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PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive – Don Merrill
August 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for a look at a new project by journalist Don Merrill: Pledge: the Public Radio Fund Drive, a deep look into the tenuous finances of public radio stations.
Merrill got the idea for PLEDGE because he was annoyed by pledge drives he'd been hearing since the mid 90s, and he decided he wanted to rant about them. But he quickly realized that public radio is in a terrible spot between money and mission. Going deeper, he learned of things affecting the genre that most people never consider as they listen to their regular shows for days, weeks, months and years on end.
They include hunts for the ultimate content sharing technology, public radio's struggles to not lose its soul to corporate money, how it must surveil its listeners to serve them without treating them like numbers or "prey", how budget cuts can make stations change character or disappear altogether and finally, keeping affiliates from feeling bypassed by networks that have found workarounds to their audiences.
Public radio needs its listeners to understand it much better than they currently can. That's because public radio hides its problems and convinces the world that everything is fine while facing stress fractures in every direction. It needs to be open and honest about what it essentially is, and needs, as when it asks for money. A greater public can more fully support it only if they know the real deal.
A lifelong journalist and writer, Don Merrill has created commentary for newspapers, articles for magazines and news and public affairs for on-air.
He's been a producer and reporter for civilian and Armed Forces Broadcasting, worked for the Cincinnati Enquirer and was a public affairs specialist for the Federal Government. He especially loves working in radio and has been an avid public radio listener and supporter.
PLEDGE is his first book.
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- August 15, 2019
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Lots of Jurors Questions
Aired March 6, 2013 - 21:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DR. DREW PINSKY, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, much more of our exclusive never-before-seen video of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander together as a couple. JACOB MEFFORD, KNOWS JODI, KNEW TRAVIS: She literally just had a jacket on at a business event with nothing underneath it, just buttoned up, and it was completely inappropriate for, you know, what we were doing. PINSKY: The man behind the camera is back to tell us about the baby talk, the manipulation, and why he says he wants to kick Jodi in the face. Plus this -- day 16: Jodi on the stand. The jurors ask -- JUDGE: Why did you put the camera in the washer? Why did you call the cops on your ex, who shook you, but you never called the cops on Travis? Why did you feel so uncomfortable about anal sex with Travis when you had previously tried it? PINSKY: Jodi answers. JODI ARIAS, MURDER DEFENDANT: That`s one of the reasons I got the K- Y. It made it less uncomfortable. PINSKY: Let us get started. (MUSIC) (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: A lot to get into tonight. Thanks for joining us. My co- host this week, Jenny Hutt from Sirius XM radio. And we have got more of that never-before-seen video of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander, together as a couple. You will hear what Travis was saying during that film. He was talking about something very disturbing. It`s more disturbing to me was Jodi`s response to his disturbing story. You`ll see what I`m talking about. Joining us: criminologist, profiler, and attorney Casey Jordan. I also have Florida prosecutor Stacey Honowitz. But first, Jodi answering dozens and dozens of questions from the jury. Take a look. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JUDGE: Why did you put the camera in the washer? ARIAS: I don`t have memory of that. I don`t know why I would do that. JUDGE: Why would you continue to sleep with Travis after you learned of his child porn issues? ARIAS: That was not a side of Travis that -- that he wanted to even exist. And, of course, I didn`t want it to exist. JUDGE: How did you have time to get the gun down if he was right behind you? ARIAS: I don`t know if he was right behind me or not. I just had the sense that he was chasing after me. JUDGE: Why did you feel so uncomfortable about anal sex with Travis when you had previously tried it? ARIAS: In my previous relationships it was only something we tried. JUDGE: Did you take pictures of the spider-man underwear? If no, why not? ARIAS: I did not take pictures of those because that`s embarrassing. JUDGE: If you had bruises that were visible after the April 2008 incident, why is it no one else said anything to you about those bruises? ARIAS: The same day that the bruises occurred there was a PPL associate who made a joke about it. It was very embarrassing. JUDGE: What is your relationship with your mother like today? ARIAS: It is very complicated. And it`s very strained. Her and I, we rub each other the wrong way, all day long. But nonetheless, there is a deep love there. JUDGE: You testified that you reported your cell phone lost in May of 2008. When and where was it found? ARIAS: I left it in my grandfather`s vehicle when I ran in to pay for Chinese takeout. My aunt found it. Actually, she`s sitting right over there in the front row. JUDGE: What is your understanding of the word "skank"? Did you ever seek medical help for your medical condition? ARIAS: I`m not sure what mental condition that refers to. (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: Strangely enough, we`re all clear about the medical condition, or at least that she has some mental condition. Be that as it may. "In Session" correspondent Beth Karas witnessed the back and forth. Beth, what was her definition of "skank"? BETH KARAS, "IN SESSION" CORRESPONDENT: Oh, she just said it was a pejorative term for women. She didn`t really go beyond that. She didn`t say a promiscuous woman or someone like that. She just said a pejorative term. PINSKY: And, Beth, watching the back and forth today, this was yet another Jodi on the stand. She seemed much more animated, much more enthusiastic, sort of -- I had the sense, and, Beth, you tell me if this was true in the room, that she felt like oh, you guys know me, I`m your friend, I`m just going to explain to you how this all went down and we`ll wash our hands of this craziness and get on with our lives. KARAS: Well, you know, she knew these questions in advance because she had reviewed them with her attorney in the morning. There was a lot of hurry up and wait in the morning as the attorneys argued over the questions. But she knew them. So she had at least a few hours to think about her answers to them, and she knew this is where the jury is coming from. This is what they want to know about me. So, you know, maybe she felt this is my opportunity to really sell myself. Did she do it? I don`t know. But, Drew, they were submitting more questions while these questions were being asked of her. PINSKY: Oh, my goodness. KARAS: So I don`t know how many more we`re going to get tomorrow. JENNY HUTT, CO-HOST: This is what upsets me. I`m like a girl`s girl, Dr. Drew. PINSKY: I get that. HUTT: And I have zero compassion for her. PINSKY: So you get nothing? HUTT: Nothing. PINSKY: So the men are creeped out. We don`t like her. Women -- I thought some women -- Beth, I heard some of the jurors were actually smiling when their questions were being answered. Is that true? KARAS: You know, I didn`t see smiles. I can`t say that that didn`t occur because I can`t see all the faces at all times and I was also taking notes feverishly and trying to see what else was going on in the courtroom. But you know, maybe so. And we don`t know how many of the 18 jurors submitted these questions. Maybe most of them come from five of the jurors. It`s not as though they`re deliberating and talking, these are questions they have among themselves. These may be just a few very inquisitive jurors. PINSKY: OK. I hope not. Well, maybe. I`m just wondering if two of them are going to hold up the whole train here and keep everyone in that courtroom for weeks. But, Casey, do you think the jury is buying the "new Casey" we`re seeing? Do you think there is any change in the relationship she has with the jury? CASEY JORDAN, PH.D., ATTORNEY: If they`re smiling and continue to submit questions, it is because inherently their questions are mocking her. I think this list of questions should be 150 reasons why we don`t believe you. And the answers are almost inconsequential. They`re rehearsed. The jury I think is just again letting her have enough rope to hang herself. PINSKY: And you agree, Stacey? STACEY HONOWITZ, FLORIDA PROSECUTOR: I agree 100 percent, Drew. I think she`s the most manipulative individual that I`ve seen probably in the 25 years that I`ve been prosecuting. And I think you`re right. I think that she`s trying to play to the jurors. And I think this is her opportunity to be a totally different person, to ingratiate them. And really what she`s doing is like Casey said, she`s hanging herself more. They`re loving the fact that she`s conflicting herself each time. PINSKY: It`s actually powerful that Stacey said. Stacey`s like me. She deals with a lot of people, a lot of pathologies. So, done with (INAUDIBLE) meaningful when Stacey says that. HUTT: Well, I also like that every time she answers a question, she then adds more to the answer which gets her in more trouble. She should just be answering the question directly. PINSKY: I think she really -- Casey, I really think she`s deluding herself. She looks to enthusiastic about the way she`s talking to that jury. I think she believes her own nonsense. JORDAN: You`re absolutely right. It`s a process of self- brainwashing. And to her, it`s all theater. And we know she loves drama. She`s inherently an actress. I mean, skank? Of course, it`s a derogatory word towards women. But let`s tell the truth. It`s not harpy. It`s not bimbo. It is sexually promiscuous. It`s skivvy. But she doesn`t want to say the words out loud. She just wants credit for being derogatory because that`s what Travis called her. PINSKY: Casey, I like it when you describe it better. HONOWITZ: Drew, can I ask you one question? PINSKY: Real quick, Stacey, close it out. HONOWITZ: I mean, do you feel that she is being manipulative? I mean, you deal with people all the time and you see these conditions. PINSKY: Yes. HONOWITZ: Obviously, she is trying to play to an audience now and I think she thoroughly loves the spotlight. I think she loves the attention. PINSKY: I think, I`m getting to that point, Stacey. I really am. In fact, when you articulated it, I was thinking, yes, I think that`s about right. We`re about there now. Now, next up we`re going to see more of Jodi and Travis together in exclusive footage. More of that tape we showed you last time. We`ve got a bunch of it. And it`s stunning in a lot of ways. And we`re going to have the panel you`re seeing tonight and many others analyze what`s going on in that video. There it is. There she is, curled up like a kitty cat in his lap. A kitty cat with a big knife. (LAUGHTER) PINSKY: And later, a woman who Jodi approached for hair tips. Details of that are disturbing. