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The Predator comic book line is a long-running series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics based on the Predator franchise. The line has included a number of limited series, one-shots and short stories, starting with the original Predator comic in June 1989.
While six of these stories to date have adapted or expanded upon characters and ideas from the Predator films, most have added new characters and storylines, focusing on widely varied encounters between the Predator species and various individuals from various civilizations throughout the course of human history.
Three of the film-related series have dealt with the brother of Predator hero Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, known simply as Detective Schaefer, and his interactions with the mysterious and secretive Major General Phillips(a character from the film) while fending off Predator attacks around the world.
The comics have also spawned a novel franchise as early comics mini-series were adapted into novel form by Bantam Books, and are now published by Dark Horse itself.
[show]Common ThemesEdit
The Predator comics series and its accompanying novel series, much like the originating Predator film series, have tended to focus mostly on stories told from a human point of view, usually with lone or small numbers of Predators acting as unknown antagonists, visiting the Earth and causing havoc and terror for unknown reasons amongst their human prey. Almost all of these stories have been set on present-day Earth or at different points in human history, with only a very few stories set in the future. (As opposed to the Aliens comics series, in which the opposite is true.)
It is in the Aliens vs. Predator comics series—and their spin-off novelizations—that writers really started to tell stories more from Predator race's point of view and delve further into depictions and revelations about their culture and customs. It is in these comics and novelizations, throughout the 1990s, that what is now known as "Hunter" or "yautja" culture (and even the name "yautja" which comes from the AVP novels) originated, with a degree of varying interpretations depending on the writer. In the 2000s, a new source of information about Predator culture has become the series of AvP video games, as well as the Predator video game Concrete Jungle.
Cross-over historyEdit
Almost immediately after the release of the first Predator mini-series in June 1989, Dark Horse laid the foundation for connecting the Predator franchise with the Aliens franchise, which they had also acquired the rights to and had been producing comics based on since the year before in 1988.
In 1989, in the company's main anthology series Dark Horse Presents, issues #34, #35, featured Alien and Predator stories, and issue #36 featured their first Aliens Vs. Predator story, a prequel to the first full-fledged Aliens Vs. Predator mini-series, which followed shortly.
Since that time Dark Horse has concurrently produced all three titles.
Predator ComicsEdit
- Predator (a.k.a. Predator: Concrete Jungle)
- 1-4 by Mark Verheiden, Chris Warner and Ron Randall, June 1989-March 1990
- June 1989-March 1990: The events of Predator #1-4 revolve around NYC Detective Schaefer, the brother of Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer. Detective Schaefer and his partner, Detective Rasche, discover a Predator in New York City during a drug deal gone bad. Schaefer believes the Predator and a mysterious army general have a connection to his brother, Dutch, which leads Schaefer on a hunt into Colombia. There in South America Schaefer has yet another run in with a Predator as well as a Colombian drug lord - an old NYC adversary. Successfully eluding both, Schaefer is transported back to the U.S. only to find a government plot to hand him over to the Predators. Predator #1-4 are collected together as the trade paperback: Predator: Concrete Jungle. It has also been adapted into a novel, and the name has been used for a video game featuring an unrelated story.
- 1-4 by Mark Verheiden, Chris Warner and Ron Randall, June 1989-March 1990
- Predator: God's Truth
- by John Arcudi and Rob Walton, December 1990
- Predator 2 (film adaptation)
- 1-2 by Franz Henkel, Dan Barry and Mark Bright, February 1991-June 1991
- Predator: Big Game
- 1-4 by John Arcudi and Evan Dorkin, March 1991-June 1991
- U.S. Army Corporal Enoch Nakai, must rediscover his Navajo roots in a fight to the death with an alien Predator.
- 1-4 by John Arcudi and Evan Dorkin, March 1991-June 1991
- Predator: Cold War
- 1-4 by Mark Verheiden and Ron Randall, September 1991-December 1991
- When a Predator spacecraft crashlands in the isolated Northern tundra of Siberia, Detective Shaefer is called upon to aid the US military in capturing the technology. Unfortunately, the Russian forces have their eyes on the craft as well.
- 1-4 by Mark Verheiden and Ron Randall, September 1991-December 1991
- Predator: The Bloody Sands Of Time
- 1-2, by Dan Barry and Chris Warner, February–March 1992
- A strange carnage in the Nicaraguan jungle for which an US soldier is blamed responsible leads his defender Central Intelligence Agency operative Griggs Irving to recall similar incidents registered in South Vietnam in 1968 and in France during World War I.
- 1-2, by Dan Barry and Chris Warner, February–March 1992
- Predator: Rite of Passage
- 1-2, by Ian Edginton, Rick Leonardi, Dan Panosian and Greg Wright, August 1992-September 1992
- A Maasai boy and a young Predator come into conflict during their respective rites of passage. Predator: Rite of Passage was later collected together with Predator: The pride at Nghasa in the Dark Horse Classics special Predator: Jungle Tales.
- 1-2, by Ian Edginton, Rick Leonardi, Dan Panosian and Greg Wright, August 1992-September 1992
- Predator: Blood Feud
- 1-4 by Neal Barrett, Jr. and Leo Duranona, November 1992-February 1993
- Predator: Race War
- 0-4 by Andrew Vachss, Randy Stradley, Jordan Raskin and Lauchland Pelle, February–October 1993
- After numerous incidents around the country, a team of secretive government agents works to capture a living Predator to study. Recruiting a vigilante-for-hire named Cross to do their dirty work, the team tries to capture a Predator they've tracked to a maximum security prison, where it is hunting murderers in the midst of a race war.
