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Kentucky junior Tayshaun Prince made it a sweep of the league's top honor as he was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year by The Associated Press on Tuesday. On Monday, Prince won the same honor in voting conducted by the league's coaches.
Prince, who averages 16.2 points and a team-leading 6.3 rebounds per game, was a unanimous first-team pick. Last year, the 6-9 forward did not appear on any of the AP's three All-SEC teams.
Teammate Keith Bogans, UK's leading scorer averaging 16.4 ppg, was a second-team All-SEC pick after earning the same award on the Coaches' list.
Prince was joined on the AP first team by Alabama's Rod Grizzard, Florida's Udonis Haslem and Brett Nelson and Georgia's D.A. Layne. Prince is the ninth Wildcat to win the award since it was established in 1965.
In SEC play, the Compton, Calif. native finished second in the league in scoring by one point to Nelson, averaging 17.8 ppg, while guiding the Wildcats to their second consecutive SEC Championship. He also led the league in free-throw shooting and finished among the league leaders in field goal percentage, rebounding, assist-to-turnover ratio and blocked shots.
Ole Miss' Rod Barnes was named the SEC Coach of the Year and Rebels' freshman Justin Reed was a unanimous selection for the league's Freshman of the Year honor.
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Fresh strawberries (rinsed and patted dry)
Pretzels, rippled potato chips and/or cookies*
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- Queenbee said...
Wow! 1st of all, the prince's artwork is all fabulous!
2nd of all...thanks for the tip. Is it like Mozart and the whale???
I liked that one too.
- October 3, 2007 at 2:43 PM
- GFCF Mommy said...
I love my boy's drawings too! He is doing a "series" of ghosts for Halloween but doing them on the computer. I'll have to put a couple of those up later.
"Snow Cake" is different than "Mozart and the Whale" but just as good. Don't want to give too much away, but I think you would really like it.
- October 3, 2007 at 3:10 PM
- Elissa said...
After I read your post I got straight on the phone to our local video/DVD rental store to try and get a copy - no luck on that OR Mozart and the whale - that's the joy of living in a rural area! I'll have to try elsewhere, it sounds great!
- October 3, 2007 at 11:13 PM
- GFCF Mommy said...
Elissa, have you tried Netflix? You sign up online, they have differnt plans. We are on the cheapest ($5 per month for 2 movies). You make a list of the movies you want to see (they have a huge selection). Then they mail you the first item on your list, you watch and mail it back, no time limit, (they provide envelope-postage pre-paid). When they receive your returned one, they send the next one on the list. Since you live in rural area, it might be good if you like independent or foreign films. Just a thought! I don't live in a rural area, but we love the convenience.
- October 4, 2007 at 5:40 AM
- Flamenco Mom said...
Ooh, it's available on Netflix? I must see it--I saw Sigourney Weaver talk about the film just prior to its release. The film was nowhere to be seen in my local theaters, so I'm glad to hear that I can now rent the movie.
- October 4, 2007 at 5:58 AM
- GFCF Mommy said...
P.S. to Elissa,
Oops! I just realized you are not in the US. I don't know if Netflix has an international service or not. Oh well, it was just a thought!
- October 4, 2007 at 6:06 AM
- Karina said...
Thanks for the movie tip- I'm always looking for good indie films to add to my Netflix queue. I loved Mozart and the Whale; and also check out Breaking and Entering- with Robin Wright Penn (as a mother of a child in the autism spectrum). The theme of autism is woven into a larger story line, but I always get excited when gluten-free casein-free is mentioned- a part of the plot! ;)
- October 4, 2007 at 8:30 AM
- Kira's Mommy said...
Oooh I'm definitely going to check out this movie. I love Alan Rickman. And they have GF jokes? This is the movie for me.
- October 4, 2007 at 6:44 PM
- GFCF Mommy said...
Welcome back, Karina!
Thanks for the movie tip, I'll have to check it out for sure.
Kira, if you love Alan Rickman, you will love this movie. Apparently the screenwriter wrote the role with him in mind.
- October 5, 2007 at 6:26 AM
- Elissa said...
Thanks Katherine for the tip on Netflix. I may have to look for something else being in Australia, but I'll check it out anyway!
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Christmas is a time for giving, which usually means something found in a gift bag or shiny box. But for some people, the giving is of their time as they spend their holiday bringing joy to others. Without such a gift, the mid-day meal served to about 300 people at the Bread Basket would not be possible.
One such volunteer is Patsye Edwards, who said she decided to volunteer because she was going to be by herself Christmas Day.
"I worked many years as a waitress and had to work on Mother's Day and be away from my children," she said. "I just decided, 'Why shouldn't I help out at the Bread Basket?' I like to work around food and I am able to do it."
Edwards noted that Sanford has been good to her and she wants to give back.
"I grew up in Indiana, but I've spent the past 54 years here. The best part about volunteering is that it does more for you than for the people you are helping," said Edwards. "It's a good feeling to be healthy enough to do this. I'm 79 years old and it could very well be me that is need of help. There are some things I can't do, but this is something I can do."
For volunteers, their shift begins about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday as they begin preparing a holiday feast which can stand its own with any restaurant buffet or family gathering, according to Susan Rosenthal, who manages the facility. Tuesday's menu includes turkey (if they can get enough), ham, biscuits, gravy, corn on and off the cob, tossed salad, fresh collards, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes and, thanks to the members of Cool Springs Baptist Church, green bean casserole.
