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XAT MOCK TEST Instructions
2. This booklet contains 40 pages including the blank ones. Immediately after opening
the booklet, verify that all pages are printed properly.
3. Keep only the Admit Card, pencil eraser and sharpener with you. DO NOT keep with
you books, rulers, slide rules, drawing instruments, calculators (including watch calculators),
pagers, cellular phones, or any other device. These should be left outside the room.
4. This paper has 200 questions. The total time for the test is 120 minutes.
5. The paper is divided into three sections.
Section-I : 80 Questions
Section-II : 60 Questions
Section-III : 60 Questions
6. Directions for answering the questions are given in the test booklet before each group of
questions to which they apply. Read these directions carefully and answer the questions by
darkening the appropriate ovals.
7. Wrong answers carry negative marks. There is only one correct answer for each question.
8. Do the rough work on the test booklet only and NOT on the answer sheet or any other paper.
9. Follow the instructions of the invigilator. Candidates found violating the instructions will be
10. At the end of the test, remain seated. Do not leave the hall till the invigilator announces, "You
may leave now." The invigilator will make the announcement only after collecting the test booklets
and answer sheets from everyone in the room.
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to it.
Retailing — no marks for guessing this is the most active and attractive sector of the last decade. While the
retailing industry itself has been present through history in our country, it is only the recent past that has
witnessed so much dynamism. It's the latest bandwagon that has witnessed hordes of players leaping onto it.
While international retail store chains have caught the fancy of many travellers abroad, the action was missing
from the Indian business scene, at least till recently.
The emergence of retailing in India has more to do with the increasing purchasing power of buyers, especially
post-liberalisation, increase in product variety, and the increasing economies of scale, with the aid of modern
supply and distribution management solutions.
A definition of retailing is essential in order to be in a position to assess the impact of retailing and its future
potential. The current retailing revolution has been provided an impetus from multiple sources. These
'revolutionaries' include many conventional stores upgrading themselves to modern retailing, companies in
competitive environments entering the market directly to ensure exclusive visibility for their products and
professional chain stores coming up to meet the need of the manufacturers who do not fall into either of the
above categories. Attractiveness, accessibility and affordability seem to be the key offerings of the retailing
1. What, according to the passage, has been the most attractive sector in the last decade?
a. Conventional stores b. Product variety c. Retailing d. None of these
2. Retailing was present, but lacked something according to the author. What was it?
a. Charm b. Profitability c. Entrepreneurship d. Dynamism
3. What has led to the rise of retailing in India?
a. Rising population b. Increasing volume of sales
4. What, according to the passage, does not appear as a feature of the modern face of retailing?
a. Attractiveness b. Affordability c. Accessibility d. Alacrity
5. This article seems to be
a. taken from a newspaper. b. thought-provoking.
c. a figment of the imagination. d. part of a government white paper.
Direction for questions 6 to 15: Fill in the blanks with one of the choices provided below.
6. ____ a business is all about proper decision making.
a. Finishing b. Catching c. Running d. Laundering
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7. Any business calls for two ____ functions.
a. critical b. rudimentary c. innate d. None of these
8. Buying and selling, they would say. However, great businesses ____ another important function.
a. comprise b. consist of c. collect d. entail
9. Establishing relationships. Can you or can you not ____ a relation with all the stakeholders, is what is
a. propagate b. motivate c. cultivate d. instigate
10. The best business managers ____ that business is 90 per cent relations and 10 per cent perspiration.
a. compound b. predict c. propound d. None of these
11. There have been many instances of great business empires that have been ____ by bad management.
a. ruined b. saved c. created d. toppled
12. Dhirubhai Ambani called his company Reliance, since Reliance stood for trust and hence the ____ of
a. cornerstone b. pitfall c. preamble d. meaning
13. Trust takes a lifetime to generate and only one mistake to ____.
a. forget b. squander c. Both (a) and (b) d. vanish
14. Incidents like Enron, Arthur Anderson and WorldCom will ____ the people who have lost their money and
a. chase b. suffer c. threaten d. haunt
15. Any business is not without a face. It only matters whether the face is ____ or intimidating.
a. intimate b. intimating c. intimation d. None of these
Direction for questions 16 to 25: In each of the following questions, one complete pair of words or phrases
and one term of another pair are given. Complete the second pair by choosing the correct term from the given
16. Carpenter : Auger :: Surgeon : ____
a. Stethoscope b. Blood c. Scalpel d. Dosage
17. Memorandum : Memoranda :: ____
a. Strata: Stratum b. Insignia : Insigne c. Alumna : Alumnus d. Bacillus : Bacilli
18. ____ : Turpitude :: Courage : Fortitude
a. Depravity b. Turbidity c. Idleness d. Idiocy
19. Implicate : Exculpate :: Complicate : ____
a. Magnify b. Mystify c. Elucidate d. Simplify
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20. Malinger : Illness :: Flatter : ____
a. Sneer b. Exaggeration c. Appreciation d. Respect
21. Thor : Thunder :: Venus : ____
a. Harvest b. Virginity c. Love d. None of these
22. Doggerel : Poet :: ____ : Novelist
a. Caricature b. Parody c. Potboiler d. Tragedy
23. Outfox : Cumming :: Outstrip : ____
a. Thought b. Speed c. Bravery d. Wrath
24. Olfactory : Nose :: ____ : Tongue
a. Guttoral b. Gustatory c. Oral d. Aural
25. Needle Eye : Thread :: Eyelet : ____
a. Binoculars b. Kaleidoscope c. Detergents d. Shoelace
Direction for questions 26 to 30: Read the passage carefully and indicate the meaning of the word underlined
by choosing one of the four alternatives as given.
Some profit by verbal obfuscation, or indeed strive to bring it about. Advertisers are not displeased if the public
premise of Newspeak, namely, that to control language is to control thought, and they dream of limiting speech
and thinking to a rude little lexicon of politically correct grunts, just enough for efficient exploitation of those
they rule. But when left to itself the evolution of word meanings is an occult, unpredictable, and unfathomable
26. Obfuscation
a. Confusion b. Cancellation c. Uneasiness d. Constipation
27. Demagogue
a. Ancient b. Corpse c. Manipulator d. Traitor
28. Premise
a. Conclusion b. Inference c. Assumption d. Noteworthy
29. Lexicon
a. Meaning b. Record c. List d. None of these
30. Occult
a. Cult b. Concealed c. Conflict d. Camaraderie
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Direction for questions 31 to 40: In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to
given word.
31. Overt
a. Undercover b. Explicit c. Secretive d. Covert
32. Incorrigible
a. Reformable b. Impossible c. Irrevocable d. Inedible
33. Transparent
a. Clear b. Opaque c. Large d. Open
34. Quotidian
a. Serious b. Expensive c. Unusual d. Neutral
35. Gawky
a. Fragrant b. Melodious c. Dexterous d. Interesting
36. Comely
a. Becoming b. Ugly c. Pretty d. Attractive
37. Infirm
a. Weak b. Deft c. Potent d. Strong
38. Errant
a. Vagabond b. Settled c. Upright d. Arrant
39. Nurture
a. Flourish b. Nervous c. Heavenly d. Destroy
40. Kindle
a. Inspire b. Desire c. Extinguish d. Distinguish
Direction for questions 41 to 50: Read the following passage carefully and indicate the meaning of the words
or phrases underlined by choosing the correct alternative.
state chief minister. Instead, he merely wanted jailed 'LTTE sympathiser' Kolathur T. S. Mani to be freed and
made the emissary for securing the release of kidnapped former minister H. Nagappa, the bandit's hostage for
over three months. Since Veerappan had threatened to behead Mr Nagappa if Mani was not released before
November 30, the government of S. M. Krishna readily capitulated.
Hardly surprising then that the government did not oppose the bail application of Mani, the charges against
whom include supplying arms, ammunition, explosives and other material to Veerappan. With the Krishna
government only too willing to utilise his services as a negotiator, little credence can be given to law and
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parliamentary affairs minister D. B. Chandre Gowda's assertion that the state had no intention of withdrawing
the cases against Mani. Having secured conditional bail from one court, Mani, who was nabbed by the Special
Task Force last March, is brimming with confidence. He has demanded dropping of the cases against him in
exchange for functioning as an emissary.
Even as Karnataka prepares to revoke the charges against Mani, the Tamil Nadu government has said that he
will be arrested the moment he steps into the state where he is wanted in five cases, including one relating to
the kidnapping of matinee idol Rajkumar. However, the fact that Chennai is helpless should Bangalore send him
as an emissary clearly shows that terrorists and criminals, far from being on the run, are being courted by
This is not to suggest that Kolathur Mani should be condemned without a fair trial but to underscore that the
Karnataka government, which framed the charges against him, now finds it expedient to drop the cases,
associates detained under TADA in exchange for Rajkumar's release was halted by the Supreme Court.
