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Encouragement comes on one level because these markets are underpinned by binding targets under the EU renewable energy directive, with heavy fines attached to non-compliance. On another it is because the cost of fossil fuels will continue to rise in the long-term, and the shine is coming off nuclear power.
While the present problems are undeniably painful, many regard them as temporary. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), for example, sees the next two years as being tough for the wind sector but believes things will improve from 2014. In its Green Growth report, published in April 2012, EWEA estimates the sector will employ 520,000 people directly and indirectly in 2020, compared with around 240,000 in 2010.
Offshore leads the way
The figures are even more impressive in the offshore sector. EWEA estimates offshore wind employed 35,000 in 2010 and this will rise to around 170,000 in 2020. Not that it is a done deal, of course. There are questions over support initiatives in a number of countries, including the UK and Germany, while ongoing problems over grid connections are also delaying German projects. But at the same time, the UK is on something of a roll as far as job creation is concerned, with several projects under construction for the second round of UK offshore wind development, and more in development for round three. According to trade body RenewableUK's recent figures, projects with a combined capacity of 1.36GW were approved in the 12 months leading up to July 2012.
This means that some skills are - or will be - in short supply. "Every surveying company is screaming out for qualified and experienced people," says James Betteley, wind energy recruitment consultant at Viridium Associates. Some companies are even having to turn down work because of a shortage of staff, he adds. Part of the problem is that graduates come out of university with no industry experience. But things are changing. The University of Plymouth in the UK, for example, has restructured its courses to provide practical experience so that students can get straight on board.
Competition for staff
Cabling is another area with more jobs than candidates, but here it is a question of money. Most cabling managers and engineers come from the oil and gas industry, where salaries are typically double the amount many renewables companies are prepared to pay, Betteley explains. The cost of cabling a wind installation is about 30% of the total cost of construction, but the financial risk is as high as 70%, he argues. Unless companies increase their budgets, they will not be hiring people with the relevant experience - "people who have already made mistakes and learned", as Betteley puts it. It could be a costly error.
Trevor Parsons, managing director of En-Spiral recruitment agency, sees the main skills shortage in anything requiring deep-water experience. This covers most of the UK's Round 3 projects and a number in Germany, too. "Foundations and technical people are like gold dust," he states, predicting that there will be a real challenge in the UK market to find developers and engineers with deep-water experience over the next 18 months to three years. Difficulties are exacerbated at these Round 3 sites because they are further offshore, in deeper waters and face even more limited fair-weather working periods compared to earlier projects, Parsons explains.
Here again, wind is competing with oil and gas to attract experienced personnel. Parsons agrees that the wind sector finds it hard to tempt people away from oil and gas. "Traditionally they see wind as less exciting technically, less challenging and less well paid," he says.
New French sector
The offshore jobs market is about to take off in France, too, where a series of tenders are structured to promote local industrialisation. Turbine manufacturers Alstom and Areva are building factories in France to supply projects already awarded, with the hope of further orders in subsequent rounds backed up by export opportunities.
Alstom expects to recruit 500 staff for its four factories manufacturing nacelles, generators, blades and towers for its 6MW Haliade turbine, and 200 at an engineering centre. This should also create around 4,000 indirect jobs, Alstom estimates. At the same time, the consortium it is supplying, headed by EDF Energies Nouvelles, anticipates creating 2,000 direct jobs in the construction phase and more than 100 at its operations and maintenance (O&M) centres. This is on the back of three projects totalling 1.43GW awarded to the consortium in the first tender call.
Not all of these will be permanent jobs, of course. Philippe Jan, director of business development at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says he works on the principle of 500 to 1,000 temporary jobs per 100 turbines during installation and just one permanent job per turbine for O&M.
There are mixed messages coming out of Germany. While the country is in theory committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2022, the government is considering putting a cap on the guaranteed feed-in tariff and introducing competitive tenders or quotas. In the meantime, the authorities have already approved 27 offshore installations comprising nearly 2,000 turbines and another 6,600 turbines are in the permitting process. Three projects are currently under construction and by the end of the year another 2GW will be shovel-ready, according to the German wind energy association, BWE. The big stumbling block, however, is resolving questions over the permitting and financing of offshore grid connections.
Shifting onshore markets
Even though onshore wind energy has been having a tough time of late, jobs are being created in certain areas. Bucking the trend of factory closures, German turbine maker Enercon recently opened a tower manufacturing plant employing 60 people in northern France and expects to recruit another 40 staff as market conditions pick up.
Also a number of turbine manufacturers are growing their O&M services, where stable margins and recurring revenues help dampen volatility in turbine sales. Earlier this year, for example, Vestas signed its largest-ever service and maintenance contract, a seven-year deal with Portuguese renewable firm EDP Renovaveis covering 1,100 turbines in the US, Spain, France, Romania, Italy and Portugal. "Maintenance is food for turbine manufacturers," says Parsons of En Spiral. "It's always there, regular and long term."
Some companies are increasing their presence in the emerging markets of Eastern Europe, although manufacturers are likely to face stiff competition from Chinese firms. Hungary, Poland and Romania in particular hold promise, while Turkey is expected to build over 4GW by 2016. Germany, Scotland and Norway are all exploring the possibilities of opening up forested areas for wind-power deployment.
All of this development requires the wires to be in place to transmit the power, whether generated on land or offshore. Expanding and upgrading the grid is something that transcends the wind sector, of course. But it is another area where Parsons sees a looming skills shortage, at least in the UK. "There has been a massive underinvestment over the last 20-30 years," he says, "and now we need to catch up."


