An odor of sulfur passes under our noses, but we feel fortunate. We are looking at the Miravalles volcano, the highest point of the Guanacaste volcanic mountain range, a few kilometers off in the distance and one of its secondary highly active, bubbling craters takes on a series of formations around us, which we are going to tour inside.
Las Hornillas, a family tourism project in La Fortuna, Bagaces. Walking on a crater doesn't mean getting close to lava like a volcanologist and risking your life. It's a safe experience in which you walk down a series of trails that surround the steaming, bubbling formations that make up the crater.
Elberth Rodríguez, our guide, explains that the crater is made up of hot spots that produce mud, other spots that are very watery and fumaroles that produce smoke and gas. There are various hot spots here, but the tourist project only uses mud from one of them for facial and body treatments.
You have to walk carefully along the trails, Elberth tells us, because temperatures inside the formations range from 100 to 320 degrees fahrenheit.
That's how it feels on your feet and body. The breeze that felt fresh a minute ago quickly becomes hot air.
"Do you feel like the vapor is opening your pores?" the guide asks us as we feel heat covering our skin.
After this short walk, it's ideal to go directly to the natural sauna to finish opening up your pores and then try the volcanic mud.
It's going to help purify the skin and reduce stains and pimples," Elberth says.
The mud is creamy and it's recommendable to use a thin layer so that it dries easily. Then you go into three natural volcanic water pools, including a hot one, then a warm one and finally a cold one. The skin fills with minerals, the mud is washed off and the pores close.
The property belonging to the Álvarez Zeledón family was dedicated to ranching until 2002 when they decided to switch activities because cows fell and died in the hot spots.
In 2002 they launched activities at the crater and in 2006 they took advantage of other properties a few kilometers away for forest tours. In order to get there, the tourist center gives you the options of a horse ride or taking cart pulled by a tractor.
We took the tractor and for 20 minutes were able to see the Miravalles volcano from different points as well as yellow trees and a landscape full of mountains and plains.
The trails are short and don't require much physical effort, but you need a certain amount of bravery to cross the hanging bridges. One of the first surprises is the "bridge of fear" which got its name because it's 100 meters long and swings a lot when the wind blows.
To the left we see the Mariposa waterfall and below the river that runs to the valley. According to Elberth, in June and July you can see hundreds of butterflies flying around the waterfall.
Ahead, we see the Cabromuco waterfall, where they'll build a platform so you can see it up close.
After crossing another hanging bridge, we reach the Escondida waterfall, the only waterall that we are allowed to enter. It's a small waterfall and very cold, our feet discover. It gives the false impression of being orange. The water is completely transparent, but the iron from the spring dies the rocks and gives them a different look.
That's how our journey ends. Though our first breath of air was full of sulfur, we got a fresh, pure breath of air at the end.


After decades of failed efforts to enact "regulatory reform" bills, Congress appears to be within a few votes of approving reform legislation that would strip Americans of important legal protections, induce regulatory sclerosis and subject agencies that enforce the nation's laws and regulations to potentially endless litigation.
This is not reform. These bills would sabotage agency regulation with legislative monkey wrenches. Key compromises about agency power and procedures, worked out under the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, would be discarded by these overwhelmingly anti-regulatory bills. And because they would be statutory changes, not mere presidential edicts, these changes would likely long outlive the Trump administration.
It is easy to complain about regulation, of course, and much could surely be improved. But government rules are the foundation of the safety net that protects Americans. Are you ready to abandon protections of your drinking water? What about that school hamburger? Is it O.K. to eat? Can you depend on Medicare or Medicaid? Are toys safe? Can workers fight overtime violations or discrimination? Will government agencies be there to police mortgage, student-loan and retirement-savings abuses? Will the education of special-needs students be protected?
Few members of Congress would dare vote directly to eliminate protections like those. But by imposing a byzantine, burdensome process on all agencies, Congress could dodge accountability but nonetheless derail the implementation of popular laws.
The principal bill in this so-called reform package is the Regulatory Accountability Act, a bipartisan proposal sponsored by Republican Senators Rob Portman of Ohio, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky, as well as Democratic Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
This measure would subject major rule making by agencies to dozens of new requirements, with a pervasive mandate for cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses. Agencies would also have to periodically review the efficacy of new rules, even if no one was complaining about them. In addition, agencies would have to select a single best regulatory choice measured by monetary metrics and based on "best available" data. As a result, less quantifiable goals behind our protective laws — clean air and water, civil rights, safe drugs and honesty in markets, for example — would fade in importance. Every agency choice about what is "best" or most "cost effective" would become the subject of litigation.
This bill would also grant the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — run by the president's regulatory czar — broad authority to raise and lower regulatory hurdles, allowing further skewing of the law in an anti-regulatory direction. Independent agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, long protected from direct presidential control, would now be subject to this bill's requirements and oversight by the information and regulatory affairs office.
Agencies should certainly be held accountable for what they do. Nonetheless, much of this bill would just duplicate what is already done, but with far more numerous and onerous analytical mandates. Courts already subject agency actions to a "hard look," scrutinizing the science justifying rules and rejecting unresponsive or arbitrary action. And agencies already design regulations so that benefits justify costs whenever possible.
This bill would also allow regulatory opponents to force agencies into lengthy trial-like proceedings over newly proposed rules, similar to formal proceedings that were long ago rejected as unworkable. Faced with these piled-on requirements and near-certain judicial review, many agencies would simply avoid any rule making.
Another bill, the Reins Act, is possibly unconstitutional because of how it would circumvent the Constitution's lawmaking process. Finalized major regulations would need a new round of House and Senate approval. Mere inertia would kill regulations. A third bill, the Midnight Rules Relief Act, would create a legislative fast track that would allow Congress to revoke en masse multiple regulations finalized late in a president's term. With no required explanatory justifications and no judicial review of such actions, politicians could kill multiple regulations at once without accountability.
President Trump says he favors deregulation, and he has already invalidated over a dozen late-term regulations issued under President Barack Obama and ordered agencies to try to rescind numerous others. He has also ordered agencies to eliminate two regulations for each new one, regardless of the old rules' benefits.
In a paradoxical twist, the Senate's new regulatory-reform bills would further Mr. Trump's deregulatory leanings, but also tie him in knots. All new major regulations would be hamstrung, even business-friendly deregulation. It is hard to imagine why he would so weaken his own presidency. Maybe he has missed this twist. Or maybe the embattled president feels pressure to deliver some kind of legislative victory, especially for anti-regulatory think tanks, long-frustrated Republicans, lobbyists and companies that, like the businessman Mr. Trump, squirm when in regulators' cross hairs.
These bills would be bad for any president. They pose long-term risks to all Americans. They should die in the Senate or be vetoed by the president.
William W. Buzbee is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a founding member-scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.


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Tod eines Geizhalses ist ein ca. 1485/1490 entstandenes Bild des niederländischen Malers Hieronymus Bosch. Das 93 × 31 cm große Bild (Öl auf Holz) befindet sich in der National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., USA. Seine Maße lassen vermuten, dass es sich hierbei um den ursprünglich linken Flügel eines Triptychons handelt, dessen andere Teile verloren gegangen sind.

Beschreibung

Das Bild zeigt eine Zimmerflucht, die nach vorne, von Säulen gerahmt, ins Offene übergeht und sich nach hinten hin ins Dunkel verliert. Der Innenraum ist tonnenartig überwölbt, die Decke ist holzvertäfelt. Die Figur des Geizhalses ist in zwei Szenen zu sehen, als Mann im fortgeschrittenen Alter in ein grünes Gewand gekleidet (Bildmitte) und weiter im Hintergrund als Sterbender in seinem Bett.

Bildmitte und -vordergrund zeigen eine Rückblende auf sein Leben; er wirft Münzen in einen prall gefüllten Geldsack. Teile einer Ritterrüstung, die achtlos am Boden liegen, weisen darauf hin, dass er sein Vermögen im Kampf und mit dem Blut anderer errungen hat, sowie auf seine privilegierte Herkunft aus dem Adelsstand. Rattenähnliche Wesen sind ihm beim Geldscheffeln behilflich. Die Truhe ist überdies gefüllt mit Silbergut sowie versiegelten Briefen, die Schuldverschreibungen oder Pfandbriefe sein könnten.

