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The Executive Board met briefly Monday before the House and Senate convened for the final day of this year's legislative session.
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Do you know?What is a Poker Prop Player?
The great majority of the poker population has never heard about the term "Poker Prop Player", and most who've don't understand what is a Poker Prop Player? A poker prop player is a payer that works for the house. All the poker that they play is for the casino or poker room. The house pays for them to play poker, and they get a proportion of the money that they win or they get paid per hour by the casino.
what is a Poker Prop Player?make money on it.
what is a poker prop player?how to be one? this is the best way to make an excellent living.
So as to be a poker prop player that player should be excellent at poker.
Considering that straightforward fact, it is reasonable to say that most poker prop players do well. It is a neat method to be well placed to make the best living off poker without taking as much risk. The quantity of money that may be made differs just like if the job description was just poker alone.
The reason the casinos hire poker prop players is to keep games going. At bigger more preferred casinos and poker rooms, it isn't as required as the tables are always full. Nonetheless at more recent, smaller, or not so preferred casinos ; this is a problem. The smaller casinos will need some way to keep the poker games alive. There are always those players which will sit in the casino and play poker for days. Sometimes, even those players have to leave a game as there is nobody to play with them. In these circumstances, the poker prop player will step in and keep that game alive. This is a good way to make certain the action stays robust. There could be 3 or 4 poker prop players that sit at one table solely to keep that table going powerful. A table will last for days if it stays full. The poker prop players stand in place of the guys and girls who just sit down for a minute and then leave immediately.
The difficulty with being a prop player is that you have to risk your own money much of the time. Along with that, you are typically only playing in dead games frequently with other prop players.
What is a Poker Prop Player? in terms of legalities
A prop player might be right in the center of a tempting good profit-making hand and still need to move to another table. The entire point is to get tables started and keep them going. What is a Poker Prop Player Requirement? There would be no requirement for a prop player at a hot full table. The best thing about being a prop player is you get paid per hour to play poker. You get to keep all of the money that you win, and you get an hourly wage on top of that. It is excellent for a prop player to be exceedingly careful and tight while playing because their job isn't truly to earn money at the table, but to make their income by keeping the games going. There is little wrong or illegal about prop players. They are working for the casino or house for one purpose only and that's to keep games going. There's nothing wrong with prop poker players or the poker room for having them. They're just there to play a role and earn a living.so, if some one ask you "What is a Poker Prop Player?" you know it is a job.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal was so impressed by the clothes she wore on set of The Dark Knight she stopped concentrating on her lines.
The actress — who stars alongside the late Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman in the record-breaking film — says her costumes were so great she could not stop thinking about them — even in the middle of crucial scenes.
She explains, "There was this particular jacket I liked. It was a beautiful black jacket with a high collar. It's in a scene where I'm sitting on the stage with Harvey Dent.
"It's a moment of chaos and I'm reaching for him and actually all I'm thinking about was wearing this great jacket."
The Dark Knight, released in the US last week, broke box office records for biggest opening day and biggest opening weekend and also surpassed $200 million in earnings in just five days.
Q HOW did you feel taking over from Katie Holmes?
A SHE'S great, a fine actor, but I don't think it would have served anyone were I trying to imitate Katie. I saw Rachel as a new woman in this movie.
Q SO how was it having two handsome men, Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent, fighting over you?
A IT was great. But I tried to make it as difficult for myself as I could by desiring both of them equally.
Q THIS is your first big blockbuster. You're no longer the indie queen – how was the switch?
A IN deciding to do the movie, I was worried about that. I had a three-month-old baby when the script first came to me. I wasn't looking to work but was a fan of Chris Nolan and it's hard as an actor not to look at the cast and to take that seriously.
And I did everything I could to say no.
I said I'd only do the movie if she was really smart and interesting and Chris said: "Fine, let's do it."
Q BUT you're a serious actor and the face of Agent Provocateur?
A I SHOULD be able to do both. When my daughter was about three months old a girlfriend told me AP made nursing bras. I'd been wearing sports bras and horrible, ugly nursing ones.
So I went to their store, saw sexy, beautiful, nursing bras, bought one and it made me feel great. Then randomly they asked if I wanted to do their ads.
You can be a thinking person and wear sexy underwear. But I didn't realise how much scrutiny I was under until recently and I don't like it.
Q CAN you talk about Heath Ledger and his performance as The Joker?
A WHAT Heath did is so important for an actor. Someone seems all evil then you see glimmers of something kind, sexy, open, hurt in him and that lets the audience have compassion.
If you can do that in a movie, it's good practice for doing the same in real life. In this film, even the good guys are dark and conflicted.
She was known for playing troubled characters, but as a new mother Maggie Gyllenhaal's ready for happier roles. By Gill Pringle
As Jake Gyllenhaal, 27, became an overnight teen idol with the big-budget action films The Day after Tomorrow and Jarhead, his big sister Maggie, 30, quietly became the darling of the independent film world, breathing compassion into tender portrayals of disturbed souls.
While the Gyllenhaal siblings are talented, nepotism played a part in their early careers. As a teenager, Maggie made her film debut in 1992, opposite Jeremy Irons in Waterland, directed by her father, Stephen Gyllenhaal. A year later, both siblings featured in Debra Winger's A Dangerous Woman, again directed by their father, from a screenplay by their mother, Naomi Foner.
But Maggie's real breakthrough came with 2002′s Secretary – this time without familial assistance. Her portrayal of the masochistic secretary Lee Holloway earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Roles in 2002′s much-honoured all-star drama Adaptation and in 2003′s Mona Lisa Smile opposite Julia Roberts followed. It became clear that the actress is at her best when tackling troubled characters, such as SherryBaby's Sherry Swanson. Gyllenhaal's unsentimental portrayal of a recovering heroin addict who, on her release from jail, sets about winning custody of her daughter, earned her a second Golden Globe nomination in 2006.
