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As was the case in the first presidential debate, Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday night's confrontation with John McCain in Nashville, Tenn., in command of the situation. The Democratic nominee looked calm, confident and presidential as he won their second contest.
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With a stunningly vicious pair of blows, the faltering world economy—the Godzilla of this year's presidential race—has made the candidates look small. Why hasn't this looming crisis been part of the presidential debate?
Congress to the rescue! Mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being propped up in their time of dire need, thanks to a bill passed Saturday that will lift the world's two largest financial institutions out of immediate danger and help some homeowners handle mortgage crises.
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President Bush is still insisting that the U.S. economy is in generally good shape, even as he asks Congress to support legislation to help Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while insisting in the same breath that he's not proposing a "bailout" for the ailing mortgage companies. Hmmm.
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With our economic and financial crises deepening, government insiders reportedly are debating whether we need to restore some regulation—or not. Given the state of things, we can expect further woes and no regulation.
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The FBI has announced an investigation into the practices of more than a dozen companies related to the subprime mortgage crisis that has destabilized the American and global economies. The Securities and Exchange Commission has already launched investigations of its own, and though it's nice to see the authorities crack down on improper practices, it would be nice to have some oversight before there was a crisis.
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Winter 2008 is shaping up to be a gloomy season for the American economy, with mounting concerns over subprime mortgage prices and a plunging stock market. Thursday was a particularly dreary day on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 307 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 falling almost 3 percent.
The term "subprime mortgage" has certainly been in heavy rotation in recent months, and economic panic has spread as a result of lenders playing fast and loose with their home-lending criteria, causing chaos in the mortgage market. Enter the Federal Reserve to try to undo some of the damage and prevent a recurrence.
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June 14, 2010
This article was cross-posted from the AIDS.gov blog. Dr. Kevin Fenton is Director and Dr. Hazel Dean is Deputy Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. (Cross-posted from Health Protection, Perspectives blog, June 7, 2010.)
On June 7, Public Health Reports released a special issue that focuses on Social Determinants of Health in the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Tuberculosis. This groundbreaking supplement brings to the forefront the broad impact social influences, standings, and characteristics can have on the health of each and every person.
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Individual risk behaviors do not occur in a vacuum. It is clear that the circumstances in which people grow, live, work, socialize and form relationships influence their individual-level determinants of health, including high-risk behaviors -- unsafe sex and injection drug use. But we also know that patterns and distribution of our focus diseases in a population are influenced by a dynamic interplay among the number of infections in a population, the availability and effectiveness of prevention efforts, and myriad social and structural factors.
This special supplement of Public Health Reports presents research and commentary on the interplay and integration of SDH in prevention efforts. Comprehensive approaches are needed to meet the needs of overall community and societal characteristics. Some of these characteristics are addressed in this issue, such as the effects of incarceration; the differences in HIV transmission among foreign- and native-born persons; income and/or social status, including registered and non-registered female sex workers; stigma; and education; among other areas.
Former CDC Directors Drs. David Satcher and William Foege both provide insightful commentary regarding elevating the profile of SDH (Dr. Satcher) and pursuing this "last mile" in prevention through SDH (Dr. Foege). Also, a selection of studies in this issue focuses on income and social status and examines how economic insecurity and poverty affect the risk of HIV infection. As well, the role of stigma, education level, race, gender are played out in the health arena; and we know that combined, confounding, and complicating factors all contribute to disease risk, poorer health outcomes, and earlier disability and death.
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Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control: Clinical Decision-Support Systems (CDSS)
Task Force Finding
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends clinical decision-support systems (CDSS) for prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) based on sufficient evidence of effectiveness in improving screening for CVD risk factors and practices for CVD-related preventive care services, clinical tests, and treatments.
Most of the available evidence is from studies on the effectiveness of CDSS when implemented alone in the healthcare system rather than as part of a coordinated service delivery effort that is intended to address barriers at the patient, provider, organizational, and community levels. More evidence is needed about implementation of CDSS as one part of a comprehensive service delivery system designed to improve outcomes for CVD risk factors and reduce CVD-related morbidity and mortality.
Read the full Task Force Finding and Rationale Statement for details including implementation issues, possible added benefits, potential harms, and evidence gaps.
Intervention Definition
CDSS are computer-based information systems designed to assist healthcare providers in implementing clinical guidelines at the point of care. CDSS use patient data to provide tailored patient assessments and evidence-based treatment recommendations for healthcare providers to consider. Patient information is entered manually or automatically through an electronic health record (EHR) system. CDSS for cardiovascular disease prevention (CVD) include one or more of the following:
- Reminders for overdue CVD preventive services including screening for risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol
- Assessments of patients' risk for developing CVD based on their medical history, symptoms, and clinical test results
- Recommendations for evidence-based treatments to prevent CVD, including intensification of treatment
- Recommendations for health behavior changes to discuss with patients such as quitting smoking, increasing physical activity, and reducing excessive salt intake
- Alerts when indicators for CVD risk factors are not at goal
CDSS are often incorporated within EHR systems and integrated with other computer-based functions that offer patient-care summary reports, feedback on quality indicators, and benchmarking. Knowledge management systems providing access to scientific literature and strategies for CVD prevention may also be linked with CDSS.
About the Systematic Review
The Task Force finding is based on evidence from a broad systematic review (Bright et al. 2012, search period January 1976-January 2011) that examined the effectiveness of CDSS in improving quality of care and clinical outcomes for a variety of conditions (e.g., CVD prevention, cancer screening, immunization, antenatal care). From this broad review, CDSS studies focused on CVD prevention were identified (39 studies) and combined with evidence from an updated search (6 studies, search period January 2011-October 2012). The systematic review was conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice and policy related to cardiovascular disease prevention.
