Infant being the possessor of the heart of Naraku, as she leaves him with a crystal connection to the Fuyouheki. Hakudoshi brings Kagura back to the temple, all to observe Goryomaru being murdered.... More

Kagura tells Sesshomaru about The Infant being the possessor of the heart of Naraku, as she leaves him with a crystal connection to the Fuyouheki. Hakudoshi brings Kagura back to the temple, all to observe Goryomaru being murdered. The demons were being slain and brought to the temple to amass a large amount of demonic aura, the better to mask the presence of The Infant. The protagonists are lured into the stomach of a large stone demon, trapping them there with the intent of collecting the last shard of the Shikon Jewel held by Kagomeafter they are dissolved by digestion. Kikyo encounters Kanna, who is holding The Infant. However, the soulless demon stops her attempt to kill The Infant. InuYasha attaches the last shard of the Shikon Jewel to the Tetsusaiga, causing him to transform to demon form. Kagome embraces him, subduing him long enough to purify the shard. After breaking out with a final Adamant Barrage they vow to pursue Naraku until he is destroyed.


Afghan Christian Converts Should Be Executed, Afghan Lawmakers Say

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on March 25, 2013 (AP Photo/Jason Reed, File)

(CNSNews.com) – Fifteen months ahead of the planned withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan, an anti-Christian hate campaign involving several leading Afghan lawmakers and some media outlets is raising additional concerns about the future of religious freedom in the conservative Islamic country.

Advocacy groups say the anger is directed at Afghan Christians in India – where thousands of Afghan refugees remain and a small church congregation meets in New Delhi – and that the lawmakers concerned are calling for them to face the death penalty.

Converts from Islam to Christianity should be killed according to Islamic law (shari’a), in abid to stop the growth of Christianity among Afghans inside and outside the country, according to one leading member of parliament cited by the Afghan Voice Agency news service.

Mohabat News, an independent Iranian Christian news agency, reported on Sunday that Nazir Ahmad Hanafi said several weeks ago that “Afghani citizens continue to convert to Christianity in India. Numerous Afghanis have become Christians in India. This is an offense to Islamic laws and according to the Qur’an they need to be executed.”

Hanafi, an independent who represents the province of Herat, is a prominent lawmaker who heads the parliament’s Legislative Commission and reportedly received the third highest number of votes in the 2010 parliamentary election.

Barnabas Fund, an international charity that supports minority Christians in Islamic countries, said Hanafi made the


U.S. forces.

“The presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan results in the conversion of Afghans to Christianity,” it quoted Pedram – an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2004 and 2009 – as saying. “The United States’ long-term plan is to attack Afghani culture. Converting Afghan citizens serves that purpose.”

Mohabat and Barnabas Fund both noted that the speaker of the national parliament, Abdul Rauf Rahimi, also waded in to the debate over converts, instructing the parliamentary national security committee to follow up the issue.

Barnabas Fund said that after the parliamentary debates some media outlets got involved.

“For ten consecutive nights at the end of August, two TV channels broadcast photos of the leader of the Afghan church in Delhi, calling for him to be executed, and also showed images of other Afghanafter a television station screened footage of converts being baptized, sparking calls in parliament, from Khawasi among others, for their execution. They were eventually released and many fled to India.

Afghanistan is ranked number three this year on the annual Open Doors USA watchlist of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians.

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announced their partnership in September 2016. As part of the partnership, many English-subtitled versions of anime moved from Funimation 's streaming service to Crunchyroll , leaving Funimation with the English-dubbed versions. The companies would license titles for simulcast streaming, with Crunchyroll streaming the subtitled version and Funimation streaming a simuldub.

In addition, Funimation released some Crunchyroll catalog titles on home video with English dubs, and some titles digitally with English subtitles.

Crunchyroll also recently underwent a change in ownership; AT&T announced in August that it has acquired all of Ellation's holding company Otter Media, a joint venture it previously co-owned with The Chernin Group.

Source: Crunchyroll, VRV, Variety (Todd Spangler)

Update: Funimation confirmed that it will begin regularly offering subtitled simulcasts beginning "as early as" the winter 2019 season. Free users willwater reservoirs, a faucet coupling to the upper portion of the space of the body, and a sprayer device coupling to the lower portion of the space of the body, and a valve device received in the space of the body for controlling the water to flow out through either the faucet or the sprayer device. The valve device comprises a housing secured in the space of the body and including a chamber formed therein, and including an upper portion having a valve seat provided thereon, and including a lower peripheral portion, a valve stem slidably received in the chamber of the housing, and including an upper portion, and including a lower portion, a first plug secured on the upper portion of the valve stem for engaging with


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It comes a month after Peruvian prosecutors announced plans to arrest Figari, who denies the claims and has been living in Rome since the Vatican confirmed many of the accusations against him. He had been ordered to cut off all contact with the organization. The Vatican also forbade him from returning to Peru without the permission of the current superior of the SCV and outlawed him from speaking publicly.

The Vatican also mentioned American Cdl. Joseph Tobin, archbishop


of Newark, New Jersey, will serve as the delegate to the Holy See for the SCV. Known for holding progressive theological views, Tobin advocates for female cardinals and officially approved an LGBT pilgrimage and Mass at his Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

Victims of Figari have criticized the Vatican for their mishandling of the case, which took six years, while Figari lived in Rome.

Figari founded the SCV in 1971 as a lay community to recruit "soldiers for God," one of a number of societies founded in the wake of the liberation theology movement popular throughout Latin America in the 1960s. Ther organization was approved by the Vatican in 1997 and has around 20,000 priests, celibate laymen, "sodalits," and consecrated laywomen around the world.

Luis Figari
Figari's sexual abuse was firstreported in 2011 to Lima's interdiocesan tribunal, which shared it with the Vatican. The then-Superior General of the SCV, Eduardo Regal Villa, separated Figari from community life, forcing him into retirement. In 2014, Alessandro Moroni Llabrés, current superior general of the SCV, relocated Figari from Lima to the SCV community in Rome.

Peruvian prosecutors opened an investigation into Figari in 2015 after the book, Half Monks, Half Soldiers, was published by Peruvian journalists Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugaz, who detailed the allegations of abuse. They described Figari as a cult leader who psychologically and physically abused boys and young men, including sodomizing and humiliating them.

In 2015, Moroni and the Superior Council set up an Ethics Commission for Justice and Reconciliation, along with an Office of Integrity and Ethics and


a Reparations and Redress Program, to help gather information from victims and provide assistance and compensation.

Tobin was chosen as the Vatican's delegate for the SCV in 2016. His primary responsibilities include assisting Moroni and the Superior Council in their duties and managing the fall-out from Figari and the SCV's financial assets. The same year, Figari was sent to another religious community in Rome.

We reaffirm once again our absolute obedience to the Holy Father and Holy Mother Church.

The SCV began its own investigation into the allegations in 2017, claiming Figari "sexually assaulted at least one child, manipulated, sexually abused, or harmed several other young people; and physically or psychologically abused dozens of others."

He "used his leadership status to have authoritarian direction and control of most Sodalits," stated the report.0 Shares

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Well, it turns out Jeff Smith was just playing coy with us a couple of weeks ago when he said that "one of these days I'm gonna give in" and sell movie rights to his epic series Bone. Variety reports that Smith has agreed with Warner Bros. on a movie deal for Bone that nets him mid-six figures for the option against a seven-figure purchase price. As the Beat points out, this is the second go-round for Bone in Hollywood; for several years in the nineties Bone was in development at Nickelodeon, but Smith took offense at changes the studio wanted to make and the option eventually lapsed.

This time around, Smith has a lot more clout, with a million copies of Bone books sold and rabid fans


Ralph Anderson is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most iconic architects. While he was best-known in his day for revitalizing Pioneer Square, he left a lasting legacy (and gained an enthusiastic fan base) as an early practitioner of Northwest Contemporary architecture. Starting with a midcentury sensibility, he evolved, highlighting the best the Northwest had to offer in the era—low-profile exteriors paired modern interiors that highlight the natural world around them—into a distinct style immediately recognizable to his followers.

With this home in Queen Anne, built in 1965, he lends that style into a home built for one (although there’s plenty of room to stretch out for a couple). When the original owner, then a buyer for Frederick & Nelson, commissioned the home, she hired Anderson to build something “dashing,”Casualties of Funds Crunch

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October 15, 1996

ISSUE DATE: October 15, 1996

UPDATED: October 15, 1996 00:00 IST

DURING A DECADE THAT HAS seen China's defence industry blossom and Pakistan emerge as one of the world's major arms importers, India's outlay for defence has remained stagnant in real terms. And there are indications that this is not a passing phase: it is the shape of things to come. The attrition has already taken its toll on all three forces- even maintaining a credible conventional armed force is becoming increasingly difficult.

