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A beautiful floral background brings an extra special touch to this birthday card for your sister. Adding to the sentimentality of this greeting is the heartfelt message. It's a chance to let her know that with each passing year, your wish for her remains the same: to be surrounded by all wonderful things—because she means everything to you.
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This birthday card for your sister has it all: sweetness, style and sentimental words sure to make her smile. A background filled with flowers, gifts and other trinkets adds a pop of color, while your message is one of inspiration. It's a chance to wish her a memorable celebration and a year ahead that's full of all amazing things for someone who's equally as amazing!
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Wish your sister a fun-filled birthday and an awesome year with this bright and colorful happy birthday card! It's bursting with excitement and will get your sister's birthday off to a great start. This birthday card features pretty decorative pastel colored candles as well as birthday confetti! Your sister's birthday only arrives once a year so make sure to send her this birthday card that represents just how fun a birthday can really be!


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By Paul Clennam
Manchester United will triple Thiago's salary to €140,000-a-week if the midfielder completes his move from Barcelona this summer.
Goal reported on Thursday that the 22-year-old is set for talks with Camp Nou officials where he will confirm his intention to leave the club after agreeing terms in principle with United.
Sources have said that United are confident of completing a €18 million deal for the midfielder despite late interest from Bayern Munich and Barcelona's attempts to keep Thiago at the club after chairman Sandro Rosell met with his father Mazinho last week.
Thiago is on his post-season break and Barcelona officials are said to have given up hope of convincing the midfielder to stay after he raised doubts over forthcoming first-team opportunities at Camp Nou ahead of next summer's World Cup.
His current contract runs until 2015 but his exit clause plummeted from €90 million to €18m after he failed to participate for a stipulated amount of minutes in the 2012-13 season.
Speaking in February, the midfielder confirmed he wanted "to get as many minutes as I can" and was disappointed to be a peripheral figure in Barca's midfield behind the likes of Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas.
However, the buy-out clause is due to return to €90m on August 1 if a deal for him to leave is not completed by then.
The €7.2m wage package prepared by United would see the midfielder's wages tower over those earned by the likes of Phil Jones, Danny Welbeck and Shinji Kagawa, who all earn slightly above €81,000-a-week.
As such, United are keen to push through a cut-price deal for the 22-year-old in the coming weeks, with David Moyes set to officially begin his tenure at Old Trafford on Monday ahead of the first-team squad reporting back for training at Carrington two days later on July 3.

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What You Need to Know About Obama and the Social Security Sell-Out
Watching Wednesday night's presidential debate, you'd have to be a crack political code reader to know what Obama was really saying about Social Security. It was quick. It was subtle. But it was one of the most telling moments of the debate.
First, let's get a few things straight. Social Security is solvent. It's America's most successful retirement plan to date. It's extremely popular across party lines. Social Security adds not a penny to the deficit. And, as Nancy Altman has argued, it's "the poster child for fiscal responsibility." The program is prudently managed, cost-effective, and carefully monitored.
Obama could have mentioned these facts and cheered the success of a program that Democrats – and all Americans -- should be proud of. Instead, the discussion went like this:
"Lehrer: Do you see a major difference between the two of you on Social Security?
Obama: You know, I suspect that, on Social Security, we've got a somewhat similar position. Social Security is structurally sound. It's going to have to be tweaked the way it was by Ronald Reagan and Speaker -- Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill."
Ladies and gentleman, that was the sound of your president offering to screw you on your retirement. This revealing exchange was followed by some politically strategic talk by both candidates about how current retirees shouldn't be worried, because, as we all know, their votes are needed in the short term. But the rest of us? Be very, very worried.
The Roots of Betrayal
There is a persistent myth, or, to put it more bluntly, an outright lie, repeated by Republicans, and, alas, many Democrats, that Social Security needs to be "fixed" in order save the government money.
The Republicans have been dying to kill Social Security ever since FDR signed it into law in 1935, and Ronald Reagan answered their prayers by delivering a blow in the form of a "tweak" that essentially robbed the program, as economist Allen W. Smith explains splendidly in a 2010 article in Dissident Voice.
Alan Greenspan was the architect of that fraud against the American people. The Dems jumped on board during the business-friendly Clinton administration at the behest of then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Clinton got very close to cutting a deal with Newt Gingrich to partially privatize the program. Had he succeeded, the 2008 financial crash and ensuing recession would have been even more devastating that they have been. As Robert Kuttner has noted, if we can be grateful for one thing from the scandal of Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, it's that there was too much distraction going on to push the plan through.
And who was right smack in the middle of this disastrous –and thankfully derailed -- negotiation? None other than Erskine Bowles, Clinton's Chief of Staff. You know, the guy whose name was on the lips of both presidential candidates Wednesday night and the man who is rumored to be at the top of Obama's list for the next Treasury Secretary should he win his re-election bid. Bowles is the Corporate Democrat extraordinaire, and he appears likely to have a prominent role in a next Obama administration whether he gets the Treasury job or not. I like to call him "Cat Food" Bowles, in honor of his co-chairmanship of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, the group Jane Hamsher of Firedog Lake aptly dubbed the "Cat Food Commission" for its assault America's seniors.
If you were wondering if Obama will try to betray his base on Social Security if re-elected, this should pretty much answer your question. He's poised to do it, and we have to shout from the rooftops that he will not get away with it.
The Success of Social Security
There was a time, a couple of generations back, when old age carried the threat of the poor house. In a more agrarian society, you hoped you had enough children to help support you to avoid this fate. Today, when people have fewer kids, not to mention shoddy retirement plans and disappearing pensions, there is very little to come between you and economic disaster in your golden years. Except Social Security. Today, Social Security benefits represent about 39 percent of the income of the elderly. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that 45 percent of Americans over 65 would plunge into poverty without Social Security.
