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I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, my laptop came new installed with Windows 7 Home Premium. Everything works fine and showed no errors. When I tried to play any sound, nothing works. The equalizer on the speaker shows sound going up and down but still no sound. Nothing is showing being muted, I've checked all the settings many times, etc. I've let windows find the drivers, I've manually tried drivers (Vista_Win7_Win8_R270) nothing works. I have two drivers Realtek High Definition Audio and High Definition Audio Device installed. I've uninstalled and reinstalled trying only one driver, etc. I get no sound through headphones or external speakers. I do get audio to my TV through HDMI however.
I had no problems before the reinstall except that my headphone jack sensor hung up and could not be fixed so I disabled that in the registry on my old setup. After reinstall sound doesn't work with or without the jack sensing disabled. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you. |
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After upgrading to 7 Pro, did you install the sound driver for you make and model PC?
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Thanks for your reply! Yes, I have tried the latest drivers from MSI (my laptop) site to no avail. I even tried the drivers CD for Win 7 that came with the laptop. Still no sound. When I uninstall the drivers and just install the Realtek driver, there is a X over the sound icon until i restart. Windows 7 installs the other driver and everything appears to work, but still no sound. Kinda crazy.
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Crazy indeed...when you moved up in OS, did you change the bit format...from 32 bit to 64 bit?
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No, I did not. I'm usually pretty good with computer, but I can't seem to figure this one out.
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From my experience, sometimes windows changes the default sound device when you connect different outputs and such. Right-click on your speaker icon in your task bar and select "Playback Devices". Then right-click your primary sound card or sound device and hit "Set as Default Communication Device". See if that helps
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Thanks, nothing works. I may be out of luck. I tried a Linux distro and still no sound. I am stumped because the sound worked just fine before upgrading.
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Wednesday officially marks the one-year anniversary of the brawl between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers. And although time has passed, the night's unfortunate festivities have not necessarily been forgotten in the minds of either team.
After all, it changed the entire complexion of the National League West race in 2013.
Here's a look back at the fateful brawl by the numbers:
Four players were plunked during the two innings of chaos: Cody Ross and Yasiel Puig in the sixth inning and Miguel Montero and Zack Greinke in the seventh inning.
The benches cleared after both instances in the seventh.
Eric Hinske was one of two Arizona players suspended in the aftermath of the fracas. His penalty spawned the short-lived 'Free Hinske' campaign from sympathetic fans, but Major League Baseball did not reduce the suspension.
The D-backs ultimately did free Hinske, though. The veteran infielder and outfielder was designated for assignment 17 days after the brawl.
Not only did the D-backs fall to the Dodgers that night, but they proceeded to nose dive throughout the rest of the campaign. A first-place team at the time, Arizona closed its season seven games below .500 with a 45-52 record.
Kennedy was the principal figure in the brawl, after all his bean balls in the sixth and seventh innings set off the fireworks at Dodger Stadium. For nailing Puig and Greinke respectively, Kennedy received a 10-game ban -- the longest non-drug suspension levied by the league since May 2006.
After returning from his extended hiatus, Kennedy made eight more starts with the D-backs before being shipped to San Diego in a deadline deal.
In all, five players (Hinske, Kennedy, J.P Howell, Ronald Belisario and Skip Schumaker) and three coaches (Don Mattingly, Kirk Gibson and Mark McGwire) were suspended for a total 24 games.
Of those 24 games, 16 were served by members of the D-backs.
Heading into their June 11th contest with the D-backs, the Dodgers were sitting in the cellar of the division (8.5 games back). Propelled by a three-run eighth off reliever David Hernandez, Los Angeles not only took the testy affair but 64 of its final 100 games.
The Dodgers finished 2013 with an 11-game cushion in the division and managed to make it all the way to the National League Championship Series.
Since his infamous encounter with Kennedy back on June 11, 2013, Greinke has compiled a 20-5 record -- best winning percentage of any NL pitcher with at least 20 starts in the last calendar year.
Ninety games after their dust up with Arizona, Los Angeles got revenge, clinching the NL West title with a 7-6 win on Sept. 19 at Chase Field.
Of course that afternoon wasn't remembered for what happened between the white lines, but instead by what happened outside of them. After winning the division, several Dodger players celebrated by taking a dip in the pool beyond the right centerfield wall.
In the 10 games that have been played between the two sides in the City of Angels since the brawl, the D-backs have managed to win just three times (.300 winning percentage).
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Medical imaging has been transformed over the past 30 years by the advent of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and various advances in x-ray and ultrasonic techniques. An enabling force behind this progress has been the (so far) exponentially increasing power of computers, which has made it practical to explore fundamentally new approaches. In particular, what our group terms "model-based" modalities-which produce tissue property images from data using nonlinear, iterative numerical modeling techniques-have become increasingly feasible.
Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches explores our research on four such modalities, particularly with regard to imaging of the breast: (1) MR elastography (MRE), (2) electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), (3) microwave imaging spectroscopy (MIS), and (4) near infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIS). Chapter 1 introduces the present state of breast imaging and discusses how our alternative modalities can contribute to the field. Chapter 2 looks at the computational common ground shared by all four modalities. Chapters 2 through 10 are devoted to the four modalities, with each modality being discussed first in a theory chapter and then in an implementation-and-results chapter. The eleventh and final chapter discusses statistical methods for image analysis in the context of these four alternative imaging modalities.
Imaging for the detection of breast cancer is a particularly interesting and relevant application of the four imaging modalities discussed in this book. Breast cancer is an extremely common health problem for women; the National Cancer Institute estimates that one in eight US women will develop breast cancer at least once in her lifetime. Yet the efficacy of the standard (and notoriously uncomfortable) early-detection test, the x-ray mammogram, has been disputed of late, especially for younger women. Conditions are thus ripe for the development of affordable techniques that replace or complement mammography. The breast is both anatomically accessible and small enough that the computing power required to model it, is affordable.