Im oberen Teil des Bildes liegt der Geizhals als Sterbender im Bett. Er wirkt im Gesicht etwas jünger – man ging im Mittelalter davon aus, man werde das Jenseits in einer körperlich verbesserten Verfassung betreten. Der Tod, bewaffnet mit einem Pfeil, steht im Türrahmen. Ein Engel, der dem Sterbenden zur Seite steht, versucht, den Teufel, der oberhalb des Sterbenden auf dem Betthimmel lauernd auf den Moment des Todes des Geizhalses wartet, um seine Seele zu erlangen, ihn davon abzuhalten. Das befreiende Licht des Kruzifixes scheint an den Bettvorhängen vorbei, den Sterbenden direkt an. Gleichzeitig aber ist der Pfeil, den der Tod in der Hand hält, erst bei näherer Betrachtung an den Sterbenden herannahend gemalt. Das ist die zweite dunklere Ausführung des Pfeiles axial in Richtung des Sterbenden. Somit ist dargestellt, dass die Finsternis und das Licht um die Seele des Sterbenden kämpfen. Aber auch der Sterbende hat die Wahl, welcher Macht er sich übergibt. Von unterhalb reicht ihm ein Dämon einen weiteren Geldbeutel entgegen, um den Sterbenden für die Finsternis (den Tod) zu gewinnen. Der Sterbende blickt den eintretenden Tod an und ist sich unsicher, ob er mit ihm gehen soll. Kurz vor dem Ableben des Sterbenden kommen aus allen Winkeln der Kammer Wesen der Hölle, um im finalen Moment des Ausscheidens des Sterbenden aus der Welt ihn zur dunklen Seite hin verleiten zu können. Der Tod und die Finsternis sind dargestellt, dass sie gemeinschaftlich, also Tod in der Tür, Teufel und Dämonenwesen, versuchen, eine Seele zu bekommen.
Der Engel ist ebenso im finalen und wichtigsten Moment, nämlich des Sterbens und des Übertritts zur Stelle, um zu verhindern, dass die Finsternis dem Himmel eine für sie wichtige Seele stiehlt. Das ist das Motiv des Kampfes um die Vorherrschaft zwischen Gut und Böse.

Im Bild dominieren rötliche bzw. rotbraune Töne (Zimmerdecke, Bett, Vorhänge, Kleidungsstücke, Boden) und Grautöne. Die Kleidung des Geizhalses in der Bildmitte ist grün.

Einordnung
Mit der Darstellung des Todes eines Geizhalses widmet Bosch sich der Todsünde der Habgier ("avaritia"). Die sieben Todsünden und insbesondere die Fixierung auf weltlichen Besitz sind auch Thema des Triptychons Der Heuwagen. Sein Bild kann als Ermahnung verstanden werden, sich im Angesicht des Todes nicht für den falschen Weg zu entscheiden.
Auffallend ist jedoch, dass Bosch den Sterbenden in seiner ehemaligen Erscheinung, als in grün gekleideten alten Herrn am Stocke gehend, mit einem umgebundenen Rosenkranz mit großen weißen Perlen malt. Möglicherweise will er damit zum Ausdruck bringen, dass selbst der Sünder, der sich hier der Todsünde der Habgier schuldig macht, nicht zwingend ungläubig oder unreligiös sein muss.
Auch in der Verfehlung existiert Glaube.

Die Genese dieses Bildes steht nach Expertenmeinung in einer Entstehungsreihe mit dem Narrenschiff (Paris, Louvre) und der Allegorie der Maßlosigkeit (1485, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven), sowie dem Hausierer (1487, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam), dessen Bildträger aus derselben Zeit stammen und auf denen dieselbe unverwechselbare linkshändige Unterschrift des Malers zu finden ist, auch als "Wanderer-Triptychon" bezeichnet.

Die Darstellung einer Sterbebettszene korrespondiert möglicherweise mit einem früh gedruckten Buch, der Ars Moriendi (Kunst des Sterbens), das sich in der zweiten Hälfte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts großer Beliebtheit erfreute.

Provenienz
Das Bild ist erstmals 1826 in einer Sammlung in England nachgewiesen. Über Zwischenverkäufe gelangte es in den 1930er Jahren nach Frankreich. Dort wurde es 1951 an die Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, verkauft und gelangte 1952 an die National Art Gallery in Washington D.C.

Literatur
 Stefan Fischer: Hieronymus Bosch. Das vollständige Werk, Taschen Verlag, Köln 2013, ISBN 978-3-8365-2628-9.
 Jan Koldeweij, Bernhard Vermet, Paul Vandenbroeck: Hieronymus Bosch – Das Gesamtwerk. Katalog zur Ausstellung "Jheronimus Bosch" im Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2001, Verlag Belser, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-7630-2563-3
 Roger H. Marijnissen: Hieronymus Bosch – Das vollständige Werk. Mercartorfonds Antwerpen/Parkland Verlag Köln, 1999, ISBN 3-88059-971-8
 John Oliver Hand, Martha Wolff: Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-521-34016-0, S. 17 – 22, (online, PDF)

Weblinks

 Webseite der National Gallery of Art: Death and the Miser
 Bilddetails, Farbschichten auf www.boschproject.org, abgerufen am 19. Juli 2018

