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In The Poisonwood Bible, a Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in the late '50s, endangering the lives of his wife and four daughters. Alternating between the voices of the mother and daughters, Kingsolver successfully paints the emotional depth of their predicament and the insanity of the father and his deranged beliefs.
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Very rarely does a novel have as significant an impact as has The Poisonwood Bible. Though it has received a great deal of critical recognition it was, after all, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize what has really distinguished Kingsolver's masterpiece from other books of recent years (besides the much-coveted Oprah seal of approval) is the tremendous effect it has had on readers. Not only did it remain on national bestsellers lists for over two years, it was also the recipient of a number of reader's choice awards, including the 2000 Booksense Book of the Year, which is based on the votes of booksellers from around the country. And a little closer to home, The Poisonwood Bible has received two Powell's Puddly Awards. For two years running, when asked "What was the best book you read last year," more Powell's customers have answered The Poisonwood Bible than any other novel.
In The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver ventures intrepidly out of her familiar Southwest setting to create a story of calamitous undoing in the Belgian Congo of 1959. The daughters and wife of controlling, abusive evangelist Nathan Price recount alternating versions of the events that take place after their family arrives in the jungle, and how each of the female family members passes the thirty years following. They are so naive about what is required to survive in this alien world they actually bring cake mixes with them. From the beginning, Nathan's obsession with "converting the natives" to Christianity is met with open hostility (a logical reaction to his insistence on baptism in crocodile-infested waters) and makes both him and his essentially captive family the mortal enemies of a local witch doctor. The Prices' ill-fated interactions with the community are entwined with the larger political upheaval pervading the country (i.e., independence from brutal Belgian rule, the assassination of the country's first autonomous leader and subsequent CIA-aided, UN-sanctioned rule by the ruthless Mobutu), providing a thorough, thought-provoking, and indicting look into the ruin wrought in Africa at the hands of its colonizers. Lilus, Powells.com
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God's Kingdom in its pure, unenlightened glory. So fourteen-year-old Leah Price expects when, in the summer of 1959, she arrives in the Congo with her family. Her Baptist-preacher father, Reverend Nathan Price, assigned to Kilanga mission, is determined to enlighten the savages and to rule his family with strict biblical sanction. Leah's twin, Adah, the victim of hemiplegia at birth, limps along and maintains silence. Fifteen-year-old Rachel resents being dropped on " this dread dark shore" far from America's fashions and comforts. Ruth May, five years old, faints. And their mother, Orleanna, readies herself to protect them all from whatever perils may come--from jungle, river, or father and his terrible God. From 1959 through 1998, the Price sisters tell their stories, in alternating narratives that reflect their ages as the years pass and the understandings that they achieve. Those stories--together with Orleanna's retrospective commentaries--reveal the amazing forty-year saga that the Prices and the Congo share. Cultural and spiritual conflicts, confusion and revelation, hunger and pleasure, cruelties and kindness, suffering and love, all combine with the day-to-day life in Africa's villages to enrich this wondrous tale. This is Barbara Kingsolver's most daring, complex, and rewarding novel--a whopping good story told with tender majesty. The wisdom that Rachel, Adah, Leah, Ruth May, and Orleanna wrest from their lives is also ours.
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2. How does Kingsolver differentiate among the Price sisters, particularly in terms of their voices? What does each sister reveal about herself and the other three, their relationships, their mother and father, and their lives in Africa? What is the effect of our learning about events and people through the sisters' eyes?
3. What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? Are there Christian parallels to the constellation of meanings and beliefs attached to nommo? How do the Price daughters' Christian names and their acquired Kikongo names reflect their personalities and behavior?
4. The sisters refer repeatedly to balance (and, by implication, imbalance). What kinds of balance--including historical, political, and social--emerge as important? Are individual characters associated with specific kinds of balance or imbalance? Do any of the sisters have a final say on the importance of balance?
5. What do we learn about cultural, social, religious, and other differences between Africa and America? To what degree do Orleanna and her daughters come to an understanding of those differences? Do you agree with what you take to be Kingsolver's message concerning such differences?
6. Why do you suppose that Reverend Nathan Price is not given a voice of his own? Do we learn from his wife and daughters enough information to formulate an adequate explanation for his beliefs and behavior? Does such an explanation matter?
7. What differences and similarities are there among Nathan Price's relationship with his family, Tata Ndu's relationship with his people, and the relationship ofthe Belgian and American authorities with the Congo? Are the novel's political details--both imagined and historical--appropriate?
8. How does Kingsolver present the double themes of captivity and freedom and of love and betrayal? What kinds of captivity and freedom does she explore? What kinds of love and betrayal? What are the causes and consequences of each kind of captivity, freedom, love, and betrayal?
9. At Bikoki Station, in 1965, Leah reflects, " I still know what justice is." Does she? What concept of justice does each member of the Price family and other characters (Anatole, for example) hold? Do you have a sense, by the novel's end, that any true justice has occurred?
10. In Book Six, Adah proclaims, " This is the story I believe in . . ." What is that story? Do Rachel and Leah also have stories in which they believe? How would you characterize the philosophies of life at which Adah, Leah, and Rachel arrive? What story do you believe in?
11. At the novel's end, the carved-animal woman in the African market is sure that " There has never been any village on the road past Bulungu, " that " There is no such village" as Kilanga. What do you make of this?
Kingsolver has always been a storyteller: "I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtimestory." As a child, she wrote stories and essays and, beginning at the age of eight, kept a journal religiously. Still, it never occurred to Kingsolver that she could become a professional writer. Growing up in a rural place, where work centered mainly on survival, writing didn't seem to be a practical career choice. Besides, the writers she read, she once explained, "were mostly old, dead men. It was inconceivable that I might grow up to be one of those myself . . ."
