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Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is coming to theaters on December 14, 2012 - and Cinemarcado published a new round of images from the film earlier today. Check them out below!
The adventure fantasy stars Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, Sylvester McCoy, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Fry, Lee Pace, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Graham McTavish,Ken Stott, William Kircher,James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, Mikael Persbrandt, Conan Stevens, Jeffrey Thomas, Michael Mizrahi, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm and Elijah Wood.
THE HOBBIT follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.
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The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack is a unique inter-agency coalition formed in 2010 to address the problem of targeted attacks on education during armed conflict.
New PublicationGuidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed ConflictUnveiled December 16, 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Guidelines call on armed forces and non-state armed groups to refrain from using education facilities for military purposes.
PublicationQuestions and Answers on the Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed ConflictWhat do the Guidelines say? What are they aiming to achieve? GCPEA provides answers to these and other frequently asked questions about the use of schools for military purposes.
Media Release25 Years after Landmark Treaty, Children's Rights Still Violated with Impunity in ConflictIn 1989, world leaders recognized the rights of all children by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). But today, on the 25th anniversary of the CRC, there is still a broad gap between the vision articulated in the treaty and the reality for young people trying to go to school in conflict-affected countries.
StatementNobel Peace Prize Win for Malala Is a Message to All Students Living in Conflict – Yes You CanThe Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) congratulates Pakistani education activist, Malala Yousafzai, and Indian child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, for winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Press ReleaseGlobal Coalition Joins CHARGE, New Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Protect Girls' Education in ConflictAt the 10th annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, GCPEA committed to providing technical support to 10 states in incorporating the Lucens Guidelines.
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Hundreds of Pakistani students protesting against a French magazine for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad stormed a Christian boys' school demanding it close, officials and police said Tuesday.
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Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi joined pupils at a Nairobi primary school who defied riot police firing teargas to reclaim their sports field.
"Schools must be safe places of learning and development for all children. They should be zones of peace. Those who attack schools and hospitals should know that they will be held accountable."
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Winter is the season for big, rich, red wines that provide warmth and flavor, and reds pair nicely with the season's hearty dishes. Those big, tannic Syrahs, Merlots and Cabernet Sauvignons that are over the top in the heat of a Carolina summer are lovely with stews and other hearty winter dishes.
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Being the wine buyer on Thanksgiving is pretty easy. The food gets the spotlight, so the mission for the wine lover is to pick a wine that doesn't fight with the food and, more importantly, make sure there's enough of it.
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Lipman takes helm of BDC, plans more direct role in driving investments
LACONIA — Henry Lipman, the new chairman of the board of directors of the Belknap Development Council, says that the organization doesn't have to accept the aging demographics of the county as its destiny.
''We don't have to accept that as the way we are going to end up,'' said Lipman, the executive vice preside and chief financial officer at LRGHealthcare, who has also been a Laconia city councilor since 2005.
Lipman said the council plans to become a catalyst for investors and play a more direct role in driving new investment as a partner-investor and/or owner in property development in the county.
Outgoing chairman Sean Sullivan, who will return to his former seat as BDC treasurer, said that the organization has improved its financial position over the last year and is well poised to undertake new ventures.
The organization presented the Corporate Soul Award to Ryan Barton of Mainstay Technology for his leadership on the 200x2020 Initiative and former Laconia Mayor Michael Seymour for his inspired leadership in two terms as mayor, including his work with the WLNH Children's Auction.
The Winnipesaukee Playhouse was presented with the Community Impact Award for bringing professional theater to the Lakes Region. Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Dunleavy was also presented with a Community Impact Award for his work on the Downtown Riverwalk.
Former BDC Executive Director Carmen Lorentz was presented with a Founder's Award for her leadership during the last three years in which she helped revive the organization and launched many in ititiatives such as 200x2020 and Manufacturing Week. She is now Director of the State Division of Economic Development.
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Cristopher Boothby, president of the board of directors of the Winnipesaukee Playhouse and Neil Pankhurst, one of the founders of the Playhouse, accept the Community Impact Award from Randy Eifert, a member of the board of directors of the Belknap Development Council, at the organization's annual meeting held at Lakes Region Community College in Laconia. (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)
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Carmen Lorentz, former executive director of the Belknap Development Council, accepts the Founder's Award from Mark Eddleston, former president of Lakes Region Community College and a former member of the board of directors of the BDC, and Sean Sullivan, the outgoing chairman of the Board of Directors of the BDC. (Roger Amsden photo for the Laconia Daily Sun)
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Downtown TIF Committee agrees to reroute Riverwalk
LACONIA — Presented with three alternatives for carrying the downtown riverwalk across the Perley Canal to Beacon Street West, the Downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Advisory Board split three-to-two yesterday in favor of recommending to the City Council a route through the residential complex rather than along the riverbank.
Originally Chinburg Builders Inc., the developer of the Beacon Street West Condominiums, planned to build a restaurant on the footprint of a building straddling the canal. The building collapsed under a snow load several years ago. The firm granted the city an easement along the river for the riverwalk, which would be incorporated into the design of the restaurant.
However, Chinburg has since decided to construct a 6,230-square foot building on the site, with seven residential units, two of which will overlook the river. Jeff Spitzer, senior project manager, told the board that the firm concluded that in light of market conditions a residential use of the property would be more economically viable than a commercial use. He said that while public access would be not only compatible but desirable in conjunction with a restaurant, there is a greater need for privacy with a residential building.
Chinburg presented three conceptual plans for the segment of the riverwalk from the completed stretch behind the Beacon Street West Condominiums across the Perley Canal to Beacon Street West. The first would take the riverwalk around the building over the canal to Beacon Street West by a flight of stairs. As this plan would not provide access for those with disabilities, the board rejected it.
