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Original Soundtrack/Dimitri Tiomkin
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22. High Noon - (Sag Warum Willst Du Von Mir Gehn)
23. High Noon - (Forlad Mig Ikke-Danish)
24. High Noon I Stadsgarden - (Danish)
25. High Noon - (Original)
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 0000016395
Performers include: Hank Locklin, Ferrante & Teicher, Tex Ritter, Frankie Laine, Eddie Fisher, Ray Conniff, Henry Mancini, Skitch Henderson, Robert Horton, Chet Atkins.
Contains 27 tracks.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin.
Recording information: 1994-1995.
This CD is rewarding, though mostly for highly specialized listeners, in soundtracks, country, or pop. The song "High Noon," written for the 1952 movie of the same name, is represented by 27 separate recordings, all in different arrangements and styles, done over a period of 49 years, including one in German and two in Danish. Though it sounds bizarre, the collection is amazingly varied, lively, and engaging throughout, starting with Tex Ritter's first fully realized recording (done in England, for reasons too complicated to explain here) and proceeding on with the pop hit version by Frankie Laine from the same year, the looser rendition by Eddie Fisher from four years later, and versions by country singers ranging from Faron Young to Hank Locklin, small-group vocal ensembles including the Diamonds and the Browns, light jazz performers (the Three Suns) and jazz singers (Joe Williams), R&B vocalists (Hannah Dean), star soloists (Chet Atkins, Bobby Mizzell), and big band popsters like Ray Conniff, Hal Mooney, and Henry Mancini (whose outsized choral version is the biggest surprise here). Ferrante & Teicher treat the song almost like a miniature bolero, with ever louder and more intense embellishment by the strings, while Hank Locklin gives it a "Down in the Boondocks" beat, and Billy Walker adds Spanish guitar adornment to the backing; pianist Bobby Mizzell treats it like "Brahms Lullaby." Neil Wolfe offers the only post-1960s recording (the song evidently fell out of favor, or at least usage, in the 1970s): an instrumental from 2001 featuring soft jazz piano and heavy rhythm guitars. Joe Williams and Hannah Dean offer the most adventurous versions, and their renditions make one wish that this CD had full credits for each recording, in terms of arrangers and background personnel (the horn and saxmen on Hal Mooney's recording also deserved that treatment). The three foreign language versions are entertaining -- Bruce Low's German rendition, dating from 1952, is done in the style of European pop music of the period, complete with cheesy organ accompaniment; and the two Danish renditions, from Gustav Winckler in 1952 and Per Myrberg in 1966, are worlds apart, the former done with thick orchestral accompaniment and the latter with a guitar, Chet Atkins style, behind the singer. One was hoping that maybe a version in Swedish by the pre-ABBA Bjorn Ulvaeus might've turned up, but it didn't, and the 78 minute disc closes with Tex Ritter's two U.S.-released versions from 1952. The booklet that comes with this CD is well illustrated but short on information, other than release dates and catalog numbers, and it is difficult to store -- ideally there would be a small slipcase for the package. But it is fun, the sound is excellent throughout (only the 1952 Danish cut is less than pristine), and it's also an education about the way that the popular music business worked 40 years ago. ~ Bruce Eder
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Does Connie Chung Matter?
TIME – Spectator Column – May 31, 1993
Does Connie Chung Matter?
The nation, between Cronkite going and Reagan coming, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual
UNLIKE THAT of the tightly wound anchorman hero of Network, Dan Rather's public weirdness (the mysterious assaults, his live-TV walkout) preceded the indignities imposed by the network bosses (his closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor.
CBS executives Eric Ober and Howard Stringer suggest, implausibly, that the co-anchorship was Rather's idea; Rather recalls that Stringer broached the notion. But even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady — heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks age.
With Chung and Rather going on the air together next Tuesday, there is a curiously hasty quality to the rejiggering. Stringer wanted to have the deal done before the CBS affiliates' meeting this week, and he was apparently in a fret about the competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect to ABC.
Chung's greatest virtue is her high Q rating, the annual measure of celebrities' celebrity and popularity. Her number may be skewed upward, however, by her singular recognizability: she is the only Asian-American TV star. While Chung is a decent newsreader, and CBS staff munchkins like her let's-order-a-pizza! perkiness, peers and former colleagues tend to be ungenerous. "Call Connie, ask what really interests her," says a fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard put to describe it. Hmmm . . . I like stories that effect change.") She is not a reliable on- the-air ad libber, either. "Let's say Dan's on a plane when a big story breaks," says Steve Friedman, the Today show executive producer who worked with Chung at NBC. "Do you put Connie out there for two hours with no script? Pretty dangerous."
Nearly all the co-anchor schemes since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship, the No. 1-ranked Jennings says firmly, even blithely, "they can, but then I'll go back and be a reporter."
Yet most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill — and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February. "Dan's aloof. Connie's cuddly."
According to sources at CBS, the Evening News anchor chair was all but offered to Ed Bradley recently, and he all but refused. That's an extraordinary benchmark of the decline in stature of the evening news shows. From the season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today 1 in 2 Americans over 50 still tunes in one of the network shows. But among adults under 35, barely 1 in 13 watches Brokaw or Jennings or Rather. And Connie Chung is not likely to change that.


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HELP! M42 healthy crank but no start. Check code 4321?
After doing the obd1 check engine scan on my 92 318 with an engine from a 95 318 (engine is actually the stock motor from the bimmerfest east carbed v8 e36 ), the only code that came up, other than 1000, was 4321. Now after doing some research, i have learned that all codes begin with a 1. Being positive that i read it right, i have found a few other people that have gotten this same code, but others have said that it doesnt exist? Are we imagining the code or is it really out there?
Heres the deal with the car.
