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PostWed Nov 26, 2014 9:56 pm

That's not a very good argument. Most women I know never receive child support, dad's work off the books or just refuse to pay. Alimony only stands for women who were married for a long amount of time and only with well of husbands. So really the only women addressed by this are rich women. You realize that leaves the vast majority of women out of luck?

Further what about when a woman is a stay at home mom and her partner dies? What if they aren't married or he's son young that he doesn't have enough in social security paid in?

Tbh kf u don't appear to want to have a discussion about actually solving any of these problems that you bitch about because any time I suggest any sort of solution or compromise your just like fuck that. That's why I say u don't honestly give a shit because u don't. All u care about it sticking it to women or feminists not about making anything any better for anyone - men and women included.
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There are women I know who are raising their children ON THEIR OWN (because the father has abandoned their own child) who receive diddly squat in child support, as stated above they either DO work off the books, maneuver ways to make the appearance that they get FAR LESS income than they actually do or find other ways of getting out of paying pretty much ANYTHING or anything at all.

The ones who do pay child support around here pay an average of about $50.00 per month (for one child).. :shock: $50.00 a even the high amount is issued of $100.00 per all the while the men are living well themselves driving around in a very nice truck if not more than one vehicle while the now single mother struggles to take the bus or if they can manage it.. drive around in a crappy old sometimes unsafe vehicle they struggle to maintain etc.. while working their butts off at some crappy not very well paying job to take care of their child and themselves.

These are women who are working their butts off to try and make ends meet and raise their children without help because the men have walked away from their responsibilities as A DAD. There are also men who use their own children when or if they do have contact with them to manipulate them against their mothers who are often their primary caretakers, men who emotionally and mentally abuse their own child for their own devious ends, some women do this as well of course but some fathers most definitely are very capable of doing this and have no qualms about it.

There is like a pandemic of fathers who don't seem to give a shit about their own children Image.. their own offspring.. and they bitch about women even though it is the women who are very much struggling and working their tails off to keep a roof over their children's heads and some food in the fridge, women who go hungry themselves so they can feed their child more.

There are men I know also who are devoted to their children whether they are split up with the mother or not.. as it should be, it ought to be norm considering they are their own children, these also just happen to be the same men who are usually caring and understanding towards the mother of their children and do not speak unkindly about them to their children, they put their own feelings aside if there is some acrimony for the sake of their children.. you know.. like mature men... if the mother is struggling these men will help them without bitching about it and the mother if she is able to will do the same in return.

These men don't have to be ordered by a court to help the situations of their own children, there is no court necessary, nor is it wanted by either side, these men are good and decent men. It's a shame there aren't more of them. The children of the 'the other' men, the immature, mentally abusive ones have a hard road ahead, some of them turn out quite well in spite of everything and that is thanks to the hard work of their mothers.. but there is pain there due to the ill treatment, abuse, neglect or abandonment inflicted by their fathers.

I have known a few men who have ended up in gangs and when you understand who their fathers are you understand why they ended up in gangs.. it is not an excuse for men who end up as gangbangers but without fail their fathers have always been very flipping bad, astoundingly bad and criminally cruel, that is not always the case I'm sure but it is the case for every man I have ever known who has ended up in a gang and more often than not.. in prison. Then the 'father' responds with either he has no idea how his son ended up the way he did Image or they are proud that their son is such a bad ass :Clown: quite something to behold and others as well pay the price for it.

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The funny part is the jokes on women. Women nowadays are so bitter especially later in life that they feel that since their lives end up being so miserable even though they're financially secure that everyone else should be just as miserable.

Hmm, you're the one who seems bitter.

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You know you've been seeing way too much live music when you're watching a televised award show and you feel a semi-conscious urge to clap after every song, even the ones you don't like. But CMJ is finally over, so now it's back to regular service.

Two big stories behind this year's CMJs... um, CMAs. The first is that the reigning Entertainer of the Year, Keith Urban, won't be there to defend his title in person because he's in rehab. This means the show is going to have to look elsewhere for its dose of drippily sensitive man-love; fortunately, there are about one billion other male country stars happy to fill that chasm. Second, about half of the songs that are nominated for big awards are about Jesus or Heaven or things vaguely Biblical: Brooks & Dunn's "Believe," Carrie Underwood's "Jesus Take the Wheel," Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton's "When I Get Where I'm Going," Alan Jackson's gospel album, etc. All the Jesus-love is the closest the show gets to any actual political statement, which is pretty impressive for an awards show held for a largely right wing-identified musical genre on network TV the night before a huge midterm election. At the CMT Awards earlier this year, host Jeff Foxworthy made a joke about Bush's plummeting approval ratings and got booed. No partisan drama like that this time; I wonder if it's a boardroom decision or just an organic choice not to be offensive from the principle figures of a notoriously nonoffensive musical genre. It should be noted, though, that the Dixie Chicks are persona non grata tonight: no nominations and no invitation to perform even though they had one of the biggest albums of the year.