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRAVIS ALEXANDER, VICTIM: To think this is how you die. This is it. There was this woman that was seeing all this, from like 10 feet away. She started like crying uncontrollably. So I got a gun against my temple and he keeps doing this with his gun. And she`s over here, so I`m looking in my peripheral because I don`t want to turn this way. And I`m like, shut up. And he`s like shut up. Shut up. And I got this gun against my head and all he needs to do is squeeze. So I`m like this woman is going to get killed. I`m look looking at her with all the despair I can muster up in my retina. Do you know what I mean? And it was -- it was -- it sucked. (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: Oh, that was -- welcome back. That was exclusive video of Jodi and Travis. It`s so sad when you see him telling that story, when you know where this all went. I mean, for him, sad. For her, spooky. We are going to show you much more of that video. We showed just a second here. Back with my co-host, Jenny Hutt. First of all, a mea culpa. I called Casey Jordan, Casey Anthony. That`s how mired we are in this Jodi Arias case. I`m emotionally thrown back to last summer, or the summer before last. Joining us now is Travis Alexander`s friends Hollie and Jacob Mefford. Hollie is the woman behind the camera. And, Jacob, how does the Jodi we see on the stand, and we`ve seen several different ones, frankly -- but how does the one we`ve come to know on the stand compare with the one we now see in your video? J. MEFFORD: She`s completely disconnected. I mean, as you can tell in the video, you know, we were all captivated by what was going on and what he was saying, and she`s completely apathetic. You know, she`s completely disconnected. She`s not the center of attention in this moment. You can even see when she, you know, raises up. She`s like, basically, like let`s go to -- let`s go to bed, let`s get out of here. You know, she pulls her arm off of -- his arm off of her nonchalantly like it`s no big deal. It`s just that`s Jodi. Once again, just not connected, not -- doesn`t care about anybody else but herself. HUTT: But there`s also just so much PDA. I feel like if I were somewhere in a group with my husband I wouldn`t be lying all over him -- PINSKY: Well, and Jodi on the stand has been saying how he wouldn`t let anyone see them together and they weren`t -- HUTT: Right. PINSKY: -- they would never display affection in public. And that`s not the case, Jacob, from your standpoint, is that right? J. MEFFORD: Oh, absolutely not. He was very respectful. PINSKY: Yes. All right. Let`s take another look now at another piece of the clip from Jacob`s video. Watch this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ALEXANDER: There he is. Get the F on the ground. You know. And it`s like oh, snap, it`s over. He put me down on my knees and was asking for the phone. And he said I had like five seconds to distribute the wad. I`m seeing myself face down, blood, full of blood. And I`m like this is death. This is death. They say that your life flashes before your eyes. Well, I can`t say that. But it`s amazing how many thoughts that you can distribute, I mean, get out of your mind in a few seconds. (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: Again, it`s just so spooky and sad to know what happened to poor Travis. Jacob, now, first of all, you want to know from the control room, can people see that video online somewhere at HLNTV? Yes, please go to HLNTV.com. You can watch -- will they be able to see the entirety? OK. The entirety is available for you guys online, HLNTV.com. Please go there. Because, Jacob, he was discussing a crime scene where he nearly got killed. And it seems -- you can get a better sense of the story here if you watch the whole thing online. But it seems like Jodi listening to him tell a story about a near-death experience, he`s talking about his life flashing before his eyes. She could not give a damn. She couldn`t care less. Is that what I`m seeing here? J. MEFFORD: Yes, absolutely. That`s what makes it so crazy. I mean, you know, obviously, we didn`t know what was going to happen to Travis. So why were we even recording it? Well, because it was a crazy story. Once again, it`s a near-death experience in Travis`s life in which he conquered and came through. And really, my wife felt the need to capture it. We don`t know why. I mean, now maybe it`s -- there`s a reason that maybe shed the light on the world of what`s going on. But yes, she could care less. That`s definitely Jodi. PINSKY: And, Hollie, how long before Travis`s death was this video taken? HOLLIE MEFFORD, KNOWS JODI, KNEW TRAVIS: This would have been a year and a half earlier prior to his death. PINSKY: Eighteen months. H. MEFFORD: Yes, about 18 months. PINSKY: And, Hollie, last night you said something rather striking. You said if you had a boyfriend or husband did not want the video alongside of me here in the video with your husband or boyfriend. H. MEFFORD: Right. PINSKY: Tell me about that. H. MEFFORD: She was just one of those women that you knew -- or at least I knew that she would use whatever manipulation she could to get what she wanted out of someone. HUTT: Almost unrelenting? H. MEFFORD: Yes. Absolutely. And very cunning, very calculated. She knew exactly what she was doing in every conversation, every interaction, even to the smallest -- even in this video. She`s calculated in what she`s doing. HUTT: And I do think, Dr. Drew, maybe you`ll agree with me, that women can sense this in other women, and maybe that`s the hope with the jury, that women on the jury will be able to sense this about her. PINSKY: I hope so. Because she`s showing us a different -- she`s so manipulative. She`s showing us a different face on the stand there. Now, Hollie, when you see that video from that day, I guess this isn`t a fair question. I mean, I was going to ask, did you imagine she was somebody capable of killing? H. MEFFORD: I knew from the moment I met her that she was someone that was capable of doing something that I didn`t like. I didn`t think it would be this -- PINSKY: Hollie, you say things sometimes that actually give me chills. Last -- it kind of gives me the willies when you say that because that`s so prescient of what happened here. I mean, to say this woman was capable of almost anything, I didn`t respect a slaughter, which we`ve got. But this is a dangerous person. And that -- I feel so bad for Travis and his family. H. MEFFORD: Yes. PINSKY: All right. We`re going to stay with you guys. We`ve got more of this video to show you guys tonight. Reminder that HLN is the only place for complete Jodi Arias coverage. Don`t forget, HLNTV.com, open 24/7, with tons of up-to-date Arias archives, including our video. Now, next, Travis`s friends will reveal more about the Jodi they know. And later, just a little bit later in the show, we`re going to have our behavior bureau, they`re here and what doe s Jodi say? We`re going to analyze it with a panel of experts. What she`s saying in this video, in the courtroom, what does she say without talking? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) PINSKY: Welcome back. I`m here with my co-host this week, Jenny Hutt. We have more exclusive video of Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias. Now, Jenny, during the commercial break I was saying I want to get the perspective of women on this, how you feel watching this woman and I -- a couple things for me. HUTT: Yes? PINSKY: I`m so upset I`m afraid I`m going to like curse or something bad is going to come out of my mouth because this is very upsetting material. HUTT: Right. PINSKY: Seeing a woman curled up on this guy`s lap behaving like a little feline. HUTT: Right. PINSKY: Doctors knowing that, you know, in one pocket is a gun, the other is a knife. I`ll tell you what else. I`m sorry. I`m asking for your feelings and I`m all upset. HUTT: I just want to tell you. PINSKY: And let me just say -- HUTT: All right. PINSKY: -- I reviewed the autopsy photos again. They are available - - please go to HLNTV.com and take a look at what`s there. When you see the autopsy photos, it just is all over. You can`t imagine the brutality this woman unleashed on this man. HUTT: Right. So this is what I think. I look at her and I see this jealous, possessive, just disgusting girl. And it bothers me, like I said earlier, because I typically don`t feel that way about other women. But she has this way of like moving in and sort of like he`s her prey and she possesses him. PINSKY: OK. Hollie, is that accurate? H. MEFFORD: Yes, it is. Absolutely. PINSKY: Hang on, Hollie. I`m going to have to interrupt you. I want to take a look at some more of the video. Let`s get a look at it and I`m going to get right back to you. Here we go. