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I made a mistake and have an unexpected layover at either a CDG hotel or a paris Hotel for 24 hours. What to do? I arrive into CDG at 7 AM this Friday and my next flight isn't until 7 AM this Saturday. What would you do with this time - stay at the airport hotel and get over jet lag or park my stuff at the hotel and after a cat nap head into the city? if so what can i do, for such a short period of time that is really special? I will not feel like running around. I will be back in Paris for 5 days in two weeks hence for the conclusion of my trip.
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Layover- CDG airport hotel for too long! suggestions what to do?
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No mistake. I did this drill.
Checked in to the CDG Sheraton, took the RER to Luxembourg station, cruised the sidewalks, had dinner, and took the RER back to CDG. Walked to my flight departure desk in the morning.
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I would never just stay at the hotel, but that's just me. I'd get into the city as fast as possible, spend a nice day, and go back to the hotel relatively early in the evening.
I wouldn't even take a cat nap. They do me in. I have to keep moving.
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Or, drop off your luggage at the airport hotel and take a 30 minute taxi ride to the beautiful small town of Senlis for lunch and a walk around town. Then return to the airport hotel.
Like StCirq, I need to keep moving. You may be different though.
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While the hotel probably will hold your luggage for you, it's not likely that your room will be available for you to use so early in the morning. Head for Paris and stay active to fight jet lag. Return to CDG in time to go to bed fairly early and get a good night's sleep. You'll wake up rested with your body clock on Europe time.
Buy a one-day zone 1-5 Paris Visite pass (€19.60) at CDG. Use it to get to Paris on the RER B, around the city, and back to CDG. Be aware that the RER B line divides northeast of Paris. When you head back to CDG be sure to get on a train that is going there.
There is no limit to the "special" things you could do in one day. What kinds of activities interest you most?
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If you land at 7 am by the tim eyou get through immigration, get your luggage, go through customs, make you way to the airport hotel, drop your luggage (your room will almost 100% not be ready) and get into town it will likely be about 10 am. I would take a nice long stroll (perhaps explore the Ile St Louis, have a casual lunch in a cafe and then see a ouole of sights - you can easily do Notre Dame and La Chapelle - then go and have an early dinner (7 pm or so) at a nice cafe and head back to your hotel to crash.
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no question....suck it up and head into Paris!! Seize the day!!! A few hours in Paris way better than a day at CDG. Agree...take the train in and enjoy it...sleep later. I bet you will find something amazing. You don't have to do anything special...just being in Paris is special enough! I might pop into Note Dame, stroll Ile St Louis, buy some chocolate at Cacao et Chacolat, ice cream Bethillon....
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Do youhave plans for your 5 days back in Paris? If so,I would do something that you won't be able to squeeze during those days.Maybe go out to Versailles or Giverny.
Just watch the time of trains back to your airport hotel.
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Excellent advice, as always. I knew my fellow Fodorites would come through for me. I will take the train into the city, have lunch, stroll and peek around for what I can to when I return.
Thanks for tip on the one-day zone 1-5 Paris Visite pass (€19.60) at CDG.
PS- What is the french word for honey? I prefer drinking tea with lots of honey over coffee and wanted to know - Do most of the cafes turn their noses at tea drinkers?
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We also just did the same on our return trip home. Arrived at noon, checked into the airport Hilton and off to Paris. We got to 3 places we had been wanting to go - lunch at Angelinas, walked around, dinner at Le Grand Colbert and walked to The Ritz for after dinner drinks. Hotel shuttle took us to the terminal for our 10:30am flight home.
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I have gotten tea all over Paris...believe that French word for honey is "miel"...I always get tea with lemon with no issue...I am sure honey will be no problem...
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You can order tea with honey, though I'm not sure every café will be able to fulfill that request. It would be "je voudrais du thé avec du miel, SVP." Of course if you go to a salong de thé instead of a café, it's almost certain you can order that.
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gettng tea is not aproble, even in cafes where everyone else is sipping esperessos Most places serve it in ppot.
If you ae tea lover, don't miss Mariage Freres There are several around Paris. Even if you dont buy the teas, they'll let you have a "whiff' from the canister.But i dare you to resist buying at least a bit!!
Don't miss the aroma of their "PAQUES'' tea- incredible!!!!
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That should have been salon.
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and my response should read "problem" "pot" "are" and"espressos."
I need either a new keyboard(this one is that small flat one that goes with iMac)...or new fingers.
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txhomes - did you find the airport shuttle back to CDG reliable and on time? I am staying at the Marriott and I can't remember where i read it, but someone mentioned they were disappointed with the shuttle service ( not organized , etc). Also, to get to the airport hotel from CDG can i take the easy way out and take a taxi? I will be tired after the flight and don't want to deal with finding the location of the hotel shuttle and waiting forever unless it is really convenient. Are the hotel shuttles located in the same place as the taxi's at CDG?
Also do i need to go back to CDG after i unload my luggage to pick up the RER B into the city?
For the final leg of my trip I return back to CDG for a 6 night stay near the Arc de Triomphe. I don't want to spend a gizillion dollars in cab fare. Has anyone used the Roissybus from CDG that drops you off at Opera? Would it be hard to get to the Renaissance Hotel Arc de Triomphe from the Opera drop off? Just a caveat - I am traveling with heavy luggage due to the fact I am carrying gear for a hiking phase as well as gear for colder weather.
Thanks for the correct way of asking for tea- "je voudrais du thé avec du miel, SVP.
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Yes, you will need to get from CDG to the Mariott and back again to catch the RER B. If you take the free hotel shuttle, you will be picked up and dropped off near the CDG 2 TGV RER station. Here's a quote from the hotel site:
"You will stay at the Paris CDG Airport Marriott Hotel and enjoy a free shuttle to and from the airport. The shuttle operates from Terminal 2, everyday from 5am to 00.30, approximately every 20 minutes. From Terminal 1 or Terminal 3 go to station 'Terminal 2/TGV-RE' train station. 20 minutes transportation." However, I'm sure you can take a taxi to the hotel if you so choose.