Taxed-advantaged 401(k)s and IRAs will help the affluent, but they will not do enough for middle and working class people in retirement. Plans to cut the Social Security favored by Bowles and his partner in crime Alan Simpson, including raising the retirement age, are nothing more than bad policies based on economic falsehoods. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman pointed out recently in the New York Times, raising the retirement age is "totally at odds with the reality of an America in which rising inequality is reflected not just in the quality of life but in its duration." Life expectancy, he reminds us, is actually falling for a substantial part of the nation.
When Social Security raiders claim that the program needs to be "fixed," they are getting out their crystal balls and talking about 2033, when, according to forecasts by the trustees of the Social Security trust fund there might – key word, might – be a shortfall in revenues against predicted claims. And that's only in the context of a very conservative view of economic growth. It might be reasonable to imagine that there could be adjustments that need to made a couple of decades down the road -- such as making the rich pay social security taxes on the money they make over the current low ceiling of just over $100,000 -- but there is no justification for doing anything now. The Raiders of Your Lost Retirement use the excuse of the Great Recession, which destroyed jobs and therefore revenue, to jump on the program and start shredding it.
Americans are smart enough to see through this. A 2011 poll shows that most do not believe the program is in crisis, despite all the political lies and posturing. In fact, most men and women would like to see benefits increased! Why? Because unlike Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, they are not wealthy, and after decades of of hard work they feel they have earned the right to a dignified old age.
Occupy 2.0?
The fact that Americans are not fooled by the political lies brings me to another point.
Remember, the long, hot summer of discontent in 2011, when all you heard about was the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan and the manufactured crisis of the debt ceiling? The public disgust over that dismal spectacle set the stage for the Occupy movement to take off in early autumn.
If a re-elected Obama tries to cut Social Security while bargaining over a non-existent fiscal cliff, we might just get Occupy 2.0. Polls are clear: most Americans, regardless of political affiliations, support Social Security. They don't want benefit cuts and they don't want the retirement age raised. They know perfectly well that the idea of blue-collar folks working until seventy is cruel and absurd, and that the notion that there are jobs growing on trees for older Americans to pluck is completely out of touch with the ongoing employment crisis. It may be a long time before young people face the reality of retirement, but Generation X is starting to look that beast in the face. And they don't like what they see: financiers making money hand over fist while plans to squeeze every penny out of future retirees is deemed acceptable in Washington.
Follow the Money
So why, despite the clear wishes of the American people. are so many politicians in favor of cutting Social Security? The answer can be found on Wall Street, naturally.
The whole idea of Social Security is anathema to American financiers, who not only dislike paying taxes but also would dearly love to see private retirement accounts on which they could charge fees. Find a financier moving around Washington, and you will find a Social Security raider. Economists Thomas Ferguson and Rob Johnson pointed this out some time ago in their article, "From New Deal To Raw Deal: The Real Economics Of Cutting Social Security." They cite the case of Peter Orzag, the former head of the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget, who has since accepted a position at Citigroup (love that revolving door!). Orzag has been known to express some very curious --and marvelously telling -- ideas about Social Security. On the one hand, he knows perfectly well that it has nothing to do with any so-called budget crisis. Ferguson and Johnson write:
"The first yellow flag is Orszag's frank acknowledgment that Social Security features barely at all in any putative budget short fall: 'Social Security is not the key fiscal problem facing the nation. Payments to its beneficiaries amount to 5 percent of the economy now; by 2050, they're projected to rise to about 6 percent.'"
So why is Orzag a Social Security radier? Because he thinks like a financier:
"As Orszag frankly confesses, 'even though Social Security is not a major contributor to our long-term deficits, reforming it could help the federal government establish much-needed credibility on solving out-year fiscal problems.'"
Bingo! In other words, Orzag is saying that politicians have to cut Social Security to prove to the markets that they can. Oh, the wondrous logic of free market fundamentalism.
A shredded Social Security program is most definitely what the financiers want. But it's not what the American people want. It remains to be seen what will happen come November. If Obama wins, we can expect a split in the GOP between moderates and conservatives. If the conservatives get the upper hand, they will be screaming for cuts to Social Security as the January 1st fake fiscal cliff deadline becomes the focus in Washington. Whatever happens in the GOP, if Obama relies on the advice of people like Erskine Bowles in negotiations, your retirement is not safe. Any politicians who think they can ignore the express wishes of the American people will have earned every ounce of trouble they get. Let's make sure they see a whole lot of it coming.


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I'm looking at these also, but 1 question.
Are they 12x12 square or 12' along the ridgeline.
Sorry if this is a noob question.
I'm looking at these also, but 1 question.
Are they 12x12 square or 12' along the ridgeline.
Sorry if this is a noob question.
I love mine and originally had the 9 foot version but traded for the 12 foot one. My last trip it was used for shade (95 Deg) and the group was glad for the size. It also will configure nicely for the forbidden ground use with a couple of trekking poles! All around a very versatile tarp.
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My 12' Noah should be coming soon. I want to go ahead and have all my guy-lines ready to set it up for the first time. What would you guys recommend I buy to make sure I can set it up properly? I'm wanting to pitch it as a square tarp along it's own ridgeline and I don't want to buy poles (too expensive right now).
I already have 35' of Dyneema for a ridgeline and 50' of 3mm PMI utility cord.
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My Kelty 12x12 with GT double and GTbugnet. I received the bugnet yesterday. Today was first test and I like the way it works.
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Taste changes, such as with sugar, salt, or meat
Side effects from medications
Changes in your mood or if you are feeling depressed
You need to eat enough to maintain weight, do daily activities, and prevent illness.
To help you eat enough:
Eat small meals 5 to 6 times a day.
Don't drink much at meal time. This can help you not feel full too quickly. Drink liquids at least 30 minutes before meals.
Help family members plan meals you would like to eat.
Let others to cook for you. Talk with them first about specific needs and requests.
Eat in pleasant surroundings in the company of friends or family.
Try using plastic utensils and cook in a glass pot if foods have a metal taste.
If strong smells bother you, stay away from the area where food is being prepared. Eat cold foods instead of hot foods. Cold foods don't smell as much.