This year's outlay of Rs 27,798.57 crore hasn't helped reverse the trend. At 2.26 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP),


showing an increasing interest in the Indian Ocean; besides, Indian maritime interests are no longer purely military: 97 per cent (by volume) of India's foreign trade is done via the sea. Safe seas will therefore mean safe trade.

Indian naval missions were formulated around aircraft carriers. But now it faces the prospect of losing the carrier arm altogether. Of the two aircraft carriers that the navy possesses, INS Vikrant is being retired this year, while INS Virat will last another six years. The Government is negotiating a deal with Russia for the purchase of the Admiral Gorshkov, an aircraft carrier the Russians have no use for. But even the Gorshkov has a price-tag of about Rs 1,800 crore.

Aircraft carriers are only one of the navy's many problems. With hardlyRs 400 crore to spare for the year, the navy can barely make down payments on Rs 3,000 crore of equipment against a requirement of Rs 15,000 crore. So its fleet of 40 principal com-batants-fighting vessels that are over 2,000 tonnes-will be down to 28 by the year 2000.

The effects of the cuts are all too evident at the shipyards. The submarine side of the Mazagon dock shipyard, the only facility for the construction of submarines in India, has been idle for the past two years for lack of orders from the navy. And its hull fabrication unit utilises only 35 per cent of the capacity.

In contrast, Pakistan's naval strength has kept growing. It has placed orders for three Agosta-90 submarines from France, acquired six Type-21 frigates from


One Industry. One Council. One Voice.

One Industry. One Council. One Voice.

The Convenience Industry Council of Canada (CICC) is a new national organization that represents the interests of retailers, wholesale distributors and manufacturers.

The founding board of the CICC, made up of retailers and wholesale distributors, have made several key decisions regarding the priorities of the council. The co-chairs, Bryan Robinson of Canadian Tire and Jackie Bellerose of Wallace & Carey are excited about harnessing the power and reach of senior industry players. The CICC will focus on four pillars to guide the organization: Advocacy, Research, Responsible Retailing and Events and Awards.

Just as convenience stores bring together communities, the CICC brings together the entire industry to protect the interests of the channel and grow the business of all stakeholders. “Our49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh has a lot on his plate this season, mixing in newcomers and a new stadium in Santa Clara.

49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh has a lot on his plate this season,...

For the hard-core, this week is like Christmas, Valentine's Day and the arrival of the Tooth Fairy all wrapped into one. Their love affair resumes with the helmeted ones, who will hone their craft on hot, dry fields, in pads and in shorts, in ice baths and meeting rooms, while fanatics scour social media for reports of ankle twinges, dropped passes and sled technique.

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According to a press release dropped earlier this evening, Comic-Con International has decided to extend its relationship with the city of San Diego and the San Diego convention center, ending an extensive process during which the city was heavily wooed by convention officials from Anaheim and Los Angeles.

According to the official press release, the con will stay in San Diego through 2015. "We are grateful for the tireless efforts all three cities put into to their proposals," CCI Director of Marketing and Publication Relations David Glanzer was quoted as saying in the press release."In the end, we feel this decision is the best for all those who attend Comic-Con and for the organization itself. We are happy that the community has worked with us to ensure that weremain here"

The press release cited the self-imposed attendance limit in 2007-2010, the last three of which were capped at 125,000 people, as the reason they looked to other cities.

The convention was founded in 1970 in San Diego by area fans, and from those beginnings, where the entire show was focused on a single hotel's available space, has become a city-wide event, jamming area hotel rooms and putting more than 125,000 people into the expansive convention center. Over the last decade the swell of fantasy franchise movies and television shows has fueled Hollywood's interest in the show to the point where Comic-Con has become a major entertainment industry event to rival any role it's ever played for the comics world. Debates rage among fans over where those Hollywood interests


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The older instrument, referred to as “the Cavern bass” by Beatles historians, has never been recovered. The notion that it’s in Ottawa seems as out-there as the Paul-is-dead hoax started by U.S. college students half-a-century ago.

Yet in the book, Norman relates how new information about the Cavern bass came to him from a trusted source — a Liverpool taxi driver named Peter Hodgson.

Hodgson, whose father and uncle lived near the McCartney family in Liverpool, has been trying to track down the Cavern bass for years, Norman writes.

“Recently, he’s e-mailed me that he may have located it in Ottawa, in the possession of someone who was not the thief. This personage, with a Tolkien-esque flourish, calls himself ‘The Keeper,’ suggesting the guardian of some sacred relic, ratherGetting to know Corner Canyon golf champ Rhett Rasmussen

Corner Canyon High golf superstar and Utah phenomenon Rhett Rasmussen wins competitions left and right. He truly is an awesome golfer, and an awesome person.

Corner Canyon senior Rhett Rasmussen won the 4A state golf title in 2015. (Photo by Kurt Johnson)

Rasmussen is so kind to everyone and is grateful for the blessings he has received in his life. He is a great representative of Corner Canyon and our amazing golf team, which will have very big shoes to fill after he moves on to play his collegiate golf at Brigham Young University.

The senior shot a second-day 65 to back up his opening-round 68 to win the 2015 Class 4A state golf championship by three strokes with a total score of


133. His strong showing capped a career that leaves a great legacy for the new high school in Draper.

Before Corner Canyon opened three years ago, Rasmussen was a freshman golfer at 5A Alta, where he finished tied for eighth at the state tournament. He moved to the new school in 2013 and finished third in Class 4A. He moved up to second in 2014 before finally capturing medalist honors this season.

Rasmussen not only has to manage his home life and school, but he also has to make sure he spends a lot of time practicing golf so he can be the best. Nothing can stop his determination, but he has to work to balance his crazy life.

As a senior at Corner Canyon, Rasmussen has to start preparing forthat neither wall is perpendicular to the passageway or aperture to be occluded. When this occurs, with the prior art devices, the disk attempts to align, but it's lack of flexibility causes portions of the disk to extend further from the vessel wall than desired which may interfere with blood flow or cause gaps between portions of the disk and the vessel wall.
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                                           June 12, 1998.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Harvey E.
Schlesinger, Judge.

Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.

       TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

       In this appeal, targets of a federal grand jury investigation, John Roe, Inc. and John Roe,1 the

principal officer and shareholder of John Roe, Inc., challenge the district court's denial of


had invited to monitor the government's investigative activities.

What the appellants could allege in such a motion is anybody's guess. Given the practical

impossibility of knowing whether the United States Attorney (or a member of his staff) is "using"
information within the confines of his mind, the appellants necessarily would be forced to resort to

bald speculation. In any event, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt and

sanctioned, the United States Attorney would have to convince the court that he is "not using" the

information. Not only might proving such inaction be impossible, but in attempting to do so, the

United States Attorney might have to reveal the grand jury's and the government's investigatory

plans—again frustrating the public's interest in the expeditious administration of the criminal laws.

Cf. Blalock v. United States,a spokeswoman for the Israeli military, said that the United Nations peacekeeping force had evacuated two of its outposts in Syria on Saturday and relocated the troops to a post on the Israeli side of the demarcation line. She provided no other information.

The United Nations did not say who had fired on its forces.

A number of rebel groups have participated in the battle against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria in the area. Though none have claimed responsibility for capturing the peacekeepers from Fiji, other rebels have blamed the Nusra Front, Syria’s Qaeda affiliate.


Hulk Hogan really rocked it in the ring back in the day, but did you know that the former wrestling champ almost rocked out with Metallica? The Hulkster, who before his professional wrestling career played bass in a Floridian rock band called Ruckus, claims that drummer Lars Ulrich once offered him the opportunity to join Metallica.

"I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler," Hogan recently told British newspaper The Sun. "I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out."

Or maybe he didn't really get offered the gig at all, and he's remembering things incorrectly. While on a book tour in 2009to run a facility for the mentally ill, and then in 1862 he took charge of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane, the state's first such institution (it occupied 200 acres around the intersection of SE Hawthorne Boulevard and 10th Avenue). Known as a caring, forward-thinking, and compassionate man, Hawthorne ran the asylum until he died, at which point there were somewhere around 500 inmates there. Hawthorne was married twice: his first wife, Emily Curry, died just a few weeks after they were married. In 1865 he married Mrs. E. C. Hite, from Sacramento, and they had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy.

Dr. Hawthorne is buried in Lone Fir Cemetery (see Walk 15: Stark-Belmont); according to the cemetery's website, some 132 of his patients are also


ACLU of Ohio defends Sylvania substitute teacher over Facebook post

SYLVANIA, OH (WTOL) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says the firing of a substitute teacher in Sylvania was unconstitutional.

According to the ACLU, Derek Ide, a substitute teacher, was recently fired for a status be posted on his personal Facebook page in October 2015. The post expressed anger over the assault of a black high school student by a security officer in South Carolina.

