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Review: If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
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If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan - In this stunning debut, a young Iranian American writer pulls back the curtain on one of the most hidden corners of a much-talked-about culture.
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They've shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin's parents announce that they've arranged for her marriage. Nasrin tries to persuade Sahar that they can go on as they have been, only now with new comforts provided by the decent, well-to-do doctor Nasrin will marry. But Sahar dreams of loving Nasrin exclusively—and openly.
Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution. In Iran, homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman's body is seen as nature's mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. As a man, Sahar could be the one to marry Nasrin. Sahar will never be able to love the one she wants, in the body she wants to be loved in, without risking her life. Is saving her love worth sacrificing her true self? From Goodreads.
Trigger warning: This book contains - and my review discusses - homophobia.
I've had If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan for a while. It's one I wanted to read because it sounded like it would be an incredible book, but also one I've been putting off because the subject matter had me thinking it would be a difficult read. And although I didn't hate it, I wasn't really a huge fan of it, either. Though this is because I didn't like what the characters were doing, I guess the book did it's job?
Sahar has been in love with her best friend Nasrin ever since they were six years old, but because homosexuality is illegal in Iran, to the extent that sometimes leads to death. their relationship is kept secret. But when Nasrin's parents arrange a marriage for her, the two have more to deal with than just the prospect of being caught. But when Sahar meets Parveen, a friend of her cousin Ali's, she thinks she's found the answer. Parveen is transsexual, and Sahar discovers while being gay is illegal, being trans is not; it's seen an illness, a biological mistake, and transgender people can receive reassignment surgery for free. Sahar decides if she can't be with Nasrin as a girl, she will become a man for her. But is her love worth changing who she is?
So I had problems with Sahar's attitude towards her transitioning into a man. I completely understood why she wanted to go down that path - there was no other way she could be with Nasrin - but at the same time, she just completely takes advantage of people and resources for actual transgender people. She has moments of real selfishness, where, at a support group for trans people, she wants those talking to hurry up and finish so she can speak, and ask about how she can begin transitioning. She does feel for the people she meets, for maybe a split second, but mainly she's thinking about herself. She takes advantage of Parveen's friendship, is almost without empathy for the trans experience that it doesn't even really occur to her that what she is doing is wrong. And that just didn't sit right with me.
Saying that, like Sahar, I was surprised to find that Katayoun, a trans woman Sahar meets through the support group, not only accepts how her country treats gay people, but is all for it. I know gender identity and sexual orientation are not really related, but I would have thought those who are discriminated against - and trans people are discriminated against, even if being trans isn't illegal - would feel comradeship with each other, but no.
'"It's safe to... Well, to be one's self here. I mean, there is less of a chance of judgement or, I don't know, more of a chance for people who, I imagine, are sympathetic."
"I'm not like them! You hear me? What they do is unnatural." She whispers as her eyes train on a table of two men giving each other affectionate glances.
"I'm sorry, I thought--"
"Thought what? That I am the same as these... these perverts, just because I am different?"
"My illness is treatable. Their malady is a bargain made with the devil. The Republic knows that, the Koran knows that, and you damn well better know that if you are to survive in this society."'(p150-151)
I also didn't like Nasrin. She wanted - expected - her relationship with Sahar to continue after she's married, even though adultery is also illegal. She wanted to have her cake and eat it. It was like she didn't seem to fully grasp or care just how precarious their situation was, or how worse it would be if they carried on. And she herself was in some kind of denial, because she said she wasn't gay, and was judgemental around other gay people. And they way she bossed Sahar around, I just didn't feel like she really cared, despite her moments of crying and declaring how in love with Sahar she was. So it was even harder for me to excuse what Sahar was doing, because not only was she doing something terrible, she was doing it for a spoilt, entitled brat.
So I didn't like the characters or their decisions, so I didn't enjoy the story. This isn't always the case, but this time, it just wasn't one I really enjoyed. That doesn't make it a bad story however, just one that isn't for me. Do read other reviews before deciding whether or not to read If You Could Be Mine.
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan has been reviewed as part of the Ramadan Readathon.
Published: 20th August 2013
Publisher: Alqonquin Young Readers
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Do we ever THINK like a Slim person?
I have wondered if those of us who have needed bariatric surgery are programmed differently. What makes us snap and order a Bacon Blue Cheeseburger with Sweet Potato Fries instead of a Grilled Chicken Salad or put the Doritos in the cart when we don't want to eat them.
Standing at Panera Bread gazing at the menu it suddenly clicked with me that its about balance between calories eaten and those burned. I have been ordering a Cup of Tomato Soup and 1/2 a smoked turkey that I roll up and eat without bread. I assumed that tomato soup would have fewest calories, but as I squinted to make sense of the little numbers on the board I realized that I was WRONG! Tomato is near highest at 330 calories for a small cup. The soup that I would NEVER order, Chicken Noodle because it has Noodles, is a measly 80 calories for the cup!
Poor Ty was standing there with his mind blown that the bowl of Clam Chowder he loves has 720 Calories. That's just crazy. Even crazier, is that when I was MO I hated knowing the calorie counts of what I was ordering but now I use these counts to choose my food!
It has taken me a lifetime to get to this place and the final light that went on has to do with exercise. The workout that I do only burns a minimal calories in real time – the screen flashes '171 Calories Burned' at the end of 20 minutes of sweat bursting HIIT. Even though I know it makes me burn at a higher rate for hours, when choosing food, 171 calories now relates to something tangible.
330 versus 80, get outta town!
Will tomato soup make me so much happier than chicken noodle that I want to consume four times the calories? No! Panera Chicken Noodle Soup is full of carrots and chunks of chicken – its delicious – and at 80 calories is a wonderful food choice. It only has 11 carbs even if I ate all the noodles.
Does this mean that I am actually thinking like a slim person? OR… am a thinking like a fat person trying to think like a slim person?
Skinny folks don't say 'extra mayo'!
There was a massive long term study done on the habits of people who are considered to be NATURALLY SLIM. They don't pig out on vacations, holidays, cruises, birthday dinners; they basically eat the same level of calories no matter what is happening in their life. THEY DONT LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO INDULGE AND OVEREAT! They eat roasted chicken and salad but they don't eat the skin and don't pour on the bottled blue cheese dressing. They don't eat four Cheddar Biscuits at Red Lobster. They enjoy their meal and it is over. They do not eat as if they have been at a Vegan Festival for the week. (no letters from Vegans please) As someone who has been obese all her adult life before bariatric surgery, I find this fascinating!
When on vacation, I look at the hotel breakfast menu and think 'Mmmm… I'M ON VACATION, I THINK I WILL HAVE EGGS BENEDICT WITH EXTRA HOLLANDAISE ON A CRAB CAKE!' I can't help myself, the fat girl takes over and that is where my brain goes. I must actively think my way through my gut choice. Pun intended.
Even with bariatric surgery I have to fight myself to order the smallest steak instead of the middle size. I know that I cannot eat the largest and can't finish the medium, but I just don't want to order the smallest. Maybe this has been psychologically analyzed by Outback. The same people who have enticed us to order a deep fried onion the size of my head and double the calories by providing a delectable dipping sauce.
Naturally slim people look at a menu and order the petite filet and grilled asparagus or *gasp* salmon. Cowboy Ribeyes, Porterhouse for Two, and 16 ounce NY Strip does not jump out at them. They don't order Bloomin Onions, lobster mac & cheese, loaded baked potatoes, or bs themselves that sweet potato fries are actually good for them. When a waiter asks 'Butter or Sour Cream', they have Never Ever Ever enthusiastically replied 'both'. If I were a waiter, I would get fired for rolling my eyes when obese people said 'both'.
The point is that Superbowl, Thanksgiving, July 4th, Birthdays and Anniversaries will still be great if I am careful and think about it being just another day and not a ticket for me to eat things I know I don't want or need. It just takes time and that momentous epiphany to take place. In the meantime, we wait and debate with our inner selves over soups and sides.
BONUS ROUND: See if you can guess the three highest and three lowest calorie Panera soups. ANSWERS BELOW!
Here are the answers with 3 highest calorie Panera Soups in RED and 3 lowest calorie Panera Soups in GREEN along with Calories, Carbs, Sugar and Protein!
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\section{Introduction}

