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Extending a surge that began last year and that economists said could be a positive sign for the Bay Area's economy, Google says 2011 will be its largest hiring year ever, plans that would mean the Internet giant will add more than 6,000 new workers this year.
With the hiring plans, Google will have more than 30,000 employees by the start of 2012, a workforce still significantly smaller than Silicon Valley giants like Intel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, but more than double the size of rivals like Yahoo, and more than six times the size of the company that has become its most formidable competitor -- Facebook.
"Obviously, we're optimistic about the future," Google senior vice president Alan Eustace said in an interview Tuesday. "The growth that we're seeing across a lot of different areas is really based on seeds we planted a long time ago. We made investment decisions a long time ago to plant the seeds in different areas, and the exciting part is those seeds are actually developing now; those seeds are coming into fruition. I think it's unusual for a company to see so many opportunities align."
Among those major investments were Google's $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006 and its $3.1 billion purchase of the display advertising network DoubleClick in 2007.
The surge reflects Google's ambitious plans to become a powerful force in areas of the Internet far beyond its traditional sweet spot of search, with Google rapidly expanding the number of engineers working on initiatives including its Android smartphone and tablet operating system, its maps and location-based services that could deliver advertising to users based on where they are, and in products around its Chrome browser and operating system.
"It'll be pretty much across the board," Eustace said of Google's hiring plans.
While much of the hiring will happen in and around Google's headquarters in Mountain View, the company also plans to add more than 1,000 workers in Europe, outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt said at a conference in Europe on Tuesday. Google now has over 60 offices in 30 countries.
About one-third of Google's workforce is in the Bay Area, and Eustace said the company's 2011 hiring would be weighted at least in that ratio -- meaning Google plans to hire at least 2,000 people around its headquarters in Mountain View, at San Bruno-based YouTube and in its San Francisco offices.
For the Bay Area's economy, Google's hiring plans reflect a boost equivalent to double the expected workforce at Telsa's former NUMMI plant in Fremont, something that is "a very, very positive" sign for an economy that has long been waiting for strong corporate earnings to turn into hiring, said Stephen Levy of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto.
"At least for this company and probably for this industry, we've reached a place where new sales growth translates into hiring growth," Levy said. "This is our big job area, so it's a significant sign for the Silicon Valley and for the region."
Google last week reported fourth-quarter revenue of $8.44 billion, a 26 percent jump compared with the fourth quarter of 2009. Google notched profit of $2.54 billion, or $7.81 a share, a 29 percent jump over the same quarter in 2009.
Analysts in the past have registered concerns about Google's free-spending ways. But in the light of its fourth-quarter results that followed a year of significant hiring in 2010, analysts generally reacted positively to Google's hiring news Tuesday.
"Google was able to grow during the recession, which was something Yahoo wasn't able to do, and (Microsoft's) Bing search engine still isn't profitable, so from Google's perspective there is no reason to slow down," said Rick Munarriz, senior analyst at The Motley Fool.
Google's hiring plan is consistent with what the company has been telling Wall Street, said Yun Kim, an analyst with Gleacher & Co.
"This is a big deal," Kim said. "It doesn't really surprise me, but at the same time, hopefully they do have an organizational strategy in place to accommodate this kind of hiring going forward. ... Hopefully, they have laid out the organizational structure to be able to show efficiency in their business, if they continue to ramp (hiring) at this rate."
Google added 4,565 workers in 2010, a 23 percent jump in its global workforce that was the company's biggest personnel expansion since 2007. Google's biggest year for hiring was 2007, when the company added about 6,100 workers.
The hiring acceleration in 2010 was a major turnaround from 2009, when Google's workforce actually declined slightly for the first time in the company's 12-year history.
"We had a fantastic 2010; we had a fantastic 2009, given the situation" with the larger economy, Eustace said. "I feel like given what we know now, the prudent decision is to actually expand."
As Google continues to grow, incoming CEO Larry Page's biggest challenge will be to recapture the nimbleness of a startup that characterized the company's early days.
While Google says two-thirds of the startup founders who joined Google through an acquisition are still with the company, some longtime employees who have left the search giant say a company of more than 20,000 people by its nature can't move with the speed of a startup.
Eustace said Google is adding to its staff not only because it can afford to, but because the roughly 2,600 workers it added in the second half of 2010 paid almost immediate dividends in the company's fourth-quarter results.
"The people we hired had an impact that was almost immediate on our company," he said.
Contact Mike Swift at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/swiftstories.


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This report sets out our final findings from our market study on the sale of general insurance add-ons. This follows on from our provisional findings report in March 2014, and takes account of the consultation responses we received. The study was launched by the FSA in December 2012 and was confirmed as the FCA's first market study in July 2013.
A wide range of general insurance products are sold alongside or on the back of 'primary products'.
These primary products may be financial services – e.g. home insurance – or they may be non-financial products – e.g. motor vehicles, mobile phones or services such as passenger flights.
The insurance products sold alongside primary products are known as 'add-ons'.
This was the FCA's first market study. Our objective was to test whether competition in the markets for add-ons is effective or not, and if not, to understand why this might be so.
We analysed a range of information from insurers and intermediaries, including product literature and data relating to sales, pricing, profitability and claims.
We used behavioural economics as a key tool during the study. We carried out both quantitative and qualitative consumer research, and undertook an innovative behavioural experiment in which we tested consumers' reactions to the add-on mechanism in a simulated environment.
The final report can be accessed from the link below. Links to more detail on individual pieces of analysis and research carried out earlier in our study can be found at the end of this page.
MS14/1: General Insurance Add-Ons: Final Report – Confirmed Findings of the Market Study
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Our study confirmed that selling a product as an add-on often lead to consumers purchasing products that were of poor value and not what they needed. We also found that the value of general insurance products is not always clear.