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Health and safety in the collision repair industry
SHARP, in partnership with three universities, is conducting prevention research in the collision repair industry. The project is known as the PaintHealthy CollisionRepair study (www.PaintHealthyCollisionRepair.org). The project's goal is to identify gloves and coveralls that protect collision repair spray painters from dermal contact with isocyanates and solvents.
The collision repair industry is an example of a small business sector that faces numerous health and safety challenges. Workers are potentially exposed to a wide range of harmful substances while prepping and painting vehicles such as:
- Airborne particles.
- Organic solvents.
- Paint pigments.
- Other paint constituents.
Both painters and collision technicians are also potentially exposed to physical hazards while performing tasks such as:
- Dismantling vehicles.
- Sanding.
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- Painting.
Of particular concern is that finding that painters are at relatively high risk for developing work-related asthma from exposure to isocyanates. Most two-part paints and coatings used in automotive refinishing include an isocyanate-based catalyst or hardener.
Spray painting can generate a great deal of airborne isocyanates that painters and other nearby workers may breathe in if they are not adequately protected.
Workers may also absorb isocyanates into their bodies through their skin. This may occur when workers use bare hands to mix and shoot paint or clean up spills. During spray painting, isocyanates may also be absorbed by unprotected skin at the neck, wrists and on the face.
Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs and makes it increasingly hard to breathe. Workers who become sensitized to isocyanates and develop asthma usually can no longer work with automotive paints.
Isocyanate-exposed workers have died from asthma attacks. New information suggests that isocyanates can cause asthma both through inhaling the chemical and from absorbing isocyanates through the skin.
SHARP's work in the collision repair industry
In 2005 SHARP visited several collision repair shops to gather first-hand information about workplace practices. With input from shop owners, business association officers, researchers and industrial hygienists, we developed a "needs assessment" survey that was mailed to all collision repair shops in Washington State.
The response rate to the survey was 69 percent, suggesting that our survey results are likely representative of Washington State's collision repair industry. Our study found that collision repair in Washington State is a male-dominated industry comprised chiefly of small, non-unionized, family-run businesses.
Many shops face numerous safety and health challenges resulting from a combination of misinformation within the industry, insufficient funds to address workplace health and safety concerns and social barriers to enforcing best practices within the shops. Problems associated with the selection and use of respirators and gloves are likely primarily responsible for isocyanate exposures. We also found that collision repair workers are potentially exposed to many additional chemical and physical hazards that deserve attention.
Read SHARP's Health and Safety in Washington State's Collision Repair Industry: A Needs Assessment (843 KB PDF / 2 min). You may request a paper copy of the report by contacting SHARP.
In 2006 SHARP partnered with the University of North Carolina to study the most significant routes of exposure to isocyanates. Thanks to the cooperation of 25 collision repair shops in Washington State, we evaluated how isocyanates enter the body and whether there are biological markers that can help us understand why some people are more susceptible to asthma caused by isocyanates. Publications from our 2006 field work can be found on the PaintHealthy CollisionRepair website (www.PaintHealthyCollisionRepair.org).
Interlaboratory comparison of isocyanate analytical methods
SHARP is working with the University of Washington's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health to conduct a "round robin" interlaboratory comparison study. This research will critically compare the methods used by different laboratories to analyze the isocyanates present in clear coat hardeners. The interlaboratory protocol (55 KB PDF) was developed with the help of several laboratories with expertise in isocyanate sampling and analysis.
Do the paints you use contain isocyanates?
Any two-part polyurethane coating (primer, basecoat or clearcoat) will likely contain isocyanates. The isocyanates are formulated into the hardener or catalyst. If you are unsure if you are using isocyanate containing paint systems, refer to your Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDSs). The most common isocyanate used in auto refinish coating systems is hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI). Other isocyanates that may be used are 2,4-toluene diisocyanate (TDI), 4,4'-diphenyl methane diisocyanate (MDI); and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI).
Getting help
Please contact SHARP for additional information about protecting workers from exposure to isocyanates and other harmful substances.
Request a Consultation. Contact the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to request a confidential, no-charge safety and health consultation in Washington State.
Collision repair resources
- Working with small business - safety and health in the automotive collision repair industry.
- "Your Lungs, Your Skin, Your Life!" (www.BodyShopBusiness.com) SHARP's article on health & safety in the collision repair industry published in the October 2006 edition of the trade magazine BodyShop Business (www.BodyShopBusiness.com).
- SHARP has developed recommendations to prevent injury and illness and reduce workers' compensation costs in auto body shops.
- Auto refinishing best practices (www.epa.gov) and automotive refinishing publications (www.epa.gov) have been developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Design for the Environment Program.
- Isocyanate information provided by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)(CDC.gov) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)(OSHA.gov).
- Isocyanates in spray-on truck bed linings in L&I's A-Z Topic Index.
- Crash Course for Compliance and Pollution Prevention (www.mass.gov) for the auto body repair industry from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.


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Justin Bieber + Ashton Kutcher Talk 'Punk'd,' Real Estate
Justin Bieber, dressed in blue kicks, leather jacket and a skinny tie, which is a look that harks back to the '80s, appeared as the couch guest on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' last night (March 27), alongside Ashton Kutcher. The Biebs and the Kutch fist-bumped when they sat down for their chat, like bros! The terrific twosome was promoting MTV's resurrected 'Punk'd' series, which Kutcher once hosted and which will now feature Bieber as one of the guest hosts for the re-launch.
Kutcher said that the 'Boyfriend' singer was stealing his swagger, referencing the house he was renting that the teen was scoping out and considering buying. He shared a story about The Biebs in the house, texting Kutcher, offering real estate advice. The actor was forced to buy the crib so his buddy didn't steal it out from under him.
The Biebs also spoke about being 18 now, and how he no longer is required to text his mother to let her know where he is since he is a legal adult.
