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Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted and may be freely used in any way. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
In 1973, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) was passed by the U.S. Congress, as Public Law 93-203. The establishment of the State Manpower Services Council was a direct result of this act. The purpose of CETA was to establish a system of federal, state, and local programs to provide job training and employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and underemployed persons. Funds were granted to prime sponsors, which could be states, counties and/or cities with a population of 100,000 or more, and certain combinations of local governments.
Prime sponsors provided any type of manpower services which enabled individuals to secure and retain employment at their maximum capacity. Services provided included outreach, classroom and on-the-job training, recruitment, orientation, counseling, testing, placement, allowances, supportive services, payments or inducements to public or private employers to expand job opportunities, and transitional public service employment programs. Prime sponsors were required to submit a comprehensive manpower plan to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, which included performance goals, geographic areas to be served, and assurances. They also had to appoint and staff a Manpower Planning Council. In Texas, the majority of prime sponsors for manpower programs have been multigovernments, usually referred to as consortia; many populous counties and cities have operated as single prime sponsors. Areas of the state not covered by these prime sponsors, known as Balance of the State (BOS), have been represented by the Governor.
The Governor, as Chief Planning Officer of the State, was required to coordinate policies, plans, and services for manpower programs throughout the state. The State Manpower Services Council (SMSC), established on May 30, 1974, by Executive Order 14, was created to serve as an advisory body to assist the Governor in coordinating prime sponsor and State manpower activities. Council members were appointed by the Governor, according to a federally established representation formula--1/3 or more members were prime sponsors; one member each from the Board of Education, Texas Employment Commission, and other state agencies selected by the Governor; and representatives of organized labor, business and industry, community-based organizations, client groups served, and the general public. Members served for one year, later for indefinite terms. The Chair initially was designated to be the Director of the Division of Planning Coordination, later was changed to a Governor-appointed position.
Responsibilities of the Council were to review and monitor manpower plans and programs of prime sponsors and state agencies; make recommendations for improving the coordination and effectiveness of manpower activities and programs; aggregate the plans of prime sponsors into a statewide plan to be submitted, with the Governor's approval, to the Department of Labor; make an annual report to the Governor; and issue reports, studies and other documentation to assist prime sponsors.
The Council received staff support from the Governor's Office, Division of Planning Coordination, Human Resources Section. The staff obtained plans and modifications, operating and progress reports, and other materials used in reviews of manpower plans and for monitoring program activities and services; assisted in developing recommendations to the Governor, prime sponsors, state agencies, and the public; and provided administrative and management support to the Council. The Council used the services of several state agencies to assist with their manpower directives and activities.
The Texas Department of Community Affairs was the Governor's designee to act as prime sponsor for areas not covered by local prime sponsors, known as Balance of the State (BOS). This Department was also responsible for assuring the participation and cooperation of all state agencies with local and state-wide manpower programs. The Prime Sponsor Planning Council was created to act as an advisory body to the Texas Department of Community Affairs in its role as Balance of State Prime Sponsor.
The Texas Employment Commission worked with prime sponsors in identifying and referring potential clients to manpower program operations. They also assisted with the placement of manpower program trained clients. The Texas Education Agency provided or approved education programs and facilities for institutional training of manpower clients. A number of other state agencies worked with SMSC to provide helpful services to state and local manpower programs and clients.
Types of materials present include minutes and agenda, correspondence, memorandums, reports, profiles of SMSC centers, evaluations of contractors, proposals, applications, and various printed materials. These records cover the period 1973-1979 and reflect Texas State Manpower Services Council activity with the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act program. Staff support for the SMSC was provided by the Governor's Office, Division of Planning Coordination. Services available through this program (CETA) included manpower, training, and supportive services for a variety of workers, including migrants and Indians. Also present are profiles of prime sponsors and skills centers, and information on state services contractors.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
These records are organized into six series and numerous subseries:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Records, State Manpower Services Council, Texas Office of the Governor. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession numbers: 1989/054, 1990/157
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Governor's Office of Budget and Planning, through the Records Management Division of the State Library, on December 6, 1988. Additional records were transferred by the Texas Department of Community Affairs, Manpower Services Division (via the Records Management Division of the Texas State Library) to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission on June 19, 1990.
Laura K. Saegert, February 1989
Tony Black, November 1990
Materials present include minutes, agenda, reports, proposals, correspondence, memorandums, notes, membership lists, copies of federal laws and other printed material. These records cover the period 1974-1978 and document meetings and activities of the State Manpower Services Council, the Prime Sponsor Planning Council, and their committees. Permanent committees of the State Manpower Services Council were: Policy Committee, Planning and Coordination Committee, Review Committee, and Special Projects Committee. During each meeting, the Council had a general meeting, followed by Committee meetings.
These records are organized into three subseries:
Files contain meeting agendas for the State Manpower Services Council and committee meetings; minutes of previous meetings; reports, proposals, prime sponsor monitoring reports and other items presented during the meetings; meeting notices; letters; memorandums; notes; and issues of the Federal Register and copies of other printed materials. Dates covered are 1976-1978.
Arranged chronologically by month and/or meeting dates.
Files contain meeting agendas for the State Manpower Services Council and committee meetings; minutes of previous meetings; reports, proposals, prime sponsor monitoring reports and other items presented during the meetings; committee chairmen's meeting outlines and meeting reports; copies of printed materials; and a few letters. Dates covered are 1974-1978. A full set of the agenda books was transferred to the Archives in 1988. In 1990 a partial set of books was transferred which cover some of the same years. These were retained as they contain some differences such as annotations and additions or deletions.
Arranged chronologically by meeting dates. General council
meetings are filed first followed by committee meetings. [See also
A full set of the agenda books was transferred in the accession of December 6, 1988. Agenda books for most of the meetings of 1974 and 1975 (not in binders) were transferred by the Texas Department of Community Affairs, Manpower Services Division (via the Records Management Division of the Texas State Library) to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison on June 19, 1990. These are retained because they are not identical to the agenda books of the previous accession, but contain some differences, such as annotations and additions or deletions.
These files contain agenda, minutes, organizational charts, membership lists, maps, copies of federal laws and regulations, statements of responsibilities, policy recommendations, forms, etc. for the Prime Sponsor Planning Council and its committees. Dates covered are 1974-1975.
The Prime Sponsor Planning Council, an advisory body appointed by the Texas Department of Community Affairs, was composed of representatives of the Balance of State geographic area (i.e., the 161 counties in Texas that did not qualify as prime sponsors), and was chosen from local elected officials, representatives of the client community, community-based organizations, the Employment Service, education and training agencies and institutions, business, labor, and agriculture. It contained three committees: the Planning Committee, the Program Operations Committee, and the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee.
Arranged chronologically.
Profiles and monitoring checklists of prime sponsors and skills centers, quarterly progress reports of prime sponsors, and evaluation and performance reports of state services contractors. Dates covered are 1974-1979. These records discuss the prime sponsors, skills centers, and contractors which worked with the State Manpower Services Council and the various CETA programs.
These records are organized into four subseries:
These are profiles of prime sponsors, including information on program goals, organization, and management; characteristics of the area served; amount of CETA funds; sub-contractors; enrollment, component, and supportive services offered; services available to job ready clients; non-financial agreements; programs funded by CETA other than prime sponsor funds; coordination with state and local agencies; overall program concept and design; roster of local Manpower Planning Council or group; CETA manpower training programs; and organizational charts of the manpower group and client activity. Dates covered are 1974-1977.
Arranged into three alphabetical sets of records, each set covering a different year.
Profiles or information sheets on four joint SMSC skills centers, dated 1975. Data given includes education courses offered; operations; educational, counseling, and supportive services offered; financial activity; coordination with prime sponsors, TEA or other manpower related agencies; and performance factors--problems encountered, individuals contacted, and projected budget.
Arranged alphabetically.
Progress reports of prime sponsors, primarily quarterly, a few yearly or at other intervals, dated 1974-1979. These reports contain summaries of enrollment data, financial activity, and client characteristics. Following these reports are two reports summarizing the quarterly progress reports through statistical compilations, for the first two quarters of FY 1978.
Progress reports arranged into four alphabetical sets of records, each set covering a different fiscal year. Summary reports follow.
Evaluation reports of state services contractors-- state agencies, and national, state and local associations; and a mid-year performance report on these contractors. Records date from 1975 and 1978 .
These records are organized into two subseries:
Evaluation reports of state services contractors with the CETA program. Reports, 1975, specify the type of contract, services offered, quantified goals, background data on the agency performing the services, funding, evaluation procedures, program operations, program analysis and evaluation, major concerns of the reviewer against the program, and conclusions and recommendations. Programs with specific problems were then notified of the problems and the steps needed to correct it. Correspondence concerning problems usually accompanies the evaluation report.
Arranged alphabetically.
A progress report on state services contractors for the first half of FY 1978. Information is provided on each contractor, including contract recipients, contract amounts, description of contracts, services provided, staff organization, administrative costs, prime sponsors receiving services, coordination with prime sponsors, characteristics of clients served, and problems encountered and recommendations.
The records consist of a single report.
Correspondence and administrative files of regional consortiums, agencies, organizations, and consultants working with the State Manpower Services Council and its manpower programs. Dates covered are 1973-1979.
These records are organized into two subseries:
Files contain correspondence, memorandums, notes, proposals, applications, reports, and printed materials. Preceding these files are a few topical or administrative files, including lists of State Manpower Services Council members, legal materials, meeting photographs, background materials on the SMSC, nominations, appointments, reading files, and incoming correspondence. These are general files of regional consortiums and agencies--generally prime sponsors, involved in the state's manpower programs. Files are dated 1973-1979.
Arranged alphabetically.
Files contain memorandums, correspondence, agreements, notes, reports, meeting minutes, printed materials, and copies of federal laws. General files of individual consultants and organizations involved in the state's manpower programs. Files are dated 1974-1976.
Records are unarranged.
Proposals for grants to provide manpower, training, and supportive services for migrants and seasonal farmworkers, consisting of grant applications; incorporation, bylaws, and other data on the organization to provide the services; objectives of the program; goals and priorities; performance standards; description of economic conditions; analysis of labor market and social services; participants to be served; services to be provided; contracts and agreements; financial information; assurances; and letters of support. Dates covered are 1976-1978. Areas not covered by specific organizations were included in the proposals submitted by the Governor's Office of Migrant Affairs. One proposal does not request CETA funding; instead, it requests funds for food and nutrition assistance.
Records are unarranged.
Files contain correspondence, grant applications and modifications, and reference materials concerning starting up a manpower program and on areas to receive manpower services. These files cover the period 1973-1978 and pertain to the Indian manpower training programs--Indian Employment Training Service.
Records are unarranged.
Files consist of issues or copies of published or printed materials, newsletters, and correspondence concerning CETA rules and regulations, changes in legislation, and materials specifically relating to migrants. Files are dated 1975-1978.
Records are unarranged.