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ALEXANDER: He`s like give me your wallet. To think this is how you die. This is it. I start weighing the odds. I`m not -- you know, he may not know me. He may. And you wonder like, well, would I be one of those tough people that`s like pull the trig yore whatever. Or one of those people who talks like their tough or -- you know. (INAUDIBLE) or whatever. Just to see how you`d react. So I got a gun against my temple. He keeps like doing this with the gun. All he needs to do is squeeze. You know? (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: Hollie, what did you want to finish with there? Go ahead. H. MEFFORD: I was just going to say that Jodi`s crazy. I`m sorry. I don`t remember. I got so engrossed in that video of Travis every time I see it. PINSKY: Well, let me ask both of you. It has to be emotional for you guys. This was your friend we`re looking at here. We`re look at him in an animated moment. Talking about -- this is what kills me -- talking about a near-death experience. And we all know he had that again and it ended differently. H. MEFFORD: Yes. PINSKY: Jacob, the question I have, he talks in this video about how he responded to someone holding a gun to his head. He becomes frozen. Do you imagine that is how he responded to Jodi himself? J. MEFFORD: I think he was absolutely in a panic. I mean, Travis is not a fighter. He`s a lover. He`s not somebody who`s a physically violent person at all. So, I can only imagine how scared he was. I think she totally guerrilla warfare, sucker punch, took him by surprise, and, you know, it was over before he even knew it began. PINSKY: Hollie, I feel like you`re -- what are you feeling? I feel like you`ve got more to tell us. What are you feeling there? H. MEFFORD: You know, I`ve thought about often what maybe his last thoughts were. PINSKY: Oh. H. MEFFORD: And I`m sure he was so scared. And I always feel like he was shocked, like this person that he -- he didn`t think that she had it in him -- when I told him, Travis, I don`t think that Jodi`s a good person. I don`t think she`s the person you should be with. He said, you know what? You`ve got it wrong. She wouldn`t hurt a fly. She`s a great person. PINSKY: Oh, can you imagine? H. MEFFORD: And I feel like those last moments he realized -- you know, he knew before but he realized in those last moments that she was really capable of what his friends and maybe deep down he thought she was capable of doing. PINSKY: It`s just -- HUTT: So sad. PINSKY: Yes. It`s sad. It gives you a horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach. Jacob, Hollie, thank you for sharing the video. Thank you for coming in and talking with us. I know it`s got to be very disturbing for you guys. J. MEFFORD: Sure. PINSKY: So, hang in there. Now, next up, his friends say Travis was a great guy and funny. We`re going to talk about the man who is missed by many. And later, was Jodi what someone described as a soulless zombie? We have someone who knew her and describes her as that and a few other choice adjectives as well. We`ll be right back. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JUAN MARTINEZ, PROSECUTOR: Yes or no? Were you able to see her face or not? ARIAS: Part of it was shadowed from the TV behind her. I saw part of it. MARTINEZ: Judge, she`s not answering my question, if you can instruct her. JUDGE: Miss Arias, listen carefully to the question. Answer only the question you are asked. ARIAS: OK. JUDGE: You may continue. ARIAS: Like a linebacker, he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. But before he did that as he was lunging at me, the gun went off. I didn`t mean to shoot him or anything. I didn`t even think I was pulling the trigger. I was just pointing it at him. And I didn`t even know that I shot him. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander? ARIAS: I have no memory of stabbing him. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma`am, this is a very small closet, isn`t it? ARIAS: No. It`s bigger than the cell that I live in. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s bigger than what? ARIAS: It`s bigger than the cell that I live in. It`s not a small closet. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma`am, we don`t want to know where you live in. Do you understand that? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you climbed on the shelf to grab the gun in a hurry, how is it that nothing was disorganized in Travis` closet? ARIAS: I only had to step on the edge with my foot. I put up one foot. I only had to just -- well, it`s a shelf. So, I just had to grip the edge and grab it. After I shot him, I didn`t know that I shot him, but after the gun went off, he -- while he was lunging at me we fell over and he was trying to get on top of me. It`s hard to describe the fear. (END VIDEOTAPE) DR. DREW PINSKY, HOST: The many versions of the Jodi Arias we`ve seen on the stand. Extra manipulative outtakes there. I`m back with my co- host, Jenny Hutt. Now, I`ve asked -- begged, in fact, our producers to get this next group of guests together. Sly, smart, observant professionals who can tell us what Jodi says even when she`s not speaking. We are calling them the behavior bureau -- behavior bureau. There they are. Cheryl Arutt is a forensic psychologist. We`ve also got criminal profiler, Casey "Don`t Call Me Casey Anthony" Jordan -- (LAUGHTER) PINSKY: -- is still with us. CASEY JORDAN, PH.D., ATTORNEY: Happens all the time, Drew. PINSKY: I hope not. Casey, what does all this mean? You first, then Cheryl. JORDAN: Oh, gosh. I seriously think it was a huge misstep for her to answer these questions with so much detail. And then, the flip side is, everything we really want to know, once again, "I can`t remember." "I can`t recall." I mean, through all of this, all these weeks, she`s been superficial, avoidant, obfuscating, and she is just downright maddening. I see these questions as truly a way of making Jodi look even worse than she already does. PINSKY: Cheryl, you`re in. CHERYL ARUTT, PSY.D., FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST: You know, Dr. Drew, she`s just not believable. When she`s answering these questions and talking about the fear, there`s no fear there. Her affect is just completely cool as a cucumber as if she`s detached, and then she puts a little bit of fake emotion in there. And, it`s -- you know, I have to take issue with what you`ve said before, Dr. Drew, about women not being as creeped out as men. Speaking as a woman and probably representing a lot of women out there, trust me, we are just as creeped out. PINSKY: Is it creeped out, Jenny, or is it angry and -- men are like withdrawing -- JENNY HUTT, SIRIUS XM RADIO HOST: No, no. I`m angry with her -- PINSKY: Angry, yes. HUTT: -- because I feel a lot of it is just baloney. It`s a willful memory loss. I think that`s a real thing, right? It`s a choice, right, Dr. Drew? PINSKY: Well, when I magically forget, yes, sure. HUTT: Yes. PINSKY: Expert in this area, Janine Driver, the human lie detector. She is the author of "You Can`t Lie To Me." Janine, you weigh in now. Oh, we don`t have her sound. Is that right? Anybody else hear her? HUTT: No, I don`t hear her. I think she would probably say she`s lying. (LAUGHTER) JORDAN: Drew, I want to -- PINSKY: Go ahead, Casey. JORDAN: Drew, I want to piggyback on what Jenny just said because I think women have absolutely no sympathy whatever for Jodi. I think that`s a complete misread. But, I think they`re really angry because of what this does to genuinely abused, genuinely battered women. PINSKY: Yes. JORDAN: They`re afraid that this could be a huge setback because, now, people will disbelieve them and go back to the abuse excuse. She could be really doing real damage to real victims out there with this dog and pony show. And I think that`s why women are so -- PINSKY: Casey, I think you`re really on to something there because back when this was all getting started, many of us were sort of trying to reach a conclusion about what we were dealing with here. The women who had been through abusive relationships immediately were outraged and angry for the very reason you`re talking about. They intuitively knew that`s not what this is. And they were absolutely right. HUTT: Yes. PINSKY: Now, do we have -- Janine, you`re there? JANIE DRIVER, HUMAN LIE DETECTOR: I think so. (CROSSTALK) PINSKY: There you are. You`re in. Now, you ring in, then we`re going to look at a little video all together. So, go ahead, Janine. DRIVER: Here`s what I think. I think my B.S. barometer is going crazy. And what I call the B.S. barometer is our oldest instinct in our brain, that is, it`s built into us when we are born that determines the virtues and the ethics in others and in ourselves. And it goes crazy with Jodi. Why? She has start-stop sentences. She has the wrong tense. Her cadence of speaking changes. Her mannerism speaking. So, I think our B.S. barometers are taking a real hit with Jodi day after day after day. They`re being worn down. And it`s still going crazy every time she opens her mouth. HUTT: I agree. And like what Casey had said earlier, she just keeps talking and talking and talking. It`s like she just loves to hear herself talk. PINSKY: I think that`s -- but I think she`s buying her own B.S., the bottom line here. HUTT: Yes. PINSKY: Now, let us all teak a look at another clip from the exclusive video of Travis and Jodi. Let`s -- again, we are going to see a side of Travis that, really, I don`t think has been very much seen out there, which is his sense of humor. Take a look at this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s like give me your wallet. I didn`t have my wallet. He said you`ve got five seconds. Anyway, it was a big fiasco. And fortunately, someone else threw their wallet out, which is irrelevant to the story. But he took off and he took my cell phone. So, I call my cell phone. Just I was getting like chains of voicemail to like something. Don`t leave me personal information. Well, I call up. Hello. And I`m like, yes, I`m the guy you stole this phone from. I`d like it back. And he`s like, F you, man. I talked to him for like 30 minutes. Anyways, it was a weird story. