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Recent review: "We asked Blake to help break the ice at our wedding celebrations in a private room in a hotel. There were 20 of us and he spent an hour astounding us all with close up magic, tricks and mind reading, moving seamlessly amongst all our guests. One of our friends said afterwards that, because of his
Recent review: Wow! He was amazing! All of my guests loved Valgician. The card tricks were very impressive and everyone was is awe! I can’t recommend him enough and will certainly be using him again for future events. A really good all round performer, great sense of humour and our guests really interacted with th
Recent review: "Very professional and friendly magician, went down well at my party and compliment by everyone. Would recommend to anyone looking for a magician to perform at their party."
Recent review: Ian provided great entertainment at our event. The children were very engaged and impressed with his magic and I would recommend him to others for an event.
Recent review: Absolutely amazing magician! Rich and I cannot thank you enough for making our day so so special! You brought so much fun to our wedding day and our guests have all said how amazing you were! We cannot thank you enough! We will be recommending you to all our friends and family - thank you Robbie! Xx
Recent review: "Alasdair, was very good, and professional for some one so young! He was on time, polite and entertaining, and we would recommend him to anyone, He will only get better and better as he gets experience. Alan G"
Recent review: "I booked David for my wife' Birthday Party and he was fantastic. He arrived before he was due and he was very professional, thoughtful and brought his own ideas to the party. David managed to blend into the background with ease and worked both the room individually and the wider audience. At t
About: **BOOK YOUR WEDDING GET A FREE PHOTOGRAPHER TO FOLLOW AND CAPTURE EVERYONES MAGIC MOMENTS** Bamboosel the guests and your big event with Johnathan. This is your ideal table magician with a variety of mind games and card magic. If you want your night to be remembered with amazed guests and people
Recent review: Mike was great. Kept us all entertained and wowed by his tricks. Was especially good with my son who was in awe of his magic. Thanks you were a great addition to our afternoon. Had great comments from out guests.
About: A Young, Keen and extremely Talented Magician- Wigan Based. Complete flexibility regarding event types/durations. All prices negotiable
Recent review: "is one high or low ? Would like to thank Alex for his superb table magic performed on new years eve. In a busy restaurant environment with regular customers aging from teenagers to 80 plus Alex worked hard to please every table and gave all our customers a night to remember. I have received noth
Recent review: "David did a brilliant job .He was at the party in good time and entertained the children immediately helping to look after them during the boring time when my guests were arriving. My guests were fascinated by his tricks and gave him top marks for fooling them! and he took himself off without a
Recent review: "Thanks peter for making our babies christening the best day possible, we were expecting a normal entertainer we didn't get that as you are not normal. The standard was amazing, the best we have ever seen, unbelievable magic, comedy and games, we would highly recommend you. Every adult commented on
Recent review: I saw Stephen at a Park event in March. He was fantastic! He really captured the children's attention (and mine) throughout! He was really energetic and the kids LOVED him! I even saw him doing a magic trick for a boy that missed the show which was really sweet.
Recent review: Darren had dinner with the family, then did a special magic show for my son's 12th birthday. It was incredible to be in such an intimate setting, up close and watching out for his every move. He still bamboozled us all. Great fun to be around, fantastic narrative and amazing sleight of hand. Wholehe
Recent review: """Hi Nick! ... We were over the moon with your performance, worth every single penny and if I'm honest more! When my photographer send us the copies of the day I will forward (via email) any that have you in it, then you can pick the ones you want etc. I really hope we can book you again! We just h
Recent review: John was brilliant as a performer, amazing us all with his tricks. One small snag was that he tried to do a full performance with each group/table and the result was that some people didn't see him at all. Perhaps he should have moved on a bit quicker. But to repeat, his performance was excellent.
About: John is an award-winning mentalist, or magician of the mind if you prefer, with a growing number of Blue chip and celebrity customers . John will leave you and your guests amazed and completely entertained with his unique style of entertainment. With style and a smile he engages all ages and shocks
Recent review: I would like to say a big thank you to Matt for the fantastic entertainment he provided at our recent company party ... His magic tricks were excellent and the overall atmosphere that he created was incredible. His whole performance was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. We would have no hesitation in


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PSL St Georges V Chichester: Final round
For the final match of the PSL season Chichester travelled to St George’s Hill, Weybridge. The home team, needed just 16 points from this match to establish a place in the semi-final play offs. Team Chichester, however, was determined to make St. George’s work hard for every point.
Amy Jones, for Chichester, found the going tough as she played Dominique Lloyd Walter but, she showed improvements in her fitness and played extremely well to take the former WR18 to 3 close games losing 11/6, 14/12, 11/8; 1 up for St George’s.
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9], meanwhile, was putting in a sterling performance against St George’s Dutch player, Dylan Bennett. Finch dominated the first 2 games, 4/9, 9/11 before getting off to a bad start in the 3rd and eventually lost the game 11/8. In the fourth, however, he regained the momentum and ran out an 11/4 (1.3) winner to level the match.
Tim Vail, for Chichester, was up against an in-form Tom Richards, WR34 and runner-up in the recent Wimbledon Club Open. In the first game Vail showed glimpses of his enviable skills but Richards’ pace and speed proved too much for him to control and he lost that game 11/7. Richards continued in the same vein and ran out 11/2, 11/4 winner to put St George’s 2.1 up
Next on court Miles Jenkins (WR166) played against St. George’s Carlos Cornes [ESP:WR122] and started well in an even first game. J
enkins played the big points admirably and took it 9/11. Cornes replied well, hitting hard and tight, to take the second. He continued in the third and built up a 10/6 lead before faltering and Jenkins fought
back to 10/11. Cornes, nonetheless, was resolute and finally closed it out 13/11. The fourth was more of the same; an even contest with good hard hitting from Cornes and a mix of pace from Jenkins. Corn
es converted his 1st attempt at match ball to win the fourth 11/6 to give St George’s an unassailable 3.1 lead.
Finally, Olli Pett faced the World No.1, Mohamed ElShorbagy, and Pett played the game of his life. St George’s needed just one point from Mohamed ElShorbagy and the World No.1, and World Champion, as expected, delivered as he took the opening game. The match, however, was far from over and Pett put in a stunning performance.
Pett matched ElShorbagy in every department and, at times, completely out played him. Pett’s skill and speed around the court, and reading of the game
, was equal to the World No1. The only difference, in the end, was physical fitness, with ElShorbagy having
the edge. The match went all the way to a fifth game with Pett continually pushing and fighting for every point to the end. He narrowly lost it 11/7; a fantastic performance from Pett.
St Georges now go through to the semi finals for the sixth time.

