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LOS ANGELES -- At 3 a.m. Wednesday, the trill of the cell phone awoke Ole Miss football coach Ed Orgeron in Oxford.
"What the heck are you doing sleeping?" USC coach Pete Carroll asked, delighted that he had one-upped his former top assistant. "It's signing day!"
Granted, it was merely 1 a.m. in Heritage Hall. But it's safe to assume that, four hours before national letters of intent could be accepted from recruits, most coaches would have been asleep. While it may be a stretch to draw a connection between Carroll's phone call and the Trojans' 33 victories in their last 34 games, it's not much of one.
Sure enough, at 5:02 a.m., when the fax machine in the USC football office rolled out a signed national letter of intent from Patrick Turner, the Nashville wide receiver ranked as the No. 5 recruit in the nation, two Trojans coaches were there to see it: recruiting coordinator Lane Kiffin, and Carroll.
"I used to be continually challenged by Eddie Orgeron," Carroll said. "Who's going to make the most calls? We pushed each other to challenge our efforts in recruiting."
Carroll lives to compete, and recruiting is one of the few ways to keep score between Jan. 4, when USC beat Oklahoma, 55-19, in the FedEx Orange Bowl, and Sept. 3, when the Trojans begin their quest for a third consecutive national championship at Hawaii.
The Trojans signed a class heavy on defense, which makes sense with the loss of defensive tackles Shaun Cody and Mike Patterson, as well as linebackers Matt Grootegoed and Lofa Tatupu, and heavy on All-Americans from distant states -- Georgia, Hawaii, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Tennessee.
For sheer numbers, the Trojans didn't sign as many recruits as the other top schools -- which may have been the reason why USC didn't have the No. 1 class -- but they got value landing four of the top 16 players in the country, six of the top 36 and seven of the top 100.
Every coach at every school in Division I-A announced Wednesday that his university signed a great class. In light of a third consecutive top-five recruiting class at USC, what's unusual is that the praise for the Trojans also comes from the coaches they're beating.
"They are in a different stratosphere than everybody else right now," Oregon State coach Mike Riley said.
"They can pretty much pick and choose in Los Angeles and southern California, and everybody else is recruiting [after] that," Washington defensive coordinator Kent Baer said.
In the course of four years, Carroll has turned West Coast football upside down. Two weeks after he was hired on Dec. 15, 2000, he stood on the sideline and watched the Washington Huskies work out for the Rose Bowl on his practice field.
UCLA had won consecutive Pac-10 championships as recently as 1997-98. USC had won one league title in the previous 11 years.
Recruiting in southern California belonged to the Huskies, and the Bruins, and Florida State and Miami and Tennessee and to any other coach who bought a plane ticket to LAX.
"When we got here, D.J. Williams went to Miami," Kiffin said. "Kellen Winslow (Jr.), another California kid (who went to Miami). It was just happening too much. We were losing guys to Washington and Oregon. Now, if we take those guys, they're on our team and not on their team. It's like double."
This week, when the prime real estate at the LAX gift shops is laden with USC national championship T-shirts and hats, Washington is coming off a 1-10 season, UCLA is defining mediocrity, and the Trojans' toughest recruiting battles on the West Coast are with California.
The schools battled for Long Beach Poly High wide receiver DeSean Jackson, the MVP of the Army All-American Bowl, until Wednesday night, when Jackson chose to become a Cal Bear.
Meanwhile, the national powers don't come around much anymore. This year, Nebraska signed a running back the Trojans wanted, Marlon Lucky of North Hollywood High. But Florida State, Tennessee and Miami have signed a total of one top 100 player from California in the past three years.
"Reggie (Bush) and LenDale (White) have scared off running backs for the last two years," Carroll said. "Next year's group, get ready."
Read between the words of that comment, and you'll find the essence of the USC approach to recruiting. Carroll wants players who relish the chance to earn playing time. He wants players who will -- here's that word again -- compete.
Carroll believes that is the answer to the essential paradox in recruiting. The better a team does, the easier it is to recruit against them. Opposing coaches take out the depth chart and say, "You can go there and sit, or you can come here and play."
The minute a recruit asks about the other recruits at his position, or where he might fit in on the depth chart, he all but seals his fate with Carroll.
"They weed themselves out," said Kiffin, the son of Tampa Bay defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, "and you get a bunch of good competitors. They're willing to say, 'I don't care who's going there. I'm going to play.'"
That theory is convenient for explaining away kids who choose against USC, such as Lucky and running back Jason Gwaltney of North Babylon, N.Y., who signed with West Virginia. But the Trojans haven't had to explain away much, especially within a 30-mile radius of the USC campus.
The first task Carroll undertook to re-establish USC's local primacy was to heed the advice of that famed recruiting expert, filmmaker Woody Allen, who said, "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." College coaches begin their evaluations in earnest in May.
"He'll come down and see a practice or a game," Raul Lara, coach at Long Beach Poly, said of Carroll. "You don't see that from other head coaches. For example, I've only seen the head coach from UCLA (Karl Dorrell) once so far. Oklahoma? LSU? I haven't seen their head coaches. His (Carroll's) whole staff, including Pete, was at my practice last spring. If you're a player, and the head coach of the No. 1 team is there watching you at practice or at a game, that's pretty impressive."
Riley, who describes himself as a "grinder," must use sweat equity to challenge in the Pacific-10 Conference. That's the price of success in Corvallis.
"The guy I see the most is Pete Carroll," Riley said. "I've run into Pete in Vegas. There are a lot of players in southern California. If you go from one end to the other, over the course of May recruiting, I must have run into Pete six or seven times. I give him a lot of credit. I admire that in him. He's grinding it and he's at USC."
Carroll likes to recruit in May precisely because other head coaches don't.
"It's just competing," he said. "The better we do, the more I want to be out there. You might think the reverse. I love the nature of being a competitor. Create more separation if you can."