Einzelnachweise

Hieronymus Bosch
Gemälde (15. Jahrhundert)
National Gallery of Art

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Speaking Frankly
Conversations with Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank is the author of One Market Under God and What's the Matter With Kansas? He's a founding editor of The Baffler, a contributing editor to Harper's and a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal. His new book is The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. He's also a regular guest on The Agony Column. Here's where you can find all his interviews, conversations and commentary.
12-13-11: Speaking Frankly with Thomas Frank: "More Government, Please!"
02-03-11: Speaking Frankly: Thomas Frank on The Easy Chair : A Moment of Disregard
09-28-10: Speaking Frankly With Thomas Frank: "...big-picture, end-of-the-world fear-mongering, let's talk about the destruction of freedom kind of politics..."
08-04-10: Thomas Frank Returns to Agony: "...they have this theoretical preconception of what history is ..."
04-22-10: Thomas Frank Joins The Regulators: Not Quite Richard Bachman
04-01-10: Thomas Frank Joins the Snake Flag Set
03-12-10: Playing Monopoly & Revising History
02-18-10: Speaking Frankly With Thomas Frank :From Tea to Shining Tea
02-10-10: Thomas Frank on Re-Populism and Re-Launching The Baffler: "I have never seen 'populist backlash in a headline before."
01-22-10: Thomas Frank on Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and the Price of Gold
01-07-10: Thomas Frank and the Populists of the GOP : "The Demented Logic of American Politics"
12-29-09: The Chat Before Christmas With Thomas Frank, December 24, 2009 : "I mean, they had their chance, you know?"
12-15-09: Thomas Franks on Republican Purity Tests : Return or Re-Run of the Montagnards
12-02-09: Tears of a Clown : Thomas Frank Unbuilds Glen Beck
10-27-09: Thomas Frank's Labor and Paranoia
10-09-09: Thomas Frank Unleashes The Predator State : Consuming the Consumer
10-02-09: Wrapping Up the World with Thomas Frank
08-18-08: A 2008 Interview With Thomas Frank
12-13-11: Speaking Frankly with Thomas Frank
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"More Government, Please!"
—Thomas Frank
Harper's Magazine, being one of the last bastions of reasonable thought and a monthly publication well worth your valuable reading time, has a new article by no less than Thomas Frank, asking for the unthinkable: "More Government, Please!"
It's been a fascinating few years on the American political and economic landscape, and rather mind-boggling, to tell the truth. We're in the midst of what we like to call an "economic downturn," which is to say, a global economic catastrophe that is likely to make the Great Depression look like Happy Valley. I've been betting on the barrels as a fashion trend for a while now.
In his latest article for Harper's, Thomas Frank thinks the unthinkable, asking for more government and suggesting that we look at re-creating the successful programs that helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression. These are unfashionable thoughts in these days when the loudest shouters are loudly shouting for even less regulation in an economic downturn (read: "catastrophe") caused by deregulation. Happily, Thomas Frank is not so quick to damn logic as those who seek to be the boss of you.
I spoke with Thomas Frank about his latest article for Harper's and why more government is more better than meeting the demands of those who claim to represent "job creators." You can hear our conversation by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
"We need the rich to be nice to us..we've been transferring all the wealth of society back to them... shouldn't they be nice to us?"
It's clearly been way too long since I've spoken with Thomas Frank. He's left his steady gig at the Wall Street Journal and taken up with a more intuitively obvious place of publication, Harper's. Now before you begin, yes, I know about the foofaraw at Harper's with regards to layoffs. But, to be quite honest, we were so busy yakking about the transfer of wealth to wealthy and the trickle-up economy, that we could barely even get started. So I decided to do something unusual with this installment.
Generally, I like to begin with a composed introduction to my guest, a bit of boilerplate that lets listeners know who the heck they're listening to and that's about it. But Thomas and I just got to talking, and I realized I'd be well advised to turn on the recorder in mid-stream.
This conversation begins not with the intro, but with me coming back into mic range as I tell Frank about the latest opinion piece by the San Francisco Chronicle's conservative columnist, Deborah Saunders. She regally waves the red flag of debt, and the obvious — to her — necessity to reduce programs that are essential to the survival of the Middle Class, like Medicare and Social Security, all the while ignoring the (to me) obvious elephant among the elephants in the room, defense spending. It doesn't even get mentioned.
Well, what follows is free form smart conversation with one of America's leading political analysts and more fun than anyone should rightfully have when discussing the dire state of affairs in the United States. And yes, finally, I get to the introduction in the middle of our conversation and we launch into a discussion of Frank's latest column for Harper's The Easy Chair, which makes a modest proposal that we dedicate a day to be Rude to the Rich.
Of course Frank is much more eloquent and tongue-in-cheek about all this. But to me, the fascinating part is the science that fires off the whole discussion. You can read Thomas Frank's latest column if you spring for Harper's, which is available and rather nice on the iPad, and then give a listen to our chat by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
"...big-picture, end-of-the-world fear-mongering, let's talk about the destruction of freedom kind of politics..."
After two years behind the lines at the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank's last column showed up last month. When you think of his observations and his style of reportage and commentary, it's an amazing run, and truly a brave stint. He's authored some remarkable work there, and I gave him a ring to talk about his time there, and about his visions of the present media and political landscape.
Frank is quite interested in the fate of printed media, and he has good reason to be. As an editor and publisher of The Baffler, he put out a new issue in July, a nice piece of printed reporting and commentary. But the import of the print media has been permanently damaged. Frank talked quite eloquently about the power of the press since the era of Richard Nixon. There are solutions; despair is not required, but preparing for despair is in this age always a good idea.
We also talked about the power of the televised image, and in particular, Glen Beck, who knows how to wield that power expertly. The difference in how we apprehend televised image and the reading experience are precisely why Frank prefers to stick with the latter to comment about the former.
But Frank also allows that he's willing to return to this podcast, so for the time being, you can get your exclusive commentary from Thomas Frank by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
08-04-10: Thomas Frank Returns to Agony
"...they have this theoretical preconception of what history is ..."
Ah, the lot of the speculative fiction reader is sometimes difficult. And the reading is sometimes even more difficult. Not under threat of — well, it's not torture according to his colleagues, but even if threatened with waterboarding — I'd not venture to read Newt Gingrich's writing. But I would pay attention to the fact that he's written alternate history involving Nazi Germany when he starts spouting off about how America faces a Nazi-like threat from his opposition. Thankfully, Thomas Frank is willing to face worse-than-waterboarding; he read Gingrich's latest screed. Not surprisingly, he has something to say about it.
OK, I'm going to spill Thomas Frank's terrible secret. He liked Newt's bit of alternate history. There, you have it. That said, Frank is rather well-acquainted with the genre, but not in the fashion of those who read genre fiction. That's because as much as we like out Harry Turtledoves, our Brian Stablefords, and everyone else who ever tweaked reality to suit their fictional purposes, the fact of the matter is that history gets tweaked regularly to serve so-called factual purposes. In the immortal words of Nomeansno, "Just Look Around."
Frank is quite adept at looking around seeing the high fictional content of the words of those in the political world. He and spoke about his last two columns that take writers like Newt Gingrich and Jim DeMint to for eliding the details that don't serve their message.
Now this is fine if you're Harry Turtledove and the novel you have written asserts that aliens invaded the earth during the World War II. I happen to love the Worldwar Series, which is seriously goofy fun. On the other hand, when Jim DeMint asserts that progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson shoved Prohibition down the throats of working-class Americans, that sort of elides the fact that Wilson actually vetoed the Volstead act, the precursor to prohibition.
It's funny when and where the tropes of genre fiction crop up in our culture. You can hear Thomas Frank's take on how Mom and Apple Pie become the stuff of underground rebels by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
04-22-10: Thomas Frank Joins The Regulators
Not Quite Richard Bachman
Damn if it doesn't look like the ice floes are beginning to break up in that frozen white wasteland known as Washington, DC. I guess all this global warming does have some beneficial side effects.
What's emerging is a potential for some sort of financial regulation reform bill, essentially something to re-do what has been undone, piece-by-piece, since the 1980's. And of course, Thomas Frank is on the scene with his usual perceptive commentary on why we need to, as he put it, "Regulate, Baby, Regulate."
Sometimes these podcasts seem to mesh perfectly with current events, and here is a fine example. A couple of weeks ago, Frank wrote about the recent announcement by the Obama Administration to allow offshore oil drilling in some selected areas.
Now, we have a major fire on an offshore platform and regulation in the works that may directly affect oil prices far more significantly than the little issue of supply and demand.
Frank and I talk about the unseen and up until now, at least, unregulated market in oil commodities, with Frank giving a great explanation as to why this sort of thing ends up getting key votes in the Agriculture committee.
To me, over the last decade at least, the fluctuations in oil prices have always seemed sort of arbitrary. Turns out, that was the case. We're not being manipulated by OPEC; we're being manipulated by savvy traders who have figured out how to game the system and turn losses into profits.
But all this is connected with what Frank calls the "Magnetar Moment" behind the increasingly disjointed messages from those who seek to oppose regulation. To start understanding what the heck Magnetar is, you can look at a superb and chilling bit of reporting over at Propublica. They've uncovered a scheme that allowed some other system-gamers to profit from planned loss, the result of which contributed significantly to the financial crisis.
To hear Frank connect the dots between Magnetar and tricorn hat-wearing leaders who are fighting the good fight for today's hedge-fund aristocracy, just follow this link to the MP3 audio file.
04-01-10: Speaking Frankly
Thomas Frank Joins the Snake Flag Set
There he was. Thomas Frank, the author of 'What's the Matter With Kansas' and 'The Wrecking Crew,' partying with the Tea Party.
I find it just fascinating that while we read books about newspapers dying, and watch them die in reality, the fact of the matter is that this is an absolutely wonderful time for news itself. Every time you think things have gone off the rails so far you could never get close again, something else utterly unbelievable happens.
Frank and I spoke about his last three columns for the Wall Street Journal, starting with a look at the Texas School Board decisions with regards to the content of textbooks in Texas, and, as a result, through much of the USA. What is so interesting is that Frank's book, 'The Wrecking Crew,' with its idea of a government "captured" by those opposed to the basic principles of government itself, is playing out so obviously around the country, in a variety of venues.
In Texas, for example, some of those on the public school board are opposed to public schools. And again, what comes out of this sort of thinking is a really interesting usage of language, a decision to re-define certain words, or eliminate their use in textbooks. It's positively Orwellian, and funny in a bleak manner. But the long-term consequences are what will prove to be most interesting. What sort of children will we be raising when we have eliminated the word "capitalism" from our textbooks?