Kingsolver left Kentucky to attend DePauw University in Indiana, where she majored in biology. She also took one creative writing course, and became active in the last anti-Vietnam War protests. After graduating in 1977, Kingsolver lived and worked in widely scattered places. In the early eighties, she pursued graduate studies in biology and ecology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she received a Masters of Science degree. She also enrolled in a writing class taught by author Francine Prose, whose work Kingsolver admires.
Kingsolver's fiction is rich with the language and imagery of her native Kentucky. But when she first left home, she says, "I lost my accent . . . P eople made terrible fun of me for the way I used to talk, so I gave it up slowly and became something else." During her years in school and two years spent living in Greece and France she supported herself in a variety of jobs: as an archaeologist, copy editor, X-ray technician, housecleaner, biological researcher and translator of medical documents. After graduate school, a position as a science writer for the University of Arizona soon led her into feature writing for journals and newspapers. Her numerous articles have appeared in avariety of publications, including "The Nation," "The New York Times," and "Smithsonian," and many of them are included in the collection, "High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never." In 1986 she won an Arizona Press Club award for outstanding feature writing, and in 1995, after the publication of "High Tide in Tucson," Kingsolver was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from her alma mater, De Pauw University.
Kingsolver credits her careers in scientific writing and journalism with instilling in her a writer's discipline and broadening her "fictional possiblities." Describing herself as a shy person who would generally prefer to stay at home with her computer, she explai
"Tragic, and remarkable....A novel that blends outlandish experience with Old Testament rhythms of prophecy and doom." USA Today
In her first novel since "Pigs in Heaven", Kingsolver offers a compelling exploration of religion, conscience, imperialist arrogance, and the many paths to redemption. An American missionary and his family travel to the Congo in 1959, a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. Web feature.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the self-centered, teenaged Rachel; shrewd adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Dancing between the dark comedy of human failings and the breathtaking possibilities of human hope, The Poisonwood Bible possesses all that has distinguished Barbara Kingsolver's previous work, and extends this beloved writer's vision to an entirely new level. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.
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About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver's twelve books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction include the novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal. Her most recent book is the highly praised, New York Times bestselling Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, published in May 2007. She lives with her family on a farm in southwestern Virginia.
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Like many of you, I maintain a personal website where I document my family, trip reports, etc. I started it in 2003 using Microsoft Frontpage and am still using it... Going forward I would like to change to software that allows me to create trip reports that consist a slide show, where each single slide within the report would be either: a photo with caption, a video, or text. Picasa web albums (by Google) meet my first two criteria but not the text part. To get around that I've been using Google docs to make a slide where I write my text, then I save the slide as a jpeg and put it in my album. It works but I'm sure you guys know of a better way. If so, please let me know.Here's an example of my old style trip reports, only using Frontpage: Ionian Basin And here's an example of my newer style of trip report, where I use Frontpage to link to a Picasa web album: Pt. Reyes (after you click the link to the left click on the Oct. 2012 Pt. Reyes link)
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I thought that Pt. Reyes trip looked familiar then realized that I was there.I can't offer you any advice other than I like what you're trying to do, I think you're on to something there.Keep us posted here regarding your progress.....
> I thought that Pt. Reyes trip looked familiar then realized that I was there.> I can't offer you any advice other than I like what you're trying to do, I think you're on to something there.> Keep us posted here regarding your progress.....Thanks David, maybe the best thing for me to do is just contact Google and ask them to develop a app for inserting text slides into a Picasa web album.
Hey Casey. You might want to look into something called LightBox. That will give you a place to start and probably also lead you to some similar alternative gizmos that you can setup on your site with not too much trouble (hopefully).Also, if you're already using Picasa, I think there's a way you can embed an album into a web page.A couple ideas for you to google anyway. Good luck!
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The Ogdensburg Area Zonta Club, dedicated to helping women locally and worldwide, held its fourth Zumbathon fundraiser from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Dobisky Center on Sunday. For $10, exercisers could dance along for all or part of the 3�-hour exercise session.
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MASSENA - With warmer weather expected this week, Massena Recreation Superintendent Richard A. Boprey says they will not be attempting to lay outdoor ice until temperatures drop. The extended forecast is calling for a high of 41 degrees today, 34 degrees on Thursday, 46 degrees on Friday, 50 degrees on Saturday and 41 degrees on Sunday.
That means whatever snow is covering the would-be outdoor rinks will remain in place since theyre unable to flood the site and have the ice hold, Mr. Boprey told members of the Massena Joint Recreation Commission Tuesday.
Weve elected not to plow right now at sites such as the Bridges Avenue and Howard Street rinks, he said, adding they might drive over the snow with a truck to flatten it and make it more conducive for ice.
But right now, he said, We cant even consider getting a tanker truck on the field to lay the water.
Theyve tried to flood the Massena Arena annex, but theres still a ways to go before that ice can be used, according to Mr. Boprey.
Last night we put four coats of water. Its thin, thin ice, he said. Were doing our best. Were watching our weather closely.
Unless the weather changes by the middle of the month, that doesnt bode well for having outdoor games as part of the Massena Cup outdoor hockey tournament, which is scheduled for Jan. 18-19. Organizers have already booked the indoor ice at the arena in case theyre not able to use the outdoor ice on the annex.
We set this up in September or October, Mr. Boprey said.
The tournament is being held a week earlier than it was last year, he said.
We have no predictability with the weather, Mr. Boprey said.
While theres no outdoor ice, he said indoor ice at the arena has been getting a workout, partly because of the free holiday skating offered over the Christmas and New Years holidays and paid for by local businesses, organizations and individuals.
Holiday public skating has gone very well, he said.
