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It is staggering that so many schools are still serving junk food to pupils, as reported by 7DAYS on Thursday.
There cannot be a person in the academic world in the UAE who is not aware of the country's near epidemic levels of obesity and diabetes. Health chiefs are trying hard to tackle the issue, but cannot do so alone.
So, a modern school is not just about books and exams, it is about laying the foundations to ensure future generations are stronger and wiser than those that came before.
Now, I'm no engineer, but I'm pretty sure chips and fried chicken don't make good foundations.
A new threat
Bombs implanted in bodies may seem like stuff of spy novels, however this new threat is actually a stark reminder of the real and constant danger presented by terrorism.
Officials in both the United States and Europe have said they have compelling evidence that Al Qaeda bombmakers and doctors are working together to develop technology that could hide a bomb inside a living body that was not only powerful enough to rip its host apart but also bring down a plane.
The obvious advantage for the terrorist is that it would be much harder to detect than something strapped under their clothes or hidden in luggage.
It shows that these groups are adapting, just like the printer cartridge bomb plot that Dubai Police helped foil last year.
Terror groups such as Al Qaeda may not have the massive resources of the likes of the CIA but they are small and not bound by the bureaucracy and redtape of these mighty behemoths.
That means they can be nimble and adapt quickly. Let's hope we can do the same, for all our sakes.
Simon Pluckrose is Head of News at Al Sidra Media LLC, the publisher of 7DAYS, 7daysindubai.com and 7daysinabudhabi.com


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The Seth MacFarlane sitcom premiered on Sept. 16 to 5.8 million viewers but dropped off in the subsequent weeks.
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A reddit user recently invoked link necromancy on a 1994 Donald Knuth letter to the U.S. Patent Office:
When I think of the computer programs I require daily to get my own work done, I cannot help but realize that none of them would exist today if software patents had been prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. Changing the rules now will have the effect of freezing progress at essentially its current level. If present trends continue, the only recourse available to the majority of America's brilliant software developers will be to give up software or to emigrate. The U.S.A. will soon lose its dominant position.Please do what you can to reverse this alarming trend. There are far better ways to protect the intellectual property rights of software developers than to take away their right to use fundamental building blocks.
You have to respect the opinion of Donald Knuth, because he's our homeboy.
Still, opinions vary. The software patent debate merits an entire Wikipedia article, and the ensuing comment debate on Reddit represents plenty of opposing viewpoints.
Paul Graham, surprisingly, thinks software patents don't matter:
I'm not saying secrecy would be worse than patents, just that we couldn't discard patents for free. Businesses would become more secretive to compensate, and in some fields this might get ugly. Nor am I defending the current patent system. There is clearly a lot that's broken about it. But the breakage seems to affect software less than most other fields.In the software business I know from experience whether patents encourage or discourage innovation, and the answer is the type that people who like to argue about public policy least like to hear: they don't affect innovation much, one way or the other. Most innovation in the software business happens in startups, and startups should simply ignore other companies' patents. At least, that's what we advise, and we bet money on that advice.
Paul Heckel goes so far as to say responsible, rational use of software patents may actually encourage innovation:
In brief, what superficially looks like another problem to be dealt with in the increasingly competitive, commodities oriented software business, will prove to be what makes products less price competitive. Many industries have worked on this basis all along: patents make industries more diverse in their offerings, more profitable, more innovative, and ultimately will make the U.S. more competitive.The essence of this article is simple: Software intellectual property issues are not inherently different in substance from other technologies; what motivates people is not inherently different; industry life cycle is not inherently different; marketing and business strategies and tactics are not inherently different; the law and policy issues are not inherently different. The technology is not even new. Software has been around for 40 years. The issues may be new to those who had no experience of them, but the only thing that is different is that software is a mass market industry for the first time and real money is at stake.
As much as I respect Knuth, I have to agree that the problem with software patents isn't the patents themselves. It's the sloppy, haphazard way the patents are granted and enforced. If anything needs reforming, it's the U.S. Patent Office.
I think software patents can help protect the "little guy", or at least a preliminary patent registration while they get their idea out into the marketplace.
And yes, the USPO can use some refomation.
Steve on April 12, 2007 11:55 AMwe're steadily getting to a phase in the technology sector where everything is patented and companies have to spend thousands just to make sure that their ideas haven't been thought of (and patented) before.
IP squatting is going to be the end of the little guys. I'm in Europe. No software patents to be seen.
Patents on software don't actually release anything into the public domain. Reverse engineering is so easy that a child could do it and see what makes something tick.
I think a lot can be learnt from the OSS movement in this respect. Open code, no secrets and moving faster than any of the other desktop operating systems. Go figure.
Oli on April 12, 2007 12:40 PMAs I understand it from my University days, in the UK, a Patent can be granted even if it isn't valid. That is, it can be granted even if there isn't an aspect of 'innovation' that isn't obvious to a specialist in the field. And that's not unreasonable - you can't expect the patent office to be expert at everything, and the language in patents is often, well, obfuscated.
So if a patent holder believes that a patent has been infringed, they can take the matter to court. Here, the judge decides if the patent is valid, if it has been infringed, and what measures are to be taken (if any).
The problem is, litigation is expensive. It seems that some companies holding the patents on fairly basic technology (e.g. http://www.chillingeffects.org/ecom/notice.cgi?NoticeID=537) will demand money from others, but aimed at a cost that is less than litigation would be. This is either a protection racket, or a mugging. Only large companies can afford to fight such cases.
I mean, off the top of my head, there have been patents claimed for online shopping baskets, one-click buying, linked-lists, gif compression (I mean, run length encoding - come on!), online advertising, browser plug-ins... ...the list is massive.
Fair patents, for genuinely innovative ideas - fine. But otherwise, the only answer I see is that costs of litigation can be passed back to the patent holder, if the patent is judged to not be valid.
Of course, everything we write is covered by copyright anyway...
Andy on April 13, 2007 2:36 AMI tell you what, what programmer do you know that hasn't stolen code (leaked or provided for non commercial use)? I have, and for commercial uses. If I can find it and not have to write it myself, I will use it... That is the porogrmmer's way, am I right?
