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Why do expert athletes often appear to have ' all the time in the world ' to respond in highly time constrained sports, while novices appear challenged by rapid speed of play? This distinction between experts and their less-skilled counterparts has been at the heart of discussion in the sports perception literature in recent years and the vast majority of this research has revealed experts to be superior at anticipating the outcome of opponents' actions (e.g., Abernethy Zawi, 2007). The ability to anticipate or "predict" an upcoming shot in tennis, or the direction of a penalty kick in football prior to unambiguous ball flight information becoming available (i.e., before ball-foot or ball-racket contact) affords players with crucial time to dedicate to both getting to and preparing for an effective response.
The extra time offered via successful anticipation is not only advantageous, but may also be essential in circumstances where the time taken to process and respond to a stimulus exceeds the ball-flight time. For tasks such as the tennis serve for instance, Abernethy (1991) calculated that a ball travelling at 40-45m/s will result in a receiver having as little as 500ms (half a second) to a) judge the speed and direction of the ball, b) move and get in the right position for the return, c) decide where to hit the return shot and d) prepare for and execute the stroke needed for the desired return. On this basis, the ability to accurately anticipate opponents' intentions during the early stages of their shot preparation is a requisite skill that separates "great" athletes from "good" athletes.
In an attempt to identify the critical sources of information needed to make effective anticipatory judgements, researchers have typically used temporal occlusion (i.e., video clips that are cut off at various points in an opponent's action sequence) or spatial occlusion paradigms (i.e., video clips where sections of the display are hidden) as well as visual search techniques in their studies. The findings from such studies have found that experts utilise advanced visual cues displayed in an opponent's preparatory movements that are otherwise overlooked by novices (e.g. Jackson and Mogan, 2007; Ward, Williams and Bennett 2002). In other words, experts identify with the most information rich areas, direct their attention appropriately, and extract meaning from these areas more efficiently and effectively than novices (Mann, Williams, Ward Janelle, 2007).
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It seems like Thanksgiving was just yesterday, so how can Christmas be next week? I love hosting the annual Thanksgiving/Christmas meals, but it can take a week for me to recover. Five years ago I had no idea that an RA diagnosis would affect everything I do. In combatting this disease, I am always trying to find ways to make holidays fun and not quite so exhausting.
Through a weird quirk of the calendar, I'm hosting both holidays this year. Searching for a way to survive, my quest was three-fold:
- simplify the menu
- simplify the food prep
- simplify clean-up
I'm happy to report that everyone enjoyed our simplified Thanksgiving. Changes to the menu were long overdue. After all, do we really need both turkey and ham? Dinner rolls and stuffing? No. Nutritionally, we can do better than the standard fare. Also, I try to accommodate everybody's dietary restrictions: one diabetic, two gluten-free, a wide variety of food allergies including dairy, soy, onions, chicken eggs, pork, peanuts, banana, and avocado. The pared-down menu was still quite a feast:
- turkey
- mashed potatoes
- green salad
- veggie tray with lots of olives
- cranberry sauce
- corn gravy
- dinner rolls
- apple, pumpkin, and pecan pie
With the simplified menu, I next addressed food prep. This part I've been working on for a few years and have gotten good at having everybody help. One person was assigned to bring a green salad, another was asked to bring a veggie tray, and the person who eats GF was in charge of bringing gluten-free dinner rolls. The person who requested pecan pie was asked to bring it. Aside from the $70 for specialty flours for the GF dinner rolls, everyone was happy with the way things worked out.
That left only a few things for me to cook. The week prior to Thanksgiving, I checked the pantry to ensure that all the ingredients were there (unlike today, when I had to stop in the middle of my pie preparation and send someone to the grocery store for ginger and lard). On Sunday morning (four days before Thanksgiving) I prepared the cranberry sauce. We used it in place of syrup on our hotcakes Sunday, then refrigerated the rest for Thanksgiving (it's much tastier over turkey than gravy). On Monday I moved the frozen turkey into the ice chest to thaw. I know the powers that be claim this should take place in the refrigerator, but I don't have space in my refrigerator and the ice chest works perfectly. Two days before the holiday, I baked pies: three pumpkin pies (with gluten-free pie crust) and four apple pies (also GF). The day before the big day I tried to rest so that I could enjoy my company on the big day. In the past, I boiled the potatoes and put them through a ricer so they could just be warmed, but in the spirit of simplifying, I now used boxed mashed potatoes. Part of me feels guilty about this because I usually do everything from scratch, but Safeway's store-brand mashed potatoes in a box don't contain dairy or soy, and it works for our family. Doing a little bit each day spread the work out, and there wasn't much to be done on the big day.
When the holiday arrived, about 8 a.m. I put the turkey in to roast so it would be done about noon. Next I put the corn gravy on to cook (it's the only thing that wasn't dairy-free, and this year I made a small batch with coconut milk for those who can't tolerate cream). While the turkey and corn cooked, I cleaned the kitchen. A spotless kitchen before the meal made after-dinner cleanup much easier. When the turkey came out of the oven, I reheated the cranberry sauce and made the mashed potatoes while the turkey carver separated meat from bone.
The thing that saved the largest amount of work was serving the meal buffet style. We seat nearly twenty people, so need two tables. In the past, I've had two serving dishes for everything so that both tables can be set completely. That's a lot of work to set the food out, and double clean-up when the meal is over. There were significantly fewer serving dishes to deal with this year. I arranged all the food on the kitchen counters, and people filled their plates in the kitchen, then moved into the dining room to sit at a table to eat.
Not only was serving easier, so was clean-up! Instead of the 90 minute clean-up we usually face, all the leftovers were put away and the dishwasher was loaded within half an hour. I cut a whole hour off the clean-up time, and got to spend that time relaxing and visiting with friends and family.
This was our first year with a gluten-free Thanksgiving, and I was concerned that it would be difficult. Instead, it was easy. Everyone had plenty to eat, nobody felt deprived, and simplifying the work let us have more time to enjoy one another's company.