The big story for me, though, is that the Gretchen Wilson/Big & Rich wave of outward-looking hyper-crunch pop-country from two years ago has apparently burned out completely; this show is dominated by placid retro-traditionalism and cheap-seats power-ballads once again, which is a damn shame. I guess this can probably be traced back to all the upset wins Lee Ann Womack had last year with her old-school move, but that was a good album, and everyone in country scrambling to work with Allison Krauss to prove how down they are is another thing entirely.

Last year, they held this award show in Madison Square Garden, and I watched from the Garden's concrete-bunker press-room on a TV screen that got muted whenever one of the winners came out to pose for pictures and answer a few inane questions. This year, the show is back in Nashville and I'm watching it on TV at home, which means I actually end up seeing the entire show.

On to the running diary:

8:01: Hosts Brooks & Dunn open the show with what passes in country for an all-star jam, which means Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow are singing backup. I love how quickly country embraces any non-country star nice enough to acknowledge its existence: Kid Rock, Elton John, Crow. Vince Gill isn't playing guitar for once, and he looks really awkward and uncomfortable; he isn't sure what to do with his hands, so he just sort of taps his leg. The song is basically 70s California soft-pop, and it's pretty boring.

8:05: Opening monologue! Except there are two hosts, so I guess it's a duologue. Brooks & Dunn are actually really good hosts; they read cheesy jokes off the teleprompter with a natural fluidity, like they'd just thought up this crap themselves, and they don't look the slightest bit winded even after doing a song. Unfortunately, Ronnie Dunn is still doing that "Ah-ooh-hoo!" thing every time someone puts a mic in front of him; I wonder how long it'll take before he gets sick of that. He's also wearing one of those weird lace-up peasant shirts. The awards are on ABC for the first time this year, so someone made Eva Longoria show up and laugh at Kix and Ronnie's inevitable but mercifully brief Desperate Housewives joke. It's funny how she always ends up at this stuff and not, say, Patrick Dempsey or Sawyer from Lost. It's like ABC has no other shows.

8:09: Speaking of non-country stars, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora are out to soak up all their post-Sugarland Nashville love by presenting Single of the Year with LeAnn Rimes, who trips all over her lines. "Believe" beats "Jesus Take the Wheel," which is some bullshit.

8:16: Carrie Underwood, probably the only major star to emerge in the past year in any genre, does "Before He Cheats," her awesomely snappy new single. She's apparently been infected by this show's retro-disease, though, because this is a pretty toothless rendition; she sounds like Bonnie Raitt or something.

8:20: I love how the CMAs jump straight from one performance to the next. Imagine: a music awards show actually driven by music! Brad Paisley gives the night's third straight weirdly sedate performance, a sweet little power-ballad with a couple of totally ripping guitar solos.

8:25: This is the CMAs' 40th anniversary, so we get a lot of flashback clips sprinkled throughout the show, like this one of Johnny and June Carter Cash doing "Jackson" in 1977 and making out mid-song, which is awesome.

8:30: Sugarland performs while giant TV screens behind them project silhouette images of the band. They also do some choreographed pogoing, just like 311! And the nerdy mandolin guy is wearing a really weird scarf. Sugarland is hilarious. Their turbo-sass also makes for the first performance of the night with any real teeth.

8:35: Gretchen Wilson, the owner of my favorite voice in pop-country, sings "Come to Bed" with John Rich singing backup. It's another sleepy power-ballad, and it looks like the Nashville establishment has totally reabsorbed these guys; they don't look even remotely insurrectionist anymore. Good song, though.

8:37: A shot of Heart in the stands! Weird!

