report does, and what we try to do in our State of Food and Agriculture Report, is to show that bridging the gender gap, achieving gender equality, is not an issue just to improve women's lives, it is an issue to improve everybody's lives," he explained. "As the WDR shows, when you end discrimination against women, you increase growth, you increase development, and as we have argued in the SOFA, if you end discrimination against women, you will increase agricultural production and reduce the number of hungry people in the world by about 150 million. What FAO, the World Bank, IFAD, WFP and others are saying is that gender equality is central to development and that anybody who is interested in fighting poverty and hunger has to address the issue of gender equality."
Ms Stubbs added that IFAD saluted the WDR as a benchmark and emphasized the need to not focus exclusively on rural women's agricultural activities but also to support their non-farm economic activities, and Ms. Penunia and Ms. Stocking both underlined the importance of supporting women to organize in order to gain leadership skills, claim their rights and become increasingly empowered at the economic, political, cultural and social level.
Ms. Villareal added that the fact that the latest editions of the WDR and the SOFA focus on gender equality will change "The way many countries, many institutions, many ministers of finance appreciate gender issues within development. We need these reports to land on the desks of the decision makers, the people who allocate budgets–I am confident that these reports will help bring the issue of gender equality back on countries' agendas."
Placing women at the heart of the global food system
Also part of the CFS programme was a multi stake holder round table policy discussion on gender, food and security that brought together development experts from the UN and other entities and FAO's Member Country Representatives. The Roundtable furthered the discussion on the role of women in ensuring food security and in guaranteeing adequate levels of nutrition for their families and communities.
Ms. Sheeran opened the discussion by sharing the latest findings on nutrition and the particularly crucial importance of good nutrition during the first two years of life, without which a child runs considerable chances of long lasting health problems, including brain damage and stunting. "This is the burden of knowledge," she explained. "We know that the damage of malnutrition in the first two years of life cannot be repaired."
Elisabeth Atangana, President of Pan-African Farmers Forum (PAFFO) and of the Regional Platform of Farmers Organizations of Central Africa (PROPAC) reminded the audience of the many crucial roles women play in the provision of food, from cultivation to food processing and marketing, and the panelists discussed the recognized fact that when women have greater decision making power and greater access to resources in their households and communities, investments in children's nutrition and education increase, leading to better life chances for
future generations.
Ms. Stocking spoke of the resourcefulness of women in the face of food insecurity to ensure good nutrition of their children and of their ability to instigate many positive changes when empowered. "In a village in Ethiopia, the women managed to create a cooperative of savings and loans," she explained.
"They were successful and started diversifying. Thanks to the greater power they had gained through this activity, they managed to stop the practice of excision and that of polygamy, successfully curtailing the spread of HIV in the community."
Mark Cackler, Manager of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, explained that when women have a greater voice in decision making at the higher levels including in parliament, policies are shaped differently with better outcomes for women and children, and Ms. Stocking added that if women were more amply consulted in the creation of policies to remediate price volatility and to prepare for disasters, they would have much say and would contribute valuable new ideas.
All the speakers reiterated the need to support women's better access to resources across the board, to facilitate their greater participation in decision making, to free up their time through technologies and services, and to support their organization into networks to improve global food security, and called for greater action on the part of governments and a stronger application of their commitments to gender equality.
"Is there the political will to place women at the heart of the food security system?" asked Ms. Stocking—a question indeed at the heart of the future of global food security.
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The American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) offers oncologist-approved patient information at www.cancer.net. The site offers medical information on more than 120 types of cancer and related syndromes, clinical trials, managing side effects, caregiving, and much more. It's meant to be a valuable resource throughout a patient's cancer journey, from the time of diagnosis, through treatment, and into long-term survivorship.
The content is subject to a formal peer-review process by an editorial board composed of more than 150 medical, surgical, radiation, and pediatric oncologists; oncology nurses; social workers; and patient advocates.
You will find tips on coping, survivorship, cancer news and research articles. With a quick click, the text translates into Spanish. Cancer.Net also offers a free app for iPhone, iPad and Android. Features include an interactive tool to keep track of questions for your doctor, a symptom and side effect tracker and a place to save details about prescription medications.