On Wednesday, the ACLU sent a letter to Sylvania Schools saying the comments are protected free speech.

"The courts are very clear on this," said Christine Link, executive director of the ACLU of Ohio. "Speech made by public school teachers that has no impact on their job performance is constitutionally protected free speech. When publicCLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland State University will move classes online after extending spring break a week to protect against spread of coronavirus, the university wrote in an email to the campus community on Wednesday afternoon.

CSU’s announcement follows the state’s announcement that a fourth coronavirus case was confirmed in Ohio. The first three were in Cuyahoga County and confirmed Monday. The case confirmed on Wednesday was in Stark County and is thought to be the first case of community spread in Ohio.

A rash of universities announced classes would move online on Tuesday afternoon, after Governor Mike DeWine held a press conference recommending canceling college classes. Campuses include nearby Case Western Reserve University, Baldwin Wallace University and John Carroll University.

Students will begin remote instruction on March 23 through April 10.


‘We thought it was important to knock down doors’

Lewis Conway Jr., a formerly incarcerated activist running for Austin City Council, sits down with The Appeal.

For Lewis Conway Jr., deciding to run for office was the easy part. The Austin native was a community activist looking for another way to make change. But until mid-August, the fate of his candidacy for City Council was uncertain. He had served eight years in prison and 12 on parole, and although his voting rights were restored, city officials questioned his eligibility. Only this month was he officially cleared for the November ballot.

Conway is chestnut-hued, husky, and 6 feet 6 inches tall. You can’t miss him. Yet, years before he entered the spotlight, he says, he felt like a “walking ghost.”

When he returnedhe remembers thinking. “I fight politicians.” Still, in 2017, he decided to join the race to replace departing incumbent City Council member Ora Houston. He quickly learned that according to Texas election code, a convicted felon cannot run for office unless he or she has been pardoned or “released from the resulting disabilities” of the conviction.

Although Conway’s campaign was slowed by the indecision over whether he could run, the Working Families Party endorsed him in early August. He also hopes to secure the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Conway recently spoke with The Appeal about criminal justice reform, disenfranchisement, and being radical about change.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

The Appeal: There were a lot of questions about whether you were legally allowed to


21st Century Project

Artistic Celebration
for the 21st Century

Visual Art inspires New Music

To celebrate the 21st Century, Red Cedar Chamber Music commissioned seven new works for flute and guitar. The commissioning project is called Artistic Celebration for the 21st Century. The project was conceived by flutist, Jan Boland and guitarist, John Dowdall, directors of Red Cedar Chamber Music and supported, in part, by a grant from the Iowa Arts Council. Seven composers with diverse styles were commissioned to each write a three-minute work for flute and guitar, giving a total of twenty-one minutes of new music to celebrate the 21st Century and Jan and John’s 21st season as the Boland-Dowdall Flute and Guitar Duo. Three composers reside in New York City, three in Iowa, and one in California.

Each composer selecteda work of visual art from the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art as the inspiration for the new composition. Donald Doe and Leslie Wright at the Cedar Rapids Museum of art were partners in this effort; they selected the art and facilitated the educational events and concerts surrounding the premieres. All seven works were premiered in concert by the Boland-Dowdall Duo at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art on February 12, 2000 in a gallery devoted to the display of the seven works of visual art. Five of the seven composers (Owen, Chenette, Nassif, Leisner, and Thow) were present and participated in the event. Visual artist James Michael Smith was also present and gave a pre-concert informal talk. The gallery was overflowing with concert-goers


(about 140 present) who wished to view the art and hear the premiere.

Commissioned Musical Works

Hidden Tango

Jerry Owen

Fast Track

Jonathan Chenette

Caprice

Katherine Hoover

Caution to the Wind: get over it

Gary Schocker

River Bend

John Thow

Dear Departed

Robert Lindsey Nassif

El Coco (The Bogeyman)

David Leisner

Six of the works are published in an anthology called The Red Cedar Collection by Theodore Presser Co. (catalogue number 144-40414). Katherine Hoover’s Caprice is published by Papagena Press. Recorded on a compact disc titled The Red Cedar Collection –– released and available from Fleur de Son Classics (NY).

The Visual Art

The following images were selected by seven composers as the inspiration for seven new works for flute and guitar commissioned in 1999 by Red Cedar Chamber Music. The images are a part of the permanent collection at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.The musical works were premiered at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Cedar Rapids IA) on Saturday, February 12, 2000 by flutist Jan Boland and guitarist John Dowdall.

Courtesy of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Marvin Cone’s River Bend (1935)
Selected by John Thow for his composition River Bend for alto flute & guitar


The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest literary awards in the world, with a prize of $50,000 bestowed annually to authors of fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature. It was created to celebrate the 81 years of discerning, thoughtful criticism Kirkus Reviews has contributed to both the publishing industry and readers at large. Books that earned the Kirkus Star with publication dates between November 1, 2014, and October 31, 2015 (see FAQ for exceptions), are automatically nominated for the 2015 Kirkus Prize, and the winners will be selected on October 15, 2015, by an esteemed panel composed of nationally respected writers and highly regarded booksellers, librarians and Kirkus critics.

In the mid-1980s, writer/editor/artist Terri Windling founded Bordertown, a series of shared-universe books in which the faerie Realm collidedwith our World on the site of a major city. The result was a place where magic and technology worked sporadically or in tandem. Elves rode motorcycles in the streets. Music, art and poetry flourished. And misfits, runaways and the lost found a place where they could be themselves. Not a safe place for many, but a haven to a chosen and resourceful few.

The Bordertown series was seminal in developing the urban fantasy subgenre, where magic existed in an environment just this side of real life, rather than in some invented, unfamiliar land. As Tim Pratt, a new contributor to the Bordertown oeuvre puts it, “When I started reading Bordertown as a teenager, it was like a switch got turned on in my head: the world I already


After watching from afar as his alma mater went 0-12 in its first season as a Football Bowl Series competitor in 2009, first-year head coach Willie Taggart has reenergized the program since taking the reins last November. That swell of excitement around Bowling Green, Ky., is needed as the task ahead is large. Since 2008, Taggart's new program has lost 20 consecutive games and has yet to win as a member of the FBS.

High on the new head coach's to-do list this spring was finding ways to maximize talent. Taggart, who was running backs coach at Stanford while helping Toby Gerhardt to a Heisman Trophy finalist season last year, quickly realized that his team's goals will be more easily reached if he can find more ways to utilizewould be handing off to the creative runner was not as clear entering fall camp.

A standout college quarterback and a teammate of former Cornhuskers Tommie Frazier and Shevin Wiggins in little league and high school, Taggart wanted an open competition for the position after returning starter Kawaun Jakes missed extended time in spring ball with an ankle injury suffered during a pickup basketball game. Jakes already had the stats after passing for 1,516 yards, completing 60 percent of his passes and rushing for another 355 yards in 2009.

Junior college transfer Matt Pelesasa (1,621 passing yards, 595 rushing yards, 30 combined TDs at College of San Mateo in 2009) did his part to push Jakes during camp despite battling a sore throwing arm. In the end, Taggart settled on


Jakes as the first-game starter on Aug. 23.

Getting Rainey and Jakes off to a good start in the season opener will be a priority of the offensive line. Possibly the Hilltoppers' most experienced unit, the O-line returns three full-time starters in tackles Preston King and Wes Jeffries and guard Mychal Patterson. Last year, the line helped three WKU backs average better than 5.0 yards per carry (min. 40 carries) as the team rushed for more than 173 yards per game.

In the passing game, the biggest beneficiaries of Taggart's offensive game plan could be the receiving corps. Despite losing two of its top three receiving yardage leaders from a year ago, Western Kentucky returns its top tight end in Jack Doyle and senior wide receiver Quinterrance Cooper.

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There's a hole in this mountain and it's dark and it's deepAnd god only


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Probably no surprise to most snorkelers, a recent study confirmed that cleaner fish have evolved some of the most conspicuous combinations of colors and patterns in the marine environment: they tend to be yellow or blue, aspects that are in stark contrast to their stripes and make them stand out from the reef background; blue in cleaners also attracts more clients to cleaning stations. Many new species of cleaner fishes have also been reported, even one of a shark apparently functioning as a ‘cleaner’ withon the same day she saw him in a blue and white truck.
Id.
  The first time she saw him, about 4:00 or 5:00 a.m., he was alone in the truck, and she spoke to him for a few minutes.
Id.
When she saw him again about four hours later, he had three other people in the truck with him.
Id.
 Byrd also identified the truck as Teems’ truck.
Id.