Do light exercise before meals.
Try new recipes.
Don't smoke. It can affect your sense of smell and change your sense of taste.
To prevent feeling full too fast:
Don't eat high-fat foods.
Drink liquids at least 30 minutes before meals.
Chew food slowly.
Don't eat foods or have drinks that cause gas. These include cabbage or broccoli and fizzy drinks such as beer or soda.
To prevent foodborne illness during cancer treatment:
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Reasons for Connecticut's shrinking labor force stump experts
HARTFORD -- Sometime last summer, Andrew Beck says he stopped looking for work, stymied as he got nowhere in his job search.
The Wethersfield resident was laid off in March 2009 as a vice president of marketing and communications at a health care system. After more than three years of unsuccessfully looking for a job, Beck, 61, said he believed he was repeatedly passed over by employers hiring younger workers who had not been jobless for years.
"It is very frustrating. It is very disheartening," he said. "It's not what I planned to do."
Beck is one of more than 47,000 unemployed people in Connecticut who have stopped looking for work, surrendering to a labor market that is failing to produce enough jobs.
Every month, Connecticut's stubbornly high unemployment rate gets much of the attention when the state releases labor data. But what's causing alarm among economists is the steadily shrinking state labor force as workers drop out, giving up their job search.
In a trend across New England, the drop in Connecticut's labor force is the largest. Economists in the six states cited reasons including an aging workforce in Rhode Island, a slow-growing population in New Hampshire and a "pent-up demand" to retire in Vermont.
But in Connecticut, they're stumped.
Whatever the cause there, "the suddenness is like nothing we've seen before," said Andy Condon, director of research at the Connecticut Department of Labor.
The state's labor force contracted in each of the last six months of 2012, with about 2.5 percent exiting between 2010 and 2012, a steeper drop than elsewhere in New England or nationally, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Those who quit looking affect the unemployment rate because the government only counts as unemployed those actively searching for work.
The startling statistic prompted Condon to call a meeting in December of other economists from around the state to consider what might be happening.
Even with the smaller labor force, Connecticut's unemployment rate in December was 8.6 percent, above the U.S. rate of 7.8 percent. Condon expects revisions in March will add several thousand jobs, but that would not affect the number of workers who quit the labor force.
"We can't find any reason why Connecticut should be this phenomenon of a labor force declining," he said. "We're just not different enough."
Nationally, the share of workers participating in the labor force fell from 66 percent before the start of the recession to less than 64 percent as millions of workers quit looking for jobs.
In New England, only Vermont's declining labor force participation comes close to Connecticut. The workforce there shrunk about 1 percent between 2008 and 2012.
Connecticut's labor force decline, if it holds after a possible federal revision, spells trouble for years, said Donald Klepper-Smith, an economic adviser to former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
"The labor force represents economic vitality and to the extent we lose workers, we lose economic growth down the road," he said.
Beck, who volunteers as an usher at a New York theater and makes a few dollars writing online theater reviews, says he's finding some fulfillment in unemployment financed by his pension that he's tapped early.
"I'm taking a hobby and living it," he said. "It's rewarding."


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Live from Down Under: Report from Linux.conf.au 2009
For FOSS fans, there's no better place to be this week than Hobart, state capitol of the Australian state Tasmania. That's where Linux.conf.au 2009 is being held through Saturday, January 24.
If you're from the States, LCA can be a bit tricky to get to. Flying from Florida took me 36 hours to get to Hobart, and the airfare wasn't insubstantial. If you're thinking of attending, and your employer isn't as willing to pick up the tab (luckily, mine was) start saving those frequent flier miles, or buy a ticket the instant the conference is announced!
Officially, LCA started Wednesday, though it's preceeded by two days of miniconfs. The keynote for Linux.conf.au that kicked off the "official" program was given by Tom Limoncelli on "scarcity vs. abundance." This was held in the large conference room and it was standing – well, sitting on the floor – room only. Limoncelli talked about a topic that open sourcers should be familiar with – gatekeepers trying to hold on to control over the flow of information or access in order to "perpetuate their power." It was interesting to see a sysadmin-focused talk at LCA, which is very heavy on developers. The talk was interesting, though I thought that it really had two distinct threads that could have been teased into different talks. But, Limoncelli is an engaging speaker and he had a lot of fun with the topic. One bit of the talk I found a bit inspiring was when Limoncelli talked about open source as an "opportunity to reduce pain in our world."
The LCA schedule is a bit packed – lots of great talks and tons of things to do. Typically, at any given conference, it's easy to find some holes in the schedule where there's not much of interest. However, the first full day of sessions at LCA was jam packed full of great talks and tutorials. The sessions are packed five deep, which is to say that there are five sessions going on for every slot. Picking one of five has been a bit difficult.
The Rebuilt Linux Desktop
After morning tea, I winnowed down the selection of talks and chose Keith Packard's discussion of "the Rebuilt Linux Desktop." Packard talked about what's been done in the X.org Project over the last year, and what's coming. X.org development is not for mere mortals, but Packard did an outstanding job of explaining the concepts so that the gist was clear even to this non-developer.
One of the topics he covered was about how the X.org devs worked with the Linux kernel developers to integrate the Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) into the Linux kernel 2.6.28 release. He said that GEM was developed in the open, and that X.org asked for help with the kernel programming bits. The project was announced to the Linux kernel mailing list, "and then we listened." Packard says that they got feedback from 40 or 50 developers, and that there were "substantial" core kernel infrastructure changes, which he said was only possible with the Linux kernel.
Use the Fork!
After the X.org talk, I dropped in to Brian Aker's talk on Drizzle, the "fork" of MySQL that was started by Sun earlier this year. Aker talked a lot about decisions that they've made to encourage development and to strip away features and cruft that have accreted on top of MySQL over the years. According to Aker, the Drizzle team has dropped features that aren't necessary for Web transactions like analytics, ERP, and other features good for data warehousing, but not Web-based loads. Again, like Packard's talk, Aker covered Drizzle development at a high enough level that it was worth attending for anyone with an understanding of MySQL/Drizzle – and not at all necessary to be a database developer.
