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Lady of the Drake Released
I'm thrilled to announce that Lady of the Drake has just been released, officially making me a published novelist. I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I think you will be too.
It's available in e-book from Ravenous Romance, Amazon and pretty much everywhere else e-books are sold. It comes in .pdf as well as formats for your Kindle or any other e-reader.
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Chapter One
Lana trudged through the depths of the ancient forest, her pack growing heavier with each step. Dragons had claimed these woods, and the mountains beyond them, for as long as anyone could remember. Legends told of the drakes defending their borders without mercy, and she was over a day's hike into the woods.
Lana chose reason over fear. No dragons had been seen in her lifetime; and rare, valuable herbs grew throughout Ashen Forest. She had been venturing within since she'd been a farm girl on the edge of the vast forest, growing bolder with each expedition. Strange things might indeed roam the trees, but aside from the expected woodland creatures Lana had never seen more than shadows in the corner of her eye, nor heard more than rustling in the night.
A Shalar Is Born
A Prequel to Lady of the Drake
Hear the author reading this story on Episode 36 of Ending The Sexual Dark Age
Celeste rode into town on her father's horse, planning to spend the night at the inn.
Eddleton was a frontier village in the Kingdom of Saria, an outpost of modest civilization far from the great cities of the East.
Its wide streets and wooden buildings were home to about two-hundred; not counting all the farmers, trappers and traveling merchants who might be in town on a given day. She was in town to buy seeds for her family's spring planting, with a second agenda her father probably wouldn't approve of.
Celeste arrived at the smithy just as Darus was putting the last shoe on a horse. The village blacksmith was a few years older, with quite a reputation among the local ladies; due to equal parts charm and skill with his cock. He also had the body of a man who swung hammers all day and no intention of settling down, all of which made him a perfect candidate for a bit of sweaty recreation.
Cover Art | Lady of the Drake
Introducing the cover art for my novel. I'm really happy with how it turned out, and props to Ravenous Romance for allowing authors to have a lot of input on cover art.
I'm really glad I wrote this book, which never would have happened without an inspirational conversation with my editor. I think you guys will love it once it's released a little later this year. For now, I'm cooking up some prequel short stories to introduce you to a few of the characters.
To learn more about the book and see a larger image of the cover, CLICK HERE.
Sugar & Spice Officially Released
Sugar & Spice, Kinky Girl-On-Girl Stories, Edited by Mira Paul, has been officially released by Ravenous Romance. As I mentioned on episode 20, it was great working with RR on this anthology (which includes a story by yours truly titled "Breakfast At Jackie's").
It's available as an e-book only for only 5 bucks. I've had a chance to read through several of the other stories at this point, and I can tell you that there is some HOT, well written erotica between the covers.
If you write reviews of erotica, or you know someone who does, please let me know and I'll get a review copy sent out.
Thanks to all of you for your support!
(Audio) The Taking of Ariel
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Ending the Sexual Dark Age, Episode 20
A sensual tale of erotic fantasy introducing the World of Aeodar, a publication announcement for J.V.'s short story "Breakfast at Jackie's" in Mira Paul's Sugar & Spice (Ravenous Romance), and a bit of inspirational heavy metal from J.V.'s archives.
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Read "The Taking of Ariel" here on TwistedErotica.com
Direct Download: Sexual-Dark-Age-020-Twisted-Erotica-Taking-Of-Ariel.mp3
(Audio) Timing Is Everything
From Ending The Sexual Dark Age, Episode 15
Something a bit different this time, as I read an original erotic short story for the audience.
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Podcast Website: SexualDarkAge.com
Ending the Sexual Dark Age, Episode 5
The Shame Game
This episode examines shame as it pollutes modern sexuality, primarily in relation to the efforts of the Religion Industrial Complex
Podcast Website: SexualDarkAge.com
Ending The Sexual Dark Age, Episode Four
Love Her Long Time
Episode 4 covers various ins and outs of male stamina, starting with dispelling myths and understanding realistic expectations; then moving on to methods that can be used by both men and women to improve performance and longevity.
A Quick Apology
I need to take a moment to apologize to the many devoted readers that this site has developed. It might seem to you that I've been focusing on the podcast instead of writing lately, but that's not the case. I'm polishing my novel, which is a slow process, and working on short stories for some anthologies. Unfortunately, this means that I'm not turning out all that much new material that I can post for you. Just keep your eye on the site, before too awful much longer there will be some new, free, twisted smut to get your motor running.


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I think the trick to riding these motorcycles is really finding a way to manage my terror. Today it's tough. The bike is a growly beast of a Kawasaki, the KZ 1000, a retired police bike with a reassuringly steady engine. I love the police bikes, they make me feel like I am in that bowie hit "blue jean". I have a police bike and a turned up nose so I am 2 for 2 in that song. Motorcycle cops are amazing riders and their bikes are a reflection of that. This one is no exception.
The Kawasaki has a gorgeous retro look and white police paint and a lot of horsepower and it seems like it wants to go fast, as far as I can tell. I don't know bikes at all, but I can feel it pulling between my legs as I ease out the clutch like there's a situation – there's an urgency there, a need to be what it is and just fucking be let go. It's late for something and I am holding it up. Other police bikes are calling for backup and mine is trying to answer the call, but my fingers are clutching – I am serious – CLUTCHING – and the thing ain't going nowhere. I am controlling this great machine and it is making the inside of my helmet hot and humid like my head is in the rainforest, with the exception of my mouth which is bone dry, tongue rolling onto itself and sticky, in absolute animal-style fear.
My fancy silk scarf is soaked with flop sweat and French perfume and the adrenaline pumps through my system like the gasoline pumping through the engine and the symmetry is not lost on me. In my squeaky new gear, I feel like Elizabeth Taylor trying to keep up with Malcolm Forbes in her stiff purple designer chaps. I wonder if she wore her diamonds on her bike and I don't think would do this. I make a note to get a bandanna. I am both proud of myself and my ability to learn new things and sick and afraid of the bike and my hands lock up in fear and leather and I have to change gloves because I can't feel the controls through my vice grip and protective padding.