Jeremy on April 13, 2007 2:53 AMWow, lots of links, no original argument, and a random opinion at the end. Great!
Stephen on April 13, 2007 3:32 AM*cough*SCO*cough*
Oli on April 13, 2007 3:36 AMUhh.. no I don't think that is the programmer's way. Most of the code I have to sift through is complete crap, I don't trust any code unless I wrote it. I hate when I have to fix something or redo something someone else wrote, it is always garbage.
Ryan on April 13, 2007 4:02 AMThe idea that patents protect the "little guy" is just false. One need only look at who gets the most patents to determine that. I deal with patents a great deal, and let me tell you than MANY patent attorneys won't even deal with "the little guy" because their expectations are entirely unrealistic. (Case in point, here in Chicago a month or so ago, one of the "little guys" was so pissed off about his lack of success, he burst into the attorney's office and shot a bunch of people.)
The idea that the little guy having a patent prevents Big Mega Corp coming along and reverse engineering your patent and screwing you is also almost always completely false. A good patent lawyer can string the "little guy" along for years, until he bankrupts him, or more likely settles in a completely unbalanced way. Often, I might add, that it is a lot of work for Big Mega Corp to reverse engineer (both the item and the production process) so Big Mega Corp buys out the "little guy." In doing so, he buys the method, the product and the IP (which he then uses to squash the next "little guy")
Patents, despite their reputation do nothing for the little guy. The number of "little guys" who made their fortune off one patent is very, very small. The idea of Uncle Joe working in his garage to discover the next big thing, then patenting it and making a billion or two is a romantic wrongheaded notion, that again, almost never actually happens.
Patents are a tool for big guys to squash medium guys (who don't have enough patents of their own to protect themselves with cross licensing deals.) Patents are also a tool used by dying corporations (or corporations that should die) to try to survive a little longer. Patents are also tools used by big guys to hamper competition from other big guys (not stop it, because patents aren't strong enough to do that.) Patents are finally a tool used by patent trolls to drain the blood our of our economy.
Despite their original intent, patents do not encourage innovation. Just recently, the GAO (hardly a shill for the anti patent movement) released a study that indicated that the poster boy for patents, the drug industry, had their innovativeness significantly decreased by the patent laws.
There is nothing positive about patents of any kind, and software patents are the worst kind of all. They are a Damoclesian sword hanging over the heads of every innovative start up in the country.
JB on April 13, 2007 4:06 AMStephen, you are free to share your visdom. Right now you just come off as being stupid.
GH on April 13, 2007 5:08 AMAm I the only one who thinks that patents per se are wrong?
I think patents were started as an act of charity, to help the little guy grow. But now it's abused to the extreme.
Why oh why should I stop making something because you thought of it first? there is no rational argument for that. Patents were started to help the little guy survive "the big fish", after that it's his problem to survive in the market.
CapitalT on April 13, 2007 5:22 AMIf you have the patience/interest for a lengthy academic article dissecting software patents in detail, have a look at http://ssrn.com/abstract=959931 .
B on April 13, 2007 5:36 AMI work for a very small software company (our RD dept is four people). We have to spend money to get software patents to protect us if somebody were to attack us, so we could try to cross-license patents instead of simply being destroyed. Even so, we would probably be destroyed. The simply fact is that the existence of Software Patents ensures that any of the major players could demolish us with their patents whenever they chose to do so. It's not possible to write an application without violating patents of the big software companies (and some patents of patent trolls).
Software patents only cost us money and security and don't give us anything in return.
Software patents don't need to be fixed. They need to be taken out, shot, and then their heads need to be chopped off and wooden stakes need to be driven through their hearts just to be sure that they can never come back.
LKM on April 13, 2007 5:51 AMPaul Heckel puts lots of baseless oppinions there:
"what motivates people is not inherently different"
Agree with that... But:
"industry life cycle is not inherently different"
Yes, it is. There is no way he didn't notice that the software indutry lacks an industrial facility.
"marketing and business strategies and tactics are not inherently different"
I can't say they are not inherently different. But they are currently very different. Most software sells because of lock-in, most consumers don't know what they are buying before the payment (and I can't see how they could) and hardly evaluate the concurrent options (since they know none of them, not even the one they are buying).
"the law and policy issues are not inherently different"
Software is protected by copyrights, and can be copyied by near nothing. How can he ignore that?
"The technology is not even new. Software has been around for 40 years."
Ok, maybe he thinks that 40 years is enough time to a society adapt to anything. Hint, the French Revolution created a "fast" instability period of more than 70 years until society stabilized. The Industrial Revolution happened through centuries (people disagree on the details). Society can adapt to most (small) changes on 40 years, but I really can't agree that software is one of them.
I'm not well read on this, admittedly, but from my point of view...
The problem isn't patents in general. It is the misapplication of patents to ideas that many people could have done. One of the basic principles in assigning a patent is that the average person in the industry could not have thought of it. But that principle seems to be ignored. Instead, people get patents for being first, not for being brilliant.
The second problem is people trying to get rich off patents. There is no reason a patent holder cannot just say, "Sure go ahead and use it... just give me credit."
I'd suggest two simple changes to fix things:
1) Disallow software patents on any technology/platform less than 5 years old. That gives everyone time to work with it, and develop it. THEN if you can revolutionize it more than everyone else has in years, get your patent.
2) Put a cap on licensing fees to use a software patent, and require patent holders to allow usage. I do think it is fair for brilliant programmers to gain from their work. But not at the cost of stifling others. Just a few hundreds dollars perhaps. And the money should go to the programmer, not their corporation. Corps make enough money already.
On the matter of principle, sure patents seem justifiable, but their application is so bad the only option most people see is to scrap the whole system.
It sure looks like the problem is the USPTO, but while I think they could do a better job, they're fighting a losing battle. Firing every USPTO employee and replacing them with 5 times as many examiners, every one 5 times as smart will make things better. But it will still suck.
If you want software patents to survive, you have to change the system the USPTO supports and is supported by. I don't think it's a little tweak here, or there of wait times, injunction limitations, filing costs, etc. You need some new options.
A little under a year ago I was thinking on this topic, and had two such ideas. Everyone I've talked seems to think they make sense, but thinks no one would ever agree to them. I disagree however. It's hard to break past that initial barrier with unconventional ideas.