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Just so you all know...I just ordered India Tree all natural food colors from Amazon.com based on the ingredient list on that product's page. They each said they contained deionized water, glycerol, and either beet juice, red cabbage juice, or turmeric. However, when I got them in the mail, the ingredients listed on the package WERE NOT THE SAME as they were on the site. In fact, the yellow contained Polysorbate, and Propylene Glycol (a petroleum derivative used to make anitfreeze and paint, among other things). So if any of you are selling "organic" cakes to customers and using these food colors, I'd be very careful because if any of them have severe chemical allergies as my son does, they could be seriously injured. I'm currently checking into the ingredients on all natural colors from seelectteas.com. According to their site they are truly all natural, but the owner hasn't returned my call yet, so I can't say for sure.
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Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure has soggy start but sunny finish
POSTED: Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 4:02pm
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El Paso, TX (KTSM) — El Paso's race for the cure may have kicked off to a soggy start -- but thousands of El Pasoans braved the weather to run for their loved ones who have died or survived breast cancer.
"[I race] for myself and Blanca Piedras and all survivors," Sue Gonzales, a breast cancer survivor and a participant in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, El Paso, 2014.
"It's a good worthy cause and there's a lot of people with breast cancer, not just women," Phyllis O'Dell, another survivor said.
The Race for the Cure united thousands of El Pasoans through running or walking in their fight against breast cancer on fort bliss streets Sunday.
"This is my 5th year, in that case I'm a survivor," Gonzales said.
Gonzales brought her granddaughters to the race. The two girls learned the harsh reality of cancer through sue and have taken a proactive stance. "My Tia [Aunt]and my Tio [Uncle] died they couldn't survive," Jade and Emily Aguilar told us, "That it could hurt people. That it's painful that's why we need to help people."
In tutus and pink ribbon, Terry Perez traveled all the way from Roundrock, TX to honor her aunt. A woman who walked in the race until she lost her fight to cancer three years ago. "She would come out and support us. She wouldn't walk, she would walk a little bit then stop she was always a true fighter," Terry Perez said.
Perez isn't the only native El Pasoan who made their way to the Sun City. Pablo Bermudez flew from Sacramento, CA to celebrate his mother's 20 year remission. "I'm very happy to know that she's still alive and to know that the spirit of the town is so happy," Pablo Bermudez explained.
Others joined in, including Norma Marin who has been cancer free 9 years and counting. "And that makes is all worthwhile to be here on this earth one more day and that God gives me the strength and courage to stay here one more day," Norma Marin said.
The race honored those who have survived and are also receiving help through Komen for the cure, including Shawn Murphy, whose wife was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. "They help us out because we didn't have any insurance to begin with," Shawn Murphy, who was also donning a shirt with a pink bra inked on, told us.
It's also a 5k reminder of why Borderland residents continue the fight. "I walk in honor of her and in honor of everybody who's battling cancer," Perez said.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation raises money for those battling breast cancers but may not have the finances. You can donate through their website: http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html


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Do you ever wake up and ask yourself, "I wonder if today will be the day that Papoose gets his career on track with a label that doesn't shelf his sh*t and then drop him several months later"? While that scenario hasn't personally played out in my life, I can imagine it has played out in the mind of the rapper himself. Still without a new label home after leaving Jive last year, the disgruntled Bed-Stuy, New York, rapper has stayed on his grind by continuing to release new material. On Get It Poppin Again, producer Swizz Beatz incorporates an old-school 60's era sample, while Pap showcases his uncanny ability to effortlessly spit creative lines. Will this song get it poppin for Pap? Only time will tell.
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Services for Daniel Joe Maxwell Jr., 26, Bonner Springs, were Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, at Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, Bonner Springs. Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery near Basehor.
Mr. Maxwell died Dec. 11, 2005, at his home. He was born Dec. 21, 1978, in Kansas City, Kan.
Survivors include his father, Dan Maxwell Sr., of the home; his mother and stepfather, Vickie and J.R. Williams, Basehor; a brother, Cody Maxwell, of the home; and his paternal grandparents, Pete B. and Josie Maxwell, Kansas City, Kan.
The family suggests memorial contributions to Providence Independent Baptist Church, sent in care of the funeral home, 214 Oak St., Bonner Springs 66012.
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The notion of Albert Finney playing Ebenezer Scrooge is admittedly mind-boggling, and so is the idea of A Christmas Carol being turned into a musical. But "Scrooge" works very nicely on its intended level and the kids sitting near me seemed to be having a good time.
Bricusse's songs fall so far below the level of good musical comedy that you wish Albert Finney would stop singing them, until you realize he isn't really singing. He's just noodling along, helped by lush orchestration. To get the lead in a big-studio musical during the long dying days of the genre, you apparently had to be unable to sing or dance. How else to account for Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in "Paint Your Wagon"? Or Finney in this one? Finney adopts Marvin's singing style, which is a sort of low-register growl. Meanwhile, countless dancers and a children's choir keep up the pretense that music is happening.
So if all of these things are wrong, why does "Scrooge" work? Because it's a universal story, I guess, and we like to see it told again. Ronald Neame's direction tells it well this time, and the film has lots of special effects that were lacking in the 1935 and 1951 versions. I was less than convinced by Scrooge's visit to a papier-mâché hell, but the appearance of Christmas Present (Kenneth More) surmounting a mountain of cakes and candies was appropriately marvelous.
The whole problem of the Ghosts of Christmas have been handled well, in fact. Reviewing the 1951 British version of "A Christmas Carol" for The Chicago Sun-Times, Eleanor Keen noted appropriately that the three ghosts are "a trio that resembles fugitives from an eighth-grade play in costumes whipped up by loving hands at home." My memory of that version is that she was right and the ghosts looked ridiculous.