One sponsoring business, Vino Vidi Vici, gave skaters that day an extra bonus. Mr. Boprey said between 10 and 20 people showed up to skate on Sunday afternoon and the local restaurant in the Harte Haven Shopping Plaza sent up pizzas for them to enjoy.
That was kind of a nice touch, he said.
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Recap: Pablo Prigioni
Top ranked Team USA pulled out a victory earlier today against third ranked Argentina in Barcelona. Donning the Dream Team '92 jerseys, Team USA had command of this game pretty much throughout, despite a tight score of 86-80. Team USA is absolutely loaded, and while I can see them struggling against the front court of Spain, the team should be on their way to another gold medal this summer in London.
Argentina though can pose a problem for the Americans if they see each other again down the line. After a rough start, the Argentinians got back to their tough, hard-nosed style of team basketball. Pick'n'rolls, sharp cuts and good shooting got them back in it. Their point guard, Pablo Prigioni, who most of you know has agreed to come play for he Knicks next season, personified the style that team plays.
Prigioni is a veteran and a professional on the basketball court. He shows no flash in his game. He is a north/south point guard who understands that the ball moves faster with him passing it than it does with him over dribbling it. If Prigioni showed anything today, it is that he is a very willing passer and that if you can get open, he will certainly find you in your spot. Much like Jason Kidd, Prigioni has great court vision and appears to read plays even before they develop. A pick'n'roll point, Prigioni showed an understanding of how to feed teammates in position where they can excel and put the ball in the basket.
For players like Tyson Chandler and Amare Stoudemire, Prigioni will excel with them in the pick'n'roll. For players like James White, Iman Shumpert and JR Smith, Prigioni will find them at the rim for easy oops if they can find a way to slash behind the defense. For a player like Steve Novak, Prigioni will be able to find him on the 3 point line even when the defense loses track of the sharpshooter.
Prigioni did not show much athleticism on the court. He did not show that he could blow by guys like Westbrook, Deron or Chris Paul. Because of that, he did not show much in the way of penetrating and getting to the basket. In a league filled with quick, young points, Prigioni might find some problems getting by those players. from that perspective, Prigioni will have to adapt (and can have problems adapting) to the NBA game With that said though, Prigioni adapted to the pace of the game and looks like the guy of guy who can control a pace for his team.
Most importantly, Prigioni is a mistake-free style of player. I do not have a box score in front of me, but I would be surprised if he had many turnovers. He made a lot of sure passes and showed a strong handle against the NBA's elite PGs. Given the number of turnovers that Jeremy Lin and Baron Davis committed last season, points like Kidd and Prigioni who have good ball security should be a breath of fresh air for Knick fans.
All in all, I expect Prigioni to play next season. He is the third string guy on the team, but I would guess that Kidd will not play in 82 games next season. Minutes will eventually come for this guy, and when they do, Knicks fans should be happy that they have a stable veteran type to fill in the rotation. For a career Euro player, it will be interesting to see if he can adapt to the NBA style at age 35. Given his passing strength, perhaps the more athletic teammates will showcase his abilities to find teammates. I am curious to see him play again.


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NEWPORT–If you caught the second half of the UCA double-header on Wednesday, you had to be impressed with the skill set of the Masse Vanier Vikings boys team, as they built a 42-15 lead at the half, and then cruised to an 80-46 over the Crusaders.
"They are the best team we are going to face all year," said coach Tony DeLaBruere, "They are better than Websterville. they have five seniors, two juniors, and they are all big, can jump, and they can all play ball."
They were electric on the court. They scored points on their lightning quick fast break as well as on the numerous turnovers they created, going on runs of 10 and seven in the first, one for sixteen in the second.
The prettiest moment for UCA in the first half was a nice alley-oop play as Mitchell Roy hit Paul Saaman, who went up and laid it in nicely.
"So far this year, if we have been out scored in the first half of games we come out of the break with the philosophy of breaking the game into to two and trying to win the second half," said DeLabruere.
The Crusaders almost did that, as they fell just short of their goal, being out scored by just seven, 38-31.
Chris DeLaBruere, who could not buy a bucket in the second quarter after scoring 5 in the first, came on strong in the final sixteen minutes, scoring sixteen points, to bring his total to 21 on the afternoon.
"Chris had his best offensive game of the year," said the coach, "We worked on free throws this week in practice, and it paid off as Chris was 8/8, and as a team we went 14/18."
Paul Saaman also played well, contributing fifteen points in the loss, and the sophomore is showing signs of being an up and comer for the Crusaders.
Said DeLaBruere, "Paul has that special thing.. he can do all the little things right, and he does them while still continuing to grow as a point guard."
Tony knows that while his team may not beat Masse Vanier, they can certainly learn form the games against the Vikings, and teams of their nature, and then apply the lessons learned against teams that match-up more closely to UCA
"If we continue to get better and sure up our defense, we will have success, and I can not wait to get to Burlington and face Trinity Baptist."
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Mandatory Enrollment
In preparation for the anticipated compliance elements of the Affordable Care Act, all benefit eligible employees must re-enroll or waive medical, dental, and vision coverage for 2014. It is imperative that you enroll for the options best suited to you and/or your family needs; you must take action.
Please note: If your spouse or domestic partner is a benefit eligible Wright State employee, both of you must either enroll and/or waive coverage through the online enrollment.
Online Enrollment-Paperless! Green!
To streamline Open Enrollment, we have moved to a paperless process! All benefit eligible employees must log on to WINGS Express to elect or waive their 2014 healthcare benefits. The online enrollment site will be available from October 23 to November 19, 2013.