The standard model (SM) has been extremely successful at describing particle physics phenomena over the last half-century,
and the recently discovered boson with a mass of 125~\ensuremath{\,\text{Ge\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace \cite{CMSHiggs,ATLASHiggs} could be the
final particle required in this theory, the Higgs boson.
However, the SM is not without its shortcomings, for instance one requires fine-tuned cancellations of large quantum corrections
in order for the Higgs boson to have a mass at the electroweak
symmetry breaking scale~\cite{SUSY1,SUSY5,SUSY6}.
This is otherwise known as the hierarchy problem.
Due to the magnitude of this fine-tuning, one suspects that there is some dynamical mechanism which makes this fine-tuning ``natural''.
Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a popular extension of the SM which postulates
the existence of a sparticle for every SM particle.
These sparticles have the same quantum numbers as their SM counterparts but differ by one half-unit of spin.
The loop corrections to the Higgs boson mass due to these sparticles
are opposite to those of the SM particles thus providing a
natural solution to the hierarchy problem (through the cancellations of the quadratic divergences of the top-quark and top-squark loops).
Furthermore, one expects relatively light top and bottom squarks, with masses below around 1~\ensuremath{\,\text{Te\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace,
if SUSY is to be the natural solution to the
hierarchy problem~\cite{Barbieri:1987fn,deCarlos1993320,Dimopoulos1995573,Papucci:2011wy}.
In addition, in $R$-parity conserving SUSY models, the lightest super-symmetric particle (LSP) is often the lightest neutralino \ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace.
The \ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace offers itself as a good dark matter candidate subsequently
explaining particular astrophysical observations~\cite{DarkMatterReview,DMGeneral}.
Since the \ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace is stable this will give rise to an imbalance in transverse momentum in the detector (\ETm).
In this note, several CMS~\cite{Chatrchyan:2008aa} searches are reported for SUSY particles
using 19.5 fb$^{-1}$ of LHC proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8~$\ensuremath{\,\text{Te\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace\,
of which the Feynman diagrams can be seen in Fig.~\ref{fig:SigDiagram}.

\begin{figure}[hbt]
  \begin{center}
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{plots/TChiWH.pdf}
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{plots/T6ttHH.pdf}
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{plots/T6ttZZ.pdf}
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{plots/T6ttHZ.pdf}
    \caption{Diagrams for the Top (left): chargino-neutralino pair production leading to the \whmet\ final state.
             Top (right): production of the heavier top-squark ($\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$) pairs followed by the decays $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \PH \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$.
             Bottom (left): production of the heavier top-squark ($\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$) pairs followed by the decays $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \cPZ \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$.
             Bottom (left): production of the heavier top-squark ($\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$) pairs followed by the decays $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \cPZ \PH \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$,
             with $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace \to \cPqt \PSGczDo$. The symbol * denotes charge conjugation.
    \label{fig:SigDiagram}}
      \end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{Search for new physics with multijets and \ETm}

For this study a generic search for new physics beyond the SM in
events with multiple jets and large \ETm has been performed.
This final state is motivated by many extensions of the SM~\cite{LittleHiggs,UED}.
The analysis follows previous
inclusive searches~\cite{RA2,RA2_2011} which required at least three jets in
the final state. These searches were sensitive to the simple decay chains of
squarks and gluinos. In order to give the analysis more sensitivity to a variety of final
state topologies the events are sub-divided into
three exclusive jet multiplicity regions: \ensuremath{N_{\text{jets}}}\xspace=[3--5], [6--7], and [$\geq$8].
This extension of the search to higher jet multiplicities
is motivated by natural SUSY models whereby the gluino decays often into top quarks.
While other analyses exploit the presence of b jets in signal events to discriminate against
background \cite{RA1_2012, RA2b_2012}, this analysis follows a complementary strategy by requiring a large number of jets,
and thus is keeping the signal efficiency for fully hadronic final states as high as possible.
The events are further categorized according to the total visible hadronic activity \ensuremath{H_{\mathrm{T}}}\xspace and the
momentum imbalance \ensuremath{\slash\mkern-12mu{H}_{\text{T}}}\xspace, defined in the direction transverse to the beam.

The major SM background contributions in this search arise from
an irreducible background of \Z{}+jets events, with the \Z boson decaying to a pair of neutrinos, denoted as
$\ensuremath{\Z ( \nu \bar{\nu} )}\xspace$+jets; $\ensuremath{\mathrm{W}}\xspace$+jets and $\ttbar$ events, with a $\ensuremath{\mathrm{W}}\xspace$ boson decaying directly or via a
$\tau$ to an e or $\mu$ that is not reconstructed, isolated, or out of acceptance; or to a $\tau$ that decays hadronically.
In all these cases, one or more neutrinos provide a source of genuine \ETm
The third background category is QCD multijet events with
large \ETm from leptonic decays of heavy-flavour hadrons
inside the jets, jet energy mismeasurement, or instrumental noise and
non-functioning detector components. All these backgrounds are determined
from the data, relying on simulation as little as possible.
The full details of the event selection with analysis procedure can be found in Ref.~\cite{SUS13012}.
After all selections have been made one finds the observed data are consistent with SM expectations
and subsequently limits are placed on the production of $\sQua\squark$ pairs
with $\sQua \rightarrow \mathrm{q} + {\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$, and $\sGlu\gluino$ pair with
$\sGlu \rightarrow \qqbar + {\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$ in the $m_{\sQua}$-$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$ and $m_{\sGlu}$-$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$ planes (see Fig.~\ref{fig:limitsT1qqqqT1tttt}).

\begin{figure}
  \centering
    \subfigure[Squark pair production (T2qq)]{
     \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth] {plots/T2qq_Pythia_fullToy_AllvsOneSquark.pdf}
     \label{fig:limitsT2qq}
    }
    \subfigure[Gluino pair production (T1qqqq)]{
     \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth] {plots/T1qqqq_Pythia_fullToy.pdf}
     \label{fig:limitsT1qqqq}
    }
  \caption{The observed and expected 95\% C.L. upper limits on the (a) $\sQua\squark$ and (b) $\sGlu\gluino$
    production cross-sections in the $m_{\sQua}$-$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$
and $m_{\sGlu}$-$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\chi}^{0}}\xspace}$ planes obtained with the simplified models. For the $\sQua\squark$ production the upper set of curves corresponds to the
scenario when the first two generations of squarks are degenerate and light, while the lower set corresponds to only one light accessible squark.}
  \label{fig:limitsT1qqqqT1tttt}
\end{figure}

\section{Search for production of charginos and neutralinos with a Higgs boson}
The recent observation of a Higgs boson offers the
possibility to perform new physics searches by exploiting the measured properties
of this particle. In particular, in large regions of SUSY parameter space the heavy neutralinos
are expected to decay predominantly to a Higgs boson.
The electroweak SUSY process with the largest cross section is chargino-neutralino pair production.
This process has been probed in previous CMS searches~\cite{Chatrchyan:2012pka,CMS-PAS-SUS-13-006}, which required that
the chargino decays to a \PW\ boson and the lightest SUSY particle (LSP), assumed to be the
lightest neutralino $\PSGczDo\xspace$, and that the neutralino decays to a \Z boson and the LSP.
The search is based on chargino-neutralino pair production where the neutralino decays instead
to a Higgs boson and the LSP, $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}}\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}}\to(\PW^{\pm}\PSGczDo\xspace) (\PH \PSGczDo\xspace)$, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:SigDiagram} (top left).
The decays $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}}\to\PW^{\pm}\PSGczDo\xspace$ and $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}}\to \PH\PSGczDo\xspace$ are expected to dominate if the
$\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}}$ and $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}}$ particles are wino-like, the $\PSGczDo\xspace$ is bino-like, and the difference
between their masses is larger than $M_{\PH}=126$\ensuremath{\,\text{Ge\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace.
Here the $\PH$ particle is the lightest SUSY Higgs boson, which is expected to be SM-like
if the other SUSY Higgs bosons are significantly heavier than $M_{\Z}$~\cite{SUSYprimer}.
Three exclusive final states are considered in this search, where the \PW\ is required
to decay leptonically and the $\PSGczDo\xspace$ is assumed to be stable and escape detection, leading to large \ETm.
A search performed in the single lepton final state provides
sensitivity to events in which the Higgs boson decays as $\PH\to\cPqb\bar{\cPqb}$. A search in the same-sign dilepton
final state targets events with the decay $\PH\to\PW^+\PW^-$ in which one of the \PW\ bosons
decays leptonically and the other hadronically.
The full details of the event selection with analysis procedure can be found in Ref.~\cite{CMS:2013afa}.
After all selections have been made one finds the observed data are consistent with SM expectations
and subsequently limits are presented in the plane of the mass of the \ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace,
and the common mass of the $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}}$ and $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}}$ particles (see Fig.~\ref{fig:interpretations2d}).