The second alternative would take the riverwalk around the building, crossing the Perley Canal with a bridge then turning a corner before joining Beacon Street West. The third route would follow the path of the easement across the front of the proposed building fronting the riverwalk within feet of the windows of two residential units.
Chinburg has present its plan for the site to the Planning Department. This week the technical review committee, consisting of representatives of city departments, expressed its preference for the second alternative. Chinburg has offered to bear the cost of this route.
Board members Warren Clement and Ken Sawyer favored keeping the riverwalk on the river. "If we continue to compromise," Sawyer warned, "we'll wind up with a trail that doesn't follow the water as much as it should." Clement asked, "Are we concerned about not having a riverwalk along the river?"
Attorney Pat Wood said that the easement, although "not black and white," would likely entitle the city to build the riverwalk on the shoreline, but added "we may have the legal right to do it, but is it the right thing to do?" Stressing that Chinburg was willing to pay for construction of an alternate route, he proposed the board recommend the route preferred by the developer.
Kevin Dunleavy, director of Parks and Recreation who chairs the board, said he was "not surprised by Chinburg's position" and cautioned, "If we push, Chinburg may not build at all. They've offered a compromise here," he continued, explaining the firm granted an easement for public access through the Beacon Street West complex and offered to fund construction of the last segment. "I'd like nothing better than to have the riverwalk along the water," he said, "but compromise is necessary."
Chinburg is scheduled to present its plan for the site to the Planning Board on April 1.
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Laconia to consider doing away with primary elections
LACONIA — The Government Operations and Ordinances Committee of the City Council last night agreed to direct the City Attorney to draft changes to the City Charter that would either eliminate primary elections altogether or authorize the City Clerk to declare a primary election unnecessary if no more than two candidates file for any particular office.
City Clerk Mary Reynolds initiated the proposal in response to the cost of conducting primary elections, at which very few voters cast ballots.
Once the proposed amendments to the charter are drafted, the committee will present a recommendation to the City Council, which will decide whether to begin the process of amending the charter, which includes a holding public hearing on the proposed changes and placing the question on the general election ballot in November.
The Government Operations and Ordinances Committee is chaired by Councilor Ava Doyle (Ward 1) and includes Councilors David Bownes (Ward 2) and Armand Bolduc (Ward 6). None of the committee members expressed a position either for or against eliminating or changing the primary election process.
In 1995 voters amended the City Charter to eliminate partisan elections, in which party caucuses nominated the candidates for mayor and City Council, and instead hold primary elections to choose the two candidates who appeared on the general election ballot. Primaries for city offices are held in September of odd-numbered years.
In a memorandum, Reynolds explained that since the change was introduced, relatively few primary elections have been contested, and very few voters have cast ballots. For example, in 1997, when the first primary was held, only one candidate entered the primary for City Council in each of the six wards and only two candidates entered the mayoral primary. With no contested races, just 7 percent of registered voters went to the polls.
In the eight primary elections between 1997 and 2011 voter turnout has averaged 9 percent. In 2001, when turnout reached a high of 18 percent there were four candidates for mayor, along with five city council candidates in Ward 3, three in Wards 4 and 5 and two in Ward 6. In three of the past eight elections — in 2003, 2009 and 2011 — primary elections were held even though there were not more than two candidates for either mayor or any of the six council seats. In 2011, only 259 of 8,422, or 3 percent of registered voters went to the polls, just 21 of them in Ward 2 and another 22 in Ward 5, at a cost to the city of approximately $39 a vote.
Last year when there were three candidates for mayor but no more than two for any of six city council seats the turnout was 6 percent.
Along with the mayor and city councilors, primary elections are also held to nominate candidates for the the seven seats on the School Board, whose members serve staggered terms, requiring a primary every year, and three seats on the Police Commission.
Reynolds said that cost of conducting municipal primary elections is approximately $8,600, which does not include about $1,000 for police details at the polling stations at Woodland Heights Elementary School and Laconia Middle School. The cost consists of $3,900 for printing ballots, $1,000 for materials at polling stations and $3,700 in wages of poll workers.
Laconia is one of three of the state's 13 cities to conduct municipal primary elections. In both the other two — Manchester and Keene —the charters authorize the city clerk to deem a primary election election unnecessary if no more than two candidates file for any particular office.
To spare taxpayers the cost of elections that more often than not are unnecessary, Reynolds proposed either adopting the procedure followed by Manchester and Keene or abandoning primary elections entirely.
When the committee met Bownes said he had received a phone call from former mayor and councilor Matt Lahey, who he described as "very much opposed" to eliminating or changing the primary process. Lahey, he explained, considers "the costs of holding the primary minimal compared to the possible consequences of doing away with them."
According to Bownes, Lahey harkened back to the election of the "Straight Arrows," claiming it proved "contentious and costly." His fear, Bownes continued, is that without a primary two "reasonable people" could file for office and a third candidate of "a particular persuasion" could join the race. The two like-minded candidates could split the vote, leading to the election of "a radical, a candidate who doesn't really represent the views of the a majority of voters in the ward."
In other words, Bownes said that Lahey believes that without a primary there is a risk that two-thirds of the vote could be split two ways, enabling a candidate representing a minority perspective to win the election.
"I'm just expressing a point of view," Bownes insisted. "I'm not sure where I come down this."
Bolduc countered that holding a primary would not prevent a minority candidate who mounted an aggressive write-in campaign from winning a general election against one or two declared candidates on the ballot.
"Write-in candidates," Bownes replied, "are different animals."
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Belmont selectmen decline to sponsor block grant for study of Gale School
BELMONT — Selectmen last night unanimously opposed being the sponsor of a federal community development block grant that would pay for a feasibility study for the Gale School.
Town Administrator Jeanne Beaudin told the selectmen she had spoken to Shaker Regional School District Superintendent Maria Dreyer and the private Save the Gale School Committee about sponsoring a possible U.S.D.A. Community Development Block Grant for $12,000, but said she needed selectmen's approval.