- 0-4 by Andrew Vachss, Randy Stradley, Jordan Raskin and Lauchland Pelle, February–October 1993
- Predator: The Pride at Nghasa
- 1-2 by Chuck Dixon, Enrique Alcatena, Clem Robins and Chris Chalenor, May 1993-August 1993
- Kenya, Late August, 1936. A series of night attacks decimate the workers during the building of a new railroad, prompting a famous hunter, two park rangers and their African assistant to track down and fight what the locals call a 'demon of the forest' that is said to appear only when the 'hunting star' crosses the sky. Predator: The pride at Nghasa was later collected together with Predator: Rite of Passage in the Dark Horse Classics special Predator: Jungle Tales.
- 1-2 by Chuck Dixon, Enrique Alcatena, Clem Robins and Chris Chalenor, May 1993-August 1993
- Predator: The Hunted City
- 1-3 by Charles Moore and D. Alexander Gregory, December 1993-February 1994
- Predator: Bad Blood
- 1-4 by Evan Dorkin and Derek Thompson, December 1993-June 1994
- Predator: Blood on Two-Witch Mesa
- 1-2 by Terry LaBan and Howard Cobb, April–May 1994
- Predator: Invaders from the Fourth Dimension
- One Shot by Jerry Prosser, Jim Somerville and Brian Garvey, July 1994
- Dark Horse Classics - Predator: Jungle Tales
- One shot reprint issue, March 1995
- Predator: 1718
- One Shot by Henry Gilroy and Igor Kordey, July 1996
- The story of who Raphael Adolini was, and how the elder Predator at the end of Predator 2 obtained his flintlock pistol.
- One Shot by Henry Gilroy and Igor Kordey, July 1996
- Predator: Dark River
- 1-4 by Mark Verheiden and Ron Randall, July 1996-October 1996
- Predator: Strange Roux
- One Shot by Brian McDonald and Mitch Byrd, November 1996
- Predator: Kindred
- 1-4 by Jason R. Lamb and Scott Tolson, December 1996-January 1997
- Kindred follows the events centering on the extremely ordinary town of Fleener Creek, Oregon. The town remains ordinary until a Predator returns after 30 years drawing into action Buddy Wilcox, a family man who has a personal agenda against this particular Predator. Sheriff Kelly Mathis hunts a serial killer named McCutcheon who is now, not only on the run from the authorities, but on the run from a Predator as well.
- 1-4 by Jason R. Lamb and Scott Tolson, December 1996-January 1997
- Predator: No Beast So Fierce
- One Shot by Mike W. Barr, Scott Kolins, and Dan Schaefer, March 1997
- Predator: Hell and Hot Water
- 1-3 by Mark Schultz, April 1997-June 1997
- Predator: Primal
- 1-2 by Kevin J. Anderson, Scott Kolins and John Lowe, July 1997-August 1997
- A wild duel ensues when a Predator runs into the path of an angry Grizzly Bear mother during a hunting season in Alaska.
- 1-2 by Kevin J. Anderson, Scott Kolins and John Lowe, July 1997-August 1997
- Predator: Bump in the Night
- One shot by Steve Seagle, Duncan Rouleau and Jim Royal, August 1997
- Predator: Nemesis
- 1-2 by Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil, December 1997-January 1998
- Predator: Hell Come a Walkin'
- 1-2 by Nancy Collins, Dean Ormston, February 1998-March 1998
- Predator: Captive
- One Shot by Gordon Rennie and Dean Ormston, May 1998
- Billionaire industrialist Tyler Stern holds the only known captive Predator in a controlled biosphere where he can study the alien killing machine in its own habitat.
- One Shot by Gordon Rennie and Dean Ormston, May 1998
- Predator: Demon's Gold
- One shot by Ron Marz and Claudio Castellini, November 1998
- Predator: Homeworld
- 1-4 by Jim Vance and Kate Worley, March 1999-June 1999
- Predator: Xenogenesis
- 1-4 by Ian Edginton and Mel Rubi, August 1999-November 1999
- Predator (series 2)
- 1-4 by John Arcudi and Javier Saltares, June 2009-January 2010
- Predators
- 1-4 by Marc Andreyko and David Lapham, June 2010
- The comic is a prequel to the events depicted in the film Predators. A team of Navy Seals is in the midst of a firefight when it suddenly goes dark. They awake to find themselves in a new and more deadly environment, stalked by a strange enemy. One by one these special-ops officers are killed by an unseen threat, until only one man remains. All alone in a strange world, he must do what he knows best survive against all odds.
- 1-4 by Marc Andreyko and David Lapham, June 2010
- Predators: Beating the Bullet
- One shot by Paul Tobin and Victor Drujiniubased on the screenplay by Robert Rodriguez, July 2010
- Predators: Preserve the Game
- One shot by David Lapham and Allan Jefferson, July 2010
- Officially licensed sequel to the events depicted in the film Predators.
- One shot by David Lapham and Allan Jefferson, July 2010
- Predator: Fire and Stone
- Four-issue mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics from October 2014-January 2015. It was written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Chris Mooneyham, and inked by Dan Brown. Cover art was provided by Lucas Graciano (varian cover by Alex Maleev)
Continuity and the 'Expanded Universe'Edit
It could be argued by some that it is somewhat unclear whether or not all of the stories from the various Predator miniseries really exist in the same connected fictional universe as the Aliens fictional universe which has developed much more cohesively in Dark Horse's related Aliens, and Aliens vs. Predator comics lines. (Indeed editors from Dark Horse have mentioned that the continuity is not always so tightly knit as in other series.)
This may be due to some slight inconsistencies between Predator mini-series, and between them and their sister franchises, mostly regarding how well known the presence of the alien Predators on present day Earth is by the government and the public, or from other minor plot lines left dangling at the end of various miniseries.
However, most of these issues could probably be sorted out with a minimal amount of ret-conning, though, or by simply assuming that the government has repeatedly done extensive cover-up work after each incident, which is indeed implied and overtly stated in the stories and in their parent films; or by assuming that much of the information on such encounters was lost to humanity or completely covered up by the time of the events of the Alien franchise, which is primarily set in the future.