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{plots/exclusion_Wino2D_DOW-JG-RG_overlay_observed.pdf}
\caption{ The interpretation of the combined results from the three search channels.
The upper limit on the \ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{1}^{\pm}}\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}}\ production cross section is indicated in the color scale.
The expected and observed regions for which the signal model is excluded reach
from the origin to the solid red and solid black curve, respectively.
The dashed red lines show the $\pm 1\sigma$ variations on the expected limit due to experimental uncertainties
and the thin black lines indicate the uncertainty due to the cross section calculation.
\label{fig:interpretations2d}
}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{Search for top-squark pair production with Higgs and Z bosons}

Searches for direct top-squark production at the LHC have focused mainly
on the simplest scenario, in which only the lighter top-squark
mass eigenstate, $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$, is accessible at current collision energies.
In these searches, the top-squark decay modes
considered are those to a top quark and a neutralino,
$\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to \cPqt\PSGczDo \to \cPqb \PW \PSGczDo$, or
to a bottom quark and a chargino, $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to \cPqb \PSGcpDo \to \cPqb \PW \PSGczDo$.
These two decay modes are expected to have large branching fractions
if kinematically allowed.
The lightest neutralino, $\PSGczDo$, is the lightest
SUSY particle (LSP) in the R-parity conserving models
considered; the experimental signature of such a particle is
missing transverse energy ($\ETm$).

The sensitivity of searches for direct top-squark pair production is, however, significantly reduced
in the $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to \cPqt\PSGczDo$ decay mode for the region of SUSY parameter space in which
 $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace} - m_{\PSGczDo} \simeq m_{\cPqt}$.
In this region, the momentum of the daughter neutralino in the rest frame of the decaying
$\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$ is small, and it is exactly zero in the limit $ m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace} - m_{\PSGczDo} = m_{\cPqt}$. As a result, the $\ETm$
from the vector sum of the transverse momenta of the two neutralinos is typically also small in the laboratory frame.
It then becomes difficult to distinguish kinematically between
$\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$ pair production and the dominant background,
which arises from $\ttbar$ production.
This region of phase space can be explored using events with topologies that are distinct from the $\ttbar$ background.
An example is gluino pair production where each gluino decays to a top squark and a top quark, giving rise to a
signature with four top quarks in the final state~\cite{Chatrchyan:2013iqa,Chatrchyan:2013wxa}.

This search targets the region of phase space where
$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace} - m_{\PSGczDo} \simeq m_{\cPqt}$ by focusing on signatures
of $\ttbar\PH\PH$, $\ttbar\PH\cPZ$, and
$\ttbar\cPZ\cPZ$ with $\ETm$. These final states can
arise from the pair production of the heavier top-squark mass eigenstate
$\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$. There are two non-degenerate top-squark mass eigenstates
($\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$ and $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$) due to the mixing of the SUSY partners $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_\cmsSymbolFace{L}}\xspace$ and $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_\cmsSymbolFace{R}}\xspace$ of the
right- and left-handed top quarks. The $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$
decays to $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$ and an $\PH$ or $\cPZ$ boson,
and the $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$ is subsequently assumed to decay to $\cPqt\PSGczDo$, as
shown in the bottom row of Fig.~\ref{fig:SigDiagram}.
The final states pursued in this search can arise in other scenarios, such as $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to
\cPqt\PSGczDt$, with $\PSGczDt \to \PH
\PSGczDo$ or $\PSGczDt \to \cPZ
\PSGczDo$. The search is also sensitive to a range of models in
which the LSP is a gravitino.
The relative branching fractions for modes with the $\PH$ and $\cPZ$ bosons are
model dependent, so it is useful to search for both decay modes simultaneously.
In the signal model considered, $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace$ is assumed always to decay to
$\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$ in association with an $\PH$ or $\cPZ$ boson,
such that the sum of the two branching fractions is
$\mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \PH \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace) + \mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \cPZ
\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace) = 100$\%. Other possible decay modes are $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace \to
\cPqt\PSGczDo$ and $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace \to \cPqb \PSGcpDo$.

The four main search channels contain either exactly
one-lepton, two leptons with opposite-sign (OS) charge and no other
leptons, two leptons with same-sign (SS) charge and no other leptons,
or at least three leptons (3 $\ell$).
The channels with one-lepton or two OS leptons require at least three
$\cPqb$ jets, while the channels with two SS leptons or 3 $\ell$ require
at least one $\cPqb$ jet.
The major SM background contribution in this search arise from $\ttbar$ pair production,
which has two $\cPqb$ quarks and either one-lepton or two OS leptons from
the $\ttbar\to \ell \nu \qqbar \ensuremath{\cPqb\cPaqb}\xspace$ or
$\ttbar\to \ell \nu \ell \nu \ensuremath{\cPqb\cPaqb}\xspace$ decay modes, where
$\cPq$ denotes a quark jet. The
sensitivity to the signal arises both from events with additional
$\cPqb$ quarks in the final state (mainly from
$\PH\to\ensuremath{\cPqb\cPaqb}\xspace$), and from events with additional leptons from $\PH$ or $\cPZ$ boson decays.
The full details of the event selection with analysis procedure can be found in Ref.~\cite{Chachatryan:2014doa}.
The observed data yields are consistent with SM expectations
and subsequently limits are placed on top quark pair production (see Fig.~\ref{fig:interp_HH_and_ZZ}).

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{plots/T6ttHHCombXSEC.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{plots/T6ttZZ3lbXSEC.pdf}
\caption{
  Interpretation of the results in SUSY simplified model
  parameter space, $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace}$ \vs $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace}$, with the
  neutralino mass constrained by the relation
  $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace} - m_{\PSGczDo}  = 175\ensuremath{\,\text{Ge\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace$.
  The shaded maps show the upper
  limit (95\% CL) on the cross section times branching fraction
  at each point in the $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace}$ \vs~$m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace}$ plane for the
  process $\ensuremath{{p}}\Pp \to \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\sttwo^{*}$,
  with $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \PH \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace$, $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to
  \cPqt\PSGczDo$ and $\PSQtDt\to \cPZ\PSQtDo$,
  $\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace\to \cPqt\PSGczDo$. In these plots,
  the results from all channels are combined. The excluded region
  in the $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace}$ \vs $m_{\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace}$ parameter space is obtained
  by comparing the cross section times branching fraction upper
  limit at each model point with the corresponding NLO+NLL
  cross section for the process, assuming that (a)~$\mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \PH \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace)=100\%$ or (b)~that $\mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_2}\xspace\to \cPZ \ensuremath{\widetilde{\cmsSymbolFace{t}}_1}\xspace)=100\%$.
  \label{fig:interp_HH_and_ZZ}}
\end{figure}

