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Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley expressed relief Aug. 21 when a consecrated host that a Satanic group had planned to use as part of a "black mass" scheduled for Sept. 21 was returned to a Catholic priest.
Attorneys representing the Dakhma of Angra Mainyu group and Oklahoma resident Adam Daniels also presented a signed statement saying that they no longer have and would not use a consecrated host — the real Body of Christ — in the ritual, which is intended to be an evil inversion of the Catholic Mass.
"I am relieved that we have been able to secure the return of the sacred host, and that we have prevented its desecration as part of a planned satanic ritual," Archbishop Coakley said in statement. "I remain concerned about the dark powers that this satanic worship invites into our community and the spiritual danger that this poses to all who are involved in it, directly or indirectly."
With the return of the host and with the signed statement, the archbishop agreed to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice.
Archbishop Coakley has made repeated requests for the city's leaders to cancel the satanic ritual in a publicly funded facility.
"I have raised my concerns ... and pointed out how deeply offensive this proposed sacrilegious act is to Christians and especially to the more than 250,000 Catholics who live in Oklahoma," he said in a statement.
His opposition won the approval of Catholic scholars who have been watching as increased levels of satanic activity have been publicized in recent months.
First, the New York-based Satanic Temple planned to hold a black mass at Harvard in May. Such an event is essentially an inversion of the Catholic Mass that mocks the Catholic Faith and calls on Satan to intercede in the world. However, the group made clear that it did not have possession of a consecrated host to desecrate.
After Catholics and other religious leaders protested, the event was first moved off campus and then turned into nothing more than an impromptu gathering, while more than 2,000 people, including Harvard President Drew Faust, joined in a Eucharistic procession to a Holy Hour at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Now another group, called Dakhma of Angra Mainyu, represented by Adam Daniels, has plans to hold a black mass Sept. 21 in the Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall.
In response to the planned black mass in his diocese, Archbishop Coakley has called on the faithful to pray the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel at the end of every Mass through Sept. 29, the feast of the archangels, and asks that each parish conduct a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Benediction before Sept. 21. According to the Book of Revelation, St. Michael defeated Satan.
On the day of the satanic ritual, if not canceled, Archbishop Coakley invited all Christians and people of goodwill to join him in prayer for a Holy Hour at 3 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Oklahoma City, followed by an outdoor procession and Benediction. He called the planned black mass "deeply offensive."
Jesuit Father James Bretzke, a professor of moral theology at Boston College, said Archbishop Coakley and Catholics around the country are right to take the performance of black masses seriously. It goes beyond poking fun at the Church and is an incident of serious and intended blasphemy.
The black mass was created to show disrespect to the Church, Father Bretzke said, because the Mass is the Church's central sacrament. Its roots lie in the Middle Ages, when anti-religionists and anti-clericalists intentionally corrupted the Mass to show disrespect.
Charles Reid, a law professor at St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, said many of the medieval versions of what has become known as the black mass had more to do with university students at the time "goofing off," rather than actually trying to summon evil into the world.
The mock-religious ceremonies gradually coalesced into what could be recognized as a black mass by the early modern period, roughly the 16th and 17th centuries, said Reid, who is also a canonist with a doctorate in medieval history.
Although some people have always been fascinated by the occult, for centuries black masses were mostly an underground phenomenon, he said. That started to change in the middle of the 20th century in the United States and Europe, when more serious satanistic groups became active and were more public about their beliefs.
"Now they were more pointedly honoring Satan," Reid said.
Observers now must draw a distinction between those who hold black masses intending only to insult and parody the Church, Reid said, and those that intend blasphemy, desecration and the invocation of evil.
The Satanic Temple that planned the Mass for Harvard, for example, is actually made up of atheists and freethinkers who seem to want to desensitize people to the idea of any and all religion.
"Their idea seems to be, 'Let's just mock religion out of existence,'" Reid said.
While the Church should respond to the insult — such as with prayer and Holy Hours — it should not overreact, Reid said.
The black mass planned for Oklahoma City is another matter entirely, starting with the organizers' claim that they had a consecrated host. "These people are actual satanists," Reid said. "It's not just a political stunt."
That makes Archbishop Coakley's more robust response entirely appropriate, he said.
"You have to point out that the Church stands for something way different" than the satanists, he said. "The Church stands for goodness, for self-sacrifice, for virtue, for all those things."
While it's unclear whether there is more occult activity now, Father Bretzke suggested we live in a culture that loves to push boundaries.
"There's a certain adolescent quality to our culture now," he said. "And as with individuals, adolescence is a time of testing limits of all kinds."
Father Bretzke said any attempt at a black mass should be of concern.
"To call on Satan, who is traditionally the lord of all evil, even in jest, is ill-considered," he said. "If you try to call on Satan, bad things happen."
Michelle Martin writes from Illinois.
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Sometimes teams have trouble starting new habits: writing unit tests, fix compiler warnings, not breaking the build. How do we help the team change these habits? Clint Shank designed a game to help people transition.
Now Erik Ramfelt has written a "The Continuous Integration Game plugin" for Hudson. The premise is that sometimes developers need a push to do the right thing:
I've had problems in the past with people breaking the build. To help, I've used techniques like the rotating Build Nazi and the put a dollar in the broken build jar, but these are all negative focused. How about something that rewards developers that don't break the build? How about rewarding developers for following the best practice of breaking their work into smaller chunks and checking in early and often?
