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We found the Oasis Inn by accident, having not been able to find a caravan park open in which to park our camper-van. It was 8.45 pm, but the owner was very welcoming. We had our 11 year old daughter with us and the owner apologetically told us that the triple rooms had gone and they only had a one bedroom apartment for $110. The apartment had a reasonable sized triple bedroom, together with a clean and room bathroom, separate WC which was handy for three of us, a galley kitchen together with an enormous living room. It was great to have so much space. We were going to swapping our campervan for 4 week driver campervan the next day and were able to to use the place to unload everything, get sorted and clean our campervan ready for handing back. The place was so good and such good value that we booked to go back for a night after our trip to Cape York. The return trip was equally good and again we were able to use the place to empty out our 4 week drive campervan and get sorted. The hotel was also really well located and although on the main road, we didn't notice any noise.
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Mom doesn't always know best.
In Minka Kelly's case, she often had to be the responsible one growing up. In the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (as excerpted by the Daily Mail) Derek Jeter's 31-year-old ex-girlfriend opens up about the "pretty complicated" relationship she had with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly, prior to her death in 2008.
"She was 5'11"," the Charlie's Angels star explains. "Legs up to her ears, gorgeous. She got along on that for as long as she could."
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Kelly says her mother would sometimes wake her up in the middle of the night when she got home from working at the strip club. The mother-daughter duo would then go to the supermarket shopping. "That was like our big Friday," she recalls. "She would want me to skip school. ...I was like 'No, Mom, I've gotta go to school!'"
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Kelly's mother chose to raise her daughter as a single parent. The actress' father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, "wanted to try the family thing," but Kelly says her mom "was too busy having fun."
"It wasn't like he didn't want to be part of our lives," the Friday Night Lights star adds.
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"I didn't know how to appreciate what good friends we were," Kelly admits. "Because I just wanted her to be my mom."
Sadly, three years ago, Kelly's mother died of colon cancer. "That's detectable," Kelly says. "Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body."
Fortunately, the two made peace with one another before it was too late. "By the time she passed I was holding her," Kelly says. "I was with her until her last breath. We made it."
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whats happening here? is it related to the news of insiders selling off or is it a sector wide sell off. Insiders (including the CEO) have sold of considerable holdings recently. I am still holding to mine. Will this one see mid 8s or low 9s soon? (I mean by end of the year?). What do you guys think? Is there any more catalyst coming up?
Sentiment: Hold
Stock is filling the gap. It could go to 7 before starting to move up again. It always happens after sharp jump in stock price like it was on Apr 23 and then on Apr 24. The Apr 24 gap is already filled.


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A new study says that global warming has measurably worsened the ongoing California drought. While scientists largely agree that natural weather variations have caused a lack of rain, an emerging consensus says that rising temperatures may be making things worse by driving moisture from plants and soil into the air. The new study is the first to estimate how much worse: as much as a quarter. The findings suggest that within a few decades, continually increasing temperatures and resulting moisture losses will push California into even more persistent aridity. The study appears this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Dry grassland and oak landscape of central California's Coastal Mountain Range, among the parts of the state most affected by the current drought. Photo taken August 2015. (Dominick McPeake)
"A lot of people think that the amount of rain that falls out the sky is the only thing that matters," said lead author A. Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "But warming changes the baseline amount of water that's available to us, because it sends water back into the sky."
The study adds to growing evidence that climate change is already bringing extreme weather to some regions. California is the world's eighth-largest economy, ahead of most countries, but many scientists think that the nice weather it is famous for may now be in the process of going away. The record-breaking drought is now in its fourth year; it is drying up wells, affecting major produce growers and feeding wildfires now sweeping over vast areas.
The researchers analyzed multiple sets of month-by-month data from 1901 to 2014. They looked at precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind and other factors. They could find no long-term rainfall trend. But average temperatures have been creeping up—about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit over the 114-year period, in step with building fossil-fuel emissions. Natural weather variations have made California unusually hot over the last several years; added to this was the background trend. Thus, when rainfall declined in 2012, the air sucked already scant moisture from soil, trees and crops harder than ever. The study did not look directly at snow, but in the past, gradual melting of the high-mountain winter snowpack has helped water the lowlands in warm months. Now, melting has accelerated, or the snowpack has not formed at all, helping make warm months even dryer according to other researchers.
Due to the complexity of the data, the scientists could put only a range, not a single number, on the proportion of the drought caused by global warming. The paper estimates 8 to 27 percent, but Williams said that somewhere in the middle -- probably 15 to 20 percent -- is most likely.
Severity of the California drought in 2014, a record-breaking year. The darkest red areas are the worst. (Williams et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 2015)
Last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sponsored a study that blamed the rain deficit on a persistent ridge of high-pressure air over the northeast Pacific, which has been blocking moisture-laden ocean air from reaching land. Lamont-Doherty climatologist Richard Seager, who led that study (and coauthored the new one), said the blockage probably has nothing to do with global warming; normal weather patterns will eventually push away the obstacle, and rainfall will return. In fact, most projections say that warming will eventually increase California's rainfall a bit. But the new study says that evaporation will overpower any increase in rain, and then some. This means that by around the 2060s, more or less permanent drought will set in, interrupted only by the rainiest years. More intense rainfall is expected to come in short bursts, then disappear.
Many researchers believe that rain will resume as early as this winter. "When this happens, the danger is that it will lull people into thinking that everything is now OK, back to normal," said Williams. "But as time goes on, precipitation will be less able to make up for the intensified warmth. People will have to adapt to a new normal."
This study is not the first to make such assertions, but it is the most specific. A paper by scientists from Lamont-Doherty and Cornell University, published this February, warned that climate change will push much of the central and western United States into the driest period for at least 1,000 years. A March study out of Stanford University said that California droughts have been intensified by higher temperatures, and gives similar warnings for the future.
