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The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is renewing a prior recommendation that FDA require product sponsors to submit financial information on clinical investigators as part of the pretrial application process. It also wants the agency to develop a clear protocol for reviewing device adverse event reports that specifically address following up with manufacturers who routinely submit reports late or with incomplete information. The new OIG report says the two recommendations stem from similar ones previously made that FDA has failed to implement fully.
It says FDA should ensure that sponsors submit complete financial information for all their clinical investigators. Sponsors must also ensure that reviewers consistently monitor financial information and take action in response to disclosed financial interests by using a review template and providing guidance and training to reviewers. OIG says the recommendations would improve the agency's ability to identify financial conflicts between clinical investigators and drug sponsors that could create a potential for bias.
The report notes that an earlier OIG investigation found that FDA had approved 42% of marketing applications in FY 2007 that were missing financial information. It also says that in about one-third of marketing applications, FDA reviewers did not document a review of financial interest information, and neither FDA nor sponsors took action on 20% of marketing applications with disclosed financial interests. "When FDA did act, it did not consistently take action in response to disclosed financial interests," it says.
OIG does say that FDA has made some progress in implementing certain aspects of the recommendations. For example, in 2011 a draft guidance was released on Financial Disclosure by Clinical Investigators. "We continue to recommend that sponsors submit financial information as part of the pretrial application process and will monitor FDA's progress in implementing this recommendation," it says.
On medical device safety, the report notes that a 2009 report "revealed that FDA has not documented follow-up on adverse events, nor does it consistently perform its first-time reading of adverse event reports in a timely manner. In addition, FDA rarely acts when manufacturers and user facilities submit reports late. The inability to obtain complete and usable information in adverse event reports hinders analysts' review of the reports, and FDA makes limited use of annual reports. Overall, FDA received twice as many adverse event reports for medical devices in 2007 as in 2003; however, the number of some types of reports, such as 5-day reports, decreased. Although manufacturers submitted most adverse event reports on time, many 5-day manufacturer reports and 5-day user facility reports were late."
The report says that a clear protocol is needed to ensure that all responsible parties report and take appropriate action in response to device adverse events. "We recommended that FDA seek legislative authority to eliminate the requirement for user facilities to submit annual reports because, other than a count of total adverse event reports, all the information in the annual reports is redundant to the originally submitted reports," it says.
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Recapturing The Center
My new column for The Week is now up. Here is the main point:
The faction most responsible for the GOP's political failure is national security conservatives. Yet within the party, they remain unscathed, their assumptions about the use of American power largely unquestioned, and their gross errors in judgment forgotten or readily forgiven. Among the mainstream right, the foreign policy of the Bush administration is barely a subject of debate. Rather than reorienting Republican foreign policy towards a political center defined by realism, humility and restraint, the GOP's leadership and activists have redoubled their commitment to Bush and Cheney's hawkish stances and to a lock-step defense of the Bush administration's policies.
This situation creates a strange incongruity. In one breath, conservatives will invoke a baseless claim that Bush's excessive spending lost them the country, and in the next they will defend to the last Bush's decisions as Commander-in-Chief. Yet these were the decisions that, more than anything else, led to Democratic victories and the GOP's now toxic reputation. What is more, everyone outside the conservative bubble knows the narrative that mainstream conservatives tell themselves is false, which makes conservative professions of fiscal austerity and continued hawkishness even less likely to win public support.

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The National Aquarium in Baltimore is launching a new series of events on Friday nights to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore in 1812 that inspired the words for the national anthem.
Beginning Friday through Sept. 12, the aquarium is hosting Star-Spangled Friday Nights. Visitors after 5 p.m. will pay a special reduced price of $18.12. Regular admission is $35 for adults. The aquarium is open until 8 p.m. for visitors on Fridays.
Families who visit on Friday nights can join a special flag-themed scavenger hunt. Snacks and beverages also are available for purchase.
In September, the aquarium will host a special lecture entitled "The Battle of Baltimore: How Our Harbor Helped Define America" with an expert panel of historian and authors.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Coastal wetlands can provide critical protection against incoming hurricane storm surges. A 2012 study by Sheng et al. found that "a sufficiently wide and tall vegetation canopy reduces inundation on land by 5 to 40 percent", depending upon the type of storm. They argue that "reducing the threat to coastal vegetation from development, sea level rise, and other anthropogenic factors would help to protect many coastal regions against storm surges."
The traditional rule of thumb: each 2.7 miles of marsh knocks down the storm surge by 1 foot
Historically, many people have used the rule of thumb that each 2.7 miles of marsh knocks down the storm surge by 1 foot (1 meter reduction per 14.5 km of marsh). This estimate is based on a US Army Corps of Engineers report from 1963 (USACE, 1963), which examined the inland penetration of the storm surge from seven storms in southern Louisiana between 1909 and 1957. However, the data from this study varied by about a factor of three--attenuation rates as high as 1 foot per 1.3 miles of marsh were seen in one storm, and as low as 1 foot per 3.8 miles of marsh in another.
Thus, the simple rule of thumb of a 1 foot storm surge reduction per 2.7 miles of marsh is not a very good one to use in most situations. The inland penetration of the storm surge is an extremely complicated function of storm track, speed, duration, size, and associated waves; the regional topography, geometry of the shore, presence of barrier islands, and slope of the ocean bottom; plus the type and thickness of vegetation, and presence or absence of levees. Wetlands will always act to slow down the inland penetration of a storm surge, so the surge will not be able to advance very far inland before the winds die down if a region is exposed to strong winds for a short period of time. One example of this was in western Louisiana during Hurricane Rita of 2005. As the hurricane approached western Louisiana at 11 - 14 mph, the coast was initially subjected to offshore winds that blew water away from land. In the final few hours before landfall, the counter-clockwise circulation of air around the hurricane brought on-shore winds and a storm surge of up to 15 feet to the western Louisiana coast. However, this portion of the coast was only subject to on-shore winds for a few hours, and the surge was reduced by the wetlands by 1 foot per 2.1 - 3.6 miles of inland penetration, according to an ADCIRC storm surge model simulation (PDF File) by Resio and Westerink (2008).