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In Search of the Novel: Ten Novels
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Mysterious people enter the life of the young orphan called Pip. Once, in a misty graveyard, he is accosted by an escaping convict needing help. Pip brings a file and food and witnesses a desperate struggle with an unknown man. Pip is later entertained and bedeviled by the strange Miss Havisham and a beautiful young protege, Estella. Years later, Pip comes into a mysterious fortune. The now arrogant Pip boards a coach to London to join the ranks of the idle rich young gentlemen. He assumes that he is being groomed to marry Estella. The convict returns to reveal that it is he who is responsible for Pips fortune. Eventually, after learning much about human frailty and steadfastness, malevolence and kindness, Pip becomes a wiser man. Many years later, he meets again the dazzling beauty Estella in the ruins of Miss Havishams garden, where he comes to terms with the illusions and promises of his great expectations.
"Mr. Dickens may be reasonably proud of Great Expectations, the Saturday Review of London opined in 1861. He has written a story that is new, original, powerful, and very entertaining Great Expectations restores Mr. Dickens and his readers to the old level. It is in his best vein, and although unfortunately it is too slight, and bears many traces of hasty writing, it is quite worthy to stand beside Martin Chuzzlewit and David Copperfield. It has characters in it that will become part of common talk, and live even in the mouths of those who do not read novels. Mr. Dickens has always had one great fault This fault is that of exaggerating one particular set of facts, a comic side in a character, or a comic turn of expression, until all reality fades away, and the person who is the centre of the extravagance becomes a mere peg on which the rags of comedy hang loosely But if this new tale is marked with faults of its predecessors, it appears to us to surpass them in one point. There are passages and conceptions in it which indicate a more profound study of the general nature of human character than Mr. Dickens usually betrays.
Web Sites
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Resources for the study and teaching of this novel.
- Charles Dickens: An Overview
Information about Dickens and the Victorian era: its history, social values, themes, etc.


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We've said it before, Boozers, and we'll say it again: cocktails create community. Derek Brown, the hip mixologist of the Columbia Room in DC, waxes quite poetic about it, actually, and observes an old tradition when whipping up that classic cocktail, the Sazerac, requiring audience participation: a smidge of absinthe is poured into a chilled glass and the glass is thrown gently into the air, and, as the absinthe coats the inside of the glass during its flight, the assembled barflies all shout "Sazerac!" just before the bartender snatches the glass from mid-air. Now that's what we call community.
We were reminded of this again while greedily lapping up reruns of Ken Burns' documentary "Prohibition". Clearly, alcohol can create community in myriad ways — everything from temperance unions to drinking clubs to inebriate asylums — and leave it to the ever-youthful Burns (we suspect he still gets carded) to make it all completely enthralling.
So, we salute Ken Burns this week with the Burns-erac: a whisper of whiskey (apparently an old favorite), chilled Prosecco (he told Liquor.com that it's his current drink of choice), and a colorful nip of Peychaud's Gomme Syrup (a simple syrup we made with Peychaud's Bitters — the addition of gum arabic gives a lovely mouthfeel that you get right in the last sip). Gather together a group of friends while enjoying this cocktail salute, and don't forget to shout out: "Burns-erac!"
Chilled Prosecco
Whiskey (we're particularly enjoy Catoctin Creek's Roundstone Rye)
Peychaud's Gomme Syrup (recipe below)
Lemon twist
Fill a champagne flute with ice and water and allow to chill for a few minutes. Empty the flute and pour in a small splash of whiskey, then swirl it around quickly to coat the inside of the glass (you can shout "Burns-erac" here if you like). Pour a 1/2 teaspoon of the Peychaud's Gomme Syrup (recipe and an alternative below) in the bottom of the glass, then carefully fill the rest of the glass with Prosecco. Garnish with a lemon twist. Burnserac!
Peychaud's Gomme Syrup: Heat 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to boiling in a small saucepan, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low and continue stirring occasionally for 15 minutes. Mix one tablespoon gum arabic with one tablespoon hot water and stir until dissolved into a sticky paste; add to sugar-water mixture and stir until dissolved. Add 2 tablespoons Peychaud's Aromatic Cocktail Bitters and stir well. Allow to simmer over very low heat for another 15 minutes, still stirring occasionally. Cool completely before using.
No time to make this luscious syrup? Okay, then just place a teaspoon of simple syrup and several drops of Peychaud's in the bottom of the champagne flute and mix together. Or use a sugar cube and soak it in the Peychaud's, then loosen it with a cocktail spoon. It won't have the same gorgeous mouthfeel as the Peychaud's Gomme Syrup, but it will provide the right flavor.


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Stop by The Little House for some holiday shopping, and chances are the conversation will be about how some of the Island's magic will fade after this Christmas season, when Bettie Edwards, the store's owner, moves on.