\section{Phenomenological MSSM Interpretation of 7 and 8 TeV results}

Searches for SUSY have typically been interpreted within constrained models with just a few parameters.
A commonly used model is the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM),
which is characterized by four parameters and a sign~\cite{Chamseddine:1982jx}:
a universal scalar mass $m_0$, a gaugino mass $m_{1/2}$ and a trilinear coupling $A_0$
defined at the GUT scale, $M_{\rm GUT}\sim 10^{16}$~GeV,
together with $\tan\beta$ and sign$(\mu)$.
The simplifying assumption of universality at the GUT scale has served a useful purpose:
for many years it has provided a framework for gauging progress in SUSY searches.
However, many mass patterns and signatures that are possible in the MSSM
cannot be realized in the CMSSM. Therefore, interpreting the experimental results only in the $(m_0,m_{1/2})$ plane
carries the risk of imposing overly strong constraints on SUSY that are not warranted by observations.
The full set of mass patterns and signatures possible in the MSSM are also not necessarily accounted for in the
Simplified Model Spectra (SMS)~\cite{Alwall:2008ag,Alves:2011wf,Chatrchyan:2013sza} approach.
Although interpretation using SMS topologies is very useful since it allows us to systematically see the experimental impact on well-defined,
isolated topologies, it is crucial to complement this by interpretation within a generic model,
such as the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM)~\cite{Djouadi:1998di}, that intrinsically covers a wide diversity of topologies.
Of course, it is also possible that the SMS approach eliminates a pMSSM parameter point that is not eliminated in the present
version of the analysis presented here if the latter set of analyses does not include some important channel/configuration considered by the SMS analyses.
The SMS approach and the pMSSM approach become equivalent only when: a)  the set of analyses in the pMSSM approach is the same as the set of analyses
considered in the simplified models; and b) the simplified models cover all the final states to which these analyses can be sensitive for each pMSSM point.
In order to account fully for all the mass patterns and decay modes that can occur in the MSSM,
it is necessary to pursue a less model-dependent approach.
Subsequently, one can pursue the pMSSM, a 19-dimensional realization of the MSSM,
which captures most of the phenomenological features of the R-parity conserving MSSM.
In the pMSSM, all MSSM parameters are specified at the electroweak scale and allowed to vary freely subject to the requirement that the model be
consistent with electroweak symmetry breaking and other such basic constraints.

To assess what the data tells us about SUSY in the context of the pMSSM
a representative subset of the results obtained by CMS corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.0~fb$^{-1}$ at 7~TeV and  19.5~fb$^{-1}$ at 8~TeV is used.
The current study extends our analysis \cite{sus12030} of the 7~TeV data.
The study uses a subspace of the pMSSM where the chargino lifetime $c\tau(\tilde{\chi}^\pm_1)$ is less than 10 mm to look at the class of final states with prompt decays.
In order to combine both data sets the same model points within the pMSSM parameter space are used, chosen randomly from a scan of points
consistent with basic constraints and treat the 7~TeV and 8~TeV data in an entirely parallel fashion.
The approach employed is an extension of the work from Ref.~\cite{Sekmen:2011cz}.
Prior to this work, the parameter space of the pMSSM and the various LHC constraints on it were studied in detail in
Refs.~\cite{Berger:2008cq,AbdusSalam:2009qd,Conley:2010du}.

\subsection{Posterior densities for parameters, masses and relevant observables}

Fig.~\ref{fig:HT_MHT_1D} compares prior distributions to posterior distributions including the data from the 7 and 8~TeV HT + MHT searches performed by CMS~\cite{SUS12011,SUS13012}.
Blue line histograms represent marginalized CMS posterior distributions.
The red and black line histograms show the similar CMS posterior distributions for respectively the 8~TeV and 7+8~TeV HT+MHT data, where the 7+8~TeV combined posterior probability
for each point is obtained by taking a product of the 7~TeV and 8~TeV likelihoods for this search.
Solid lines show posterior distributions assuming the central values for the signal cross section,
while dashed and dotted lines show posterior distributions assuming respectivel 0.5 and 1.5 times the central values for the signal cross section.
The difference between the solid lines and the dotted and dashed lines can be considered as a systematic uncertainty.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{plots/SUS12011_SUS13012_lhd_mg_rebin.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{plots/SUS12011_SUS13012_lhd_muL_rebin.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{plots/SUS12011_SUS13012_lhd_mdR_rebin.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{plots/SUS12011_SUS13012_lhd_massLightestColored_rebin.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\linewidth]{plots/SUS12011_SUS13012_lhd_mz1_rebin.pdf}
  \caption{Marginalized distributions of selected sparticle masses. Filled histograms show prior
distributions, line histograms show posterior distributions including the data collected at 7 TeV
(blue), 8 TeV (red), and 7 and 8 TeV (black) by the CMS HT + MHT searches.}
  \label{fig:HT_MHT_1D}
\end{figure}

It appears that the HT+MHT data strongly disfavor pMSSM scenarios with $\sGlu$ masses below 1200 GeV.
Also scenarios with $\tilde{u}_L,\tilde{c}_L$ masses below 1000 GeV are disfavored.
However, the impact on masses of other first and second generation squarks, such as the $\tilde{d}_{R},\tilde{s}_{R}$ masses, is weaker.
Regarding third generation squarks, there is a slight impact on the mass of the lightest sbottom, disfavoring the lowest masses,
while there is no noticeable impact on the mass of the lightest stop.
Generally, the most probable mass of the lightest colored sparticle is increased by about 500~GeV.
Also the distribution of the $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace$ mass is shifted to higher values.
This latter effect is mainly a phase space effect, a consequence of our requirement of $\ensuremath{\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}}\xspace$ to be the LSP.
The full study can be found in Ref.~\cite{CMS:2014mia}.

\section{Summary}

CMS has carried out several searches for SUSY particles with an
integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb$^{-1}$. No excess in data with respect to the SM expectation has been observed so far.
However, searches in large regions of the parameter space for natural SUSY are still
in progress. These searches are challenging due to similarity with the $\ttbar$ final state for low stop masses, and due to the low cross sections for higher
stop mass values. Subsequently, new results obtained at $\sqrt{s}=13~$\ensuremath{\,\text{Te\hspace{-.08em}V}}\xspace\ in 2015 will be looked upon with eager anticipation.

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As a lifelong student of archaeology, I've become more and more focused on the Pleistocene and the Paleolithic, that amazing span of the Earth's history when humanity emerged in Africa and conquered almost the entire habitable surface of the planet. Along the way, we survived multiple ice ages and lived until fairly recently alongside megafauna such as mammoths. I've been meaning to build a mammoth or two from LEGO, so I was pleased to see this adorable mother-and-child pair by Pierre. Noteworthy here is that the adult mammoth is built upside down. And I just love the baby mammoth with its big Dumbo ears. Presented on a base of snowy white, this pair would look great on any paleoanthropologist's or paleontologist's desk.