Anyhow the first idea, was to setup the system so that most patents would be severely limited, and thus the impact of a mistake by the USPTO limited. If that sounds interesting, the whole idea is at:
And the other one was to make a concerted effort to bring patents back to the public domain, while compensating the patent holders. You can find the rest of the idea at:
Mr. Bambrick over at SecretGeek comes at this from a different angle. It's one which I think is very important, and is probably one of the key reasons that Mr. Knuth held the position he did on software patents.
The argument is based around the idea that a software algorithm is essentially just math. I think Knuth's Pythagorean Theorem analogy is a great one, but I also think that offering such a simple example is just asking for it to be dismissed as ridiculous.
I think a much better example might be to consider what would have happened if Newton and/or Leibniz had been allowed to patent the algorithms for calculating integrals or derivatives. It's not as trivial as the Pythagorean Theorem, and yet without it, we'd probably never have made it through the industrial revolution.
WaterBreath on April 13, 2007 8:19 AMThe patent office is much slower than the rapid pace at which software progresses. How can you expect them to be aware of all the prior art and know whether to grant patents to software or not?
Algorithms could not be patented originally. What could be patented are mechanical "embodiments" of these algorithms. Then recently new patent categories opened up such as the method patent. Now we can patent one-click technology, YAY!
Companies should compete on what they offer to people, not prevent others and form effective IP monopolies. Squatting IP is now possible, in fact pretty lucrative if done right. Kind of seems like Standard Oil and ATT back in the day.
GregMagarshak on April 13, 2007 8:48 AMI LIKE THE IDEA OF SOFTWARE PATENTS LASTING 2-3 YEARS INSTEAD OF 17.
Let's talk about THAT!
(btw it wasn't my idea originally, but I forgot to attribute it to)
GregMagarshak on April 13, 2007 8:49 AMre: "Why oh why should I stop making something because you thought of it first?"
Because otherwise, when you, the Small Up-And-Comer, invent the Next Big Thing, I, the Fancy-Pants-Corporation, can just steal your work (if you are very lucky, I might buy one or two to reverse-engineer), get one of my factories to crank out a few million copies, and bury you in the dust.
Congratulations, you've just given me free RD.
That's the point of patents, folks - to make sure that the person who invents the Next Big Thing actually benefits from it.
Allen on April 13, 2007 9:00 AMThat's the point of patents, folks - to make sure that the person who invents the Next Big Thing actually benefits from it.
That's not the _point_ of patents. That's the method used by patents to achieve their true end: Getting information into the public domain.
The problem with not having patents is that there's no expiration date on trade secrets.
WaterBreath on April 13, 2007 9:08 AMThe current problem isn't with patents... that's a philosophical discussion for another day. The current problem is patent abuse. Plain and simple.
USPO grants countless far-reaching, incredibly obvious, vague patents to Fancy-Pants-Cos with big lawyers. Trolls with small lawyers and even smaller RD find obscure loopholes, patent them, then sit and litigate. The small guy with no lawyer invents something new, patents it, then is buried under the legal costs of defending that patent.
Fahgetabout patents as an *idea* for just a sec. Because the patent *system* is broke - and broke bad.
CuRoi on April 13, 2007 9:15 AMI see a lot of arguments about the consequences of patents, good and bad, but not any real principled arguments. I'd like to make that here.
One of the principles involved in patent law is whether the item being considered for patent protection is a creation or a discovery. That is, is this thing under consideration a unique product of human creativity, or is it simply a discovery about the underlying nature of the universe that would have come about eventually anyway.
This question goes to the heart of what software development is: is it an engineering discipline, or is it applied mathematics. Engineering is full of patents, mathematics is not. There's no absolute answer, and different kinds of software probably fall in different spots on the spectrum, but my experience tells me that software is more applied mathematics than engineering.
Take patterns for example; although we look at the Gang of Four as having documented the design patterns, do we consider them to have invented them? I certainly don't. This doesn't detract from their work, any more than it detracts from Isaac Newton's work to say that he didn't invent gravity.
Engineering is the application of the principles of nature. A piece of software (as opposed to software in general) is also the application of the principles of nature, in the sense that it's applied mathematics (which no one, save God, can claim to have created). As a piece of engineering can be patented, but not the principles upon which it was based, so it seems that a piece of software should be protected thusly, but not the principles that allowed it to be created. This kind of protection exists in the form of copyright.
So it comes down to player b not being allowed to copy reams of code from player a, but if player b can examine the behavior of the application, whether through decompilation or external instrumentation, it should be fair game.
Chris B. Behrens on April 13, 2007 9:24 AMThe argument is based around the idea that a software algorithm is essentially just math.
I'm not sure I agree with that. Maybe in the strict case where you are talking about a single algorithm, but many software patents cover a larger set of functionality in the software.
With math, and I'm not talking about the crazy number-theory math philosophy "Do numbers really exist?" side of things, but with the applied stuff, there are correct answers. You're either correct or you're incorrect.
With coding, the best you can hope for is to do something well. With so many different ways to effect a single outcome, it's up to some very right-brained sensibilities to determine if you've met your goal, as there isn't anybody (except [another more experienced developer]) who can tell you if you're right or not.
Jeff, from post #298 which you just linked to...
Unlike math, software can't be objectively, formally verified to be correct.
Respectfully, I think Mr. Knuth would disagree with you. In fact, one of his more famous quotes is "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
many software patents cover a larger set of functionality in the software
I can see an argument for this. But that's not how a lot of software patents are being used.
This is obviously a complex issue, and I don't think any of us has "the right answer" at this point in time. Law relating to patents, copyrights, trade secrets, took centuries to evolve to the point it has. But art and mechanical inventions have been around for centuries. Software, on the other hand is only about 60 years old. It is a _new thing_, both very alike and very different from both art and machinery. And it's going to take us, as a society, a long time to get the related laws right.
WaterBreath on April 13, 2007 9:47 AMThere's one other issue that people have missed: whether you love or hate software patents, startup companies will almost never get substantial funding from inventors unless they have patents (pending or issued).