After 36 years at the store's helm, Edwards announced recently that this season will be her last, and the news is making its way through the Island grapevine, startling those who have relied on the store for years for the perfect gift or personal indulgence.
At the store last Friday, Islander John Staczek shared his thoughts with Edwards and another customer.
"I'm going to miss it," he said. "This is the perfect little shop. There's just this feeling you have when you come in here."
Edwards first set about creating that certain feeling for her customers when she and her former husband Dan Snyder bought the store in 1976. But after all these years of working 60-hour weeks, Edwards said she is ready to move on, though with decidedly mixed emotions — "a happy-sad time," she calls it.
"It's been a wonderful, wonderful ride for 36 years," she said.
Now, Edwards said, someone she knows hopes to buy the building and run a child-related business there. If that does not work out, she said she will put the property — but not the business — on the market in the spring and see what happens. At 67 and in good health, Edwards said she wants some time now for herself and to visit family in far-flung places.
"Now is my time for me to be," she said.
Down the street from The Little House, Frame of Mind owner Donna Kellum has been in business nearly as long as Edwards and expressed her own mixed feelings about Edwards' news.
"I'm so very excited for her," she said. "But this will be a huge loss for the merchant community."
Edwards has been a cheerleader for Vashon merchants, Kellum said, always positive and coming up with new ideas — and then following through on them.
It's no wonder Edwards has played such a role for the Island's business leaders because the subject of shopping locally is one she is passionate about.
"You need to support the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker," she said. "You need to buy your lightbulbs at the hardware store, your flowers at the flower shop and your gifts at the gift store because that gives the community diversity."
Such an investment is important, she said, not just to keep businesses afloat, but because those businesses benefit the community in a variety of ways, not just with what they sell.
"It's not the Targets that support your schools," she said. "It's the small local businesses."
Running one of those local businesses requires a lot of work, of course, and Edwards is quick to point out she has had support and company along the way, including from her family members and hundreds of employees, many of whom she still keeps in touch with and whom she gathered together to break the news — complete with kazoo fanfare.
Indeed, Angie Kelly, the manager of the store, has worked with Edwards for more than 20 years and said she is excited for Edwards to have more time for herself and be able to say "yes" to all the invitations that come her way. She is also pleased they will be able to spend time together outside the store, exploring other interests.
"I'm going to take her hiking," Kelly said with a laugh.
With the holiday season upon us, Edwards invites people to come into the store, create a heart and write a favorite memory of the store on it. She will hang the hearts from the ceiling — in keeping with the store's theme this winter, "All hearts are home."
Soon the Island will celebrate the winter holidays; Santa will come to town; countless children will visit him in his cottage, and many people will gather in the Village Green for the tree lighting. In fact, Islanders have Edwards to thank for many of our holiday traditions, including having a cozy cottage to visit Santa in and ensuring that children who write him hear back promptly. While the youngest Islanders may not know this part of Island history, many adults are well aware of Edwards' perennial Christmas cheer.
At Frame of Mind last week, as Kellum talked about Edwards's holiday contributions, Beth de Groen, one of the owners of Windermere, stopped in, overheard a small portion of the conversation and chimed in.
"You must be talking about Bettie," she said. "You say 'Christmas' and 'ambiance,' and its got to be Bettie."
Once Kellum filled her in on the reason for the conversation — Edwards' planned retirement — De Groen responded succinctly, no doubt expressing the feelings of many.
"Oh, crap," she said, then paused as the news settled. "It's like the end of an era. You've just ruined my day."
Edwards admits to shedding some tears in recent days, but she is certain of her decision.
"It was time to jump, to shake the earth a little bit, take the next step and see what unfolds," she said.


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Welcome to the home of the KDE PIM team. These pages act as a central point of information and collaboration for the developers and all other contributors or interested observers of KDE PIM. Here you will find information about KDE PIM, about the people behind KDE PIM, and how you can become part of the KDE PIM community. If you are looking for information about the usage of the KDE PIM applications then please have a look at userbase.kde.org.
KDE PIM is part of KDE. Its goal is to provide a suite of applications to manage personal information. This includes mail, calendar, contacts and more. The main result is Kontact, our personal information manager.
Kontact offers a thin graphical shell over the KDE PIM backend, the culmination of over 10 years of work to integrate the separate KDE PIM applications. The goal of this work was to ease development of new sources of data (like a google calendar or facebook contact importer) and to increase reliability and performance of KDE PIM. It will also make it far easier to find new ways to combine and view your personal information in new ways.