Engine is from a 95 using the engine, harness, ecm, etc. from that car. Engine ground has been rerouted to the intake manifold across to the front strut tower. Coil pack unit is just sitting off to the side, due to the fact that i currently have no way to bolt it down, due to it having a different way of mounting in the 95 car (does this need to be grounded in order for the car to start?). Also, when power was given straight to fuel pump, and we turned it over, it still just cranked. It cranks very healthy, but not start.
Any idea on what this mysterious code is, or what my no start problem is as well?
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
are you getting power to the coil??
are you seeing injector pulse?? (noid light, or 192 bulb can be used)
do you have spark??
does the fuel pump come on without being wired directly??
the 95 ecm (dme) could be an ews. does it have a red or silver tag?? (might be brown, now that i think of it...but it might be something like this. use the original 92 dme and see what happens)
also, why did you use the 95 harness, et all, in a 92 chassis with the same motor?? seems like a lot of work. if the manifolds were different i would have just swapped them out and be done.
do you have a power graphing meter?? i would scope the inputs if the ews is not the fault.
hope this helps,
(if this leads to a fix, i get a ride in the v8 monster, k )
thanks for the advice.
I need to look into whether or not the coils are getting power.
I tried switching the ecm's and still had the same problem. Also tried the original chip in the new ecm, and still....nothing.
And the reasoning for using everything from the 95 car was that with the other engine in the car, it ran but really rough. Not being able to diagnose the problem, i switched to the 95 engine and not wanting to take the risk of the old ecm, coils, or anything being the culprit, everything from the 95 was used.
Haha and if the coils are the problem, ill let you know about that ride.
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LONDON Nov 7 (Reuters) - Ebola, terrorism and political upheaval - headlines from Africa over the past year seem a far cry from the inspiring 'Africa Rising' story. But many newly found investors are sticking with the plot.
Even against the additional headwinds of falling commodity prices and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates, funds active in sub-Saharan Africa insist they still see a compelling growth story, driven by an uptick in regional trade, growing investment and a bulging middle class - the basis of the 'Africa Rising' thesis.
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Emerging markets at large have had a torrid couple of years, fearful of a cresting of China's economic boom and higher U.S. interest rates. The more esoteric frontier markets typically weathered this storm, however, as they drew in a different sort of investor - one more atuned to diversification, tolerant of higher risk and locked into long-term themes.
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Security threats posed by the Boko Haram and al Shabaab militant groups, political upheaval in Burkina Faso or the devastating Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands in West Africa, reminded investors of the risks that have led many to steer clear of the continent for decades.
China's slowdown also jars African economies, whose fortunes have been tied heavily to minerals and oil exploration and which have soaked up swathes of direct Chinese investment.
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Central Lockdown Ends Safely
Update: 10:30pm
CHAMPAIGN - It was a message no parent or school principal wants to hear, that a student brought a handgun inside the building. That's exactly what happened at Central High School in Champaign. The weapon turned out to be an airsoft gun.
Police questioned two students about the weapon. The airsoft gun was found in a second floor classroom. Police were then led to the gazebo in Central park. That's where they found pellets for the airsoft gun.
CHAMPAIGN - It was a message no parent or school principal wants to hear, that a student brought a handgun inside the building. That's exactly what happened at Central High School in Champaign. The weapon turned out to be an airsoft gun.
Police questioned two students about the weapon. The airsoft gun was found in a second floor classroom. Police were then led to the gazebo in Central park. That's where they found pellets for the airsoft gun.
"You obviously don't want to have things like this happen." It was a typical Friday for central high school principal Joe Williams until a staff member told him what a student witnessed in the building.
"They saw another student with a backpack that may contain a gun," said Renee Dunn of the Champaign Police Department.
"With that kind of information we act on very quickly," said principal Williams. "We drop everything we're doing."
That meant putting the school into a full lockdown. Nobody allowed in or out. Same goes for the classrooms.
"Students aren't allowed in the hallway. They can't go from class to class; they can't go to the restroom," he said.
The students that were outside were getting back from open lunch. "Police decided until we figured out more to the issue we really didn't want to add more bodies to the school as far as students that we needed to take care of make sure were safe," he added.
"It looks to be under control from the outside," said parent Ebonni Akins as she waited outside during the lock down. "As far as the inside you know, we can't get in so I'm not too sure. I won't know anything until my son and my daughter are home safely."
And eventually that's where they ended up. Those outside went home early.
Students still inside were slowly dismissed one classroom at a time. It might not be exactly how Williams drew it up in his drills, but the outcome was all that mattered.
"We were extremely proud of what our staff did, of our students," said Williams. "It's one of those scary feelings we all have. But we're thankful we came to a conclusion on it.
Williams says parents got an e-mail about the lockdown a few minutes after it happened. They got a follow up e-mail about an hour later on how their kids were being dismissed. The two students questioned by police were released. Police say they were cooperative. No word yet on if they face any criminal charges or punishment from the district.
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CHAMPAIGN -- Police were searching for a weapon witnesses say a student carried into school. The gun scare happened at Central High School about 12:30 pm. The building went into full lock-down.
A 16-year old male student was taken into custody. The weapon, a pellet gun, was found on the building's second floor.
Dozens of upperclassmen were in the middle of off-campus lunch when the lock-down started. They weren't allowed back inside. Nobody was allowed to leave the building until it was all clear.
Parents pulling up to the school were confused about what was going on. It started with a soft lock-down, but district leaders say it became a hard lock-down. That means no one is allowed in or out of the building, and no one can leave classrooms.
Students who were already outside the building for off-campus lunch were allowed to go home. The school then started dismissing students from inside the building one classroom at a time about 2:30 pm.