Aside from the interesting details about how Drizzle is being designed, Aker also talked about how Sun has gone about Drizzle development differently than MySQL had. According to Aker, MySQL "pissed off the open source community for years," and Drizzle is going about development in a different way entirely – no closed mailing lists, all the code entirely public, and completely open in taking contributions (subject to review, of course).
Of active Drizzle developers, Aker says that only one-sixth work for Sun, and that there were 42 people actively working on Drizzle in December, and that the numbers keep increasing -- while the number of Sun contributors are decreasing. He also mentioned that they're going out of the way to to reuse libraries, rather than creating new ones, and when they do find libraries that are "unique," Sun plans to open source them under a BSD license and set them up as separate projects.
Learning Django
The first session after lunch consisted of two-hour tutorials. I decided to attend the Django tutorial, given by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Django is a Python-based framework for developing all sorts of Web sites and applications. I won't even attempt to cover all the ground that Kaplan-Moss sprinted over in the session, but I did find it interesting. One thing that did come in loud and clear is that Django seems to be a platform that would be good for those new to Web development. He walked through setting up a site/application using Django, and it all seemed fairly straightforward and not terribly hard. If you weren't one of the fifty or so people in the room at LCA, don't fret – Kaplan-Moss pointed out that Django has a ton of documentation on the Django Web site.
Kernel Development Process
It's hard to say what the best session of the day was, but I'd put Jon Corbet's talk on the kernel development process as a close contender. Called "Joining the Mob," Corbet talked about how to the kernel development process works socially – rather than getting into nitty-gritty details of kernel development.
Some of the main points made by Corbet:
- External code is expensive. Keeping code outside the mainline kernel means it doesn't get improved by the larger community.
- Upstream first: Get code into the Linux kernel before it goes to customers or before userspace programs depend on it. (This is necessary because if it's not in the mainline kernel, it may not make it in as-is, and other things shouldn't depend on it.)
- Don't use the kernel to "add value." Corbet says vendors shouldn't differentiate products at the kernel level. Value should be added at higher levels.
- Quality matters above anything else, more than company plans, user wants, developer status, etc.
- Kernel development takes the long-term view. Kernel developers expect to maintain the code in five or 10 years, so you have to have that mindset to participate in kernel development.
- Peer review. No code is perfect, but part of the process is reviewing code. Almost always subject to requests for changes. If you ignore reviews, code won't go anywhere. Corbet says this is where a lot of people fall down. You're not done when code is submitted, you're just starting.
- Developers are individuals. Kernel first, company objectives after that. A lot of developers could work for a different company next year, still working for the same community.
- There's no ownership of code, even code that you've written. Here, Corbet wasn't talking about copyright, but rather the ability to control the revisions made to code that's submitted. Developers have to get used to the idea that their code will be changed, and that they don't have absolute control over that.
- No regressions – not even to fix other problems.
- Changes require justification, and other solutions (meaning someone else's code) might "win." Focus on solving the problem, not your particular solution.
Corbet also talked about the various development trees for kernel development, and fielded questions from the audience. Linus Torvalds was also in the audience, and fielded a few questions about his contributions to the kernel and what he does in kernel development now.
All in all, it was a long and really interesting day. The conference continues through Friday, and "Open Day" is held on Saturday for families and the general public.
LCA has a long and storied history. If you didn't get to Hobart this year, be sure to start saving now to make it to LCA in 2010.
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Sorry about that, says Amsterdam-based GPS device manufacturer TomTom, following revelations that Dutch police have been using data from its products to nail motorists for speeding. The news was first disclosed by the Netherlands newspaper Algemeen Dagblad on Tuesday.
"Many of our customers are not happy," TomTom CEO Harold Goddjin told AD in a follow-up story. "We will therefore include in our license terms for this type of use in the future."
It's unclear from these articles precisely what kind of intelligence the second-biggest GPS navigation gadget maker in Europe was selling. But it appears that TomTom, looking to make up for recent revenue shortfalls, has been marketing driver behavior information to various European governments. Unfortunately, in the case of the Netherlands, officials there passed it on to their traffic police, who used it to make speed traps.
"The user probably does not realize that he informs the police," a Netherlands auto association spokesperson told the newspaper. "That should not be done surreptitiously."
A large ecosystem
To be fair to TomTom, it doesn't appear that this is what the company expected the Dutch government to do with the intel. The device maker's stated mission is to help reduce traffic.
"TomTom is but one organisation in a large ecosystem of governments, institutions, businesses and individuals," its mission statement page explains. "We hope that by working together we will create better solutions, faster."
A company spokesperson explained to AD how the firm thought it should be used (the following quotes are based on a Google translator conversion):
"Example, we can better predict traffic jams," the contact explained. "The data are sold to various parties, including governments. They can then see where it too often stopped, and for example decide to build roads."
Obviously that's not what happened in this instance. The police told AD that they don't use the GPS information to look at the driving patterns of individual motorists. It gets processed by various data analysts, then passed along to them.
"Based on a combination of accident reports and statistics, you look with public prosecutors and police to places where you can tighten enforcement," a Dutch Constable disclosed.


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Three-run sixth inning, five-run eighth seal San Diego's defeat
SAN DIEGO -- As a swarm of reporters approached Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso prior to Friday's game against the Giants, shortstop Everth Cabrera stood by him pretending to be his bodyguard.
Cabrera likely didn't want anything to happen to Alonso, who returned Friday from the disabled list after missing 34 games with a broken bone in his right hand. He was in the lineup along with second baseman Jedd Gyorko, who was playing for the first time since June 10 after straining his right groin. The two combined have hit .332 with eight homers and 29 RBIs at home this season.
However, neither their return nor a sellout crowd at Petco Park could spark the Padres on Friday as they were shellacked by the Giants, 10-1.