- CDSS led to modest improvements for three quality-of-care outcomes for provider practices related to CVD prevention - compared to usual care:
- Screening and preventive care services completed or ordered: median increase of 3.8 percentage points (Interquartile interval [IQI]: -0.08 to 10.6; 17 studies)
- Clinical tests completed or ordered: median increase of 4.0 percentage points (IQI: 0.7 to 7.0; 7 studies)
- Treatments prescribed: median increase of 2.0 percentage points (IQI: -0.75 to 8.55, 11 studies)
- Eight studies implemented CDSS in combination with other approaches such as team-based care and patient-reminders compared to usual care. Large improvements in the following quality-of-care outcomes were reported in these studies:
- CDSS-prompted screening and preventive care services ordered
- CDSS-prompted clinical tests completed or ordered by providers
- Results from the broad systematic review (Bright et al., 2012), which examined the effectiveness of CDSS across a variety of conditions and related risk factors, found improvements for all three quality-of-care outcomes (e.g., cardiovascular disease prevention, cancer screening, immunization).
Study Characteristics
- CDSS were added to pre-existing EHRs in about one-third of included studies.
- In most studies, CDSS were designed to:
- Prompt providers without user requests for information, meaning the prompts were 'system-initiated' (82% of included studies)
- Deliver decision support as part of the clinical workflow at the patient visit (i.e., 'synchronously') (84% of included studies)
- Most studies (95%) evaluated CDSS in outpatient, primary care settings, many of which were run by group practices that had multiple primary care centers.
- Many studies had large patient populations (median: 1,189).
- Studies evaluated CDSS that were targeted at a variety of CVD risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.
- Based on the settings and populations from included studies, results are applicable to:
- U.S. healthcare system
- Outpatient, primary care settings
- Patients with multiple CVD risk factors
Economic Evidence
An overall conclusion about the economic effectiveness of CDSS cannot be reached due to limited evidence on cost and economic benefit. In addition, studies evaluated a range of CDSS functions implemented for diverse CVD risk factors.
The economic review is based on evidence from 17 studies (search period January 1976–October 2012). Included studies reported the cost of CDSS (10 studies), benefits of CDSS measured as estimated changes in healthcare cost (15 studies), cost-benefit analyses (4 studies), and cost-effectiveness (3 studies).
- Cost of CDSS: Most of the studies that reported program costs did not provide complete costs of developing, implementing, and operating CDSS.
- Benefits of CDSS: Most of the studies that reported on benefits did not account for all major components of healthcare cost.
- Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness: The incomplete assessments of costs and benefits led to inconsistent results.
Considerations for Implementation
The following considerations are drawn from studies included in the evidence review, the broader literature, and expert opinion. This information was emphasized by the Task Force and may provide context for the delivery of the intervention.
- Barriers to efficient healthcare delivery exist at multiple levels including patient-related barriers, provider-related barriers, community-related barriers, and organizational barriers. CDSS serves as a tool to address provider-related barriers—mainly 'clinical inertia', which is the failure to modify treatment when necessary. However, to address all barriers CDSS might need to be combined with other effective strategies such as culturally competent healthcare, team-based care, or other infrastructural improvements.
- Bright et al. identified the following as features of a successful CDSS:
- Provides patient assessments and treatment recommendations automatically
- Delivers assessments and recommendations at the time and location of decision-making
- Gives a recommendation, not just an assessment
- Automatically incorporates patient data from electronic health records
- Links with electronic patient charts to support workflow integration
- Promotes action rather than inaction
- Provides research evidence to justify assessments and recommendations
- Engages local users during system development
- Gives decision-support results to patients as well as providers
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has developed a set of standards for 'meaningful use' of EHR technology and offers financial incentives to individual providers and healthcare systems adhering to the standards.
- Encouraging provider input during CDSS development and offering training and orientation may increase provider acceptance of these systems.
- Use of CDSS changes the way patients and providers traditionally interact during a visit, and it is important that new CDSS are designed in a way that fosters productive patient-provider interaction.
- Health systems should consider additional interventions that could be integrated with CDSS such as provider performance feedback reports or system-level interventions such as team-based care.
Supporting Materials
- Analytic Framework [PDF - 112 kB]
- Evidence Gaps
- Summary Evidence Tables - Effectiveness Review [PDF - 404 kB]
- Summary Evidence Tables - Economic Review [PDF - 179 kB]
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The repetition and need to go up and down the ladder sparked an idea in an area man that he later turned into his own invention he called the Ladder Companion.
Frank Leuthner, of Elder Township, rigged up something to hold his paint tray to make his projects easier. When a storm blew off his barn door, he used it again.
He figured if he had use for a product that would help him paint his house and do other projects with a ladder, other people also would need it.
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Frank Leuthner, of Elder Township, developed the Ladder Companion, above, which helps keep tools or paint close when using a ladder, with assistance from Keystone Innovation Zone coordinator Katie Bell.
Leuthner took his idea to Katie Bell, Keystone Innovation Zone coordinator, in Nov. 2005. They did a survey through Pennsylvania College of Technology about potential customers.
"We wanted to see if anyone had seen anything like it," Leuthner said. "There were some for a step ladder, but nothing for a big ladder."
Other questions involved how much people would pay for the product and, even more important, if they would buy it.
Throughout the process of making the mold, Leuthner strove to keep production in the country.
One of the biggest challenges he faced came from finding someone to bend the pipe. He looked all around the country and then happened to stumble upon a company in South Williamsport that would do it.
There were three main prototypes until he finally received the product he wanted, which included a bar to hook onto ladders and a tray with slots for tools.
"It's virtually indestructable," Leuthner said. "I didn't want it to be too light so you can drop it and it'll flex, but I didn't want it to be too heavy."
Another requirement Leuthner wanted to see his product do was adjust to ladders. He said he wanted to make sure it would work whether people had their ladders straight or at an angle.
"I experimented with a lot of things," he said. "I didn't want it to fall on someone's head."