"How can we asked for a grant for a building we don't own?" asked Selectman Jon Pike.
Beaudin explained that a school district can't apply for a CDBG grant, but a municipality can. She said the town would only be a sponsor, but would not fill out the application and she was only acting as a conduit between the School District the CDBG.
The town doesn't own the Gale School. It is owned by the Shaker Regional School District and is on School District property. Built about 120 years ago, there has been a movement afoot to relocate the school to a corner lot near the Belmont Middle and Elementary School campus.
According to a letter sent to the town on Aug. 16, 2013, and made public at a Shaker Regional School Board meeting, the Gale School is eligible for the National Register, a determination made in 1985.
The letter said the Gale School "was listed ... as an important Colonial Revival-style building in the town. Many of these resources have irreplaceable architectural detail and historic import to the town."
In 1977, the Shaker District built Belmont Elementary School and relegated the Gale School to be used for cold storage.
Selectmen contended last night that while there have been a number of attempts to find the money to save the old school or possibly relocate it, there has never been any hint of evidence that the School District would spend the money needed to restore or relocate it.
"We don't own it, we don't see a use, and the town isn't willing (to spend any money on it)," said Selectman Ron Cormier who is the selectman's representative to the Heritage Commission, and is at odds with its other members who want to find a way to preserve the building.
He said he would support some kind of effort to save the bell tower and incorporate it into something in the village area. Others, including some members of the Shaker School Board and selectmen have, echoed this sentiment.
Cormier also said there have already been a number of feasibility studies done on the school and for selectmen to sanction another one by sponsoring a federal grant would be a "wild goose chase."
"Eventually, if we keep dragging it on maybe the building will collapse into itself," he said.
Selectmen's Chair Ruth Mooney said that if the School District is so interested in saving the school then they need to do the work.
Pike agreed, saying that if the town sponsors the grant it will be "sticking its neck out" and possible be on the hook for the entire restoration, especially since the Save the Gale School is private and its members can "walk away at any time."
"I'm not in favor of having a public hearing," said Mooney, referring back to Beaudin's original request. Pike and Cormier agreed.
"Just because a building is old, it doesn't need to be saved," Cormier said.
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IPCom Sues Metro Retailers in Germany in HTC Patent Dispute
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- IPCom GmbH & Co. sued stores of Metro AG's Media-Saturn unit in Germany for selling HTC Corp. 3G mobile phones that it says violate IPCom patents.
IPCom sued about 25 stores, said Thomas Empt, a spokesman for the Pullach, Germany-based patent-licensing company.
"Since the retailers are fully aware of the court decisions of patent infringement against HTC, and continue to sell the handsets despite our request to stop doing so, the retailers risk being held liable themselves for willfully infringing our patent," Bernhard Frohwitter, managing director of IPCom, said in a statement.
HTC hasn't seen a complaint or been contacted by retailers about any IPCom lawsuit and "is committed to protecting its partners' and customers interests," according to a statement from an outside spokeswoman in London. Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC is still involved in litigation over the validity of the patent.
Dusseldorf, Germany-based Metro's consumer-electronics chains Media Markt and Saturn didn't return a phone call and an e-mail seeking comment on the suits.
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Hello ladies....so I think its prob still early but at what point is it a hood idea to pack the hospital bag....I know way earlier than my first I waited til totally last minute...
But.how early is the norm for multiples anything different than for a singleton besides extra set of clothing for the extra baby LOL??
I think any time after 28 weeks (just my opinion).
I just gave birth 3 weeks ago and I can tell you I used almost nothing I packed. The only stuff I used was - one outfit for each of the boys, my shower stuff, one outfit for me, my camera, and my computer. I had a rough recovery though and spent most of it laying in bed hooked up to iv's.
I finished packing my bag the day before I gave birth. I am kind of a procrastinator though.
This is a good question. Never packed a bag with DS1 cause I was having a home birth & this literally slipped my mind. MW's were not too thrilled when I had to be transferred due to PPH & I had nothing ready. So this time I'd like to be prepared if only to avoid having to use the random things DH threw in a bag for me...a nice tank top with lace, a pair of nice comfy pants but were pale, pale pink (threw them away), no socks (in the middle of a blizzard), no lotion (skin was so dry). He tried his very best.
I'm thinking I'll get this done before 30 weeks.
In the states they do give us diapers but I can tell you as far as useage goes, my twins need their diaper changed at least every time they eat which is every 3 hours. That is a minimum of 16 diapers per day. With accidents and the like, I would assume to take at least 20 diapers per day.
now that the diapers are brought up.....what size do they need when they are first born....should i buy some preemie diapers or size 1.....i cant remember if their is a newborn size..lol.......i will prob just add a few diapers to the bag but not a whole pack.....ugh i feel so behind since i havent started getting anything...


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ROCKPORT, Summit County — Robert and Sherri Berntsen knew the fire was right over the ridgeline. But they didn't want to leave their house.
Not because they thought they could save it. But because someone was needed to take care of the wildlife.
"We don't care about the house, we can rebuild the house," Robert Berntsen said Friday just hours after his evacuated neighbors were allowed to return to their homes.
"You just feel a connection with (the wildlife). They watch you, you connect with them. They bring their babies and show them off every spring. And when they were in trouble, where did they come? They came here," added Sherri Berntsen.
"It really makes you think twice about what's important when you have to leave."
The Berntsens live in a large house surrounded by heavy vegetation near the top of the Bridge Hollow community. They frequently see deer and moose eating some of the greenery around their house. When the Rockport Fire kicked up earlier this week, the wildlife drank a nearby pond dry, they said.