Arguably the worst loss of the season for the Padres got away from them in the seventh inning when the Giants sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs, although Padres manager Bud Black wasn't around to see the end of it.
He was ejected with two outs in the inning by second-base umpire Laz Diaz for arguing an obstruction call. The Giants' Kensuke Tanaka collided with Padres third baseman Chase Headley while trying to avoid the tag in a rundown, but was awarded third base.
According to baseball's Rule 7.08, a runner's baseline is established when the tag attempt occurs and is a straight line from the runner to the base he is attempting to reach safely.
It was the second time this season that Black has been thrown out of a game.
If Tanaka had been called out, the Padres would have gotten out of the inning with limited damage. Instead, the Giants (42-50) proceeded to tack on four unearned runs off reliever Brad Brach to make it 10-1 and put the game all but out of reach.
The Padres have now lost 13 of the past 14 games and 17 of their last 20.
"You've got to weather the storm and come in each day with the expectation that you're going to win," Black said. "We've got to get that big hit, make the big pitch."
The Padres actually scored first Friday on an RBI double by Headley in the first inning, his sixth extra-base hit in the month of July, after only having five in all of June.
Turns out, that was all they would muster off Giants starter Chad Gaudin (3-1), who surrendered three hits and four walks in five-plus innings but held the Padres to one run.
San Diego native Sean O'Sullivan made his first career start for the Padres. He called the chance to pitch for the team he grew up rooting for a dream come true earlier this week and began his night with a 1-2-3 first inning, then doubled off the wall in the third inning.
"I tried to soak up as much as I could," O'Sullivan said. "Especially walking from the 'pen to the dugout trying to take it all in. It was exciting. Lot of nerves, lot of adrenaline, so that was tough to calm down to go out there and pitch."
O'Sullivan flirted with trouble too often, allowing multiple baserunners in each inning after the first and running up his pitch count to 102. The Giants could only push across runs in the third and fifth innings, on a sacrifice fly by Buster Posey and an RBI double by Pablo Sandoval, but it did give them a 2-1 lead.
O'Sullivan (0-1) allowed two runs on six hits and three walks in five innings.
"I thought Sean battled," Black said. "They put some stress on him. He competed great. He pitched with a lot of emotion."
The Giants began to break the game open with a three-run sixth highlighted by a two-run single from Posey. San Francisco had struggled recently on offense but tied a season high with 17 hits.
The Padres loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth, forcing Gaudin from the game, but failed to score off reliever Jose Mijares, who needed eight pitches to get Alonso to pop out before he proceeded to strike out Gyorko and a pinch-hitting Chris Denorfia.
"I was ready for anything," Mijares said.
Then the Giants blew the game out of reach and dropped the Padres (41-53) to a season-worst 12 games under .500.


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Editor's Note: Whether you're a tourist or an office worker in downtown Chicago, you can get sick of eating at chain restaurants all day. So we've started a series to get you the lowdown on where to find a great and affordable lunch.
First off, everybody, Happy New Year! We made it! Well, I barely made it. I hope you guys aren't too hungover. I also hope your shenanigans were amazing, so that you may regale me with tales of pantsless and drunken glory, for those are the best stories. May your New Year be happy, healthy, and bright, and may you all grow rich. Then, please give me all that money. No, seriously. Give me your money!
In the meantime, now that we're all grumbling and back at the office, we can at least take solace in good lunches while we despair at our desks. I am happy to report, however, that there is now another place that offers bánh mì in the Loop, bringing the total number of places to two. Good job, downtown Chicago. Good job. And this new place? It's Ba Le! For those of you who aren't familiar, they also have an outpost in Uptown and one in Chinatown, and lots of people enjoy their delicious Vietnamese sandwiches.
When you're at the front counter, it's hard not to notice this two-tailed specimen, which looks like two shrimp stuck in a Chinese finger trap. It is, of course, a shrimp roll ($2.65). It's not terribly big, but it definitely hits the spot as a snack or a crunchy side. The thin crackly shell is almost entirely filled with whole shrimp, aside from a bit of taro root and noodles, which are hard to notice. Otherwise, if you like shrimp, it's a good snack.
For me, it's hard to eat Vietnamese or Thai food without at least a side of papaya salad, and in Ba Le's case, it's a vegan papaya salad ($7.95) that's big enough to make a meal in and of itself. It's fresh and crunchy with noodle-cut papaya and bits of fried tofu, with peanuts served in a little cup for you to sprinkle on as you please. It's also tart from lime juice and salty and savory from the dressing. If you're eating with friends or coworkers, it's big enough to share with at least three or four people as a side.
And of course, there are the sandwiches. My favorite is the classic special ($5.95), which is layered with pate, ham, headcheese, and pork roll. The pate has that strong, iron-like liver flavor (it is liver, after all), and the sliced meats add up to a hammy, porky, and satisfying sandwich. It's all complimented with the sweet pickled daikon radish and carrot, and is served on a crackly, airy baguette that makes bánh mì so unique.
The roast pork banh mi ($5.95) is a subtle sandwich. The roast pork portion is pork belly, and it's also layered with the same pate as the special. The pale pork belly doesn't seem like much at first, but once the flavor settles in your mouth, the porky taste really does come out to play. Again, with the addictive bites of pickled vegetables and the crackly bread, this is also a satisfying sandwich.
I'm most intrigued by the pork shrimp cake bánh mì ($6.25). This spongy meat cake sandwich has the distinct flavor of both pork and shrimp melded together. It's interesting that you can taste both the pork and shrimp mixed into the same substance. Would I order it again? I'm not sure. It's definitely worth a try if you're curious.
My vegetarian friends really love bánh mì because the vegetarian options don't seem like an afterthought. There's a veggie avocado option, and a lemongrass tofu option, but my coworker opted for a custom-made tofu banh mi ($5.95) with the fried tofu instead. The tofu is a little rubbery, chewy, and unseasoned, but with the pickled vegetables it ends up being just fine.