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CHAMPAIGN -- Central High School is on lock down. Police responded to reports of a student with a gun. A 16 year old student is now in custody. Officials say one student reported seeing another student with a gun in his backpack. Police are still searching for the alleged weapon. They're also questioning another student who may have been in contact with the backpack said to be carrying the weapon. Police say students are safe at this time. Those who left the school for lunch are not being allowed back in the building.
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Aging effects on joint proprioception: the role of physical activity in proprioception preservation
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Throughout the human life span the functions of several physiological systems dramatically change, including proprioception. Impaired proprioception leads to less accurate detection of body position changes increasing the risk of fall, and to abnormal joint biomechanics during functional activities so, over a period of time, degenerative joint disease may result. Altered neuromuscular control of the lower limb and consequently poor balance resulting from changes in the proprioceptive function could be related to the high incidence of harmful falls that occur in old age subjects. There is evidence of proprioception deterioration with aging. Regular physical activity seems to be a beneficial strategy to preserve proprioception and prevent falls among older subjects. Some studies have demonstrated that the regular physical activity can attenuate age-related decline in proprioception. This paper reviews the evidence of age effects on joint proprioception. We will discuss the possible mechanisms behind these effects and the role of regular physical activity in the attenuation of age-related decline in proprioception.
KeywordsAging Proprioception Physical activity
Proprioception was originally defined by Sherrington in 1906 [60] as "the perception of joint and body movement as well as position of the body, or body segments, in space". At present, proprioception can be defined as the cumulative neural input to the central nervous system from specialized nerve endings called mechanoreceptors. The mechanoreceptors are located in the joint, capsules, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and skin [15, 77]. Proprioception is generally assessed by measuring both joint position sense (JPS) and the sense of limb movement [25]. JPS determines the subject's ability to comprehend a presented joint angle and then, once removed, actively or passively reproduce the same joint angle [57]. Sense of limb movement determines detection of passive motion of the limb [25]. Both components of proprioception are important for the generation of smooth and coordinated movements, maintenance of normal body posture, regulation of balance and postural control, and motor learning and relearning [52, 73]. This importance was demonstrated by Ghez and Sainburg [21] and Ghez et al. [22] using deafferented patients. Their data showed that without proprioception, the onset of movement is delayed and trajectory formation is impaired and highly inaccurate.
Motor coordination and balance are abilities that decline during the aging process, at least partially, by the deterioration of proprioception [11, 30, 49, 51, 63]. The somatosensory system and, specifically, the proprioceptive system, are critically involved in the sensory control of balance. Colledge et al. [17] studied the relative contributions of vision, proprioception, and vestibular system to the balance in different age groups. They found that all age groups were more dependent on proprioception than on vision for the maintenance of balance. Thus, impaired proprioception could be a contributing factor to falls. Mion et al. [42] identified impaired proprioception as a contributing factor to falls among patients in a rehabilitative setting. Moreover, Camicioli et al. [13] showed that the disruption of proprioceptive input was the most important determinant of quantitative balance performance in subjects older than 80 years. Decline in lower limb proprioception has been linked to balance problems found in the elderly [26, 34, 36, 80], which have, in turn, been associated with the higher incidence of falls [35, 48, 64, 72]. Falls not only lead to subsequent personal and social consequences of injury and loss, but are also a major cause of death in older people. So, decline in proprioception with aging could greatly influence balance, increasing the susceptibility to falls. Besides that, a decrease in proprioception could lead to abnormal joint biomechanics during functional activities such as walking so, over a period of time, degenerative joint disease may result [62]. Therefore, it might be important to develop and implement strategies to attenuate the age-related decline in proprioception. Regular physical activity could be an efficient tool in the preservation of proprioception in old age subjects.
The aims of the present review are to report and discuss (1) the aging effects on joint proprioception, (2) the mechanisms behind these effects, and (3) the role of regular physical activity in the attenuation of age-related decline in proprioception.
Evidence of proprioception deterioration with aging
The actual knowledge about age effects on proprioception is based on cross-sectional studies comparing proprioception in different age groups. Those studies assessed proprioception by measuring JPS and/or the sense of movement, but the methodology used was different between studies. It is important to note that, although using different methodologies, the sense of results led to similar conclusions.
The first studies regarding the effects of aging on proprioception were conducted by Kokmen et al. [32] and Barrack et al. [3, 63]. Barrack et al. [3], who investigated the knee joint, concluded that young members of a professional ballet company had significantly better threshold of perception of joint motion than a healthy, active age-matched control group. Skinner et al. [63] investigated the effect of aging on knee proprioception under passive movement (threshold of detection of joint motion and the ability to reproduce passive knee positioning) and observed that older subjects had poorer proprioception in both tests compared to younger subjects.
In the same way, Kaplan et al. [30] assessed the age-related changes in proprioception using two techniques that required active movement (ipsilateral and contra-lateral active repositioning) and found that older subjects had reduced proprioception compared to younger subjects. Indeed, several studies showed a relationship between aging and decline in several aspects of proprioceptive sensitivity, namely a decrease in joint position sense and an increase in movement detection threshold. The lower limb, knee joint position sense [6, 27, 30, 37, 49, 51], and ankle joint position sense [41, 55, 76, 82] are negatively affected by aging. Similarly, in the upper limb, a decline in elbow [56] and finger [19] joint position sense was observed. Movement detection thresholds increased with advancing age, as shown by the results conducted in the knee [5, 63, 81], ankle [23, 71], and metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints [32].
For ankle position sense Robbins et al. [55] described an age-related decrease of about 3° (angular error of estimation increased from 3.418° in the young adults to 6.548° in the elderly). Similarly, Sung You [82] found differences of 47.5% in the joint ankle reposition between young (median age: 22.2 years) and aged (median age: 73.1 years) subjects. Barrack et al. [4] estimated this reduction in about 6.54°. Yan and Hui-Chan [81] showed that the joint detection threshold was 50% higher in older subjects (aged 57–77 years) than in younger subjects (aged 25–35 years) for both knee extension and flexion movements.