Gyllenhaal, who is engaged to the actor Peter Sarsgaard, was in no hurry to return to work after giving birth to her daughter, Ramona, 21 months ago. But the opportunity to work with Heath Ledger and Gary Oldman in The Dark Knight proved irresistible. "I seriously wasn't looking to work at the time. I had a three-month-old when I was first approached, and she was seven months old when we finally shot.
"And this was a good job to have as a new mom, because I would work for three days, have a week off, work for another day, have another week off, so I was able to manage for myself, in my heart, the time away from her… I've barely worked since my daughter was born. I did this and I also made Farlanders with Sam Mendes, but mostly I've been with her. Being a mother changes everything and has deepened everything in my life, including my acting.
"I've been asked whether I'll choose things that are safe, that have a more child-appropriate content, and I don't think I will. I'll carry on choosing what's interesting to me. But I do think that it's really difficult to get me away from my daughter. It's tough to find a script that's good enough for me to think, 'OK, I really need to do this instead of being with my daughter'.
"The thing about motherhood is that it really does crack you open in every way. I never knew that I could be so tired; I never knew that I could work so hard. I never knew that I could love so much or be so patient or be so excited by the tiniest little thing. Everything about it has surprised me," says Gyllenhaal.
If The Dark Knight marks a change of direction for an actress best known for more complex portrayals, she says she enjoyed playing a strong character: "I now suddenly find myself interested in playing people who are strong and capable and maybe not as broken as some of the other people I've played. I feel like that's sort of what I've made a career doing and that this is sort of more unusual, to play somebody who's pretty together, who I really admire."
It's a far cry from a career that has been notable for its controversy. Replacing Kate Moss as the face of Agent Provocateur, she posed for suggestive promotional shots for the lingerie chain just six months after giving birth. All the same, that was a storm in a B-cup compared with the unwelcome notoriety and outpouring of hatred she found in 2005 after being quoted as saying America was "responsible in some way" for the September 11 attacks. Days later, her fan website, maggie-gyllenhaal.net, was shut down after it became overloaded with hate messages and crashed. "I was so surprised by the way it was misunderstood, and the disdain that came back at me was a real shock," she said later. "I regret what I said, but I think my intentions were good. Neither the red carpet nor an interview about a movie is the right place to talk about my politics. I realise I have to be careful, because it's very easy to misunderstand a complicated thought in a complicated world," says the politically active Democrat, who, like her parents and brother, supports the American Civil Liberties Union.
An accomplished stage actress, Gyllenhaal is wise to the benefits of working on the New York stage, enabling her to remain close to her Brooklyn home – and her daughter: "I've been reading tons of plays recently because there's a theatre that I'm thinking about working with. But the thing about doing a play is that, for me, it really has to be good. And because you're doing the same thing every day, it's important to be working with people who are extraordinary, otherwise it gets really boring, and it's awful. So I'm really trying to find something that I feel will sustain me for a long time. There's no point in doing it otherwise."
"The Dark Knight" broke records like a disc jockey gone wild this weekend, upsetting former record-holder "Spider-Man 3″ with a best-ever opening that final tallies showed to be $158.4 million.
The industry-record bow naturally yielded a studio high for Warner Bros. and personal bests for director Christopher Nolan and cast including topliner Christian Bale. But no less impressively, it also anchored a three-day weekend boxoffice record of $258 million, according to Nielsen EDI data.
Universal's star-studded adaptation of the Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" took second place over the phenomenal frame with a $27.6 million opening built on support from older females. Fox's animated family comedy "Space Chimps" debuted in seventh place with $7.4 million.
Industrywide, the session's collective boxoffice bested the $218.4 million weekend performance of July 7-9, 2006, which featured a $135.6 million opening for Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."
The new industry record made mincemeat of conventional wisdom that a mid-July session could never pack such a punch and restored momentum in a seasonal boxoffice that's now pulled even with the same portion of summer 2007. Year to date, 2008 still lags behind last year by 1% at $5.21 billion, EDI said.
Despite handicaps including a nearly 2 1/2-hour running time, the rapturously reviewed "Dark Knight" muscled aside previous record opener "Spider-Man 3," which Sony opened to $151.1 million in May 2007. The latest "Batman" sequel dwarfed a previous pairing of Nolan and Bale on "Batman Begins," which unspooled on a Wednesday in June 2005 to gross $72.9 million over its initial five days including a first-weekend haul of $48.7 million.
"This is a career-capper for anybody who works on a film like this in our business," Warners distribution president Dan Fellman said. "It's a great ride, and it's just beginning, Most of the big summer films have already come out, so we have a great play time ahead of us."
"Dark Knight" was produced in association with the Wall Street-funded Legendary Pictures, which co-financed half of the $180 million-plus production.
Although it also bowed big in more than a dozen foreign territories this weekend, most of the initial focus for "Dark Knight" was on its domestic performance. Industry officials now assume the film will be the summer's biggest grosser, with some suggesting a domestic run of $350 million is assured simply on the basis of its first weekend.
Audience demographics for "Dark Knight" were ideally broad. Males represented 52% of patrons, with ticket-buyers evenly split between those under 25 and older moviegoers.
Grosses included $6.2 million from 94 Imax screens, which completely sold out throughout the weekend. The giant-screen haul solidly outpaced a previous Imax record of $4.7 million in Imax sales for the first weekend of "Spider-Man 3."
"We sold out every single ticket in the country at every show," Imax Filmed Entertainment president Greg Forster said. "We're certainly sold out throughout (the weekend), and the majority of our theaters have sell-outs into next weekend and beyond. Our Web site has shut down multiple times."
Nolan shot 30 minutes of the film using an Imax camera, stoking interest in the giant-screen version of "Dark Knight."
Yet perhaps the biggest buzz-inducing element of the film's pre-release marketing was its emphasis on the Heath Ledger's role as Batman's nemesis, the Joker.
Jack Nicholson played the character in 1989′s "Batman," which starred Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader. But in keeping with the grim tone of Nolan's Batman films, Ledger brought a darker, more brooding approach to the character, and there's talk he could be rewarded with a posthumous Oscar nomination for his success in pulling off the role.