"Much of this meal uses the ovens and it is a very generous thing for Cool Springs Baptist Church to take care of the green bean casseroles," said Rosenthal. "This frees up a lot oven space. All of the food has been donated from the community. It takes a lot of food because, generally, we tell people who come here that if they mind their manners, they can eat until they are full."
Rosenthal notes that the number of people the Bread Basket is feeding is up, basically due to the economy.
"People who were on unemployment still haven't found work and their benefits have run out," she said. "We were feeding about 175 people a day last year and those numbers have averaged about 218 this year. Christmas Day, we will see at least 250 and probably more like 300 people."
Volunteers will be helping with the cooking, the serving, the cleaning and the entertaining, which will include goodie bags of non-perishable items and prizes given to people who answer trivia questions. There even will be people who will play music during the lunch.


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Austin Wierschke of Wisconsin is the winner of the U.S. LG National Texting Competition. For winning the event in New York's Times Square, he gets $50,000 in prize money for the second straight year in a row. The winner will combine the winnings to help pay for college.
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Mustered Courage Offer Advice and Shredding Bluegrass
Posted: January 17, 2014
After forming in 2010, Mustered Courage has quickly provided a fresh breath of air into the bluegrass scene.
Picking their way across their home country of Australia and all over North America, Julian Abrahams (vocals/guitar), Nick Keeling (vocals/banjo), Josh Bridges (vocals/bass) and Paddy Montgomery (vocals/mandolin) have earned respect from critics and fans alike with their self-titled 2010 debut and 2013's Power Lines.
During a recent run through the United States, GretschGuitars.com caught up with the four guys to ask about their early concert experiences and what a band should do for food when they tour Australia. In addition, they played two songs for us, showcasing their fierce take on bluegrass.
GretschGuitars.com: What was the first concert you ever saw live?
Julian: The first international band I ever saw live was the Presidents of the United States of America. That was rocking. It was at the Royal Theatre of Canberra. I was like 12, crowd-surfed my ass off. It was pretty cool.
Nick: I think one of the first concerts I saw was Alanis Morissette in Austin. But more importantly, another concert I saw early on was Smashing Pumpkins – a band I knew nothing about. It was an excuse to meet up with this girl. So I didn't know what was going on. I was just thinking about how loud it was. But the girl and I went on a stroll around the botanical gardens at night and spent some time there. (laughs) I came home and told my mom how great the show was. I got the shirt and everything.
Josh: The first concert I was caught by surprise was at this theater in Melbourne, and Ry Cooder was playing there. I only knew of one of his songs, and my friend had talked about him all the time. I was working at the bar at the venue, and got off my shift. Normally when you finish early, you just want to go home. You don't want to see the act that night, but I decided to listen to one song. Oh man, after one song, it became two, and eventually I could absolutely not leave.
Paddy: When I was really young, my dad took me to see Bush. Right when Sixteen Stone was released. But the first proper show I went to as a teenager was my favorite Australian band Powderfinger. That was in Adelaide, and it was awesome.
Julian: That's one of the biggest Australian rock bands in the last 10-15 years.
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Posted: October 18, 2010
In its October issue, Premier Guitar features a great article on Gretsch guitars. Both Fred Gretsch and Joe Carducci (Gretsch Product Specialist) take turns answering questions from Premier Guitar readers, such as this question from Joel Trumbach.
"My fantasy guitar would be a Chet Atkins Country Gentleman, but I am a little perplexed with the tone-switching feature. Can you briefly explain that?" asks Trumbach.
"The mysterious tone switch, often referred to as the 'mud switch,' was Chet Atkins' idea," answers Carducci. "He wanted to be able to quickly change the tone of the guitar on the fly. It's indeed a hip idea when used in that context. When holding the Country Gentleman in the playing position and looking down on the two switches on the upper bout, the tone switch is on the right (the pickup selector is on the left). In the center position, the tone switch is completely out of the circuit and the overall amplified sound will be as bright as possible in all pickup combinations. In the down position, the sound is like setting a rotary tone control on about is similar to setting a rotary tone control on about '5,' creating a warm, bass-y tone ideal for your favorite jazz licks, fingerstyle pickin', or rhythm comping."
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Download the ten billionth app and you could win a US $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
The App Store is about to hit ten billion downloads.
Download the ten billionth app and you could win a US $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
Apple - iTunes - 10 Billion App Countdown
Ten billion. That's 10,000,000,000.
That's an insane number of downloads.
And how you win is:
If I won it I think I would sell it for $9,000 and buy myself a shiny new mac :D
- Simon
To put this number into context. Ten Billion is (on average) 1 and one-third apps downloaded by every person on the entire Earth. Assuming a world population of 7.5 billion.
And if I won it, I would take the $10k myself. And give the entire 10K worth as music or videos or apps shared to people who want them. Paid for by me out of the 10K. So in essence nothing for me. But that's ok. To me the real pleasure is in the giving and not the getting and most certainly not in personal greed.
Did you guys read the rules? It's like Apple is paying you $10K to use you.
If the last iTunes download counter wasn't real, I don't think this one is real either. Also, you have 25 chances per day to get the ten's billion download. You don't have to download $ apps, free one's count also. Have fun! It's worth a try!
I think if I wasn't living so much on the breadline I would do something similar. But for now my plan is new mac (sell my old one too), pay off my debts and see whats left lol
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- Simon
The only constant in life apart from birth, deaths and taxes is the fact there will always be human greed.
I think that even if you used all the money on the card, someone would still pay an excessive amont on ebay for an itunes gift card that has $10,000 printed on it.
- Simon
Don't forget to pay the taxes on that 10 grand say about $3,500 or so for fed, state, city. Ouch! especially if you cant sell the Itunes card for some cash.