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: OK. My behavior bureau has been examining what we just watched as well as the tape we`ve aired previously. I`ll start with you, Janine. What`s your reaction to Jodi`s behavior during Travis talking about something -- a genuinely important experience of his where he nearly lost his life? DRIVER: Right. So, she`s completely not interested, which is obvious. I don`t think you need to be a body language expert to see that. But the interesting part is it`s not just her behavior, Dr. Drew. Look at how the other two people to the left of Jodi are sitting. They have their right leg, which is closest to Jodi, crossed on top. So although Travis, their friend, their good friend, is telling this fascinating story, so fascinating that the two guests you have on tonight took the time to videotape it, but yet, the people sitting right next to Jodi are giving her what I call the cold shoulder. Their bodies are angled away. Their leg closest to her is zeroing out and totally isolating this person who is totally inappropriate, curled up on a couch like my seven- year-old son, Angus, would do if he was tired. It`s ridiculous. PINSKY: Casey. Go ahead, Casey. JORDAN: Yes, same thing. Not just nonchalant and disinterested. But Dr. Drew, she is being disrespectful to the man she`s with. We all have had spouses or partners who tell kind of boring, monotonous stories at dinner parties. You sit up and you smile and you go yes, I`m with him. And you pay attention to the story. And he is so animated. He`s waving his hands around. And she`s annoyed that she has to sit up because he`s being all animated while she`s trying to sleep on his lap. PINSKY: Cheryl? ARUTT: Her behavior is saying this isn`t about me, I`m bored, get me out of here. And he wasn`t telling a boring story. He was telling a story that was sort of showing off his bravado, that you know, I`m a young guy who can face danger -- PINSKY: Yes. ARUTT: -- and persevere. PINSKY: Yes. ARUTT: And trying to impress the people he was with, and she just would have none of it. PINSKY: Yes. Cheryl, I think you`re on to something, because, first, I said feline. Show me the whole panel up there now. I want to show and react something about to say. First, I said feline, then I said feline with a knife, now, I`m going to say castrating kitty. ARUTT: Yes (CROSSTALK) PINSKY: Am I right? Is that in the target zone there? ARUTT: Except for the point that Jenny made on Monday -- PINSKY: Yes. ARUTT: -- which is that curiously, she never went for the genitals when she stabbed him all those times. PINSKY: I`m going to think on that. You`re right, Cheryl. I thought of that when I thought about castrating kitty, but certainly, the feeling is that. That`s the one she gives you. I think, listen, what is castrating but really destroying the person, everything about them? She went all the way past the genitalia and got everything. ARUTT: Right. JORDAN: The heart. She stabbed him in the heart. PINSKY: Janine. DRIVER: Why would she go after the genitals? She dragged his lifeless dead body back to the shower to bathe him to then say you`re mine. You know, Jeffrey Dahmer (ph) tried to turn someone into a zombie by drilling a hole and pouring acid in their brain. PINSKY: That`s what I`m saying. DRIVER: She was saying here`s my little zombie, you belong to me now. PINSKY: I`m going to go now throw up. HUTT: Yes. Me too. PINSKY: Thank you to my panel. We`re going to bring you all back for more conversation about this. This is excellent. Ladies, thank you. Up next, guest -- my next guest calls Jodi stupid, soulless, stalker. She`ll tell us why. Only "S" words. And later, my jurors are back. What would they want to ask Jodi? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) PINSKY: Back with my co-host, Jenny Hutt, following that excellent panel. Julie Christopher back with us. She was one of Travis`s friends. She knew Jodi. Now, Julia, I want to ask you a quick question. You told one of our producers -- first of all, I Heard that maybe you were present in that room or have heard that story that Travis was telling in that video we were just looking at. Is that accurate? JULIE CHRISTOPHER, TRAVIS ALEXANDER`S FORMER CO-WORKER: Yes, sir. And Dr. Drew, you know, can I go ahead and share -- PINSKY: Please. CHRISTOPHER: -- what happened? PINSKY: Please. CHRISTOPHER: OK. Well, you know, we were training, and then, I was sitting down for that training. And Travis came on stage to do his training. And Jodi`s sitting next to me on the left side, on my left side, and she`s got her big camera with her. And at that time, you know, they already have broken up. So, they were not together. So, he came on stage and he said to everyone, you know, I want to share a story. And he was very emotional. And he shared that story that he was -- you know, somebody had a gun at his temple, and then, he was very emotional. I think the whole place got emotional. Except, Dr. Drew, for Jodi. Jodi`s sitting next to me taking pictures. It was so strange that she looked at me. She said, you know, Julie, he changed my life. He`s so beautiful. I love him so much. And she was excited about the story, but more than anything else, taking pictures of Travis like she was getting off on the story. That was just so weird. PINSKY: You`ve also talked to my producers and described Jodi as soulless and stupid. Explain. CHRISTOPHER: You know, zombie-like. The first time I met Jodi, I immediately go into, OK, this is a woman that I don`t want near my husband. She`s very either egocentric, very self-centered. She feels very awkward. And that sexual energy that comes out of her, but it`s not good, you know? Nothing good about her. PINSKY: I get that. We`re all on that page. But let me ask you something. I was going to get into the whole thing about her touching your hair and that whole weirdness, but I want to do something else. You`re in -- what you call an intuitive, right? And you sort of have -- CHRISTOPHER: Yes, sir. PINSKY: -- an intuitive response to these people when you`re around them. I know you warned Travis about her. You saw clouds around him. When you look at this video that we`ve been watching tonight, do you see anything there that you can shed light on for us? CHRISTOPHER: Well, you know, the video is very simple. This is again -- again, you can see that woman careless. This is someone who didn`t care about anybody else but herself. And you know, I never saw this woman around Travis being, you know, affectionate or anything like that. HUTT: She`s being affectionate here, though, but it`s possessive, I think, Dr. Drew. PINSKY: That`s interesting. She`s looking at this video and saying that`s not affectionate, because affectionate would have been somebody saying oh, my God, what a story. I want to hold you. I want to make you respond to your feelings, you know, sort of reflect them. Go ahead. CHRISTOPHER: This is -- exactly the video we see. Jodi was just like a shape and form. You can always see that she was always carrying herself appropriately so everybody -- so she`d get attention for everybody. You know, the hair, the positioning. Very calculated. And you know, and again, I really believe -- and you can even pick up on the video, that it`s almost like she wanted Travis to get away from his business. She wanted to get him out of the circle of friends. PINSKY: That`s a good insight, Julie. I think that`s, in fact, what she tried to do, is isolate him from family and friends. People complained about that. And that`s what people do that are up to no good. Julie, thank you for your thoughts. We really appreciate it here. Next up, my jury. What did my jury in the courtroom think of the real jury`s questions as well as Jodi`s answers? Find out after the break. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why didn`t you call 911? ARIAS: I was very scared of what would happen to me, of what would -- I was scared at that point of what was going to happen. I mean, I knew that -- well, I felt that I had done something wrong. And I don`t have really an adequate explanation for my state of mind following that. (END VIDEO CLIP) PINSKY: It`s time for Drew`s jurors. I`m back with my co-host from Sirius XM radio, Jenny Hutt. Joining us, the jurors, Katie Wick and Cheresa Hanes. All right, Katie, the jury had something like 100 questions today. How do you think Jodi did? KATIE WICK, DR. DREW "JUROR": Well, Jodi always does well answering questions. It`s just is she telling the truth or not? And what I took away today, Dr. Drew, is that Juan Martinez has succeeded, thus far, in poking enough holes in Jodi`s testimony about the abuse. When I was on your show a few weeks ago, I said if he can put doubt in that jury`s mind and get rid of that abuse, there`s no self-defense. And he, thus far, is succeeding, and he, once again, is showing us why he is somebody who put one of the three women on death row in the state of Arizona. I think there`s a better chance today after hearing these jury questions, Jodi might be number two. PINSKY: Cheresa, do you agree with Katie? And one of my guests said that some of these questions were really mocking Jodi. Did that come through in the courtroom? CHERESA HANES, DR. DREW "JUROR": Absolutely. They were mocking Jodi completely. There were some really funny questions. There were some times when we had to contain ourselves from not laughing in the courtroom, because we`re not allowed to do that. And, we can just tell that the jurors are sick and tired of her. They don`t want to see her up there anymore. I`m mad at her being up there. So, I can just imagine how they feel. I know that they want her to get off that stand right now. They don`t want her to be there anymore. PINSKY: Jenny. HUTT: Also, there was just some -- I mean, everything is lies, but there was one time when she was asked was she upset that he was taking another woman to Mexico. Every woman would have been upset when a guy takes another woman to Mexico. PINSKY: What did she say? HUTT: She said she wasn`t upset. WICK: Yes. PINSKY: How did that read in the courtroom? That`s so disingenuine. What do you think? WICK: Oh, amen to that one, because that question I was writing notes and I wrote out in all caps and circled and put a bunch of stars. I believe in so many women that I`ve spoken with this is the essence of this case. And it goes to the whole idea of estrangement, Dr. Drew. I don`t know if you`re familiar with it, but it`s this idea that when there`s a jealous lover in a relationship and the other person makes this public declaration of separation that they in essence, quote/unquote, "snap." And I think this Cancun trap was that -- trip was that idea of estrangement for Jodi thinking, wow, this is going to be Travis`s public declaration. We are no longer an item. Nobody`s having him but I am. PINSKY: It will be interesting to see if the experts that we`re going to sit through yet will have something to say about those sorts of theories. Scott in Canada, what do you got? SCOTT, CANADA: Hi, Dr. Drew. Just two quick questions. Did any of his friends, roommates, or family know if Travis ever had a journal? And also, maybe, can you help explain why Travis ever kept up a relationship with an obvious psycho, because if it was me, it would have been a restraining order. PINSKY: I couldn`t hear what your question was because somebody was talking to me. HUTT: He was just saying that why do you think that Travis kept up this relationship with this obvious psycho? PINSKY: He was -- we had an expert on, Scott, a couple weeks -- or about a week or so ago who`s an expert in sexual addiction, and I asked him was Travis a sex addict? And he said no, but