PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police say a 28-year-old man was taken to the hospital in critical condition after a late night stabbing outside a Providence convenience store.
Police say Conrado Urizar, of Providence, was stabbed outside the 7-Eleven store on Cranston Street just before midnight Tuesday. He had been stabbed several times in the abdomen.
Urizar was taken to Rhode Island Hospital.
Witnesses told investigators that two men fled the area on foot. A store clerk said Urizar had just left the store after a purchase and was walking across the parking lot when he heard yelling.
Police do not believe it was a random attack.


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Die Rallye Norwegen, die im Gebiet rund um Hamar ausgefahren wird, führt über Schotter, Schnee und Eis. Ihre Wertungsprüfungen sind nicht ganz so schnell wie die ihrer Partner-Rallye in Schweden. Im Jahr 2006 erlebte die Rallye Norwegen ihre Jungfernfahrt als Testlauf für die Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft und wurde von Lokalfavorit Henning Solberg gewonnen. 2007 hatte sie erstmals ein FIA-WM-Prädikat.

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While the vacationers or messenger terminals are constantly interconnected, the common final will be the only one left. To understand this terminal, consider to get a minute a regular transition that's only 2 devices. When wiring a regular move the incoming energy feed (hot) conductor is attached to one final (often bottom right) along with the outgoing power feed for the lights is linked to one other terminal (generally leading right). This is actually the purpose of the most popular devices in a 3 means switch circuit, on one of both 3 way changes the incoming electricity supply (warm) conductor is connected to its widespread terminal and about the additional of both 3 way changes the outgoing supply to the lamps is connected to its typical final.


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Review: The To Do List
It's a little too silly to sustain a significant character journey, but "The To Do List" is still a successful overload of nostalgic and incredibly raunchy humor.
Brandy (Aubrey Plaza) is graduating high school as the class valedictorian, but she's bossy, socially awkward and, worst of all, sexually inexperienced. When her friends Fiona and Wendy (Alia Shawkat and Sarah Steele) force her to go to a normal party, Brandy catches a glimpse of college hottie Rusty Waters (Scott Porter) and is determined to make him her first. But before she can make the leap and accomplish full-blown sex, she's got to build up her resume with things like hand jobs, blowjobs, dry humping, cunnilingus, and more.
It's a little tough to buy that someone as bright as Brandy, and also someone with friends like Fiona and Wendy would ever think completing a massive to do list of sexual feats with anyone and everyone available is a smart and safe idea, but it works because "The To Do List" doesn't hold back in the least. From the moment the opening credit start rolling and 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" kicks in, you get a sense of what you're in for.
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Weird how almost everything else is available in our area but not Taco Bell…..
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I'm not far at all from a TB. I looked online & see the GrubHub CEO recommends tipping, but if I was in the TB parking lot to take delivery, would anyone else still tip?
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Spoon Formation
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Lithostratigraphy: Kewanee Group >>Spoon Formation
Chronostratigraphy: Paleozoic Erathem >>Pennsylvanian Subsystem >>Desmoinesian Series
Allostratigraphy: Absaroka Sequence
M. E. Hopkins and J. A. Simon
The Spoon Formation of the Kewanee Group (Kosanke et al., 1960, p. 32, 45).
Named for the Spoon River, Fulton County.
The type section, which is in a roadcut and a railroad cut (NE SE 22, 6N-1E), is about a quarter mile west of the Spoon River.
The formation consists of strata from the top of the Bernadotte Sandstone of western Illinois or the Murray Bluff Sandstone of southern Illinois to the base of the Colchester (No. 2) Coal (fig. P-2), rocks formerly included in the upper part of the Tradewater Group.
Fig. P-2 -- Classification of the Pennsylvanian System. In the graphic column, blank space indicates gray shale. Named members are listed to the right of the graphic column.
The Spoon Formation is present throughout most of the area in which Pennsylvanian strata occur. It is as much as 350 feet thick in southern Illinois but ranges from a few feet to less than 100 feet in northern and western Illinois.
The formation is characterized by less sandstone and more coal and limestone than the Abbott Formation below and by less limestone and coal than the Carbondale Formation above. Sandstones are well developed in both elongate and sheet facies but do not constitute as much of the total section as they do in the lower formations. The sandstones show the general upward increase in the amount of argillaceous matrix and mica flakes that began in the sandstones in the Abbott Formation, from which they differ only slightly. The formation contains the first widespread limestones and coals, but they are thinner than those in the younger Pennsylvanian of Illinois. The coals of the Spoon are thicker and more extensive than those of the lower formations.
The Spoon Formation correlates with the upper part of the Tradewater Formation and the lower part of the Carbondale Formation in western Kentucky and the very uppermost part of the Brazil Formation, all the Staunton Formation, and the lower part of the Linton Formation in Indiana.
"Bellair 500", "Bridgeport", "Browning", "Claypool", "lower Dudley", "Isabel", "Kickapoo", "Petro", "Robinson", "2nd or lower Siggins" and "Wilson" are informal names applied to producing zones in the Spoon Formation.
KOSANKE, R. M., J. A. SIMON, H. R. WANLESS, and H. B. WILLMAN, 1960, Classification of the Pennsylvanian strata of Illinois: Illinois State Geological Survey Report of Investigations 214, 84 p.
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Camping Near Saint Elmo, Colorado
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Camping Near Deckers, Colorado
Nancy Wagner, Leaf Group Updated January 12, 2018
Buford, Colorado, Camping
Camping at San Isabel Lake in Colorado
The small community of Deckers lies along the South Platte River and provides a great camping experience for the nearby Denver and Colorado Springs communities. The river, known for its excellent brown and rainbow trout fishing, provides anglers with numerous access points along a 20-mile stretch of the river near Deckers. The community is surrounded by Pike National Forest, with three nearby campgrounds that provide sites for tent and RV campers to set up base camp.
Lone Rock Campground
Lone Rock Campground, situated less than a mile from Deckers, makes a prime camping spot for fishing enthusiasts. Campsites sit at the bottom of a hill along the South Platte River. Anglers can fish from the campground, or head back into Deckers to gain access to the river in another location. Amenities include vault toilets and water spigots scattered around the campground. Picnic tables and fire grills are next to each campsite.
Platte River Campground
The Platte River Campground, situated about four miles from Deckers, also provides access to the South Platte River for fishing and tubing, a great place to visit in the summer. The campground includes a fishing area for wheelchairs. Each campsite features a picnic table and a fire grill with toilets and drinking water located nearby.
Goose Creek Campground
Goose Creek Campground offers campsites about 14 miles from Deckers. The campsites are nestled into a heavy spruce forest with a grassy understory. The soothing sound of the bubbling Goose Creek makes the sites even more relaxing. The dirt road into the campground may present problems for RVs and trailers since the steep, winding road contains lots of potholes and washboard surface. The creek makes an enjoyable spot for fishing for brook trout. At Goose Creek, it is necessary to pack the garbage out since trash collection is not provided. Vault toilets and water spigots are provided.
None of the campgrounds provides electrical or water hookups for RVs. Bears frequent the area, so lock all food, pots and pans, dishes, utensils, camping gear and cosmetics in the vehicle's trunk.
Several of the campgrounds make a good spot for tubing down and fishing for trout on the river, or just watching the fishermen and wildlife along the river. From June through August, Class II to IV rapids make whitewater rafting an exciting adventure between Deckers and the Chatfield Reservoir State Recreation Area on the South Platte River. Paddlers find the 16-mile stretch includes granite boulders, rapids, drops and holes along the way. The bridge in Deckers along State Highway 67 makes a good put-in point.
Southwest Paddlers: South Platte River
U.S. National Forest Campground Guide: Pike National Forest, Campground List
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service: Pike and San Isabel National Forests Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands
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Q: Assumptions in sympy arbitrary functions With SymPy we can set assumptions on variables:
from sympy import *
x = Symbol('x', real=True)
x, re(x), im(x)

the result is :
(x,x,0)

as expected. But if we try to do the same for a function:
from sympy import *
x = Symbol('x', real=True)
f = Function('f', real=True)(x)

f, re(f), im(f)

the result is :
(f(x),re(f(x)),im(f(x)))

but I expected something as
(f(x),f(x),0)

The question is then: Is there a way to make python assume the range of the function to be real, i.e.
In this previous question it is partially answered, but if the we take the derivative we get again the same problem:
from sympy import *
x = Symbol('x', real=True)
class f(Function):
    is_positive = True
df = f(x).diff(x)

df, re(df), im(df)

with result:
(f(x).diff(x),re(f(x).diff(x)),im(f(x).diff(x)))

wanting it to be like
(f(x).diff(x),f(x).diff(x),0)

is there a way?