Granted, top-100 lists as a measure of recruiting acumen can make a weatherman look infallible. But the lists dating to 2000, the last year of former Trojan coach Paul Hackett, illustrate USC's rise in unmistakable terms.
In 2000, 15 Californians made the ESPN.com top-100 list. Four signed with USC. In 2002, the first class that Carroll had 12 months to recruit, the Trojans signed only three of 13 Californians in the top 100, and all three came from Long Beach Poly.
The Trojans have signed 15 in the last three seasons, including this year's top player, quarterback Mark Sanchez of Mission Viejo.
Once Carroll built the mythical fence around southern California, he began to recruit nationally. In 2002 and 2003, USC signed a total of three top-100 players outside the state border. In the last two years, the Trojans have signed eight.
"Out of state, we set our expectations very, very high for the caliber of play," Carroll said. "We want to find guys that will be No. 1 draft picks, and kids that will be able to handle it academically and socially."
That would explain why the out-of-state roster includes familiar names: White (Colo.), freshman wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett (N.J.) and former Trojan All-American wideout Mike Williams (Florida).
"The national ones that they are on, they have a great chance of getting," said Baer, who has spent the last several years recruiting nationally at Stanford and at Notre Dame. "I'm not sure they spin their wheels very long on a guy they like. They evaluate in a hurry what their chances are."
It is a lot easier in the explanation than it is in the doing. But it's clear that the Trojans haven't missed on very many players.
"A lot of kids would like to go to SC," Carroll said. "If we take the guys who want to come, you may not find the best players. We had all kinds of All-Americans when we got here. They weren't necessarily the best kids."
Bruce Rollinson, the longtime coach of Santa Ana Mater Dei High, the alma mater of USC quarterback Matt Leinart, recalled Carroll's recruitment of lineman Brandon Nicolas, who signed with Notre Dame a year ago.
"SC made the decision they weren't going to go with him," Rollinson said. "They had tremendous respect for the kid. Pete Carroll sat right across from me and said, 'I don't know if I'm right or I'm wrong. I'm going after the best of the best. We think there are other kids who are better.' I admire Pete Carroll for saying, 'We're USC and this is what we're going to do.'"
On Monday, with I-A coaches in a "dead period" -- they may not contact recruits -- Carroll and his staff began evaluating video of the top 50 juniors in California. The class of 2006 awaits.
"You mix hard work, good evaluation, good recruiting and a national championship team," Riley said, "and they go out and do it."
Ivan Maisel is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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The new Northern Ireland secretary of state has emerged from his first talks with political parties in Northern Ireland and stressed his commitment to the Good Friday Agreement.
"There is no alternative to it. There is no plan B. It is that or nothing.
"And for all our futures, creating a future for Northern Ireland in which everyone has a stake, we as political leaders have got to show leadership.
"We have got to do everything that we humanly can do to build that trust to ensure that the agreement moves ahead and is properly and fully implemented in all its respects," he said.
The new Northern Ireland secretary held separate talks earlier on Tuesday with the Unionist Unionist leader David Trimble and Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness.
Mr Trimble, accompanied by a party delegation, was the first through the door at Stormont on Tuesday.
He discussed a range of issues with Mr Mandelson including the Mitchell review of the Good Friday Agreement and the Patten report on the future of policing.
Mr Trimble said: "It was a first meeting, it was a good meeting, as I am sure other parties will find that their first meetings are good too."
Later, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness emerged from his discussions with the secretary of state and said they had been "good" and "interesting".
"At the meeting we of course stressed the absolute need, the vital need, to see the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
"And we expressed our opinion that the British Prime Minister and Peter Mandelson were absolutely vital and key to the implementation of that agreement," he said.
In talks with Mr Mandelson on Tuesday afternoon SDLP Deputy Leader Seamus Mallon told Mr Mandelson that the only way Northern Ireland's problems could be solved was through implementing the Agreement.
Mr Mandelson also had his first meeting with the anti-Agreement DUP.
Afterwards DUP leader Ian Paisley said he did not expect Mr Mandelson to stay in his post for long and that any attempt by the new Northern Ireland secretary to push forward with the implementation of the Agreement would fail.
Mr Mandelson also carried out his first public engagement on Tuesday afternoon when he visited the Family Trauma Centre in Belfast. He then went on a walkabout around Belfast City centre.
Chairman of the current review of the peace process former US Senator George Mitchell is due to start a new round of discussions with the parties in London on Tuesday night.
The review was sparked by the collapse of talks at Stormont in July, following the Ulster Unionists' refusal to sit in government with Sinn Fein until the IRA began to decommission its weapons.
Sinn Fein say that it is a pre-condition that is not in the Good Friday Agreement.
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"Niflheimr" (the opening track) and "Muspellsheimr" (the closing track) are masterpieces by themselves. Cold, dreary soundscapes are created by a combination of droning synthesizers and depressive buzzing ambience, providing what would be the perfect soundtrack to a night alone in an abandoned psychiatric ward. With a combined running time of just under half an hour, these compositions encase the black metal tracks; they provide an uneasy entrance into the tortured world of Serigy Fjordsson, allowing the listener to leave via the same passage and ultimately end the record with a feeling of dread and despair.
The seven black metal tracks are similar enough to provide a consistent running theme, yet varied sufficiently to allow the music to flow and embed itself in the listener's mind. The aggressively distorted guitars act as talons which grip at the cerebral cortex and refuse to release themselves; the pounding drums act as the administering of the venom, the rhythmic pulse of a lethal injection flowing into the veins. The venom itself, Sergiy's vocals, are the most hallowed and anguished howls one could ever desire to behold. These screams are the voice of depression, and we as outsiders can only begin to comprehend the complexity of the mental suffering engraved into the roots of this record.
