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Note how the email clearly states on the bottom that you need to have the code "DAVISCUP11" and your valid USTA Membership number.
At 10am CT sharp this morning, I clicked the link provided in the email, entered the code "DAVISCUP11" and purchased 5 tickets for the 3 day event. I was never asked for my USTA Membership number.
Then I go on twitter to see who else got their DC tickets. I immediately see complaints that the most expensive tickets were gone in a couple minutes. Strange, but people on my timeline were available to get less expensive ticket packages.
Then, an hour and forty-five minutes after the tickets first go on sale, it's announced that the presale has sold out. That's amazing that the event sold out so quickly, right? Who would have thought that tennis fans would turn out in full force for the event. Even Roddick, who only tweets sporadically, crowed about it.
Maybe tennis fans (and USTA members) were just so crazed and excited about the prospect of seeing Spain and the US play. US fans love tennis! Not so fast.
It seems ticket companies all over the internet were able to secure tickets as well. I don't mean those tennis tours that sell packages to various tennis events. I mean straight up scalpers. Seems they were able to take advantage of being able to buy tickets without providing a valid USTA Membership number. Some sites have simply jacked up the price of the tickets, http://www.ticketcity.com/tennis-tickets/davis-cup-tennis-tickets/davis-cup-tennis-tickets-frank-erwin-center-july-8-tba.html. Those $315 seats were being sold during the presale for $140.
Other sites are selling tickets PER DAY, even though the presale only allowed you to purchase packages that included tickets for all 3 days. The prices at the following sites vary, but $300 for just Friday tickets when the same amount was what some 3 day passes cost in the presale is outrageous
None of these ticket sites say exactly where you will be sitting, just the general area. No one who bought their tickets through the presale today knows what seat or row they are sitting in either. The website that ran the presale said:
"Tickets are sold and priced as a three day series package only. You will be purchasing a seat in a certain price level but will not receive a specific seat assignment when you place your order. Seats will be assigned on a best available basis and orders processed based on the date and time the order was received. Today's purchase guarantees you a seat in the price level selected. No further action is required for your seat assignment to occur. Tickets will be mailed three weeks prior to the event."
Fair enough, but then how are these two sites selling tickets that tell you EXACTLY where you will be sitting:
Somehow I doubt that all these ticket brokers are affiliated with people who are valid USTA members. Isn't it interesting that the presale never asked for that USTA membership number? Turns out that anyone, including scalpers, could have bought tickets. And look at the buzz the USTA got by announcing that the presale "sold out"! If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would say something about how this was all intentionally done. I am not, but I am a due-paying member of the USTA who is royally pissed off that other due-paying members of the USTA never got a chance to buy tickets in the presale. I saw many USTA members on my Twitter timeline who were bummed that they missed the chance to buy tickets.
USTA members are the backbone of tennis in this country. They play the sport, watch the sport, and spend money on the sport. No matter who is at fault in the screw-up with the ticket pre-sale, it is these members who have been screwed. And that is just wrong.


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When the Oakland A's announced that Sacramento River Cats' manager Darren Bush would be joining the A's coaching staff as a bullpen coach earlier this off-season, it was clear that several changes would be coming for the A's minor league coaching staffs in 2013. When the A's replaced departed minor league pitching coordinator Gil Patterson with River Cats' pitching coach Scott Emerson, the scope of those changes became even clearer.
On Wednesday, the A's made those changes official, announcing the staffs for their 2013 full-season affiliates, including their newest affiliate, the Beloit Snappers.
The Sacramento River Cats will defend their division title with a new manager and a new-old pitching coach. Steve Scarsone, who has managed the Double-A Midland Rockhounds for the past two years, takes over for Bush. The former San Francisco Giants infielder began his managerial career in the A's system in 2009 with Low-A Kane County and spent the 2010 season skippering the High-A Stockton Ports.
Scarsone will be joined in Sacramento by pitching coach Rick Rodriguez, who returns to the River Cats' coaching staff after spending the 2011-12 seasons as the A's bullpen coach. He was the River Cats' pitching coach from 2004-2010. Greg Sparks will return as the River Cats' hitting coach and Brad LaRosa will return at the team's trainer. Jared Elliot has been named the strength and conditioning coach.
Aaron Nieckula will get an opportunity to manage at the Double-A level after spending the past seven seasons managing at the Low-A and High-A levels of the A's organization. The former minor league catcher has a career 489-482 record as a manager. He led Kane County in 2006-2008, Stockton in 2009 and Low-A Burlington the past two seasons.
Nieckula will have Don Schulze on his staff as pitching coach. Schulze has been the Double-A Midland pitching coach for the past three seasons. Brian McArn, who was the longtime Sacramento hitting coach, will take that position in Midland after spending the past two seasons in Stockton. Tim Garland had been the Midland hitting coach the past two seasons. Justin Whitehouse will return as the Midland trainer.
Webster Garrison, a longtime coach and manager in the A's organization, returns as the skipper in Stockton for a third season. Garrison has managed in seven different seasons and has also served as a hitting coach in the A's organization. He led the Ports to a Cal League championship appearance in 2011.
Joining Garrison will be two newcomers to the High-A level: pitching coach Jimmy Escalante and hitting coach Haas Pratt. Escalante has been a pitching coach in the A's organization for seven seasons, all at the Low-A or short-season levels. He was the Arizona Rookie League A's pitching coach in 2012 and helped that team reach the league finals. Pratt, a former A's farmhand, had been the A's Low-A level hitting coach for the last four seasons (two with Kane County and two with Burlington). Travis Tims will be the Ports' athletic trainer and Sean Doran will be their strength and conditioning coach.
Another familiar name will be joining the A's minor league coaching ranks for the first time. Former A's outfielder Ryan Christenson will be the manager for the A's newest affiliate, the Low-A Beloit Snappers. Christenson played in 452 games in the major leagues.