The holes on the tray can hold a variety of items.
"You see a lot of guys with things on their waist," Leuthner said. "A screw gun is too big to strap to the waist. (The Ladder Companion will) hold comfortably about 20 pounds. A full gallon of paint is 9 or 10 pounds. A screw gun is 1 1/2 to 2 pounds. A hammer is 8 or 9 ounces."
While it could hold the full gallon-sized can of paint, Leuthner said most people would only use a throwaway paint tray, which also fits.
The skills Leuthner said he used to design the Ladder Companion were just gained from the projects he did over the years.
"I just picked it up."
What surprised him the most was the length of the process.
"It was a longer process than I thought," Leuthner said. "Costly. It was a fairly costly process. I got discouraged once or twice. Katie Bell always encouraged me. My wife and daughter were supportive. In the middle of dinner, I would go down to the work cellar to try something new. Can we do this? Can we do that?"
Bell said making a new product can be challenging.
"It's definitely not an easy road," she said. "Frank's ability to navigate it over the years shows that. ... It's a challenging road, but a rewarding road."
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Both Kai Maiava and Miller saw their first action in last week's win over Miami-Ohio.
• The Buffs pounded hard on Tuesday, but were in shells during Wednesday's practice. It was the first time in three weeks the Buffs weren't in full pads on a Wednesday.
Hawkins had the team in full pads the past two weeks in an attempt to ignite a sluggish run game. Colorado responded vs. Miami-Ohio with 359 yards on the ground.
• Junior linebacker R.J. Brown will have an MRI Thursday to get an update on his concussion symptoms. Brown will not play Saturday. A report in today's Daily Camera indicated there's a possibility Brown's playing days are through due to recurring concussions.
• Colorado football legend Dick Anderson was in attendance at Wednesday's practice. So was former Colorado offensive lineman Victor Rogers.
• Hawkins wants linebacker Mike Sipili to stay in Boulder while he serves his suspension from the university this semester. The good news is that Sipili plans to return next spring. He will be a sophomore with three years to play three at that time.
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Last time I went to the range with my father we had a news crew there asking us if they could film us. They sounded like they knew more about guns than most news personnel so they filmed me shooting my AK and interviewed my father. Although it was a generally unbiased view they still threw in that question at the end about increased guns leading to more violence.:rolleyes:


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There are players that shape the NHL and that have left their mark in the hockey world. I am going to be counting down the top ten best NHL players today.
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LAWRENCE — The 2014 edition of "America's Best Colleges" has ranked Rider University 18th in the region, officials said.
U.S. News & World Report gave the school its highest rank to date among northern regional colleges and universities. It jumped eight spots from last year's ranking, the university said in a news release.
"Once again, we are delighted to see that these national publications have validated what we have always known — that Rider is one of the top-tier universities in this region," president Mordechai Rozanski said.
The Princeton Review also has named Rider among its "Best 378 Colleges" in the nation for 2014, the release said.
"While these rankings are a popular measure of an institution's reputation, ultimately, one of the best ways to evaluate the quality and fit of a university is a personal visit to meet the faculty and students and experience the student-centered character of the learning community. This is where we excel," Rozanski said.
U.S. News and World Report's Regional Universities category ranks universities in the north, south, midwest and west against one another.
The ranking is done regionally — not nationally — because universities tend to attract most of their students from surrounding states, the release said.
Rider's freshman class represents 25 states and 19 countries. About 29 percent of the students are from out of state, the release said.
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The Ten Deadly Errors of Leadership
By Scott Barlow, Chief of Police, Culpeper, Virginia; and Captain (Retired), Newport News, Virginia, Police Department
any officers, looking back several years to their basic academy days, can still remember officer survival classes that highlighted the "10 deadly errors" an officer can make. Any of these errors can lead to the death, or serious injury, of law enforcement officers or their partners. Regardless of how they were presented, these errors are clearly based on the model established originally by Pierce Brooks.
Brooks, a retired captain from the Los Angeles Police Department, was ahead of his time. He conceived of the 10 deadly errors while still a homicide detective. Detective Brooks held a firm belief that most police killings could be avoided, which motivated him to write ". . . Officer Down, Code Three."1 In this book, he discussed the 10 deadly errors that he felt contributed to the death of many law enforcement officers.
Many young police officers took his writings to heart. Brooks's list better prepared them to perform their jobs as street beat cops. As a result of the influence of this list, over the years, various agencies and academies have presented these errors in many ways to reemphasize their importance. By adapting Brooks's 10 deadly errors to a leadership model, police leaders can benefit from the list as well.
As police officers progress through the ranks of leadership positions, they can find themselves behind a desk far more often than the wheel of a patrol car. This can hold true for many different positions of leadership, from field training officer, first-line supervisor, narcotics commander, tactical team commander, or precinct commander all the way to chief of police. Many leaders have found themselves in positions of disadvantage while still learning the "leadership trade."
It is the nature of many leaders to share what they have learned in their career path through various leadership positions. These lessons learned, while sometimes painful, make for stronger leaders. The lessons included in this article are not only the result of the author's personal experience but are also shared by a variety of leaders in the law enforcement and military communities.
Preoccupation, or Lack of Concentration
You are stuck in the office behind a mound of paperwork. You finally have a few moments to attack the pile. One of your subordinate leaders comes in and presents you with a problem, which requires you to make a decision. Without looking up from your computer, you listen, evaluate, and render a decision. Several days later this "decision" blows up in your face. Frankly, it should never come as too great a surprise when this happens.
By making a decision when you are preoccupied, it is unlikely that you gave it the thought it deserved. Among the various issues that can arise in this scenario, many would consider it quite rude to deal with your team members in this manner. If someone seeks you out, they deserve your undivided attention.
Tombstone Courage
In the real estate profession, the common mantra is "location, location, location." Good leaders share a similar mantra: "decision making, decision making, decision making." Have the courage to make a decision—this is what leaders are paid to do. Poor leaders are infamous for their ability to avoid making any and all decisions.