Since I suggested that you buy a one-day Paris Visite pass, I should tell you that the multi-day versions of the pass are not a good deal. For a list of all your ticket and pass options for your six-day stay, with links to detailed explanations of each one, go here: http://tinyurl.com/let4xg.
At the end of your stay if you don't want to schlepp your luggage on the metro and RER to get to CDG, I suggest that you take Air France bus #2 directly from Etoile (right at the Arc de Triomphe) to CDG. Buses run every 20 minutes and make make one stop at Porte Maillot. The fare is €13.50. It would be a very short taxi ride from your hotel to Etoile.
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The CDG Sheraton is steps away from the boarding gates. The RER station is a few steps away from that. It is TOO convenient.
The Roissybus stops at Opera, a long way from Etoile. There is an Air France Les Cars bus that stops on the north side of Etoile.
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Latest update, I can change my ticket and avoid a layover if I grap a flight at 1 PM out of Orly. It costs $150 to change but it allows me to change something else too.
Am I being too neurotic? I originally thought I wanted to minimize my travel the day I arrived, but now that I realize I have 24 hours of having to come up with something, I am having second thoughts. Plus I won't have to get up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to make my 7:25 AM flight. Is getting to Orly for a 1 pm flight too tight if I arrive into CDG at 7 AM?
Please weigh in.
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Change it- by the time you add the cost of hotel, getting into Paris, eating in Paris etc you will come close or more to spending $150 or more ...listen to that inner voice!
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That sounds about right with time to spare, it's 6 hours, after all. If you get out of CDG by 8, take the air france bus to Orly, you should get there around 9. That is four hours early, so there is room for some delays in that process. I wouldn't want to spend 8 hrs just getting from CDG to Orly, after all.
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On the other hand, salong would work in Provence.
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What? Sell your soul before giving away a day in Paris!
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Ah - I think I will listen to the inner voice - that is why we have one - right?
spaarne - I will be back in Paris in two weeks.
Christina - what did you mean by "I wouldn't want to spend 8 hrs just getting from CDG to Orly, after all."
Can anyone recommend a nice hotel in Bordeaux Centre for about $100 Euro per night?
TimS - thanks I willl take the Air France bus for sure.
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<<On the other hand, salong would work in Provence.>>
You're right, Underhill. I hadn't thought of that. LOL!
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StCirq- do you know of a hotel in bordeaux that is well located in the center of town and about 100 Euros per night?
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He needed to be with me all the time, told me things he never said, I was a "wondrful woman, made for him, he is incomplete without me, I'm a good woman, good wife, mother, etc." All that shouldn't make me uncomfortable, but it was all so much, so close together...ne never spoke that way before.
I was leary. i didn't want to get emotionally hooked and then him change back to his cool, defensive, closed, independent way again....
Well he did. Now the problems seem to focus on sex. He is withdrawn and frustrated again. He isn't honest about his real feelings when we argue,and he won't be honest about them. Everything is my fault again. He is not getting enoughsex, as my libido is low. I don't refuse him, I will make love if I'm not up to it. He doesn't want to make love if I'm not really into it. He gets upset if I don't have an orgasm. I don't feel like having one every time at 53. Just being intimate makes me feel intimate, and complete that way.
Then he gets withdrawn, and doesn't want sex unless I initiate...he sleeps 5 hours a night, and I know he is more tired than even I am. I don't initiate much. When I tried last night, he rejected me saying he was still hurt by something that had happened two nights earlier. It seems like a passive agressive game being played.
Anyone else in R for several years still have these constant dramas? I feel like WH is insecure, wants something more from the M, and isn't getting it. I'm just worn out by all the drama and want peace. His rollercoaster emotions towards me make me feel he is going to eventually just bounce right out of our M and onto another woman alltogether who meets all those dreams he has that I am dissapointing him about.
An MC could mediate for you both. If you don't want to go into MC or IC right now there are plenty of books that could help you. Intimacy and codependency would be the main subjects I would try to learn more about.
We are in R.
Talk to him about your ideal, and then negotiate a middle ground, i.e., weekly date nights; sex twice a week, he initiates once and you initiate once; sleep routines that encourage 7 hours in bed; etc.
Have you both read the "5 Love Languages" book?
It sounds like your WH has unrealistic expectations of your relationship.
Knowing: He is not in IC anymore, he is reading a couple of books...which is a move in the right direction, as he didn't used to read self help books before. We are going to IC, but haven't been in a couple of weeks due to schedule conflicts. We're due to go in two weeks. It is too far out, as so many things are happening that we can't process with the IC.
knowing: Yes, he does want to have a great relationship...it just isn't working out the way he wants...it is as if he doesn't consider that his idea of a great marriage (me jumping at sex every day and having multiple orgasms...my having one isn't enough for him sometimes when it is just fine with me most of the time...even none is fine with me) doesn't consider my needs for a great marriage.
I have tried to tell him what I need: peace, predictablility, ssecurity, less drama, understanding of my own needs and what I don't need not being projected onto me.
Ladies_First: I like your idea of negotiating so we can both have a say in our M, and come to a middle ground where both of us is reasonably happy.
No I haven't read the 5 love languages book...I have it, and it is packed away still, since we moved. I'll put it on my list of things to do.
update: He was supposed to have to spend the night out of town last night for work, but he made every effort to be back in town. I joked with him that I don't know why he would want to spend the night at home given how it has been. He said it was like sleeping at a hotel: the king bed all to himself the night before at home.