He will be joined by another former big leaguer, pitching coach John Wasdin. Wasdin, who was the pitching coach at Low-A Burlington last season and short-season Vermont the year before that, pitched in the big leagues for 12 years.
Former A's farmhand Casey Myers will be the Snappers' hitting coach. The ASU alum has been a hitting coach for several years, and even served as a hitting coach/player with Double-A Midland in 2008. He was the hitting coach for the A's short-season A squads in 2009-2012.
As previously mentioned, Emerson will be the A's roving minor league pitching coordinator. Todd Steverson will return for a second year as the organization's roving minor league hitting coordinator. Marcus Jensen, who will also serve as the A's Arizona Rookie League manager, will be the roving minor league catching instructor. Nate Brooks has been named to the newly created role of minor league rehab coordinator.

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5 Easy Ways to Screw OPEC
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I don't know about you but every time I heard oil prices falling, I grin from ear to ear. I like free markets if they are operating in a healthy economic environment (which means I'm cool with the bailout of banks, but I'm not cool with talks on bailing out GM, though I understand why) but those OPEC nations were taking it too far. I wrote about how OPEC hates us and how they were decreasing supply to "cope" with sagging demand. They got used to the high prices and now that demand is falling, they want to keep the high prices. That's just mean.
So, what can we do? Hit them where they want to hit us, in the money sack. We must use less gas.
The lesson here, which we should've learned in the 70's, is that OPEC should control our destiny. Say what you want about offshore drilling or alternative fuels, that's for the pundits and the policy makers to figure out for 2015… I'm going to continue to do what I can today – use less gas.
Five Ways to Screw OPEC
1. Regularly maintain your car. Getting regular checkups, regular tune ups, and regular oil changes will improve your fuel mileage and increase the lifespan of your car. The myth about the 3,000 oil change is a myth, you can follow whatever your car manual says for your type of usage, but you still need to get that changed. As for the 30,000 and 60,000 checkups? Do them. Tune ups? Wonderful for gas mileage as you replace things that have been worn down. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish with your car because the day you take it for granted is the day it reminds you that you shouldn't.
2. Check your tires regularly and rotate them. Rotating the tires maximizes their lifespan. Keeping them properly inflated maximizes your fuel efficiency and maximizes their lifespan. Those two simple things will reduce how much gasoline your car consumes and how much oil is used to produce the rubber for your tires. Use less, OPEC complains.
3. Carpool to reduce driving. I feel like a broken record (can I even use that analogy anymore?) but carpooling and efficient trip planning has to be the easiest way to save gas. My wife and I try to plan our trips such that we minimize how much driving we do and it makes for a fun mental exercise.
Did you know that if two separate people are meeting at a point between them, it's always better for one person to pick up the other person first as long as they return to the same place? If my wife is leaving work and I'm at home, it's better for her to pick me up if we plan to go out for dinner than for us to meet each other at the restaurant. I didn't think it was intuitive but if you draw it out it makes very obvious sense. (if the meeting point is equidistant to both then it's equal)
4. Learn how to hypermile. Hypermiling is changing your driving behavior so that you maximize your car's fuel efficiency. The basics are quite simple, you want to brake as little as possible, accelerate as slowly as possible, and travel as slowly as reasonably possible. Realistic hypermiling are a few suggestions I feel are both effective and realistic in our current driving environment.
5. Buy a bike. My wife and I bought bikes earlier this year and we use it to get around our area fairly easily. This may or may not be feasible for you given your neighborhood but it's something you should consider. If not a bike, then investigate how you can best utilize mass transportation in our area. The key here is to ditch the car and try something fun and different.
Now say it with me, "Down with OPEC! Down with OPEC!" 🙂
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KAPALUA - Neither Javier Gomez nor Lesley Patterson slept well Saturday night.
A tsunami warning took care of that, but the duo, two of the world's best sprint triathletes, shook it off and left their respective fields in their wake Sunday morning in the Xterra World Championship Off-Road Triathlon.
Gomez put another stamp on one of the sport's best seasons ever by winning the Xterra world title in his first try, crossing the finish line in front of The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 50 seconds.
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Xterra World Championship winner Javier Gomez crosses the finish line Sunday at The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, adding the title to his victory in the International Triathlon Union's World Grand Final and silver medal from the London Olympics.
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Lesley Paterson closes in on the end of the mountain-bicycle leg on the way to breaking her own course record.
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Lesley Paterson celebrates at the Xterra World Championship finish line Sunday.
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Javier Gomez leads the way out of the water on the way to winning in his debut at the Maui event.
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Third-place finisher Conrad Stoltz begins the running portion of the event.
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Competitors in the pro division hit the water at the start of the race.
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Last week in New Zealand, Gomez won the International Tri-athlon Union's World Grand Final, and he was the silver medalist in the London Olympics.
Sunday's victory came after a trying night for the Spaniard.
"We evacuated at 9 and then went to kind of a shopping mall, and I had to stay in the parking lot in the car until about 2, so I just slept three hours last night, which is not the best to get ready for such a tough race," he said as he cooled down in the refreshment area just past the finish line. "I was able to perform well anyway, but it was pretty scary. I mean, we are not used to this kind of tsunami, so you don't know what's going on. We went to the safe place and just waited there.
"When I got back to my quarters, it was about 2 and I went to sleep around 3 and got up at 6, so not much sleep."
Patterson, a Scot now living in San Diego, won her second straight Xterra world title in 2:44:11, bettering the course record she set last year by 1:48. She beat second-place Barbara Riveros by 4:07.
After winning this year's Xterra U.S. Pro Series, Patterson came to Maui as a favorite, but also had some anxious moments in the hours leading up to the race.
"It was a nightmare, last night we had to evacuate our hotel," Patterson said. "I called up a bunch of guys who were at the Ritz to see if we could find a bed, but we couldn't make it because all of the roads had been closed down. So, we had to sleep in the car until about 1 in the morning, just with a pillow and then we went back to the hotel. . . . None of that matters because I was super rested (coming in)."