This motorcycle is much bigger than the Buell Blast I learned on and got (somewhat) comfortable with, and the height is a concern. I can't put both feet completely on the ground, or if I can, it's just on my toes, and so the already present fear of tipping over becomes a reality every time I try to stop. Fortunately the bike never leans over far enough to fall. There's a magic there that's keeping me up. the miracle of the motorcycle, when the wheels are in motion, it works.
The parking lot is strewn with broken palm fronds and branches blown about by the Santa Anas and glittering tarry asphalt that looks like it will hurt to go down on, so I stay up, my bike groaning and complaining and stamping its feet that I am keeping it in first gear the whole time. I'm learning how to go around in a circle, mostly imperfect ones, sometimes ovals, sometimes full on squares. I don't how to do this, but I don't judge myself, and I take to new hobbies and interests and pick up abilities quickly because I don't care about doing things badly. I allow myself to get better, and then I do, gradually, painfully, slowly – I do. but motorcycling is different. There's not a lot of margin for error. Mistakes are costly. It's better to just not make them.
Going in circle is really hard. It might not be as challenging in a car, but on a bike, you have to go fast enough that you are not falling down but slow enough to control the bike in the tight space. There are many factors at play, and there's no space to let in the fear, because you let the fear in, it takes over and everything you learned in your head that you are trying to teach your hands and feet to do gets forgotten in the fear. Fear is too big to let into the school. Fear is not a good student.
I think of the police, when they are circling slow, turning tightly and returning, their glossy helmeted and empowered heads whipping around to face the direction they are going. Your head is part of the steering, and I keep looking at the ground because I am so scared of the ground and when you do that you go right down and what you were scared of happening happens. I think of the police and I turn my head and the whole bike turns and then I am making smooth circles 30 feet around and I'm doing well and suddenly I am scared again and overbrake and almost fall. When I think of the police it helps me stay upright. When I think of the police I am less afraid.
I am exhausted after my motorcycle lessons and I am driving home in my Mini Cooper with my hair completely wet with sweat and sticking to my face. I am hot but I leave my jacket on because I am proud to have my shiny but damp inside Arai helmet in the seat next to me like a passenger and I am listening to Aimee Mann's wonderful song, "Save Me" and there's no traffic on the freeway because it's still technically the holidays and I see motorcycles whiz past me and I feel good because I know a little bit of what they know and I am going to learn more soon and the downtown LA skyline looks magnificent and familiar and safe and homey to me as I drive into it yet once again and I think about how maybe someday I will get that as a tattoo as well as my first motorcycle and everything is nice and better than alright and it's not yet 1 and I have already had a spectacular day and then I fucking get pulled over by a motorcycle cop who gives me a fix it ticket for having tinted windows.


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Back in the day, all you needed to do to rid all traces of your ex from your life was scratch his phone number out of your address book, toss out those old love letters, pull the ribbon out of the mix tape he made you, and turn those hard-copy pics of the two of you into fire kindling. Done and done.
It's a heck of lot easier to move on when there's no more evidence of a past relationship (out of sight, out of mind, right?). But, thanks to modern tech, this is hella hard.
In fact, researchers at UC Santa Cruz have been looking into the effect digital possessions have when it comes to break-ups, examining how things like photos, texts, music, and video—stored on our computers, phones, and Facebook—can constantly remind us of our exes, sometimes when we least expect it. (Like, you put your iTunes on shuffle and all of a sudden the next song is that Death Cab jam that you and your ex listened to over and over again when you first started dating. And now you're bawling at Starbucks. Awesome.)
The part of the findings I didn't get was that half of the people who participated had kept pics of their ex on their FB pages, computers, and phone. (Are you kidding me with this? That's just asking for it.)
The process of getting rid of all of this stuff is super time consuming and can dredge up old memories, researchers say, but it's well worth it. When my ex and I broke up, one of the first things I did was completely wipe him from my Facebook page. I deleted every damn photo of us that I'd posted and untagged myself from any pic other people posted of us. I blocked him. I blocked his family members. I defriended his fraternity brothers. Yeah, that's right, boyz. I did it.
Sound extreme? Maybe. But I know myself and, to really move on, I needed to completely cut off contact. I didn't want to be temped to reminisce over old photos (I even took the files off my computer and put them on an external hard drive) and I didn't want any surprising posts popping up in my news feed, like a photo of him and another chick. While I can still, to this day, recite his cell phone number (after all, I did call it multiple times a day for four years), getting over him was a whole lot easier without being able to Facebook-stalk him and his crew.
So, my stance is, while it might take a while and be kinda painful, doing a digital purge can swiftly get you on the path to post-breakup recovery. Just hit delete, already.
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Chuck and Nancy Davidson: Inspiring Couple Step Forward Again
Oct. 7, 2011
Partners in life since they met during their UT Dallas student days three decades ago, Charles (Chuck) and Nancy Davidson are also partners in giving.
Initially, their teamwork enabled Mr. Davidson's career to thrive as the two relocated around Texas and to Alaska and home again. In time, his advancement in the energy industry allowed them to give back from a life he has described as "richly rewarded."
Charles and Nancy Davidson
Longtime supporters of the newly named Naveen Jindal School of Management, the couple in 2001 made the first major alumni gift toward construction of the building that now houses the school. In 2006, another gift established four endowed faculty research positions. Most recently, the Davidsons joined in making a joint, $30 million gift with Naveen Jindal MBA'92. The Management Honors Program has been named in honor of the Davidsons.
Their generosity is driven in part by the fact, Mr. Davidson says, that "both Nancy and I greatly benefited from our education at UT Dallas. We are fortunate to be in a position now where we can contribute back so that future students may also benefit from this outstanding institution."
"We also understand the need," Mrs. Davidson says, "for alumni to come forward with gifts in order to attract the support of other donors, as well as from the Legislature."