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NBA center Jones developing Christian walk alongside hoop skills
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Damian Jones (dunking) played for the Atlanta Hawks during the 2019 NBA season.
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From hoop dreams in high school to playing for some of the hottest teams in the NBA, basketball has taken Damian Jones a long way.
"The journey isn't over. I keep on working," said Jones, who was most recently with the Sacramento Kings.
Whether a high school state championship in Louisiana or two NBA championships with the Golden State Warriors, Jones has always enjoyed "cutting down the nets," a tradition after a basketball win, and hopes to get another chance to do that as an NBA player.
Jones got Vanderbilt University's attention while playing at Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was a Rivals.com 4-star recruit and averaged 15.4 points, eight rebounds, four blocks and two assists as a senior.
At Vanderbilt, he played 99 games, averaging 13.3 points, 6.4 rebounds and finishing second in school career blocks with 167. His 56.6 percentage from the field was third best in Vanderbilt history.
After being First-Team All-SEC at Vanderbilt his sophomore and junior seasons and helping the Commodores secure an NCAA tournament berth in 2016, Jones was drafted by Golden State in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft (No. 30 overall). During 49 games with the Warriors over three seasons from 2016 to 2019, Jones averaged 5.4 points and 2.3 rebounds. He was the starting center for 22 games in 2019.
Through professional basketball, Jones, who was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in 2019 and spent time with the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers before being signed by the Kings in April, has been able to share his faith and provide a platform for "trying to live the right way and share the good life with others," he said.
His faith is always in mind.
"Any tough time I have been through, I have to rely on faith and continue to read the Word and pray. That was always a part of me," said Jones, who was taken to church by his parents, David and Dana Jones, while growing up in Baton Rouge. He is a member of Living Word Church and was baptized there in his early teens.
"I needed Jesus. He is everything, salvation. [And] after death, we get to go to heaven," he said.
While playing for the Hawks, Jones and teammate forward/center Bruno Fernando attended pre-game chapel services.
"We [would] call on each other and make sure we [didn't] miss chapel," said Fernando, who said he often saw Jones' faith in action.
"He is a person who believes in God. He follows … the testaments of the Bible," Fernando said. "To see him live through that every single day, being able to see him make his devotions to the Lord, being able to be that person is a reminder for us in the locker room."
Jones is encouraged by his mother, who sends him Bible verses daily.
Recent roles
Playing for the Hawks allowed him to be back in the South and closer to family.
During the 2019–2020 season Jones averaged 5.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in 55 games.
In November 2020, Jones signed a contract with the Suns.
In 14 games with the Suns, he averaged 1.6 points and 1.3 rebounds per game.
When he was waived by the Suns earlier this year, he spent time on a short-term contract with the Lakers before being signed by the Kings.
Jones' athleticism is his strength.
"His presence at the rim being a shot-blocker, big-time lob [a type of pass] threat, he fits our system really well, being able to catch and finish a lot of lobs," Kevin Huerter, former teammate with the Hawks, said.
Another of his strengths is bonding with teammates.
"I get along with people well. I've just really clicked," said Jones, who tries to help others by community outreach activities.
Even with the type of income that comes with playing in the NBA, Jones said he wants to stay focused on his faith.
"You try to stick to it," he said. "I try to keep pushing my faith and keep on going."
Union basketball coach reaches another record milestone with 700 wins
Union University women's basketball coach Mark Campbell won his 700th career game Jan. 18, reaching that mark faster than any collegiate coach in history. The
FCA getting God's word 'into the hands of coaches and athletes'
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes distributed 196,024 Bibles in 2022 and shared Bible reading plans with thousands more. FCA annually prints about 200,000 Bibles and
Pastor ministers to professional athletes through sports, music, other means
Some might say Randy Kennedy is one of the most winsome individuals you will ever meet. They also might say he is also versatile –
'Christ has given me grace': MLB star Darryl Strawberry shares testimony with students
Major League Baseball-superstar-turned-evangelist Darryl Strawberry recently told student-athletes at Shorter University that Christ is all that matters. The eight-time All-Star and four-time World Series Champion

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Statistics have shown that their are approximately 46 marijuana users, 20 people abusing prescription drugs, and 7 cocaine addicts that live in Lebo, Kansas.
If you have decided that you will need assistance with an addiction you have made the first and hardest step toward sobriety, however the next step of looking for that help might be a difficult task if you do not know where to look. This page contains a list of private, public, non-profit, gay, and Christian drug rehabs and addiction specialists near Lebo, Kansas.
Lebo is located in Coffey County and contains the following zip codes: 66856.


To reduce risks of intrusion into different communication networks, cybersecurity has become essential in the automobile sector.
As a laboratory of test and software quality, KEREVAL has a team of experts able to act on issues relating to cybersecurity.
A security expert of KEREVAL returns to the subject of the automobile cybersecurity in an interview for "Sciences Ouest".
SCIENCES OUEST – Mai 2016 – Mettez votre cyberceinture !


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Fenton building department going digital
Office reconfiguration and new equipment aimed at improving efficiency
The Fenton Building and Zoning Department is making a few changes aimed at making day-to-day operations more efficient.
At its Monday, July 1 work session, the City Council approved two requests by Building and Zoning Administrator Mike Reilly — one to re-arrange current office space to better accommodate staff and visitors, and two, to purchase digital equipment for the review and storage of construction plans.
Upon review of the department's functionality, Reilly proposed switching offices to place the majority of personnel in the larger office. This will put Reilly's office adjacent to that of the Public Works director. This will allow Reilly to close off the office for private discussions without "trapping" people in the center room.
As he was previously instructed, Reilly contacted Space, the company that designed the front office work space. A representative from Space provided a design proposal that includes new work stations with adjustable desks and work space dividers.
The total cost to implement this plan will be $12,116.40.
"I am proposing to take the department 'paperless,' which is a two-fold benefit," Reilly said. Document storage will be greatly reduced, another space saver.
Reilly proposed the purchase of a digital construction plan review table with a plotter/scanner. The construction plans will be submitted, reviewed and approved in digital format, he said. "The digital plans will be accessible to our field inspectors, fire and police emergency responders with modem access," Reilly said.
The total cost of the plan table is $19,223. Required licensing will be $1,037 per year. The plotter/scanner will cost $10,995 and six printer cartridges will cost $720.
In considering this change, Reilly said he discussed the matter with the State of Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes to ensure compliance.


BLOOMINGTON, Ill.— Illinois Wesleyan University's Lev Ivanov is a finalist in The American Prize competition in the performing arts.
The conductor of the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra, Ivanov is a finalist for The American Prize in Conducting – college/university orchestra division. Since 2010, The American Prize's panel of judges has provided evaluation, recognition and reward to America's finest performing artists and composers. Chief Judge David Katz was recently honored by Musical America for creating and sustaining The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts.
Ivanov is visiting assistant professor of music. In his third year as music director of the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra, Ivanov facilitates projects and collaborations with other forms of the arts including use of electronic music, visual aids and computer technology in an orchestral setting. His creative approach to programming provides for skillful execution of traditional repertoire alongside 21st–century orchestral music. He also conducts the Illinois Wesleyan Wind Ensemble.
Ivanov was one of five to receive prizes and special recognition at the Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest International Conducting Competition 2013 where he conducted the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra. He was awarded the Special Mention prize by the jury presided over by Jorma Panula from among the 50 international contestants. Ivanov is also the recipient of the George and Geraldine Swensen Watkins Endowment for Excellence in the Arts and a prize-winner of the Vorzel and Guitaralia international ensemble competitions in Ukraine and Poland. He received degrees in music performance and conducting from Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Ukraine, Brigham Young University and Arizona State University.


condemning the use of government shutdowns.
relative to unclassified positions within the department of health and human services.
relative to school nurse certification.
establishing a New Hampshire health access corporation.


Thoroughly modern classic men can be very conservative in their choice of eyewear exhibiting great inertia when trying something new. Even when the benefits of a new frame are substantial, the familiarity of what has gone before can be too strong to permit them to change. We advice them to choose the right frame to them reduce the reluctance to accept change.
Stepper SI-20090 takes a classic front design and manufactures it in an advanced, high-tech plastic material and process. The design is further enhanced with a minimalist Beta-Titanium side adding a dash of modernity when viewed from the side.
The eyewear gives you a sleek, stylish look, perfect for almost everything, making it the right choice for you. Be it a formal meeting or an outing, these eyewear just blend in with every look like it was made for it. Apart from the material and the design, the subtle detailing on frames are the highlights.
'The result is eyewear that a male classic frame wearer will like the look of' whilst delivering substantial benefits, for example being lightweight and having hypoallergenic properties,' comments Sagar Doshi. 'In addition, the sublime daylong comfort is combined with a build quality and flexibility which ensure this is a frame which can take the knocks and blows inflicted on it by the wearer, delivering the long lasting reliability they will love.' The SI-20090 is available in Black, Blue and Demi colour ways.