He wasn't angry or expressing negative feelings, so I joined him in our bed...no sex occurred, but at least we both said good night to each other. It was difficult for both of us to fall asleep. There is so much going on underneath the surface that you can almost feel it.
I just can't stand how complicated our sex life has gotten. I hate A's and porn.
[This message edited by HurtButHopeful? at 10:13 AM, May 23rd (Thursday)]
We are almost 2 years out and dealing with some sexual difficulties as well, but more on his end than mine.
Your FWH needs to have a lot more patience with you. It can be frustrating, but like a PP said, you guys need to find a middle ground and start there. Hugs!
Sleeping all the time? No interest?
Just a thought... I don't know your history but that is the first thing I thought of when I read your post.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Viktor Frankl
"When you are happy, you can forgive a great deal."
Could there be depression?
Sleeping all the time? No interest?
We walked tonight so we could talk without interruption. H said that although he fell asleep the other night when I was talking to him because he was exhausted, and that he wanted to have sex when he woke up a couple of minutes later, it is perfectly normal, and that he felt I was trying to dictate things to him, tell him if he can or cannot have sex when he is tired.
I was hurt when that happened, and my being hurt is the incident that caused this thread. I had no right to be hurt, according to my H. I told him, "I am not good enough to listen to, but I am good enough to have sex with."
More than have sex, I want to be listened to...those are my needs. But for him it all turns into sex.
During our walk he basically reiterated that I had a problem being hurt that he wanted to have sex after falling asleep while I was talking.
I told him that I wish he would just be honest with me instead of playing with my head. I wished he would have just said, "Sorry honey, I'm a regular guy, and I think with my dick."
When I said that he retorted "get away from me" and let go of my hand. He walked quickly ahead of me toward our home. I didn't go straight home, I walked and walked and would have kept walking if I didn't have children, and had a home somewhere else.
sigh....he has told me so many times that all guys think of sex many times a day...everything always turns into thoughts of sex....I guess that means all guys except him....sigh...
He has always tried to be different from any male stereotypes, and I used to believe him...until the A and the porn...sigh.
I wish I could just disappear into a puff of smoke and never be again and never was in the first place.
Thank God I have wonderful children who need me and love me. They expect little of me, and just love what I do for them. I just can't help sighing and feeling like giving up on the M. It is more complicated than ever now that he has quit porn and is "fighting back" with me as he calls it. One minute he is honest, the next he is not. Then he comes back when he was not honest and tries to tell me truth, pretending that what he also said the first time was the truth, the 2nd story is just "better" truth.
This is depressing, and I feel like giving up.
HBH?: I am a male, a wayward (working to be forgiven), and I am happy to report that I do not think about sex constantly. In fact, I am much more focused on keeping my job and being responsible for my family than whether or not I'm being satisfied sexually. In fact, my responsibility has gotten to the point where Heart had to force me to go to see a movie with a friend of the M.
So many things changed for me that it's hard to really pin down what caused this shift in my worldview, but I'm not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth. I've managed to alter my thinking patterns, and that makes me happy enough.
I really hope your WS can get his act together in IC. I know my IC has helped me consider a great many things that wouldn't have been obvious on my own. Then again, IC requires being completely open and honest, otherwise IC is pointless.
He has always tried to be different from any male stereotypes, and I used to believe him...until the A and the porn.
I could be wrong but I see here that your H is having a HUGE inner conflict that has NOTHING to do with you, you are just the easiest thing for him to lash out at.
He is battling who he REALLY is with who he WISHES he was and he cannot accept those parts of him that do not line up with what he thinks he should be, his ideal.
I would recommend trying to detatch so you do not take things personally, step back and try to see what he says and does in the light of his inner battle with himself not as a criticism of you.
Also, I would recommend working on boundaries so you can define for yourself how you will handle him and his ups and downs as he works through this (if he continues to work through this of course, he may or may not choose to get on the horse and ride it out to the end, and if he really does finally get real and is willing to see himself fully and accept himself, good and bad fully, who knows where that will lead him and how you will feel about that person)
I could be seeing this all wrong and if so, just disregard.
As for us, we definitely need to find time to get back into MC.
I'm glad for you and your BW.
Thank you, but she deserves as much praise as I do. It has taken work from both of us to get here. More on that in a moment...
Thanks for telling me it can get better.
It can. The caveat is, however, that it does require both people to make sacrifices and changes. Eventually, these choices get easier from both sides, but it takes time and consistency. From what you've been saying, your WS doesn't show consistency. This, as I see it, is a problem.
He is not in IC. I don't know if he has been reading his books lately. This morning he got up and made a lot of noise, then when I got up and tried to talk, he said, "Oh you're at it again. Let's just play the not talk to each other game. You need to repent." So it is all my fault again...just like pre-A times.
This, especially the last bit, really bothers me. Sounds like someone's still projecting and deflecting ... issues an IC could definitely help cut through.
Reading books definitely helped me, but I worked through them together with Heart. Perhaps you might try working through the books together? I don't know if that would help, but it might force him to actually look at some of these issues that trouble you and him both.
But deep down, he is an average Joe. He has told me and our daughters many times that guys see anything and it translates in their minds to sex....all day long.
But not him....
He came home from work today and has been short, and snotty to me since he arrived. He says I have to "look at myself."
I was going to go to a motel to get away from him, but I realized I don't want to be away from our 3 children, just him. He told me to leave, do whatever I want to do. I told him what I explained above, and that I was going to stay and just be miserable with him, but enjoy our children.
He is very angry I said the thinks with his dick. He says I am the master of insults. I told him I was just stating what he has been telling me and the girls for months...except he think that all his insights about men exclude him.
I told him, "Why don't you just admit the truth, then we (he and I) could have a good laugh, and we could both accept that part of him for what it is." He said I am just mean and again the master of insults.