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Chuck Davidson met Nancy Gundy through friends. Both graduated from the School of Management in 1980, he with an MS in management and administrative sciences and she with a BS in business and public administration. Their relocations for work began after they married in 1981. He held various engineering, operations and executive positions at Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Part of an executive team that started Vastar Resources in 1994, Mr. Davidson served as chairman, president and CEO of that Houston-based concern. In 2000, he joined Noble Energy Inc., an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company also headquartered in Houston. He serves as chairman and CEO.
An industry activist, Mr. Davidson is chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America's Offshore Committee and sits on the boards of the Gas Technology Institute and the Offshore Energy Center. He also sits on the UT Dallas Development Board. Along with his wife, Mr. Davidson also backs diverse civic causes.
"Both Nancy and I greatly benefited from our education at UT Dallas. We are fortunate to be in a position now where we can contribute back so that future students may also benefit from this outstanding institution."
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Mrs. Davidson turned to family, community and volunteerism after one move that coincided with the adoption of their son. Prior to that, she had worked as a CPA and taught accounting at The University of Texas at Tyler.
Named School of Management Distinguished Alumni in 2002 and UT Dallas Distinguished Alumni in 2008, the two are consummate boosters among their fellow graduates. "We are always excited to see alumni support flowing to UT Dallas," Mr. Davidson says, "and we were delighted to know that UT Dallas was seeking to recognize Mr. Jindal for his generosity…by naming the SOM in his honor."
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Surfing around last night came across the Youtube link for the Academy Award winning film of the Kontiki voyage
Stirring stuff for someone who read the book many time, has seen the raft and spent time on both the Eastern and South Pacific.
No matter how Heyerdahl's theories shake out the voyage di have an tremendous impact and the recent death of Knut Haugland lends some poignancy to the film.
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Below are a few Angels who are making great strides in their academic careers. These young ladies realize that education is the key to making their dreams come true and we're recognizing them for the difference they're making in their own lives and in the lives of others. Check out what these Angels have achieved…
Shaniqua W. - @LyfeLoveMe
Shaniqua graduated from Hampton University with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology in May 2011 and is currently enrolled in Liberty University working on a Master's in School Counseling.
LaToya T.
LaToya will receive a B.A. in December 2011 from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing and a minor in Communications. LaToya's goal is to become a publicist in the entertainment industry and ultimately work for Trey! She's well on her way as she recently landed an internship this summer with BET.
La'Joya W. - @MZ_JOY_89
La'Joya currently has a 3.8 GPA at Prairie View A&M University and is on track for graduation in May 2012. She scored two internships this summer. One with Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine and received certification in their Access to Animal-Related Careers Program. The second internship is with the University of Virginia working with veterinarians in the diagnostics lab.
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I've been a Bruins fan for a long time. Just to give this little hockey sweater some scale… my shoes. And I don't have particularly large shoes. This little wool sweater would have shrunk a little, I think, but nevertheless … Continue reading
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EDIT: Well, I hope not too many people took my advice. Today when I hover over the Ham, it shows as only having 24 hour duration…
So I don't always take advantage of the seasonal events in WoW, especially when I have very limited playtime as was the case over the holidays this year. I just happened to be in Thunder Bluff today and clicked on the Smokeywood Pastures vendor and noticed this little beauty:
[item]Honeyed Holiday Ham[/item]
I thought, hey, nice, a cheap, vendor sold +20 Stamina food that lasts 30 minutes! I thought surely you could only buy 1 stack, just like the Skyguard Rations, so I bought up a stack, and then bought another stack, and then another! It appears you can buy an endless supply of these!
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Southampton's club captain Kelvin Davis believes Nicola Cortese's decision to sack previous manager Nigel Adkins has been justified.
Adkins was fired by the Saints' chairman despite leading the south coast club to back-to-back promotions and in the middle of a run of just two defeats in 12 games.
Speaking to BBC Radio Solent, Davis said: "The manner in which he (Mauricio Pochettino) has come in and lifted the club to a new level shows it was a decision thats been proved right."
Nigel Adkins faces his former team on Saturday morning, with the Saints making the trip to the Madejski Stadium for the vital game at the foot of the table, and Davis isn't surprised to see his former boss back in management so soon after his Southampton dismissal.
"I'm sure he wanted to get back into football as soon as he could, most managers that move on from a club want to stay in the game, from that side of it, it doesn't surprise me," said Davis.
"We achieved a lot under him in a short space of time but now we are continuing to grow without him.
"A lot has been said about our wins against the big teams but it is about winning every game and putting yourself in a position when you are looking up the table rather than behind us."
Since Mauricio Pochettino's arrival at St. Mary's, Southampton have pulled away from relegation danger and a place in the top half of the table is not out of the question.
The Saints are in 12th position, level on points with Stoke City but just four points away from the drop-zone. Pochettino will still want another victory to ensure his team's survival, but the cluster of teams around Southampton will be assuring.
And Davis, 36, has praised his new boss for the impact he's had during his short time with the club.
"We are in a state of mind where we can feel we can win every game at the moment and we will go there [Reading] to do that" he said.
"There's certainly been a raising in player performance. The lads have reacted positively to it [his arrival].
"Mauricio and his staff have come in and communicated very well and everything they are trying to pull off the lads are soaking up and fortunately we are putting that into our performances."
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Recently hired Raiders head coach Dennis Allen will field questions from the media Monday at his introductory news conference in Alameda. That will be just the start of the process of answering questions for the first-time head coach.
Allen inherits a Raiders team that finished 8-8 for the second straight season and one that hasn't won more than eight games or qualified for the playoffs since 2002.
He is the seventh coach since 2002, when the Raiders finished 11-5 and advanced to the Super Bowl under Bill Callahan. Late Raiders managing general partner Al Davis fired Callahan one season later.
Then came Norv Turner for two seasons, Art Shell for one, Lane Kiffin for one-plus season, Tom Cable and Hue Jackson. What makes Allen a better candidate to get the Raiders back on track for glory? We're about to find out.