Strong leaders are willing to step up to the plate and make decisions. Many of them will be put in many situations where "peer leaders" avoid making a decision. Unfortunately, by stepping up and making a decision for these peer leaders, strong leaders successfully allow them to disengage from their responsibilities. This also increases the odds of making a poor decision (which we all do from time to time) or the odds of making a good decision in an untenable situation. In other words, even strong leaders can find themselves in a lose-lose situation. Even the correct decision can turn out badly.
Do not allow other leaders to force your hand to make decisions out of your area of responsibility. In many of these cases, you might not have the resources or the information to make a successful, informed decision.
Not Enough Rest
Many individuals in leadership positions spend numerous extra hours at work and, in many cases, are on call continuously. Mistakes made due to fatigue may not have fatal consequences, but they will certainly affect careers and the health of the agency as a whole.
Try to avoid making crucial decisions while exhausted or upset. These choices will frequently come back to haunt you. If you must make a decision in these circumstances, consult with another leader or a veteran officer whom you trust.
Taking a Bad Position
All too often, police leaders find themselves in situations where they make a decision "in a vacuum" and then defend their decision to the death. Unfortunately, this is a behavior common to police of all ranks. Beat cops are forced into difficult positions on the street and learn to make the best of them. Leaders do the same. The difference is that leaders are held to a higher standard.
This certainly does not mean that leaders must be infallible. It does mean that when they take a bad position, they should admit it and then modify it. Refusing to change because an agency has handled an issue a certain way in the past and needs to be consistent is an unreasonable philosophy. Positions can be consistent but also poor; leaders should strive for better.
A simple admission of error can help an agency escape its self-perceived need for consistency: "We realize that the decision made was not in the best interest of the organization, so we have modified future decision making." Such an admission is hard to dispute.
Not Heeding Danger Signs
Poor morale, a kill-the-messenger philosophy, plausible-deniability tactics, a large number of grievances, and a culture of distrust are some of the danger signs within any organization. Leaders can become so caught up in the everyday minutiae of running organizations that they forget the big picture. Agency personnel and the relationships leaders form are the most important aspects of a successful organization.
If your organization is dysfunctional or becoming dysfunctional, hiding in your office behind a stack of paperwork is a sure way to guarantee a continued path toward organizational failure. The concept of managing by walking around (MBWA) is essential for a healthy organization. If you do not make yourself visible, you will not hear anything important. Take the time to get out of your office and be part of the team.
Failure to Watch the Hands—of a Problem Employee
Every organization has its bad apples. It is amazing how one problem employee can disrupt an organization and take up inordinate amounts of a leader's time. Problem employees are experts at creating assignments and work for leaders. Fortunately, effective leaders can read these employees like a book. No matter how creative their methods may be, their goals are clear. They have no desire to be productive, and they expect to receive an unfair advantage within the organization.
Learn to read your problem employees, document all their activities as well as your interactions with them, and treat them exactly like the other employees. Most importantly, do not allow problem employees to take up your valuable time, which should be spent MBWA. Remember, problem employees help make an organization dysfunctional only when you let them. If you allow a culture of inappropriate comments and/or unfair treatment in your agency, it will be impossible for you to deal effectively with problem employees.
Relaxing Too Soon
A critical incident is winding down. You have many other pressing matters. You assume the incident is well in hand, and you delegate the wrap-up to a subordinate leader or a senior officer. You are back in your office—"fat, dumb, and happy"—when the panicked phone call comes in.
Remember, leaders can delegate tasks, but they can never delegate responsibility. The trick to this issue is a clear understanding of expectations. What you may have thought was obvious may have been so only to you. It is important to make sure there is no doubt regarding your expectations prior to clearing the incident. This can be done by issuing strict orders as you leave the scene or by simply refusing to leave until the incident is over.
Unfortunately, either of these two approaches can earn you the reputation of a micromanager and a leader who does not trust others. To counteract this effect and to clear up any misunderstanding, you can pose a simple question to the leader to whom you delegate the wrap-up: "What do you think we should do from this point on?" If the leader does not provide an appropriate plan of action, you can "massage" the plan and clear the scene without undue anxiety on either side.
Improper Use of Handcuffs—aka Shotgun Discipline
It is very easy to become frustrated and hand out discipline to officers who make mistakes. There is an old concept still used in some agencies, embodied by the following order: "We don't want to discipline the problem officer, so make a policy that restricts everyone." By breaking mistakes (that is, those that are policy violations) into two categories, you can avoid most types of unfair discipline and the "shotgun" approach. These two categories are mistakes of the mind and mistakes of the heart.
Officers who make a mistake of the first sort do so unintentionally. They think they are doing the right thing, but it turns out poorly. These mistakes should be handled, whenever possible, as training issues or minor counseling sessions.
Mistakes of the heart are a different animal altogether. Officers commit such mistakes knowing that they are doing wrong, but they do it anyway. Additional training or minor counseling sessions will do little to dissuade these officers from continuing to make bad mistakes.
No Search or Poor Search—aka Apathy
Perhaps the most deadly of all the 10 errors is apathy. Apathy and disengagement are the primary causes of a dysfunctional culture within any agency. If there is apathy at the leadership level of an organization, that organization is doomed to mediocrity atbest, though more likely to failure.
Dirty or Inoperative Weapon/Failure to Maintain Proficiency and Care of Equipment
It should be obvious to most leaders that their role as leaders is quite different from that of patrol officers or detectives. But those same leaders can remember back to the good old days when they held their bosses in contempt—the boss who showed up for work with old, shabby equipment or no equipment at all. Some of these bosses could barely qualify with their firearms or pass the physical assessment. No matter how good the advice was that they offered, it was never given the attention it may have deserved because of the source.