Mechanisms of proprioception deterioration with aging
Proprioception involves central and peripheral components. At the peripheral level, the construction of proprioception is based on the cumulative neural input from mechanoreceptors (articular, muscular, and cutaneous receptors). Several studies analyzed the relationship between the aging process and structural modifications within articular [2, 45] and cutaneous [8, 10, 16, 29, 75] receptors, which can be found in literature. No study was found that examined age-related changes in the Golgi tendon organ. The present review is focused on muscle spindles because it is the major mechanoreceptor involved in proprioception [39, 53, 54] and because the proprioception changes induced by physical activity seem to be related at peripheral level with muscle spindle adaptations. The central component involves internal feedback loops that transmit information between and within sensory and motor areas [39, 44].
Advancing age causes a decline in proprioception involving both central and peripheral level. At the peripheral level, studies using animals and humans showed anatomical and physiological age-related changes in muscle spindle resulting in muscle spindle decline: a study using rats described an age-related decrease in the dynamic response of the muscle spindle primary afferents to ramp stretch [43]; structural changes of the muscle spindle can be seen in decreases in the total number of intrafusal muscle fibers and nuclear chain fibers per spindle, and increases in spindle capsule thickness [31, 33, 43, 69]; Swash and Fox [69] suggested that these spindle modifications may be the result of denervation, because spherical axonal swellings, expanded motor end plates, and group denervation atrophy can also be observed on skeletal muscle; and, Burke et al. [12] found a 30% reduction in the vibration induced inhibition of the stretch reflex because of aging, suggesting differences in muscle spindle functioning at the spinal level (deterioration of spinal presynaptic inhibition pathways). The conclusions drawn from these studies suggest that proprioception decreases with aging is in part because of changes in muscle spindle function. In addition to that, advancing age leads to deficits in the processing of sensory input (myelin abnormalities, axonal atrophy, and declined nerve conduction velocity) [7, 24, 59, 74] and neuromuscular performance decline. It has been shown that the older adult has fewer, but on average larger and slower motor units, resulting in motor unit reorganization [9, 14, 40, 65, 66]. Therefore, this age-related alteration of the number and function of motor units have profound implications in muscle force production and control. This lack of control has also repercussions in proprioceptive ability.
At the central level, central somatosensory pathways conductive function is affected by normal aging [70]. Aging induces progressive loss of the dendrite system in the motor cortex [47, 58], losses in the number of neurons and receptors, and neurochemical changes in the brain [38, 50, 68]. Age-related changes in spindle sensitivity can result from supraspinally mediated changes in the gamma drive to the spindles themselves; changes in the "set" of muscle spindles will have a direct effect on sensitivity [46].
The relative contribution of the central and peripheral level is not established, but it is reasonable to expect that the decline in proprioception found in old age subjects could be related to both central and peripheral changes. However, previous studies [26, 67] suggested that older adults may compensate for deteriorated proprioception (peripheral inputs) by enhancing sensitivity of the central encoding of sensory consequences (central inputs), thereby reducing perceptual proprioceptive errors during balance control.
The role of physical activity in proprioception preservation during aging
Throughout this review, it has been widely reported that proprioception declines during aging process. Few studies have been conducted to examine the effects of regular physical activity on proprioception preservation during aging.
It is interesting to note that Pickard et al. [52] did not find significant differences when comparing the hip joint position between sedentary young subjects and active aged subjects (mean age: 75 ± 6 years), that practiced physical activity 10 (range 3 to 20) hours per week. The authors justified the lack of differences between subjects because the aged group was physically active. However, the authors did not compare sedentary aged subjects with active aged subjects, it is impossible to affirm that the lack of significant changes between young and aged subjects is because of the increased physical activity.
Proprioception may be influenced by the level of regular physical activity. Based on this, Petrella et al. [51] designed a study to investigate knee joint proprioception among young volunteers and active and sedentary elderly volunteers. Knee joint proprioception was measured through reproduction of static knee angles using an electrogoniometer. Sixteen young subjects (age range, 19–27 years) and 24 elderly subjects (age range, 60–86 years) participated in the study. The elderly group was separated into active and sedentary subgroups based on their level of activity during the past year. Significant differences were observed between young (mean, 2.01 ± 0.46°) and active old (mean, 3.12 ± 1.12°; P < 0.001), young and sedentary old (mean, 4.58 ± 1.93°; P < 0.001), and active old and sedentary old (P < 0.03). The authors concluded that proprioception is diminished with age and that regular activity may attenuate this decline.
Gauchard et al. [20] investigated the effects of different types of exercise on postural control and balance of aged individuals and concluded that the proprioception can be "trained" and that regular exercise of proprioceptive nature might be beneficial to retain or regain balance. These findings were corroborated by Tsang and Hui-Chan [73]. The authors demonstrated that long-term (mean Tai Chi experience 10.1 ± 9.5 years) Tai Chi, a Chinese mind–body exercise that puts a great emphasis on the exact joint position and direction, practitioners had improved knee joint proprioception.
The exact mechanism by which the exercise improves joint proprioception remains to be clearly understood. However, several hypotheses can be provided from the best evidence available. Being central and peripheral levels involved in proprioception, it is not surprising that the explanations for the improvement in proprioception, because of physical activity, involve both components.
Peripheral level improvements in proprioception were linked to alterations in muscle spindle. There is no evidence that training changes the number of mechanoreceptors [1], but there is evidence that training induces morphological adaptations in the major mechanoreceptor involved in proprioception, the muscle spindle. Training can induce muscle spindle adaptations at a microlevel, the intrafusal muscle fibers may show some metabolic changes, and at a more macro level, the latency of the stretch reflex response decreases and the amplitude increases [28].