sometimes, the right manipulative person will suck somebody into an addictive quality in their sexual relationship with that person. And it sort of made sense to me that that`s exactly what had happened here. That`s what you`re talking about when you talk about Jodi`s behavior. HUTT: But wasn`t he also relatively inexperienced prior to Jodi? PINSKY: Apparently, very inexperienced. Did you, guys, hear this in the courtroom at all? That, apparently, this was all brand new territory for poor Travis. HANES: That`s what they were saying in the courtroom. PINSKY: Yeah. HANES: It`s speculation to some people. WICK: But you know, it`s funny that you say because we had this sentiment, you were saying earlier about the jury sort of mocking Jodi`s testimony. And, it`s almost like they`ve taken on Juan Martinez`s style inadvertently, kind of saying -- they say is it -- was it this Jodi or was it that? And all I hear is Juan Martinez, in my mind, saying, which is it, ma`am? And basically, they`re saying the same thing. They are just calling Jodi out left and right on her contradictions, and she cannot be down at the jail right now feeling too proud of her performance today, but the truth will prevail ultimately. PINSKY: Well, we`ll see. I hope so. I`ve sat here and said things like that during Casey Anthony, and lo and behold, I was sorely disappointed. But thank you, ladies, we will have more of the exclusive Jodi and Travis video tomorrow. The video we`ve been showing you. Again, you can get it at HLN.com if you want to take a look at it. Also -- I beg your pardon, HLNTV.com. However, on HLN, all day, every day, you can get live coverage of the Jodi Arias trial. And we will be back after this. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) PINSKY: How long can Jodi Arias remain on the stand? Apparently, many more juror questions for her to answer tomorrow. We have more of the exclusive video that we`ve been showing you and an interview with one of Travis Alexander`s former roommates. He says Travis was frustrated by a clingy Jodi who was, quote, "driving him crazy." This is his first interview. Be sure to tune in for that tomorrow. Thank you, jenny, for joining us today. HUTT: Thank you, but Dr. Drew, I have a question you must answer tomorrow. PINSKY: OK. HUTT: Which is I want to know what it means like Jodi`s alleging when a man predominantly wants to have anal intercourse with his woman. PINSKY: He -- the allegations are that it had something to do with the Mormon religion, he was taking exceptions, but you`re wondering whether there was something motivated like for reals (ph) there. HUTT: Right. I don`t know. PINSKY: Well, we`ll talk about that. A reminder, HLN`s coverage of the Jodi Arias trial begins at 12:00 noon eastern time tomorrow with Kyra Phillips and "Raising America." I will be on "Raising America" tomorrow as well, giving an update on Jodi Arias as well as describing some very outrageous cases about young children being held in handcuffs in jails by law enforcement. How far do we go to contain inappropriate behaviors? Jenny, thank you. Thank you to my panel. Thank you to my guests. Thank you to those of you that called in. Of course, thank you to those of you who watched. And guess what, "Nancy Grace" will start right now. END


text: I'm thinking about to upgrade my system I've created this thread to gather information. I'll wait till it will be released at the market. I guess it'll be at November. Any comment / additional information is appreciated. The CPU will be available as Core i7 920, Core i7 940 and Core i7 965 Introduction of new socket LGA1366. The memory contoller is integrated at CPU.


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New Year's Eve quiet for Brockville police
BROCKVILLE – New Year's Eve was relatively quiet for Brockville police officers.
They responded to two separate calls – both complaints about domestic violence.
In one case, a 21-year-old man was arrested and later released after a local couple's quarrel. However, police say there were no injuries observed.
The other was a New Year's Eve party where a man fell and hit his head after being pushed. A man in his 20s was arrested and given a future court date.
Police said they were "pleased" to report they had no complaints about drunk drivers on the road during their patrols in the city.
Outside the city in Leeds-Grenville, activity from New Year's Eve likely won't be known until Tuesday. A spokesperson from East Region O.P.P. was unavailable due to the holiday.


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Talking about candlestick patterns, not all patterns are complicated, there are also simple ones. One of them is the Doji candle. This pattern is usually used as an indication of consolidation. Only through the illustrated candle pattern can you set a square to open the position. But to know the direction of price movements better, you still need to use another indicator as a confirmation of the Doji candle.
Get to know the Candle Doji Formation
The Doji Formation is one of the most obvious trading signals in a candlestick pattern. Since being used to trade rice commodities in Japan hundreds of years ago, this formation is still considered a valid trading signal until now. Doji is a candlestick pattern that is formed because the Open price and Close price are the same or almost the same, so this candle is like not having a body. This formation is often seen on the trading chart and does not depend on the time frame. Doji can be formed on weekly (weekly), daily (daily) or even 5 minutes charts.
The Doji Formation is formed when the market is consolidating or is uncertain about the direction of the next price move. Here it is clear that Bullish and Bearish sentiments are in a balanced state, or between Buyers and Sellers waiting for the next price movement. This results in the market consolidating, whether to continue price movements in accordance with the previous trend direction, or will make a price reversal. Therefore, ordinary Doji is considered as a consolidation signal.
To find out the certainty of the direction of the next price movement, it is necessary to confirm the candlestick bar formed after the Doji. If the candle formed after the Doji is in line with the trend before the Doji, then what happens is usually the trend forward. Conversely, if the candle after Doji is opposite the trend formed before the Doji, it can be assumed that the next price movement will experience a reversal.
So, the Doji formation does not always imply a trend reversal, but it can also signal trend forwarding, depending on the confirmation of the next candlestick bar. Besides going through the third candle confirmation, you can also use the following indicators as a confirmation of the Doji candle.
Confirmator Candle Doji
As stated above, the Doji candle can show trend forward signals as well as trend reversals. For that, you need to use another confirmation beside waiting for the third candle. So, what indicators can be used as the confirmation of this Doji candle?
1. Momentum indicator
The first Doji candle confirmation that you can use to ensure the direction of trend movement is the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator. The MACD indicator is used to determine the momentum strength of a trend, so you can predict where the price will move next, whether it will continue (trend continuation) or experience a price reversal.
The use of the MACD indicator is marked by two lines EMA (Exponential Moving Average) with 12 (fast length) and 26 (slow length) periods. The space formed by two EMA lines shows the volume on the histogram. The bars on the histogram show the momentum of price momentum in the market.
When new trends form in the market, the MACD area on the histogram appears short but getting bigger. The peak trend occurs when market power is fully charged and marked by the MACD histogram bar that appears the longest. Whereas the signs of market momentum began to weaken can be seen from the length of the stem which is getting shorter on the histogram. As the market prepares to switch positions, the MACD area starts to slope and looks smaller. In the end, the histogram pattern will repeat the same cycle in the opposite area.
So, how can the MACD indicator be used as a confirmation of the Doji candle? Usually, the Doji candle that appears when the momentum of the MACD indicator strengthens, signifies a reversal.
2. ADX indicator
The second Doji candle confirmation is the indicator of the Average Directional Movement Index, or commonly referred to as the ADX indicator. This indicator was made by Welles Wilder to identify trend direction and measure the strength of the current trend. In principle, this indicator shows when the trend starts, how strong the trend is, until when the trend starts to weaken. If you use ADX in trading, the best time for an Entry is when the trend starts, then Exit when the trend is almost over.
The ADX indicator is composed of 3 components, namely the ADX line itself, + DI, and -DI. The ADX line is usually set with parameter 14, while + DI shows Uptrend, and -DI as a signal for the Downtrend signal. If you find two DI lines that intersect (+ DI intersects with -DI, or vice versa), then it shows a change of trend will occur. In relation to understanding the consolidation signals from the Doji candle, then:
If + DI cuts -DI from the bottom up and a Doji candle appears, it indicates an Uptrend will occur.
If –DI cuts + DI from the bottom up and the Doji candle appears, then it indicates a Downtrend will occur.
Although in practice this indicator includes lagging or is slow in anticipating price movements, it is still reliable and quite effective if you are accustomed to using it. In the chart below, it can be seen that the crossing of the -DI and + DI lines coincides with the appearance of the Doji candle which indicates bullish reversal.
Support Resistance Can Also Be Used As A Confirmator
Specifically, the Support line is generally placed near the lowest price during a certain period, while the Resistance line is usually drawn near the highest price for certain periods. This Support and Resistance point is considered important in trading as "signs", so you know the lowest and highest limits of price movements.
In accordance with the Support and Resistance rules, the Support line can change to the Resistance line if the Support point has been successfully penetrated. Conversely, the line Resistance or Downtrend line can change to a Support line if the Resistance point is successfully penetrated.