Overall, while it is clear from a reading that the Predator franchise on its own has been less vigorously edited in terms of connectedness and consistency than Dark Horse's other fictional franchises, such as Star Wars or even sister-franchise Aliens, and references from one story to another are rare.
Still, much of the information generated about the Predator species, their culture and habits, including elements that made their way into the films, has originated in their depcition in the comic book and spin-off novelizations. (This includes even the species name of Yautja which comes AVP comics novelizations.)
As such, while the overall canonicity of all of the Predator comics stories with regard to the overall Aliens vs. Predator universe may be questioned, their impact on the AvP universe cannot be.
Also, most recently, with the release of the 2009-2010 Predator, Aliens and AVP: Three World War stories, a clear effort has been made to strongly establish a connection between all three lines, with connecting references made throughout the stories. Thus establishing that they do indeed all take place in the same universe.
See alsoEdit
Aliens vs. Predator (Comics Series)
Sources and External LinksEdit
Official Predator Comics Zone at the Dark Horse Comics website. A search on the Dark Horse site will also produce a profile of every Predator comic the company has ever made, including a plot description and cover image, which is basically where every other Predator site gets its comics information.
Predator: The Hunted - One of the most comprehensive listing of Predator Comics and Books online on a very complete Predator fan site
AVPGalaxy Predator Comics Page - A similar listing of Predator comics at another well-established AvP fan site.
An opinionated (and perhaps a bit one-sided) discussion on AvP comics and canonicity at the exhaustively researched website, AbsoluteAvP can be seen in their timeline section here: http://time.absoluteavp.com/


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New England Cranberry Duff
To make this Northeastern interpretation of an old-fashioned upside-down cake, cranberries and toasted pecans are topped with buttery batter, and then baked and inverted. The cranberries soften in the oven but the pecans stay crunchy, lending a textural flourish.
Source: Martha Stewart Living, November 2005
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, (1 stick), softened
- 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1/3 cup pecans, toasted, coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup plus 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter bottom and halfway up sides of an 8-inch square glass baking dish using 2 tablespoons butter. Spread cranberries evenly over bottom of dish. Sprinkle pecans on top, then sprinkle with 1/3 cup sugar; set aside.
Melt remaining 6 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat; set aside. Put egg and the remaining 1/2 cup sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until pale and thick, about 1 minute. Reduce speed to medium-low; gradually beat in flour, and then salt. Pour in melted butter in a slow, steady stream, beating until smooth.
Slowly pour batter into pan to cover cranberries. Bake until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack 10 minutes. Run a knife around edge to loosen, and invert to unmold onto a serving platter. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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kathchev 15 Mar, 2014
I just made this recipe and I love, love, love it. I added some grated orange zest which added a burst of freshness. I plan on trying this recipe using strawberry, rhubarb or blueberry and peach with lemon zest.
CHRISM12 6 Jan, 2013
I made this today, having to convert US to UK measures. So far this looks absolutely fabulous in the 9 x 5 inch loaf tin which I lined with parchment.I hardly dare tell you but I used salted peanuts as thats all I had in my cupboard.Other than that I stuck to the recipe / temperature etc. Excellent !!
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Jessistewart 14 Oct, 2012
I just finished making this recipe and it looks exactly like the picture. I used a 8x8 inch silicone pan. I doubled the recipe! I waited five minutes after I took it out of the oven before I cut around the edges. I waited five more minutes before flipping it over. Came out easily!!! Looks perfect!
DaveTO74 4 Oct, 2010
I made this for the first time tonight, and it turned out perfect! I added orange rind and doubled the batter as well. I used the knife to cut around the edge after 5 minutes, then flipped it over after 5 more...and it came out without issue! I also used a 6x9.5 inch pan. It is pretty tart which is nice, but I added an icing sugar and milk drizzle!
Karen524 30 May, 2010
I have made this twice. My husband LOVES it. I did, however, double the cake portion of the recipe as others have suggested. I still had trouble getting it out of the baking dish. Next time I'm going to try the buttered parchment paper as someone suggested. Since I can't get cranberries this time of year, I'm going to bake this cake with blueberries that we will be picking next weekend. We'll see how that turns out.
NicoPony 25 Nov, 2009
Total failure. There is not nearly enough batter to hold this thing together. It ends up a syrupy mess. In fact, the photo is laughable. I'd like to show you what mine looks like. This one needs to go back to the test kitchen.
criminy 13 Jan, 2009
This was excellent and my guest loved it, but it was very hard to get out of the pan without breaking.
jogs 18 Dec, 2008
I tried this and it's delicious. Textures are wonderful but love the orange zest with it. Thanks for another recipe that works for the family!
stephaneff 27 Nov, 2008
I had trouble with this sticking even after reading the comments and using a little extra butter on the bottom. It was easy to repair and you couldn't even tell it was broken. Tasty!
EWjunk 2 Jul, 2008
We thought this was very tasty. I love the combo of cranberry and orange, so I added 1 tsp orange zest and 1/2 tsp allspice to the cranberries and 1 tsp. orange extract to the cake batter. I scooped it into small glass compotes and served it w/ whipped cream.
ersi 14 Apr, 2008
This is the 3rd time I' m making this cake and I came to the conclusion that one must double or even triple the dough incredients. Since where I come from, cranberries are very hard to fine I try it with strawberries and works fine.
MaggieDwyer 18 Dec, 2007
I have been making this dessert since it first was published a couple of years ago, and every time I give it to someone I get rave reviews. Cranberries and toasted pecans--the food of the gods! I took portions of this dessert to two neighbors this morning and had "thank you!" messages on my phone this evening, and a request for the recipe. The sticking is the one difficulty; make sure it really is "golden" brown and it does come out more easily.
dkaluzny620 27 Nov, 2007
Delicious, buttery flavor with lots of texture (cake, berries, nuts).