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Plug-in hybrid Accord is the best new Accord
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Honda adds two gasoline-electric hybrids next year to the new Accord lineup, both to be sold as 2014 models, at prices not yet announced.
Next spring, expect a plug-in hybrid that Honda hopes will be rated for 10 to 15 miles on battery power before the gas engine has to kick in. That's a lot for a plug-in, which uses much smaller battery packs than full-electric cars.
A few months later, Honda will launch a non-plug-in hybrid, too.
We had a short time in a pre-production version of the plug-in and found it wonderful. Best driving feel of any electrified vehicle we can remember. It also gets our vote as the best version of the new Accord.
PHOTOS: The new Accord
TEST DRIVE: James R. Healey's review
The Accord's hybrid system is a radical shift from Honda's simple system on the Insight and Civic hybrids. Accord uses two electric motors and a single-speed transmission, teamed with a 2-liter gas four-cylinder unique to the Accord hybrid.
It always uses electric power to get rolling and for most low-speed driving (below 45 mph). Electric motors are torque monsters, so they don't need the help from low-transmission gearing that gasoline engines require to jump and run.
If the drain on the battery is too much, the gasoline engine kicks in to run a generator.
At about 45 mph, Accord's gas engine takes over and begins directly driving the wheels. Gas engines are more suited to high speed.
It worked like magic in the test car, which Honda says is representative of how regular production models will feel. Stunningly quiet. No shudders, shakes, shimmies; no intrusion of any kind as the hybrid system moved between gas and electric power. Not "almost none." Absolutely none.
And the electric motor's low-speed punch made the Accord frisky and fun. It also seemed to handle better despite the extra weight of the hybrid's battery pack.
The car surrenders roughly half its trunk to batteries, though. And it will come only as a single, well-equipped model, so is certain to be high-priced by Accord standards.
Still, it strikes us as worth waiting to try the Accord plug-in before making a decision on which midsize sedan to put into your garage. Never mind the eco-benefits. The plug-in Accord is just so sweet to drive.
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Not Bad / Variety Pack
49% Backcountry, 2% Park, 49% Street
Riders: Alex Andrews, Ben Hanisch, Trevor Rhoda, Max Honegger, Gulli Gudmundsson, Sean Black, Jed Anderson, Chris Grenier, Bode Merrill, JP Tomich, Knut Eliassen, Brandon Hammid, Ben Farrell, Ted Borland, Mac Spedale, Clint Allan, Andrew Burns, Mark Sollors, Cam Pierce, & Matt Belzile
Production Crew:
Directed & Edited by Eddie Grams
Filmed by Eddie Grams & Hayden Rensch with help from Mark Dangler & the other Cole Taylor.
One word to sum up the season:
Two riders to watch out for:
Matt Belzile
Alex Andrews
Three obstacles or low points during the year:
Running out of budget money in February. Seized, broken, & rolled sleds. The Utah bust-factor.
Four highlights from the year:
Cam filming his part in 10 days (8 rails, 1 day at Park City, 1 day doubled 16 miles into the backcountry).
Sollors filming his backcountry in 4 days.
Brandon being in the Air Force & still getting 85 shots.
being AbLe to not have to work with peopLe who steal Your money & screw your riders out of their rightful incentives.
Five reasons why this movie will get the viewer stoked:
There won't be a let-down until the black screen at the end, but it's okay because you can just start it over.
The dance party is dead.
You get to know who the riders are without s#!tty voiceovers.
If Knut's part doesn't make you want to snowboard it's time for a new hobby.
At $19.99 for a dvd & $5.99 for a download it is the least expensive on the market while still living up to both the crew name AND video name, guaranteed!


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When outsourcing computations to the cloud or other
third-parties, a key issue for clients is the ability to
verify the results. Recent work in proof-based verifiable
computation, building on deep results in complexity theory
and cryptography, has made significant progress on this
problem. However, all existing systems require computational
models that do not incorporate state. This limits these
systems to simplistic programming idioms and rules out
computations where the client cannot materialize all of the
input (e.g., very large MapReduce instances or database
This paper describes Pantry, the first built system that
incorporates state. Pantry composes the machinery of
proof-based verifiable computation with ideas from untrusted
storage: the client expresses its computation in terms of
digests that attests to state, and verifiably outsources
that computation. Besides the boon to expressiveness, the
client can gain from outsourcing even when the computation
is sublinear in the input size. We describe a verifiable
MapReduce application and a queriable database, among other
simple applications. Although the resulting applications
result in server overhead that is higher than we would like,
Pantry is the first system to provide verifiability for
realistic applications in a realistic programming model.


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Join Together: A national technical assistance project for substance-abuse initiatives, 1996-99
This grant provides continued support for the ground-breaking work that Join Together has done to expand the capacity of communities to reduce the harm caused by substance abuse. As the university-based arm of the Community Initiatives strategy, the activities will reinforce the set of roles Join Together has come to play nationally as an analytic, tool development, and monitoring resource, and will test the viability of additional new approaches to build the capacity of community efforts. Join Together provides technical assistance to communities across the country that seek to reduce the use of illegal drugs and alcohol and the harm caused by these substances. They work at the national level to move policy discussions concerning community-based substance abuse prevention and treatment to a higher level.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $5,499,212.00
Awarded on: 7/27/1995
Time frame: 6/1/1996 - 5/31/1999
Grant Number: 26942
Boston University School of Public Health
Talbot Building
715 Albany Street
Boston, 02118-2526
David L. Rosenbloom
Project Director