Change of the Support point becomes a Resistance or vice versa, usually marked by the appearance of the Doji candle formation. In short, if you find a Doji candle in a Downtrend condition that breaks the Support point, then it indicates Bearish continuation. While if Doji is found in an Uptrend condition and breaks the Resistance point, the condition confirms the Bullish continuation.
The final word
Based on some of the descriptions above, it can be concluded that the Doji candle is able to indicate the trend condition, whether it will continue or a reversal occurs. However, keep in mind once again that the Doji candle shows a consolidation signal. Therefore, to determine the certainty of the direction of the next price movement, you need to add another Doji candle confirmation such as the MACD indicator, ADX indicator, or by determining the Support and Resistance levels.


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When a homeowner goes out to mow their lawn on a Sunday afternoon, they probably aren't thinking about climate change. Once the connection is pointed out, however, it isn't hard to see.
All gas-powered equipment, including lawnmowers, contributes to climate change by consuming fossil fuels and producing greenhouse gases. While yard equipment may be small, it doesn't have to meet the same standards as bigger equipment, like cars. This means that it often emits a surprising amount of carbon and other pollutants.
How lawnmowers stack up to cars depends on how the test is run, but as an example, this test concluded that a leafblower idling for eight minutes produces more carbon emissions than an SUV being driven 200 miles.
While drivers are typically insulated from their car's emissions, a person using yard equipment is directly exposed to the emissions being produced. This page describes the contents of those emissions, and their effects on health and climate.
Lastly, while cars put greenhouse gases into the air, lawnmowers also reduce the ability of vegetation to reabsorb and sequester those gases. As described in this post, turf grass can't provide enough air-cleaning services to offset the emissions produced by its own maintenance.
Greenhouse gas emissions and vegetation loss are the two main drivers of climate change. Turf grass contributes to both of them.


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Author: Alethea Kontis.
Pages: 305.
Published: May 8th 2012.
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books.
Sort: Stand-alone.
It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday's family despises. The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past - and hers?
If your looking for a book that is made by kneading together various fairytales, then your search is over. This story was so much fun! We have the happy family consisting of four daughters (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday), a son called Peter and an adopted son Trix. There used to be seven daughters and a son called Jack, but you will have to find out about them yourself.
Sunday is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter: and therefore, she is doomed to live a happy life. Her talent is writing. Unfortunately, everything she writes down has the tendency to come true. One day, Sunday meets a frog. They become friends until she breaks the curse that was placed upon Rumbold, the prince. He returns to his palace and he announces a ball. Her family hates the Royal Family and Rumbold wants to make sure that Sunday falls in love with him as a person: not only as a frog.
"She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete."
I love how every character got their own personality. Besides Sunday, I really appreciated Saturday. She is a woodsman like her father and she hates dancing and the fancy balls. At the end of the book, she is even trying to learn how to handle a sword! Sunday is a sweet girl and she will do anything to keep her family safe. It was nice to see how happy this family is, despite the losses they have suffered. They have their struggles, but they love each other anyway.
I didn't really connect with Rumbold (therefore 4.5 instead of 5 hearts), but he was a good match to Sunday. Their love blossoms when they meet as a girl and a frog, isn't that great?
The storyline is awesome and the plot is wonderful. It was so much fun to figure out all the fairytales! The use of those stories is perfectly executed. The writing-style is fast paced, the world-building is good and I couldn't stop reading this book. I can't wait to read more from this author.


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This is a guest post from my friend Beth! She and I first met when she was a Captain (she's an Air Force Academy graduate) serving in the Air Force and she had to share office space with me. We got along very well, even though she was much younger than myself, and starting her family as she was pregnant with her first son. She had a love of real food and visited her husband's family farm many times. She also sourced from local farms and markets, so many days we talked about food, recipes she'd made or I'd made, or markets we'd shopped.
Her husband is also serving in the Air Force, so when their first son arrived, Beth opted to get out of the military and become a stay at home mom (for now) around the same time I was retiring from the Air Force as a civilian employee.
A little time went by and they next thing I knew they had orders to move to another base. I would miss seeing her and talking food with her, but we knew we would stay in touch and we have indeed thanks in many ways to social media.
When they first moved to their new base, she was able to find a local CSA (community supported agriculture) program and shared pictures each week of their fabulous "haul" from the farm. I marveled at her bounty each week and looked forward to the meals I knew she was going to cook up. In fact, I have told her many times she needs to have her own blog where she can share her experiences and knowledge with others.
She and her husband recently welcomed the arrival of their second son, and things slowed down for just a bit, but not for long, because next thing I knew she was back in the kitchen creating all these fabulous "whole foods meals." I'd asked her to share this one with us, and I'm so glad she took the time to take some photos and write it down to share here.
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
8 pieces of thick cut bacon
Dry rub*
1/2-1 tbls cayenne (depending on spice preference)
1 tbls brown sugar
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp dry mustard
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease broiler pan well (I use spray olive oil). Make dry rub and liberally coat chicken breasts in the dry rub. Wrap each breast with 2 pieces of bacon, place on broiler pan and drizzle honey liberally over each one.
Bake 20-30 minutes, topping each with more honey 1/2 way through the baking time. Turn oven to high broil and cook for 3 minutes to crisp the bacon. Remove from oven and let rest 5 minutes before serving.
Serve with rosemary sweet potatoes and green beans, or your choice of side dishes.
*If you do not want to make this spice rub, or have a favorite of your own that lends itself to spicy, sweet, and smoky flavors, feel free to mix it up and make it your own.
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UCR Scientists Discover a Novel Adaptive Antiviral Defense Mechanism in Animals
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RNA or ribonucleic acid is similar to a single strand of DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid (two strands of DNA typically make up a cell's chromosome), but with a small chemical difference in the structure of the chemical units called nucleotides. Some viruses use RNA as their chromosomes, but a universal role for RNA is as the messenger RNA (mRNA), to convert the genetic information in DNA into functional proteins.
RNA silencing was first discovered in transgenic plants in 1990 and only recently in animals, where it is also known as 'RNA interference.' RNA silencing regulates gene expression by a specific degradation of its mRNA and, after its initial triggering, the RNA silencing mechanism has 'memory,' knowing which RNA to destroy, by virtue of the sequence of the four building blocks (nucleotides) of RNA.
"In our experiments, we infected fruit fly cells with an RNA virus," said Ding. "This triggered strong silencing of the viral RNAs in the fly cells. We further demonstrate that the same virus also directs expression of a protein that suppresses RNA silencing in the fly cells, thus ensuring successful infections."
It is well known that in plants, RNA silencing serves as an antiviral defense. Ding and two postdoctoral researchers working in his laboratory show for the first time that animal cells have used RNA silencing to defend against viral infections. Because the animal viral suppressor identified also blocks RNA silencing in plants, their results provide the first experimental evidence for a highly conserved antiviral pathway in the animal and plant kingdoms.
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and I forget just why I taste
oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
oh well, whatever, never mind
Been in a grunge mood lately. Naturally I had to go to Vinyl, right? Kind of a short entry today as I'm feeling pretty bushed from work, but I've been listening to my 90s music playlist all afternoon and this just had to be a thing.
I'm fairly old in terms of the internet community these days, especially in the gaming crowd. Most of the people that play in my Dota 2 league are in their early 20s or even younger. They don't really know anything about the bands I grew up listening to, or why grunge was such a thing for the whole "disaffected youth" demographic. Music has never been an "answer" for me the way it has been for other people, but there are songs I just remember over and over, and listen to over and over, and they feel timeless to me, like I'm a teenager again.
Not that I would ever want that, mind.
skin. ATOMIC // Winter – Sugar – Winter Sprite
hair. OLIVE // The Glitch Hair [Streaks] – Greyscale
eyes. ARISE // Moon Eyes – Gray [NEW @ TFC]
eyelashes. LOVELY ALIEN // Starry Lashes
tired eyes. NOX // Restless
eyeliner. LEAGUE // Classic Winged Liner
body. MAITREYA // Lara v3.5
hands. SLINK // AvEnhance Female Hands – Casual
mesh mouth. ATOMIC // Winter Mesh Mouth – Closed RARE
cheek piercings. HAUS OF DARCY // Dimpled Piercing
necklace. YUMMY // Repurposed Charms Necklace – Eclectic
rings. PLASTIK // The Secretus Jewelry – Sterling [NEW @ N21]
hand & leg tattoos. THINGS // Dahlue & Tahiwai Tattoos [NEW @ Whore Couture]
cigarette. THE COLLECTIVE
cardigan & flannel shirt. VINYL // Cobain Cardigan – Green
jeans. VINYL // Oakley Jeans – Fade n.3
sneakers. KC COUTURE // Harlem Sneakers
pose. DEL MAY


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In Texas, Administrators Arrested for Cheating
Five El Paso educators have been charged with scheming to defraud the federal accountability system and, in some cases, retaliating against co-workers who cooperated with the FBI's 5½-year investigation of the Texas school district.