I think all hope is lost. I didn't say it to be mean, but to cut to the chase hoping he would apologize for the other night and we could laugh the next time he falls asleep and wants sex when he wakes up a couple of minutes later. He is not budging that I am just insulting him and am mean.
I like your idea of reading the books together, but he keeps them close, he doesn't want me near them. He thinks I will use it against him, I guess.
I love him, but I can't stand the constant push and pull game. Oh yeah, he also called me a liar today...he said I am lying about just wanting to be mean.
He just doesn't get how intimate sex is and how much work it is for me...and how aware I am of his sleep deprivation due to long work hours. That combination just kills it for me.
He says he'd rather lose sleep (sleep 4 hours instead of 5) so he can have sex. I don't want him to die early of a heart attack. If he is too tired to listen to me talk, I totally understand. But to then wake up and want sex? I'm just a thick headed, stupid idiot...I just don't get it. Now I'm hating myself again.

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On getting closer I saw that it was unlike any fly I'd seen before - impressively long wings and very big eyes. The wings shone almost scarlet in the sun.
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--Doug DeCinces' slump.
--An underachieving starting pitching staff.
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Do people gold plate anymore or do they just expand the scope to include new features and functions? You know what "gold plate" is don't you? It's a general term that usually means adding more to the system than specified in the requirements.
I'm always amused when I hear, "It didn't take much time." "It works better this way," or "I needed to do this to make the other requirement work." It can seem like some folks are just adding on, but it can become "gold plating."
What most people don't realize is that unnecessary additions, that shiny gold plate, can impact the effort.
Additions can indicate a problem with the maintenance and control of the actual project. One would wonder who's managing the project and making sure there are no negative impacts, or false positive ones.
That gold has a cost. It can increase the maintenance depending on the type of gold plating done, but it can also reduce quality by taking appropriate time away from scope that has yet to be completed and causing team members to take shortcuts.
Here are a few reasons why we succumb to the shine.
1) We can get fascinated by new technologies and want to try them out. We don't always know if they can deliver, but boy do we want to try slick new things.
2) Making some assumptions regarding the stated requirements and creating more than asked for which is often a personal opinion or gain item
3) Some would even say that refactoring code could be considered gold plating but it's a fine line. I would say that it is, unless it's considered part of the functional and technical requirements scope document.
How to stop yourself from gilding the lily.
1) Know your scope. As the PM, you should know the scope of the work. I'm not suggesting you know the technical details, but you should be able to manage a high level discussion. It's good to know functional requirements too, although you should be able to lean on the analyst for that information. Either way, arm yourself with the knowledge to help direct the effort.
2) Stay in touch with the development team and decisions they are making. You need to depend on the Tech Lead to ensure gold plating is not happening.
3) Request demos as often as it makes sense. Always stay in touch with what the team is developing visually. If you know the scope, you should be able to do a quick visual check on the code. You may not always be able to do this, depending on the stage of development, but it's an option.
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Hi Cathlynn,
You didn't mention probably the worst consequence of gold plating: increasing customer's expectations. When you give your customer more than he bargained for on the first project, then he'll expect the same on all his subsequent projects. Gold plating can lead to the loss of customers at one point!
Refactoring is not gold plating when it results in more unit testable code. If you have a code base that has lots of defects and a code base where the defect density does not drop, the code needs solid unit tests. Test driven development follows closely with Agile. Any stakeholder has the implicit or explicit requirement of zero defects. Driving down maintenance costs is huge. Too much software is in the state where if you fix one defect you inadvertently create another. Unit testing solves this and refactoring for testability should be done in certain situations. I'm not talking about QA testing either, formal unit testing done by the developers. This should fall on the good side of the fine line you mention – this should not be considered gold plating.
Of course it cannot be hidden from the estimates. Once they are communicated and approved into the development estimates, then I don't believe they should be considered gold plating. Far too often though I see business analysts, project managers and developers not able to effectively communicate the value of code clean up – specifically unit testable code, when it is needed. Code clean up with out additional features some times is also part of the development process. There are many times that the new requirements force a very different design/implementation which is another example of refactoring that I feel is not gold plating. You may think of it differently; I don't know. It is also important to note that developers can be over police'd when it comes to fear of gold plating. Things like commit hooks can be tied to defects will limit what you think is gold plating. I think good communication is the key to balance "good" vs "bad" refactoring efforts and determine which are needed and when. Sometimes software systems are a "birds nest" and are costly to maintain. It just happens. I've seen strong resistance to refactoring even when its costs and benefits are effectively communicated. There are always extremes in any spectrum of view. I think I've seen an extreme paranoia of gold plating, (of course not what you are talking about), where it can be rejected no matter what. In those cases, I've seen very talented developers get very frustrated and leave the company.
Whatever happened to under-promise and over-deliver?
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The Las Vegas outpost of Chef Thomas Keller's world-renowned Bouchon Bistro is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Keller (right) with chef de cuisine Joshua Crain.
"It's humbling to celebrate a decade in this town," says Michelin-starred and multi-award-winning chef Thomas Keller. "I am proud to be in the company of so many great chefs and great restaurants." Dining establishments in Las Vegas come and go as quickly as fortunes on the casino floor, yet even 10 years after it opened, Bouchon Bistro still draws crowds eager to indulge in Keller's acclaimed renditions of French bistro classics. "The Las Vegas food culture has matured in such a way," he says, "that it's now a serious dining destination that attracts sophisticated diners." Bouchon's enduring popularity serves as testament to that, as well as proof that tradition never gets tiresome.