Abnormally low lake level at Horseshoe Lake in the high-elevation Mammoth Lakes Basin of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Taken June 2015. (Jennifer Bernstein)
A further twist was introduced in a 2010 study by researchers at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. They showed that massive irrigation from underground aquifers has been offsetting global warming in some areas, because the water cools the air. The effect has been especially sharp in California's heavily irrigated Central Valley—possibly up to 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit during some seasons. Now, aquifers are dropping fast, sending irrigation on a downward trajectory. If irrigation's cooling effect declines, this will boost air temperatures even higher, which will dry aquifers further, and so on. Scientists call this process "positive feedback."
Climatologist Noah Diffenbaugh, who led the earlier Stanford research, said the new study is an important step forward. It has "brought together the most comprehensive set of data for the current drought," he said. "It supports the previous work showing that temperature makes it harder for drought to break, and increases the long-term risk."
Jonathan Overpeck, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, said, "It's important to have quantitative estimates of how much human-caused warming is already making droughts more severe." But, he said, "it's troubling to know that human influence will continue to make droughts more severe until greenhouse gas emissions are cut back in a big way."
The study's other authors are Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, Benjamin Cook and Edward Cook, all of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; and geographer John Abatzoglou of the University of Idaho.
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Solomon led efforts to identify the cause of the ozone hole over Antarctica
An American atmospheric chemist who led efforts to identify the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole and a French geochemist who extracted the longest-yet climate record from polar ice cores have won the prestigious 2012 Vetlesen Prize. Susan Solomon and Jean Jouzel will share the $250,000 award, considered to be the earth sciences' equivalent of a Nobel.
"Earth Science is a collective enterprise, and transformational advances are the product of many authors," says the Vetlesen Prize committee's citation. "Both nominees have made leading and fundamental contributions to climate science." The prize is funded by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation in New York and administered by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Solomon's work in identifying the cause of Antarctica's springtime ozone losses helped bring about a global ban on manmade ozone-depleting chemicals. Working most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colo., Solomon proposed in a 1986 study that refrigerants and other industrial chemicals were responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole discovered a year earlier. She led two expeditions to Antarctica, in 1986 and 1987, bringing back key measurements that proved her hypothesis. Recognizing that ozone protects the planet from harmful ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer, policymakers around the world responded with rare speed: in 1987, they agreed on a Montreal Protocol to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and related chemicals.
Solomon and her colleagues also explained why ozone destruction was greatest during southern spring. Throughout the dark and extremely cold winter, CFC byproducts react with icy stratospheric clouds to produce ozone-depleting chlorine compounds. When sunlight returns to the South Pole, it reacts with the compounds to break ozone apart. In a 2002 study, Solomon and a colleague also linked Antarctica's ozone hole to a strengthening of winds that circle the continent in summer, causing net cooling over most of Antarctica but extreme warming over the West Antarctic Peninsula. She has also written several books. In The Coldest March, published in 2002, she reconstructed the weather during British explorer Robert Scott's 1911 expedition to Antarctica to argue that abnormally cold conditions and not incompetence led to the deaths of Scott and his crew. She has also worked as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in 2007 received the Nobel Peace Prize. Solomon, 56, is the first woman to win the Vetlesen since it was first offered in 1960.
Jouzel, 65, has been involved in collecting ice-core records from both poles since the 1970s, and has advanced isotopic techniques for extracting past climate information from them. In the longest climate reconstruction yet from ice cores, Jouzel in a 2007 study in the journal Science charted temperatures in Antarctica for the last 800,000 years, over eight consecutive ice ages. The record was long enough to highlight Antarctica's climate response to slowly varying seasonal distribution of sunlight caused by changes in earth's orbit. It was also detailed enough to reveal climate variations within each ice age cycle due to earth's complex internal climate system.
He has also been a leader in bringing human-caused climate change to the public's attention.
Jouzel has collected the longest-yet climate record from polar ice cores.
For the last 20 years, he has worked on the IPCC, and is currently vice president of the climate science working panel, whose findings will be released in the Fifth Assessment Report next September. Jouzel has co-written several books, including Climate: A Dangerous Game in 2007 and White Planet, whose English translation is due out in 2013.
Neither scientist came from a scientific family. Solomon was born and raised in Chicago; her father sold insurance and her mother taught fourth grade. She says she was inspired to become a scientist by watching oceanographer Jacques Cousteau on TV as a child, and to go into chemistry by the "exactness" of the experiments she did in high school. "You have a clear solution and you add an exact amount of base and wow, it changes to a bright color just like it's supposed to," she said. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981, and worked at NOAA until 2011, when she became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has won many previous honors: the American Geophysical Union (AGU)'s Macelewane Medal in 1985 for early-career achievement; a U.S. National Medal of Science in 1999, and the Blue Planet Prize in 2004.
Jouzel grew up in a farming family in Brittany, and during his graduate studies in chemistry became interested in how large hailstones form in the atmosphere at a time when chemical seeding of clouds to produce rain was a popular research topic. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Faculté d'Orsay in Paris in 1974 and eventually applied his hail-investigation techniques to polar ice cores, advancing methods for pulling climate information from air bubbles trapped in the ice and minute variations in water molecules layered in the cores.
He has spent his research career at the French nuclear agency, CEA, or Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique. In 1995, he became research director of CEA's climate and environment lab (LSCE), and from 2001 to 2008, headed the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, a national climate research lab near Paris that includes LSCE. In 2002, Jouzel and his mentor Claude Lorius received France's highest scientific honor, the CNRS gold medal, for their work on polar ice cores, including reconstruction of past greenhouse gas levels from air trapped in the ice. In 1997, he was awarded the European Geophysical Society's Milankovitch Medal for outstanding research on long-term climate change and modeling; and in 2003, AGU's Roger Revelle medal for outstanding contributions to atmospheric science.