NO taxes up here in Canada on winnings :) Sucks for everyone in places like the USA where you get taxed on winnings :P
No taxes here in UK either
- Simon
According to my calculations, if that clock was to be right in it's counting, they will get 10 billion downloads in about 64 hours, 12 minutes, and 31 seconds(+/- 1 hour). Assuming the clock is right, which is probably not real, just like last time.
lol, I was trying to figure that out, but got strangely distracted because my mental arithmetic is horrendous... is there an actual real-time clock around anywhere? I know it's probably improbably but be worth an interesting look.
- Simon
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HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University men's basketball opens the season Friday with a loaded team of shooters, rebounders and, hopefully, some defenders.
But, third-season head coach Tom Herrion said one of the strengths of the team is its chemistry.
Senior captain Dennis Tinnon backed up what his coach said before Tuesday practice in Cam Henderson Center.
"Everybody likes everybody on the team," Tinnon said. "Each of us has our own personal goals, but all of us have one goal."
Marshall, 21-14 and the Conference USA runner-up last season, tuned up with an exhibition game victory over NAIA Bluefield College and met the Winthrop Eagles in Beckley for a closed-door scrimmage.
Longwood University comes from Farmville, Va., for the season opener at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in Cam Henderson Center.
The Longwood Lancers went 10-21 last season as an NCAA Division I independent. They're now in the Big South Conference and were picked for a last-place finish in the North Division. The only returning starter is 6-foot-4 junior Tristan Carey who averaged 13.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
"I think they've got new life in that program now that they've gone into the Big South," Herrion said.
So, Longwood will be excited to get the season started.
Marshall is ready, too.
"We're real focused," Tinnon said. "You want to be as ready as you can be. If you're fired up for a game, that's a good situation and you're probably going to win.
"If you don't have that motor going, most likely things are not going to go your way."
Tinnon said chemistry began building during summer workouts. It was hot outside, and even hotter in the gym. Herrion pushed the players hard, and they banded together.
Teammates have to connect, Tinnon said.
"It's kind of like having another brother," he said. "Everybody is like a family. When a bunch of guys don't like each other, that's bad for business."
Herrion also commented Tuesday on some personnel matters.
The Herd's other team captains, all-conference junior guard Dre Kane and senior center Nigel Spikes, didn't play Thursday in the exhibition game because of a coach's decision. Herrion said he still hasn't decided when they'll play.
Freshman guard Kareem Canty was held out of the exhibition game because of an NCAA initial eligibility problem.
"We're working day to day with the NCAA on that situation," Herrion said.
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Sampler Pads for V-drum kit
Lookin' for opinions again. I want to buy a sampler/sample trigger unit for my v-drum kit.
I don't really want to 'play' the pad as a kit, but to capture, loop, and playback samples live and trigger pre-recorded effects. I suppose the built in sounds may come in useful too on occasion.
I mostly want to be able to create stuff in my studio, load it into the unit and play it back, things like lead guitar solos that will allow our guitarist (we're a trio) to record earlier and me to trigger during performance... possibly even as long as a backing track for a full song.
Considering... Roland SPD-SX, Octopad SPD-30 or Yamahas DTX-Multi 12.
Firstly am I missing any potential candidates?
Are those in the list suitable for what I want to do?
Would any of you using these or with experience of them care to comment?
Many thanks for indulging me.
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The SPD SX (or SPD S) is what you're looking for. I use the SX for pretty much what you're doing and I love it, it works great. Easy to use(there is a learning curve, but it's simple once you know what you're doing.)
I also have the SPD30. This doesn't import samples(unless you get into midi, but now you're bringing a laptop to gigs). Not sure you want to go that route. I wouldn't.
The Multi 12 can only play short samples(like 4 seconds long), and doesn't hold any more than 64mb's worth of samples so that probably won't work for you. But if you're going to run Midi this would work for you as well.
you are missing some candidates(cheaper ones too) but I have no experience with them. Alesis Sample Pad for one.
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But with that price comes some limitations - there are only 4 pads plus a pedal/trigger input, the sample must be mono (how many drums or percussion instruments are in stereo?) and the ram is pretty small, only 14mb total sounds. It's great for drum hits and the like, but playing a really long sample, like a whole backing track, would be difficult without using a lower resolution .wav (which it will accept.) Still, it holds almost 3min of mono samples at CD quality (16/44.1)
The SPD-SX's strong suit is its 2gb of ram. It will play up to 3 hours of stereo CD quality .wavs. It also has 9 pads and 4 pedal/trigger input, has internal effects and some sample looping functions, and is also sampler, although I'm not sure who uses hardware samplers these days. And, it's $800.
There's a curious drawback to the unit though, which is the ability to change a sample's pitch on playback. Seems simple enough - the Alesis does it - but the Roland needs to make a copy of the sample with the desired new pitch. That is, changing pitch would be a "destructive" function, where the Alesis changes pitch as a function of playback, and is "non" destructive. Perhaps not a big deal, you're not likely to run out of ram for having a few duplicated samples, but just one of a few things they missed.
I have both of the above units, and had also considered the Yamaha, which does indeed have some sample length and ram drawbacks. The Roland is definitely the most capable among them, but the Alesis is the best choice and value for playing drum/perc hits & sfx that don't exceed about 3 minutes. I use the Roland on the road, and the Alesis in the studio.
There is talk about an upgraded "pro" SamplePad, will see what they have at NAMM! :)
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Thanks guys... your help is awesome and invaluable!