But Frank also reported to me on his time spent in DC at the health care protests, where he found the audience to be very polite. This is not the picture we get on television. Nuance works both ways; the nicest mom in the world may be holding a placard with some really incendiary language.
And the upshot of language these days seems to be violence, threats and intimidation. But when those who are behind the acts are called out, they are, amazingly, victims, in a final linguistic twist that transforms reportage into that which it is reporting — in reverse. Confused? Don't be, or at least, no for long. You can get the explanation by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
03-12-10: A Conversation with Thomas Frank
Playing Monopoly & Revising History
We like to make fun of our high school government classes, to suggest that they're a waste of time and that we forget the history we're supposed to have learned. And there is some truth in that; but there are also parts of my American History classes that stuck with me; in particular al the stories of trust-busting back in the early 20th century. Those who would play monopoly with our economy are ever with us. Not surprisingly, Thomas Frank has his eye on the latest degeneration, and has written about it recently in the Wall Street Journal.
Frank is also keeping a close eye on those who would seemingly revise the history that many of us refused to learn. His latest look at the "reactionary right" suggests that some of our modern politicians are taking a page from an essay written long ago by one Stanislaw Lem in 'A Perfect Vacuum,' where he reviews a non-existent book titled Die Kultur als Fehler — 'Civilization as Mistake.'
Lem's review of Kultur als Fehler is eerily chock-a-block with messages that sound like semaphores from the outer reaches of the blogosphere. "It is forbidden us to change the shape of the body, weaken the lust for aggression, strengthen the intellect, balance the emotions, rearrange sex, liberate man from old age, from the labors of procreation, and this is forbidden for the reason that it has never been done, and what has never been done must surely be, by that very fact, most evil."
Frank takes his cues from Barry C. Lynn's 'Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction' a book whose title suggests more than a little about its content. If a business or a corporation is too big to fail, aren't they also, by definition, too big to exist? Frank (and I) are both fans of the sort of anti-trust legislation that is actually enforced. Imagine that — at this point, you'll have to.
Readers who wish to hear Frank and I converse on the subject of our new game of monopoly, and why civilization is indeed a mistake — beyond those wonderful reasons given by the noted socialist Polish late science fiction author, Stanislaw Lem, need do no more than follow this link to the MP3 audio file.
From Tea to Shining Tea
"When I think about what I'm saying, it's so depressing..."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That seems to be the lesson of Thomas Frank's latest columns for the Wall Street Journal. It seems that no matter how thoroughly the Aegean stables of Washington are shoveled clean, the same smell creeps back in with a new name, a new brand ... but the same folks pulling the levers, and the same goals in mind. Some folks, it seems, won't feel free while there are still laws left on the books to obey, and regulations to regulate the transfer of wealth.
It was just the names, really, that alerted Thomas Frank to the never-ending irony that is Our Government InAction. Looking at the top dogs of the new "Tea Party" movement, that ultra-conservative, ultra-free group of roving protestors, Frank noticed some very familiar names. He'd written about them in 'The Wrecking Crew' because they were the ultimate insiders, the wheeler-dealer lobbyists who made the Marianas Islands safe for Sweatshop manufacturing. Now, the same names are calling themselves the leaders of the supposedly grassroots Tea Party movement. It is the sort of irony you could drive a golf ball with — providing that Jack Abramoff had flown you and your aides to Scotland to play the game.
We also talked about the surprisingly pervasive anti-government feeling that manages to keep stepping up to the podium and turning it into the bully's pulpit. It's not surprising that people would be disgusted with government. I would guess that I am not alone in being almost unable to watch TV news these days. But the problems with government, as Frank points out in 'The Wrecking Crew,' stem from the fact that those who were put in charge in the previous administration were against the principles they were supposed to uphold; the regulators didn't regulate.
And finally, I talked to Frank about his process of writing columns, a subject I'm going to delve further into in coming conversations. He told me that he operates in the exact opposite manner of most columnists. And it's not because he's an optimist. You can hear just how optimistic Thomas Frank is by following this link to the MP3 audio file of our conversation.
02-10-10: Speaking Frankly: Thomas Frank on Re-Populism and Re-Launching The Baffler
"I have never seen 'populist backlash in a headline before."
It's always interesting when words get tossed into the political fire, their meanings burnt to a crispin, only to be reborn, and alas, re-branded. If the word "crispin" doesn't exist it should, and though the word re-branding exists, to my mind, it shouldn't. Unless it refers to being stamped with a hot poker.
Yes, we've heard a lot of populism these days, and the references pretty much seem to point to what those in the UK might call "hooliganism." But it wasn't always that way, or rather it was, but the hooligans, or Populists, as they called themselves in the 19th century, had a rather different endgame in mind.
All this new-fangled populism, left, right and center is perfect fodder for Wall Street Journal Columnist Thomas Frank. He wrote about it in "Populism is Democracy at Work," and it's the usual Frank column that makes everyone in the political realm a bit nervous. And they should be! Populism has a long and actual history that has been written down and verified. It's not exactly what the latest newspapers purport it to be. Were the original members of the Vox Populi to arise from yesteryear and assert their opinions, they'd not be so ... popular as those claiming the crown are today. Oh history, as Frank and I discuss. It is ever so inconvenient.
On the other hand, it appears that you'll soon be able to quite conveniently pick up a meaty journal of academic and entertaining political theory, called The Baffler, edited and helmed by Frank himself. Within you'll find notables such Naomi Klein and Matt Taibibi. How can you not love a journal that calls itself "The Magazine Abrasive"? You can hear Thomas Frank and I discuss this and much more by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
01-22-10: Thomas Frank
Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and the Price of Gold
I shouldn't have been surprised that the two latest Thomas Frank columns for the Wall Street Journal dealt with money matters. After all, he pointed out to me, it is the Wall Street Journal. And Frank is indeed the author of 'One Market Under God,' a book that is becoming more au courant every day. The surprise, he says in "Bring Back Glass-Steagall", is where the calls for reform of the Glass-Steagall act are coming from. And how fast the ground is changing beneath our reporting feet, as the Obama Administrastion has done an about face on Glass-Steagall.
With his column "One Cross of Gold, Coming Up", Frank takes a page from Jonathan Swift, but to my mind, he does sort of neglect to notice that of late, at least, the real world seems to be giving satirists a run for their money.
The suggestions one makes laughingly now have a way of being reported as serious news by the sorts websites that aren't all that interested in reading as we are here. Then there are reports on the reports, and reports on the reports on the reports, until the original source material is lost in a blur of hyperventilation and exaggerated paranoia. Of course, only a few of us know that there is a secret government program to steal American's gold teeth for meltdown.... Project Tooth Fairy.
To find out what devious plans our government does not have, follow this link to the MP3 audio file of my conversation with Thomas Frank.
We apparently live in a world where the past, say, 30 years, can be swept aside with a few bracing words. Thomas Frank, author of 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' and 'The Wrecking Crew', alas, has a tendency to remember what so many would prefer to forget.
In Thomas Frank's latest column for the Wall Street Journal, "Watch Out for GOP Populism," Frank takes aim at Republican Representative Paul Ryan, who authored an article for Forbes Magazine titled, "Down with Big Business." Yes, you read that right. Of course, when you get to the heart of what he wants, it's kind of a "Freedom from Freedom" song. Frank and I start with Rep. Ryan, but, like the populists in the GOP, we really relish our freedom of speech, which you can hear by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
12-29-09: The Chat Before Christmas With Thomas Frank, December 24, 2009
If there's one thing that's clear as we lurch towards a new year, it's that everyone is quite happy to be shut of the last ten years. From the Y2K panic to twin tragedies of 9/11 and the Iraq war, from housing bubble to the ugly crash, we are all simply so done. We're eager to draw the line and hope to quickly step over it, bringing nothing from the past that we may have to scrape off our shoes. We are all simply so done.
Let's all join Thomas Frank, then as he hoists a glass to "A Low, Dishonest Decade." While Frank is best known for 'What's the Matter with Kansas?' and 'The Wrecking Crew', this time around we got back to a book he wrote in "the before time," 'One Market Under God,' an excoriation of "Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy." After all, this little tome from Y2K sought to pop the bubble a mere eight years before it was large enough to take down, uh ... the world.
Of course, it wasn't just the sort-of, almost new Depression that rained on our parades. (Unless, like me, you'd invested heavily in BarrelWear once you saw things start to circle the Big Swirly.) There was also the tiny, almost insignificant matter, or pretty much our entire government being up for sale, and unhappily, not even to the highest bidder. It was the sort of decade in which even a man like Jack Abramoff, a guy who wears a black hat in case we didn't get who the bad guys were, starts to seen a little like a tragic figure. Sure, your sympathy might last all of ten seconds, and it is clearly tens second more than deserved, but at least had the decency to get caught and fess up. Everyone on the other side of his deals, with too few exceptions, is still in the business of selling the United States government to business; now they're in business and not in the government, and they're still toxic waste. We've managed to throw away the keys before they got locked up. I suppose it's just a matter of getting things in the right order. Listeners who want to hear to New World Order subjected to some Old World Wit need but follow this link to the MP3 audio file of our conversation.
Leave it to Thomas Frank to bring back the French Revolution, or at least the cool beheading action aspect. The columnist for the Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the proposed Republican Purity tests, in "Conservatives Want Republican Purge Trials" and I rang him up to draw out the violent details.
The problem with purity tests is that eventually, we're all going to fail them. The question is just who is going to be on the giving side and who is going to be on the taking side. Thomas Frank, author of 'The Wrecking Crew' (/agony/reviews/2008/frank-the_wrecking_crew.htm), decided to take those lovely current-day Republican litmus strips and run them past some of the would-be graven-in-stone heroes of the Republican party, in particular, one ex-actor and astrology fan who had his hand on the tiller of this (once) great nation. Frank and I have a pretty good idea that when they break out the guillotine "for reals," that we're not long for this world anyway. Why not start living dangerously now? You can up your danger content by following this link the MP3 audio file of our conversation, no test required!
Language gets misused more often than it gets used — if the goal of language is to communicate the truth clearly and effectively. As readers and as a listening audience, we have to pay attention to the use and misuse of language out there in the wider culture, because a world where that book can become some insane bestseller is created by the wider use of language in that culture. If we all preface every sentence with, "Cluck, cluck," our bestsellers are likely to read like a bull session overheard in a chicken coop. Thomas Frank, author of 'what's the Matter with Kansas?' and 'The Wrecking Crew' knows a thing or two about how language is tormented in the wider culture. And he's been studying the Fox networks who assert that they should be guarding those chickens.