Venture capitalist firms, in particular, demand patents. Otherwise a big company can come along, rip off the little guy's products, and the investors are left holding a worthless company. If the company doesn't have patents that protect its products, it will almost never get funding.
No funding and the company will most likely dry up, or scrape along but not hit it big. I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule, but it's much harder to get investors without some way to protect your new product.
The bottom line is that even though the people in the trenches (the coders) tend to dislike software patents, many of their jobs depend on them.
Robert on April 13, 2007 11:05 AMSorry, typo... substantial funding from "investors."
Robert on April 13, 2007 11:08 AMThose who think that patents hurt the little guy or that without patents you won't get investors fail to see the fact that most businesses are not new or innovative at all. The best way to make money and be successful is to simply do what has been done before but do it better. You don't need patents to make a hamburger. And you don't need patents to create basic CRUD applications. And both can make you millions if you simply do them well. Granted, you won't get any attention from the likes of Paul Graham. But then again, who wants that anyway?
Companies and their investors who stake their money on the presence of patents or on coming up with something new and novel are usually the one's that fail miserably.
Matt on April 13, 2007 12:14 PMOne thing you shouldn't be able to do is to take a patent and then sit on it, there should be a clause that says that you need to use it within a certain time or sell it to someone that will use it.
Today there are companies that actually live on buying patents and then go after the big corps with lawsuits.
I have no problem with software patents if there would be such a rule built into it.
I don't really like the solution that I am proposing, but I think that it is the most workable given the situation:
Make patent duty like jury duty. However instead of opening it up to all citizens open it up to all engineers. Got a new mechanical device? You're going to have to defend it in front of a jury mechanical engineers. The question then becomes, do we ditch software patents or do we license software engineers? Licensing software engineers wouldn't mean that everyone has to be licensed. We could have Computer Scientists as scientists, Software Engineers as engineers, and umm script kiddies to write boilerplate for web stuff.
Tom on April 14, 2007 3:50 AMWhy does a patent for organic dust compression last as long as a patent for one-click buying?
GregMagarshak on April 15, 2007 12:59 PMIn Australia you can not patent software under the Australian regulations. (Nor ideas, concepts etc. etc.)
Therefore we have to rely on Copright which is adequate for small developers but doesn't protect from overseas too well.
We still suppose to pay all these american companies countless thousands if we infringe on their so-called patents, like clicking a mouse, having a button etc etc.
This in turn has created a very insecure and secretive industry in Australia. I'm working on software but can not even release a demo of it to the open world in fear of someone stealing my ideas, and patenting them.
Thanks to the American Patent legislation many small and individual developers can't afford to offer new software in fear of repercussions.
Control should be on the physical code and not the idea. This garbage of patents for mouse clicks, and on screen buttons etc is purely done to limit future development by other companies.
Companies should be promoting and endorsing their new developments and striving for creativity and advancement, not locking everything away.
Money should be in the code, not the idea! Ideas are free!
Unlike math, software can't be objectively,
formally verified to be correct.
This from the guy who thinks experience can make up for education :-)
You're wrong, of course.
LKM on April 17, 2007 2:03 AMI too am in the Reddit wormhole. I always knew you were a redditer. You seem to hit many of the topics there on this blog. Its quite a unique set of people there.
ryan on April 17, 2007 2:15 AMSoftware patents do no good, and in fact do harm. See this video for an explanation:
Bottom line, the only people software patents benefit is big companies with lots of money, and they don't need the benefit anyway, and they hurt the small guy very badly.
AndyCR on April 18, 2007 7:08 AMActually, the current Patent process in regards software is more against the "little guy" than you would think; especially when clearly obvious (and unoriginal) patents are used as a club to whack them out of business.
And if you're a "big guy" company and a patent is in your way, the old trick of "stringing out the lawsuit until you crack" is easily applied. Deep pockets win those cases, not patents (or for that matter, the law).
The current style is to make the wording so wide and far-reaching, that even a patent for a mobile device can be easily applied to software without changing the context of the Patent (take the Microsoft double-click/delay-click patent for example).
Brandon on February 6, 2010 10:02 PMThose people saying patents were made to protect the little guy, you have to realize that this was never the rationale behind patents. Not now, not ever.
Patents were never supposed to be used as "proof" that "I thought of it first" for the sake of litigation. They were meant to encourage people and businesses to share their ideas for new inventions (so others could build on them), while still getting credit for the idea. In other words, they could make the information public while receiving protection against the possibility of any dummy - who would never have thought of the idea themselves - blatantly stealing the idea.
That worked for a long time, but in today's overly litigious society people eventually realized that they could get absurdly generic patents approved in order to stifle the competition. In a sense, patents have become more like copyrights than what patents were originally meant to be. And then you have these patent farms gaming the system, making an entire business out of hoarding them and suing everybody who comes up with anything even remotely similar. With software this becomes ridiculous because there are always 50 different ways to accomplish the same task; patents usually describe functional specifications and basic design, but in software, the real meat is in the implementation.
I'm not sure how the litigation works now, but I think that if a patent is ever struck down in court because it's too generic or not novel, the plaintiff should be required to pay for all the legal fees, plus any damages incurred to the defending individual/business as a result, plus punitive damages if they're caught doing this more than a couple of times.
Aaron G on February 6, 2010 10:02 PMYou can't patent creativity or code.
I'm patenting this line of code so no one else can ever use it!
string data = string.empty;
Most systems I worked on never had much documentation anyway, so how are you going to patent that??
Ideas shouldn't be patented, they should be kept secret until the implementation of the idea is produced. Implementations, I can see patents on that, but the innovation has to be documented.
You shouldn't be allowed patent something like Google, Online Checking or Amazon because even though they are products, what they really are is services and if someone else comes up with a better way to do Internet Search or do Online Checking your company will just have to deal with it and innovate a new solution.
If the US patent office is allowing for silly patents, then I agree it need to be reformed.
You can patent machines, designs or methods
Jon Raynor on February 6, 2010 10:02 PMI have seen a lot of discussions saying patents are broken,stifles innovation but the discussions so far have been pretty short on fixes. I really havent seen any pragmatic approaches that even begin to stem the abuses of the current system I can think of several things that the USPTO needs to do:
0) public comment period after the initial due dilligence of the patent examiner to determine if there are other sources of prior art before allowing the patent.