Adam Tihany, the designer of the restaurant's original Yountville, California, location, was given a blank canvas here and a whole lot of space with which to work. But even scaled to Vegas proportions, Bouchon manages to capture the charm of a traditional bistro, with antique sconces, a Paulin Paris mural, colorful mosaic tiled floors, a gorgeous pewter bar where towers of fruits de mer tempt hungry patrons, and Palladian windows that look out onto a delightful courtyard and a stunning pool. It was this enchanting view and the unique site in Venetian's Venezia Tower, far from the chaos of the casino, that finally convinced Keller to open in Las Vegas. "The location has allowed us to take a restaurant space and transform it into an oasis in the desert," he says.
Only in Vegas could a French bistro like Bouchon, serving dishes by esteemed chef Thomas Keller, open onto a Venetian courtyard.
The tranquil outdoor seating area and its remote setting may transport you to Provence, but once you're inside, this bistro has the bustling atmosphere and lively chatter more associated with a Parisian brasserie. Local power players dine on grand plates of the freshest seafood paired with crisp Sancerre, while visiting families with pommes frites–munching tots find something for everyone on the approachable menu. Eschewing tweezer-placed elements for a refined rustic presentation, the plating isn't precious. The preparation, however, is executed with absolute precision. "Bouchon is about maintaining classic traditions and techniques of French comfort food," Keller explains. "The core of our menu never changes."
Fittingly, classics like steak frites (a flat iron steak seared to perfection and topped with maître-d' butter, plus caramelized shallots and a hefty pile of golden fries), a bubbling bowl of fragrant French onion soup, and poulet rôti (roasted Shelton Farm chicken, Keller's personal favorite) are best sellers. Since California banned foie gras, the silky, rich liver has become one of the most popular items at Bouchon in Vegas—in a pan-seared variety or terrines of two sizes. "All the people visiting from California come here to get their fill," says chef de cuisine Joshua Crain.
The poulet rôti is served with poached pears and cavolo nero (black kale) in a brown-butter jus.
Traditional dishes may be the menu's backbone, but a chalkboard of daily specials allows the kitchen to utilize the season's bounty. The specials highlight seasonal ingredients, Crain explains, with spring and summer, for example, perhaps bringing a classic pan-roasted salmon with peas, morels, and sauce beurre blanc. To top off the meal, traditional airy profiteroles drizzled in Valrhona dark chocolate and a tangy lemon tart provide a refreshing contrast to the robust, savory fare.
No meal in France is complete without wine, and Bouchon offers a list evenly divided between American and French selections, as well as a reserve list boasting great French producers such as Roumier, Rousseau, Selosse, and Pol Roger, plus a number of classified growths from Bordeaux.
Pastry chef Scott Wheatfill plates chocolate bouchons.
Providing diners with an emotional connection to food is what Bouchon is all about. "It's not about specialized ingredients," says Crain. "It's about precision in technique applied to ordinary ingredients and the love of French comfort food." Adds Keller, "One thing about a bistro is that you want to count on its predictability." As Bouchon pushes forward into the next decade, Keller says it will continue to strive to offer food, service, and atmosphere like those one would find at a traditional bistro in France. "There is something to be said for maintaining and never wavering from that level of excellence."
"It's hard to believe we opened here 10 years ago," he continues. "The beauty of Bouchon is that it is timeless. Our food, our service, and the atmosphere will remain relevant for the next 10 years and many more to come." Venetian, 702-414-6200
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After the defeat on Monday of a referendum on borrowing up to $400 million for a new Nassau Coliseum, Wang released a statement that left the door open to remaining on Long Island.
"I would like to thank all of the Nassau County residents who participated in the Aug. 1st referendum," Wang said in the statement, which also ran as an advertisement in Newsday.
"I am disappointed and heartbroken with the outcome," Wang said. "However, what I believe is every time a door closes, another one will open. I have lived on Long Island for almost 60 years and it is my home. I am not giving up on Long Island and I hope you won't either."
On Tuesday, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said that he would begin soliciting ideas for private sector development of the 77 acres around the Coliseum. While that plan could include keeping the Islanders and an arena, Mangano said he would consider all offers from developers to lease or buy the land.
It is unclear if Wang, who declined to comment further on the team's future, will bid on the property.
Wang has said that if a new Coliseum isn't built, he will move the Islanders after their lease expires in 2015. Officials in Suffolk County and Brooklyn have expressed interest in luring the team. Queens has been also been a frequently mentioned landing spot for the Islanders.
Wednesday, a group seeking to bring an NHL team to Kansas City, Mo., also expressed interest in the Islanders. The Sprint Center, which opened in October 2007, was built for a professional sports franchise but has yet to attract a club.
"We know we have a state-of-the-art, NHL-ready building that has the best agreement for a potential anchor tenant in the United States," said Paul McGannon, president of NHL 21. "We're waiting on Phoenix, we're waiting on the Islanders, we're waiting to see what happens in St. Louis and Dallas. We're just waiting for our turn in line.
"If parties are interested, we'll roll out the welcome mat," said McGannon. "We're not in the business of taking teams. We're in the business of getting the NHL back in Kansas City."
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There are 20k children trapped in Fallujah, which is currently being fought over by Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants.
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This ABQ grandfather biked from Burque to Houston for his grandson's graduation.
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Celebrate 30 years of Indian tacos, competitive dancing and paying tribute to tradition this year at Albuquerque's own Gathering of Nations. The Gathering is North America's most prominent powwow, and it will host tens of thousands of guests and representatives from more than 700 Native and Aboriginal tribes throughout the United States, Canada and all over to honor Indigenous cultures and traditions through dance, music, food and the crowning of the next Miss Indian World
The United Native Council of New Mexico hosts an all-day celebration of native culture, featuring singing, dancing and eating in Old Town Plaza. Festivities begin at noon on Saturday with a Gourd dance—Southern Drum—followed by a Gourd dance—Northern Drum. The ceremonial rug cutting, consisting of four sets of four songs, probably originated with the Kiowa people, but it's spread throughout many tribes. At 2 p.m. the Jemez Pueblo Singers and Drummers help you work up an appetite; grab some dinner at one of the Old Town eateries. Finally, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., there's a full-on intertribal powwow. For more info on this free event, visit: cabq.gov/cultural.