Gomez beat Josiah Middaugh, an eight-time national champion from Colorado, by 50 seconds. Four-time world champion Conrad Stoltz of Germany was third in 2:30:03.
Stoltz is a strong mountain biker, but did not catch Gomez until late in the 30-kilometer cycling leg - Gomez took over for good early in the 10K run after a battle with Middaugh. Gomez was first out of the 1,500-meter swim.
"We knew that (Gomez) was the biggest talent in the field and we just didn't know if he would be able to hold his own in the mountain bike," Middaugh said. "He did, he did really well. He is super strong on all of the climbs, which was good enough to hold everybody off on the downhills. That's where the time is on the course, is going uphill and he was at no handicap there.
"When we got on the run, I was right with him and Conrad was right up the road. I knew I could run uphill well, but we are talking about one of the best runners in all parts of triathlon, so that's the best I could do."
Patterson said that the evacuation circumstances were the same for most everyone. She got help relaxing prior to the start of the event from her husband, a sports psychologist.
Patterson, who passed Ri-veros early in the run, wrote messages to herself on each arm during the race - "Be brave" on the right and "I am free" on the left.
"It is not really one of those things that is going to make a difference to your performance, it is just going to make a difference to your head," Patterson said of the overnight drama. "When it comes to the actual race, it is not that big a deal. Once I got in the swim, I wasn't nervous any more."
Lance Armstrong drew a large portion of the attention in last year's event, when he was running second before a bike wreck left him with a concussion and a 23rd-place finish. Armstrong, who had his seven Tour de France titles stripped and is now banned from sanctioned cycling and triathlon events due to a doping judgment, was not mentioned much during this year's race week, Patterson said.
"No, not at all," she said. "It was all about the athletes who are competing and how joyous this is and how great this race is."
Middaugh said, "Last year, (Armstrong) brought a lot of awareness to our sport, which is great for our sport, but there wasn't a whole lot of Lance talk other than on the Headline News."
There was some discussion early Sunday of skipping the water portion of the event due to tsunami concerns.
"It was more comic relief than anything else," said the 39-year-old Stoltz, whose four world titles are double that of any other man. "We were a little worried that it would be a duathlon instead of a triathlon, but once we heard that the swim was going on, it was good. We were on high ground, so we didn't have any worries. I will be back every year, I will never miss it."
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Police say high speed is to blame for a crash Tuesday afternoon in Whitefish Bay.
Piles of debris littered Santa Monica Boulevard near the Jewish Community Center.
All of it was part of a Buick that ended up on its roof after a single-car crash.
"I hope he recovers, he or she, I don't know, but obviously something else was going on" said Sarah Lewis, who lives near the crash scene.
Police said the driver of the Buick was a man and that he was the only one in the car. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, they said.
Lewis drives Santa Monica Boulevard several time a day. She said a speeding car is unusual around here.
"Because it's a school zone, it's very nerve-wracking," she said.
Whitefish Bay police said they are investigating the accident with the help of Wisconsin State Patrol.


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The Lakers traded away Steve Blake for MarShon Brooks and Kent Bazemore, a pair of talented players who might be the answer LA has been looking for. Meanwhile Pau Gasol, Chris Kaman, and Jordan Hill go back to work after the deadline passes.
The Los Angeles Lakers traded Steve Blake to the Golden State Warriors for MarShon Brooks and Kent Bazemore this past week.Blake had a decent last game for the Lakers – scoring 13 points and having 6 rebounds. The Lakers said he was sick, then traded him to Golden State – prompting Kobe Bryant to respond with a "not cool" via twitter.
Brooks and Bazemore had magnificent first games for the Lakeshow, helping them break the franchise record of home losses to beat the dormant rival Celtics. Brooks scored 14 points in 23 minutes and Bazemore scored 15 in 33 minutes. Ten of Brooks shots made were in the 4th quarter.
The "killer bees" became the newest nickname for this brilliant at times bench. Hopefully with the return of Nick "Swaggy P" Young this will be a tough group of young talent that will turn heads and become the future of this organization. The salary dump, which is already heavily denied, is only part of the reason for bringing in two younger shooting guards to replace one veteran fan favorite.
Since Pau Gasol can finally be assured no movements will be made for the rest of the season then he can finally settle into his role as the backbone of this team defensively and offensively without Kobe for another 3 weeks. Gasol scored 16 points with 7 rebounds in the 101-92 win over Boston. Expect him to prove to the Lakers and other potential offseason buyers why he is still a top center in the league.
Chris Kaman continues to dominate on the bench again showing a good example of an offseason move that could help this team down the road. They should give him a decent extension and defiantly more playing minutes. Rumors had circulated that they were shopping Kaman along with power forward Jordan Hill. Both of which are crucial to this Laker defense and could not be so easily replaced.
The Lakers offseason might be the busiest in years that might even appeal to superstars looking for a chance to win with a healthy Black Mamba. Nothing is certain with this island of misfit players but this bench is something to keep an eye on. Buckle up Lakers fans it's going to be a bumpy ride this summer!
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Just wanted to put it out there on the forum for people wondering about weight loss plateaus, that it does look like it is non-linear.
after a steady weight loss, I didn't lose weight for 3 months, and then even gained a pound, but this
weekend went to weight myself, boom another 6 lbs gone.:):)
Sticking with pretty much with the primal diet, as mentioned in my previous posts, not much exercise, so mostly through diet only, and in spite of occasional indulgences of non-primal food items!!!
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Re: Zinio App Will Not Connect5ivedom Apr 30, 2013 11:46 AM (in response to P38Lightning)
Did you check with Zinio if they specifically have some check that disables the app for rooted Nooks?
Re: Zinio App Will Not ConnectP38Lightning Apr 30, 2013 2:43 PM (in response to 5ivedom)
It is not rooted when using the N2A sd card approach.