Physical activity improving muscle strength can also improve proprioception. The improvement in muscle strength with exercise might yield better control of movement, which, as a consequence, could enhance joint proprioception under weight bearing conditions [51].
At a central level, physical activity might modify proprioception by modulating the mechanoreceptor gain and inducing plastic changes in the central nervous system. Muscle spindle is the one mechanoreceptor whose gain can be modulated by the central nervous system. The gain is the input–output relationship of any receptor and can be defined as receptor output firing rate divided by the magnitude of the input stimulus [1]. In fact, proprioception can be improved through increased output of the muscle spindles through the so-called γ route during voluntary movement. Increased muscle spindle output through the γ route may occur during exercise, to enhance joint proprioception by facilitating its cortical projection. In this way, repeated practice of a motor skill is thought to increase muscle spindle output, which could bring about plastic changes in the central nervous system, such as an increased strength of synaptic connections and/or structural changes in the organization and number of connections among neurons [61]. Indeed, repetitive afferent inputs from the mechanoreceptors could modify the cortical maps of the body over time. Plastic changes in the cortex can be induced by repeated positioning of body and limb joints in specific spatial positions as demanded by exercise [73]. Regular physical activity over time can increase cortical representation of the joints leading to enhanced joint proprioception.
Liu et al. [33] examined myosin heavy chain protein content of the spindle fibers and identified that three myosin heavy chain proteins had modified expression in aged muscle spindles when compared to those from young subjects. It is interesting to note that similar myosin heavy chain protein adaptations were found in rats in response to hind-limb unloading [18] and denervation [78, 79]. The loss of nuclear chain fibers may impair the static sensitivity of the spindle and ultimately the ability to correctly interpret muscle length [33]. Future research in old age subjects is needed to determine the possible influence of physical activity in myosin heavy chain protein content of the spindle fibers, and the relationship between improvement in myosin heavy chain protein content and proprioception.
It seems to be consensual and well established that proprioception diminishes with aging. Our review has highlighted the evidence that aging has deleterious effects on joint proprioception. The physiologic mechanisms behind the proprioception deterioration with aging involve central and peripheral components. Regular physical activity seems to have a role in the preservation of proprioceptive function, but more studies are needed to clearly ascertain this positive effect. Moreover, it is not clearly understood which mechanisms are responsible for proprioception changes induced by regular physical activity. Explanations are given involving central and peripheral components; however, it seems reasonable to expect that changes in the proprioceptive system because of regular physical activity involve both components. Future research should be conducted to clearly respond to the following questions: (1) What types of exercise have better results in the preservation of proprioception during aging? (2) Which mechanisms better explain old age subject's proprioception improvements induced by physical activity?


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GK: Our own Fred Newman was in the Men's Single Figure Skating competition at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and favored to win at least a bronze or a zinc medal, but he was disqualified because he used bad language
FN: It wasn't that bad, it wasn't anything you don't hear everyday in New York
GK: and that was too bad because otherwise it was a nearly perfect routine.
FN: It was perfect. Take a look.
GK: Bad language is not permitted during the figure skating routines and Fred didn't know that
FN: Their clock was wrong and they stopped me. I still had 30 seconds left...
GK: Fred is still sore about it
FN: Play the video. You can see, I had 30 seconds left. Let them see the video.
GK: Okay, here is the video of Fred's routine. (CROWD) There he is striking his pose as the music is just about to start, very nice
GK: And there he goes (SKATING STROKES) making a big sweeping circuit of the rink and here is his first triple axel...and a toe loop...and an insy and an outie...and now he comes around on his approach for the quadruple lutz...with a half-gainer...and now he picks up the flaming torches from his coach...and he's going to do a cartwheel with torches...amazing...and now he juggles the torches...as he does a rear axel...and a front axel...and here is the backflip ...and now he does a tap dance routine...while playing the saxophone ...and here he is with another toe spin...and he raises his right leg and grasps the skate high over his head and here is where he sings...
FN: I'm very skinny in my Lycra tights
My sequins glitter underneath the lights
I am from Georgia, 55 years old
I want the gold, I want the gold
GK: And here is where the dog runs out on the ice (OFF, YIPPING) and that sets off the timer (HORN) and Fred has to fend off the dog
FN: Get out of here. Beat it. (DOG YELPS)
GK: And Fred threw the dog over the fence and then the Russian judge came running out
GK: The Russian judge is saying, Your time is up...pointing at his watch...
FN: What the (BEEP) are you talking about, you big fat commie. I've got a whole half a minute left. Get your pinko hands off me. (THEY STRUGGLE) (SINGS) Gotta skate...gotta skate...
GK: And Fred attempts to get loose and he whacks the Russian with the torch... (WHANG, RUSSIAN PAIN) And here is where he is disqualified...
FN: Let me go, you big (BEEP) .
GK: And that was the end of Fred's Olympic hopes. All that work, all that practice.
FN: Lost. Because I said a bad word.
GK: Not permitted at the Olympics. A similar thing happened in the snowmobile dancing event on Monday night...when he was well, let's look at it...
GK: (SNOWMOBILE REVVING) here he is, doing a maneuver called twizzling...and now a dosido...and now a walrus comes out on the ice (SFX) Fred swerves to get away...(SNOWMOBILE) and unfortunately they had cut a big hole in the ice for the polar swimming competition and FN (OFF): Oh no O (BEEP) (BIG SPLASH, ROAR, SPLASHING) and Fred goes into a hole in the ice, and there went the gold. Sorry, Fred. Tough luck. But your copper medal in the Senior Men's luge was some compensation.
FN: I guess so. But I would've done better if those chickens hadn't gotten on the track.