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http://www.cagewarriors.com/page.asp?ID=1709The Cage Warriors Fighting Championships Return To Sheffield
As was previously mentioned here the Cage Warriors Quest show which was originally scheduled for July has been cancelled. The Cage Warriors Management team would like to apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused and hope to make amends in September, when they return to Sheffield with a brand new show.
This show (Which is currently untitled) will be run by the Coventry based Warrior Promotions team who promote the successful Cage Warriors Strike Force series in Coventry. However the show will still take place at the Octagon Centre in Sheffield and like the new Cage Warriors show in Portsmouth, it will feature an 11 bout fight card consisting of MMA and Cage Kickboxing action.
Cage Warriors hopes this new show will also emulate the success of the previous Cage Warriors Quest series' by giving up-and-coming talent a chance to showcase their skills inside the cage.
Cage Warriors hopes this move will renew interest in the Cage Warriors brand in the Yorkshire region and help to promote the growth of both the fighters and the sport in the area.
If you are interested in fighting on this and other Cage Warriors shows please contact Ian Dean at email@example.com and we will get back to you.
Ticket details and fight card information will follow within the next few weeks as the Warrior Promotions team start to prepare the groundwork for this exciting new show. Stay logged on to www.cagewarriors.com for more details
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Luxury apparel operator Michael Kors (NYSE:KORS) came public about a year ago at $20 and quickly racked up some nice gains. By the summer, the stock price reached about $53 to $54.
The problem: It seems to be stuck now. But that could be giving investors an opportunity to pick up KORS shares. Let's see if that's so.
Michael Kors, who started his company over 30 years ago, is a fashion genius. But he was also smart to bring in a hotshot CEO to run the company, John Idol (who was at the helm of Donna Karan from 1997 to 2001). He has expanded Kors' distribution footprint with a multi-format strategy, which include collection stores, lifestyle stores and outlet stores.
There are also in-store locations, with partners like Saks Fifth Avenue (NYSE:SKS), Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and Macy's (NYSE:M).
Idol has built a thriving licensing business as well. You can find the Kors brand on products like watches, eyewear and fragrances.
The moves have paid off. In the latest quarter, revenues soared by 74% to $532.9 million and operating earnings came to $157.9 million. Keep in mind that the growth rate in the same period a year ago was 58.3%. In other words, Kors has somehow been able to accelerate its ramp.
It's true that the uncertainty in the global economy could be a drag. Just look at Tiffany (NYSE:TIF). The high-end retailer's stock is off by 7% today because of a disappointing earnings report.
Yet Kors is likely to remain immune from such troubles. The fact is it has became a global luxury brand that has attracted celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum, Blake Lively, Penelope Cruz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Let's face it, many wealthy people who have money to spend seem to view Kors as a great choice. So, with the Christmas season in full gear, the company looks positioned for continue growth — and that could get the stock price out of its rut.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He is also the author of "High-Profit IPO Strategies: Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders" and "How to Create the Next Facebook." Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Instead, she's focusing on the architectural details that inspired editors at Look Magazine to splash the dwelling on a 1962 cover and proclaim it The House of Tomorrow.
"It's been like pulling teeth to get Elvis to leave the building," Ramstead says with a laugh, as she points out peanut-brittle stone walls, a free-standing conical fireplace, terrazzo floors and other features that make the place an icon of swinging '60s modernism.
The Elvis connection (he leased it for a year in 1966 and honeymooned here in 1967) still gets top billing. But increasingly, visitors are drawn to the house as a hallmark of mid-century modern architecture, a style that shaped Palm Springs from the 1940s to the '60s.
A revived interest in that sleek, bold style has brought new vitality to this desert resort city of 45,000, once considered God's waiting room. Now, after years of languishing touristically, Palm Springs is heating up with a passel of re-invented lodgings and new restaurants that are drawing a younger, hipper crowd.
"We've played on the past for so long," says Mark Bellinger, head of the local tourism bureau. "Now we want to go after a younger demographic."
So it's a bit ironic that what's attracting that younger demographic is, in many cases, a retro style exuberantly showcased in a growing number of lodgings.
The latest entry to the market is the 163-room Hotel Zoso, which opened Thursday. The former Pepto Bismol-pink conference resort that had sat vacant and forlorn in the center of town has been reborn as a chocolate-brown, uncluttered modern space with faux snakeskin lounges, a backlit onyx bar and high-tech trappings.
Hotels get a glam makeover
Last year, the Parker Palm Springs opened after a $27 million makeover that blends high design with tongue-in-cheek humor. Personality wise, the former Merv Griffin Givenchy Spa and Resort couldn't be further from its new image than geriatric diva Zsa Zsa Gabor is from punk bad girl Courtney Love. Pottery-artist-turned-interior-designer Jonathan Adler turned the former hotel's over-the-top ornateness on its head, creating a lobby/lounge space that evokes the home of a well-traveled and wholly eccentric aunt. Outside, the hotel's 13 acres of formal gardens have been replaced by desert flora.
A decidedly non-Zen, 16,500-square-foot spa dubbed the Palm Springs Yacht Club (PSYC for short) opened in October. Among its credos: We believe you are only young once ... but can be immature forever.
The Viceroy Palm Springs, whose bungalows housed Clark Gable and Carol Lombard back when it was the Estrella Inn, has re-emerged in high-glam Hollywood regency style. And at dozens of small hotels, such as the Orbit In and the Movie Colony Hotel, hipsters with a taste for Eames-style chairs and blond-wood furniture gather poolside for cocktail hour.
'Dramatic change'
Beyond the spate of hotel makeovers are other developments designed to attract a crowd, including a striking copper and stone addition to the city's convention center. In January, Cirque du Soleil-style performances debut in a new tented pavilion in the heart of downtown. And new shops are gradually moving into formerly shuttered storefronts on North Palm Canyon Drive.
The dining scene is looking up, too, with a handful of chef-owned restaurants opening in the past two years.
"It was horrendous five years ago," says Jeff Hocker, a local marketing expert. "It was mostly steak and martini places and hadn't really changed since the 1940s. But there's been a dramatic change."
Still, in its current incarnation, Palm Springs is more about ambience and attitude than activity. Committed golfers hole up in the newer "down valley" resort communities of Palm Desert, Indian Wells and Rancho Mirage, which in recent times eclipsed this city as a retreat for wealthy retirees and tourists alike.
Here, however, visitors lounge around the swimming pools that are the crown jewel of every hotel, whether it has nine rooms or 90. They linger at outdoor cafes along Palm Canyon Drive, the main drag of the compact, pedestrian-friendly downtown. Or wander through art galleries and shops specializing in mid-century modern furniture and accessories.
It wasn't always this way. With its spectacular setting in the shadows of the San Jacinto Mountains, dry sunny weather, natural mineral springs and proximity to Los Angeles two hours away, the area became a retreat for the Hollywood glamour set as early as the 1920s and '30s. Cocktail culture was in full swing in the '50s and '60s with celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin lounging by the pool, along with wealthy Easterners and Midwesterners and a growing middle class.
But in the 1970s and '80s, the city had reached a nadir in the boom-and-bust cycle experienced by some resorts areas. Economic doldrums prompted an exodus, and some who stayed couldn't afford to maintain their homes. The moneyed set moved to newer resort communities in the Coachella Valley. And much of Palm Springs proper "was becoming a ghost town," says Robert Imber, who operates Palm Springs Modern Tours. "All this architecture was left to decay until it was rediscovered in the late '80s and early '90s."
Hundreds of atomic-era gems were constructed between the 1940s to 1960s by modernist architects including Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, Donald Wexler, William F. Cody and E. Stewart Williams. They put their stamp on the city with hundreds of sleek, rectilinear buildings of glass, steel, aluminum and concrete.
In the past decade, the city blossomed as a modernist mecca when buyers came seeking homes built in the post-World War II boom years by the father-son team of George and Robert Alexander. The duo constructed upwards of 2,500 homes (including what came to be known as the Elvis Honeymoon House) that were marked by wood post-and-beam construction, open floor plans and floor-to-ceiling windows that brought the outdoors in.
That interest sparked a mini tourism boom, says Jay Ramstead, co-founder of the town's small hotel association. "Half the clientele weren't necessarily coming to experience Palm Springs. They were here to hook up with real estate agents. And that interest in housing has helped fuel the hospitality industry."
Indeed, investors began buying up long-neglected small hotels, (many of which had been converted to apartments), attracting a youthful clientele with an appreciation for irony, as well as older baby boomers with a nostalgia for mid-century modern trappings.
"A lot of people are comfortable with this style," says Ramstead. "Somewhere in their past is one of those pink-tiled bathrooms."
But while the architectural movement certainly spurred Palm Spring's renaissance, some, including Ramstead, wonder if the intense interest in it has peaked.
"There's less slavish devotion to modernism," says Ramstead. "I think what's unique about Palm Springs is that it's a city that's on the brink of finding itself. Nobody really knows what it is yet, but they're about to find out."
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle French nullité, from Medieval Latin nullitalis, from Latin nullus
nullity (countable and uncountable, plural nullities)
- The state of being null, or void, or invalid.
- nullity of marriage
- (law) A void act; a defective proceeding or one expressly declared by statute to be a nullity.
- (mathematics) The difference between the rank of a matrix and the number of columns it has; the dimension of the nullspace of a matrix.


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Welcome to the Biology Graduate Program at Western! New students are encouraged to introduce themselves to the departmental office staff, to Carol Curtis (Graduate Program Coordinator), and to Dr. Beth MacDougall-Shackleton (Graduate Chair).
Please also familiarize yourself with your program requirements as outlined in the Graduate Handbook.
Students seeking help regarding mental health concerns are advised to speak to someone they feel comfortable confiding in, such as their faculty supervisor, their program director (graduate chair), or other relevant administrators in their unit. Campus mental health resources may be found at http://www.health.uwo.ca/mental_health/resources.html. Departmental health and safety resources can be found here.