Wetlands Don't Always Decrease Storm Surge
However, the situation is very different for slow moving storms, or for portions of the coast subjected to strong winds for many hours. If a marshland is subject to strong winds for long enough, the wetlands will completely flood, and there will be no reduction of storm surge at all--and an increase in storm surge is even possible, according to the mathematical equations governing the surge (Resio and Westerink, 2008). This has occurred in Louisiana during a number of storms--Hurricanes Rita, Katrina, Gustav, Ike, and Hurricane Betsy of 1965, along the eastern side of the protruding delta of the Mississippi River (Figure 1). Resio and Westerlink (2008) found that during Hurricane Rita of 2005, strong winds blew along the east side of the Mississippi for almost a full day, completely flooding the 25 miles of wetlands fronting the Mississippi River levee at English Turn. In fact, the model results show that the surge probably increased in height, by 1 foot per 8.7 miles of inland penetration in the Hurricane Rita simulation, since the day-long period of strong winds allowed the surge to pile up against the levee. Thus, while the wetlands were able to slow down the speed with which the surge reached the levee, the wetlands had no impact on the surge height in that location. A similar effect was seen during Hurricane Carla in 1961, a ferocious Category 4 hurricane that brought the highest storm surge ever observed to the Texas coast--a massive 22.7 feet at Port Lavaca. Carla moved so slowly--just 8 mph--that the surge had plenty of time to inundate marshes, and along one inland bluff fronted by wetlands, the surge was higher than at the coast.
Figure 1. For portions of the coast subjected to strong winds for a long period of time, wetlands do little to prevent high storm surges. This NOAA SLOSH model simulation of Category 3 Hurricane Betsy as it tracked west of New Orleans shows the highest storm surge occurred (pink colors) in a region where the surge had passed over 25 miles of wetlands. The Mississippi River levee at English Turn dammed up the storm surge.
In a 2008 conference presentation, Dr. Pat Fitzpatick used a SLOSH storm surge model to show that wetlands reduced the inland penetration of Katrina's storm surge near the hurricane's initial landfall over the Mississippi River "bird's foot" by 1 foot per 1.5 miles of wetlands traversed. The effect varied with the depth of the surge--an eight foot high surge was knocked down about 13% by wetlands, while a one foot high surge was reduced 59%. However, he found that where people lived along the river's levees (Venice), the surge piled up, and the marshes did not decrease the surge at all.
How much will future wetland loss increase storm surge?
Over the next century along the Gulf Coast, sea levels will continue to rise, coastal land will continue to subside, and human impacts due to shipping and the oil and gas industry will continue to cause erosion that will reduce wetland acreage. According to Harold Wanless of the University of Miami, global sea level is presently rising at 3 mm per year, and the land along the Louisiana Mississippi River delta is subsiding at 4-11 mm per year. Relative sea level is, thus, presently rising at 70-140 cm (2.3 - 4.6 feet) per century. Global warming may increase this sea relative sea level rise even further. Wetlands are being lost at an average rate of more than 23 square miles (60 square km) per year, with higher pulses during hurricanes. Water is about one meter deep across recently lost marshes and up to two meters deep in earlier lost marshes. This is of concern not only for the potential loss of hurricane storm surge protection, but because wetlands serve to increase fisheries production, filter pollutants out of water, and provide wave protection.
Wamsley et al. (2007) performed a surge surge simulation using the ADCIRC model of what would happen if the wetlands were allowed to continue to deteriorate with no restorative efforts over the next 50 years. Their results suggested that 50 years from now, storm surge heights would increase by 10-15% along Louisiana coastal areas to the east of New Orleans. These results held for both a severe Katrina-like hurricane, and a more modest hurricane (both making landfall at about 12 mph). However, the authors cautioned that "the impact of landscape features on surge propagation is a relatively new application for surge models and research is required". To underscore this lack of understanding, a White Paper put together by 25 coastal scientists and engineers held in July, 2007 found that adequate storm surge data do not exist for calibrating and verifying the models used to predict the impact of wetlands (or other features) on storm surge. Wamsley et al. are working on a field program in southern Louisiana to reduce these uncertainties. They intend to measure water level and wave attenuation across a wetland between Lake Borgne and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet channel, using four non-directional water level/ wave gauges, an anemometer, and a periodic characterization of the wetland, including elevation, plant type, plant density, and plant height. The data collected will be analyzed to determine the surge and wave attenuation based on the vegetation type, density, and height.
Some expert opinions: Do wetlands reduce storm surges?
At an October 2008 meeting of the Geological Society of America, Dr. Robert Young of Western Carolina University stated that while he agreed with proposed ambitious efforts to restore wetlands in Louisiana, the potential storm protection benefits were "unknowable, but are most likely to be minimal".
Dr. Stephen Baig, who retired in 2008 as the head of the National Hurricane Center's storm surge unit, commented to me: Once a marsh has more than a few feet of water overlying it the frictional effect of the grass is erased. The mythical "2.7 feet of surge reduction per inland mile of marsh" is just that, a myth. Also, it's unfortunate that the sand islands that front the shoreline are called "barrier" islands. They are certainly not barriers to storm surge. They get over-topped or breached with regularity. They are functionally useless as surge protection.
Dr. Joannes Westerink, who was the originator of the ADCIRC storm surge model, had this to say: "I think it depends on geography, storm direction, speed and size. For storms that track to the west of the Mississippi River with their sustained easterly winds impacting the eastern side of the Louisiana Mississippi River region, the marshes are essentially irrelevant. For the east-west coastline in western LA, there does appear to be some attenuation of surge elevations for many storms.