Yet another prostitute, Brenda Joyce Reese, recalled seeing Appellant in Teems’ truck a little after 10:00 p.m.
Id.
After he honked, she flagged him down and got in the truck.
Id.
Reese further stated that Appellant took her with him and bought some heroin and cocaine for $20.
Id.
  She said they cooked the heroin, added the


White as those belonging to Teems.
Id.
  White further stated that on October 13, a man identifying himself as the seller of the rings called him about the rings.
Id.
  The record indicates the call was a collect call from cell number 16E of the Tarrant County Jail where Appellant had been incarcerated since October 10.
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At about 2:00 p.m. on October 6, a police officer found Teems’ truck behind Panther Hall on South Collard Street.
Id.
 at 582.  There was no key in the ignition, but it had not been hot-wired and was locked.
Id.
  After the truck was towed, it was examined for fingerprints.
Id.
  One fingerprint, from inside the passenger-side vent window, was identified as Appellant’s.
Id.
  Human blood was discovered on theUnited States-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is expanding its team with new high level hires, according to the company’s blog post published on March 7.

In the post, Kraken announced five new appointments to its team. The new appointments will see Matt Mason as Chief Marketing Officer, Steve Hunt as Vice-President of Engineering, Nelson Minier as Head of OTC Sales and Trading, Bob Zagotta as Head of Business Operations and Strategy, and Mary Beth Buchanan as General Counsel.

Prior to joining Kraken, Mason was employed by Sony Pictures as Studio Head at a secretive innovation lab focused on game mechanics. Mason also served as head of marketing and Chief Content Officer at BitTorrent Inc., and has experience in the music and advertising industries.

Hunt has an over 20 years experience in the


leading of engineering teams in the construction of algorithmic trading networks across major global financial markets at such companies as Jump Trading and Goldman Sachs. Minier has also a 20 year experience in managing trading desks at such firms as Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and others.

Zagotta, meanwhile, has experience in developing and launching new businesses. He is joining Kraken from CME Group where he served as Senior Managing Director of Strategy and Execution. Buchanan’s legal career spans over 30 years, having worked at such organizations as Bryan Cave LLP, the United Nations and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Last month, Kraken acquired United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency exchange and futures provider Crypto Facilities, which is fully regulated by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority, giving Kraken a major foothold in theCD/LP (Tomlab, 2003)
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Book House). While English may be placed in the new evangelical camp, his teaching on the above verse is Biblical.

What Spurgeon Said About The Blood

Charles H. Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled. “The Blood Shedding,” February 22, 1857, from Hebrews 9:22. He describes the suffering and death of Christ, and says, “Mark his brow-they have put about it a crown of thorns, and the crimson drops of gore are rushing down his cheeks! . . . But turn aside that purple robe for a moment. His back is bleeding. ..They lift up the thongs, still dripping clots of gore; they scourge and tear his flesh, and make river of blood to run down his shoulders! This is the shedding of blood without which there is no remission…They fling himhas taken some unusual stands for an Evangelical today. He has spoken against the Charismatic movement and against Promise Keepers and against Evangelicals & Catholics Together. In fact, though, the man refuses to practice biblical separation. He claims that Charismatics are theologically wrong, for example, but he fellowships with them and stands shoulder to shoulder with them in preaching engagements. Be not deceived: John MacArthur is NOT a friend to the Fundamental, Bible-believing, New Testament church. He is a dangerous New Evangelical, and his position on the Blood of Christ is heresy.

MACARTHUR DENIES THE REALITY OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

MacArthur says the blood of Christ “could not save” and “it was not the FLUID that saved us, it was the DEATH of Christ.”

In the May 1976 issue of


the Grace to You Family paper that is distributed to his church, MacArthur published an article titled “Not His Bleeding, but His Dying.” In this, MacArthur plainly stated that it is not the blood of Christ that saves.

Ten years later, in a letter to Tim Weidlich, Paul Clark, Kevin Jolliff of Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, April 4, 1986, MacArthur made the following statement of his position:

“Obviously, it was not the blood of Jesus that saves or He could have bled for us without dying. It was His death for sin that saves. When Romans 3:25 speaks of ‘faith in His blood’ everyone understands that to be a reference to His death — not the blood running through His body. In Romans 5:9, being ‘justified by Histhat Jesus Christ died as a Substitute for all men.

MACARTHUR IS A NEW EVANGELICAL ECUMENIST

MacArthur frequently speaks at ecumenical forums, such as the Moody Bible Institute Founder’s Week. For example, at the February 1986 Moody Bible Institute conference, MacArthur joined hands with two of the chief ecumenists of our day, Billy Graham and Luis Palau. Both Graham and Palau regularly join together in ecumenical relations with Roman Catholics. Graham has turned thousands of his converts over to the hands of the wolves in sheep’s clothing in the various Catholic parishes that have participated in his crusades. (We have documented this extensively in our 371-page book Evangelicals and Rome.)

In July 1988, MacArthur spoke at the Congress on the Church and the Disabled at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton


College, which featured Roman Catholic and New Evangelical speakers (Moody Monthly, Oct. 1988).

MacArthur participates in the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) and speaks at their conferences. The NRB is extremely ecumenical. The 1997 conference featured Seventh-day Adventists, “laughing revival” Pentecostals, the Worldwide Church of God, and an entire slate of New Evangelicals, such as Joseph Stowell, Franklin Graham, Max Lucado, and David Jeremiah.

In 1987, MacArthur participated in Jerry Falwell’s Super Conference VIII, which featured E. V. Hill. The late Dr. Hill pastored a church affiliated with the modernistic National Council of Churches in America and he was an ecumenist of the ecumenists. I heard Hill speak at New Orleans ’87 to a mixed crowd of some 40,000 Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, and Pentecostals. Fifty percent of the attendees were Romanon the mercy seat? No, he had to take the blood of the bullock for his own sins, and the blood of the goat for the sins of the people, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat. So for MacArthur to take the one instance from the Old Testament where the poor could take an offering of fine flour rather than a blood sacrifice, is in my view, very misleading. In all other instances it did make a difference whether there was a blood sacrifice made or not.

Beating Around The Mulberry Bush

MacArthur is a very, very articulate man. He knows the English language well, and is able to express himself as well as anyone we have ever heard. It is very strange that he has to be beat


17-Mar-2017 Intellasia | Foreign Affairs | 6:00 AM

Earlier this month, North Korea launched four ballistic missiles toward Japan. Three of them landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, less than 200 miles from the country’s coast, in an area frequented by Japanese fishing boats. The missile test, North Korean state media claimed, was aimed at “the bases of the US imperialist aggressor forces in Japan.” By demonstrating that it could carry out a so-called saturation attack – one in which a massive barrage of missiles would overwhelm Japan’s defenses – Pyongyang sought to weaken the credibility of the military deterrent that Japan, the United States, and South Korea have erected against it.

North Korea has conducted dozens of missile tests and three nuclear tests since Kim Jong Un took officeconsumed by a conversation around conspiracies, that people get fatigued.”

This has conveniently played into Trump’s hands as polls consistently show people are confused by and have become tired of the Russia scandal.

The main players in the Rich lawsuit drama are plaintiff Rod Wheeler, a private investigator, Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C. homicide detective hired by Rich’s family to investigate the murder, and defendants Fox News Channel, Fox reporter Malia Zimmerman and Ed Butowsky, a pro-Trump Republican donor and frequent Fox News and Fox Business contributor who is accused by Wheeler of creating a fake news story that Rich and not Russia provided WikiLeaks with the DNC emails.

Rich, 27, was shot to death on July 10, 2016 about a block from his apartment in the Bloomingdale neighborhood


of Northwest Washington in what D.C. police describe as an unsolved attempted armed robbery. WikiLeaks released a trove of stolen DNC emails 12 days later.

The right-wing noise machine was riding the Rich story hard before his body was cold, accusing Hillary Clinton of his assassination with a fervor previously reserved for the Hillary Murdered Vince Foster evergreen. Fake news maestro Alex Jones of InfoWars and former House speaker Newt Gingrich harped on the story, and it became a personal cause for Fox‘s Sean Hannity.

Lest this seem like just another episode in a long-running soap opera, readers are reminded that it has been quite okay in the twisted minds of right-wingers and other Trump acolytes for Russia to attack the very foundation of American democracy by cyber-sabotaging a presidentialI read accounts from a swooning Washington press corps about how the Mooch was history and Trump’s new chief of staff, General John Kelly, was going to impose military-style order on the Wild West West Wing. Goodfellas was out and Patton was in.

The man who handles everything now has a handler, as one pundit put it.

By my rough calculations, the ascendancy of the former Marine is about the 10th “pivot”, “reboot,” “turning point” or “brand new day” in the mere six months since Trump descended deus ex machina from his Fifth Avenue penthouse to Make America Great Again. Less than 24 hours after Kelly’s appointment, he already was being undercut as suggestions were made that the president’s daughter Ivanka, unlike the rest of the West Wing staff, will


When 30-year-old Tess Rothstein was forced to ride a section of street that lacked an unprotected bike lane in San Francisco, she was killed by the driver of an oncoming truck just feet before reaching the area which separated bikes and cars on Howard Street. Within a week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency removed part of the parking along Howard Street to extend the protected bike lane.