For Ferrari Friday I hope readers of my Indianapolis series will forgive me getting a little out of sequence by a year or two in order to present the 1952 Grant Piston Ring Special, a Ferrari 375 captured in these photographs by my Nostalgia Forum acquaintance B² from Indiana who saw this vehicle in a Holiday Inn car park Dearborn, MI around 1971.
The Ferrari 375 was originally conceived as a Formula One car to take advantage of the normally aspirated engine regulations that allowed for engines up to 4.5 litres / 274.6 cui as opposed to the maximum 1.5 litres /91.5 cui maximum capacity allowed for supercharged engines.
The 375 evolved through three stages, the first stage was the 275 which featured a new Lampredi designed 3322cc / 202 cui V12 which made its debut in Jume 1950, in July 1950 the 340 made its debut with a longer wheel base de Dion rear suspension and a 4101cc / 240 cui version of the Lambredi V12.
Finally in September 1950 the 375 with a 335 hp 4493 cc / 274 cui made its debut at Monza, by 1951 Jose Froilan Gonzalez driving a 375 scored Ferrari's first formula one Grand Prix victory in Britain to begin cementing Ferrari's place in the top echelon of motor racing.
used in sports cars only.
With the Ferrari 375 being obsolete in the top echelon of European racing allegedly US importer Luigi Chinetti convinced Enzo Ferrari to develop the car further with a stronger longer chassis.
Ferrari was represented at the 1952 'Indy 500' by four cars 1 works and 3 customers, No: 1 'Ferrari Special' for his works driver Alberto Ascari, No: 2 Grant Piston Ring Special for drivers Jonnie Parsons and Danny Oakes, No: 3 'Kennedy Tank Special' for driver Johnny Mauro, and No: 4 'Mobil Special' for driver Bobby Ball.
Outwardly the Ferraris appearance at Indianapolis in 1952 showed Ferrari lacking finesse preparing their cars for oval racing and that the 'Yanks' had little idea of how to coax the most out of what was essentially a beefed up road course car at Indianapolis.
However in his description of the 1952 race (scroll half way down), fuel injection manufacturer Stuart Hilborn shows that at the very least Ferraris disdain of many things American and his legendary machiavellian gamesmanship had come into play.
The four 375's were around 200 lbs over weight in part due to the drum brakes being too large and more suited to road course racing.
Despite these problems Ascari drove some of the smoothest and most consistent qualifying laps ever seen at Indianapolis, which unusually possibly due to incorrect gearing, included changing down a gear for both the first and third corners to secure 19th place on the grid.
Parsons in the second 375, even after trying magnesium wheels, opted for a more powerful Offy powered vehicle and well known midget racer Danny Oakes also failed to qualify the Grant Piston Ring Special.
Mauro allegedly really only wanted his 375 for the Pikes Peak hill climb and did not take the '500' seriously and never got near a qualifying time, his car today resides in the IMS Hall of Fame now painted red.
Bobby Ball like Parsons also opted for an Offy powered machine after he had tried the forth car with Hilbourn fuel injection in place of the usual Weber carburetion. This car was restored in the 80's destroying it's original patina and is now thought to be in the care of a New York collector.
Ascari fancied his chances in the race switching, pre race, from a one stop strategy to a three stop strategy to accommodate higher than expected tyre wear. During the race Ascari planned to keep the revs low for the first two segments in order to benefit from the tendency of his US competitors 'win or bust' strategies.
Due to his weight handicap Ascari got a slow start but rose from 21st to 7th when on lap 41 the right rear wire wheel collapsed causing his instant retirement. Ascari is generally acknowledged to have given a good account of himself with a possible race contending performance up to the point of his retirement.
The No: 1 375 appeared at the 1953 '500' with a 3 litre 183 cui engine, new body and side tanks but was withdrawn from the race. In 1954 it appeared again with original body and 4.5 litre 274 cui engine but failed to qualify. Ascaris 375 is currently thought to reside in Hong Kong.
This car was seen around 1970 on former owner Lindley Bothwell's estate in 1970. By 1998 this 375 belonged to a Brazilian Carlos Monteverde who allowed Ludovic Lindsey to demonstrate it at Imola in Italy. During the demonstration the car suffered heavy broadside impact with a track side wall which wrote off two Borani wheels, smashed the respective brake drums, and destroyed the differential casing.
In August 2000 the No.2 375 now repaired was purchased by a Dutch owner and has been displayed in it's white 1952 #6 Grant Piston Ring livery in the Netherlands at the Louwiman Museum and at festivals, above at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2006, ever since.
My thanks to B² for todays photographs, and to everyone on the Ferrari 375 Indycar thread at Ferrari Chat for additional information.
if you know the correct sequence of colours and dates this car has appeared in, when it left the factory, ran in the hands of Parsons and Oakes and when it was returned to it's current livery please do not hesitate to chime in below.
Hope you have enjoyed Ferrari Friday Indy Special edition of Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres' and that you'll join me again tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !
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My friend and colleague, Dr. Anne Borik, had asked if I could do a new setting for the 'Lord's Prayer' for her Signchido prayer/movement meditations. This was a fairly daunting request, as there are so many settings already. I asked my friends Eliot Wadopian [string bass] and Paul Hollowell [keys] to add their unique gifts to this version. Hope you'll enjoy it! I'll have sheet music/notation available in the near future. If you'd like to include this in your liturgy, please drop me a line at: fran@franmckendree.com. Thanks to Casey Wood for mastering.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as in heaven.


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So I thought I would share a post that we wrote over the past few days.
It is a topic we find to be interesting, as such we spent a few weeks capturing moments with the XT1 and 56mm, to represent what prompts our thoughts and discussions.
We hope you find it of interest, or at the very least useful in offering an alternative perspective.
Blue and Pace, yours is a nice photographic essay with many beautiful and effective images that convey the alienation induced by mobile communication devices. I do not necessarily agree with all what you write about this phenomenon, but indeed IMO it is a sign of people dehumanization. Sometimes it is just so god to disconnect the gadgets and to connect with the inner-self and the real peoples around you.
Thank you for you comments. More than anything we created the post it to stimulate a little conversation and maybe provide a break from the fog. Its wonderful to share thoughts with others and receive feedback.
A really lovely piece, but I don't know if people engrossed in their phones is any worse than people engrossed in their newspapers.
Technology has changed. People stay the same.
We completely agree with you on this point. I guess we feel that technology has got to a point whereby we actually have the opportunity to raise our awareness, to break down barriers rather than construct new ones.
Technology, including the printing press, changes how we understand the world. When people started writing there own books it was a time of change. Many pieces of literature challenged the state of rule and opened peoples to new ways of thinking. Over the centuries there have been thousands of book burning events orchestrated in an attempt to suppress information that could lead to human awareness expanding.
The medium may have changed, but we still see significant suppression of thought. (When I say this i refer to a wider global audience and not any particular country). This suppression is through many means, distraction and information overload being just a couple.
As thinking individuals we can choose what information we digest, this may be positive or negative food for our minds. Our thoughts lead us to our action and stimulate our emotions, so it becomes a significant choice that we can in someway control.
Have a great day, and thank you for your feedback and thoughts.
Great topic and wonderful photo essay. Really enjoy your pics. I am one of the guys with a hate/love relationship with the technology . You can trust all the informations ,yet you still find yourself reading it o stay connected .
I to did a series like this in film though where I followed some of our local street performers. They do some amazing stuff but what I found even more interesting was all of the people who were to busy to stop and watch or to consumed with their mobile devices to look up. You miss out on quite a bit when you can't put down your phone for five seconds!