In particular, Frank took on the unenviable task of looking into the life and work of Glen Beck, now the loudest mouth in the henhouse, and the result is the funny and frightening "Glen Beck's Holy War: How an Unlikely Talk Show Host Became the Savior of the Right," running in his this month's Playboy Magazine.
Readers know I enjoy horror fiction; the horrors of this actual world, not so much, perhaps. But Frank's article is important in its vision of language tortured beyond the imaginations of the Eli Roths of this world. Also, it's really fun to read and sort of amazing. Beck is an almost Fortean character who can apparently cry on demand. And he;s a lot of fun to unbuild, to take apart like a stack of Jenga pieces. Remove one piece and the whole illogical mess comes tumbling down. So instead of listening to frothing rants of politics mutated by nuclear radiation into horrific entertainment, why not sit back and enjoy the smooth styling of my conversation with Thomas Frank by following this link to the MP3 audio file.
"This is something that drives a certain segment of our society absolutely crazy..."
— Thomas Frank
...and in that quote we've not even begun to talk about paranoia! That's right, Thomas Frank is back, with a look at the big ideas in small events, the little bread crumbs that are found in the back pages of the newspaper that actually point out the huge changes coursing through our cultural and political establishments. This week, we looked at one of those tweedly, insider bits of news that opens up a new vista of vapidity and celebrated the upcoming 45th anniversary of a little bit of prescience on the part of Richard Hofstadter from the November 1964 edition of Harper's Magazine.
I caught up with Thomas Frank as the tears started to roll down the face of a certain talk-show host. Actually, that's not hard! There's a whole lot of crying and self-pity going on in the political world. And fascinatingly, it starts from the smallest of seeds, from the Mike Enzi hold on Obama nominee Labor Department solicitor nominee Patricia Smith, guilty of having been an effective advocate for labor rights, in that she helped to start the Wage Watch program, chronicled in Frank's column for the Wall Street Journal,"The GOP vs. Labor Law". There's an interesting strain of politician afoot who seems to feel the needs to be a politician while denying the import of government; sort of like if your local police thought that laws were counterproductive in terms of encouraging and enforcing lawful behavior. It's funny, in a very depressing fashion.
Frank and I also talk about The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter, an essay writer some 45 years ago to address the then-minor-league phenomenon of the John Birch Society. It's a great essay, and it was especially fun, after reading Frank's essay for the Wall Street Journal, "From John Birchers to Birthers", to talk with him about the new ranks of the American Paranoids. These are people who have pioneered cry-on-demand television. Alas, their only reason for crying is their mind-boggling wealth. I have too much fun talking to Thomas Frank, and I trust you'll enjoy hearing his take on events as you follow this link to the MP3 audio file.
Kansas artist M. T. Liggett protests FEMA's rebuilding of
Greensburg, KS, from the movie What's the Matter with
Kansas? by by Laura Cohen and Joe Winston
Everybody reads differently, which is what makes reading such a wonderful way to entertain one's self — while expanding your outlook on the world. For example, check out Thomas Frank's Wall Street Journal piece on how Conservatives read liberal writer Kenneth Galbraith, Health Care and the 'Predator State'.
When you're done, grab a brew, pull up a chair and give a listen to my chat with Thomas Frank, where we cover the week's politics with our own reading of events — and talk about the movie based on his book, 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' Yes, events can be read as well, in fact, the core concept of reading, the skills of the reader, are called into play a lot more often than anyone might suspect. We read one another — we read the road in front of us or suffer the consequences. And we have to read the news, even if we watch it on television. Paper has not refused ink — and our ears do not refuse the words that are spoken in our general vicinity. We have to sift through them and give them meaning. Here's a link to my conversation with Thomas Frank.
I've been reading a lot of Thomas Frank lately. He's the author of 'The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule', and 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' Fortunately for readers who enjoy his smart vision and witty prose, he writes stuff between his books, in Op-Ed columns for the Wall Street Journal; for example, "Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care" and "Liberals and Civility."
I thought it might be fun to get Frank on the phone and talk to him about the week's events, which is something that we really can't prepare for, because things are changing so fast, and the outrageous events pile up so quickly that it's hard to keep track of the lies, the truths, the lies about the truths and the truths about the lies. When I scheduled the interview, I must admit, I told him it was conditional on the phones still working. Anyone who remembers the recent outage in northern California when the lines were deliberately cut will know that's no given. (And note that there was never really a satisfactory explantion given for what could well have been an act of terrorism.) You can hear my conversation with Thomas Frank, covering recent events (phone lines permitting) by following the link to the MP3 audio file.
For a guy with bad news in his book and on his mind, Thomas Frank sure has sunny disposition. He arrived at KQED with lunch in hand and chomped cheerily in the atrium while chatting with my wife and Naomi Eppel. Heck, we might have all been out on a picnic, everybody was so happy. This in spite of the torrent of bad news that unfolded soon afterwards when he and I sat down to talk about 'The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule'. Frank is witty, quick and smart, and often mordantly funny even as he is spinning the tale of how we've managed to put people in charge of government who actually hate government. Just this morning, I read about the resignation of Paul Hoffman, the former director of the "Chamber of Commerce" (read: "group of greedy businessmen") of Cody, Wyoming, from the Department of the Interior. He's quoted as saying the department "gets into your blood but doesn't necessarily turn it green." At this point there are so many foxes in henhouses that it seems quite likely they'll have to begin feasting on one another since the poultry's got to be getting pretty scarce.
The preceding paragraph was brought to you by a 52-minute conversation with Thomas Frank, which you can hear for yourself via this link. Frank and I delve into details that didn't make it into his book, since he admits having done "way, way, too much research on South Africa" and the shady goings-on with the IFF, that is, the International Freedom Foundation. "They're for freedom, Rick — internationally, of course." Frank's the kind of writer and speaker who could tell you that ICBM's were streaking over the Arctic Circle and leave you smiling as you consider the potential effects of their passage on the Aurora Borealis. But he also has all the hard facts that enable you, the reader (and listener) to face the hard decisions that are coming our way. And make no mistake, those decisions are headed towards us with the inevitability of an ICBM, and alas, no potential for pretty side effects on the Aurora Borealis. Readers and listeners had best enjoy hearing Frank tell us what we've done to ourselves. Smart language is our only way out.
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12-06-11: Commentary : Kim Stanley Robinson Sees 'Forty Signs of Rain' : Science in Science Fiction
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12-05-11: Commentary : Sue Grafton Unleashes 'V is for Vengeance' : Shopping for Change
Agony Column Podcast News Report : A 2011 Interview with Sue Grafton : "Go to Sears, get a hammer and knock the guy on the head."
12-01-11: Commentary : Brian Showers Crafts 'Old Albert: An Epilogue' : Ringing in the Truth
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11-30-11: Commentary : Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan Unleash 'The Night Eternal' : Finishing the Dread
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11-29-11: Commentary : Win Blevins Chases 'So Wild a Dream' : The Simple Joys of Life
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11-23-11: Commentary : Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules: An Eater's Manual' : Illustrating Uncommon Sense
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'Ghosttown' Music video
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Watch the new "Ghosttown" video!
The video of Madonna's new single "Ghosttown" is finally online, the second single, after the success of "Living for love", from the last record already certified GOLD in Italy for sales of "Rebel Heart".
Watch the video now!
Next to the queen of Pop, in a ghostly city, we find an exceptional special-guest, the actor Terrence Howard (protagonist of the TV series EMPIRE).
She and Howard, united to represent the rebirth of love in a deserted and now destroyed world, after a first moment of distrust they find themselves in each other's arms for a tango full of passion, a passion that unites the survivors of a great catastrophe, which will have the task of rebuilding their whole world.
The vinyl of the new album "Rebel Heart" is out
The new album "Rebel Heart" is now also available in double vinyl version in record stores
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Madonna releases stunning video for 'Ghosttown'
The Queen of Pop has finally unveiled her highly anticipated music video for new single, 'Ghosttown'.
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The exciting new visual, which runs for just over 5 minutes, co-stars Empire's Terrence Howard and has a strong narrative that showcases a dystopian future. Jonas Åkerlund directed the impressive video ("Ray of Light", "Music", "American Life") and it was choreographed by Megan Lawson. Madonna, meanwhile, recently sat down for an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine and opened up about women in the music industry: "Don't be fooled, not much has changed—certainly not for women. We still live in a very sexist society that wants to limit people. Since I started, I've had people giving me a hard time because they didn't think you could be sexual or have sexuality or sensuality in your work and be intelligent at the same time. For me, the fight has never ended."
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For most kids, summer is one of the most waited time of the year. School is over but the learning never stops.
The Araneta Center, in partnership with Dance Plus, launched its summer dance program last April 10 at Ali Mall.
The program, Summer Rhythm, includes ballet and hip-hop classes for children aged 4 to 15 years old and will run every Tuesday and Friday from April 10 to May 18. Each session is held at the Ali Mall Activity area on the lower ground floor, giving the participants ample space to move around and master their dance moves.
The classes are facilitated by instructors from Dance Plus. Known as studio without walls, Dance Plus goes where students are by partnering with schools, condominiums, gyms, and malls to bring ballet and hiphop closer to where families get together.
Thanks to Araneta Center, Dance Plus, and through Mommy Bloggers Philippines, Kuya V was able to join the hiphop session and so did the saling-pusa Toddler Z who danced at the side.
The summer event aims to reach more children and give its participants a "childhood enriched through a heart that beats for dance." And I'm glad that the kids had a great time.
For full dance programs, you may contact Dance Plus.
Your kids can join, too!
- From April 10 to May 18, 2018, every Php1,000 single receipt purchase at any Araneta Center establishment or four (4) Cineplex tickets at Gateway/Alimall entitles you to one (1) FREE ballet class and one (1) FREE hiphop class.
- Customers must present their receipts at the concierge located at the ground floor of Alimall to claim their free dance stubs.
HIP-HOP CLASS 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM For kids 4 to 15 years old.
For more info, visit: www.aranetacenter.net and www.danceplusph.com.
That's good! Mageenjoy na sila, matututo pa and magkakaroon ng maraming new friends.