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- 1 Partitioning storages for Backup and Reuse/Recrawling
Partitioning storages for Backup and Reuse/Recrawling
Use case.
The requirement is that after each DFP it should be possible to store records in a separate partition that can be accessed later. Hence every record will have multiple versions each saved to it's partition. This can be needed in several cases:
- Backup some particular state of data, eg. some partition;
- If DFP process fails it will be possible to continue processing from one of the previously saved states;
- Partitions can be used for reusing existing data, for example when some DFP process must be applied in different workflows and takes a lot of time to complete it will be possible to run it only once and later use already processed data saved to partition.
Changes in XML and Bin storage.
To support partitioning both XML- and Bin- storages must be able to store data to partitions and load data from partitions. Thus XML- and Bin- storage APIs should be extended in such way that partition information will be accepted as an additional parameter when saving or loading data. With binstorage, binary attachments can have quite a big size, thus if attachment wasn't changed from one partition to another, it's worth not to copy attachment's data for each partition but store only reference to actual attachment. For example, methods that manage attachments as streams should be extended to:
store(Id, InputStream, Partition); fetchAsStream(Id, Partition);
Also it should be possible to obtain data from the default (latest) partition when no partition information is provided. So fetchAsStream(Id) should return attachment saved to the latest partition.
Partitioning configuration and changes in Blackboard API.
Partition information (partition name) can be configured into Listener Rule. There are following ways of how to pass partition information:
1. Partition information is passed as a record Id property.
Listener gets record from the queue, and sets partition information to the record's Id property. Blackboard uses partition information in load and commit operations. In this case no significant changes are required to the blackboard API because partition information is encapsulated into record Id. Blackboard should be only extended to support loading and committing records to particular partitions:
load(Id, Partition) commit(Id, Partition)
2. Partition information is passed separately from record as a JMS property.
Listener reads JMS property from the queue and makes it available for other components that will use blackboard (like processing). In this case there are two possibilities:
- record is loaded (and committed) to storages using partition information. After that record can be accessed by Id from the internal blackboard cache, until commit is invoked. Implementing this way will require first to solve problems when some process wants to access already committed record, that exist now. After those problems get solved, the only changes required for blackboard API will be to implement load and commit operations that handle partitions.
- all methods from blackboard API should be duplicated to handle partition information as a second parameter. In this case if record is missing into internal blackboard cache, it can be first loaded from storages using provided partition information. This way eliminates problems mentioned above but requires a lot of modifications to blackboard API to handle partition information in every method:
createLiteral(Id) createLiteral(Id, Partition) createAnnotation(Id) createAnnotation(Id, Partition) ...
The first option seems to be more convenient and easy to implement because it allows to keep partition information directly into the record, thus easily pass and receive it between distributed components and requires almost no blackboard API modifications.
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Its m-threads dangerous.
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It's not effective.
What about getting partition interface reference and after that working with partition on the old manner?
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Hangout 2013
Gulf Shores, AL
May 18, 2013
With Kings of Leon warming the stage up as the Friday night headliner and Stevie Wonder slated to close festivities down on the Main Stage Sunday, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were in primed for a big night Saturday night with a two-hour slot following supporting sets from the Black Crowes, Gov't Mule and Shoves & Rope.
Tom and the guys arrived to the festival site a few hours before showtime, mingling backstage and taking in the gorgeous beachfront views of the Gulf of Mexico. Mike and Steve played some ping-pong, and Benmont visited with family and friends. Just before taking the stage, Tom and the guys spent a few minutes with Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followill of Kings of Leon, the young Tennessee rockers elated to meet their long-time heroes.
"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" is quickly becoming the ideal show opener that Tom and the band envisioned in rehearsals, and this particular version of The Byrds' classic was huge and high-energy. The next four songs – "Love Is A Long Road," "I Won't Back Down," "You Wreck Me" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" – were the loudest sing-a-longs these ears have ever heard with 40,000-plus harmonizing with Tom. "I Just Want To Make Love To You" gave Scott a chance to shine, taking an extended harmonica solo on the Muddy Waters cover. "Friend of the Devil" found Tom taking a turn on the harmonica himself, giving the Grateful Dead chestnut a cool, countrier feel for its 2013 summer tour debut having not been played since the 1997 Fillmore residency. "You're So Bad" rocked and brought the crowd vocals back, which peaked for "Refugee" and "Runnin' Down A Dream." The band was all smiles on the sidestage during the break before the encore, basking in the applause from the awaiting audience. The crowd erupted in cheers as the band returned to the stage, and only grew louder as Mike played the iconic riff to open "Don't Come Around Here No More." "American Girl" brought the decibel level to a frenzied apex, topped only by the cheer the band received upon bowing at the lip of the stage before exiting on their way to the Big Apple!
New York, we're ready for the Beacon! Keep checking back for more from the 2013 Summer Tour!
Set List:
Rock & Roll Star
Love Is A Long Road
I Won't Back Down
You Wreck Me
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Good Enough
Free Fallin'
Woman In Love
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Tweeter And The Monkey Man
Friend of the Devil
Learning to Fly
Yer So Bad
I Should Have Known It
Runnin' Down A Dream
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American Girl


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News and notes from Sunday's conference call with Raiders coach Tom Cable a day after a 45-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints:
— In the aftermath of Saturday's disaster, veteran defensive end Greg Ellis openly wondered if his teammates were taking their profession seriously enough as in getting the proper rest and being physically and mentally prepared to play a game.
"Guys, you can't stay out all night. Can't expect to come in here and just turn it on," Ellis said. "This isn't high school or college football. This is the best of the best in the NFL. So you've got to do the small things that maybe you didn't have to do in college."
Cable said he wasn't aware of any raging Friday night parties that included his players, but conceded he didn't know there weren't any, either.
"The one thing as a coach that you're always leery of is breaking camp because then they get home, they don't have curfew, don't have those kinds of things, and so as grown men we've got to handle those distractions, and to take care of our bodies and stay focused on what we're trying to do," Cable said.