President Donald Trump's recent aggressive tweeting spree against Pakistan was anything but impulsive behaviour.
His National Security Advisor General HR McMaster went a step further, saying Pakistan would become North Korea if it does not stop nuclear blackmail.
Given its failure of diplomacy with the Asian nation, the Trump administration official was expressing Washington's worst fear, rather than threatening a "complex" ally. US permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Nimrata Haley Randhawa was more specific in stating that Pakistan's $225million would be withheld. "Pakistan has played a double game for years," she said.
Washington is mulling over suspension of $1 billion in planned military assistance, including the $255 million in foreign military financing put on hold in August, and an additional $900 million in Coalition Support Funds.
On Tuesday, Pakistan's defence minister Khurram Dastagir Khan announced an end to military and intelligence cooperation with the US. He said it was high time for Islamabad to start "ruthlessly candid dialogue" on a wide range of issues.
"At the same time, strategic dialogue between the two countries has also faced suspension for last two years. High level talks with US would not work until resumption and consistency in working level negotiations," he explained.
Islamabad has been preparing for such a moment since the Obama presidency. The reply to Trump's public outrage is "no more". The elected government, the military and the people seem to share this stance.
Indeed, the Trump administration has added Pakistan to a special watchlist for violations of religious freedom. Islamabad has rejected the "discriminatory" listing while seeking an explanation.
Over the past 16 years, it has been unclear if the US wants Afghanistan to return to normalcy, or station troops there without actually addressing the country's core issues.
Trump wants results in Afghanistan, but he is neither willing to visit the country, nor take a hard look at the reality on the ground.
It was hoped General McMaster might bring some sanity into the administration's security policies, but he has rather preferred the role of a conformist.
Pakistan's response to public humiliation won't come in kind, because its options are not constrained by America's snub. It has granted the US assistance in the past, including free use of airspace and logistical routes to Afghanistan, the provision of military bases and intelligence sharing, and extensive operations resulting in the arrest and handover of top al-Qaeda commanders such as Khaled Shaikh Mohammad.
If the logistical access to Afghanistan is barred, the US will not be able to reach Kabul and Kandahar via Iran. The only option would be to ship the supplies for troops through Russia and Central Asian states in the north.
Though Trump seems fond of Putin, military passage will be unlikely until Washington lifts the Crimea-related sanctions against Moscow. When the US briefly used the northern route during the Obama era, relations with Russia were not warm but there were no punitive measures in place either.
Possibly, Trump may like to use Pakistan's refusal for access as an excuse to normalise relations with Putin's Russia; a deep-rooted desire.
Even if Islamabad agrees, the use of its airspace and land route to Afghanistan won't come for free. But in comparison to the political and financial cost of using the northern route, it will still come for peanuts.
While US relations with Turkey have been increasingly tense, and Iran has been behaving increasingly provocatively in the region, hurting ties with Pakistan does not augur well for the US, which has thousands of troops, and its reputation at stake in Afghanistan.
Which of Afghanistan's neighbours has been acting favourably towards the US? The answer is none, albeit Pakistan with some policy or tactical differences.
Rocking relations, historically marred by highs and lows, is also extremely consequential for Iran, which has recently been trying to appease Pakistan after providing a land route to arch rival India through Chabahar port.
As he moves to block the nuclear deal, Trump's rash move against Pakistan also contradicts his policy towards Iran. That said, Pakistanis have traditionally seen Iran as a disruptive nation, aiming to export its revolution through its proxies and militias, and growing anti-US sentiment in Islamabad has been greatly exploited by Tehran.
To increase America's cost of war in Afghanistan, the clerical regime that earlier provided sanctuaries to Afghan warlords and Osama bin Laden now aids the Taliban for no different goal.
India has long relied on its contacts within the Taliban to launch clandestine operations inside Pakistan, especially in the Balochistan province that borders Afghanistan, and that houses an Arabian sea port operated by China.
Washington accuses Pakistan of a selective approach towards the Haqqani network, while Islamabad claims it has not only gone after all groups but is also spending millions of dollars to fence the 2,400km long treacherous Afghan border.
The fencing may not be complete until 2019. Compared to Pakistan's 200,000 troops deployed on the border, Afghan and US troops run into a few thousand.
One Wired report discussed involvement of Afghan armed forces in the country's high value and illicit export drugs trade. If Pakistan is to be blamed for Afghanistan's internal security woes, then who is responsible for bumper poppy crops year by year? Where's the writ of the government and support of its allies such as the US?
By default, China gets to fill the vacuum created by the US vis-a-vis Pakistan, as well as the peace process in Afghanistan. Unconfirmed reports indicate that Islamabad has provided Beijing land for a military base in the coastal town of Jiwani along the Iranian border. Not only would the base deter the designs of India – America's ally – but would also have implications for US military presence in the Gulf.
The more Pakistan is pressed to cede space to India in Afghanistan, the more consequential its ties with China will be for America.
Compared to the US' total direct investment in Pakistan of $42 million in 2017, China's stretches to $837 million. Moreover, there's a rare warmth between Islamabad-Moscow relations. Pakistan is a using Russian turbojet jet engine for the fighter jet designed and manufactured with Chinese collaboration.
Such have been the fruits of a rash era of sanctions starting with Pressler Amendment in 1990. How convenient for Russia to have a crescent of Muslim countries all the way from Turkey to Pakistan falling in line against the US! Given such adverse, only Trump, McMaster and Nikki Haley may find a way to success in Afghanistan.
In the best case scenario that sees sanity prevail in Washington, the US retains significant clout in Pakistan. Thanks to its enormous Fulbright scholarship programme and countless other fellowships and specialised training programmes for government, the ties could be mended through astute diplomacy.
Pakistan is not Iran. The anti-US sentiment stems from the public humiliation through repeated statements that are read as parroting of Indian rhetoric. The US is home to a vibrant and affluent Pakistani community, always acting as a bridge between two countries which have more to share than to dispute.
It might be a lesser-known fact that Pakistan is the third largest exporter of physicians to the US medical sector. The pickle here is that Trump has not visited Pakistan or Afghanistan. Obama did make a surprise visit to Kabul but skipped Islamabad.
Donald Trump has not shocked the average Pakistani. As mentioned earlier, the military has been ready for the US refusal to sell arms or provide assistance for about a decade.
The goodwill America has earned through people-to-people contacts or knowledge and skills development programmes is enough to reset the relationship for a positive start, without aid but with focus on trade.