I suggest lining your pan with heavily buttered parchment to keep the cake from sticking.I wonder if anyone's tried doubling the cake batter portion of the recipe? I would have liked more "cake" with all that deliciously buttery fruit and nuts. I might give it a shot next time . . .
Zinasp 24 Nov, 2007
This is great! Even though the sticking (I used frozen cranberries) is a problem, I managed to prod it out of the pan and push back to together, hoping to take it to Thanksgiving at my daughter's. Unfortunately, my husband who doesn't care for sweets, tasted it and ended eating most of it before it hit the dessert table. Yummy!
merevans007 22 Nov, 2007
Fabulous! i made it as one of the desserts for Thanksgiving, and everyone loved it. I am sure there won't be any left by the end of the day!
cinnamonskyes 19 Nov, 2007
This recipe was so good that even the non-cranberry enthusiasts in the family had a slice! I had problems with it sticking also (have to work on that) and I used the fresh cranberries. My next try at this I"m going to drizzle the top with white chocolate...
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Regan 13 Nov, 2007
I made this a few weeks ago because I couldn't stop thinking about the picture--it's so easy and really delicious. Be sure to really butter your pan well before baking -- my frozen cranberries stuck a little, but I'm sure that fresh ones would be no problem.
hannelore911 12 Nov, 2007
Hi, I'm making this cake again this year. Everybody always loves it.. Hannelore S
Amy_Price 10 Nov, 2007
I make this every year for thanksgiving and christmas. It is easy and very good.
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it looks easy to make i just hope it comes out good as it looks...


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SERIOUSLY SIMPLE: An hommage to clam chowder perfect for a summer first course
By Diane Rossen Worthington, Tribune Media ServicesThere is a great divide between flourless East Coast clam chowder and all the other approximations of the form that resemble and taste like glue with bits of clams. I am always surprised when restaurants proudly serve this gloppy rendition.
Author Stephanie Izard grew up on the East Coast, where she learned the fine art of great New England clam chowder. She has a clever way with reinterpreting classic dishes. When I eyed this recipe in her book "Girl in the Kitchen," I had to try it. I think of it as clam chowder revisited. No flour, nor is it soupy -- just the essential clam chowder flavors coming together in a fresh approach. Indeed, she has created a wonderful summer first course. Bacon and clams is surely a match made in heaven, and the corn adds an extra sweet layer of flavor.
Unless you are living on the East Coast, where clams are plentiful and very fresh, it's essential to find a reputable local fishmonger who sells really fresh clams. Littlenecks, which are hard-shelled clams, should be even-colored and firm, and have tightly closed shells. If a shell has opened slightly, tap it; it should immediately close tightly; if not discard it. Hard shell clams require a good scrubbing under water to clean them thoroughly.
Lazy, relaxed summer evenings call for casual dishes like this one, served family-style. Serve with ice-cold beer or chilled Rose. The author suggests serving Irish stout because it has the same creaminess that plump steamed clams do, and the toasted malts go beautifully with smoky bacon. Make sure to have an empty bowl for the discarded the shells.
Clams Steamed with Corn, Bacon and Fingerlings
Reprinted with permission from "Girl in the Kitchen" by Stephanie Izard (Chronicle Books, 2011)
Serves 2 to 4.
12 ounces fingerling potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
Freshly ground black pepper
3 slices bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 small onion, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 ears corn, kernels cut off the cob
24 fresh littleneck clams, scrubbed
1/4 cup dry white wine
2 tablespoons creme fraiche
1 tablespoon butter
Several sprigs fresh mint leaves, chopped, for garnishing
1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.
2. Toss the potatoes with the oil on a rimmed baking sheet or casserole dish and season with salt and pepper. Roast them until the potatoes are slightly tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Let cool, then slice into 1/2-inch rounds.
3. Heat a large Dutch oven or stockpot over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook it until the fat is rendered and the bacon is just browned, about 7 minutes. Add the onions and garlic and sweat by cooking them until they are tender but not browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the sliced potatoes, corn, and clams and season with salt and pepper. Pour in the wine and cover the pot to steam the clams for about 10 minutes. When the clams are completely open, transfer them with the vegetables and bacon to serving bowls or plates with a slotted spoon, leaving the liquid in the pot. (Discard any clams that don't open).
4. Stir the creme fraiche and butter into the pot and simmer over medium-low heat until slightly thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper and spoon the sauce over the clams and veggies. Garnish with the mint.
(Diane Rossen Worthington is an authority on new American cooking. She is the author of 18 cookbooks, including most recently "Seriously Simple Parties" (Chronicle Books, 2012), and also a James Beard award-winning radio show host. You can contact her at www.seriouslysimple.com.)


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Oct 29 2012
Secretive Iraqi minority bears brunt of sectarian violence
Azzaman, October 29, 2012
You are unwanted in Iraq if you belong to a minority. But one could even be cursed if they were part of a secretive community like Shabaks.
The Shabaks are ethnically and religiously abhorred by other communities and they have been target not only of anger but persecution of the powerful in Iraq, namely Arabs and Kurds.
The issue is you can only survive as a Shabak in Iraq if you profess and proselytize. That means if you have to be one of us otherwise "you are against us."
And because the Shabaks, numbering about 500,000 people and mainly inhabiting villages outlying the northern city of Mosul, are not Kurds, are not Arabs, are not Muslim Shiites, are not Muslim Sunnis and are not Christians, nobody loves them.
Their villages have been the scene of devastating bombings in which thousands of people were either killed or injured. More than 1,000 of this very small and secretive community have been brutally murdered since the 2003-U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Only a few days ago, a whole Shabak family was ruthlessly butchered in a neighborhood of Mosul.
They are so vulnerable and weak that they are shunned even by Iraqi Christians in the area of Mosul, though Iraqi Christians, like other minorities, have themselves been repeatedly targeted and forced to flee.