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California Assembly Introduces Bill to Make California a Leader in Ending Deforestation
Sacramento, CA — As the Biden administration ramps up federal efforts on climate and environmental protection, California legislators took things into their own hands today with the introduction of the California Deforestation-Free Procurement Act (AB 416). If passed, the bill would make California the first state in the nation to require that state procurement contracts do not contribute to tropical or boreal deforestation.
"By introducing this bill, we're giving California the opportunity to take real leadership in the fight against tropical and boreal deforestation and primary forest degradation by making our purchases – and our global impact – more transparent, more sustainable and more ethical," said Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). "AB 416 asserts our California values and extends environmental leadership to the protection of tropical and boreal forests, sending a powerful signal to global markets that illegal and destructive commodity-driven deforestation will no longer be tolerated."
The proposed law would affect all state contracts involving products or commodities whose production puts tropical and primary boreal forests at risk. Under the new law, companies doing business with California must maintain No Deforestation policies and provide clear evidence that their supply chains or direct operations are not linked to deforestation or the abuse of indigenous peoples' rights.
Palm oil, soy, cattle, rubber, paper/pulp and timber are the products primarily driving global forest loss. The law includes all these forest-risk commodities, with a provision to expand the list of covered products and commodities periodically once the law takes effect.
"The rapid loss of our global forests to agribusiness and overconsumption is a crisis of epic proportions. Now, California has the opportunity to use its purchasing power to tackle the root causes of forest destruction," said Jeff Conant, Senior International Forests Program Manager at Friends of the Earth U.S. "This will be a precedent-setting policy with truly global implications."
The bill was introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), along with coauthors Assemblymembers Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), Alex Lee (D-San Jose), Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), Luz Rivas (D-Arleta), and Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance), and Senators Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) and Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz). It is co-sponsored by Friends of the Earth, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Peace 4 Animals, and Social Compassion in Legislation.
Regulation of deforestation in public procurement is under development in France, Norway, the EU and other jurisdictions, making California's bill the latest effort in a global trend toward increased government regulation to stem the deforestation crisis.
For additional information or to contact the California legislature, see the Press Release issued today by CA Assembly Member Ash Kalra. [link: https://a27.asmdc.org/press-releases/20210204-assemblymember-kalra-introduces-bill-make-california-leader-ending]
Expert contact: Jeff Conant, [email protected]
Communications contacts:
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In recent months, there have been articles and a book, in particular, that have reminded us of Forsyth's historical reputation of severe racial division, while questioning how far we have come as a county. While Forsyth is not perfect, I believe in the people of this county, and our authentic desire to create communities, schools, and workplaces that reflect the best of what America has to offer.
Recently, I was made aware of racist comments made by Jane Wood Allen, a paraprofessional at Chestatee Elementary School here in Forsyth County, Georgia, and while I unequivocally support the right to free speech, I also believe in choosing to exercise that right responsibly and respectfully. Not only did she make Facebook posts about First Lady Michelle Obama likening her to a "gorilla," other posts she published contained anti-Hispanic and anti-Muslim sentiments, according to screen-captures and school officials; tolerating this type of rhetoric causes our collective character to be in question. That said, Forsyth County Schools must take action by making it clear that, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from its consequences.
Forsyth County Schools is home to an increasingly diverse population of over 46,000 students in 37 schools, and many of our schools are recognized across the state & nation as leaders in public education. Leaders set standards, and these comments made by Jane Wood Allen do not represent what is best in Forsyth County Schools. Our teachers have worked hard to earn a reputation for being the best in their profession, and our parents and students deserve better. We should be focusing on the fact that Forsyth County Schools continue to have the highest SAT scores in Metro-Atlanta, as well as the top score in Georgia for districts that tested over 410 students, and that all traditional Forsyth County high school results were higher than the state averages. Our performance is what makes other counties admire Forsyth County Schools, and as we continue to grow, we must be willing to address issues that threaten the integrity of our communities and schools.
As I canvassed today in a community with varied nationalities I kept thinking about Ms. Allen's tweet and the harm her message could do to these families. Intolerance has no place in our schools. I agree with Daniel, we must bring these types of racial slurs into the light and address them openly. Chestatee Elementary School, where Ms. Allen works as a paraprofessional is a Title 1 school, the majority of the students come from families at or below the poverty line. How sensitive is Ms. Allen to the needs of the children in her care? My hope is that the Forsyth County BOE will investigate and do what is best for the children.
Thank you to Daniel for bringing this issue into the light. #CommonGround.