Just earlier last year I lamented the fact that we really don't have too many bánh mì options in downtown Chicago, but it looks like I got one of my New Year's wishes.
Ba Le
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NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee in April that he would work to protect the privacy rights of Americans online. It was an interesting comment from a man who heads up an organization responsible for a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.
"NSA is the only place in the U.S. government that has the capabilities we need for defense of the private networks," James A. Lewis, a senior fellow and cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the CIA's favorite newspaper last year. "We need to find a way to use those capabilities without putting civil liberties at risk." CSIS is an insider think tank dominated by the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft. Henry Kissinger and other freedom lovers.
Threats against computer networks in the United States are grossly exaggerated. Dire reports issued by the Defense Science Board and the Center for Strategic and International Studies "are usually richer in vivid metaphor — with fears of 'digital Pearl Harbors' and 'cyber-Katrinas' — than in factual foundation," writes Evgeny Morozov, a Belarus-born researcher and blogger who writes on the political effects of the internet.
Morozov notes that much of the data on the supposed cyber threat "are gathered by ultra-secretive government agencies — which need to justify their own existence — and cyber-security companies — which derive commercial benefits from popular anxiety."
On Friday Alexander was appointed to head up the newly activated Cyber Command, a subordinate unified command under United States Strategic Command "designed to conduct virtual combat across the world's computer networks," according to The Guardian. The ceremony held at Fort Meade, Maryland, was "low-key" in order to not draw media attention.
Early last week the Air Force assigned approximately 30,000 "digital troops" to "the front lines of cyber warfare," a number that represents a third of the troops in Afghanistan. "The transformation is part of the service's larger emphasis on cyberspace operations and merging most computer system operations and network warfare functions under Space Command's 24th Air Force, based at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas," reported the Air Force Times on May 19.
The Pentagon considers cyberspace a warfighting domain equal to land, sea, air and space. In 2003, the Pentagon classified the internet as an enemy "weapons system" requiring a "robust offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and computer network attack."
In short, the mission of the Cyber Command will be primarily offensive, not defensive.
Bush retread Def. Sec. Robert Gates ordered the creation of the Cyber Command in June of 2009 specifically in response to the "already significant and growing digital threat" from "foreign actors, terrorists, criminal groups and individual hackers," according to the Air Force Times.
During the above mentioned Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing Alexander said the Pentagon's Cyber Command will enjoy "significant synergy" with the NSA. "We have to show what we're doing to ensure that we comport, comply with the laws," and protect the privacy of the American people, said Alexander.
"I am personally committed to this transparency, and I know that the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the rest of the Administration are as well," said Alexander.
Obama has consistently violated his election pledge to provide more transparency in government. Alexander's comment that the CIA, the DoD, and other associated agencies will suddenly become transparent and answerable to the American people after decades of secrecy and dishonesty is at best an incredulous statement.
"Alexander was repeatedly asked about privacy and civil liberties impact of his new role, and gave answers that were, well, full of platitudes but essentially uninformative," notes Privacy Digest.
Numerous organizations, including the ACLU and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, signed on to a letter sent to Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, requesting a meeting on the implications of the Pentagon's Cyber Command. In February, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the National Security Council, seeking a key document governing national cybersecurity policy.
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The Privacy Digest doubts the organizations will be granted access to Schmidt.
The Cyber Command will naturally roll the usual "private enterprise" suspects into the mix. Later this week, the U.S. Strategic Command will hold a "cyberspace symposium" in Omaha, Nebraska. "This event will provide an exciting venue for information exchange among leaders in Cyberspace. Fostering innovation and collaboration between the private sector and government to delve into tough cyber issues will be paramount for this symposium," a press release states. The symposium will be sponsored by Lockheed Martin, HP, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, Cisco, CSC, General Dynamics, QinetiQ, Raytheon and the spooky MITRE Corporation.
The Pentagon's Cyber Command was not established to fight Somalian or al-Qaeda hackers in remote backwater caves — or China and Russia for that matter. It was established to fight the real enemy — the American people.
Since "everything changed" following September 11, 2001, Homeland Security has worked closely with the Pentagon to monitor and subvert the real threat to the government — political activists and organizations within the United States. In addition to snooping anti-war organizations, the DHS has worked overtime (with a complaisant corporate media) to portray the patriot movement as violent and a threat to national security.
It is not merely anti-war and patriot activists and organizations the government is targeting. Bloggers and journalists who are not part of the Mockingbird corporate media have also fallen into the sights of the government.
According to investigative reporter Wayne Madsen, at least some members of the NSA want to deal with pesky bloggers in a more direct and deadly fashion. In August of 2008, Madsen reported that an executive level NSA staff person was on record saying that significant sentiment exists within the NSA to kill troublesome bloggers and journalists.
Cyber Command is an integral part of the ruling elite's overall and over-reaching control grid. In order to fight against the growing number of people now awake to their agenda, our rulers must take out the independent media on the internet. Cyber Command is not about hackers in China. It is about truth-tellers in the U.S. The "growing cyber threat" hyped by the government and the corporate media is merely cover for the real agenda.
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Photographs taken from space can track deforestation in developing nations and could be used along with cash incentives to safeguard trees and combat global warming, experts say.
NAIROBI Photographs taken from space can track deforestation in developing nations and could be used along with cash incentives to safeguard trees and combat global warming, experts say.
Some developing nations, such as Papua New Guinea and Bolivia, want Nov. 6-17 U.N. climate talks in Nairobi to work out ways to reward farmers who slow deforestation, a top source of greenhouse gases behind burning fossil fuels.
Experts said satellite photograph records can help overcome one of the big stumbling blocks -- finding a historical benchmark of forest size against which to give aid to those who slow the rate of destructive logging.
"Since the early 1990s, changes in forest area can be measured from space with confidence," said Frederic Achard, of the U.N.-backed Global Terrestrial Observing System. Pictures from space can back up ground observations.