Outspoken hurricane scientist Dr. Ivor van Heerden, who as I reported, was removed from his position at the Louisiana State Hurricane Center in 2010, had this to say in his 2006 book, The Storm: Wetlands can protect us from storm surge. Along with barrier islands, they are the best, most natural, least expensive buffer available...Joe Suhayda has already published computer studies showing that the 9.3-foot surge at Cocodrie, LA during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 would have been a foot higher without the barrier islands. Joe has calculated that a completely healthy marsh system could cut the storm surge in New Orleans by half.
Figure 2. Hurricane Ike of 2008 pushed a massive storm surge far inland over Texas and Louisiana, as the brown areas along the coast in this NASA Terra satellite image show.
The take home message from all this is that the degree of protection wetlands provide from storm surges is extremely complicated. A simple rule of thumb that "X" miles of marshland will knock down the surge by "Y" number of feet is not going to be valid for most situations. Storm surge models do have equations to estimate the attenuation of the storm surge by wetlands, but these equations have not been validated using real world data. Wetlands will slow down the progress of a storm surge, and so will be most effective for for weaker and faster-moving storms. But if the wind blows strongly enough for long enough, it doesn't matter how many miles of wetlands you have, the storm surge will come. However, efforts to restore wetlands for reducing hurricane surge will be effective in many cases, and are worth pursuing.
Resio, D.T., and J.J. Westerink, 2008, "Modeling the physics of storm surges", (PDF File) Physics Today, September 2008, pp. 33-38.
Corps of Engineers, US Army Engineer District, New Orleans, Interim Survey Report, Morgan City, Louisiana and Vicinity, serial no. 63, US Army Engineer District, New Orleans, LA (November 1963).
Fitzpatrick, P., 2008, "The impact of Louisiana's levees and wetlands on Katrina's storm surge", 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, May 2008.
Sheng, Y.P. et al., 2012, "The reduction of storm surge by vegetaion canopies: Three-dimensional simulations", GRL 39, L20601, doi:doi:10.1029/2012GL053577, 2012
Wamsley et al., 2007, "Influence of Wetland Degradation on Surge" (PDF File), Proc. 10th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and Coastal Hazard Symposium.
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Alumnus honored for contributions to science education
June 03, 2014
Charlie Morgan BA '08, a graduate student in the chemistry and chemical biology PhD program at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), recently won one of the school's public service awards for outstanding service to the community.
Soon after he began his PhD program at UCSF, Morgan started volunteering with UCSF's Science and Health Education partnership. The program brings together scientists from the university and K-12 teachers from San Francisco public schools to provide elementary school students with better science education. Morgan partnered with a high school teacher and Norma Velazquez Ulloa, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow at the time and now an assistant professor of biology at Lewis & Clark. Together they exposed high school students to the cutting-edge science at UCSF. During one lab, students observed intoxicated fruit flies in preparation for designing their own behavior experiments around exposure to alcohol.
"Charlie is amazing at breaking down complex concepts, explaining them clearly, and helping kids relate to what he is explaining," said Velazquez Ulloa. "He was also a great collaborator in designing and implementing the lessons we planned. Team teaching can be challenging, but not with Charlie. I looked forward to our next lesson and sharing our passion for science with the students."
Morgan also volunteered at San Francisco's Lowell High School and taught a University of California at Berkeley extension course in science pedagogy for fifth-grade teachers. The 20 teachers in the course praised Morgan for his clear explanations of scientific concepts and grasp of how young students best learn science. He also participated in a program funded by the National Institutes of Health that pairs scientists with high school teachers in an effort to engage students underrepresented in the sciences.
Morgan's scientific talent first earned him national recognition in 2010 when he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for showing promise as a young scientist.
Said Morgan, "I'm grateful to everyone at Lewis & Clark who helped nurture my love of science education and commitment to improving our community."
Caleb Diehl '16 contributed to this story.
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Colon Cancer: Get Behind It!
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Each year, more than 2,000 South Carolinians are diagnosed with colon cancer and 800 die from the disease. But it's also one of the most preventable forms of cancer – and treatable when detected early. Unfortunately, not everyone receives proper screening.
That's why Lexington Medical Center will host its fourth annual Colon Cancer Challenge on Saturday, March 23, 2013. The event features bike rides and an 8K run to raise awareness and funds for colon cancer screening. Proceeds from the bike ride will pay for colonoscopies for patients who are uninsured or underinsured. Hundreds of people are expected to participate.
The Colon Cancer Challenge is set for March 23, 2013. The one-day bicycling event will feature 65, 50 and 26 mile bike rides. There will also be an 8K run. Everything begins and ends at Dutch Fork High School, located at 1400 Old Tamah Road in Irmo. Prizes will be awarded to top finishers in the 8K.
Bike Rides: Early registration: $35. After March 11, $40. Day of: $45.
8K: Early registration: $25. After March 11: $30. Day of: $35.
New this year: Participants in the 8K are encouraged to wear a pair of creatively designed boxer shorts over their bike or running clothes. There will be prizes for the best boxers.
The 65 and 50 mile rides begin at 8:00 a.m; the 26-mile ride at 8:30 a.m.; 8K race boxer shorts modeling starts at 8:40 a.m. and the 8K run starts at 9:00 a.m. Registration begins at 7:00 a.m. Learn more and register at www.LMCColonCancerChallenge.com.
Here are some colon cancer facts from the American College of Gastroenterology:• Colon cancer is the only form of cancer that is preventable.
• The best way to screen for colon cancer is a colonoscopy, which is an examination of the large intestine using a lighted tube.
• Colonnoscopy is among the most powerful tools in clinical medicine, because of its excellent potential to identify and permit removal of polyps before they turn into cancer.
• In general, doctors recommend that people undergo a colonoscopy every 10 years beginning at age 50. African-Americans should begin screening at age 45.