After reading Darin Cummins article "The Development Game" (Agile Development Conference 2004), Clint came up with the idea for a game were developers are rewarded for doing good things with the build and punished for doing bad.
As implemented by Eric your karma is calculated with the following rules:
The rules of the game are:
- -10 points for breaking a build
- 0 points for breaking a build that already was broken
- +1 points for doing a build with no failures (unstable builds gives no points)
- -1 points for each new test failures
- +1 points for each new test that passes
Rules that depend on other plugins:
- PMD Plugin. Adding/removing a HIGH priority warning = -5/+5. Adding/removing a MEDIUM priority warning = -3/+3. Adding/removing a LOW priority warning = -1/+1.
- Task Scanner Plugin. Adding/removing a HIGH priority task = -5/+5. Adding/removing a MEDIUM priority task = -3/+3. Adding/removing a LOW priority task = -1/+1
- Warnings Plugin. Adding/removing a compiler warning = -1/+1.
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As Clint warns you do have be on the lookout for cheaters (perhaps doing trivial and pointless checkins every hour) and reset the points every so often to given everyone a chance to win eventually.
When this was discussed on Scrum Development several concerns were raised. Graeme Matthew points out that if the rewards are too big developers might be focused on doing things to improve their score and not deliver value to the customer. Ilja Preuss suggested:
Another thing to keep in mind is that extrinsic motivation typically is in violent conflict with intrinsic motivation. That is, if your team already is well intrinsically motivated, you might well may things worse by adding extrinsic motivation.
Finally Pete Deemer said:
It seems to me like a complex framework of individual incentives would inadvertently cultivate "I" thinking to he detriment of "we" (team) thinking (the latter being one of the "quiet accelerators" in scrum); it would invite optimization at the micro level that is sub-optimal at the macro level; and it would generate a lot of ceremony and mental activity around things other than the the doing of the work in service of the customer.
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This approach seems to be very effective, mostly - so it seems to me - because it doesn't assume the prevalent reason for problems to be that people are just lazy or undisciplined. Since we have started using Stop the Line, we have implemented a wide range of solutions, from the reduction of redundant information in the build system, over changing some conventions regarding our use of SVN, to implementing an Eclipse plugin to make it easier to run all relevant tests before checkin.
Another nice side effect is that it strengthens the collaboration in the team, instead of setting up an atmosphere of competition.
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Two Lutheran Social Services programs in Worcester have requests. The Refugee Resettlement program wants new pillows and new or gently used blankets, sheets, towels, dishes and pots and pans. At Emanuel Village, senior residents would like first-aid kits and emergency preparedness kits that include flashlights and batteries. For the outside they would like benches, raised garden beds and a gazebo. They also welcome those interested in sponsoring a holiday or community meal for the residents. firstname.lastname@example.com or (774) 243-3938, 14 East Worcester St., Suite 300, Worcester, 01604.
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Abby's House's wish list is as follows: new twin-size bedding, linens, mattresses and box springs; and gift cards for area supermarkets, Target, Wal-Mart, pharmacies, Dunkin' Donuts, Home Depot and area restaurants. 52 High St., Worcester, 01602; email@example.com.
The American Red Cross of Central and Western Massachusetts needs volunteers and blood. It also needs financial donations. 2000 Century Drive, Worcester, 01606-1256; firstname.lastname@example.com.
The St. Joan of Arc Church Food Pantry requests non-perishable food items, toiletries and paper goods. 570 Lincoln St., Worcester, 01605; (508) 852-3232.
The Family Health Center of Worcester seeks baby items such as blankets, bibs, breast pumps, sleepers, thermometers, socks, wipes, sling carriers and wash cloths. It also needs winter outerwear for adults and children, and new household items such as sheets, dishes, cooking utensils and silverware. 26 Queen St., Worcester, 01610; (508) 860-7951.
The local Department of Disability Services needs coats and other winter clothing, and gift cards for food. 24 Southbridge St., Worcester; (508) 753-5604.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/Metrowest is seeking gift cards from Target, Wal-Mart or grocery stores. 484 Main St., Suite 360, Worcester, 01608; (508) 752-7868.
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2. Do at least a day's worth of before and after weights before making any judgments about intake.
3. Let's see what baby is taking in over the course of an average feeding before we get into that? I mean, if intake is good you can start weaning off of supplements. If it's not, then you have a lot of different options, but what they are depends on how good/bad the average nursing session ism in terms of intake.


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Hey, remember me?
Wow, can't believe I'm actually posting. Basically, I gave up on the blog out of frustration. I was so disgusted with the last 6-8 weeks of the season that I just couldn't make myself take the time to blog about it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
So what have I been doing with myself? I've taken up some healthier hobbies, like working out; cooking; spending more time with my family; doing Sudoku puzzles. Yes, I hate to say it, but my life has been just that much easier without the Red Sox in it. I no longer have to coordinate my schedule so that I don't miss the games. I didn't suffer needlessly knowing I would never get tickets to the playoffs. Hell, two weeks ago I paid $50 for two seats behind home plate at Fenway, just so I could go there one more time this year.
Now I'm sorta back into it, but for one reason: rooting against the Yankees. I don't care what else happens in the end, as long as the stupid Yankees lose. I hope Detroit messes up the Yankees. Bad.
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Not all sports are Olympic
The last two weeks were nothing short of spectacular. The world witnessed one of the most amazing Winter Olympics in the history of the program.
The Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius" — Latin for "Swifter, Higher, Stronger," reigned supreme. The 2010 Winter Olympic athletes "raised the bar" so to speak, elevating the standard to which future Olympians must aspire if they want to be competitive.
Fans witnessed ski jumpers launching themselves from slippery ramps to fly farther than the length of a football field before gently landing and expertly gliding to a stop. Figure skaters executed stunts that staggered the imagination.
Contestants twirled, jumped and spun in the air as they gracefully sped down the ice with little regard for their safety. One small miscalculation and they could have fallen and smashed headlong into a wall at 40-plus miles per hour without protection.
Bobsledders rocketed down runs at more than 90 mph wrapped in nothing more than lightweight fiberglass shells. The downhill skiers, unprotected, exceeded 60 mph in their efforts to be the fastest to descend nearly vertical slopes.
The speed skaters, snowboarders and freestyle skiers also put their lives at risk without hesitation to give record-setting performances. Much to the delight of fans with eyes glued to television sets around the globe, the participants reached new heights in their efforts to be the best of the best.
Despite the magnificent performances of the finest athletes in the world, some people are disgruntled because their "sport" is not included in the Olympic program.
Snowmobile advocates are quick to state their displeasure because snowmobiling is not an Olympic event. The International Olympic Committee doesn't consider snowmobiling an athletic endeavor. In the Summer Olympics, some think wave running, car racing and rodeo events should be among the contests.
I lean towards agreeing with the IOC concerning car racing. Somehow, I fail to see that actual athleticism is required to make a few hundred left turns at high speeds in an engine-powered vehicle. The same goes for the snowmobiles and wave runners. They're just annoying.
However, some of the rodeo events might qualify if the scoring were different. For instance, bull riding could be an event if the bulls were involved in the scoring process.
The rules for cowboys riding bulls in the rodeo only include the rider as a participant. If the rider stays on the bucking bull for eight seconds, he gets points. If not, he gets zip. The bull, however, gets nothing, no matter how well he performs.
If the bull were given points for ridding himself of the rider in less than eight seconds, the event would be much more equitable. That is an important point to the IOC. Every event must be fair to all participants.
I see nothing wrong with bulls standing on the podium to receive their medals just like all the other athletes. Perhaps the bull's trainer could be included in the awards ceremony, thus preserving the human element in both sides of the contest.
The same rules could apply for the bronco riders. Horses have long been a part of Olympic tradition. The ancient Olympics were famous for their chariot races.
If the horse tosses the rider before the buzzer goes off, "Trigger" should go to the podium. It's only fair.
If those events were instated, I don't see how calf roping could be denied. If the calf dodges the rope and makes the horse and rider look foolish, why shouldn't he have his shot at the medal ceremony?
Nonetheless, more fans than those whose sports are not included will soon be disgruntled. On Feb. 7, the IOC voted to eliminate all "judged" sports as Olympic events.
The IOC announced that the judged events, which include the popular figure skating and gymnastics competitions, will be transferred to a new Olympic-style festival to be called the Olympic Performance Games, or "Performics" for short.
IOC President Jacque Rogge said, "The Olympic motto, 'Swifter, Higher, Stronger,' doesn't say anything about 'fancier.'"
The removal of the judged events addresses a particularly thorny subject that has plagued the IOC over the years. Rampant judging bias based on nationality has been a contentious issue.
Returning to traditional contests based on 'earned' scores instead of 'judged' scores will relieve the committee from dealing with subjective decisions.
The Olympics could possibly settle on a system we can all understand — a novel concept.


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By Patricia Bunin
In an inspired act of paying it forward, Ina gave her mother a birthday gift: my mother.
For Mom's 97th birthday last month, I asked readers to help me find her childhood friend from New York, Betty Goldfinger. Thanks to many of you, especially Kathryn Bassett of Pasadena and Dr. John Elfmont of Redondo Beach, Betty was found, and she called Mom on her birthday. It was their first contact in more than 70 years.
I had written that finding Betty for Mom would be a "wow." As it turned out, "wow" didn't begin to touch it.
The day after the telephone reunion, Ina Lieberman, Betty's daughter, emailed me that she wanted to bring her mother from Arizona to California in a month for a face-to-face visit with my mom on Betty's 96th birthday.
In a literal and figurative twist of fate, Mom fell and broke her hip two days after her own birthday. But the bond of her friendship with Betty was not to be fractured. Over the past month as Mom had surgery and rehab, Betty called her every day, offering encouragement.
A month before I was wondering if Betty was even alive, let alone well and able to remember her girlhood friend, "Jinxie" Jean Bunin. Today she personally delivered a shopping bag filled with Mandel bread (a Jewish yummy) that she had baked for us, a blue and white hat she had knitted for Mom, and an envelope of treasured Jinxie photos.
As Betty pushed her walker aside and bent over Mom's wheelchair to hug her, I saw 90 years of friendship emanating from their faces. They clasped hands and held tight for a few moments before Betty bent over and kissed Mom on the cheek.
Our cameras were clicking but the "girls" were in their own world, one that existed long before we became a part of it. A world of grade school and high school and Sunday school and confirmation classes shared, and two exciting weeks of summer camp.
My whole life, Mom had sung me the "Come along to Camp Bluebird" song, but only now did that experience come alive through Jean and Betty and their giggles and gasps and finishing each other's sentences.
And, finally, in the whisper of a moment, sharing a tearful farewell embrace, two women gave new meaning to the old phrase, "best friends forever."