In this version, the ghosts are handled more believably (if that's possible). The Ghost of Christmas Past is a particularly good inspiration: They've made the role female and given it to Dame Edith Evans. She plays it regally and sympathetically by turns, and seems genuinely sorry that Scrooge's childhood was so unhappy. Christmas Present, played by More, is a Falstaffian sort of guy with a big belly and a hearty laugh, who doesn't look like a ghost at all. And Christmas Future is simply a dark, faceless shroud, not unlike Lorado Taft's figure of Time in his Fountain of Life sculpture on the Midway at the University of Chicago. All three figures are miles better than conventional eighth-grade ghosts.
Alec Guinness contributes a Marley wrapped in chains; the Christmas turkey weighs at least 40 pounds; Tiny Tim is appropriately tiny, and Scrooge reforms himself with style. What more could you want? No songs, I'd say.
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America's Most Promising Director
JC Chandor Hits a Trifecta
Writer-director JC Chandor's first three films ("Margin Call," "All is Lost," and "A Most Violent Year") reveal a masterful auteur building a singular filmmaking career that overshadows Hollywood's relentless barrage of garbage. Considered together, Chandor's movies reflect his energizing depth of dramatic sensitivity and concentration of stylistic variation. Over a period of four short years JC Chandor has come into his own as an individualistic filmmaker, whose fully-formed ideas about cinema resound with greater clarity than most of his American peers. He's a director to whom talented actors flock.
As with "Margin Call" (2011) and "All is Lost" (2013), Chandor's latest is a detailed study of complex characters responding to extreme pressures — personal, social, and physical. The film's violent setting is 1981 New York when the city was ravaged by exploitation.
Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is on the verge of purchasing a large Jewish-owned riverside facility for the fuel-heating company he purchased from his wife Anna's mob-connected father while working his way up through the family business. By the way, Jessica Chastain's fiery performance as Anna is smashing.
Ambitious immigrant Abel worked for years as a driver for the company, so he has the skills necessary to poach clients from his competition, something that has earned him his share of enemies. Being honest, determined, and proficient in your chosen field isn't always a good thing in the land of the free.
One of the film's many powerful scenes has Abel instructing three recently hired employees in the precise methods they need to employ in order to close deals with potential customers. Abel instructs the young upstarts about on how long to study an oil-stained rag before looking up to stare into the eyes of the potential client before speaking.
"Hold their attention longer than you should."
"If they offer coffee or tea, say tea."
Oscar Isaac's bravura performance during this sequence, and throughout the film, smolders with resolute intent. There is no finer film actor.
Abel is a hard-working man who takes great pride in his work and in his approach to everyone he comes in contact with. So, it is especially disturbing to Isaac's character that federal authorities (led by David Lyelowo's character) have been busy building a case against him for the past two years.
He has other serious problems. An unknown group of thieves has been hijacking Abel's fuel trucks and stealing the his oil. Drivers have been getting hurt to the point that there is pressure on Abel to arm them, something he staunchly refuses to do. Abel sees the trap of "war" that outside forces want to draw him into. Herein lies one of the film's central themes, that war is a trap; participating in any kind of violence is a ruinous proposition. The premise is never overstated, but it is perfectly clear.
Over the course of the story JC Chandor methodically peels away onion layers of Abel's resilient persona reveal who this man really is. That Abel is an immigrant American citizen being bullied, threatened, and attacked from all sides of society is only part of the story. "A Most Violent Year" is essential viewing for film -lovers and for the people least likely to see it.
Rated R. 125 mins. (A+) (Five Stars - out of five/no halves)
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Reese Witherspoon Stumbles
Cheryl Strayed, and So Did This Movie
"Wild" is an unsatisfying self-help drama that exposes the limitations of Reese Witherspoon's range. If her performance here were your first time seeing the Oscar-winner's work, you'd never guess that Reese Witherspoon has what it takes to be a leading lady. Adapted by Nick Hornby (from Cheryl Strayed's memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found of the Pacific Crest Trail"), the story is "Into the Wild" lite — albeit dorky-proto-feminist-style.
The death of her 45-year-old mother (Laura Dern), from lung cancer, sends the 22-year-old Cheryl Nyland on a slippery downhill trajectory. Serial adulterer and junkie, Cheryl decides to hike the 2,663 mile-long length of the "PCT" after being divorced by her thoroughly humiliated husband. Cheryl is just as quick to have sex with multiple unfamiliar men in an alleyway, as she is to leave civilization behind without proper planning for a hike that tests even the most skilled hikers. The Pacific Crest Trail runs from Mexico to Canada, although Cheryl starts her summer of 1995 trek in the Mojave Desert, and finishes at the Oregon-Washington border.
Our reliably fickle heroine gets an a-ha moment when she lays belly-up on her hotel room floor, unable to stand up because her pack is too heavy. The scene is played for comedy, but the tone is all wrong. The joke fails miserably.
Shortly after hitting the trail, Cheryl realizes that she is unable to cook the many packets of food she lugs around because she brought the wrong fuel for her stove. It's one thing to have an unsympathetic leading character, but it's a whole different matter to have one who is willfully ignorant to the point of being cavalier.
Sheryl has the insufferable habit of writing quotes from great authors on the trail's sign-in sheets, and then signing her own name as a co-author. Emily Dickinson is rolling over in her grave.
"Wild" commits a cardinal sin of character development during its opening scene, from which the film can never recover. Cheryl "Strayed" (that's the name she gives herself after her divorce) sits on the side of a reasonably high mountain she has just ascended. The weary traveller takes off her hiking boots to tend to her hurt foot. We see the set-up from a mile away. Cheryl isn't paying attention to where she set her boots. Bonk, and she knocks one of the heavy-duty shoes that make hiking possible, down the steep mountainside at her feet. If the subconsciously driven mistake weren't offensive enough, Cheryl responds to her self-inflicted dilemma by chucking the other boot down the ravine. Ah yes, Cheryl Strayed is a keeper if you like your protagonists not too classy and dumb.