Several tools are available to assist you through the online enrollment process::
- Elections Summary Checklist (PDF)
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- Designated computer labs to assist you with entering your elections (refer to Timeline, Presentations and Vendor Contact Section of Open Enrollment)
Online Enrollment is a five-step process:
- Review and/or print your current year elections
- Update spouse and/or dependents (add, change, or delete)
- Enroll or waive coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and Flexible Spending Accounts; indicate older adult children, ages 26—28, and/or domestic partner relationships
- Assign coverage to spouse and/or dependents
- Confirm elections and print 2014 benefit election summary
Paperwork is required only for the following:
- No action is necessary to continue your existing Short-Term Disability and Supplemental Life Insurance benefits. However, paperwork is required to enroll, drop, increase, or decrease your existing coverage. Please contact HR for appropriate paperwork.
- First-time enrollee in the HDHP.
- Adding of a new older adult child (Ages 26-28), and
- Establishing a new domestic partner relationship.
Pharmacy Processing
Express Scripts will continue as the Pharmacy mail order processor in 2014. However, please note, there will be a Formulary change for the HMO and PPO plans from the Ohio Shared Services, RxOC (Express Scripts Formulary), to Anthem (Wellpoint Formulary).
The Anthem formulary is currently being utilized by HDHP participants.
What does this mean?
- Pharmacy benefit co-pays will not change. The coverage is now listed on the Anthem Plan Summaries.
- For 2014, your Pharmacy co-pays will not accumulate towards the deductibles or the out-of-pocket maximums.
- Effective January 1, access to your pharmacy online mail orders will be made on Anthem.com by selecting Pharmacy.
- Express Scripts will transfer all unfilled prescriptions to the new website; new prescriptions will not be necessary.
- Effective January 1, 2014, you will no longer need an Express Scripts insurance card. Instead, you will use your Anthem medical insurance card when filling prescriptions at a retail pharmacy.
- Note: mail ordering in late December will be processed in the year Express Scripts completes their processing and mails your prescription, not according to the day you order. If you desire processing in 2013, and if possible, please be sure to process before the holidays.
- If you do process an order late in December, it will be processed via the new site even if entered on the old site.
- Due to this change, Wright State has performed significant due diligence with Anthem and believes almost all drugs currently being utilized by our employees will still be available under the new formulary.
- However, there is the potential for drugs to move between Brand name "Formulary" and "Non-Formulary."
- Anthem will be on-site at the Benefit Open Enrollment meetings to discuss any drug concerns you might have.
Medical Plan Offerings (Staff & Non-Bargaining Unit Faculty)
You have a choice of three Anthem medical plans for 2014: PPO 90/10, PPO 80/20, and HDHP and are offered in the spirit of the following guiding principles:
- Offer competitive healthcare benefits to retain and recruit top talent
- Promote behaviors that will support a healthy workforce through wellness initiatives
- Ensure that healthcare benefits are affordable and accessible to all eligible employees
- Manage the university's healthcare costs in an effective manner that aligns with industry standards and best practices
Like the HDHP, these new PPO plans include 100% coverage for preventive services and include out-of-network benefits. In addition to promoting consumerism, the plans offer competitive co-pays, deductibles, co-insurance, and out-of-pocket maximums.
Co-pays do not apply toward the deductible. However, co-pays do apply to the out-of-pocket maximums. Pharmacy co-pays do not apply to deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums.
For more details, please review the Anthem plan summaries, medical plan comparison chart, and summaries of coverage and benefits.
Health Savings Accounts (Staff & Non-Bargaining Faculty)
In accordance with the guiding principles of aligning our benefits with industry standards and best practice, the employer contribution to the HSA for HDHP participants will be:
- $1,250 for Employee,
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- $2,650 for Employee+2 or more
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IRS annual contribution limits for 2014 have increased slightly.
- $3,300 for Individual
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- $1,000 additional for HSA catch-up contributions (age 55 or older)
According to the IRS, It is your responsibility to ensure that you do not exceed these HSA contribution limits. You can determine your total contributions to your HSA by adding the following:
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New Medical Insurance Cards
Watch for your new Anthem Medical ID cards for 2014 to arrive in the mail . . .
Beginning in 2014, there will no longer be a separate Express Scripts Pharmacy ID card. Instead, the pharmacy will be included on your Anthem medical ID card. For HDHP participants, this is not a change.
However, to enhance its customer service, Anthem is providing Wright State, a dedicated customer service phone number which will be located on the back of the new ID card. This phone number will be answered by 6 to 8 customer service representatives who will be trained to be familiar with our medical plans.
If you have not received your new ID card by January 1, 2014, please continue to use your old ID card until your new one is received. Your numbers included in your subscriber ID number (on the front of the card) will remain the same; although the alpha prefix could possibly change dependent upon your plan selection. Therefore your medical provider and/or pharmacy can validate with Anthem your 2014 coverage.


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In many places in the rural United States health care is a real issue because people don't have access to good clinics or hospitals.
And at the heart of every hospital is the laboratory where body fluids and tissues are examined, analyzed and tested.
"What happens to the blood sample you give at the doctor's office?" asks Dr. Leo Hardy, who is one of the doctors in charge of the lab services at Castleview Hospital. "How do doctors actually diagnose and confirm the presence of diseases? How do they monitor disease status or effectiveness of therapy? Why do patients need biopsies? These are all questions people ask when they come into the hospital.
One of the most critical components of human medical diagnostics are laboratory tests performed on blood, tissue, urine and/or body fluid. Although very few people realize it, an estimated 60 to 70 percent of all medical decisions regarding a patient's diagnosis, treatment, health care, hospital admission, and/or discharge are based on laboratory test results. No other area in medicine commands such a major role.
Yet, most patients don't know much more about it than the occasional unpleasant venipuncture (blood collection) or urine sample they left at their doctor's office or the hospital laboratory. That simply stated, is just the beginning of a very complex analytic process that begins with properly labeled specimen tubes, analysis with high tech automated chemistry and hemotology machines by specially trained, licensed and credentialed laboratory professionals.