The song structures are unorthodox to say the least. Use of alternating minor stretches on the guitars is combined with a droning phrasing method to allow the listener's mind to metaphorically sink to a level below one which it has ever found itself at before. Sergiy does deviate from this, however, and on the third track "Asaheimr" a technical depressive riffage is combined with an almost bombastic repetition of huge minor chords to remove all joy from the immediate surroundings of the music. The drums [I dare hypothesize that they are programmed, though I may be wrong] pound beneath the blizzard-like mix of guitars, allowing the music to truly flow (in the greatest sense of the word) like a snowstorm in the Carpathian mountains.
This record is a viewing window into the world of Sergiy Fjordsson. Far beyond the 'by-the-numbers', generic and cathartic approach of bands such as Happy Days and Nocturnal Depression, Moloch encaptures true sorrow from its barren, twisted heart.
Opener Svartalfaheimr begins with very anthemic guitar and faint drums. The vocals are high-pitched shrieks, buried amongst the music. They fade in and out of the music and sound very disturbing. It's a brief opening song. Ljosalfaheimr sounds more downbeat in it's delivery. The same high-pitched vocals remain but the riffs are slower and more drone inspired. The vocals here sound very maddening. The way they are layered as well makes them sound even more hellish.
The production and sound on the cassette also helps to increase the atmosphere, with a subtle hissing underneath the guitars. The songs end quite abruptly as well and as third song Asaheimr kicks in; all you can do is buckle up for the ride. There are touches of ambience within the guitars but this is solo black metal at it's finest.
Fourth song Jotunheimr is a guitar laden instrumental, with plenty of feedback drenched riffs. It breaks up the unnerving atmosphere created by Moloch's screams. Fifth song Helheimr is another short blast of ambient black metal madness. Much like the rest of the tape, the guitars rule the roost, only diminishing slightly when the vocals kick. The bass and drums can be faintly heard in the background. This rounds off side 1 of the tape.
The second side features the other four songs. Vanaheimr carries on in the same format. Its running time is only just over a minute, so it feels a little like a second intro. Jotunheimr (pt. II) is the second instrumental on the tape. Much like Jotunheimr on the first side, the guitars carry it along with a consistent beat in the background from the drums. There are nice swathes of ambience and other instruments in the background of the song too though, signalling it out as a subtly different song.
En As I Dype Skogen is a Darkthrone Cover with a difference. It starts with what sounds like a programmed beat and the main melody is played on keys. This piece of music carries the ambient influences of Moloch and does away with the harsh black metal sound heard throughout the rest of the record. There are even no guitars heard on the song. The final salvo on this tape is the seventeen minute instrumental Microcosmos. A song inspired by the heavens above our heads. There are crashes of thunder amongst the orchestral ambience. This is a slow and relaxing piece of music though, which wouldn't be out of place on an exotic film score.
Even though this review is short compared to many of the ones I've done recently, it's worth noting that this release is another one that's difficult to categorise. Moloch has a habit of producing music differently with each release, and by doing so keeps things fresh and keeps listeners guessing.
For this release I am going to have to break down some of the album review into a song by song basis, because of the fact that there are different playlists for both the promo, and regular releases. Thus, the first two songs that I will speak of is Niflheimr, and Muspellsheimr.
Niflheimr/Muspellsheimr: The first track Niflheimr takes quite a while to get going...and it is a very quiet dark ambient track with minimalistic tendencies, and is very hollow, whispering sounding track. There is a droning bassline, that fades in and out, with some layered ambience, and has a nice depressive feeling to it. Seeing as Niflheim is the "Mist World" in Norse mythology, it is a very fitting title, and the music is just as aptly composed. Muspellsheimr is the land of fire, in Norse mythology. Another very long track, it once again takes some time to get moving. Unfortunately, it is a smoldering ember, and lacks the punch I expected from a song that should capture the rage of the sons of Muspel, who are to destroy Bifrost, and end all time.
The other tracks that are black metal, with depressive connotations, some songs with drum programs, others with minimal, and still other tracks with no drum work at all. Nonetheless, the tracks are very well produced, and the guitarwork is thick and full, and the vocals are excellent. Stylistic in the vein of Brocken Moon, Sergiy wails his anguish, and sounds great, not nearly as ear-splitting as he sounded on Eihwaz, and there is good reverb to the mix, that adds to the atmospheric guitar work. The riffs are simple, yet effective and sound very good; fitting in with all aspects of the metal tracks in the album.
The Darkthrone cover has very heavy synth, coupled with the drum machine and is much unlike the original song. The drums are light and fluffy, the synth is quite like Burzum's Hildskjalf era, and is not really that great. It doesn't fit at all with the dark, and foreboding atmosphere of the rest of the album.
The final track on the full length is a track called Microcosmos, a synthesizer-laden ambient piece with nice pseudo-orchestral progressions, with the omnipresent thundering of a storm in the background. This is a fantastic ending for this album, and if the Darkthrone cover track was not there, would be a well-rounded album incorporating excellent use of the realms of depressive style black metal, and dark ambient. Alas, the cover song throws too much of a wrench in the works and has derailed the train before it arrived at the last track. Sad, because the rest of the album is fantastic.


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I'm returning to basics--taking walks around the neighborhood with a friend, taking pictures with my cell phone, taking time to tell myself that the reason I started writing back when I was eight years old was to understand the world and to use the beauty of language to ask important questions and seek answer, and also to observe. My father always reminded me that it was important to be observant. I don't know what inspired him to offer that shiny gem, but it managed to light a path in my brain and, more importantly, in my heart, My first book was eight pages long, bound in knitting yarn. My new novel is 300+ pages, yet the impulse is the same: look closely and maybe we will see. I'm also reminding myself that much of life is good. This picture of our son and me in Budapest made me smile. I hope it will make you smill too. I'm also linking to Caroline Leavitt's blog and her stupendous interview with Anne Lamott. Their conversation really speaks to what I need, and what I believe we all need these days: kindness and honesty. http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/…/anne-lamott-talk…
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi argued Thursday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein triggered the 2003 invasion of his country and Japan was justified in supporting the U.S.-led multinational force that launched the "pre-emptive" attack.