But experts said there were problems such as gaps in the satellite records -- clouds often mar views of tropical rainforests such as the Amazon -- or judging when forests are being thinned rather than fully cleared.
"It's quite challenging to get good, cloud-free data," said Thomas Hausler, of German company GAF AG which provides satellite data analysis.
"We don't yet have the perfect satellite," said Olivier Arino of the European Space Agency. New generation of satellites from 2012 would improve coverage.
Most efforts to curb global warming centre on reining in emissions from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars in industrial nations. Involving forests could add a vast new area, perhaps even a market of tradeable credits.
"If a country is making efforts to preserve forests it should be rewarded," said Gisela Ulloa, the coordinator of Bolivia's National Clean Development Office.
Trees soak up carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming, as they grow. They release it when they die and rot. Most scientists say a build-up of greenhouse gases could cause more floods, heatwaves, storms, and rising sea levels.
Developing countries say a poor farmer will often sell trees to loggers rather than preserve them because of a lack of incentives to keep them standing.
Forests are home to half the species living on land and a key source of food, building materials and medicines worth billions of dollars a year.
A net 7.3 million hectares (18.04 million acres) of forests -- the size of Panama or Sierra Leone -- was lost each year from 2000-2005, according to U.N. data.
Hausler said that full, comparable, satellite maps had been compiled for Bolivia for 1990, 2000 and 2005 from U.S. and European data.
He said it was harder, for instance, to find data for Cameroon. "Here it's a bit more difficult because we have to deal with a lot of cloud coming from the Atlantic," he said.
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WWE® Superstar The Rock listens to Spud's heart as it makes swishing noises due to a valve replacement.
Born with a life-threatening degenerative heart condition, this wish kid has undergone multiple open-heart surgeries and an aortic valve replacement. To keep his tough spirit alive, he asked his wish granters from Make-A-Wish® Northern West Virginia if he could meet his powerful idol – The Rock.
One of The Rock's signature lines is to ask someone a question, and when the person answers he sarcastically interrupts with "it doesn't matter." So when Spud – whose real name is Sean - asks The Rock his real name the wish kid interrupts the Superstar's attempted response saying, "It doesn't matter what your name is."
The Rock laughs out loud saying it's the first time his own line has ever been used on him. From there the two forge a strong and fast friendship.
Make-A-Wish's partnership with WWE make this a successful arrangement as Spud and his family fly to Toronto for the taping of WWE's RAW event.
Spud presents The Rock with a Pittsburgh Steelers shirt – a team they both enjoy. The pair talks about wrestling and football. And Spud brings up his mom – she did not have a ticket for the night's RAW performance due to a scheduling conflict. The Rock says he'll take care of everything getting her a seat ringside with the rest of the family.
But then Spud has another request. The Rock has to execute his finishing move on Booker T. – one of his rivals – during the event. The Rock tells Spud he would be wrestling Christian – a native of Canada – that night though and apologized. To Spud's surprise, at the end of RAW that night the ring announcer informs the fans of a special match. The Rock grapples with Booker T. and "laid the smack down" just for Spud.
The meeting between wish kid and celebrity was truly powerful. When the two friends have to part, they both leave with tears. "The Great One" says goodbye with a tear in his eye and one running down his cheek, while Spud cries openly from happiness. WWE officials say they've never seen The Rock cry before.
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This is a country that loves a good fall from grace. I am willing to bet that there is more schadenfreude in a Los Angeles or New York block than there is among all of our Teutonic brothers across the Atlantic; the only difference is that they acknowledge it with a term unique to the German language and we hid behind the lack of an English translation and pretend that schadenfreude doesn't exist.
But more than we love to see someone famous or someone in power experience a public collapse (reaffirming our deeply held belief that everyone is just as screwed up as ourselves), we are enamored by contrition and absolve people completely once they publicly admit they are wrong in what can only be a type of hedge for when we inevitably make a mistake ourselves.
With all this in mind, it is inconceivable to me that people who operate in the realm of public relations have not grasped this obvious and intuitive concept. The normal public relations campaign after a mistake is made regardless of the industry or the position is as follows:
- assess the situation;
- figure out a way to delay the information from becoming public;
- while the delay is in place, formulate a blunder-ridden plan that divvies up blame among a wide-range of people that all, markedly, exploit some type of self-drilled loophole that requires an obligatory "But, it was not really my fault because…"
This strategy employs less organization and functionality than playground children returning to class with muddy shoes and trying to tell the teacher that they did not go outside during recess.
Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase gave everyone a free public relations lesson this last week when it called a snap press conference to explain to analysts that the firm's London investment office racked up some $2 billion in losses. A full five days before JP Morgan's annual shareholder meeting, Dimon pro-actively announced the losses and admitted that they were likely to grow. (Perhaps to as much as $3 billion.) Dimon took responsibility for the losses, which he characterized as "egregious." This unforced and unleaked admission of guilt before he was publicly forced to acknowledge it was not just the right thing to do but it was also a savvy, calculated public relations move that played to the heart of Americans' love for compunction. In turn, it also became a way to stop the firm's reputational hemorrhaging before it really got started. True, Dimon was living on borrowed time; he would have had to admit the losses sooner or later. But he chose to get out in front of the news and control it rather than wait until the news controlled him.
The $2 billion loss has become a tool for regulators to push for more stringently designed parameters in the so-called "Volcker Rule," the Dodd-Frank provision that restricts banks from proprietary trading (trading with the firm's own money). News of the loss has made countless headlines despite the fact that JPMorgan still has $127 billion in equity and is still profitable and well-managed; how much worse would it have been if JPMorgan went to the same old public relations playbook?
It would have been a disaster, not just for JPMorgan but for the whole financial services industry. The American people, and their regulators, have short memories filled with images of robber-barons and white-collar gamblers. After all, who can forget the months of populist anger last year against anything and everything Wall Street, thanks to the Occupy movement? The JPMorgan losses has reignited some fury directed at big banks but it is about as misplaced as it can be as the only people who have a right to be angry at the situation are JPMorgan's shareholders. Who, it should be noted, are not nearly as incensed about the loss as the media and regulatory windbags who keep talking about it. It is not like JPMorgan is looking for a bailout, after all.