For Allen to succeed, he is going to have to find answers to questions that eluded his many predecessors. Among them:
How to solve the persistent penalties issue. The Raiders are fresh from a season in which they set NFL records for most penalties and penalty yardage in a season.
Jackson promised to get the problem fixed, even if it took him all season. He left town the owner of two ignominious marks and no clue how to break through on a problem that has dogged the Raiders for years.
How to fix the run defense. This was another long-time issue that Jackson promised to fix. Again, he failed. The Raiders allowed 5.1 yards per carry and finished near the bottom of the league in average yards per game.
How to keep Darren McFadden healthy for an entire season. McFadden has yet to make it through a whole season in his four-year NFL career. He missed the final nine games of the 2011 season with a sprained foot.
Allen has to determine whether it's better to keep McFadden and hope he hits upon the proper recipe to stay healthy for the whole season or if the time is ripe to trade McFadden, while his trade value is high.
The Raiders as of now have only fifth- and sixth-round draft picks in April. McFadden is the player with the most trade value on the Raiders roster. As difficult as it would be to part with McFadden, that might be the only way for the Raiders to recoup some draft picks, though they likely will receive two or three compensatory picks.
Hiring coordinators and the rest of his staff. Allen's first order of business will be to decide whether to retain offensive coordinator Al Saunders, defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan and any of the other assistants who were part of Jackson's staff.
Defensive line coach Mike Waufle and wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal already signed elsewhere, Waufle with the St. Louis Rams and Lal with the New York Jets.
It seems to make sense for Allen to retain Saunders so that he can enter his first season without having to worry very much about the offense. From there, he could put a ton of energy and attention toward a defense that cost the Raiders several games last season.
Finding some game-changers on defense. Most of the 11 starters, as well as the key reserves, are under contract for 2012. Even so, none of those players is a bonafide impact player along the lines of a Vince Wilfork, Terrell Suggs, Patrick Willis or Justin Smith.
Several players who fit that bill are expected to be available in free agency. It's imperative that Allen bring in a couple of those players, or risk another season in which the defense shines at times, struggles at others.
What to do with quarterback Carson Palmer. Jackson mortgaged the future by trading for Palmer midway through last season. It's a trade Jackson had to make, though it's questionable whether he had to give up a first- and second-round pick to do so.
Either way, Palmer is 32, past his prime and slated to earn $11.5 million in 2012. The easy move would be to keep Palmer and hope Palmer performs at a higher level with the benefit of an entire offseason with the Raiders.
There aren't many attractive options on the free agent market — Matt Flynn and Jason Campbell are at or near the top of the list.
Second-year player Terrelle Pryor is the only other quarterback under contract on Oakland's roster — Campbell and Kyle Boller are eligible to become free agents in mid-March.
Campbell has no interest in returning as a backup. However, if Allen decides to part ways with Palmer, Campbell would be a possibility to return for a third season.
Allen likely will have suitable answers for all these questions. Whether they are the right answers remains to be seen. No one knows how Allen is going to pan out as a head coach. It's just another on a long list of questions that beg answers.
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Producer Mark Ronson discovered Wale in 2006 and signed him to Allido Records in 2007. While signed to that label, Wale released several mixtapes and appeared in national media including MTV and various Black-American-focused magazines. A song called "Ridin' in That Black Joint" was featured in the popular video game Saints Row 2's soundtrack in 2008.
In 2008, Wale signed with Interscope Record, and his debut album Attention Deficit was released in 2009 with the singles "Chillin", "Pretty Girls", and "World Tour". The album, although under-shipped, received positive reviews from critics. In early 2011, Wale signed with Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, where members of the label released a compilation album, Self Made Vol. 1 on May 23, 2011.
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Anxiety disorders consist of generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, panic disorder and agoraphobia and are characterized by an intense state of worry and fear resulting from a threatening event or life stressor. It can be normal in cases of everyday stress or serious life stressors and individuals usually overcome this worry once the stressor dissipates, however, in individuals with this disorder, their state of worry becomes more intensified over time.
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The small fishing town of Cocodrie is competing again to be named one of the country's top fishing destinations — and your vote is needed.
The small fishing town of Cocodrie is competing again to be named one of the country's top fishing destinations — and your vote is needed.
Cocodrie placed fifth last year out of hundreds of U.S. and Canadian fishing destinations nominated for the World Fishing Network's annual Ultimate Fishing Town competition.
The winning town gets a $25,000 community donation and is featured on the World Fishing Network. The network will work with the winning town's local government to help determine how to spend the money to be put toward benefiting local anglers.
Each town is ranked by the number of votes it gets in about a month on the competition's website.
Parish President Michel Claudet encouraged everyone at last week's Parish Council meeting to go online at worldfishingnetwork.com to vote. Hint: You can vote up to four times a day.
The voting period begins April 15 and ends May 24. The winning location will be announced June 4.
Cocodrie racked up nearly 8,000 votes last year.
Located along the Gulf Coast, Cocodrie lies in one of the most productive estuaries feeding from the Mississippi River Delta.
Cocodrie's winding freshwater marshes that lead to nearby Gulf locations give anglers a shot at a wide variety of catches.
Inshore anglers can expect to pull in plenty of redfish and speckled trout. And in a short trip south, fishermen can reel in larger saltwater fish such as tarpon and tuna.
Julie Pitre, owner of Cajun Bait in Cocodrie, said the town offers more than just great fishing.
"We've got all sorts of unusual things happening down here," she said. "Not long ago we had a manatee show up, which is uncommon, and we have great hospitality. We welcome out-of-towners and make them feel at home away from home."
There are plenty of spots in Cocodrie where you can catch all your bait fish and shrimp if you have the right equipment, Rusty Ledet said.
"It's one-stop shop," Ledet said.
Other Cocodrie residents said they didn't know the contest was back on or that it was an annual event. But now that they know, they hope to win.
Houma resident Edward Pinell said he comes down to Cocodrie often to fish at his favorite spots.