North America's biggest powwow continues through today and tomorrow, at the University of New Mexico Football Field (University and Avenida Cesar Chavez SE), beginning at 10 a.m. each day. Massive amounts of Native musicians, songwriters and storytellers begin to perform on Stage 49 on Friday. Music includes traditional, blues, rock, jazz, folk, country, hip-hop, metal and reggae. Wristbands for the powwow, Indian Traders Market and music events on Friday and Saturday are $15 per day at the gate (cash only) or $30 for a two-day wristband. See the full schedule of events, and other happenings around the gathering here.
The first Earth Day was 40 years ago today.
Should New Mexico give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants?
She was sentenced to nine years after dragging an elderly man with her car, but she's out after little more than a year.
The APS solution: Bigger classes.
Gathering of Nations starts today. (Red Earth will reunite.)
Mom's mystery infection.
Lawyer: He shot his 100-pound pregnant girlfriend in self-defense.
The Havasupai in Arizona won a fight with a university over the misuse of their DNA.
Obama tells Congress to regulate Wall Street's bullshit.
Sarah Palin's Christian nation.
WellPoint used a computer algorithm to target breast cancer patients and cancel their health insurance with allegations of fraud.
Earthquakes happen because women aren't modest enough, says a prayer leader in Tehran.
"South Park" self-censors an ep about the Prophet Muhammed after warnings show up on a radical Islamic group's website.
Kate Gosselin creeped some people out. (She's famous just so we can hate her, no?)
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Photo by Tenaya HillsIf Fritz Lang's Metropolis were happy instead of sinister, and if it were set in outer space instead of an underground postindustrial city of the future . . . well, I suppose it would be Barbarella.
Okay. So if Barbarella were underwater, and had anthropomorphized jellyfish and blimps instead of a sluttily (but fabulously!) togged Jane Fonda constantly getting surprised by inconvenient and uninvited orgasms, well, then it might be Christine Nguyen's work at Huntington Beach's The Office. Maybe. Better throw in Finding Nemo, as well. Or maybe Nguyen's work is more like the Beatles' Yellow Submarine? The cartoon they used to show on Saturday mornings in the late '70s sometimes when they weren't rerunning the animated Jackson 5? There were little creatures in that, right? No, Yellow Submarine, not the Jackson 5. We know all about the poor Creatures Jackson.
So. What the hell is Christine Nguyen doing with her "mixed media" (pencil and what looks suspiciously like crayon or colored pencil) on a canvas that looks like tracing paper? What is she doing with her bizarre sea/spacescapes, with her blimps that look like cuddly hammerhead sharks? What's up with her Water Spirits, where fish that look like buses live inside glass bowls that are actually heads that have small metropoli sprouting from them and tiny Jetsons space cars cruising on an el in between? What?
Or how about Fishmarines collecting energy from islands? Purple Lorax trees rise from island heads while, you know, "fishmarines" collect energy from them. Then there are the bitter bluebirds of Scapes—bitter, sinister bluebirds that are really jets, with tiny x-ed windows in their bellies, soaring over one-eyed pink jellyfish with barbs and city fish with tiny Saturns (the planet, not the pleasantly PC family sedan) emerging from their maws. The bluebirds carry blue eggs, giant ones, and they (the bluebirds) are hoppin' mad.
I do not know why.
Nguyen is a perfect artist for The Office—a tiny, three-cubicled space that's as anonymous and generic as the anonymous, generic Huntington Beach office park in which it's secreted. A Cal State Long Beach alum in her second year at UC Irvine, Nguyen should at this stage in her career rightfully be perpetrating some tired identity-politics art and gazing at her vagina. Instead, she's going sci-fi Dada, forsaking the politics of her gender, country and world for an equally frightful place: one that's superficially much prettier, with its pastel hues and bright creatures and teeny cities that live on fishheads (and are purple!), but where bluebirds look ready to launch an MX missile.
In a second room, Nguyen shows prints on beige fast-food bags. They'd probably be more acceptable to the discerning high-art crowd due to their terribly bland color-scheme (you know how the toity like their ecru), but they lack the goofy zippiness of the cartoony fish worlds. Still, there's one, Ceremonial ritual of welcoming, that shows an inked quail bowing down to some . . . other creature . . . in a graceful, gracious gesture. Gestating within the quail is either a parasite or a fetus—which are, to some people, one and the same. The print is lovely.
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Derric Eady's Manifesto takes the third cubicle, with a quote from Tristan Tzara explaining how to commit automatic poetry. It seems you take a newspaper or magazine article that is about the length you want your poem to be, cut it into individual words, and then pull them one by one from a bag, carefully recording the order. "The poem," Tzara claims, "will resemble you." But that sly Eady instead cut up Tzara's quote and made three automatic poems from that! Clever Derric Eady.
Unfortunately, the automatic poems are such an abstract kerfuffle that one can't be bothered to read them carefully all the way through. When one gets to the fourth, one realizes it is the original—Tzara's instructions—and that the previous three were derived from it.
One can do much better, really, with those poetry refrigerator magnets. Still, Eady's sense of font and paper stock was extremely pleasing aesthetically, and that's something. Eady also shows a couple of sterile, futuro graphics that are quite cool and nifty. His future may really lie in design—the kind without words, or where words don't matter, like vintage Wired, maybe. Or The Orange County Register.
The Great Escape: The art of Christine Nguyen and Derric Eady at The Office, 5122 Bolsa Ave., Ste. 110, Huntington Beach, (714) 767-5861. Open Tues.-Fri., 1-5 p.m. Through Aug. 8.