We remain committed to strengthening the transparency and comparability of the value of general insurance products and have proposed to impose a requirement on firms to publish claims ratios as a measure of the value of a product.
Further to our consultation on the GAP insurance market remedy (CP14/29), we have issued our Policy Statement (PS15/13) and final rules to improve competition in this market. Our final rules introduce a deferred opt-in for customers when add-on GAP insurance is sold as part of buying a vehicle and improved information about shopping around.
We have consulted on two remedies designed to address some of the issues we found with the add-on mechanism. We proposed new rules and guidance on:
We issued our policy statement and final rules on these initiatives in September 2016 and have published case studies to help firms understand the application of the rules and guidance.
We published DP15/4 to discuss our options for publishing value measures in the insurance market, to increase transparency in this area and encourage competition on value. We have committed to carrying out a pilot of this publication, launching in Summer 2016 (see FS16/1 for more information).
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Penang is a lovely place filled to the brim with diverse cultural landmarks from its many inhabitants. Chinese, Indian, Malaysian or British, Penang's history stands strong on each corner and is easily accessible via a very visitor-friendly public transportation system composed of comfortable and sizable buses.
As for a Penang airport transfer, the fare is about $1.25 for a 30 minute ride into Georgetown, and from there you can ride around town for less than half of that cost. One of the more pleasant things about Penang is that the locals as well as the drivers are very approachable, speak English, and will go out of their way to help you (most of the time), so don't hesitate to ask for directions. Also, tickets are purchased on the bus so worry not about finding a ticket kiosk. If you are planning on touring Penang for a while, bring your passport to any of the main bus hubs and you can get a monthly or weekly bus pass at discounted rate.
For a more pleasurable ride around town, try any one of the several three-wheeled, man-pedaled trishaws located along the streets.
Although taking the bus is the main way to move around the city, many people simply choose to walk from place to place. Where Georgetown is small enough to do this, it's advisable to travel in a vehicle on busy streets whenever possible, as the streets of Penang have narrow roads, exposed gutters running along both sides and no sidewalks, and pedestrian accidents are not uncommon.


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The Humane Society of Port Jervis/Deerpark will host its annual flea market fundraiser at the shelter from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 27-28.
All of the proceeds from the flea market will go toward the care of the animals in the shelter.
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The Chrysanthemums
by John Steinbeck
Character Clues
Character Analysis
The Clothes Make the (Wo)man
One of the first things we learn about Elisa is what she's wearing: "Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume," and her dress is "almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron with four big pockets" (5). She's also got on a man's hat, clunky shoes, and a pair of thick leather gloves. In other words, she's not exactly looking her most feminine and alluring.
When we meet the tinker, he's wearing an old suit that is "wrinkled and spotted with grease" (33). His hat, too, is "battered" (33). So he's not dressed to impress either, and he's definitely not rolling in the dough.
A Costume Change Changes Everything
Remember, too, that Elisa changes her clothes. She goes from an unflattering, concealing, mannish outfit to a dress that is "the symbol of her prettiness" (94). Could that change in clothes represent a change in Elisa the character?
Speech and Dialogue
The characters in this story say some weird, weird things. Elisa tells the man that at night, when "every pointed star gets driven into your body," it's "hot and sharp and—lovely" (74). What's that all about? Later, her husband tells her, "You look strong enough to break a calf over your knee, happy enough to eat it like a watermelon" (103). Come again, Henry? Is that what you call a compliment?
Sometimes the characters react strangely to the words of others, too. For example, when Henry tells her she looks strong and happy, Elisa's reaction is downright moody. She tells Henry not to say such things. And then suddenly, strangely, she's back to her good spirits—she's "complete again" (104).
Reading Between the Lines (of Dialogue)
So why do the characters say funny things, and why do the other characters react in funny ways? Funny you should ask. Maybe we're meant to just chalk it up to Steinbeck being weird.
But that's not the most interesting explanation in the world, and frankly, there could be a lot of explanations. Every time a character says something strange, we're left with a bunch of different interpretations to choose from.
When the tinker first mentions the nighttime, is he really connecting with Elisa? Or is he just trying to earn a living? And When Elisa talks about the stars, is she talking about a spiritual experience? A sexual one? And when she gets mad at her husband, is she worried about seeming too strong? Or is she frustrated because he doesn't understand just how strong she is?
It's all in the hands. Because these characters aren't exactly go-getters, their hands do the doing. The tinker's hands mend pots and pans, and in the end, cast the chrysanthemums aside. Elisa's hands grow flowers, and in the climactic moment of the story, they reach out to touch the tinker.
Of course, these are tiny actions, and there are bigger actions in the story. But Steinbeck is a master of the understatement, and each tiny motion of hands in the story carries a huge meaning. Take, for example, when Henry pats Elisa's knee in paragraph 113. Is that patronizing? Loving? Dismissive?


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Last night I was on Special Report about Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Since that appearance I have received lots of angry emails from partisan dimwits or people with potatoes in their ears accusing me of trying to protect Governor Walker and do damage control for him. Huh? I can't decide if the people who are emailing me with such venom are dimwits or just want to believe what they want to believe….partisan hate?
Here is what I said:
I said Governor Walker has a political problem (any time you are a politician getting accused of a crime, whether guilty or not, you have a political problem.) And of course, it is never good when you have a political problem.
I also said he does not currently have a legal problem but could in the future. Right now the legal status of the case is that Federal Judge Randa says his alleged conduct does not constitute a crime. So….no legal problem if conduct alleged is not unlawful.
I also noted that Governor Walker had not / has not been charged with a crime and all a prosecutor has to do in Wisconsin is fill out a piece of paper to charge someone with a crime. If the prosecutor thought he committed a crime, I would assume he would have charge him, right?