One of the administrators arrested was a former El Paso Independent school district associate superintendent, while the other four worked at Austin High School. Several have maintained their innocence.
Two other former district administrators had been previously charged in the cheating scheme, which sought to falsely boost the school system's accountability scores by a variety of means, including preventing limited-English proficiency students from taking the test used by Texas to measure progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Vol. 35, Issue 30, Page 4Published in Print: May 11, 2016, as In Texas, Administrators Arrested for Cheating
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Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE winter?
Hmm. Didn't think so.
Today, weather-wise, wasn't quite as bad as I expected — but then again, I tend to overestimate when it comes to prognosticating such events as winter storms. Going by what the National Weather Service was saying yesterday, we could expect freezing rain, sleet and snow.
We got a little of all of that starting last night and continuing through this morning.
I, naturally, being someone who tries to celebrate the "little things" in life, took great joy in being able to open my car door — which, quite honestly, I expected to be frozen shut, thanks to the overnight rain, sleet and sub-freezing temperatures.
I wasn't pleased with the amount of snow on Ruth Street as I drove toward North Main, but my Grand Am slogged through the slippery stuff. Once I was on the main road, I basically coasted down to Church Street, on which I usually park. Today, though, I decided to pull the car onto the parking lot across the street from the office — an attempt to keep the street as clear as possible for the snowplows I knew would be going up and down our town's roads throughout the day.
That's when I suffered my first setback, as my car's tires struggled to get traction in the snow. I'd shift to "R," give the car some gas, shift down to "1," give it some more gas, etc., until I was able to inch my way into a parking spot.
I knew I simply couldn't get stuck; it was 6:15 a.m., and no one else would be there anytime soon to help get me unstuck. On the other hand, my car was off the street and I was, after all, just across the street from the news office; let's face it, the situation could have been much worse!
I spent most of the next eight hours at my desk at work — except for the half hour or so when Dirty D. took her Tahoe to the hardware store, the bank and the post office, and I rode along with her to snap a weather-related photo for the front page.
When it was time to leave work, I looked forward to going home, but I dreaded getting back into the car because the weather had gotten worse as the day went on. (OK, let me just state, for the record, that our weather rarely ever gets as bad as Chicago's weather, or probably any of the winter weather the northeastern part of the United States suffers through, but still: It IS treacherous around here at the moment … and it was when I left work, also.)
After spinning my wheels for a couple of anxious moments in the same spot that had troubled me earlier in the day, I drove off the parking lot and headed toward home. I opted not to attempt a turn from Main onto Ruth, which still wasn't cleared sufficiently — or perhaps it had been, earlier, but by now had become covered by snow and ice again — and includes too steep of an incline for my car to make it up. Instead, I drove on to Bond (West Bond), made the turn and headed toward home.
To get to my driveway, I have to drive through an alley that goes from Bond to Ruth. I attempted to enter the alley my usual way, from Ruth Street — and promptly ended up stuck, and stuck GOOD, in the alley and then in the driveway of my catty-corner neighbor.
A few minutes later, I managed to work my way out of that mess and ended up back on Ruth. I decided to drive over to Maple (the street that runs parallel to Main) and attempt to make it down the alley that runs from Maple to Main. (In other words, the block I live in contains two alleys: One going north and south, the other going east and west.) I made it about three feet into that alley and ended up stuck. REALLY stuck.
I tried all my reverse downshifting, to no avail. My car was at just enough of an angle not to be able to go forward nor backward — with its back end jutting right out into the street. (I would have left the car sitting there if not for the "jutting" part!)
I called the office. Dirty said she'd be there in a few minutes.
In the meantime, I tried some more downshifting. In a couple of minutes, a guy I'd never seen before came over and asked if I needed help. A minute later, a woman who was unfamiliar to me walked over to offer her assistance. They tried to push the car while I tried to back it up; the woman even went to get a snow shovel to clear some of the snow from around the front wheels of my front-wheel-drive vehicle.
Then the work crew arrived. Dirty, Sandy V. and Billy hopped out, and collectively, all five of my helpers were able to give my car just enough of a push to free it from the snow.
I attempted no more alleys today, deciding instead to leave my car parked next door … which just so happens to be my insurance agent's office!


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Well, it's been a "while" again – so I know I'm going to miss reporting on some interesting items – but will get to some I recall off the top of my head – at least I'm remembering something.
There was an interesting snail-mail package I received from BC. Seems that when I worked the BC QP a few months back I had not sent my logs, but did receive an email for me requesting I do so – I found it rather interesting at the time that they had not received one single log file from this province before (ever!), so I decided to send it in, with my low number of contacts.
Earlier a week or so ago, I received the following:
Which was completely unexpected! (Note the low score – I made contacts with only 10 BC stations) … so .. next year .. hop on the bandwagon and listen in for these folks out west – they have a great website: http://www.orcadxcc.org/ In case you did not remember, I do use VE4EV for my contesting callsign.
I also hosted a local meeting of Radiosport Manitoba – and my XYL made up some nice baggage-tags for our last meeting of the season:
Nice … oh yeah, there is a reverse side too with name/address 😉
Another interesting thing that's happened locally — I've previously mentioned I run an Allstarlink.org RF site on 146.475 simplex (127.3 Hz tone). It's node is 45427 and is linked to our hub allstarlink.org site (47012) in our local datacenter. It also supports echolink and is listed in the echolink directory (node id is 817350) The RF site is on my own house in south St. Vital, but can be heard throughout the city pretty good. (With continued expansion, we'll have one at a better RF site soon).
On one of the ham-lists I subscribe to, the creator of the echolink program proxy/relay (PE1CHL – a callsign I recall from the 90's NOS days running his software version of KA9Q NOS!) he was indicating they were looking for more NA-based echolink relays and proxies to service the local ham community. (Local meaning NA-based) A couple of hams in the US fessed up 24×7 resources to support this – including us local WPG ham guys. Working with my son, Robert VE4RLK, who founded and runs a local internet hosting service here in Winnipeg for the past few years (pegboardhosting.ca), and utilizing his services he's offered to our VA4WAN group for hosting ham services/sites, we setup an instance to support the echolink usage.
Immediately upon activating the proxies, it started seeing usage. Once the admins verified the reliability, it was also added to the relay listings. That really started bringing in echolink traffic. After a couple of weeks, it is bringing in 30GB+ of network traffic. It's actually handling traffic from all over the world! (One of the nice features of pegboardhosting.ca is that there are no data caps or limits!)
One of the more recent interesting items with allstarlink.org is the added functionality of providing transport/gateway services for analogue/DMR/DSTAR/P25 systems! With some added software (and with an added hardware piece for DSTAR), we can bridge the various modulations and inter-tie these systems together – now that sounds awesome – time to experiment again. Certainly, the technology is new(ish) and can have growth pains, but hey, that's what this hobby is all about – experimenting to see what works and what doesn't – cool.
Speaking of brandmeister – I was on my DMR radio with my zumspot hotspot in DMR mode connected to brandmeister network and was talking to a ham near Ottawa on a local Yeasu Fusion repeater – now that was cool and seamless!
I'm running quite a few ham-systems on my local 2.3GHz VA4WAN connection – I really need to move to 5GHz and utilize the higher bandwidth – -latency is getting to be so-so – not bad, but it could be better!
Anyways, time to move on and get back on some more projects I'm interested in. (SDR's come to mind!)
73, Dan ve4drk


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Struggling to find freelance jobs?
Tired of competing with freelancers on UpWork?
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Only freelancers would understand the real struggle that goes on the other side of the computer screens. Despite what most people think, it's not always a walk in the park for freelancers.
One week you make $1,000 and the next week you've got no jobs to work on. It happens to the best of us. But, the question is: What are you willing to do about it?
Are you going to wait for a client to contact you and hand over a job on a silver platter? Or are you going to buckle down and look for your next freelancing job?
You've got to work hard to consistently find work in the freelancing world. Here are a few strategies to make that work a little easier.
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#1 Join A Freelancing Platform
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Find a site, register, create your profile, and start looking for jobs. Easy, right? Well, not exactly.
Freelancing sites are always swarming with potential clients. Finding a job on one of these sites is easy as cake. But, most of the sites are also filled with millions of freelancers who compete with each other to land the job.
So, if you're new to this game, the key to winning is finding a fairly new freelancing site with low competition, showcase your skill set like a pro, and hypnotize your clients with a killer proposal.
Check out this list full of 21+ lesser known freelance sites and pick a site that's new and on the rise. Then read this post to learn how to beat your competition.
#2 Check The Careers Sections
When visiting websites, you may have noticed a link at the footer of most websites that says "We're Hiring" Or "Careers" or "Work With Us".
These pages detail the positions currently available at a company. This means you can apply for these jobs.
Visit websites related to your industry and check to see if they're hiring.