— Probably unfair to single out Mario Henderson, but on his Twitter page in recent days he detailed a Burger King binge that astute readers figured out totaled more than 6,400 calories, and in a recent tweet said he ate an entire box of Frosted Flakes the morning of the Saints game. All after being serious about his diet for six months in preparing to become the team's left tackle.
— Cable wasn't calling the Saints game a setback, but it sure wasn't a step in the right direction, either.
"We're looking at the film hard, obviously," Cable said. "We just reverted to a lot of old bad habits in a couple of areas. So (we) just have to think that through and make some good decisions here in the next 24 hours as to the right approach for this week."
At the end of last season, in the afterglow of two surprising wins to close the season, Cable spoke of working to change the losing culture of the locker room and said, "I thought it was a mouse when I took over but it really was an elephant."
Cable sounded surprised that Dumbo has returned.
"The only good thing here is it didn't count against us, but there's much to learn from it and you've got to make that a good thing," Cable said. "We were making progress in a number of areas, and to revert back, I think everyone's going to take notice of that . . . it's a tough lesson. It's ridiculous to have to go through it, but we did. So now we've got to approach it, `This is what it is, there ain't no getting around this. And we're going to go from here in terms of staying the course and keeping up with the investment that we've put forth."
— Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, after catching an opening slant for 12 yards, had two other passes thrown his way and no receptions despite playing well into the third quarter. Cable said it is because the Saints were leaning toward him in coverage, something he anticipates will happen with every team on the schedule."
— Whatever the Raiders' problems were on defense, Cable said they didn't include Tommy Kelly.
"It would not be fair for anyone to really question or devalue what he's done the last two weeks," Cable said. "They're really not able to run to his side if you look at it."
— Cable was non-committal regarding the future of Terdell Sands while talking up the weekly improvement of Desmond Bryant, the undrafted free agent out of Harvard.
"He continues to do it. He continues to get better. He's moving to the football, had one sack, missed another one," Cable said. "He's got the big body, he's got the want-to, and he's allowing his coach to take him where he's trying to go."
Cable was asked if it was the end of the line for Sands as a Raider.
"I don't know that yet. It's too early for all that," Cable said. "It's just where we were at in terms of rotation. We didn't expect to play the first group as long as we did in the second half. Butwe had to, and bsaed on the rotation and the way it all worked out, (we) just ran out of time."
— According to a year-old salary roster, Sands is due a $1.3 million salary this year and was scheduled to receive a $1.9 million roster bonus which he may have already been paid. The Raiders don't get that back.
— If Jonathan Holland's 43-yard touchdown reception wowed Cable, he was keeping his enthusiasm under wraps.
"There's a lot of competition and he was fortunate to make a guy miss there," Cable said. "That's what you expect your receivers to do."
— No word yet regarding Saturday's new injuries, including a "chip fracture" to the left wrist of Nnamdi Asomugha and a stinger sustained by safety Rashad Baker. Javon Walker received limited play because Cable said they wanted to ease him back in."
— A pretty shaky performance from the offensive line overall, with the Raiders continuing to get calls for illegal formations and false starts.
"The illegal formations, we have had that issue through all three games where the tackle has not been far enough up on the line of scrimmage and it's ben addressed and it will continue to be addressed," Cable said. "The false starts, that's just a lack of focus of focus."
Offensive lineman, Cornell Green in particular, have been nailed for illegal formations while trying to create extra space to deal with a speed rusher on a passing down.
— The Raiders have just two practices before a Wednesday walkthrough and leaving for Seattle, where they play Thursday night. The first roster cut down to 75 is Tuesday and some players could be released Monday.


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Two Santa Rosa men were arrested Monday afternoon in connection with a week-old home invasion robbery involving the theft of marijuana from a northwest Santa Rosa home, police said.
William Kammerer, 23, and William Pope Jr., 24, are suspected of assaulting another man after forcing their way into his Autumn Walk Drive home near San Miguel and Waltzer Roads on Feb. 5, police Sgt. Dave Linscomb said.
Kammerer, an ex-felon, reportedly held the victim at gunpoint while Pope rifled through the house and took a large quantity of manicured marijuana, police said.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was beaten up but not seriously injured, Linscomb said. A second man who was visiting him at the time of the home invasion was not hurt, he said.
In addition to the unknown quantity of marijuana stolen, police found several pounds of pot at the victim's residence, perhaps left behind because the suspects hadn't found it, as well as drug paraphernalia, police said.
Investigators are scrutinizing the victim's activities to determine if he was running a drug-dealing operation, Linscomb said.
The home invasion occurred the same day that three men were gunned down in a rural Forestville home during a suspected marijuana sale that has highlighted the frequent links between criminal violence and marijuana.
The Santa Rosa robbery occurred in broad daylight, around 3:30 p.m., and the culprits left soon afterward, police said. But the victim did not immediately report the incident to police, who did not make it public for investigative reasons, Linscomb said.
Police had leads connecting Kammerer to the case fairly early, and on Monday served a search warrant at his Burt Street home, where they recovered more than 100 pounds of dried marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a loaded firearm, Linscomb said.
Kammerer, who has a previous robbery on his record, was arrested on suspicion of robbery. Pope was arrested and booked on suspicion of robbery at his home on nearby Santa Rosa Avenue, Linscomb said. Both were released from jail after posting bail Monday night, jail personnel said.
Both men are to make their first court appearances Friday. Authorities reportedly are seeking additional charges again Kammerer for unlawful possession of a handgun by an ex-felon and suspected possession of marijuana for sale, police said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the police department's violent crimes investigation team at 543-3590.
You can reach Staff Writer Mary Callahan at 521-5249 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Football legend Johan Cruyff has spoken out on Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's bids to win the Ballon d'Or, and discussed Pep Guardiola as well as his successor at Barcelona, Tito Vilanova.
Opinions are divided as to who should be crowned the world's best player for 2012, and the Dutch legend tossed his hat into the ring and offered his views during the presentation of his new book Football. My Philosophy.
