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|1⁄4 Teaspoon
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|Dry red wine
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1 Cup (16 tbs), chopped
|Dried thyme leaves
|1 Teaspoon
|Dried marjoram leaves
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Bay leaf
|1⁄2 Teaspoon, crushed
|Ground allspice
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|Canned chicken broth
|14 1⁄2 Ounce (1 Can)
|1 Clove (5 gm), pressed or minced
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1. Using moist paper towels, clean the quartered ducklings and season with salt and pepper. Prepare a marinade by mixing the ingredients in a large bowl. Coat the ducklings well with marinade, cover using a foil and allow to refrigerate overnight, turning the pieces every now and then for even marinating.
2. The next day, using tongs, take out the marinated ducking quarters, reserving the marinade dripping in the bowl. Using paper towels, drain the duckling quarters, strain and keep aside the marinade.
3. Take an 8 quart Dutch oven, place on medium heat, arrange duckling quarters, 4 each, with skin portion facing the pan bottom. Cook, for about 15 minutes, turning frequently, to allow even browning. Repeat the process to brown all the quarters. Reserve ¼ cup fat.
4. Place all the browned ducking quarters in the over, pour over 1 ½ cup strained marinade along with chicken broth. Bring the mixture to boil, lower the heat and allow to simmer for 1.5 hours or till ducking turns tender.
5. Place the duckling quarters on a serving platter and keep warm.
6. Meanwhile, using a strainer, transfer the cooking liquid to a bowl or 4 cup measuring cup and discard fat. If required, add water to make into 2 ½ cups.
7. Add reserved 1/4 cup fat to Dutch oven and sauté in mushrooms and garlic to tender. Add in flour followed by 2 1/2 cups cooking liquid. Allow mixture to come to boil and keep stirring till mixture thickens.
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The "Ski Mojo" is a wearable shock absorber that cradles the upper thigh, alleviating some of the stress the comes from skiing. MedGadget has a snotty quote from a "wintersports editor" at The Times of London about how these sorts of things are "in the same category as heated chairlift seats" which I think pretty much sums up my opinion on them: they sound great. The Ski Mojo clips run around $600 a pair. Too bad they aren't less expensive. I'm sure they'd be most useful to those just learning to ski who haven't yet built up their stamina. Product Page [SkiAlLDay.co.uk via MedGadget via Gizmodo]
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There needs to be a new tag on BB gadgets;
"Stuff that will make it easier for you to be Batman."
This tech could also be useful for old folks with hip problems. The sports market will product test it and make it cheap, then the geriatric market can benefit. Win-win.
Considering how many of my friends and co-workers have had knees surgically replaced/rebuilt due to years of skiing, anything that reduces stress on the knees should be considered necessary, not just a convenience…
As someone who has a surgically repaired knee, I'd love to get back on the slopes. However, I need to surgically improve my bank acct, given the cost of gear and the like.
However, this seems a bit over designed for taking stress off knees, if that is ones goal. I've thought that a simple flexible spring (sorta like a single-leaf spring, maybe) behind the knee would do nicely as a shock absorber – though not much for lateral stress. It wouldn't cost $600 tho.
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might be useful if your parachute fails to deploy, too!
Has anyone commenting tried these? It seem like they would be a benefit to the quad muscles after knee surgery to be able to keep bouncing all day and not wearing you out by noon!
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We ran this the first time what seemed like last year but was actually back in 2012.
The thread was here
And the results thread was here
If you fancy yourself as the creative type or reckon you can spin a good yarn then this is the competition for you.
Stories must be minimum 500 words up to 2500 words.
You will have up to May 31 2015 to write your story.
To the winner goes the title CW short story champion and you will get your story published in this thread.
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I have had expressions of Interest to compete from GIMH, Heef and Spark so far.
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Must be your own work. But I will allow stories inspired by something you have read or seen in a movie just don't rip something off.
You can make quotes of books if they don't exceed 5% of the word count.