Here is the tech ass't manager's reply after I had several back and forths with a level one tech at Zinio:
"I apologize for any inconvenience. Zinio will not work properly on a Nook
device. If you are able to install the app, you will receive an error message
regarding not being able to connect to the internet -- this is normal behavior.
This is not something that we can resolve because Nook will not allow Zinio to
be used on their devices. There is no workaround that will fix this issue."
I had repeatedly explained to them in increasing detail that I was not using the BN software and that this issue was not displayed by any other app!
Thier app d/l without any warning of conflict. It installed properly. It even starts up and displays its structure with no problem except for the all important failure to connect.
Re: Zinio App Will Not Connect5ivedom May 1, 2013 5:18 PM (in response to P38Lightning)
I suspect it's because they are worried about people using it without authorization.
So it's not meant to block you. It's meant to block people who use Zinio without having a membership.
Perhaps you should ask on the various threads about sideloaded cards and at xdaforums whether Zinio works or not on rooted Nooks and whether or not it works on sideloaded cards. That'll give you a better reason for why stuff isn't working.
Re: Zinio App Will Not ConnectNookGardener May 2, 2013 11:56 AM (in response to P38Lightning)
Just wondering. Do you have the latest version of Zinio? Looks like it was released on GP on 4/8. At the very bottom of the ovrrview page, Z has a statement about not supporting device configirations resulting from rooting devices. Do you think they could have implemented something where they could tell if the app was running from an sd card? Rather than from internal memory?


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Shutter speed is a pretty intuitive thing to understand. With a longer shutter speed, I capture a longer stretch of time. If something during that stretch of time is moving around it looks blurry. If I capture a very small sliver of time, I freeze motion. You have seen how with shutter priority mode, you can dial in whatever shutter speed you want to take control of motion, and intentionally blur it or render it sharp. We are going to look at a couple of real-world examples in this video, and we are going to start with this fountain here. Water is moving all the time, so if I use a slow shutter speed, I am going to get what appears to be just a solid sheet of water.
If I use a really fast shutter speed, I am going to freeze droplets in mid-air. So, let's take a look at a couple of shots here. You have to have a tripod to make this work, because we are going to be using a very long shutter speed--something so long that there is no way I can handle that. So, I have got my tripod set up. You can see that to get the angle that I wanted, I had to put my tripod in this kind of weird, legs-akimbo-position-here thing. So, when you are shopping for a tripod, you want to get one with as much flexibility and motion as you can. That's a real nice feature of this tripod is that the legs can go out like this.
So, I am going to start with just a kind of midrange shutter speed to show you what I have got here. Now, I put my camera in shutter priority mode, and I have dialed in 60th of a second, which is what we have been telling you should be the kind of slowest shutter speed that you should use in low-light situations. So, that's just a good general purpose shutter speed. I am going to put it there. Now, at the bottom of the screen here, you see this gauge that says -3, -2, -1, +1, +2, +3. You are going to learn all about this in just a little bit. This is the exposure compensation dial.
It also serves other functions when you are shooting in manual mode. You might see that it's at -1 right now. Don't worry about that. That's something I had to do because of the brightness of the top of the fountain. You are going to learn all about that later. All we are worried about right now is shutter speed. So I am here at 30th of a second. I have already focused my camera just to save time during this lesson. I am going to meter, and you see that my camera says it wants to shoot at 16. We are fine with that. I am going to take my shot, and here is what I get. It's an okay shot of a fountain. The water is just kind of there.
It's not razor sharp. It's not super blurry. Let's sharpen it up. I am going to crank my shutter speed up to something really speedy here. I am going to go as far as I can, which is to a shutter speed of a 1000th of a second. Now, my camera will actually go faster than that. I can get my camera actually up to an 8000th of a second. When I do that you see that the 4.0 starts flashing. That's because this particular lens, the aperture cannot open any wider than f/4. So if I do this, my image is going to be underexposed.
So I am going to go back to 1/1000th of a second. It looks like actually maybe I can even get up to 1,250. Now, I am going to take that shot, and now our water has frozen up pretty well there. Let's go ahead and bump it up a little faster and risk a little bit of underexposure, meaning my image is going to be a little dark at 1/2000. I can brighten this up in my image editor later, but it will also just give you a view of just how much I can freeze the motion of the fountain. Now, let's go the other direction. I am going to go to a slow shutter speed.
Now, what's slow enough to stop a particular motion is something that you will usually have to experiment with, because our eyes see things at a particular speed all the time. So I am not sure. I am going to put this at 30th of a second and take a shot. That's kind of soft, but it's not really what I am going for. I want that water coming off the bottom of the fountain to just look like a solid sheet of water. So I am going to go much slower and drop down to an 8th of a second. The f/22 is flashing, so I am going to go back up until I can get-- there we go--a 25th of a second.
Let's shoot that. That looks better. Let's go all the way down. I am going to shoot this at 15th of a second. So, that's where we want to be. Now we are getting a nice solid sheet of water. This is the effect you can use on mountain streams, waterfalls. Anytime you've got moving water, try shooting both with a fast shutter speed and a slow shutter speed. If you really want to freeze motion-- you have seen that we have a problem of running into the speed of our lens-- there is a type of filter you can get called a neutral density filter that you can put over the end of your lens that will cut some light without changing the quality of the light.
It won't color it or anything, and that can buy you a little extra shutter speed latitude. Let's look at some other slow and fast shutter speed examples. So, here we an image that we shot with a pretty quick shutter speed. We have frozen this motion. This is a trumpet player playing pretty quickly. The image is a little bit soft, and that's partly because I couldn't get the shutter speed up super high, so I was still getting a tiny bit of blur, but also this particular camera in low light, you just get a lot of softening from the noise that's in there. But another option that I shot at the same time, because I wanted to really cover my subject well and shoot a lot of different ideas and try a lot of different things, I went intentionally to a much slower shutter speed and actually tried to get some motion blur.