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89 Golden Blvd is a charming city known for sharing the love of business, branding, and systems and educating the community. 89 Golden Blvd is a picturesque place with a main street lined with local shops, cafes, and parks. It boasts a thriving business economy and a well educated, professional work force. We serve creative entrepreneurs and driven business owners worldwide.
We believe in building a business that supports your lifestyle instead of making your lifestyle support the business. I’m sure you didn’t leave your corporate job just to create another corporate job for yourself. We structure our services and content to give us a work life balance and we like to help those that do too.
The ideas and principles in business are pretty simple, yet we choose to complicate them. We love a minimal business in all aspects including our softwares, systems, content, design, and products. Be very mindful when adding new things to your plate.
If there’s one thing you should know about us, we love planning, we love strategizing, and we love taking messy action. Planning only gets you so far but actually doing the action is what gets your progress and achievements. We have to fight off our perfectionist tendencies and just take action. We might have everything buttoned up perfectly in a bow all the time, but we do get things done. Done is better than perfect.
Our business is here to support women. At the end of the day, we want women to succeed and we believe that there is room for all women to succeed. You shouldn’t feel the need to compete or put down others because we all deserve a seat at the table.
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We like working with people who want to make an impact.
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Hi I’m Carrah. The designer, strategist, and systems expert at 89 Golden Blvd. My passion is working with ambitious women who are trying to share their vision with the world.
I graduated from UCLA and worked my way up the corporate ladder with 15 years of professional experience (+4 years of Myspace experience ;)) in design and marketing. From print shops, to in house, to digital designer for a highly successful e-commerce store, and leading design teams, I’ve done it all.
But I knew that I wanted to help business owners on a more personal level. That’s when I decided to make my dream of being able to serve creative entrepreneurs come true and 89 Golden Blvd was built.
Using all my experience, I am able to capture the heart of the brand and build out a holistic brand system that works for you for years to come. I believe in getting to know your brand and using it’s special quirks and traits to craft a brand that tells your story.
As part of my journey, I fell in love with systems, task management and productivity. All my life I have loved the technical and logistical side of things but also wanted to make them look good. i love designing but I also love coding, numbers, and tech.
When you run big projects and work with teams, a system and process is necessary to run a successful, efficient project. I’ve learned that systems run hand in hand with creating brands and know what it’s like to be on the front lines using these tools. As business owners, there’s so much that needs to get done, so I’ve learned to create systems to help you get things done.
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Forget "Pokemon Go" (if it's not yet passé).
You can search for real animals near the South Pole, all from the comfort of your couch.
The University of Minnesota is asking for the public's help with counting Weddell seals in Antarctica by scanning through satellite images.
Michelle LaRue is the lead researcher with Satellites Over Seals for the university. She joined All Things Considered host Tom Crann to discuss the project.
To hear their conversation and learn more about the project, use the audio player above.
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Despite its shortcomings, China is on track to meet its Paris pledges ahead of schedule.
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They are supposed to serve the greatest good, which means more than just resource extraction.
Legislation protects Americans from costs of special energy technologies
Let's not lose sight of the positive impact genetically modified foods have had.
GOP stance on climate change could cost them the election
Carbon capture technology could save the day for coal operators
Plan will mean higher prices for residential and commercial electricity
The radioactive West Lake Landfill Superfund site in St. Louis County, Missouri, should have always been under the jurisdiction of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). FUSRAP is a nuclear waste cleanup program run by the...
Group could hasten global clean energy research and development
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Little Ziza & The Golden Timepiece
Little Ziza & the Golden Timepiece | Picture Book | 32 pages
A children's picture book that tells the story of a young girl who has a passion for football. After facing a few obstacles to her dream she gets help from the most unlikely place.
Asisat Oshoala + Lanre Aina
The story of Little Ziza represents my life in a lot of ways. Apart from her name being a play on my nickname, "Zee", you'll discover that she, too, is unassuming, strong-willed, loving, and graceful. She wants to be heard. She wants to inspire others. She wants to live a meaningful life. To go where there's no path and leave a trail for others to follow. To be remembered as someone who never gave up on her dreams despite the obstacles and challenges. To become a symbol of strength, humility and optimism. I hope this project encourages more girls to play sports, find their voices and discover the amazing talent hidden on the inside. Like Ziza's story, I hope it reminds them that no one has permission to tell them that they cannot do what they've set out to achieve.

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|Developer||Relic Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)|
|Release Date||27 Apr 2017|
|Genres||Action, Simulation, Strategy|
|Languages||English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese|
|Features||Single-player, Online Multi-Player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Stats, Includes level editor, Online PvP, Multi-player, PvP|
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Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions
In Dawn of War® III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.
With war raging and the planet under siege by the armies of greedy Ork warlord Gorgutz, ambitious Eldar seer Macha, and mighty Space Marine commander Gabriel Angelos, supremacy must ultimately be suspended for survival.
*ZING – 90/100 (CZECH)* – “Forged strategy which targets the fans of genre”
*Jeux Video - 16/20 (FRE)* – “A little strategic gem”
*Gamereactor - 90/100 (UK)* – “the game Warhammer 40K fans have been looking for"
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*Micromania – 86/100 (Spa)* – “A must have game for franchise fans”
*Every Eye - 88/100 (Italy)* – “Overall the third Dawn of War represents a new center for a team that once again demonstrates a strong talent and a strong passion for this genre”
*Gamestar - 86/100 (Ger)* – “The best RTS game since Starcraft 2”
*God is Geek - 85/100 (UK)*- “Exhilarating multiplayer battles … Great merging of previous titles”
*Hardcore Gamer – 4.5/5 (US)* – “Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III successfully takes the best elements from the previous two games and blends them with traditional RTS mechanics to create a game with deep strategic gameplay.”
*Benchmark – 4.6/5 (Pol)* – “Dawn of War returns in an incredibly good form”
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 with latest updates Processor: 3GHz i3 quad logical core or equivalent Memory: 4 GB of RAM, 1 GB of VRAM MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 6950 or equivalent DirectX 11-card DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 50 GB available space Additional Notes: Quad physical core i5 or equivalent recommended for 3vs3 multiplayer. Game requires Internet connection for play and progression.
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Popular Kenyan comedian Jaymo Ule Msee is a new dad. Through his social media platforms, the entertainer announced that he and his wife Wakio Munene had welcomed a bouncing baby boy yesterday (03.03.2022).
The comedian shared several maternity shoot pictures of him and his wife. He thanked his wife who is known to feature in his comedy skits for making him a dad.
“11:05 PM 3:3:2022…Asante KaG for making me a ‘Real Mubaba’ …Welcome Home Prince MM,” he wrote.
The two lovebirds who are said to have been dating for a while now, made their union official in a traditional wedding in September 2021.


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Scott's budget would cut funding for the homeless and support minority businesses
Last year, agencies that help Florida's homeless received nearly $7 million in state funding to assist more than 74,000 people. But that money was wiped out in Gov. Rick Scott's proposed budget, which called for elimination of the state's Office of Homelessness as well as an end to a memorial day for homeless people recognized nationwide.
His dramatic slashes to the budget target some of the state's most vulnerable groups.
In addition to cutting the homelessness office, Scott's budget calls for moving trust funds that pay for indigent criminal defense and domestic violence and rape crisis programs into general revenue coffers. He also wants to end programs that encourage state contracting with minority businesses and suicide prevention efforts in public schools.
And he proposes killing the state's Coastal Clean-up Trust Fund, ending taxes on waste tire disposal, dry cleaning, batteries, fertilizer and other pollutants.
"It is probably the most callous, destructive, hurtful, archaic budget that you could put forward in a state like this," said Rep. Mark Pafford, a Democrat from West Palm Beach who is co-sponsoring a bill that would provide tax breaks to businesses that give homeless people jobs. (That bill is sponsored by Rep. Lori Berman, a Democrat from Delray Beach.) Read more about it here.

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No representatives from Gator were present at the meeting, but township Manager Chris Canavan said the approval of the conditional use order opens the way for Gator to create a land development plan, which then must be approved in preliminary and eventually final form by the supervisors.
Land development will show in detail how the developer is adhering to the 17 conditions to which it agreed in the conditional use order, according to board Solicitor Jack Dooley.
Canavan said conditions include various architectural regulations, mandating the building of a parking structure and allowing mixed use in the development, among other things.
Conditional use is needed because the development will be built in an area zoned village overlay, which requires developers to adhere to certain conditions established by the township, Canavan said.
In return for adhering to the conditions, developers receive some benefits like expanded areas to build structures, or building envelopes, or zero distance setbacks from township-owned right-of-way lines.
The plan calls for the creation of the Court at Towamencin Village, a development to be located between Williamsburg Village development and the planned pedestrian bridge. The development would include a 135-room hotel, an 8,250-square-foot restaurant, 55,000 square feet of office space and 12 garden apartments.
Russ Trier, owner of a Best Western motel on Sumneytown Pike, recommended the board scrutinize the plan in terms of the number of parking spaces because the hotel and restaurant use could attract a lot of motorists.
"If they have a (restaurant) of 4,000 square feet to 5,000 square feet, they could have 400 people in there," Trier said.
Canavan said the number of parking spaces required will be dictated by the square footage of buildings on the property, something that will be dealt with during land development.