It is unrealistic to expect police leaders to remain as proficient with equipment as street officers—but basic competence is not an unreal expectation.
Leadership skills come primarily from experience and common sense. Most people learn best by doing and by learning from mistakes. Great leaders are always willing to take a calculated risk and learn from their mistakes. By studying leadership behaviors of those they respect and admire, as well as reading thoughts and concepts that other leaders put to paper, law enforcement personnel can make fewer mistakes and continue to grow into the leaders they would like to become.
In closing, it is essential for leaders to realize that it takes the entire team to take an organization from just good to great. As Jim Collins put it in his book Good to Great, leaders have to get the right people on the bus and in the right seats.2 You might be the best leader since Alexander the Great of Macedonia, but if you do not have the right team in place, the success of your agency will be limited. ■
Scott Barlow is currently chief of police in Culpeper, Virginia. He retired as a captain of the Newport News, Virginia, Police Department. His leadership experience includes serving as commander of the Narcotics Division, the Training and Recruiting Division, the Tactical Team, and a precinct with 100 sworn employees and 10 civilian employees. Barlow holds a master's degree in government and leadership studies from Christopher Newport University.
1Pierce Brooks, ". . . Officer Down, Code Three" (Motorola Teleprograms, April 1976).2Jim Collins, Good to Great (New York: HarperCollins, 2001).Top
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The "summer of love" being staged by the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (HSRT) concludes with the award-winning production of "The Light in the Piazza" beginning Friday, July 19.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1953, this enchanting musical romance finds a young American, Clara, falling in love with Fabrizio, a handsome Italian, Clara's mother Margaret steps in to prevent secrets from being told creating a path to love none too easy.
The production will be presented in the main theatre of the DeWitt Center on the campus of Hope College. It will also be presented on July 20, 24, 27, 29 and August 1, 6, 9. Curtain will be 8 p.m.
Playing the role of Clara Johnson and making her HSRT debut is Katie Drinkard (Highlands, Colo.), a rising senior in the BFA Musical Theatre Program at Ithaca College. Margaret Johnson will be played by HSRT verteran and award-winning actress Susan Ericksen (Minneapolis, Minn.). Susan's husband and Artistic Director of Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, David Colacci (Minneapolis, Minn.), will be joining the cast as Signore Naccarelli and Michael Hanna (Minneapolis, Minn.) who is joining HSRT for his second year will be playing the role of Fabrizio Naccarelli.
Directing the show is Daina Robins of the Hope College theatre faculty. She has just returned from sabbatical leave, which included extended stays in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Vienna, and Berlin. She was a founding member of Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts and did her graduate work at Tufts University.
Joseph P. Flauto returns to HSRT for his 29th season as the scenic designer. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Evansville for 30 years and had numerous designs appear at regional and national Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festivall. Since his retirement he has been invited to design productions at Anderson University, the University of Michigan-Flint, and Hope College.
Renewing collaboration with HSRT is Peter E. Sargent, the veteran lighting designer. He designed his first production at HSRT in 1991. He is currently the Dean of the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts at Webster University, the resident lighting designer for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and on the Board of Directors for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, the Insight Theatre Company and the College of Fellows of American Theatre. He is also in the Educational Theatre Association's Hall of Fame and has received the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis Award for Excellence in the Arts as well as a Special Citation for Excellence in Theatre Education by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.
Rounding out the production team is musical director Stephen Schermitzler, choreographer Matthew Farmer, costume designer Jessica M. Leslie, sound designer Mark Gmazel, and stage manager Rebekah Carriere.
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SPRINGFIELD – Murder defendant Michael B. Forte was unsuccessful in his quest to ditch his state-paid lawyer and represent himself. Hampden Superior Court Judge Cornelius J. Moriarty said Tuesday that Forte, 55, must continue to be represented by Jeffrey S. Brown. Forte, of Springfield, is charged with fatally stabbing Steven Donoghue as the victim sat in a Main Street doorway in July 2008. Forte, often outspoken in the courtroom, cried, "Your honor, I am discharging this lawyer," as court officers took his arms and pulled him through a door while he continued to yell. The court has appointed Brown to represent Forte. Forte told Moriarty he was unhappy with Brown's motion to suppress identification of him. "I believe it wholly inadequate," Forte said of Brown's motion. Forte cited a half dozen cases he said showed legal precedent for such a motion and said Brown did not cite them. Forte told Moriarty that he has gotten his education in law "while incarcerated." Forte said he has a graduate equivalency diploma and had two semesters at college. Moriarty said that based on Forte's answer to why Forte believed Brown's motion to suppress identification was inadequate, he is not dismissing Brown as counsel. That's what led to Forte's outburst. Police said two women walked by Donoghue, 50, on the night he was killed, and saw him sitting in a doorway at the corner of Bliss and Main streets. They encountered a man later alleged to be Forte on the street. The witnesses said Forte yelled insults at them, prompting them to cross the street. A short time later, the pair said they walked by the spot where Donoghue had been sitting, and saw him bleeding heavily from a knife wound to the throat. Forte has denied any involvement. The trial date is Feb. 8.


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Ok anyone have any idea how to get my wii remote balanced tottally?
I have a problem with the pointer not being steady and completly floating all over the screen when im completly stationary. I have troubble shot every possable cenerio given by the nintendo guide and i cant get it to be steady for the life of me.
Also it always floats way to the left so i have to hold my hand at an "un-natural angle to keep it center. It also floats to far up so as i have to hold my hand not only at an un-natural angle to the left but down as well.
Does it for games and the menu...imagin trying to make a mii but the pointer floats to every wrong option to the left or up no matter what, any tips on whats to be done about this?