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I was recently in Le Marche, Italy, and I bought several squares of a bread or cracker in the market in Ancona. It was maybe a quarter inch thick, crunchy, filled with olive oil & sunflower seeds & sesame. It clearly was made with a pretty wet dough, and must have had a fair amount of oil in it ? it was crispy all the way through but not dry. I found it again in a town just south of Ancona, and the woman who sold it to me said it was called pizza seca de cerial.
I was delighted to discover that the Mantovana Olive Oil Bread is clearly a close relative (Thanks Rose!!), but so far, I haven?t been able to produce a really great crispy-all-the-way-through consistency in a cracker-ish form. Does anyone have any leads for me? -Tracy


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The demand seems simple enough. In today's NFL, teams need large, athletic defensive linemen.
As the spread offense proliferates, defenses must dot the field with multiple defensive backs. And more players on the back end means fewer players up front. Disruptive interior pass rushers are at an all-time premium.
This player has eluded Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson, one of the game's top talent evaluators. In Datone Jones this year, he hopes he finally has found an answer.
Jones says it's a perfect fit. Packers coach Mike McCarthy says Jones "hit the lottery." Now comes the hard part.
Hold the point. Transition to a pass rush.
These players aren't easy to find.
"The interior lineman," said UCLA defensive coordinator Lou Spanos, "that's tough business there because you have to obviously stop the run. And then on passing situations, on third down or second and long, now you have to transfer it over. In a split second, you have to use your quickness and your hands to beat the guard and get to the quarterback.
"Datone does a great job of transitioning from his run keys to his pass keys and then he's really athletic. At his size (6 feet 4 inches, 285 pounds), he's very athletic and uses his hands."
Since 2005, Thompson has drafted 14 defensive linemen. At No. 9 overall in 2009, he nailed the B.J. Raji pick. Elsewhere, not so much. There was a historic bust (Justin Harrell), a sixth-round pick gone south (Johnny Jolly), talent hounded by injuries (Mike Neal), a solid one-dimensional run defender (C.J. Wilson) and undersized rotational rushers (Jerel Worthy, Mike Daniels).
He has not, however, found the defensive lineman capable of doing it all.
Considering about 75% of the game today is played with five and six defensive backs, all defensive coordinators better boast a down lineman capable of caving the pocket. In Dom Capers' scheme, it's essential. As repeated ad nauseam, he had that player in Cullen Jenkins in 2010 and the Packers won a Super Bowl.
Spanos' first year with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a scout was Capers' final year as defensive coordinator. Their paths hardly crossed. Still, he was around Dick LeBeau for two stints with the Steelers before taking over Jim Mora Jr.'s defense at UCLA in 2012. He was in the NFL from 1995-2011.
In that 2012 season, Jones' game took flight. He finished with 62 tackles (19 for loss) and 5½ sacks.
"I think it was his approach to it," Spanos said. "From Day 1, he knew that this was his last chance to make something in college. So he trusted Coach Mora, myself and our D-Line coach more often that this system is successful and works. He thought, 'How can I be my own person in this system and blossom?' "
UCLA's 3-4 terminology, Jones noted last weekend, is the same in Green Bay. He was not overwhelmed by the playbook. Chances are, he'll dazzle off the ball through organized team activities and minicamp, too. The true questions about Jones - if he can wreak havoc inside - won't be answered until the pads come on in August.
With the Bruins, he played all along the defensive line. Spanos asked Jones to hold the edge, to play the three-technique, to even rush over the head of the center. And while Jones - a former high school point guard and 100-meter sprinter - is athletic, Spanos makes a distinction.
He cautions not to confuse "athletic" with "finesse."
"Being athletic, he's strong at the point. That's what makes Datone special," Spanos said. "You say, 'Oh, he's athletic.' No, he's not athletic as in finesse. He's athletic as a football player. He's strong at the point. Even against double-teams, he can hold the point. That's what makes Datone a special player."
Those before him haven't been special. When Green Bay won the Super Bowl in North Texas, the injured Harrell was in the mountains of Tennessee with his family. That following off-season, Thompson finally cut his losses. The Mike Neal project shouldn't be abandoned yet, but time's ticking.
Worthy could miss all of the upcoming season while recovering from a knee injury. Daniels is best as a super-sub.
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Album Rating: 4.5Just watched a video of one of the guitarists playing Atlas Novus. It was pretty sweet.
That tapping section at the beginning is fantastic.
Album Rating: 4.5He makes it look so easy.
Keep forgetting about this album. Need to listen still.
Album Rating: 4.5Oh, man. The end of Willow, where they just wail on those single notes over the chugged part, is so great. I wish they would have done it more than just on the ending.
Atlas Novus is beautiful.
whole album is pretty brie agreed
Album Rating: 5.0One-of-a-kind.
Album Rating: 3.0rock on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this, I need more stuff for my djentelmen club in newcastle.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah this is growing on me a little. i've always loved it but i think i'm starting to love it more
Album Rating: 4.5Its very intricate. I feel like I find a few new things every time I listen to it.
Album Rating: 4.5I really don't get how people enjoy their previous works more than this. This album is so incredible as a whole, while the others come off as fairly disjointed to me.
Album Rating: 3.0this and collective are about equal, this may edge it out a little
Album Rating: 4.0i enjoy collective more. i don't see how its disjointed at all. their pre-collective stuff definitely tho
Album Rating: 4.0collective may even be more cohesive
i wouldnt say its disjointed, it just has more obvious peaks and lulls- all of which are enjoyable
Album Rating: 4.5Nah man, I listened to the collective a handful of times and there's just nothing holding it together. They still bring the talent full-on, but it's just not nearly as enjoyable.
Album Rating: 4.0its more of a grower than this one. i didn't like it either after the first few listens
Album Rating: 4.5I really like The Collective so far, but this was definitely more immediate.