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Part 14: New politics of immigrationgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Grassroots Information Coordination Center (GICC) : One Thread
Part 14: New politics of immigration Tuesday, 4 September 2001 10:53 (ET)
Part 14: New politics of immigration By MARK BENJAMIN, UPI Congressional Bureau Chief
(Part 14 of UPI's 14-part series on U.S. immigration)
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm represents a state that shares a porous, 1,254-mile border with Mexico, and he doesn't approve of illegal immigration.
But when Congress comes back to Washington this fall, Gramm told United Press International, he plans to draft legislation to allow millions of immigrant workers -- many of who are currently undocumented -- to work in the United States for nine months each year in seasonal occupations indefinitely, and give full-time immigrant workers up to three years before they return home.
In part, the plan is supposed to help businesses grappling with labor shortages, particularly in the farming and service industries. But if necessary, that legislation is designed to counter and derail an immigration plan that is at least under consideration by President George W. Bush.
Gramm's "guest-worker" proposal, however, would ultimately force those workers to leave the United States when the work is done, regardless of how many years they paid taxes while toiling in the fields or cleaning hotel rooms.
And that strikes at the heart of a debate that is splintering the Republican Party as it struggles to court the burgeoning Hispanic vote, which on the heels of the 2000 Census, is considered by many GOP strategists as a political imperative.
Gramm's bill comes as Bush is considering some of the biggest changes in immigration policy in 15 years. But for better or for worse, Republicans like Gramm might only let him go so far.
"I am in favor of a guest-worker program and I think that the people that are here illegally should be given a one-time opportunity to join that program," Gramm said, detailing his legislative plan for the first time. "But I think the people in a guest-worker program ought to be in a guest-worker program, not in an immigration program."
But in an interview with UPI, Jim Gilmore, Republican National Committee chairman and Virginia governor, said the White House was considering a guest-worker program that would lead to permanent legal status for some of those workers.
"It would be much better to have a process, built up over time, so that people who are in this country illegally can get legal, so they can find a way to get papers so that they fit into an appropriate system. That way we know where they are. We know what they are doing," Gilmore said. "And then it is possible over time that there would be a process by which people would become legal under immigration law, either current or reformed."
In the Senate, Texas's Gramm represents a powerful coalition of conservative Republicans who fear that legalizing immigrant workers only encourages more people to cross the border illegally.
"The message (is) like putting up a neon sign: 'Get to America any way you can and you will be able to stay,'" Gramm said.
Leaders of the Hispanic community in the United States have said they will accept the creation of a guest-worker program, but only if it leads to a plan to naturalize millions of those workers later.
"We believe that a guest worker ought to be, needs to be, and must be politically linked to a significant legalization program," National Council of La Raza President Raul Yzaguirre said. The council is a private non-partisan group set up to improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
On Aug. 21, a coalition of those leaders met privately with White House officials to demand that any guest-worker program advocated by the White House must extend legal status to workers after three years of work. Hispanic leaders have not said exactly how many workers would ultimately receive permanent legal status under that plan, but have said that an acceptable number would have to be in the millions. At that meeting, the Hispanic leaders also made it clear that the program should not simply apply to immigrants from Mexico alone.
"We are concerned about any efforts to address this issue in a piecemeal or go-slow fashion," Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Staff Attorney Aisha Qaasim said.
Sources close to the discussions have said policy makers are also struggling over the details of even just the guest worker portion of any plan. For example, immigration advocates have said temporary work permits must be "portable," to avoid tying workers to one employer and inviting possible abuse of that arrangement.
Hispanic leaders said they are convinced the White House is seriously considering their suggestions.
"The conversations indicate that the White House is fairly open to a number of ideas and has not made up their mind yet," Yzaguirre said.
Republican strategists argue that the latest census data compels the party to act to reform immigration rules, and hopefully, win some votes in the process.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 13.3 million legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States in the 1990s alone -- with many moving to states with the most electoral votes, like New York, Illinois and Florida -- bringing the total immigrant population to more than 30 million. Around 18 million of those immigrants are not citizens.
Half of the immigrants in the United States come from Spanish-speaking countries and 9 million are from Mexico alone. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington research group that advocates "fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted," the number of immigrants living in the United States has more than tripled since 1970.
Observers said the GOP is at a crossroads, stranded between political necessity and traditional GOP policy against any tweaks to immigration policy that might "reward" illegal immigrants by handing them legal status. At the same time, the Hispanic leaders continue to argue that the Hispanic vote is up for grabs and those voters are paying attention to immigration policy.
"I think it is short sighted for either party to think that the Latino community is locked up by the other party or is monolithic or unchanging," Yzaguirre said. "I think this is an internal battle between the best instincts of President Bush and the worst instincts of some xenophobes and other less scrupulous positions within the party."
For his part, Bush has said only that he will not extend an immediate blanket amnesty to millions of immigrants.
"There will be no blanket amnesty for illegals," Bush said Aug. 23 at an elementary school in Crawford, Texas. "Now, there are ways for us to discuss, as I said, a worker program of some type that will legalize the hard work that's taking place now in America. And so long as there's somebody who wants to hire somebody and somebody willing to work, it seems like to me it's in our nation's interest to make sure the two go together."
After the president, the RNC chairman is one of the top GOP fundraisers and political strategists who is largely responsible for making sure a Republican moves into the White House and stays.
Gilmore said revisiting immigration policy might help the GOP change its reputation among Hispanics and other minority groups.
"What I think has happened in the past is that concern over immigration issues has manifested itself in a message of unwelcomeness," Gilmore said. "Legal Hispanics who are registered to vote and want to express themselves have expressed in the past a dislike for that kind of thing. I think the president is trying to make it clear that the Republican Party does not feel that way."
He also dismissed any portrayal of the effort as a "callous" attempt to court the Hispanic vote. "I do not intend to suggest to you, nor do I think the president is suggesting, that this is a callous compromise of good policy just to get the Hispanic vote," Gilmore said. "What I do believe we intend to do is address an issue that is of concern to Hispanic people in this country."
Gilmore has established an entire division at the RNC headquarters dedicated solely to reaching out to all kinds of minority voters. Republicans have also retooled their priorities and placed an emphasis on education policy and funneling money to religious charities through a "faith-based initiative" that strategists said poll particularly well with socially conservative and religious Hispanics.
Some Republicans also see Bush as a competitive candidate to chip away at the Democrats' hold on the Hispanic vote. According to CIS, Bush received 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in the 2000 elections -- the best ever for a Republican presidential candidate with the exception of President Ronald Reagan. Bush also garnered nearly half of the Hispanic vote in the 1998 Texas gubernatorial race. That was the same year Republican Dan Lundgren was trounced among Hispanic voters in California by Democrat Gov. Gray Davis in the aftermath of Proposition 187, which denied non-emergency social services to illegal immigrants.
But political analysts and immigration specialists pointedly disagree on whether tweaking immigration policy will draw more Hispanics into the Republican Party, or simply legalize a new generation of Democrats.
According to a CIS study released in August, Democrats hold a 20 percentage-point advantage in party identification over the GOP once the Cuban population is excluded. That study also appeared to show that Latinos vote more Democratic as their education levels increase, and that it is the core Republican policies that drive away the Latino vote, but not so much Republican policy on immigration.
"I find the political base for amnesty to be among labor unions and political activists who have an agenda other than the well-being of the people we are talking about," Gramm said in his interview. "I have never found bad policy to be good politics."
Democrats in Congress have said they "welcome" the signal from the White House that a spirited immigration debate is expected this fall. They have drafted a series of immigration principles that call for wide-scale legalization of immigrants already working and paying taxes in the United States.
In the House, Republicans like Reps. Thomas Gerard Tancredo from Colorado and Lamar Smith of Texas are set to defeat any legislation that would attach permanent legal status to a guest-worker program, no matter who advocates it. To illustrate the split in the GOP, however, Republicans like Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart from Florida are pushing for a plan to grant legal status to workers at the tail end of a guest-worker program. GOP supporters of that plan have coined the word "regularization" to describe it, and take great care to differentiate it from immediate "amnesty" for illegal aliens.
Off of Capitol Hill, other proponents of any plan to legalize illegal immigrants are already advocating aggressive steps to discourage illegal border crossings in the first place, like doling out difficult-to-fake identification cards or "internal passports" workers would need to get jobs.
Some immigration experts in that camp said the government should also establish and enforce tough penalties against employers that hire illegal immigrants.
"The sanction program that we have in the United States is basically a joke," George F. Borjas, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government said. "The only people who are affected by it are those people who hope to be in the [president's] cabinet one day, nobody else is really paying attention to that anymore."
Prospects for immigration reform are complicated further by demands from House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., that no immigration proposals move until Congress reforms the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Spurred by a backlog of some 4.5 million applications of various kinds, Republicans have vowed to split the INS into two branches to handle enforcement and benefits separately.
"INS reform must be the first legislative train down Pennsylvania Avenue," Sensenbrenner said. "Failure to act only will bottle up other immigration proposals."
But Hispanic leaders said the evidence compels the Republican Party to move forward and tackle the Latino vote with immigration in mind.
According to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, which supports a legalization program, the number of Latinos registered to vote has grown from 5.5 million in 1994 to 8 million in 2000. Election turnout rates for naturalized Latino citizens also exceed the turnout rate for native-born Latinos by 37 percent to 31 percent.
Hispanic leaders recognize the tendency for Hispanics to vote Democratic, but argue that Latinos also tend to be socially conservative, like Republicans, and many haven't made up their political minds yet simply because they are young.
According to NALEO's Washington Office Director Larry Gonzalez, 36 percent of the Hispanic community in the United States is under the age of 18.
"The important thing to understand is that right now the Latino community is developing its political conscience," Gonzalez said. "We are one of the youngest ethnic groups in the country."
But in the end, some Republicans have said that the complex politics of immigration make it a difficult win for the GOP.
"If there has ever been an issue that should be dealt with on the merits and not on the politics it would be immigration," Gramm said. "I don't know anybody who has been smart enough to figure the politics out."
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The La Liga giants Valencia are set to complete the signing of Luis Nani from Fenerbahce today.
The daily Turkish newspaper HaberTurk state that Valencia are poised to unveil the transfer today and are expected to make an announcement.
Fenerbahce will make a £2.5 million profit just a season after signing Nani for £4.5 million from Manchester United on a three-year deal.
Nani was closely linked with a move to Liverpool and Everton who were also considering to activate his release clause.
Meanwhile DHA reported that United were also interested and had agreed personal terms but the deal stalled due to his release clause being more than what he was sold for just last season.
Nani scored 12 times and provided 13 assists for Fenerbahce last season but fell out of favour with head coach Vitor Pereiera.
The 29-year-old winger has been one of Portugal’s star performers at the European Championships and will is the joint top scorer with two goals – alongside Cristiano Ronaldo.