"If we want to avoid large climate change we need to act now on greenhouse gases," he said. "Global warming is not yet damaging, but if we do nothing in the coming years we will have more extreme events, droughts, storms and so on."
The Vetlesen Prize is given "for scientific achievement resulting in a clearer understanding of the Earth, its history, or its relations to the universe." It was established in 1959 by the trustees of the estate of G. Unger Vetlesen, a Norwegian immigrant to the United States who became a leading shipbuilder, World War II military leader and pioneer in transatlantic air travel. Vetlesen passed away in 1955. Designed to recognize sweeping achievements on par with the Nobel, it is given every several years by a selection committee appointed by the president of Columbia University. The most recent award was in 2008 to maverick geologist Walter Alvarez, who convinced the world that an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs. Previous winners include British climate scientist Sir Nicholas Shackleton, and several scientists at Lamont-Doherty itself, including climate scientist Wallace Broecker, marine geologist Walter Pitman, seismologist Lynn Sykes and Lamont's founding director Maurice "Doc" Ewing.
Solomon and Jouzel will receive the award and accompanying medal from Columbia president Lee Bollinger at the university's Low Library on Feb. 21.
The deep-sea benthic foram Aragonia velascoensis went extinct about 56 million years ago as the oceans rapidly acidified. (Ellen Thomas/Yale University)
Some 56 million years ago, a massive pulse of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, carbonate sediments dissolved, some organisms went extinct and others evolved.
Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification played a part in the crisis—similar to today, as manmade CO2 combines with seawater to change its chemistry. Now, for the first time, scientists have quantified the extent of surface acidification from those ancient days, and the news is not good: the oceans are on track to acidify at least as much as they did then, only at a much faster rate.
In a study published in the latest issue of Paleoceanography, the scientists estimate that surface ocean acidity increased by about 100 percent in a few thousand years or more, and stayed that way for the next 70,000 years. In this radically changed environment, some creatures died out while others adapted and evolved. The study is the first to use the chemical composition of fossils to reconstruct surface ocean acidity at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of intense warming on land and throughout the oceans due to high CO2.
"This could be the closest geological analog to modern ocean acidification," said study coauthor Bärbel Hönisch, a paleoceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "As massive as it was, it still happened about 10 times more slowly than what we are doing today."
The oceans have absorbed about a third of the carbon humans have pumped into the air since industrialization, helping to keep temperatures lower than they would be otherwise. But that uptake of carbon has come at a price. Chemical reactions caused by that excess CO2 have made seawater grow more acidic, depleting it of the carbonate ions that corals, mollusks and calcifying plankton need to build their shells and skeletons.
In the last 150 years or so, the pH of the oceans has dropped substantially, from 8.2 to 8.1--equivalent to a 25 percent increase in acidity. By the end of the century, ocean pH is projected to fall another 0.3 pH units, to 7.8. While the researchers found a comparable pH drop during the PETM--0.3 units--the shift happened over a few thousand years.
"We are dumping carbon in the atmosphere and ocean at a much higher rate today—within centuries," said study coauthor Richard Zeebe, a paleoceanographer at the University of Hawaii. "If we continue on the emissions path we are on right now, acidification of the surface ocean will be way more dramatic than during the PETM."
Ocean acidification in the modern ocean is already affecting some marine life, as shown by the partly dissolved shell of this planktic snail, or pteropod, caught off the Pacific Northwest. (Nina Bednaršek/NOAA)
The study confirms that the acidified conditions lasted for 70,000 years or more, consistent with previous model-based estimates. "It didn't bounce back right away," said Timothy Bralower, a researcher at Penn State who was not involved in the study. "It took tens of thousands of years to recover."
From seafloor sediments drilled off Japan, the researchers analyzed the shells of plankton that lived at the surface of the ocean during the PETM. Two different methods for measuring ocean chemistry at the time—the ratio of boron isotopes in their shells, and the amount of boron --arrived at similar estimates of acidification. "It's really showing us clear evidence of a change in pH for the first time," said Bralower.
What caused the burst of carbon at the PETM is still unclear. One popular explanation is that an overall warming trend may have sent a pulse of methane from the seafloor into the air, setting off events that released more earth-warming gases into the air and oceans. Up to half of the tiny animals that live in mud on the seafloor—benthic foraminifera—died out during the PETM, possibly along with life further up the food chain.
Other species thrived in this changed environment and new ones evolved. In the oceans, dinoflagellates extended their range from the tropics to the Arctic, while on land, hoofed animals and primates appeared for the first time. Eventually, the oceans and atmosphere recovered as elements from eroded rocks washed into the sea and neutralized the acid.
Today, signs are already emerging that some marine life may be in trouble. In a recent study led by Nina Bednaršek at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, more than half of the tiny planktic snails, or pteropods, that she and her team studied off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California showed badly dissolved shells. Ocean acidification has been linked to the widespread death of baby oysters off Washington and Oregon since 2005, and may also pose a threat to coral reefs, which are under additional pressure from pollution and warming ocean temperatures.
"Seawater carbonate chemistry is complex but the mechanism underlying ocean acidification is very simple," said study lead author Donald Penman, a graduate student at University of California at Santa Cruz. "We can make accurate predictions about how carbonate chemistry will respond to increasing carbon dioxide levels. The real unknown is how individual organisms will respond and how that cascades through ecosystems."
Other authors of the study, which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation: Ellen Thomas, Yale University; and James Zachos, UC Santa Cruz.
Bärbel Hönisch Lecture on Ocean Acidification
Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented, Study Says
A new study projects that much of Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa will grow drier as global warming progresses. Here in northern Ethiopia, herders often already struggle to make a living. (Brian Kahn/IRI)
A new study finds that the Horn of Africa has become progressively drier over the past century and that it is drying at a rate that is both unusual in the context of the past 2,000 years and in step with human-influenced warming. The study also projects that the drying will continue as the region gets warmer. If the researchers are right, the trend could exacerbate tensions in one of the most unstable regions in the world.