Tim Burton's original "Batman" fetched $251.2 million. For 19 years, that's been a franchise-best domestic run, but now the tally is simply another record to be shattered by "Dark Knight."
Friday was the sunniest day for "Dark Knight," with an industry-record haul of $67.9 million brightened by thousands of midnight showings and even highly unusual showtimes such as 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. in many markets. Saturday brought in an estimated $48.1 million, and Warners penciled in roughly $39 million for Sunday.
Prior to the weekend, Universal execs feared a record performance by "Dark Knight" might limit grosses for "Mamma Mia!" but the film ended up on the high end of pre-release projections in mounting a record opening for a musical. Assuming its weekend estimate holds up, "Mamma Mia!" outpaced previous record-holder "Hairspray," a New Line release that bowed last July to $27.5 million.
Holdover films seemed a bit lost in the "Dark Knight" tsunami despite the record weekend boxoffice, though some films made out better than others.
This weekend will feature two more wide openers, and it will bear watching how "Dark Knight's" second weekend, guaranteed to be a strong one, affects their performances.
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL has banned her daughter from becoming an actress – because she's convinced Hollywood isn't healthy for children.
The Secretary star gave birth to daughter Ramona with her boyfriend, actor Peter Sarsgaard in 2006.
And the Brooklyn-based mum admits she's already apprehensive about her daughter's career path as she approaches her second birthday.
Gyllenhaal says, "I kind of try to keep her out of this kind of (showbusiness) stuff. It's not really good for kids. I know it's like such a cliche… I really hope she does something else. I love what I do but I don't want to bring her around all of this stuff."
I don't know anyone who has a bad word to say about Maggie Gyllenhaal. Sometimes we, the viewing public, can be unkind about ladies in the spotlight, but, for some reason, she isn't a target. Is it that funny look in her eye that suggests she is in on the joke? Is it how, in pictures of her at premieres, even when she is dressed in a fabulous frock, her hair often looks as if she has come straight from the gym? Is it because she has a fit brother?
Whatever the reason, every boy I know seems to want to sleep with her and every girl I know seems to want to have a cup of tea with her. I have high hopes for our lunch, which is taking place at Nobu, in downtown New York. I'm secretly thinking we could become friends.
Gyllenhaal is late, so I use the time to slip off to the ladies and splash my face. (It's stinking hot outside.) I get back and she is there, sitting at the table, smiling widely, taking my hand and saying, "Haven't I met you somewhere before?" Yes! No.
She is wearing black short shorts by Isabel Marant — an NY-hipster staple this summer — which make her pale legs look paler, with a green string vest she says she has had since she was a teenager. Her hair is fluffy, as if she really has come from the gym. She chose this particularly chichi restaurant because she liked the thought of "a nice lunch on someone else's dime", but isn't actually that hungry. She and her fiancé (the actor Peter Sarsgaard) have had a bug all week (although not their two-year-old daughter Ramona: "Thank God") and it's her first meal out.
We do the preliminaries, then talk about the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, Gyllenhaal's first blockbuster. It sees her make the transition from indie queen to multiplex goddess. It's brilliant, partly because of Gyllenhaal, of course, and partly because it stars Heath Ledger as the Joker, who is so good that posthumous Oscar nominations are already being discussed — sometimes by people who haven't even seen the film yet.
Gyllenhaal, 30, plays the female protagonist and love siren, Rachel Dawes. She replaces the anodyne Katie Holmes and her perma-cute "Oh"s. Gyllenhaal's Dawes doesn't do "Oh". She is far more complicated and accomplished than that. Rather like the woman who is sitting here, watching me expectantly over her menu. A quote I'd read comes back to me: something about someone asking her little brother, Jake, to say five words about her and him replying, "Can I have six?", and then saying, "She is not as she seems." Well, he should know.
Indeed, she is charming, articulate and twinkly — yet rather distant. When the waiter interrupts four, five, six times with random questions and the offer of complimentary film-star treats, she says, "Great. Thank you very much." In reality, she is miles away.
In common with many A-listers who are more luvvie than pay-per-view show pony, Gyllenhaal is a prolific interviewee ("I don't like it, but I'm happy to do it if I have an interesting project to talk about"), but one who specialises in not actually revealing much. You have to earn her trust. So when I ask her what she enjoys doing when she isn't working, she tells me that she focuses a lot on her relationship and spending time with her two closest girlfriends. "And going to the theatre, films . . ."
The movie that got boys fancying her was Secretary, a black comedy about a self-harming ingénue, whose S&M relationship becomes a sexual awakening that turns out to be her salvation. Gyllenhaal expected outrage of the "old-school feminist" kind for her portrayal of a submissive female with a taste for spanking, but received only plaudits. In retrospect, it could only have been that way: she would never play that kind of sex object. She is well-read on feminism and gender politics and says the worst thing that ever happened to her was a male television presenter telling her he had fast-forwarded to the sexy parts of Secretary. The advertising campaign she did for Agent Provocateur last year made the same point: the expression on her face, as she sat there in a basque, brushed off the idea that frothy underwear is for male pleasure only.
So The Dark Knight will make her globally famous — more famous than the famous she already is. Which is possibly more famous than she would like to be. It is well documented how disgusted she is by all the paparazzi attention. In one incident, they photographed her breast-feeding. In another, they tried, outrageously, to flush her and her baby out of their home (a 3,600 square-foot, four-storey townhouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with — or so I read in a newspaper snippet — "seven marble fireplaces and a charming, delightful, well-established garden") by calling the fire brigade. She and Sarsgaard are contemplating a move out of town. "I don't court it [the attention] at all. I don't like it at all. I don't want it at all," she says. "I hope that if I talk about it enough, it will go away. I'm very protective of my life."
Plainly, this is because Gyllenhaal grew up in Hollywood (scriptwriter mother, director father) and is ambivalent about the attention. She knows the deal: how you can be smokin' one minute and a nobody the next. She is quite practical about it all. I think she has worked very, very hard to get where she has. "There is only room for five people at the top," she says. "Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year, and in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people."
Hence Batman, over which she wrestled with her conscience.