For example, if you're a marketer or a designer, you can try visiting a startup website like Canva to see if they have any job positions available at the moment. Companies like Canva has specific sections for remote jobs as well.
#3 Write For A Blog
If you're a writer, you can instantly land a gig by writing for a blog.
That's right! There are hundreds of blogs out there that pay people to write for their blogs. Some blogs even pay over $100 per blog post.
Of course, these are well-established blogs. You'll have to be a really good writer to land a gig on one of these sites.
You can start by checking out these blogs that pay writers to publish blog posts.
#4 Behance & Dribbble Jobs
We all know about Behance and Dribbble as two of the biggest networking platforms for creative professionals. But, did you know that you can also find jobs through these platforms?
Behance Joblist is the ideal place for finding jobs related to a wide variety of industries from copywriting to graphic design, photography and more.
Dribbble Jobs board is for designers. You'll find it always filled with jobs from reputable brands like Hotjar and Gameloft.
Simply search the list, find a job you like, and apply for it.
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#5 LinkedIn Jobs
If you've got a professional profile on LinkedIn, then you should check out LinkedIn Jobs to find a quick freelance job.
To find a job near your location, just select your country from the list and type in the job position you're looking for. You can also use Posted Date and Job Function filters to narrow the search.
Set the Location to Anywhere and type Remote into the keyword field to find remote work.
#6 Twitter Advanced Search
Today, almost all the businesses around the world have a Twitter account. And when they're looking to recruit fresh blood, the first thing they do is post it on their Twitter. You just have to know how to look for them.
This is easy with Twitter's Advanced Search tool. In the keywords section, type in the title of the job you're seeking. For this example, I searched "designer" jobs.
Use a few keywords like "Wanted" or "Hiring" to make the search more specific. And type in several hashtags like #gig #freelancer #job.
Hit the Search button and voilà! Found hundreds of job listings in there.
#7 Niche Job Boards
Plenty of small websites have their own little job boards. These sites usually have lots of quality job listings too. Here are a few sites you can check out:
- WorkRoll: For coders and developers
- Remote.com: For designers, writers, marketers.
- Smashing Jobs: For web and graphic design jobs.
- We Work Remotely: For design, marketing, and programming jobs.
- ProBlogger Jobs Board: For copywriting jobs.
- Freelance Writing Gigs: For copywriting jobs.
If you can't find anything helpful in those sites, just head over to Google and type these keywords into the search bar with the quotation marks "jobs board" "web designer" and hit enter.
The results will show you plenty of sites with job boards. Replace "web designer" with your own keywords.
#8 Browse Craigslist
That's right! Craigslist is not all about rooms for rent and buying used car parts. It's also a great place for finding freelance jobs. Here, I'll show you how.
Step 1: Go to Craigslist and choose a country and then the city that you want to find a job in. (Major cities in the US have the most remote job listings).
Step 2: Then check the Jobs and Temp Jobs sections to find work related to your industry.
Step 3: Type in a keyword to find specific jobs like"Wanted" or "Hiring", just like how you did on Twitter.
Step 4: After finding a job, click on the Reply button to send an email to the person who posted the job.
#9 Hacker News
Whoishiring submissions on Hacker News can also be a great way to find work.
Pick a listing in there and post your information to attract potential clients. Or look for a job posted by a client.
Use SEEKING WORK keyword to post your information or hit Ctrl + F on your keyboard and type SEEKING FREELANCER to find jobs posted by businesses.
#10 Facebook Groups
Facebook groups are still quite popular among both freelancers and business owners. Log in to your Facebook account and start searching.
Type in the keyword for your industry and find related groups under the search suggestions or click "show all search results" to find more groups.
In this example, I typed in "freelance jobs" into my Facebook search bar and a bunch of massive groups popped up and they were filled with a lot of freelance gigs.
#11 Stack Overflow Careers
Most developers are quite familiar with Stack Overflow. The Remote Jobs section on Stack Overflow is also specifically created to list jobs related to web, mobile, and software development.
You can sign up with Stack Overflow, create a CV, and start applying for jobs right away.
#12 Search Job Forums
If you're new to freelancing, then you may not be familiar with job forums. Back in the old days, before oDesk and Elance, these job forums were the saviors that gave most freelancers paid jobs.
Those sites are still active and hundreds of new job listings are published every day.
Just go over to a job forum and use the search bar to find a job. Here are a few job forum sites you can start with:
#13 Ask A Fellow Freelancer
Sometimes, when you're trying to find something, all you have to do is ask.
There are lots of friendly freelancers out there. Most of them know a lot about the industry and great places for finding work. Heck, they probably even reject most of the jobs that come in their way because of their busy schedules.
So, go find an established freelancer in your industry. You can search for them on social networks like Twitter and Facebook or browse a freelancing site like UpWork. Find their email or Facebook account and drop them a nice message asking if they could hook you up with a job.
#14 Send A Cold Email
Use Twitter, Facebook, or a site like AgelList to find a new startup or a small business website, go over to their contact page and send them a casual email explaining how you can help them grow their company.
Here's a simple email template you can use (you can customize the template to fit your industry) :
Hi [name],
I stumbled upon your website while browsing for [industry related topic] and I must say it looks fantastic. Especially the [mention a detail] looks very professional.
I just happened to be a web designer as well and I couldn't help but notice a few issues with the website's [mention a few areas you think you can improve].
I have over 5 years of experience in UXD and web design, I'd be happy to help you fix those issues so that you can serve your customers better.
Let me know if you'd like me to explain how I can help improve your site.
Kind regards,
John Doe,
Web Designer / Developer.
I described the process of researching and outreaching potential clients in detail in a previous article. Be sure to read it.
Do you know any other strategies for finding freelance jobs? Then feel free to leave a comment below and share them with the rest of the community.
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Peppermint Candy Spoons
If you are looking for the perfect holiday project and DIY Christmas gift, then look no further! These Peppermint Candy spoons are so easy to make and if you pair them with a cute mug and some hot chocolate, they are perfect for a holiday gift exchange.
So it is possible I may be a little obsessed with making things out of melted candy! Ever since my Peppermint Candy Dish and Peppermint Shot glasses, I have been busy in my kitchen melting away!
(Speaking of melting, check out this Melted Snowman Chocolate Bark! Also a great holiday treat!!)
How to make Peppermint Candy Spoons
But let's get back to today's project! I want to share with you one of my personal favorites – DIY Peppermint Candy Spoons – eeeeeeeekkkkkkk these are SOOOO cute and, of course, they are really easy to make!
Disclosure, you do need a silicone spoon mold. I got mine here (click link) – it says it is for microwaving chocolate, but I used it in my oven over and over – no problem!
More Great Peppermint Recipes
- DIY Peppermint Candy Bowls
- Peppermint Shot Glasses
- Easy Peppermint Fudge
- Peppermint Oreo Popcorn Bark
- DIY Peppermint Bath Salts
- Peppermint Mocha Truffles
- Chocolate Peppermint Pretzel Bites
- White Chocolate Oreo Peppermint Bark
Here are the items you will need to make Peppermint Candy Spoons!
- Starlight Peppermint Candy – So, I really prefer this brand! I know it sounds crazy, but I find that the spoons come out the best with this particular brand of peppermints. (this is also true with the shot glasses and candy bowls.)
- Silicone Spoon Mold (got mine here – click link) – They sometimes sell out around Christmas, so get it early! Others will work too, but just make sure that you are allowed to put them in the oven.
Think about pairing these spoons with our delicious Hot Chocolate on a Stick! It would make a super cute gift together!!!
Peppermint Candy Spoons
- 1 bag Starlight Peppermint Candy
- 1 bag Wilton Candy Melts
- Holiday Sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a ziplock bag, crush the peppermints (I used a kitchen mallet).
- Use a teaspoon to fill the spoon mold with the crushed peppermint - be sure to put extra by the top of the spoon part and at the neck of the spoon (where the spoon and handle meet). These are areas that break easy.
- Place in oven and let melt completely. Mine took about 10 minutes, but every oven is different and you just have to watch it. Once it was pretty melts (about 8 minutes in or so) I took mine out and added some additional crushed peppermint wherever it looked thin. (the peppermint melts down a bunch, so you may have to fill it in) - then I let it cook for a few minutes longer.
- Take out of oven and let cool completely.
- Separate the sides from the candy carefully and remove. If one breaks, just add some more crushed peppermint and cook for a few minutes more.
Optional - Melt the chocolate candy melts according to instructions on package. Did spoon end into the chocolate and immediately dip into sprinkles. Place on wax paper until dry.
Recipe Video
Nutrition per serving
Looking for some more easy DIY ideas?? Just click on the pictures below:
DIY Peppermint Candy Bowls – these are SO easy to make and also make amazing DIY Christmas Gifts! We hand them out to our teachers every year and they love them!
Looking for a fun and easy project to make with your kids – these Candy Cane Christmas Trees are really fun and make great treats to pass out
Check out all of these Easy DIY Christmas Gifts for more great ideas!
ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 15, 2015 – updated November 16, 2018
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