1) use or lose it. either by filing a business plan that demonstrates intent to exploit and commercialize the patent.
2) licensing arbitration. to prevent abuse in setting patent fees so high as to stifle innovation or cause crib death to start ups. either via cross licence agreements or sliding scales on compensation.
I am sure there are detractors of this but we certainly need to do something rather than nothing but whine about it.
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Paci's work deals with subject matters such as migration, globalisation, and cultural identity in seductively simple archaic images: the choice of media - video, installation, painting, or sculpture - seems secondary next to the desire to counter a complex social present with images that incise themselves on the retina. The exhibition gathers works from all the artist's creative phases since 1997 that deal with the topic of biographical, cultural, and national identity.
The exhibition of works by the Albanian artist Adrian Paci (born 1969) at the Kunstverein Hannover offers multi-facetted insights into his entire oeuvre since 1997. His laconic and poetic studies of everyday life encompass themes dealing with individual, national, and cultural identity. In these works, Paci examines the personal and societal consequences of socio-political upheavals. In the process, his works amalgamate into iconic images that function equally on an aesthetic and political level. Employing a reduced visual language, they mirror the existential feeling of loss and fragility in human existence. Paci's own biographical background, his emigration to Italy in the late nineteen-nineties, forms the starting point of his works. He has produced numerous videos, installations, sculptures, paintings, and photographs since then which, especially in recent years, have taken leave of a field of the autobiographical in favor of formulations regarding generally valid archetypes. Paci has enjoyed international attention at the very latest since the presentation of his video Turn on in conjunction with the Venice Biennale and his 2005 solo exhibition at P.S.1 MoMA in New York.
In his first video entitled Albanian Stories (1997), Paci's three-year-old daughter tackles her fragmentary recollections of emigration from Albania with carefree abandon in front of a live camera. In its emblematic simplicity, the moving as well as disturbing narrative in the form of an animal fable already points well beyond the biographical occasion.
The reconstructed life story of the figure Klodi (2005) also veers between the tension poles of tragedy and play. In it, an acquaintance of Paci's reports on his odyssey, triggered by political and economic conditions, that took him from Albania to Italy, Mexico, the United States and back again. The search for the Promised Land is at the same time an equally oppressive mirror image of current affairs as well as the prankish staging of an exceptionally gifted show off.
Questions dealing with artistic self-conception and autobiography are at the center of Believe me I'm an artist (2000) and the installation Piktori (2002). Piktori documents the work of a painter living in Albania who earns his living by forging documents, copying artworks, and painting signs. For the artist now living in Milan, the death certificate commissioned by Paci paradoxically symbolizes the start of a new life and is expressly characterized by his Albanian colleagues as a masterpiece.
In Per Speculum (2006), Paci filmed the supposedly carefree play of children in the hills of Southern England through a mirror. The idyllic (mirror) image only gradually begins to totter.
The fiction of an ideal children's world is questioned in the moment in which the mirror shatters into pieces after being shot at with a slingshot at the very latest. The melancholic fragility of the final scene, in which the children sit in the branches of a plane tree and reflect the sunlight with the fragments of the mirror, can only rudimentally alleviate the fundamental brokenness.
Paci's most recent film, Centro di Permanenza temporanea (2007), was made in California and will now be shown for the first time in a European institutional setting. A mute line of people patiently moves towards the steps of an airplane and comes to a standstill while climbing it.
The Latin American workers fix their gaze expectantly on the camera. It is only when the close-up shifts into a long shot that one realizes that the overfilled gangway leads to nothing. The contrast between the largely motionless people and the planes taking off in the background creates an image of existential abandonment and endless waiting which Paci–as a sculptural placement and political statement–regularly restages from various vantage points.
In addition, the Kunstverein will present further site-specific video installations and photographs as well as two new painting cycles that pictorially reinterpret main works of Italian Neo Realism by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
A catalogue and an edition will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Adrian Paci, edited by Martin Engler, Kunstverein Hannover; with texts by Martin Engler und Stefan Çapaliku, hardcover, 29 x 24 cm, 96 pages, 110 illustrations, bilingual (German/English) 25 €/for members 20 €
Immagine: Piktori, 2002
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René Zechlin Wednesday, June 11, 7 p.m.
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 drew Britain's service men and women into a war 3,500 miles away. This documentary looks at the human cost 10 years on from 9/11.
Nov 5th 2008, in a military field hospital, surgeons battle to save one man's life. Royal Marine, Corporal Jay Hare has stepped on an improvised explosive device, an IED. The bomb has severed his leg below the knee, mutilated a hand and blown off much of his face. He's lost an eye and his nose.
45 Commando
The calm efficiency of the hospital team is evidence of more than just professionalism. Dealing with such traumatic injuries has become part of their routine. Limb loss has become one of the signatures of the Afghanistan War.
3 years after the explosion, Jay is back on his feet dealing with his injuries. But, what sort of physical and emotional readjustment is needed when one day you're a fit young man and the next you have to start rebuilding your life.
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Jay lives near Arbroath with wife Lena and their two young daughters. He joined the marines a year before 9/11.When Jay went to Afghanistan in 2008, he was an experienced corporal, but while on foot-patrol in Sangin Valley his life would change.
10 years ago, military hospitals in Britain were closing. Headley Court in Surrey was a former care centre for World War II pilots. Today, it is the visual embodiment of what a decade in Afghanistan has cost in flesh & bones. All of the service men and women who've lost limbs and suffered life-changing injuries come through its doors. To get their prosthetic arms and legs cast, fitted and then to learn to use them.
Since he was blown up, Jay has made numerous visits here. From his home in Arbroath it is a 1,000 mile round trip.
The standard of care for amputees at Headley Court is world-class. But can this level of care be maintained in the outside world? As the majority of Afghanistan's wounded are still being treated within the military, promises that they'll receive comparable levels of care on the NHS are, as yet, untested. There are fears it will be left to charities to provide the extra funding.
Despite his injuries and until he's discharged, Jay is still a marine with 45 Commando. His comrades are preparing to go back to Afghanistan and are due to leave in less than a month. For 80% of the 700 men leaving, this will be their first tour.