"I do want the power that comes with celebrity, because I have good intentions," she says. "I feel as if I could do something good with that power." But also, there is the big question: if you're a mother, how far do you take it? "My fiancé is so supportive. I was thinking of doing a film on an island off Tasmania, and he said, 'Great, I'll come and take care of our daughter.' "
Jake says she isn't as she seems. She is a scruff today, but she scrubs up beautifully. She can work the silk blouse, pencil skirt and heels look with the best and can transform herself into a proper grown-up movie star — the one you see in these pictures. But being a bit of a mystery doesn't give her a get-out-of-jail-free card for the paranoia that comes with the job.
"I've been lucky to have escaped the worst of it," she says. "But it would be doing everyone a disservice to say that I feel good about myself all the time and that I never think I look bad or that my hair looks awful. If you think you've got bad hair, try going on a month-long press tour with it!"
We have almost finished our blackened cod, and I think she might be hoping that we've covered everything. ("Are you done?" asks the waiter for the umpteenth time. "Yes," says Gyllenhaal. "Not quite," I say. "Okay, no," she says.) Anyway, we haven't.
Batman is a knockout film and it belongs to one man: Ledger. We know that. The film company, Warner, knows that. The cast know that. However, Warner has explained how understandably less than keen the cast are to discuss him. It must be particularly difficult for Gyllenhaal — her brother was nominated alongside Ledger for an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain. I do it anyway.
"Heath . . ." (Ouch.)
Long pause. Gyllenhaal swallows. She looks stricken. She hates me. Eventually she says, carefully and looking down: "He was a fantastic actor, and he was great to work with."
Another silence. "Is that the time? I should go. Thank you so much for this. It's been great." A grin, a wave — and it's as if she was never here.
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MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL had to limp down the red carpet at Monday's (14Jul08) THE DARK KNIGHT premiere, after breaking her toe.
The actress, who stars opposite Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger in the new Batman movie, suffered the fracture after whacking her foot against some furniture at home.
She blames the accident on her nerves ahead of the film's big release, telling TV talk show host David Letterman on Wednesday (16Jul08), "I'm like this indie actress, and I have this big movie, and all of a sudden I have a broken toe. I think it was because I was nervous about all this stuff. This big, huge movie all of a sudden, and I just walked across the room and I broke my toe."
But the star reveals she was too stunned to feel any pain from the break, musing: "I guess it hurt. My boyfriend (actor Peter Sarsgaard) was impressed with how broken it was."
Maggie Gyllenhaal has signed on to play the lead in Scott Cooper's upcoming music-based film Crazy Heart. According to Variety, both Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall have also come aboard the CMT Films project.
Cooper adapted the screenplay from Thomas Cobb's debut novel of the same name. The story revolves around a struggling alcoholic country western singer that is only able to get his career back on track through his relationship with a female reporter. Bridges is set to play the bummy musician, while Gyllenhaal will star as his muse. T. Bone Burnett is set to produce the music for the film.
Shooting will start next month in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico.
FOR MAGGIE Gyllenhaal, it's tough being a working mom, but not because of the demands of her and fiancée Peter Sarsgaard's 21-month-old daughter, Ramona. It's the interest the new baby draws.
"The paparazzi were just really awful to us," she says. "I mean, they called the fire department and told them there was a fire in our little, tiny building in the West Village so that we would have to come outside with a 5-day-old baby. So all of that was happening and I was trying to navigate my way through that when this offer [to play Rachel Dawes in 'The Dark Knight'] came. And so I thought, 'It's going to push that stuff further probably.' But what am I going to do? I'm going to hide and not do things that are appealing to me? I'm an actress."
Immediately preceding the film's release, no one's crying fire as Gyllenhaal nibbles a papaya and sips a pot of green tea during breakfast in the restaurant at Santa Monica's Casa Del Mar. But the 30-year-old indie darling's fears are nevertheless well-founded as she dives into the publicity campaign for the biggest film she has appeared in to date — and one rife with tragedy and complexity.
When it comes to the most difficult of these — her costar Heath Ledger's death a mere two months after the film wrapped — Gyllenhaal speaks with candor about the actor's mental state while playing the sociopathic Joker. "For every actor, you can get to this special place with a character where nothing you can do is wrong, where you just are living that person," she says. "That's what happened with Heath. And I would say it's difficult to be that good in a movie that big, where it's about a lot of other things aside from the acting. So he really accomplished something amazing. You know, I couldn't really watch him and when I first saw him on screen I felt very emotional."
Signing onto the film also sparked a minor media circus, since Gyllenhaal was taking over the role from Katie Holmes, who had dropped out months earlier due to "scheduling conflicts." Speculation ran wild that Holmes was ousted from the franchise for bad reviews or possibly her status as Mrs. Tom Cruise.
But Gyllenhaal was committed to making the character her own from the very first time she read the script — at her brother Jake's house with a man standing guard in the driveway to make sure that she wouldn't run off with the franchise's secrets. "When [director and co-writer] Chris Nolan gave me the script, he said, 'She's not quite finished yet,' " Gyllenhaal says of the character. "So I read it, and I had a lot of ideas about ways that I thought that she could be stronger. And he was very open and collaborative and interested. In that first preliminary conversation, a lot of things that we talked about ended up in the movie. It was really trying to find a way that I was absolutely in love with Harvey Dent and absolutely in love with Bruce Wayne, the ways I found them both honorable, ethical, moral men and the ways that I had problems with their ethics and morals."
Gyllenhaal has earned two Golden Globe nominations — for roles as the masochistic new hire in "Secretary" and the heroin-addicted mother in "Sherrybaby" — and appeared in bigger budget fare like "Stranger Than Fiction" and "World Trade Center."
"When I started acting [in 2000], you could make an independent movie for $5 million and pretty easily get it financed with one sort-of-known actor in it," she recalls. "That is not true anymore unless you're making broad comedy or thriller or horror films. I've been thinking about how to get the things that are interesting to me made. So at the moment, I'm getting interested in what I guess you would call producing."