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I found myself taking a dose of my own medicine last week. During my stint as an Independent Living Skills Instructor, I often found myself grumbling about parents undermining my best-placed intentions. While slipping their children an extra $20 for pocket money may have seemed harmless, it undermined my ability to teach about living on a budget. A quick tidying of the apartment as they drop off their student after a weekend visit may be second nature to some parents, but to the staff member trying to assess behavior change from week to week, these innate parental actions can be a real hindrance. And yet last week, I found myself dangerously close to becoming one of those parents that interferes with a staff's well-laid plan.
Cameron's school has a new teacher coordinating internships this year. She has quickly been able to implement some improvements over last year's program. For instance, instead of going to the job each school day, interns now spend Mondays and Fridays in the classroom learning valuable skills like interviewing and resume writing. Interns will be participating in mock interviews in which various faculty members interview the interns in an office setting. Interns are expected to wear appropriate attire for the interviews. In my mind, this is all really good stuff.
But when I received an email from the internship coordinator, asking that I please remind Cameron to bring long pants on the days when he works in the restaurant—and by the way, restaurant interns are asked to refrain from eating during working hours, so I should please remind Cameron of this as well—I found myself bristling a bit. Somehow Mama Bear instincts kicked in and I started mentally forming a list of counterpoints to these internship rules: 1) Cameron has worked in this restaurant in the past, and wearing shorts to work wasn't a problem before; 2) Cameron's main motivation for going to work is the promise of free food; 3) If Cameron is expected to decline food while on the job, how am I supposed to enforce this?... And so the list of my concerns began.
But then I stopped, and took a deep breath. Cameron will have many jobs and many bosses in the course of his lifetime. And with those many jobs and many bosses will likely go many different sets of rules. Shaking things up a bit within the confines of a familiar internship is definitely a good thing. Cameron may not like it at first, but just like eating his vegetables, he will learn to get through it and do what is expected of him. This type of pushback is good for Cameron. It is why, after all, I was so determined that he find paid employment. When someone is paying you to do a job, you are held accountable for doing your tasks. An unpaid intern is, in my mind, easier to forgive, and therefore may not be held to the same level of accountability. So in spite of my maternal instinct to make things easier for Cameron, I'm glad that I thought better of making those excuses for him. And I'm sure Cameron's teacher is glad I thought better of it too.


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I've been working very, very hard to increase my milk supply for DS' daycare needs - in addition to nursing him on demand when I'm with him (he also does not STTN yet) I pump extra in the morning, extra after he goes to bed at night, and extra sessions on the weekends. I'm also eating oatmeal every morning.
By my calculations with the guidelines given, he should need about 14 ounces for the day. For a while I was only able to fill about 5 bottles with 2 ounces each. Then with extra pumping I managed to finally get it to 3 ounces per bottle, which should be enough for him. Then last week I finally got a day where a couple of the bottles were 4 ounces. Perfect!
After a major setback this weekend in which we lost power for nearly a week and had to stay with various relatives and having our freezer supply thaw, I pumped today and only have three bottles of 2 ounces each. I'm going to pump tonight after DS goes to bed but history tells me that will only net me one additional ounce.
I'm frantic. He will not have enough food for tomorrow. I don't know what to do. Get up in the middle of the night and pump and hope to god it's enough? The DCP casually said to "just send formula" and DH told them that in no way are we doing that (part of our problem is that the DCP is overfeeding DS despite our talks with them -- DH is attempting to resolve that tomorrow, but in the meantime it means that the "extra" bottle I should be getting each day is being consumed, putting me behind).
I don't know what to do. I'm so discouraged. I refuse to use formula, but my baby can't starve at daycare. I feel like I'm going to have to go to the store tonight and get formula, and just the idea of doing so has me tearing up. Please give me some advice on what I can do here. I'm doing breast compressions (they don't seem to be helping), I'm eating oatmeal...I don't know what else to do.


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Patrice Bergeron recorded two goals and an assist as visiting Boston opened up a five-point advantage in the Northeast Division over Ottawa.
David Krejci netted the game-winner on a power play in the third period and Brad Marchand recorded his career-high 22nd goal for Boston, which completed its longest road trip of the season with a 3-2-1 mark.
The Bruins gave up the first tally but wasted little time battling back, with Bergeron knotting it at 1-1 early in the first period. Boston appeared to be running away late into the third period as Krejci's 13th goal pushed it to 4-1.
The Senators made things interesting late with two similar goals by captain Daniel Alfredsson. A one-timer from the left boards cut it to 4-2 with 3:45 left and the second tally came from almost the exact same spot 1:37 later.
Boston goaltender Tim Thomas slammed his stick against the post in frustration.
Bergeron put it out of reach with an empty-net goal to close it out.
The highlight for the Bruins came in the second period, when rookie Carter Camper banged in a rebound for his first NHL goal, making it 3-1.
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A Repository of Reliable Sources & Citations
Spats McGee's Note: JimDandy started this thread to be a central repository for links to reliable sources for statistics, argument, articles,and the like. If you have links that you often use in looking up those kinds of things, and they are from reliable sources, post them here. Links that lead to unsupported, obviously ridiculous or otherwise "wildhair" claims will be unceremoniously deleted from this thread. My thanks to JimDandy for starting this thread.
When you're making a point, and need to prove it.
Origins of Crime Guns
PBS article touting Straw Puchases, and Corrupt FFL's as primary sources, trickling down to then illegal marketplaces, thefts, and family/friends.