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Optometry is the independent primary healthcare profession that specializes in diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the eye and visual system. Doctors of Optometry (O.D.) are the primary care doctors of the eye who perform comprehensive examinations on people of all ages to preserve ocular health by prescribing contact lenses and glasses, treating diseases such as glaucoma, performing specific surgical procedures and providing pre- and post-operative care for eye surgery patients. Additionally, the curriculum for the Doctor of Optometry consists of courses such as human anatomy, physiology and pharmacology that enable optometrists to often detect critical health issues (diabetes, hypertension, etc.) and refer patients for immediate treatment.
One of the best ways to determine if optometry is the right career path for you is to shadow Doctors of Optometry in different settings. You’ll find optometrists in private practice, group practice and in community hospital settings. These locations provide the best understanding of what it means to be an optometrist. When you obtain your Doctor of Optometry degree, the opportunity for practice is not just limited to those locations. Optometrists can utilize their education for research, academics, consulting, in the military, in large corporations and as healthcare administrators. The opportunities are endless.
The Better Access to Quality Eye Care Act was signed into law by Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear in Feb. 2011. It allows optometrists to perform a range of new procedures, including Yag capsulotomy — post cataract surgery — and argon laser trabeculoplasty and selective laser trabeculoplasty — both forms of glaucoma surgery. With this law, Kentucky became the third state in the nation to expand the law giving optometrists the ability to employ a wider range of treatment options for patients throughout the state. Two-thirds of Kentucky’s 120 counties do not have an ophthalmology practice, while optometrists have practices in 106 counties, including 77 percent of counties designated as “medically underserved.” With more than three million Kentuckians currently being served by doctors of optometry, these additional services make primary eye care more accessible to rural populations.

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The Autobonder® 2512 is a control unit for applying a wide variety of sealants or adhesives to components along a circular path, using any number of Sureshot® valves depending on the material being dispensed. The machine allows control through an included HMI PLC and can be triggered through manual control with a footswitch and/or PLC start button. The two spindles, located in the top surface of the machine, are designed to rotate speaker components and apply a bead of adhesive along a desired edge.
The Autobonder® A Series Digital is a high precision controller capable of handling a wide range of fluids, adhesives and sealants. The Autobonder® A100-D and A030-D are included in the A Series Digital. The AB 100-D features a (0-100psi) pressure regulator and the AB A030-D features a (0-30psi) pressure regulator. This controller has easy teach and learn functions and can deliver controlled beads, accurate dots to large volume fillings at a touch of a button. This dispensing controller ensures accurate dispense cycles and supports both syringe dispensing and valve dispensing with a reservoir.
The Autosealer® 2600 thread paste dispensing system is a touch-activated, pneumatic applicator for dispensing high-viscosity Hernon® products onto threaded pipe fittings and nipples. A quick-turn turret offers cavities for 1/16”, 1/8”, 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2”, 3/4” and 1” male pipe threads. Once manually actuated, the piston pump expresses a metered amount of material. When the fitting is removed, the pump resets, ready for another cycle. The Autosealer® 2600 can be fed directly from a 50 ml tube, a 250 ml tube or an 850 ml cartridge.
The Autosealer® 2650 is a control unit for applying sealant to pipe thread nipples, using either the Sureshot® 2200 or 4000 dispensing valves. The Autosealer® 2650 can be triggered manually with a footswitch and/or PLC/HMI color touchscreen button.
Designed to apply materials to recessed openings, the RotoCoater® evenly coats the inner surface of bores and other interior spaces. The unit can apply a controlled bead as well. The RotoCoater® 750 uses a bigger and more powerful air motor than the 500 to spin a larger dispersion cup which is inserted into a recessed area. The attached Sureshot® valve then delivers a metered amount of material to the cup that evenly coats the inner surface of the bore. The dispersion cup prevents overspray and applies a uniform layer of material. The RotoCoater® can be used with a wide-range of adhesives, sealants, oil or just about any liquid material. Each RotoCoater® 750 is customized for each application. Complete systems can be designed that apply materials to multiple bores in one cycle simultaneously.