I said he could have a legal problem in the future if the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit rules that Judge Randa is wrong and that the alleged conduct constitutes a crime. If that happens, Governor Walker is likely facing charges and a trial – assuming that the prosecutor thought a crime committed and that he could prove it. That would most certainly be a legal problem.
One other thing…yes, Republican Governor Walker says this is a partisan witch hunt (not his exact words) and the Democratic DA denies it is a partisan witch hunt. Both statements from both gentlemen are predicable.
How my comments could in anyway be construed as partisan is beyond me. Only a hater with an agenda would say that. Never dull, huh?


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Definición de mortuary en inglés:
sustantivo (plural mortuaries)
- He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial.
- For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home.
- She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified.
- Burial monuments and other mortuary rituals are often costly and elaborate.
- One interpretation is that the cave became a focus for mortuary rituals, including the defleshing of the dead.
- From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
Late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus 'dead'. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century.
In the Middle Ages a mortuary was a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate. The word derives from Latin mortuus 'dead', the source also of mortgage (Late Middle English), literally a 'dead pledge' because the debt dies when the pledge is redeemed; and mortify (Late Middle English) 'deaden', and related to murder. The current sense, 'a room or building in which dead bodies are kept', dates from the mid 19th century. In Paris the bodies of people found dead formerly were taken to a building at the eastern end of the Île de la Cité, where they were kept until identified. It was called the Morgue (from a French word for haughtiness or sad expression). By the 1830s morgue was being used in English for other mortuaries; the parallel use of French morgue is not recorded until the 1940s and was borrowed back from English.
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January 17th, 2014 - 5:22am
(Washington DC) Sixth District Congressman Derek Kilmer and Senator Patty Murray will introduce a new version of the Wild Olympics Act today.
It will designate tens of thousands of acres of land in Olympic National Forest as wilderness. It will also designate 19 rivers in the area as wild and scenic.
A similar piece of legislation was introduced in 2012 but did not get final approval.
But Kilmer says the new bill sets aside about a thousand fewer acres as wilderness. He says about 11 thousand acres of timberland were taken out of the proposal and replaced with about 75-hundred acres of old-growth forest.
There is also more than five thousand acres of potential wilderness included.
The new bill also would keep many Forest Service Roads open which would've been closed in the 2012 legislation.
It also removes the willing seller provision that could have paved the way for expansion of Olympic National Park in the future.
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As the proud owner of a northern Italian trading company, you must dispatch carts and wagons to find new customers for your goods. But times are hard and competition is fierce.
Establish new markets by creating unique routes that bypass your competitors. Naturally, the larger towns are more lucrative, but profits will be greatest where you can keep the market to yourself.
Competition will only hurt sales, so even a small village can be a valuable destination. A monopoly, however modest, is still sweet.
Find the best way to reach your goals and bar your opponents from success by building a trade network across the variable board. Your opponents will quickly claim their routes, so plan your strategy with care! Creating the best network and taking the greatest share of the gold is the road to victory in La Strada!
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Martin Wallace
Mayfair Games, Kosmos
Tanja Donner
Year: 2004
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Weight: 849 grams
Language Requirements: This is an international edition or domestic edition of an imported item. Game components are language-independent. Manufacturer's rules are printed in English.
- 1 variable board with a frame and 6 tiles
- 124 road tiles
- 8 workshop tiles
- 19 settlement tiles
- 48 merchant cubes
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Average Rating: 3.8 in 4 reviews
All I want to do is rave about La Strada. Seriously. I have played games by Martin Wallace before, and none of them really worked for me: they tend to be long drawn out historically themed games with luck in lots of odd places. But La Strada is so light and simple, so unlike all of his other games, I can scarcely believe that he's the one who designed it! Easy to teach, quick to play, and a heck of a lot of fun, La Strada is one of the best games I have played this year. The game is essentially an advanced game of connect the dots, except that everyone is competing to connect those dots, and once connected, no one really wants anyone else to connect to those dots and will try and prevent easy access. That's the game all summed up, but how this is all executed is what makes the game so delicious!
Players are given a handful of small cubes in their color, and an assortment of hexagon tiles in their color. The tiles you have depict a road of your color going through one of the three terrains in the game: plains, forest, and hills. On one side of the tile, is a straight road; on the other side of the tile is an "elbow" that takes a 60 degree bend. So when a player places a tile, it will either continue straight on or make a slight bend to one side of the hexagon. These tiles are going to be placed on a modular board constructed before the game begins. The game board consist of 6 cardboard pieces randomly mixed and turned then fit together inside a template. The board depicts hamlets, villages, cities, and capitals, dotted throughout the countryside, with different terrain features throughout. The map is divided into small hexagons that players will place their tiles into attempting to connect cities.
Each player gets to choose a starting position on the board where they will place their warehouse. Your warehouse is your starting "dot" from which you will draw your first path. Once players have chosen their starting positions, the first player takes his turn. A turn is very simple. Players get 6 action points per turn, and use those "APs" to place tiles down. The rules for placing tiles boil down to this:
1) When placing tiles, you must start from
either your warehouse, or somewhere where
you have already connected to;
2) When placing a tile, you must build on an empty space, and you must match the tile you place to the terrain your are building over (a plains tile costs 2 APs; forest costs 3 APs; hill costs 4 APs);
3) And the rule is that you may only build if you can build a complete route – a route that starts in one warehouse, and ends in a different city (no half completed roads need apply.) In other words, you must be able to "connect a dot" or you may not start the route.
Players don't have to use all their APs on one turn; they are allowed to save up to 4 APs till the next turn, allowing a player to have up to 10 APs to use on any given turn of the game.