He and Kutcher displayed a fun, big-bro, little-bro chemistry. A bromance, if you will. The Biebs revealed that he wanted to be on 'Punk'd,' which premieres tomorrow night at 10PM ET, since he has a prankster past.
He joked that he chose Taylor Swift as first target since "Taylor is such a sweet girl that I wanted to make her cry. She's so sensitive!" The Biebs is a sassy little bugger, isn't he? He makes all the girls cry, that's for sure.
Kutcher revealed that the exhumed version of the "Gotcha!" show will be more like 'SNL.' He couldn't host, since he lost too many friends last time.
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Three Forks in the Road for FOSS
Oct 7, 2010 5:00 AM PT
September was an unusually exciting month here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because we saw the launch of three -- count 'em, three! -- forks, meaning that we now have three new software projects to discuss and watch.
First, of course, it was the creation of OpenIndiana to replace OpenSolaris. Next came Mageia, an alternative to Mandriva Linux. Then, just last week, it was the OpenOffice.org community's LibreOffice announcement.
Special thanks to Oracle, in particular!
It was the Java-brandishing one, of course, that ultimately led to the creation of OpenIndiana and LibreOffice, while the mess at Mandriva gave rise to Mageia.
'Goodbye Oracle, Hello LibreOffice'
It's been a lot for Linux bloggers to keep track of, it must be said; said bloggers, meanwhile, had plenty of other ideas as to other things that must be said as well.
"Ever since I saw Oracle's name written across OpenOffice, I have winced and felt very uneasy about exactly what Oracle's version of OpenOffice was doing on my computer," Ridcully wrote on LXer, for example. "Yesterday, OpenOffice 3.2.1 (Oracle) was removed from my main work computer and OpenOffice 3.2.0 (Sun) replaced it.
"That is now where I shall stay until LibreOffice releases its next full upgrade, and then I shall be staying with whatever the Document Foundation provides," Ridcully added. "Like more and more people are saying: 'Goodbye Oracle, hello LibreOffice.'"
'This Is Great'
Open source forks tend to be a good thing, Slashdot blogger rtfa-troll pointed out.
"From the user point of view this is great," rtfa-troll explained. "You don't get data lock-in because the source code always lets you see how the formats work; you do get much faster advancing software and it doesn't even really matter which fork you pick (though going with the community rather than the company has always been a good pick; just beware that often the community is with the company).
"Just because forks are bad in proprietary software doesn't mean the same here," rtfa-troll concluded.
'Like Naming Your Dog BarkingMammal'
On a more superficial level, "Why do OS developers and other free software creators always pick user-unfriendly names?" Slashdot blogger future assassin asked, referring to Mageia. "Whenever someone who knows nothing about free software/linux asks me what free alternatives they could use, I get a weird look from them when I tell them about Thunderbird, Firefox, Ubuntu, Amarok, Gimp and etc..."
Blogger MBGMorden had an answer to that: "Yes because Excel, Powerpoint, Quicken, Maya, and Twitter are so much better . . ."
Then again, "that other Mandrake fork, PCLinuxOS, is just as bad a name," haruchai pointed out. "Why didn't Bill Reynolds call it Texstar Linux? Calling a distro PCLinuxOS is like naming your dog BarkingMammal."
The analyses and one-liners have been flowing fast and furious for weeks, so Linux Girl knew it was time to dig deeper.
'A Huge Amount of Work'
"Forks happen for a variety of reasons," Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, told Linux Girl. "One of the major reasons -- and the reason LedgerSMB broke from SQL-Ledger -- is that the forking committee may simply lack confidence in the maintainers of the software."
Forks are "a huge amount of work," Travers explained. "They divide resources, and usually the forking project starts of at a disadvantage because most people do not want to quickly adopt the new fork. Forks can only earn success through a great deal of long-term effort, community building and so forth."
It's too soon to tell if the recent round of forks will go anywhere, "but we shouldn't rush to judgment, either," he concluded.
'Stick a Fork in It, It's Done'
LibreOffice and Mageia "are examples of two extremes," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"Mageia, the linux distro formerly known as Mandriva, the linux distro formerly known as Mandrake, is as dead as Mandriva," Hudson opined. "With so many other healthy distros around, this is more a case of 'stick a fork in it, it's done.' The 'Mandrake Magic' has been gone for quite some time."
At the other extreme, however, sits LibreOffice -- "a fork of a project that has been increasing its market share, and the No. 1 free office suite worldwide," she pointed out. "This fork has broad support inside the community, including all the largest distros.
"Redhat, OpenSuse/Novell, Ubuntu, Google, FSF, OSI... it's a safe bet that LibreOffice will be shipping in most distros," Hudson predicted.
'Sun Did a Poor Job'
"I suspect it's far too late to make Mandriva anywhere near relevant," agreed Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
Nevertheless, "the OpenOffice fork will be a good thing," Mack asserted. "Sun did a poor job of managing the project by refusing too many patches from external sources."
Similarly, "I'm really excited to see LibreOffice spin up and announce that it's taking on the features of the Go-oo fork," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza agreed. "Sun kept OpenOffice development down for too long.
"Indeed, I long since stopped seeing the point in having it installed, and switched to AbiWord and Gnumeric," Espinoza added. "If I'm going to have a dearth of features, I might as well forgo the bloat, too. Oracle was guaranteed to treat it even worse than Sun."
'Plans for a Full Stack Approach'
Oracle "simply doesn't seem all that interested in playing the FOSS game, and I think I know why," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet said. "I believe ultimately Ellison has plans for a 'full stack' approach, and Linux will NOT play a part of this."