Once processed, those complex results have to be provided to the doctor's office, emergency room, nursery or intensive care unit in a meaningful, confidential and often very fast or "stat" basis within minutes.
The world of laboratory medicine is dynamic and challenging. It's a place where laboratory professionals find answers to health questions. In the hospital laboratory a highly-skilled team of medical pathologists, medical technologists, medical laboratory technicians, phlebotomists, histologists, microbiologists, chemists, lab technicians and other specially trained specialists work together to determine the presence, extent or absence of disease and also provide valuable data needed to evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatment.
The fact is, the practice of modern medicine in Carbon and Emery counties, or anywhere for that matter, would be impossible without the tests performed in Castleview's laboratory.
Though most laboratory workers spend much less time in direct contact with patients than do doctors and nurses, medical laboratory professionals spend a lot more time working on the specimens from those patients. It is a 24/7 job.
"One might say, they are behind-the-scenes-medical-heros, or at least they are to me," states Dr. Hardy. "A night shift tech might have two patients in the emergency room, a premature infant in the nursery, and a patient in the ICU having a heart attack all at the same time."
Medical laboratory professionals provide laboratory testing services not just for doctors office patients, hospital outpatients and inpatients, but also to those in distant medical clinics, nursing homes, public health facilities, health fairs, schools, nurseries and many different workplaces in the community.
In the future, major areas of scientific development and implementation in laboratory medicine will involve the immune system, blood and tumor cell marker technology, bioengineering, DNA technology, cytogenetics, medical informatics, molecular diagnostics and cancer research.
Although many patients might believe that a CT scan or x-ray is all that is needed to make a diagnosis, and generally such studies do suggest a preliminary list of differential diagnostic possibilities for a patient's illness. However, only with a tissue biopsy, blood draw, or collection of a body fluid will a patient's disease actually be proven and confirmed so that therapy can be correctly implemented.
A laboratory pathologist is a medical doctor who has completed the four years of undergraduate college education, four years of medical school but who has also completed a five year medical (pathology) residency. Historically and today, pathologists are often selected from the high achievers in medical school training programs, many also complete combined MD and PhD training.
Pathologists, on a daily basis, grossly (with the naked eye) and microscopically (with a microscope) examine tissues, cells, and body fluids and are responsible for the accuracy of all hospital laboratory tests. In fact, pathologists have traditionally always been one of the most important quality assurance team members in a hospital. Pathologists interpret, review and correlate the results of all patient diagnostic tests and studies- information that is important for the patient's correct diagnosis and ultimate recovery.
The pathologist and the patient's other doctors consult on which tests to order, the test results, and appropriate treatments. Pathologists play a vital role in ensuring diagnostic accuracy in all areas of medicine, including pediatrics, internal medicine, cardiology, geriatrics, oncology, neurology, etc. Pathologists are teachers and often provide hospital medical inservice training conferences for doctors and other healthcare professionals. Many organize and direct monthly multidisciplinary "Tumor Board" meetings with oncologists, surgeons and family doctors and help develop patient specific therapy plans.
In general, the earlier a disease is detected and treated, the greater the chance of a cure and the more cost-effective the treatment. Pathology plays a particularly important role in preventive medicine by ruling out diseases or detecting them early. For example, by reporting a high cholesterol level found with a blood test, the pathologist can help the patient's physician control the condition and prevent a heart attack or stroke. Thirty years ago, physicians had relatively few laboratory tests to use to detect disease.
With advances in biomedical science, over 2,000 tests on blood and body fluids are now available. Medical technologists and other laboratory personnel work with pathologists to insure that these tests are available to physicians when and where they are needed, and that the results are accurate. Some tests, such as a glucose test, produce results that are understood by all physicians. Others require specialized professional interpretation by an expert, usually a pathologist.
All tissues removed at biopsy or surgery are examined grossly and microscopically by a pathologist who confirms a diagnosis so that correct therapy can be initiated.
With the help of cytotechnologists, pathologists also examine cells taken in a Pap smear or through fine needle aspiration (FNA), to detect abnormal cells that might signal cancer. FNA allows physicians to remove fluid and cells from a suspected tumor using a hollow needle and may take the place of surgery to obtain a biopsy. Traditional microscopic examination is now complemented by a sophisticated array of high tech electronic and molecular biologic techniques.
In microbiology, microorganisms-bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites-which can cause infections are identified and the most effective drugs to treat a particular infection can be determined. In clinical chemistry, many hundreds of tests are available which measure the amounts of materials such as glucose and cholesterol in the blood, urine, spinal fluid, or other body fluids. In immunology, tests that measure the body's response to infection or disease are performed. Many infections, including hepatitis and AIDS, are diagnosed by detecting the antibodies that the patient's immune system makes to fight the infection. In diseases such as arthritis and multiple sclerosis, the body actually makes antibodies against itself.
A popular misconception is that the pathologist's major responsibility is performing autopsies. Although this is one of the pathologist's duties, it certainly isn't the only one. The autopsy is the final quality assurance study that a doctor or a patient's family can request.
All anatomic pathologists are required to be trained in forensic pathology. There are approximately 12,000 board certified pathologists in the U.S. who practice their specialty in community, university, and government hospitals and clinics, in independent laboratories, or in private offices, clinics, and other health care facilities. Some pathologists devote their careers to research in pathology, developing new tests and new instruments to better diagnose diseases.
Castleview Hospital recently had an onsite laboratory inspection conducted by a team of two highly trained visiting pathologists and four additional inspectors from the Salt Lake and Ogden areas. The hospital laboratory passed the inspection with the most high accolades and continues to maintain the high quality standards required by the national laboratory accrediting agency- the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
For more information about the laboratory and its staff, please contact Castleview Hospital (435-637-4800, lab extension 3200).