"If Iraq had proved it had no weapons of mass destruction, the war wouldn't have occurred," Koizumi told reporters at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo. "I wonder why President Hussein hid (the facts and did) not listen to the United Nations."
Japan supported the U.S-led war against Iraq based on allegations made mainly by U.S. intelligence sources, most notably a Feb. 5, 2003, speech by then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made to the U.N. Security Council.
Koizumi insisted Japan backed the war against Iraq based on the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council, instead of the allegations leveled by the U.S.
Koizumi's comments came a day after U.S. President George W. Bush accepted responsibility for the intelligence shortcomings on Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, which have not been found.
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US military power may be of little use for President Barack Obama in confronting a defiant North Korea.
Any strike carries the risk of horrific casualties while the regime's nuclear weapons would likely remain hidden from view.
There are no attractive military options for the United States when it comes to North Korea, experts say, because Pyongyang has massive firepower trained on its neighbour.
The regime can also easily conceal its nuclear weapons as well as other elements of its program.
With an army of more than a million troops and a vast arsenal of artillery and missiles pointed at South Korea as well as Japan, North Korea could exact untold bloodshed for a pre-emptive strike against its nuclear weapons sites.
Casualties would number in the hundreds of thousands, possibly within the first days of a war, experts say.
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"Ultimately there's absolutely no doubt in anybody's mind the combined US and South Korean forces would prevail. But at what cost is a serious question."
A war game conducted by former senior US officials in 2005 for The Atlantic magazine had a conservative estimate of 100,000 casualties, assuming American air power could take out missiles and artillery at the outset at a rate of 4,000 sorties a day.
Former US president Bill Clinton seriously considered a pre-emptive strike against North Korea's reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, ex-officials have since revealed.
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Ultimately there's absolutely no doubt in anybody's mind the combined US and South Korean forces would prevail. But at what cost is a serious question."
The outside world can only guess where Pyongyang's weapons or suspected uranium enrichment sites are hidden, analysts say.
US aircraft probably would be able to disable plutonium production and reprocessing facilities with precision raids, but atomic bombs could be hidden in the regime's network of caves and tunnels.
"We don't know where the existing nuclear weapons are," said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
A failed pre-emptive strike could lead to nightmare scenarios ranging from North Korea detonating nuclear weapons or launching chemical or biological assaults.
During annual exercises with South Korea this year, US special forces conducted a mock operation against a fictional "chemical weapons lab" while medical teams practiced treating casualties from a chemical attack.
The United States has reduced its force in South Korea but still has 28,500 troops there, along with tens of thousands in Japan, and missile defence weaponry on land and at sea designed to intercept North Korean missile attacks.
But with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Washington would be hard pressed to come up with the large-scale force some military planners say would be necessary in the event of a full-blown conflict with North Korea.
Instead of bombing raids against nuclear targets, another option would be a strict naval blockade to seal off North Korean ports and possibly break the back of the regime.
US and South Korean naval power would easily defeat Pyongyang's ships and submarines, but such a move would carry the same risk of massive retaliation on land and a slide into all-out war, analysts say.
The dismal scenarios do not end with appalling casualties or nuclear warfare.
The possible fall of the North Korean regime in any war would trigger new dangers, with weapons of mass destruction up for grabs and a stream of impoverished humanity fleeing south.
Author Robert Kaplan wrote on The Atlantic magazine's website that "anyone who talks breezily about 'helping' North Korea to collapse has simply not learned the lesson of Iraq: The only thing worse than a totalitarian state is no state at all".


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1. Roll call – Vice Chair Blake called the meeting to order at 7:09 p.m. Aimee Mueller called roll.
Commissioners present: Blake, Dodsworth, Harr, Shelton, Townley, Tregub, Webster.Commissioners absent: Drake, Stephens.Staff present: Barton, Brown, Mueller, Siegel
Commissioners present: Blake, Dodsworth, Harr, Shelton, Townley, Tregub, Webster.Commissioners absent: Drake, Stephens.Staff present: Barton, Brown, Mueller, Siegel
2. Approval of Agenda Vice Chair Blake announced that tonight's meeting will be adjourned in honor of Miguel Wooding, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Eviction Defense Collaborative who recently passed away. Vice Chair Blake also announced that Appeal T-5151 had been withdrawn so the motion to approve the agenda should reflect that change. M/S/C (Tregub/Townley) APPROVE AGENDA AS AMENDED. Voice vote. Passed: 7-0-0-2. ABSENT: Drake, Stephens.
Point of Order: Vice Chair Blake moved to have Commissioner Townley act as Chair for the remainder of the meeting. M/S/C (Blake/Tregub) MOVE TO HAVE COMMISSIONER TOWNLEY ACT AS CHAIR THE REMAINDER OF THE AUGUST 15, 2011 RENT STABILIZATION BOARD MEETING. Voice vote. Passed: 7-0-0-2. ABSENT: Drake, Stephens.
3. Public Forum There were four speakers: Paul Barker, Chuhn Tung Lee, John Nguyen, and Christopher Macy.
4. Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes
a.May 16, 2011 Regular Meeting minutes M/S/C (Harr/Blake) APPROVE MINUTES AS WRITTEN. Voice vote. Passed: 6-0-0-3. ABSENT: Dodsworth (stepped out), Drake, Stephens.
b. June 15, 2011 Special Meeting minutes – HELD OVER TO NEXT MEETING.
c. June 20, 2011 Regular Meeting minutes – HELD OVER TO NEXT MEETING.
5. Appeal Time Certain – 7:15 p.m.
Appeal T-5151 (2922 Otis Street, Unit B)
6. Action Items
a. From Board Members, Executive Director and Committees
(1) Discussion and possible action regarding proposed changes to the Relocation Ordinance (Executive Director) After Deputy Director Barton gave the Board an overview of the proposed changes to the Relocation Ordinance and took questions from Commissioners, the Board decided to vote on this item in two motions as follows:
M/S/C (Tregub/Webster) ENDORSE THE AMENDMENT TO UPDATE THE RELOCATION ORDINANCE AS PROPOSED BY THE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMISSION AND RECOMMEND THAT CITY COUNCIL ADD A TECHNICAL CLARIFICATION TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT. Roll call vote. YES: Blake, Dodsworth, Harr, Shelton, Townley, Tregub, Webster; NO: None; ABSTAIN: None; ABSENT: Drake, Stephens. Passed: 7-0-0-2.