Rather, "it will be Sun hardware with a custom Solaris OS designed for said hardware and more importantly designed to give maximum throughput to the Oracle database running on top," hairyfeet explained. "This is smart, as it gives ONE vendor for corps to deal with, and -- unlike Linux -- Ellison owns the stacks and thus can direct its R&D."
The world "revolves around money, whether FOSS advocates like it or not," hairyfeet added. "It costs money to keep up with MSFT and Apple when it comes to R&D. It costs money to pay for developers and get them to focus on the dirty jobs like bug fixing. This is why all volunteer developers simply won't work in the end.
"How many bugs are currently open at Ubuntu, even with Shuttleworth's money?" he pointed out. "Bug fixing is a lousy, hard and thankless job that, frankly, without being paid for, simply won't get done. As we saw with Mandriva, these companies slowly sink farther and farther until they die or, like Sun, get bought for the IP."
'Too Occupied Suing Google'
Blogger Robert Pogson saw it differently.
"LibreOffice is the result of Oracle's (or Larry's) failure to be open about FLOSS strategy," Pogson suggested. "FLOSS being distributed is about sharing."
The OpenOffice.org community "saw how OpenSolaris was left to wither and took pre-emptive measures," he noted. "The steps needed to be taken anyway to broaden participation in the project. There was not a large enough group of developers contributing to be healthy."
Separating the code from Oracle "was the best way to open it up to participation by other large businesses who could use OpenOffice/LibreOffice as a tool or a product to distribute and could contribute developers and funds rather than paying licensing fees," Pogson added. "That's how Sun got involved years ago, but Oracle seemed not to be engaged.
"Perhaps they were too occupied suing Google to pay attention to one of the killer apps of GNU/Linux," he suggested. "A bird in the hand has to be set free to make the world a better place. It is unnatural to keep it too close."


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The Society for The Teaching of Psychology (STP; Division 2 of APA) is pleased to announce a program to provide support to teaching conferences or preconferences to fund speakers related to the teaching of psychology. The grant program is open to any gathering of psychology teachers from 4-year colleges and universities, 2-year colleges, or high schools. (Please note that the program does not fund speakers for regional research conferences through this program; long-standing regional research conferences are supported by STP through another program.)
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STP provides a total of $9000 to award in the amount of $1500 per speaker/conference. This money will provide travel reimbursement for the speaker, and the conference will be expected to fund (or waive) the speaker's registration. Please note that STP will fund a speaker for more than $1500 travel reimbursement when special circumstances exist (e.g., international speaker, necessary accommodations). A total of 6 awards are funded each year, with two deadlines for submission as described below.
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Funding will be awarded twice a year, with application due dates of April 1 and October 1 each year. Three grants will be awarded for each due date, with the October deadline funding grants for conferences taking place the following calendar year and the April deadline funding grants for conferences taking place the same calendar year. Applicants may submit for either or both deadlines; if an applicant submits for the October deadline and is unsuccessful in securing funding, they may resubmit for the April deadline, provided their conference is scheduled for some date after that April deadline.
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Proposals should not be longer than 2 single-space pages and should include the following sections:
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4. Total conference budget including funding sources
5. Names and affiliations of proposed speakers (of the conference coordinator's choice)
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On a Saturday afternoon with nothing to do, Lyle Brewer of Newton drove to Marion County Park and Lake with his wife. It was their first time visiting the lake.
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Steven Goss, Shawn Goss, Robert Goss, and Les Linn, all of Mulvane, found themselves all with the same day off work on Monday and decided to spend the day fishing at Marion Reservoir, even though there are lakes closer to Mulvane.
"We catch more fish here," Steven Goss said. "This is one of the best areas for white bass."
They caught about 30 fish total, including ones too small to keep, in the morning and early afternoon. Their catches were mostly white bass and wiper, a hybrid of white and striped bass that grows larger than either parent species and has a reputation as a hard-fighting sport fish.
The catch of the day for the group was a 3½-pound wiper caught by Shawn Goss.
"It was a pretty good day for fishing," he said.
They used to come out to the reservoir one or two times per month, but they have made fewer trips the past two years because of drought that lowered the water level. On Tuesday the lake was about 2 feet, 9 inches below full conservation pool.
When Bill and JoAnn Fitzpatrick of Beaumont, Texas, made plans to visit family in the area for a few weeks, they knew exactly where they would stay in Kansas. The couple formerly lived in Marion and were familiar with the campgrounds at Marion Reservoir.
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BELMONT, N.C. --- Lees-McRae senior Kyle Judge tallied a goal in his collegiate finale, but LMC was unable to overcome a 10-goal first-quarter outburst from Belmont Abbey in a 20-2 loss in a Conference Carolina tilt at Alumni Field Wednesday afternoon in Belmont, N.C.
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This is a mind map one of the members of the atheist group on my campus created describing the problem of evil. I just thought it was interesting; thought I'd share it. It's one of the most in-depth evaluations of its type that I've seen. Enjoy.
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I like to see posts tagged appropriately, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. :P
That pdf you posted is fascinating; I'll definitely pass that along, it was quite a read. The Problem of Evil has been a hot topic in the campus Freethought group for a while now, it should go over well.
Thanks Nelson!
Nothing wrong with that. Warm and fuzzy is a great feeling. ;)
I really like this Maitzen fellow. I'll have to read more of his work. Thanks.
Steven Maitzen cannot hold the view that God is omnipotent, omniscient and purely benevolent. If he does then his claim is logically invalid.
"god allows suffering to exist because suffering is a necessary consequence of a higher good; if god were to refuse suffering to exist then there wouldn't be this higher good."