It is not clear where from the Shabak came to Iraq and historians have always wondered about their origins.
What is clear is that they have developed their own brand of religion, a distinctive culture and a distinctive language in the centuries they have been settling in their areas in northern Iraq.
Their demands for recognition have gone unheeded.
The Kurds want to add their villages, with strategic locations in the plateau of Mosul and plenty of resources, to their semi-independent enclave in northern Iraq.
Kurdish militias and security organizations exercise a heavy hand on their areas, compelling the Shabaks to read Kurdish in their schools.
Sunni Arabs, the majority in the area of Mosul, see them as a threat because many of them have allied themselves with Shiite political parties in the south or Kurds in the north.
Thousands of Shabaks were forced to flee Mosul, the capital of the Province of Nineveh.
Traditionally, members of this community have been considered a low class in Iraq, much like the Yazidis, another secretive and persecuted people.


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I recently purchased a piano from Victor's. It was a good deal and a very nice piano, but the disc player wasn't working. I contacted them, and was given a tech's number. After he assesssed the repairs, I contacted Victor's and was told to make the repairs, pay the invoice, submit it to them, and I would be reimbursed. I did that, and for months was told I would be receiving a check. After four months, I was told I had gotten a good deal on the piano and should be happy with that, and that I now would not be reimbursed. This is deceitful, dishonest business practices. Although they have nice pianos, their methods of doing business are far less than honorable. Buyer Beware!Jimmy Carillo
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What do Jamie Foxx, Ray Charles, Alicia Keys, Tennessee Williams, Lauren Hill, Itzhak Perlman, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jackie Gleason have in common? They all bought pianos at Victor Pianos, that's what. The owner, Victor Tibaledo, is sitting behind the desk there today — right now, if it's Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5, or Sunday 12:30 to 5 — just as he was 50 years ago, when he started the business in a single building filled with pianos. Now there are five buildings — one for grand pianos, one for uprights, one for organs, one for keyboards, and one for the office, where Victor holds court and occasionally sells sheet music. He has plenty of everything at whatever price (within reason) you feel like paying. ("I just sold a piano to a truck driver," Victor's daughter Lisa told us when we visited.) Pianos range from $4,000 to $50,000, organs go for about $1,300 and up, and keyboards start at $500.


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I don't think bulk loading saves that much these days, not enough to personally pay me for the agravation, anyway.
The advantage, though, is that I find 36 exposure loads annoyingly long and you can load shorter - some waste, but not that much and still slightly cheaper than factory 36s. IF I shot very much black and white in 35mm I might do it for that reason but having two medium format cameras has almost completely eliminated my black and white 35mm.


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quote:what makes them not talented?
quote:Hell, neither was Clyde, really.
quote: what makes them not talented? One star team.
quote:Their two best players were past their primes
quote: Since when is averaging 27 and 12 past your prime?
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quote:Nope. His best years were 93-95, when, coincidentally, he won two championships.
quote:Tyson is an above average center.
quote:Jason Terry is a career bench player. (although a very good one)
quote:04' Pistons for sure, prime example of team basketball there
quote:His offensive repertoire was most refined in the mid-'90s
quote:He was more efficient.
quote: His PER was highest from 1992-1995
quote:that's when he won his championships
quote:The first time he won the championship he was the only superstar on the team.
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September has arrived, my friends, and with it comes the onslaught of September birthdays in my world. It begins with my husband early in the month and continues with my dad, my father-in-law, and two wonderful friends. It's a busy month that brings many baking opportunities along with it!
My husband started it all off this past week with his 35th birthday. It's usually up to him what kind of cake he'll get — but thanks to the recent BR ice cream cake advertising campaign, I've had ice cream cake on the brain and it was finally time to satisfy the craving! Enter the café mocha ice cream cake.
Brownie base, modified coffee ice cream, whipped cream to represent the steamed milk, and a chocolate drizzle to finish it all off. Amazing. No, really… WOW. What better way to say I love you?
I pieced this cake together from a couple of different sources, and I really couldn't be happier with the results. This is the perfect end of summer cake and is easy enough to put together the day you need it. Just plan ahead so that you can allow three to four hours for the cake to set up before you serve it.
Disclaimer: This recipe does contain raw eggs. Therefore it's important to use very fresh eggs that have no cracks and which have been properly refrigerated. It's not recommended that people who are of an advanced age, who are under four, who are pregnant, or who have a compromised immune system partake of this recipe. Use your best judgment here and don't eat anything that you consider to be unsafe.
Café Mocha Ice Cream Cake
Brownie Base
Mocha Ice Cream
Whipped Cream
Chocolate Drizzle
Brownie Base
Use your favorite brownie recipe, but bake it in an 8″ springform pan. I used a slightly modified version of this recipe. When the brownie has come down to approximately room temp, pop it in the fridge while you make the ice cream layer.
Mocha Ice Cream
(modified from A Cat in the Kitchen)
2 cups heavy cream
3 tablespoons espresso powder
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 fresh egg yolks (see above disclaimer)
3 tablespoons Baileys Irish liquor
Whip the cream to stiff peaks. Add the espresso powder and the powdered sugar. Add the egg yolks and Baileys. Pour the filling over the brownie base and smooth the top with an offset spatula. Put the cake in the freezer while making the whipped cream topping.
Whipped Cream
1 cup heavy cream
sugar to taste
Whip the cream to stiff peaks and add sugar to taste. Remove cake from freezer and spread whipped cream onto the top of the ice cream layer and smooth with an offset spatula. Return cake to freezer for 3-4 hours.
Chocolate Drizzle
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
Melt chocolate and butter at 50% in the microwave at 30 second intervals until chocolate is nearly melted. Stir until smooth and then pour into a small ziploc bag. Remove cake from freezer. Snip a corner from the bag and drizzle chocolate onto the top of the cake.