Most common types of Crime Guns:
DOJ Justice Programs study on what guns are commonly used in crime.
FBI Uniform Crime Report with Census data for a per capita look at homicide by firearm, with comparisons for three most common restrictive firearms laws- AWB, May Issue and/or Carry Ban, and Permit to Purchase AKA FOID:
2010 UCR, Census and Wikiepedia Laws by state merged into one spreadsheet- with sources footnoted.
Edit if others want to include more, and one of the experts wants to include a post with a quick run down of the Scrutiny available.. this is all stuff I've had to come back here and search in other posts for.
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Why the Gun Is Civilization, a very good essay from our own Marko Kloos:
The Violence Policy Center memo in which they admit that they've lost the battle to ban handguns, and that they should invent and subsequently ban a new category of firearms called "assault weapons:"
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United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) Gives us All Males capable of acting in concert for the common defense is the militia, and as they are expected to bring their own arms when called, those weapons protected are those in common use at the time.
District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570 (2008) Which holds: RKBA is Individual and not Collective- AND - Protects arms in the common use for lawful purposes.
McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 3025 (2010) Incorporates the Second Amendment to the States. The States may not infringe the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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1. Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun", 86 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1, 1995. Available at http://www.guncite.com/gcdgklec.html.
This is a well known study by Gary Kleck, Florida State University criminologist.
2. National Research Council (2004). Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. Available at http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10881&page=R1
A CNN article says about this literature review from the National Academy of Sciences, "Researchers could not identify a single [gun] regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents." http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-18/o...?_s=PM:OPINION
I don't pretend to have read, much less understand, all of the above.
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HAYNES v. UNITED STATES, 390 U.S. 85 (1968) -- A 1968 SCOTUS case holding that "a proper claim of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register a firearm under [26 U.S.C.] 5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under [26 U.S.C.] 5851." In other words, prohibited persons in illegal possession of firearms cannot be convicted of failing to register firearms, or possession of unregistered firearms, where such is required, on the basis that requiring registration by those in illegal possession would violate such persons' Fifth Amendment rights.
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|February 22, 2013, 05:15 PM
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FactCheck.org is a great, unbiased site that's currently giving a lot of attention to claims about guns, "statistics" about gun deaths, etc. Their home page has several relevant articles. In a box in the upper right corner, there's this, for example:
Ask FactCheckJust an excerpt from a longer, and very thorough, article.
They also have have an entire section devoted to "Gun Rhetoric vs. Gun Facts."
They give both sides equal treatment, as far as I can tell.
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|February 27, 2013, 05:53 AM
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So, after reading something similar in another blog and posting about this a couple times in some other threads, I figured I'd just throw this up with sources to quell some confusion about the DHS ammo buy recently.
Firstly, according to infowars.com the DHS has a contract for 1.4 billion rounds of ammo. Let me start by saying this is not true. The real excerpt from the synopsis states:
Let's pretend for a second that 1.4 billion is the real number and an ammo manufacturer might actually be able to meet their quota for the various calibers (.38, 9mm, .40s&w, .45acp, 5.56, and 7.62 according to the synopsis posted by infowars.com) desired by the DHS in a single year instantly (1.4 billion rounds divided by 5 years equals 280 million rounds a year).
280 million rounds a year is a lot of friggin' ammo, right? Wrong. The DHS has a little over 240k employees and of them, 130k tote around firearms. That comes out to a grand total of about 2150 per armed federal agent. Still think that's a lot? Well lets take a look at their training and testing regiment.
Now, unfortunately, the FLETC official training site does not list the amount of ammunition they use for their classes, but most of them run between 3-7 days (for new guys, there are courses a few months long) with what seems to be a full days worth of work in every day. If we were to compare this to a civilian class where 1000 rounds for a 4 day class is common place, we begin to see something form: reason.
If an employee went to train just twice a year, they would be running slim on ammo. Furthermore, this purchase is not inconsistent with the DHS contracts that we have seen in the past. Also, it is important to note that while FLETC is indeed a part of DHS, it does not only train DHS affiliates. It also trains state and local cops!
I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but I figured you all might like to know the facts.
Just a reminder, there is misinformation on all sides of a debate. Don't be a victim of assumption; research the facts for yourself.
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|February 27, 2013, 02:13 PM
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I was thinking more about this today and decided to add onto it.
Many of you also know that the SSA (Social Security Administration) has bought 174k of hollow point ammunition. According to our good friends at infowars.com, that's enough to kill 174k Americans and hollow point rounds are not used for target practice.
Unlike the DHS/FLETC ammo purchase, this actually was for physical product (i.e. not a contract). Unfortunately, the argument that they will be used to quell riots and / or combat American citizens in a post economic collapse aftermath degrades very quickly upon finding out that the agency has 295 gun carrying agents.
Let's turn to the math corner again. 174,000 rounds divided by 295 agents equals about 590 rounds per agent. If you refer to my previous post, you see that this is a lot less than the amount of ammo to agent ratio I gave to the DHS.
Now for the argument that hollow points aren't used for target practice. The 295 agents that the SSA employs actually do make arrests: 589 arrests in 2011. When they are out and about, they are carrying hollow point ammunition just like the police force.
Also, after asking around a little, I discovered that both the DHS and SSA agents along with a few other federal agencies and police departments DO use hollow point ammunition for training and qualification. While it is not required to use hollow points by all agencies for target practice there is still a substantial amount of hollow points used in practice and qualification.