"If the water is clear, you can catch a 50-pound drum fish," he said.
And he has the pictures of the large drum fish he caught to prove it.


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The database system used by XSTAR version 2 attempts to separate, as much as possible, the numerical quantities which determine the various atomic rates from the fortran code which actually performs the calculation. The goal is make the atomic data modular, so that new data can be adopted or tested without requiring extensive modifications to the code. The way this is done is to separate the data from the code itself, and store the data in a database which is designed specifically for use by XSTAR. The database is divided into `records', each of which corresponds to a given physical process affecting a given level or pair of levels. An example is the radiative decay of hydrogen from the 2p to the 1s level. Each record contains numerical constants needed to calculate the rate for the process, in this example simply the Einstein A value for the transition, together with various other associated quantities. Chief among these are two integers which describe the how the constants are to be used. The first integer is denoted the `data type', and describes the fitting formula to be used in order to calculate a rate from the constants. The second integer is the `rate type', which describes how XSTAR uses the rates calculated. The list of data types is already quite long and is expected to grow and change as new data is adopted into the database, but not all data types are used by the current database. In order to interpret the various data types, XSTAR contains one central data calculating subroutine, denoted ucalc.f, which branches to various segments of code (and calls to specialized subroutines) which are tailored to each data type. ucalc.f returns the rates in a standard form for use by the other XSTAR subroutines. It is expected that ucalc.f will require additions in order to handle new data types as they are adopted. The list of rate types is not intended to grow, since such changes could require changes to the rest of the XSTAR code structure.
The XSTAR database system can be divided into 3 parts:
First, and most important, is the ascii file containing all the data. That is, this file contains all the numerical data and labels required for calculation of all atomic rates and resultant quantities. This includes all level excitation energies, statistical weights and spectroscopic names, all element names and abundances, all ion names, and of course all photoionization cross sections, collision rates, recombination rates, fluorescence yeilds, and line wavelengths. This file is separated into records, corresponding crudely to lines of text, although many records extend over more than one line. Each record consists of a header, followed by the data. The header currently consists of 6 integers: the data type, the rate type, a continuation flag (currently unused), the number of reals in the record, the number of integers in the record, and the numbers of characters in the record. Then follows the real data, the integer data, and the character data. The various fields within the record are separated by one or more spaces. The record is terminated with a , and the entire database is terminated by a single line containing . Each record can currently contain up to 2000 of any of the types of constants: real, integer, or character. In the XSTAR source tree this file is named atdat.text and currently is approximately 10MB in size.
In order to facilitate rapid reading of this file by XSTAR, it is converted into two binary fits tables. The first one contains the header data for each record, the second contains a concatenation of all the non-header data. They are named, respectively, aptrs.fits and atdat.fits. Operation of XSTAR requires that the environment variable LHEA_DATA be set to the directory containing these files. In the standard distribution these data files are kept in the refdata directory in the ftools area, and the appropriate value of the environment variable LHEA_DATA is set by the script which initializes FTOOLS, lhea-init.csh (c shell) or lhea-init.sh (bourne shell).
The third part of the database is the subroutine ucalc.f. This routine, when passed the contents of a record, returns the result of the rate calculation for the corresponding process. ucalc therefore contains all of the various arithmetic expressions corresponding to rates for various physical processes. ucalc returns generally 4 real rates and two integers. The rates are: rate, inverse rate, heating rate, and cooling rate. The integers are indeces of the levels involved, lower and upper. Not all data types return all 4 rates.
The list of rate types currently included in ucalc.f are as follows:
The list of data types currently included in ucalc.f are as follows: Those denoted xstar1 are not in use in the standard distribution of XSTAR version 2, but are maintained in order to facilitate comparison with the results of XSTAR version 1.
In what follows, T=temperature in K; r1,r2,...=real numbers in record; i1,i2,...=integers in record; c1,c2,...=characters in record
rate=aax*expo(log(t)*bbx)*(1.+ccx*expo(ddx*t))*(1.e-9) ans1=rate*xh0
where xh0 is the number density of neutral hydrogen.
rate=aax*t**bbx*(1.+ccx*expo(ddx*t)) $ *expo(-eex/t)*(1.e-9) ans1=rate*xh1
zeff=r1 beta=zeff*zeff/(6.34*t6) yy=beta vth=(3.10782e+7)*sqrt(t) c fudge factor makes the 2 expressions join smoothly ypow=min(1.,(0.06376)/yy/yy) fudge=1.*(1.-ypow)+(1./1.5)*ypow phi1=(1.735+alog(yy)+1./6./yy)*fudge/2. phi2=yy*(-1.202*alog(yy)-0.298) phi=phi1 if (yy.lt.0.2525) phi=phi2
i1=n, i4=level; i5=ion
i1=lower level; i2=ion;
Verner photoionization cross sections, after D. A. Verner D. G. Yakovlev, 1995, AAS, 109, 125 r1-r6: fitting parameters ; i1=nuclear z ; i2=number of electrons ; i3=subshell ; i4=verner fitting parameter, orbital quantum number of subshell ; i5=final ion stage-initial ion stage ; i6=final level number ; i7=ion
Coefficients for analytic fits to Upsilons for H-like ions according to review by Callaway (1994; ADNDT, 57,9) Data lines contain the following information: reals (coefficients) ; integers (4; lower level, upper level, Z, ion) ; characters (5)
Every line contains: reals (0); integers (5: dummy, lower level, upper level, Z, ion); characters (0).
i3=z; i1=n; i2=l;
Like type 69 but in fine structure.
Every line contains: reals (6; fit coefficients) ; integers (4; lower level, upper level, Z, ion) ; characters (0)
Every line contains: reals (same as 72) (3; auto. rate, energy in eV above the ionization limit, statistical weight) ; integers: lower level, upper ion, upper level, ion ; characters (0)
Just like data type 50. Every line contains: reals (3; Wavelength (A), gf-val., A-val. (cm-1)) ; integers (4; lower level, upper level, Z, ion) ; characters (0)
Every line contains: reals (: (Ne(i),i=1,nd),(Te(i),i=1,nt), coll.rates(ne,kt),ne=1,nt,kt=1,nd), Wavelength (Å)); integers (6: nd, nt, lower level, upper level, Z, ion); characters (0).