If God were omnipotent, then he could bring about any final result (in this case the higher good) without being constrained by necessities. If something is necessary it logically implies that there is a constraint. If something is necessary, it is forced, and nothing can be forced upon an omnipotent being. If there is a constraint, then there is no omnipotence.
Its amazing the depths to which even professional philosophers can stoop in the defence of religion. I haven't read his stuff, so it could be the case that he does not make assumptions concerning omnipotence. If this is the case, my bad.
Perhaps a briefer statement could have been: if God's will (higher good) is conditional upon something, then he is restricted and is not omnipotent.
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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7, KJV)
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? (Amos 3:6, KJV)
There is sin and evil in the world because two beings that knew nothing of good or evil, right or wrong made a choice that your god gave them no way to understand there was a right or wrong choice. At this point we get original sin that you are born with and we are told you can't make the right choice but you have "free will".
Is you must believe in Jesus or burn in hell for ever is free will or just a jaded game that is called "Free Will"?
Language requires duality, it's not what you say but it is also what you don't say.
If god created everything then he created evil, what does good mean without evil.
I understand the believers need to think god could not have anything to do with evil but if that were the case then god would have limits on it's self, not very god like huh?
and anyway, why couldn't god have given us free will but created us in such a way as to make so that we always freely choose good?
@ Nelson - Because there is no god lol.
A Christian is not going to be able to come to terms with this fact just because something does not make sense. Most Christians don't place value on making sense when it comes to the behavior of their god, and feel comfortable with that, unless or until something happens that; a) makes them feel free enough from fear to allow doubt, and b) enables them to understand the concept of cognitive bias and the basics of statistical probabilities.
That is interesting. Thanks, Kyle. I've never seen one of these before.


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MONTPELIER — There are no "bells and whistles" in Gov. Phil Scott's 2019 budget, which he unveiled Tuesday.
As expected, there are also no new taxes and no new fees. Nor have any big initiatives been proposed in the budget.
Instead, the governor's office gave the Legislature a menu of options for solving the state's $80 million education fund gap last week in the form of a memo. A $150 million prison plan was presented as a report last week, but wasn't mentioned in the governor's Tuesday budget address.
BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School board is asking Addison Northeast Supervisory Union voters to mark their calendars for June 9, when the board expects to hold a vote on a third proposed FY 2016 spending plan for the school.
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STARKSBORO — The meeting this Saturday morning to reconsider the spending plan for Starksboro's Robinson Elementary School will be held in the Mount Abraham Union High School auditorium in an effort to accommodate as many voters as possible.
"We didn't want to have the remotest possibility that we'd overwhelm the space at Robinson," said Starksboro School Board chair Louis duPont. "It's better to have a bigger room."
VERGENNES — Addison Northwest Supervisory Union residents on Tuesday will vote on two Vergennes Union High School budget proposals in what will be the second decision this spring on spending plans for the 2015-2016 school year.
The first article on the May 5 ballot will ask residents to back a plan that cuts about $156,000 from the $10.47 million proposal that lost on Town Meeting Day, 831-718.
The second article asks voters to approve the board's original $10.47 million spending plan.
FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh residents on Tuesday will decide the fate of a second Ferrisburgh Central School budget proposal, one that will increase spending over the current level by 1.94 percent.
The FCS board's new proposal calls for spending of about $3.581 million for the 2015-2016 school year. The board in March made adjustments that netted about $39,000 of spending reductions in adopting its second spending plan.
The $3.62 million spending plan that lost on Town Meeting Day, 302-267, would have increased FCS spending by about 3 percent.
BRISTOL — The Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Executive Committee at a special meeting Thursday pledged to address what it characterized as a "deteriorated environment" in the district's six schools.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Cost projections that are in line with expectations are rarely the subject of news stories, but in the case of Vermont Gas Systems, no news is, in fact, good news.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard has been asked to pave the way for future municipal budgets to be voted by Australian ballot instead of at the annual town meeting. The request comes just a few weeks after local residents agreed to enact the same voting change for their elementary school spending plan.
BRISTOL — Voters in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union rejected two of the three school budgets up for consideration Tuesday. It is the latest chapter in a tumultuous spring for the district, which has also seen a citizens petition calling for the removal of the superintendent and a near-unanimous vote of no confidence in his leadership by the teachers' union.
Residents rejected spending plans for Mount Abraham Union High School by a tally of 755 to 485, and Bristol Elementary School, 224 to 166.
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Lurking on some of my usual movie sites today, I noticed a fun fact that has gone unnoticed by the godless blogosphere. I still haven't seen Bill Maher's Religulous; I understand the ACA had a little group movie night when it opened here, which I missed due to being out of town. No one saw fit to blog a review of it here, though, so perhaps it just didn't make much of an impression at all.
Still, it's gotten pretty good notices in Free Inquiry and other sources I keep up with, and so I'm looking forward to the DVD.
But here's the fun fact. Religulous had a minute fraction of the hype Expelled got, and never played on more than half the screens of Ben Stein's disasterpiece. And yet, Religulous almost doubled Expelled's box office take.
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Brussels, 23 January 2013
State aid: Commission orders The Netherlands to recover €6.9 million incompatible state aid from Schouten-de Jong Bouwfonds
The European Commission has concluded that certain public support measures granted to Schouten-de Jong Bouwfonds ("SJB") by a public private partnership ("PPP"), consisting of the Dutch municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg and SJB, constitutes state aid that is incompatible with EU rules. These measures consist of the reduction of an agreed sales price for building land and the waiver of agreed fees for SJB. The Commission has found that the measure clearly provides SJB with an economic advantage over its competitors, which the company would not have obtained in normal market circumstances. In order to remedy the distortion of competition brought about by this undue advantage, SJB now needs to pay back the aid with interest.