"One says, the other thinks. Everyone wants a trophy and will be very proud to have it. Those types of awards are subjective, it's what, in general, the people like.
"Messi is very small and what he does with his feet is the same as what a child does and it's magnificent. The best thing to do with Messi is to put him forward, not to the side.
"If you go on the attack and have a very attacking team, space is very limited. High quality players move like Messi does and like Romario did."
The 65-year-old also spoke about the reasons behind Barcelona's achievements in recent campaigns.
"The number of players in the squad and its function is important. The important thing is that each player in the Barcelona team has quality. If you see [David] Villa, [Christian] Tello or Pedro [Rodriguez] there is competition and that can yield more.
"Barcelona are creating many goals and that's because everyone is doing their role and so it doesn't matter who scores. Now almost everyone is scoring goals."
The eight-time Eredivisie winner also spoke about former Barca coach Pep Guardiola and his successor Tito Vilanova.
"Guardiola has been a quality tactician. There is a little difference between Pep and Tito, though," he added. "Tito has a team that has been firing, but he faces the difficulty of surpassing someone who was very good.
"He'll have to face it, so that the day doesn't come where things aren't going so well. The tactician's role is not to teach football to Messi, because Messi is Tito's best player.
"What's important is that he [Messi] is happy, like everyone else, and Tito is doing that very well.
Finally, Cruyff launched a thinly-veiled attack on coaches like Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, who did not have successful careers as players.
"To be a good coach you must have been a good player. You have many things [as a coach] which are learned as a player. For example, to press and keep up the team work on the field."


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Man assaulted in robbery try outside Manchester variety store
December 19. 2012 1:35PM
MANCHESTER - Three assailants zapped a man with a stun gun and pistol-whipped him when he fought back in a robbery attempt Tuesday night behind Beechmont Market.
Police learned of the incident in an 11:40 p.m. call from the emergency room at the Elliot Hospital where the 21-year-old man sought treatment for head and chest injuries.
He told investigators he parked behind the 609 S. Beech St. market about an hour earlier and went into the store. When he came out and headed back to his car, he said three men attacked him. One put a stun gun to the side of his neck, charging it several times, which knocked him off his feet.
He tried to fight back and another man hit him in the head with the butt of a handgun.
During the assault, the man said the robbers were demanding his belongings and trying to pull off a gold chain he had around his neck. They fled without getting anything, however, apparently startled by the man's girlfriend who was in the parked car and, seeing the attack, got out to help.
The robbers are described as heavyset white men in their 20s, each about 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-9. They fled in a maroon, four-door hatchback with Massachusetts license plates.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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Bank, excavating company fined
A bank and an excavating company have been ordered to jointly pay a $5,000 penalty for an illegal disposal and open burning in the northern Iowa town of Lake Mills.
The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources cited Manufacturers Bank & Trust Co. and Rognes Bros. Excavating Inc., both of Lake Mills.
The department says the bank hired Rognes Bros. to clean up a property it owned in Joice.
The department says that after complaints about black smoke coming from the property in July, a department investigator discovered two pits containing burning debris.
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LONDON (AP) — When British collector Martin Lang submitted one of his paintings to a French committee, he was hoping to find out if it was an authentic work by Marc Chagall.
But not only did the Chagall Committee declare the painting a forgery, it said Lang's painting should be burned under strict French laws that protect artists' works.
Lang, 63, said Monday he was frustrated with the decision but he still hopes the painting will be returned to him.
Describing his shock at the ruling, Lang said: "It was just total disbelief that they would want to destroy it."
"I'm not attacking the committee — I just want them to please reconsider. They could just mark it unoriginal and send it back," he told The Associated Press.
The businessman bought the watercolor of a reclining nude woman for 100,000 pounds in 1992 from a London-based art consultant. The work was not authenticated, but it was believed to be a Chagall dating from around 1909 to 1910.
Lang's son recently called in experts from a BBC show about forgeries to determine if it was real. According to the BBC, the painting surfaced in Russia after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union and was offered to Lang at a fraction of its value.
The painting was eventually sent to the Chagall Committee in Paris for a final ruling. The committee — run by the Russian-born artist's grandchildren to protect his legacy — ruled it was a fake and said it would be destroyed under French law.
Lang said he did not understand why art collectors like him should be punished for forgeries.
"It seems to be dissuading honest people from coming forward to have their art verified. It seems to be the wrong way of doing it," Lang, a property developer from the northern city of Leeds, told the BBC.
The Chagall Committee declined to discuss the case Monday.
But one expert, Francois Duret-Robert, author of "The Law of the Art Market," said that the destruction of a counterfeit painting is not only legal in France but expected. He said an artist's heirs have the right in France to destroy a work that is officially deemed counterfeit under what is called "the moral law of the artist."
"You could say that a forgery is an infringement on an artist's work," Duret-Robert explained, adding that French law is possibly the world's strictest when it comes to protecting the works of painters and sculptors.
A judge ruling on the case could decide upon other options, however, including clearly erasing the forged signature and marking the work as counterfeit or passing it along to a museum to help detect future forgeries.
Most committees judging artworks for authenticity ask the owner to sign a contract acknowledging they understand that their possessions could be destroyed if declared a forgery, said Pierre Valentin, a lawyer specializing in advising art collectors.
But in Lang's case, the Chagall Committee apparently didn't make that clear, he said.
"Some contracts are more explicit. I haven't seen this contract, but the paragraph was read to me and it's not at all explicit," said Valentin, a London-based lawyer at the firm Constantine Cannon. "That's really naughty. It should be absolutely clear."
Similar cases in the past suggest that Lang stands a slim chance of getting his painting back.
Two owners who submitted art thought to be by Joan Miro to the Miro Committee in Paris sued when their artwork was destroyed but both lost their cases, Valentin said.
Chagall, who died in 1985, was one of the most influential modernist painters and his work often sells for millions of dollars.
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Promised Land. (No Ebert rating.) Matt Damon is the evil oil and gas guy and John Krasinski doesnt want him coming in and ruining his town no matter what. Rated R.