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Kardashians giving Miami back to its rightful owners
It's official. Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, the Landers sisters (plus one) of the 2010s, will not be taking Miami again. Sources tell us the E! reality show Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami was going to potentially come back as Kim & Kourtney Take Back Miami but the idea was killed. "The New York show is performing really well so the girls will stay in New York to film the next season." But don't get too excited disappointed. We're not getting rid of them completely. Despite the show not coming back, sources tell us that the sisters are thinking about opening a second Miami outpost of their money laundry boutique, Dash. "The [South Beach] store is packed everyday and doing insane amounts of business," says our source. Plus, adds the source, "The Kardashians love Miami and Khloe's husband [LA Lakers player] Lamar Odom owns a home in Miami." Word is they've got their eyes on Aventura Mall. No decisions or leases have been signed but scouting has begun. We will keep you posted if you can handle it.
March 15, 2011 in Famous, Why?, Reality Check | Permalink | Comments (3)
Jersey Shore class acts to duke it out in Ft. Lauderdale
Though many of our DVRs have been long disinfected from the virus known as Jersey Shore, apparently many more are still inexplicably watching. Jumping on the germy bandwagon is Hollywood Boxing, who is offering J-Woww and Sammi $50,000 each to get into the ring and beat the you know what out of each other with "huge 24 oz. boxing gloves." Though there's a date set, March 19, a venue has yet to be announced. And while the two Shore skanks would be the star attraction or something, the event will also feature 16 women not on an MTV reality show throwing punches in the ring for cash and prizes. Class, unfortunately, is not one of them.
January 12, 2011 in Absurd, Famous, Why?, overexposure, overkill, Porn Stars, Reality Check | Permalink | Comments (0)
Jersey Shore viewing party: May cause extreme nausea or severe discoloration
Like a car accident on I-95, you know you can't help but look, if but for a quick second. Same goes for the trainwreck/90 car pile up called Jersey Shore, whose second season, partly filmed right here in Miami, will debut on MTV tomorrow night. However, like the Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, watching too much Jersey Shore will most likely induce severe nausea. It seems like just yesterday that places like Mynt and pretty much everywhere else not located on Ocean Drive were so aghast, they basically said they'd sooner let a serial killer into their fine establishments than the cast of that show. And wisely so. According to People magazine, the "producers made Miami look as ugly as Seaside Heights, NJ." And that's not even including J-Woww's wardrobe or lack thereof. But if you're gonna watch, you may as well do so at the Catalina, the sister property of the hotel (the Metropole) that probably needed a Hazmat team to sterilize the place after the giddy gang o' guidos packed up their spray tan, Valtrex bottles and Aqua Net and left. And even though the Metropole wisely decided to 86 plans to charge thousands a night for the Snooki Slept Here suite, it doesn't mean they can't celebrate. Which they will tomorrow night at Maxine's Bistro and Bar at the Catalina at 9 p.m. with much food, drink and fanfare--for instance, go dressed as a Jersey Shore cast member and get a free Jersey Shore Situation cocktail. That's almost as good as dressing like a cow for a free sandwich at Chik-Fil-A, though we think we'd rather do that and pay for our cocktail rather than dress like a burnt, overinflated, puffy, pumpkin.
July 28, 2010 in Absurd, Famous, Why?, overexposure, overkill, Porn Stars, Reality Check, Shameless, Television, Waxing Moronic | Permalink | Comments (4)
Open casting call on South Beach for bad girls and bachelors who love them
In an open casting call that sounds like an ad for a Pimps 'n' Hos party, the folks responsible for such mind numbing television as The Real World and Keeping Up With the Kardashians is looking for men and women to try out for the next installments of brain teasers Bad Girls Club and its testosterone-charged spawn, Love Games. Women and men 21 and over who missed the Jerry Springer Show bandwagon are encouraged to show up, photo and ID in town, at Finnegan's Way, 1334 Ocean Drive, on Friday, July 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For those unfamiliar with the Oxygen Network's "highest rated original series ever," Bad Girls Club, you must be in Mensa. As for Love Games, that one features former "Bad Girls Club stars vying for the man of their dreams." It's dating for the E-Harmony rejects! You've tried MySpace, you've even tried writing to some incarcerated criminals, so what do you have to lose?
July 19, 2010 in Casting Couch, Famous, Why?, Reality Check | Permalink | Comments (3)
Valtrex alert: Jersey Shore Season 2 flaring up for July debut
Poor South Beach, suffering from that not so fresh feeling after the inexplicably popular MTV virus known as Jersey Shore polluted our beloved beach town. And just when you thought we got rid of it, that virus is about to infect the airwaves when it relapses debuts on Thursday, July 29 at 10 p.m. on that channel that used to play music videos. We're itching from the trailer already. In a way, it's sort of like watching the JonBenet Ramsey story on Lifetime that show Toddlers and Tiaras in which innocent children are tarted up and pimped out for publicity. You can' t help but cringe, and you can't help but watch, either. At your own risk, of course.
June 30, 2010 in Absurd, All Washed Up, Apocalyptic, Famous, Why?, Nonsensical, overexposure, overkill, Reality Check, Shameless, Television, viral | Permalink | Comments (4)
Calling all jilted brides and grooms: your betrothed may have bailed, but reality TV wants you!
There may be few things worse than being left at the altar--just ask Kiefer Sutherland or the former fiance of the so-called Runaway Bride who staged her kidnapping just to avoid taking that big, scary matrimonial march. But we may have found something that could be worse: a reality show about it all. Yep, Beach Pictures and Pink Sneakers Productions (responsible for such TV gems as Hogan Knows Best, Brooke Knows Best and, best of all in the worst possible way, Miami Social) are casting for their newest reality masterpiece, Left At the Altar, and are on the hunt for brides and grooms who set the big date but chickened out at least a month before the wedding. From losing your bride to losing your pride, it could be considered cathartic for the jilted and the scorned to tell their stories on national TV. Or not. Those who dare to find out are asked to send a picture and their story to info@beachpictures.tv. One word of advice: make sure you sign a pre-nup.
May 06, 2010 in Casting Couch, Famous, Why?, Reality Check | Permalink | Comments (1)
The situation has suddenly improved: Jersey Shore heading back to the Garden State
We've been punked! MTV pulled off a clever little prank, and it turns out that it was just a very special Jersey Shore Soils South Beach episode and the cast of guidos and guidas will soon enough be returning to Seaside, NJ where they belong, according to MTV spokeswoman Emily Yeomans. "Once the boardwalk heats back up, the series will return to the Jersey Shore to complete the season," they said. It was 60 degrees there today, so hopefully it'll be sooner than later even though we were told they are here for the next two months which, in reality show years, is an eternity. No wonder MTV didn't officially announce that season 2 was taking place in Miami. It was all just a little field trip and an elaborate ruse to throw us off (or Miami's lack of enthusiasm) and it may have been the smartest thing MTV did since canceling The Hills.
April 08, 2010 in Absurd, All Washed Up, Famous, Why?, viral | Permalink | Comments (7)
Bienveguidos a Miami: Jersey Shore tsunami hits South Beach
Roll out the welcome mats, the red carpets, the parties hosted by Snooki with special guest DJ Pauly D', fashion shows by J Wowww, work out sessions with The Situation, spray tanning with the other ones whose names we forget but, you know, the ones riding on this gravy trainwreck, too, and, well you get the picture. They're heeere, them Jersey Shore kids, and Miami's about to get a lot more sensational, and you decide which definition of that word we're using here. Between the hush-hush nature of their arrival and the MTV lockdown on information you'd have thought it was a matter of national security. Even the details of President Obama's April 15 visit to Miami are less secretive than this tried to be. But anyway, the giddy gang of self professed juiceheads and their molls are staying, just as we expected, in the same place as the classy chongas casting we told you about the other day. Yep, as Miami hopefuls for the Latin version of Jersey Shore lined up to outclass each other in front of casting agents at the Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, in walked a well-oiled Ronnie Magro (that's his name!), who emerged from a minivan sporting headphones and a decent tan. Ronnie was pretty low keyed when he walked past Maxine's restaurant. And then, one by one, the rest of Ronnie's entourage arrived a la the Beatles at Shea Stadium circa 1965. The anticipated (?) arrival took a lot longer than expected, perhaps because they were detained by security out of fear they may have been carrying some communicable diseases or because their stashes of gel were over the 3 ounce limit. If you missed it, don't worry. They'll be here for the next two months. But don't go stalking them at the Catalina. That was just a temporary holding cell before their "permanent" digs at sister hotel, the Metropole, was ready for them. But back to those Beatles. As all this excitement happened, none other than Sir Paul McCartney, a bona fide celebrity with talent and pedigree, quietly slipped into his hotel nearby with hardly any fanfarfe. Jersey Shore could end up being a great distraction for real talent who may actually dare to vacation in Miami for a change. In the meantime, who else will join Team Mynt as a Jersey Shore-free zone? Stay tuned for details. We you know you can't wait even if you can't admit it.
April 03, 2010 in Absurd, All Washed Up, Apocalyptic, Bottle Jobs, Famous, Why?, Photo Ops, Plastic Fantastic!, Porn Stars, Reality Check, Shameless, This Just In...., viral, Waxing Moronic | Permalink | Comments (4)
Weekend forecast: Sunny, bunnies, with a chance of guidos
Poor Easter Bunny. He's about to be upstaged (or poisoned) by the carrot-colored cast of Jersey Shore, which is en route to Miami and expected in town at some point this weekend. Perhaps the bunny will mistake Snooki, The Situation and co. for a snack and devour them before they have a chance to soil our shores. Wishful thinking, because we all know rabbits can't digest Power Bars, Red Bull, spray tan, Aqua Net, Axe Body Spray and Got2B Max-Control Styling Gel. And if the rabbit tried to consume these toxic ingredients, PETA would be down here faster than Kelly Bensimon can say "I'm not abusing animals. I'm just wearing fur." Anyway, we know what they did last summer and frankly, we're scared. We also think we know where they're staying and possibly "working" but we were told if we reveal that before they arrive, they may keep the cast from the gym and No Lines Tanning for a week and then sic 'em on us. Uh, no thank you. We'll just have to wait until they make their grand entrance to find out what places to avoid for the next month or so. In the meantime we never thought we'd say this, but the Kim Kardashian is suddenly looking like Grace Kelly in our eyes (with her sisters as the princess's lesser minions), though we wonder if they'll pull a cross-pollinating Happy Days visits Laverne & Shirley (Lenny, Squiggy and the Fonz were, after all, precursors to this whole Jersey mess) and bring the two reality shows together for one big, bad publicity stunted photo-op. And while they're at it, maybe the crew from "Miami Social Club" can stop by for a cameo. And then there's the Bad Girls Club. And then[Lost reference alert] a deceased Locke, possessed by forces of evil, will blow through here and smoke 'em all away and all that will remain will be flowing, breezy palm trees and a very hungry Hurley. The end.
April 01, 2010 in Absurd, All Washed Up, Apocalyptic, Bottle Jobs, Egomaniacs, Envelope Openings, Famous, Why?, Nonsensical, Orange Carpeting, Photo Ops, Plastic Fantastic!, Porn Stars, Reality Check, Shameless | Permalink | Comments (0)
Kim Zolciak and Tracy Young: The Sapphic Friends Network
After the dust settled on a rumor that no one but us on slow news day, her kids, and maybe Andy Cohen and NeNe Leakes seemed to care about, The Real Housewives of Atlanta's drag queen Doppelganger Kim Zolciak has admitted to Life & Style that she's bisexual. Sort of like the anorexia and bulimia of tabloid confessions of years past, the bisexual card has been played by several bona fide celebs and at the end of the day no one really cares which way these celebs swing. But Zolciak is no celebrity and some say that's why she's coming out, no pun intended, with this latest bit of TMI. According to Zolciak, she and former Miami-based DJ Tracy Young had sparks the first time they met, when the two were in the studio together remixing the aural sludge that was Tardy For the Party, a project that arose via Twitter, of all places. Zolciak had split with the elusive Big Poppa for the umpteenth time and, according to her, Young just ended a 3-year-relationship. "Tracy made the first move. Our kiss was passionate and exciting," Zolciak says in an interview she was probably paid to do. Our source isn't really buying it. "She sounds honest enough to me [in her confession], but I believe it is just another ploy to keep the 15 minutes alive." Perhaps we can see for ourselves as Young is in Miami for Winter Music Conference and Zolciak, never tardy for a publicity party, is said to arrive in Miami sometime tomorrow.
March 24, 2010 in Absurd, Drag Queens, Egomaniacs, Famous, Why?, Legally Blind, Photo Ops, Plastic Fantastic!, Pop Tarts | Permalink | Comments (2)