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ONO Weekly Update: June 16–22
Since the closed beta version was launched for two months, the ONO dApp
Adventurer Edition has been iterated seven times and more details
have been added. The ONO development team will never sleep and work
tirelessly to bring the best experience for everyone. There are now 300,000 registered users of the ONO dApp.
ONO, the free, equal, and decentralized blockchain value network ecosystem aims to create an ONO ecosystem that is prosperous and common with ONO’s mainnet.
Details of this week’s weekly report are as follows:
1. Product and R&D Progress
1.1 This week’s product and R&D progress
This week, the ONO 1.8 version has been officially launched. The new version concentrates on optimizing the client experience and repairing multiple bugs. Android users now have the ability to save drafts after editing articles, as well as add friends and subscription switches. At the same time, it optimizes some of the UI and interactive experience.
ONO’s mainnet construction work is underway. Under the leadership of Matias Romeo, the development work is underway.
1.2 ONO is expected to launch in V2.0 on July 14
Support the use of International mobile phone and email registration.
Diversified login methods, support for account (phone number or email) + password” login.
Open International real-name authentication, International users can use driver’s license or passport for real-name authentication if they choose to do so.
Client support language switching, support for English, Korean display, development;
To improve the account system, users can add mailboxes, mobile phone numbers, and passwords on the settings page. At the same time, the support password can be modified and retrieved, and the account security is further guaranteed. The UI solution has been confirmed.
To restructure and develop IM technology solutions to enhance the experience.
Anti-SPAM optimization, to solve the problem of preventing the same person from sorting of operations related to content behavior, the completion of research and development;
Adding friends as a whole for optimization, support for rejection, adding comments, and other functions, the program has been confirmed.
1.3 BUGs fixed on the new version on June 21
The age of the user was incorrectly displayed when adding friends to Android — Fixed
Android long text picture duplicate BUG — Fixed
Bug of iOS nickname verification — Fixed
IOS can like to manipulate on its own articles or stories
Bug in iOS long text editing error — Fixed
The incomplete display of IOS personal homepage username Fixed
Repairing multiple page texts shows that the BUG is not
1.4 Next Product Plan
Optimized upgrade of UI experience in the existing version
Fix online version BUG, product function optimization
ONO Home Experience Optimization Upgrade
Landing page supports new user registration
Attract more premium content creators and increase content special editions
Add task modules to complete tasks and get high rewards
The novice guide is about to go online and the white user
2 Market progress
2.1 Basic Operation
As of June 22nd, ONO DAPP Adventurer Edition has registered more than 300,000 keynote partners. The ONO development team will never sleep and work hard to bring the best experience for everyone.
ONO dApp International will be launched in mid-July. At present, there are more than 20,000 International users who have subscribed for the beta version.
The ONO Telegram English telegram group has doubled its fans this week.
2.2 Market dynamics
ONO has now opened the cornerstone applications for institutions and for those who have made early contributions to the ONO ecosystem. Within the scope of legal compliance, including but not limited to ONO DAC members, ONO Global Super Partners and ONO Founding Team. The cornerstone hard top is 10,000 ETHs, and over 30,000 have been raised so far, oversold 300%.
The ONO DAPP Android package has been launched on BeeStore, the world’s first blockchain app store. Users can directly access the app store and download and install through the beta code.
2.3 Market Activities
On June 22nd, Bashir, head of ONO’s International market, was invited to participate in the Silver Lake Salon of the Shenzhen Bay Blockchain. He discussed the blockchain with the paper-based technology Xu Songtao, the founder of Fog Chain, Wang Ming, and Tokenmind AI founder Bao Yu.
Let the evolution of information Internet to value Internet.
TechCrunch, the world’s largest technology media, will hold a conference in Hangzhou on July 3. Ke Xu is invited where she will share the value-based network ecology of ONO decentralization.
On the International side, the Kazakhstan government will hold a “Global All Around” conference on July 2nd, inviting ONO to participate in part of the blockchain main forum to share.
Become one of the early adopters in ONO by reserving your invitation code today: https://www.ono.chat/en/invite/index.html
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These books bring viral reading about viruses.
Prescience is a precious element for fiction. This is particularly evident now when more content is being consumed than ever. This is the unusual case for Scottish fictionist Peter May. In 2005, May wrote a new book “set in a London, which was at the epicenter of a global pandemic. It was a city in total lockdown. A virus was claiming thousands of lives. The scenario I described wasn’t drawn from my imagination. It was based on detailed pandemic planning done by both the British and the Americans in the early 2000s.”
Publishers rejected the book then. “No one would publish it,” May wrote, said the publishers called it “unrealistic” and that “a lockdown could never happen in modern-day London.”
Fast forward 15 years and amid the COVID-19 crisis, a Twitter user asked May if he could write a book about the situation and May realized he already had. That book, “Lockdown: The Crime Thriller That Predicted a World in Quarantine” was released on digital last April 1 and will be released in print and audiobook on April 30. The book is not about the lockdown itself, but is actually a murder-mystery set in that world, where detective inspector Jack McNeill is racing to solve the murder of a child; he is racing because he has been infected by the same virus that has killed most of the world.
‘The Plague’ in Korea
Despite being fearful of them—or perhaps because of that—readers are fascinated by books about infectious diseases. In Korea, Albert Camus’ 1947 classic “The Plague” reinfected the bestseller list, selling thousands of copies after the COVID-19 news spread. Camus’ titular illness was believed to be based on the 19th century cholera outbreak in Oran, Algeria. People have been writing about epidemics as far back as 430 B.C. when Thucydides wrote about a plague in Athens.
More recently, writers have been turning to the idea of emerging viruses (new viruses, often mutating from animal viruses and yes, COVID-19 is an emerging virus from the novel coronavirus family) to scare readers, particularly in the realm of science fiction and horror.
Perhaps the most famous example of a book where the virus is actually the enemy is the late Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel “The Andromeda Strain,” where scientists in an isolated top-secret base have to fight a virus that actually mutates to defeat its foes. This virus is of extraterrestrial origin, having been recovered from a satellite that had fallen to Earth. Like many of the books that followed it, “The Andromeda Strain” featured a town of people dead from infection, an Army that wants to stop the virus by detonating a bomb and scientist protagonists who want to stop it by finding out more about it. “The Andromeda Strain” was made into a feature film in 1971 and a TV miniseries in 2008.
The most terrifying modern book about a virus that doesn’t involve vampires (Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend”) or zombies (Max Brooks’ “World War Z”) is undoubtedly Stephen King’s 1978 masterpiece “The Stand.” A weaponized influenza strain called the “superflu” developed in an American lab escapes (sounds familiar?), killing 99.4 percent of the world population. This slightly supernatural but thoroughly frightening book ends in a literal rain of fire and involves the temptation of everyday people.
If it’s fear and fascination readers want, they can get much more of it in reading nonfiction writing about viruses—because this stuff really happened. Nobody has concentrated more or written more accessibly about infectious diseases than science writer Richard Preston, whose breakthrough, bestselling 1994 book about the Ebola virus, “The Hot Zone,” was reimagined as a six-episode miniseries by National Geographic starring Julianna Marguiles. The Philippines briefly appears in this book because the Macaque monkeys that were found to have the Reston Ebola strain virus in Reston, Virginia, in 1989 originally came from Philippine jungles and the Reston Ebola strain was actually found in monkeys in a Philippine facility as recent as 2015, according to the Department of Health.
Preston’s newest book, 2020’s “Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Viruses to Come,” deftly chronicles the unexpected return of Ebola in 2014 as the mutant strain A82V Makona variant and the efforts to contain it. In a haunting echo of the current world situation, Preston (who is the only nondoctor to receive an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) presents a heartbreaking portrait of the front-liners who sacrificed their lives: “The virus exploits the best parts of human nature as a means of travel from one person to the next. In this sense the virus is a true monster.” He talks about the importance of isolation, self-quarantine (here referred to as “reverse quarantine”) and, of course, a lot of blood testing.
In a chilling chapter, Preston warns about the viruses still to come and how we remain unprepared for them. “A question has to be asked: If a [biohazard] level 4 emerging virus spread to a million people in North America,” he said. “Would the Americans, or in any continent, would hospitals be able to handle the patients and give them care? Would epidemiologists be able to trace and break the chains of transmission if a million people were infected?”
May predicted the “Lockdown” but he will presage a wave of lockdown literature that should be coming.
“When I originally wrote ‘Lockdown’ no one could identify with it. Now everyone can. It is our common experience,” May wrote last month. “And isn’t that what writers are meant to do—describe and explore the human condition, the world we experience as a human race?” INQ
All titles available digitally from Amazon.com.

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Thane: Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh on Friday morning appeared before the Thane Nagar police in connection with the investigation into an extortion case registered against him there, sources said.
Thane police commissioner has set up an SIT to investigate the case against Singh. A DCP level officer is investigating the case.
In the last week of July 2021, the Thane Nagar police had registered an extortion case against ex-Mumbai top cop Param Bir Singh, encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, gangster Ravi Pujari and 25 others.
On Thursday Singh appeared before the Crime Branch in Mumbai in connection with an extortion case registered against him.
A senior police official from Thane commissionerate confirmed Singh's arrival for questioning at 7:45 am. Sources claim just like the Thursday visit to the Mumbai crime branch. Singh directly reached Thane on Friday in Thane nagar police station.
The Thane court had earlier issued a non-bailable warrant against Singh. The court issued an order on October 26, 2021, by R J Tambe, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thane.
The warrant states that Param Bir Singh, resident of house number 133, Sector 27, Chandigarh, stands charged with the offence under sections 384, 386, 387, 389, 392, 324, 323, 506, 506 (2), 166, 109, 120b of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Arms Act.
The warrant further directed that the said accused be arrested and produced before the court.


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The MYH9 Gene | MYH9 Gene Variations | MYH9 Gene and Kidney Disease
The MYH9 Gene is a gene located on chromosome 22 that codes for a protein called myosin (specifically, non-muscle related myosin).. Myosin is a protein important in cell movement, cell structure and cell shape. Recent genetic studies have suggested that variations of the MYH9 Gene, more common in patients of African descent, may be associated with an increased risk of several types of end stage kidney disease including:
Focal segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
Non-Diabetic ESRD (end stage renal disease)
Hypertension related kidney disease
MYH9 Gene is also associated with sensori-neural deafness,
which can be seen in Alport Syndrome (reference -- http://www.genecards.org)
Hemodialysis.com will present articles discussing developements in MYH9 Gene research below.

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Clinton Hails NATO Expansion
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 1997 President Clinton hailed NATO plans to invite new members into the security alliance as the right thing to do during a White House photo opportunity with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana May 19.
Solana visited Washington after concluding negotiations in Moscow for an agreement setting up a practical partnership between the security alliance and Russia. The Founding Act is slated to be signed in Paris May 27. NATO is set to announce new member candidates at a NATO summit in Madrid in June.
Russian officials remain opposed to NATO expansion, but Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Clinton agreed during a meeting earlier this year that Russia's opposition should not stand in the way of furthering U.S.-NATO-Russia relations.
The president praised Solana for his leadership in negotiating the NATO-Russia partnership. "It is consistent with what we believe NATO should be doing; it is consistent with our plans to expand NATO," Clinton said.
"We have had a long Cold War and two world wars in the 20th century, and a 19th century full of heartache and bloodshed because people were arguing over territory in Europe," he said. "We now have a chance to create a European continent where nation states, for the first time, say they're going to respect each other's borders and work together on common security problems, as we are all doing together in Bosnia."
Finding a framework to do that and which keeps the United States and Canada tied to the security, freedom and territorial integrity of Europe is an extraordinary achievement, Clinton said. "It gives us a chance to write a whole new chapter in the 21st century different from the one we have just written. I believe history will prove us right, and I'm prepared to take the decisions and live with the consequences."


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Custom Horse Portrait Painting – Exciting Stop Motion Video of Horse Jumper
This exciting custom horse painting caught in action through stop motion exhibits the expressive brushwork of Equine Artist, Jennifer Brandon, as “Sublime” emerges from the stark white canvas into the triumphant, finished oil painting! Enjoy this fun movie of a girl and her horse as they take their place on canvas.
Custom Pet Portrait Painting – Expressing a Boxer’s Personality
This fun custom pet portrait painting expressed through stop motion film takes you step by step from the stark white canvas to the final oil painting. Love, energy, and loyal dedication expressed through the brush work of artist, Jennifer Brandon, tell of this boxer’s unique quirks personality.
Oil Painting by Custom Pet Portrait & Equine Artist
Equine Painting “Pizazz” – Horse & Rider Emerge From Canvas
Enjoy this custom horse portrait oil painting progression through stop motion film. Watch the horse and rider emerge from the canvas through these step by step progress shots of equine painting “Pizazz!”