Obviously, this is a fairly abstract image; it conveys a very different sense than a razor sharp image. Here is another intentional motion blur. This guy was hammering on this pointy piece of metal, and I wanted to really get the hammering, so I went to a slower shutter speed intentionally. Now when I do that, I have to be aware that that slower shutter speed is going to mean that I am really at a risk of camera shake, so I worked extra hard to be sure that I was holding the camera as still as possible, so that the only thing that would be blurry in the image would be actually the fall on the hammer.
And what turned out really nice in this image is that he was holding the rest of his body very still, so it was really nice. There was only the arm that was moving, so I only got softening and blurring where I wanted it. Here is another example. You can choose to shoot a sporting activity, or something like the skate boarder, with a really slow shutter speed to catch a lot of motion. Or you can choose to shoot it with a very fast shutter speed and try and freeze motion. And again, all of the shots are being controlled with shutter priority mode, just like we did at the fountain: dialing in the shutter speed that we want and letting the camera choose the corresponding aperture that will give us a well exposed image.
This thing, you may not recognize right away as a train, but that's what it is. That's a speeding locomotive. And this is a case where I didn't really have a choice but to shoot with a slower shutter speed, because this was the middle of the night. It was really dark; I was not going to get away with a fast shutter speed without having an image that was incredibly underexposed. I should have brought a tripod. It would be nice if the rest of the image was a little bit sharper, but still it works. I had to go to a very slow shutter speed and just try and hold still, and what was nice was the train was going fast enough so I got a really nice blur.
So, sometimes if you are in low light, you have no choice but to work with a slow shutter speed. You have no choice but to blur motion. At that point, don't fight it. Just give in to it and see what you can come up with, by choosing to let moving objects smear around. Again, shutter speed is a big apart of your creative toolbox. It's a very important apart of your photographic vocabulary, so don't be afraid to try to experiment with blurring motion, experiment with freezing motion, trying both if you have the option. You may not be sure what's going to be best until you get home and take a look at your images.
- What is exposure?
- Exploring camera modes
- Light metering
- Shooting sharp images
- Controlling shutter speed
- Understanding f-stops
- Controlling motion
- Working with a shallow depth of field
- Measuring aperture
- Shooting in low light conditions
- Performing manual light balance
- Working with the histogram
- Using fill flash
- Understanding reciprocity


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NBC has continued to receive criticism from the American public as well as world media outlets after it edited out several portions of the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in London.
Among the portions edited out of the American broadcast was an important portion by Akram Khan that gave tribute to the victims of the July 7th London bombings by terrorist.
Khan said he felt "disheartened and disappointed" adding, "Is it not accessible enough? Is it not commercial enough?"
Creative director of the Opening Ceremony, Danny Boyle, had asked Khan to develop a section designed around the theme mortality.
NBC said that the performance was never presented to them and they did not know about it, instead airing a pre-recorded interview by Ryan Seacrest with Michael Phelps and continued commentary by Bob Costas and Matt Lauer.
In fact, there were over 284,951 complaints on Twitter about Bob Costas talking and commenting too much. The most common complaint, Talking during an important part, preventing viewers from hearing the music/sounds of the event.


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"Rethinking social inclusion and web 2.0: What's in store for language education?"
Within the framework of the EC-funded network "language learning and
social media: 6 key dialogues"
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A 26-year-old born in the Philippines, Gesta (26-1-1, 14 KOs) was last in the ring for a unanimous-decision loss to IBF beltholder Miguel Vazquez in December 2012. He was scheduled to face Nigerian Ajose Olusegun last July but the fight was called off after Gesta injured a rib. He was soon after dropped by promoter Top Rank when his contract ended.
"I'm happy that there has been an opponent announced for my fight. I'm really looking to put on an exciting show for all my fans. My goal is to get back in the world title mix and it starts with Riovalle," said Gesta in a press release.
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The 27-year-old Riovalle (37-17-2, 26 KOs) has lost three of his past four fights, having last been in the ring for a unanimous-decision loss to Alexei Collado in February.
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An old standby practice, piggybacking, was recently eliminated as the new FICO score rules changed how it treated authorized users. In the past, someone with poor or no credit could "piggyback" as an authorized user on an account of someone with good credit. Many parents put their children on their credit card accounts to help them establish credit, the parents were "co-signing" their child's debts, so it was perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately, people started abusing this and selling "authorized user positions" on their accounts, some for as much as $500 or $1,000 a piece, so FICO had to respond.
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If you think Americans living just above the poverty line are making it, then think again.
A startling new study by the Census Bureau reveals that one in three Americans - 100 million people - live in poverty or near poverty.
"These numbers are higher than we anticipated," Trudi J. Renwick, the bureau's chief poverty statistician, told the New York Times. "There are more people struggling than the official numbers show." The Census Bureau, which published the poverty data last month, came up with the analysis of people slightly above the poverty line at the request of the Times.
The data shows that 51 million Americans live on incomes less than 50 percent above the poverty line while 49.1 million are below the poverty line which translates into $24,343 for a family of four.
The official poverty measure, devised a half-century ago, has long been considered ill-conceived in determining a person's disposable income. So, the Census Bureau developed a new measure of poverty that more accurately reflects disposable income.
It no longer ignores the billions of dollars that Americans pay out in taxes, medical care and work expenses while taking into account government assistance to the needy in food stamps, tax credits and other programs.
The new measure, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, counts these factors and adjusts for regional differences in the cost of living that the traditional method ignores.
Based on the new measure, of the 51 million "near poor," more than 50 percent were pushed down from higher income levels: more than eight million by taxes, six million by medical expenses, and four million by work expenses like child care and transportation, according to the Times.
At the same time, nearly 20 percent were lifted up from poverty by government benefits.
Put together, the new Census Bureau poverty measure reveals the actual and potential role of government in lifting Americans out of poverty, all the more so during the current economic crisis made worse by the Republican drive to increase income inequality and dismantle social welfare programs.