In its criticism of the hostage-for-detenus deal, the apex court asked the Krishna administration to quit if it
could not govern. If the import of the court's observations made at that time can be disregarded with impunity
now, obviously the administration's fear of Veerappan is greater than its respect for the judiciary.
41. Gratified
a. Great b. Thankless c. Content d. Joyous
42. Sympathiser
a. Traitor b. Ally c. Relative d. None of these
43. Credence
a. Acceptance b. Rigidity c. Rebuttal d. Trustworthiness
44. Brimming
a. Scarcity b. Stolid c. Fond d. Awash
45. Emissary
a. Ambassador b. Spy c. Tourist d. Visitor
46. Revoke
a. Provoke b. Invoke c. Repeal d. Retard
47. Matinee
a. Moribund b. Hostile c. Unperturbed d. None of these
48. Condemned
a. Blessed b. Gorgeous c. Convicted d. None of these
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49. Expedient
a. Quick b. Practical c. Difficult d. Unbecoming
50. Impunity
a. Delightful b. Exemption c. Alacrity d. Disgusting
Direction for questions 51 to 55: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow
with reference to it.
South Africa is a country blessed with an abundance of natural resources including fertile farmlands and unique
mineral resources. South African mines are world leaders in the production of diamonds and gold as well as
strategic metals such as platinum. The climate is mild, reportedly resembling the San Francisco bay area
weather more than anywhere in the world.
South Africa was colonised by the English and Dutch in the 17th century. English domination of the Dutch
Free State and Transvaal. The discovery of diamonds in these lands around 1900 resulted in an English
invasion, which sparked the Boer War. Following independence from England, an uneasy power sharing between
the two groups held sway until the 1940s, when the Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong majority.
Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and
social system. Initially, aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation.
Starting in the 1960s, a plan of 'Grand Apartheid' was executed, emphasising territorial separation and police
With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalised. Race laws touched
every aspect of social life, including a prohibition of marriage between non-whites and whites, and the sanctioning
of 'white-only' jobs. In 1950, the Population Registration Act required that all South Africans be racially classified
into one of three categories: white, black (African), or coloured (of mixed descent). The coloured category
included major subgroups of Indians and Asians. Classification into these categories was based on appearance,
social acceptance, and descent. For example, a white person was defined as 'in appearance obviously a white
person or generally accepted as a white person'. A person could not be considered white if one of his or her
parents were non-white. The determination that a person was 'obviously white' would take into account 'his
habits, education, and speech and deportment and demeanour'. A black person would be of or accepted as a
home affairs (a government bureau) was responsible for the classification of the citizenry. Non-compliance with
the race laws was dealt with harshly. All blacks were required to carry 'pass books' containing fingerprints,
photos and information on access to non-black areas.
In 1951, the Bantu Authorities Act established a basis for ethnic government in African reserves, known as
'homelands'. These homelands were independent states to which each African was assigned by the government
according to the record of origin (which was frequently inaccurate). All political rights, including voting, held by
an African were restricted to the designated homeland. The idea was that they would be citizens of the homeland,
losing their citizenship in South Africa and any right of involvement with the South African Parliament, which
held complete hegemony over the homelands. From 1976 to 1981, four of these homelands were created,
denationalising nine million South Africans. The homeland administrations refused the nominal independence,
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maintaining pressure for political rights within the country as a whole. Nevertheless, Africans living in the
homelands needed passports to enter South Africa: aliens in their own country.
In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the
government to declare stringent states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or supporting
the repeal of a law. The penalties included fines, imprisonment and whippings. In 1960, a large group of blacks
lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding the Public Safety Act and the
Criminal Law Amendment Act, the white regime had no intention of changing the unjust laws of apartheid.
The penalties imposed on political protest, even non-violent protest, were severe. During the states of emergency
that continued intermittently until 1989, anyone could be detained without a hearing by a low-level police official
for up to six months. Thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently after gruesome acts of torture. Those
who were tried were sentenced to death, banished, or imprisoned for life, like Nelson Mandela.
51. This passage seems to be a
a. a page from a book of history. b. a newspaper article.
c. an excerpt from a political treatise. d. None of these
52. What according to the passage led to the Boer War?
a. Discovery of diamonds b. Colonization
c. English invasion d. None of these
53. Which party has been accused of introducing apartheid in South Africa?
a. African National Congress b. Afrikaner National Party
c. The Boer Militia d. Cannot be determined
54. When according to the passage, was apartheid institutionalized?
a. 1948 b. 1947 c. 1949 d. 1950
55. The Bantu Authorities Act led to the creation of
a. native homelands. b. dictatorship.
c. ethnic governments in homelands d. None of these
Direction for questions 56 to 65: Fill in the blanks with one of the choices provided below.
56. ____ had I put my key in the lock than the watchdog sprang at me.
a. Hardly b. Barely c. Scarcely d. No sooner
57. Not since 1942 had Orissa ____ a cyclone of this magnitude.
a. demonstrated b. witnessed c. made d. undergone
poles, brought down houses and blown away tinned roofs.
a. removed b. uprooted c. thrown d. twisted
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59. "It has been an ____ disaster," said chief minister Gamang after visiting the worst-hit areas.
a. unfair b. unforgivable c. unmitigated d. unchallenged
60. According to the ____ department officials in the state, the cyclone was not altogether unexpected
during this part of the year.
a. forestry b. forensic c. forecasting d. meteorological
61. On October 18, a devastating cyclone ____ through one of the state's largest cities, Behrampur in
Ganjam district, and adjoining districts leaving a trail of destruction.
a. ran b. howled c. ripped d. moved
62. But by the time the cyclone had passed through, it had already shown how ____ inadequate the
disaster prediction in the country actually is.
a. Short-sightedly b. pitifully c. scarcely d. awesomely
63. The storm began as a ____ on the meteorology radar screens.
a. warning b. indicator c. cloud d. depression
64. The post-monsoon season routinely ____ such storms at least twice a month.
a. brings b. testifies c. forecasts d. witnesses
65. It was only later that the ____ experts finally realised that it was going to be a severe cyclonic storm.
a. political b. country's c. international d. weather
Direction for questions 66 to 75: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Performance appraisal has been one of the most debated management practices for several decades. It has
generated a wide variety of viewpoints. Here I will concentrate, due to paucity of time and space, on appraisal
objectives and its linkages with pay and rewards.
employees. It provides some of the essential components of effective motivational strategies; in particular,
feedback that permits an employee to learn how well he or she is performing; goal or objective-setting that
specifies what the person should be doing; team building that allows the employee to participate along with
peers and his superiors in solving problems that impede his productivity; and monetary incentives that reward
good performance.
Performance appraisal leads to the identification of the training and development needs of the employees. It
also has close links with other important areas of human resource management, in particular with selection,
motivation, goal-congruency and succession planning. Performance data provides relevant information required
for validating selection methods, in assessing whether selection methods are bringing high performers into the
Here the organisation must not get trapped into the various pitfalls that come along with administration of
appraisal system. The question that arises here is how to avoid these pitfalls? A necessary condition for the
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effective management of performance appraisal system in any organisation is the need to clarify and communicate
to all concerned the objectives that the system intends to achieve. Everyone in the organisation especially the
key decision makers should be fully aware of precisely what objectives the system of performance appraisal is
expected to achieve, and the priorities within these objectives.
66. What, according to the passage, should be done to make the performance appraisal successful?
a. Clearly communicate the objectives of the appraisal process.
b. Link the appraisal process with remuneration.
c. Use the appraisal simply as a measure of goal congruency.
d. None of these
a. The level of motivation of the employees.
b. The objectives the appraisal system is expected to achieve.
c. Training and development needs of the employees.
d. None of these
68. According to the passage, performance appraisal helps to
a. motivate employees. b. determine goal congruency.
c. plan succession. d. All of these
69. What does 'paucity', as used in the context of this passage mean?
a. Availability b. Opportunity c. Scarcity d. None of these
70. There has been a debate on
a. performance appraisal's moral validity.
b. cost-benefit analysis of the appraisal process.
c. correlation between appraisal and remuneration.
d. Cannot say
71. According to the author, performance appraisal helps the appraised to
a. set goals. b. improve as a team player.
c. monitor problems that impede productivity. d. All of the above
72. According to the passage,
a. appraisal data can provide inputs to validate selection procedures.
b. identify non-conformities in business processes.
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above
73. Performance appraisal, according to the passage
a. helps to identify training needs of employees.
b. helps to design training and development programmes.
c. helps to identify candidates for specific training programmes.
d. helps to validate the efficiency of training programmes.