Kontact is a personal information manager for people who care about privacy and have email-based workflows. It enables them to deal with large amounts of emails and coordinate teamwork in an effective way.
We provide privacy by default and productivity in an elegant package.
Unlike proprietary web applications it is Free Software and supports open standards. It gives you full control over your data and enables offline access.
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Disbursement of Financial Aid
Student financial aid is credited to the students' account records by the LSUHSC-NO Bursar's Office (also known as the Business Office), which also delivers overpay (fund residual) checks covering aid that exceeds amounts owed for tuition and fees. Aid recipients must be registered for the enrollment period before funds are credited. Overpay checks are generally available within two weeks of the date funds are credited to the account record.
The Bursar's Office sends email notifications when overpay checks are available. Students may pick up their overpay checks Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Bursar's Office, or respond to the overpay notification with mailing instructions. The Bursar's Office is located in the Resource Center Building on the first floor. The phone number is 504-568-4694, and the email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Federal Stafford and PLUS loan funds are drawn down by LSUHSC-NO Accounting via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). Shortly before funds are received, the Student Financial Aid Office sends out email EFT notifications to students. Overpay checks are generally available in the Bursar's Office within two weeks of the EFT Notification.


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The court granted summary judgment to a lender who objected to the debtors' attempt to modify their monthly mortgage payments through their proposed Chapter 13 plan. The debtors argued that the terms of the loan had been modified, but there was no evidence of anything other than a temporary modification. The debtors were given time to file an amended plan to account for the appropriate mortgage payment.
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The debtors do not have standing to challenge the assignment of their mortgage, so that count of their complaint was dismissed. The dispute over payments made to a junior lienholder after the senior lien had been stripped off (but which was later reinstated) is not a matter for the bankruptcy court to decide. However, the debtors did incur additional expenses in attempting to ascertain the validity and priority of the liens, and they may go forward on that count of their complaint.
This lawsuit originated in state court nearly 15 years ago and had been tried, appealed, and set for retrial there. The same matters were also raised in probate court in a claim against a deceased defendant's estate. When the current defendant filed bankruptcy, the case was removed to bankruptcy court as an adversary proceeding. While the adversary proceeding involved claims adjudication and was therefore a core proceeding, the bankruptcy court nevertheless determined that, because of prevailing state law issues and the case's lengthy history in state court, permissive abstention was the appropriate course of action and it remanded the litigation to state court.
A lender was not obligated to release its pre-petition lien when the debtors filed bankruptcy, so the lender is not subject to a finding of civil contempt or sanctions for its failure to do so. Its failure to timely file an amended UCC financing statement releasing some of the collateral, and thereby causing harm to the debtors, was negligent, but not willful.
The court denied summary judgment for allegations of preferences and fraudulent transfers. Factual issues existed as to whether the creditor was an insider, and whether the transfers were made with intent to defraud. The judgment on which the creditor relied in collecting the debt was entered after the automatic stay was in effect, so it was void. Whether that stay violation was willful was a question to be determined at trial.
After hearing testimony from the debtors about their failure to comply with a creditor's discovery requests, the court granted the creditor's motion for summary judgment and awarded attorney fees as sanctions. Having found the debtors' explanations of the whereabouts of the collateral in question to be evasive and less than credible, the court also denied them a discharge.
In a dispute over the rights to money recovered in a South Dakota bankruptcy case, the court ruled that, although the funds were not property of the Nebraska debtor's bankruptcy estate, the Nebraska bankruptcy trustee was entitled to be compensated for his efforts to recover the money from the South Dakota debtor and litigate its ownership because his actions were reasonable. As between the trustee and the creditors to whom the recovered funds were ultimately awarded, the equities favor the trustee and the recovered funds may be surcharged for his fees and expenses.
The bankruptcy court denied the debtors' motion to reopen their Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to list a judgment creditor and determine the dischargeability of that debt. Under § 523(a)(3), the state court that issued the judgment has concurrent jurisdiction to determine the debt's dischargeability because discharge is an affirmative defense, so there is no reason to have the bankruptcy court involved as well.
The court previously ruled that traceable insurance proceeds for the fire loss of the debtor's home were exempt under the homestead exemption. The debtor then used the proceeds to purchase non-homestead tangible property. The court ruled that the proceeds lost their exempt status upon their use for something other than buying a new homestead or repairing the damaged homestead.
An unsecured junior lien on the debtor's residential real estate may be avoided after the debtor completes Chapter 13 plan payments. The case law in the Eighth Circuit, interpreting Nobelman, permits wholly unsecured liens to be stripped off.


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