M/S/C (Tregub/Webster) direct STAFF TO DEVELOP FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE RENT BOARD A SECURITY DEPOSIT LOAN PROGRAM TO ASSIST IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RELOCATION ORDINANCE. Roll call vote. YES: Blake, Dodsworth, Harr, Shelton, Townley, Tregub, Webster; NO: None; ABSTAIN: None; ABSENT: Drake, Stephens. Passed: 7-0-0-2.
(2) Proposal to approve staff recommendation on the following requests for waiver of late registration penalties (Executive Director)
Ministerial Waivers
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Waiver No. Property Address3932 2027 Hearst Avenue
3933 1743 Blake Street
4011 1607 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
4029 2437— 8th Street
4037 3024 Fulton Street
4039 2317 Blake Street
4040 1308 Hopkins Street
4044 1919 Curtis Street
4048 2700 Prince Street
4051 2320 — 9th Street
4056 1629 Stuart Street
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Waiver No. Property AddressNone
M/S/C (Harr/Blake) APPROVE ALL MINISTERIAL WAIVERS EXCEPT WAIVER NOS. 4039 AND 4044; THESE WILL BE HELD OVER TO THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. Voice vote. Passed: 7-0-0-2. ABSENT: Drake, Stephens.
(3) Recommendation to refer the attached standard lease agreement which tenants are required to sign to the Eviction/Section 8/Foreclosure Committee to review its legality and reasonableness (Executive Director)
M/S/C (Blake/Harr) REFER THIS STANDARD LEASE AGREEMENT TO THE EVICTION/SECTION 8/FORECLOSURE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW ITS LEGALITY AND REASONABLENESS. Voice vote. Passed: 7-0-0-2. ABSENT: Drake, Stephens.
7. Information and Announcements
Please Note: The Board may move Information Items to the Action Calendar.
a. Reports from Board Members/Staff
(1) Update on the Affordable Housing Mitigation Fee Ordinance Deputy Director Barton informed the Board there has been no change since their last meeting. This is scheduled for a Workshop discussion at the City Council meeting on October 11th.
(2) September 23, 2010 SOCALCIA.com article titled, "Right to Rent could change the nation's foreclosure crisis: CEPR" (Commissioner Harr) Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
(3) May 27, 2011 letter from Michael Lang regarding the Annual General Adjustment (Chair Stephens) Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
(4) August 11, 2011 letter from Commissioner Harr conveying several procedural suggestions for the Board's consideration (Executive Director) Several Commissioners commented on this letter and thanked Commissioner Harr for her suggestions.
(5) Calapalooza Student Fair on August 25, 2011 Commissioner Tregub announced that the Rent Board will have a table at this event and invited Commissioners to come out and meet the UC Berkeley students.
(6) Minutes from past housing calls and Housing California Workshop Commissioner Tregub said this item is not yet ready for distribution and will likely be on a future agenda.
(7) May 2011 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report titled "U.S. Housing Market Conditions" for 1st Quarter 2011 Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
(8) July 11, 2011 J.P. Morgan report titled, "Eye on the Market" Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
(9) July 21, 2011 New York Times article by Aaron Glantz titled, "Conversion of Apartments to Rentals for Tourists Is Surging" Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
(10) August 11, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle article by Carolyn Said titled "Rents go through roof; Vacancy rates fall as competition among tenants intensifies" Included in the packet and self-explanatory.
b. Updates and Announcements regarding Committee/Board Meetings
(1) Budget and Personnel – Committee Chair Tregub said that the Committee has discussed meeting soon but no date is set.
(2) Outreach – Committee Chair Webster updated the Board on the August 12th meeting and the Committee's activities, including the October 4, 2011 Workshop for Small Property Owners and the Solano Stroll on September 11th.
a. August 12th agenda
(3) IRA/AGA and Habitability – Staff Attorney Matt Brown informed the Board that Chair Stephens would like this Committee to meet, preferably during the week of August 22nd, to address several pressing issues.
(4) Eviction/Section 8/Foreclosure – Committee Chair Harr updated the Board on the Committee's recent meetings and activity.
a. June 10th minutes
b. July 1st agendac. July 1st minutes
d. July 26th agenda
(5) Safe & Sustainable Housing – Committee Chair Townley announced that the Committee will meet on Tuesday, August 23rd at 5:00 p.m.
(6) 4 x 4 City Council/RSB Housing Committee – The next meeting is scheduled for September 29th at 10:00 a.m.
(7) Ad Hoc Committee on Waiver Process – Committee Chair Shelton updated the Board on the Committee's recent meetings and activity.
a. May 27th minutes
b. June 22nd minutes
c. July 12th agenda
d. August 12th agenda
(8) Future Special Meetings
c. Discussion of items for possible placement on future agenda
8. Adjournment After Commissioner Harr spoke about her friend Miguel Wooding – his many talents, his dedication and his tremendous contribution to our community – the Board adjourned the meeting at 8:29 p.m. in his honor. M/S/C (Harr/Dodsworth) Voice vote. Passed: 7-0-0-2. ABSENT: Drake, Stephens.


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July 9, 2013—The emergency that recently drew the world's eyes to Mali, that largely arid and desperately poor country stretching from the Sahara Desert southward to the Niger River, has now moved off the front page of many news media, but enormous humanitarian challenges remain.
The radical Islamist regime, which professes loyalty to Al Qaeda and took over the north of the country, has been expelled from power through military action by the former colonial power, France, along with allied armies from neighboring African countries. But the human cost of the violent upheaval goes on and needs continuing international action for it to reach full resolution.