Because of that, the Berntsens filled buckets of water in back of their home several times a day for displaced wildlife to drink. As the couple spoke with the Deseret News Friday morning, an adult female moose and her calf walked into the backyard to drink from the water bucket.
As the residents of the Bridge Hollow and Promontory neighborhoods expressed gratitude to be back in their homes Friday, residents of the fire-ravaged areas of Rockport Estates and Rockport Ranches were told the evacuation order for them will likely continue until Monday evening. There are approximately 110 homes in those communities.
Summit County District Fire Warden Bryce Boyer said "significant improvements" were made Thursday in fighting the Rockport Fire. By Friday night, the 1,920-acre fire was still 50 percent contained. Eight homes, including three primary residences, have burned in those areas.
The main focus for firefighters Friday was to put out the hot spots that were still intertwined among the homes. "We are finding a number of them," Boyer said.
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I had to look that up! German was outlawed in my home county since WWI and I don't think they've ever repealed the laws. We begged and begged in grade school and jr. high to have German when we got to high school. Didn't happen. They did get it a few years later, but then dropped it for Mandarin. I don't know what they're teaching now.
That's really creepy!!! You have NO idea how true that is!
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I have some idea -- lots of Germans around here. I even took it in high school. Most of my fellow students in the class were called things like Uwe. A little awkward ;)
If you ever get bored, look up the Black Swamp region in NW Ohio. Lot's of pretty cool history. Even War of 1812 and French and Indian War. The whole area was reclaimed land and mainly settled by Germans. By the time my generation was growing up, the only things left of our ancestors were the family bibles and some recipes. Oh, and a very few words, mostly mis-pronounced!LOL
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Here Germans are mostly either from Russia shortly after WWI or from West Germany or Austria (but LOTS originally from parts east) in the 1950s. And a sprinkling of descendants of late 19th century immigrants to German block settlements in Saskatchewan. Oh, and Mennonites. Lots of Mennonites and Hutterites. I never think of them as Germans, even though they're the only people speaking it at home for the most part. No German Jews -- maybe the occasional American professional passing through.
When I was a kid, my mom's hairdresser was Swiss -- poor Manfred spent half his time letting people know he wasn't German.
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Rome's Gothic Wars When the pans dredged from the river are lined up in a museum, as if on identity parade, it looks as though all the cookware in Roman Germany had banded together, commandeered a wagon, and made a break for freedom over the Rhine. In fact, the pans had accomplices: the barbarian Alamanni, who invaded the Roman empire in A.D. 259. When the raiders turned for home, they took with them wagons piled high with loot. But perhaps in the face of Roman counterattack, or perhaps because a raft was greedily overloaded, one of those wagons, carrying nearly a ton of metal goods, toppled into the Rhine. What German scholars call with pleasant irony the "barbarian treasure" from Neupotz, exhibited last year at Speyer, contains some coins and a few handsome bits of silver. But most of the thousand-odd metal objects are the most prosaic imaginable: pots and more pots (carefully packed for transport, the little ones nested in the big ones, like an Ikea starter set for newlyweds), casserole dishes and strainers, plates and cups, bowls and kettles and spoons, carafes and water jugs, carving knives and wood-axes, cooking racks and smithy tongs, files and hammers, chisels and awls and adzes, wool shears and sheep-bells, horseshoes and lengths of chain. And metal door-locks, too, laboriously cut from the doors they once protected. Study of this piled junk reveals that it did not come from the area of Germany where it was found, but instead from Limousin in the southwest of France, over 350 miles away as the crow flies (and crows are bad at pulling wagons). A little epic of human effort ended when the wagon and its pots clattered into the river. You've got to wonder about a people who would walk round-trip the distance from New York to Peoria to plunder Kmart. And from that wonder come misgivings about the new school of late Roman history, "Barbarian Studies" (named from the prophetic New Yorker cartoon depicting two horsemen bristling with weapons, and a third wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe, captioned "Two barbarians and a professor of barbarian studies"). According to this school, of which Michael Kulikowski's Rome's Gothic Wars is exemplary, any high jinks the barbarians got up to were always, deep down, the Romans' fault. A naturally peaceful folk were militarized by Roman aggression born of imperial politics and the emperor's need to find martial busywork for his soldiers. Scholars had examined Roman-barbarian relations since the days of Edward Gibbon, and found plenty of fault on either side: Only now has Rome become the sole garden of dark flowers; only now has the Roman empire become Mordor. Roman authors, of course, had a different view: They tended to regard the barbarians as, well, barbarians. Barbarians raided and invaded because they were greedy and aggressive, or because they were pushed over the Roman border by tribes more greedy and aggressive than they. The Professor of Barbarian Studies dismisses these ancient views as prejudice. "That sort of essentialist explanation can hardly be enough for us," he sniffs, while cheerfully applying exactly the same kind of explanation to the Romans. In blaming the Romans for barbarian attacks in the third through fifth centuries A.D., he slights the detail--upon which the Romans themselves remarked--that Rome's relations with her neighbors changed over the course of her long history. Once upon a time the Romans had, indeed, been extremely aggressive, but after Augustus' loss of Varus' three legions in Germany in A.D. 9, Rome for the most part stood on the defensive behind her Rhine and Danube river borders. Tacitus, appalled by this newfound meekness, tells us why: The calculus of autocracy made military aggression too dangerous for the regime. Defeats undermined imperial power, and victories raised up successful generals as rivals to the purple. The professor's insistence that "military victories were a vital legitimizing device for imperial power" would have puzzled a number of Roman emperors of the first and second centuries A.D., who felt quite free to do without such victories, preferring to root their power in the protection of a prosperous peace. Even the ubiquitous traces of fourth-century Rome's defensive-mindedness, the fortifications along the Rhine and Danube strengthened in such desperation and at such cost, can be dismissed as "grandiose" manifestations of eccentric pride or made part of Rome's aggressive plans: The new castles "could serve as advance posts for Roman military action." |


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"All I ever wanted to do was run" – The Catherine Freeman Journey will bring together significant items from her running life, including childhood trophies, custom-made competition spikes that carry the Aboriginal and Australian flags, and the outfit she wore when lighting the Olympic cauldron. Medals, running clothes, photos and travelling bags will also be on display.