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74. This article seems to have been taken from
a. a student's research paper.
b. a newspaper report.
c. a business magazine.
d. None of the above
75. What, according to the passage, is performance appraisal a part of?
a. Personnel management
b. Human resource management
c. Strategic human resource management
d. Cannot say
word given in the question.
76. Enhance
a. Abate b. Ruin c. Repeat d. Philanthropic
77. Catalyst
a. Defeatist b. Droop c. Brake d. Pessimistic
78. Witless
a. Certain b. Clear c. Brilliant d. Definite
79. Dexterous
a. Suave b. Desperate c. Awkward d. Eclectic
80. Wary
a. Imbalanced b. Ventricle c. Insane d. Trusting
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Section – II
Direction for questions 81 to 85: Find out what comes next in the series.
81. 0, 11, 26, 45, ___.
a. 55 b. 65 c. 68 d. 54
82. 1, 1,
, 16
, ___.
a. 16
b. 32
c. 16
d. None of these
83. 5, 9, 15, 19, ___.
a. 21 b. 23 c. 25 d. None of these
84. 80, 75, 65, 50, ___.
a. 30 b. 70 c. 45 d. None of these
85. 4, 9, 20, 43, 90, ___.
a. 178 b. 180 c. 182 d. 185
Directon for questions 86 to 90: The following questions are related to the construction of words from an
alphabet set comprising of three letters: A, B and C. The words are formed by applying one or more of the
syntactical rules.
I. Rule 1 : If a word ends with letter A, then a new word can be made by adding B at the end.
III. Rule 3 : If AAA occurs in any word, then we may drop it and replace it by B.
IV. Rule 4 : If BB occurs in any word, then we may drop it.
It is also given that CA is also a word. Given is an illustration of one of the ways of constructing the words
CBABBAB from CA in six steps.
i. CA (given)
ii. CAA (rule 2)
iii. CAAAA (rule 2)
iv. CBA (rule 3)
v. CBAB (rule 1)
vi. CBABBAB (rule 2)
Note: A step is defined as an addition of one 'x' or replacement of one set of AAA by one B.
86. The minimum number of steps required to construct CBBAA is
a. 4 b. 6 c. 5 d. 3
87. The minimum number of steps required to construct BB from CA is
a. 4 b. 3 c. 8 d. Cannot be constructed
88. The minimum number of steps required to construct CBBBA is
a. 11 b. 8 c. 10 d. 12
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89. The number of words in the collection {CBB, CAB, CBA, CAA, BC} that can be constructed from CA is
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2
90. If CB is also a valid word, then the number of constructible words in the collection in question 89 is
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2
91. In a meeting there are five participants, A, B, C, D and E, out of which three are gents and two are ladies.
How many ways can they sit such that there is at least one lady to the side of each gentleman.
a. 12 b. 36 c. 24 d. 48
Function A(x, y) is defined only for non-negative integers.
A(x, y) = y + 1 if x = 0
= A(x – 1, y) if x ¹ 0 but y = 0
= A(x – 1, A(x, y –1)) if x ¹ 0 and y ¹ 0
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. None of these
a. 4 b. 3 c. 2 d. None of these
a. 3 b. 5 c. 4 d. None of these
95. A( 0, A(1, 1)) is the same as
a. A(1, 1) b. A(0, A(1, 0)) c. A(1, 2) d. None of these
96. A(0, A(1, 0)) is same as
a. A(1, 1) b. A(0, A(1, 1)) c. A(1, 2) d. None of these
97. If A(1, y) = 5, then the value of y is
a. 2 b. 3 c. 0 d. None of these
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Direction for questions 98 to 107: Answer the questions based on the following information.
A large scale workshop has workers in four grades: W1, W2, W3 and W4, woking in various departments. The
table below gives information about three departements: processing, assembly and fabrication. Some workers
from processing and fabrication department also work in assembly department. In the assembly department,
ratio of workers from (processing department) to (exclusively assembly department) to (fabrication department)
is 1 : 2 : 1. This ratio is same for all grades and all skill levels.
60 45 145
44 44 121
28 32 22 72
24 32 100
36 27 90
22 16 14 50
15 12 10 36
Total Processing Assembly Fabrication
98. How many skilled workers work in a department other than the three given?
a. 49 b. 50 c. 52 d. 55
99. How many unskilled workers are there exclusively in the assembly department?
a. 46 b. 42 c. 44 d. 45
100. If 28 more skilled workers are added to W4 grade in assembly department, by how much per cent will
the skilled workers in processing depatment in grade W4 increase? [The same ratios are valid.]
a. 17% b. 19% c. 20% d. 25%
101. In the above case, how many skilled workers from fabrication department in W4 grade will also be
working in assembly department?
a. 15 b. 12 c. 13 d. 11
102. What is the ratio of the total number of workers of W4 grade working only in processing departement to
the number of skilled workers of W2 grade working exclusively in assembly department?
a. 2 : 1 b. 2 : 3 c. 1 : 2 d. 1 : 1
103. By how much per cent do the number of skilled workers from W1 grade working in both processing and
assembly departement exceed the corresponding numbers of the unskilled workers from W4 grade?
a. 500% b. 20% c. 400% d. 25%
104. What is the total number of workers working exclusively in assembly department?
a. 140 b. 288 c. 200 d.144
105. How many unskilled workers from W2 and W3 grades work only in processing and fabrication departments?
a. 160 b. 288 c. 68 d. 94
106. Approximately what per cent of total employees are those of W1 grade working in fabrication department?
a. 12% b. 8% c. 10% d. 11%
107. Which among the following constitutes the highest number of workers?
a. Skilled workers of W3 grade working only in processing department
b. Skilled workers of W2 grade working only in fabricaiton department
c. Skilled workers of W2 grade working only in processing department
d. Skilled workers of W1 grade working only in assembly department
108. Which of the following divides 1442 + 1692 + 144 × 169?
a. 157 b. 144 c. 313 d. None of these
109. If z y x c b a = = ,
b c
a b
= and a, b and c are not equal, then what is the value of
z x
z 2
b. y
Direction for questions 110 to 114: Answer the questions based on the following information.
A function f(a, b) is defined for all integers a and b with 0 b a ³ > as follows.
f(a, b) = f(b, r) if b > r, where r is the remainder when a is divided by b.
110. The value of f(27, 18) is
a. 6 b. 9 c. 12 d. None of these
111. f(6, 4) equals to
a. f(54, 52) b. f(56, 52) c. f(52, 48) d. None of these
112. The value of f(15, 9) is
a. 5 b. 9 c. 1 d. None of these
113. f(44, 15) equals
a. 4 b. 3 c. 5 d. None of these
114. f(9, 3) equals
a. f(54, 50) b. f(54, 51) c. f(54, 48) d. None of these
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Direction for questions 115 to 118: Answer the questions based on the following information.
There are three projects and at least one project is to be selected and the following specified certain conditions
are given for the selection of these projects.
Condition I: Projects 1 and 2 must be selected.
Condition II: Project 1 or 3 must be selected but both cannot be selected.
Condition III: Project 2 can be selected only if project 3 is selected.
115. Ignoring the conditions I, II and III, how many different ways of selecting projects are there?
a. 6 b. 7 c. 4 d. 8
116. The number of selection combinations which satisfy at most one of the three conditions is
a. 3 b. 2 c. 4 d. 5
117. The number of selection combinations which satisfy at least two conditions is
118. The number of selection combinations which satisfy condition 3 is
a. 4 b. 3 c. 5 d. 6
Direction for questions 119 to 125: Given below are some series of numbers or letters. One member of the
series is missing form the list marked as '?'. From the alternatives given for each question, select the correct
a. 11Q b. 8X c. 9S d. 8S
a. EM b. CW c. CL d. CM
a. T b. W c. Z d. U
122. 258 130 66 ? 18 10
a. 34 b. 32 c. 36 d. 40
a. S b. X c. Y d. V
124. 2 3 4 6 8 ? 16 24
a. 14 b. 11 c. 13 d. 12
125. 2 4 8 14 22 ?
a. 28 b. 34 c. 32 d. 38
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Direction for questions 126 to 130: Following questions consist of a number of assertions. Each sentence is
an assertion. Some of these assertions may be inconsistent with each other. From these you can form groups
of assertions that are consistent with each other. You have to find the largest number of consistent assertions
in each case.