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what if you danced more?
Like, everyday?10 minutes, right after you wake up perhaps. Roll out of bed, find your way to the floor. Notice your breath, see what arises and follow the thread, first thing in the morning. Two students of mine have been doing this for awhile now. They made a pact with each other — a simple nod when they see each other in class -- "I'm dancing every morning...you?" What's happened is that they are able to "drop-in" more quickly, with more depth, and for longer periods of time.
The work I am embarking on in class, and in my performance work...it's elusive. It's easy to wonder what the f**ck is going on when attention is not being paid to breath and sensation...when trust has not been formed in connection to oneself. It's a slippery slope, and it's easy to fall off if awareness to the moment is not being held with respect. So try dancing more to understand and trust that slope more fully. 10 minutes every morning. Ask a friend to join you. Give a simple nod indicating yes, I danced a little more this week. Sure, take the weekends off, that's a good idea. And then start again on Monday. See what happens when you give yourself permission to dance every single day. Let me know how it goes by telling me about it here.
The poem below is from a writing exercise we did in class one Friday.
What is this place, these 3 hours on a Friday morning?
When does this become dance?
My thoughts are pushing into my bones, through my muscles. They want to be included. Usually I wait for you to quieten down, fade into the sound scape, hangout with the train and the meadowlark, the sound of children's voices.
I bake in the sun, half in and half out of the French doors. Skin and sun, the hairs on my skin, thinking, the sun on my eyelids making my mouth tilt upwards, thinking.
Let us make a space for everything.
An empty internal canvas dotted with the color of words, a stroke of magenta, now orange.
From the bones the thoughts move, tasting each bone. Is there greeting? There is greeting.
I want to kneel on just the one knee, like she does. My arms come together over the knee and suddenly I am here, right here, right now, and Jo says "5 more minutes", and I think "Oh dear, I just arrived". But then I think, "that's what we have", and I'm in the dance, a bit wobbly but staying with it and I'm here and gone and then there is another 5 minutes. So here we all are. It is enough.
And then, I find the birds and I know now why I showed up this morning.
The summer session starts on Tuesday, June 6th and runs through Thursday, August 31st...will I see you there?
"I was deciding between seeing the Dali Lama and coming to class today…I choose class." – Simone. "Me too!!" — Suzzy.
Click here for more info about the summer dance session.
Performance: This Friday, May 19th, 7pm at Floorspace, $10.
Workshop: This Saturday, May 20th, 1-4pm, Boulder Circus Center $69 (includes ticket to performance on Friday night). There is only one spot left in this workshop. Let me know ASAP if you are interested in attending.
"Stunning. Just Stunning." -- Freddi Acora, Audience member at Current Student.
"Thank you for holding the space in which I could unfold…safely, quietly, loudly, in my own time." –– Margaret Harris, student for 11 years before moving to Jackson Hole, Wyoming!
"I was SO craving class after your STUNNING performance of Dog Dance last night" — Simone Key, current student of five years, participant in Learning Dog Dance, and audience member.
"Wonder. I've been thinking about wonder." -- Helen Turner, student and repeat audience member at Dog Dance.
Click here for more info about Dog Dance.


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Le Fleadh Cheoil (festival de musique en irlandais) est une compétition de musique irlandaise organisée par Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ ou plus communément Comhaltas).

La compétition se déroule en plusieurs étapes. En Irlande, la sélection menant au All-Ireland Fleadh passe par des épreuves au niveau des comtés puis des provinces, alors qu'en Grande-Bretagne, des épreuves régionales amènent graduellement au niveau national. L'Amérique du Nord organise deux qualifications régionales Fleadh Cheoil. Le Mid Atlantic Fleadh couvre la côte est des États-Unis, l'est du Canada et les îles. Le Midwest Fleadh regroupe quant à lui le reste de l'Amérique du Nord, de Cleveland, Chicago, Saint Louis, Atlanta et Detroit à San Francisco.

Les catégories distinguent les classes d'âge suivantes : moins de 12 ans, de 12 à 15 ans, de 15 à 18 ans et senior (plus de 18 ans).

Histoire
Le premier festival national de musique irlandaise traditionnelle fut organisé à Mullingar en 1951. Lors de l'inauguration de , CCÉ proposa le nom de Fleadh Cheoil, dans l'intention d'en faire un grand festival national. Depuis, de nombreuses villes ont accueilli le Fleadh Cheoil.

Dans les années qui suivirent, le nombre de demandes de participation devint si important que des pré-qualifications furent organisées au niveau des comtés puis des provinces. Depuis lors Fleadh Nua (nouveau fleadh), Fleadh na Breataine (pour la Grande-Bretagne) et deux fleadhanna aux États-Unis, sont devenus des événements CCÉ annuels.

Le but initial du Fleadh Cheoil était d'établir, pour la musique irlandaise traditionnelle, des standards grâce aux compétitions. C'est donc devenu sa caractéristique principale, mais il est également l'occasion de nombreux concerts, de céilíthe, de parades et de sessions.

Aujourd'hui, après 50 ans d'existence, les fleadhanna de selection et la finale sont l'occasion de rassembler des milliers de musiciens annuellement (près de  par an), des chanteurs et des danseurs, qui font vivre la tradition musicale.

Le festival 2008, à Tullamore (comté d'Offaly) a rassemblé une foule de près de  personnes, faisant de Fleadh Cheoil le plus grand festival d'Irlande.

Les compétitions par catégories
D'après le règlement de CCÉ pour 2005 :
 Les compétitions de solistes sont organisées pour les instruments suivants : fiddle, accordéon à deux rangées, Irish flute, tin whistle, concertina, uilleann pipes, harpe, harmonica (orgue à bouche), banjo, mandoline (excluant le banjo-mandoline), piano, mélodéon, bodhrán, cornemuses, divers instruments tels que l'accordéon à 3 ou 5 rangées, harmonica chromatique, ensemble de percussions, instruments d'accompagnement (restreint aux piano, harpe, guitare et autres bouzoukis), chant en irlandais et en anglais, sifflement, gavottage, créations de ballades en anglais ou en irlandais.
 Des compétitions de slow airs peuvent également être organisées pour toutes les tranches d'âge, pour les instruments suivants : fiddle, Irish flute, whistle et uilleann pipes.

Des compétitions pour duos, trios, ceilí band et groupes instrumentaux, ensembles d'accordéons, pipe band et ensembles divers, sont également organisées.

L'ensemble du règlement peut varier d'une année à l'autre.

Voir aussi
Liste des vainqueurs du titre All-Ireland Flead ;
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

Références

Liens externes
  All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann 2009 à Tullamore.

Culture gaélique


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Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born 24 May 1973) is a Swedish country and pop singer, songwriter and TV-host. She performed in the Melodifestivalen 1998 contest, winning with the song "Kärleken är" ("Love Is"), and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she entered Melodifestivalen for the second time with "Crazy in Love", which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several Gold and Platinum records and since 2014 has hosted her own Swedish TV-show from Nashville, Jills veranda.

Biography

Johnson is from the small town of Ängelholm in the south western part of Sweden. By the age of four, she had decided she wanted to become an artist, an aspiration towards which she was highly encouraged by her local choir leader. As a 12-year-old, she started off as the vocalist in a Country & Western band, Tomboola Band, touring in Norway and Denmark. She signed eventually with EMI-Medley in Denmark and recorded an album, produced by producer Paul Bruun. The title-track, "Sugar Tree", became a hit in Denmark. In 1996, she had her first Swedish hit with "Kommer tid, kommer vår", a duet with Jan Johansen.

In 1998, she performed "Kärleken är" ("Love is") at national contest Melodifestivalen, winning the Swedish finals and going on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. The success was followed by the hit album När hela världen ser på and a successful tour.

In mid-1999, Johnson went to Los Angeles to look for material for her second album. At home, she worked with Andreas Carlsson (ASCAP Writer of the Year 2000), who is known for several hits, including Celine Dion's "That's the Way It Is". She also tried out a few local newcomers and the album Daughter of Eve was released in early 2000. It was very well received and Johnson was compared with some of the world's best artists.

In 2000, she received a Platinum-record in Denmark for the sound-track "Promise To Love" from the Danish block-buster, Eneste Ene. Later that year, Johnson started to collaborate with other songwriters such as Jenny Orenstein, Charlie Stefl, Mary Green [Biem Writer of the Year 2001]. This resulted in her receiving a publishing contract in Nashville, Tennessee. Consequently, in 2002 Johnson's album entitled Good Girl came to be with the help of producer Scott Baggett and some of Nashville's top musicians. This album secured Johnson's artistic sound and style and once again she was extremely well received by the press in their reviews where she was described as an artist of international calibre.

In the Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 she qualified at fourth place (out of 32 entries) but and her song "Crazy in Love" became a hit and received a great deal of radio play and was followed by a successful tour.

Johnson's collective Discography CD was released in late March 2003. It contains the 20 most popular songs since her debut in 1995. The CD went straight into the sales charts for best selling CDs in Sweden. The single "Crazy in Love" stayed at No 1 in the Swedish Top Charts (Svensktoppen) 12 weeks consecutively and No 2 for 15 weeks. Discography sold Gold in Sweden and Johnson also got a Grammis for this album.

The album Roots and Wings was released in November 2003, recorded and produced by Amir Aly in Sweden and by Scott Baggett in Nashville, Tennessee. Roots and Wings sold Gold in less than two weeks and Platinum a few months later.

The album Being who you are was released in Sweden in late March 2005 and sold Gold in only a few weeks.