Less than a month after Jay was injured Paul 'Baz' Barrett was to suffer some of worst injuries of the war.
His injuries included: his right leg traumatically amputated above the knee, left leg dislocated, a collapsed lung, numerous broken bones, missing fingers and the loss of his right ear and eye.
So severe were his injuries, the doctors in Afghanistan could do no more for him. He was sent to hospital in Birmingham, not expected to live.
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Dump IE? Is that really the best advice?
0With the news of the latest zero-day exploit for IE gaining press around the globe, there seems to be increasing coverage that "security experts" are advising users to stop using Internet Explorer until Microsoft releases a patch for the root problem.
PC-World's Ian Paul relays this story, and repeats Metasploit's advice – use another browser.
That's all well and good, but for many people I work with – they don't have a choice as to what browser to use. A significant portion of my corporate customers for example are still using XP and IE6 – certainly within the corporate customer base there is not a high frequency of browsers other than IE – most users are either unable to install another browser, or simply don't have a personal reason to.
On the consumer side, the situation is a little different – looking at the latest analytics from our short url service, http://mcaf.ee for example, around two thirds of visitors are using an IE variant (the majority IE 8/9), with Chrome and Firefox splitting most of what's left between them.
I'll track the numbers over the next few weeks, but a landslide shift away from IE is not something I expect to see.
And why would people move? The advice, to stop using IE is only valid if you don't have any protection from exploits – already McAfee, and most of our peers have protection and identification in place for this piece of malware, and if you're a corporate customer using McAfee HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention Software), you've had coverage since you installed the product if you're using a couple of generic rules.
A zero-day exploit which you've been protected from, potentially for years.
I'm not saying that this virus is not serious, but, is it more serious than any of the 70,000 or so that we discover any particular day?
Every day we could announce "stop using this version of Oracle, or this version of Flash, or this version of Angry Birds" (examples of course) – zero days are discovered regularly, mostly in applications – what makes the world safe(er) is that most malware protection solutions don't just rely on signatures, they rely on behavior, rules, and cloud based knowledge, so even though you're using IE, no one can exploit the defect because your anti-malware product is shielding that defect from exploitation.
We've heard this news all before – back in January 2010, Steven Vaughan-Nichols of IT-World accused IE of being "an insecure mess", and further condemns Microsoft with "Windows has been, is now, and always will be insecure" – despite all the evidence pointing to apps, rather than OS's being the general weak point in todays computing platforms.
And, by October 2010 of course, one of the recommended alternates – Firefox, had also been compromised – what to do? Switch back to IE, or keep changing to something new…
What I say is, changing your browser would be great, but it's not a permanent fix – cybercriminals will always focus on the most popular computing environments, because that's where the biggest potential return is, and unless we want to regress to the mosaic days, the complexity that we users demand of modern technology is not going to make bugs disappear, despite our best intentions as programmers.
Changing software every time a threat is discovered, especially when vendors are so quick to react to fix issues, seems a little impractical.
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COLUMBUS — Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut announced on Wednesday, Dec. 15 the second Ohio Center of Excellence in the category of Cultural and Societal Transformation, Immersive Technology at Shawnee State University.
Cultural and Societal Transformation, the final category of Centers of Excellence, seeks to recognize those programs which promote economic vitality by fostering the human instinct toward creativity and expression.
"Ohio's Centers of Excellence recognize places where colleges have built on their strongest areas of expertise to bring together diverse specialties, top-quality faculty and students, and academic programs to produce cutting-edge innovations," said Chancellor Fingerhut. "Not only has Shawnee State University long been a powerful driver of the local economy and talent, but today's announcement highlight's the university's aggressive progress in job-creating research."
Immersive technology refers to computer-based simulation of reality with physical, spatial and visual dimensions. In line with the state's economic development efforts, the gaming and simulation industry promises explosive growth. Shawnee State University offers one of only a handful of gaming and simulation programs in the nation. Last year, as part of Shawnee State University's continued growth in this field, the university added a Motion Capture Studio which will be shared with business and industry when not in academic use.
"We are proud of the pioneering programs we have in place in digital simulation and gaming," Dr. Rita Rice Morris, Shawnee State University President, said. "This designation from the State of Ohio reaffirms the commitment of our faculty and staff to prepare our students for the world of the future. This Center of Excellence combines immersive technology with our strengths in teaching to deliver a unique collaboration that promises to create new opportunities for economic growth in the region and state."
The Center of Excellence in Immersive Technology includes SSU's digital simulation and gaming programs in Fine Arts and Engineering, the Motion Capture Studio, and SSU's developing Immersive Technology and Arts Commercial Center.
About the Centers of Excellence
The Centers of Excellence, as outlined in Ohio's 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education, will position the University System of Ohio to be a magnet for talent and a leader in innovation and entrepreneurial activity. The Centers will accomplish this by developing distinct missions for each institution that are recognized by students, faculty and business leaders, while eliminating unnecessary competition for resources, students and faculty within the state.
This Centers of Excellence category focuses on contributions to culture and society. The five other categories are specific to Ohio's growth industries – advanced energy, biomedicine and health care, agriculture, food production and bioproducts, technologies that cross-cut Ohio's growth industries such as advanced materials and sensors, and aerospace, transportation and logistics.
Wednesday, Dec. 15 marked the first announcement of the sixth category of Ohio Centers of Excellence, which will be released individually.
In October 2009, Ohio's Centers of Excellence in Advanced Energy at http://www.uso.edu/opportunities/centers-of-excellence/advanced-energy/index.php were announced at eight of the state's universities.
Ohio's Centers of Excellence in Biomedicine and Health Care at http://www.uso.edu/opportunities/centers-of-excellence/biomeds-healthcare/index.php at 14 universities were announced in February.
In March, the Ohio's Center of Excellence in Agriculture, Food Production and Bioproducts at http://www.uso.edu/opportunities/centers-of-excellence/agriculture/index.php was announced at The Ohio State University's Food Industry Center. Ohio's Centers of Excellence in Enabling Technologies: Materials and Sensors at http://www.uso.edu/opportunities/centers-of-excellence/materials-sensors/index.php at five universities were announced at The University of Akron's Goodyear Polymer Center in April.