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Publication Info: Runaway Films 2004
Genre: Nonfiction
So I just watched the documentary Double Dare, and I raved about it so much on Twitter that SB Sarah asked if I would review it, to which I replied, "Yes, I will, because it's the best thing ever and I have to tell everyone all about it right now!"
Double Dare is a documentary about stuntwomen in Hollywood. It follows the paths of stuntwomen Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell over a three year period and along the way it talks about women's struggles in the stunt industry – many of which parallel the struggles of women in general. At the time the story begins, Zoë has been working as Lucy Lawless's stunt double on Xena: Warrior Princess. "That's my acting double", she tells us, speaking of Lucy Lawless. Zoë is adorable. There's some great stuff about working on Xena in this opening section. Alas, Xena is about to come to a close, which leaves Zoë unemployed. Most of the film that follows Zoë involves her going to Hollywood (Xena filmed in New Zealand, where Zoë is from) to try to find work as a stuntwoman.
Meanwhile, we also follow the story of veteran stuntwoman Jeannie Epper, who is best known for being Lynda Carter's double on Wonder Woman. I took at look at Jeannie's filmography and basically if you've ever seen a movie, Jeannie was probably in it. The woman keeps busy. Anyway, at the time Double Dare filmed, Jeannie was in her sixties and having a tough time getting jobs. Of all the terrifying things I saw in the movie, nothing made my blood run as cold as the sight of Jeannie, day after day after day, making call after call in search of a job. With each call, she shrugs off rejection or delay and moves right to the next one. As Jeannie says, "It's easier to do the job than it is to get the job".
This movie had fascinating things to say about stunt work and the entertainment industry. This is a must-see documentary for anyone with an interest in the making of movies and TV shows.
But beyond the content specific to doing stunts, it's also a fascinating look at different generations of women struggling with things that anyone can relate to. Both women struggle to balance work and family. Zoë has a hard time finding time to be with her family and friends and is hesitant about leaving them all to go to the US. Jeannie had her first baby at the age of sixteen and talks about how exhausted she was working thirteen-hour days and then trying to raise her family. The women worry about career-threatening injuries and limitations. Jeannie's daughter, Eurlyne, has surgery to repair neck damage from a high fall, and struggles during her recovery with trying to figure out how much stunt work she can still do. Jeannie worries about how long she'll be able to keep working and whether she'll be able to get jobs as a stunt coordinator – a position that almost always goes to men.
All the women face high levels of pressure to be thin enough to double skinny Hollywood stars while being strong enough to do the stunts. There's a ton of stuff in this about body image. Jeannie considers liposuction and counsels Zoë to lie about her weight on an application.
If I have any criticism, it's that the film drags a little in the middle. In real life, making calls and going to meetings and working out at the gym is not very exciting, and it turns out that watching people make calls, attend meetings, and work out isn't super-exciting either. I also wondered if maybe the film glossed over some of the rockier times in Jeannie's life.
There are various hints at a troubled past but nothing is spelled out. I wondered about her and Eurlyne and whether they had always been close or whether things had been hard for Eurlyne, who mentions that living up to her mom's reputation is "difficult".
Basically what you have here are three women in different stages of life, and the extreme nature of their work highlights their stresses. Jeannie has to deal with fear of getting older and of being judged as less capable and marketable than younger women. Eurlyne, who is on the young side of middle age, is juggling her kids and an injury and trying to figure out how much work she can realistically do and still keep herself healthy. Zoë is anxious about being more adult, especially about moving far away from her family. "I always thought being an adult would be boring," she says.
This movie was exhilarating and inspiring and sometimes sad and often hilarious and interesting. I can't begin to describe how funny these women are! Jeannie and Zoë both approach life with a goal that they refuse to give up on, and they work relentlessly hard to achieve their goals. I don't actually plan to do any high falls in my own life but I felt much more inspired and focused about pursing my own dreams after I watched this, and I had a deep appreciation for the generations of women who refused to be stopped by discrimination or the unique challenges of having to do stunt work in high heels.
You can find this documentary online or in DVD format at Amazon or through Prime streaming services. Check your local listings. You can also find out more at IMDB.


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(Music playing) Michael Lebowitz: Jamie also created, with these guys, the special bears application. It's a desktop application that lets you sort of almost like a slot machine to create your own special bear. This was, the same way that these guys the Cheapies Playhouse guys have their mascot, these guys have the special bears. So you can hit randomize and members of the team with different bear features and different team features all come up.
There is Jamie, and then you can add bear eyes to him and change him to Tyson, bear snout, and you could save it and it actually creates a little emblem around it for your desktop image. So, it's the special bears desktop image generator, with their tag line, "It's not our fault." Jamie: It hasn't been my fault in twenty-something years. I haven't been wrong. Michael: That's debatable. That's highly debatable. Zander Brimijoin: I don't necessarily see that technical production and creative expression are at odds with each other.
Joshua Hirsch: I agree. Zander: Often, like, we will come up ideas while exploring production techniques, whether it be, like, physical, building things physically and then an idea and a comp would come out of it, or whether it's exploring ways of coding specific things and then we will make a design to match what we can do, development-wise. So I think we are really - work really closely with production techniques.