Django Unchained. (No Ebert rating) Tarantinos latest bloodbath has Jamie Foxx as an ex-slave who returns to the plantation owned by Leo DiCaprio to free his wife from bondage. If only this had actually happened. Rated R.
Parental Guidance. (No Ebert rating) Billy Crystal and Bette Midler are grandparents who have their own ideas about how to raise their ultra-modern grandkids when they get baby-sitting duty. This sounds just awful. Rated PG.
Jack Reacher. (No Ebert rating.) A military sniper who shot five random victims says he didnt do it and Tom Cruise says so, too. So look out, crooks. Rated PG-13.
This is 40. (No Ebert rating.) They made a sequel to Knocked Up and this is it. If you dont know what Knocked Up was, so much the better. Rated R.
The Guilt Trip. (No Ebert rating) Seth Rogan is an inventor who for some reason takes his mom (Barbra Streisand) with him on a road trip to hawk the thing nationwide. Imagine a few thousand miles in a car with Streisand and you get the gist of this one. Rated PG-13.
Monsters, Inc. HHH It was re-released in 3-D, but this is the 2-D version. So I guess its just a re-release now. Same movie, though, in case youve been unable to find it for the last 12 years. Rated G.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. (In standard format and digital 3-D with surcharge; no Ebert rating.) In which we meet Bilbo, Gandalf and Gollum; kind of like a Before They Were Rock Stars for the Lord of the Rings crowd. Rated PG-13.
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CASCADE LOCKS - Citing "defamation, intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress and constitutional violations," former fire chief Jeff Pricher said he plans to file suit against the City of Cascade Locks.
Pricher's attorney, Tonyia Brady of Salem, notified the city administration by letter Sept. 8, stating, "This letter is intended to be a Tort Claims Notice pursuant to Oregon law."
City interim administrator Paul Koch and city attorney Alex Sosnkowski declined comment on the pending legal action.
Pricher resigned July 11 after months of controversy over budget deficits, and resulting cuts, in the city's emergency services budget. In the weeks following his departure, nine of the department's volunteer firefighters resigned or asked for leave of absence. Mutual aid agreements between Cascade Locks and other fire districts in the county were terminated on Aug. 19.
The city, and acting fire chief Jess Zerfing, are working with the county Fire Defense Board to restore the mutual aid agreements.
Following Pricher's resignation, the fire board had notified the city on July 12 that it would terminate the agreements, citing lack of a fire chief and insufficient emergency response qualifications.
Pricher was hired in February 2005 as paramedic and ambulance director, and later promoted to chief and fire marshal.
Pricher's departure from the city led, in part, to the pending recall election against Mayor George Fischer and Council members Kevin Benson, Don Haight and Tiffany Pruit, by the group Five Alarm Recall.
(That recall is on the Sept. 20 ballot - details, page right - along with the proposed recall of Lance Masters, which is not supported by the Five Alarm organization.)
At Monday night's City Council meeting, Sosnkowski gave a brief update on the tort claim notice, stating that it informs the city that the complainant reserves the right to file a lawsuit within six months of events that contributed to any allegations.
She added that she has instructed city staff to retain all records pertaining to the issues under the lawsuit, including "not destroying any records that would otherwise be allowed to be destroyed under Oregon public records law."
Brady's letter states that when Pricher began his tenure as chief, "the fire department was disorganized and most volunteers lacked important certifications.
"During Mr. Pricher's tenure, every firefighter obtained their state and national certifications, there were nine EMTs, he brought grant money to the city and significantly improved the fire department's infrastructure, including a new fire station, engine and communications system.
"In spite of that good performance, the city cut Mr. Pricher's pay, forced him to resign, on July 11, 2011."
Brady charges that in two meetings this year (Feb. 7 and June 13) the council discussed sensitive employee personnel matters in public session, and wrongfully accused Pricher of malfeasance and misappropriation of funds.
"The poor treatment of Mr. Pricher intensified after he brought up to City leaders and employees the fact that the Mayor and another councilor could not legally add structures to a KOA campground without the appropriate permits. As a result of that complaint, Mr. Pricher was retaliated against, had his pay reduced, and was forced to resign."
Brady said Tuesday, "We're obviously under the impression that what's happening in Cascade Locks city government is very troubling. This letter essentially puts the public entity on notice, but our hope is we don't have to proceed with the lawsuit or trial."
She added that "some sort of settlement discussion between the city and my client," would be the alternative. Brady said, "We haven't had any discussion of settlement terms, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly what the client is looking for."
Pricher acknowledged that he acted as "whistleblower" when he asked city elected officials about improvements made without permits to the KOA campground owned by Council Member Kevin Benson.
Pricher said he made inquiries in his authority as fire marshal, to ensure that all new construction includes sufficient water supply and fire suppression access, and "that any construction that happens is done with a permit process."
In the case of the addition of two structures at KOA, Pricher said, "It was pretty evident there was building going on that had no permits."
When asked about the timing of the Tort Claim notice, Pricher said Tuesday that his name was cited by one of the council members up for recall in a recall rebuttal statement. Those statements appear on the ballot and were published in the Sept. 7 edition of the Hood River News.
"I'm not the one being recalled," Pricher said.
"For those people who received ballots in the mail, you'll notice in the rebuttal statements of people being recalled I was named individually," he said.
Pricher referred to Don Haight's rebuttal, which includes this statement: "Why did the last council agree to (former administrator Bernard) Seeger's request for a clause in his resignation which exempted him from any wrongdoings? He quit, rather than face budget committee and council questions. A character flaw? (John) Morgan, city planner, and Jeff Pricher also quit rather than to answer questions."
Pricher said, "I have nothing to do with other people being recalled. For an individual to include me in something like that is completely inappropriate. This type of mudslinging needs to stop."
Pricher said of the disagreements that led to his departure in July, "It all comes down to a difference of opinion.