126. Bricks can be used as pillows. Only soft pillows put insomniacs to sleep. Ashok is not an insomniac.
Bricks are not soft. Ashok sleeps using bricks as pillows. Only insomniacs take sleeping pills. Ashok
takes sleeping pills.
a. 5 b. 6 c. 4 d. None of these
of fantasy. Those who are creatures of fantasy can create fantasy. Ram is a poet. Ram is a creature of
a. 4 b. 3 c. 5 d. None of these
128. Geeta is a housewife. No housewife can be an office worker. All housewives are cooks. Only good cooks
can cook fried rice. Geeta works in office. Geeta can cook fried rice. Geeta is not a very good cook.
a. 6 b. 5 c. 4 d. None of these
129. You can fool some people all the time but not all. Some people cannot be fooled all the time. Most of the
people can be fooled all the time. All the people can be fooled some time. Some people cannot be fooled
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. None of these
130. All successful managers are dishonest. All dishonest managers are successful. X is a successful
manager if and only if Y is a successful manager. X is an unsuccessful manager and he is a dishonest
manager. X is a successful manager and Y is an unsuccessful manager. Y is an honest manager.
a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. None of these.
Direction for questions 131 to 136: Answer the questions based on the following experiment.
Five different balls (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) are distributed into four different urns (I, II, III, and IV). Each urn may not
receive any ball, may receive exactly one ball, or more than one ball.
131. The number of ways urn II receives exactly two balls is
a. 135 b. 27 c. 270 d. None of these
132. The number of ways in which ball 1 goes to urn I is
a. 256 b. 64 c. 320 d. None of these
a. 625 b. 1,024 c. 120 d. None of these
134. The number of ways in which the balls can be distributed in the urns, such that no urn is empty, is
a. 120 b. 240 c. 119 d. None of these
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135. The number of ways in which the balls can be distributed such that all the balls go into one urn is
a. 4 b. 24 c. 120 d. None of these
136. In the above set of questions, if the number of balls is changed from five to three and the number of urns
is changed from four to three, then in how many ways can the balls be distributed such that only one urn
is empty?
a. 18 b. 9 c. 24 d. None of these
137. Complete the following series.
1, 1, 4, 12, 27, 51, ___.
a. 59 b. 86 c. 107 d. 114
138. What is the difference between the smallest and the largest six-digit numbers formed using the digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5?
a. 440865 b. 419760 c. 502343 d. None of these
Direction for questions 139 and 140: Answer the questions based on the following data.
A survey was conducted by India Today to know how our Memebrs of Parliament (MPs) are conscious of the
population scenario of the country. The data below summarizes the number of children of the Lok Sabha and
the Rajya Sabha members, across different zones of the country.
1 2 3 >3
18 23 18 21 85
43 12 8 96
18 42 16 14 113
3 43 44 62 154
8 12 13 49
Number of children
16 1 4 33
21 23 5 3 59
6 17 7 7 42
2 21 26 18 68
Total no . of members
139. What per cent of the Rajya Sabha members do not have children at all?
a. 8.75% b. 11.24% c. 11.63% d. 10.35%
140. What is the average number of children of the Lok Sabha members from the south zone?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. Cannot be determined
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141. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is parodied in a scene in the Arnold Schwarzenegger flop
Last Action Hero?
a. Romeo and Juliet b. Twelfth Night c. Hamlet d. As You Like It
142. Which of the following element is lightest and has the atomic number 1?
a. Neon b. Helium c. Oxygen d. Hydrogen
143. The 'patella bone' is better known as
a. The jaw bone b. The knee cap c. The ear lobe d. The mid nose bone
144. Walker Cup is associated with which of the following sports disciplines?
a. Golf b. Tennis c. Football d. Squash
145. Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park on which the famous Steven Spielberg film was based?
146. Who directed the movies Jaws and Schindler's List ?
a. Steven Spielberg b. M. Knight Shyamalan c. Henry Ogilvy d. Hauz Kahkar
147. Anand dairy farm is in which state of India?
a. Gujarat b. Maharashtra c. Rajasthan d. Orissa
148. Which of the following personality's song features in Jagjit Singh's album, Samvedna?
a. Murli Manohar Joshi b. V. P. Singh c. Indira Nooyi d. Atal Behari Vajpayee
149. Justice K.G.Shah Commission of Inquiry was set up for
a. the probe of Godhara carnage in Gujarat. b. the probe of 1999 Mumbai blasts
c. resolving the BODO problem d. resolving the POTO implementation problem
150. Which of the following personalites was addressing the meeting in Jalianwala Bagh on April 13,1919?
a. Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Lala Lajpat Rai d. None of these
151. Which of the following rulers suffered defeat in the famous Battle of Haldighati?
a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Rana Pratap d. Ibrahim Lodi
152. 'Allen Solly', is a brand owned by which of the following group of companies?
a. Madura Coats b. Arvind Mills c. Mafatlal d. Raymonds
153. The controversial MIP-95 Mutual Fund scheme belongs to
a. UTI b. ICICI Prudential Life c. Om Kotak Mahindra d. HDFC Standard Life
154. Which of the following personalities would you associate with Arzoo.com?
a. Rahul Bajaj b. Sabeer Bhatia
c. N.R. Narayana Murthy d. Arun Kumar
155. 'World Ozone Day', is celebrated on which of the following days every year?
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156. In Einstein's famous equation E = mc2, if 'E' stands for energy and 'm' for mass, then what does 'c'
stand for?
a. Instensity of light b. Speed of light c. Einstein's constant d. Planck's constant
157. Which of the following is the largest gland in the human body?
a. Liver b. Spleen c. Lungs d. Bile
158. This gentleman is associated with the propagation of the 'Theory of heredity' for the first time. We are
talking about
a. Gregor J. Mendel b. John Schotky c. Hargobind Khorana d. B. Srinivasan
159. What was the code name given for the joint Indian armed force's, operations which evicted the Pakistanis
and their surrogates from Kargil in 1999 ?
a. Operation Vijay b. Operation Black Hill c. Operation PAKDEF d. Operation Victory
160. 'Camry' is the latest brand of car model from which of the following auto giant's stable?
a. General Motors b.Toyota Motors c.Maruti Suzuki Ltd. d. Hyundai
161. 'Be the first to know', assures which of the following satellite channels?
a. CNN b. BBC World c. Fox News d. Star News
162. The muscial 'West Side Story' is based on which of the following Shakespearean plays?
a. As You Like It b. Romeo and Juliet c. Julius Caesar d. The Twelfth Night
163. What is the nickname of New York city?
a. Big Ben b. Big Apple c. City of Dreams d. Dominique's City
164. A closed economy is one which
a. does not trade with the other countries
b. does not possess any means of international transport
d. is not a member of the United Nations
165. The traditional economy is characterised by
a. division of labour and specialisation b. organisation of production for self consumption
c. capital intensive process of production d. increasing state intervention
166. Who is the present chief executive officer of General Electric (GE)?
a. Jack Welch b. Waren Buffett c. Jeffery Immelt d. Samuel J. Palmisano
167. Who is the chief executive officer of Microsoft?
a. Bill Gates b. Steve Ballmer c. Steve Wozniak d. Henry Kruger
168. Who is the chief executive officer of IBM?
a. Samuel J. Palmisano b. Phillip Bullock
c. Henry Kissinger d. Scott Mcneally
169. Which of the following company has the punchline 'We bring good things to life'?
a. Intel b. BPL c. Philips d. General Electric
170. 3001: The Final Odyssey' has been authored by which of the following personalities?
a. Arthur C. Clarke b. William Golding c. Issac Asimov d. Alvin Toffler
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171. Which of the following is the capital city of Morocco?
a. Rabat b. Baku c. Bishkek d. Amman
172. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon in the USA?
a. Thames b. Thebes c. Colorado d. Mississippi
173. Which of the following towns was the birthplace of William Shakespeare?
a. Stratford-upon-Avon b. NewYork c. Thames City d. Viverendi City
174. The only state in India which has more female population than male population is
175. Which of the following missiles was test fired successfully on January 26, 2002?
a. AGNI - I b. AGNI - II c. AGNI - III d. AGNI - IV
176. Which of the following books is a good source of information on the history of Kashmir?
a. Kalhana's Rajatarangini b. Kamban's Raslila
c. Udayan's Maitri d. Megasthenes's India
177. India's first electric car is known as
a. Reva b. Mewa c. Bewa d. Mova
178. The latest model of Barbie doll launched recently by Mattel Toys is
a. The President Barbie b. Spice Barbie
c. Dolly Barbie d. Rose Barbie
179. What is BPL according to Indian finance minister Yashwant Sinha?
a. Below Peer Location b. Bent to Pull Lead c. Below Poverty Line d. Below Poor Line
180. A professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at MIT, his products have been used in
cars, space shuttles, ships and theatres. Who are we talking about?
a. Ajit Kelkar b. Amar Bose c. Arun Netravali d. Ajit S. Galgotia
181. Which of the following elements, after oxygen, is most abundant on earth's crust?
a. Copper b. Silicon c. Aluminium d. Silver
182. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for which of his following works?