Joshua: Yeah, I think technical production can be a way to express yourself creatively, just like anything else. And I think, I mean, there are technical limitations sometimes that can effect both, but that's just a limitation and a huge list of other limitations that we work with all the time, in any medium, any design medium, especially. That's part of the challenge, part of the fun. Zander: We do have some down time here and we like to use that down time to explore some things that might be in the back of people's heads and the idea would be that ultimately, these things are going to be useful later. We might use a technique that we develop and make something real for a client afterwards.
I am interested in doing installation work, so I wanted to do something small as, like, a demo of things that we could do. So, I wanted to take an activity that happens at Big Spaceship all the time and then have a Flash application react to it. So, we took foosball -- Joshua: Which happens here all the time. Zander: Right. So I decided to just map that activity and I buried light sensors in the goals of the foosball machine, and so every time somebody would score it would send some data to a Flash application.
And then I made animations that would be triggered every goal. So you would be playing foosball and you would see, every time you would score a goal it would sort of react with an animation and then also send it to a live server so you could check the live score whenever you wanted, from your desk, not that you would do that, but they were like setting ground work for a potential project maybe involving games that create live projections and without an experiment, somebody might not believe that we could do that.
Joshua: And learn valuable things too. The first, what was the first sensors? The first sensors were like touch, physical sensors. Zander: Yeah, I first used piezo sensors. Joshua: And then the score was like 111 to -5, sometimes. Zander: Right. It thought every time the table shook that there was a goal. Joshua: So that's some valuable learning we got from the experiment. Don't use piezo, use light sensors. Zander: Always use light sensors. Joshua: And the Dev team, again, during the down time I just encourage the team to just play with things, just like Zander said, you know, anything in the back of your mind, start playing around with it.
There are lot of specific things that we need to go out and experiment with, like different APIs for Facebook, OpenSocial, or YouTube, or Flicker, those things that we may not get the chance to apply to our project right now, so we're going to have to take time to learn it so we are ready and so we can pitch it, be really knowledgeable about pitching it for certain clients or for certain uses.
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Issue 6 • Date June 2014
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IEEE Communications Magazine - Cover
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Table of contents
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Communications and standards: A natural pairing [The President's Page]
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Conference calendar
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Tribute to George Heilmeier, inventor of liquid crystal display, former DARPA director, and industry technology leader
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Context-aware networking and communications: Part 1 [Guest Editorial]
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Context-aware quality of service in wireless sensor networks
Page(s): 16 - 23In wireless sensor networks, densely deployed and resource-constrained sensor nodes observe their surroundings and communicate the sensed data to the sink. However, those observations are correlated - spatially and temporally. Furthermore, the communicated data, depending on their priority, require differentiated QoS, such as end-to-end delay and jitter. In this work, we use context awareness as a means of sharing information required to control the network, and providing differentiated QoS to the nodes and their transmitted data by exploiting spatial and temporal correlation. Simulation results show that context awareness helps nodes to manage the network in an energy-efficient manner. View full abstract»
A survey of context-aware middleware designs for human activity recognition
Page(s): 24 - 31The ever increasing technological advances in embedded systems engineering, together with the proliferation of small-size sensor designs and deployment, have enabled smart devices to recognize daily human-based actions, activities, and interactions. Therefore, inferring a vast variety of user-device-based activities from diverse contexts obtained by a series of sensory observations has drawn much interest to the research area of ubiquitous sensing. The existence and awareness of context provides the capability of being conscious of physical environments or situations around users, and this allows network services to respond proactively and intelligently based on such awareness. Hence, with the evolution of smartphones, software developers have been empowered to create context-aware applications for recognizing human-centric or community based innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and at any location. However, the middleware services provided in mobile devices have limited resources in terms of power, memory, and bandwidth compared to the capabilities of PCs and servers. Also, power is a major restriction on implementation of context-aware applications. Mobile device batteries do not last a long time while operating sensor(s) constantly. To this end, this article extensively surveys the emerging concepts of context awareness in mobile platforms by providing up-to-date literature and future research directives. We also point out the challenges faced in this regard and enlighten them by offering possible solutions. View full abstract»
CA-P2P: context-aware proximity-based peer-to-peer wireless communications
Page(s): 32 - 41Many new wireless applications such as public safety and social networking have been emerging in recent years. Those applications introduce the necessity of direct communications among devices or peers without core network or wireless routers, which is not well supported in current network infrastructures. While some existing technologies can support certain levels of direct peer-to-peer communications, they are context-oblivious and inefficient. This article proposes a context-aware proximity-based P2P (CA-P2P) wireless communication system architecture to enable context awareness for direct P2P communications. The main idea is to systematically incorporate appropriate context information in direct communication protocols to improve overall performance. One of the major features is application-based communication, which connects peers according to their common applications. Accordingly, radio resources can be managed more efficiently among and within different application groups. Specifically, the scheme proposed in this article includes several new mechanisms such as context-aware peer discovery and context-aware peer association. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed context awareness system achieves fast and efficient peer discovery and peer association in terms of latency and overhead. View full abstract»
CACC: A context-aware congestion control approach in smartphone networks
Page(s): 42 - 48One of the major challenging issues of smartphone networks is congestion control due to the limitation of node resources. In this article, we focus on exploring context knowledge between nodes to control congestion. For this purpose, we first measure the effect of context information on congestion, and specify several major congestion factors. We then model the congestion control problem as multiple criteria decision making, in which the weight of each congestion factor is measured by the CRITIC method. Subsequently, we develop a context-aware congestion control approach (CACC) to determine the forwarding set, including those messages that incur the least congestion on the network. Extensive real-trace driven simulation is conducted, and the experimental results finally validate the efficiency of our proposed CACC. View full abstract»