• Early detection and intervention can reduce mortality from colon cancer by up to 90%.


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Hello there,
Did anyone build something in Gnine with that kind of stuff ?
Peco N Gauge Wagons
If so, could you help me ? I still have a few nexbie questions:
-Are they easy to build for a beginner ?
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-Does anyone have a picture of one of these kits "just out of the box" ?
Many thanks in advance !


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Seabrook Island
(Seabrook Island, SC)
Welcome to Freedom Boat Club of Seabrook Island:
Vibrant, graceful and dynamic.
The beautiful view as you depart the Bohicket Marina includes historic plantation homes, working shrimp and fishing docks, and the pre-Revolutionary War village of Rockville. Just ahead lies the entrance to the graceful North Edisto River, where dolphins play by the boats, and abundant bird life – some 10,000 pelicans, gulls, wills and many more – nest on Deveaux Bank, an island rookery. Ten minutes away by boat, Botany Island is a serene destination for shell searching, swimming or basking in the sun.
Traveling northward up the river, boaters can visit the ACE Basin, the East Coast's largest estuarine preserve. Here, fresh river waters combine with the sea to form a dynamically complex environment for plant and animal life, so it is never the same place twice. The Basin's rich high and low marshlands, low-lying islands, and plentiful waterways serve as home to dolphins, alligators, minks, otters, raccoons, deer, eagles, osprey, wood storks and countless other wildlife. While the tidal creeks and freshwater rivers nourish shrimp, crabs, oysters, clams and varieties of fish.
Cruise to Charleston in an hour, by way of the intracoastal waterway. One of the city's charms includes Battery Park, which showcases lavish homes like the Edmonston-Alston house, the Calhoun Mansion and the Palmer House. Stop and have lunch aboard your boat, or dock and enjoy the local waterfront fare. Tired of the busy waterways just turn around and you are headed back to the quite serenity of Bohicket Marina.


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The National Psoriasis Foundation takes a leadership role in funding and promoting psoriatic disease research, with the goal of finding better treatments and a cure for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
We choose our research projects not only for their potential to yield information that may help treat psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, but also for their potential to answer basic questions about the mechanisms of these diseases.
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Delivery dates are already slipping for the newest iPad, indicative of the high demand for the newest generation of the game-changing device.
Apple told USA Today that "customer response to the new iPad has been off the charts and the quantity available for pre-order has been purchased."
And CNET "conservatively" reports that the company could sell 1 million iPads on the first day, alone, at its retail stores.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
Given that non-branded retailers like Best Buy and Radio Shack get x-amount of units, Apple's brick-and-mortar stores will get the lion's share of the third-generation tablets. So the best way to ensure you score the new Retina Display version of the tablet is to queue up on March 16 and have credit card in hand.
The first iPad sold 300,000 units on its first day. The iPad 2 moved 500,000 in its first weekend. One market watcher, Matthew Panzarino at TheNextWeb.com, anticipates "a few records" when it comes to sales.
The new iPad comes in at $499 for the 16GB and is available on March 16 in the U.S. The iPad 2 has dropped $100 in price, coming in at $399 for a 16GB version.


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Spring has come early to the Lipscomb campus in a variety of ways.
The weather is sunny and the temperature is warm. And Friday afternoon at 3 at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium the Bisons will open the 2011 season against Dayton.
Saturday the Bisons will face both Dayton at 11 a.m.and Bradley at 2 p.m.. They will close out the home stand Sundfay against Bradley.
Richie Goodenow will make his first start for the Bisons and only the second collegiate start in his career. The senior left-hander came to Lipscomb from Vanderbilt for his last year of eligibility.
Junior college transfer Connor Sinclair, a right-hander, and Dannie Strable, also a right-hander will start Saturday's games. Benjamin Johnson, a redshirt sophomore, has earned a starting opportunity Sunday.
Dayton finished the 2010 season with a 23-32 record. They had a 12-15 worksheet in the Atlantic 10.
Bradley's overall record in 2010 was 20-32 with an 8-13 record in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Lipscomb is out to rebound from a 19-36 overall record last season and a 9-17 Atlantic Sun Conference record.
No regular members of weekend rotation from last season are ready to play. Right-hander Davey Hackett, a member of the rotation last season, is still sidelined.
"We have 16 pitchers and four guys are going to be starters," Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand said. "The four starters could be different each week."
While starting pitching is always a concern, Forehand is counting on his bullpen to make the difference.
"I have challenged the 12 pitchers in the bullpen to be the best bullpen in the conference," Forehand said. "I want that to be a collective challenge. I want them to take pride in it.
"A starter can't win a game, but a relief guy can come in and be in a position where he can. I would love to see our starters throw complete game s, but that is not really going to happen early."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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When performing a security engagement, the information gathered from port scanning is crucial. However, these scans can take a substantial amount of time when we set a reasonable timeout in an attempt to be thorough. So what happens when we need to scan a large amount of hosts? Say, an entire continent? We need to find a way to distribute the bandwidth load to multiple hosts in parallel. Fortunately, a tool has been developed which will allow us to create and manage a cluster of hosts which each have its own bandwidth dedicated to port scanning.
What is DNmap?
Created by Sebastian Garcia in 2009 using the Twisted Python framework, DNmap provides the ability to create a distributed Nmap scanning network using a standard client-server architecture. DNmap is included by default in Backtrack, and can be installed easily on any system that has Python.
Note: Before you install and run DNmap, keep in mind that clients will execute any Nmap command given to them. DNmap was not designed to completely prevent abuse from the server host, so ensure that you trust the server you connect to!
Installing DNmap
DNmap requires Nmap, Python 2.7, and the following libraries to be installed:\
- python-twisted
- python-openssl
From here, all files are in the dnmap_v0.6/ directory.