Place cake into the refrigerator for 20 minutes to temper before serving. When ready to serve, run a butter knife between the cake and the sides of the springform pan, then release the sprinform ring. Cut and serve, returning any uneaten cake to the freezer immediately (cover with plastic wrap).


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This can be used as a Nerf hat too!
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I CC in this hot humid state. Don't get me wrong, I love Texas, but not the uncomfortable humidity and high temperatures. I CC now in my strong side pocket... usually front. I would love to put a holster on my belt and open carry, simply for the comfort. If anyone knows any Texas legislators, tell 'em we need open carry really, really bad!! The only place that I can't carry is at work. When not at work, I am armed.
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"LAST week, the military situation remained relatively calm across the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nevertheless, incidents were reported in the Kivus." This unchanging opening mantra of the weekly press conference held by Congo's UN peacekeeping mission, known by its acronym MONUC, is an exercise in understatement.
Despite the signing in January of a peace deal intended to pacify the country's lawless eastern borderlands near Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, daily clashes still occur between Tutsi insurgents, local Congolese militias and the Congolese army. More than 500,000 refugees who fled the fighting last year are still afraid to return home, with good reason. Civilians are increasingly the targets of lethal reprisals by all sides. In particular, the conflict has become notorious for the frequent use of rape and sexual violence by all sides as a weapon of war.
But progress in Congo is relative. Just five years ago, it was in the final throes of a war that had sucked in at least half a dozen other African countries and had left much of Congo in ruins after claiming the lives, through disease and displacement as well as fighting, of at least 4m people, the largest such death toll since the second world war. By comparison, today's violence, though menacing, is much reduced.
In 2006 Joseph Kabila became Congo's first democratically elected leader in over four decades in polls that were organised by the UN, and which were reasonably free and fair. But his biggest campaign promise—to stamp out the smouldering embers of the 1998-2003 war—has not been fulfilled at all. The fighting in the two Kivu provinces, which has its roots in neighbouring Rwanda's genocide in 1994, has lasted for more than a decade. And there are worries that a new front is opening in the already complex conflict.
As part of an agreement struck last year with its erstwhile enemy, Rwanda, Congo's government vowed to hunt down and defeat the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). This is a movement of Hutu rebels who have been based in eastern Congo since fleeing Rwanda after helping to orchestrate the slaughter there of nearly 1m Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. Clashes involving FDLR fighters are on the rise. There are 70,000 more refugees now in North Kivu than when the peace accord was signed in January. A big offensive against the rebels by Congo's army, as demanded by Rwanda's government, risks prompting a new bloodbath and pushing an already dire humanitarian crisis out of control.
The UN is hardly in a position to help. In December Mr Kabila sent in 25,000 of his government's forces to suppress General Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi insurgency in the east, which is aimed against the FDLR. But they were routed by a much smaller force of insurgents, about 4,000. Further compromising their role after the UN's Indian peacekeepers in North Kivu had failed to support the Congolese army's advance, as they had been ordered to do, some of those same blue helmets are now being accused of supplying the Hutu rebels, whom Congo's army is meant to suppress, with ammunition in exchange for poached ivory.
If the situation in the east is dire, the rest of Congo is not much better. Mr Kabila's triumph at the polls has long lost its shine. Much of the country has for months been hobbled by strikes over unpaid wages in hospitals, schools and universities. In the south-eastern province of Katanga, Congo's mining heartland, increased foreign investment has not yet produced new jobs. Instead, as throughout Africa, the cost of food and transport has nearly doubled since the beginning of the year. Crime is up too.
Mr Kabila, at least for now, has managed to keep the lid on growing discontent. But to do so he has had to resort to repression and violence, just as his reviled predecessors did. "Why protest? They'll just kill you," says a market vendor in Kinshasa, the capital, where her business has dwindled as prices soar. "The police will arrest you. We aren't free to protest." The regular crackdowns on even the smallest and mildest public demonstrations are dampening the hopes of Western governments, which generally wanted Mr Kabila to win the election in 2006, that the vote would usher in a new era of political pluralism, let alone peace.
The opposition, already heavily outnumbered in parliament, is fractured and factionalised. Senator Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader who had been the opposition's chief figure and runner-up to Mr Kabila in the presidential poll, had been in exile in Portugal since fighters loyal to him were defeated in three days of gun battles in the streets of Kinshasa more than a year ago. However, last month Mr Bemba was arrested in Belgium on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court at The Hague, which has accused him of war crimes.
Still, bad as things are, they could be worse, especially when viewed through the prism of the recent past. "Five years ago, no one ever would have believed that we'd ever have elections or institutions," says a Kinshasa banker. To that modest extent, there has been progress of a kind.


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- Keywords: History, Microbiology, Food Safety
From: Food Quality & Safety magazine, February/March 2010
Food Microbiology Marches On
From Napoleon's army to today's consumer, the focus is on food safety
by Lori Valigra
Editor's Note: This article on the history and impact of advances in food microbiology is the first in a new series for Food Quality. In "FoodTech: Tools That Changed the Industry," we look at various technologies and tools, such as microbiological testing, that have played a key role in and had an indelible impact on the food industry. In our next issue, we will explore the emergence and evolution of rapid food microbiology tools.
Napoleon wanted to conquer the world, but he knew, as his famous quote aptly states, "an army travels on its stomach." To be sure his men had safe rations, he offered a 12,000-franc prize to anyone who could come up with a food preservation method. Nicolas Appert, the chef and distiller who ultimately claimed the prize, spent more than a decade discovering that boiled foods placed in airtight glass containers would not spoil. In 1810, Peter Durand, a British merchant who received a patent for the tin containers that were forerunners of the cans used today, further refined the concept.
Safe food meant strong troops and power to Napoleon. The message isn't so different today for food companies, which have learned from the history of food microbiology. They realize their businesses could be toppled by a large recall or a reputation for tainted foods and that outbreaks can sicken or kill consumers. Millions of dollars are lost to product recalls as production halts, products sit on warehouse shelves and then are discarded, and the public hesitates to buy from that company again.