Yes you can brush off an old story you have written for another purpose. So long as you do brush it up a bit for this competition.
Topic Choice - you can pick anything you want but it should be fiction.
Between 500-2500 words. Please include your word count in your covering email.
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Plot: Is the story interesting and compelling to read?
Style: Is writing fresh and free of cliches? Is there a strong/creative use of the english language and a compelling writing style?
Mechanics (out of 5): Is grammar and punctuation correct?
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BEIJING China's Liu Xiang will probably not defend his world 110m hurdles title in Berlin later this year because of the injury that forced him out of the Beijing Olympics, his coach told local media on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old former world record holder and Olympic champion had surgery on the injured foot last month but will not be back in competitive form in time for the August 15-23 world championships, Sun Haiping told Titan Sports.
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The Athens Olympic gold medalist Liu was robbed of the chance of defending his title on home soil last August by the Achilles' injury.
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ST. LOUIS (AP)—Mark Mulder staggering down the comeback trail was no match for the streaking Florida Marlins.
Dan Uggla homered and drove in four runs and Hanley Ramirez was a home run shy of the cycle for the Florida Marlins, who won their ninth straight by beating up Mulder and the St. Louis Cardinals 9-1 Tuesday night.
"We beat the Nationals and we beat Milwaukee, but this was a test for us, to play a division-leading team," Wes Helms said. "We did our job."
Mulder (6-7) lasted only 1 2-3 innings, matching the shortest outing of his career. He gave up five runs on six hits in his second start since returning from a shoulder injury that sidelined him for more than two months.
Mulder said he'd visit with George Paletta, the team orthopedic consultant, on Wednesday.
"There's still something going on," Mulder said. "I'm obviously not right out there. It's not pain, it's just not right."
Scott Olsen allowed three hits in eight innings for Florida, which matched its longest winning streak of the year while staying close in the NL wild-card standings. The Marlins began a 12-game trip without manager Joe Girardi, who stayed at home with his pregnant wife while bracing for a possible hurricane.
Bench coach Gary Tuck, who filled in as interim manager, had it easy after the Marlins knocked out Mulder.
"It's fun for me, but it's tough without Joe," Tuck said. "Joe loves these kids and he's got them where they are now.
"I know he's back home somewhere enjoying it right now, but obviously his family comes first."
Girardi is expected to join the Marlins, who are 54-35 since an 11-31 start, no later than Thursday. Florida, which also got a homer from Josh Willingham, has outscored the opposition 53-29 during its winning streak.
Mulder, who entered this season as the winningest pitcher in the major leagues from 2001-05, has a 7.14 ERA. In his first start at home since June 3, Mulder struggled with both command and velocity, throwing 25 balls and 24 strikes and clocking in the mid-80s, according to the Busch Stadium radar.
"His velocity was down and it just didn't look like he had the bite on his off-speed pitches," Helms said. "I've faced him in years past and he can pop it pretty good and fool you pretty good on off speed."
Helms had a run-scoring single in the first and a two-run single to chase Mulder and cap a four-run second that put the Marlins ahead 5-1. Ramirez had an RBI triple off the base of the center-field wall and Uggla drove him in with a single earlier in the inning.
Preston Wilson hit the first leadoff home run of his career in the bottom of the first to tie the game at 1. Olsen (11-7) didn't allow another hit until Gary Bennett singled to start the sixth, and with the help of three double plays he faced only one over the minimum through eight innings.
So thoroughly were the Cardinals dominated that they had no one left on base.
"To pitch like that, that's the ultimate goal," Olsen said. "Today was probably the best game I've had all year."
Olsen, a 22-year-old rookie, struck out four and walked one to win his second straight start after losing three in a row, exiting after throwing only 89 pitches. He also doubled and scored in the sixth, flied out to the warning track in right in the seventh and had a sacrifice bunt in the second.