In addition to that, the FLETC facility uses hollow point ammunition for training and qualifications done there.
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|March 24, 2013, 05:10 PM
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Here are some more good articles and studies. Some of them were referred to in other threads, and I tried to credit them appropriately when I could locate where they were. Some good stuff here.
A copiously annotated legal history of the Second Amendment.
WHETHER THE SECOND AMENDMENT SECURES AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT The Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militias. MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, August 24, 2004
Another well documented examination of the right codified by the S.A.
This provides reports of defensive gun uses across the US, or by state (via the available pull-down). It isn't comprehensive, but it is illustrative.
From "Very good article on AWB written by a Democrat!" , opened by stormin1155
Well written essay by a self-professed Democrat
larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/posted by Al Norris
Well written essay by a well-respected firearms and tactics instructor
www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gunposted by Al Norris
A "fairly well balanced" argument from a professed liberal. (And Al, he does actually mention the S.A., about 7 or 8 paragraphs from the end of the article. )
Article pointing out that some of the loudest Democratic critics of armed security in schools today were in fact for it when it was proposed by Clinton in 1995.
The comprehensive literature review published by the CDC, October 3, 2003.
"The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes. (Note that insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness should not be interpreted as evidence of ineffectiveness.)"
Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003, Koper, et al, July 2004, DOJ
The DOJ assesses the effect of the Clinton AWB.
"Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence" by Don Kates and Gary Mauser. Harvard J Law Public Policy 2003; 30:649-694.
Harvard study that reveals there is no correlation between the numbers of firearms in a society and the violence in that society.
"Guns, Truth, Medicine, and the Constitution" by Jacob Deakins, M.D.
Good source for further reading, this article describes and debunks many gun-control arguments.
"Homicide and the prevalence of handguns: Canada and the United States, 1976 to 1986", Brandon Centerwall, American J Epidemiology1991;134:
Well regarded study that shows gun laws don't decrease violence... Americans and Canadians kill each other at the same rate. Americans use guns more often, but Canadians make use of other, equally lethal weapons.
"If you are surprised by our findings, so are we. We did not begin this research with any intent to "exonerate" handguns, but there it is—a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim our public health resources."
Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 515-584, December 2009
"Pretend 'Gun-Free' School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction", David Kopel,
Independence Institute; Denver University - Sturm College of Law, April 16, 2009
A well annotated article laying out a thorough refutation of arguments against campus carry, including a number of solid statistics that debunk the wild fantasies of the Brady Bunch, among others. A good read.
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Just finished vetting links to this point. Lots of good stuff here, and I thank you all for your contributions.
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|August 7, 2013, 12:42 PM
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I thought of one more:
Municode -- This is one of the publishers of municipal codes and ordinances. Not every city or state has their codes available, but it's usually a good starting point.
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|August 29, 2013, 12:01 AM
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This is my favorite article against gun control I've ever read. It's a little old (from right after the recent national defeat of new gun control proposals). It's by a liberal democrat, the same liberal democrat who wrote the article on why not to renew the assault weapons ban.
He makes some great arguments and presents them in a very convincing way. And being that he comes from a similar political persuasion as many gun control supporters, I think he's much more likely to convince some of them to see things our way.
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|September 9, 2013, 09:05 AM
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The CDC provides this statistical gem.
Ask people if the think there's an epidemic of firearms homicides in America.
Ask them if there's an epidemic of infants dying in America today.
Point out the CDC reported an infant mortality rate of 6.15 per 1000 live births. 615 per 100,000 Firearms homicides are less than 1% of that rate.
Pulling snippets from Table 10's cause of death by age and then the (All ages) category combinations-
Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms
(*U01.4,X93-X95) (All) 11,078
Intentional self-harm (suicide) by discharge of
firearms (X72-X74) 19,392
Accidental discharge of firearms (W32-W34) 606
Intentional self-harm (suicide) by other and
unspecified means and their sequelae
Drug-induced deaths 40,393
Injury(They mean death) by firearms 31,672
Motor vehicle accidents 35,332
Pneumonia (J12-J18) 49,597
Septicemia (A40-A41) 34,812
Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14) 69,071
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (K70,K73-K74) 31,903
Renal failure (N17-N19) 44,362
Falls (W00-W19) 26,009
And their rates per 100,000 people-
Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms
Drug-induced deaths4,5 13.1
Alcohol-induced deaths4,6 8.3
Injury by firearms 10.3
Motor vehicle accidents (V02-V04,V09.0,V09.2,
Influenza and pneumonia (J09-J18) 16.2
Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14) 22.4
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (C82-C85) 6.6
Leukemia (C91-C95) 7.3
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease
That one I like too. HIV is 2.7. Firearms Homicide is 3.6.
|January 1, 2014, 04:35 PM
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Browsing The Truth About Guns I found a link to an interesting article (similar to this one in post 11, supra) written by Jane Orient, MD, called ""Gun Violence" as a Public Health Issue: a Physician's Response" .
Dr. Orient takes on the pseudo-scientific, anti-gun advocacy that is widely prevalent in organized medicine today, and effectively Orients (sorry...) the reader to their specious claims of scientific objectivity. Her commentary, citing 51 sources, updates a surprisingly similar (but even more heavily annotated, with over 200 sources) paper by Don Kates, PhD, written in 1990, wherein Dr. Kates defines the medical establishment's "science" as Sagecraft (it is a truly devastating attack on their credibility).