a. Discovery of X-rays b. Diffraction of light
c. Photoelectric effect d. Effect of light on the mass of a body
183. Who created Spiderman?
a. Stan Lee b. Roger Moore
c. Lee Falk d. Hector Remi Herge
184. Which was the only thing that remained in the Pandora's Box after it was opened?
a. Love b. Life c. Hope d. Water
a. Chicago b. Toronto c. New Delhi d. New York
186. Which are the three destinations in Orissa known as part of the popular Golden Triangle?
a. Puri, Cuttack, Rourkela b. Puri, Konark and Bhubaneshwar
c. Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar, Puri d. Konark, Digha, Balasore
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187. 'Gold Riband', the brand owned by McDowell's is a type of
a. Whisky b. Beer c. Rum d. None of these
188. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of a modern economy?
a. Predominance of agriculture b. Self-sufficient village economy
c. Diversity in production of commodities d. Static technology
189. Who is the disinvestment minister of India?
a. Arun Shourie b. George Fernandes
c. Ram Jethmalani d. Ghulam Nabi Azad
190. The newly appointed chairman of State Bank of India (SBI) is
a. Janaki Ballabha b. K. V. Kamath c. P. P. Vora d. A. K. Purwar
191. Who is the author of the famous novel Family Matters?
a. Arundhati Roy b. Anita Desai c. Rohniton Mistry d. Salman Rushdie
192. Who is the present president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
a. A.V. Birla b. Ashok Soota c. Sanjiv Goenka d. R.S. Lodha
193. 'It takes the rough with the smooth' is used by which of the following car models?
a. TATA Sumo b. TATA Sierra c. TATA Indica d. Toyota Qualis
194. Justine Pasek was in the news for winning the Miss Universe title 2002 from Oxana Fedorora. She hails
a. Greece b. Panama c. Venezuela d. South Africa
a. 141 b. 142 c. 143 d. 144
196. Who was the first Indian film star who advertised for Lux soap ?
a. Persis Khambata b. Lila Chitnis c. Nargis d. Madhubala
197. The new chairman of NASSCOM is
a. Phiroz Vandrevala b. Pradeep Guha. c. Arun Netravalli d. Arun Kumar
198. 'Cannon' is a term associated with which of the following sports disciplines?
a. Carom b. Billiards c. Snooker d. Golf
199. Lifebuoy soap is brand of which of the following companies?
a. Godrej b. P&G c. HLL d. None of these
200. Light year is a unit of


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The press materials for "The House of the Spirits" quote the author of the novel, Isabel Allende, as saying that she had several offers from moviemakers interested in her international best seller. But she turned them down because "everything they said sounded so flamboyant and artificial."
Danish filmmaker Bille August may have sounded more sincere than the others who approached Allende, but his film is everything she was trying to avoid. Flamboyant, artificial this is soap opera so thick with suds that it makes the average TV miniseries seem subtle.
And that's a real shame when you consider the high-powered talent August got to star Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave, etc.
It's a genuine treat to see them all here, chewing up the scenery and obviously hoping to be part of a memorable, if not classic epic. But August, who fared better with "The Best Intentions" and "Pelle the Conqueror," lets them down with both his script and his direction. Was it a language problem a South American subject with English-speaking actors?
Whatever, the result is a major disappointment.
The ensemble tale sweeps over some 50 years, beginning in the late '20s as a young girl named Clara who has telepathic and telekinetic powers realizes her true love is Esteban Trueba (Jeremy Irons, who is quite convincing physically, as he goes from youth to middle-age to old-age, but never quite seems to get a handle on his character). He's a poor miner who is betrothed to Clara's older sister Rosa (Teri Polo).
But when Rosa dies, Esteban is distraught and he heads out into the country and blows his savings on a piece of abandoned rural real estate. Over the next 20 years or so, Esteban restores the estate's former glory and becomes a wealthy landowner. He also becomes one nasty fellow, casually raping a peasant woman and exploiting his destitute employees, while climbing in conservative politics.
Esteban has also left his sickly, overweight mother in the care of his spinster sister Ferula (Glenn Close), who cares for her until her death. Meanwhile, Esteban pretends they don't exist.
Eventually, Esteban and Clara (Meryl Streep) come together and marry in Esteban's middle age. Sweet-natured Clara becomes close to Ferula and invites her into their home, much to Esteban's chagrin.
Time passes and Esteban and Clara have a daughter, Blanca (Winona Ryder), who is fiesty and independent, declaring her love for a ranchhand, Pedro (Antonio Banderas). As you can imagine, this does not sit well with Esteban, so he sends her away to school.
When she's older, Blanca returns, still in love with Pedro, and becomes a revolutionary, as the country becomes a hotbed of political upheavel. And it doesn't help her relationship with her father that Esteban is now a highly respected member of the Congress, which is about to fall.
Along the way there are illegitimate children, angry confrontations, riots in the streets . . . .
All of this holds the potential for exciting storytelling, but the film just plods along in an episodic manner, skimming the surface, skipping over details and never builds any emotional steam whatsoever. August's episodic vignettes seem choppy; and while his actors plunge in with their all, the results are uneven.
Of the players, the women fare best, though Ryder's character is woefully underdeveloped. Streep, as a fragile clairvoyant is extremely winning. But it is Close who steals the show. She is nothing short of amazing as a tortured soul whose loneliness has defined her existence. (If she's remembered, look for Close to be a supporting actress Oscar nominee next year.)
"The House of the Spirits" is not rated but would easily get an R for considerable violence, gore, sex, nudity and some profanity.

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Isn't it great that when you are older no one tells you not have have cookies before your dinner. Anyway these cookies have oranges and raisins in so I expect I am covered for 2 of my 5 a day. They are sturdy too so good for dunking in tea.
you will need;
200g rolled oats
200g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
grated zest of 2 oranges
100g raisins
juice of 1 orange
2 tbsp agave
1tbsp date syrup
1tbsp date syrup
3tbsp soft brown sugar
1 tsp mixed spice
- Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 4
- Melt the oil and the agave together in a pan.
- Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl and add the butter mixture and the orange juice.
- Roll into walnut sized balls and flatten slightly. Bake on a tray for 20 mins or until golden.


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Though best remembered today for his five horror films made during a 12-year period starting in the mid-'70s, British exploitation director Norman J. Warren originally cut his teeth on boundary-pushing sexy titles in the late '60s like Her Private Hell and Loving Feeling. That background still lingers in his first official horror outing, 1976's Satan's Slave, which queasily combines heavy doses of sex and gore with the occult fad sweeping through genre cinema since the success of Rosemary's Baby. Like Warren's subsequent terror titles, it isn't really "good" in the traditional sense and has incredibly odd pacing, but there's certainly no forgetting some of its more extreme highlights.
At a remote English estate, the Yorke family is having some issues. Handsome Stephen (Potter, the brief "it boy" star of Fellini Satyricon and Goodbye Gemini) gets his jollies sexually terrorizing women with scissors and committing the odd murder or two, while his dad Alexander (Gough, Horrors of the Black Museum), seems to be more than slightly connected to the discreet satanic rituals being held around the property. When Stephen's cousin Catherine (Tower of Evil's Glendenning) comes to visit, her parents die in a car crash upon arrival, leaving her in the hands of her suspicious relatives. While she recuperates and wanders around, she's soon subjected to wild visions involving witch persecutions and nasty priests, all connected to the gravestone of an ancestor named Camilla. The supernatural shenanigans continue when her boyfriend bloodily offs himself from a rooftop and Stephen develops too keen a carnal interest in his cousin, setting the stage for a devilish final showdown.
Savaged by UK censors, Satan's Slave took almost three years to cross the ocean to America where it was unleashed in longer form by Crown International, making it by default one of their best releases. The film was shot in Techniscope, something of a rarity for a British horror film of the period as this was used for more often for spaghetti westerns; the process is definitely rougher-looking than its glossier cousins like Panavision, giving the film a weird and gritty ambience you simply don't see anymore. As usual, Gough (and his co-starring mustache) is a joy to watch, especially when he gets to let loose in the final half hour, and Glendenning makes for an appealing and attractive scream queen, even more or less pulling off the unlikely twist ending pretty well. Also noteworthy is the eerie score by John Scott, who worked on Warren's previous films and would go on to some mainstream recognition for Greystoke and The Final Countdown.
The film is also significant in British horror history as a transitional title for screenwriter David McGillivray, who had penned an excellent trio of films for cult director Pete Walker (House of Whipcord, The Confessional, and Schizo). His teaming with Warren is certainly a different beast, and their subsequent collaboration on Terror indicates an increasing desire to pull out all the stops at any cost -- which was starting to show with Schizo, but it really goes out of control here. Incidentally, he also appears in the flashbacks as a priest.