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Wednesday, July 14, 2010Scott Mason played soccer for the Lipscomb Bisons. His playing days are over but he remains active in the game as a coach and instructor. This summer he has been busy with summer camps, including the youth soccer camps I play at Lipscomb. During a dinner break with the campers he answered some questions for LipscombSports.com.
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A New York teacher has decided to take on her school district after the superintendent ordered her to remove all religious themed materials from her classroom or face losing her job. Last June Joelle Silver, who teaches in the Cheektowaga, New York Central School District, received a "counseling letter," signed by the district's superintendent, ordering her to remove all religious items from her classroom, including inspirational posters openly displayed, along with discreet personal sticky notes with Bible quotes and religious messages that she kept on her desk, explained the American Freedom Law Center, which is representing Silver in the suit.
According to the Christian News Network, one of the posters included the Bible verse, "Be on guard. Stand true to what you believe. Be courageous. Be strong. And everything you do must be done in love" (1 Corinthians 6:13-14). Also displayed was a quote from President Ronald Reagan which read, "Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience.... Without God there is a coarsening of the society. Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.... If ever we forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
The letter from the district advised Silver that if she needs "to occasionally glance at inspirational Bible verses between classes during the course of the day" she should "keep such material in a discreet folder that only [she] will have access to" and only "so long as [she is careful] not to share it or disclose its content to [her] students or their parents or guardians."
Silver's suit charges that the district demanded she reevaluate her role as faculty adviser for the student Bible club, to the point that school officials "pressured Silver into resigning as faculty adviser for the student Bible Study Club, which was formed pursuant to the Equal Access Act."
In her suit, Silver charges that the district stipulated in the letter that "if you choose to continue monitoring the Bible Study Club next school year, you must carefully re-examine [district policies], so that you can better protect that club from being disciplined and possibly banned.
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"I will lose 20 pounds." "I'm going to quit smoking -- for good."
Many resolutely announce these statements or other goals at the start of a new year. Sometimes such promises stick, but often, they do not. To help determined individuals aiming for self-improvement in 2010, Bruce Masek, PhD, of the MGH Department of Psychiatry, weighs in on the unique tradition that is making New Year's resolutions.
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Caramel Buttercream
Posted 04 May 2005 - 07:52 AM
Wendy's Banana Cake (which I love and have made a few times), filled with chocolate brandied ganache and French caramel buttercream with brandy and pralines. All frosted with caramel buttercream. But therein lies my question.
For the filling, I mixed pureed hazelnut praline into some of the buttercream, and that went between two of the layers. I know this creates a caramelized flavor, but for the actual buttercream base, I wanted smooth caramel, as in caramelized white sugar (not brown sugar).
So I caramelized half of the recipe's sugar (from Recipe Gullet) dry, then attempted to dissolve that with the water from the recipe, using some heavy cream instead, brought it up to hard ball, etc.
This turned out just fine, but it took about a zillion hours to get the hard caramel to dissolve. A google search turned up an Italian meringue version of this, but I wanted the richness of the yolks, and couldn't find another recipe for what I wanted.
So how would you do this? I figure I need to caramelize the sugar with some water so it's less sticky, but then I would need another liquid (or some of the butter?) to dissolve it and bring it to hard ball. Any process ideas from the experts? Thanks.
Here were the results:
Posted 04 May 2005 - 09:17 AM
And the embellishments ALL look almost like clear jewels...are they transparent? Molded, handformed---what?
Simply stunning.
Posted 04 May 2005 - 09:40 AM
When I caramelized the hazelnuts, they were suspended on toothpicks over a teflon cake pan and the caramel came off in these amber drops. I liked it so much I made more of them, let them dry, and used tweezers to place them on the cake. Pretty nifty effect for a serendipitous accident.
And the embellishments ALL look almost like clear jewels...are they transparent? Molded, handformed---what?
Posted 04 May 2005 - 11:08 AM
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buttercream pastries
Posted 04 May 2005 - 02:05 PM
I like the following:
5 yolks (about 100g)
1 egg (about 50g)
400 g sugar
80g water
700g unsalted butter
You can just caramelize the sugar from the recipe - but then it is really too hot to add to the eggs and you would need to cool it enough to combine well. Can't say that this is the recommended approach
Assuming you go with a reasonably dark caramel I don't think that you need adjust the sugar. I think that you can add the caramel in a variety of ways:
Make a dark caramel and add enough water to make it a very thick liquid (as if you were adding the cream to make caramel sauce) cool and add to buttercream to taste.
You can make a caramel powder by pouring your hot caramel out on a silpat or parchment to allow it to harden - pulverize it in the food processor and then add that to the buttercream. It tends to ball up on contact with moist ingredients so you may find it works best to use the caramel powder to add to you hot sugar syrup or make a paste by adding a bit of water and then mix that in.
I am not advocating any quantities on the caramel because I think it needs to be to taste. I often make up quantities of hard caramel that I keep in airtight boxes with dessicant then pulverize it when I need some.
But that is just my go-to inventive approach. You can probably find a recipe.
Posted 04 May 2005 - 03:28 PM
Posted 05 May 2005 - 05:50 AM
Make a dark caramel and add enough water to make it a very thick liquid (as if you were adding the cream to make caramel sauce) cool and add to buttercream to taste.
I'll second that. I keep a container of caramel sauce in the fridge (with cream), and just stir some of that into my standard French buttercream when I need caramel buttercream. The bonus is that there's always caramel sauce in the fridge in case a rogue bowl of ice cream comes a-knocking.