Even as civil order is to some extent being restored, the climate of instability that remains means that about 40,000 people per month are still being displaced from their homes, according to counts taken as recently as early June 2013. In the words of Francesco Paganini, executive secretary of International Disaster Response for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), "That's an extraordinary number in a small nation of fifteen million people. We must not forget them."
UMCOR is supporting efforts to bring urgent aid to Mali's internally displaced persons (IDPs) by helping to fund the relief efforts of a long-time partner, Canada-based GlobalMedic. GlobalMedic has considerable experience in Mali and a track record of effective work with UMCOR in countries ranging from Pakistan to Haiti and more.
Mali's large displaced population continues to have many pressing needs. For example, the 50,000 or more IDPs clustered in and near the capital city, Bamako, struggle to access clean drinking water. The water sources that are available to displaced families often are affected by widespread contamination.
So a major priority for UMCOR funding is a program of distributing water-purification tablets, known as Aquatabs. The tablets reach families in need through a local implementing partner, Bonne Vie, meaning "Good Life." Bonne Vie's staff and volunteers are trained in the operation of Aquatab-based water purifying, and in turn will ensure that recipient families employ that knowledge fully and pass it on to other families in their community. Each individual tablet purifies one or even ten liters of water—the tablets come in two sizes and strengths.
UMCOR is also partnering in Mali with the International Blue Crescent (IBC), which is headquartered in Turkey and has often worked with UMCOR, especially in predominantly Muslim countries like Mali (whose population is 80 percent Muslim). IBC's work, with funding support from UMCOR, is concentrated on the regional hub-town of Mopti, located between the capital and the northern battlegrounds. While full-scale hostilities may have ended, unexploded landmines and other hazards are still making life unbearably insecure for many northerners. As a consequence, there are now 20,000 new IDPs, or more, in and around Mopti.
IBC's program is ensuring that IDP families receive essential foodstuffs and access to basic medical assistance. The food supply comprises rice, oil, sugar, milk, and flour, and medical kits are being allocated to the four primary health-care units in the Mopti region.
UMCOR's Paganini says, "We are always eager to link up with local aid partners who offer enormous value, since they carry little in the way of heavy infrastructures, and at the same time possess great knowledge of the situation on the ground and of the community's own culture."
With hidden landmines still taking their toll and so-called "mopping up" operations by armed forces still continuing, there will inevitably be a need for outside help in Mali well into the future.
As Paganini observes, "The Mali situation is far from resolved, even if to the world's media it may appear to be so."
Your gift to International Disaster Response, Advance #982450, will help provide a continuing supply of basic needs for internally displaced persons and their families in Mali and elsewhere in the world in times of crisis.
*David Tereshchuk is a journalist and media critic who contributes regularly to www.umcor.org.


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Posted by: newsla on Jul 14, 2014 - 07:06 AM
Crushing Day In Canada For ESM Patron
Extreme Speed Motorsports was confident heading into todayâs Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (CTMP). Following second- and fourth-place qualifying efforts on a track that showed some favoritism to the Tequila Patrón prototype machines, ESMâs day came to an abrupt end following electrical and exhaust system issues in the two-hour, 45-minute race.
Both the No. 1 and No. 2 Tequila Patrón Honda Performance Development ARX-03b (HPD) racing machines were unable to finish the race but ranked seventh and eighth on the unofficial scoring sheets in the sixth round of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.
Scott Sharp started from the outside pole in the No. 1 machine. He shuffled back to fifth in the opening laps but found a steady pace in the third position. Sharp advanced to second place before the scheduled pit stop and driver change to Ryan Dalziel on Lap 38.
In standard Dalziel-style, he set a pace and began catching and passing the competition. Dalziel reached third position and pitted once as scheduled. On Lap 85, as he was coming out of Turn 5b, he felt a drop in power. Dalziel pitted and the team removed the engine cover and determined the car needed to be taken to the paddock. Upon further inspection, there was an issue with the exhaust system and the No. 1 team was forced to retire from the race.
Ed Brown started strong in the race for the No. 2 Tequila Patrón HPD. From the fourth spot on the grid, Brown fought to maintain his position. On Lap 7, Brown overdrove in Turn 5b and spun. He was able to regain his composure and the car, and return to the race in ninth position.
Near the end of his stint, Brown was behind position-battling GT competitor cars that tangled in Turn 3. With nowhere to go, Brown made contact with one of the race cars and caused some minor damage to the left front. He was able to complete his stint and pit on Lap 41 for the scheduled driver change.
Johannes van Overbeek started his stint from the eighth position. He was running seventh and radioed the crew about having an electrical issue. By the time he pitted, smoke filled the cockpit and the team began full inspection on the race car. There was a small electrical fire which caused damage to the battery. The team repaired the damage and sent van Overbeek back on track.
Only able to complete a few more laps, van Overbeek pitted again and the team re-evaluated the race car. With less than 30 minutes in the race, the No. 2 Tequila Patrón HPD retired from the race.
Next up for Extreme Speed Motorsports is the Brickyard Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 24-25.
âThe car started off good. It took a while for the tires to come and we were fighting handling a little bit. Overall, the longer we raced it seemed like we were pretty competitive. I hung on for the rest of my stint with a few minor issues, but we were able to rectify it in the driver change to Ryan.
âRyan was doing a great job. It looked like we were probably going to get to the podium and then all of a sudden, we had an issue with the exhaust system.
âESM had a great weekend as a team up until that point. We were fast in practice and then second and fourth in qualifying. The car was good in all the sessions. You never know until you go to these tracks which ones should favor our prototypes or the DPs. Canadian Tire Motorsport Park ended up to be better than we expected. Weâre not sure how the next few tracks will work out for us, but weâll do our best.â
âI had a really good start and I was pushing to stay with the lead group. Our car wasnât very good in Turn 5 all week; you try to push it a little bit there and it wants to come around and so thatâs what happened. I shook it off, tore it up some but the car was still good in the high-speed stuff and fought back all the way through. Probably with 10 laps to go in my stint, two GT cars made contact in Turn 3, and that got me a little bit but didnât stop us.