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Featured Trees
Tree Location
Additional Feature Photos
Dawn Redwood
Kentucky Coffeetree
Ornamental Pear
Blue Beech
Northern Catalpa
American Yellowwood
River Birch
Red Pine
Japanese Tree Lilac
Quaking Aspen
Tulip Tree
Eastern Redbud
Eastern White Pine
Amur Maackia
Autumn Purple Ash
Crabapple 'Donald Wyman'
Princess Kay Canadian Plum
Ruby Red Horsechestnut
Black Locust 'Purple Robe'
Northern Pin Oak
Freeman Maple
Black Alder
Littleleaf Linden
Balsam Fir
Norway Spruce 'Acrocona'
Trees Company
(Abies balsamea)
The Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) is a very hearty evergreen found throughout the lakes region of the upper Midwest, and Winona State has proudly placed several of these trees on campus.
The Balsam Fir is extremely fragrant and has an attractive, symmetrically pyramidal growth pattern. Both of these characteristics make it a popular choice for Christmas trees.
Balsam Fir can be identified by their flat, dark-green needles, which have white, silvery bands of stomata on the underside. The branchlets of the soft Balsam Fir needles are springy and in days gone by were used in mattresses and pillows for lumbermen and campers in the northern woods providing comfortable and aromatic rest.
The fruit of the Balsam Fir is a dark violet cone when young and grows to a 2 to 4 inch long gray-brown cone when mature.
The bark of all but the very oldest Balsam Fir trees has blisters containing aromatic resin. Interestingly, this resin is so pure and transparent, it can be used for cementing microscope lenses and mounting microscopic specimens in laboratory experiments. Unfortunately, the resin is highly flammable and in a forest fire can quickly lead to the demise of the tree.
The Balsam Fir prefers moist locations and rarely grows to be taller than 75 feet.
A group of Balsam Fir can be found on the east side of Winona State University's Performing Arts Center.
(see #78 on the maps)
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Hat-trick hero Lee Cook predicts Conference teams are "going to struggle" to deal with Barnet after the Bees displayed their footballing credentials in a 4-0 win over Dartford.
John Akinde put the Bees ahead shortly before half-time and after the break, Cook's treble was no less than the hosts deserved as they controlled proceedings from start to finish.
And Cook, who now has five goals in as many outings, believes the Bees have laid down a marker after a thoroughly-convincing display.
"When I woke up this morning and it was coming down quite heavily, I thought that would suit us because the pitch once the pitch is slick and wet, we can pass the ball better," explained the winger.
"I thought it worked in our favour, it just took us a little while to get going as we were dropping off a bit deep in the first half and you could see it from the stand and the gaffer sorted that out at half-time.
The 32-year-old continued: "Once we got the ball passing and knocking it about, they couldn't really deal with us, so I think a lot of teams are going to struggle when they come here and we start passing it like that."
Cook's hat-trick – the first of his career – means he is now the second-highest scorer in the Conference and the highest at The Hive. Ever the perfectionist, the former Fulham wideman is now looking to boost his assists tally, though.
He explained: I'm usually setting them up. I've only got one assist this year but I'm knocking the goals in, so I'm pleased.
"I spoke to John (Akinde) in the changing room after and said: 'You've got more assists than me and I'm not happy about that.' I've got more goals than him, so we need to switch that around a bit.
"As long as the goals are coming in, no matter where they're coming from, [it doesn't matter]. The defence is doing their bit and as long as they're doing their bit, we're going to score with the quality we've got," added Cook.
After starting the Bees' first four Conference fixtures, Cook was rested for the first time against the Darts, dropping down to the bench for the opening 45 minutes.
However, the winger had no qualms about head coach Martin Allen's decision and felt the benefit of a brief break.
"We had a chat about it last week," revealed Cook. "Two games in three days, for me that's a little bit difficult at this stage of the season, so we had a little talk about it. I think it worked, I felt a lot fresher coming off the bench for the second half and I'm going to feel a lot better next Saturday now.
"All in all, it's been a good Bank Holiday for us with the two wins. Certain players got rested at certain times; Charlie (MacDonald) has come off today, so he'll be nice and fresh for the weekend. He's managed the team well over the two games."