I find pieces like these to be particularly valuable additions to our arsenal of counterarguments, as the anti's like to trot out their "experts", and prop them up as credible evidence against our "experts". In the battle for public opinion, two experts arguing often tend to "cancel each other out", opening the door to more emotional, non-rational messages.
Plus, as a "non-expert", picking apart and debunking a bona-fide professional (with their claim to authority) in a discussion with another layman can be challenging, and will often devolve into "he-said-she-said" type standoffs.
In these papers, two of them from members of the medical profession, no less, (and Don Kates, who really is in an academic class all by himself) these professionals methodically take their counterparts "research" apart, step by step, and conclusively reveal them to be nothing more than veiled propaganda. And, in so doing, they show how to convincingly debunk the pseudo-science in our own day-to-day conversations about Second Amendment science.
Very good reads.
|January 7, 2014, 10:49 AM
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According to The most recent (2010) census report There are 308,745,538 people in the United States. Of which, 23.5% are under 18. This leaves 236,190,336.57 over the age of 18, and barring individual prohibitions (i.e. drugs, criminal records, mental health which would not germane as you'll see in the next link) eligible to own firearms.
Gallup's Self Reported Gun Ownership Poll 34% of people, and 47% of households report owning a firearm. That is approximately 80,304,714.4338 gun owners in the United States.
The CDC reported: All firearm deaths-Number of deaths: 31,672. This number includes suicide, homicide, and accidental deaths.
Assuming a worst case scenario that all those deaths are the result of one firearms owner, i.e. no firearm owner was responsible for more than one fatality which we know isn't the case- the percentage of firearms owners responsible for these instances of "irresponsible ownership" is .03943977% Even rounding up (to 0.04%), it's less than one half of one percent.
What does this mean? It means if we were talking about an NFL stadium seating 60,000 people, Just over 1.14 people per week would be thrown out for being drunk and disorderly (Assuming the stadium was packed every week, even the away games, and bye week)
According to CNN There are 7,700,000 registered voters in Ohio, of whom 5,387,690 (or 69.97%)voted. The Ohio Secretary of State believed at least 625 instances of irregularity occured. That's 0.01% so far.
While I am loathe to make a comparison of a privilege and a right, cars, driving and drunk driving often crops up in these discussions. According to the Federal Highway Administration there were 210 million licensed drivers in 2010. According to The FBI in UCR Table 29 1,412,223 people (or .6% - a rate about FIVE TIMES as high as those pesky irresponsible firearms owners when allowing for more drivers) were arrested for driving under the influence.
|February 25, 2014, 01:32 PM
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The FBI lists the US Homicide rate at about 3.05 per 100,000 in 2010 (Last year with Census Data) This list of Cancer facts and figures from the ACCO website has the childhood cancer mortality rate at 2.2 per 100,000.
Every time I've ever seen people talk about childhood cancer, they've described it as rare. When you hear anti-gun folks talk about firearms violence they almost always describe it as epidemic.
|February 25, 2014, 01:57 PM
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Ooh, research links!
http://www.atf.gov/statistics/index.html - ATF Firearms trace data and US manufacturing data.
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html - US CDC Wisqars death and injury statistics query tool
http://www.bjs.gov/ - US Bureau of Justice Statistics - Corrections, Courts, Crimes, including the National Crime Victimization Survey
https://www.ncjrs.gov/ National Criminal Justice Reference Service; this is the vehicle through which a lot of US Gov't funded research gets published
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ - University of Albany's Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/ - a specialized Easy Access to FBI Supplemental Homicide reports (since homicide stats seem to be interesting to many people)
http://www.ussc.gov/ United States Sentencing Commission (Fixed - thx, Mr McGee!)
See the CALGUNS FOUNDATION Wiki for discussion of California firearms law.
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|February 25, 2014, 01:59 PM
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For some reason, there's another link on that page that seems to work:
http://www.ussc.gov/ United States Sentencing Commission.
Thank you all for the useful links.
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|April 12, 2014, 11:03 AM
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My favorite link!
Here is a link that I use all the time, it has a ton of PROPERLY CITED statistics on gun control. The site (as you can infer from its name) is unbiased and covers all the controversial topics, not just guns. Please, when stating an argument use the proper citations, this site makes it easy. We can all rattle off numbers to prove gun control does not work but its easy for an anti-gunner to derail your argument if you don't provide a proper citation, especially when debating online.
So, use this like and use the numbers, but when you do make sure you include the original source citation.
Here it is: http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp
|September 4, 2014, 02:38 PM
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Here's a new one for those of us who run into people who love pointing to the UK stats after their ban...
I started here which had a chart that cited this UK Government report
Their gun ban was in 1997.
Their rate just before the ban was hovering around 11 per 1,000,000 people (IMPORTANT! They report in per million, NOT per HUNDRED THOUSAND like the US does. Make sure you convert if you compare) After the ban, it spiked all the way up to a high of 17.9 before edging back down to hovering around 11 in 2010/2011. So they banned guns to get a 10 year spike in homicides, and then returning the same homicide rate.
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Checked with staff and they said it would likely be best to post this here. This is a good thread. I don't know why it went dormant.
This is a very informative site which keeps abreast of new rulings, etc. and is geared to law enforcement.
I found it while researching RODRIGUEZ v. UNITED STATES -- 000 U.S. 13-9972 (2015) which is a ruling all of us should stick in our memory banks for future reference.