Johnson was the host of the 2005 Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. In 2014 she became the hostess of her own Swedish musical TV-series, Jills veranda, where she brought together and performed with different Swedish and American music personalities in Nashville, the city where she also spends much time working with her own music. In 2014, she was awarded with the Swedish Kristallen-prize for "Female host of the year", due to Jills veranda. The show aired two following seasons in 2015 and 2017. In 2016 she participated in the popular musical TV-series Så mycket bättre, which was broadcast on TV4.

In 2019, Jill released the single "Is It Hard Being A Man?" among others which topped the Swedish radio charts. The same year, Jill went on a club tour, "My Remedy Tour", which visited fifteen citites and premiered on the 8th of March in Malmö. On the 18th of August 2019, Jill hosted her own episode in the popular Swedish radio show Sommar i P1.

Johnson will play the role as Camilla in the Swedish TV-series "Udda Veckor", which airs on Discovery+ during the spring of 2021. Jill's participation in the show marks her debut as an actress in a ficitv role.

Discography

Albums
Studio albums

Compilation albums

Christmas albums

Live albums

Extended plays

Singles

Notes

Music videos

References

External links

Official website

1973 births
Living people
People from Ängelholm Municipality
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Sweden
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1998
Swedish country singers
Schlager musicians
21st-century Swedish singers
21st-century Swedish women singers
Melodifestivalen contestants of 2003
Melodifestivalen contestants of 1998


Novartis CEO Joe Jimenez granted a cancer patient's request for a meeting at the company to discuss CAR-T pricing as its med tisagenlecleucel (CTL019) awaits an FDA decision date in October.
David Mitchell had just finished a five-hour infusion of drugs to keep his multiple myeloma under control when he decided to dash off a letter to Joe Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, requesting a meeting about how the company plans to price tisagenlecleucel (CTL019), its CAR-T leukemia treatment expected to win approval from the FDA in October.
Because the treatment is personalized—immune cells are extracted from patients and engineered to recognize and kill their cancer—its impending approval has sparked concerns about just how expensive it might be.
"I write today to urge you in the strongest possible terms to price your CAR-T drug fairly in light of the fact that U.S. taxpayers invested hundreds of millions of dollars to develop CAR-T before your company became seriously involved," Mitchell wrote in the letter, which came from his organization, Patients for Affordable Drugs, and was co-signed by two other people suffering from blood cancers. Mitchell requested a meeting with Jimenez, even offering to bring along two experts in drug pricing: Steven Pearson, president of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), and Aaron Kesselheim, professor at Harvard Medical School and head of its program on regulation, therapeutics and law.
It worked. On Friday afternoon, Mitchell received a note from Jimenez stating he had asked Bill Hinshaw, Novartis' head of oncology, to schedule the proposed meeting.
Novartis has only offered fleeting references to how it might price tisagenlecleucel: In June, R&D head Vas Narasimhan said the company was looking at stem cell transplants—which can cost $800,000—as a model.
Mitchell's estimate that taxpayers funded $200 million worth of CAR-T research is based on a keyword search on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website. Novartis' academic partner, the University of Pennsylvania, got about $17 million of that. The rest went to the National Cancer Institute and more than 60 academic institutions and biotech companies.
Mitchell is well aware that the fruits of a lot of that research went to other companies that are also advancing CAR-T treatments, like Juno Therapeutics and Kite Pharma, but he believes all of the early-stage science that taxpayer money funded fed into the overall success of the new technology, and that all pricing by any company that commercializes it should reflect that, he says.
In addition to the planned meeting at Novartis, Mitchell's group is placing ads on cancer-related websites, speaking out on social media and running an e-mail campaign directed at the 15,000 people who have signed up on his organization's website.
The value of Novartis' original deal with Penn was not disclosed, and the company invested an additional $20 million towards a joint CAR-T research center, the spokeswoman says. But Novartis ultimately spent far more than that developing tisagenlecleucel, with ongoing clinical trials and other development costs, plus manufacturing.
In 2012, Novartis bought a New Jersey manufacturing plant from Dendreon for $43 million and hired 100 of its employees. It has also been spending money to get CAR-T production up and running overseas. In 2015, for example, it formed an agreement (for an undisclosed sum) with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany to set up CAR-T manufacturing there. Novartis has not disclosed estimates of what its manufacturing costs might be when tisagenlecleucel is a commercial product. And it's still studying tisagenlecleucel in five clinical trials.
One strategy for commercializing CAR-T that Novartis is considering is value-based pricing, the spokeswoman says. Under that system, payers would be reimbursed for the treatment based on its success in individual patients. Such an approach "will enable the U.S. system to adopt new technologies in the fight against cancer," she says.
Novartis is no stranger to pay-for-performance deals with insurers. Last year, it struck two such deals with Cigna and Aetna for its heart failure drug, Entresto. The company is offering rebates on the drug that will rise or fall based on patient outcomes. If Entresto reduces hospitalizations and other complications of heart failure, the rebate falls, but if a patient taking the drug doesn't improve, it rises.
Mitchell's offer to bring along a representative of ICER when he meets with Novartis was timely, considering that the organization is currently preparing a report assessing the value of CAR-T treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ICER is currently collecting public comments and expects to complete its report next March. Novartis is "already in discussions with ICER to provide data they are requesting as needed for their independent analysis," the spokeswoman says.
Patients for Affordable Drugs is less than a year old, but Mitchell has already made waves in the pharma industry. In June, he launched a class-action lawsuit against Celgene alleging that the company held up the development of generic versions of its cancer blockbuster Revlimid. Mitchell once relied on Revlimid to control his multiple myeloma and he saw his copay for the drug jump from $42 a month to $250.
After Mitchell's doctors took him off Revlimid he started on a three-drug cocktail that's "working great," he says. His fight against high drug prices doesn't reflect any personal animosity against the industry, but rather is designed to ensure the healthcare system can afford the price of innovation, he says.