It looks like it's probably the SPD-SX then. Yamaha and Octopad are off the shortlist now for all the reasons described in your posts.
The Samplepad looks interesting too Bermuda, I'll look that up as well.
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Truth be told... I had a hand in developing the pad (and its predecessor, the PercPad.) There were already complicated, non-drummer-friendly software solutions for triggering custom sounds, or V-drum modules geared to drummers, but that only played their internal sounds. I advised that there needs to be a mutli-pad unit where you load in your own sounds, assign them to pads, hit the pads, and play the sound. Really, it just needs to be that simple.
In keeping the cost down, some sacrifices were obviously made and it wasn't quite as capable as I would have liked in order to use on the road, but it was darn close! And I believe they're expanding the capabilities so more pros will warm up to it (not that they're having problems selling these!) The fact is, for everything the Roland does, I only use the sample playback. No sampling, looping or effects for me. So it was actually kind of expensive and over-qualified to do what I wanted - play samples!
But, right now, the Roland is the best option for a pad that triggers stereo samples, without getting into software, which means having not only a pad, but carrying a laptop and audio/midi interface as well. A standalone unit is definitely the smarter, less complicated, and less expensive way to go.
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Re: Sampler Pads for V-drum kit
Agreed. The SPD-SX is exactly what you are looking for. I've been using it for about 6 months now..
1. Guitar player will probably want to record the rhythm parts and play the lead live.
2. Playing a full backing song leaves no room for human error. I use short segments because, something will go wrong.
3. Use one pad as a kill switch. Record nothing and install it.
4. The left hand seems to be the best for most triggering. Sometimes you have to bump the recorded part back a couple of beats for a delayed start.
There is a learning curve but, believe me, if I can figure it out, anybody can.
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Sorry. I don't read/write music so I have to explain it in primitive terms.
I trigger everything with my left hand which is also my snare hand.
Typically, my snare hand is occupied on 2 and 4 so, if a particular segment note needs to start on 2, I just record it starting on 2 and hit it on 1.
Basically, you just bump your recorded segment forward 2 beats.
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Thanks for the input everybody. I did end up getting the SPD-SX and currently building up a library of samples and material within it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just as magical as the first one - the kids & I loved it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just as magical as the first one - the kids & I loved it!,
Darlene (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) - See all my reviews
I read this book aloud to my children. It was won a number of literary awards, including: 2008 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, 1999 British Book Award, 1999 Smarties Prize, and 1999 Booklist Editors' Choice.
At the start of the book, 12 year-old Harry is eagerly awaiting his return for his second year at Hogwarts. The Dursleys are hosting an important dinner for Mr. Dursley's boss and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Mason, and Harry is supposed to remain out of sight so as not to embarrass them. Upon his return to his room, he finds a strange elf named Dobby who has come to warn Harry not to return to Hogwarts. When Harry finds out that Dobby has been stealing the letters from Ron and Hermione meant for Harry, he is furious. Dobby makes trouble for Harry and uses magic to send Mrs. Dursley's dessert crashing to the floor and a furious Mr. Dursley forbids Harry from ever returning to Hogwarts. He installs iron grates over the window and takes away his magic books and wand and locks them up in the cupboard under the stairs. Poor Harry! Good thing that Ron and his twin brothers steal their father's magical car and use it to tear the grate from the window and rescue Harry!
Harry stays with the Weasleys until school starts, and Dobby tries to prevent Harry from getting aboard the Hogwarts train by sealing the magical passageway to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. The quick-thinking boys use Mr. Weasley's car again to get to Hogwarts, although not without consequences!
The newness of Hogwarts still hasn't rubbed off for me. I found it just as magical as the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In this installment, we are introduced to the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart. The women all swoon over this man, who has authored many books that recount his magical escapades. The book is a bit darker than the series debut, and Harry keeps hearing a chilling voice who whispers murderous words. Victims are becoming petrified, essentially turning into statues, and it seems to have to do with a Chamber of Secrets that was opened many years before. The key lies in a mysterious book that falls into Harry's possession, which was owned by a Hogwarts student named Tom Riddle.
My kids and I absolutely loved this book! It was filled with so much excitement, and it was the highlight of our day to read this at bedtime each night. Even at such a young age, it is easy to see that Harry is becoming a very powerful wizard. I love the whole "good versus evil" tone that Rowling has created.
As was with the first one, I love how Rowling ends off the book with such a touching scene between Dumbledore and Harry. Dumbledore always offers Harry sage insight and treats him with such warmth and love, and I couldn't help getting misty-eyed.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic world building, memorable characters, magic, humour and heart. I loved it ... again.,
The Baking Bookworm "The Baking Bookworm" (Canada) - See all my reviews
My Review: If I was stranded on a deserted island and could only choose one book series it would be Harry Potter - hands down. For people who know me, that's not all that shocking. I fly my Potter geek flag high. I adore it and love the fact that Rowling jump started me back into reading back when my kids were small and I thought I had no energy to read. Her writing is addictive to read and she has the art of bringing her readers into her magical world seamlessly. I've read the entire series several times and enjoyed all of the movies too.
For those of you who have only watched the movies? You're missing out. Sure they were amazing but some of the smaller plots were left on the cutting room floor - namely Peeves and the Headless Hunt to name just two in The Chamber of Secrets. This unabridged e-audiobook version was the perfect way for me to get reacquainted with Potter while walking on the treadmill or driving to work. The narrator also did a fantastic job with accents and inflections of these highly popular characters.