Just months after 68-year-old resident and local advocate Robert Bennett was killed by the driver of a car at 23rd Street and Harrison Street in Oakland, the city’s Department of Transportation immediately altered the intersection to be more amenable toward pedestrians, especially older citizens who need more time to cross streets.

So why, after two deaths—one of a bicyclist on January 3kid and adult pedestrians risk their lives should they slip while crossing Willow Street over the 710 Freeway.

Here is the video captured:

This video was shot on the south side of Willow Street heading west, an area of the arterial that faces two particularly dangerous points for pedestrians. On one hand, as the video shows, an absence of guard rails means one minor slip could send you into the traffic of the 710. On the other hand, the creation of a lane solely for people entering or exiting the freeways with no lights for their safety.

In the trek of someone walking east (from the left in the image) on the south side of Willow, they have: 1) to get across Fashion Avenue with no light; 2) face cars on


Willow Street wanting to enter the southbound 710 entrance; 3) face cars immediately exiting the southern route of the freeway, who are merging with drivers on Willow Street also merging to get onto the northbound entrance of the 710—all without crosswalk lights; 4) and finally face more cars exiting the northbound route of the freeway, also with no light.

The future plans for the 710 Freeway don’t help matters: Though the expansion itself has been put on hold, the supposed “community benefits” attached to the project—largely capital improvements along the many roads and arterials that run along and over the freeway—will be moving forward. Those “improvements” include the installation of complex and dangerous diamond intersections along Anaheim Street, Pacific Coast Highway, Willow Street, and Del Amo Boulevard.

The perilousness of.- While firefighters in northern California are currently battling 17 wildfires in five counties, Bishop Robert Vasa of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, one of the hardest hit areas, is typing updates and messages of support from his car, in between visits to evacuation centers.

“Our diocese has been hit hard, as you know well, and is in an ongoing state of uncertainty,” he said in his Tuesday message.

The fires, made worse by dry conditions and unrelenting winds, have already scorched at least 100,000 acres and have killed at least 21 people since the beginning of the week. Thousands more have been displaced, their homes and businesses destroyed.

Much of the area of the Diocese of Santa Rosa has been under mandatory evacuation, including the chancery and the local Catholic


hours showing their desire to share in the suffering of those displaced by the fire. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My prayers are with all of you as well.”

Christopher Lyford, director of communications for the Santa Rosa diocese, stopped by St. Eugene's Cathedral, which is being used as an evacuation center coordinated by the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa and other parishioners. Once there, he found a homeless man doing his best to comfort the distraught evacuees.

“A homeless man named Paul, who lives near the cathedral in a creekbed, happened by and offered some consolation through his gift of music” by playing the piano inside the shelter, Lyford told journalists. “The poignancy of the moment is not lost.”

Father David Jenuwine, Parochial Vicar of St. Apollinaris Catholic Churchsuch procedure is the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedures--more commonly referred to as balloon angioplasty. In this procedure, a catheter having an inflatable balloon at its distal end is introduced into the coronary artery, the uninflated balloon is positioned at the stenotic site and the balloon is inflated. Inflation of the balloon disrupts and flattens the plaque against the arterial wall, and stretches the arterial wall, resulting in enlargement of the intraluminal passageway and increased blood flow. After such expansion, the balloon is deflated and the balloon catheter removed.
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requirements. The sampling procedure followed a two-stage stratified cluster sampling approach. In the first sampling stage, 301 communities were randomly selected as primary sampling units (PSUs) from a list of all 11,339 populated communities in Germany, stratified by 412 administrative districts and the 'BIK region size classes' \[[@CR9]\] that take into account the population size as well as the regional population and employment density. The BIK classification is commonly used in Germany for regionally stratified sampling designs \[[@CR10]\]. Sampling probabilities were proportional to the population size of the communities using the Cox procedure for controlled rounding \[[@CR11]\]. The selection was performed by the GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. Sampled communities with less than 1000 residents were combined with similar small neighbor communities treateda default judgment which had been entered in plaintiffs' favor. It appears from the record that in February 1964, plaintiff Jane Cassidy was injured while *358 doing volunteer work on the premises of St. Ignatius Loyola Grammar School in Houghton. The attorney whom she had first consulted was fatally injured in an automobile accident and the Cassidy file was turned over to defendant Wisti. The record supports plaintiffs' contention that service of process was made on Bishop Thomas Noa of the Catholic Diocese of Marquette, St. Ignatius Loyola Church, on September 18, 1964. The Bishop did not respond to the pleadings within the required 20 days following service of summons and complaint. Defendant Wisti filed an affidavit in support of default on December 1, 1964. A default judgment


was entered on February 3, 1965, in favor of plaintiff Jacques Cassidy in the amount of $10,000 and in favor of plaintiff Jane Cassidy in the sum of $25,000.
On May 19, 1966, more than 15 months after entry of the default judgment, defendant Wisti, along with counsel representing Bishop Noa and the church, filed a stipulation to set aside the default judgment. On May 25, 1966, the circuit judge, since deceased, entered an order setting aside the judgment. Not until May 27, 1966, did defendant Wisti inform his clients, plaintiffs herein, of the action which he had taken. He sent a letter to them in Oregon, where they had moved from their former residence in Houghton. In that letter he stated that the church's insurance carrier had notThe First Baptist Church Of Temple City, California

Incorporated 68 years, 11 months ago

The First Baptist Church Of Temple City, California is an active Californian business entity incorporated 27th January 1949. Catherine Lorraine Freegard was a previous agent of this non-profit. The last statement filed for this domestic non-profit entity was 8th December 2016.


savings offsets the damage done to the Indiana coal industry. It is plain that the [Act] is Voluntary' in word alone."
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In its amicus brief, the State of Indiana articulates a number of policy arguments on behalf of the constitutionality of the statute. Despite an heroic effort, however, the State cannot escape the reality that the statute, as worded, is patently protectionist. First, the State argues that the phrase "Indiana coal" does not mean coal from the State of Indiana, but is rather a "shorthand expression for the cheapest coal." State's Amicus Curiae Brief, pp. 17-18, nn. 33, 34. While Indiana coal may indeed be the cheapest coal, the State's argument ignores the plain language of the statute, particularly the definition of "Indiana coal" at I.C. §clubs separately. As a result, among neighborhood associations, only female participants were shown to have gained a preventive effect against lower effectance, while in senior citizen clubs, neither male nor female participants showed any relationship with effectance. In Japan, community-dwelling older adults are recommended to participate in senior citizen clubs to prevent deteriorating BADL. According to the authors' study, there is no relationship between the participation to senior citizen clubs and sustention of effectance. The point suggested that the possibility of participation in senior citizen clubs does not lead to maintaining intellectual activities is the point advanced on the previous knowledge in the authors' study. In the Discussion section of the authors' study, they pointed out that the difference between senior citizen clubs and other social groups is


David Tepper's $2.275 billion deal to buy the Carolina Panthers is expected to close in the next two weeks, drawing to an end the era of team founder Jerry Richardson. The sale itself is expected to close without much fanfare, but the change of ownership marks a major change in the history of the franchise.

The next chapter for the Panthers begins under a sole, outspoken new owner.

While much of what Tepper, 60, could do when he takes over (including building new practice facilities and making staffing changes) remains to be seen, here's what's known about how the Tepper era will begin.

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No minority partners

Tepper is not taking on any minority partners — at least not for now. Although he doesn't need any since he bought the teamoutright, Tepper could always opt to take some partners on later.

Tepper himself was a minority partner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, buying a stake in his hometown team in 2009. Tepper has to give up his Steelers' shares now that he's set to become the second owner in Panthers history.

Industry experts say there are pros and cons of taking on minority partners. A new-to-town owner could leverage the network of well-established businesspeople in Charlotte, such as Family Dollar founder Leon Levine, or the Belk family, who founded the Belk department store chain.

Taking on minority partners means Tepper would have to make a capital call every time he wanted to make a new investment.

Charlotte businessman Cameron “Cammie” Harris, a longtime Panthers minority owner, said he has not been in contact


with Tepper about minority ownership. Harris said he'd be interested in a minority partnership if Tepper felt he needed some Charlotte representation.

"There are some other partners who feel the same way," said Harris, whose brother, prominent real estate developer Johnny Harris, is also a minority partner.

Tepper is also expected to remain at the helm of Appaloosa Management, the hedge fund firm he started in 1993.

Over the years, Tepper made billions from risky bets on investments such as Russian debt and bonds from bankrupt companies. Appaloosa now manages about $17 billion for investors. Tepper has a net worth of approximately $11 billion, according to Forbes.