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BRISTOL, Conn. — Once Skeet Reese captured his first Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year title, it was inevitable that he would be put through what ESPN employees lovingly call "the car wash." That meant a morning stop to gab on "Mike & Mike," a live chat on ESPN.com, an interview on ESPNEWS Network — and, shortly after noon, an on-camera interview with ESPNOutdoors.com.
While an edited video of that interview is available on ESPNOutdoors.com, we include here a full transcript of the conversation, in which Reese touches on puberty, Hummer rims, crying in public and his retirement plans.
ESPNOutdoors.com: I read the story about catching your limit, and you knew that you had won Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year. Take us through that math. When did you let yourself believe that you had actually pulled it off?
Skeet Reese: I realized I had won the tournament on my fourth fish. I knew that if I had 4 to 5 pounds, mathematically I'd finish 40th place or higher. No matter if Kevin [VanDam] led the third day and won, I still had Angler of the Year. So I figured 4 to 5 pounds, I did my job.
I pulled up on my first spot first thing in the morning. I caught two small keepers, and I was like, 'OK, I've got two in the boat, I'm halfway there.' I left there, made an adjustment. At 8:30 I pulled up on a spot; 8:31, the second cast I made, I hooked my third fish. I got that in the boat and I knew I was really, really close. Put the fish in the live well, stood up and made my next cast. I caught my fourth fish, I put that in the boat, and I knew that that was it. It was lights out.
I don't even know how to explain it. This rush of emotion just flooded out of me. There were spectator boats all around me. I just had tears pouring out of my eyes. I knew I accomplished my career dream. I don't know what else to say, it was the most incredible feeling ever.
Were you afraid that to that point, your biggest accomplishment would be a second-place finish at the Classic this year?
I never predict anything in fishing, because you can't. You don't know what kind of event you're going to have. Was I pleased to have a second place at the Classic? Yes and no. It was a little bitter because I knew I had a good opportunity to win. Boyd caught a 6-pounder — my hat's off to him — in the last couple of minutes, even though it's the ugliest fish I've seen caught in the history of bass fishing, how he caught it.
But there was some satisfaction knowing that I had a good event. Did I know that was going to lead into the season I've had? Absolutely not. I take one tournament at a time. I'm not one to look back at what I've done in the past. I'm the type of person that looks at where I'm at now, what am I doing today and what have I got tomorrow. I think that's allowed me always to focus on the next event and not reminisce on the past.
I think the first time anyone started the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year talk was at Clear Lake, when BASS emcee Keith Alan said, You may lose this event, when you have over 110 pounds, which would have been the record to that point, but how does Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year sound? That seemed a little premature at the time, but you were doing pretty well to that point.
I was doing pretty well at that point. I think a lot of people predicted that after Lake Amistad, where I finished in the top 10 there, that we're going to have a West Coast swing. A lot of guys predicted that I would do well and that I would be a factor in the Angler of the Year for the fact that there was going to be two events on my home bodies of water. I went in there with hopes of having a good tournament, both on the Delta and at Clear Lake. And to come out with a fourth and a second, yeah, I had a pretty good month.
And Keith, yeah, he did say that if I did have a second-place finish that I had to be disappointed, but it was good toward Angler of the Year points — would I take that for Angler of the Year? And, absolutely, I said I would take second-place finishes all year long if I could have Angler of the Year. And it seemed like I had my share of second-place finishes. (Laughter.)
You had two tournaments in which you were uncharacteristically off: Guntersville and Grand Lake. Grand Lake is when Kevin VanDam took the lead in the Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year points. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't your roommate, John Murray, say to you at that point, Now nobody expects you to win it, so you should go out and win it.
There's so much to talk about here. Yeah, Grand Lake, I was down and out. I feel like I blew it at that point in time and I let Kevin take the lead. I was hoping not to have a series of bad events after that. I also got a little frustrated that nobody gave me any respect, from the media standpoint, of being a legitimate player in the Angler of the Year race.
It's almighty Kevin this, and almighty Kevin that — which, I give my props to Kevin. Kevin's got a great track record. But I've also got to look at my track record over the last five years, and I don't think it was until Potomac River that a lot of fans and the media looked at my track record of what I've done head-to-head against Kevin the last few years. He's got me beat by a little bit, but not a lot.
So I was thinking, Everyone's thinking Kevin's got this thing locked up. I'm like, 'Guys, I'm not a slouch out here. I've done pretty good.' Once we got to Potomac River, and I won, everyone was like, 'Let's give him props.'
But before Potomac, we were going north, that's when everybody said, this is VanDam's territory, he's going to catch 20 pounds of smallmouth a day, and that was going to be lights out for the California guy.
Kevin took the lead after Grand Lake. And a lot of people thought going north to Lake Champlain and Lake Erie that we're going to Kevin's stomping grounds. Which I expect him to have good events. But I also felt confident going to Lake Champlain. I look at what I've done there in a couple of events — I've done very well there. It's a fishery that fits my style. So I felt like I could go up there and possibly have a solid finish also.
And I did. I got a second, I beat Kevin. Then the next week, we go over to Erie, which is a pure smallmouth fishery, and I was able to beat him there, too. I think that shocked a lot of people, and I think that opened a lot of eyes up: 'We really do have a horse race here.' So going to Potomac, for me to win Potomac, some people felt it was check mate.
Did you feel that way?
No, because I knew what kind of lead I had on Kevin going into Grand Lake. I had a 113 point lead over Kevin going into that event. He won, lead a couple of days, I bombed, he pulled ahead of me by 40 or 60 points, a pretty big margin. So I knew what kind of points swing you could have in one event. I felt like if I could just have a decent finish in Florida, it'd be done.
Was there one day or one decision this year that you wouldn't have made in the past, that was part of your maturation? Any time when you really thought, this was going to be it for you, this was going to be your year?
It happened several times. It felt like Lake Champlain was definitely the turning point. For me to make the final cut, and to figure a school of fish out there, it was like, things are happening for a reason. No matter how stressed out I got, no matter how down-and-out I was because I couldn't get on them in practice, I managed to stumble onto something.
Lake Erie, I wasn't on much there, either. I stumble on a big school of fish, pull out a top-15 finish there. Potomac River. I had nothing in practice. I had nothing in practice. I had four bites in desperation, going back to where I caught them last year, with no expectation of fishing there. To catch 20 pounds the first day — I didn't feel like I should have caught 20 pounds. And when I did, I was thinking, 'There's something meant to be, here. Something is clicking.' I felt like it was my time.
That was a refrain for you all year: 'I'm not on them. I'm not on them in practice.'
(Laughter.) And that's so true.
Ish Monroe asked me to ask you, were you sandbagging all year, or did you just stumble on fish?
You can ask my roommate, John Murray. I did not sandbag. I'm not a sandbagger. If I'm not on them, I'm not on them. I might figure out a few fish. And I absolutely, hands down, had some horrible practices this year. The two best practices I had were Clear Lake and Grand Lake. Clear Lake, I pull out a second. Grand Lake, I finish the worst tournament of the season.
The other tournaments where I did really well were tournaments where I adjusted and I figured out as the tournament progressed. If you look at a lot of my events this year, I started out down, and I kept working up the standings and getting into final cuts day by day, because I kept adapting and figuring them out as the week went. So, no sandbagging, Ish.
Are you a better angler than you have been in years past? Or was this just the year the points worked out the way they did?
I feel like I'm a better angler now than I've ever been. Fishing on the BASS Elite Series, it elevates your game, because you're competing against the best of the best. I feel like I've got 24 years of tournament fishing knowledge behind me, to help me make better decisions. I'm older, I'm wiser, and I don't make stupid decisions as much any more. (Laughter.)
I still make bad decisions, but I feel like the years of experience have finally caught up to — how do I put this? I'm able to process information because I'm older, smarter, wiser. Because I've gotten older and make better judgment calls, I'm able to utilize that with all the skills that I've gained over the years.
I think athletes reach their peak in their 30s. As a 20-year-old, from an athletic standpoint, they've got everything. They don't have the head game. And tournament fishing really is a head game.
There's two types of puberty. There's puberty when you get [body] hair when you're a teenager. But there's also a second puberty in life, when you start understanding life and yourself as a person, and you can incorporate that, and that happens when you're in your 30s. Psychologically, you become a mentally strong person in your 30s, and you can combine that with the athletic skill, because you're still able to do all that stuff a 20-year-old can do. But now, psychologically, you're a much stronger person.
So I feel athletes peak in their 30s. Once you get to 40 and up, you're screwed.
Are you going to be able to keep it up? You're what, 37?
Thirty-eight! I've got two more years! Oh, man!
After having gone through it this year, what do you think it's going to take, as you get older, to maintain that level?
One thing that I do to help myself physically a
d mentally is, in the off-season, I train hard. I run, I exercise, and I think that's making a bigger difference now for the athletes on tour. To survive on the BASS tour now, with 11 events? It's not easy. And if you don't take care of yourself physically, I don't know how you can maintain.
So for me personally, I train heavily in the off-season, which I think will help give me a few more good years. But I look at it, I've probably got about five years left in me where I can truly stay competitive on the tour. After that? I don't know. I don't want to be to be the one sitting out here when I'm 60-years-old, trying to compete against 20-year-old guys, 30-year-old guys who are kicking my butt week in and week out. I want to go travel the world and have fun.
You talked about a psychological development. What part of that is emotional? Are there things that you would have done this year, and you would have reacted to in the past that would have hurt you? Or were there times this year when your emotions did get the best of you?
Well, yeah. I think we all deal with internal demons of some sort. I had to fight myself all year long, in learning how to deal with those emotions and make adjustments to those emotions. I've had a lot of bad practices to where the fish weren't where I wanted them to be, or where I thought they'd be. They didn't eat the baits that I thought they'd want to eat, or I wanted them to eat. I was constantly having to push myself further than I had before to make adjustments to find areas where I could catch them.
From a work ethic, I had to push myself harder this year than I ever have. I always used to be pretty lazy in practice days. I would just get a little something, feed off that, and I'd turn it into a top 10. But those practices where I didn't find anything this season? I would have to make adjustments that I didn't want to make. Meaning a completely different technique or a completely different section of the lake.
I fought myself this season, but that's one of the things that 20-years-plus has allowed me to do, to look back at my mistakes and be able to have that knowledge to make adjustments on now.
Tournament fishing is all psych. Skillwise, we're all good out there. It's how you process the information and utilize what you know to the best of your ability. And the best of my ability was the best in the bass world this year.
What's it like being king of the bass world right now?
I like being king! I want to be king forever! (Laughter.) It's rewarding, it's relieving, it's satisfying. And I've said it before, winning a tournament, I think, validates a season. For me, personally, winning Angler of the Year validates a career. Because no matter what happens the rest of my career, I can always say, I was the best of the best. Not just one tournament, but all season long against the best fishermen in the country, and that means a lot.
I understand, too, that you recently bought a Hummer H2 with 30-inch rims.
(Laughter.) Oh, yeah.
Now that you've got $125,000 for winning Angler of the Year, can you afford a spare tire for this?
Yeah, that's coming from Ish. Let's see. Ish bought the cheap 30-inch wheels. He could buy a spare fifth wheel for his, because his cost so much less than mine. So. No, I have a new toy in mind.
What's that?
I don't want to say it on camera.
Well does it fly? Does it swim?
No. It'll fly on the road. I want a Lamborghini.
Wow. Save up. Pinch pennies. That's about all I've got, unless you just want to say something.
I want to thank BASS. I want to thank all my sponsors. It was an incredible year, and I think we're all looking forward to utilizing my title and my relationship with the fans, the sponsors, the organization, to help elevate the sport this year. I'm glad I'm the spokesperson. I hope I get to represent everybody well and the sport well. It's going to be a lot of work. It's going to be a long journey, but it's one I've been looking forward to my whole life.
One more thing I will ask. If you could now win a Classic or another Angler of the Year title, which would you pick?
Well, somebody asked me that the other day. My number one goal always was Angler of the Year. Number two goal was a Bassmaster Classic. Well, I've accomplished Angler of the Year, so I think my new number one goal will be to obtain a Classic title. There's not too many people that have both titles, so I'd like to have both.