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On the eve of George Osborne’s sixth budget as Chancellor, a new poll listed the slogans voters dislike the most. ‘Long term economic plan’ was number 4 on the list. With little room for manoeuvre, yesterday’s Budget continued the ‘long term economic plan’ mantra even if actual policy has diverted somewhat from the original objectives set out in 2010.
Overall, there were few major changes which will directly impact Northern Ireland businesses.
The Chancellor sporting a grey tie was a further clue that this Budget was unlikely to provide any blockbuster announcements. Overall, there were few major changes which will directly impact Northern Ireland businesses – the main Northern Ireland reference related to the devolution of Corporation Tax which can now be switched on from April 2017 subject to the conditions of the Stormont House agreement being met.
The other points of direct relevance in the Budget were:
Otherwise, the biggest local impacts will be felt through the changes to the taxation of individuals and other duties. The personal income tax threshold is due to rise to £11,000 by 2017/18, whilst a new Help to Buy ISA will provide a substantial tax break to first time buyers, further boosting demand in the housing market with potential knock-on benefits for the Northern Ireland construction sector. The Chancellor also announced that the application of the fuel duty escalator has been put on hold again, providing a welcome benefit to Northern Ireland businesses with substantial transport costs.
As well as the tax and expenditure changes announced in the budget, the updated outlook for the UK economy and the public finances is also of importance to Northern Ireland businesses. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility now expects UK growth to be 2.5% in 2015 (a marginal uplift on the previous forecast), partly driven by the positive impacts of falling oil prices feeding through to lower inflation which is boosting consumer spending and investment. Stronger growth in the rest of the UK is a fillip to local businesses, given the UK is the largest external sales market for Northern Ireland firms.
The rise in sterling is creating significant pressures for Northern Ireland firms in competing in export markets.
The positive effects of lower inflation and higher growth have been outweighed to some degree for local businesses by the strengthening of the pound, particularly against the euro. The rise in sterling is creating significant pressures for Northern Ireland firms in competing in export markets. Other data released this week for instance showed that the output of the Food, Drink and Tobacco sector in Northern Ireland is down 8.1% year on year. The challenge to increase sales in existing external markets as well as develop new markets is as significant as ever for businesses here.
On the public finances, ‘austerity’ has dominated the political debate since 2010. When George Osborne made his first Budget speech, he aimed to eliminate the structural budget deficit by 2016. Five years on, the annual budget deficit remains close to £100bn and substantial further savings are projected well into the next Parliament. Whilst Northern Ireland will receive an extra £11m from Westminster in 2015/16 via the Barnett Formula, this is a very modest sum and the bigger picture is that public expenditure here is facing a significant squeeze in the medium term.
In summary, whilst the Budget included a number of positive items for business here, the economic and fiscal outlook reinforced the scale of the challenge to secure a more prosperous Northern Ireland. With a General Election now less than 50 days away, a further budget before the summer will almost certainly be required to be digested irrespective of the outcome.

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Find here a collection with the best images of female warriors, in different fighting positions that I hope to inspire those interested in such fantasy art.
Illustration of warriors in digital art is a common theme approached by artists in their works. Here are used as models, in particular, female characters from animated films, video games, conceptual art, medieval history, or other inspirational resources.
In this article, I made an album with both archers and warrior swordsmen. In general, there is an image with a fighting or resting figure in which the weapon and costume used must be highlighted, not forgetting a sexy outfit of the embodied female character. Besides all this, the light and the used color have great importance in the success of a work. It all depends on the artist’s skill and fantasy applied to the chosen art subject.
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Few injuries are more debilitating than a herniated disc, a common injury seen in many auto accident and construction accident cases. The pain can be unbearable, leaving accident victims and wage earners unable to go to work or complete previously simple tasks on a day-to-day basis. If you or a loved one have suffered a herniated disc injury, it is crucial to have an experienced personal injury lawyer on your side.
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A herniated disc is a disc that slips out of place or bulges, known as a "bulging disc." It can result in debilitating pain in areas such as the back, neck, arm and/or leg. There are treatments and rehabilitation options available for injury victims, so it is important to have your injury properly diagnosed as soon as possible so you can begin treatment.
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Q: Shelter Posting Question...
I am wondering if we accumulate points when the shelter posts something? Like adoptable horses or posts in the service journal?
Got a question about your pet? Get the answers you need from Zootoo's community of pet experts and owners.