"There's a couple of camps, and unfortunately the progress between the two camps has not been successful in terms of communication," Pricher said.
"I find it difficult to imagine that I am the reason for the undoing of the financial status of the city when I have no access to making large financial decisions. I wasn't the guy who made the decision to build a new fire hall or buy a new engine. I'm a recommending guy."
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Remembering Greg Hall, 1946–2009
By Stephen Kessler
WHEN SOMEONE close to you dies, it's always strange, even if they were old and in poor health, and you knew it was coming. When the deceased is a longtime friend, an exact contemporary and a peer in your shared obscure line of work, someone you spoke with over the phone the day before and who was no drunker than usual and otherwise in good health as far as you knew—when he is suddenly found dead in his San Jose cottage, apparently of a heart attack, at 62, your grief and disbelief are of a different order of magnitude.
Greg Hall, at one time one of the most prodigiously gifted poets in this area, unexpectedly left this world last Tuesday, June 23. He had phoned me Monday, and we'd spoken for maybe a half hour about everything and nothing—that is, mostly about poetry in one manifestation or another, about the small miracle that we and a few friends were still doing it after all this time, about the curious consolation it is to devote one's life to such a marginal yet essential mode of creation.
In the 1970s, Hall was a star, alternately inspiring and exasperating fellow poets with his brilliant imagination, his gentleness, his humility and his wit. I was certainly one who wondered, in the competitive way of poets, how I might ever write poems so brimming with reality and a seemingly effortless way of making the wildest connections and juxtapositions—as in "Juan Marichal's left foot sinks over the Golden Gate," an image of the high-kicking delivery of the great Giants pitcher as an event as cosmic as the setting sun—seem completely natural and inevitable.
Working in those days on a series of manual portable typewriters, later on one computer or another, Hall went through periods of self-doubt or spiritual conversion often enough to discard writings that he no longer believed in, and surely threw away more excellent original poems than most poets write in a lifetime. He was not attached to the material world, his own works included. He was constantly recycling his books and music, living in tiny cottages in Santa Cruz or spare apartments in San Jose or Campbell, working in hospitals or nursing homes as an orderly, a technician, an administrator, and on his own time constantly reading a vast range of books—poetry, history, philosophy, fiction, biography—and writing, writing, writing.
He was one of those rare poets not only totally authentic in his devotion to the art but, even rarer, utterly indifferent to public recognition. He had no ambition to publish. In 40 years he put out just two small collections from small presses (Flame People from Santa Cruz's Green Horse Press and Inamorata from Tollbooth Press in Redwood City) and hardly ever appeared in magazines (exceptions include Silicon Valley's Montserrat Review and my own Redwood Coast Review and Alcatraz). His only ambition was to serve his muses: poetry, music, art, alcohol and cigarettes.
That he lived as long as he did under the circumstances is an accomplishment in itself.
That he lived uncorrupted by the culture of publishing yet generously and successfully shared his work with a diverse circle of friends and colleagues, and that the work itself sustained over four decades, through all its changes and variations, a uniquely integral expression of his mystery-smitten spirit, is even more worthy of admiration.
Poetry has lost one of its truest souls, and hardly anyone will ever know.
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There is another me a mystery me watching myself live and die —Greg Hall
San Jose poet Greg Hall will be remembered in a memorial Sunday, July 19, at 6pm at WORKS/San Jose Gallery, 451 S. First St., San Jose.
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The City Council Tuesday night gave preliminary approval to a pair of ordinances making it illegal to solicit money from motorists while standing in the street, walking in and out of traffic or standing on a traffic island.
By an 8-2 vote, the council agreed to advertise the ordinances, which target so-called "aggressive" panhandlers who solicit money while walking in and out of traffic at busy intersections. They also put an end to so-called "tag days" — a longstanding practice in the city in which representatives of charitable organizations and youth sports groups solicit donations from motorists at intersections.
Supporters of the ordinances said they are all about public safety and are not meant to infringe on anyone's constitutional rights to free speech.
Opponents, meanwhile, argued that the ordinances are nothing more than a Band-Aid approach to addressing the root causes of panhandling and will do little to solve the overall problem of homelessness.
Those who voted to advertise the ordinances were District 1 Councilor Tony Economou, District 5 Councilor William J. Eddy, Councilor-at-Large Konstantina B. Lukes, District 2 Councilor Philip P. Palmieri, Councilor-at-Large Frederick C. Rushton, District 3 Councilor George J. Russell, Councilor-at-Large Kathleen M. Toomey and Mayor Joseph M. Petty.
Voting in opposition were Councilor-at-Large Joseph C. O'Brien and District 4 Councilor Sarai Rivera. Councilor-at-Large Michael J. Germain was not present.
The item will come back before the council for a final vote Jan. 29.
More than 35 people attended the meeting, with a vast majority of them opposed to the ordinances. Some of those who testified claimed the new laws will restrict people's freedom and ability to seek out assistance, and that they targeted less fortunate people.
But Mrs. Lukes said many people misunderstand the ordinances. She said they will actually have a very limited impact, and she emphasized that they will not prohibit panhandling altogether.
Instead, she said, the city is simply not allowing people to solicit money at intersections where there could be public safety issues.
"This will universally be applied to everyone and the impact will be minimal," Mrs. Lukes said. "We have crafted what I think are very narrow and problem-solving ordinances. Panhandlers can still use public ways like sidewalks; their constitutional rights are being protected. We are regulating certain activities, we are not prohibiting them. This is one of those times when we are not waiting for a crisis."
Mr. Rushton said the ordinances are a matter of "balancing interests." He said while the council is intent on protecting people's rights to solicit money, it wants to prohibit that practice from occurring in areas that could be dangerous.
"These slight restrictions in the interest of public safety are for the common good," Mr. Rushton said. "We stand firm with the law; we are not over-reaching. To be indifferent and not pass these ordinances is not a solution."
But Ms. Rivera and Mr. O'Brien said there needs to be more conversation on coming up with solutions aimed at addressing the root causes of panhandling.