The movie takes an advertising detour for REI during a product-placement sequence that serves as nothing more than an extended commercial for the adventure wear company. I wonder if REI will send me a gift card for mentioning them in my review. Well, I don't really wonder about that.
The cinema of 2014 is all about how we are all bad people leaning toward suicide as an almost respectable response to our self-loathing. The predominant thematic trend shows up in films such as "Two Days One Night," "The Homesman," "The Skeleton Twins," the upcoming remake of "The Gambler," "Bridman," "Force Majeure," "Wetlands," and even in Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher." Perhaps a symptom of having our privacy stripped from us by the NSA and Google is a preemptive suicide that will jam any kind of possible public humiliation we might suffer.
Jean-Marc Vallée (the director on "Dallas Buyers Club") could never have made lemonade from the lemon-source-material that he undertook with "Wild." Nick Horby's script doesn't have the right stuff.
The fact that Reese Witherspoon co-produced "Wild" speaks to the dearth of roles for actresses. For her part, Witherspoon works plenty but hasn't been in a good movie since "Mud" (2012), and even there her subplot was one of that film's weaker links. Her upcoming performance in "Inherent Vice" is notable only because the movie stinks so much. "Don't Mess With Texas" is an upcoming comedy directed by Anne Fletcher ("The Guilt Trip") that could pan out well for Witherspoon because she has Sofia Vergara to play opposite in a humorous context. Based on the misstep that is "Wild," perhaps Reese Witherspoon is better off in a co-lead comedic role.
Rated R. 115 mins. (D) (One Star - out of five/no halves)
December 1, 2014 in Drama | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Trial By FIre
Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons Tempt Oscars
Writer-director Damien Chazelle has made a powerhouse drama about the level of dedication it takes to be great at something. "Whiplash" refers to the title of a complicated 1972 Hank Levy jazz standard played at "double-swing" tempo that Andrew, a drum student at a Julliard-like music conservatory, strives to master under the abusive tutelage of a bandleader from hell.
Andrew's music instructor, Terrence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), wants to produce the next jazz great. Little does Mr. Fletcher realize that the reason there hasn't been another Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, or Duke Ellington to come along in a half-century has more to do with cultural, political, and economic realities than with his flawed trial-by-fire approach to creating the next Be-Bop master. Fletcher chooses to ignore the fact that Miles Davis dropped out of Julliard during his first semester in exchange for on-the-job training, playing trumpet every night in Charlie Parker's band.
The intimidating Fletcher has personal demons that he likes to release by yelling off-color insults and throwing physical objects, such as folding chairs, at his fearful students. He's a master manipulator who knows how to get under a student's skin. The film misses an otherwise obvious subtexutal opportunity to provide the audience with a glimpse of Fletcher's home-life. We only witness the demanding brute when he's teaching.
The film's suggestive title implies the "abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip." Andrew's treacherous journey toward jazz greatness suffers dramatic reversals under Fletcher's daily theater of cruelty. Andrew is predisposed to having thick skin by virtue of being raised by a single father in an extended family that prizes achievements in sports above all else.
One of its most telling scenes occurs during a dinner-table discussion where Andrew lets his fangs show regarding a comparison between his musical achievements and his cousins' football accomplishments. Andrew's nimble verbal defense mechanisms are as precise as his command of drum rudiments. When Andrew bites back against his family's trite attempts to minimize the results of his hard work, he hands them their ass in compact package tied with a bow.
Miles Teller's performance as Andrew is utterly convincing. The young actor's drumming is as much a part of the film's unequivocal success as his acting. Oscar nominations could well be in the offing for both Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons.
The story loses some credibility in the practice methods Andrew uses to achieve the quick tempos that Fletcher imposes to cut heads in his "core" band. Any competent music student knows that working with a metronome is the only way to reliably work up to playing at fast tempos, and sustaining them. And yet, we never once see Andrew working out with a metronome and practice pad. Instead, he attacks his drum kit with such wild abandon that he has to soak his bloody hands in ice water after going though boxes of Band-Aids. Notable too is the film's lack of attention to Andrew's other music classes, which could have given essential insight to the practices of other teachers at the school.
Still, these are minor details in a movie that raises important questions about how greatness is achieved at a time in American culture when all value has been drained out of once highly regarded disciplines such as music, literature, knowledge, etc.
Terrence Fletcher is desperate to hang onto a kind of music (Jazz) that hasn't had popular venues or audiences to fill them for years. What's the point of trying hard if you have nowhere to perform the skill you develop? As far as Fletcher's abysmal approach to teaching; what was the last successful musician you heard of that graduated from a music conservatory?
Rated R. 106 mins. (A-) (Five Stars - out of five/no halves)
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John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Get Married
Though it suffers from a glaring third act jump that makes you wonder where four or five ostensibly missing scenes went, "Love Is Strange" resonates as a heartfelt allegory about committed gay relationships in modern-day America. Two of Broadway's most reliable actors, John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as an elderly New York couple, capture the audience's imagination before the movie starts.
Co-writer/director Ira Sachs builds upon the recent legalization of gay marriage to explore lingering, underlying hypocrisies that twist what should be an equalizing influence into a double-edged sword for gay couples who tie the knot.
"Society Is Mean" might be a more applicable title, for it is not the palpable human connection of tenderness that seems "strange," but rather our culture of intolerance that comes across as bizarre.
Ben (Lithgow) and George (Molina) are like two gay uncles everyone wishes they had. They've been together for 40 years, living in a comfortable Manhattan apartment. Even if one member of the couple hasn't always been monogamous — a fact referenced in one of the film's beautifully intimate scenes between Ben and George — their desire and admiration for one another is sincere.
George teaches music at a Catholic prep school and gives private piano instruction to young would-be classical pianists. Chopin is in the repertoire, and throughout the soundtrack. Ben, the elder of the pair, paints.