The fan experience

One of Tepper's early investors is Alan Shealy, principal at the Boise investment firm Claremont Partners. Shealy describes Tepper as a "quintessential opportunist."

"Ifhe sees opportunity somewhere, he will cross the Rubicon to get there," Shealy said.

One such opportunity Tepper is expected to take advantage of is using analytics to improve the fan experience at Bank of America Stadium.

That's something the New England Patriots have been doing through the team's operator, Kraft Sports Group, which examines fan behavior and uses analytics to tailor its marketing tactics.

For instance, the Patriots' analytics group uses databases and modeling to determine whether season-ticket holders will renew. If a fan misses two games, the team will reach out to them with a survey, personal calls and letters to help encourage season-ticket renewal, according to DMN, a New York-based firm that specializes in data-driven marketing analysis.

Staffing

It's not yet clear what kind of staffing changes Tepper could make


at the Panthers' front office.

With Tepper expected to continue running his hedge fund, he'll likely need a top lieutenant to run the day-to-day operations of the Panthers. That could come in the form of a team president, a post that has remained vacant since Danny Morrison unexpectedly stepped down last year.

Tepper is not expected to make any immediate personnel changes on the football side of the organization.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera, who has been to the playoffs in four of the past five seasons, and general manager Marty Hurney have contracts that run through the 2020 season.

Marc Ganis, a Chicago-based sports business consultant who advises NFL team owners on business matters, said he doesn't anticipate any sweeping changes. "Anytime a new team owner comes in, it is inevitable thatinclusive workplace at Bank of America Stadium.

"I’m a person that believes in equality for everybody, including men and women," Tepper said following his approval in Atlanta by NFL owners as the Panthers owner last month.

The billionaire next door

Tepper grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1970s when the Steelers were collecting Super Bowl rings like trading cards with a star-studded roster that included Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Mean Joe Greene. Tepper’s family followed all the Pittsburgh teams.

Sheryl Weitman, Tepper’s sister, remembers Tepper going to Pirates games at Forbes Field with his grandfather. They'd pay a quarter to sit in the bleachers and watch Tepper’s idol, Pirates great Roberto Clemente.

After buying a stake in the Steelers in 2009, Tepper would attend Steelers' board meetings and call attention to current


It's a somber day for spaceflight, as NASA astronaut Alan Bean has died at the age of 86 after falling ill during a trip. He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon, flying aboard Apollo 12, and proved crucial to humanity's understanding of its closest celestial neighbor. He was the only geologist to have walked on the Moon and provided an immensely valuable collection of samples that inform lunar geology to this day. He also led the second of three Skylab crews, staying a then record-setting 59 days as he survayed both the Earth's resources and the Sun.local partner in our Brussels office. He is recognised as a leading energy law expert, with extensive experience of electricity and gas projects and litigation. He heads our Energy & Utilities and Competition & Regulatory Teams.

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unassuming man and his young daughter. She has been infected by a deadly disease known as the Black Scrawl, and so her father has sworn to journey in search of a cure.

The adventure that ensues will be beyond anything he has ever experienced.

He will encounter Grimoire Weiss, an ancient book of almost unbelievable power who can use words as weapons. He will face off against Grimoire Noir, a supposed harbinger of the end times. And he will learn the truth behind both the legendary Sealed Verses, and the cursed Shades that hound his every step.

As the world collapses into chaos around him, as his very mind betrays him, the man will press on with a single, dim light flickering in his mind:

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speed. In that case, it is possible to form a margin only in the longitudinal direction of the film but it is impossible to form a margin in the transverse direction of the film and further a margin having an arbitrary pattern. If it is tried to obtain at any cost a metallized resin film having a margin consisting of a margin in the longitudinal direction thereof and a margin in the transverse direction thereof by conventional methods, it would be necessary to stop the running of the film in the longitudinal direction thereof during the operation of masking the film with a tape or oil in the transverse direction thereof, or of eliminating the metal deposition layer on the film in the transverse direction thereof by electric-discharging.Electronic Arts will 'push forward' with loot boxes in future games

The publisher said it is working with regulators to ensure that its games do not break any laws.

Loot boxes have been a real source of trouble for Electronic Arts in recent months, beginning with a furor over their implementation last year in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and growing from there into a wave of international criticism. Yet in a recent earnings call, EA chief executive Andrew Wilson said the company is going to "push on" with loot boxes, and challenged the common complaint that they are a form of gambling.

"As you might imagine, we're working with all the industry associations globally and with regulators in various jurisdictions and territories, many of whom we've been working with for some


Relativity Media has formed a new international sales and distribution division, Relativity Foreign, in hopes of broadening the company's scope, the company announced on Wednesday.

Industry veteran Camela Galano has been named president, reporting to Relativity's founder and CEO Ryan Kavanaugh and President Tucker Tooley.

Relativity Foreign will handle foreign sales and international distribution management on behalf of Relativity's titles as well as third-party releases.

Galano most recently was the founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based global sales and distribution company Speranza13 Media.

Before that, she served as the president of international film acquisitions for Warner Bros. and was president of international sales, marketing and distribution at New Line Cinema, where she worked on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and played key roles in box-office hits as “Austin Powers,” “Blade,”Dow AgroSciences LLC purchases agrichemical unit from Rohm and Haas

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James Houx, technical editor

On March 8, 2001, Dow AgroSciences LLC announced plans to
purchase the agricultural-chemical business unit of Rohm and Haas. The deal,
worth nearly $1 billion, will result in the transfer of ownership of some of
Rohm and Haas’ manufacturing facilities in South America, Europe, China and
the United States. Also, Dow Agrosciences will acquire Rohm and Haas’
fungicide, insecticide and herbicide product lines. The deal will also include
some specialty products, trademarks and biotechnology assets. Last year, sales
in the agricultural unit contributed $531 million to Rohm and Haas revenue. With
the new unit, Dow Agrosicences expect sales to approach $3 billion
annually.

The acquisition is expected to enhance Dow AgroSciences’
position in the agrichemicals market by adding several well-known brand names to
their worldwide turf and ornamental


markets. Although the agrichemicals unit has
performed well and contributed to the company for 70 years, Rohm and Haas feels
that its agricultural unit will be better situated as part of a large, worldwide
agricultural company.

This acquisition continues the trend of operating agrichemical
businesses separately from other chemical units. The agrichemical company, Dow
AgroSciences LLC, is now operated separately from the Dow Chemical Company. In
November 2000 the agrichemical businesses of Zeneca and Novartis were spun off
in the creation of Syngenta. Now, Rohm and Haas, a producer whose technology is
found in plastics, paints, coatings, adhesives, computers, electronics and
construction materials, is divesting its interest in the agrichemicals
business.sister, Candace Cameron Bure, also hurt her foot, but still managed to place third.

There is still no word on whether or not Sweetin will perform on Monday’s show due to her ankle injury. See one of her stunning performances from earlier this season in the video below.

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Valverde plays for the Real Madrid reserve team having joined in July 2016

Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde has denied making a racist gesture during a goal celebration at the Under-20 World Cup in South Korea.

The Uruguayan scored an equaliser and a goal in the penalty shootout against Portugal as his country progressed to the semi-finals of the tournament.

But in his goal celebration he pulled his eyes back to make them into slits.

"It is not a racist celebration. It was a private celebration for friends," he later tweeted external-link in Korean.

"I did not have any racist intent. I'd like to apologise."

Last month Argentina international Ezequiel Lavezzi apologised after he made a similar pose in promotional pictures for his Chinese football club.

He was photographedFebruary 20, 2008 - Discussion about Rush County’s response to Carthage-area emergencies took place at a recent Carthage Town Council meeting.

Addressing the council, Rush County Sheriff Jeff Sherwood said he was unpset by some of Council President Rick Bush's remarks during the council's January 9 meeting.

"I've listened to the tape … and I found some of the comments upsetting," Sherwood said. In reference to a January 2 fire that claimed the life of a young Carthage boy, the sheriff said it sounded as if Bush had been blaming the sheriff's department for the tragedy.

Bush told Sherwood he had not intended to place blame on the sheriff's department. However, he said he and others in the community had questions about why the Carthage Police Department had been dispatched to


the fire before the fire deparment.

Sherwood explained that the CPD was dispatched first to check on an incomplete 911 call coming from Pavey's Grocery in Carthage - something he said was standard procedure. He also noted that the second call that came in reported a fire at an abandoned house, something which, it turned out, was not accurate.
According to Sherwood, the tone went out alerting the fire department after the second 911 call came in. He said his department was notified that the fire department was in route within one minute and 28 seconds of that.

"My comments did not come out of a vacuum," Bush said. "It came from conversations with (Carthage Town Marshal) Mike Onkst and the fire chief." At the January 9 meeting, Carthage Fire Chiefor come talk to you," Bush shot back. He said he thought there was "something still not adding up."