"This is kind of an embarrassing situation because I don't feel we are having the proper conversation," Ms. Rivera said. "We need to talk about poverty. I refuse to be part of a vote that is hypocritical and doesn't offer solutions. I want to be able to support real solutions and not just a Band-Aid."
Councilor O'Brien echoed that sentiment, saying he does not think the ordinances will solve the problem of aggressive panhandling in the city.
"We need to have a more thoughtful dialogue going forward," he said. "Whatever we do tonight, I hope we have a more aggressive outreach effort for those people who are in need. I don't think this ordinance will solve this problem; I think we will need to take another look at this in the future."
Because the ordinances will eliminate tag days, the City Council also asked City Manager Michael V. O'Brien to assist firefighters in finding locations where they could conduct their annual "boot day."
For more than 30 years, Worcester firefighters have raised more than $500,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association through an annual boot day. The fund-raising effort involves using firefighter boots to collect money from motorists at intersections.
Mr. Eddy and Mr. Petty co-sponsored an order to keep the boot day tradition alive. They said there is a need for the city's continued commitment and support of such a tradition.
In their order, they asked the city manager to contact all the supermarkets and major shopping plazas within the city and ask them to grant special access to members of the Fire Department on May 11, the date of this year's MDA Boot Day, similar to the access given to the Salvation Army at Christmastime.


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You are trying to get information that is not available in the hypothetical. You have to consider you are in the room and you have the three choices and that's it.
Time's running out for analysis - it ain't a forum it's the real deal and your ass is sitting there. If you want to analyze the fucking situation for more than 5 minutes in your own mind in the room, go for it, but you''ll get a blue button.
To my mind regarding Blue vs. Green -If you're a real badass and want to prove it to god, really show it you're committed to giving it the finger, proving you can stand up to anything it can dish out forever, you will pick green. Having a way out and still taking the torture would be the most impressive choice if that's your goal.
It's almost as if they want to give themselves punishment with no way out, for some reason.
Yes, I've exercised. I understand the muscle fatigue you're talking about, but I don't think building up lactic acid and leaking calcium in my muscles could compare to Yahweh's Nightmare Torturehouse of Pure Evil™.
In comparison to the latter, I would describe building an altar or burning a goat for God as painless.
...compare to Yahweh's Nightmare Torturehouse of Pure Evil™.
Mr. Blackwell, can we agree that God's heaven would essentially be an uncomfortable, lactic acid-filled never ending slavery? Now stack slavery up against the discomfort from the worst you can imagine Yahweh's eternal nightmare realm has to offer. Seriously, take your time to come up with some really sick stuff. Go ahead, I'll wait minutes/hours/days....So what kind of eternal torture chamber did you design? If it was anything close to as horrifying as mine, then the idea of choosing the blue button accompanied by courageous thoughts of "sticking it to the man" would all vanish as soon as you pressed it; Yahweh would make sure the only thing you felt was deep, agonizing regret. You still picking blue?
Quote from: Zankuu on June 16, 2012, 02:16:45 PM....eternal painless manual labor...What makes you think manual labor is painless? You ever try it? I recommend you try the overhead arm clap 100 times...correctly, without slouching. Then imagine doing it forever.
....eternal painless manual labor...
The thing is, I can't figure out these blue-button people. If anyone else can I'd much appreciate any help you can give me understanding them because what they are saying just makes no sense at all to me. It's almost as if they want to give themselves punishment with no way out, for some reason.
OK, so let me help.
In this scenario, I'm essentially Winston Smith in 1984. I can press the red button and declare my love for Big Brother.
If I press the green button, I know that at some point I'll be sent to room 101 and I'll confess my love for Big Brother, so what's the point in that?
If I really think Big Brother is an asshole, I want to make an irrevocable decision to never confess my love to him. Once I press the blue button (or pocket veto), I never have to worry about that decision again.
Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
FAIL. That's not what the red button makes you do. Love can not be forced.
I disagree with the last sentence. If YHWH can harden pharaoh's heart, why can't he force us to love him? All he'd have to do is implant the thought into our brains and make us believe it's our own.
Assuming that worshiping him meant that I would live eternally (or until he snuffed us all out) in bliss then I would take that.Does that make me a bad person? :S
It isn't really that I see myself as a badass who can take anything. I'm pretty confident that I would fold and say anything under sufficient torture, and for that reason, what I say under duress would be a cop out; I wouldn't want the Green button because this would allow a dishonest cop out to lock me into a lie for the rest of eternity.
Another reason for choosing the Blue button is based again on biblegod's fallacious track record, and it ends up working out to be a Green button in the end, anyway. Reality obviously came about differently than it's claimed that biblegod caused it to come about. Also, consider that if it turns out that this universe did require a more complex being to bring it about, it's reasonable to assume that there would be a whole pantheon of ever increasingly complex gods begetting these lesser complex gods. (I really hate even bringing up the Kalam argument, but in this hypothetical, it actually applies).The scenario here would be that either biblegod didn't accurately explain to humans how it made the universe, or it would be that it was a different god that made the universe and biblegod just took credit. Either way, biblegod's a liar.Basically, I'm making Pascal's wager that there's a better god that biblegod that would come to the rescue of those who were wrongfully abused by it.
Enough with your bullshit.
. . . Mr. Friday . . . that post really is golden.
Humanity, including you, accepts that Biblegod has been proven to exist.
But that's my point. You admit you couldn't take it. You ARE going to tell the torturer to stop whether or not you pressed blue or green. You are going to cop out either way.
That's why it's already been explained you are foolish to pick a situation you know you are going to cop out of.
I just don't understand who or what you are trying to make a point to. Nobody who pressed the red button gives a rat's ass about you now. God doesn't give a rat's ass, whoever's running Hell doesn't give a rat's ass. So again, I just don't get these blue button people.
Now if you said you would never tell the torturer to stop then you wouldn't be copping out. You should press the green button if you want anyone to believe you would hold to your commitment.
But I do not know of which god we are speaking. Heck, even the 35,000+ versions of xianity cannot agree. So it would help to know which god we are being forced to decide on.