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Rodney Mak's long-established restaurant is one of those - Freddy Lee, who has been head chef since the restaurant opened in 1989, produces terrific food with an authenticity which is unusual in Ireland. With the dining room reached over a curving bridge and water features, the quietly elegant interior is free of the hanging lanterns and oriental kitsch that mark out so many Chinese restaurants - and, unlike some of the cooler new fashion-led restaurants, there is warmth to this place, where the waiter stationed beside the entrance opens the door and welcomes customers on arrival, setting the tone for excellent service that is as friendly as it is technically correct.
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I installed the site as normal in a subfolder, set up DMS etc and accessed the site through www.site.com/subdomain. Now I want to change the URL so its just www.site.com, so I use the backend of Wordpress Settings > General >Site Address. This then seems to break all [pl_site_url] shortlinks & DMS Editor doesn't load up on the front end.
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Texas natives Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong have long been buddies (who can forget those photos of the two of them jogging shirtless together?). So has the actor spoken to his friend following Lance's two-night bombshell sit-down with Oprah?
Access Hollywood's Tim Vincent caught up with Matthew at the premiere of his new film, "Mud," at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where the 43-year-old star revealed he has indeed talked to Lance following the doping confession and said the athlete is doing well.
"I've spoke to him, friend to friend, [it's] between he and I," the actor said of his conversation with Lance.
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While Matthew seems to be in a good place with Lance now, in an interview with MTV News on Saturday, he admitted he initially was very angry when he learned the seven-time Tour de France champion had cheated.
"My first reaction was I was pissed off. I was mad," he told MTV, adding that he wanted to be "delicate" in how he spoke regarding the scandal. "I then got kind of sad for him. First off, I had a part of me that took it kind of personally, which I think a lot of people have."
After giving the situation serious thought, Matthew said he realized he shouldn't take the lies as a personal affront.
"What I mean by this is, what was he supposed to do? Call me to the side and go, 'Hey man, I did it but don't tell anybody.' Then I would have really had a reason to be pissed off at him, going, 'You want me to walk around holding this?'" he said. "Where I am now is I've put myself out of the way and I am happy for this guy, who has now chosen to reenter this new chapter of his life a truly free man.
Adding, "And the weight he had on his shoulders, without the boogieman under the bed, the skeleton in the closet that he's carried for 14 years. Fourteen years he lied and carried the lie with him."
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Matthew agreed with what Oprah said multiple times during the shocking interview, which is that finally telling the truth will liberate Lance, but said he believes it will be a long, painful and humbling road.
"Oprah said the other night, 'The truth will set you free,' but she forgot one part. It's miserable in the beginning. And it's going to be miserable," he said. "But he's looking it in the eye, and he'll handle it. He'll deal. And he's ready for how hard it's going to be to deal."
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U.S. farmers set to get huge government payouts despite bumper harvest
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tight supply, despite tumbling grain prices.
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Kuwait plans to stop recruiting non-nationals in the public sector, and will replace existing expat staff.
March 1, 2010 2:42 by kippreport
Kuwait's government is reportedly planning to stop hiring foreigners in the public sector, says Gulf News, quoting the Al Jareeda newspaper. The idea is to curtail expenditure and offer more employment opportunities to Kuwaitis wishing to join the government sector. Under the plans, the government will only hire expats with "rare specialties", and will replace foreign public sector staff with nationals at a rate of 10 percent every year, said the report.
In February, a report by Kuwait's parliamentary information and research committee suggested that around 60,000 expatriates working in the public sector could be replaced by Kuwaiti nationals, reported Kuwait Times. The report said that the unemployment rate among the Kuwaiti citizens stood at 5.9 percent of the local population, a total of 20,000 people. It also said that this number was expected to increase due to the large youth population.
With all the Gulf States struggling to balance their populations, and find work for their citizens, the move comes as no surprise. In fact, Kipp doubts too many expatriates ever came to the region with the hopes or plans of having a cushy public sector job.