When a player connects to a city, he gets to place one of his cubes there which will not only score him points at the end of the game, but will allow him to build out of that city on future turns. So new cities mean more building option.
The game ends when one player has a turn where he can not possibly connect to a new town. Then points are scored: The cities are one of four sizes, with big cities being worth more points. But cities also score less points when more people have a presence their, so a monopoly in a hamlet can be worth more points than 3 players in a village. So a capital to yourself is a whopping 4 points, with oneless point for ever other person who connects there. Whoever has the most points wins.
As you can imagine, since players can't build through other players roads, the game quickly becomes a game of keeping your options open and trying to limit the options of your opponents. Since each city has 6 sides, and you can connect into one side, and out of another, player will often plan their new paths in such a way as to help themselves and cut off access to the city from other players. Sometimes getting into a hamlet is important, not for the points, but for the expansion options. If the game sounded dull, you find in practice that it isn't. Tough decisions must be made since 6 APs doesn't last long. Sometimes you need a key connection quickly before getting shut out of a side of the board. Other times you'll need to carefully save your APs so that you can make a devastating 3 city connection. But wait too long and you might be the one devastated. Carefully laid roads can force your opponents to build through more expensive terrain too. The game comes together amazingly well, with offense and defense important considerations, and the game requiring a nice balance of light tactics and quick gameplay.
This game has a very few negatives that I must mention. Some people complain about the colors, that they are too similar to each other – brown, yellow, grey, white. It's true that a player may have a bit of trouble with the colors on his first playing, but you will quickly get used to them, and a good thing too, since this game has a very nice look to it. The biggest problem though is with the player range. With 2 players, La Strada is downright boring and will leave you feeling a little unfulfilled. 4 players is still fun and challenging, but is downright crowded. Players may find themselves suddenly cut off from a third of the board between turns. If the board could have scaled bigger for 4 players (a la Einfach Genial) then it might have worked, but as it is, 4 players will find the game cramping up quickly. (That doesn't mean the game is not fun, but it makes it tougher to win consistently.) That leaves 3 players. And this game is one of the best 3 player filler games I have ever played.
La Strada keeps you on your toes, and plays fairly quickly, so any bad turn of events in one game could be reversed with "just one more game". And that's what I find myself saying when I play this: "Let's play one more game." How many short 3- player board games do you know of that are short and really worth playing over and over again? Ticket to Ride and Hansa come to mind, and after that the list gets rather short. Well, add La Strada to that list – it deserves a place there. I'm shooting straight with you here: La Strada is a little overpriced, and true, it plays best with 3 players, but this game is a great game to get casual players into. Think of it as the next step up from Ticket to Ride: just enough to keep the competitive juices flowing, but not enough to burn your brain. Clocking in a 30 minutes, La Strada holds a nice place as a quality filler board game. The knocks on price and player range are the ONLY things that bring this game down to a 4 star rating, but are significant enough to knock that star off. If 3 is a good number for you, and the price is in your range, add the extra star, and enjoy it as much as I do.
First of all, forget the 2 player version. It's really not the same game. Consider that a 'bonus' to what is esentially a 3 or 4 player game.
That said, this is really a clever little game. Unlike, say, Settlers, there aren't tons of options, but that's not what this game is about. This game is about building a trade network, blocking others from entering it, and trying to penetrate someone else's. That's what's clever here...you can potentially 'infect' someone else's network, spreading kind of like a cancer.
The rules are very simple, and they're all about just that.
Meanwhile, the artwork on the pieces is beautiful, better than Carcasonne, and not 'corny'. When the pieces are laid out it looks kind of like art.
My only TINY 'criticism' of the artwork is that it's kind of hard to tell what the workshops are...they look a lot like the towns/etc...they should give them a brighter background that matches the color of that player.
Oh, and like some other 'semi-abstract' games, it does kind o hint at a historic theme, and captures the essence of it. It's really a nice little game, and at the very least would make a wonderful gift.
La Strada is a connection game with an interesting twist in that your network decreases in value the more your opponents connect up to it. It is a light game in the sense that there are only a few rules to learn and there isnt a lot of strategy involved. Turns consist mostly of tactical decisions that can be made fairly quickly. These decisions are not trivial though, and the moves that your opponents make have a direct bearing on what can do during your next turn so you stay engaged throughout the game. I enjoy playing La Strada very much. The components are attractive, the decisions you make are meaningful, and the game moves at a very nice pace a game lasts about 30 minutes with a full complement of 4 players, less with fewer players. I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of connection games or is looking for a good, non-trivial filler game.
Game Overview
The game board is constructed by randomly placing six hex-filled tiles into a cardboard frame. The hexes contain one of three different types of terrain: plains, forest, or hills. The settlement tiles (which indicate one of four different types of settlements) are shuffled and randomly placed on the locations indicated on the board. A starting player is chosen and he/she places their workshop (the place from which they will start building their network) onto any plains hex on the board. The remaining players do the same in clockwise order.
The first player then takes their first turn. Each turn a player receives six resources (action points) with which to build their network. They place a road tile onto the board so that it leads out from either their workshop or a settlement that they have previously connected to. Roads can only be placed on vacant hexes and can be built either straight-through the hex or at a 60 bend to the right or left. It costs two resources to build a road onto a plains hex, three resources for a forest hex, and four resources for a hills hex. Roads must be built so that they end at a settlement (all in one turn no partial building) and that settlement must be one that the player has not already connected to. Once the connection is made, the player places one of their market cubes onto the settlement. The player can end his turn at any time. Any unused resources are carried over to their next turn, but a player can never have more than 10 resources (any extra are lost).