GK: Let's take a look at Fred's run in the luge this is Vancouver, the Winter Olympics
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It's 2015… So, where are our jetpacks? And the hovering skateboards? And the colonies on Mars? And what about the totalitarian dystopia?
Across history, Americans have dreamed of what the future will hold, from the flying cars and 3-hour workdays of The Jetsons to fears of World War III and nuclear holocaust. Sometimes, we've made those dreams come true… or at least tried. On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed and Peter ring in the New Year by asking what these past visions of the future have to tell us about the times that conjured them up.


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When they are sold for more or less than their nominal value, they are said to be above or below par.
How long you been keepin' Corrugated stocks from goin' below par?
It is those people who are run down, and in whom the white corpuscles are 'below par,' that catch the disease.
The first thing that caught his eye was, "Bondavara, sixty below par."
In short, if the family is a bad one, one below par, then marriage between cousins or between uncle and niece should be forbidden.
One must be reasonably sure that the kidneys are not the subject of chronic disease and are functionally, therefore, below par.
Probably this was a slack season for the higher needlework, and the getting up of fine linen was below par.
On the Marañon it is below par; Peruvian gold should therefore be bought at Guayaquil for that part of the route.
Is it wise to commence the effort, confined to our weakest securities, now below par?
"I'm afraid I'm below par on my mince pies," she confessed with a mockery of humiliation.


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Star's trek put Kirk on right track to captain
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Brett Kirk trudged across Papua New Guinea in the footsteps of his digger grandad and came home a different man, writes David Sygall.
Possibly the most poignant Swans quote this year was made by Jared Crouch before he broke the record for most consecutive games since debut. Asked about the sacrifices he had made to achieve his goal, Crouch replied: "I have never made a sacrifice in my life. The only people who make sacrifices are soldiers".
But, as the Swans run out onto the Sydney Cricket Ground to battle Port Adelaide today, there is one player who for the past four years has been able to reconcile better than most a connection between career, the art of leadership and the horror of war.
Brett Kirk, a popular choice as captain last week against Essendon, was one of six Swans players to experience the Kokoda Track across Papua New Guinea in December 2000.
The others were Andrew Schauble, Ryan O'Keefe, Leo Barry and former Swans Rowan Warfe and Gerard Bennett.
Another group, including Adam Goodes, Jason Saddington, Amon Buchanan and fitness trainer David Misson, went the following year.
For Kirk, the experience was profound. His grandfather was a digger who fought on the track and Kirk is adamant the experience taught him valuable lessons on which he drew when he was asked to lead the Swans.
"Recently, I read the diary that I kept over there," Kirk said on Friday. "One thing I realised was that everyone deals with adversity differently. There were times on the track that you just had to pick your mates up and continue on.
"I remember seeing some guys struggling and you'd whisper in their ear, give them encouragement, a jolt to get them going again."
Kirk learned how to bring out the best in himself and those around him.
One of his diary entries, published in Patrick Lindsay's 2002 book The Spirit of Kokoda: Then and Now reads: "My body is starting to feel the pressure of the continual exhaustion . . . One foot in front of the other.
"Focus. Don't lose concentration. It can be linked to playing in the last quarter of footy.
"You are stuffed, your body spent. But you need one last effort. You grit your teeth and give it everything.
"I have learnt so much about myself, my character, my strengths, weaknesses, my inner self. How I deal with adversity."
After Stuart Maxfield relinquished the captaincy 10 days ago, Kirk was appointed acting captain before the Swans during the week decided to rotate the leadership among six players, of which Kirk is one.
He is a workhorse midfielder whose honours include All Australian selection in 2004, twice runner-up in the Swans' best and fairest, and fourth in the 2004 Brownlow Medal.
The others who will lead the Swans are Barry Hall, Jude Bolton, Goodes, Ben Mathews and Leo Barry.
While each has arrived at this point in his own way, Misson believes Kokoda had a special effect on Kirk.
"He had a unique connection because of his grandfather," Misson said. "Perhaps it's stretching a long bow to believe that when things get tough on the field the guys think back to Kokoda. But that's just me.
"The fact they did it, conquered it, was definitely a huge achievement."
Kirk said it was hard to quantify how much Kokoda prepared him for leadership.
"I don't know if it groomed me for the captaincy," he said. "But, over the past few years, it has affected me.
"My football's stepped up, I've got more confidence and been given a leadership role by my peers, and more responsibility."
More clear is the emotional effect it had. Kirk and Schauble are on the Kokoda Track Foundation Board, which helps villages along the track, including such aid as funds for kids' education. It definitely brought Kirk closer to his grandfather, Wally Moras.
"We didn't talk too much about the war when I was younger," Kirk said. "I'd see him march on Anzac Day but that was about it. But after Kokoda, we spoke about it at Christmas and it was awesome."
In Lindsay's book, Moras said: "It's great to think that you've got a grandson who's gone through what really did happen in the old days - in the mud and the slush and the rain - even though they didn't have any Zeros chasing them or bullets flying. But it was a great experience for him."
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The 2015-2016 Site Teachers of the Year are: (pictured left to right) BJ McBride, Jason Schrepel, Rebecka Rhodes, Amanda Cole, Amanda Charvat, Jordan Roark, Laura Latta, Kelly Whittaker, Hilary Morsey, Brenda Robinson, Liz Beeman, Nichole Weeks, Kaelen Terry, Pam Cox, Jacque Wiles, Ashley Lewis, Jill Plum, Karen Dale, Aaron Clemons, and John Maloy.
Originally posted November 12, 2015
District Site Teachers of the Year announced
Union Public Schools has announced its 2015-2016 School Site Teachers of the Year. The District Teacher of the Year will be announced during a formal reception this spring.