Every line contains: reals r1=E=1(eV); r2=(2J+1); r3=n; r4=Ion. Potential; i1=n; i2=(2S+1); i3=L; i4=Z; i5=lev; i6=ion) ; c1-c=configuration.
Different data type used in order to merge with non-Auger levels when assembling database. These data come from the compilation of Kaastra and Mewe (1993). They are gradually being replaced by more accurate level-to-level data. As of v.21l and later, this has been done for iron and for oxygen. In version 2.1kn4 and earlier, this data was used for all elements.
r1=line wavelength (A) ; r2=f value ; i1=lower level index ; i2=upper level index
not used
Every line contains: reals r1=; ; i1=lower level; i2=upper level; i3=ion);
Energy separation is obtained from level data.
(from Gu et al. 2006)
Reals: r1=wavelength (A); r2=; r3=gf; r4=A ; r5=A; r6=A; i1=lower level; i2=upper level;
(from Gu et al. 2006)
Same as type 6:
Every line contains: reals r1=E=1(eV); r2=(2J+1); r3=n; r4=Ion. Potential; i1=n; i2=(2S+1); i3=L; i4=Z; i5=lev; i6=ion) ; c1-c=configuration.
No longer used
Calculates photoionization cross section due to summation of resonances near inner shell edges ala Palmeri et al., 2002 Ap.J.Lett.577, 119.
Every line contains: reals r2=E(Ry); r3=f parameter; r4=; r5=scaling factor; i1=lower level; i2=ion;
(from Palmer et al. 2003AA...410..359P, Mendoza et al 2004AA...414..377M; Palmeri et al., 2003AA...403.1175P; Garcia et al., 2005ApJS..158...68G)
reals: r2=A (s); integers: i1= final level (relative to final ion); i4=final ion i2= initial level; i5=initial ion
Format is like types 49: Photon energies are in Ry with respect to the first ionization threshold and cross sections are in Mb. Every line contains: reals (2*np; x(i),y(i),i=1,np) ; integers (8; N, L, 2*J, Z, lev+, nion+, nlev, nion) ; characters (0) ; (ion nlev correspond to the initial state and ion+ lev+ correspond to the state to which that ionizes.)


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Am I Overweight?
I am 13 and I weigh 159 lbs. I am 5` 1\2″. Help me.
Although you do not say whether you are a boy or girl, from the information you gave me, you are considered to be overweight. I recommend that you speak to your parents about your concern and ask for them to take you to your doctor. The doctor can advise you on the best action to take. If you are very athletic, the weight may be muscle instead of fat and this is OK. However, if your extra weight is from fat, you may be told to try to maintain your current weight (stop the weight gain) and just "grow into it" – meaning that as you grow taller, you will slim down. You may also be referred to a registered dietitian (RD) for help. The RD will help you plan a healthy diet as well as encourage a more active lifestyle (the more you move, the more calories you will burn which will result in some weight loss).
On average, a 13-year-old boy needs about 2500 calories per day and a 13-year-old girl needs about 2200 calories per day to fuel normal daily activities and keep their body healthy. This will vary with how active you are. You can visit the ChooseMyPlate.gov website and find out what a healthy diet should be for you. It will show you how much food from each food group you should be eating every day.
You can also look at what you are eating and drinking now. If you find that you fill up on sweet drinks (pop, juice drinks, etc), snack foods (chips, candy, cookies), or fast foods, these would be the foods to cut down or out first. They give you a lot of calories and very little nutrition. Use these only as occasional foods. Instead, try to choose more fruits, vegetables, non-fat milk, lean meats, and whole grain foods. These foods are full of nutrients and fill you up, so you are less likely to overeat.
Listen to your body signals, too. If you are hungry, it is time to eat. If you are full, it is time to stop eating. Ask yourself, are you eating because you are hungry or for some other reason (such as because it is there, others are eating, you are bored, etc)? Any reason, other than hunger, is not a good reason to eat. Also, sometimes when we feel hungry, we are really thirsty instead. Try drinking a glass of water and see if the feeling changes.
I hope these suggestions helps to give you a good start. Please remember: talk to your parents and ask for their help. Together, you can make a difference!
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Wolf Trap to Include Demi Lovato, Lyle Lovett, et al. in Summer Season
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces its entire 2012 Summer season, featuring 92 performances at the majestic Filene Center amphitheater, nine evenings of opera at The Barns at Wolf Trap, and 34 performances in 108 days at Wolf Trap's Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods.
Counting Crows
With Special Guests
Wednesday, June 20
Demi Lovato
Hot Chelle Rae
Sunday, June 24
Dirty Heads
Sunday, July 8
Wilco – Two Nights!
w/ special guest Lee Ranaldo Band (of Sonic Youth)
Tuesday, July 17
Wednesday, July 18
Jackson Browne
w/ special guest Sara Watkins
Monday, July 23
Rufus Wainwright
Ingrid Michaelson
Tuesday, July 24
Joe Walsh
Monday, August 13
Lyle Lovett
Tuesday, August 14
John Prine
Emmylou Harris
Wednesday, August 15
w/ special guests Mat Kearney and Andy Grammer
Tuesday, August 21
Wolf Trap Debuts
Several iconic, in-demand, and burgeoning acts make their Wolf Trap debuts in 2012, including the performance of country mega-star Alan Jackson, the high-energy pop of Nick Jr.'s The Fresh Beat Band, indie-folk singer/songwriter Josh Ritter, and the widely popular roots/blues-rock anthems of Ben Harper. Also debuting are two hot summer tours that Rolling Stone has ranked in their top 10 packages of the season, one featuring first-time Wolf Trap artists Barenaked Ladies and Cracker alongside Big Head Todd & The Monsters; the second with Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, and Marcy Playground. 39 artists (26 headliners and 13 special guests) total will make their Wolf Trap debut this summer including all the above.