There are four different kinds of settlements: cities, towns, villages, and hamlets. Cities are the most lucrative settlements to build a market in, while hamlets are the least. The value of the markets in a settlement decreases as the number of markets increases: so having a monopoly in a settlement (only 1 player has a market there) is worth the most, a duopoly (a market from each of 2 players) is worth a little less, and so on. Cities and towns will always be worth something, even if all four players manage to build a market there. Villages, however, are worthless if all four players build a market there and hamlets are worthless if three or four players build a market there.
Players continue taking turns until one player is unable to make a connection at the beginning of their turn. This can happen because they either a) have run out of market cubes, b) do not have enough resources to reach any new settlements, or c) do not have the right road tiles remaining to make a connection. Once this occurs, the game is immediately over. Players then score points for all of the markets they have built and the person with the most points wins. Remaining resources are used as a tie-breaker.
I like the play of La Strada a lot. There is a nice tension between needing to connect to the cities and towns in order to score the most points and also needing to make sure that you do not compromise your board position. If you get corralled into a section of the board you can quickly run out of good scoring opportunities and end up spending a lot more resources than the other players in order to work around and through their networks. This isnt obvious the first few times you play, but it really comes out strong after several games.
There is also an interesting tension between making efficient connections (using the least amount of resources) and making blocking moves where you are deliberately inefficient but are making an attempt to keep other players from reaching your more lucrative settlements. In my experience, the only blocking that has proved to be valuable is to be the first to build a cheap route from one of your settlements, even if it means you are building into a hamlet. If you do not, somebody else will build into that hamlet and then use that cheap route to build into your city, reducing your points and forcing you to take a more expensive route. I have seen a few players build convoluted roads to block off one of their cities. This is only really possible if the city is on the edge of the map and even then Im not sure that they gain as many points from doing this as if they had instead built into an extra settlement (or two) somewhere else on the map.
A final aspect of game play that is interesting is trying to force the end of the game. If you think you are in the lead, and you can see that one player is boxed in, you can try to build roads that eliminate that player's possible moves thereby forcing the game to end. It can be tricky because the other players might overtake you if you spend too many resources blocking out moves that aren't worth many points to you, but it can be very effective.
A minor concern I have is that there may be a slight advantage to being the first player. You have your pick of where to put your workshop on the board and you can take your first turn without there being anything on the board to block you, so you can put your workshop in a position to guarantee certain connections. This isn't significant in a four player game, but seems to be a slight factor in a three player game and is definitely a factor in a two-player game.
I'm not impressed with the two-player game of La Strada. Only one market is built per settlement, so the first player to reach the settlement gets it. The optimal moves become much more straightforward because you have only one opponent to concern yourself with and thus much fewer opposing road segments. The first player to place tiles seems to have a distinct advantage in the two-player game.
La Strada is an excellent game for 3 or 4 players: quick, simple and very engaging! I highly recommend La Strada if you like connection-style games or meaty fillers. It is of comparable complexity to Ticket to Ride but much shorter. If you thought TransAmerica was a nice idea but missing something, definitely check out La Strada!
A nice light network-building game that will likely be the first introduction for many gamers to the excellent designs by Martin Wallace, whose work is more commonly either less widely available, more expensive, more complex -- or all three. This is a typical Wallace game, with straightforward rules that seem disjointed when read, but which come together nicely in play. Two issues however detract from the game: First, the two-player rules are significantly different from those for more than two players, which will be a frustration to those who frequently switch between 2 and 3 player games. Second, the production, though somewhat above Mayfair's usual level, is still not up to the level of most European publishers (the modular board, in particular, is not fully successful).
Overall: A nice light network game and a worthy introduction to Martin Wallace for those who have yet to experience his designs.


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May 1, 2005
The Duquesne women's lacrosse team took it's second-straight share of the regular-season A-10 title defeating host La Salle 11-5 Sunday morning in Philadelphia. Kelly Mulford netted four goals to lead the Red & Blue followed by Ginger Flocco's three scores. Sarah Pacini (left) had 10 saves. Duquesne will compete in the A-10 Championships beginning Friday, May 6, at the University of Richmond.
The Dukes took a quick 3-0 lead as App, Flocco and Mulford each notched unassisted goals before La Salle senior Kate Henwood scored the Explorers first goal of the game. Courtney Tamasitis scored from Caroline Gallagher for a 4-1 lead, but Emily Bonczek brought the Explorers to within two, 4-2. The frame would conclude with Krista Mann and Mulford hitting unassisted goals to end the period with a 6-2 lead for the Dukes.
Duquesne then came out and scored the first four goals of the second period to take a commanding 10-2 lead with just under 20 minutes remaining in the game. Hitting goals for the Red & Blue was Mulford (two scores), Gallagher and Flocco. Bonczek scored two more times for the Explorers, but it wasn't enough as the Dukes walked away with the 11-5 victory making them 6-1 in the conference, 12-3 overall.
Duquesne shared the 2005 title with Temple, but will enter the championship as the No. 2 seed by virtue of the tie-breaker. The Dukes' only loss was to the Owls this season. George Washington takes the No. 3 seed in the tie-breaker as it defeated Richmond during the regular season. Duquesne defeated the Colonials in overtime on the road during the regular season handing them their first A-10 loss.
Duquesne University (12-3 (6-1)) vs. La Salle (9-8 (2-5))
Duquesne University SCORING:
GOALS: Mulford, Kelly 4; Flocco, Ginger 3; App, Laura 1;
La Salle SCORING:
GOALS: BONCZEK, Emily 4; HENWOOD, Kate 1.
2005 Atlantic 10 Championship
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Nat'l Teams Assess Storm Damage in 4 Minnesota CountiesMembers of the Department of Public Safety Homeland Security and Emergency Management division (DPS-HSEM) will assess storm damage in four Minnesota counties this week.