Hal, why don't you just become a fucking theist already and just be done with it ?
There's genius in that new hypothetical you've created and so you know that you're setting yourself up quite nicely for a beautiful come to jesus conversion don't you ? Take the plunge now and you could be baptised and in the church choir by Sunday ! ...Shakama !!
Keep plugging though if you must, as I see that your raging hard on for all this nonsense has gotten you another confession and convert for your very own personal collection of "redheads"
QuoteThere's genius in that new hypothetical you've created and so you know that you're setting yourself up quite nicely for a beautiful come to jesus conversion don't you ? Take the plunge now and you could be baptised and in the church choir by Sunday ! ...Shakama !!QuoteI know it's genius. Why don't you try to outdo my hypothetical instead of complaining about it? Let's see what you come up with. I'll answer it.
I know it's genius. Why don't you try to outdo my hypothetical instead of complaining about it? Let's see what you come up with. I'll answer it.
My only interest is that this thread, and its ilk, stop, and that these kind of mindbendingly useless--and possibly damaging-- discussions never start.


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Justin Bieber Awarded Diamond Jubilee Medal
Justin Bieber is a national treasure in his native Canada and now, the country is proving its admiration, as the singer was awarded with the Diamond Jubilee medal by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday, Nov. 23 in Ottawa.
The Biebs was heavily criticized for his attire when accepting the award, since he looked sloppy, street and unkempt -- hardly clothing becoming a Diamond Jubilee medal recipient, wearing a baggy coveralls, with one of the straps unhooked. Where was the swag, swag, swag? It was replaced by sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
The medal was created to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne of England. 60,000 Canadians will receive the honor. The Biebs, a native of Ontario, was just one of the folks given the award.
So why are people receiving the medals? Those who have contributed significantly to Canadian culture have been bestowed with said honor. Despite not dressing for the occasion, the Biebs is certainly deserving of the award, since he has become a pop music icon.
Harper himself tweeted about meeting with Bieber, posting, "Was happy to present @justinbieber with a Diamond Jubilee Medal today."
We just wish that the 'Boyfriend' hitmaker would have cleaned up and wore something a little more classy or polished for his acceptance of the award. The swag was a bit absent. The Biebs should have asked himself a simple question before accepting this honor: What would Michael Jackson do?
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Ah, 30 years ago; men had moustaches you could hang a coat on, TV mainly consisted of young women in skimpy outfits chasing rotund middle-aged men, and the number one games console was fronted in teak paneling (effect, anyway). Those, as they say, were the days indeed.
And it was on one such machine, the Atari 2600 (or "VCS" in popular circles), that today's App of the Day made its bow. It was crude, pricey and as difficult as getting a bus driver to reopen the doors after he's pulled a nano-metre away from the curb, but we loved it.
So, pray silence for the return (again) of...
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- iPad (version tested), iPhone, iPod touch
- Price
- 69p
- Where
- iTunes
Let's get it out of the way at the start, this latest, iOS-exclusive version of Pitfall owes an awful lot to Temple Run. There's no point in denying it, Pitfall 2012 is as close to Temple Run as the same developer's own Brave reskinned version. However, that's not to say Activision's effort is inferior to that highly addictive, number one app. No siree, we'd go as far as say it even betters it. Oh yes.
At it's heart, there are many similarities. A lot of the gameplay it situated on a character, viewed from behind in third-person running, jumping and sliding his way through a terrain to get as far as possible from the thing chasing him. This time it's an exploding volcano (as in the original 1982 game), but the theory is the same.
The adventures of Pitfall Harry, however, vary somewhat, with extra obstacle types - snakes and falling trees included - and graphics that scream of a far bigger budget than its obvious influence.
To start with, the action is side-scrolling and almost 2D, panning around to the rear-view camera angle in time. The obstacles in the way don't necessarily always look similar. There are different-levelled pathways, such as a ramp up to huts. And there are ropes suspended across spike-filled pits that you can leap on to in order to swing across. It's harder too, mainly for these reasons.
The sound is better, with speech and bombastic Hollywood-style music. And there are some cheeky nods to the 1980s game, including a brilliant start animation sequence.
Like with Temple Run - although the entire game is available to you for an initial outlay (69p, in this case) - you can also buy in-game currency with real cash in order to power up Pitfall Harry more swiftly than earning the same through multiple plays. This can end up costing a fortune, but we didn't have a problem earning enough to make it much further through the game given time.
If there's one gripe, also like Temple Run, to collect coins (or silver bars in this instance) you have to tilt your device left and right. TR is a portrait game, whereas Pitfall is landscape so it basically restricts you to having to hold on at all times and use your thumbs to swipe for jump, slide, etc. It's far trickier to play holding the iPad in one hand horizontally.
This is irrelevant to the iPhone version, however, and many use their thumbs to play anyway, so it's a very minor caveat and there are plenty of other great additions that we're very keen on. Take the checkpoint system, for example. At certain distances, you can activate a checkpoint, then use a power-up (giant macaw) to take you straight there when starting a new run. It helps you see further effects and levels.
So yes, Pitfall is a Temple Run clone of sorts, but one that's a giant evolutionary leap forward. And, let's remember, just about every modern platform game's DNA can partly be traced back to the original Pitfall anyway, so it could be said that they actually owe much to each other.


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HELSINKI (AP) — Finnair CEO Mika Vehvilainen has announced he will step down on Feb. 28 to head the international cargo handling company Cargotec.
The Finnish carrier said Monday that during Vehvilainen's three-year tenure he had been a leader of change who helped make the struggling airline "viable in the face of the aviation industry's transformation."
Finnair, which has been battling falling demand and fierce competition, made a record third-quarter net profit of €51 million after years of losses. In October, it announced a plan to save €140 million ($180 million) by 2014.
Vehvilainen's predecessor resigned in 2010 in what he called "crisis conditions" as pilots and personnel staged strikes amid cutbacks and layoffs.
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