âThen Johannes got in the car and started running some really good laps. We started having wiring issues like we did at Watkins Glen. It was frustrating. Then the No. 1 car was having exhaust issues. Thatâs getting a little old this year that weâre just not able to finish races. Thatâs not a good thing.
âWeâll take what we learned here to Indy and hope our luck swings the opposite way there.â
âSpeed-wise we were good. I think it was going to be hard to pass the 10 car on track, but I think our pit stops were great and we got ahead of the 90 car. We could have done the same with the 10 had we stayed with him up until the last stop. I know they had to take more fuel than us. Things were looking good. I donât know if I could have chased down the 42, but a solid second place, worst case would have been a third today. Iâm massively disappointed. I just came out of Turn 5b and it started feeling some lack of power. We had some sort of issue where we couldnât continue. We lost a lot of power at that point and it wasnât safe to continue.
âIâm very disappointed. Both cars had a bad day. We had so much potential and we didnât get the results. I donât know who weâve managed to upset in the lady luck world, but we need to figure out how to get things back on track and weâre running out of races. It is a shame. Tequila Patrón put a lot into this program and seems like a long time since Laguna and for the No. 1 car further back to Sebring. Both cars are deserving of being on the podium every week.â
âThe car was good. Unfortunately we had some issues early on and that put us a lap down. We had a quick car and we had posted some quick laps. It is a shame we had more issues. But the ESM guys will get to the bottom of it and weâll make the cars better moving forward.
âWe had electrical fire and it filled the cockpit with smoke, which is never comforting as a driver. We came in and found an alternator lead had broken and shorted out. We pitted, diagnosed it and we were running on battery power. We could only run about 20 minutes on battery power.
âI like racing here and this was not the race result either car wanted today.â
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I have followed Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney's Publishing, since reading his great memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" years ago. When I came across the short essay book The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, I had to read it. My favorite essay is "Passive-Aggressive Vegan Grocery Cashier: A Day in the Life" by Meredith Gray. New mothers will enjoy "Hello Stranger on the Street, Could You Please Tell Me How to Take Care of My Baby?" by Wendy Molyneux. Last but not least, Transformers fans will love "A Letter to Optimus Prime from his Geico Auto Insurance Agent" by Frank Weaver. You won't want to miss this book, and McSweeney's is certainly going to gain some new fans with it.
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New Orleans Hornets forward Jason Smith continues to play with a torn labrum in his right shoulder and could need surgery this offseason.
Smith acknowledges the injury -- which he suffered on Dec. 12 -- fluctuates in terms of pain, with some days being better than others. He also aggravates the shoulder often in games.
"I'm hanging in there, it's always sore,'' Smith said. "You can't do anything about it until you get surgery. You just got to manage it as best as you can; get with the training staff and get your treatment day in and day out. You have to use your feet more and try not to do so much arm activity and banging."


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Concord, NH—Wall Street, the government of Taiwan, and Fox News paid Scott Brown hundreds of thousands of dollars — including $20,000 for his Vegas hedge fund junket -- according the financial disclosure Brown finally filed today, more than a month after the law required and after all the other candidates in the race had filed.
"Throughout the last year, Scott Brown has been cashing in, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Wall Street, corporate special interests, and even a foreign government -- after he decided to run for the U.S. Senate," said New Hampshire Democratic Party Communications Director Julie McClain. "This is merely the latest reason New Hampshire voters can't trust Scott Brown. Check the record. Brown's not only been cashing in with Wall Street, he's been voting for Wall Street, Big Oil, and the corporate interests who pay for his campaigns and line his pockets."
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· Brown made $20,000 for a speech at a hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, while he was a candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. (The same hedge fund paid him $14,000 for a similar speech last year. Why was he paid more this year?)
· Brown made $12,000 for a speech in Taiwan, which was made after he decided to run for Senate in New Hampshire.
· Brown made more than $130,000 for his time as a conservative pundit for Fox News.
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Reporter: Iram Ramzan
Date online: 14 February 2014
THOUSANDS of pounds worth of illegal and counterfeit tobacco was seized in a raid on a local business.
Oldham Council Trading Standards and the North West Trading Standards Illicit Tobacco team went to Polski Sklep on Yorkshire Street following a tip it might have illegal cigarettes.
A specialist tobacco sniffer dog uncovered 35,500 cigarettes and 14.5 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco concealed around the building, worth around £10,000.
A regular customer said: "It was only a matter of time before they got busted. It was so upfront the way it was being done."
what a shame nice people own that shop too oh well suppose i'll have to buy my tobacco from the shop now and pay the extra £10 tax that the goverment adds as for mr higgins i am sick of him preaching to us like a stalinist state why doesn't he call for an outright ban on the sale of cigarettes
oh sorry forgot 12 billion a year in tax keeps a few hospitals open then...
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Baby expert Vivien Sabel explains how her new book The Blossom Method gives parents the skills to understand the language of the newborn, and how to talk back so baby feels understood.
By Lisa Salmon.
If parents could talk and understand baby language, looking after a baby would be so much easier.
In the past, such communication was simply in a parent's dreams.
But now, a baby expert has set down in black and white how to understand what a baby says, and how parents can 'talk' back to them.
Such communication has been named The Blossom Method by the woman who discovered it, Vivien Sabel, who has written a book of the same name to describe in detail how it works.
Essentially, the method teaches parents how to recognise and understand their baby's non-verbal communication, which is expressed through unique movements, facial expressions, sounds, and mouth, lip and tongue shapes (tongue-talking), many of which usually go unnoticed.
Sabel, who named the method after her own daughter, Blossom, insists: "It is possible to hear a baby's 'words', but only if you are 'listening'."
In addition, Sabel's new book explains how parents can 'talk' back to their baby, by mirroring expressions and tongue and mouth shapes.