NSO@Wolf Trap: Nine Performances Including Full Length Films and Video Game Magic!
Wolf Trap welcomes back Emil de Cou as the NSO@Wolf Trap Festival Conductor, taking the baton for four of nine NSO@Wolf Trap performances. Wolf Trap is pleased to present an eclectic mix of full movies, stunning visual imagery, and exciting live music by the National Symphony Orchestra, including the all new symphonic concert The Legend of ZELDA in celebration of the 25th anniversary of one of the industry's most beloved video games. Other NSO@Wolf Trap performances include Broadway ROCKS featuring hits from Dream Girls, Hairspray, Phantom of the Opera and more; The Music of John Williams; multi-award winning conductor and Wolf Trap Board member Marvin Hamlisch; full film versions of The Wizard of Oz and West Side Story with the full scores played live by the NSO; The Planets - An HD Odysessy featuring new NASA images; Beethoven's 9th; and the Tony award-winning Broadway sensation, Idina Menzel.
Wolf Trap Opera Company (WTOC) Presents New Productions Celebrating the Bad Boys of Summer and the Women Who Love Them
The GRAMMY-nominated, nationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Opera Company, a residency program for the finest rising professionals in the operatic industry, proudly presents its select group of Filene Young Artists and Studio Artists for the 2012 Summer season. These singers were selected during a nationwide talent search and will perform new productions of Don Giovanni and The Rake's Progress, in addition to recitals and concerts. The two dozen artists selected to join the Wolf Trap Opera Company have risen above hundreds of their peers, showcasing the best emerging talent in the field at The Barns at Wolf Trap.
World and D.C. Premiere Dance Commissioned by Wolf Trap
The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces performances from two famed dance companies in Ballet Hispanico and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to be presented during the Summer 2012 season. These two internationally acclaimed companies offer stunning performances in two completely varied-but equally brilliant-styles of dance. On September 8, Wolf Trap will unveil Face of America: Spirit of South Florida, its seventh installment as part of the world renowned Face of America series. Patrons will be taken on an artistic journey through one of the world's largest ecosystems with innovative choreography from internationally acclaimed Parsons Dance company and stunning visuals by film crew Blue Land Media, set to live music from GRAMMY nominated Cuban-American band Tiempo Libre and a recording of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird's album Useless Creatures.
Sensational Pop, Rock & Country Plus Two Unforgettable Nights with A Prairie Home Companion
The Filene Center lights up the Northern Virginia area almost nightly with some of the finest touring acts of today. Two nights of the beloved A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor with special guests Sara Watkins and Heather Masse opens the 2012 Summer season, followed by the Summer Blast Off! with fireworks sponsored by USAA.
Wolf Trap is proud to feature the revered Crosby, Stills & Nash for a performance of their greatest hits and new material; award-winning classical-crossover group Il Divo; the ultimate showman in standards Barry Manilow performing for two nights; country-music powerhouse Martina McBride with special guest David Nail; Bonnie Raitt with special guest Mavis Staples; Steve Winwood; and the one-two pop punch of Gavin DeGraw and Colbie Caillat. Additional featured pop and rock performances include Norah Jones, Dead Can Dance, Al Green and Taj Mahal, a cappella sensations Straight No Chaser, and the smooth instrumental collective of Yanni.
Highly anticipated Wolf Trap favorites include Steve Miller Band for two nights; The Temptations and The Four Tops; Wolf Trap's 23rd Annual Louisiana Swamp Romp™; Broadway sensation RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles; and the final U.S. stop of Riverdance.
Timeless Musical Theatre For the Entire Family
Families will have numerous opportunities to relish the joy of musical theatre at Wolf Trap during the Summer 2012 season featuring the Broadway traveling show of South Pacific based on the 2008 Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater production. Also perfect for Broadway aficionados and family outings are Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, and Sing-A-Long Sound of Music-back by popular audience demand.
Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods
Wolf Trap's 2012 Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods season features a diverse array of performance genres including kindie rock, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and pop-rock, as well as Irish dance, ballet, puppetry, and musical theatre. Thirteen new artists will grace the outdoor stage nestled in the woods behind the Filene Center. Debuts include (but are not limited to) Justin Roberts, The Jimmies, ELIZABETH MITCHELL, Eric Brace & Peter Cooper, Aaron Nigel Smith, German puppeteer Matthias Kuchta, jazz group Coal Train Railroad, and the drama ensemble Pushcart Players. Three audience favorites will also return this year: the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, DinoRock, and pop-rock singer Robbie Schaefer, the guitarist for the popular Virginia-based pop band Eddie from Ohio and host of Sirus XM Radio's Kids Place Live. New this year, Theatre-in-the-Woods will feature one performance per day, Tuesdays through Saturdays at a new time of 10:30 am.
Wolf Trap is committed to the presentation of accessible and affordable arts experiences to the broadest possible audience. Wolf Trap offers tickets as low as $4, continues to allow patrons to bring their own food and beverages into the park, and provides metro accessibility and free parking for all shows at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
Tickets for Wolf Trap's 2012 performances can be purchased online at www.wolftrap.org, by phone at 1(877)WOLFTRAP, or at the Wolf Trap Box Office located at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts at 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia. For more information, please call Wolf Trap at (703) 255-1868.


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مقالي بالانجليزية حول الاستفتاء السويسري على المآذن Misunderstanding the Minaret
|Misunderstanding the minaret
Tarek Kahlaoui | Arab News
THE controversy over the Swiss vote against the construction of new minarets seems to emphasize political and constitutional issues, notably the restructuring of many right-wing parties around the issue of a "European-Christian" identity standing against an "Islamization of Europe" and the possible conflict between the democratic right to make decisions by voting and the constitutional principle of freedom of faith. Yet the main argument suggested to support the ban position is rarely discussed.