As mentioned above, the initial UK prints and home video versions of Satan's Slave were heavily compromised, losing many snippets of nudity and gore (including much of the astounding nail file scene during the climax). The closest thing to a director's cut and the longest version for several years was the initial American DVD licensed from Crown to Rhino in the first part of their 2004 Horrible Horrors series, a condescendingly-titled collection which nevertheless found the film packed with a motley crew including The Hearse, Horror High (that cut TV print), Point of Terror, Lurkers, and Fleshburn. This edition was fullscreen and looked atrocious, but at least it contained the pretty shocking extended Japanese version of the early scissor sequence, which is still strong stuff in its complete form. The same year saw by far the longest British release of the film as part of the five-disc Norman J. Warren Collection from the UK branch of Anchor Bay, an attractive anamorphic transfer correctly framed at 2.35:1. The full scissor scene was missing here, not surpirsingly, but otherwise it's a good presentation overall and features a very lively, informative commentary with both Warren and McGillivray, who aren't afraid to crack a few jokes at their own expense. This disc also features some worthwhile video extras, but more on those in a moment. As usual, it also featured one of those terrible, fake 5.1 mixes the company seemed so fond of at the time, basically shoving random dialogue and sound effects around to all the speakers with a lot of reverb thrown in.
It looked like the US might finally get a decent version of the film in 2008 when BCI began licensing Crown titles for remastered editions, and while their double-feature DVD paired up with Terror looked promising and was indeed the first scope edition on American home video, it was the hopelessly savaged initial British cinema cut with almost every highlight missing in action. The source print also looked like it had been dragged behind a truck for ten miles, which didn't exactly help matters either. Unfortunately that also proved to be the case with the film's subsequent reissue as part of a bargain-priced Gorehouse Greats Collection in 2010 from Mill Creek, another compressed and iffy pack of 12 random Crown titles.
That finally - finally! - brings us to the 2012 edition from Scorpion Releasing, which automatically wins simply for being the only truly uncut version ever released in the original aspect ratio anywhere in the world. The transfer looks pretty close to the Anchor Bay one, i.e., correctly framed, clean film source, and colors as good as the cinematography will allow; it's definitely light years ahead of the previous BCI one by a long shot. All of the footage from various versions around the world appears to be intact here, clocking in at 89 minutes. Apart from dropping the audio commentary, the UK video extras have been carried over here and then some. "All You Need Is Blood," a featurette created during filming, is a fun 12-minute promo piece about the making of the film, including behind-the-scenes footage of ritual sequences, Gough hanging out in the woods, creation of the copious fake blood, and staging that crazy suicide scene. The slightly longer "Devilish Music" features Scott at a piano talking about the "strange music we could probably never do again" for the film and even doing a demo on the keyboard. The 29-minute "Creating Satan" is the beefiest of the bunch, with Warren, McGillivray, Potter, producer Les Young, production designer Hayden Pearce, associate producer Moira Young, and distributor salesman Ken Dowling talking about getting Gough for the film, finding girls able to do the demanding ritual scenes, following this film hot on the heels from the same distributor as Thriller: A Cruel Picture, and how it was paired up in theaters with Curtis Harrington's Ruby. You also get three minutes of B&W deleted scenes from the workprint (two scenes, both inessential - a tea party and an alternate dream sequence), with no audio but filled in with some commentary and music tracks. The disc is rounded out with the earlier B&W Warren short film "Fragment," a loose and jazzy little piece previously available on the BFI release of Her Private Hell, along with the theatrical trailer and bonus trailers for Terror and Death Ship. The film is packaged as part of Katarina's Nightmare Theater, with hostess Katarina Leigh Waters proferring plenty of facts about the film against grisly backdrops of scene highlights. As usual these wraparounds are optional when you choose to play the film, but given the trivia value and amusing nature of the sexy satanic setting, there's no rational reason to pass them up.


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I have only had my baby conure (3 months old) for 3 weeks - but he is constantly biting and drawing blood. Ive now become scared of him!! And im sure he is picking up on this
Someeone suggested i use gloves to get my confidence up. I have done - and i am far more comfortable. However, he is still constantly biting - will he think it of to bite because im not reacting so much with the gloves on?
There is noone else living with us
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Hoping for more square pegs
Society requires a certain degree of conformity. We seem to be in a place of great tension right now as we define and reshape our view of "normal". The proverbial "square peg" in a round hole has come to define many people who used to believe that their view of the world was the "normal" one and they/we are presently being increasingly called out by the "establishment" as needing to conform. The notion of conformity has been wielded by those who view themselves as the disenfranchised, not realizing they themselves are the ones doing the disenfranchising.
I read this morning on the Chicks on the Right page that a public school is considering the petition from a student to terminate its ban on chapstick. Yep, chapstick. The rationale the school gave was the possibility of chapstick being shared and spreading disease. Again, yep, chapstick. I'm not sure if they did any studies to show if shared chapstick actually spreads disease, but it certainly sounds like one of those things that your mother told you would happen and it is a little bit gross.
It begs the question though, does the school really have THIS much responsibility to determine and dictate the behavior of our kids? The answer is of course, they have as much authority as we have given them. I do love that the girl in that story was taking on the school and making an effort to get the rule changed. I understand that, entering through the front door, following the procedures and giving the school board the deference of the governing body that it is. I wouldn't have done it that way, but kudos to her. Myself, I would have had a hard time being respectful of such a stupid and irrational rule, and I would have challenged it by ignoring it. If my kids needed chapstick and it was banned at school, I would have sent it anyway. I really am not sure if that makes me a bad person or pain in the ass, but I still believe and always will, that our entire society and the order therein, is based upon the consent of the governed. The more we fight against ridiculousness, the more power we give it. We have to be "about" bigger things than chapstick. If I had been, as a parent, called on the carpet about this decision to send my kid to school with a banned substance, I would explain that there was a medical necessity that trumped the rationale of the rule. In general, pure logic and reasoning has yielded me fair results in the school system, and I have managed to get two kids nearly through the process.
My oldest child was lamenting yesterday about the ineptness and incompetence of college professors. I pointed out that this is precisely the function of college and professors, to confront you with points of view that you may choose not to adhere to. You can conform or rebel in both thoughts and action, but the point is in the provocation. Idiot professors certainly have a way of provoking you to thought and action. Moreover, officials may tell you that chapstick is a disease bearing nuisance but only you can decide in your mind whether you believe that or believe your own experience in which chapstick was your savior from painfully cracked and broken lips on a cold winter day.
I had another opportunity to speak to the administration at a local Yorba Linda school yesterday. It is an opportunity I have been afforded on a pretty regular basis over the past 13 years. Because I have raised and birthed (this is not a nature vs. nurture debate, that is a whole 'nother blog!) kids who are notorious "square pegs", these arbiters of the "round holes" have need of pretty regular contact with me. All good, we have managed to think through some things, resolve and theorize these rules and policies to the satisfaction, of well, usually neither of us, but well, we move on and get through it. I have never managed to get any rules or policies changed but I have managed to garner some respect for my views and the unique "shape" of my kid. I will never stop being an advocate for those who are "square pegs" because the "round holes" should be fluid enough to make room for everyone. Adherence to myopic and arbitrary rules does not a person of great character make. Great character is about being respectful and caring of the needs of others, not being abrasive, abusive and of course, not spreading communicable diseases with willy nilly sharing of chapstick, but if at all possible, rules and minutia should not prohibit a kid from being who they are, the best they can be and enjoying and being safe in the process.
"All created equal" and "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness", seem to anticipate this kind of differentiation and myriad uniqueness. We should be embracing it and not quashing it. I'm going to keep embracing and promoting that, whether any establishment is or not.
So, kids, if you need chapstick and it helps you concentrate and be a better student, by all means, bring it to school. You can still be charming and cooperative with your teacher and the educational system, but maybe, bring a note from Mom or a doctor, and don't share it with eighteen people who have communicable diseases. Be yourself, ignore your college professors when they are communists or just ordinary idiots. You don't have to point out how unintelligent they are, but you don't have to actually take in and take on anything they say either.
There is room for all of us. Tyranny of the majority is something our founding fathers planned for and made concessions for when it might occur. The same principle applies down to the most local parts of our society. We are not slaves to the opinions and mandates of minute behavior modifying ridiculousness, but we also don't have to get into an uproar over them. Move forward in the confidence of who you are, square peg, which have been and will continue to be, the foundation of a great society.


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If you're interested in learning how to deploy wireless networking for your organization that provides the security of Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) and 802.1X - as well as the ease of using password-based user authentication rather than smart cards - you will be interested in this new guide:
This guide explains how to build upon the core network by providing instructions about how to deploy Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1X-authenticated IEEE 802.11 wireless access using Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol – Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2 (PEAP-MS-CHAP v2).
The authentication method PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 requires that authenticating servers running Network Policy Server (NPS) present wireless clients with a server certificate to prove the NPS server identity to the client, however user authentication is not performed by using a certificate - instead, users provide their domain user name and password.