Thanks to the endorsement of the State of New York, Ben and George get married in a small outdoor ceremony that introduces us to their loyal friends and family members. Sadly, the harmony of so much goodwill for these two rare men is soon broken by the archdiocese overseeing the school where George teaches. Without regard to how well George does his job, or how much his students love him, or even considering the fact that the school's staff and pupils are familiar with his gayness; George is abruptly fired. The Catholic Church's sucker-punch to George's and Ben's marriage and financial reality leaves them unable to keep their apartment, and their way of life.
Humbled but optimistic, the newlyweds are driven to ask friends and family to put them up until George finds a new job so the couple can find a new apartment. While George takes up residence with a gay couple of New York City police officers he calls "policewomen," Ben is relegated to his nephew Elliot's (Darren Burrows) top-floor apartment. It doesn't take long for Ben to wear out his welcome with Elliot's stay-at-home author wife Kate (Marisa Tomei) and their gawky teenage son Joey (Charlie Tahan).
Living apart from one another, however briefly, magnifies the malice inflicted on Ben and George by a Catholic Church that effectively trashes their life and speeds up their aging process.
Love — in this case between two older men — is revealed as a defiant political act. Still, its fragile, personal nature means that the couple's union has no traction in a society that treats something of such rarity with abuse and scorn.
"Love Is Strange" turns on Ben's distantly positive influence on Joey, whose resentment toward his uncle morphs into an internalized sense of romantic hopefulness. But the question remains; how long will that precious attitude hold up in a society that values guns and money above all else?
Rated R. 94 mins. (B) (Three Stars - out of five/no halves)
August 18, 2014 in Drama | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Richard Linklater Hands Over His Pearl
Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun, Richard Linklater goes and makes the most anti-Hollywood movie ever conceived. In Linklater's case, concept was everything — execution was quite another. Planning an unprecedented narrative experiment that took 12 years to create and film is not something that Los Angeles bean counters would or will likely ever be able to wrap their heads around. That Linklater's groundbreaking project comes during one of Hollywood's worst years — it has yet to release a movie of better than mediocre quality — adds to "Boyhood's" bittersweet positioning as a dynamic filmic record of generational progress in America. With certain multiple Oscar nominations in the offing, there is every reason to expect that "Boyhood" will earn Richard Linklater his long overdue Academy Award.
"Boyhood" is a one-of-a-kind film that ticks and functions on its own terms, and therein lays its most powerful gifts. It is a movie that John Cassavetes would have admired for its bold vision, forthright performances, breadth of human experience, and for Richard Linklater's plainspoken approach to generating authentic dialogue and formula-defying storyline. The closest cinematic comparison to watching "Boyhood" would be a Cassavetes movie like "Opening Night." But even that presents a very distant likeness.
Linklater instinctively de-emphasizes anything that might be construed as "dramatic" while following the life trajectory of a boy named Mason (played by Ellar Coltrane) from age six to 18 growing up in Texas. Confrontations with an alcoholic stepfather or an unwelcome haircut present the kind of day-to-day challenges that Mason must navigate. Apparently loaded situations that would signify looming disaster in any other movie arrive and pass as they would in normal life. A rifle given as a present does not foreshadow any type of violence. It is a cultural signifier, nothing more.
That Linklater was able to cast such a gifted young actor capable of returning every year for 12 years to participate in making the movie speaks to the filmmaker's intuitive nature.
Ellar Coltrane's implied personal status as an outlier living in Texas — he was homeschooled — informs the actor's quietly persuasive performance. Purity of intention and a silent rebelliousness permeate Mason's personality. He's an observer and a listener. This is a kid who doesn't need to be told anything twice. He makes calculations, internalizes them, and moves on.
An air of suspense is built into the story's form, inciting the audience to anticipate how Ellar will transform from boyhood into the young adult that he will most certainly become.
From the beginning, Mason's parents Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) and Olivia (Patricia Arquette) are separated. Mason's concerned and mentoring dad drives a black muscle car. He lives a fairly rudderless existence. Olivia, on the other hand, wants to go to college to get a degree. She also wants to marry a man capable of providing a comfortable existence for her family.
The genuineness of Mason's growth from a thoughtful kid— put upon by a snotty older sister (played by Linklater's real-life daughter Lorelei) and a mom who is not a good judge of marital mates — to a sensitive young man whose open heart is nevertheless not worn on his sleeve, is a revelation of character development that gives promise for the broken state of modern day America.
The enigmatic person that Mason becomes, speaks to an integrity of emotional and intellectual spirit in line with character traits and social themes found in Linklater's other movies — from "Slacker" to "School of Rock."
As with all of his films, Linklater allows ethical and political subtext to breathe through the story without ever putting a fine point on anything. No matter what expectations the audience brings to the movie, they will be shattered by the film's closing frame. There are no moments of spectacle or outrageous surprise — only subtle recognitions of expanding character traits and modern social realities.
The invisible mechanics of "tempo, tone, mood, time, and place" that Linklater uses to flesh out his preplanned narrative form fit almost perfectly within the rules of a "Dogme 95" film. Every action and circumstance is germane to personal experience. Nothing is forced.
Linklater collaborated with his three main actors (Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, and Patricia Arquette) by phone and email to flesh out the set pieces that would fulfill the map of his story's arc. The film's viewpoint starts out from that of the child before shifting gradually to the parents' perspective, and finally to a formal composition that equalizes the film's context. "Boyhood" is a very special film worthy of repeated viewings. As with the method of its creation, it is a movie you can come back to on an annual basis. You are sure to discover untold resonance with every screening.
Rated R. 166 mins. (A+) (Five Stars - out of five/no halves)
July 11, 2014 in Drama | Permalink | Comments (0)
A Temporary Condition
Samuel L. Jackson Pays Homage to Russia
"Pulp Fiction" star Samuel L. Jackson delivers his directing debut with a poignant and sexy melodrama rooted in 1930's Moscow, Russia. "Mishkin's Complaint" pushes the envelope on modern cinema's trend toward A and B-list Hollywood actors engaging in full-fledged sex acts onscreen. The result leaves an impression. Keep an eye out for a dramatic cameo from Edward Snowden — it comes around the 35-minute mark.