Rather than struggling to strike balance in her life as a new mother and an actress, she's integrating the two. She recently wrapped another high-profile project, director Sam Mendes' "Farlanders," a comedy about a couple in search of the perfect place to raise a baby. "I got to set my first day and I thought, 'I haven't worked in a long time. I've just been with my daughter,' " Gyllenhaal says. "And in the scene, I was acting with a 4-year-old and an 11-month-old. So there were two 11-month-old twins, and they were hysterical the entire day. And so I ended up mommying. You know, the calming, the baby bouncing, giving the baby its pacifier."
She smiles, calm and a little sleep-deprived. "If I weren't a mom, I never would have been able to do it."


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- This paper starts out by pointing out the challenges and weaknesses which the German banking systems faces according to the prevailing views among national and international observers. These challenges include a generalproblem of profitability and, possibly as its main reason, the strong role of public banks. These concerns raise the questions whether the facts support this assessment of a general profitability problem and whether there are reasons to expect a fundamental or structural transformation of the German banking system. The paper contains four sections. The first one presents the evidence concerning the profitability problem in a comparative, international perspective. The second section presents information about the so-called three-pillar system of German banking. What might be surprising in this context is that the group of pub lic banks is not only the largest segment of the German banking system, but that the primary savings banks also are its financially most successful part. The German banking system is highly fragmented. This fact suggests to discuss past, present and possible future consolidations in the banking system in the third section. The authors provide evidence to the effect that within- group consolidation has been going on at a rapid pace in the public and the cooperative banking groups in recent years and that this development has not yet come to an end, while within-group consolidation among the large private banks, consolidation across group boundaries at a national level and cross-border or international consolidation has so far only happened at a limited scale, and do not appear to gain momentum in the near future. In the last section, the authors develop their explanation for the fact that large-scale and cross border consolidation has so far not materialized to any great extent. Drawing on the concept of complementarity, they argue that it would be difficult to expect these kinds of mergers and acquisitions happening within a financial system which is itself surprisingly stable, or, as one cal also call it, resistant to change.
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- The German corporate governance system has long been cited as the standard example of an insider-controlled and stakeholder-oriented system. We argue that despite important reforms and substantial changes of individual elements of the German corporate governance system the main characteristics of the traditional German system as a whole are still in place. However, in our opinion the changing role of the big universal banks in the governance undermines the stability of the corporate governance system in Germany. Therefore a breakdown of the traditional system leading to a control vacuum or a fundamental change to a capital market-based system could be in the offing.


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So I recently acquired a sister in law, whom I adore by the way. She throws Pampered Chef parties ALOT. Personally I have never been impressed with PC products. I find they do not work they way the ares suppose to and/or break relatively fast. Has anyone experienced the same issues? I'll admit I haven't bought anything from them in years as a result. Has their quality improved in the last 7 years? She has one coming up soon, if their product is still junk though, I'm going to limit my spending to a courtesy amount.
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There will be tears. Not just from Marcus Lattimore, who officially will announce he is turning pro today at a 4 p.m. news conference in Columbia.
All across Gamecock Nation, and probably from head coach Steve Spurrier.
Lattimores brief, shining tenure as a South Carolina running back ended sadly Oct. 27 during the Gamecocks 38-35 victory over Tennessee. It was a severe knee injury heard round the football world, college and the NFL.
The junior from Duncan has been a class act, and a bundle of unprecedented feats and heartache.
Lattimore ends his South Carolina career as the Gamecocks career leader in touchdowns (41) and touchdowns rushing (38).
He led South Carolina to three straight wins against Georgia.
Strangely, he played in only 29 games, rushed for a grand total of 48 yards against Clemson and didnt take part in a bowl win.
But Georgia head coach Mark Richt knew something was different at South Carolina early in the 2010 season when Lattimore as a freshman rushed for 182 yards and two touchdowns on 37 carries in a 17-6 victory in Columbia.
Steve, Richt said to Spurrier after the game, youve got a heck of a team.
That was the turning point for South Carolina in its rise from a pretty good program to a three-year SEC title contender. The Gamecocks went on to win its first SEC East crown in 2010, won a school-best 11 games in 2011 and takes a 10-2 record to the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl.
Lattimore is the face of this elite run, the classy and productive ambassador for a program unfamiliar with such relatively sustained success.
That is his legacy.
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I love this time of year! Here are 30 free, printable Classroom Valentines! There are ideas here for any age of kids - from elementary through even high school!! Be sure to click on the link below each picture to go directly to the tutorial and printable! Printable Pencil Toppers @ 30 Days DIY Printable Gift Tags @ Good Gravy! What Does the Fox Say Valentine @ U … [Read more...]
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"We want to be the Intel of the [_______] industry."
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that… well, I might not be able to retire, but I'd sure have a lot of nickels.
There is no denying the "Intel Inside" cooperative advertising campaign was hugely successful. Convincing manufacturers to place the "Intel Inside" logo on their products and focusing the brand message on the value of Intel microprocessors was genius. In fact, it helped catapult the nascent PC market to mainstream status.
As a by-product of this strategy, Intel has become one of the world's best-known brands and the fact that less than one percent of consumers has ever touched or even seen an actual Intel chip underscores the company's success. According to the fourth quarter 2011 PC microprocessor market share study from International Data Corp. (IDC), Intel's desktop PC processor segment market share was 76 percent; in the mobile PC processor segment, over 82 percent market share; and in the server/workstation processor segment, 94 percent market share.
When "Intel Inside" was in its heyday, other component manufacturers were eager to hop on the ingredient-branding bandwagon. Suddenly, everyone in the technology space was trying to replicate Intel. Even today, retail outlets are filled with laptops, desktops and other electronic devices labeled with anywhere from three to seven ingredient badges.
While ingredient branding worked well for Intel, its co-advertisers and a smattering of copycat marketers, I believe that it has outgrown its usefulness. Going forward, technology component manufacturers need to think differently about achieving brand success and here's why:
No one-size-fits-all
When Intel launched its ingredient branding campaign circa 1991, desktop computers were virtually the only computing form factor available. Today's technology products come in every size, shape and operating system, from desktops and laptops to tablets and smartphones. If your marketing strategy involves backing a platform or OEM (original equipment manufacturer), where should you invest your valuable marketing dollars?