The municipality of Leidschendam set-up a PPP with SJB in order to regenerate the Damcentrum area. The main task of the PPP was to make the area ready for new construction. The company set-up for the PPP would sell building land to private companies, among which SJB, who would be responsible for the construction phase. The price for the land and the fees for the ground exploitation were agreed in 2004. The exploitation was delayed and by the time the PPP could deliver the land, the Dutch housing market had declined and SJB did not start building. In 2010, the municipality agreed that the PPP company would lower the agreed sales price and waive the agreed fees for SJB, which amounted to a total price decrease of €6.9 million. SJB started building thereafter. Following a complaint, the Commission opened an in-depth investigation in January 2012.
The Commission has found that no private investor operating under normal market conditions would have accepted the retro-active reduction of the sales price and the waiver of the fees in favour of SJB. The measures clearly conferred an advantage on SJB. The developers bought building land from the PPP company and had to construct and sell the planned buildings at their own risk. By lowering the price of the land and waiving the fees, the municipality took over the risk of a declining housing market, which should have been borne by SJB. This freed SJB of costs it would otherwise have borne and reinforced its competitive position vis-à-vis other developers that were also faced by a declining market. The measures therefore constitute state aid in the meaning of the EU rules.
The Commission then examined whether the aid could be found compatible with EU rules. However, Leidschendam is not a deprived urban area which suffers from market failure. On the contrary, several developers had shown interest in the project at their own risk and expenses. The aid was therefore not needed to implement the project.
Public interventions in companies that carry out economic activities can be considered free of state aid in the meaning of the EU rules (Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union – TFEU), when they are made on terms that a private player operating under market conditions would have accepted (the market economy investor principle – MEIP).
If the MEIP is not respected, the public intervention constitutes state aid because it procured an economic advantage to the beneficiary that its competitors did not have. The Commission will then proceed to assess, whether such aid can be found compatible with the common EU rules that allow certain categories of aid, for example because it enables the delivery of a good or service that market forces alone would not have produced.
More information will be made available under the case number SA.24123 in the State Aid Register on the competition website once any confidentiality issues have been resolved. New publications of state aid decisions on the internet and in the Official Journal are listed in the State Aid Weekly e-News.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Daniel Jeremiah is in Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine, checking out prospects for the 2013 NFL Draft. Here is the latest scuttlebutt from Lucas Oil Stadium:
» Matt Barkley is taller than expected. Scouts measured the USC signal-caller at 6-foot-1 7/8 last spring, but Barkley checked in at 6-2 1/2 on Friday. That might not seem like a drastic difference, but it does help alleviate some concerns among evaluators about Barkley's size. In fact, he checked in 1/8 of an inch taller than West Virginia's Geno Smith. Scouts are always interested in quarterback hand size, and Barkley's were among the biggest at 10 1/8 inches.
» Tavon Austin is a name to watch in Indianapolis. In talking with several NFL executives, Austin is a name that continues to pop up. The West Virginia receiver's explosive skill set has teams excited about his pro potential. Yesterday, Austin checked in at 5-8 1/2 and 174 pounds. I've compared his quickness and change-of-direction skills to those of Percy Harvin and DeSean Jackson. And size-wise, Austin isn't that far off those two talented playmakers; coming out of college, Harvin checked in at 5-11 1/8 and 185 pounds, while Jackson was 5-9 3/4, 170. If Austin can post a similar 40-yard dash time (Harvin clocked in at 4.41 seconds, Jackson at 4.38), he could solidify his place in the first round of the draft.
» Christine Michael was the best-looking running back at weigh-ins. Following an up-and-down career at Texas A&M, Michael has seen his draft stock soar in the postseason. He had an impressive week of practices at the East-West Shrine Game and created a lot of buzz with evaluators at Friday's weigh-ins. Michael checked in at 5-10 and a rocked-up 220 pounds. He is expected to keep the momentum going by testing extremely well in Sunday's on-field action.
» The top offensive tackles continue to impress. This draft class possesses three outstanding offensive tackles. Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel, Central Michigan's Eric Fisher and Oklahoma's Lane Johnson should all be selected in the top 15 picks of April's draft. All three have stood out during the early portion of the combine. Their size and strength numbers are almost identical:
Joeckel: 6-6, 306 pounds, 27 reps of 225.
Fisher: 6-7 1/4, 306 pounds, 27 reps.
Johnson: 6-6, 303 pounds, 28 reps.
» The two Tennessee wide receivers made vastly different impressions during the weigh-ins. Justin Hunter is a silky smooth athlete on tape, but an alarming number of dropped passes has evaluators concerned about his hands. And now, there is another point of issue: Several team sources expressed concerns about Hunter's thin frame following weigh-ins, as he checked in at 6-4 and just 196 pounds. Meanwhile, Cordarrelle Patterson was measured at 6-1 7/8 and looked physically imposing at 216 pounds.
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On receiving the news, Antonio Pappano said, "I am astonished but hugely honoured by this news. I am so grateful to the Royal Opera House for providing me with a platform to make music and drama with a world-class orchestra and chorus communicating our passion for this amazing art-form."
Sir John Tomlinson, currently appearing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Covent Garden, said, "I have known and worked with Tony for 25 years now, and he commands my admiration and respect as a fine musician, an impressive pianist, a conductor who understands the singing voice like no other, and an intensely dedicated artistic leader of the Royal Opera House. All of us here in the House are absolutely delighted for him."
Tony Hall, Chief Executive, Royal Opera House said, "On behalf of everyone at the Royal Opera House, I'm absolutely thrilled and delighted that Tony Pappano has been knighted for his services to music. He has boundless energy and we all love working with him. His passion for opera communicates itself to people - those who know a lot about music and those who are new to it. We're very lucky to have him at Covent Garden. Tony has made a huge contribution to the musical life of this country, opera in particular, and works with many of the world's leading artists. It's wonderful recognition of his talent, passion and extraordinary commitment that he should be honoured in this way.