Jeremy Irons plays Mishkin, a law-abiding attorney with a lust for life's simple pleasures — smelling the cheese is always on Miskin's list of things to do. He divides his time between eating things that make other people envious — and enjoying group-sex with his mistress Ilsa (Uma Thurman) and a bevy of interchangeable young women. Jackson's outré set pieces of sexual expression run a gambit from tastefully erotic to downright sleazy. You'll never look at Uma Thurman the same way again.
Mishkin plays violin with a small band of drinking buddies (played by Nicolas Cage, Chiwetal Ejoifor, and Billy Crudup). No one would ever accuse Mishkin of being a virtuoso. His tenuous command of the violin provides the group with a never-ending stream of lighthearted insults aimed at the band's would-be leader.
"Mishkin's Complaint" is about a man of minimal intelligence and resources who is completely satisfied with his life until he discovers that he has fathered a hermaphrodite girl by a woman who is now deceased. Mishkin's intersex child Viktoriya — played with predictable accomplishment by Tilda Swinton — arrives in Moscow looking for work as a cabaret performer.
As Viktoriya indulges in every form of vice with both men and women, she takes a job at the bar where Mishkin and his friends play music. A budding romance between Nicolas Cage's character and Viktoriya complicates matters for Mishkin whose grasp of his child's sexual identity is less than well informed.
The theme of Samuel L. Jackson's film seems to be that closure and resolution are merely crutches that citizens of weaker — read Western — countries fall prey to as a substitution for sexual satisfaction. In the film's disquieting final scene, Jackson makes an unmistakable nod to the Motherland. Russia's own Iksana Akinshina ("The Bourne Supremacy") plays the tragicomic woman to whom Mishkin pledges his undying loyalty in exchange for an act of charity that hardly seems worth the effort. Mishkin's complaint, as it turns out, was always only ever a temporary condition. Perhaps Russia is ahead of the curve when it comes to cinema. There's no competition with this kind of exploitation around.
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Not Rated. 101 mins. (B+) (Four Stars - out of five/no halves)
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For his latest filmic exploration François Ozon addresses a complex mix of sexual, personal, social, familial, gender-based, and technological issues, inexorably honing in on a striking synthesis of generational catharsis. That he does so via a story about Isabelle (exquisitely played by newcomer Marine Vacth), a beautiful bourgeoisie and a 17-year-old DIY prostitute, reflects the growth of one of France's most consistent filmmakers — one of few who develops in proportion to the promise of his well-seeded career.
Set over the course of a year, the film uses the age-old narrative form of seasonal changes to mark Isabelle's fluid transition from virgin to sensual mistress. Most of her clients are men old enough to be her grandfathers. To call Marine Vacth's fearless performance extraordinary barely scratches the surface of her finely crafted, transparent portrayal. Vacth isn't merely precocious; she is a force of unbridled feminine and intellectual nature. Isabelle has important lessons to teach, as well as to learn.
Ozon takes "meta" liberties when he shows Isabelle and some of her high school classmates reciting quotes from Arthur Rimbaud's poem "No One's Serious at Seventeen."
"On beautiful nights when beer and lemonade
And loud, blinding cafés are the last thing you need
You stroll beneath green lindens on the promenade."
The unapologetically poetic direct-to-camera sequence captures much of the naiveté, seething lust, and directionless ambition that Isabelle seeks to shed through her computer-facilitated double life of erotic experimentation. Her journey will be a quicksilver submersion into a lifetime's worth of sexual experience and ever-changing needs and desires.
In keeping with Ozon's non-judgmental approach to his characters in such films as "Hideaway" and "In the House," the filmmaker never veers into melodrama or exploitation regardless of how tempting the subject matter might seem on the surface. That's not to say that Ozon doesn't regard the erotic nature of Isabelle's endeavors with the sexual directness they deserve. The audience experiences her erotic journey in relation to the sense of liberation she discovers along the way. If that freedom comes with a cost of cynicism, then the lessons are all the more truthful for her paying that price. There is a cost to wisdom — regardless of how it is achieved.
When Isabelle witnesses her judgmental mother Sylvie (Geraldine Paihas) secretly flirting with a man with whom she may be having an adulterous affair, it seems to support Isabelle's bold if hazardous attempt at getting to the bottom of a romantic illusion that is too limited and naïve for her mature constitution. Isabelle always gravitates to the bottom line in human relations. An uncomfortable sequence where she gauges her step-father's lustful ambitions presents one of the film's more challenging scenes.
Gorgeously filmed by cinematographer Pascal Marti, "Jeune & Jolie" ("Young & Beautiful") is a patient film that delves thoroughly into the generational mindsets of its age-disparate characters. Charlotte Rampling helps send the narrative to its evocative conclusion as a woman called Alice, the wife of one of Isabelle's clients. You will never forget this truly mind-blowing film.
Not Rated. 95 mins. (A+) (Five Stars - out of five/no halves)
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Podcast #66
In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss reverse proxies, the pitfalls of self-support communities, and designing for engagement.
- It is my intent to attend the London and Cambridge DevDays, if my passport comes back in time. Speaking of which, is there anything funnier than a baby's passport picture?
- We officially disabled the built in ASP.NET Session state, so as to set ourselves up for multiple Stack Overflow servers. Fortunately, we don't need a lot of shared state, but we were using it in a few places. We created a small database table to store the small bits of per-user state that we need.
- I take an inordinate amount of joy in deleting code from our project. Nothing is more satisfying!
- To switch over to multiple servers, we need some kind of load balancer. We chose HAProxy, but we also had to configure tproxy (transparent proxy) support so that the IP addresses arriving at the web servers are not all the same.