In July, six centers in the Advanced Transportation and Aerospace at http://uso.edu/opportunities/centers-of-excellence/advanced-transportation/index.php category were announced at the University of Cincinnati's College of Engineering, Herman Schneider Quadrangle.
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Capt. Carl Gamble was behind the controls of Piedmont Airlines Flight 451 as the plane headed to Miami when a stewardess delivered a note from a passenger saying the flight was being hijacked.
Nearly 30 years later, Gamble still recalls the sense of dread wash over him as he read the hijacker's demand to be flown to Cuba.
"It's such a shock that for the first 30 seconds you can't remember your name," Gamble said. "But then it all falls into place."
Gamble was an Air Force veteran who, exactly 15 years to the day of the hijacking, had been shot down in Vietnam. Over the plane's intercom system, Gamble tried to negotiate with the hijacker, a pistol-wielding man dressed in black, who called himself "Lt. Spartacus."
The hijacker threatened to take the lives of the 57 passengers and crew aboard the plane if Gamble didn't fly him to Havana.
In addition to the small pistol he had smuggled aboard, the hijacker claimed to have a bomb in his suitcase.
"He said he had a detonator," Gamble remembered, "and that he was prepared to blow up the airplane."
The airline told Gamble to comply with the hijacker's demands. The pilot remembers seeing U.S. military C-130s accompany him south and then, as he approached Cuban air space, turn back.
Shortly after landing in Havana, Gamble said his plane was surrounded by a bright green swarm of Cuban soldiers.
The Cubans had plenty of experience with hijacked planes from the United States. After Fidel Castro took power, the island became the go-to destination for dozens of hijackers -- some were aspiring revolutionaries, others common criminals seeking refuge in a country where the lack of diplomatic relations with the United States meant they were unlikely to be extradited.
Gamble said the Cuban soldiers removed the passengers and crew, swept the plane for explosives and found nothing. Then the soldiers escorted the hijacker off the aircraft.
"I only got a glimpse of him," Gamble said. "I never understood what he was trying to do."
This week, the world is getting another glimpse of the hijacker, a former Black Panther named William Potts, now 56, who returned to the United States on Wednesday to turn himself into authorities for the 1984 hijacking.
FBI agents arrested him at Miami International Airport on charges of air piracy, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
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Potts has already served time in Cuba for his crime. He had hijacked the plane thinking he would be greeted as fellow revolutionary and given military training so he could begin his own uprising in the United States. Instead, the Cuban government tried Potts and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
"In a Machiavellian sense, the Cubans changed," Potts said. "They simply changed. They used to do it and now they don't do it."
Instead of becoming the next Che Guevara, Potts found himself a foreigner who spoke little Spanish in crowded and often violent prisons. But he refused Cuban offers to return home.
"If you are not able to suffer for the cause you are just a play revolutionary," he said.
Potts served his time and after leaving prison married and had two daughters with a Cuban woman.


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When Professor Alan Dershowitz spoke to hundreds of pro-Israel supporters at the University of Pennsylvania last week, many understood him to be simply providing a broad strokes counter-message to the anti-Israel Penn BDS (boycotts of, divestment from and sanctions against Israel) conference which began the next day on the same campus.
But while Dershowitz was there in the ostensible role of "lover of Israel because I am a liberal Democrat," a close listening and gentle unpacking of many of his standard lines reveal more nuanced positions relating to Israel than many typically understand him to espouse. The nuances are very important, especially because they come from so committed a tribunal of the liberal left.
Indeed, while the left believes Dershowitz to be reflexively and unquestioningly pro-Israel, the right frequently sees him as reflexively pro-Obama Democrat and rigidly anti-"settlements." But within minutes of the start of a short press conference preceding the official events at Penn, Dershowitz angrily denounced Media Matters, an entity closely-aligned - and, in his view that alignment may prove fatal to the election - with the Democratic party, and firmly rejected a straight-line "the settlements are the problem" position.
Max Blumenthal, an attention-seeking, self-described "Cultural Marxist," is the son of former Clinton speechwriter Sidney Blumenthal. Despite having access to the rich and powerful through his family connections, Blumenthal, still an adolescent though now in his mid-30's, revels in acting out in public and throwing spitballs at "the establishment," most especially the hated "neo-cons," or, really, anyone who believes that Israel is an important ally of the United States.
Blumenthal was a participant in the recent Penn BDS conference. On the day of Dershowitz's talk, Blumenthal penned a column for the Daily Pennsylvanian, the university newspaper, shamefully titled: "Torture, Violence Advocate to Keynote anti-BDS Event," with the sub-heading: "Alan Dershowitz, supporter of bulldozing Palestinian towns and torturing criminal suspects, is coming to campus."
When asked about Blumenthal's DP article, Dershowitz looked exasperated and listed all the ways in which that article got everything wrong. For example, Dershowitz is opposed to torture. Dershowitz has called for something called "torture warrants" to ensure that extreme measures be applied only in extraordinary circumstances and with the most extraordinary of safeguards. Blumenthal's distorted analysis? Dershowitz supports torture.
Much more newsworthy than the silly spitballs Blumenthal threw with his screaming article, was Dershowitz's conviction that Blumenthal and his buddies at Media Matters (a media watchdog organization affiliated with the Democratic party and which has recently been widely accused of engaging in anti-Semitism), were going to cost this president the election.
Asked at the pre-event press conference whether he had seen Blumenthal's article, Dershowitz's immediate and angry response was: "I have, and let me tell you, Max Blumenthal and Media Matters will be singlehandedly responsible for [Obama] losing this election. They [the Democrats] cannot win the election and keep this affiliation with them [Media Matters]."
When shown this statement, all Blumenthal could twitter-muster was, "I haven't been at mmfa [Media Matters] since 2007." It was pointed out that Blumenthal's then-current Facebook page listed him as working for the "progressive organization Media Matters for America." Blumenthal did not respond, but has since altered his Facebook page so that only those "lucky" enough to be his FB friends can see it (although you can still look at the dozens of pictures he posts of himself there).