"Right now, aid groups are expecting a wetter, greener future for the Horn of Africa, but our findings show that the exact opposite is occurring. The region is drying and will continue to do so with rising carbon emissions," said study coauthor Peter deMenocal, who heads the Center for Climate and Life at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The study, appearing in this week's Science Advances, used a sediment core that deMenocal and his colleagues extracted from the pirate-ridden Gulf of Aden. They used the core to infer past changes in temperature and aridity. By pairing the paleoclimate record from the core with 20th century observations, the researchers determined that drying will probably continue across Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia. That contradicts more optimistic models that have suggested future warming might bring rainier weather patterns that could benefit the region.
"What we see in the paleoclimate record from the last 2,000 years is evidence that the Horn of Africa is drier when there are warm conditions on Earth, and wetter when it is colder," said lead author Jessica Tierney, an associate professor at the University of Arizona and former postdoctoral associate at Lamont-Doherty.
Global-scale models used to predict future changes under global warming suggest that the region should become wetter, primarily during the "short rains" season from September to November. But the new study suggests that those gains may be offset by declining rainfall during the "long rains" season from March to May, on which the region's rain-fed agriculture relies.
Study coauthor Peter deMenocal (left) took this deep-sea core in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden. Lead author Jessica Tierney (right) performed an analysis linking greater heat in the past to drier conditions. (Courtesy Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
The outcome has serious implications for a region that has been racked with political instability and violence as it has dried. The Horn of Africa has suffered deadly droughts every few years in recent decades, and with them humanitarian crises as famine and violence spread. It has also become one of the most unstable regions in the world. In Somalia, as the political situation deteriorated amid droughts of the 1980s and `90s, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled the country, and pirates began raiding ships off the coast.
To extract the sediment core used in the study, scientists had to evade those pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Lamont-Doherty's R/V Maurice Ewing had been attacked with rocket-propelled grenades during a previous trip.On this run, the captain of the Dutch research ship Pelagia turned off the ship's interior and navigation lights to slip through these waters. Around them, other vessels were reporting pirate attacks.
That sediment core, which dates back about 40,000 years, has already provided new insights into Africa's climate. In a 2013 study analyzing parts of the core, Tierney and deMenocal showed that the Sahara, which once bloomed with regular rainfall, suddenly dried out over the span of a century or two, during a warm period some 5,000 years ago—not more gradually, as many researchers had assumed. It provided evidence that climate shifts can happen quite suddenly, even if the forces driving them are gradual.
The new study uses isotopes from leaf waxes found in the sediment sample to compare rates of drying over the past 2,000 years. Plants reflect the environment that sustains them. When the climate is drier, leaf waxes are more enriched with deuterium, or heavy hydrogen isotopes; leaf waxes from wetter climates reflect the more abundant rainfall through the presence of the normal hydrogen isotopes. The researchers found an increasing shift toward heavy hydrogen in the last century as the climate, which had experienced a wet period during the Little Ice Age (1450—1850 AD), dried out.
The findings suggest that climate modeling, frequently done at a global scale, would benefit from region-specific studies with higher resolution results in high-impact areas such as the Horn of Africa, Tierney said.
"If we can simulate rainfall in these arid tropical and subtropical regions better, we can understand the future impact of climate change," she said.
The study's other coauthor is Caroline Ummenhofer of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.


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Mirrors from Afar -Chapter 22Peter got home after half an hour, taking advantage of the early time to take a walk around and clear his head. Or at least think calmly without any interruptions. Even after something so abnormal to him, he still felt strangely calm as he walked through the quiet streets until he reached his house. It wasn't particularly cold that night, only a light breeze gently pushing his hair back as he walked. He figured that any other guy would just think of the date he just had, wondering if he had done well, how the goodnight kiss felt yet all he could think about was his best friend. As if he had already forgotten about his outing with Claire. While he was with her he had pushed it to the back of his mind, but now he had no choice but to think about their fight. The more time passed the guiltier he felt, and the more anxious he got. What if he had lost Matt for good? What if he tried to fix it and it would be too late?Mirrors from Afar -Chapter 225 years ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
No, I won't accept this.
Once he got inside, he evaded h
A peaceful CoveA peaceful Cove5 years ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
A peaceful cove, in mind or place, is where we rest the soul.
A tiny corner of the world, more precious than pure gold.
Pride is tilled, fears are stilled, trust unveils the deep,
trust not in one's own weak strength, but trust in greater things.
Things that ebb, things that flow, mysteries touched, but never known.
Far: the distance one can get, from towering heights, to serene depths.
From sun filled lands, and pure white shores, to the thrilling contents behind closed doors.
Cherished places, come and gone, sometimes things don't last that long.
Worn out shoes, Vacant faces, maps uncharted, empty vases.
Glasses half full, silver linings, it all depends upon the timing.
Appreciation comes from loss, you can't know warmth, til after frost.
Or life's full gift, til after theft, you vainly walk, despise each breath.
People are such silly things, to sinking ships they sadly cling, they see a lost soul writhe in pain, then ask themselves, "what can i gain?"
A warning sign is just advice,
DriftwoodDriftwood4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Driftwood -
skeleton maw
wraps talon-like
around the dawn
as if begging
for a favor,
so smooth and sharp
worn bare by August -
a mermaid's rib
rubs salt from sand,
the battering lilt of seagulls
beating time
against the summer sun.
colors"If I were a color,colors4 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
what color would I be?
because I'm emo, right?"
"Then grey,
because I'm sad, right?"
"So, red
because I hurt myself, right?"
"I don't understand.
what they said,
everyone, every time.
If none of them
are right,
what color am I?"
"You're blue."
What kind of blue?"
"Every kind of blue
there is."
You're royal blue
because you should be treated
as nothing less than royalty.