The site in question is http://caselaw4cops.net/
Gun Control: The premise that a woman found in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is morally superior to allowing that same woman to defend her life with a firearm.
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Annie Hall (US - BD RA)
Jonathan revisits his favourite Woody Allen film in high definition..
Alvy Singer (Allen) is one of Manhattan's most brilliant comedians, but when it comes to romance, his delivery needs a little work. Introduced by his best friend, Rob (Tony Roberts), Alvy falls in love with the ditzy but delightful nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). When Alvy's own insecurities sabotage the affair, Annie is forced to leave Alvy for a new life - and lover (Paul Simon) - in Los Angeles. Knowing he may have lost Annie forever, Alvy's willing to go to any lengths - even driving L.A.'s freeways - to recapture the only thing that ever mattered... true love. (From the Fox synopsis)
Woody Allen is arguably the most prolific director of all time. The man simply cannot stop making movies, and from the look of it he isn't quitting anytime soon. There is an incredible range between some of his films, and while they vary in quality I've always found something that I like in every one of his motion pictures. He has an approach and a senesibility to his characters that may have tried to imitate and failed. With the recent success of his Oscar-nominated film Midnight in Paris, this is a perfect opportunity to look back at some highlights from his career. Annie Hall is a popular choice for Allen's greatest film (alongside Manhattan which was also recently released), and it is very easy to see why. I consider it a personal favourite. It features him at the height of his unique sense of neurotic sense of humour, insights about modern relationships (which apply today just as well as they did in 1977) and observations on Jewish identity in the modern world.
What separates Annie Hall from other comedies of the time was its bold originality and unrelenting humour. He finds a lot of laughs in negativity and cultural critiquing that weren't the norm for comedy at the time, and there's something awfully contagious about it. It has inspired countless films. Even just the other day I was watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and realized the scene where the two leads are calling out celebrity lookalikes in a bar came straight out of the boardwalk scene from Annie Hall. He uses a variety of techniques like split screens, breaking the fourth wall, isolated narrations and clever crossovers that were totally unique at the time. There's even a brief animated bit. Narrative and the medium of film itself became a tool for Allen to exercise his unique sense of humour, and that was never more true than it was in Annie Hall. Despite all of his goofy antics, Allen and Keaton as the two leads are completely memorable in their own right. They feel real. Maybe because their movie characters reflected their own personal relationship. But regardless of their lives outside the film, it holds up as a cinematic experience and each time I revisit the film there is a warm familiarity to them. I could go on praising the film, but chances are by now you've already seen Annie Hall and have your own opinion on it, so before I go any further let's take a look at how this new Blu-ray holds up.
Annie Hall never saw an impressive release in the age of DVD's, and the only version of it that exists on the format was an atrocious non-anamorphic transfer with an orange appearance. Luckily Fox has done right by this title and released it on Blu-ray without any hiccups. As you can see from the comparison caps, the orange hue is gone and the colours look far more natural. The picture is also opened up to the intended 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Detail is significantly improved. As expected given the film's age, there is a very noticeable layer of grain over the image that keeps it looking like a nice 35 mm print without ever being too harsh. There are distracting damage marks and instances of dirt scattered about the film, but they're brief and easy to overlook. Digital artefacts are nowhere to be found. Thankfully Fox saw it fit to put this featureless disc on a BD-50 and give the film the high bit rate it deserves. As a result I didn't see any side effects of compression. Every fault is inherent to the age and format of the movie.
Fox has released Annie Hall on Blu-ray with a DTS-HD Master Audio track in monaural sound. Personally I'm not often impressed with old film soundtracks being remixed into 5.1 or 7.1, so the choice to stick with the original monaural mix didn't concern me in the slightest. As with any mono track, all the sound is kept to the front of the room, and that's fine. Annie Hall is not a film of technical achievement, and that is most true in the sound department. Scene after scene it features characters just talking. It's entirely script driven, so there was no need for a fancy surround mix. The only purpose I could see one serving is the rumbling effect of living in a house under a roller coaster. Dialogue levels, the real focus of this track, are just fine. They're noticeably more crisp than the old DVD.
Only a Theatrical Trailer in HD. Woody Allen has gone on record saying he doesn't care for special features, so this should come as no surprise.
Annie Hall hasn't aged a day. It's humour and observations about modern relationships are as relevant today as they ever were. For my money it's one of the greatest comedies of all time. Fox has given the film an impressive 1080p transfer that washes away all terrible memories of the old non-anamorphic DVD, and the lossless monaural audio track is strong and befitting. As expected with a Woody Allen release, there are no special features to be found on the disc aside from a theatrical trailer.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
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Didn't think much of this one when I saw it, but it was long ago - can't even remember whether I caught Sigourney Weaver's cameo or not...
I wonder when MGM will release Allen's Orion catalogue. Can't wait to see his very best, Another Woman, on Blu.
I wonder when MGM will release Allen's Orion catalogue. Can't wait to see his very best, Another Woman, on Blu.
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The Blu looks quite a bit cooler than the DVD. I wonder if that is more in keeping with the original release?
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Disc Details
Release Date: 24th January 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 English, Dolby Digital 1.0 English, Dolby Digital 1.0 Spanish, Dolby Digital 1.0 French, Dolby Digital 1.0 Portuguese, Dolby Digital 1.0 Italian, Dolby Digital 1.0 German, Dolby Digital 1.0 Catalan
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Polish
Extras: Theatrical Trailer
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Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Romance
Length: 93 minutes
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