1 Injured In Motorcycle Accident In Carlton Co.One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Carlton County Friday morning. According to the Carlton County Sheriff's Office, just before 11 a.m. deputies received a call of a motorcycle accident at the intersection of County Road 10 and Sand Lake Road in Moose Lake Township.
Carlton Co. Sheriff: 50-Year-Old Man Injured In ATV RolloverA man was hospitalized with serious injuries after crashing his ATV in Blackhoof on Friday, according to the Carlton County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff: NE Minn. Man, 56, Arrested For Burning Down His Own CabinThe Carlton County Sheriff's Office says a 56-year-old man is in jail after burning down his own cabin last week.
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Sheriff: Ramsey Co. Deputy Caught On Camera Abusing K-9A Ramsey County Sheriff's deputy faces criminal charges after he was caught on surveillance cameras abusing his K-9 partner at a Carlton casino. The Carlton County Sheriff's Office says 48-year-old Brett Arthur Berry was at Black Bear Casino on June 14 and 15 for a canine training and certification event.
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I recently dumped Comcast TV for Dish Network and it looks like they're
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their single product price for internet being more expensive than the
same internet service plus basic cable TV (which is bizarre), they've
been steadily adding more and more limitations to their internet
service. They've added their own Peer to Peer servers on several P2P
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downloads, and they've imposed total bandwidth limitations per month on
their customers. Now newsgroup access is going away (which doesn't even
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other alternatives than Comcast service. Also, their idea of
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Dow Jones Names Jason Conti As Chief Compliance Officer
Dow Jones & Co., publisher of Corruption Currents, announced internally last week that it created a new position of chief compliance officer, and that Jason Conti, a member of its legal team, would take the position.
The creation of the position is the latest in a series of efforts the company has made over the past three years to improve and tighten its compliance procedures, Conti said in an interview in his office in the News Corp. headquarters in New York City.
Among those efforts, according to an internal announcement, are expanding the online code of conduct questionnaire; creating a code of conduct committee to assess matters relevant to it; and creating a Risk, Ethics and Compliance Council made up of senior management to oversee matters of risk to the company.
The promotion went into effect Oct. 1, and Conti will report to both Todd Larsen, president of Dow Jones, and Mark Jackson, executive vice president and general counsel, in this capacity. Conti also continues his role overseeing press and litigation matters for Dow Jones, and for that he'll continue to report to Jackson.
Conti graduated from Boston College Law School, and joined Dow Jones in March 2008. Prior to joining the company, he was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson LLP, which is now Hogan Lovells. There, he defended media companies in defamation, privacy and copyright actions.
One of Conti's first projects as chief compliance officer, he said, will be to roll out a revision of the Dow Jones Code of Conduct. The latest version was published in 1998, he said.
"Dow Jones has long had a robust Code of Conduct that gives employees guidance on professional conduct. In an effort to further bolster our compliance efforts, we are planning to roll out a refined Code that strengthens and clarifies several provisions," he said.
News Corp., parent company of Dow Jones, has its own code of conduct. It, meanwhile, is facing increasing pressure after a phone-hacking scandal at its U.K. unit News International rocked the company over the summer. In addition, News Corp. received a letter from U.S. prosecutors requesting documents relating to possible police payoffs for information.
The company is also taking heat for alleged anti-competitive practices at News America Marketing Group, a U.S.-based arm that places ads in retailers and supermarkets around the world.
Conti said that because it is a financial news publisher, Dow Jones' code has to be clear about certain unique kinds of conflict of interest not necessarily as applicable to its parent.
All of News Corp.'s operating entities are governed by the parent's code of conduct, but each entity can adopt its own code, and whichever is stricter governs the case at hand, he said.


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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 21 Summary
- There is an old-fashioned boardwalk in the alley behind Will and Jim's houses. Over the years, the two boys had tuned the boardwalk so as to be able to play different tunes. (They tuned the different planks to play different notes. Stepping on different planks in succession would play a song.) Each tune would indicate the evening's adventure.
- Tonight, Will has waited patiently for Jim to play a tune on the boardwalk. But it is now 10:30, and he's heard nothing yet.
- Finally, the music begins. Will hears an old funeral dirge.
- Will raises his window. Across the way, Jim's window also goes up. It turns out that no tune was actually playing after all.
- Jim goes down the drainpipe of his house. Will stays silent and feels betrayed, as Jim is clearly leaving without his friend.
- At last, Will scurries down the trellis and trails secretly after his friend all the way to Miss Foley's house.


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Ashi Martin has her B.Arch from California State Polytechnic University of Pomona and has experience working from schematic design to construction administration as a Junior Designer at Randall Stout Architects, Escalante Architects and as a Project Intern at Cordoba Corporation.
Her progressive design and collaborative work has been numerously selected to represent Cal Poly Pomona's Architecture Department during her undergrad years including the 2x8 AIA/LA 2011 & 2012 Exhibitions, 2012 IIDA Exhibition, ACADIA 2011 Exhibit + Catalogue Publication, Takeit-EZ house built in Haiti and quarterly Cal Poly Pomona Interim selections. With these achievements she has proven to be an outstanding, motivated and innovative designer who has a strong passion for architecture and our built environments.
Ashi Martin received her B.Arch in 2012 from California State Polytechnic University of Pomona where her academic work had been numerously selected to represent the university's Architecture Department in renowned exhibitions including the 2x8 AIA LA 2012 & 2011 Exhibitions, ACADIA 2011 Exhibit and Cal Poly's BESS Symposium. Her collaborative Takit-EZ House design, showcased at the 2011 Haiti BBBC Expo, was selected and used to build 1,000 homes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Terrific: 58 Percent of the Uninsured Haven't Even Looked at the Exchanges Yet
Before we begin this morning's buffet table of bad news for Obamacare, a quick note on the typically bad-faith accusation from the Left that we're somehow enjoying all the problems stemming from the implementation of this law.