Sherwood told Bush and the council that his door at the RCSD is open. He said if Bush or any of the others wanted to come listen to a recording of the 911 dispatches, they could do so, which Bush said was "fair."

Bush told Sherwood that people in Carthage are concerned about what they perceive as a slow response time, and want answers about when the fire department was dispatched. While he said he couldn't speak for the CVFD, Sherwood said that a lot of volunteer fire departments experience slower response times during daytime hours due to unavailability of personnel.

Sherwood did tell the council that part of the audio from


week's meeting that the town has been directed by a county attorney to quit clearing roads outside the town's limits of snow and ice. A January 17 letter from attorney Leigh Morning had apparently come in response to the town's request that the county provide Carthage with sand to put down on county roads.

"Carthage has a limited area in which it can maintain the roads," Morning wrote in her letter. "Any road outside of your corporate boundary line, or that your boundary line splits down the middle, are roads for Rush County to maintain. Carthage should not touch these roads."

"Salt causes roads to deteriorate more quickly," Morning continued. "As you know, millions of dollars were spent on County Road 700 West. We would like to see the roadlast as long as possible. By directing your people to put salt on the road, you are simply causing the road to deteriorate. You do not have the manpower, equipment or funds to maintain and repair the road."

Rush County Commissioner Kenny Masters told Bush that he had spoken with Rush County Highway Superintendent Jerry Sitton about the town's request for sand. Masters said Sitton told him he doesn't want to give sand to the town.

Carthage works manager Jimmie Alcorn said a county worker who lives in the area told him he has to drive all the way to Rushville to clock in before he can start plowing roads. Masters said he was not aware of that policy.

Bush said Carthage was simply offering to help the county out. While


he said the county's road-clearing efforts had been better in recent weeks, he said he thought the county needed to be more proactive in dealing with snow and ice.

Masters told the council to hold off for right now and see how the highway department responds. "Let's let it slowly cook on the pot and see what we can get done in the next year," he said.

Sherwood asked the council whether the town's insurance would cover town employees involved in an accident while clearing roads outside the town limits. Bush said he thought it would be no different than when the town's police officers respond to calls outside of town. Sherwood suggested the council might want to double check that.have a strong presence outside the field, in popular culture - Unique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style

Alisse Waterston is Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Author of Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence (1999), she is currently working on two intimate ethnographies: Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Writing My Father’s Life and Narrating Poland.

Maria D. Vesperi is Professor of Anthropology at New College of Florida and a trustee of the Poynter Institute. Author of City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown (1986), she is currently completing a book on the relationship between ethnographic narrative and narrative journalism and developing a 150-year


In the quarterfinal of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, England and Portugal played for 90 tense minutes and 30 minutes extra time without a single goal being scored. This led them to a penalty shoot-out; as one by one, players went against the opposing team’s goalie. After four shots by each team, Portugal was ahead 2-1. Portugal’s star Cristiano Ronaldo shot to English goalkeeper Paul Robinson’s left, but Robinson dove right. Portugal scored, won the game, and went on to the semifinal.

When Robinson dove to his right, he was making a common choice for our right-oriented brains, according to a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers found that, in World Cup penalty shoot-outs, goalies tend to dive right whenHDS [Hitachi Data Systems], what
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story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, theFiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz


be a pretty standard TvZ, it broke down into utter chaos following a base trade. Normally in those situations, one side comes out with a decisive lead once the dust settles, but not in this game. The thirty minutes following the base trade were played on a knife's edge, and no one had any idea how the hell it was all going to end until the final minute of the game. In terms of tension, excitement, and dramatic twists and turns, this game is one of THE best this year.

Runner-Up: MoonGlade vs. Illusion

Worst game: EG.Suppy.RC vs. AX.Heart

But holy god, was that game poorly played. Now, it's true that with perfect play, we'd never see lead changes or comebacks, and games would just be immensely boring snowballing sequences afterdozen liftable buildings to ultralisks, and about 80% of what he did in the game. Sure, he contributed to one of the best comebacks in SC2 history, but it will never be THE best because of the flaws in his play.

Runner-Up: Stephano vs. Grubby

Most pleasant non-game surprise: Free VODs for EU and AM

When GOMTV first released their latest subscription plan, many were indifferent. It was expensive, sure, but it was for some of the best games in the world and that came at a premium. Then Proleague came around, and while the production and casting might have been severely lacking compare to GomTV, it came at a low price of $5 for the entire season. WCS changed the ballgame once more, offering free 720p across the three regions,


the build as well. Just days later, we saw Illusion go for

Best "F*** the haters" performance: HelloKitty

Many were baffled to see 's name on the list when the WCS America invites were announced. He was a player barely anyone had heard about, except maybe from complaints from other streamers that he was one of the cheesiest player on earth. The haters cackled with glee as HelloKitty put in dismal performances in his first three WCS matches, having his all-ins shut down by Ryung and Heart.

One game away from elimination, HelloKitty decided there was nothing to lose and did something completely new: he made a Nexus. As it turned out, that was all the difference between being a laughing stock at and eliminating a former Code S player fromdedicated Hellbat producer. But in the end, there was little contest as Copenhagen Wolves' stood out above the rest with an astounding average HPM of 520. In a world where Hellbats have to compete with mines, medivacs, marines and marauders for Terran attention, only Bunny stayed completely devoted to the Hellbat (

Runner-Up: Na`Vi.Strelok

Best comedic timing: IdrA

This will never get old.

Most likely to be adopted as American: CMStorm_Polt

When WCS was first announced, there were a plethora of tweets from various Korean progamers hailing as a prophet and a genius, for he left Korea to study in the United States at the end of 2012. This has turned out to be a brilliant career move, with the new regional WCS system favoring him greatly. Polt has managed to acclimatize himself


While a lot of Americans did fall (despite the US being the most heavily seeded country), Evil Geniuses' shocked everyone by advancing as first in his group, defeating Korean Terrans like and Ryung.

It's the second such underdog performance for Suppy ever since he placed top eight at the WCS Global Finals last year. While his form seems to vary greatly depending on how his school workload is, Suppy at his best could very well deserve to be called the best player in the USA.

Best out-of-nowhere performance that we probably should have expected: DIMAGA

DIMAGA, the fully capitalized Beast from the East is back and in full force. Having stayed quiet in the early phases of HotS (he had to unfortunately cancel out of MLG Dallas), he has now steppedback into the spotlight after topping his WCS EU Ro32 group without dropping a single map. He crushed the German Protoss , and then went on to take out four time GSL winner with remarkable ease. Some still have their reservations, as Socke is known to be inconsistent, and Mvp had to suffer through KR-EU server lag. DIMAGA will have a chance to put all these doubts to rest in the Ro16, where he takes on three of Europe's best in Feast, ThorZaIN, and Stephano.

Runner-Up: Na`Vi.BabyKnight

Gosuest trolling: EG.HuK.RC

, the man of many shift-queue hearts and hallucinated Void Rays, has always understood the value of entertaining his fans. Even though he was narrowly eliminated from the WCS America Premier League by Taiwan's Sen, he didn't leave without putting on


that WCS America would be the only refuge for a large number of players who didn't fall into WCS Europe or WCS Korea. Despite their gross mistreatment of Chinese players, MLG at least saw it fit to award one spot to the region known as "SEA", giving it to WCS 2012 continental champion . If mOOnGLaDe was feeling the pressure of being the sole representative of all the players within a few hundred million square kilometers, he didn't let it show. Tossed into a group with Alicia, , and , mOOnGLaDe overcame a loss in his initial game to win two straight series and secure his spot in the Ro16. It will only get tougher for mOOnGLaDe in the Ro16, but we're sure he'll continue to keep hisupload viruses to an alien mothership, that's just a line too far. The same goes for Heart losing with 7k in the bank, losing a few dozen liftable buildings to ultralisks, and about 80% of what he did in the game. Sure, he contributed to one of the best comebacks in SC2 history, but it will never be THE best because of the flaws in his play.When GOMTV first released their latest subscription plan, many were indifferent. It was expensive, sure, but it was for some of the best games in the world and that came at a premium. Then Proleague came around, and while the production and casting might have been severely lacking compare to GomTV, it came at a low price of $5 for the entire