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Taking Humour Seriously
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Betsy Byars on what children find funny.
Betsy Byars
I went to a school once, and I took a manuscript with me. I had just gotten it back, complete with editor's notes in the margin, and I showed the kids some of the comments, one of which was `Make this funny!'. There was a lot of interest in this, and the general consensus was that the editor meant me to put in some jokes. If only it were so simple, for the truth is that there are far too many jokes in the world and far too little humour.
I have always been drawn to humour, but I am not a humorist. My books are serious, with comic episodes. The humour serves a dual purpose. It balances out the serious things. The tougher the theme, the more humour is needed - for my own relief as well as the reader's.
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The gap between what adults find funny and what kids think is funny is considerable. So I'm always looking for things that are funny to kids. When one of my daughters had some friends over, one of the boys noticed there were two cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. He got up on the piano bench and pretended to be Tarzan, attempting too swing from one to the other. It was very funny.
And so, in The Eighteenth Emergency, when Mouse Fawley looks up on his ceiling and sees a cobweb, he doesn't try to swing on it, but he had previously written UNSAFE FOR PUBLIC SWINGING and drawn an arrow to it. This opened up a whole facet of Mouse's personality. When he sees a crack in the wall, he writes, TO OPEN BUILDING TEAR ALONG THIS LINE, and I would never have thought of that on my own.
My son had a friend who did whale imitations. I was never privileged to see them, because Phil never did his imitations on request, but only when moved to do so. When this happened, the word would spread and kids would appear from blocks around to watch, helpless with laughter. 'What are the imitations like?' I asked my son. 'They're like - whales,' was his explanation. I sometimes found myself looking at Phil, the comic imitator of whales, wondering, but he looked back with his face in neutral, as all my son's friends did, and I could never imagine the imitations for myself. Years later, while writing Cracker Jackson, with Jackson's friend Percy doing the whale imitations, I did see it quite clearly, and my son was right - the imitations were like whales.
The forbidden is always funny, and usually the first kind of humour kids discover is bathroom humour. At first certain words are just plain hilarious, and the appeal of reducing one's friends to helpless laughter and, at the same time, shocking adults is considerable.
The funniest word in the vocabulary of an American six/seven year-old is 'underwear'. When I speak to their classes, I always read the opening sentence of The Night Swimmers. 'When the swimming pool lights were turned out and Colonel and Mrs Roberts had gone to bed, the Anderson kids came out of the bushes in their underwear.' It is such a successful sentence that I often have to repeat it. I have even been asked if I had any other funny sentences.
I reached my peak as a bathroom humorist in The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish.The goldfish has been flushed down the toilet, into the sewer, where it comes to weigh two thousand pounds and slurps five or six people to death. The soldiers are marching into the sewer to kill Bubbles, and Warren gets the idea that if everyone in the city flushed their toilets at, say, 10 o'clock, the floodgates would open and Bubbles would be swept out to sea 'where she could live the rest of her life in peace and harmony'.
There follows a seven-page countdown in which the announcer entreats the listeners to flush their toilets. 'It's five minutes to ten. If you have more than one bathroom, get a neighbour to come flush with you.' 'It's four minutes to ten, open your windows, yell, "Flush!" to the people in the streets below.' It takes two pages to get everyone in their bathrooms, and the final countdown is 'five-four-three-two-one-FLUSH!' Sometimes I read this to classes and usually I never have to actually say the word 'flush', because the entire room will make the sound of a toilet flushing. The thought of 50 kids flushing like toilets may not thrill you, but it has never failed to move me.
Bad grammar is more amusing than good grammar. My particular weakness has always been for the double negative. I love it. Some-times I use it not to be funny, but to make the character's speech more authentic. In Trouble River, the grandmother says, 'We ain't got no chance . . .' and 'I didn't come no one thousand miles to ...'That was not meant to be funny, and it actually turned out to be unfunny because I got letters from English teachers chastising me for reinforcing the unfortunate speech patterns which they were trying to change.
Used properly, the double negative is amusing. In The Eighteenth Emergency, Mouse remembers when the boys decided, during a recess lull, to put the girls in the school trash cans. There's a long screaming charge, which ends with Mouse having Viola Angotti pinned against the garbage cans. He realises he's not going to be able to get Viola in the garbage can without a great deal of help.
'He called again, "Come on you guys, get the lid off this garbage can, will you?"
And then, when he said that, Viola Angotti had taken two steps forward. She said, "Nobody's putting me in no garbage can."
He cried, "Hey, you guys!" It was a plea. "Where are you?"
And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step, and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch.
As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again, "Nobody's putting me in no garbage can." It had sounded like one of the world's basic truths. The sun will rise. The tides will flow.
Nobody's putting Viola Angotti in no garbage can.'
When I was in school, the simile and the metaphor were things I encountered on English worksheets. 'Find two similes and one metaphor in the second chapter of Moby Dick.' A simile in a children's book must be within the child's reach. The Bingo Brown books lend themselves to the simile, because the reader accepts that these are Bingo's comparisons, rather than mine. When Bingo has a mixed-sex conversation with Melissa, it's 'like the olympics of mixed-sex conversations'. When he lies down on his Smurf sheets, he's 'as comfortable as if he were lying onreal Smurfs'. When he takes off half his eyebrow during his first shave, the remaining eyebrow has 'a suggestive snarl, like the curl of Elvis Presley's lip'.
Children need parody, just as adults do, because it is a form of humorous protest. The essential point in the use of parody, I think, is to prick a balloon, to show how ridiculous or even how painful some element of our daily life is.
My favourite target is the National Enquirer. Among the headlines Bingo Brown fears to appear in is BOY LOVES TWO GIRLS FOR INFINITY - SETS WORLD RECORD, but in The Midnight Fox, long before I was aware of the Enquirer, I parodied headlines. Petie Burkis writes of a personal humiliation at a park - BOY FALLS DOWN BANK WHILE GIRL ONLOOKERS CHEER - and then goes on to write a story that sounds like it had come from a real newspaper.
TV lends itself particularly well to parody, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed writing The TV Kid. I relished the creation of 'Give It a Spin', the game show where you pick your prizes and we see that you take them, and the commercial for 'Friend', the lifesize doll that allows you to have someone to talk to. 'With Friend, you'll never have to go to the movies alone. And remember, Friend comes with a special ID card that lets him enter all movie theaters and sports events for half price.' My favourite was a commercial that Lennie imagines for Fail-Ease, the tablet that eases failure and makes you less afraid to fail the next time. 'Yes, for the nagging relief from failure, take Fail-Ease, the failure reliever that requires no prescription. 'Don't we wish.
Actually it is not I who thinks up these parodies and similes. It is a character in the book, in the same way that while I could never write a country-western song, I can create a character who can write 'My Angel Went to Heaven in a DC-3'. I cannot write poetry, but I can create a character who, without batting an eye, can turn out such a complicated rhyme as 'I love the roof and that's the troof.
There's a whole area of what I would call negative humour - insults, sarcasm, ridicule. Children, in real life, dread ridicule so much, they guard against it. If they are afraid they won't get an invitation they say, 'I wouldn't go to the party if I was invited'. If scorned for sloppiness, they become twice as sloppy to show they don't care.
But they like insults as long as someone else is the target. When I needed insults in The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, I got a book of insults, just as Billy Wentworth did, and I dealt them out with the same ruthlessness as he did.
"'Mamie Lou, you are a perfect ten. Your face is a two, your body is a two, your legs are a two -" Mamie Lou wisely didn't wait around to hear what her other twos were.'
'Harriet, you may not have invented ugliness, but you sure are the local distributor.'
'Miss Fanucci is so ugly that when she goes to the zoo she has to buy two tickets - one to get in and one to get out.'
Since Miss Fanucci overhears her insult, that puts a blessed end to the insults.
Understatement is a form of humour easily lost on kids. The knack of producing humour by using understatement is to finish a sentence with a word or phrase that is milder than the listener expected, anticlimactic. Kids have an innate ability for this kind of humour and do it without even trying. My favourite letter was written, not to me, but to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and I used it in The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown. 'Dear Laura Ingalls Wilder, I know that you are dead, but please write if you can and let me know where you get your ideas.'
In Max Eastman's Ten Commandmentsof the Comic Art, Commandment Three is 'Be effortless'. I especially like that, because it is almost my sole commandment, my goal in writing. I work on something until it looks as if I haven't worked on it at all. If it looks as if I've worked on it, I go back and work some more. But it's especially important in humour. Humour demands natural-ness and simplicity. To appear spontaneous may require a week's work. More than any other type of writing, humour has got to resemble play, which is really what it is.
Betsy Byars lives in South Carolina and has written over 30 children's books. Details of the titles mentioned in this article are:
Eighteenth Emergency, Bodley Head, 0 370 10924 4, £6.95; Puffin, 0 14 030863 6, £2.50 pbk
Cracker Jackson, Puffin, 0 14 031881 1, £2.99 pbk
The Night Swimmers, Puffin, 0 14 031409 1, £2.99 pbk
The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish, Puffin, 0 14 031607 8, £2.50 pbk
The TV Kid, Puffin, 0 14 031065 7, £2.50 pbk
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, Bodley Head, 0 370 31186 8, £6.99; Puffin, 0 14 034319 9, £2.99 pbk
Trouble River is out of print.
Her most recent titles are both published by Bodley Head and cost £8.99 each:
Coast to Coast, 0 370 31820 X
The Moon and Me, 0 370 31827 7 - That rare offering, an autobiography of a children's writer written for her readers. Warm BfK recommendations.
Source URL (retrieved on Jan '20): http://savfikn.booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/82/childrens-books/articles/other-articles/taking-humour-seriously
[1] http://savfikn.booksforkeeps.co.uk/member/betsy-byars
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Rigelj pri Ortneku (; ) is a small settlement in the hills west of Ortnek in the Municipality of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. The entire Municipality of Ribnica is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Rigelj to Rigelj pri Ortneku in 1953. In the past the German name was Rigl.

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Rigelj pri Ortneku on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Ribnica