The truth is that in today's technology marketplace, creating an ingredient branding campaign via a single form factor is very limiting. Even if you have the deep pockets to influence the OEM eco-system, there isn't a single player big enough—from a market share perspective—to merit the large sums of money required to create a viable campaign.
No place for ingredients to live
Another factor is that the smaller form factors of most devices have considerably less space for promoting ingredients. While desktops and even laptops still have adequate real estate for any number of stickers, most smartphones, televisions and tablets do not. It's also safe to say that few OEMs are willing to sully their products with stickers.
Furthermore, devices used to have extended startup times, which provided a "stage" for logos and credits. But those days are long gone. Even if a device maker agreed to allow an ingredient marketer to showcase its logo during startup, the runtime would be far too short to provide adequate promotion. Interestingly, Microsoft used logos and credits to distract users during lengthy startups; Apple proved that the user experience is better without these prolonged preludes.
No more tinkering with component parts
As form factors continue to shrink in size, tinkering with devices becomes a thing of the past. Components need to be better integrated (think system-on-a-chip, like Broadcom's BCM7405 or Snapdragon, a family of mobile system on chips by Qualcomm) to fit into the limited space, rendering most devices too small to modify. In short, you will never see it—and you surely can't replace it—so consumers will have no choice but to stick with what the OEM places inside.
The ARM ecosystem is driving mobility
ARM pioneered one of the most energy-efficient microprocessors, which fits into smaller spaces and doesn't require a fan. The company also owns the intellectual property for the chips and allows manufacturers like Motorola, Samsung and Apple to put them into their devices. In essence, ARM developed the technology that lies at the heart of many digital products today, but unlike Intel, ARM does not promote its technology to consumers. In fact, it operates on a completely different plane. ARM wins when manufacturers—and there are hundreds of them—use its microprocessors. ARM recognizes those companies as its primary customers and wants them to succeed.
Consumers don't care about ingredients
Intel backed its cooperative campaign with a tremendous amount of national advertising, especially TV, aimed at convincing consumers that if they didn't buy a PC with an Intel microprocessor inside, it wouldn't perform adequately. Today's devices perform more than adequately across a broad range of specifications: processing power, graphics, interfaces, mobility, audio and more. Today's consumer doesn't much care what's inside as long as it's reasonably easy to use, quickly connects to the Internet, has decent resolution and performs basic computing tasks.
A change in perspective
In many technology C-suites, a principal marketing goal is to create buzz around the company's products, especially via social media networks. These management teams want their products to be the Intel of their industry—the "cool" component. But executives need to ask themselves: Is creating consumer-driven demand the best strategy in today's marketplace? Based on the facts discussed above, the answer is a resounding "no."
"Intel Inside" worked because of the specific dynamics of the personal computing market during the 1990s. But the world has changed. Given the market's channel fragmentation, cooperative and consumer-oriented tactics and messaging will not help ingredient marketers build a stronger brand. On the contrary, component manufacturers need to switch their marketing orientation from a business-to-consumer approach to a business-to-business strategy.
This is a huge pivot point for many companies that seek to emulate Intel and its success by marketing directly to consumers. However, when it comes to creating ingredient branding and actually driving business growth, a strong business-to-business branding orientation may be the best approach for winning in today's marketplace.
Jason Cieslak is managing director for Siegel+Gale's Los Angeles office.
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When you sell 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices in your first weekend on sale, it doesn't just disrupt other smartphone companies, but notebook manufacturers as well.
According to a new report from Digitimes, notebook sales took a massive hit in August due to customers waiting on Apple's new handsets. Since sales of the iPhone 6 family devices will most likely continue through the fourth quarter, many notebook vendors are reducing their orders from manufacturers to avoid unsold inventory piling up.


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May 4, 2013
ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia graduate Brendon Todd shot a 2-under 69 Saturday at the University of Georgia Golf Course to grab sole possession of the lead through 54 holes at the Web.com Tour's Stadion Classic at UGA.
Todd, looking to become the third straight Georgia player to win the tournament after Russell Henley (2011) and Hudson Swafford (2012), made four birdies and two bogeys to finish 8-under par 205, one better than Tim Wilkinson. Nick Rousey trails by two after a 5-under 66 and Alexandre Rocha is three back at 5-under 208.
With the field battling steady wind, rain and brisk temperatures all day, Todd carded three birdies on the back nine before a bogey at the last to post one of just six rounds in the 60s on Saturday.
"I was a little disappointed to make bogey on 18, but overall I made a nice couple of birdies coming in and that made it not sting as much," said Todd. "I knew there wouldn't be anything bad that could come from leading after today. To win here in Athens would be really special."
With an ominous weather forecast looming for Sunday - tee times have been moved back to 11 a.m. with players going off the 1st and 10th tees in threesomes - Todd said he considered the possibility that the event may be shortened to 54 holes and Saturday's third round may be the last golf played this week.
"I was looking at the leaderboards all day," said Todd. "I don't know how Tim was playing it, but I was basically playing to win today. I tried to treat it like a one-day shootout. You don't know what the weather's going to have for us tomorrow."
Wilkinson, meanwhile, said he was trying to stay focused on the present in the difficult elements. A missed par putt under five feet at the 18th would have tied him for the lead, instead giving him a round of 1-under 70 and leaving him a shot behind Todd.
"I was just trying to stay dry and play as well as I could," said the 34 year-old left-hander, who added that his short game has been sharp enough to keep him close to the lead. "I've been chipping them really close, which makes it a lot easier than making six-, seven- and eight-foot putts for par."
Rousey's 5-under 66 marked the best round of the day by two shots, giving him third place alone through 54 holes. Rocha, meanwhile, holed his second shot on the 18th to post a 3-under 68 and sit in fourth at 5-under.