You're neon blue
because you're so luminous
and fun at parties,
people would have to be blind
not to see you.
You're sky blue
because you're shy and calm
and humble when the sun
shines on you.
You're midnight blue
because you're dark and sexy
in a subtle way.
You're turquoise blue
because you always go
outside the lines
on paper and in life.
You're cotton candy blue
because you're just as sweet.
You're ocean blue
because you're deep and
sometimes hard to understand
like the sea.
You're pale blue
because you're soft
and warm like a down blanket.
Dear deviantWRITERS...Dear deviantWRITERS, allow me to offer you some advice. While I realize that you may not want that advice at all, I will cheerfully ignore that, because I really think dA's literature community could use a bit of setting straight.Dear deviantWRITERS...6 years ago in General Non-Fiction More Like This
The reason writers like you and me are on deviantART at all is because we want people to read our work. No one would argue with that. So the way you do things should help get people to read your writing, not flee screaming.
That being said, the preview image that dA gives each literature deviation is your best friend. It gives you about 110 characters of text to impress anyone who might be randomly browsing through lit deviations--to catch their eye and make them want to read more. So! Here's a few tips.
Before that, though: I am not saying that every reader on dA agrees with the suggestions I present here. These are things that I think are important, and that I recommend. This is conceited, maybe, but I believe that good readers would agree wit
Just a DreamHe'd promised. Sherlock had promised to try. After the first bruising, demanding, kiss, he'd promised to try for John.Just a Dream4 years ago in Romance More Like This
John hated watching Sherlock loose himself. Whether it was in drugs or a case that threatened to kill them both, Sherlock would retreat from the outside world leaving John cold and lonely and absolutely hating himself.
John wasn't lying when he said he'd do anything for Sherlock. God help him, he would kill for Sherlock, and there was nothing John could do to stop himself. Sherlock was a compulsion, protecting him, fighting for him, it was in John's blood, in his brain, his body wasn't ever under the command of the rational part of his mind.
When living with the most observant man on earth, John always worried that he'd said too much, that he would reveal just how much he worked for those stolen moments, when it was just for the two of them.
Next to Sherlock, no one ever noticed John. So John always sat
Omnipresent 4Love-a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affectionOmnipresent 44 years ago in Romance More Like This
John awoke, warmer than he could remember being in a long time. Eyes still closed he realized the cause of this new found warmth was the body his arms were currently holding against his chest. The body was thinner than his and longer but surprisingly soft.
He smiled as the memories from the previous night came rolling back and opened his eyes to make sure it had not been a dream. Yes this was certainly not his room and if the mop of black curls in front of his face was any indication the person he was holding was most definitely not Sarah.
Shit. Sarah.
He sat up slowly so as not to wake Sherlock and ran a hand through his short blond hair. This was bad. What was he supposed to tell her? Sorry I didn't take you out last night I was too busy shagging my flatmate? I was going to take you out for Valentine's Day but I ended up going on a date with Sherlock instead?
"You're thinking too much." a voice behind him said.
He lo
lady in blackyou only walk in blacklady in black5 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
and god i cant understand it
because, of all the colors of the rainbow
that irradiate through you soul
you choose the only color,
that doesn't exist
and you think that pain deserves you
and you make sure it gets what it does
and trickling glinting red
only one of the colors inside you
in the form that's not meant to see
there's something not right here
there's something upside-down
and i plea you to see
that its not right but wrong
there's something not true here
something untrue
and no i can't help but cry
and i know you do too.
another color that irradiates from you
that no ones meant to see
the color blue
i stay awake sometimes,
wondering why you walk in black
wondering why red deserves you
wondering why you see the color blue
and god i cant understand it.
A Fiddler's Apocalypse"Jeremy! Jeremy, aagh, don't lead them toward me!"A Fiddler's Apocalypse5 years ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
"Sorry, sorry!" Jeremy yelled back, panting as he tried to focus on playing his fiddle and running backwards, away from the zombies who had begun to notice his music, at the same time.
"Ha! If you can't handle them, comrade, send them over here!" Alik cackled happily, aiming a tiny gun at a group of zombies who had begun to stagger towards Roy and blowing them all sky high with a single shot.
"Alik, stop being such a creep when we're trying to concentrate on not dying!" A new voice, this one feminine, shouted from behind Jeremy. A gunshot cracked from where the voice had originated from, and a zombie that had stumbled too close for Jeremy's comfort went down with a bullet to the head.
Jeremy looked around him and lowered his bow, wincing a little as his aching fingers uncurled from the strings. A slight, dark haired girl came up next to him, holding a still- smoking rifle in her hands and checking around them for any more zombie
EPIC: Robin in the last battleThe wild cheering escalated to a thunder that made Robin dizzy. Grimly, she reflected that she'd fully anticipated dying at some point in this deranged venture, but she hadn't expected the exquisite grisliness of being presented with a ticket to the event. ("A souvenir for you!" the vendor had told her, beaming, when he'd dropped it off at her holding cell.)EPIC: Robin in the last battle5 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
Six hours and no breakfast later, she was standing on the raked sand of what could have been a sports arena if not for the huge metal gates locking her inescapably into the ring. She squinted into the sun and awkwardly adjusted the borrowed shield hanging on her arm. She was absolutely sure it wouldn't save her. Azarath's goons had helpfully returned her own sword to her for the day, but even its familiar weight couldn't settle her jangled nerves.
Part of the nervousness had to with exactly how familiar the sword was becoming in her hand. Robin was uncomfortably aware that she had what might be called a gift with it. There was a fe
CigaretteCigarette4 years ago in Profiles More Like This
It sits between his long digits snugly, almost too happily. Sherlock scowls at it, knowing what John would say if the neat little soldier could see him now. Probably throw a fit again, like the time he found that needle and jumped to the worst without a moment's consideration. As stupid as the others.