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Norodom Suramarit (6 de marzo de 1896 - 3 abril 1960), fue rey de Camboya desde 1955 hasta su muerte en 1960. Durante una parte de su existencia, Camboya fue un protectorado de Francia, como parte de la Indochina francesa.

Biografía
El príncipe Norodom Suramarit fue primo hermano del rey Sisowath Monivong y se convirtió en su yerno cuando se casó con su hija, la princesa y luego reina-madre, Sisowath Kossamak. Cuando murió el rey en 1941, su nieto (el príncipe Norodom Sihanouk) heredó el trono y organizó la nación para independizarse de Francia. Pero, el nuevo rey, con el deseo de abrir una nueva era política bajo una monarquía constitucional, abdicó en 1955 para abrirse hacia la elección como primer ministro. El rey Norodom Sihanouk seleccionó entonces como sucesor a su propio padre, el príncipe Norodom Suramarit.

El rey Norodom Suramarit murió en 1960, y aunque su hijo, el príncipe Norodom Sihanouk volvió a ser jefe de estado, no reanudó la monarquía, dejando el puesto vacante hasta que fue elegido de nuevo como rey en 1993.

Distinciones honoríficas

Distinciones honoríficas camboyanas
  Soberano Gran Maestre de la Real Orden de Camboya (1941).

Distinciones honoríficas extranjeras
  Comandante de la Orden de la Legión de Honor (República Francesa, 1939).
  Gran Oficial de la Orden de la Legión de Honor (República Francesa).
  Caballero Gran Cordón de la Suprema Orden del Crisantemo (Imperio de Japón).
  Caballero Gran Cordón de la Orden del Millón de Elefantes y del Parasol Blanco (Reino de Laos, 1955).
  Caballero Gran Cordón de la Orden del Dragón de Annam (Imperio de Vietnam).
  Caballero Gran Cordón de la Orden Nacional de Vietnam (Imperio de Vietnam).
  Gran Comandante de la Gloriosísima Orden de la Verdad (Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma) (Birmania).
  Caballero de Primera Clase de la Orden de Suvórov (11/07/1959).

Sucesión

 Anterior - Norodom Sihanouk
 Anterior a Sihanouk - Sisowath Monivong
 Posterior - Norodom Sihanouk

Referencias

Personas de Nom Pen
Reyes de Camboya
Grandes oficiales de la Legión de Honor
Condecorados con la Orden del Crisantemo
Camboyanos del siglo XX
Budistas de Camboya


Katie has been practicing Speech-Language Pathology at Clearly Speaking as a part-time employee since 2010. The Long Island native graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2000 with a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer the year following graduation, coordinating the Seacoast Reads Program at the University of New Hampshire. Katie worked full-time as a Speech-Language Assistant in a public school for two years before pursuing graduate studies at the University of New Hampshire in 2003. She has worked full-time in the public schools since earning her Master's degree in 2005. She has experience working with children who have a wide variety of speech and language needs. Katie strives to understand the unique needs of the children and families she works with. Katie is a passionate professional who strives to understand the unique needs of the children and families she works with.
When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children at her rural New Hampshire home.


28cell 60AH Winston battery,FOC controller come out 150A battery current and 550A phase current,the Chinese chart says it runs 3.28km distance and climb up 588meter sea level ,very long and steepy road !
Sorry,post from China is very slow and lose in control,I repeat the post several times by mistake,pls help me to delete others.
As for 3.28km and 500-something meters elevation: was the battery empty after that, or what exactly do you want to say with that hill climbing test?
Thank you...I just want to explain what a big slope it is.... 3280meter long distance go up 588meter vertical height !
Yes. That is an almost 18% grade. I wonder how hot the hub motor was at the top?
18% is average,most area more than 30% grade,the motor is just warm,but phase cable and controller is very hot.
I think 12mm motor cable is too thin,we need 16mm cable.
Mountain, don't you use CHL anymore?
No more,CHL is busy on E-bus business and no energy to supply us !
Oh, so CHL still is in business? I had the impression they were closing down alltogether!
The motor is similar to mine ?
Of course quite different motor,it is 9000W motor,double size (weight) than old E-sprit.
It has 80AH and 100AH lithium 2 version !
Only such a toy charger with just 700W for your huge 80/100Ah battery? You must be kidding us?! That battery size needs at least a 1500W charger, better even 2000W!
After 100AH (5 module battery pack),no more space for 1500W big charger,unless you cut the seat which might be no space for helmet !
I don't think 4-5 hours any different with 8-10 hours because both need over night charging !
But their price is quite different.
Does a 1500W charger at least fit in with your 80Ah battery?
PS: it appears you could add a second 700W charger on the other side of the battery so the battery could be charged with two parallel chargers. As a rule of thumb charger power should grow proportionally with battery size within the limits of the used electrical grid connection.
Good idea,700W charger could be put another side too so that dual chargers works together on 100AH battery,same as 1500W !
Why do you think 700W charger just a toy ? by now on this forum,most of chargers on 2 wheel vehicle is less than 700W !
80AH puma don't have problem with 1500W on board charger !
Mountain, have you seen the new 1800W TC Charger?
It is very small, just 203(L) × 135(W) × 125(H) and might fit even with 100Ah batteries.
I bought one for my Yamaha conversion and it works just fine, 3h charge time on my 50Ah. Charger specs: Nominal 96V, Top 109.5V, 16A.
This size looks very nice,I will check with TC tomorrow !
Experience with both a more hefty 950...1000W charger on my 40Ah Thunder (from you also, rember? You downgraded from 950 to 700W some time ago already), and as a comparison a 600...700W charger on my 43Ah swiss vR one. Both with a full-charged voltage of around 83V, so 2.8 to 2.9kWh of usable battery energy.
I have the occasional schedule where I need to do an as short as possible recharge during the working day after a 1/3rd discharge due to a bigger round in the evening that requires almost full charge. And this necessary break gets unbearably long with the weaker 650W charger. Where Thunder can get going again after a 1,5h recharge break vR one with it's 650W charger will easily require 2h and more before I can get going again.
So convenience is one part of the problem I have with such a small charger on even far larger batteries!
The other is that most LiFePO4 cells even can be recharged at 0.3C, with up to 1C allowed. Higher charging currents (not excessively high to ensure no unhealthy heating) have been shown to be beneficial for regaining and ensuring lower cell impedance, presumably by enlarging and straightening the channels through the electrodes and the solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer(s) as many Lithium ions travel simulataneously and more straight forward instead of trickling and meandering through the cells.
0.3C healthy charge rate would require a 2.3kW charger for 80Ah and even a 2.88kW charger for the 100Ah battery, so 1.4 to 1.5kW charging is still rather small, and even the new 1.8kW TC charger is still on the docile side of charging those large batteries.
They have a new 3.3kW version aswell, pretty good size on this one to, about 239x135x131mm (air cooled version).
They have a new 3.3kW version as well, pretty good size on this one to, about 239x135x131mm (air cooled version).
The 5 orange paralleled battery modules shown in the pictures are in fact variations of the BN7220LE battery module produced by Chilwee.
This is not nearly enough to run a 8KW PUMA electric scooter (marginal 5KW at best). Within 2 years or much less depending on throttle use the battery pack will be completely destroyed.
This manufacturer does not know the difference between battery capacity and battery power and continues to make dumb experiments at uninformed customers expenses.
You want a good battery pack for the 8KW PUMA electric scooter? Just drop in 21 SDI94 Samsung automotive Li_ion cells and a proper BMS and there you go. You can advertise you have an electric scooter with a battery pack good for 350.000Km (217.500 miles). As a bonus you would save enough room for installing a proper charger. Expensive? No. In the long run it will become cheaper for the customer than this pathetic excuse of a solution.