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Chris Clayton at DTN is reporting this morning that EPA is withdrawing registration of Enlist Duo herbicide. The decision was posted yesterday in court documents. From the DTN report:
"The filing was posted in a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Food Safety against Dow AgroSciences and EPA over the regulatory approval of Enlist Duo."
Withdrawal of the herbicide's registration will effectively make it illegal to use this herbicide, so this decision could have a significant impact on growers planning to use the technology. The reason for the withdrawal:
"EPA stated it is making that decision based on information Dow filed at the U.S. Patent Office on the product that EPA scientists did not know about regarding the "synergistic effects" between glyphosate and 2,4-D, the two herbicides combined to create Enlist Duo."
I'm not going to wade too far into the policy (or politics) behind this decision. If you're on Twitter, I'd recommend following Chris Clayton for the latest information. But I do think this is a good opportunity to explain what "synergistic effects" are with respect to herbicides. Synergism, as you might guess, means that the two herbicides work better when applied together than we would expect based on how effective they are when applied alone. S.R. Colby proposed a relatively simple formula in 1967 to determine the 'expected' response to herbicides based on their efficacy when applied alone. The abstract for Colby's paper is refreshingly short and to the point:
"Abstract. The responses of herbicides applied singly are used in calculating the "expected" response when they are combined. The expected response for a combination is obtained by taking the product of the percent-of-control- values for herbicides applied alone and dividing by (100)n-1 where n is the number of herbicides in the combination." (Colby, SR. 1967. Weeds. 15(1):20-22.)
So, for example, if Herbicide A provides 30% control and Herbicide B provides 40% control of a target weed, the expected response when the herbicides are combined is 58%. Basically, we'd expect Herbicide B to control about 40% of the plants that Herbicide A left behind. So if the herbicides exhibit a synergistic response, the herbicides would provide much greater than 58% control when combined. Antagonism can also occur, if the herbicides provide much less than the expected response when they are combined.
Sunflower sprayed with 2,4-D
If two herbicides are synergistic, we can get better weed control, sometimes even at reduced herbicide rates. I've published two studies where we found synergistic interactions between herbicides, and in both cases it was very helpful for controlling weeds (Study 1; Study 2). However, herbicide synergism can be problematic if we don't know about the synergistic interaction ahead of time. If the synergism isn't known, it is possible that the herbicide mixture could cause injury to crops or other non-target plants. And this seems to be the reasoning behind EPA's decision to withdraw the Enlist Duo registration.
EPA, in their Enlist Duo registration decision, required a 30-foot downwind buffer between sprayed areas and 'sensitive areas' (which are defined as almost anything that isn't a field, road, or parking lot). [The buffer is meant to protect non-target organisms from spray drift. More on spray drift here.] But EPA apparently didn't know about the synergistic effects of the herbicide, and so wants time to re-evaluate whether the 30-foot buffer is enough given this new piece of information.
The patent application at the root of this decision can be found here. On pages 8 to 10 of the PDF file, Dow provides several tables that do seem to suggest substantial synergistic activity between the two herbicide active ingredients in Enlist Duo. For example, at very low rates, glyphosate provided 0% control of common lambsquarters and 2,4-D-choline provided only 5% control. But when the herbicides were combined at those same rates, common lambsquarters was controlled 92%! That's substantially greater than the 5% control predicted by the Colby method. If the data in the patent application are reliable (and we have no reason to believe otherwise), then there does seem to be some significant synergism between these two herbicides. And if this synergistic effect wasn't disclosed to EPA during the registration process, I guess I'm not too surprised by their desire to give this a closer look.
Table 1 from United States Patent Application 20150173371 (Synergistic Herbicidal Weed Control From Combinations of 2,4-D-choline and Glyphosate)
UPDATE: link to pdf of EPA's motion in the Ninth Circuit. An interesting read, to be sure. From the EPA's motion:
"Here, EPA has learned that it did not have all relevant information at the time it made its registration decision. Specifically, Dow did not submit to EPA during the registration process the extensive information relating to potential synergism it cited to the Patent Office; EPA only learned of the existence of that information after the registrations were issued and only recently obtained the information. Ex. 2 (Brady Declaration ¶¶ 4, 5, 8). EPA's scientists have preliminarily reviewed this data over the last two weeks, and believe, based on that review, that the data indicate that the 30-foot buffer on the approved label may not be adequate to protect non-target plant species located outside the treated fields. Id. ¶ 11. EPA requires additional time in which to fully assess the new information. Id. ¶ 12."
"Following remand and vacatur of the Enlist Duo registration, EPA would fully evaluate the new information and determine whether a new registration could be issued and, if so, whether additional terms and conditions would be necessary for the new registration.1 To the extent that any interested party is not satisfied with any final action on remand, that party may obtain review of that agency action in this Court in accordance with FIFRA section 16, 7 U.S.C. § 136n."
UPDATE 2: I've been trying to find evidence in the literature about interactions between 2,4-D and glyphosate. There don't seem to be too many reports of synergism. One paper (Flint & Barrett 1989) show synergism between these two compounds in field bindweed. But other papers (O'Sullivan & O'Donovan 1980; Flint & Barrett 1989) actually show that 2,4-D antagonized glyphosate efficacy in some grass species (wheat, barley, wild oat, and Johnsongrass). This suggests that the synergistic effects reported by Dow in their patent application may be specific to the choline salt of 2,4-D used in the Enlist Duo formulation.
Hat tip to Luke Runyon for the story and the pdf.
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Why is Bonds treated worse that Giambi?
Zach (Tampa,FL): Hey Rob, Im wondering why everyone is always all over Barry Bonds for alledgedly using steroids when we have an admitted user in the league named Jason Giambi. Why isnt everyone all over him when he crushes a homerun or want to strip his MVP award? More Yankee bias or something else?
Rob Neyer: It's simple, isn't it? Bonds is a confirmed jerk, and Giambi is well-liked. Nobody ever said writers were *fair* (although we are, usually).
I have nothing but respect for Rob Neyer, and I almost always agree with him. But I think his answer to this question was WAAAYYYY too simple. I have no doubt that Bonds' public perception plays a part, but I don't believe for a second that it is THE answer. Here are my thoughts on other contributing factors. I don't know if any one particular item carries more weight than the one Rob mentioned, but I definitely think that they combine to make likeableness a small part of a bigger picture.
First of all, there is a flaw in the question. Yes, Giambi apparently admitted to a confidential grand jury that he has used steroids. Barry Bonds told the same grand jury that he might have accidentally used things that might have accidentally been steroids, stuff given to him by a man who has been convicted of providing steroids to athletes. So in this case, I'd say Giambi being an "admitted user" makes him a notch above Bonds, who is a perjurer.
Even if everything was exactly the way Zach from Tampa portrays it, the biggest thing Giambi ever did with his steroids is win an MVP award. Bonds used his steroids to win four MVP awards, AND become the "best" player in baseball history, AND challenge the career home run record, AND break the single-season home run record, AND get his own TV show, AND make all statistical analysis of this era obsolete, etc. It's like looking at two armed robbers, one who robbed a 7-11 and the other who stole millions from a bank, and wondering why the second one got a longer prison term.
Accurate or not, there IS the perception that Giambi is a repentant former steroid user and Bonds is a lying current steroid user. Is it possible that Giambi is back on some undetectable performance enhancer and that's why his numbers are back up? Absolutely. And, unfortunately for Giambi, there is virtually no evidence to suggest that such a thing is even unlikely. But, like it or not, Giambi earned some good will when he didn't perjure himself and when he offered his vague public apology, and it is understandable that a lot of people believe that he is now clean. Bonds, on the other hand, is pulling a Pete Rose on us, denying in the face of overwhelming evidence that he ever did anything wrong. I think the backlash against Bonds may be worse than it would be for someone more likeable, but I also think that the public sees steroids as a bigger slap to the integrity of the game than Rose's gambling, and I think that overall, we are less willing to be lied to than we were with Rose.
I guess the bottom line is this: Bonds/Giambi is not an apples-to-apples comparison. It is more like an apples-to-moldy-tangerines comparison. And due to the fact that Bonds was already one of the best players in baseball history BEFORE he started cheating, there is little chance that there will ever be another apple to compare him to. And THAT means that Bonds will always receive more scrutiny and criticism than any other cheater in the game. Bonds may not like it, and his fans may not like it, but everyone needs to remember: he did this to himself.


Litigation News, one of the flagship publications of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation, quoted Neal M. Eiseman for his views on a recent federal arbitration decision.
The case involved a matter of first impression for a federal appellate court: whether an employment agreement's arbitration clause still applies after the agreement expires and where the agreement's survival clause does not specifically list the arbitration provision. In Huffman, et al. v. Hilltop Companies, LLC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the strong federal policy endorsing arbitration requires that the clause does indeed survive.
Eiseman, who is Cochair of the Arbitration Subcommittee of the Section of Litigation's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, is a also an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA).


on my thighs—so I can attain Enlightenment today.
the tips of my thumbs touching.
suffering. This alone, Dogen said.
The tingling in my shins forces me to stop for the morning.
but the sodium burns my stomach.
Why do I have to suffer before my suffering ceases?
murder God. An omnipotent pistol? Sin? Love?
love of a decent person. I'm the obsessive type.
pops, and I limp home.
I pace around my living room trying to ease pangs of hunger.
Someone once said that hunger is a mental state.
I am myself, and my self is going insane.
I go to sleep early.
dewy grass slick beneath my Reeboks.
wants is a bagel. So I sit.
I've strained a tendon in my knee. How can you kill God?
You can only kill a weak abstraction in a poetry workshop.
but that's not supposed to make me happy.
Don't worry about God yet.
but not just any blade. An enchanted blade.
But where could you aim? Does God even have an abdomen?
Where in the universe would you bury It? Or Her?
I sip some OJ and stop for the night. Can't sleep, hungry.
Up at six. Can't shower, no energy.
God must want to kill me.
Water fast day. Tomorrow I eat.
head. To forget my self, must forget myself.
even prisoners get three squares.
after I drink water. I'm not so hungry anymore.
mating with lotus flowers. Peace, the end of want.
hanging by a single tack over my bed.
like old sweat—onions—and hunger—epidermal potpourri.
And I'm still hungry. I stand, stretch my hamstrings, yawn.
but I'm at peace with my visitor.
And God lies dead beneath my cramped and tingling feet.