So in a sense, it does seem justified that a country takes steps to offer better employment prospects to its national population. And since it can't impose too much regulation on the private sector – though quotas do exist – the government will obviously turn to the public sector.
But while a ban of recruiting expatriates seems fair enough, replacing foreigners who are already working in the public sector does seem unfair. It's basically telling someone, 'you are fired for not being a Kuwaiti'. How can a government defend such a move, especially if an individual has worked hard in their job?
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It can defend such a move because the Kuwaiti Government (or any government for that matter) is not responsible to the expat, but to the citizen. It can defend such a move because the expat has his/her own government that is responsible to him/her and should be working harder to provide him/her with opportunities in their country of citizenship.
Good work is not an excuse not to fire someone. Plenty of good people with excellent ethics were fired or allowed to resign for matters of internal politics, amongst other things.
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Release DateMay 10, 2013
MPAA RatingPG-13
Duration143 min.
Production Budget$127 millions
StudioWarner Bros. Pictures
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DirectorBaz Luhrmann
ProducerBaz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher
ScreenwriterBaz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby
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"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.


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Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
|Government-owned corporation, public broadcasting
|1 January 1954
|Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Area served
|Government of Ghana
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) is the public broadcaster in Ghana. It is funded by broadcasting television commercials and the levying of a television licence, costing 3 cedis (about € 0.29).[1]
The broadcasting service was originally known as the Gold Coast Broadcasting System, introduced on 31 July 1935 by the colonial Governor, Sir Arnold Hodson,[2] before it was renamed to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation upon the country's independence in 1957. Throughout its history it has been independent of the government's Information Services Department.[3]
Television and radio stations[edit]
GBC operates one television station, GTV, which is broadcast to the whole of Ghana via satellite. Additionally, GBC operates two national and 10 regional radio stations, which are located in the ten regions of Ghana. Uniiq FM, for example, is in Accra.
- Radio 1
- Radio 2
- Uniiq FM
- Volta Star
- Twin City Radio
- Radio Central
- Radio Savannah
- Garden City Radio
- URA Radio
- Radio Upper West
- Sunrise FM
- Obonu FM
- Radio BAR
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- ^ "MPs Fail To Pay TV license?" Ghana Today, 13 July 2006.
- ^ "About Ghana Broadcasting Corporation", official website.
- ^ Wells, Alan (1997), World Broadcasting: A Comparative View, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 162. ISBN 978-1-56750-246-6.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Nick Franklin received a $1.28 million bonus to sign with the Seattle Mariners last summer and knew exactly what he wanted to do with some of the money. He gave a chunk to his parents to pay off the mortgage on their home in Florida.
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"My family comes first. I took care of my family," he said Thursday. "I helped pay off the house, so that way they don't have that much stress on them."
Franklin, 19, was the 27th pick in the 2009 draft. He's playing this year for the Clinton LumberKings in the Class A Midwest League, a switch-hitting shortstop with fluid movements on the field and good pop in his bat.
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Once Franklin thanked his parents, he gave himself a nice reward with some of that first-round money.
"I got an Escalade, and I kind of tricked it out a little bit," he said with a smile. "I added a couple of things."
A Cadillac Escalade is an expensive ride, but it's his first vehicle and he figures he'll keep it forever. With a $1.28 million bonus, he could afford a little luxury.
Franklin, a lithe 6-1, 175, has been moving rapidly in the Mariners organization. He hit .302 in 10 games in the Arizona Rookie League after signing last summer, then played six games with Everett in the Northwest League. He was assigned to the LumberKings this year and was hitting .337 with five homers, four triples and 15 RBIs in 21 games after going 2-for-5 with a long homer against the Cedar Rapids Kernels Thursday night.
"So far, everything is going great," he said. "I'd say our team is coming along well."