He brings it to his lips, hands almost shaking in anticipation as he caresses it and takes a long drag, letting the slithers move in unison down his spine. The oppressive weight, so constantly heavy, rolls away slowly with every shimmering particle of smoke that coils upwards blinking into the ether. He blows out a little at a time, letting the smoke whisper over his parted bottom lip and snake away expertly. It is an old habit.
Minutes pass. He reaches again for another, and then another, not caring about the empty carton that blows away on the crude wind or the ash that falls like snow into his lap. Legs barely registering their protests carry him to the filthy off-license around the co
something as little"Do you sometimes think about humans and hurt," she says. She's rummaging in a crate on the cold floor of her garage, and her face is hidden. You shift to let the afternoon light shine on the golden wave of her hair.something as little3 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
"Because I do," she goes on, before you can admit that you have no answer. Small objects fall from the crate and cascade to the floor with a clatter. "I do."
Her words hang heavy between you, alone and uncomfortable in the summer air, and your tongue stumbles in the strangeness of the moment and spits out, "Why?"
She bundles the long strands of her hair into a fist and straightens, her hands otherwise empty. "Humans are so frail," she says, leaving your question unanswered, drifting with her I do. "They're made of all this muscle and bone and stubbornness, and still you can cut them to the heart with something as little as words." Her eyes fix on yours.
"What do you mean," you say, struggling to keep up with her. "Why words."
She smiles and the force of it is
APH: I hate everything about youI hate everything about you.APH: I hate everything about you4 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
I hate everything about you.
I hate your self-confidence.
I hate when you say you're an artist, so you need to be treated better.
I hate to see, how happy you can be without me.
I hate when you play games with me.
I hate when you say you don't need me.
I hate when you treat me like a little child.
I hate when you open your mouth just to say how awesome are you.
I hate your pride, your 'young-masterness', your stubbornness, your emotional way of living.
I hate that you never say anything nice to me.
I hate your music.
I hate that you always compare me to you.
I hate when you play the piano instead of talking to me.
I hate that I'm always worse than you.
I hate when you prefer your classical music collection than the song I write especially for you.
I hate when you make fun of me.
I hate that you can always see my mistakes, even if no one else can see them.
I hate to make you sad.
I hate yo
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Prompt: Why?
Prompt: The most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Prompt: Why'd I have to figure it out on my own?
Prompt: A guy/girl like that.
Prompt: London, England.
Prompt: Waterbottle.
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Prompt: Do you love me?
Prompt: In the end...
Prompt: Winner.
Prompt: Loser.
Prompt: Where were you?
Prompt: I'm sorry.
Prompt: So ungrateful.
Prompt: I feel so foolish.
Prompt: We wasted so much time.
Prompt: Too far gone.
Prompt: Music.
Prompt: Dancing.
Prompt: Handwriting.
Prompt: We're so far apart...
Prompt: Is this a dream?
Prompt: White vs. Black.
Prompt: Fire vs. Ice.
Prompt: Just give me some time...
Prompt: Maybe tomorrow...
Prompt: You still awake?
Prompt: Please, don't take this from me.
Prompt: Last time.
Prompt: Forever and a day...
Prompt: High.
Prompt: You're never alone.
Prompt: Be careful what you wish for...
Prompt: Just for tonight...
Prompt: Are you afraid?
Prompt: Don't worry...
Prompt: Like I promised.
ContainedMany times I like to be bright, even in the colorless snow.Contained3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
It is welcoming,
With no fear of embarrassing or judgement.
But lately I have been trapped to do as you say.
I feel like a puppet on strings,
Buried, in a grave not meant for my shape.
I want to break free again, but I do not want you to hurt me.
Being captive of my own abilities, I'm not a demonstration.
I'm scared like of what fire does to plastic.
Love is keeping me trapped.
All is better when you force me to obey.
All is regretted when I walk away.
I am a contained flower surviving in a dead temperature.
Trying breath the air I have no money to pay for.
Accepting that this is what love has all to offer.
The Lost GenerationIs this existence of time worth my life?The Lost Generation3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
To struggle through each day's heartache,
With all this stress and strife?
Nobody can answer this fundamental question,
How can we save the lost generation?
Is there meaning of conscious left for me?
To hurtle through every night's sickness,
Without any faith to be free?
Nobody will deny this radical emotion,
Where can we find the lost generation?
Is that suffocation of will ready to die?
To tussle through early morning's hunger,
Without the courage to cry?
Nobody shall crave this political flirtation,
Why can't we rescue the lost generation?
Don't Let Go"Rich!"Don't Let Go4 years ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
There was nothing but silence around her. The air felt strangely...full. Oppressive, like it was pressing in on all sides, choking her. She could barely breathe.
"Rich! Oh God, oh God."
She didn't even recognize her own voice, it seemed foreign to her own ears. Each word spoken was muffled, drowned out by the heavy beat of her heart and her halting footsteps. Every step she took she had to struggle, pushing debris out of the way, sharp pieces of wood and metal scratching her legs as she walked. And she had been walking.
For so long.
She began to wonder if it was her hearing that was the problem, or if her voice was simply giving out. Her heart was growing louder every second. Every terrifying second.
Rich, Rich, oh please, please. Her throat was tearing itself apart, but she needed to find him. She wrapped her arms closer around herself. A piece of cracked, torn metal cut through her shoe and sliced into her foot. She fell. She braced hersel
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UntitledWords fall upon def ears known but unwanted.Untitled4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Death again knocked upon our door.
A year had flown by and our hearts were newly healed.
But to no avail as the words sunk in past the stitches,
Of our broken heart and ripped it wide open.
One word rings like a bell in my head,
Why? Why would you kill your self?
Then the pain the hurt slowly fades away,
Like the day fading into night.
All that is left to fell is numb,
With more question than answers.
The tears seem never ending,
It seems as though you may never heal.