The basic reasoning of the ban position is presented in a flyer prepared by the "Federal Popular Initiative Against Minarets", which is initiated by a provincial "Egerkinger Kommittee", and it focuses on the significance of the minaret. The key idea lays in the following assertion: "The minaret is an expression of willingness to have politico-religious power." The two-page flyer suggests that this is the case because the minaret "has nothing to do with faith," and also because of what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in 1997 when he compared, playing with the words of a 1912 Ottoman poem, the minarets to "the bayonets" in an Islamist march to power.
Rejecting Erdogan's statement as irrelevant to this discussion or especially to use it as proof that building minarets signify an intention of politico-religious conquest by Switzerland's Muslim diaspora is the easier part. Since Erdogan also suggested then that the domes of mosques are their "helmets", then it would be incomprehensible not to include the "domes" in the referendum. Then the "Egerkinger Kommittee" should include the "believers" themselves as a forbidden entity because they are characterized in the same quote as Erdogan's "soldiers". Obviously what is said rhetorically by a man at a time when he was still part of an Islamist hard-core group involved in a heated debate in the Turkey of 1990s should not be even considered as a statement of any worth in the debate over the meaning of the minaret for more than one billion Muslims.
So the more serious discussion is not about one single political statement at one single point in time but about the significance of the minaret throughout time. It is true that Muslims began the tradition of adhan (call to prayer), which is frequently and wrongly seen as the minaret's primary function, even before minarets came into existence. It should be noted here that the Swiss objection does not seem to be primarily focused on the function of prayer calling, for none of the four existing minarets in Switzerland is actually used for that purpose.
But what is perceived now as exclusively Islamic minarets are in fact inherently pre-Islamic, notably Christian. Minarets were introduced in the process of conquest such as in the earliest surviving imperial mosque — the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus — in the beginning of the 8th century. Minarets were in this case an appropriation of a Byzantine church's bell towers.
Slowly minarets became one of the elements asserting the grandeur and influence of big mosques financed by the early Islamic states, notably between the 8th and the 10th centuries. The Damascus Mosque's minarets seem to have been imitated later in the 10th century when the rulers of Andalusian Cordoba were aspiring to rival the major Islamic eastern caliphates. The helicoidal 9th century minarets in the mosques of the Abbasid city of Samarra, which are the largest mosques in pre-modern history, seem to have been imitated in Egypt in the same century. Yet minarets were not a constant element. In the eastern Islamic lands, especially within the Persian space, minarets seem to play a minor role. At some point in the 14th century minarets in Iran were simply decorative accessories for huge portals with big domes in the background.
It is probably with the Turkic dynasties, culminating with the Ottomans since the 15th century, that minarets would be equated with Islamic images in the Western European imaginaire. It has been widely reported in the European travelogues that one of the first acts of Ottomans after conquering Constantinople in 1453 was the insertion of a minaret at one of the corners of the Byzantine church of Haghia Sophia. In fact, the Ottomans seemed to have used the minaret as one of the elements to visually appropriate conquered Byzantine churches and convert them to mosques. They tended also to build monumental minarets, sometimes four, in their new mosques.
Whatever its meaning in the premodern era, the minaret's signification seems to have been reshaped starting from the end of the 19th century. In the various Exposition Universelle, especially those held in France, we could see the creation of a fixed Orientalist architectural identity where a "Muslim building" would have certain elements indicating its Islamic nature. At the corners of manufactured models that are meant to represent the French colonies in predominantly Islamic territories we would see rounded or octagonal minarets even in what seem to be secular buildings. Paradoxically, this is exactly how the earliest Islamic, notably Ottoman Turkish, buildings looked like by the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Mirroring the Orientalist models, modern Muslims tended to assign to themselves specific architectural elements in order to create an identity that is visually recognizable.
When the Islamic postcolonial nation states emerged, especially since the 1950s, some actually opted for less typical models blurring the boundaries between secular and religious buildings. But the tendency created in the Orientalist 19th century context emphasizing a fixed architectural identity was reinforced in many other cases. This is the example, especially of the mosques that were built in or financed by Gulf states. Even in the more vernacular architecture by the Egyptian Hasan Fathy, the minaret was selected along the dome.
It is within the latter tendencies that we should understand the mosques of the Muslim diaspora. As has been demonstrated by Renata Holod and Hasan-Uddin Khan in their voluminous and well researched "Contemporary Mosque": "The development of a Muslim diaspora has meant that the mosque has become a repository of identity and authenticity for those who have found themselves distanced from their home countries... The newly developed 'global mosque' allows for little movement away from the use of the formulaic dome and minaret."
It thus appears that the historical significance of the minaret was not homogenic. It seems that the dominant tendency, especially within the Muslim diaspora, was the construction of minarets as an act of cultural affiliation and remembrance rather than of expressing dominance. It is utterly simplistic to assign to the minaret the intention of politico-religious conquest, for even in the case of Muslim hard-liners, their specific understanding of one single architectural element is defined by the dominant modern view of their community that is of cultural affiliation and remembrance rather than by their explicit political views.
The opposition to the minaret by a majority of Swiss voters is certainly due to some complicated factors. Cultural assumptions shaped over centuries and only reinforced by current political events and by dominant Islamic self-representations play a more profound role to make a majority of people assign a certain "willingness to have politico-religious power" to the minaret.
Yet in this case the most apparent meaning, especially in the case of a diaspora, seems to be rather defensive. As much as the Swiss are in need of historicizing their understanding of Islamic visual representations, Muslims should engage more with their visual context and refrain from unidimensional self-representations. Because if it is misleading to assume that their insistence on the presence of the minaret is suggestive of intentions of domination, it is probably true that the rigid affiliation to one single architectural model (the dome-minaret model) is representative of an isolated and meager visual imagination, which is not very helpful for any diaspora.
— Tarek Kahlaoui is assistant professor of Islamic art history and history at Rutgers University, NJ. He can be contacted at: email@example.com


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