Former Bulldog Ryuji Imada is also within striking distance at 3-under 210 following his third-round 1-over 72. Also former Georgia players Kevin Kisner (69) and Hudson Swafford (72) are at 2-under 211 and 1-over 214, respectively.
In the final round on Sunday, Swafford will tee off at 11 a.m., followed by Kisner at 12:06 p.m., Imada at 12:28 p.m. and Todd at 12:50 p.m.
Third-Round Notes & Quotes:
* Lift, clean and place conditions were in effect for the third round.
* Tee times for the fourth round will run from 11:00 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Play will be in threesomes off the 1st and 10th tees. Times were pushed back due to anticipated overnight and early morning thunderstorms.
* There were 10 former or current Georgia Bulldogs in the field, with four making the cut.
1. Brendon Todd (-8)
T-8. Ryuji Imada (-3)
T-13. Kevin Kisner (-2)
T-27. Hudson Swafford (+1)
MC Scott Parel
MC Richard Scott
MC Paul Claxton
MC Adam Mitchell
MC (a) Keith Mitchell
MC (a) T.J. Mitchell
* Tim Wilkinson, who credited his short game for his solid performance through three rounds, leads the field in scrambling at 85 per cent, having saved par on 17 of 20 missed greens. "It's huge when you're scrambling well," said Wilkinson. "My short game's always been pretty strong, and you're just not going to hit every green out there.
* No players have shot in the 60s all three days at UGA Golf Course.
* Brazil's Alexandre Rocha holed his second shot on the par-4 18th for an eagle, matching Shane Bertsch's feat from round 2. There have been six eagles for the week at the Stadion Classic at UGA, with four coming on par-4s:
R3 Alexandre Rocha No. 18 par-4
R2 D.J. Brigman No. 7 par-5
R2 Scott Harrington No. 7 par-5
R2 Shane Bertsch No. 18 par-4
R2 Chris DeForest No. 5 par-4
R1 Zecheriah Potter No. 6 par-4
* Brendon Todd, currently No. 37 on the money list, could move as high as No. 3 with a win. Tim Wilkinson, currently No. 28 could move as high as No. 2 The winner receives $108,000 of the $600,000 purse this week.
* Nick Rousey missed a 6-foot par putt on the ninth hole (his 18th) that would have given him the only bogey-free round Saturday. There were nine bogey-free rounds in the first two rounds:
R2 66 - Miguel Carballo
R2 67 - Matt Bettencourt, Corey Nagy
R2 68 - Patrick Cantlay
R2 70 - Zecheriah Potter
R1 67 - Tim Wilkinson
R1 68 - Bill Lunde, Bhavik Patel, Edward Loar
Said Rousey of managing the difficult conditions: "It's probably more mental than physical because it's another factor that you have to think about. I made some nice par saves. I kept hitting greens and being patient, and it all worked out in my favor."
* Course statistics for the week:
Front (35) Back (36) Total (71)
* The Web.com Tour will take next week off before resuming play May 13-19 at the BMW Charity Pro-Am in Greenville, S.C.


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Roger Drake has been named the next President of Missouri's Central Methodist University and will assume the office on July 1, according to Glenn Cox, chair of the CMU Board of Trustees and of the Presidential Search Committee.
Dr. Drake will become the 26th president in Central Methodist history, dating to 1854. His appointment was announced and he was introduced by the Board of Trustees at a campus assembly Friday afternoon (Feb. 1). Drake will replace Dr. Marianne Inman, who will retire in June after 18 years at the CMU helm.
"I am honored to be chosen as the next President of Central Methodist University," Drake said. "It is my hope that the institutional momentum created under President Inman's leadership can continue far into the future. Judy and I are excited about this opportunity to make a difference in the lives of students."


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Hoop Day is still going strong on Sundays at Bataan Park. Between 11:30 and 12:00 is when most people seem to show up. All ages and levels welcome. Come play!
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The North Carolina Tar Heels will begin NCAA Tournament Field Hockey play on Saturday, hosting Delaware. Carolina, who have been national runners-up, the last three seasons, are a three seed in the 2013 Tournament.
UNC will host first and second round games at Henry Stadium.
The Blue Hens defeated Liberty 1-0 in Wednesday's play in game. They bring a record of 16-4 into the contest.
North Carolina enters the tournament 16-5 after falling to top seed Maryland in the ACC Championships on Sunday. The Heels are led by Casey Di Nardo with 13 goals followed by Nina Notman's 12. Emily Wold leads the team with 31 total points.
The Atlantic Coast Conference claimed all 4 top seeds with Maryland, Syracuse, Duke and the Tar Heels. All seven ACC schools received bids to the tournament.
Its the 30th appearance by North Carolina who have claimed 6 National Championships in the sport.
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Check out Phil Jones' website and you'll see Jones is both an innovator and a
knowledgeable bass player. His designs and
approach to delivering sound have not only
caught the attention of musicians, but also
audiophiles from around the world. Like
other amplifier manufacturers, Jones has
designed a line of speakers and amps for the
"weight-conscious bassist," and most recently, he has added the D-600 to the line.
Weighing in at six pounds, it's a 600-watt,
class-D amplifier that Jones describes as a
"connoisseur amp." Jones has also planted
his flag on the neodymium landscape with
his Neo-Power series of cabinets. These
cabs, including the 8B model reviewed
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tenacious D-600
The D-600 evolved from the smaller D- 200
amplifier, and the 600's preamp consists of
dual inputs, each accompanied by a 3-posi-
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the option of matching the input sensitivity
to an instrument's pickups (high or low
impedance), as well as a mute mode. The
EQ controls are simple and straightforward,
with six knobs set at useful frequency centers. Jones believes these presets enhance the
fundamental tones of each string, as well
as the mids and highs. Secondary features
include a limiter, an auxiliary input for
play-along convenience, a headphone jack,
and a line-in to the power amp. The back
panel contains essentials like a DI, tuner
and preamp outs, effects send/return, and
two speakON outputs.
strength in numbers
In short, Jones believes that a cabinet consisting of multiple 5" speakers provides a responsive attack, and reproduces mid to high
frequencies with much more accuracy than
larger subwoofers. Moreover, the arrangement
Aluminumchassis and1/4" thick alu-minum panelOpticallimiterwith levelcontrolAuxiliaryinput withlevel control
Eight 5" neo-dymium driversConstructed from 3/4"
Baltic-birch plywood
of these mighty minis can cover as much
surface area as larger drivers, but in a tighter,
more efficient package. The Neo-Power 8B is
similar in size to many 2x12 cabinets, but the
surface area of its eight neodymium speakers
moves as much air as a typical 4x10.