But as the heart slowly heals again,
Stitches are place back in but sill there is a hole.
The numbness stays there at the back,
Lingering waiting for the chance to come back.
It never fades just is keep at bay,
For you have that one thing,
That thought in your mind,
To never give in and give up for nothing is worth that.
The DoctorThe doctor tutted, shaking his head and letting out an exasperated sigh.The Doctor4 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
"Honestly, we have next to nothing to work with these days." He murmured, grasping the girl's chin and pulling it upwards so he could look more clearly into her face. "Brown eyes, brown hair... too commonplace. What I wouldn't give for a honest-to-God natural blonde or a redhead. Everyone's getting sick of all the dyed products we've had to make. Ugh. Well, give this one some blue eyes. Keep the freckles; maybe they'll add something more natural to her."
The young man, eighteen at most, who had brought the girl into the room, nodded. He gently lifted the slender figure off the ground- the girl's head lolling against his shoulder as he did so- and to her feet, wrapping an arm around her waist to support her.
"Jude, I have too many appointments today to watch you take your time with this. Drag it if you must, but hurry."
Jude nodded again, keeping his head down so the good Doctor wouldn't see th
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In the night I run away from starlight
Its source, a space-leak
Delivers flashbacks
Of ultraviolet love
That once upon a time
Widened my pupils
Being the most addictive
Of all treacherous dope
Beneath ebony stars we were sitting
Looking for Orion's belt
He loosened and untied it
To make love with me
I was supposed to be his muse
Embody love
Like an ancient goddess
But what we had was more of Divine comedy
As Sistine chapel for god is but a living room
One of so many, one of too many...
His soft lips cracked
Of thirst and he drank me
What more - he was getting drunk
Of a spirit not meant to be bottled
We both sank into quicksand running in spirals
And for each other we disappeared behind the mirror
PlaygroundPlayground3 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
All that autumn her ghost haunted the playground;
no wisping phantom, but strident bits and pieces
clamoring for attention - a pair of black patent
leather shoes waiting expectantly by the teeter-totter.
And Sister Teresa had to pry red woolen mittens
off the jungle gym every morning.
Jimmy Boyle kept seeing her sweater at the swings,
its green wooly arms daring him to go higher
and trying to tag him "it".
And her best friend, Jenny Black
could see the flash of her pigtails
throwing copper across the kickball field
where recess waited to swallow them.
The toys vanished from the sandbox every evening
leaving nothing but a soft trail of disappointment
in their wake -
their accusations of neglect
and longing crouched under the
maple trees, swarming with the bees.
But winter proved a discordant grave -
the protest of frozen ground
an errant melody in the schoolyard
and her shoes kept shrinking
and stumbled down the slide,
leaving a thick crust of frost
like somber tracks that said good-bye
With Youdarling,With You4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
Here lies
don't spend your days
Cecilia Marent
with lifeless, dreary stone
in 1990
don't linger where
blood was once spilt
in 2010
beloved daughter
i am not
and sister
in either place
may God
dear one,
rest her
i stay with
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Conservancy protects Lost Cove ghost town on Tennessee-North Carolina border
ASHEVILLE — The legacy of illicit moonshining — as well as the beauty of bleeding heart and Virginia spiraea — will be forever preserved with the recent protection of historic Lost Cove in remote and rugged Nolichucky Gorge.
The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy recently purchased the 95-acre Lost Cove tract, an in-holding of Pisgah National Forest near the North Carolina-Tennessee border in Yancey and Mitchell counties.
Well-known in local lore as a ghost town, Lost Cove has a colorful history of homesteaders, railroad crews, timber and moonshine, and is a scenic home to endangered plants and wildlife.
"The opportunity to save this significant part of Lost Cove was very important and welcome to those of us who live in its vicinity, who know personally of its special natural and historical significance and have long hoped it would one day be protected," David Ramsey, SAHC trustee, said in a statement.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Hotel 't Sandt Antwerp
Cosy and classy
My husband and I stayed at t'sandt hotel for 3 nights over new years 2005/2006. It was truly memorable. The room was cosy, classy and full of character, as was the hotel itself. Breakfast was superb, in particular the Perrier champagne served on new years morning. The bowl of belgian chocolates at reception was a treat, as was the complimentary champagne and chocolates prior to new years eve. The location was perfect - not more than 5 minutes walk from Grote Markt. Would love to go back!
Lovely, cosy hotel in central Antwerp
We stayed here on a bitterly cold weekend in March 2006. The Hotel t'Standt was really nice, very cosy, I'd stay there again. The breakfast was ok although could have done with a bit more selection e.g. more fruit but I'm just being picky now! The hotel itself was faultless, good service, nice people, lovely rooms, if you're a Brit you'll be pleased to know the telly in the rooms could receive BBC1 and BBC2 :-) Be sure to look in at the Cafe Beveren around the corner from the hotel and listen to / see the wonderful music machine and the locals dancing to it. I'd go back to the T'Sandt if I was in Antwerp again and heartily recommend it. A nice play to stay.
An Antwerp Treasure
Antiques that furnish this hotel make you feel you have stepped back in time and you are living back in the 19th Century. Plentiful breakfasts, good location{in old town} and pleasant staff make the hotel a must when visiting Antwerp.Good Irish bar around the corner.
We had such a great time. My boyfriend and I, my parents and my brother and sister all stayed here in August. It was about 10 Euros for a taxi from the train station to the hotel. I wouldn't try to walk it unless you have some great shoes, a light back-pack, and a desire to work off those Belgian beers and waffles before you comsume them. There was a bike race around the city when we arrived, so there was a lot of energy in the town. The hotel is a really close walk to a ton of pubs/bars (whatever you call them in your neck of the woods) and the downtown area (with the Church) was just far enough away to be a convenient walk, but not a ton of foot traffic in front of the hotel. At night, my family and I all sat out back on the large deck lined with vines and a cool courtyard area (drinking wine and eating chocolates). All of us agreed we'd stay there again. It was one of the highlights of our stay in Belgium!!