DNmap Usage and Example
The DNmap architecture looks like the following:
For our example, we will consider the following topology:
As with any client/server architecture, we first need to setup the server. Let's take a look at the dnmap_server.py usage:
As you can see, the server requires a file containing our Nmap commands to run. Let's use the following file called "commands.txt":
To show the ability to schedule multiple jobs, we add multiple Nmap commands to our file. Since we only have one target host, we are simply going to split up the port ranges between jobs. If we had more than one client in our cluster, these jobs would be distributed among the hosts, and it would be difficult for the target host administrator to tell that one attacker was behind the port scan.
So, with our Nmap commands file in place, let's start up the server:
With our server started up and waiting for clients, let's take a quick look at the dnmap_client.py usage:
It looks like all we need to provide is a server address, port number, and an alias (or name) for our client. Let's call our client "minion1", connect to the server, and start running commands.
Back on the server, we see the following status:
It looks like all of the commands have completed. The results by default are stored in a folder called nmap_results/. We can see that the results have indeed been sent back to our server.
Hopefully this short tutorial helped show the usage and helpfulness of distributing Nmap commands across multiple clients using DNmap. It's also important to note that you can always create multiple servers to host multiple clients.
A big thanks goes out to Sebastian for taking the time to create such a helpful tool. As always, if you ever have any questions or comments, let me know below!
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Rays Perfect in Disney Series
The Rays finish their second Orlando series with a perfect record again this season. They are currently 6-0 in the confines of the Disney Sports complex.
Last year they swept the Texas Rangers in Champions stadium. With tonight's win, the Rays win three games in a row for the first time this season. They also record their first "home" sweep since the Rangers series in Orlando last season. This is the only series the Rays have swept at "home" since June 2006.
Trivia Fact of the Night:
"A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz".
— Humphrey Bogart, in a film ad for organized baseball
The Good,The Bad,and The Ugly
The Good
You would think that I would be pining for Evan Longoria tonight as my top star after his triple in the bottom of the 4th inning. And, for once you would be right. Longoria went 2-2 tonight, raised his average to .282,got an RBI and scored a run. Not a bad night for a rookie in his first month in the majors.
Longoria is nightly showing the mindset of the Rays front office was right to secure his services and make him a Ray for years to come in St. Petersburg, Florida. Evan also hit a Sacrifice Fly to score a run. Longoria also got his third double of the year, and stole third in the bottom of the 7th innning.
He did everything but sell tickets and grill the hot dogs tonight.
Honorable mention "Good" guys:
*** Rays starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine was not as skillful as his last outing, but "Sonny" got it done to earn his third victory of the season. Andy tossed 6.1 innings of three hit ball and minimized the Toronto bats for much of the game.
** Dioner Navarro has done nothing wrong at the plate since coming off the DL for this series in Orlando. Dioner is currently hitting .444, and stroking the ball great to all fields. Navarro actually batted right-handed in the bottom of the 5th inning scoring Carlos Pena to put the Rays ahead 5-3.
* Carl Crawford is seeing the baseballs like huge basketballs right now. Crawford now has a 11 game hitting streak and has upped his average to .302 for the year. Carl went 3-5 tonight with two stolen bases to raise that total to 7 for the year. Carl is currently tied with Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury for the American League lead in runs score with 19.
The Bad
Rays first baseman Carlos Pena is stuck on 6 homers and 13 RBIs right now. Pena is still tied with Manny Ramirez, Joe Crede and Casey Kotchman for the American League home run title with 6. Since April 13, he has hit .163 with no homers, RBI's and has struck out 11 times. Last night, Pena struck out 4 times in the game.
B J Upton almost made a great catch in center tonight before the Orlando wind took the ball and turned B J around and rewarded Torontos' Aaron Hill with a ground rule double. the ball hung up in the wind and swirled a bit before turning B J left then right, and the ball fell to the turf and bounced over the centerfield wall for the double. Hill ended up scoring after a Sonnanstine wild pitch to put the Blue Jays up 3-2.
The Ugly
Two nights in a row we have an ugly scene at the plate involving Dioner's mental thinking and forgetting the play wa stills live on the field. Tonight's episode involves a Sacrifice bunt by the Blue Jays' David Eckstein in the top of the third inning.
Navarro came out to field the bunt in front of the plate, and throw to first for the out. But Dioner forgot to cover the homeplate and Jays' catcher Greg Zaun sneaked in under the tag by Navarro for the first run of the game.
This is the second night in a row that Navarro has been caught in "No-mans' land" and has not been able to convert an out on a play at the plate. If Dioner was not carrying a red hot bat right now, he might find himself on the bench watching Shawn Riggans playing instead of himself.
Wake up Dioner, you are a great catcher who is learning more every day to take over this young stable of pitchers. Do not ruin it by thinking outside of the lines and costing your team valuable runs scored against them.
Former Rays of the Night:
Tonight's former Ray is New York Mets utility guy, Marlon Anderson. Anderson came up in the top of the 9th as a pince hitter for pitcher Pedro Feliciano, and hit a homer in only his second hit of the season.
The reason he is my nightly guy, is that it was a clutch hit, and that is what veterans do, they hit the ball when runs or baserunners' are needed. It also doesn't hurt that I know the passion and drive Marlon has in him from his time with the Rays. Clutch hitting can win you games in the late season and beyond.


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About Stemi Time
What is a STEMI?
A STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) is a deadly type of heart attack, which is identified on an EKG. Early treatment to the blocked coronary artery minimizes the extent of the heart muscle damage and preserves the pumping function of the heart, thereby, increasing survival and reducing or eliminating complications.
STEMI Time Calculation
Average STEMI times are approximate and are provided for informational purposes only. STEMI Times represent an average of our hospital's STEMI cases over the past 52 weeks for which data is available, and is defined as the time it took to reestablish blood flow from the time the patient arrived at the hospital's Emergency Room. The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Joint Commission have established that this should occur in 90 minutes or less.