In a surprising discovery, the Census Bureau's analysis revealed that 28 percent of the near poor work full-time, year round.
The disposable income of Phyllis Pendleton, a social worker, and her husband, a janitor - once adjusted to the new Census Bureau poverty measure -- is 29 percent above the poverty line, within the range considered near poor.
"Living paycheck to paycheck," is how Ms. Pendleton described her family's condition to the Times. "One bad bill will wipe you out."
In another revelation, using the new measure the percentage of seniors who are either poor or near poor rose from 22 to 34 percent, which is slightly less that the share among children, 39 percent. High medical costs are likely to account for the increase for seniors.
Yet, another startling finding is that only a quarter of the near poor are insured, and of those 42 percent have private insurance.
Belinda Sheppard's is among those who fits the near poor income profile. Her income disqualifies her for government assistance with health care. Her employer keeps her on part time status, even though she works 40 hours a week, to avoid paying for health insurance. So she does without health coverage hoping for the best.
Sheppard, whose adult children live with her because they cannot find work, told the Times, "I pay my bills with very small wiggle room. Or none."
"The emotionally charged terms 'poor' or 'near poor'," Robert Rector, an analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation, told the Times, "clearly suggest to most people a level of material hardship that doesn't exist." Instead, he said he doesn't have "any objection to this measure if you use the term 'low income.'"
But, Sheila Zedlewski, a researcher at the non-partisan Urban Institute, considers the terms "poor" and "near poor" appropriate because "there are a lot of 'low-income' Americans struggling to make ends meet, and we don't pay enough attention to them."
Reflecting the view of most economists who consider the new method an improvement over the old, Zedlewski told the Times, "It's very consistent with everything we've been hearing in the last few years about families' struggle, earnings not keeping up for the bottom half."


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We often hear that freedom is not "free." Our military troops understand this as they lay their lives on the line every day to ensure that we continue to enjoy all that America has to offer. The daily and seasonal services that we depend on; the educational opportunities offered to our children; the security services that save lives and property; the local, state and federal leadership that is there during times of crisis; the life line that a 911 emergency call can provide; the special assistance that can be offered to a family desperately in need; the list could go on and on.
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This restatement of our thesis allows us to address some of Dr McGraw's particular concerns. First, we agree that in some clinics paternal and protective practices
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Dori Caymmi: Half Moon Bay, California, November 11, 2012
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Half Moon Bay, California
November 11, 2012
Brazilian veteran acoustic guitarist, singer, composer, and arranger Dori Caymmi engaged the audience at the Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society, aka the Douglas Beach House, with some of the most heartfelt songs of all time sung in Portuguese. Accompanying him were his longtime band members Bill Cantos on piano, keyboard and accompanying vocals, Mike Shapiro on drums and percussion, and Jerry Watts on electric bass. The concert focused upon Caymmi's recent Poesia Musicada (Music Taste, 2011), an intimate memoir to his late father, the famous Dorival Caymmi, the poet of Bahia. This was Caymmi's second appearance at the Bach, but his first with his own band. In Pete Douglas' opening remarks, he said, "Dori is my favorite singer." When the band took the stage, the audience burst with an intense and prolonged applause to welcome this two-time Grammy Award-winning singer.
It was clear from the outset that this quartet had played together for a long time. In short, it was tight and instinctively together on every song. The variations of the songs from the opening "Obsession" through Caymmi's "Alegre Menina" (Gabriela's Song) kept the audience riveted. Introducing "Velho Do Mar," the singer revealed that he had written the song for his late father, who had died August 16, 2008 a the age of 94, followed eleven days later by his also-famous mother, Stella. Based on a poem by Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, the song changed the feeling of the concert, with Cantos setting up his Yamaha Motif ES8 to bring in a full string section that captured the moment with sublime passion. It was a sensitive piece, as Caymmi's baritone caressed the notes with deep, lush feeling. Yet, toward the end of the song, the piece gradually developed into a crescendo. Shapiro's drums began a surge as the cymbals fluttered and then came crashing through. Caymmi's voice soared as if calling to the heavens. Although sung in Portuguese, as all of his songs were, it was unnecessary to understand the language, az Caymmi's voice was like a refined musical instrument and the feeling was crystal clear.
Between songs, Caymmi bantered with his band members, but it finally settled down once they had decided upon and masterfully slipped into the next piece. At one point, Caymmi noted that he'd written a song for the great Amazon River. Then looking out the windows from the Douglas Beach House, in his deep voice he said, "Look at that! Look at that sunset over the Pacific." In a display of reds and pinks, the sun had just settled on the horizon as the quartet eased its way into the singer's "Your Smile." Cantos opened the piece on the Motif ES8, and it sounded as though an orchestra had blossomed. Caymmi lifted the tempo of the piece with his refreshing baritone and acoustic guitar, while in the back Watts moved the rhythm along with Shapiro.
As the concert wrapped for the evening, the audience burst forth with a sustained, appreciative applause. The band returned and, with few words, put the finishing touches on the evening with Caymmi's "Amazon River (Rio Amazonas)." As the end of the piece, approached, Caymmi once again announced the names of his band members. Before the group had finished, it was clear, from a second round of wild applause, that this most fortunate audience knew that it had just experienced a magical journey through authentic Brazilian masterpieces sung by the master himself.
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Gonzo here – Houshmandzadeh is expected to sign the multi-year deal within the hour, which would be $2M more per year than the Vikings were willing to offer.
While the signing comes at no low cost, keep in mind that Ruskell & co were being criticized for not acting quickly enough in free agency and letting big names slip by. It seems the Seahawks' front office placed more value in securing a position that was decimated by injuries last year, which fits Ruskell's business model of fixing problems this team has.
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Alfred Mele
The question of human autonomy, the alternate universes that our choices can open up, and the problem of measurement awareness.
Over a year ago
: Do human beings have free will?