that he was one of the cheesiest player on earth. The haters cackled with glee as HelloKitty put in dismal performances in his first three WCS matches, having his all-ins shut down by Ryung and Heart.One game away from elimination, HelloKitty decided there was nothing to lose and did something completely new: he made a Nexus. As it turned out, that was all the difference between being a laughing stock at and eliminating a former Code S player from WCS America. Heart was crushed by HK's macro play, and was sent hurtling down to the Challenger League. While HK didn't win full vindication, getting crushed once more by Ryung in the following series, he still acquitted himself far better than most of his American peers.Newkirk, sorry to breakany map pool after this season.DaybreakFirst there was APM, a metric to measure a player's speed. Then came EAPM, an improved metric that tried to account for APM's flaws. Now, with the release of HotS, it's clear that neither APM nor EAPM are sufficient to measure the single most important factor in securing victory: Hellbats. Thus, we introduce the newest advanced metric, HPM (Hellbats per Mineral).With the Hellbat hysteria sweeping all of Europe, there were a plethora of Terran players who were vying to be the most dedicated Hellbat producer. But in the end, there was little contest as Copenhagen Wolves' Bunny stood out above the rest with an astounding average HPM of 520. In a world where Hellbats have to compete with mines, medivacs, marines and marauders


for Terran attention, only Bunny stayed completely devoted to the Hellbat ( ForGG vs. Bunny, a typical Bunny series ). Hopefully this quailty will serve him better in the Challenger League than it did in the Premier League.Na`Vi.StrelokThis will never get old.When WCS was first announced, there were a plethora of tweets from various Korean progamers hailing Polt as a prophet and a genius, for he left Korea to study in the United States at the end of 2012. This has turned out to be a brilliant career move, with the new regional WCS system favoring him greatly. Polt has managed to acclimatize himself at UT Austin, receive a personal sponsorship with CM Storm, convince TeSPA to do all of his PR for free, and has generally putever since he placed top eight at the WCS Global Finals last year. While his form seems to vary greatly depending on how his school workload is, Suppy at his best could very well deserve to be called the best player in the USA.DIMAGA, the fully capitalized Beast from the East is back and in full force. Having stayed quiet in the early phases of HotS (he had to unfortunately cancel out of MLG Dallas), he has now stepped back into the spotlight after topping his WCS EU Ro32 group without dropping a single map. He crushed the German Protoss Socke , and then went on to take out four time GSL winner Mvp with remarkable ease. Some still have their reservations, as Socke is known to be


inconsistent, and Mvp had to suffer through KR-EU server lag. DIMAGA will have a chance to put all these doubts to rest in the Ro16, where he takes on three of Europe's best in Feast, ThorZaIN, and Stephano. HuK , the man of many shift-queue hearts and hallucinated Void Rays, has always understood the value of entertaining his fans. Even though he was narrowly eliminated from the WCS America Premier League by Taiwan's Sen, he didn't leave without putting on a performance worth talking about.It was clear that HuK was a step above 2012 WCS Argentina Winner Capoch when they faced off in the losers' match. However, instead of rolling to a simple 2 - 0 victory, HuK decided to show his mirthful side by pointing out, andpoking fun at an error from Capoch: A critical stalker he had trapped inside his own buildings. Even as HuK battered down Capoch's defenses, he made sure the tragic little stalker would survive the ordeal.There's no question that NaNiwa enjoys watching professional StarCraft, especially when HuK is playing. In fact, he made sure to have the best seats in the house when HuK played his Code S group last season. So it was no surprise that NaNiwa appeared to have quite a good time watching HuK in WCS America group, as he went up against Sen, Crank, and Capoch.Unfortunately, HuK lost in a narrow 1 - 2 series to Sen, ceding the Ro16 spot to the Taiwanese player. Still, like any true fan, NaNiwa made sure to retweet


of players who didn't fall into WCS Europe or WCS Korea. Despite their gross mistreatment of Chinese players, MLG at least saw it fit to award one spot to the region known as "SEA", giving it to WCS 2012 continental champion Nv.mOOnGLaDe . If mOOnGLaDe was feeling the pressure of being the sole representative of all the players within a few hundred million square kilometers, he didn't let it show. Tossed into a group with Illusion , and Maker , mOOnGLaDe overcame a loss in his initial game to win two straight series and secure his spot in the Ro16. It will only get tougher for mOOnGLaDe in the Ro16, but we're sure he'll continue to keep his composure. It's not like future seeds and considerations for hisBrain Training Blog

Read Across America Day

It’s Read Across America Day – a day set aside to encourage every person in America to read or be read to for fun. This annual nationwide observance coincides with the birthday of Dr. Seuss, the American writer best known for creating children’s books and inspiring the love of reading in four generations of kids.

The beloved Doc died in 1991, six years before the first Read Across America Day, and while he would most likely have been tickled with the event, the state of reading in America may have him rolling over in his grave.

A 2007 report by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), shows reading literacy has dropped since Seuss was alive. To Read or Not To Read: A Question of


perfect pick for younger kids. Forty of them are written in rhyme. Rhyming forces the dissection of sounds and helps grow phonemic awareness, which is the ability to blend, unglue and manipulate sounds in a word. A 10-year Institute of Health study found that weakness in this area was the cause of 88% of all learning to read problems. Helping tots build that key cognitive skill now can help prevent problems when school starts, and keep them enjoying reading well into adulthood.

That love of reading as adults is another area of decline. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of adults over the age of 24 who reported having read a play, poem, short story or novel during the past year decreased between 1982 andDr. Seuss, the American writer best known for creating children’s books and inspiring the love of reading in four generations of kids.

The beloved Doc died in 1991, six years before the first Read Across America Day, and while he would most likely have been tickled with the event, the state of reading in America may have him rolling over in his grave.

A 2007 report by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), shows reading literacy has dropped since Seuss was alive. To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence gathered statistics from more than 40 studies on the reading skills and habits of Americans of all ages. The report unveiled trends that Americans are reading less, reading less well, and graduating from school less prepared.

According


inspiring the love of reading in four generations of kids.

The beloved Doc died in 1991, six years before the first Read Across America Day, and while he would most likely have been tickled with the event, the state of reading in America may have him rolling over in his grave.

A 2007 report by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), shows reading literacy has dropped since Seuss was alive. To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence gathered statistics from more than 40 studies on the reading skills and habits of Americans of all ages. The report unveiled trends that Americans are reading less, reading less well, and graduating from school less prepared.

According to the official website of Dr. Seuss, a few weeks before his                               APPELLATE DIVISION
      Defendants-Appellants,

and

ELISE MINTZER and GARRET
LARDIERE 2ND,

      Defendants.

_______________________________

STATE OF NEW JERSEY,

      Plaintiff-Respondent,

v.

CALVIN PRESLEY, DARLENE OTT,
ANDREA DEKKER and CHRISTOPHER
CLARK,

      Defendants-Appellants.

________________________________________________________________

          Argued November 6, 2013 – Decided July 17, 2014

          Before Judges Fisher, Espinosa and O'Connor.
          On appeal from an interlocutory order of


   Sanchez,

Elise Mintzer, Garret Lardiere 2nd, Darlene Ott, Andrea Dekker,

or   Christopher    Clark    (the   other        defendants)    as     an   assistant

prosecutor.

      In the months of March and April 2012, approximately seven

years after he was last involved in a prosecution of Collins,

the judge reviewed a series of applications and issued warrants

that authorized the installation and use of tracking devices,

the interception of wire and electronic communications, searches

of various locations, and the arrests of Collins and Presley

(collectively, the warrants).           This was not the first criminal

prosecution involving Collins in which the judgeof those warrants,

and dismissing the charges against him.           Collins later joined

Presley's motion.

4
   The State concedes that the judge represented the State in a
total of four matters. In addition to the one revealed by
Promis/Gavel in October 2012, those matters included the
following:
   On December 11, 2001, he executed a plea agreement in which
     Collins entered a guilty plea pursuant to a plea agreement
     to one count of Indictment No. 01-07-987 and to Indictment
     No. 01-11-1546, both of which charged her with third-degree
     possession of cocaine.
   On November 10, 2003, he executed a plea agreement in which


  least ten occasions. He had worked with him
            as part of his function with Winslow
            Township as an inspector.     And he was so
            comfortable with him that he was able to
            approach him three weeks before the issuance
            of this search warrant and request an OR
            bail for a friend.

      the grand jury while the judge was an assistant

prosecutor.       Id. at 553.

      It    was    the    trial      judge   who    raised      the   disqualification

issue in Kettles, supra, 345 N.J. Super. at 467-71, when she

recognized the defendant before trial began.                          She informed the

defense attorney that she had presented a different case against

the defendant to the grand jury when she served as an assistant

prosecutor.


    from     four     different

confidential informants (CIs) with prior reliability, three of

whom had purchased cocaine from Collins in the past.

       Collins was arraigned by the judge on a prior criminal

matter    in    January    2011,    well    over    a    year    before     the    first

warrant was issued.          A suppression motion was filed and not

resolved until November 2011.              At that time, the judge arraigned

Collins onProfession: Supermodel

Nationality: Spanish

Known for: Being a finalist on the "Elite Model" paegant by the time she was 17.

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Born: August 31, 1989 in Alcudia, Spain.

Random Fact: Dated Barcelona captain Carles Puyol.


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