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4 p.m. CST, Friday, Feb. 21, 2003
Expedition Six Crew
International Space Station Status Report #03-8
The Expedition 6 crew marked its 90th day in orbit today. Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit have been in orbit since their launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 23.
The crew began the week by taking samples of the station’s water supply to ensure its continued purity. Budarin also started a three-day process to disinfect equipment in the Russian water supply system using materials brought to the station aboard the latest Progress resupply craft. Both activities are part of routine maintenance procedures aboard the station.
During the week, the crew completed a variety of medical tests to ensure their continued good health and to collect data on how the human body adapts to microgravity. These included a Russian cardiovascular experiment and the testing of urine and blood samples. Bowersox and Pettit also completed a computer-based refresher training related to their duties as crew medical officers. Station maintenance during the week included the removal and replacement by Pettit of a remote power control module in the Destiny laboratory, which contained a bad power switch that was responsible for powering the video recorder in one of the robotics workstations. The changeout was successful and the video recorder is now working. Bowersox performed monthly maintenance on the cycle ergometer, which the crew uses to maintain their aerobic fitness – the station’s treadmill received its periodic maintenance last weekend. On Thursday, Bowersox and Pettit conducted an inventory of all the equipment in the Quest airlock to ensure it matched the data in the station’s Inventory Management System.
The loading of new software on the station’s command and control computers was completed today, as was the loading of the new software onto the guidance, navigation and control computers.
On Monday, Bowersox and Pettit plan to don U.S. spacesuits without the help of Budarin to practice techniques that could be used if only two crewmembers are present aboard the ISS.
Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the Internet at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/
The next ISS status report will be issued on Friday, Feb. 28, or sooner, if events warrant.
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Marcel Marceau, the world’s best known mime passed away this weekend at the age of 84. Full story at Playbill.
Although he spent his life acting some of the most memorable characters in silence, he did speak once on film in Mel Brooks’ 1976 classic, Silent Movie. (who else but Mel could accomplish this feat?…). See below for film clip.
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Newquay RNLI Man In Honeymoon Rescue
6:29pm 16th January 2014
A volunteer crew member from Newquay lifeboat station has used his RNLI casualty care training to save a semi-conscious surfer with a serious eye injury whilst on honeymoon in Sri Lanka.
RNLI volunteer and keen surfer Duncan Wallace, 42, is a partner in Newquay Water Sports Centre which operates from the harbour and runs The Hillcrest surf lodge in the town. He has been on the crew at Newquay RNLI lifeboat station for seven years and like all the station’s volunteers, is used to responding to his pager 24 hours a day to help save lives at sea.
Last month however, he was able to use his RNLI training to save a seriously injured surfer more than 5,000 miles from home, whilst on honeymoon at the south western tip of Sri Lanka with his wife Liz, nine weeks after their autumn wedding in Newquay. Duncan had already been for an early-morning surf three days before the end of their fortnight’s honeymoon in the country and had returned to the beach hut for breakfast with his wife when he heard a man shouting for help from the water.
Duncan said: ‘Looking from the shore, the man did not appear to be in too much trouble, but when I reached him in the white water amongst the reefs I saw that he had in fact suffered serious injuries after being struck by his surfboard. His left eye was hanging down on his cheek, out of its socket, and he was losing blood from a head wound’. The nose of the surfboard had struck the man’s head and left strands of fibreglass embedded in the wound.
The Israeli surfer who was in his early 20’s and only spoke a few words of English was lapsing in and out of consciousness as Duncan towed him into shallower water and hauled him up onto the beach, where he sought help from his wife Liz who brought Duncan’s first aid kit from their hut. Speaking back home in Newquay, Duncan said: ‘At the start of our honeymoon my wife had asked why I had taken up space in our luggage with a first aid kit, but I have always carried one on surf trips’
Further help arrived from onlookers as Duncan applied dressings and bandaging to the man’s wounds to prevent further blood loss and protect his displaced eye. A plank of wood was used as an impromptu stretcher and the man was taken to the local hospital, 25 miles away, on the back of a tuk-tuk (motorised rickshaw) by a young Australian doctor who was on a training placement in the area. The man spent five days in hospital and doctors were able to save his vision.
Like all of the charity’s 4,600 volunteer crew members nationwide, Duncan devotes a lot of his own time to attend RNLI first aid training and refreshers, including a course at the lifeboat station last year which was carried out two nights per week over six weeks. Duncan said: ‘The RNLI’s casualty care training is first class and definitely made a difference on this occasion. And my wife agreed it had been a good job I’d brought my first aid kit with us on honeymoon!’
6:29pm 16th January 2014
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upheimand its Annihilation
Book Pages 111 - 115
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Marco Bergmann, born in Laupheim on August 10, 1878, died on July 7, 1952 in Ulm, OO Elsa Jenny Bergmann née Oppenheim, born on March 3, 1886, deceased on February 2, 1956, in Frankfurt/Main.
– Eleonore “Lore” Bergmann, born in Laupheim on May 13, 1907.
– Paul Bergmann, born in Laupheim on June 6, 1910, deceased in December, 1982.
– Ruth Friga Bergmann, born in Munich on September 23, 1917, deceased on February 31, 2003.
The family emigrated to England between 1933 and 1937, later to either the USA or Canada.
“Villa Bergmann” is the original and actually the correct term for this striking building in the Ulmer Strasse, today called the “Gregorianum” or simply known as the School of Music. Marco, Anton Bergmann’s eldest son, had this prestigious building constructed, in the centre of an extensive park, in 1912 as a home for his family. This was a clear sign of prosperity before the First World War. His younger brothers and cousins didn’t build or live in such lavish homes, which certainly points out that, in the years preceding the First World War, the zenith had been reached in the history of the Bergmann business.
During Marco’s schooldays the business was still in its infancy. There was not enough money to provide for a lengthy education for the children and so, after four years at grammar school he already began his professional training. For him that meant the same as for all members of the Bergmann family: travelling, learning foreign languages and discovering the world. Marco’s years of training took him to France, to Geneva and also to the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
In 1904, together with his cousin Theodor, he joined the company’s management and in 1907 both were promoted to shareholders with equal rights. A precondition for this was his wedding a year before. The marriage ceremony took place in Franfurt/Main, as his wife Elsa Oppenheim originated from a long-standing Jewish upper class family in Frankfurt.
A detail from a group photograph from around 1900:
Marco (to the right) drinking a toast with Ludwig Stern,
in front sits his cousin Theodor Bergmann
As the first member of the family, and for a long time the only one, Marco possessed a driving licence and when, in 1908, he purchased a dark blue Opel, this was one of the first cars in Laupheim. The maiden journey from Ulm to Laupheim however didn’t run as smoothly as expected. The petrol tank hadn’t been filled with the correct mixture and in Dellmensingen the new car packed up. No-one knew what to do. Fortunately a horse-drawn artillery unit was passing by and Marco happened to know their officer. He lent him two horses which were harnessed to the front of the car and so arrived home pulled by 2hp.
John Bergmann characterizes Marco as a generous, musically gifted, artistic and a culturally versatile personality. Marco played the violin and in the 1920s attempted successfully to assemble an orchestra in Laupheim, which then once gave a concert with the local brass band. In addition he tried to engage non-local orchestras and theatrical groups for performances in Laupheim: that his house now accommodates the municipal music school is probably just as he would have wished.
The eldest daughter Eleonore, called Lore, was born in 1907. After leaving school she studied medicine. Paul, born in 1910, joined his parents’ company and, as the only member of the next generation, remained permanently loyal to the hair business. The youngest daughter, Ruth Friga, born in 1917, was still a schoolchild in 1933 and therefore was not able to begin any training in Germany.
In the First World War Marco was also conscripted for military service, first in the infantry, and afterwards, thanks to his driving licence, served as a driver in a military unit with motor vehicles. He survived the war unwounded.
After the war, with the founding of the Weimar Republic, women, too, in Germany were granted active and passive electoral rights, and Elsa Bergmann stood for the Laupheim town council as a candidate on the Women’s List which she herself had helped to initiate. She achieved the best result on her list with 809 votes, however failed by a narrow margin to win a seat as the first woman in the town parliament. In this first municipal election after the war it was Max Bergmann who won the handsome number of 2,867 votes.
Ex libris for Else Bergmann from
A small but convincing experience in connection with the Weimar period is worth mentioning here. In 1929 the Laupheim Football Club, FV Olympia, celebrated an anniversary: 25 years of football in the town were celebrated for three days. As is customary on such events, awards were granted generously, in this case silver club pins. Among those honoured were Marco and Max Bergmann, also executive committee members Mut Steiner and Sam Steiner. They were in the same club, received the same awards and possibly got on quite well with people like Abdon Lemmle, the first leader of the NS local branch, or Josef Spleis, Otto Miller, Willy Troescher or Hugo Raff, who later also held NS functional posts, such as Block- or Cell Warden. All were honoured together and all probably gathered together for a photograph. Just three years later this common ground was radically destroyed.
Also Elsa Bergmann was involved in a variety of cultural activities in the community, although in her younger years she was distinctly antireligious. For many years she was at the head of the Israelite Women’s Association which considered one of its main duties “to organize impressive religious festivals for the schoolchildren”. Her successor in this office was Lina Kaufmann. From 1928 to 1934 Elsa Bergmann was also at the head of the Jewish Women’s Association in Württemberg. Since the foundation of “the National Representative Agency of German Jews” she was one of three women in this organization. In 1934 this Agency had to be established as umbrella organization for German Jews and contact with the Nazi government. Elsa Bergmann attended the first assembly of this organization on February 11, 1934 in Berlin, among such eminent persons as Rabbi Leo Baeck, Martin Buber and other Jewish intellectuals, altogether 52 people. Up to her emigration she worked in this organization.
Marco Bergmann (to the right),
Standing in front, town councillor Adolf Scheffold
The eldest daughter Lore was probably the first woman in Laupheim to leave Germany in 1933 for political reasons. She had passed her intermediate exams for medical students at the University of Freiburg and finished her medical studies in 1933 in Munich qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine. And now she went to London to be able to practise her profession there.
In 1933 her younger sister Ruth was still doing her secondary school leaving certificate at the secondary school in Laupheim. On the photograph of her class she is sitting at the very right, appearing more mature and older than her schoolfriends. The names of her fellow pupils from the left, standing: Anton Schick, Eugen Sonntag, Ludwig Dobler, Bruno Denser, Hermann Zepf, Schneider (Schwendi), Fritz Staub, Karl Baum. Sitting: Irene Traub, Liesl Hofheimer, Karl Mueller, Irene Adler, Ruth Bergmann.
In 1936 Ruth followed her elder sister to London. Later Lore went to Canada, Ruth to New York.
The political overview and the experiences which Elsa had been able to collect in the conversations and negotiations at the Agency with Nazi representatives certainly played a significant part in the family’s decision to flee from Germany instead of planning a normal emigration. They left almost all their belongings behind, as Marco, Elsa and Paul Bergmann managed to reach London, alternatively the USA via Havana, without entry documents, and with only a few suitcases and with a valuable Stradivari violin in the luggage. The possessions left behind were later confiscated by the German authorities.
Marco, who already in Laupheim had partly gone his own way in business, now founded his own hair processing business, into which also his son Paul entered, after returning from the war as a US soldier. This business was running well and there, after their arrival in New York, his cousins and former partners Max and Edwin temporally found work and support. As none of the children entered the hair business it was practically predetermined how the restitution proceedings in Laupheim would continue. Marco Bergmann’s family with the shareholders Marco, Elsa, Paul and Eleonore took over sole management, the heirs of the former shareholders were given a pay-off in 1950. In 1954 a further partner, Heinz Freund, joined them.
The whole complicated and burdensome restitution negotiations after the war lay mainly in the hands of the over seventy-year-old Marco Bergmann, as well as the resumption of production and the conduct of business. Therefore, already after the end of the war, he was much more often in Laupheim than in New York, where his son Paul gradually took over the management. However, up to 1953, the Laupheim company bore the name “Württemberg Hair Factory”. Marco never lived to see it receive the name “Bergmann” once more:
The 73 year-old Marco Bergmann was involved in a tragic traffic accident during the journey from Ulm to Laupheim, near Dellmensingen, on June 22, 1952 and was taken to hospital with severe injuries. Here he died a day later. His cousin Max, who put the obituary, pictured below, in the “Schwäbische Zeitung”, survived him by six weeks.
On June 23, 1952, as a result of tragic accident, my cousin and former partner for decades
HERR MARCO BERGMANN
was suddenly called away from a busy life. As the only surviving partner of the former business J. Bergmann & Co, I mourn the death of a dear deceased, who through his great commercial abilities and never tiring pleasure in work contributed generously to the advancement of the business. His powerful personality allowed the 70 year-old to take on the business once more and to continue energetically. I shall always honour his memory.
Kew Gardens, New York 118 – 14 83rd Ave.
Marco’s son Paul died at the age of 72 in December 1982 in New York. Since then his sons Peter and Ronald are joint owners of the New York as well as the Laupheim company.
John Bergmann, The Bergmanns from Laupheim, 1983, museum inventory, unnumbered.
Archives Theo Miller
John Bergmann estate in the Leo-Baeck Institute, New York, on micro film in the town archives of Laupheim
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The Kookist’s version of this classic recipe retains the original feel and traditional flavor profile, but reduces the fat, increases the protein, and is anchovy-free. There is a lovely version in Carol Field’s book “In Nonna’s Kitchen” which was later adapted by Molly O’Neill for The New York Times. It’s fast family friendly fare for the tuna loving set.
- ½ cup (82 grams) onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and slightly crushed but still intact
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1½ cups (252 grams) fresh tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped (or 1½ cups canned tomatoes, pressed through a food mill or sieve to remove seeds)
- 2 tablespoons pine nuts
- 2 tablespoons currants
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 pound thin pappardelle or tagliatelle
- 1 tablespoon coarse sea salt
- 2 cans (283 grams) albacore tuna packed in olive oil, drained and oil reserved
- ¼ cup capers
- 3 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, finely minced
- 1½ teaspoons toasted bread crumbs
- In a heavy, nonreactive skillet set over medium heat, sauté the onion and garlic in the olive oil until lightly golden, about 5 minutes. Remove the garlic. Stir in the tomatoes, pine nuts, currants, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, bring 4 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot. Add the pappardelle and sea salt and cook until al dente. Drain, reserving 1 cup cooking water.
- Flake the tuna with a fork. Add to the tomato sauce and mix well. If sauce is too thick, thin with a little of the reserved cooking water. Toss the pasta with 3/4 the sauce. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of the reserved tuna oil to the remaining sauce and spoon over the top. Sprinkle with the capers, parsley, and toasted bread crumbs. Serve immediately.
- For a delicious, glute-free option that is lower in carbs and calories, try serving this dish over haricots verts instead of pasta.