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PUTC Interview with Chris Brewer, Ford Explorer Sport Trac Chief Engineer
Chris Brewer is the chief engineer for Explorer and Explorer Sport Trac programs. He sat down with Mike Magda to discuss the challenges and strategies associated with designing the two vehicles side-by-side:
PickupTruck.com: Speaking strictly from an engineer's view, were there any compromises made on the new Sport Trac that concerned your group?
Chris Brewer: No. We had the flexibility to do all the things we thought we needed to do. We wouldn't have a Sport Trac if we didn't have the 4-door Explorer, and it gave us the platform we needed to do what we feel is a really fabulous Sport Trac.
PUTC: Ford skipped a generation of the Explorer when offering the Sport Trac, so the differences between the old and new Sport Trac are dramatic. How did that thought play into any engineering or marketing plans?
Brewer: It's so much easier to demonstrate why the new Sport Trac is clearly head and shoulders better than the old Sport Trac. A large part of our future customers will be people who bought the prior Sport Trac. And we think these prior customers will say this is everything I expected it to be and more. It's really a no-compromise product compared to the previous generation and what the new generation needs to be.
PUTC: Given the bad publicity from the previous generation, was that an underlying motivation in giving this vehicle just about every feature available?
Brewer: I wouldn't say it's a major motivating factor but you always want to provide a better product to your customer. The 4-door Explorer has also gotten publicity in terms of how safe is it. Quite frankly, we think it's one of the safest products we've ever built and the 2006 Explorer is even safer than the prior model. The new Sport Trac is based off the 4-door Explorer. We deliberately rolled across the all the goodness of the 4-door Explorer in terms of safety technology to ensure next generation Sport Trac customer got everything we had to offer.
PUTC: Ford has been very aggressive on reducing noise in all trucks. But that improvement sometimes comes with a weight penalty. How did you balance weight with the demands of better fuel economy?
Brewer: Fuel economy is a tough element to address. We've got comparable fuel economy to the prior Sport Trac, but the vehicle is heavier because we have a dramatically stiffer frame. That gives a lot of the goodness we've been talking about. It enables us to make the vehicle quieter yet handle better and meet crash requirements. Let me put it in perspective. Weight matters in terms of fuel economy and a lot of other things as well. As we get smarter about milking a little more out of the engine, more out of the transmission, we then have an opportunity to spend a little bit of weight on things that customers find value in. The beauty of reducing noise is that every person in the vehicle appreciates it, not just the driver.
PUTC: The first Sport Trac was pretty much entry level and affordable ($21,910 MSRP for 4x2 in 2001, including destination). The new Sport Trac has so many features that are standard. Was there any consideration of a bare-bones model to get the price point down?
Brewer: The good news is the starting price for the 2007 Sport Trac is the 2005 Sport Trac: $24,940 (including destination). Yet, you're right. We are offering a lot more feature content, including IRS, side air bags, roll-stability control. If we were to price those, represent several hundred dollars worth of content. So we think we have a great value story. So we don't think we have the need to decontent the vehicle to make it more affordable.
PUTC: Sport Trac has a high percentage of female buyers. How did that figure into your engineering plans?
Brewer: We love all our buyers. When the 2001 Sport Trac came out, it was one of the better riding, quieter, more stylish looking vehicles in the compact pickup market. There weren't a lot of compact 4-door pickups at that point. There are a lot more now so you have to be that much better to stand out from the crowd. From an appearance prospective, we've built on the strengths of the prior product and done even better. Because the vehicle looks good, is comfortable to drive and isn't too large, that appeals to a lot of women.
PUTC: But when you were setting up the original parameters for suspension tuning, was there a consideration to lean towards a Lincoln-Mercury spec instead of a Ford spec to appeal more to women?
Brewer: We don't have a bias in terms of Lincoln-Mercury wants this or Ford wants that. We do for Lincoln products but this is clearly a Ford product. It's possible a Mercury branded product would want to be turned different but we don't see that happening with Sport Trac right now.
PUTC: With the increased popularity of compact crew cab pickups, was there a consideration of building a unibody Sport Trac to be special and different?
Brewer: We didn't entertain it and the reason why is that the versatility of body-on-frame construction gives you true truck attributes that you can't get with unibody. You can't tow the same weight and can't get the same rugged durability. You can't put a full load in it, beat the heck out of it and still provide the level of refinement. Body on frame has got an inherent advantage over unibody in that you have an extra level of isolation between the body and chassis. The last part is, to do a unibody and do a pickup is a tough challenge. You have to join the box, which wants to be independent. You need to put some significant buttressing behind the rear door and the box. It can be done but you end up with some appearance compromises that we weren't willing to make. The product we're coming out with is very visually appealing yet can function as a personal use truck.
PUTC: Now that SVT has shelved plans for the Andrenalin Sport Trac, does that open up opportunities for you to offer special editions as a mid-cycle enhancement?
Brewer: We're never going to rule anything out. We are looking hard at some of the key bits of hardware that SVT was looking at and we may do something with that in the future. We're not supposed to talk about future product, so we're looking at what they were doing because they're pretty smart guys.
PUTC: But one could say there's a need now for someone to step up and so something special with the Sport Trac.
Brewer: And I agree it's something we do look hard at. The good news is we have a V8 engine for the first time. It's not quite as juiced up as an SVT version would be, but I want to say a V8 will stave off the mid-life crisis for a little bit longer than otherwise. The SVT guys certainly have a lot of good ideas and if there's something we can take advantage of we'll look at it.
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PFFFFt, luck 7? see my character get thrown out of all of the casinos in less than half an hour because of my 10 points of luck.
Then you wasted 3 points of luck, I'd say.
Played Renegade Ops for a bit now. The game looks to be really nice, had fun shooting everything, plenty of things blow up in a satisfying manner, all in all I really like it, except... Except for the bloody controls. I mean how difficult can it be? You use a key to move the vehicle forward, two others to turn it left or right and an additional one to go backwards. That's it, why is that so hard?
Renegade ops belongs to the "Xbox 360 pad or death" group.
Playing this,even first enemy you encounter in game can tear you apart like little kitten.
X3: Reunion. Good grief was it daunting for someone who's never played an X game.
Doesn't help that the way it was described on here during the Steam sale made it sound like a completely different game.
Really enjoying it now thought, but I suspect it will take more time to master than I can really give it. By the time I get around to X3:TC, X4 will probably be out.
Oh, I wish I had the entrepreneurial skills to start a trade empire in real life
...and a space ship, of course.
Fucking piece of shit,i just spent an hour playing as Tukaram (Thats the barbarian character) and i accomplished nothing,got killed several times..I can avoid perfectly fine but when attacking its like missing every damn hit.. Gonna go back to knight,at least with him i can normally play :(
Me,dying,like a boss.
Bro Tip: Buy a Logitech Gamepad F310.
The gamepad has the same buttons as the xbox360 controller and every game that supports 360 controllers sees them as 360 controllers and even lists the buttons on screen as YBXA and trigger buttons.
I've been playing Darksiders 2 , and despite its ...not-so-good port to the PC I find it very enjoyable , sure the textures are ugly and camera sometimes simply refuses to co-operate but its an overall good experience . The design of the environments and enemies is amazing . They've greatly improved on the freedom of the game , theres a greater level of customization , you can change your gear and talents and you have huge areas you can freely explore while riding on your , surprisingly, well controlled mount. And of course the combat feels great, its smooth , its fluid and most importantly its precise.
I feel like they've greatly improved on the original game , and if you liked the frist one , or games similar to it (Zelda , Prince of Persia) you will undoubtably enjoy Vigils latest creation.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men: The parts are in place for a great game here. The missions seem varied (rob a bank, stage a prison riot, lead an army), Kane and Lynch are solid characters, and some of the setpieces are fantastic... But the entire game just boils down to shooting people, and therein lies the problem. Your AI buddies are nincompoops, the guns feel terrible and rarely shoot precisely, and the cover system is nigh-on broken. I can see how co-op might improve the experience, but I wouldn't really want to force any of my friends to play through it.
Edit: Guess I just beat it. I chose the "traitorous bastard" ending because the other one looked like it would involve more shooting. This game had terrible checkpoints.
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I just finished Binary Domain last night.
I must say that it was a nice ride. The first hour is tedious, character writing is awful with the two pals being standard silly macho grunts. But it gets a more interesting and even if the 'romance' and 'plot' are no better than a summer action movie blockbuster, it keeps you entertained till the end. I liked the design of some places too.
Now I want a game with Cain as the main character...
Next, back to Grimrock I guess.
Just finished Thief Gold. I played it years ago, but gave up half way through back then. Its last few levels are definitely its weakest, but overall I'm glad I played it.
Anyhow, the most surprising thing about it, the thing that I didn't remember at all, is that at its core it's really not a stealth game. Sure there's stealth stuff, but that's not the game's main appeal nor is it what keeps you hooked for hours on end. Instead, it's really more a "find your way around huge ass intricately designed levels without a map" game than it is a stealth game. So, I guess you could call it a "navigation" game, maybe? I mean, all in all I'd say that for me the game was 70% navigation and maybe 30% stealth.
But I don't say that as a criticism (even though it might sound like one) as I also (re)discovered that Thief has some of the best level design of any game EVER. So even if most of your work in the game will involve just trying to find your way around, rarely is "navigation" so much fun and as rewarding as in Thief (like, I'd feel like a genius once I finally stumbled onto hidden objectives after searching and following clues). I'd say that I wished more modern games would do away with quest markers and super detailed maps, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if they did all this would do is expose how awful and uninspired level design has become in the past decade.
In fact, in the modern era while there are still "stealth" games, I think unfortunately the "navigation" game genre is all but dead (thanks to the afore mentioned quest markers). Sure, you can fire up Skyrim and refuse to use maps and markers, but that wouldn't really work as game designers have gotten lazy in designing quests to the point that they basically become impossible without using the quest markers.
Shame you played Gold instead of stock version. The levels which were cut from The Dark Project(and which are added in Gold) were cut for very good reasons.
About 45 minutes into Darksiders 2 and it's already superior to Zelda: Skyward Sword. The fact that DS2 doesn't really waste any time getting you into the game and is rocked by some really great looking comic-styled cut-scenes definitely helps.
You know you're playing too much The Secret World when you start having dreams about the effin' game; I seriously haven't played anything else since Saturday. It's been a long ass time since an MMO hooked me this much.