Experimenting with floating content in an office setting
Page(s): 49 - 54The growing ubiquity and pervasiveness of sensors and smart devices, with the consequent availability of a large amount of "local" and contextualized information, are giving rise to a wealth of "context-aware" applications and services. In this work we consider an opportunistic communication scheme called Floating Content (FC), which was specifically designed for serverless distributed context-aware applications. So far, the performance analysis of FC, and in particular of content lifetime and availability, was based on simplified system models and fluid system analysis. The resulting performance estimates did not account for the effects of propagation characteristics, mobility patterns, and communication protocols, all factors known to significantly affect the performance of opportunistic communication schemes. This article studies the main issues related to the performance of FC service in a realistic office setting through a first experimental evaluation of a mobile app for Android devices. Our experimental results confirm the feasibility of FC service for supporting practical context-aware mobile applications in office settings. View full abstract»
Prospects and challenges of context-aware multimedia content delivery in cooperative satellite and terrestrial networks
Page(s): 55 - 61Cooperative satellite cells and terrestrial wireless communication networks (comprising macrocells, picocells, and the Internet) are much anticipated access technologies to enable users to seamlessly access rich multimedia content (e.g., TV broadcasting, VoD streaming, and other services) on their devices. Furthermore, context awareness has become popular to accompany these services not only to enhance the users' perceived service quality but also to improve the overall utilization of such cooperative networks. However, delivering context-aware multimedia content through these cooperative networks is associated with a significant research challenge due to the inherently different satellites and terrestrial networks technologies. For example, to provide context-specific TV programs to a user, a satellite needs to adopt unicast-style delivery. This may be an expensive operation since satellites are intrinsically useful for broadcasting or multicasting services to a wide audience. In contrast, terrestrial communication networks can be better suited to perform unicast-based context-aware content delivery. In this article, we address these challenges, and propose a dynamic bandwidth allocation method to effectively utilize the satellite and terrestrial networks for providing context-aware contents to many users. Computer-based simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. View full abstract»
A context-aware system architecture for leak point detection in the large-scale petrochemical industry
Page(s): 62 - 69In the large-scale petrochemical industry, one of the most concerning problems is the leakage of toxic gas. To solve this problem, it is necessary to locate the leak points and feed the possible location of leak points back to rescuers. Although some researchers have previously presented several methods to locate leak points, they ignored the impact of external factors, such as wind, and internal factors, such as the internal pressure of equipment, on the accurate detection of leak points. Fundamentally, both of those factors belong to context-aware data in a context-aware system. Therefore, this article proposes a context-aware system architecture for leak point detection in the large-scale petrochemical industry. In this three-layer architecture, a distributed database based on data categorization is designed in the storage layer, which is able to choose the most efficient approach to store the context-aware data from the gathering layer according to different context-aware data types. Then a real-time template matching algorithm for context-aware systems is presented in the computing layer to process the context-aware data stream. The architecture is a new scheme for accurate leak point detection, which is more consistent with practical application in the large scale petrochemical industry. View full abstract»
On systems generating context triggers through energy harvesting
Page(s): 70 - 77Context awareness is one of the building blocks of smart applications that constitutes smart spaces. With the emergence of cyber physical systems, it is now possible to create spaces that are truly adaptable and smart. In these spaces, contextual parameters are captured by many wireless sensor nodes. This collected data is processed to understand the context in real time. Since a large number of sensors are deployed, processing all the data is a big task. Moreover, since the sensors are powered by batteries, they have a limited lifetime. Sensing only when there is a context event can save energy as well as reduce data processing. To make sensor nodes operate perpetually, ambient energy harvesters can be used. Typically, the energy harvesting source of a sensor is related to the physical parameters the sensor is measuring. We propose exploiting this property to develop a context-event triggering mechanism in this article. We also adapt the context-aware application framework for incorporating context-event triggers by harvesters. A Smart-M3-based architecture is also proposed. Through a real-world use case, we illustrate significant energy savings and reduced data processing in our proposed approach. View full abstract»
Multidimensional context-aware social network architecture for mobile crowdsensing
Page(s): 78 - 87This article proposes a multidimensional context-aware social network architecture, which aims to provide a mobile ecosystem to enable context awareness in the development and utilization of mobile crowdsensing applications. This mobile ecosystem is constructed to provide context awareness capabilities for different roles (i.e., users or developers) in the system and facilitate interactions between them. This system can ease the development of context-aware mobile applications, and enable context-aware mobile crowdsensing considering environmental, personal, and social information. We present a flow of context-aware solutions designed on this system, and highlight the orchestrations and advantages of different context-aware schemes in the system for different types of users (requesters and participants) in mobile crowdsensing. We demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed mobile ecosystem by presenting a novel context-aware mobile crowdsensing application called Smart City, and evaluate the system performance based on this application. View full abstract»
Smart-device-to-smart-device communications: Part 2 [Guest Editorial]
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Enable device-to-device communications underlaying cellular networks: challenges and research aspects
Page(s): 90 - 96Device-to-device communication underlaying a cellular network is a promising technology in future wireless networks to improve network capacity and user experience. While D2D communication has great potential to improve wireless system spectral and energy efficiency due to the proximity of communication parties and higher spectrum reuse gain, tremendous work is still ongoing to turn the promising technology into a reality. This article discusses D2D technical challenges as well as standards progress and important research aspects that enable D2D communications underlaying cellular networks. The key research areas addressed include interference management, multihop D2D communications, and D2D communications in heterogeneous networks. When enabling D2D communications underlaying cellular networks, D2D communications can use either cellular downlink or cellular uplink resources. The two resource sharing modes will create different interference scenarios. The performance evaluation on D2D communications underlaying cellular networks under these two different scenarios is provided. View full abstract»
Proximity discovery for device-to-device communications over a cellular network