As usual this second book in the HP series is filled a wonderfully magical feel with vibrant and infamous characters. We have the usual cast of characters as well as the addition on Gilderoy Lockhart who brings some humour with his fascination with ... himself. I also enjoyed that we get a glimpse into the past of one of Harry's friends and how s/he influenced the Chamber of Secrets. Overall, the characters themselves are well-rounded and as you progress through the series (and even within each book) you see their development as they struggle with normal tween/teen angst and a whole lot of extra Dark Lord worries t'boot.
While this book was my least favourite book in the series I still think it's a great read that pulls readers into Rowling's magical world where she vividly tells her story with humour, suspense and heart. Readers get a better look at the link between Harry and Voldemort and we see the relationship between Harry and his friends strengthen after the horrible treatment he received from his Aunt and Uncle as well as new new issues at Hogwarts this year.
Whether you're 9 or 99 years old, if you're into fantastic world building, characters that come to life, stories about the strength of friendship, the courage to stand up for what is right, the enduring love of a mother and the fact that family is made up of not just blood but also by bonds of friendship then you've got to pick up this series. No matter what age you are, I'm certain you'll enjoy Harry's world. Just make sure you read them in order!
Highly recommended.
My Rating: 5/5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The World Expands,
Scoopriches (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Hardcover)
With one wand, I give J.K. a lot of credit, she upped the ante quite abit here. With the other wand, I have to declare this was my least favourite of the seven.
So begins my disjointed look at Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, the second book in the series. The one that I read that J.K. had some of the most stress over, worried it would not work another time. It does, but with some catches.
J.K. takes a big risk here by bringing the terror of racial lynching to our characters lives. For most books, just bringing up the topic by having a vile person spout slurs would be considered daring, with a dash of after school special morals thrown in to make it all better by the end. This does not happen here. The viciousness of the topic is brought up and permeates the entire book, and it's stench sticks around right to the bitter end of the series. No pat resolution is offered. And combined with the uncertain terror of these racial attacks, which are designed to kill, J.K. is telling her audience the awful truth. Hatred exists, no matter what special abilities you possess, nor how rich you are, this virulent strain of nastiness can infect anyone.
To push the issue further, J.K. subtly slides into the story the concept of slavery. Dobby's antics as an enslaved house elf are sometimes played with light comedic outcomes, but his self-torture because of perceived disobedience is heartbreaking. The hows and whys of the house elf's history is never explained but only partially referred to, but their power to topple their unjust wizard owners is obvious. But they stay subjugated. Of the uncounted multitudes of house elf's shown throughout the series, only one, our friend Dobby, is happy with being liberated. Despite Hermione's efforts later in the series, this reality does not change. No easy answer for this problem.
The final good part that really stuck to me was not revealed till the end. The alienation of Ginny from all those around her, unnoticed by everyone, becomes a major point at the conclusion. A first year student, with plenty of older siblings, all in her house, but she is still so alone. A magical diary talking back to her, giving her a much needed soothing, is very much the equivalent of caring strangers on the internet. Ginny seeks solace where she can find it. And that is sad.
As for the bitter medicine of criticism I must now dispense, it relates to how J.K. has to shape the plot. With every book she has to find ways to extend the story to fit over the course of a year. Results here are mixed, but the majority of the time her ideas work and work very well. In this instance, she concocts a ridiculous plan to trick information out of Draco by using Polyjuice potion. The plan is over the top in bad Ocean's 12 style, and when Hermione states the potion takes a month to ferment, my eyes rolled. A convenient way to allow time to pass by. My one sore spot in an otherwise glorious series.
Now that Harry, Hermione, and Ron have saved the day again, the stage is all set for a more mature tale to inhabit the series. With age comes more danger and intrigue and family history to explore. And Hagrid getting a well deserved promotion.
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book for everyone,
Kids will enjoy reading this book as the characters were very good. The book ended very well . My favourite part is the Quidditch scene and very helpful in real life. Don't tell me you haven't been head to head with a house elf that says 'Harry Potter must not go to school this year' and would gladly break every bone in your body to enforce that. Or maybe you're in a game of Quidditch and a die-cast steel, magically enforced ball is baying for your blood and bone. And definitely don't tell me you didn't spend last year saving the Philosopher's Stone from a teacher named professor Quarrel who wears a turban concealing the face of magic Hitler whose name rhymes with mouldy-wart and turns to dust on contact with you . The characters were so believable you think you would see them on the streets of London and cast a spell to open a door just because they can do it. I have read this book many times and I think future generations should read it and try to replicate the magic with their science as it would be great. This book should be a timeless classic for years to come.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Chamber of Secrets has been opened!,
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This review is from: Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets Children's Hardcover (Hardcover)
Though my favorite volumes in the Harry Potter series are the first, the fourth, the fifth and the seventh, I have to say that this one is very special to me. For the simple reason that this second year of Harry's studies at Hogwarts presents events from the past, events that reveal secrets about characters we know like Hagrid the gamekeeper, others like the amazing Dobby, and an incident that was the start of several incidents around the wizard world. Not only that, we find in this book events and characters, along with small incidents that take place around the school, that will definitely take an influence in the upcoming books.
For when Harry Potter is warned that he must not return to Hogwarts and becomes accused of several incidents around Hogwarts, and a certain Chamber of Secrets, he has to find, with Ron and Hermione, the culprit before it is too late.
As a final note, those that are very careful can find out in a single chapter the year that the story is taking place and set that series around the 1990s and not the 21st century, like I heard some people say when discussing the series with other readers.