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) The Mono Tapes Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1 BWV 846-869
Prelude and Fugue in D major (No. 5) [7:27]
Prelude and Fugue in B major (No. 23) [4:22]
Prelude and Fugue in in A flat major (No.17) [5:55]
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903 [9:33] Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 2 BWV 870-893
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (No. 10) [4:30]
Prelude and Fugue in A minor (No. 20) [7:03]
Prelude and Fugue in B minor (No. 24) [4:12]
English Suite No.2 in A minor BWV 807 [20:04]
Friedrich Gulda (clavichord)
rec. 1978/79, various locations around Austria BERLIN CLASSICS 0301063BC [60:17]
The Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) was never one to be reined in by convention. As a performing musician he wore many hats, and I'm not just referring to the stash of Bukharian headgear he wore for his concerts. He was a classical pianist, composer, jazz player and even, at one time, recorded as a vocalist under the pseudonym "Albert Golowin". He played the piano, the baritone saxophone, percussion instruments and a bass wooden recorder. He could rightly be described as an eccentric, reportedly once performing a concert in the nude and, in 1999, faking his own death in what some regarded as a tasteless publicity stunt.
This latest release from Berlin Classics gives further credence to his desire to extend his musical horizons. As a notable Bach player, he was aware that, in addition to the organ, the clavichord was a great favourite of the composer, so considered it logical to perform his works on one. According to Bach’s first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, the clavichord let him ''express his most refined thoughts'' with its ''variety in the gradation of tone”. On the first half of the CD a Widmayer clavichord is used. Its particular character is intimate and refined. In contrast, the second half is played on a Neupert, advancing a bigger, more powerful sound. Gulda had a working knowledge of the two instruments over a period of five years. We can hear the individual personalities of each on this disc.
Gulda had been drawn to the instrument back in the 1970s via Paul and Limpe Fuchs, whose ensemble Anima-Sound had featured their own home-built instruments at his festival in Ossiach in 1971. By the end of the 70s he was giving public performances on the instrument. He experimented with amplification of the instrument in a concert setting, finally settling on a microphone placed directly over the strings.
I was fascinated reading about the restoration of these recordings. They date from 1978-1979 and were taped by the pianist to monitor both his playing at concerts and his morning's practice. When the tapes arrived on the desk of Christopher Stickel, the producer and audio restorer, they were in a poor state of health, with many stuck together. Stickel's painstaking work included an initial "baking" procedure to enable them to be played. Elimination of hum, crackles and jumps was dictated by the governing principle of as little intervention as possible. There's no doubting his tremendous success in restoring these valuable audio documents of a great artist to the public domain. He's given them a new lease of life.
I haven't listened to too much clavichord playing, and it's certainly an acquired taste. Without going into too much detail, a metal "tangent" attached to the key, strikes the string and makes it vibrate. The key stays in contact with the string enabling the finger to vary the tone, even adding vibrato. The sound produced is sweeter and less muscular than the harpsichord. Its upper range is dulcet, whilst the lower delivers a metallic buzz. This allows the performer an enormous range of nuance. What attracts me is the clarity and definition of the contrapuntal lines, a definite plus in Bach playing.
In the first half of the disc we are told that Gulda is playing a Widmayer, with the quality of recording markedly different to that of the second. The instrument sounds brighter and more sharply profiled. In the second half the sound is warmer; I prefer the richer and rounded tone of the Neupert. Gulda's Bach playing is rhythmically buoyant and exiting. The crisp incisiveness and delineation of polyphonic lines, similar attributes I find in his traversal of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, are compelling. I would take exception with the speeds of three works on the disc. The E minor Prelude of Book 2 (WTC) is rushed and sounds frenetic and garbled. The opening Prelude and the Bourrée of the Second English Suite are too much of a mad dash for my liking, and sound as if played on automatic pilot. On a plus note, the chromatic Fantasy and Fugue sounds truly improvised, with the pearl-like runs of the Fantasy sparking and effervescent.
This has been, without doubt, a labour of love for all concerned, and those admirers of Gulda's art, like myself, will find much to savour. My own feelings are that this release will be restricted mainly to the niche market, appealing especially to aficionados and Gulda completists.
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Florida Gators head coach Will Muschamp met with the media on Monday to discuss his team’s 19-14 loss to the No. 10/11 South Carolina Gamecocks and upcoming home game against the Georgia Southern Eagles on Saturday, Nov. 23. The game will kick off at 2:00 p.m. and air live only on pay-per-view.
RETURN IN QUESTION
It is not known whether redshirt junior quarterback Tyler Murphy (shoulder) will be available to play on Saturday against Georgia Southern, and it is not expected that a decision will be made until later in the week.
Muschamp said that Murphy “threw lightly” on Sunday and felt more comfortable than he had in a while. But he has not yet been cleared to practice in full and the team currently preparing for redshirt freshman Skyler Mornhinweg to be the starter.
Murphy called himself “day-to-day” and noted that he felt much better than last week. He estimated that he played at 60-70 percent against Missouri and was even healthier than that two weeks later when taking on Georgia. However, he reinjured the shoulder during the Vanderbilt game, which is why he was unable to play last Saturday.
“It’s getting better. After the game last week I really couldn’t move it, but now I’m able to move it and rotate and stuff like that. I got range of motion and stuff like that. It’s a lot better, getting better,” Murphy said.
Now estimating his health at 70-75 percent, Murphy hopes to get back on the field Saturday but cautioned that it will be a mutual decision between himself and the trainers.
“It’s all about if the ball’s coming out efficiently. If I can’t make the throws in practice, it’s not going to happen in the game,” he said. “Sitting out not practicing doesn’t help. It’s just kind of something we’re trying to figure out what’s best for the team and how we can be successful.”
Junior cornerback Marcus Roberson was suspended for the South Carolina game but would not have been cleared to play anyway due to an ankle injury he suffered against Vanderbilt. Muschamp said Roberson “ran well” on Sunday and will hopefully return to practice during the week. As long as he’s cleared medically, he can play on Saturday as his suspension as just a one-week punishment.
Additionally, Gators sophomore left tackle D.J. Humphries (MCL) remains doubtful despite moving around on Sunday. The team hopes to have an update mid-week. Freshman wide receiver Ahmad Fulwood, who took a hard hit late in the fourth quarter against the Gamecocks and looked to be shaken up, did not suffer a concussion but rather hurt his shoulder. He will be good to go this week.

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