WARSAW – Our countdown to our number one athlete leads us through Nappanee and Warsaw, where an extraordinary graduating class at both NorthWood and Warsaw produced some of the finest athletes ever to perform at either school. Here are our selections for the Ink Free News All-IFN Top 5, culminating with our Athlete of the Year, Kyle Mangas of Warsaw.
5. True Student Athlete – Drew Minnich has showcased his abilities on the field, diamond and in the classroom throughout a brilliant all-around prep career at NorthWood.
Minnich helped the Panthers go 14-1 on the gridiron last fall, winning conference, sectional, regional and semistate titles before a loss in the Class 4-A state title game. This Spring, he was an integral part of a Panther baseball team that won the Northern Lakes Conference title at 14-0, claimed a fifth straight Class 3-A sectional championship and won a regional title for the first time since 1983. The Panthers finished the season at 26-2 after winning 26 straight games before an 8-5 loss to South Bend St. Joseph in the North Semistate game.
Minnich was a team captain for both sports.
Minnich was an even bigger star off the field. He ranked No. 1 in his senior class and earned number academic honors. Among those were the Phil Eskew Mental Attitude Award for football, an Edward W. Moose Krause Scholar-Athlete award and the Top Indiana Scholar-Athlete Award from the Indianapolis Star in April.
Minnich plans to play baseball at Cedarville (Ohio) University.
4. Attack Of The Sloth – The idea that a sloth can be a force in the animal kingdom is laughable. The idea that Sloth is a force on the wrestling mat is an entirely different story.
The legend of Sloth will live on for generations at Warsaw as Kyle Hatch leaves the program as one of the great ones, a season and career to behold.
Hatch had a heckuva run on the mats this past year, going 50-1, winning 49 in a row to start the year before losing to eventual 152-pound state champion Joe Lee in the state semi-finals. Hatch would come back to win the third-place match to cap his senior season. For his career at Warsaw, Hatch was 168-16 over all weight classes, which serves as the most career wins in Warsaw's storied history. Hatch's 50 victories as a senior was the most ever won by a Tiger in a season, and he also tossed in records for career pins as well as season and career takedowns, ones to which he already held through his junior season.
Hatch had quite a junior and senior year, combining to go 90-2, and leaves with three state finals placings, taking third this past season, seventh as a sophomore and eighth as a freshman.
Hatch, who was also chosen as an Academic All-State wrestler, also was the holder for Under Armour All-American kicker Andrew Mevis as part of the Warsaw football program last fall.
Hatch will wrestle collegiately with Wabash College.
3. Not A Small Story – When you think of the greats in girls sports at NorthWood, Summer Stillson has to be included in the conversation.
Graduating this year as perhaps the best to ever to golf and play softball, Stillson has the résumé to back up each claim. In the 31-year history of NorthWood softball, Stillson leaves as the school record holder in 17 categories, including hits in a season and career (43, 133), runs scored in a season and career (42, 141) and a career on-base percentage of .546, reaching base in over half her plate appearances. In her four years at NorthWood, the Lady Panthers won 59 games, far and away the most wins in a four-year stretch in program history. This past season, Stillson led the Lady Panthers in runs, triples, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging and OPS.
In golf, Stillson was the No. 1 for a NorthWood team that went 11-0 in dual matches and won the NLC regular season and tournament championships as well as a sectional title. Stillson was the NLC medalist and earned All-NLC honors, which she was also an All-NLC softball performer. Stillson's four years for NorthWood golf had the team only lose one dual match. She was an All-NLC performer four times and helped her team to state in 2015.
Stillson will continue her career on the golf course, signing with St. Mary's College.
2. Prolific Passer – Trey Bilinski rewrote almost all of the passing records after a stellar three-year run as the signal caller at NorthWood.
Bilinski guided the high-scoring Panther offense to new heights last fall. He threw for a single-season record 3,325 yards and a school standard 39 touchdowns. Bilinski also set the program single-game yardage mark with 390 and the one-game touchdown standard with four. He also finished his career with a record 72 touchdown tosses.
Bilinski, a three-year starter, earned All-State honors for the Panthers as they rolled to wins in their first 14 games to win the Northern Lakes Conference title and then Class 4-A sectional, regional and semistate crowns. NorthWood dropped a 34-22 final to Roncalli in the Class 4-A state championship game.
The prolific athlete was also a reliable performer on the hardwood in helping NorthWood post a 21-3 hoops mark. He averaged six points-per-game and was a co-captain for the Panthers.
Bilinski, who was also a Scholar-Athlete with a 3.6 GPA, will play football at Valparaiso University.
1. The Three C's – Kyle Mangas should be remembered for the "Three C's" during his prep career on the hardwood for Warsaw. Consistent, clutch and class are the three words that best describe what the star guard meant for the Tigers.
Mangas delivered game in and game out and was at his best at the biggest moments throughout his career. The standout backcourt ace also did it in a quiet, selfless, team-oriented manner that truly defined his impeccable character.
He capped off his career with a stellar senior season. He averaged 22.6 points-per-game while leading coach Doug Ogle's team in basically every statistical category, including rebounds, assists, steals and 3-pointers.
Mangas led the Tigers to a second straight Class 4-A sectional championship during the 2016-17 season and his team became the first in league history to go 7-0 for three straight seasons in Northern Lakes Conference play. In his three seasons as a starter, Warsaw posted a 61-17 record.
Mangas drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat Northridge in a sectional game and then had a career-high 47 points, including the game winning free throws with 2.1 seconds to play, in a 61-59 double-overtime win over East Chicago Central in a regional semifinal contest.
The recent Warsaw graduate, who will play collegiately at NAIA power Indiana Wesleyan University, finished fourth in program history with 1,450 career points. His 633 points as a senior rank fifth all-time in program history for a single season.
Mangas earned the Ink Free News Player of the Year honor as a senior for the second straight season. He was also an Academic All-State First Team selection.
Mangas, the youngest son of former Wawasee High School standout athletes Tim and Ann Mangas, capped off his amazing high school hoops run by being selected as an Indiana All-Star. He was just the 11th player in the storied history of the Tiger program to receive the illustrious honor.


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Okinawa gov. seeks 3-way talks with Tokyo, U.S. on base transfer plan
by Okinawa Peace Support|Published March 1, 2019
KYODO NEWS – Mar 1, 2019 – 22:23 | All, World, Japan
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki met on Friday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and called for the launch of trilateral talks involving Washington to review a plan to transfer a key U.S. military base within the prefecture after a referendum showed strong local opposition to the plan.
Tamaki told reporters after the meeting in Tokyo that the prime minister did not directly respond to the request but that Abe said he intends to continue talks with him.
The request comes after a nonbinding referendum in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday showed that more than 70 percent of voters rejected the plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area of Ginowan to the less populated coastal zone of Henoko. The plan originated in an agreement reached between the Japanese and U.S. governments in 1996.
Tamaki visited Abe to report on the outcome of the referendum, which asked whether Okinawa residents agreed with the landfill work being undertaken in Henoko.
The referendum ordinance requires the governor to report the outcome to the Japanese premier and U.S. President Donald Trump when any of three options — "yes," "no" or "neither" — are approved by a quarter of eligible voters.
"It's extremely significant that the will of people (in Okinawa) urging (the government) to give up the transfer to Henoko was clearly shown for the first time" through the referendum, Tamaki said at the outset of the meeting. He asked Abe to "immediately" stop the construction work.
(Photo taken Feb. 23, 2019, from a Kyodo News plane shows the relocation site for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the Henoko coastal district of Nago.)
The central government has said it has no plan to stop the work and will proceed with the project regardless of the outcome, saying it is the "only solution" for removing the dangers posed by the Futenma base without undermining the deterrence provided by the Japan-U.S. security alliance.
"While taking the outcome seriously, we would like to produce results step by step to reduce the burden" of Okinawa in hosting the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan, Abe said in the meeting.
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kotaro Nogami said at a press conference later in the day that the central government should be responsible for negotiating with the U.S. government on the matter when necessary.
Tamaki, who was elected governor last September on a platform of blocking the relocation plan, also paid a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo so that the outcome will be reported to Trump.
Deputy Chief of Mission Joseph Young said he will convey the result to U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty, according to the governor.
At a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan later Friday, Tamaki said the outcome fully reflects how people in Okinawa feel about the Futenma base issue and should be more respected than anything else.
"What is being tested now is democracy of the Japanese government," he added.
In the plebiscite, 71.7 percent of the voters voted "no," while some 19 percent voted in favor of the plan and 8.7 percent voted "neither."
Jinshiro Motoyama, who represents a civic group that collected signatures from more than 90,000 people to realize the poll, said at the press conference that "the central government should not trample on the Okinawa people's will."
The 27-year-old graduate student staged a hunger strike for 105 hours, after five cities in Okinawa refused to participate in the poll as they believed an initially planned yes-no vote would not truly reflect opinions among local residents. The five cities changed their position after the ordinance on the referendum was revised to allow the choice of a third option of "neither."
Many Okinawa residents have long hoped for the Futenma base to be moved out of the prefecture as they are frustrated with noise, crimes and accidents linked to U.S. military presence.
Opponents of the relocation plan insist the replacement facility will destroy the marine ecosystem off the Henoko coast — home to an endangered species of dugong.
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South Boston, formerly Boyd's Ferry, is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,142 at the 2010 census, down from 8,491 at the 2000 census. It is the most populous town in Halifax County.