5.0 out of 5 stars A New Year Brings New Troubles for Harry,
Brigid McIntyre (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews
The book begins with Harry back at Privet Drive with his horrible aunt, uncle, and cousin. Then on the night of his uncle's big meeting with a new customer for his drill company, a strange looking creature visits Harry in his bed room and warns him of awful things that will happen at Hogwarts in the up-coming year. This creature is the house elf Dobby. Dobby causes trouble for Harry so life at Privet drive worsens. Then Harry's best friend, Ron, and his two older twin brothers, Fred and George, fly their father's bewitched car to rescue Harry from the Dursleys. During the year at Hogwarts, a number of students become petrified by a creature that is loose in the school. The rumors of the Chamber of Secrets begin to spread throughout the school and it is believed to be opened once again. Many people believe that it is Harry who is the heir of Slytherin, which means that he would be the person responsible for the students, ghost, and cat that were petrified. To find out who the real heir of Slytherin and opener of the Chamber of Secrets you'll have to read the book for yourself!
This book was exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat. It was impossible to put down and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fantasy, thrills, and a little bit of mystery all in one.
5.0 out of 5 stars Harry's second year,
Ida Hyvarinen (Florida, FL USA) - See all my reviews
Summer didn't start out too good for Harry Potter. The Dursleys' were just as terrible as before. All Harry wanted to do is go back to Hogwarts the School of Witch Craft and Wizardry. He gets a warning from a elf named Dobby, to not return to Hogwarts or terrible things will happen.
The elf was right. During Harry's second year at Hogwarts, new terrors occur. He is left to deal with a self-centered proffesor names Gilderoy Lockheart. He has to try to pass his classes while in between new potions turning one of his best friends, Hermione, to cat, Ron's little sister Ginny who is head over heals about Harry, and Moaning Myrtle in the girls bathroom.
These turn out to be the least of his worries, when the myth of the Chamber of Secrets returns to haunt everyone, leaving students petrified. Someone had to reopen the chamber, but noone knows who. Could the person be Hagrid, who was accused of doing the same deed in the past? Could Draco Malfoy be doing it, who seems to be joyous about the tragedy. Or could it be Harry Potter himself, who is believed to do so by all the students.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wizard Madness,
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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K.Rolling
Harry lives with his smelly old Aunt and Uncle. His cousin, Duldy thinks he is weird because he has a weird scar and is a wizard. Harry was sent to Hogwarts, a school of witch craft and wizardry. But now he is back at number 4, Private Drive with them. He hasn't heard from his friends, Ron or Hermonie and is very board. One day, a house elf, Dobby appears on Harry's bed. He says that Harry should not go to back to Hogwarts. He says if he does, he will be in mortal danger. Harry decides to go to hogwarts because he is so board.
When Ron comes to rescue Harry, he is driving a Ford Angula. He hooks a hook to the bars on his window to pull them off. When Ron pulls them off, Harry's uncle wakes up. He tries to keep Harry from leaving. He grabbs Harry and pulls on his shirt to keep him from leaving. The car is to strong. Harry gets free of the dreadful house. Harry and Ron go to Ron's house, The Burrow. Harry and Ron get to Diagon Ally by using floo powder. Harry ends up going to Knocktern Ally. Then, Hagrid shows up and takes Harry to Diagon Ally.
They go to Gringods Bank to get Harry some money. Then they meet up with Mrs. Weasly and Ron. Then they go to Hogwarts. After they meet up with Hermonie, they go to the commen room. After 5 classes, Harry goes into the Chamer of Secrets. He finds a Stalfos, a monster spiders fear above all creatures. Harry gets poisoned by the Stalfos and Dumbeldore's bird hells him.
As you can see, Harry had a interesting year again. I give this book a 10 out of 10.
5.0 out of 5 stars Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a review by Koley,
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Do you like mystery, adventure, and action? Then feast your eyes on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling .The protagonist is a boy named Harry Potter who lives with his foster parents, the Dursley�¿s. They are very mean to him and don�¿t care much about him. This book is packed with chills and thrills. This is Harry�¿s second year in Hogwarts. But he is admonished not to go because something terrible is going to happen. But like always, Harry is so undaunted he goes.
When Harry and his friend Ron got to the train station an invisible wall blocked the entrance. Each time they tried to get through they were knocked down.
So Harry and Ron stole their parent�¿s car and flew to Hogwarts. When they arrived, their potions teacher, Snape, punished them. Harry and Ron were almost expelled because some people or �¿muggles�¿ saw the flying car. Later in the book Harry and his friends walking down the hallway and they saw a dead cat on the wall. On the wall it said the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Children were then found frozen solid in the hallways or petrified.
What could be doing this and why? Is the Chamber of Secrets really open? If you want to find out anymore the go read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling.
5.0 out of 5 stars Our choices, not our abilities, show what we truly are,
Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
There is no sophomore slump in the J.K. Rowling household or in Harry Potter's universe, as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets somehow takes the magic and excitement of the first book to even higher levels of enjoyment. The characterization of the main characters is greatly enriched, while new, important characters come on the scene in grand style. After getting another bitter taste of Harry's life with the Dursleys, watching him become a prisoner in every sense of the word in the aftermath of the strange half-elf Dobby's noble yet highly frustrating attempts to protect him, we get a high treat indeed in being allowed a few days' stay in the home of the Weasleys. I must admit that I rather dote on young Ginny Weasley, whose obvious crush on Harry Potter works a magic (one which even we Muggles know and understand) all its own upon her. I can appreciate Gilderoy Lockhart's place in this novel, but the humor he sometimes provides with his egomaniacal self-love is as pathetic and frustrating to me as it is to Ron and Harry; I can't for the life of me see what Hermione's fascination with the man is, particularly after sitting through a few of his Defenses Against the Dark Arts classes. Then there is Lucius Malfoy, another sinister character for us to love to hate; compared to his father, young Draco Malfoy is a choir boy.