Undoubtedly this is a black eye for Dimon, considered by many to be the best managerial mind on Wall Street. Surely the kind of ego required to succeed in Dimon's world cannot make a public mea culpa an easy thing. But if he can take responsibility for the managerial malfeasance anyone can.
To be fair, JPMorgan has run some plays out of the old public relations playbook. Some heads have to roll, of course, such as the rogue London trader nicknamed the "London Whale" because of the large bets he made. Joining him will be Ina R. Drew, the bank's Chief Investment Officer. They both will act as JPMorgan's staffing penance to the world, and to be fair, both probably deserve to go. But it was Dimon who has accepted full responsibility. It would behoove the corporate world, which seems to have perfected the aforementioned blunder-ridden PR strategy, to realize the potential that accompanies America's love for contrition and act on it. That goes double for the insurance industry.


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The bogan likes talking about things it never intends on doing. Loudly. The bogan's love of killing things is manifested in many ways; oversized pets, burning fossil fuels, paintball, and glassing cunts, but perhaps the most devoted bogan love is talking about joining the army. For there is nothing conceivably more maxtreme than talking about shooting an x-treme gun, in x-treme temperatures, in countries and terrain that it is x-tremely unaware of. All in the name of the most x-treme of all causes, National Security. The very thought of talking about defending its shores and bestowing freedom to some funny brown coloured people feeds its highly strung temperament like a tonic distilled from crack. The merciful warrior, the apotheosis of freedom and soldier of peace simply cannot wait to talk about joining the Armed Forces. Once its back recovers.
The bogan cannot actually join the army for a multitude of reasons. Whilst the appeal of driving an enormous armoured vehicle is certainly undeniable, the bogan's normally unwavering enthusiasm for killing things seems strangely lacklustre when it comes to actually enlisting and becoming the thing. Upon deeper reflection, the reasons for such paucity of endeavour become even clearer. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan boasts clubs where it can get loaded on Jagerbombs and glass cunts. But it fails to realise that both countries have abundant quantities of real bombs and its inhabitants can quite easily shoot cunts, should they so desire. There is also the issue of a distinct lack of flesh exposure amongst women in these war torn lands. The bogan knows this and doesn't like it.
The bogan is never one to stray too far from its comfort zone, and the army requires it do too many pesky things that get in its way. In a curious discord from its usual pit of ignorance, the bogan it seems, realises that joining the army is nothing like being Jason Bourne. Or Matt Damon, for that matter. The bogan concludes this landmark glimmer of introspection by inwardly vowing to go and work in the mines, while continuing to verbalise a feigned plan to surpass Australia's victory at Gallipoli.


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Americans have ramped up their spending over the last few months. Retail sales rose 0.8 percent in May, up 5.9 percent from a year ago, and now some economists are forecasting GDP growth near 4 percent in the second quarter, and 3 percent or better for the year.
CNBC's Patti Dom was quick to attribute the spending boost to the tax cuts – "Armed with new-found proceeds from the tax bill, American consumers went shopping in May, driving retail sales — and economic growth — sharply higher," Dom wrote – and some bank analysts agreed, with JP Morgan's chief economist Michael Feroli writing that "consumers wasted no time enjoying their tax windfall."
But other analysts downplayed the effect of the tax cuts, citing instead the steady, long-term gains in employment, the arrival of tax refund checks and rising inflation. "You can't just attribute it all to tax cuts," Chris Christopher of IHS Markit told MarketWatch.
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute pointed out that the U.S. has seen dozens over "hypergrowth" quarters of 4 percent or better growth over the last few decades, but there's little to suggest that the long-term trend toward a 2-percent-growth economy has changed. The tax cuts may indeed be providing an economic boost right now, Pethokoukis writes, but a new growth trajectory would require more fundamental changes – an artificial intelligence boom, say, or a huge surge in business investment – that would drive productivity significantly higher, and there's no sign of those transformations yet.
As far as business investment goes, Pethokoukis quoted JP Morgan on the capex spending booming Republicans have been waiting for in the wake of the new corporate tax rules: "Business investment spending, which had been the star performer over the past year, actually looks close to flat this quarter, thereby chalking up its weakest performance in over a year."


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6 September 2012
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- In a testament to the great contest of ideals and values that is American democracy, the counting of delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention was a nail-biter to the end. After a close battle that kept observers monitoring the back-and-forth affair for several hours today, in the end incumbant President Barack Obama emerged victorious, capturing 3,166 delegate votes out of the total 3,189 counted.
"We were nervous there for a time when John's fairly-won delegates from Louisianna made a play to have their votes actually counted," said Obama campaign representative Stephanie Cutter, referring to second-place finisher John Wolfe, Jr. of Tennessee. "Those three delegates could have narrowed the gap considerably. But we were able to brib... ahhh I mean appeal to the party officials of the great state of Louisianna, and they were finally able to find some vaguely possible violation of qualification requirements or something, and John's delegates there were not counted. That was a closey."
Wolfe filed a lawsuit to have have the three delegates counted, which would have brought his total to a respectable 26, but the case was dismissed under some technicality or other.
"We like John," Cutter said. "He has some great ideas for moving this great country forward. We don't really appreciate the integrity with which he likes to call Obama out on his abandonment of progressive principles, his veiled corporate friendliness, and his unwillingness to truly reign big business in with effective policies that could actually revive the country's crumbling economy, such as reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. But he's a good guy and if he had won this nomination, we would be standing behind him one hundred percent. We hope he and his supporters will do the same for us, but I'm not even really sure it will matter."
Wolfe's West Virginia delegates were counted, and he won or tied two counties in Texas. None of the 23 delegates he won were seated at the convention, however, in order to make room for the overflow of shills that were expected.
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