"It's also a great way for us all to celebrate the New Year, which sees some really momentous works of opera on our stage at Covent Garden over the coming months with Tony at the helm".
Antonio Pappano is conducting Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg until 8 January and you can hear the opera broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 2.45pm on New Year's Day.
Full details of the New Year's Honours list can be found on the Directgov website.


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Cabin is widest, tallest and longest of any business jet
Comlux has taken delivery of the first Airbus ACJ321, the newest private jet from the world's most modern aircraft family, which means that it will become the first to have operated every corporate Airbus A320 Family version.
The Airbus ACJ321 is now being outfitted with VVIP cabin by Comlux America in Indianapolis, and is due to be completed in 2014. Like the Airbus ACJ318, ACJ319 and ACJ320, the ACJ321 will have the widest and tallest cabin of any business jet and, because of its stretched fuselage, it will also have the longest. Additional centre tanks will also give the ACJ321 extra range.
"Comlux has established a reputation that is synonymous with comfort and luxury, and the Airbus ACJ321 will enable us to offer our customers even more of that in the air," says Comlux, The Aviation Group President & CEO Richard Gaona. "We have operated the Airbus ACJ318, ACJ319 and ACJ320, so the ACJ321 brings a new dimension to our fleet while also being an easy addition, because of its cockpit and maintenance commonality. This is an important year for Comlux because we are celebrating our 10th anniversary. We started to operate the ACJ Family in 2006 and to date we have flown more than 15,000 charter hours on our Airbus fleet. This record is a great achievement for a private jet operator and shows the sustainability of Comlux in the large-cabin business aviation market."
Comlux was an early Airbus private jet customer, was the first to operate the Airbus ACJ318, and its fleet now includes five Airbus corporate jets. It operates all of its Airbus fleet to the highest standards, including 180 min extended range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) and Category 3B autoland.
Whether you travel on business or are in the business of travel, you want to take comfort and space into the air and, with the widest, tallest and longest cabins in the sky, you get more of that with Airbus corporate jets," enthuses Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers, John Leahy. "So whether you fly your own Airbus corporate jet or charter one from a leading VVIP operator such as Comlux, you can be sure to get the best cabin in the sky," he adds.
With a heritage of modern airframes, efficient engines, and robust reliability, as well as apartment-sized cabins, Airbus corporate jets are the new top end of the business jet market. With a similar footprint to that of traditional large business-jets, Airbus corporate jets also fit existing ramp space.
More than 170 Airbus corporate jets have been sold worldwide, and they are flying on every continent, including Antarctica.


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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- Bright plum-tomato sauce, puddles of melted mozzarella, a perfectly charred crust … does life get any better with the perfect slice in front of you? We think not.
Who Has Westchester's Most DVlicious Pizza?
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Four finalists are vying for Westchester's DVlicious "Best Pizza," each of which is being profiled this week.
Click and vote for your favorite – you have until 4 p.m. Thursday, April 27 and you can vote multiple times, albeit once per day.
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Johnny's Pizzeria, Mount Vernon
What Makes It Good: A fixture in Mount Vernon since 1942, Johnny's, a past DVlicious winner, is known for its thin crust pizza, which is sold by the pie only. There are no slices here; plus it's cash only. Still, customers flock for the old school atmosphere and love for the craft. The website tells the family's story, making it clear, passion and community are at the heart of what this pizzeria does best.
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Conservative case for gay marriage: Column
Our confidence in conservatives' growing support for the freedom to marry is not wishful thinking.
The conservative movement has learned many lessons in recent years. As young women whose families have long been involved in Republican politics, we see the movement rapidly changing in a positive way. On one issue in particular, the freedom to marry, there is a major shift happening among conservatives. We feel so strongly that this change is necessary for our party that we've joined about thirty other young conservatives from around the nation in the Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry.
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Our confidence in conservatives' growing support for the freedom to marry is not wishful thinking. In fact, the evidence is all around us. Most recently Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman of Ohio announced his support for marriage, saying, "I believe all of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage."
More than 130 Republicans signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging justices to support the freedom to marry. Organized by Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, the brief was signed by representatives from various wings of the conservative movement, libertarians, neoconservatives, and establishment Republicans, including cabinet advisers of President George W. Bush and senior advisers to our past three GOP presidential campaigns.
In more signs of change, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference were widely criticized by mainstream conservatives for excluding pro-gay organizations from this year's conference. Yet even the CPAC organizers were not absolute in their opposition to gay conservative participation; there was a panel discussion hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute titled, "A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet."
All around us, new leaders are stepping up as Republicans question whether the opposition to gay rights is consistent with our small-government values – and rightly so. The last two election cycles showed that some candidates discredit the movement at large when they advocate for a bigger, more intrusive government. They are rightly described as "extreme," and they are increasingly out-of-step with the mainstream of the country, especially when it comes to marriage.
For example, where the freedom to marry made significant legislative strides in the last two years, Republicans played a critical role in that progress. In New York and Washington, Republicans cast deciding votes to pass marriage in their states. In New Hampshire, an astounding 119 House Republicans – a majority of the caucus – voted to protect the state's freedom to marry law at a time when Republicans made up nearly 75% of the legislature.
Of course, we still have a long way to go in reaching out to fellow conservatives. When our party platform was debated last year, participants adopted a position emphatically against the freedom to marry by advocating bans at the state level and in the Constitution. Many of the Republican presidential hopefuls signed a draconian pledge by the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to continue excluding same-sex couples from marriage. These positions are inconsistent with the rising generation of conservative leaders – not to mention established leaders like former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former First Lady Laura Bush – and they will soon fade into the shadows of history.