Some of the early action, particularly the whole flying car business, probably appeals to young readers more than it does to me, but things get very interesting very quickly as soon as the boys arrive at Hogwarts. There is sinister business at the school during Harry's second year, a crisis that leaves several students literally petrified, threatens the positions of even Hagrid and Dumbledore, and puts the very future of Hogwarts in great jeopardy. It all leads up to an ending that seems to stretch the limits of credulity in a couple of places yet succeeds much more impressively than the denouement of the first novel. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets takes everything I loved about the first book, multiplies it several times, expands the entire world in which Harry lives, throws in several juicy new sub-plots and immensely interesting new characters, and establishes Harry Potter as a bona fide phenomenon with the unlimited potential to thrill young and old readers alike for years and years to come.
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Now that libertarian populism is catching on as Something Worth Talking about in the endless virtual Georgetown cocktail party that is the internet, I'm going to continue to show how anthropological thinking can give us better access to what, exactly, libertarian populism can be about.
The latest conversation point comes courtesy of Ezra Klein, for whom libertarian populism seems to posit that the political economy is a zero-sum game. "Positing this zero-sum death struggle between corporate America and poorer Americans," he writes, "is the key to the emergent arguments around 'libertarian populism.' The basic idea there is that if Washington would simply close its doors to corporate pleading then corporations would lose political power and the policy concessions that go with it and lower-income Americans would win economic power. In a zero-sum world, less 'crony capitalism' for corporations equals more economic uplift for the poor."
I'm not surprised that Ben Domenech is already pushing back against these claims. But I think this is the kind of debate you get when you approach the controversies and possibilities surrounding our political economy from a policy-first standpoint, rather than an anthropology-first one. Like all political pitches, libertarian populism won't enroll the tons of adherents it needs if it boils down to "Less For Them, More For You." I don't think it does boil down to that motto, and I do think that getting anthropological gives us the tools to see why.
So consider the idea that no political platform works if it's simply "Them Less, You More." Yes, this means that even communism doesn't move and inspire people on the level of sheer class envy or greed. Envy is a powerful anthropological force, to be sure — but it's always woven into a strong, emotionally-organizing sense of what being human is all about. One way of understanding the failure of communism is to treat it as a failure of the anthropological imagination: it turns out that "the poor" can be extraordinarily envious of "the rich," yet extraordinarily amenable to letting the ultra-rich run the political economy. All the ultra-rich have to do is appease that sense of envy by sacrificing whatever happens to be deemed "enough" in the way of cash flow. The communist view of solidarity and revolution is a romantic one, a piece of poetry about what our species being entails. This is all right there in Marx — communism is merely the path to achieving our actual species being. The Marxist anthropology is very simple-minded when it comes to the many different ways that envy and greed can be operationalized in a nominally "capitalist" political economy.
FOR INSTANCE: our political economy — the one that libertarian populism is all about transforming away from — is one, as I've suggested, that's defined by a suffocatingly powerful alliance between the poor and the ultra-rich. Ezra knows this:
That's the reality of politics right now: Corporate American and the poor can both wield a lot of power at the same time, as they're not typically locked in a zero-sum struggle with each other. If anything, it's the middle class, or perhaps the upper-middle class, that's been left out.
This should all be crystal clear to Ezra, since it defines Obamanomics to a tee, and almost completely explains why and how Obamacare is having the successes and failures it's having. It also throws open the shutters on the terrain and the stakes of the moral argument surrounding universal health care. As I put it in my quick look at what's at stake in the libertarian populism debate:
Rather than defining corruption as Chait thinks Republicans do — by putting a price tag on Solyndra — Tocqueville defined it as the means, not the end, of concentrating political power. Remarkably, Chait does not seem to grasp that not Solyndra but Obamacare is the example of crony capitalism par excellence. The use of Obamacare as a path toward concentrated power works almost exactly as Tocqueville implies: Some of our biggest, most powerful economic winners — the titans of the health industry — are drawn to Washington and made captive "partners" of the Court. They surrender their independence to the Sovereign as they surrender their pride — opting to work with the Sovereign for the Good of All.
Obamacare must be the kind of healthcare system produced by policymakers working for our poor-ultrarich political alliance — because that alliance isn't driven by interests or passions; it's driven by a deeply shared sense of what being human is all about. For very many of the poor and the ultrarich, subservience to the state is necessary for our humanity to be expressed in real life. It's revealing how quickly some progressives of any socioeconomic class resort to the same epithets for upper-middle-class or aspiring upper-middle-class folk who bristle at the idea that embracing a subservient relationship to government is a moral act in accordance with an accurate grasp of our anthropology. Selfish! Greedy! Racist!
Well, maybe, but what's really going on here is that these progressives despise — as I alluded to in the same post on what's at stake — the anthropology of the "non-Court elite," the person of substantial but not extravagant means who does not think, as Hobbes thought, that being human in a way that works requires everyone, themselves included, to take a knee before the Sovereign. No matter how charitable, modest, and humane such a person might be, they will always come under fire from a certain corner of the Left for being, as Hobbes charged, prideful. The key here is to understand that, for these progressives as well as for Hobbes, a prideful rejection of subservience to government is morally evil because it results from an incorrect anthropology. It misunderstands what being human entails. It misunderstands our species being. It can only breed social and personal ills. The purpose of politics is to break this mistaken dream, and replace it with a new vision of what to glory in.