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Four Books to Read Together
Your preschooler or young elementary school child will love these wonderful stories about animals on the move:
Turtle Bay
By Saviour Pirotta
Ages: 5+
Taro is fascinated by the mysterious Jiro-San, even though everyone, including Taro's sister Yuko, thinks he's strange. One day, Jiro-San tells Taro that his "old friends" will be coming to visit soon. Taro realizes that these friends are sea turtles returning to their nesting grounds to bury their eggs. Jiro-San, Taro, and Yuko greet these old friends–and welcome the new babies as they make their own journey to the sea.
Forever Friends
By Carin Berger
Ages: 3+
A little brown bunny and a small blue bird are the best of friends, playing together through spring, summer, and fall. When winter draws near, the small blue bird tells bunny that she must leave but promises to return soon.
Those Darn Squirrels Fly South
By Adam Rubin
Ages: 3+
Old Mr. Fookwire, his birds, and those adorable squirrels are back! This time, Mr. Fookwire follows his birds on their southward migration to Mexico–but he ruffles their feathers when he turns his attention to the tropical ornithology he finds there. But never fear! Those darn squirrels bring everything to rights again.
By Maxine Trotter
Ages: 6+
When we talk about migration with kids, we sometimes forget that people are migrants too. Anna is the child of German migrant workers, and can only imagine a life settled in just one place. This book gives a wonderful glimpse into the hopes of a young migrant through the whimsical collage illustrations of Anna's dreams.


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MANLY'S boardroom war has had little impact on Geoff Toovey with the head coach on the verge of extending his future at Brookvale until at least 2016.
The Sea Eagles were hoping to announce the new deal last Friday, but Toovey instead spent this weekend going over the terms of the deal, which will keep him at the club he has already spent a remarkable 24 years with, both as a first grade player and an NRL coach, for at least a further two seasons.
Toovey's new deal will provide the ultimate Christmas cheer for members and fans, who have been stuck in the middle of an ugly boardroom battle for control of the Manly District Football Club.
It was at last Thursday's annual general meeting that Manly chief executive David Perry provided an update on negotiations with Toovey to the football club board, which the members decided to retain at the ballot box.
Despite some discussion within the room that St George Illawarra were interested in Toovey, Perry informed the directors that after two months of negotiations with the head coach, a deal was imminent.
In just his second NRL season at the helm of the Sea Eagles after taking over from Des Hasler, Toovey's nous to steer a battered and bruised Manly side into last year's grand final was respected even by their biggest rivals.
The performance and character which Toovey drew from his players led rugby league immortal and club legend Bob Fulton to champion the signing of Toovey to an extended deal.
"Everyone is saying that (Michael) Maguire and (Trent) Robinson deserve an upgrade, well, Toovey has had two years at this coaching caper now and Manly have come fourth in his first season, fourth again this year and now they're into the grand final," Fulton said.
"That has to be recognised by keeping him at the club long-term.''
Toovey will head into the 2014 season with a squad not too dissimilar to last season. The biggest challenge facing the Sea Eagles is in the forwards following the departure of Brent Kite, George Rose and Joe Galuvao.
Toovey's new deal will create immediate stability, while also removing him from the pressure-cooker of being one of the few coaches off-contract next season.
Wests Tigers' Mick Potter, New Zealand Warriors' Matt Elliott, South Sydney's Maguire and Cronulla's Shane Flanagan are all off-contract with their clubs in 2014.
Dragons coach Steve Price is in a unique situation where the club has an option to keep him on board for 2015, or sever ties with the 36-year-old at the end of next season.
A busy and targeted recruitment drive that includes the purchase of England duo Gareth Widdop and Mike Cooper and Canberra pair Joel Thompson and Sam Williams to complement the signing of Josh Dugan last season, has left Price feeling confident his future will be with the Dragons.
Elliott, who in his first season with the Warriors finished 11th, is under immense pressure to make the finals.
New Zealand have not made the finals since the 2011 grand final and a mid-year battle for wins next year could force an early decision on Elliott's future from the Warriors' private owners.
Originally published as Toovey set to re-sign with Manly


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By KENNY HOWELL
Special to The Wilson Post
A Mt. Juliet woman was fatally stabbed trying to protect her friend from an attacker Sunday evening. Kimberly Kuhlman, 42, was allegedly stabbed multiple times by Kenny Thomason, 47, around 10 p.m., Sunday, in LaVergne. Thomason was reportedly trying to get to his ex-wife, one of Kuhlmans friends. He arrived by cab, and according to reports, Kuhlman told her to stay inside the house in an attempt to calm him down. When he couldnt get in, he allegedly attacked Kuhlman.
The ex-wife had an order of protection against Thomason. According to the City of LaVergne, Thomason had just been released from jail in July for violating the order. He had been to the house earlier in the day and LaVergne police had been called down. They kept an eye on the house, but were out on several calls when the attack took place.
When they got the call, they peeled off those calls and headed to the residence at 1420 Tuffnell Drive in LaVergne. The police arrived before Thomason could get into the home. There was a struggle, and Thomason was handcuffed. The murder weapon was recovered at the scene. CPR was performed on Kuhlman at the scene, and she was taken to Stonecrest Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
We have a great deal of sorrow for the families and friends, said City of LaVergne Public Relations Director Kathy Tyson.
Tyson said dealing with a domestic violence situation is one of the most dangerous things you can do, and it is sad that Kuhlman was caught in the middle. But her bravery probably saved a life.
If the police hadnt arrived when they did, it most likely would have been a double murder, Tyson said.
Thomason was charged with first degree murder, attempted aggravated burglary and violation of order of protection. His bond was set at $732,000.
Kuhlman lived in Brookstone subdivision. The homeowners association released a statement Monday saying that Kuhlman served two terms on the board of directors and was key in the pool renovation. Even after she left the post, she continued to work as a volunteer for the community.
She could always be counted on to work for the betterment of the Brookstone community, the statement read.
She is survived by husband Jamie, and two boys, Kyle and Drew. A celebration of life will be held at the Kuhlman home, Friday, Aug. 12, from noon until 8 p.m. at 269 Page Drive in Mt. Juliet.
The invitation reads This will not be an event for sadness and mourning but for remembrance and celebration of the life of this loving wife, mother, sister and daughter. Her husband Jamie and children Kyle and Drew wish for you to share wonderful stories and memories of your relationship with Kim. The family will be holding a private burial ceremony in Mississippi.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Kuhlman Family Fund at any Regions Bank. Funds raised will go to the children.
Editors Note: Kenny Howell is the managing editor of The Chronicle of Mt. Juliet. He may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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French advertising officials have ordered 'The Players' ads featuring among others Jean Dujardin suggestively having sex, to be taken down.
"The Artist" actor Jean Dujardin is making a buzz outside his acting nod in the awards season. The French actor is under attack for the provocative ads of his new movie "The Players", in which a woman's legs are spread open in the air and Dujardin holds them in suggestive pose. "I'm going to a meeting," the tagline says.
"The Players" is a French movie containing a series of sketches from different directors including Dujardin. The theme is male infidelity and the ads leave the producers under fire for degradation against women. "The campaign for the film The Players with #JeanDujardin will be taken down due to complaints," Studio Cine Live's editor Fabrice Leclerc tweeted on Wednesday, February 1 evening.
Another poster of the movie shows a woman who appears to perform fellatio on actor Gilles Lellouche with the tag "It's going to cut out. I'm entering a tunnel." Both Dujardin and Lellouche also appear on the cover of movie magazine Premiere, wearing only shirt, blazer and ties and covering their private parts with their hands.
Head of ARPP, France's authority for the professional regulation of advertising, said, "We already feel that this campaign is against the rules ...even if it relates to the subject of the film, a comedy about adultery." He added, "As a preventative measure, we�ve already counseled JC Decaux, who are in charge of the billboards, to take them down."
"The Players" is scheduled to play in French theaters on February 29.


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'Cause ours did. This couple that we "used" to be friends with a couple of years ago kind of fell off the face of the planet once we got pregnant with Ethan (our first baby). And trust me, I KNOW that we made an effort to get together with them but it was always like they were finding excuses to get out of going to dinner or whatever.
It still chaps my ass because I HATE when people who don't have kids assume that just because you do, or will soon, that you're life is now officially over.
Here's what I want to say:
SORRY that I'm pregnant and can't go out and drink like a fish all evening
SORRY that now that the baby is here the thought of pulling an all nighter, or even staying out until 2 am makes me want to cringe.
SORRY that you have ZERO clue what it's like to have to have a family to worry about supporting and that buying Five Finger Toe Shoes isn't real high up on my priority list!
Gabe and I joke that we need to get on Craigs List to find new friends because our friends w/out kids just don't get it!!