Alfred Mele:
Yes. Yes they do. But it turns out that not everybody understands the expression "free will" in the same way. And there are lots of different ways of understanding it. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to just say, "Yes, this is true that isn't." One thing philosopher's spend a lot of time doing is trying to sort out the possible meanings of an expression like "free will," and the history on the literature on free will is a couple of thousand years old. So, when I talked to the general public, one thing I say about free will is, you can think about it on a sort of gas station model, service station model, So, when you go to the gas station and get regular gas, or the mid grade gas, or the premium. And maybe we could simplify things by thinking of like regular free will. Well, regular free will would be the sort of thing that is presupposed in courts of law when somebody is judged guilty of an offense. So, just that you understood what you were doing, you're sane and rational, and nobody was forcing, or compelling you to do it, and you didn't have any medical condition that forced or compelled you to do it. That would be enough to be acting freely. Now, that's regular free will.
Yeah, okay, so now how do we understand this being able to do otherwise, everything being the same up until that moment? And by everything, I mean the entire history of the universe and all of the laws of nature. So, one way to picture this ability to do otherwise is as follows. If I could have done otherwise at a given moment, then there's another possible universe. You don't have to suppose that this universe actually exists. Another scenario where the entire universe is the same up until that moment, and even so, I do something else instead. So maybe what I did was decide to call a taxi, but at that very moment, everything being the same up until then, I could have decided to take a subway instead, and then started heading down the stairs.
Okay. So, some people require that kind of ability for free will. Now, if we're going to have it, then the brain has to work in such a way that everything being the same up until a given point in time, although I did one thing, I decided to call a taxi. I could have decided to take the subway. And we don't have good evidence that the brain does work that way, but also, we don't have good evidence that it doesn't. Right? So, this is a question that is empirically open. And it could turn out that the brain doesn't work this way, and then if it doesn't, then we're not going to have free will at this mid grade level, but we could still have regular free will.
So, I'm convinced we have regular free will, the mid grade thing, I'm not convinced we have because we don't have the empirical evidence that we need. But we don't have it either way.
: What is the main experiment that's driven this kind of free will?
Alfred Mele:
So these were originally done starting in the early '80's. They are still being done today. The technology today is better, but it's the same kind of experiment. What you have are subjects seated in a chair like the one I'm sitting in, and they have this task. To flex the wrist whenever they want. They're watching a fast clock. There's dot on the clock and it makes a complete revolution in less than 3 seconds, and they're hooked up to two machines. One is measuring EEG, electrical conductivity on the scalp. And the other measures a muscle burst on the wrist, it's an electromyogram. Okay? So, they're supposed to flex whenever they want and watch this rapidly revolving spot on the clock and then after they flex, they're supposed to indicate where the spot was on the clock when they first became aware of their urge, intention, decision, to flex. And they indicate it by moving a cursor to that spot on the clock. Okay, is that clear?
All right. Now, when these subjects are regularly reminded to be spontaneous and not to plan in advance when to flex, what you see is that – well, it's 500 milliseconds, it's about half a second before the muscle burst, you get a marked change in electrical conductivity on the scalp. You get this ramping up effect. So, that's about ½ second before the muscle burst. On average, subject say, they first became aware of this urge, or this decision, or intention, or whatever at about 200 milliseconds before the muscle burst. So, if you average out all those responses that they make by moving the cursor, it's about 206 milliseconds before the muscle burst.
So, Benjamin Libet was the first one to do these studies. And they're very interesting studies. And what was innovative is he had a way to measure consciousness because he was timing this conscious experience, he thought, right. So, the claim is, then the brain is deciding over a third of a second before the mind becomes aware of the decision. So, conscious free will isn't driving this behavior, isn't generating the flexants. And then Libet generalized and he said, "Well, you know, this is the way it is for all behavior. So, the brain unconsciously makes decisions and the mind becomes aware of them only later."
Now if you think that in order to be acting freely, say it's an overt action, an action involving bodily motion, like flexing the wrist, a conscious decision has to be causing the behavior and you're thinking that doesn't happen, then you're thinking you never act freely. And so, there is no free will.
: What are the mistakes?
Alfred Mele:
Okay, it is an interesting result, but what does it really show? Do we know that it's decisions that are being made at -550 milliseconds, that is about half a second before the muscle burst, as opposed to something else? Well, one thing it could be instead of decisions is a causal process is up and running that increases the probability of a subsequent flexing, but doesn't raise it to one. So, what you might have then at -550 is a potential cause of a subsequent flexing. And the decision might be made later than -500 or -550. It might even be made around -200, when people say they think they made it. So, that's one problem, we can't really correlate this early spike with the decision at that time. And in fact, the way the study is done is what triggered the computer to make a record of the preceding second, or more, of brain activity was the muscle burst. So, there is a muscle burst, and that triggers the computer, okay, make a record of this preceding second of brain activity. But if you use that methodology then you never looked for cases where you get this spike about half a second before, call it zero time, but no muscle motion. You don't because it's the muscle motion that triggers the computer to make a record of the preceding activity.
So that's one problem. And one thing you might wonder too is, so how long does it take a decision to flex your wrist now to generate a muscle burst, or a wrist flexing. And there's a way to get indirect evidence about that. You could give subjects a reaction time test. So now they wouldn't be making the decision, but they would be responding to a queue with an intention. So the task might be flexing your wrist whenever that clock changes color from red to green. Okay? And they could be watching the clock too. And it turns out that reaction time studies have been done with a Libet clock. And a mean reaction time, in one study anyway, was 231 milliseconds. There was just a 231-millisecond gap between the emission of the go signal, which was a sound in that study, and the muscle burst. But if it took an intention or a decision something like 550 milliseconds to cause a muscle burst, this result would be very surprising. I mean, here it's only roughly 200. And of course after there is the go signal, it's going to take some time to respond mentally with an intention. It doesn't have to be a conscious intention, but it's a causal process, so it takes time.
So, that's another problem. And then there's a third problem with these studies and it has to do with the measurement of awareness. So, after they flex again, subject moved the cursor to the spot and say that's when I first became aware of it.