From the beginning, Obamacare fans inside and outside of government insisted that they were right, that we were wrong, and that we were motivated by all sorts of malicious and callous motives. They insisted our skepticism was fueled by ignorance and outdated ideology. Our warnings and dire predictions were dismissed as sour-grapes negativity and pessimism.
Most of the ideas from the right — medical malpractice reform, interstate sales of insurance — were ignored or dismissed. We said you couldn't require insurance companies to cover a lot of new expenses — i.e., pre-existing conditions — without driving up costs, and that higher costs inevitably would drive up premiums. Obama's promise that his plan would lower premiums by $2,500 per year for families was always industrial-strength snake-oil, and yet somehow we were the bad guys for saying it couldn't possibly happen, short of covering the costs from the discovery of the Leprechaun's pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Now it is exceedingly clear that one-sixth of the nation's economy is being fouled up beyond recognition by a convoluted, complicated, poorly-planned Rube Goldberg of a law that has been implemented by hacks whose overestimation of their own abilities is on an astronomical level.
So we're not enjoying any of the problems from Obamacare, but spare us the insistence that we not take any satisfaction in seeing our assessment of the world, the limits of policy, the capabilities of government, and the possibility of grandiose, utopian promises reaffirmed, verified, underlined, highlighted, and footnoted in high-definition, day after day.
Jim's a better man than I. While I'm not enjoying the havoc Obamacare is wreaking on those who fought it and are now, through no efforts of their own, caught in its strangling coils, I do have to admit that I am immensely enjoying the agonies and travails of the clueless idiots who thought Barack Obama was bringing them a free lunch of endless health care forever – on somebody else's dime.


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To appropriately sum up Nicole's Westminster experience is difficult; she has wholeheartedly dedicated herself to intensive research, art, and the field of social sciences. Originally from North Ogden, Utah, Nicole will be graduating Summa Cum Laude in June with a bachelor's degree in Psychology.
Nicole notes completing and presenting her senior research project on self-disclosure and people's willingness to self-disclose information about themselves at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference as perhaps her biggest academic achievements.
Post-commencement, Nicole intends to apply to PhD programs for Psychology in the fall and continue to further her research.
What most people don't know is that Nicole is also an artist - she's excelled in pottery and has worked in a number of mediums, including raku pottery, jewelry making and even Egyptian paste.
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As National Poetry Month swings into gear, the O, Miami Poetry Festival, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, returns with the goal of delivering a poem to all 2.6 million Miami-Dade residents. This is a giant task, but poetry has enormous wings. Wings that can and will transport the ethereal beauty of poetry into the ears and hearts of our community. All the community has to do is attend one of the many free events scheduled throughout the month of April.
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April 6th: Join dancers/choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner (Merce Cunningham) and poet/critic Claudia La Rocco for TASTE, a dance and poetry commission for O, Miami. Two performances. Champagne served. Tickets are $15. Click here to purchase/RSVP. Location: Bas Fisher Invitational, 100 NE 11th St., Miami.
April 7th: This Sunday, poets Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and Julie Wade read from their latest work at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Event is free and open to the public. Location: Books & Books, 265 Aragon, Coral Gables.
April 10th: The Betsy on South Beach is home to several readings this year. On Wednesday, April 10th, head over The Betsy for poetry and music with Maggie Hasspacher and Fellows from the New World Symphony. Hasspacher is a poet and bassist whose poems are arranged for instrumentation. Also, composer Jeff Briggs will present new arrangements of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hyam Plutzik. Event is free and open to the public. Location: 1440 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach.
"Poetry is a living, breathing force that can light up the city. O, Miami is its platform. The written word leaves the printed page for a parade on South Beach, morphs into interpretive dance in Hialeah, and along the way helps art become part of people's everyday lives," said Alberto Ibargüen, president of the Knight Foundation.
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Sony has unveiled it's UMD Passport program in Japan and Patrick Klepek outlined in his article how this would work in Japan. It is important to note is that this program has not been announced for any other territories besides Japan. As Mr. Klepek outlined in his article the "discount" (the word discount is used in the add) price will be between 500¥ and 1,500¥,
As mentioned, there is not a flat fee to purchase a digital version, and it appears that will be up to individual publishers to determine. Sony's press release says the prices will be "reasonable," and with one exception, the price mostly hovers between 500 yen (about $6.50) to 1,500 yen (about $20).
If we study the image on Mr. Klepek's story we can see that Sony is using the image of the PSP 1000-3000 models. So, obviously those customers who are using those old devices will be able to download the games onto those old machines. What about people with a PSPgo who still have UMDs from a previous PSP? Will they be able to use their friend's older PSP model to download those old games, or will Sony have some kind of device to download games to at retailers?
I like that Sony is thinking of ways to keep their massive PSP catalog still active, but it seems like this Passport program will inevitably be compared to the Online Passes that are becoming ever so prevalent in the console gaming market. Consumers who choose to do this will be paying for access twice, which seems a little dodgy. In the end, Sony is thinking about all of those PSPs sitting around in the market that have never ran a single UMD. I don't really like the sound of this program, but Sony has learned that the goodwill that they have extended to the users has been taken advantage of by those same users. I'm curious if this program will come to the US, and I am equally curious about how the Playstation Store will interact with future consoles. I guess only time will tell.


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I'm new to Flash, and am trying to get my head around the programmer model. I'd appreciate it if you could look this over and point out my misunderstandings.
Suppose I have a game with animated (movieclip) player and enemies. These need to move around until they're shot (or whatever). Then they change to a new animation, blow up, die and get removed.