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Posted 15 May 2005 - 12:25 PM
I thought adding a tough of cognac really intensified the experience - well - I guess a little cognac almost always does...
Caramel Buttercream
Make a caramel syrup
450g sugar
100g water
Pour sugar in a small saucepan and add the water without stirring
This should be planty of water to moisten all the sugar and create a 'wet sand'
Cover and cook over high heat until sugar is boiling
Remove cover and cook to dark caramel
(in my test it timed out to about 13 minutes on the stove)
Turn off heat
add 120g water just a little at a time an wait for the volcano action to subside after each addition
stir and let cool
- I contemplated cooling the syrup to soft ball and adding it directly to the eggs as the sugar but opted to use the caramel as extra
Make buttercream (French)
5 yolks plus enough whites to reach 120g
1 egg (50g)
400 g sugar
80g water
750g butter (cubed)
Cognac to taste
Whip eggs to frothy & light
Cook sugar to firm ball (120C)
Pour sugar into whipping eggs
Add butter and whip
Add caramel syrup to buttercream to taste – (I liked about 400g syrup)
If you find that the buttercream starts to get too soupy – add another 30-50g butter (softened) and whip
Posted 15 May 2005 - 12:58 PM
I add it to the whipping eggs
Posted 15 May 2005 - 01:49 PM
Sugar ready to cook (both for caramel syrup and for french buttercream - same method to start
Caramel Buttercream
Sugar covered while coming to boil
Sugar boiling
Just starting to caramelize (for caramel syrup only- if this is happening to your syrup for the buttercream add some water now!)
About the right color caramel (test on a white silicon spatula or drizzle a bit on same white parchment or a plate to check the color)
After adding water
Eggs ready to whip
Lightened eggs about ready for sugar (where I add the salt)
Pouring in sugar (I am forced to use my left hand because of the camera so I have to rest the pan on the lip of the bowl - I am just not that ambidexterous) the whisk is at high speed whipping while I add the hot sugar syrup
Most of the butter whipped in
Caramel syrup
Buttercream (yummy) - but extra yummy with cognac
And the white chocolate brownies for my little sister are done at the same time
Posted 15 May 2005 - 05:13 PM
I've not made buttercream with egg yolks so I'm expecting a richer more full bodied taste than the Swiss buttercream I've been making.
Posted 15 May 2005 - 05:17 PM
Posted 16 May 2005 - 07:56 AM
Make a dark caramel and add enough water to make it a very thick liquid (as if you were adding the cream to make caramel sauce) cool and add to buttercream to taste.
I'll second that. I keep a container of caramel sauce in the fridge (with cream), and just stir some of that into my standard French buttercream when I need caramel buttercream. The bonus is that there's always caramel sauce in the fridge in case a rogue bowl of ice cream comes a-knocking.
I'm glad this thread surfaced again; one more look at that glorious cake and all its sweet jewelry---oh, my.
I keep several sauces in the fridge, as well, just because. And those rogue bowls of ice cream---we take in all comers---rogues and fugitives and ladylike simpering ones selling cosmetics, as well as big old bowls of homemade, big as hubcaps, crank-turned in the Summer shade. They're the ones which look around warily, finally stepping in. We are the veritable Underground Railroad for traveling ice creams, offering a night's rest and a kind word.
We're sure there's a mark on the house somewhere, like the hobo graffiti of decades past, ensuring a haven with no questions asked. Perhaps someday we'll be internationally recognized as a sweets hostel, taking in the weary; until then, we'll just keep on welcoming all flavors and creeds, one bowl at a time.
Edited by racheld, 16 May 2005 - 08:05 AM.
Posted 16 May 2005 - 04:28 PM
2) Racheld, something creepy about an Undergroun Railroad for itinerent ice creams, considering what I expect ends up happening to them!
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Posted 29 May 2005 - 05:38 AM
The cake will have to spend some time outside, in Chicago, in mid-July, so I went with Italian buttercream for stability. For the same reason, I didn't want to soften the buttercream by adding caramel sauce or syrup to a traditional buttercream (nor did I want to oversweeten), so I decided to go with the caramel powder trick. I made a hard caramel from RLB's recipe (1 cup sugar, 1/3 cup water, 1/8 t. cream of tartar, heated to 350 and cooled) and pulverized it in my food processor. It got a bit clumpy, but fine.
I then added 1/4 cup noncaramelized sugar and proceeded with the Italian meringue buttercream recipe: heated the sugar with 2/3 c. water, beat 5 egg whites and a pinch of cream of tartar, added the sugar syrup when it reached 238 degrees, beat in 1 pound butter until frosting-y. I'm pleased to report that the caramel had no trouble dissolving in the water. The frosting curdled a bit at first, but it came together nicely. I now have 4 cups of smooth buttercream in that gorgeous caramel color.
The flavor is a bit burnt, which I would have preferred avoiding but is not altogether unpleasant. I may be pairing this with a chocolate cake and a banana cake, and I will test the frosting against those flavors. (I now have 2 cups of this in the fridge just waiting for my test cakes, and 2 cups in the freezer to see how it behaves.) I wonder if the burnt flavor could be mitigated by using a higher proportion of noncaramelized to caramelized sugar. I don't want to lose the caramel flavor or beautiful color, though. And because of all the caramelized sugar, the frosting is less sweet, which I do like.
I am thinking of a three-tier cake all frosted in this stuff and decorated with hard caramel shards. I don't know how well the shards would hold up in the heat of July, though.
Posted 29 May 2005 - 05:52 AM
I don't know how it will hold up outside in the July heat. Others have enough experience to know what will hold up and I'm sure they'll chime in. In our DC heat I'd be afraid of a puddle...