Because PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 requires that users provide password-based credentials rather than a certificate during the authentication process, it is typically easier and less expensive to deploy than EAP-TLS or PEAP-TLS.
Before you use this guide to deploy 802.1X wireless access with the PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 authentication method, you must do the following:
- Follow the instructions in the Windows Server 2016 Core Network Guide to deploy your core network infrastructure, or already have the technologies presented in that guide deployed on your network.
- Follow the instructions in the Core Network Companion Guide Deploy Server Certificates for 802.1X Wired and Wireless Deployments, or already have the technologies presented in that guide deployed on your network.
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text: Lucy Liu attended the 2016 American Theatre Wing Gala Honoring Cicely Tyson in New York City this week. Looking as beautifully 'Lucy' as ever, the actress accented her pink floral gown with a trend-defying Tyler Ellis' Jamie Clutch in Silver. It's not on the website yet and order by request only. But you can be sure you'll need to save your pennies for this one. Nevertheless, we love it. Timeless and classic. This accessory will be in your style repertoire for years to come.


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March 11, 2019 -- O novo míssil balístico intercontinental (ICBM) da Rússia, o enorme
RS-28 Sarmat com armas termonucleares, irá substituir o SS-18,
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The RS-28 Sarmat (NATO designation: SS-X-30 Satan 2), is a replacement for the Voevoda, or SS-18 Satan missile, the biggest and most deadly Soviet-era missile of the Cold War.
The Sarmat can reportedly carry 10 warheads and has practically no range restrictions.
The liquid-fuelled missile, which weighs 200 tonnes, is said to be capable of unleashing ten large thermonuclear warheads with an explosive yield of up to 750 kilotons. The Hiroshima atomic bomb was around 15 kilotons.
The Sarmat can also deliver Russia's new Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), capable of carrying a nuclear payload at 20 times the speed of sound.
Avangard's high speed, low trajectory and mid-flight manoeuvrability could make it immune to interception by America's THAAD shield system.
With a range of more than 10,000km, the Sarmat can make a circumterrestrial flight and hit targets on the other side of the planet from unexpected directions within one hour.
Serial production of the RS-28 Sarmat missile is slated to begin in 2020.


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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
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The copy of the magazine I scanned these pages from was water-damaged and the pages are warped, something that a scan at 300 dpi makes all too clear.
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Anne F. Schmidt, 79, of Syracuse passed away peacefully Wednesday January 24, 2018 surrounded by her loving family.
Anne was a lifelong resident of Syracuse and a proud graduate of Most Holy Rosary. She retired from The Syracuse City School District in 2003 after many years working as a teaching assistant with the Pre-K program
She was predeceased by her parents, Francis "Mike" and Edna, and her brother, John Herbert Sheedy.
Anne is survived by her loving husband of 58 years, Donald V. Schmidt; sons, Don Jr (Nancy), David (Lori), Daniel, Doug (Bernadette), Dennis (Anna); daughters, Anne (Bill) Abbott and Marybeth (Ron) Byrne, brother, Jim (Maureen) Sheedy; sister in law, Joanne Sheedy, 22 grandchildren,15 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
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Stroke 9 – Live @ BlocktoberFest, a set on Flickr. It was so good to see the guys from Stroke 9 again. This time it was in Downtown Baltimore as they were the Headlining Act for the 2012 BlocktoberFest in Baltimore Maryland on 9/29/12. The set was filled with positive energy, lots of smiles and… Read More
Well it's been 11 months to the day since I first saw and photographed Jason Mraz live. He played at Merriweather Post Pavilion last year on September 24, 2011 with Colbie Caillat and tonight he performed at the same venue with Philadelphia's Christina Perri. Via Flickr: Below are more photos I took of Jason Mraz… Read More
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'Star Wars' Standalone Movie Loses Writer Gary Whitta (Exclusive)
Gary Whitta is no longer writing a Star Wars standalone movie.
Whitta was working with Gareth Edwards, the filmmaker behind last year's Godzilla movie, on the project and completed a first draft. But he has now left the project, which will likely hire a new writer.
Sources say Whitta is now moving on to his next project, which is unknown at this time. One of the projects on his docket is Starlight, Fox's adaptation of the Mark Millar sci-fi comic book miniseries.
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"Gary has been a wonderful, inspired contributor and I enjoyed working with him tremendously," said Edwards in a statement. "I'm so grateful for all of his contributions. "
Said Whitta, "The year I spent working with Lucasfilm on this Star Wars film has been by far the most rewarding period of my entire career. As a lifelong Star Wars fan I'm deeply grateful to have had the rare opportunity to contribute to a new chapter in its ongoing cinematic legacy. The film is going to be amazing."
Whitta and Edwards have been working on the Star Wars project since around May 2014.
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Lucasfilm and Disney did not comment on the hiring of a new writer.
This is not the first time a writer has stepped off a Star Wars project after doing initial work on it. Michael Arndt worked on a treatment and script for what was becoming the J.J. Arbams-directed movie before leaving it over a year after commencing on it. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan took over the script-writing duties.
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Watch the Banksy movie trailer and a five-minute preview here.
He's painted trompe l'oeil visions on walls in Palestine, reconfigured phone boxes in the U.K., turned live elephants pink in L.A. and created robotic hot dogs for a horrifying, vegan-endorsed "pet store" exhibit in Greenwich Village. But with his new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, British street-art superstar Banksy serves up his most irreverent work yet. The film depicts the crazy rise of film-and-art dabbler Thierry Guetta, a.k.a. Mr. Brainwash, whose unlikely success Banksy jump-started.
If Exit Through the Gift Shop, narrated by actor Rhys Ifans, is technically flawed, the documentary is nevertheless a savvy testament to the concept of DIY filmmaking, both a valuable recorded history of a scene and an awesome romp through perilous L.A. with the world's most admired street artists, allowing viewers to experience life underground in the wee hours of the morning. Through the eyes of Guetta, a native Frenchman who inadvertently stumbled into the world of graffiti art, we witness wheat-paste postering at death-defying heights, intricate stenciling on rooftops and the inevitable run-ins with police.
While most fans of graffiti and street art could watch these scenarios play out for the film's entire 90 minutes, Banksy takes a 180-degree turn — perhaps out of respect for a general audience — to focus on Guetta, a self-professed filmmaker obsessed with capturing absolutely everything on tape, no matter how mundane. In Exit, Guetta comes off as a bumbling, Inspector Clouseau–like self-promoter who pastes posters of his face all over L.A.
In the late '90s, at a family reunion in France, Guetta realized that he is a cousin of mosaic artist Space Invader, and began documenting the burgeoning street-art scene worldwide for his own film. Over the past decade, Guetta and his camera had unrestricted access to street art's most prolific talents, including the scene's anonymous cult figure, Banksy.
After being the subject of Guetta's lens for nearly 10 years, Banksy realized the potential of Guetta's footage. He then suggested that Guetta hand over his tapes and instead occupy himself with making his own art, perhaps even staging a show in L.A. Guetta's subsequent hiring of some 20 assistants to produce a major exhibition culminated in the now-infamous June 2008 show in Hollywood that catapulted him to celebrity status.
Meanwhile, Banksy and friends began work on Exit using Guetta's footage. And in Exit, we glimpse what Guetta's documentary might have looked like: an unwatchable, crosscut, random, self-promotional mishmash called Life Remote Control, part '80s-style music video, part schizophrenic nightmare. After first seeing Guetta's rough cut, Banksy recalls in Exit, "I didn't know if I believed he was a filmmaker or a mental patient with a camera."
Asked via e-mail how he maintained his anonymity while shooting Exit, Banksy responds, "The film was made by a very small team. It would have been even smaller if the editors didn't keep having mental breakdowns. They went through over 10,000 hours of Thierry's tapes and got literally seconds of usable footage out of it."
When not attempting to make art and/or films, Thierry Guetta is a happy-go-lucky businessman who lives in L.A. with his wife and children. Despite that fact, members of the British press, used to Banksy's pranks, believe the film is a hoax. Fans also wonder, posting on the Internet long exchanges about the possibility that Banksy and Mr. Brainwash are the same person. Will Exit Through the Gift Shop dispel these rumors?
"It's more shocking than that," Banksy tells the Weekly, "because every bit of it's true."
Guetta may have spent years stalking Banksy with his camera, but by the end of the film, it's difficult to decide who's more obsessed with whom.
"I continue to find the rise of Mr. Brainwash absolutely fascinating," Banksy quips. "His art sells for roughly double what mine does these days. Gore Vidal once wrote that 'Every time a friend of mine succeeds, a little bit of me dies.' I'd amend that to 'Every time one of my friends borrows my ideas, mounts a huge art show and becomes a millionaire celebrity,' a little bit of me wants him dead."