Good location
We stayed at this hotel for 4 nights and thought it should be ok with nothing but great reviews.
The location is really good, very close to the Schelde and the Old Town district, a bit far from the station if you arrive by train.
It seems that you have to book one of the expensive suites to experience the overall positives that the other reviewers enumerate. We started off in a standard room which was small and had paper walls. We literally heard every word the couple next doors said and could not find any sleep.
Reception staff did not know what to do, they said no one had ever complained about this. On our last night we had one of the larger rooms which was much better as far as the noise level was concerned.
Breakfast buffet was average for this price range, it seemed to me they cut down on variety on days where they have fewer guests.
Overall ok, staff friendly, but not outstanding or an absolute must-go-again.
T'Sandt More Than Decent
We were extremely concerned about the declining Dollar and the rising Euro as we searched for a hotel in Antwerp. Fortunately, we chose the utterly charming t'Sandt.
The t'Sandt is located in the best part of Antwerp if you are a tourist. Everything is within walking distance. The room was huge and was filled with charming antiques and artifacts that reminded us constantly that we were in Europe. The modern facilities had all been refurbished and the television, shower, toilet all worked well and kept us comfortably enscounced in the 21st century. The windows were large and let in tons of light so necessary in northern Europe during the winter. The linens, towels, etc were of the finest materials allowing us to feel rather cozy during Antwerp's cold, wet and windy moments. The t'Sandt aptly illustrates that a hotel can combine old world charm with modern comfort. Touche! Having only 12 rooms allows for a certain intimacy that adds perceptable charm. The staff couldn't be more helpful and pointed us in the direction of some great restaurants and watering holes including one of the best dining establishments we have ever experienced, Gin Fish. The breakfasts were great and allowed us to skip lunch. The t'Sandt is a wonderful European hotel experience.
Charming,comfortable and convenient
We stayed at the 't Sandt last summer, while visiting both Antwerp and Amsterdam - an excellent combination of cities for a European visit. This hotel was everything we had been led to expect by other reviewers; the staff and the rooms are welcoming and charming. The building has been converted to retain a feel of its former life, while providing light and airy rooms (ours opened out onto a roof terrace) with clean,modern and luxurious bathrooms. Breakfast was good and dinner, in a variety of Antwerp restaurants, was excellent. The hotel is in a good location and provides underground parking. We would love to return to both Antwerp and 't Sandt.
Stayed a few days in hotel 't Sandt last week, and had a great time. The (only 14) rooms are great (we had the Windsor Suite, a Royal Suite on the 3rd floor), and the atmosphere is authentic.
The hotel is located in the old centre of Antwerp, where you can find lots of interesting restaurants (e.g. Rooden Hoed, Groote Goesting - there were too many restaurants to visit in only 3 days...).
The hotel is also within reasonable walking distance of hundreds of shops at the Meir, and also not too far from museums ('t Steen, Plantin Moretus, Diamond Museum (close to the zoo)).
Also, if you're fond of Cuban cigars and rhum, you can find Mike's Havana House at 200m, which has over 35.000 cigars in store...
We rate this hotel and city tops
We agree with the first reviewer -- the Hotel t'Sandt is terrific. Top-notch rooms with personality at reasonable prices, exceptionally friendly and helpful staff, fine location in one of the most delightful and overlooked cities in Europe. We would definitely return to both the city and the hotel. As for noise, we heard none, as we were not facing the street -- always a wise request when booking in Europe.
A perfect location for tourists with sophisticated style
I just loved staying at the t'Sandt in Antwerp. The staff is so charming they qualify for adorable and the rooms have authentic wit, managing to be simple and hip without being pretentious (something the whole of Antwerp seems to have mastered). It is right across the street from one of the city's finest mid-priced restaurants, yet right around the corner from some legendary Antwerp hangouts, whether you are looking for great gin, great beer, great seafood or great mashed potatoes. It is also within easy walking distance of Antwerp's old quarter, and a pleasant stroll down one of Antwerp's high-end shopping streets to the city's terrific fine arts museum. The rooms have minimalist decor and fully modern bathrooms. The hotel offers an excellent breakfast and all-around good service. Some rooms overlook well-trafficked streets, so light sleepers might ask for the quietest rooms. Sophisticated travelers will be happy here.
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... today….people doing their Saturday shopping; food truck frenzy; flower & food market….lots to see! Great day.
Once back to my hotel in Brussels, I figured it was time to get things packed up for the journey home tomorrow. I actually packed pretty light, so it didn't take too long. Hmmm, imagine that…..I am able to pack lightly!!!! Must remember that for next time! ...
... boring, lots of people rode bikes across. The view of the city was nice though.
I wandered through the Red Light district around lunchtime and saw the girls in the windows. There were very few people in the area and everything was closed, which was in marked contrast to the Red Light district of Amsterdam. After I viewed Antwerp from the top of the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom) in the ...
Goodnight, and joy be with you all
... the owner always gives us. He came over for air kisses, and shook our hands, telling each one of us something different. He wished me luck in the future and told me to come back as soon as possible.
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The dotcom boom accelerated many deceitful business practices that first became apparent during the '80s and '90s. Many of these had to do with analyst recommendations being tied with investment banking divisions' interests and other basic conflict of interest problems. One of the clearest examples of a firm putting its own interests above those of its clients was the conduct of the Knight Trading Group.
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Such a revelation and an investigation took an immediate toll on the company's shares, sending the stock down close to 30%. Because market makers' worth is tied to their reputation, the company's shareholders also launched a lawsuit because the traders' actions and management's lack of oversight destroyed the shareholders' investment. Knight Trading Group was assessed a $1.5 million fine on January 7, 2002, but it continued to face ongoing litigation and damage to its reputation.
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