That's why companies have embraced testing for pathogens, thus enabling the evolution of better food microbiology tools. Scientists have used Petri dishes to grow samples and analyze them, added immunoassays and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tools in the 1990s, and are now pushing toward more rapid test results. Growing cultures—a pervasive part of testing even today—can take up to a week and remains a bottleneck. Government and industry groups have also pushed for regulations and good manufacturing practices to advance the field of food microbiology.
"They [companies] are driven by risk aversion—looking at their auditing practices and at what they need to do better," said Donald Zink, PhD, senior science advisor for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in College Park, Md.
"It's not just about testing, but about managing your inventory and business," said Purnendu Vasavada, PhD, a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls and a member of the Food Quality editorial advisory board. "The food industry has always been looking at contamination. This is their bread and butter," he said.
Since 2005, total microbiology testing volume has increased from 629.9 million to 738.3 million tests, an increase of 17.8%, according to Tom Weschler, founder of Strategic Consulting Inc., Woodstock, Vt. Testing for food pathogens, which, at 25.6%, has grown faster than the total market for microbial tests, now comprises 138.1 million tests. The total market for food microbiological testing topped $2 billion in 2008.
"There is testing done all the way from the farm to the fork," said Weschler. The majority takes place using samples taken at the food factory. Not as much is done at food retail and service. "Food companies want to sell safe products, but they also want to protect their brand name, which is most directly influenced by a recall," he said.
High Stakes
But more than brand name is at stake, because lives are in the balance. Bon Vivant Soup Company went out of business after a 1971 case of botulism in its vichyssoise killed at least one person and made others ill. "We still have some of the cans in the agency museum, even the swollen ones," said Dr. Zink, who formerly worked in industry for Nestle and Campbell Soup Co. And last year, Peanut Corporation of America went bankrupt after its widespread Salmonella outbreak was linked to at least nine deaths and 636 cases of food poisoning.
In the earliest annals of food safety, it is unclear to what degree scientists knew the microbiology behind their processes. Louis Pasteur was an early leader in understanding the persistence of microbes. "Pasteur said that if you have a sterile environment and don't touch it, you still can get microbes in it, so there must be a way to get in," said Bob Young, MS, senior technical specialist at 3M in St. Paul, Minn. The company introduced its Petrifilm Plates about 25 years ago as an alternative to the agar Petri dish. Most are used daily on the product line.
J. Stan Bailey, PhD, director of scientific affairs at bioMerieux in Athens, Ga., added that the basics of food preservation have remained the same since the time of Pasteur. "Bacteria is a living thing needing nutrients, moisture, and the proper heat," said Dr. Bailey, who has, in the past, worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). "Food preservation comes down to controlling those factors. No matter how sophisticated we get, it gets back to those factors that allow those organisms to grow."
—J. Stan Bailey, PhD, bioMerieuxBacteria is a living thing needing nutrients, moisture, and the proper heat. Food preservation comes down to controlling those factors. No matter how sophisticated we get, it gets back to those factors that allow those organisms to grow.
The FDA's Dr. Zink said food microbiology took off as a science after World War II. "More food was available after the war, and there was a boon for food and scientists. One key driver was the spoilage of food," he said. Extending the shelf life of milk is one example.
Dr. Zink said that in the 1940s, scientists at Iowa State University, notably bacteriologist Frank Eugene Nelson, PhD, were among the pioneers researching microorganisms in food and developing methods for testing it. Till then, most of the methods used in the food industry were long-time tests for water contaminants such as fecal coliforms. "He is a key person," said Dr. Zink of Dr. Nelson's role in the field of food microbiology and in teaching Dr. Zink and others. "He's like my academic grandfather."
Old Methods Persist
Though rapid result methods—such as DuPont Qualicon's BAX PCR—can detect Listeria in eight hours, cell cultures in the Petri dish remain the norm, accounting for 50% or more of current testing. That is primarily due to its low price. Rapid methods have "progressed more slowly than anyone expected," Dr. Zink said. Sample-size preparations and amplification remain bottlenecks in terms of speed of results, because it is critical to get enough of the pathogens to detect and determine which organisms are dead or alive. "We have yet to get away from some type of amplification," he added. It still takes 24 hours or more to grow high enough numbers of a bacterium to be able to test it.
"The bottom line is that there are still very basic tools to use for general testing," said Philippe Gadal, PhD, CEO of AES Chemunex in Cranbury, N.J. He said he's still amazed at the level and the type of testing that is or is not being done. "One yogurt company took a random sample and placed it in a hot area for a couple of days and looked at and smelled it," he said. "This is inappropriate." That company ended up having a major recall in 2008 and lost millions of dollars. AES Chemunex offers several testing systems, including BactiFlow and D-Count, designed for use in general foods, and Scan RDI, which is designed for use only in filterable products like water.
Attention to pathogens has paid off. Foodborne pathogens are responsible for some 76 million illnesses in the United States annually. But the incidence of E. coli O157:H7, one of the most severe foodborne diseases, declined 36% from 2002 to 2003, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others. The overall incidence of E. coli O157:H7 has declined 42% since 1996. The data also showed that the incidence of three common foodborne diseases—Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Yersinia—continued to decline substantially over the previous eight years. The declines were attributed to enhanced surveillance and outbreak investigations to identify new control measures. More attention was also placed on disease prevention.
—Tom Weschler, Strategic Consulting Inc.There is testing done all the way from the farm to the fork. Food companies want to sell safe products, but they also want to protect their brand name, which is most directly influenced by a recall.
Starting in 1997, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service implemented the Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system in all 6,000 federally inspected meat, poultry, and egg products plants over a three-year period. In addition, in 1996, the CDC, USDA, and FDA established the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) surveillance system to quantify, monitor, and track the incidence of laboratory-diagnosed cases of foodborne illnesses.