Whatever the case, there's something undeniably L.A. about the success of Mr. Brainwash.
"Thierry is the living embodiment of the American dream," Banksy says. "America's capacity to be infuriating is matched only by its capacity to reinvent itself into something brilliant."
Los Angeles plays a huge role in Exit, and the Weekly makes a cameo appearance or two. When asked about what director Werner Herzog has referred to as the "magic" of L.A., Banksy responds: "In Los Angeles, you can rise without a trace. There's a moment in the film where you see a dude joining the back of the line at an art show. He says he doesn't know why he's there, but he joins it anyway. The first time I saw that, I laughed — it was the emperor's new clothes, the triumph of hype and hot air.
"But now I've thought about it. I love that guy — he's prepared to give anything a shot, to try something new. Cities like New York and London might pride themselves on being more hard-bitten and cynical than Tinseltown, but you have to ask yourself: What's actually so great about that?"
In Exit, Shepard Fairey, art-world icon and Echo Park resident, is less generous with regard to Guetta's celebrity. Fairey tells the Weekly, "Mr. Brainwash is all public perception, and that's what gets him off the hook. He couldn't get away with what he does if the public didn't buy into it, and that says a lot about popular culture, new technology and perhaps the art world in general, which is what Banksy's getting at. If it wasn't for Thierry's glorious lack of self-awareness — and his public's for that matter — he wouldn't be where he is today. How can you begrudge him?
"Yet it was an injustice that the only street-art cover story the Weekly ever chose to do was the one on his show. Pop art was never a bad word to me until I saw Thierry's show in L.A. It was then I found the line between what looks cool but has no meaning and a piece that maybe continues a deeper conversation. It's helped me not to make those mistakes in my own work, the cheap shots, ever again. That being said, Thierry's my friend. He's a nice person and a hard worker. Don't be annoyed by him. Make him irrelevant, make something better."
Parallel to the entertaining story line of the unnatural rise of Mr. Brainwash, and notwithstanding its tag, "The World's First Street Art Disaster Movie," Exit is an invaluable celluloid retrospective of Banksy's prolific career, including his greatest hits: iconic rat stencils, the uninvited interjection of paintings into institutional collections, a Guantanamo prisoner placed in a diorama at Disneyland and, of course, the painted elephant that raised so many eyebrows here during his 2006 blockbuster show, "Barely Legal." Despite the auction price for his original work hitting a record high of more than $1.8 million in 2008 (for a charity collaboration with Damien Hirst titled "Keep It Spotless"), Banksy may still wrestle with some of the same "is it art?" questions that a personality like Mr. Brainwash faces. But he remains unconcerned.
"I'm not so interested in convincing people in the art world that what I do is 'art,' " Banksy says. "I'm more bothered about convincing people in the graffiti community that what I do is really vandalism."
Now that he can add filmmaking to his repertoire, Banksy is modest yet proud of his celluloid accomplishment. "I think the film is unique. Every decent counterculture gets turned into a commodity and served back over the counter. This film shows that process unfolding in real time, told in the words of someone partly responsible for screwing it up in the first place."
Despite the veil of mandatory secrecy that surrounds Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop enjoyed hugely successful, albeit last-minute screenings at both Sundance and the Berlinale. Audiences hoping to finally catch a glimpse of the artist on the red carpet were treated only to a seat in the theaters, some new art (on the streets of Telluride, since preserved with Plexiglas) and, in Berlin, a video comment by the director shrouded in a black hoodie, as he appears in the film. What's in store for L.A.?
"Normally I like to take over a run-down warehouse and do something on my own terms," Banksy says, "but the plan for the American premiere is to surprise everyone by not doing anything very surprising. Controversially, I'll be screening the film in a movie theater with proper seats and a popcorn stall. I've found that asking people to sit in the dark for 90 minutes on salvaged old couches that smell of pee can be a bit too 'authentic.' The one thing you have going for you when you paint graffiti is complete control over the means of distribution. With a film, you have none. Movie theaters are very conservative institutions, but they're a hard thing to bypass when you've made a feature film."
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"Charlie Chaplin used to say, 'Once I talk, I'm like any other comic.' I figure I'd follow this lead. I walk like him anyway."
Exit Through the Gift Shop is an extraordinary, tongue-in-cheek glimpse at an art culture, an anomalous love letter to Los Angeles (a city with "heat, beautiful teeth and fresh food, everything we English hate," says Banksy), and the compelling journey of an enigmatic artist — maybe two. Is the film to be viewed as a straight documentary? Or is it, as many believe, some kind of elaborate joke?
Even one of Banksy's closest allies, his former London gallerist Steve Lazarides, isn't quite certain, as he makes clear in Exit: "The joke? The joke is on, hmm ... I don't even know that there is a joke, really."
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP opens at ArcLight Hollywood and the Landmark in West L.A. on April 16.


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Stocks gained on signs that lawmakers are edging toward a deal that would help the U.S. avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Baby P's mother named her violent partner as her next of kin on an official form but authorities still failed to realise he was living with her, a previously secret report revealed today.
The toddler's social worker was told Tracey Connelly had a boyfriend but did not ask who he was or request to meet him, according to a damning serious case review into the tragedy.
Baby P – now named as Peter Connelly – was just 17 months old when he died in Tottenham, north London, at the hands of his mother, her abusive partner Steven Barker and his brother, Jason Owen , in August 2007.
He suffered more than 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over an eight-month period.
The two serious case reviews into Peter's death, published in full for the first time today, disclose that Connelly named Barker as her next of kin on health records in mid-2007 and described him as a friend.
The second report, commissioned after the first was judged by Ofsted to be 'inadequate', was scathing about social workers' failure to quiz Peter's mother about her boyfriend.
It said: 'It would have been interesting to know whether Ms A (Connelly) would have refused the information and what it was thought to signify. She was not asked.'
The serious case reviews were published in full following pledges by Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians.
Children's Minister Tim Loughton said he wanted the release of the reports to bring 'some form of closure' so everyone involved in the case could move on.
He added: 'The Government's commitment to publish full SCR (serious case review) overview reports has always been about transparency, so that vital information is made available, so that agencies can be held to account and lessons properly learned.'


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I read an interesting article about how squirrels have the habit of searching for, and then hiding the nuts that they find, but later are only able to find an approximate 10% of those hidden nuts from their respective hiding places. It seems like a waste of all those hard work in accumulating one's wealth just to not enjoy the benefits of the labour in the end. Maybe if squirrels could be taught or trained to save only some of the nuts that they find, and enjoy the rest while they still can, that would be best?
I have on several occasions spoken to friends and even family members about saving for old age. And this recently, a friend has forwarded a so-called advice about old age through Whatsapp; it got me thinking once again.
I think people in general are quite in agreement that there is a lot of virtues of saving for old age. But not everybody can agree on how best to consume that savings upon retirement. I notice that a popular view is that once one has retired, one should start tapping into his retirement fund, not only just for survival, but also for all the enjoyments in life. The reason, of course, is that one can't bring all his money and possessions to his gravewhen he dies, whatever wealth he has would pass on to the next of kin.
I guess I can't fault anybody for wanting to enjoy his fruits of labour. After all, that is the main idea of savings for old age anyway. We try to set aside as much as we can in anticipation of old age when we are no longer strong, either physically or mentally, to earn. And then when that time comes, we start consuming whatever that's been set aside. That seems straightforward. The only problem with that plan is the unpredictable nature of the human lifespan. What could potentially happen in reality is that one is so afraid of missing out on reaping the benefits of his fruits of labour, goes on to consume his savings to pursue the things he likes or enjoys, thus quickly depleting his savings.
I happen to know firsthand of the story of a woman whom inherited a huge amount of money upon her husband's death. The amount of money could have sustained a rather comfortable life for her for many years to come. But she had a gambling habit, and she started liquidating on her inheritance at the casinos. She won some, and she lost some. But on the whole, it's always a net loss. When questioned, she said she's already old and won't live forever, and that she won't be able to bring her money to the grave anyway. She'd rather spend her money on the things that she enjoys while she can still enjoy!
That sounds fair enough, except that she finished all her money within 3 years or so, and now she's still not dead! Now at the age of about 70, she is struggling to make ends meet, and constantly worrying about money. Obviously she's achieved her aim of having nothing to bring to her grave, but one has to wonder how many more years she'll have to survive in constant financial difficulties.
There is a lesson to be learnt here. It's OK to tap into the retirement savings when one goes into retirement, but it's wise not to slam the accelerator all the way to the floor. And if somewhere in between he suddenly drops dead and his savingsor whatever's left of itgoes to his next of kin, that is still not really a total loss. It's OK to leave something behind to the loved ones. At least he won't have to live a stressful life in poverty during his old age. At least I would gladly choose this second approach anytime!


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