Being named Teacher of the Year is one of the highest honors a teacher can receive at Union. All of the school site Teachers of the Year will be honored during the reception; teachers were selected by their peers.
The Site Teachers of the Year are:
- Union High School - Liz Beeman, Speech Communications
- Union 9th Grade - BJ McBride, History
- Union 8th Grade - Jason Schrepel, Pre-Algebra
- Union 7th Grade - Aaron Clemons, Geography
- Union 6th Grade - Rebecka Rhodes, Geography
- Union Alternative Center - John Maloy, Social Studies/Government
- Andersen Elementary - Kelly Whittaker, 2nd Grade
- Boevers Elementary - Jacque Wiles, 1st Grade
- Briarglen Elementary - Jill Plum, 2nd Grade
- Cedar Ridge Elementary - Hilary Morsey, 4th Grade
- Clark Elementary - Ashley Lewis, Art
- Darnaby Elementary - Pam Cox, Special Education
- Grove Elementary - Jordan Roark, 3rd Grade
- Jarman Elementary - Amanda Charvat, 2nd Grade
- Jefferson Elementary - Brenda Robinson, 1st/2nd Multiage
- McAuliffe Elementary - Nichole Weeks, Art
- Moore Elementary - Karen Dale, 3rd Grade
- Peters Elementary - Amanda Cole, 1st Grade
- Rosa Parks Early Childhood Education Center - Kaelen Terry
- Rosa Parks Elementary - Laura Latta, 1st Grade


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Smicksburg United Methodist Women :: The Smicksburg United Methodist Women met at 7 p.m. March 12. There were nine members and two youths present. The date was changed due to Lenten Bible Study.
The devotions were about Maundy Thursday. The program focused on St. Patrick, and several poems were also shared.
The minutes from the previous meeting and the treasurer's report were approved as read.
The president shared upcoming events from "The Vine," the UMW district newsletter. It will be posted for review as well.
A report was given from the recent UMW Day Apart.
The St. Patrick's breakfast was held at 8 a.m. March 17.
The annual egg coloring will be on Friday. The families participating will share a meal afterward.
The Easter egg hunt will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the church. Children up to the age of 12 are invited to participate.
A reminder was given that the April meeting will include the white elephant sale. The meeting was closed with the reading of the Litany. After the prayer, the club had a meal and door prizes were awarded.
Todd Bird Club
"Birding the Mahoning Shadow Trail" was the title of Tom Glover's presentation at the March 5 Todd Bird Club meeting at the Blue Spruce Park Lodge. Glover detailed his adventures of the past three years while birding the Mahoning Shadow Trail. Because of its varied habitats, MST boasts a great diversity of bird life, including resident nesting bald eagles.
At the next meeting on Tuesday, Wildlife Conservation Officer Patrick Snickles will present "The Life History of the Eastern Whip-poor-will." Participants will learn about this declining, secretive, nocturnal bird that is more often heard than seen.
The club will be celebrating its 30th anniversary on April 13 at Yellow Creek State Park, meeting at the environmental education center at 8 a.m. for coffee and refreshments. Participants in the bird walk will leave from the building at 8:30 a.m., returning to the EEC around noon for a luncheon and program. Everyone interested in birds and birding is invited for the full day or part of the day. There is a $5 nominal registration fee that includes all food and activities. For more information, call (724) 349-2787 or mail to Todd Bird Club, 515 Laurel Run Road, Penn Run, PA 15765. The registration deadline is Tuesday.
Learn more about the Todd Bird Club by visiting www.toddbirdclub.org.
Kiwanis Club of Indiana
Wayne Obitz, president called the Kiwanis Club of Indiana weekly breakfast meeting to order.
IHS teacher and Key Club adviser Scott Laydon and Key Club members Austin Jasper and Alexis Tshudy were guests of the club and discussed recent Key Club projects. Laydon said there are 250 members in the Key Club and 45 members of the executive board. The students discussed recent projects such as the Battle of the Faculties which has raised more than $9,000 for Hopeful Hearts. They recently held a faculty versus Pittsburgh Steelers basketball game and the IHS THON raised $5,000 for the 4 Diamond Fund.
The IHS Key Club also helped the elementary schools with their Mini-Thon, which raised $1,000. In the planning is a casual dance called a MORP. Since convention time last March, the IHS Key Club has raised more than $20,000.
Fred Yun, secretary of Kiwanis, thanked all the members who participated in the farewell dinner for him and Barb at Rustic Lodge. The food was great, the speakers entertaining and very funny, and the gifts very much appreciated. Yun also reminded members of the April 4 board meeting, the April 5 leadership workshop at Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Crimson Hawk Center, the April 6 Johnstown Kiwanis Club's pancake day and the Kiwanis Club of Indiana's Trivia Night on April 26 at Rustic Lodge.
Bonni Dunlap reminded members of the computer and electronic devices recycling day at United Presbyterian Church in Blairsville. Obitz briefly discussed the proposed miracle baseball field and announced that Nancy Sherry-Helsel will be at breakfast on Tuesday to provide more information.
Obitz called a brief meeting of the Kiwanis board of directors. Joyce Scibek moved to spend $238 on an ad for the Civic Leader program. Mel O'Keefe seconded. O'Keefe also moved that Kiwanis continue the students of the month program at Blairsville High School this year and next and continue the two scholarships. Dunlap and Bob Bell will make necessary arrangements to form a Key Club at Blairsville High School for next year. Joyce Scibek seconded the motion.
For more information on the Kiwanis Club of Indiana, contact Yun at (724) 465-7509.


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Wealth effects of banks' rights to market and originate annuities
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What are the advantages or disadvantages of taking courses online? Would you prefer that classes be given online or in person? Please explain your thoughts.
The virtual classroom is really catching on in the U.S. with more than two million K-12 students taking classes online as an alternative and flexible way of learning.