History

On December 8, 1796, the Virginia General Assembly authorized eight commissioners to establish at Boyd's Ferry on the south side of the Dan River the town of South Boston, named for Boston, Massachusetts. Because this site proved vulnerable to flooding, it was eventually abandoned in favor of a new settlement on the north side. By the 1850s the Richmond and Danville Railroad passed through South Boston, which eventually developed into an important market for brightleaf tobacco. In 1884 it was incorporated as a town; in 1960 it became an independent city; and in 1995 it made history by being the first city in Virginia to revert to town status and rejoined Halifax County.

Within the town limits Berry Hill Plantation, E. L. Evans House, Reedy Creek Site, South Boston Historic District, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fourqurean House, Glennmary, Glenwood, Tarover, and Seaton are nearby.

South Boston was home to the National Tobacco Festival (a typically three day annual festival held every Fall) from its inception in 1935 to 1941, when it was suspended during World War II. In 1948, the festival was moved to Richmond, Virginia when it outgrew the town. It was held in Richmond until 1984, when it was canceled due to rising production costs and decreased interest. South Boston was the second largest producer of tobacco in the United States until the Great Depression.

Geography
South Boston is located south of the center of Halifax County at  (36.707722, −78.903388). It is bordered to the south by the unincorporated community of Riverdale. U.S. Route 501 passes through the center of the town, leading north  to Halifax, the county seat, and south  to Roxboro, North Carolina. U.S. Route 360 crosses the southeast corner of the town limits, leading northeast  to Keysville and west  to Danville. U.S. Route 58 passes through the southernmost part of South Boston with US 360, leading west with it to Danville but running east  to South Hill.

According to the United States Census Bureau, South Boston has a total area of , of which  are land and , or 0.74%, are water. The Dan River, a tributary of the Roanoke River, flows to the east along the southern edge of the town.

Climate

Major highways

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 8,491 people, 3,502 households, and 2,185 families residing in the town. The population density was 694.7 people per square mile (268.3/km2). There were 3,946 housing units at an average density of 322.8 per square mile (124.7/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 50.63% White, 47.25% African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.48% Asian, 0.51% from other races, and 0.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.45% of the population.

There were 3,502 households, out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.0% were married couples living together, 20.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.6% were non-families. 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.90.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 23.7% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 79.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.4 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $25,964, and the median income for a family was $34,848. Males had a median income of $28,212 versus $20,371 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,872. About 15.3% of families and 20.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.2% of those under age 18 and 23.9% of those age 65 or over.

Notable people
 Jeremy Jeffress, former pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays
 Michael Tucker, Major League Baseball player
 William M. Tuck, 55th Governor of Virginia, born in Halifax County, Virginia and rests in South Boston.
 Walter B. Scates, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Illinois Attorney General, born in South Boston
 Burton Family of NASCAR. Ward and Jeff Burton, both brothers, are from South Boston and prepared for their racing career at South Boston Speedway. Their children Jeb (Ward) and Harrison (Jeff) are from the city as well.
 NFL player Tyrone Davis of the New York Jets and Green Bay Packers is from South Boston.
 Robert Llewellyn, born December 29, 1945, in Roanoke, Virginia, is a professional photographer who grew up in South Boston and now lives in Earlysville, Virginia.
 Grandmaster Slice, American hip-hop musician
 Greg Vanney, former professional soccer player and head coach of the LA Galaxy.
 G. C. Waldrep, poet and historian, was born and raised in South Boston.
 Olympic high jumper Tisha Waller is from South Boston.
 Jay Blackton, who won an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture in Oklahoma!, is buried in South Boston.

See also
 List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

References

Further reading
 Substantial Changes to Counties and County Equivalent Entities: 1970–Present United States Census Bureau

External links
 Town of South Boston official website
 Halifax County Department of Tourism
 History of Halifax County & South Boston
 South Boston News & Record
 The Gazette-Virginian
 Town records 1905–1999 online at Footnote.com

Towns in Virginia
Towns in Halifax County, Virginia
Populated places established in 1796
1796 establishments in Virginia


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Q: In c++, how to disable windows UAC control by program? In program C++, how to change the windows UAC to always notify or never notify.
Manually, I should change like this:

I found C# code from Internet:
const string UACkey = @"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System";
const string Subkey = "EnableLUA";
RegistryUtilities.SetValue(UACkey, Subkey, **1**, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryValueKind.DWord, RegistryUtilities.WOW64Key.Key64);

Does somebody know how to change into c++ code?
I tried to change the Registry with c++, but it does not work.
HKEY hKey = NULL;
LONG lResult = 0;
BOOL fSuccess = TRUE;
DWORD dwSize;

const size_t count = MAX_PATH*2;
wchar_t szValue[count] = {};

lResult = RegOpenKeyExW(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, L"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System",  0, (KEY_WRITE | KEY_READ),  &hKey);

fSuccess = (lResult == 0);

if (fSuccess)
{
    dwSize = (wcslen(szValue)+1)*2;
    lResult = RegSetValueExW(hKey, L"EnableLUA", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)szValue, dwSize);
    fSuccess = (lResult == 0);
}

if (hKey != NULL)
{
    RegCloseKey(hKey);
    hKey = NULL;
}

A: To answer your stated question, you can set registry keys with RegSetKeyValue, however you have to get past UAC in order to change the registry. To answer your implicit question, yes you could probably disable UAC programatically for malicious purposes, however you have to get past UAC in the first place to do so. Once you're on the other side of the airtight hatchway, you can do whatever you want of course. However you still have to get past the UAC hurdle.
Furthermore, I highly recommend you do a cursory google search before posting a question like this. The Windows C API is documented very well on MSDN.

A: Your code is actually very close;
DWORD val = 0;
HKEY uaKey;
RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System", 0, KEY_WRITE , &uaKey);
if(uaKey == NULL)
{
    //Handle error message here
}
else
{
    if (RegSetValueEx (uaKey, "EnableLUA", 0, REG_DWORD, (const BYTE *)&val, sizeof(val)) != ERROR_SUCCESS)
    {
        //Error
    }
    else
    {
        //Success
    }
    RegCloseKey(uaKey);
}

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Postdoctoral Position in Enzymatic Synthesis of Modified Nucleic Acids
A postdoc position for a talented postdoctoral researcher is available in the Bioorganic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids unit of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France.
Topic. The aim of the proposed project is to develop a new method based on modified nucleoside triphosphates to synthesize therapeutic oligonucleotides using DNA polymerases.
Representative publications: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.201800658; https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2019/ob/c9ob01515a
Profiles. A PhD in bioorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, or chemical biology with experience in synthesis of nucleoside and nucleotide analogs. Also experience in primer extension reactions or PCR with modified nucleotides would be beneficial. The candidate should preferentially have knowledge in nucleic acid chemistry and basic molecular biology techniques.
Conditions. The position is funded by an international pharmaceutical company. The salary corresponds to the postdoc standard in France, including extended health coverage. The contract will be for 12 months. The position is available from March 2020, but the exact starting date is negotiable (within the first semester of 2020).
Application: Send a single pdf document with a detailed CV, a cover letter, and the names and contacts of three references. Materials should be emailed as a single PDF file to the principal investigator Marcel Hollenstein (marcel.hollenstein@pasteur.fr), who can be reached for informal inquiries about the project and the research unit.


Cesium radioactive isotopes (134Cs and 137Cs) are dangerous to human health due to their long halflife and high solubility in water. Nuclear experiments, wars, and nuclear plant accidents have been the main sources of Cs release into the environment. In recent years, several methods have been introduced for the elimination of Cs radioactive isotopes from contaminated water. This study provides an overview of the available published articles (2008–2016) regarding the remediation of waters polluted by Cs isotopes. The maximum adsorption capacity (MAC) of Cs isotopes corresponded to natural chabazite (273.24 mg Cs/g adsorbent), hollow Prussian blue (PB) nanoparticles (262 mg Cs/g adsorbent), and Prussian blue implemented non-woven fabric (260 mg Cs/g adsorbent). Using natural chabazite and PB adsorbents, along with another adsorbent (PB graphene oxide hydrogel), Cs radioactive isotopes can be effectively removed from the aqueous solutions.


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