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BELTON — The prospect of 60 costumed actors and crew members staging a large-scale musical drama in the sanctuary of a small-town church might give some reason to pause. But at Belton Nazarene, there was no hesitation earlier this week at a dress rehearsal of "Bow the Knee," a song-packed show that tells the Easter story.
Stage manager Andrea Shaw seemed everywhere at once as she dealt with staging and costume details. Her husband, Tommy, has a starring role as a centurion named Anthony who, after experiencing the miracles and teachings of Jesus, accepts him as his savior.
"He's (Anthony) been loyal to Caesar for years," Shaw explained, "but his servant, Eli, has come to know Jesus, and gradually, Anthony sees the truth." Dramatic conflict is heightened as Anthony carries out Pilate's command to nail Christ to the cross.
Director Nelda Milligan, the resident piano virtuoso at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, calmly intoned her preshow comments from the back of the sanctuary.
"Please don't watch the prompter all the time," she reminded, gesturing to the lyrics projected on the rear wall. "Ensemble, short people, move around tall actors, but don't make a line like a choir."
Last-minute blocking advice was given by Andrea Shaw, who then took her place as a member of the "crowd" on the stage. Two walls on stage right and left served as projection screens and displayed titles describing each scene's setting.
Ceiling-mounted LED theatrical lighting instruments and two operator-controlled follow-spots kept the lighting design simple but effective.
"Bow the Knee," which runs just over an hour in one act, was written by songwriter Chris Machen and orchestrated by Richard Kingsmore in a contemporary pop-influenced idiom. Big, joyful set pieces and the expected slow-tempo power ballads, most with one or more modulations to a higher key, are the dominant musical styles. A duet between Jesus, played by Milligan's husband, Ben, and Shaw: "So All Alone," displayed their flexible tenor voices in the slow setting of the inspirational tune.
Throughout the pageant, a marked kinetic pacing kept the show moving.
Actors entered and exited through the aisles.
The three-step-high altar area was filled with a cast of people from ages 2 to 80.
Body microphones ensured the dialog and lyrics were heard above the recorded orchestral accompaniment.
The crucifixion scene, always a challenge, was staged with subdued lighting and registers a subtle but immediate effect.
The lighthearted banter among church members kept the rehearsal from veering too deep into ultra-seriousness.
Pointing to her husband, Milligan asserted: "He takes awhile to decompress after being Jesus."
Serious about message
The cast and crew are serious about the message that "Bow the Knee" delivers.
One of last year's performances included "several in the audience that were avowed nonbelievers," Milligan said.
"During the show, they were actively wiping tears from their faces — it touched their hearts. It actually revealed to them the story of Christ."


text: Some people enjoy sports. Some people enjoy photography. My dad enjoys fixing things. If it's broken, there's a good chance he can fix it. Over Thanksgiving, the Jack-in-the-Box that I had as a child was not working properly. Despite the fact that it looked rather creepy, and I am amazed that I didn't grow up with some clown phobia, it was entertaining my toddler nieces. Until it broke. It kept getting stuck and wouldn't pop out (a blessing, in my opion). Dad opened it up, checked the rubber band, sprayed some adhesive, all the while explaining his thought process of what might work and what might create more problems. We got to see the music mechanism, and how it triggered the lid. He struggled with figuring out the perfect adhesive to grip the metal post but not so much that it would stick. When he was all done and the box glued back together, that 1970s toy worked just like new. And the trauma of scary clowns can continue for many years thanks to my dad.


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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:43:11PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of jue feb 23 06:18:57 -0300 2012: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote: > > > > >> All in all, I think this is in pretty much final shape. ??Only pg_upgrade > > >> bits are still missing. ??If sharp eyes could give this a critical look > > >> and knuckle-cracking testers could give it a spin, that would be > > >> helpful. > > > > > > Lack of pg_upgrade support leaves this version incomplete, because that > > > omission would constitute a blocker for beta 2. ??This version changes as much > > > code compared to the version I reviewed at the beginning of the CommitFest as > > > that version changed overall. ??In that light, it's time to close the books on > > > this patch for the purpose of this CommitFest; I'm marking it Returned with > > > Feedback. ??Thanks for your efforts thus far. > > Now this is an interesting turn of events. I must thank you for your > extensive review effort in the current version of the patch, and also > thank you and credit you for the idea that initially kicked this patch > from the older, smaller, simpler version I wrote during the 9.1 timeline > (which you also reviewed exhaustively). Without your and Simon's > brilliant ideas, this patch wouldn't exist at all. > > I completely understand that you don't want to review this latest > version of the patch; it's a lot of effort and I wouldn't inflict it on > anybody who hasn't not volunteered. However, it doesn't seem to me that > this is reason to boot the patch from the commitfest. I think the thing > to do would be to remove yourself from the reviewers column and set it > back to "needs review", so that other reviewers can pick it up. It would indeed be wrong to change any patch from Needs Review to Returned with Feedback on account of a personal distaste for reviewing the patch. I hope I did not harbor such a motive here. Rather, this CommitFest has given your patch its fair shake, and I and other reviewers would better serve the CF's needs by reviewing, say, "ECPG FETCH readahead" instead of your latest submission. Likewise, you would better serve the CF by evaluating one of the four non-committer patches that have been Ready for Committer since January. That's not to imply that the goals of the CF align with my goals, your goals, or broader PGDG goals. The patch status on commitfest.postgresql.org does exist solely for the advancement of the CF, and I have set it in accordingly. > As for the late code churn, it mostly happened as a result of your > own feedback; I would have left most of it in the original state, but as > I went ahead it seemed much better to refactor things. This is mostly > in heapam.c. As for multixact.c, it also had a lot of churn, but that > was mostly to restore it to the state it has in the master branch, > dropping much of the code I had written to handle multixact truncation. > The new code there and in the vacuum code path (relminmxid and so on) is > a lot smaller than that other code was, and it's closely based on > relfrozenxid which is a known piece of technology. I appreciate that. > > However, review of such a large patch should not be simply pass or > > fail. We should be looking back at the original problem and ask > > ourselves whether some subset of the patch could solve a useful subset > > of the problem. For me, that seems quite likely and this is very > > definitely an important patch. Incidentally, I find it harmful to think of "Returned with Feedback" as "fail". For large patches, it's healthier to think of a CF as a bimonthly project status meeting with stakeholders. When the project is done, wonderful! When there's work left, that's no great surprise. > > Even if we can't solve some part of the problem we can at least commit > > some useful parts of infrastructure to allow later work to happen more > > smoothly and quickly. > > > > So please let's not focus on the 100%, lets focus on 80/20. > > Well, we have the patch I originally posted in the 9.1 timeframe. > That's a lot smaller and simpler. However, that solves only part of the > blocking problem, and in particular it doesn't fix the initial deadlock > reports from Joel Jacobson at Glue Finance (now renamed Trustly, in case > you wonder about his change of email address) that started this effort > in the first place. I don't think we can cut down to that and still > satisfy the users that requested this; and Glue was just the first one, > because after I started blogging about this, some more people started > asking for it. > > I don't think there's any useful middlepoint between that one and the > current one, but maybe I'm wrong. Nothing additional comes to my mind, either. This patch is monolithic. Thanks, nm
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Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2013
The US military will keep providing logistical support in villages as it hands over the security lead to Afghan forces this spring, Afghanistan's envoy to Washington said Monday.
US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced Friday that the United States would speed up the transfer of security responsibility, preparing for the withdrawal of US combat forces by the end of 2014.
In a joint news conference at the White House, Karzai said Afghan forces would be fully responsible for protection by spring and that "the American forces will be no longer be present in Afghan villages."
Ambassador Eklil Hakimi, addressing reporters in Washington in the wake of Karzai's visit, clarified that US forces would still be present but in a supporting role.
"We still need the logistical support and other support from coalition forces. So now would be a joint operation with Afghans to be in the lead, with the support that we receive from your side," he said.
Hakimi said the two governments and military leaders would work out the exact number of troops to stay after 2014 when the United States withdraws its 66,000 combat troops from Afghanistan, ending its longest war.
The Obama administration has proposed troops levels as low as several thousand and said it was open to leaving no troops at all in Afghanistan, although experts see such statements as partially a negotiating strategy.
The United States is pressing for Afghanistan to grant all its remaining troops immunity from local courts, an issue that scuttled proposals to keep a residual US force in Iraq.
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British Council ended their Challenge Europe campaign with a showing of the short documentary Denmark 2025, an exhibiton of the Hungry Planet photos and a few speeches and debate. Below are videos of the three perhaps most interesting presentations - Martin Lidegaard of Concito (green think tank), Marianna Lubanski of Grundfos and Katja Rosenbaum of the European Environment Agency - as well as the Denmark 2025 documentary.
Martin Lidegaard, Concito
Martin Lidegaard of Concito speaking at Challenge Europe from Benno Hansen on Vimeo.
The two most important things that has happened the last couple of years:
1. We didn't get a deal at COP15 in Copenhagen and we will not get it in another ten years.
2. Prices of natural resources and raw materials are going up.
1. Lower taxes on income, raise taxes on resources.
2. Inspire massive investments in green technologies.
3. Take a hard look at land use.
Marianna Lubanski, Grundfos
Marianna Lubanski of Grundfos speaks at Challenge Europe from Benno Hansen on Vimeo.
Katja Rosenbaum, EEA
Katja Rosenbaum, European Environment Agency from Benno Hansen on Vimeo.
Talks were also given by British Ambassador Nick Archer, Danish 101010 chairwoman Bettina Fellov and John Christensen of UNEP.
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