For a neodymium speaker cabinet, the
Neo-Power 8B is not necessarily the lightest
or most portable in its class. So to resolve
this, Jones attached a telescopic handle on
the back, and mounted substantial wheels
to the bottom of the cabinet. This allows
the quality components of the 8B to be easily transported from the car to the stage.
mr. jones and me
To assess the clarity and responsiveness of
the Phil Jones rig, I used a spectrum of different basses, including a 1964 Fender Jazz,
a Nash P-style bass, an Ansir Imperial Series
4-string, and a German upright (equipped
with a Fishman Full Circle pickup).
It took a bit of adjustment to acclimate
my ears to the Phil Jones rig. In place of
amplifiers and speakers that accentuate the
lows and low-mids, the D-600 and the 8B
cabinet provided a more balanced sound.
With the D-600 set flat, the tone had smooth
highs, even mids, and lows that did not dominate, but instead supported each note.
What was most impressive was how effectively the EQ enhanced each instrument.
The frequency centers made it easy for me to
quickly tailor the EQ to each bass. By slightly
boosting the hi bass and mid controls, I was
able to give the bridge pickup on the Jazz
bass a Jaco-style bark. Slightly boosting the lo
treble and hi treble knobs brought life back
to the aging flatwounds on the Nash bass.
The modern tone of the Ansir bass benefited
from a boost of the hi and lo bass controls,
turning it into a punchy, modern monster. I
also found the upright and its pickup to pair
nicely with this rig by slightly cutting the lo
bass control—just enough tweaking to bring
out the instrument's natural character.
In addition, the limiter provided smooth
compression that tightened the lows and
added some extra punch. It was very effective for slapping on the Jazz bass, and kept
the lows from howling on my upright.
Implementing the level control for the
onboard limiter was a great idea, as it allows
you to dial in just enough of the 3: 1 optical
compressor to get the job done.
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Alone am I and don't want to be, I pray for someone to come and rescue me. I
wander along this lonely path and think of those that I've lost in the past.
I seek for someone to walk with me, I look and entreat, for my soul is in despair.
Once I had a mate so fair and refined, she walked with me and soothed my mind,
but now she is gone. My world has become calamity. Now I wander this lonely path,
across mountains and through the pass. In desert places my soul does thirst for an
oasis to drink from on this lonely earth.
I despise the day and rue the night, when dreams come in and stress my plight. The
sun does scorch me, the cold sends shivers down my spine. No one to shade me, no
one to hold me, nothing to make the cold to flee.
My heart is weary and my mind whispers, your name is solo and will always be. My
shadow mocks me as I go, a reminder of long ago, when there were other shadows
not just mine alone. I've become a mad man, I curse the day and wail at night.
Perhaps some day I'll find sweet rest, join the ones I lost in the past and solo no
longer my name will be.


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Not one to really confirm or deny, Jodie remained mum about all of those lesbian rumors that swirled about her since she and Scott Baio stopped escorting each other to Hollywood parties at the age of 13. That is, until 2007, when she thanked Cydney Bernard, the woman who was presumably her partner at the time. She was, after all, living with Cydney and raising her two sons with her. While accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast Foster thanked, "my beautiful Cydney, who sticks with me through the rotten and the bliss," which was widely considered to be tantamount to coming out at the time. She and Cydney are no longer together, but maybe there's a special someone Jodie intends to thank while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award this Sunday. Since Jodie's speech from the award breakfast is not available here's a picture of her with Nastassja Kinski in The Hotel New Hampshire, the 1984 film in which Jodie's character has a fling with Nastassja's, a woman who thinks she's a bear.


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In Chicago, there is a cafe in Rogers Park known as the Heartland Cafe. The Chicago Bar Project describes it as a "critically acclaimed commune-come-restaurant-and-bar where everyone from hippies to leftists to gay & lesbians to vegetarians are most welcome, along with the rest of us who have sold out and revel in the material world."
It has been around for 35 years.
During the "NATO 3″ trial in Chicago, it came out during defense cross-examination of undercover Chicago police officer Nadia Chikko that the police department deployed six surveillance officers on March 21, 2012, ahead of a NATO summit on May 19 and 20, to see "if there was any criminal activity being talked about, discussed or planned" at the Heartland Cafe. There was a concern that "anarchists" may have "infiltrated" the peaceful setting of the Heartland Cafe (or something like that).
Chikko said, "I sat on the outside patio for—we observed three people sitting at a bar and another woman sitting at the table. Seven people. That was it."
The Heartland Cafe has a weekly radio show and the above video is of my appearance on the show last weekend. I read the section of a court transcript where the Heartland Cafe was mentioned. Then, Michael James and Katie Hogan, who opened the Cafe and host, "Live from the Heartland," discussed other aspects of the "NATO 3″ case with me, along with why I chose to cover the case.
It was a quite a pleasant experience, and I was very grateful they invited me to come on their weekly radio show.


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Do you see divorce as a failure?
I see it as a sign of strength
To remain in a love-less marriage
Isn't what marriage vows have meant
Indifference causes the death of love
It's impossible to defend
With one person's non-interest
Joint love must surely end
One can't repair what's divided
It takes nurturing daily
A dual commitment is still required
If we treat each other fairly
To remain together is useless
One's feelings begin to shut down
There's nothing to build for the future
And love feelings cannot be found
So we'll get single, vows we'll sever
We cannot alter what's past
No more alone-ness 'though still together
Find some peace at last.
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