- For now we'll be load balancing using a simple hash of the incoming IP address. Depending on which hash you get, you may end up on a different server, but you'll stay on that server as long as your IP address is stable. This is a fairly crude form of balancing, but should be sufficient.
- It's incredible how aggressive Google's indexing of our site is; it regularly pulls down a gigabyte of compressed text from us per day, and it wants to do even more. One of the primary motivators for adding a second server is to reduce the traffic load enough so that we can "unleash" google via webmaster tools.
- A belated welcome to our newest and third site in the trilogy, Super User — it's for any general computer software or hardware questions, but we've already had to disallow videogaming questions.
- How much overlap will there be between our public websites, and the sites launched through the Stack Exchange service? But remember, the software (however great it may be) is the easy part. Building a community is the truly difficult part! To succeed, that's what you should focus on.
- Joel discusses the shifting meaning of "Beta" — it's been contorted into "the first five years of a product". But there is an art to the classic beta, in terms of releasing in a staggered fashion to fresh testers who haven't seen it yet.
- Google's self-support model is often unsatisfying because it is community driven, yet the community is powerless and has no real stake in developing the product. They're given padded rubber rooms to bounce around in harmlessly. That's not a good way to build community.
- Google needs a lot more evangelists out there interacting with the community and bringing messages back and forth to the mothership. This is something that Microsoft does extraordinarily well, but Google does not seem to "get it".
- A brief discussion of some key changes to (hopefully) increase engagement between question asker and answerers. The goal is for answerers to be able to quickly scan a question and see if they're dealing with someone who cares, or not.
- The default votes answer sort order had a flaw: the sub-order was relevant! We now use random as the sub-order to the votes sort, to minimize any effect of the sub-order. Answers will now appear in random order if they have the same number of votes. Answers should be voted up because they're inherently good answers, not because they happen to accidentally be on top at that particular moment.
We answered the following listener questions on this podcast:
- Nathan Long: "Is it valid to discuss iPhone and Blackberry questions on Super User?" This has been discussed on meta.
- Brian Kelly: "Is there any formal organization for potential candidates to meet employers at DevDays?"
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to [email protected]. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. We also have a dedicated phone number you can call to leave audio questions at 646-826-3879.
The transcript wiki for this episode is available for public editing.
Yet Another Reason to Dislike France
Joel's vacation in France is going so very swimmingly that he has declined to participate in the Stack Overflow podcast for yet another week.
I'm not one to judge, but apparently Joel loves France more than he loves Stack Overflow. I'm just sayin'.
But, maybe we can pull something together sans Joel. There are some ideas on meta for the as-yet-unrecorded Podcast #66, so feel free to go in there and upvote or add your own.
(disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I have nothing against France. It's Australia that really sucks.)
Podcast #65
In this episode of the podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss lessons from a year of building Stack Overflow, the mysteries of COBOL, some YSlow website optimizations, and magic numbers.
- What have we learned in a year of building Stack Overflow? If someone wanted to design a system like Stack overflow, I'd give them these two pieces of advice. First, never have any unbounded behavior in your website. Anywhere. Bounding, velocity and rate limiting, should be pervasive throughout your design from day one. Second, provide an outlet for meta discussion from day one. Unless you provide a teacher's lounge, or afterschool activities for the students, you haven't completed the experience.
- In our experience, the best way to manage online behavior is to make the positive behaviors fun and rewarding. If you do this right, the bad and negative behaviors fall by the wayside. (Although you also, regrettably, will still need tools for dealing with rare but aberrant behavior.)
- Neither Joel or I have ever met a COBOL programmer. That's why we're skeptical of these dramatic claims that the world is overrun with invisible COBOL code. There are, surprisingly, some good COBOL questions on Stack Overflow, but it's a tiny fraction.
- How much COBOL code can you fit in the 1 megabyte (at most!) memory that these 60′s and 70′s era servers had? Or the tiny hard drives?
- Is what happened to COBOL programmers eventually what happens to all programmers? Take SQL as an example. If you have 256 gigabytes of main memory — not very expensive already, and getting cheaper every day — is all that SQL and disk stuff still relevant?
- We recently spent some time improving performance on Stack Overflow, and as always we've learned that whatever we think is slow, is not, and the part that is slow is in a totally unexpected area of our code. Never assume you know where a performance problem is, because I can almost guarantee you're wrong. Profile it and look at the data!
- We've seen huge benefits, more than anticipated, by moving our static web content to a seperate, cookieless domain. (We registered sstatic.net for this purpose, which explains the rationale.) This is one of the key recommendations from tools like YSlow and Google Page Speed. It's a surprisingly effective form of poor man's web farm scaling.
- A brief digression into the "why does anyone still use IE6″ argument. Here's Microsoft's official position, as crazy as it may seem.
- We may be at the end of the road for the low hanging fruit of website performance optimizations. Of course we can always buy faster hardware. But that doesn't fix the speed of light problem. Given our large international audience, I sort of wish we could have multiple server farms in different geographic locations, but that may be quite a long way off.
- Computer "magic number" number bugs are kind of fun; you may remember a very public Excel bug in this vein. Joel once got a credit card with an expiration date set in 2049, which is technically valid, but it barely worked anywhere.
Our favorite questions this week:
- Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance? A fascinating tale of programmer number forensics.
- How to learn Cobol. OK, but first of all, why in the world would you want to do this?
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to [email protected]. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. We also have a dedicated phone number you can call to leave audio questions at 646-826-3879.
The transcript wiki for this episode is available for public editing.
Podcast #64
Joel and Jeff discuss the disappointment of Google AdSense, the difference in skillset between programmers and testers, and the value of standards groups to working programmers.
- If you have feedback for Stack Exchange (still scheduled for beta by September 1st), please leave it on meta.stackoverflow.com under the Stack Exchange tag.
- The speaker list for Stack Overflow DevDays is coming soon, it's looking really impressive so far. For example, both John Resig (of jQuery fame) and Miguel De Icaza (of Mono fame) will be at the Boston leg, and there are still seats available! There's also a rumor that Jeff Atwood, whoever that guy is, may show up in London.