Now, consider what anthropology puts libertarian populism into a context that can work well for lots of people. Obviously it's not the kind of progressive, Hobbesian anthropology that defines our human being in a statist and nationalist way. Nor is it one, again, in which our human being is defined by the acquisition and consumption of material resources. In keeping with my sense of what kind of answer can work in the way we'd want, I propose that libertarian populism chimes in an especially tuneful way with an anthropology that sees us as the creatures who can choose to create love through language. That may seem a bit abstract, a bit obvious, or a bit banal, depending on your critical prejudices. But consider that this anthropology has a much different political upshot from the main anthropologies competing for adherents in America today. It doesn't point toward neo-Hobbesian progressivism. It doesn't point toward neo-conservative paternalism (or maternalism). It doesn't point toward yuppie-scum faux-libertarianism. It doesn't point toward crony capitalist, Chamber-of-Commerce Republicanism. It does open up on the proposition that government doesn't need to save us, that a fundamentally moral subservience to the state isn't anthropologically necessary. It does demand a transformation of our political economy on an anthropological basis — away from the stewardship of big brains and big hearts in big business and big government, and toward the rather risky and very alive collaboration of people who see themselves as pretty much empty vessels but for their shared promises and projects.
It's not an anthropology of improvement. It's an anthropology of transformation. As the economic theorist James Buchanan recognized, in the act of choosing, accurately grasped, we can actually create the choices from which we can choose. Subservience to the state reinforces a vision of life, shared by those who rule and those who are ruled, that sees being human as all about improvement projects. The anthropology I'm proposing for libertarian populists sees being human as all about the virtual opposite — unforeseeable transformations, at the personal level and the human level. That's the essence of a game that's anything but zero-sum: inherently creative, open-source, universal, and unable to be captured by planners and forecasters. (And, incidentally, it's a language game that chimes in a crazily powerful way with our dreams surrounding the biggest transformation of real life that we've seen in centuries: the internet…)


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And in Coliinsville, the rollback election passes by a margin of 131 for and 71 against.
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The Beatles - Hey Jude
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Artist: The Beatles
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sounds nice to me. no excessive treble.
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Invincible Ignorance
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates?
The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
If gun control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive.
Places and times with the strongest gun control laws have often been places and times with high murder rates. Washington, D.C., is a classic example, but just one among many.
When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. For the country as a whole, hand gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down.
The few counter-examples offered by gun control zealots do not stand up under scrutiny. Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun control laws than the United States and lower murder rates.
But, if you look back through history, you will find that Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries– and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun control laws than the United States. Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time.
In the middle of the 20th century, you could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked. New York, which at that time had had the stringent Sullivan Law restricting gun ownership since 1911, still had several times the gun murder rate of London, as well as several times the London murder rate with other weapons.
Neither guns nor gun control was the reason for the difference in murder rates. People were the difference.
Yet many of the most zealous advocates of gun control laws, on both sides of the Atlantic, have also been advocates of leniency toward criminals.
In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons in Britain are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms.
In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s– after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions– there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies.
Gun control zealots' choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States.
You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.
Guns are not the problem. People are the problem– including people who are determined to push gun control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts.
There is innocent ignorance and there is invincible, dogmatic and self-righteous ignorance. Every tragic mass shooting seems to bring out examples of both among gun control advocates.
Some years back, there was a professor whose advocacy of gun control led him to produce a "study" that became so discredited that he resigned from his university. This column predicted at the time that this discredited study would continue to be cited by gun control advocates. But I had no idea that this would happen the very next week in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
: Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is: www.tsowell.com.
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The Portsmouth girls basketball team will return to the state of Ohio Wednesday with the 2012 KSA Events runner-up trophy.
The Trojans finished second in this weekend's recently-concluded tournament to North Palm Beach (Fla.) Benjamin High School, who took Monday morning's 61-42 championship game. But no matter how Portsmouth finished, coach Tyson Phillips said the weekend served its purpose.
"It was an outstanding trip," Phillips said. "The competition down here was really good so I'll hope it'll prepare us."
Peighton Williams led the Trojans with 16 points. Jada Jenkins added 11 against one of the Sunshine State's best girls hoops teams. Williams was named team MVP as her squad erased a 24-3 deficit at one point to make it a 36-32 contest.
Phillips said with all of the levels of clearance his team went through for this tournament, it didn't seem like they were in a high school tournament.
"You feel like you're a college team playing," Phillips said. "…It's just a first-class resort"
Portsmouth will fly north Wednesday and return to the friendly confines of its home gym Saturday to host Logan.
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Portsmouth — I. Sturgell 1-0-2, Mallory 4-0-8, Williams 7-1-16, Jenkins 4-0-11, Kennedy 2-1-5, Totals 18-2-42.
3-Point Goals — Benjamin 6 (White 4, Burk 2); Portsmouth 4 (Jenkins 3, Williams 1).
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Clearly, social media was exploding at the time, but companies in many lines of business didn't see the relevance. We did.
That's not to say that we considered our strategy a blue chip business plan. We weren't even sure how we could accurately measure the success. This much we did know: Social media was more than just marketing to us, it was an extension of our customer service. So we…
The results have been good. More than 1,700 connections on LinkedIn; almost 400 Twitter followers, and more than 250 "likes" on Facebook. The subscription list for this blog numbers in excess of 1,500 people.
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We give it a passing grade, to say the least. It seemed a questionable expenditure of resources at the time. But as both our business and leisure guests became more technologically advanced, we realized that without these additional services we would have fallen short of doing business with them on their terms.
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Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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