In an effort to determine the firmness of Dershowitz's position against BDS, he was asked whether, if the Penn BDS conference only targeted its calls against the territories [of Judea and Samaria] would he still be opposed. "Absolutely," he responded. "If they are interested in human rights, then what is the excuse for not applying BDS to China for occupying Tibet, and Russia, for its occupation of Chechnya, or to Hamas or Hezbollah for their brutality and murders of civilians?" He explained, "The BDS of Israel, any part of Israel," is merely a pretext for hatred." In other words, "partial" or "good" boycotts against Israel don't pass muster with Dershowitz.
When the topic of unfairness to Israel is under discussion, the issue of the United Nations invariably crops up. The Philadelphia evening with Dershowitz was no different, but many of those who came to hear him that night learned something they had not known.
In the spring of 2010, Israeli Prime Minister asked Dershowitz to become an Israeli citizen so that he could be appointed Israel's ambassador to the UN. "It would have been a crowning achievement to my life's work," Dershowitz explained. He said he would have loved "the chance to kick some rear-end in that house of hypocrisy," sending the audience into peals of laughter and applause. But he ultimately declined Netanyahu's offer, because, while "being the Israeli Ambassador to the UN would have been great for me, it ultimately would have been bad for Israel and bad for the United States."
He explained that if an issue arose that forced him to choose between what was good for Israel and what was good for the United States, "it would have sent to a fevered pitch the 'dual loyalty' argument against American Jews."
And so Alan Dershowitz remains somewhat on the sidelines, a pro-Israel American whose case for Israel is appreciated by most, but often misunderstood by those at both ends of the spectrum. In fact, Dershowitz frequently calls his take the "80 percent case" for Israel, and that's okay with him.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus is president of Z STREET and Executive Committee Chair of the National Conference on Jewish Affairs
Obama, by pressuring Israel not to attack Iran now it will force Israel to use Nuclear weapons next time. Causing an international Nuclear war. It is clear that Obama who is working with the Islamic Brotherhood has betrayed Israel. ps if you want documents of this contaction I will be very happy to share them with you.


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From: "Barry and Wilna" <>
Subject: [Lon] Lawford/Holloway/Islington
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 09:42:14 +1100
Hello Listers
I have ancestors traced back to the Holloway and
Islington areas of London and wondered if others might have similar
My grandfather, George William Lawford was born in Islington, 1864
Victoria Place, Queens Rd ).
His parents, Emily Webb & George Lawford, were married at St James Church,
Parish of Islington, 1864 ( residence St James, Holloway )
My great, great grandparents, George Lawford and Sophia Scarborough were
married in The Parish Church of Islington ( Saint Mary,s maybe? ) in 1840,
residence of both was Holloway.
This George Lawford's father was Frederick Lawford and Sophia 's father was
Joseph Scarborough.
I have a Christening off the IGI for Sophia in 1816 at the Upper Street
Independent Church in Islington.
Do I have any rellies out there ?
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DALLAS-The Blue Jays on Tuesday made their first significant player move of the winter meetings, alarmingly reverting to the same frugal, cost-efficient thought processes that got them to this point, acquiring 28-year-old reliever Sergio Santos from the White Sox for highly touted starting pitcher prospect, Nestor Molina.
According to the Jays, the closer's role for 2012 is now settled, maybe even for Santos's next six controllable years.
"Right now, we're in a good place, but we do have parameters to work with," Jays' GM Alex Anthopoulos said.
"We're trying to build a competitive team that will be good for a long period of time with the parameters that we do have, when you look at the salaries over six years. It's not a bottomless pit. If it was it would be different."
Santos, a former minor-league shortstop, had some impressive numbers with the White Sox in 2011, but he faded in the second half with the increased workload and marathon nature of the season. The native of Bellflower, Calif., was 4-5, with a 3.55 ERA and 30 saves in 63 games. He had 92 strikeouts in just 63-1/3 innings, allowing 41 hits. His strikeout rate of 13.07 per nine innings ranked top five in the AL.
Santos has just two seasons as a pitcher in the majors leagues and in an ideal situation, building to the apex of his strong-armed career, would be best served starting off in 2012 as the eighth-inning option to an established major-league closer. Anthopoulos disagrees that he could have had more established lights-out closing from elsewhere.
"I think Santos would give us the same, with the potential for more," Anthopoulos stated with confidence. "I think there's a greater ceiling there. There's still some guys out there that are very good and obviously there's uncertainty in the relief market, but just his stuff and the dominance of knowing that we have him. The age, relative to the others. The years of control, the three options, it just makes a lot of sense for us. It allows us to re-allocate funds in some other areas."
Hey, what happened to the $110-120 million that Paul Beeston insisted was a reality if they needed it to compete in 2012? That number was not out of thin air. It was a quote from the club president as late as mid-October. He was asked if that upper-edge total included bonuses for June draft picks and international signings. He said: "No. That's strictly for major-league payroll this year." But now Anthopoulos scoffs at those that reported it meaning that they are back to trying to emulate the Rays model again. The CBA has clearly bitten them in the butt and changed the way they plan to compete.
"It's not impacting us in 2012," Anthopoulos said. "But I think in '13 and beyond it's going to impact us. Certainly we're going to be receiving less. Again, I don't get involved in those conversations, or accounting, but there's no question that's going to be phased out and we're going to lose dollars there. And I'm sure that has some type of bearing, impact."
Santos is signed for the next three seasons guaranteed at $7.50 million, plus a $0.75 million buyout for each of three option years from 2015-17 for $6, $8 and $8.75 million. The maximum value of the deal is $30.25 million, while the minimum is $9.75 million.
Molina, 22, came on strong in 2011, splitting his time between A-Dunedin and AA-New Hampshire, elbowing his way into the conversation as a potential member of the pitching staff at some point during the 2012 season, either as a starter or in relief.
Molina at the two minor-league stops combined for a 12-3 record and a 2.21 ERA in 26 games -- 23 starts. Molina was signed by the Jays as a position player out of Venezuela, before converting to the mound in 2008.
In every conversation with the Jays this off-season, Molina's name was mentioned along with Henderson Alvarez, Drew Hutchison and Deck McGuire as starters in waiting. The Jays as far as young starting pitchers are dealing from a position of strength.


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