In California, Governor Jerry Brown strongly supports this move away from the traditional classroom. He sees online college courses as a way to deal with the problem of overcrowded classrooms and hopes that through providing low-cost online classes, education will become more affordable for students. With this in mind, he is fostering partnerships between online learning programs and higher education, such as the partnership between San Jose State University and the startup Udacity. In his budget, he has allocated $17 million for community colleges and $10 million each for the UC and Cal State systems to expand online learning.
But as KQED's MindShift points out in Where is Technology Leading Higher Education?, these dramatic changes in teaching and learning practices are traumatic for colleges. They are struggling to keep up with the pace of change. "Terms like historic, seismic and revolutionary now pop up in descriptions of the challenges that higher education faces in the coming years."
Reuter's post Online schools face backlash as states question results claims that in many states, Maine, New Jersey and North Carolina, there has been a backlash with educators and officials questioning and challenging standards in the new cyber-schools.
But since money is tight and the technology is available to provide easier access to source material, universities are being forced to move away from traditional models of learning, which are not necessarily delivering impressive outcomes. The future is looking very different for education. Online and blended models of learning are well and truly on the horizon.
Do you welcome this change? Will it be more convenient to be able to work and study whenever and wherever you want to?
KQED Forum segment Can Online Courses Ease California's Education Woes? – Jan. 17, 2013
Governor Jerry Brown says online college courses could help solve one of the problems facing the state's education system: overcrowded classrooms. The governor is fostering partnerships between online learning programs and higher education, including a newly inked deal between San Jose State University and the startup Udacity. Can low-cost online classes help keep education affordable? Can online classes maintain the quality of a university lecture?
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João Nogueira- Vem Que Tem [1975 EMI Odeon] 320 kbps - 84 mb
Since I love João Nogueira & posted the LP just before this one, then I'll add this as well. These very first LP's by him for EMI Odeon are very fleshed-out Samba recordings. EMI Odeon gives this artist all of the polish that his artistry deserves. This is the 2003 Re-master and sounds great. For fans of this artist.
File Under: Samba
P.S. I put these EMI Odeons together so we can get fix on that studio sound. Crisp!
Also, notice the box of matches in João's hand. A favorite instrument of the sambistas. Tap, tap.
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Saravah For Café Après–midi - V.A. - 320 kbps - 196 mb (reup)
I had this up before, but wanted to share it once again. Since I've already posted an Italian compilation looking at Bossa Nova's influence on Italy, then it's time to look at an important little label out of France run by actor/musician/studio-head Pierre Barouh & his brilliant Saravah imprint. The range here is mindblowing. French Bossa Nova, French Jazz, French Folk, African Pop, French Soul, etc, etc. This is one that I'm still taking in. There are so many good tracks here that I'll just single out a few personal favorites. "On N'a Rien a Faire" by Pierre Barouh is great, swinging French Jazz Pop circa 1966. My other pick is the delicate French Bossa Folk number "Un Jour, Un Papillon" by Joel Favreau from 1970. Very sweet! I'm sure you'll find lots to enjoy here. A nice look at the warm embrace that Bossa Nova received from the French & a whole lot more. Enjoy!
File Under: French Folk-Jazz-Bossa Nova/ World Music
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He's 'bout you size, but he ain' no mo' laik you den a Jack rabbit's laik an' owl.
Maybe she'd laik to have you come and visit her and keep her company.
There is a similar long and tedious passage in Lancelot of the laik, ed.
If yoh doan mind, I'd laik to fix up yoh section; got so much to do won't git through 'fore midnight.
Winds, laik everything else, are amenable to control, if you only know how to control them.
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Another of the prominent knights of Arthur's court was Lancelot of the laik.
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MEAR is leading the way
The balance of power is shifting to emerging economies. Compared to stagnant Western markets, business growth and investment in the Middle-East, Africa and Russia (MEAR) continues unabated.
It's a shift that's amplified by technological advances. In under a decade, these seismic changes have levelled the playing field, opened the door to a global market and made rapid business growth a reality:
- The connected world where we can work, play and learn anytime, anywhere and with anyone.
- Virtualization made it easier to manage multiple servers and reduce physical computing power.
- Computing power has exponentially increased capacity and processing speeds so we can do much more for a lot less time and money.
- The cloud offers all the applications and storage businesses need minus the server infrastructure.
You'll probably point out many other factors, but I picked these because they are particularly relevant to MEAR countries and their IT spending patterns. Specifically, they are backed up by Forrester research in 2012. This showed that over half of MEAR-based companies plan to invest more in mobility, analytics, security and collaboration.
Unlike more mature companies, their spending isn't being eroded by having to maintain and support legacy systems. This frees up budgets to completely replace or expand their IT in ways that improve their competitiveness. The top three areas that Forrester highlighted from 2011 to 2012 were mobile apps (spending increase of 47%), business intelligence (44%) and collaboration tools (41%).
Further research was carried out by Canalys in February 2012 of its online channel community – resellers, systems integrators, service providers and distributors. The results showed a positive outlook across MEAR despite ongoing economic uncertainty. Over half emphasized a move from capital expenditure to operating expenditure, with the highest demand for IT services expected from small to midsize companies (with 100-499 employees). As a respondent said, "Companies working their way out of the crisis by expanding."
As more companies seek new technologies to secure future growth, our partner network across MEAR needs to be ready to help them become the technology leaders of tomorrow.
*Forrester, 2012, Forrsights: Cautious Optimism in 2012 IT Spending Plans – A BT Futures Report
*Canalys, 2012, Navigating through dramatic industry changeTags:
- business intelligence
- collaboration
- Computing Power
- Emerging Markets
- mobility
- security
- The cloud
- The connected world
- virtualization
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