- We are forming a League of Justice on the web. The first new hero in our league is How-To Geek, of the most excellent How-To Geek website. It's the editorially cultivated content yin to our user-generated yang.
- On the crushing disappointment of Google AdSense on Stack Overflow. The theory of AdSense, matching topical ads to the content on the page, is fantastic. The reality of the type of ads we actually saw on Stack Overflow is a terrible disappointment. They were barely relevant, and often quite ugly.
- Our hand-selected ads, targetted to our audience, perform 50 times better than AdSense. We believe that if Google could somehow tag a site with a specific audience topic (such as, say, "programmers") it would do much better.
- If a site like Stack Overflow, which does almost a million pageviews a day, can't make enough to cover even one person at half time using Google AdSense, how does anyone make a living with AdSense? Does it even work?
- Joel says the only people making decent money with AdSense are scammers who specifically build websites to do nothing except target high pay-per-click keywords. I am not sure this is what Google had in mind. It is a stunning indictment of "the power of the algorithm".
- Our ad partner is Alex from The Daily WTF, and we take responsible advertising seriously. The right kind of advertising, the relevant, interesting, thoughtful kind is win-win. And always in moderation. We are willing to leave money on the table to have the right kind of ads that we like editorially.
- Joel has a great discussion about the difference in skillset between a good tester and a good programmer. "There's something about the nature of the work that's different enough that a lot of good developers are bored by testing, and a lot of testers are too detail-oriented to get anything done as a developer." Some programming skills are helpful, but they're different.
- There is great risk in creating standards in advance — how do you know if you're solving a problem people care about, or even the right problem in the first place? Also, the disconnect between the theory and practice can be rather painful.
- Who can we blame for the codified misspelling of "referer"? I would like to have some words with this person.
- We frequently use Stack Overflow to build Stack Overflow. It's almost a recursive endeavor. If you browse the questions the team asks on Stack Overflow or Server Fault, many of them are directly related to development and deployment issues on the sites themselves!
Our favorite questions this week are both from Super User, which for now is still in semi-private beta. If you need the password it is "ewok.adventure" without the quotes.
- Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM. It's perplexing why Microsoft doesn't officially support RC to RTM without a little hack.
- Troubleshooting Failed Upgrade to Windows 7. Three out of four of my Vista machines upgraded to Windows 7 fine. That fourth one, though … I meticulously documented all the steps I took to troubleshoot it, so maybe my failure will be helpful to someone else in time.
We answered the following listener questions on this podcast:
- Adam: "The Fog Creek way of hiring programmers has been well documented. What about hiring testers, and how they fit into your view of how software should be built?"
- Kevin: "What do you see as the role of standards committees in the development community?"
- George: "You talked about open sourcing Stack Overflow. Why not just write a book about it?"
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to [email protected]. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. We also have a dedicated phone number you can call to leave audio questions at 646-826-3879.
The transcript wiki for this episode is available for public editing.
Podcast #63
In this episode of the podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss the Mythical Man Month problem, keeping communication in check, Windows 7, and web scaling.
- Joel is fielding his largest team ever at Fog Creek — 9 programmers, 2 testers, and 2 program managers. They only have 10 usable weeks in the summer to build a product with their interns, so they have to parallelize their development.
- Contrary to popular myth, it is possible for a large team to be effective, if you mitigate the Mythical Man Month problem, which is really only about adding people to a late project and bringing them up to speed.
- How do you deal with an excess of communication (the explosion of paths) on larger teams? First, with program managers. That's what they are there to address, by becoming the conduit for communication. Second, constantly try to reduce the number of meetings and people in meetings.
- Speaking of communication excess, is email = efail? This is also why I believe in maximizing the value of your keystrokes, and the value of public communication. If you must email someone, keep it extremely short, a paragraph at most, with a direct question and call to action that is obvious and clear.
- One thought experiment: what would happen if all your email became Twitter messages? Or, as Joel proposes, is online communication itself a failed paradigm? At the very least, know the limitations of the communication medium you're using, and escalate as necessary.
- Some classes of plugins that can complement a product without competing with it: plugins that make the UI complex or dangerous, plugins that require a subscription fee, plugins that compete with the core business model of the product, and plugins that connect to a different commercial product.
- Products that have a vibrant plugin ecosystem and API are almost by definition successful products. It also creates a sort of weird ambient lock-in around the ecosystem, as in Lotus 1-2-3 macros, or Firefox users who won't switch browsers due to their favorite plugins.
- A brief discussion of Windows 7, which has much more "curb appeal" than Vista. Joel was not a fan of Vista; I was. And Windows 7 is the best Vista service pack ever.
- Stack Overflow almost reached a million pageviews per day last week, and we're consistently doing around 120 requests/sec, or 7200 requests/minute. We're starting to hit peaks of about 80% CPU usage on our single web server, so we may have to add a second webserver to the SO farm soon.
- Speaking of sticky sessions, we were surprised to find that there are those rare few users whose IP addresses will change radically from request to request.
- We are a Microsoft stack so we're looking at Velocity to share state across multiple webservers. It's a clone of memcached.
- Scaling problems are easy to solve. Just throw money at them, like 37signals recently did. The "getting people to give a crap about your application" problem does not respond to money in the same way.
- We run a number of LogParser queries on our webserver logs to identify statistically anomalous things that are happening on our website — what sorts of queries do you run on your web logs to show unusual activity? One of the weirder spiders that's hitting us a lot is Omgili, a sort of forum search tool.
Our favorite question this week is from Server Fault:
- Recommended LogParser queries for IIS monitoring? This is an example of putting the sort of information out into the world that we'd like to see exist — as well as documenting and sharing our own experience in hosting what is now a fairly large public website.
If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to [email protected]. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser. We also have a dedicated phone number you can call to leave audio questions at 646-826-3879.
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