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A welcome sight to players and fans alike, the last game of spring training is here. The Cubs will battle the Brewers today at 2:05 PM Central, then break camp and head North for the start of the 2012 season. The bullpen decisions still loom as the Cubs most likely will not finalize their 25 man roster until tomorrow. Here is how the Cubs lineup today, Sveum wanted to go with his opening day lineup but LaHair was a late scratch with a stiff back which has plagued him for the last few days. Travis Wood takes the ball before heading to Iowa.
RF DeJesus
2B Barney
SS Castro
LF Soriano
3B Stewart
C Soto
CF Byrd
1B DeWitt
DH Johnson
We preview the first series of the year against the Nationals tonight or tomorrow, check back later on.
Thanks for reading,
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IMF/Survey Issue No. 12, 1999
- Conference on reform Involving the private sector and preventing financial crises are main topics for discussion
- Bretton Woods Committee Stable, integrated world economy will depend on mature relationships, sustained political support
- $4.1 billion package IMF Executive Board to consider Stand-By credit for Mexico
- $30 million released IMF Board approves Albania's second annual program and augmentation under ESAF
- Press releases
- Stand-By, EFF, and ESAF Arrangements as of May 31
- BIS, IMF, OECD, World Bank release data Joint debt statistics provide overview of important categories
- Members' use of IMF credit (million SDRs)
- IMF Appoints Dawson as External Relations Director
- Selected IMF rates
- Available on the web
Available on the web
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- January 1999


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For 25 years, the Emerald Coast Volleyball Week has brought thousands of people to the beach each spring for what is called the most fun tournament on the sand.
OKALOOSA ISLAND � For 25 years, Emerald Coast Volleyball Week has brought thousands of people to the beach each spring for what is called the most fun tournament on the sand.
Emerald Coast Volleyball Week officially kicked off again Wednesday. The showcase event � the Fudpucker 4 Player � begins Saturday morning.
�If you deal with people fairly, they respond to that,� said Mike Minich, president of Southern Events Management, which organizes the tourney. �That�s why this tournament is still so successful. I�ve seen guys that came here as kids, then got married and now they have kids and their kids are starting to play.
�I still love volleyball like I always did,� Minich added. �I tell (players) �My staff and I, we love volleyball. We love putting on volleyball tournaments as much as you love playing in them. So you guys play as hard as you can because you don�t have to worry about how the tournament�s run because that�s what we do.� �
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This year�s tourney is one of the largest, with about 270 teams competing on 50 nets set up on the beach on Okaloosa Island. In 2005, when the tournament moved from Destin to the island behind The Boardwalk, it had 315 teams and 57 nets.
Although Wednesday was the first official day for Volleyball Week, people began playing as soon as the nets started to go up Monday morning.
�It�s pretty spectacular,� said Tim Edwards, co-owner of Fudpucker�s Beachside Bar and Grill. �As uncertain as the economy is, you would tend to think that events would probably suffer, but this one continues to surprise me. It�s filling up. We�re already closing most of our divisions, we�re on a waiting list and if we had a bigger beach we would probably put more people out there.�
The first tournament was in 1989 and was sponsored by Abbott Resorts. Fudpucker�s was one of the sponsors, donating beer and gumbo and even putting a team together to play.
After the tournament was over, Abbott Realty asked the Fudpucker�s team if they would take it over.
Minich came to the tournament as a player in 1992 when he was in the Army and living in Atlanta. Minich had been organizing smaller volleyball events there as a hobby. He loved the vibe of the Fudpucker�s tournament, but felt the director could have done a better job.
Before he returned to Atlanta, Minich submitted a four-page letter to Fudpucker�s offering suggestions on how the tournament could be improved. Fuds later asked him if was interested in being the new director.
�It took it on because it was a huge tournament and I wanted to see if I could run a tournament that big,� Minich said. �I brought a lot of my friends down from Atlanta and we put it on and did a good job from the beginning, and I ended up staying.�
David Culpepper has been coming to the Fudpucker�s tournament since its first year in 1989, first as a player and in recent years helping out with its operations. Culpepper helps run tournaments for the Association of Volleyball Professionals, the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series and Major League Volleyball, but says Emerald Coast Volleyball Week is special.
�I don�t know of too many people who have played in this tournament who would say they didn�t have a blast,� Culpepper said. �It�s one of the only tournaments that is done where you can play volleyball five days in a row.
�Throughout the years, we�ve been adamant about that, that you�re here to have a good time,� he added.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) The word ``playoffs'' isn't being mentioned often around the St. Louis Rams' training facility unless asked by an outsider.
``This team is focused on Buffalo. It's our next opponent,'' coach Jeff Fisher said Monday at his weekly media gathering at Rams Park. ``There's too much that could happen right now. I don't even know what the record is of some teams in the division. So, we just go play.''
The Rams have made themselves into a playoff contender - albeit an outside one - with two consecutive divisional victories. Their 16-13 overtime win against San Francisco on Sunday comes a week after winning at Arizona and leaves them as the only NFC West squad undefeated against division opponents with one game to go.
St. Louis (5-6-1, 4-0-1) would need to leapfrog four teams to make the postseason, including the Seattle Seahawks, who host the Rams the final weekend of the regular season. This newfound hope of extending the season comes on the heels of a five-game stretch during which St. Louis went 0-4-1 and fell to 3-6-1.
``Regardless of whether we've won or lost the week before, our focus has gone on to the next week and that's exactly what we're going to continue to do,'' said quarterback Sam Bradford, who completed 26 of 39 passes for 221 yards against San Francisco. ``Our focus now is going to Buffalo and getting another win.''
Fisher said that despite the positive results the past two weeks it matters little if his team doesn't get a victory at Buffalo. The Rams have won just one road game and they followed up a 24-24 tie at San Francisco with a lackluster 27-13 home loss to the New York Jets.