Franklin had a scholarship to Auburn in his back pocket if he didn't like what happened in the 2009 draft, but Seattle made it easy for him to sign and skip college. His older brother, Clint, is a pitcher at the University of Florida, so they could have faced each other in an SEC game this season if Franklin had gone to school, but it didn't work out that way.
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Franklin's homer on Thursday night in Cedar Rapids sailed more than 400 feet, helped by a stiff breeze, but he has surprising power for his size. He didn't lift weights until he was a senior in high school, long after most serious prep athletes get started.
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Wet and wild weekend in Hartwell, Ga. is a two-day event featuring the Triple Crown of Watercross. This event will be the highlight of the summer. Imagine over 3,500 people coming to Hartwell Marina to see and enjoy all the Wet and Wild events scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The schedule will include activities for everyone, such as wakeboarding, kayaking and canoeing, stand up paddle boarding, a 5K Road Run with a splashdown finish in Lake Hartwell and the Triple Crown of Watercross. There is something for the entire family.
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Morning, Noon & Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books
Random House, 2011 - Literary Criticism - 442 pages
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life's most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein's provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing's insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives.
With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood—Huck Finn's empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child's moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff's struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens's Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle—growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution.
In turn, great writers also ponder the lessons learned in life's twilight years: both King Lear and Willy Loman suffer as their patriarchal authority collapses and death creeps up; Brecht's Mother Courage displays the inspiring indomitability of an aging woman who has "borne every possible blow. . . but is still standing, still moving." And older love can sometimes be funny (Rip Van Winkle conveniently sleeps right through his marriage) and sometimes tragic (as J. M. Coetzee's David Lurie learns the hard way, in Disgrace).
Tapping into the hearts and minds of memorable characters, from Sophocles' Oedipus to Artie in Art Spiegelman's Maus, Morning, Noon, and Night makes an eloquent and powerful case for the role of great literature as a knowing window into our lives and times. Its intelligence, passion, and genuine appreciation for the written word remind us just how crucial books are to the business of being human.
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PIAA executive director Robert Lombardi said some of his member schools have complained about the ability of charter schools to "reload" each season with transfer players. PIAA rules prohibit recruiting and bar students from attending a school for athletic reasons.
Those complaints drove Lombardi last week to Harrisburg, where he proposed legislation to DiGirolamo's committee. If passed, the legislation would force charter-school students to play for their neighborhood public school, not the charter school.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — First-round draft pick Frank Kaminsky has signed a contract with the Charlotte Hornets.
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP) — Greivis Vasquez always thought he might end up in Milwaukee. It just took a little longer than he anticipated.


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Following his performance of "Survival" and "Berzerk" on SNL many critics and uneducated viewers were under the impression that he lip-synced the performance. The controversy was shortly halted though when Eminem himself performed Rap God live at the YTMA.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arcadia Resources, Inc. (NYSE Amex: KAD), a leading provider of innovative consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare(SM) brand, has appointed Stephen Goldsmith to its Board of Directors. Goldsmith will replace Tres Lund who announced his resignation from the Board.
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Goldsmith is the Daniel Paul Professor of Government and Director of Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the nation's largest grant maker supporting the effectiveness of national and community services programs.
Previously, he served two terms as Mayor of Indianapolis, America's 12th largest city, where he earned the reputation as one of the country's leading municipal proponents of public-private partnerships, competition and privatization. As mayor, his efforts revitalized the Indianapolis public hospital system and its clinics, cut the city's bureaucracy, eliminated counterproductive regulations and invested over $1 billion in infrastructure including a transformation of downtown Indianapolis that has been held as a national model. Mr. Goldsmith, the chief domestic policy advisor to President Bush in the 2000 campaign, is the author of numerous books and articles relating to public affairs and has received many awards recognizing his leadership and accomplishments in public life. He holds a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's from Wabash College in Indiana. His father and grandfather were pharmacists.
"Steve Goldsmith is a well-respected public figure both regionally a
|SOURCE Arcadia Resources, Inc.
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