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There was not a dry eye at 693 Park Avenue as guest speaker Leslie Segrete, — TV personality, designer, decorator, host of A & E's "$100 Makeover" and co-host of nationally syndicated radio show "The Money Pit"— told the 200 guests at the 16th Valentine Salon about her 4-year old son Henry's journey to Westhampton Beach East End Hospice's Camp Good Grief, the luncheon's beneficiary.
Introduced by emcee and sister Stephanie Segrete Sack, as a "brave, resilient, vibrant single mom," Leslie Segrete recounted: "It was 2012 — a great year for us… [Following] Hurricane Sandy…came home with a new baby. Did not seem that anything can go wrong. Life was going well. Taking turns feeding baby Charlie, I gave Ed a bottle, told him to change the diaper. That was the last time I saw Ed. He had a heart attack while feeing Charlie and died within half an hour of arriving at the hospital. He had heart disease without any symptoms."
Stacey Segrete Sack and Leslie Segrete
Despite support from family and friends, she said: "I was determined that Henry would not be defined by this [tragedy.]" Discovering an article about Camp Good Grief in an issue of "Long Island Parent Guide," she said, "I called as soon as I got home to register… We were not the only family that was missing a big part. The simple gift that a child knows that they are not alone is what Good Grief does — shares the loss…Sorry to be so blubbery."
Event chairman Phyllis Jaeger and luncheon co-founder Jacalyn Weinstein presented the Good Heart Award to Anne Williams Isom, CEO for the Harlem Children's Zone who spoke of "30% of my 10,000 children we serve in the Harlem zone know somebody who has been killed through violence. My goal for them is like those happy faces you saw in the "Good Grief" video–to know they are not alone and that we are here for them."
"Each year the faces change, but the stories don't" said Priscilla Ruffin president and CEO of East End Hospice. "Acts of God, ungodly acts, addiction and–the most painful rejection a child can feel–the suicide of a parent. Our goal: To reduce the isolation for these kids–for the first time they are not alone, trapped in their feelings. To teach them the language of feelings and grief. They don't know they can be mad, sad, angry all at once. There is a Native American saying: When something has not name or shape, it will have power over you. Give it a name, a shape and you will have power over it. That's what we do for these kids."
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. 1999: Horacio Chicagual KO 9 Adrián Ochoa (Argentine flyweight title), at the Radisson in Montevideo.
. 2003: Hugo Garay KOT 1 Ricardo Sotelo (Argentine light heavyweight title), also in the Radisson in Montevideo.
. 2007: Jonathan Barros WDisq. 4 Pastor Maurín (Argentine featherweight title), at the 8 de Junio stadium in Paysandú.
The local fans can see his most promising figure, the undefeated rising star Amílcar Vidal (6-0, 6 KO), who will face another boxer who doesn't know the defeat, the argentine Carlos Capelari (from Córdoba, with 9-0, 5 KO). They will fight for the FECOMBOX WBC middleweight title.
In the other crown in stage at the sensational Radisson's evening, Sergio Sosa (of San Martin, Buenos Aires, with 10-1, 3 KO) will face the hot dominican prospect Ranfis Encarnación (14-0, 11 KO). They will look the featherweight FEDELATIN AMB title.
Angel Yomar Mateo Arias (undefeated from Dominican Republic with 22-0, 18 KO) vs Alfredo Rodolfo Blanco (from Pigué, Argentina, with 19-7, 11 KO) - 10 rounds, welterweight.
Michel Rivera (undefeated from Dominican Republic with 14-0, 9 KO) vs Carlos Daniel Córdoba (from Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires, Argentina with 10-4-0-1 SD, 2 KO) - 8 rounds, super featherweight.
TV: TyC Sports (to Argentina and part of América) y Teledoce (to Uruguay).


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Barcon je obec v Itálii, v provincii Treviso.

Historie
Nejstarší zprávy o obci Barcon pochází z roku 1181 v souvislosti s kaplí svatého Michaela archanděla, kterou zde nechal postavit biskup z Trevisa. Ovšem celá obec včetně kostela vyhořela a znovu ji pozvedl až rod Camposampiero, který ji zakoupil. Od roku 1344 se v Barconu z nařízení papeže Klementa VI. každé tři roky vybíraly desátky na boj proti Turkům. V roce 1465 získala Barcon významná benátská patricijská rodina Emo, která ho vlastnila až do 27. února 1506, kdy jej zakoupil Nicola hrabě Pola. Polové obdarovali tamní kostel rozsáhlými pozemky, jejichž výnosy sloužily jako živobytí knězi a na údržbu kostela. Polové také nechali kostel dostavět. Roku 1718 si hrabata Polové nechali v Barconu vystavět rozsáhlou vilu od Giorgia Massariho. V roce 1788 se jim podařilo získat povolení od Benátské republiky, aby směl být dvakrát měsíčně v Barconu trh (od 11.3.1797 byl trh každý týden). 3. listopadu 1796 přitáhlo do Barconu 40,000 rakouských vojáků, kteří zde nocovali a zabavili vilu pro potřeby velitelů a důstojníků. V roce 1811 pak hrabata Polové zajistili, že v obci bude dvakrát ročně veletrh, čímž značně zvýšili význam Barconu v celém okolí. V roce 1858 se pod vlivem náročného života stal provoz ohromné vily pro rodinu neúnosný a vila byla téměř celá zbořena. V roce 1920 pak zemřel poslední potomek italské větve rodu Galvano. V roce 1935 byl zcela opraven kostel svatého archanděla Michaela. Za války zažil Barcon jedenkrát bombardování, ovšem historické prvky nikterak neutrpěly. V roce 1946, při referendu o státním zřízení Itálie se většina obyvatel (59,5%) vyslovila pro zachování monarchie.

Vila Pola
Velkolepou vilu vystavěl mezi lety 1718–1721 poblíž původního feudálního sídla v Barconu významný benátský architekt Giorgio Massari pro rodinu hrabat Polů. Stava byla provedena tak, aby odrážela majetek i moc rodiny, ale zároveň aby ladila s terénem a nepůsobila kýčovitě. Podle svědectví současníků se tento záměr vydařil. Většina vily byla obložena mramorem a vyzdobena freskami, přičemž nejvýznamnější byla freska z roku 1789 na stropě centrálního schodiště, jež zachycovala motivy ze života svatého Karla Velikého a jejímž autorem byl Giambattista Canal. Vilu tvořil komplex tří budov – samotné vily a dvou benátských stodol, takzvaných barchess. Samotná vila měla čtvercový půdorys o straně 120 stop (asi 42 metrů) a měla čtyři patra. Barchesy, které byly umístěny po každé straně vily a svíraly s ní pravý úhel, měly obdélníkový půdorys 64×21 metrů. Vila stála uprostřed rozsáhlého parku, na který navazoval ovocný sad. Celý areál je doposud obehnán vysokou kamennou zdí.

Historie vily
Rodina hrabat Polů skupovala pozemky v okolí Barconu již od konce 15. století. Roku 1506 oficiálně zakoupila celé rozsáhlé panství, tvořené především zemědělskými plochami. Na panství se nacházelo menší feudální sídlo, jež stojí dodnes. Jelikož rodina v Barconu nesídlila, jejím domovem bylo totiž nedaleké město Treviso, kde pro ni vystavěl významný benátský architekt Pietro Lombardo krásný renesanční palác, nebylo zapotřebí toto feudální sídlo nijak rozšiřovat. Situace se změnila až na počátku 18. století, kdy se rodina rozhodla lépe kontrolovat své panství a přestěhovat se proto z Trevisa da Barconu. Proto byl pověřen Giorgio Massari stavbou rozsáhlé vily. Stavba byla dokončena až roku 1721. Rodina ve vile bydlela až do poloviny 19. století, pak ji ovšem musela pro velké dluhy prodat. Noví majitelé nechali vilu zbourat a rozprodat jako stavební materiál. Do dnešní doby přežila pouze jedna barchessa, která v poslední době prošla rozsáhlou rekonstrukcí, byl v ní zřízen pivovar a slouží jako restaurace. Přístupný je též park.

Hrabata Polové
Původně istrijská šlechtická rodina, která se již od 13. století začala přesouvat do severoitalského Trevisa. V roce 1331 sem přesídlila celá rodina, jejíž příslušníci zde zastávali vysoké úřady a v roce 1401 byli přijati do tamní šlechtické rady. Benátská republika, pod kterou Treviso spadalo, potvrdila rodině titul "conte" (hrabě). Příslušníci rodiny též zasedali ve Furlanském parlamentu sídlícím v Udine. Roku 1492 si nechali v Trevisu vystavět krásný palác proslulým benátským architektem Petrem Lombardim. O několik let později, roku 1506 zakoupili panství Barcon. V této době patřila rodina mezi nejpřednější benátskou aristokracii, což dokazují mimo jiné sňatky s příslušníky rodů Caetani, Gonzaga, della Torre, Colloredo a podobně. Roku 1600 (či 1607) odešel jeden příslušník rodu Filip Kryštof také do Čech, kde založil českou linii, v současné době žijící na zámku Bukovci a v Praze. Další linie měla rodina v Istrii a v Miláně. Roku 1819 byl rodině potvrzen hraběcí stav i pro Rakouské císařství. Ovšem rodina si nákladným způsobem života nadělala ohromné dluhy a tak po roce 1850 rozprodala veškerý majetek. Italská linie vymřela roku 1920 hrabětem Galvanem Polou.

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