Its not light sensitivity...dosent matter where i posistion myself or the sencor bar and all the "troubble shooting tips" on the site havent worked
*not to mention it does it with every remote i have ever had* 3 of them
lol did u get rid of all 3 wii-motes, cause its ur sensor bar
get it changed
sensor bar has to be on the top or bottom with no direct light. make sure thers no toher wii motes on. change batteries. re sync them I DONT WANT A LARGE FARVA. does that look like spit to you?
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Yeah, sounds like the sensor bar is just bad. Stupid question but I guess some people do overlook the basic things, so just in case: Is the sensor bar aligned with the very center of the tv screen? Is it sitting on a stationary, stable surface? Is it completely parallel to the front of the tv screen? In the wii settings menu did you provide the position of the sensor (top or bottom).
Can't think of more suggestions....
I dunno...it waits till im all situated and have it dead center...and when im good to go it starts floating. so that makes me think it may be somthing different...so i reposition myself to center it off and its off and floating again...
Can you view the sensor bar through a mobile phone camera or digital camera ??
There should be 5 lights each end of the bar. They are infrared so you won't see them lit up with the naked eye. If one side isn't working, maybe it is throwing the balance somehow.
The other thing is to make sure that the sensor bar is bang in the middle of your TV, horzontally speaking. There is a sensor bar setup page in the Wii config screens too, check that you are only getting 2 flashing dots.


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ALBION, Mich. – The Albion College softball team saved one of its best performances of the season for its final home date of the season. The Britons scored a season-high eight runs in a 15-8 loss to Hope College in the first game of a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association doubleheader. The Britons managed four hits in a 8-0 loss in five innings in game two.
Michelle Norgren and Alex Yaw reached base on errors in the second inning of game one, and they scored on a double by Danielle Brenner.
Albion's 2-0 lead didn't last long, however, as Hope scored three times in its half of the third. Albion bounced back as Kacey Anderson delivered a 2-run double to push the Britons to a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the inning.
Hope seized control of the game by scoring nine times in the fourth inning. Albion didn't let game one end prematurely as Nicole Romain delivered a RBI double as part of the Britons' three-run uprising in the fourth inning. Romain added another RBI in the sixth inning.
Sarah Bucholz and Norgren produced three hits in the doubleheader.
Laura Tjepkema drove in five runs in the two games for Hope. Peyton Wells produced two RBI in both games.
Albion will complete the season with weekend doubleheaders at Adrian College and Trine University.


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Life and Linnaeus
So many things are happening but only one really important thing to do, i.e. visit my mother. She is not getting any better but then I never expected she would. I feel really sort of split in two when I with her, one part of me thinks it would be best if she could go but the other part wants her to stay with me because I like so much to be with her. I don't like feeling so selfish but it is so good to be there next to her, just being there and touching her. Love is a powerful and contradictory feeling.
Uppsala is particularly dressed up this year as it is the trecentenary of Linnaeus' birth. The Flower King is celebrated with flowers all over the place but my favourite tribute is what you can see in the photos, a flowering chair with a flowering table. they are standing on a little island in one of the city's parks and I have been there several times just to enjoy them! Linnaeus had a nice sense of humour and I'm sure he would have loved them! If you have the time, please go to A Lake County Point of View and read Hank's posts about his trip to Sweden earlier this summer, he is a true lover of Linnaeus! Start from the bottom and read on, it's worth it!


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WASHINGTON: With minimal reference to Edward Snowden, the former contractor who ushered in a new and unwelcome era for the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander (pictured) ended his NSA directorship and his 39-year army career on Friday.
Feted at a retirement ceremony attended by intelligence colleagues, legislators, fellow officers and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Alexander hailed the NSA by quoting General Douglas MacArthur's musings on patriotism, morality and service from his 1962 retirement speech at West Point, which Alexander called "especially applicable with all that has gone on in the past year".
It was the only reference to Snowden that Alexander permitted himself in a brief speech. "Thanks for protecting our nation. Thanks for protecting our civil liberties and privacy. Thanks for doing your job when many others would have walked away," Alexander said.
Alexander came to the NSA in 2005, as one of the service's first digitally proficient general officers. For most of his tenure he expanded the agency's powers and influence tremendously, and in 2010 he added to his duties as the first leader of Cyber Command, a new organization devoted to defending military networks and nearly inextricable from NSA.
But Alexander's run at the NSA will be forever linked to the revelations of its global surveillance dragnets. Snowden's leaks to the Guardian, the Washington Post, First Look and other news outlets made the NSA infamous worldwide and yielded a consensus domestically against the bulk collection of US phone data.
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Snowden leaks had created "one of the most challenging periods" in the NSA's history. Still, said James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, about Alexander: "I never heard him complain."
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, compared Alexander to James Bond. "Can anyone guess what number he keeps on his parking spot at Fort Meade?" Dempsey said. "007." Hagel praised Alexander's "vision, dedication and leadership" during the ceremony, which was held at Fort Meade, the Maryland army base that houses the NSA and Cyber Command.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
American Idol, March 26, 2009: The Holy Hell There's Some Snow Outside
So, when did they start lip-synching during the big, annoying musical numbers? Is that something that they've always done and I've just not been paying much attention?
Not the Ford infomercial portion of the evening--that's just obvious--but the "hey, gang, let's put on a show" bit. If you take my meaning.
None of which changes the fact that Reuben Studdard's song sort of sucks, doesn't it? What a generic, bland bit of pop crap. And the suit coat with white piping had all the class of a tuxedo t-shirt.
Which makes me sad since I've always liked Reuben. Nice guy.
Joss Stone is hot, though. I'd let her sing to me. I might even braid her hair. Unless Smokey Robinson came along and ruined it all.
Who is in the bottom three tonight? Known, from now on, as American Idol's Ass End?
Safe: Adam Lambert. Kris Allen. Lil Rounds. Which, she's lucky there were some really bad performances this week. Allison. Anoop. Danny. Because even Simon gets it wrong now and again. For some reason. Megan. Which proves that sometimes loveliness is more important than performances.