: How does measurement of awareness become a problem?
Alfred Mele:
So, it must have been two-and-a-half to three years ago now that I gave a lecture on the neuroscience of free will at the National Institute of Health in a motor control unit. The idea was, I do my lecture and then after that they make me a subject in one of these Libet experiments, which was cool. I was interested. And then after that I got out to dinner. They take me out to dinner, but first I have to be a subject in the experiment. So, I gave my lecture then it was time to do the experiment. I was sitting at the chair, they set up the clock and I knew what my task was. And I wanted to pretend to be a naive subject. I wanted to put myself in the shoes of somebody who might do this and not really knowing what is going on. And so, I thought this is what I'll do, I'll sit there and watch the clock and I'll wait for urges to flex my wrist to pop up in me to become conscious, and then as soon as I have such an urge, I'll flex and then after I flex I'll move the cursor to where I thought the spot was on the clock when I first became aware of that urge, or intention, or whatever.
So, I was sitting there a little while and nothing was happening. That is, no urges was coming to mind. And I thought, how did they do this? How do these people do it? And then I thought, I better think of a way to do it because otherwise I'm going to be stuck in this chair and I won't get any dinner. Right? Dinner was next. So, I thought, this is what I'll do. I'll just consciously say "now" to myself silently and treat that as an indicator of an urge or a decision, and then I'll flex and then after I flex, I'll report where the spot was on the clock when I said "now" to myself.
Okay. So, I had to remember to do this then. Say "now," flex as soon as possible after I say "now," and then do the reporting. And at first the neuroscientist said I was flexing in too wimpy a way, so I had to remember to flex hard too. So, okay. I did all of that. And these experiments subjects had to do at least 40 times to get data you could actually read and use. So, I did it about 40 times. And one thing I discovered that although I could pinpoint the spot on the clock to maybe a range of the clock, I don't know, 20%, 25% of the clock. I couldn't pinpoint it to an exact tick, let's say. That was one problem. Also, I had something every definite to look for internally. I was looking for the conscious "now" saying, and I know what that's like. But subjects who are said, who are instructed to look for an urge or an intention, or decision, or whatever, might wonder, "Well, what the heck was that that I was just experiencing? Was I just thinking about doing it, was it an urge?" So, there could be confusion that they would have that I didn't have.
: What is the bottom line of these experiments in terms of where we stand on that free will scale?
Alfred Mele:
Well, these experiments are thought to show that there is no free will. And my main point here is, they don't show that. For three different reasons really. These judgment times are unreliable, so we don't really know when people first became aware of the urge. And we don't have good evidence of what happens at -550 milliseconds, about half a second before the muscle burst, is that a decision is made as opposed to a potential cause of a decision is present. And we don't have evidence that what's happening half a second before the muscle burst is sufficient for subsequent muscle bursts. So, it just leaves free will wide open.
Another thing too is, notice what we're studying here. We're studying relatively trivial actions. Wrist flexions or mouse button clickings and decisions to do things now. And it may be that free will mainly isn't at work in that dimension in our lives, but mainly is at work in broader dimensions when we're thinking about maybe back to students they've been accepted into different graduate schools with different scholarship offers and they are thinking about which one to take. Or, maybe thinking about whether to propose marriage, or not, or whether it's time finally to get the divorce or what house to buy. You know? It maybe that free will is more involved in things like that then in wrist flexions and the like. And then, now this is not a criticism of the scientists who do this work, but with the technology we have now, if you're going to be studying something similar to free will, it looks like you're going to be in this domain and not the domain of choosing graduate schools, buying houses, proposing marriage.
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One of the movies that I am eagerly waiting to watch is 'The Croods'. The other day when I was simply surfing the internet I came across more information about this movie. Here's a glimpse of the same.
'The Croods', Movie Review
To begin with this movie will hit the cinema theater near you the 22nd of this month. If you enjoy comedy, adventure and animation movies this one is worth watching at least one time. This is believed to be one of the most anticipated computer animated movies to be released this year. This film turns back time to the pre-historical era.
More information about 'The Croods'
• Directed by: Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
• Produced by: Jane Hartwell and Kristine Belson
• Story by: Chris Sanders, John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco
• Screenplay by: Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
• Music by: Alan Silvestri
• Cinematography: Yong Duk Jhun
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• Studio: DreamWorks Animation
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• Language: English
• Running time: almost 1 hour and 20 minutes
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Nicolas Cage plays the role of Grug. He belongs to the Croods family.
Ryan Reynolds is Guy. He is the nomadic cave boy. He is a little on the creative side. He prefers to use his head to come up with a plethora of ideas.
Emma Stone is Eap. She is Grug's oldest daughter. She is curios and has a penchant for adventure.
Other characters of this film are Catherine Keener as Ugga, Clark Duke as Thunk, Chris Sanders as Belt and Cloris Leachman as Gran.
In a nutshell 'The Croods' is a movie that revolves around the character Grug. This movie is about how he survives a massive earthquake. This natural disaster separates him from his family and he set out in search of a new world. However, we will have to wait until the 22nd of this month to catch a glimpse of this movie.


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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
CD Models and Talent Agency of Mount Pleasant announces that Richard Futch, CSA will be teaching an "Audition Techniques Workshop" for new and experienced talent. This workshop will take place at CD Models and Talent's studio in Mount Pleasant on Oct. 12 and 13. Futch's casting credits include "Army Wives," "The Notebook" and more than 100 episodes for network and cable television.
The session for children and teens is Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The adult session is Sunday, Oct. 13 from 1 to 6 p.m. The price for the children's workshop is $150 and the adult's workshop is $195. Class size is limited so that each talent can work on camera and receive individual feedback.
This workshop is open to talent with and without representation. Please contact the agency for more information or to register for this workshop.
CD Models and Talent Agency has been discovering and developing new models and talent in Charleston since 1997.
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