So we need to:
1)Create new objects.
2)Move them around
3)Do some collision detection and response
4)remove dead ones.
And we want all the code in one place. We have some onEnterFrame interrrupt which is called x times a second, and this has housekeeping code in it, fine. This can read player input, see if they're dead yet, perhaps keep the score display updated and so on.
1) should be fairly easy. New objects are generally created in this loop or or from some object-specific code.
2) Objects need to know what to do and how to move. Perhaps we keep track of the things we've made, then each object doesn't need a separate event?
3) If we have such a list, we can parse it for any collisions we're interested in, then use hittest, some trig. or whatever. Then we have to swap them out for a 'death throes' animation by switching movieclips somehow. (In fact, for every animation, we'd probably need a new movieclip, because we're not allowed to put code on movieclips.)
4) We then wait for the animation, counting play-cycles, and remove the object when we know the dying animation is done.
Have I missed the useful flash short-cuts?
I'm having difficulty believing that I'm not. Is there some way of programmatically putting code onto movieclips on certain frames? Then we could have many different animations in each movieclip, with gotoandplay() loops set up. For dying, put removeMovieClip() on the last frame of the explosion, and 4) would take care of itself.
And if I have a lot of object AI in a complex per-frame, all-object loop, does it start to become at risk of timing out? If so, how can that be mitigated?
The other thing is… I'm kind of used to dealing with integers. Flash doesn't seem to have them as a primitive type, and I suspect that will make it hard to do rock-solid integer maths (don't ask why).
Building things from arrays of Booleans might be wasteful on memory, and slow. What are my best options here? Muck around with strings as arrays of 16 bit quantities? Fudge the same sort of thing using opaque bitmaps?


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The day after an uncomfortable internal leak out of Google, anti-gentrification activists in San Francisco are attempting to shut down private shuttles from Facebook and Google, the old fashioned way.
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Along with concrete demands:
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One Facebook staffer tweeted a view from inside:
It's unclear whether the buses were blockaded at designated stops, or mid-ride—and where's that security detail?
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For one ravishing moment Italy appeared. She stood in the Square of the Annunziata and saw in the living terra-cotta those divine babies whom no cheap reproduction can ever stale. There they stood, with their shining limbs bursting from the garments of charity, and their strong white arms extended against circlets of heaven. Lucy thought she had never seen anything more beautiful; but Miss Lavish, with a shriek of dismay, dragged her forward, declaring that they were out of their path now by at least a mile (2.16).
Lucy, unlike Miss Lavish, is able to appreciate the true beauty of art when it sneaks up on her. However, most of the other characters, including Lucy herself at times, approach art in a very different way, as pretentious critics, rather than open-minded lovers of beauty.
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Of course, it must be a wonderful building. But how like a barn! And how very cold! Of course, it contained frescoes by Giotto, in the presence of whose tactile values she was capable of feeling what was proper. But who was to tell her which they were? She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. Ruskin (2.22).
Lucy knows that she should feel that Santa Croce is a "wonderful" and exciting place, and she's positive that the great works of art she came looking for are in there somewhere, but since she has neither guide nor guidebook, she doesn't know which ones they are. Of course, she wouldn't – nay, couldn't – dare make her own decisions on what is beautiful and what is not.
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She watched the singular creature pace up and down the chapel. For a young man his face was rugged, and—until the shadows fell upon it—hard. Enshadowed, it sprang into tenderness. She saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of acorns. Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might only find solution in the night. The feeling soon passed; it was unlike her to have entertained anything so subtle (2.39).
Lucy, watching George, sees him as a heroic figure out of Michelangelo (he's also referred to as "Michelangelesque" later – see 12.24). This is a precursor to later comparisons in which Lucy herself is seen as a work by Leonardo da Vinci, and it directly contrasts to Cecil Vyse, who is an austere medieval statue.


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PARKERSBURG - The Downtown Farmers' Marketplace on Saturday will end its first winter season.
"It did go by fast," said Rickie Yeager, planning administrator for the city of Parkersburg and a prime organizer of the market.
While the winter season ends on Saturday, the regular summer season for the market will commence on May 11 at its traditional location, Bicentennial Park between the courthouse and the municipal building, Yeager said.
The winter market debuted on Feb. 4 at the Market Street location of the future downtown campus of West Virginia University at Parkersburg. More than 2,000 people attended the market on opening day.
Businesses which otherwise would have been closed opened the days of the market, he said.
"I think it exceeded our expectations," Yeager said.
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Because of the winter market, more vendors will participate in the regular season for the Downtown Farmers' Marketplace in Parkersburg, an organizer said.
In that light, the market accomplished a goal, and that was to bring more people downtown on off days, said Cecil Childress, a market planner and the general manager of the Blennerhassett Hotel. The winter market was held on Saturdays.
"It filled up a lot of parking spaces," Childress said.
Several changes will be in store for the next winter market.
First, the site will not be available. The college's new culinary school is expected to be open by this time next year, Yeager said.
"That space won't be available," he said.
Organizers of the market are looking at other venues that will allow for a year-round market, Childress said. Nothing is firm, but people are looking, he said.
"We're looking at a couple of opportunities for us to create a year-round market," Childress said.
The market on Saturday will highlight Cinco de Mayo, traditionally the day celebrated in Mexico much like July 4 is celebrated in the United States. On May 5, 1862, the Mexican army defeated the French invaders in the El Dia de la Batalla de Puebla, or the Day of the Battle of Puebla, Yeager said.
Hours will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday with fare celebrating the Mexican holiday. Children at the Kids Craft table can make a Mexican bird rattle free of charge.
Denise Blair at Cafe Blue will cook several Mexican dishes at noon.
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