Page(s): 98 - 107This article first reviews the proximity discovery techniques used in most device-to-device communication systems. The associated issues when applied to a cellular network and the potential solutions are then addressed. We propose a unified discovery design for full, partial, and off-network coverage scenarios. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of packet and signature-based discovery schemes. We present a signature-based discovery design as a conceptual example for cellular applications. Through this example, we demonstrate that a cellular network can benefit from the information provided by the device discovery that a traditional cellular system lacks so that resources, interference, and connection selection can be more efficiently managed under a unified cellular network centric architecture. View full abstract»
Resource control in network assisted device-to-device communications: solutions and challenges
Page(s): 108 - 117Network assisted Device-to-Device (D2D) communications is envisioned as a promising technology to facilitate the discovery of geographically close cellular devices and reduce the communication cost between these devices. In order to fully take advantages of the freedom in resource management introduced by D2D communications, it is essential to design optimal resource control policies. In this article, we first review and classify the state-of-the-art research based on different considered network scenarios. We then introduce our preliminary studies on delay-aware resource control with bursty traffic, in which we propose an optimization framework and formulate a general queuing model for performance evaluation and optimization. Finally, the challenges and open issues are highlighted to serve as guidelines for future research. View full abstract»
Cooperative interference cancellation using device-to-device communications
Page(s): 118 - 124The ongoing densification in cellular networks has turned interference into a serious problem in future cellular networks. Since the interference experienced by close-by users in a cellular network is usually correlated, it can be cooperatively suppressed to improve user experience. In this article, we introduce the idea of cooperative interference cancellation (CIC) between close-by users using device-to-device (D2D) communications for the example of the upcoming 3rd Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) Rel-12 D2D technology. We understand CIC as a new network interference management tool, capable of exploiting interference correlation to improve downlink throughput. We discuss possible deployment scenarios as well as theoretical and practical challenges. To each challenge we provide some possible solutions. Finally, a first feasibility analysis using numerical simulations is presented that demonstrates the potential gains of CIC. View full abstract»
Game theoretic D2D content dissemination in 4G cellular networks
Page(s): 125 - 132The widespread proliferation of mobile devices has motivated Device-to-Device (D2D) communications as a means of cell offloading toward better Quality of Service (QoS) and higher energy efficiency. Although Wi-Fi networks have the lion's share regarding the D2D communications in the unlicensed spectrum, it is uncertain whether they constitute the best option as technology evolves. In particular, the increasing transmission data rates, the novel interference cancelation techniques, as well as the potential of centralized network support, stress the need for new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, especially in content dissemination scenarios where all nodes share the same goal. In this article we study the suitability of Wi-Fi technology in content dissemination scenarios with multiple available source nodes, and we propose two energy-aware game theoretic MAC strategies (a distributed and a network-assisted) as possible alternatives. Our simulation results show the effectiveness and the flexibility of our proposed solutions, highlighting the necessity for new MAC designs. View full abstract»
Delay-aware cross-layer design for device-to-device communications in future cellular systems
Page(s): 133 - 139Device-to-device (D2D) communications allow direct communications between nodes without transmitting data via the base stations in cellular systems, which could bring significant performance improvement. Since most applications are delay-sensitive, it is very important to consider delay performance in addition to physical layer throughput for D2D communications. To improve delay performance it is necessary to dynamically control the radio resource in a cross-layer way according to both the channel fading information and the queue length information. The former allows an observation of good transmission opportunity and the latter provides the urgency of data flows. However, the resource control with delay constraints involves stochastic optimization, which is very challenging. In this article we first summarize various approaches to solve the delay-aware resource allocation problems for D2D communications. We propose a low complexity practical solution by exploiting the interference filtering property of CSMA-like MAC protocols in the D2D system. Based on the solution structure, we further discuss the implementation issues based on LTE-Advanced systems and evaluate the associated performance and complexity. Finally we discuss the choice of MAC parameters for the overall D2D system performance. View full abstract»
Expanding cellular coverage via cell-edge deployment in heterogeneous networks: spectral efficiency and backhaul power consumption perspectives
Page(s): 140 - 149Heterogeneous small-cell networks (HetNets) are considered to be a standard part of future mobile networks where operator/consumer deployed small-cells, such as femto-cells, relays, and distributed antennas (DAs), complement the existing macrocell infrastructure. This article proposes the need-oriented deployment of small-cells and device-to-device (D2D) communication around the edge of the macrocell such that the small-cell base stations (SBSs) and D2D communication serve the cell-edge mobile users, thereby expanding the network coverage and capacity. In this context, we present competitive network configurations, namely, femto-on-edge, DA-one-dge, relay-on-edge, and D2D-communication on- edge, where femto base stations, DA elements, relay base stations, and D2D communication, respectively, are deployed around the edge of the macrocell. The proposed deployments ensure performance gains in the network in terms of spectral efficiency and power consumption by facilitating the cell-edge mobile users with small-cells and D2D communication. In order to calibrate the impact of power consumption on system performance and network topology, this article discusses the detailed breakdown of the end-to-end power consumption, which includes backhaul, access, and aggregation network power consumptions. Several comparative simulation results quantify the improvements in spectral efficiency and power consumption of the D2D-communication-on-edge configuration to establish a greener network over the other competitive configurations. View full abstract»
Social-aware D2D communications: qualitative insights and quantitative analysis
Page(s): 150 - 158With emerging demands for local area services, device-to-device communication is conceived as a vital component for the next-generation cellular networks to improve spectral reuse, bring hop gains, and enhance system capacity. Ripening these benefits depends on efficiently solving several main technical problems, including mode selection, resource allocation, and interference management. Aiming to establish a new paradigm for solving these challenging problems in D2D communication, in this article we propose a social-aware enhanced D2D communication architecture that exploits social networking characteristics for system design. By developing a profound understanding of the interplay between social networks' properties and mobile communication problems, we qualitatively analyze how D2D communications can benefit from social features, and quantitatively assess the achievable gains in a social-aware D2D communication system. View full abstract»
Automotive networking and applications [Guest Editorial]
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