Not so safe: Matt G. Proving that America is sometimes smarter than the judges. Michael Sarver. Proving that some things are easily predicted. Scott Garfunkel. Who deserved it less than Megan, but really shouldn't be in the competition.
Luckily for him, Scott is sent scurrying back to the safe zone--and I'm still probably right about who is getting the boot. Which, if you're Candadian is pronounced "boot." Which isn't nearly as funny as would be if we were talking about the word "about." For some reason.
They are breaking out the star power tonight, though, aren't they? A little visit from Stevie Wonder is nice for everyone except me since I think he has a horribly nasal voice and writes songs that make me want to hit people in the face. Except "Superstition," which is freakin' awesome even when he sings it. I'll pretend to ignore the shout out to our BiC (which probably doesn't mean what you think it means--assuming you think it means anything, which it does, just not what you're thinking).
And, yes, it's Michael who is going home--and I don't imagine the judges are even thinking about saving him this time around. As Simon said, he really isn't good enough to win this thing. Wonderful personality and I hope he has a great life.
After much deliberation (more than I expected) they send Michael home. It was a much closer thing than I would have guessed, though, and his performance was better by a good bit this time around.
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A leading British wealth management firm's charitable foundation is investing in the first stage of ORT's efforts to establish ICT (Information Communications Technology) training in schools for children with special needs throughout Russia.
The St. James' Place Foundation support meets the first year's costs in implementing "Bridging the Digital Divide," a four year, non-sectarian program to enhance the career prospects of deaf children, and represents the largest single corporate donation in British ORT's history. The Foundation has earmarked a similar amount for next year subject to progress.
"This is an initiative with a definite future," said Alan E. Klugman, National Executive Director of ORT America. "Although ORT is implementing this important project to improve the educational experience of hearing-impaired people in Russia, there's no reason why we couldn't help thousands of deaf students worldwide. I'm very excited about it."
The money will establish fully equipped ICT laboratories at two pilot schools, Boarding School No. 30 in Moscow and Vocational Training Boarding School No. 2 in Tula, which is the only educational institution in Russia focused on children with special needs from low-income families, educating some 360 hearing impaired students.
In partnership with Hewlett-Packard, local education authorities and social support services, ORT will use the experience of the Moscow ORT Technology College, which is a pioneer of ICT training and distance learning for hearing impaired students, to develop tailored ICT and computer graphics training materials which will ultimately be shared with all teachers of deaf children for use in their schools, and it will connect the pilot schools and supporting ORT centers to the ORT e-learning network.
The computer center, which ORT installed at the Tula school in 2008, has made teachers aware that deaf children learn ICT skills in a different way from those who can hear; there's a greater need for repeated practice of new techniques rather than passive learning. This project builds on the experience of the past two years. Developing a curriculum tailored to the needs of hearing impaired students will enable their more effective preparation for working life. Also, by training the teachers, 200,000 hearing impaired Russian children can benefit from this initiative.
The computer center installed at the Tula Vocational Training Boarding School is one of 16 business skills training centers that HP and ORT have set up in Russia and Ukraine under the Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT) scheme, which focuses on the need to encourage job creation and entrepreneurship among young people by providing training courses dealing with practical IT solutions for daily business challenges.
The equipment installed for GET-IT will be used for at least the initial stages of "Bridging the Digital Divide" at Tula. Like other schools for the deaf, Tula has suffered from chronic underinvestment in recent years. Traditionally it has taught students skills in metal working, shoemaking and tailoring, but now, with ORT's help, students can keep pace with the rapid rate of social and technological change.


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the question was iching me, "wat was the 3rd kingdom hearts all about?" so i went to ask.com and looked it up but instead, i got different info. that there r kingdom hearts games for DS PSP and ur mobile phone (the phone part shocked me). DS is called KH: 358/2 Days PSP is called KH: Birth by Sleep Mobile is called KH: Coded..............i think, here is two sites on the subject. i could not decode the first one, and for the second one...
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The house is now home to one of the city's most interesting museums, featuring assorted exhibits relating to the history of Dubai. Pride of place goes to the superb collection of old photographs, with images of the city from the 1940s through to the late 1960s, showing the first steps in its amazing transformation from a remote Gulf town to global megalopolis. There are also fine shots of fishermen at work and old dhows under their distinctive triangular lateen sails, plus a couple of photos showing the rather biblical-looking swarm of locusts that descended on the town in 1953. (Locusts have played a surprisingly important role in Dubai's history. One theory holds that the town's name derives from a type of local locust, the daba, while during the starvation years of World War II, locusts – netted and fried – provided a valuable source of food for impoverished locals.) Another room is devoted to photos of the various craggy-featured Al Maktoum sheikhs – the startling family resemblance makes it surprisingly difficult to tell them apart – including the prescient image of Sheikh Rashid and the young Sheikh Mohammed poring over a petroleum brochure which can also be seen in the Al Ahmadiya School.
Elsewhere you'll find some interesting wooden models of traditional dhows, colourful colonial-era stamps and an extensive exhibit of local coins, featuring a large selection of the East India Company and Indian colonial coins which were used as common currency in Dubai from the late eighteenth century right through until 1966, when Dubai and Qatar introduced a joint currency to replace them. Upstairs a couple of further rooms are filled with lovely old maps of Dubai and the Arabian peninsula, plus some documents detailing assorted administrative and commercial dealings between the British and Dubaians during the later colonial period, including the agreement allowing Imperial Airways seaplanes to land on the Creek from 1938, the first commercial service to touch down in Dubai.


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THE "big data" phenomenon is set to be a game-changing trend for every industry, government and society in the next few years.
"Big data" is expected to join the likes of mobile and cloud computing this year as the next "must-have" competency, as the volume of digital content continues to grow.
"Big data" refers to the software tools, processes and procedures which allow companies to create and manage very large data sets that conventional database systems are unable to handle.