She explains: "Newborns stick out their tongues all the time, in different ways to indicate different things.
"They stick it out in a flaccid, central position when they're looking for food, and they slide their tongue from east to west on their bottom lip when they're searching for something."
Sabel encourages parents to mirror such tongue movements if they're made by their baby, so the child feels their parent knows what they're trying to say.
"They've 'spoken', and you indicating the same message back shows you can hear them. Then they'll do it back to you etc, and a little dance of achievement is going on."
Sabel developed the method through having similar 'conversations' with her own daughter, explaining that she would try her on her breast, or perhaps see if she wanted her nappy changing, and would eventually be able to identify what each signal given by the baby meant.
In a nutshell, the method uses a three-step approach: :: Observing - noticing tongue, lip and mouth movements, facial expressions and body language, and recognising any special needs associated with these movements.
:: Mirroring - Showing baby you've heard what he/she has said by copying their expression/movement.
:: Responding - acting on the message baby is giving, and thus reassuring him/her that you've understood.
As well as identifying when a baby is hungry, thirsty, bored, has wind, is in discomfort, excited etc, the method can also help recognise early signs of illness, says Sabel.
This is particularly obvious, she says, when the smell of a baby's breath changes and may become 'glue-like'.
Changes in skin tone may also appear, but Sabel stresses that using a thermometer is important to check a baby's temperature.
She studied many babies when putting The Blossom Method together, and stresses that all speak a similar language - with slight differences, just as there is in verbal communication.
A very pointed tongue is a 'poo tongue', for example, but Sabel points out that if a baby exhibits such a tongue and doesn't fill his/her nappy, it doesn't mean the translation is wrong - the baby could have constipation, for instance.
Redness underneath the eyebrows, which Sabel says she's seen in all the babies she's worked with, means tiredness or frustration, or both. The baby's fists may also come up when they're tired or frustrated.
If a baby's constipated, their tummy may be taut and their knees may rise up to their chest.
"It's about wholly taking in the experience of your baby," she says.
Using the method means baby's needs are met, she explains, and therefore their need to cry is less.
"Their needs are met before they reach the crying stage."
She says her own daughter rarely cried, which was a "massive indicator" that the method met her needs, and she started speaking at five months of age. Blossom is now seven.
Sabel points out that another benefit of using the method is bonding, and explains that because the baby has a firm foundation and feels understood right from birth, and has his/her needs met, they feel confident and secure.
She recommends that parents become familiar with the method during pregnancy, although even when babies are a few months old it can still be learned successfully, she says.
Many parents will wonder how Sabel could identify this extensive non-verbal world of communication when they themselves, and indeed baby experts throughout the centuries, have failed to spot it.
The answer could lie in Sabel's own childhood - her mother was deaf and didn't use sign language.
"I've come from a non-verbal background and I've been brought up with body language. It was always a movement or a glance or a flicker of my mum's eyelids that gave me a message - I was highly attuned to it."
Sabel, a psychotherapist, went on to train as a sign language interpreter, and her book includes a chapter on baby signing. She says this is a useful way of non-verbal communication for slightly older babies which is easier to learn if The Blossom Method has been used first.
She adds: "When I had my daughter, I instinctively thought, 'What is she going to be telling me?'
"Other people wouldn't necessarily be looking for a baby's non-verbal communication. It's been around forever, it's just that nobody had noticed."
:: The Blossom Method: The Revolutionary Way To Communicate With Your Baby From Birth is published by Vermilion, priced £7.99. Available now.
Ask the expert Q: "I'm very overweight and three months pregnant, but am worried that dieting now will harm my baby. Is it sensible to eat for two now and diet after the birth?"
A: Dr Shakila Thangaratinam, a consultant obstetrician from Queen Mary, University of London, led a study which investigated the effects of diet and exercise on weight gain during pregnancy.
She says: "Pregnancy offers an ideal time to take care of yourself and your unborn baby to make sure that both of you have the best health outcomes in pregnancy and in the long-run.
"Studies have shown that mothers who are overweight and obese and those who pile on excess weight in pregnancy are at increased risk of complications such as pre-eclampsia, raised blood pressure in pregnancy, diabetes and giving birth to small or large babies.
"It's crucial that you don't gain a lot of weight in pregnancy to avoid the complications to you and the baby. Furthermore, it may also make it difficult to lose the excess weight gained after pregnancy.
"There is clear evidence that a balanced diet, on the advice of your GP, midwife, nutritionist or health trainer, will help to prevent excess weight gain.
"It's safe for both you and the baby if you follow a sensible diet instead of eating for two. This doesn't increase the risk of having a small baby.
"Furthermore, there is the possibility that it may reduce the risk of pregnancy complications, and pre-term delivery.
"Your midwife or doctor will be able to provide further information on suitable diets in pregnancy."
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We are a Church of England School founded to serve the local community. Our aims, in partnership with parents, carers and with the Church are to:
• develop each child's full potential in all areas; whether academic, creative, physical, social or spiritual;
• celebrate children's particular talents and actively encourage individual and collective achievement;
• build a caring and supportive community in which all, adults and children, participate with a common sense of purpose and shared responsibility.
We believe that our school, true to its Christian ethos, provides an environment in which our children can grow as self-confident, responsible and valued members of this community.
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Cincinnati (Aug. 23)
Rabbis H. G. Enelow and Louis I. Newman, New York, are two of thirteen rabbis whose sermons were chosen this year to make up the Book of Sermons which is published annually by the Tract Commission of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Rabbi Enelow's contribution is entitled "On Yom Kippur Eve", and is intended for the holiday of the Day of Atonement. The title of Rabbi Newman's sermon is "Fear Not the Sentence of Death," and it was intended for the same holiday.
The publication is used throughout the country in small towns where there are no rabbis; in institutions, and among university groups of Jewish students. Services are generally conducted by laymen, and the sermon read from the Sermon Pamphlet.


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