"The public health case is driving food microbiology now," said Dr. Zink. He added that FoodNet and PulseNet, a national network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by the CDC, have improved scientists' ability to identify a pathogen and the specific food that carries it. It is more than a thousand times better than was possible even a decade ago, he said.
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With millions of dollars and reputations at stake during recalls, there is a push toward more rapid test results. In comparison with earlier methods, which could take up to a week, some results are now available within eight hours—a factory shift. "The purpose is to do one-shift tests," said Daniel Fung, PhD, professor of food science at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan. Dr. Fung, a member of the Food Quality editorial advisory board, pioneered a method to miniaturize a most probable number system that can test for pathogens within a single factory shift.
The food industry has followed some of the test techniques used in the pharmaceutical industry, but that can be challenging. Molecular techniques in the clinical industry may not always be appropriate in the food industry because the latter has such low margins, said Morgan Wallace, PhD, senior research microbiologist at DuPont Qualicon in Wilmington, Del.
DuPont offers a PCR-based system called BAX that came out of clinical diagnostics in the mid 1990s, when assays for the food industry could be developed. The company has 13 PCR assays that target nine microbes. DuPont has sped up results by taking measurements at the end of each PCR cycle instead of at the end of each batch. The result is that after E.coli is enriched for about eight hours, results are available in about 55 minutes, compared to 3.5 hours using the prior method. And BAX can detect multiple species in parallel in one PCR reaction.
Strategic Consulting's Weschler believes the food industry is pushing ahead of pharma with rapid methods. "The food industry is further along in rapid methods than pharma, and it is driving new methods," he said. Dr. Bailey of bioMerieux is not as optimistic. "It will be a long time before we can significantly shorten" the test result time, he said.
Others point to new technologies. For example, Mike Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia in Griffin, Ga., said new methods using ribozomal RNA can produce more copies than DNA, providing more targets for molecular tests and eliminating an extensive enrichment process. "New technology will probably revolutionize the industry." ■
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The Jewellery Show has confirmed that it will once again sponsor the Jewellery Designer of the Year category at Retail Jeweller's UK Jewellery Awards 2012.
The award, which was won in 2011 by Tomasz Donocik, is extremely hotly contested and has helped both finalists and winners heighten their profile within the industry and beyond.
The Jewellery Show, which is itself a platform for many designers, is putting its support behind the category for 2012.
Event director Julie Driscoll said: "The Jewellery Show London and The Jewellery Show Birmingham are proud to sponsor the Designer of the Year Award. The Jewellery Show is committed to launching and supporting jewellery designers and showcasing their talent is key to all that we do."
Newly launched event, The Jewellery Show London, will take place this June at Somerset House, from, June 12 to 13 and The Jewellery Show Birmingham 2013, will take place at the NEC from February 3 to 7.
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Posted By Tucker On June 29, 2013 @ 7:05 AM In Mac OS X | 1 Comment
[1]I'm a sucker for a freebie. Free apps, free games, free trials: I'll snap 'em all up without a second thought. But let's be honest: if you're anything like me, the retention rate for free apps and games is pretty low. Sadly, while there are plenty of great apps out there, there are plenty more freebies out there that are cheaply made. Will Data Recovery Free for Softtote Studio be a good freebie, or a skippable one? Read on to find out!
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What I don't like is the limitation on what types of files can be recovered in the free version. There's not even any support for retrieving text files or Word documents. I get that this is a way to encourage people to upgrade, but I think they might have been better served by allowing all files types to be recovered in the free version, but only letting people use the free version once before having to upgrade.
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The fashionable First Lady donned a checkered coat for the occasion, looking perfectly polished for her husband's big day — and we have all the details on her outfit right here!
All eyes were on Michelle Obama when she accompanied her husband and their daughters to a traditional Inaugural Day church service at St. John's on Jan. 20. The fashionable First Lady turned up in a checkered Thom Browne coat for the big day. Underneath, she wore a matching dress by the same designer. A J. Crew belt and pumps completed her morning look and a statement Cathy Waterman necklace added the perfect finishing touch to her ensemble.
Michelle looked perfectly put-together in her outfit by the American designer — and her new bangs were her best accessory! Her signature 'do and natural makeup added to her ensemble, and she looked appropriate and chic, as always! Michelle's outfit was a fantastic choice, and it comes as no surprise considering the First Lady wore one of Thom Browne's designs before. Michelle showed off a gray and black, short-sleeved lace dress back in October for the second Presidential Debate.
Her daughters seem to be following in their mom's stylish footsteps, with both girls wearing colorful coats. Malia donned a J. Crew ensemble while Sasha wore a Kate Spade coat and dress. I love that the girls often show off bright colors — it's so youthful and fun.
After the ceremony, the First Family will head over to the Capitol for the public Inauguration ceremony.
While Michelle looked lovely in her coat and dress this morning, it's just a preview of a very fashionable day for the First Lady — and just last night she re-wore a sequin Michael Kors dress! For the swearing-in ceremony, Michelle selected a custom-made Reed Krakoff dress. We can't wait to see what designer Michelle will wear tonight. While we still don't know who she is going to wear, there is no doubt that she will look stunning when she turns up at the festivities this evening.
After the Inaugural festivities, the looks donned by Michelle, (and her accessories), will go to the National Archives. Thom Browne is an American designer who crafts both menswear and womenswear. Aside from Michelle Obama, his looks have been worn by Leighton Meester, Usher, and Jay-Z, to name a few.
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The coat may have been gorgeous but did not fit correctly or Michelle would not have had to flatten it at the stomach or keep pulling it down every time she raised her arm to wave. No woman should have to keep rearranging the clothing they are wearing. You are walking for the nation to see – yet trying to hide the fact you are rearranging your outfit. Could not have been pleasant for her.
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