Companies use big-data technology for insights into new and emerging types of data and content and related trends, to make their businesses more agile.
For example, a company may analyse big data in order to monitor customer perceptions and sentiments about its brand on social media websites.
The increasing volume and detail of information, the rise of multimedia, social media, and the rise in internet access is fuelling exponential growth in data, making it more challenging to manage, according to analysts.
International Data Corporation (IDC) projects that the worldwide big data technology and services market will grow at a 31.7% compound annual growth rate — about seven times the rate of the overall information and communication technology market — with revenue reaching $23.8bn in 2016.
"The big data market is emerging at a rapid pace and incorporating technology and services from a wide range of existing and new market segments," says IDC.
Gartner predicts that 4.4-million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data by 2015.
Research by international group IBM shows that most organisations are in the early stages of big data planning and development efforts, with the majority focused either on understanding the concept or defining a roadmap related to it. However, some companies are implementing big data pilot projects or have already implemented big data solutions at scale.
In South Africa, Santam, the insurance company, is using analytics to define a new way of assessing claims from customers while also reducing business risk — in fact the claims process foiled a major fraud syndicate, saving $2.4m in the first four months of operation, says IBM big data expert Inhi Cho Suh.
"Having a handle on big data means they can enable claims settlements significantly faster than before and they lowered their operational costs by reducing the need for claims adjuster visits for low-risk claims assessments," Ms Suh says.
Martin Rennhackkamp, chief information officer of local technology firm PBT Group, has noticed that some local companies are already embracing the trend, "which of course is great for the broader industry".
However, "we do stress the importance of fully understanding the trend, as in South Africa in particular, many companies do not necessary need big data in their organisation," he says.
Many local businesses are still coming to terms with the concept — to understand what it is all about and how it will benefit them.
"The reality is that big data can be very beneficial to a particular business. However, it must be investigated correctly to ensure its benefits can be reaped," says Mr Rennhackkamp.
Ms Suh says digital data is doubling every two years. "If companies are not evolving, they will lose ground not only locally but in terms of global opportunities. It is not just large business that this applies to — it applies to every company big and small," she says.
There is no business on the planet that should ignore the value of a smartphone or mobile device, says IBM.
Big data is critically linked to other technology-related services such as social media, cloud computing and mobile. In South Africa, nine out of 10 enterprises are involved with cloud computing, says global software firm Symantec.
Gartner says big data is moving from a focus on individual projects to an influence on enterprises' strategic information architecture. Gartner analysts say the real issue is making sense of big data and finding patterns in it that help organisations make better business decisions.
The ability to manage extreme data will be a core competency of organisations that are increasingly using new forms of information — such as text, social and context, Gartner says. This year big data is forecast to drive $34bn of information and technology spending.
• This article was amended on February 22 2013 to correct a reference to Santam, which previously said Sanlam.


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Garance Dore has a wonderful blog filled illustration, photography and relatable girly text. One of her latest posts features Leelee Sobieski in an arresting Balenciaga dress just before the Adam Kimmel show. The harsh vertical stripes and collage tanagram pattern is beautiful throwback. It almost reminds me of a vintage print I'd find in my grandmother's closet.


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PLANNED: If Madonna's prayers are answered, she'll open a Kabbalah hotel and drop-in spiritual center in a five-story Georgian house in London's Regent Park that she's bought for a reported $14 million. Residents near the site, however, are not singing the praises of the plan, The Washington Post reports. One resident told Britain's London Evening Standard: "Having a Kabbalah center would be totally inappropriate. It is a seriously manipulative sect which is very good at getting people's money, including Madonna's." Asked this week if she thought her support of the sect had damaged her career, Madonna told NBC: "Absolutely not. I do know that there's cynicism involved, but I accept it because it's different. It's something new to people and people are always guarded and suspicious of things that are new."
SET: Friends star Matthew Perry, 35, will host the 2005 ESPY Awards, the sports network has announced. The 13th event will be held Sunday, July 17 at 9 p.m. ET from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, and nominations will be announced June 24. "I have no doubt that the excitement and energy Matthew brings to everything he does will make the night something truly special for both avid and casual sports fans," said Maura Mandt, the show's senior coordinating producer, in a statement.
OFFERED: The Backstreet Boys are offering free tickets for its summer amphitheater tour, which kicks off July 22, Billboard.com reports. The quintet is teaming with Clear Channel and AOL Music to offer two-for-one tickets for the shows. Starting Friday, fans who visit aolcityguide.com and purchase two reserved seats for the summer dates will get two free lawn or mezzanine seats to the same show. No facility fees or ticket surcharges will be applied to the free tickets. Meanwhile, the Boys' first studio album in five years, Never Gone (containing the single "Incomplete") goes on sale Tuesday. The group is expected to launch a stadium tour next year.
SUED: Steven Seagal, 54, has been sued for $14 million for allegedly delaying production on two movies, the Associated Press reports. Seagal showed up late and left early while shooting Today You Die and Mercenary, routinely rewrote and changed scripts on the set, and brought an entourage that interfered with film crews, according to papers filed by Kill Master Productions and its sales agent, Nu Image. Because of his alleged actions, planned scenes were never shot, leaving the movie with a "material and irreparable problem with story logic," according to the lawsuit, which also seeks unspecified damages.
REVIVED: Actor Hal Holbrook, 80, happened to be all over the news last week, when it was revealed that former No. 2 FBI man W. Mark Felt was the "Deep Throat" of Watergate – the mysterious journalistic source played by Holbrook in the 1976 movie All The President's Men. This week, Holbrook is back in the news again for his other famous role, that of the "Huckleberry Finn" author in the one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight! A revival opened on Broadway Thursday night for a limited run, and the critics gave Holbrook an exceedingly warm welcome. "Remarkably fresh and topical," The New York Times raved about the show.
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