Young people understand this better than anyone. A 2011 Gallup poll showed that 70% of adults age 18-34 believed that marriage should be legal for same-sex couples. And a polling analysis by pollsters Joel Benenson and Jan van Lohuizen, released earlier this month, found that 51% of Republicans under age 30 supported the freedom to marry. The tide is shifting rapidly across the conservative spectrum as a whole, but young people are way ahead of the game.
Like other conservatives making the case for the freedom to marry, we young conservatives believe that marriage, family, and personal freedom are Republican values. Getting out of the way of same-sex couples who want to marry means empowering them to take full responsibility for their loved ones. In the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, "Freedom means freedom for everyone." Marriage is marriage, whether a person is straight or gay.
Marriage also promotes outcomes that we as conservatives should support: stable homes, with committed couples who take care of themselves without government intrusion. We know the benefits to society from healthy marriages, and we celebrate them. Our fellow Republicans should be strengthening this great institution – not stifling it with roadblocks.
As this movement changes we find ourselves joined by many more young voices like our own in the media and on Capitol Hill. Our message is simple: Get on the right side of history by honoring the conservative values of limited government, freedom, and family by supporting the freedom to marry.
Margaret Hoover is a CNN political contributor and author of American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save The Republican Party. Meghan McCain is a contributor to MSNBC and the daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.


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Organizers, led by Laura Butler, plan on a great program this year with beautiful Christmas music sung by a combined community choir. Soloists are Lynda Boyle and Janelle Jack and Scott Mitchell will share his flute and guitar talents. Students from Monticello High School will portray the angels and shepherds and John and Jana Husted have consented to be Joseph and Mary. Nearly 50 community members are involved in the production.
There will be bleachers this year and the audience is asked to bring their own chairs if they like. The program will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and will end approximately 5:30 p.m. There will be barrels with hot coals for warmth and hot cocoa will be served, but please dress warm as well.
A special thanks is extended to Pee Wee Barrella for his help preparing Pioneer Park, Jim Muhlestein as choir director, Tom Corrao will deliver some remarks, Sandra Skouson as narrator, and Lorie Butler helps with costumes.
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|A chicken stock based soup made with a mirepoix of carrot, onion and celery, and cooked with sliced leeks, cabbage, potatoes, seasonings and spicy andouille sausage.
Leek and Cabbage Soup with Andouille SausageWho knew that the combination of cabbage with leeks made such a great soup?! Throw in some andouille sausage and the flavor just really pops.
I had a head of cabbage in the fridge and was in the grocery store the other day when I decided to grab a bunch of leeks, knowing they would make their way into some kind of soup with the cabbage. Once I got started with a basic mirepoix of carrot, onion, celery - and of course the leeks - I thought smoked sausage would make a nice compliment to it. Despite the simplicity of this soup, this was a highly flavorful and just simply delicious soup.
Leeks are a vegetable that are in the same family as onion and garlic, and have a mild onion flavor. With leeks it's very important to get them cleaned well, since there are so many nooks and crannies for grit and dirt to hide in. We're using mostly only the white part of the leek and just about two inches of the green part just above there.
Split the leek down the entire length and fan it out to expose the grit.
I fill my clean sink with a basin of cool water and swish them around under the water a few times, which seems to work. Remove, check and set aside to drain.
Chop up the carrots, onion, celery, and garlic and set those aside. I split the sausage down lengthwise in half and then in half again, cutting it into bite sized pieces. Brown the sausage in a bit of oil.
Add the carrots, onion and celery to the sausage and cook until softened. Slice the leeks.
Add the leeks and the garlic to the sausage and veggie mixture and cook until the leeks soften. Add the chicken broth.
Add the chopped potatoes and the seasonings and bring to a boil.
Cut the cabbage in half, remove the core, and slice up one half of the cabbage, add to the pot, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes. Splash in the vinegar and stir in the thyme. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
This soup was so full of flavor, that first bite I knew it would be a keeper. With cold weather looming, or maybe even at your doorstep, I hope you put it on your list of soups to try!
Adapted from Martha Stewart
Recipe: Leek and Cabbage Soup©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 2 leeks, split, cleaned and sliced
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 pound of mild andouille or other spicy smoked sausage, chopped
- 1 cup of chopped onion
- 1/2 cup of chopped celery
- 1/2 cup of chopped carrots
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 8 cups of chicken stock or broth
- 2 red potatoes, washed, unpeeled, and diced
- 1/2 head of green cabbage, sliced thin
- Couple pinches of kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 2 bay leaves
- Splash of apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of dried thyme
Clean the leeks and set them aside to dry. Slice into 1/2 inch thick pieces. In the bottom of a heavy stockpot, heat the olive oil over medium high heat. Split the sausage in half lengthwise, then slice into half rounds, about 1/4 inch thick. Cook until meat is lightly browned. Add the onion, celery and carrots and cook until softened. Add the leeks and garlic and cook until the leeks are soft.
Add the chicken stock and turn burner up to high. Add the potatoes, cabbage, salt, pepper and bay leaf; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer on low for at least 30 minutes. Add a splash of the vinegar and stir in the thyme; taste and adjust seasonings. Serve.
Cook's Notes: Andouille sausage is a highly spiced smoked sausage that is blended with Cajun spices, adding a spicy kick and great flavor to these dishes. If you substitute kielbasa or other smoked sausages in recipes where it calls for Andouille, it will affect the outcome of your dish and you'll need to make adjustments in the seasonings you use.
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