Posted 13 July 2006 - 05:07 AM
i need to make a caramel imbc for an upcoming wedding and would prefer not to add a finished caramel to plain imbc as i feel that it would make it too sweet.
has anyone tried making an imbc with brown sugar? or caramelizing the sugar before adding it to the stiff egg whites?
any help would be much appreciated!
Posted 13 July 2006 - 05:27 AM
2 Cups granulated sugar
4 oz butter -- softened
1 1/3 Cups heavy cream -- heated
Caramelize the sugar. When it is the color you like (I make mine medium amber; lighter and the flavor won't come through well in the buttercream), add the warmed cream and butter to make the caramel. Stir over low heat until smooth. Refrigerate until cool.
Whip 1 lb butter. When light, slowly pour in the caramel. Continue to beat until smooth and fluffy.
I guess without the eggs, this is an American buttercream and not IMBC, but it is good...
Posted 13 July 2006 - 09:45 AM
Posted 13 July 2006 - 09:54 AM
For carmel, a deeper brown flavor, use the recipe posted above or use my favorite;
Caramel Buttercream
Important - Make the Caramel Sauce (recipe below) before making the Italian Meringue Buttercream.
Change to Italian Meringue Buttercream recipe: Bring the sugar/water mixture up to 325°, instead of 248° to 250°. It should turn a deep golden amber color. Do not let it turn dark brown, or it will taste burned.
Remove syrup from the heat and allow to cool to about 260°. Then, use it in place of the regular sugar syrup and proceed with the Italian Meringue Buttercream recipe.
When the buttercream is finished and all of the butter has been added and the mixture is smooth, beat 1 cup of the Caramel Sauce into each batch (7 cups of buttercream.)
The Buttercream is now ready to use and may be stored and reconstituted as for regular Italian Meringue Buttercream.
While this buttercream can be made 1 month ahead and frozen, it tastes best when fresh.
Caramel Sauce
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1. Bring the cream to a boil over medium heat in a medium-sized saucepan; set aside, keeping warm. Place the sugar and water in a large heavy-bottomed pot. Stir to moisten the sugar and cook over a low-medium heat, without stirring, until the syrup begins to color. Wash down the sides of the pot once or twice with a damp pastry brush.
2. When the syrup is a golden amber color, remove from the heat and carefully pour in the warm cream. The mixture
may bubble up furiously. Allow the mixture to calm down, then gently whisk until smooth. (If the cream is too cool, it will cause the caramel to seize. If this happens,
place the pot back over a low heat and stir until the sauce liquefies.) Stir in the vanilla off the heat.
Store refrigerated in an airtight container. It should be room temperature and fluid when added to the buttercream.
Reheat in a double boiler or microwave before using, if necessary.
Makes 2 2/3 cups
*edited to include recipe*
Edited by RodneyCk, 13 July 2006 - 10:00 AM.
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Posted 13 July 2006 - 04:52 PM
Posted 13 July 2006 - 04:57 PM
choux - do you just replace the white sugar with the brown? what temp do you bring it up to?
jeannecake - your idea sounds REALLY good too! i like it that the caramel shards would provide a textural interest although i'm not sure if you could feel it through all that cake!
wow - egulleters ALWAYS come through!!!! you guys rock!!
Posted 13 July 2006 - 04:59 PM
Dulce De Leche
This is a very sweet treat used in Mexican cooking usually prepared for the Day of the Dead. It can be compared to a caramel in texture. Use as a filling or transform into a buttercream icing.
1 can sweetened condensed milk
Remove the label from the can of condensed milk. Do not under any circumstances open the can yet. Take the can and stick it in a pot. Cover it with water. Put the pot on a stove and turn up the heat. Let the pot and can boil for about two hours for runny dulce de leche or about three for solid dulce de leche.
When it's done, open up the can and eat directly (for the solid variety) or use as a dessert spread (for the liquid variety).
Alternatively, you can also empty the can of sweetened condensed milk in a double boiler, stirring every once in a while, for 2 to 4 hours, until it turns to a medium caramel color.
Cool well and refrigerate if not using right away.
Posted 13 July 2006 - 05:01 PM
rodneyck - to make your version, is it just exactly like a regular imbc but you bring the temp up higher? same proportions etc?
Exactly, the only differences are bringing the sugar up higher and adding the caramel sauce at the end.
Posted 14 July 2006 - 09:49 AM
Posted 18 November 2006 - 02:17 AM
should i caramelize the sugar syrup in the imbm, cool slightly and procede? would this work?
swiss -- woudl you add caramel sauce at the end?
any tips or recipes would be greatly appreciated!
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The work done by RiverCrest Enterprises, Inc., and North Country Millworks, LLC, is highlighted in a story about renovations done to the home of Drs. Neil and Joanne Cichetti on state Route 131, Massena.
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We dont take our pictures like we should. We dont promote ourselves like we should. Its nice when somebody else does it, he said.
Mr. Fleury and Creig L. and Barbara Donnelly, owners of North Country Millworks, LLC, had worked together on previous projects, including a new office for Drs. Cichetti in 2010.
I ended up building an office building behind the hospital for them. It was a 4,000-square-foot office building. We did a lot of custom woodwork in there. I used Creig Donnelly to do some of the custom work there, Mr. Fleury said.
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They liked the people that I worked with and how I did business. They wanted me to do some renovation. We tore down the whole back kitchen and built an addition with a cathedral ceiling for the kitchen and pantries. We totally gutted it and did renovations to the whole first floor, he said.
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Part of my approach to doing any project is, its not all about me, its the team that I bring together to fit the project. That makes it so successful. Its the workers that you have on the job, and Ive got some extremely talented craftsmen that work directly for me. I bring the most talented people I can, he said.
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You size the talent thats needed to do each of these projects. Nothing gets done until they all mesh together, he explained. Its nice to have this kind of talent locally.
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