Album Rating: 5.0Narrow Salient would be the best song on the album if it ended as epic as it started.
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Lockheed Martin's Gaithersburg-based information systems unit cut more than 650 employees in the first quarter of the year, company officials confirmed Tuesday.
The contractor had offered a voluntary layoff initiative to about 4,000 mid-level managers in February. The company confirmed earlier this year that about 240 employees left the company through the voluntary layoff program.
During a call with reporters Tuesday, Bruce Tanner, Lockheed's chief financial officer, said more than 400 employees in the information systems unit were trimmed involuntarily during the same quarter.
A Lockheed spokeswoman said the first-quarter layoffs included all levels of employees. She said 168 of the roughly 650 employees were based in the Washington area.
The company recorded a $30 million charge related to the workforce reductions.
Lockheed posted a profit surge for the three-month period ended March 31. Profit grew to $761 million ($2.33 per share), up nearly 14 percent from $668 million ($2.03) per share in the same period the previous year. Sales fell 2 percent to about $11.1 billion.
Though Lockheed has been significantly trimming its workforce over the last several years, Tanner told reporters Tuesday that the company has no further "plans for reductions at this point in time."
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The ability to strategically problem solve is a character trait, I am told, that most employers look for in their employees. If you're in a two-seater car, for example, and see your best friend and an old lady at a bus stop urgently waiting for a communal, never coming automobile to collect them, what do you do? Help the lady or your friend?
Apparently — and if you're good at unlocking the Da Vinci code-esque proverbial puzzles of business acumen, you also know this — you do neither. Or both, rather, and get out of your car, give your keys to your friend to take the old lady home and then drop himself off.
I never quite understood why forfeiting your car was a solution that rendered all parties involved winners but maybe that's because I'm too narrow-thinking. Alter the variables (eyeliner and eyeshadow over friend and old lady) and augment the scenario slightly so that you're playing the Have Your Cake and Eat it Too game (you can only take one, so which do you take?) and I think I come out a champion. Why? Because I abandon the eyeliner and rescue the eyeshadow in anticipation that the filmy, colored powder could at best moonlight as one, inherently function successfully as both.
I don't have an aversion toward eyeliner (though I do second guess this sentiment when it is being applied and at first tickles my eyelid in an endearing oh, baby kittens kind of way but then becomes a full-blown case paws-scratching-chalkboard, paltry-skin-over-cornea irritation), but in the matter of beauty and my face, I am not a woman of many products. And anything that could be deemed extraneous must go.
Today that is not eyeshadow.
After all, if you've got a big, fancy (or not) set of myriad colors and a mouth that produces a decent amount of spit, you've essentially also got every liner under-da-sun in just one compact case. As for the actual application, I do not expect you to believe that I am "good" at makeup but like I said, spit, color, brush and boom: your lids shine bright like diamonds.
What's so great about the eyeshadow thing is that once you're done applying it as liner (I used the so-dark-it's-basically-black brown,) you can add the smoke effect using the very same substance, hold the oral liquid. Then your lids will look smokier than processed turkey from Katz's Deli and like in the rectified case of the bus stop, the woman, the friend and your car, everyone comes out a winner.
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Reloading for the BFR45/70
Hello, Rick here and I am wondering if anyone might have some loading data for my BFR. I have been looking everywhere I can think of and they all tell me there is no such thing as a 45/70 revolver reloading manual. I did get a couple of loads from shooting times magazine. I have the 10 inch barrel with a 2x8 power leupold on it and its a fine shooter, I would like to find some stiff loads to shoot as factory ammo seeming to be loaded for safety in the old trapdoors rifles and way to mild for my likeing. I have several boxes of laser cast bullets, 300, 350. and 405 grain and also lots of 400, and 405 grain jacketed bullets to load. In looking at listed info from magnum research, they show the 45/70 against the 450 marlin which you can change cylinders and shoot either one in this revolver by the way. I happen to be a 45/70 fan myself but they show over twice the velocity and energy with the 450 marlin and since they are comparing mild trap door rounds to the hotter loaded 450 rounds. I know what the 45/70 will do if loaded for the 1895 lever action or the ruger#1 or #3. Would just like to find some powders and loads that would jump up my 45/70 with the 10 inch barrel that would compare with the speed and energy they have with the 450 marlin. Magnum Research would not give any loading data for liability purposes but said I could send my revolver bank and be fitted with the 450 marlin cylinder and then I wouldn't have to worry about it. That wasn't the point other than just trying to find some45/70 loads to match its twin. Thanks for listening to all the bellyacheing and if you might know somewhere to point me i would be greatful . Rick...
|April 29, 2011, 11:44 AM
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If you go over to the Hodgdon website
you will find 3 different sections for 45-70 loads. The low pressure loads are labeled as trapdoor only. They have pressures of up to about 20,000 CUP. Then there is another section titled lever action. They give loads that generate up to about 30,000 CUP. And finally they have a section titled modern rifles. Those loads go up to about 50,000 CUP.
Choose your comfort level. As always though, start with the mild loads and gradually work your way up. It appears that H4895 and Varget are decennt all around choices for that cartridge and will cover a wide spectrum of pressures.
|April 29, 2011, 04:15 PM
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Hey Doodlebugger45 thanks for the info I have reloaded for years for both rifles and pistols, I guess this individual Rifle cartridge pistol is what is giving me the problems i'm having. most of the loading data in those manuals like the one you refered me to do have there three different catagorys of cup pressures for sure I guess that as far as velosity goes most are obtained with 20 to 24 inch barrels and with the powders they are useing I am wondering what velocitys I will get with same loads with only 10 inch barrel? Was told by someone else that most powders are all burned up in first two or three inches of the barrel so does this mean my velocities will be the same as the rifles? I don't see how it could myself. Still confused but I never give up!
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