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Personal Each and every year around this time, thousands of churches around the country participate in an organization called Operation Christmas Child. If you are unfamiliar with Operation Christmas Child, the gist is this: Many churches I attended throughout my formative years participated in Operation Christmas Child, and many years my family and I dutifully picked up a few shoeboxes and went to the Dollar General in search of what we thought would bring poor children around the world happiness and joy.
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Now, for me, this is enough. If it were actually true. In fact, in many cases, they do not even know what to do with them!
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Sure, toothbrushes and the like are universal necessities. But beyond that, many shoeboxes get filled with with cheap, easily breakable trinkets and toys that adults, let alone children, in these countries do not even know how to use.
I have even heard stories of gloves, scarves, and hats being sent in boxes to children in countries where it never snows! Joelle McNamara, a former classmate of mine and founder of Kenya-based non-profit Badalahad this to say: African kids trying to figure out what to do with American toys, and then adult African men trying to teach them what to do with them… Incorrectly!
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The shoeboxes themselves are both racist and sexist. Not every shoebox that gets sent overseas by Operation Christmas Child is an official OCC box as many families and individuals simply use real shoeboxes from their homes, but the organization often does provide its partner churches and parachurch ministries with OCC-branded boxes that come emblazoned with cartoon illustrations of barefoot Latino and African children the likes of which you might find in colonialist missionary hagiography or racist Party City Halloween catalogues.
This is NOT to say, as so many of my more conservative commenters love to accuse me of, that children in need would be offended by receiving traditionally gender-coded toys.
In every country where it is legal, Operation Christmas Child adds tracts and religious material promoting their narrow theological perspective—that all those who do not believe as they do will be eternally, consciously tormented in hell forever by God.
Operation Christmas Child administrators on the ground are also provided with followup material that children are pressured to participate in, where they can be further indoctrinated into exclusivistic Evangelical ideology. Operation Christmas Child is a well-oiled machine for a brand of religion built on colonialism, white supremacy, and American exceptionalism.
It encourages reliance on white people to solve problems. But ultimately it perpetuates the damage that followed post-colonialism aid, which instills in children overseas from an early age that you need white people to give you things, and in our children, that the poor need our things.
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To Clip Wings of Israel's Settlements, a Moral Duty of South Africa
Iqbal Jassat
Thousands of more Jewish housing units in Occupied Palestine is the latest undertaking by Israel's extreme right-wing regime led by war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
This daring move, despite being illegal and in direct contravention of United Nations resolutions, doesn't end there. The new homes are earmarked for one of the West Bank's largest Jewish settlements, Maaleh Adumim. And annexation is to follow: "This place will be part of the state of Israel," thundered Netanyahu.
While the term "settlements" may falsely denote a sprinkling of make-shift tents and a handful of caravans, the truth is that these are highly developed towns and cities. Maaleh Adumim is a fully fledged residential area of roughly 140,000 people just east of Jerusalem.
It possesses an industrial zone which in addition to the thousands of new houses, will also be expanded, as promised by Netanyahu. What he has been silent on is the fact that it lies in the center of the Occupied West Bank – behind the green line – on Palestinian land.
Though Trump's Mideast envoy, Jason Greenblatt has been in the region, neither he nor his boss has uttered a word of condemnation. Indeed to expect any expression of dismay from the Trump administration, whose Jared Kushner and ambassador to Israel David Friedman, have longstanding ties to the racist settlement movement, would be naive.
The sheer blatancy of the project and the defiant arrogance of Israel flies in the face of the most recent UN Security Council resolution. Less than a year ago, the December resolution declared that settlements are a flagrant violation of international law. Instead of complying with the demand to halt all settlement activity, Israel remains determined to gobble up every inch of Palestine.
Once the annexation turns full cycle, the entire population of illegal settlers will become residents of Jerusalem, from which 100,000 Palestinian residents have been expelled and thousands more face the same fate.
In addition to such outlandish state-thuggery, the pressure is mounting on Trump to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Though the promise to move the embassy featured prominently while campaigning, Trump has now hitched it to his nonexistent peace plan.
While the jury is out on whether Trump will fulfill his promise, it is clear that such a decision will place the US at odds with the UN. Israel knows that the Trump administration is perhaps the closest to it and the opportunity to finalize the Judaization of Jerusalem may not come again. Thus the haste to create new "facts" on the ground.
Though Trump's folly has made him the butt of ridicule, the reality is that he is the commander-in-chief of America. And for as long as he remains in power, Israel will exploit his weaknesses.
And by extending the similarity with South Africa which is embroiled in intense factional battles within the ruling African National Congress, neither president Zuma nor his foreign ministry would view Israel's transgressions as a priority.
Recent revelations about a senior civil servant within the department of international relations flouting his ministry's stance on Israel, coupled with the shenanigans of SA's envoy in Tel Aviv, and the fact that no action has been taken against them, is an indication of the current lethargy.
The Arab world itself is in disarray, lacking a coherent policy on Palestine. That the so-called "frontline states" – a term borrowed from SA's freedom struggle – have either caved in to Israeli pressure or are reduced to rubble, and are thus of no consequence to Palestine's freedom struggle, contribute to Israel's belligerent stance.
The betrayal of Palestine's liberation by many of the so-called "frontline states", such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Jordan is treasonous. Again in the language currently dominating South Africa's socio-political and economic discourse, one can safely claim that these despotic Arab regimes are "captured" by Israel.
As the plunder and thieving of land continues to rob Palestinians, do not expect any Israel's Arab allies to utter a word. Supine and impotent, they, in fact, are obstacles to Palestine's long walk to freedom.
The colonization of Palestine by Jewish Zionists, which commenced a century ago is on-going. Settlements, annexation and occupation are a manifestation of this fact. And the ideology underpinning it is informed by racism, exclusivity, expansionism: all amounting to apartheid!
Unless the current trajectory of forceful land-grab is halted and reversed, Israel will continue to behave as a rogue regime. As South Africans, we have a moral responsibility to clip its wings and ensure that justice for Palestine prevails.
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and it is supposed to launch a terminal, that runs another script that receives both arguments, exactly as they are above (including quotation marks). I've tried this:
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but this seems to omit the quotations marks, so the call would end up as ./script2 25 str1 str2. What is the correct notation to replicate the arguments as they were in the original command line?

A: The problem is that the argument to lxterminal's --command is just one string, it can't take a command and its arguments like some other terminals like xterm do.
lxterminal parses that string using its own rules to determine the command to run an its arguments. That's similar but not identical to the Bourne shell parsing.
It does recognise '...' as strong quotes and space as argument separator, so you can implement quoting for it as:
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Congratulations to Mr & Mrs Lane who got married at the stunning Coombe Lodge on the 1st December 2017.
Hotshots Entertainment was booked to provide a Wedding DJ with the platinum set up. The happy couple started off the evening with cutting the cake and going straight into their first dance. This was to Florence and the Machine – You've Got The Love was their choice and it was perfect for them, the guests joined halfway through.
There was lots of dancing through the evening with some old school RnB. They also requested a garage set which everyone seemed to go mental for, taking them way back. I could see the look on people's faces as the next song came on and they were really enjoying it.
The staff once again did very well as such with a very busy bar. The evening buffet was pizza and wow it tasted so nice. There were so many shapes thrown on the dance floor and then some guests were wearing some sort of scarf fur which had a great effect and a baseball cap came out from somewhere but it just all fell into place with the music.
It did look like everyone has a blast and I'm glad I was part of the evening, I did take some pictures and you can see a few below, the rest you can find HERE please tag and share if you dare.
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At this point there are three outcomes possible, the Gov. can sign the bill and the bill becomes law near the end of June, he can veto the bill and it goes back to the General Assembly for an override vote or he can do nothing and the bill still becomes law at the end of June. This bill will be signed.
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SB 150 has been signed by the Governor and it will now become law this summer.
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So, my Ohio conceal carry license is worthless in KY?
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You dont think you would need your Ohio license in Kentucky, now, if you would otherwise satisfy the requirements for having a KY permit (ie over 21, not a prohibited person, etc.)
Question: if the new law essentially encorporates the requirements of KRS 237.110, which includes being a KY resident requirement?
I don't know if an OH license would be of any use in Kentucky in some obscure circumstance. But, even if there isn't one single circumstance for which the license would prove useful, isn't that a GOOD thing???
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Permits are unconstitutional, but the current reality. If having a permit mitigates just one LEO encounter in my lifetime the permit is worth its weight in the likely legal fees that would ensue if I had not had the permit.
Ohio does not recognize "constitutional carry." KY residents will still need a KY license to carry concealed in Ohio.
Is OH a constitutional/permitless open carry state?
Licensing concealed carry is constitutional under the KY constitution. I think that conflicts with the plain language and historical support of the 2nd Amendment's existence
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Yes it is. But, without a conceal carry license you cannot carry in your car. Can't carry in a bar. The no license in KY is only good in the boarders of KY.
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The right to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the State, subject to the power of the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent persons from carrying concealed weapons.
Syllabus of Heller:
2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court's opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller's holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those "in common use at the time" finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
Would you like to rethink your position?
No, it's still good as gold, just unnecessary starting near the end of June.
Why I prefer the term "anticonstitutional": When expressing an opinion that something is "unconstitutional", we are often reminded that the SCOTUS has ruled it to be not unconstitutional.
IMO, licensing carry is anticonstitutional.
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The KY constitution does violate the 2A when it empowers the legislature to prevent concealed carry.
The Legislature took that a step further and violated both the 2A and the KY constitution by creating a permit scheme they were not authorized to create.
The KY constitution empowered them to "create laws to PREVENT the carry of concealed weapons ". That was and is it.
They were empowered to either prevent or allow it. Period.
Nowhere were they empowered to create a permit scheme to regulate conceal carry.
Its great we are moving to eliminate it, but as long as ccdw permits exist in KY the KY government is still violating both the 2A and KY constitution.
A permit scheme is a prior restraint and thus a regulatory mechanism to encourage citizens to not carry concealed without a defense to the crime of CC. Getting stuck on the word "prevent" is like getting stuck on that comma in the 2A.
Respectfully disagree. The comma means nothing but a pause.
The word prevent means deny or stop.
It says what it says very clearly.
Prevent. Not establish laws to allow and regulate.
Either or. Black and white. Allow or deny it. End of authority
Adding unwritten things to the 2a is what got us in the mess we are.
Adding things to the KY constitution that it does not contain allowed a unconstitutional permit scheme to be established along with the book of stupid regulations the state used that permit scheme as an excuse to create.
Regulations that would not and could not exist in this state without that permit scheme being enacted.
Relations that STILL do not apply to oc. And never will without amending the KY constitution.
The word "prevent" indicates, as the word is used in the KY constitution, that the state must take an action to "prevent" you from CCing. Obviously they cannot prevent you from CCing unless you comply with a prior restraint (a law) and "voluntarily" apply for and be issued a permit, or not CC.
Or, they could enact a law, go house to house, confiscate all guns, thus preventing you from CCing.
So, how does a law in KY, or any other of the several states, prevent a citizen from CCing.


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