The lack of consistency is one reason the Rams aren't talking about making the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
It's been a long road since. They went 29-83 without a winning season from 2005-2011, with their best finish coming in 2006 at 8-8 when the won their final three games. A victory Sunday will give St. Louis a non-losing record this late in the regular season for the first time since then.
``It feels pretty good,'' running back Steven Jackson said. ``We have a lot of room to grow, but the one thing about this team that we learned about the personality of it that guys are going to continue to fight. Guys are going to continue to bring their `A' game despite what it looks like, despite what people may think. This group of men believe that we can compete at a high level.''
Fisher said he likes the growth of his young team, but would like to see more from his offense in the final three games of the season.
The offense has struggled scoring this season and the Rams needed two defensive scores - a fumble returned for a touchdown and a safety - and two field goals from beyond 50 yards to get past the 49ers. Fisher gave credit to San Francisco's defense, ranked second in the NFL for total defense. He also readily offered up the need for the offense to provide some breathing room for the defense.
``We'd like to think we'd end up with balance in the game. We'll score points and play good defense. That was a situation (Sunday) where we found a way to win a game against a good team under difficult circumstances,'' he said. ``But offensively, we need to pick things up here. We made plays in the passing game. Sam played very well against a difficult defense but we need more balance and more chunks and more scoring.''


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Club Policies and Requirements
Service Hours
By the Wednesday of the 16th week of the semester every club must complete a minimum number of campus wide activities and/or service hours.
- 20 Campus Service Hours
- 10 Campus Service Hours + 1 Campus Wide Activity
- 2 Campus Wide Activities
The ICC Senator will track service hours based on Event Request
Forms submitted. If your club chooses to do all 20 campus service
hours, you will need to submit a
Service Hours Form for each event your club serves
hours so that the ICC Senator can keep track of them.
Clubs that do not complete service hours or that were absent 3 or more times in a semester from the ICC General Assembly meetings will receive a $25.00 deduction from their club account.
Infractions of ICC Guidelines and AS Financial and District Guidelines can lead to a deduction of up to $50.00 from your club base allocation or the freezing of your club account.
Unity Day
All clubs are required to participate in the Unity Day celebration that happens once during the Fall semester and once during the Spring semester. Unity Day is a day to celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of our clubs, resource centers, and student councils at CCSF. There are usually entertainers, free food, and activities showcasing the various student organizations we have; including but not limited to cultural groups, sports, honor societies, sciences, art, recreation, political issues, etc. Each club is required to help set-up and clean-up the event, table for your club at the event (10am-2pm) and help recruit entertainment for the day before the event happens. It is also the job of the ICC to promote Unity Day with posting flyers, telling your friends, and announcing it in your classes.
FRISCO Day
All clubs are required to participate in FRISCO (FRIday Successful College Opportunities) Day which is hosted at CCSF every April. High school seniors from San Francisco Unified School District are invited to come to CCSF, San Francisco State and UC San Francisco to learn about how to enroll, register for classes, find out information from counselors, find out about student activities and organizations, and to have FUN! Students will be able to come to the Club and Resource Fair during FRISCO Day to learn about what's happening at the college and how they can get involved on campus. Each club is required to set up a table and be available for questions from the high school seniors from 10am-2pm.
Waste Management
The ICC has implemented a zero tolerance policy regarding wastefulness and using products that are not biodegradable or recyclable. If your club is planning a fundraising event or other club activity, you MUST use green products—this means compostable, biodegradable, or paper—with the exception of plastic utensils, although if these can be recycled that would be best.
NO STYROFOAM PRODUCTS ALLOWED! No exceptions!
Clubs will be charged $50.00 for using non-recyclable products during their club events as their first warning. If a club is caught with non-recyclable products for a second time, the club account may be frozen or disqualified for recognition in the next semester.
For more information about the CCSF waste management strategy our policy is based off of, please visit: http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/employee-services/district-business-office/maintenance-buildings-and-grounds/recycling-main/wastemanagemenstrategy.html


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Children In Indonesia Risk Their Lives Everyday Just To Get To School!
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Story time: Indie rock with a plot
Robots Can't Fall In Love
SERP fraternity house
Friday, April 18
The rock opera, often decried as one of the foulest instruments of the prog-rock devil, has recently started to make a comeback- but in a decidedly different fashion than the bombastic (and at least partially musically unsuccessful) '70s outings of Rush, The Who, and the like.
Unlike their overblown cousins by marriage, this new breed of rock opera seems to be a combination of the indie-rock aesthetic and what might be termed Fiction Writing 101, creating albums of lo-fi serialized songs.
The Flaming Lips, the rock/pop/etc. band of animal stage suits and songs about intergalactic wars, has been at the forefront of this movement, especially since the release of the new album, Yoshemi Battles the Pink Robots (the title says it all).
It was only a matter of time before Charlottesville felt the Lips' wrath and spawned some neo-prog-rock of its own, and at the eclectic fraternity known as SERP Friday night, this is exactly what happened.
It was, I believe, the third ever public performance of "Robots Can't Fall In Love," a 45-minute sonic journey of guitar/drums/keyboard/computer, the brainchild of on-again, off-again Hook writer James Graham and Steve Nielsen. Nielsen and Graham were both in the now seemingly defunct Ones and Zeroes, the guitar/bass/drums rock outfit that was pretty much the SERP house band about a year ago.
Though the Ones and Zeroes were fun, the duo's new outing is a cut above, combining some great song writing with a plot straight out of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Though Graham and Nielsen switched off playing drums and guitar at different points in the show, a strategically placed Yamaha keyboard enabled Graham, the boy-wonder himself, to sometimes play chords on the synth with one hand and keep a solid varied beat with his other limbs.
Each song was introduced by a short monologue about what was happening in the story at that point– ranging from robot Alan, the principal character, destroying his robo-mate to being lost in space.
The two recently returned from a two (or three, that was never made quite clear) show national tour of sorts thanks to a quirky twist of fate, the group was scheduled to open for even quirkier indie-rock group Arlo in LA, but a stolen van (actually just towed by the local constabulary), an incident involving cheese inside the duo's computer, and a closed venue led to no public performances- but some exceedingly Spinal Tap moments, to say the least.
Graham and Nielsen are looking to combine visual footage to take the place of their explanatory monologues soon, in an effort to increase immersion. Other than possibly Tokyo Rose, the number of venues in this town ready for what soon could be called the Rock Opera Revolution is nil, but don't let that stop you- there is always SERP- the most indie-rock of frats, ready to accept you with open arms.
And there's always Jabberwocky or Coupe De Ville's, where they play with the frequency that Coran Capshaw buys restaurants.


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Chipper, Magic add to Game 1's festive atmosphere
Braves legend throws out first pitch; Dodgers co-owner revels in playoffs
ATLANTA -- Chipper Jones vowed when he retired that he was committed to becoming a bad golfer and remaining a good dad, and that no matter who came calling, he was most definitely not going to be tempted make a Major League comeback.
After one full season out of the game, it's clear that Jones, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Thursday night at Turner Field, is now, and will remain, happily retired.
"I've come to grips with it," he said. "I think my time has come and gone. It's these guys' time. I left my mark here and that's all you can ask for."
Jones, presumed by most as a future first-ballot Hall of Famer, was the logical choice to kick off the pomp and circumstance surrounding the first game of a postseason series in Atlanta.
The Braves have been here before -- many, many times, as evidenced by the row of 18 championship banners, including the 1995 World Series notation -- that line the awning in left field. Jones was a part of 14 of those teams, and while his number's been retired and he's begun the new phase of his life, it still seemed a little odd to see him as a spectator at a Braves game in October.
"I'm ready to be doing what I'm doing," he said. "I think the game had beaten me up and kind of taken away from me what I needed to be successful. It was time for me to ride off into the sunset."
On the other side of the field, a Dodgers dignitary caused a stir as he attempted to get settled into his seats near the visiting dugout. Of course, when you're Magic Johnson, it's hard to blend into the crowd, regardless of where the game is being played.
Johnson spoke at length with reporters before turning back to the stands, where he signed autographs, posed for pictures and tried to shift the focus away from him and back to the Dodgers players and their fans and what he hopes is to come further into October.
"I mean, it blows me away that I'm here, that we're here," he said. "It's all about the players and all about the Dodger fans. That's it. And I want to wish them well."
The national anthem was performed by Greenville, S.C., native and platinum-selling singer-songwriter Edwin McCain, and a Braves fan favorite, Timothy Miller from the Atlanta Opera, was scheduled to perform "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch.
With the familiar ring of the Tomahawk Chop resonating throughout the seating area, it was time for a long-standing tradition to continue -- October baseball at Turner Field.
It's been done before, sure. But for these fans, it never gets old.


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Food Rights, Food Duties, and Obesity
Despite a 2015 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that childhood obesity was in decline, the numbers?—?when properly interpreted (and supplemented with more recent research)?—?confirm the opposite. As they have for decades, children between the ages of two and 19 are, in fact, becoming overweight or obese at a steadily increasing rate.
Today, 33.4 percent of kids are considered overweight, with 17.4 percent of them qualifying as obese (defined as having a body mass index [BMI] of 35 or more) or severely obese (a BMI over 40). To put these measurements in perspective, a healthy person who is 5'9″ and 150 pounds will have a BMI of around 22.
These numbers intersect with an especially compelling sociological observation: As childhood obesity becomes commonplace, parents are increasingly unable to recognize the condition in their children. Writing inScientific American, Jane Ogden explained that, "as populations get fatter, the new normal has become overweight and therefore invisible."
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Hayao Miyazaki's Whimsical Animated Family Fantasy MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO PICTURE BOOK (New Edition- With New Cover Design)
Description: Parents and children will enjoy reliving Totoro's magical adventures in this new edition of this treasured family fantasy with character dialogue and scene-by-scene illustrations featuring artwork taken directly from the animated classic in this full-color book. This beloved story is about eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei – they have moved to the country to be closer to their ailing mother. While their father is working, the girls explore their sprawling old house and the forest and fields that surround it. Soon, Satsuki and Mei discover Totoro, a magical forest spirit who takes them on fantastic adventures through the trees and the clouds--and teaches them a lesson about trusting one another. MY NEGHBOR TOTORO is an internationally popular property that has generated a colorful array of toys, books and collectables. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment recently released the DVD of MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO. Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's most celebrated anime directors-directing such notable films as Spirited Away, (which won the 2002 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film,) Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, and more-all of which have received great international acclaim. Hayao Miyazaki books are published in English under VIZ Media's Studio Ghibli Library imprint. VIzmedia.com
Price: $19.99 to $22.99


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It is to be the highest quality, most advanced and most potent calcium available.
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These are not people easily fooled or tempted by generic supplements made from cheap ingredients and manufactured without any regard to how well your body can absorb them. And as this is a calcium supplement they take it very seriously.
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Serving size: 3 pills
amount per serving:
Calcium (elemental): 500 mg RDA: 50%
Vitamin C: 500 mg RDA 555%
Magnesium: 250mg RDA 71%
Lysine 66.5 mg RDA not established
Vitamin D3: 600 IU RDA: 150%
Vitamin K: 51mcg RDA: 79%
Other ingredients: Malic Acid: 870mg Citric acid 806mg
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IF, that is, it's absorbed by your body.
As you continue to take Calciology(TM) you'll begin to understand why our formula is so revolutionary. Because the calcium you're taking will finally be getting where it needs to go.
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