8:38: When the show was in New York last year, the organizers actually managed to coax out a couple of fairly prominent non-music celebrities. Now that they're back in Nashville, the best they can do is apparently some guy from All My Children. He presents Song of the Year with Lee Ann Womack, and "Believe" beats "8th of November," which is some more bullshit. They should probably just give all the awards to Brooks & Dunn and be done with it. The reverend who cowrote the song accepts the award in a glittery scarf. Last year, chain-wallets were the big thing. This year, I guess it's weird scarves.

8:46: Alan Jackson does "Like Red on a Rose," and it's a really bad sign if I'm falling asleep less than an hour into this thing.

8:51: Little Big Town does a song. It isn't "Boondocks," but it has the same intricately interweaving harmonies over acoustic-blues stomp thing going on. I really have no excuse for not owning their album. The one guy looks exactly like Jesus, and they perform in a huge white cloud of dry ice with candles all around them, which totally makes them my favorite thing so far tonight. They might as well have a fake castle onstage.

9:00: The main guy from Rascal Flatts looks more like an anime character every day. Tonight, he's wearing a brown motorcycle jacket, a rhinestoned T-shirt, and Matrix sunglasses, and he still has shellacked-up spiky bleach-blonde hair. They do yet another power ballad, and I forget about it before it's even over.

9:04: Brad Paisley's wife is the lady on According to Jim? Huh. She's pregnant, which somehow means she can't read the teleprompter, so she and Gary Allen charmingly fumble their intro. Rascal Flatts wins Vocal Group of the year because Brooks & Dunn weren't nominated. (They'll get Vocal Duo instead.)

9:13: Martina McBride does yet another power-ballad, but this one is totally huge and bombastic with soaring strings and hair-metal guitars. I really like it.

9:18: Whistler from Blade, in a black Matrix trench coat, introduces George Strait as the newest Hall of Fame inductee, and I'm sort of surprised that he wasn't already in it. He performs "Give It Away," an effortless little shrug of a song and fortunately not a Chili Peppers cover. He wears glasses during his acceptance speech, which looks really odd. The camera keeps showing the singers' wives during acceptance speeches like this was a basketball game or something.

9:29: It's virtually impossible to imagine Kenny Chesney with any hair on his body whatsoever; he looks like a seal. He does "You Saved Me," which is a total snooze.

9:34: Michelle Branch has pretty much definitively won her MOR-chick war against Vanessa Carlton. Carlton just signed to Murder Inc., which is a total desperation move, and Branch has made the country transition pretty seamlessly. Her new group, the Wreckers, does a bright and sparkly little singalong chug.

9:37: Brooks & Dunn shocks absolutely nobody by winning Vocal Duo of the Year for something like the twentieth year in a row.

9:43: Dierks Bentely does a pleasantly workmanlike road-song with a vaguely funky bassline. On this show, that counts as a radical departure.

9:49: Eva Longoria assures everyone that she's from Texas and she's still a huge country fan. If that's true, she and Tony Parker must get in some huge fights over the stereo. Keith Urban wins Male Vocalist of the Year, but he's in rehab, so Ronnie Dunn reads a letter from him.

9:51: Miranda Lambert singlehandedly saves the show with a new song called "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," a charged-up, immaculately clean rockabilly banger. One of her guitarists is really old, and her bassist has an enormous mohawk. She only plays guitar on the first half of the song, but she still smashes it at the end. She's so badass.

9:59: Faith Hill continues the song's retro-trend by doing a song with Lori McKenna and Kelly Willis. The song is pretty, but it requires Hill to play a neglected housewife, which isn't entirely believable.

10:04: For about thirty seconds, Josh Turner does the old Soul Train thing where he sings a song on a lit-up elevated platform out in the crowd, but then he ambles back up onto the regular stage. He also seems to be wearing a hearing aid. I don't remember anything about the actual song.

10:08: The camera doesn't show Miranda Lambert when Carrie Underwood wins the Horizon Award, but I imagine she's spitting nails. When the camera shows Underwood out in the crowd, she's sitting with Anthony Federov, that Ukranian fake Clay Aiken guy who was on American Idol with her. Underwood always seems totally flabbergasted that anyone would ever want to bestow an award on her, which makes for some good acceptance speeches.

10:14: It's Whistler from Blade again! He's out to do more Hall of Fame stuff. First, he inducts Harold Bradley, a Nashville session guitarist from the 50s who seems like a nice guy. Then, he inducts Sonny James, who's wearing a bolo tie and who also seems like a nice guy. Hall of Fame inductees always seem like nice guys.

10:21: For a moment, Jason Aldean rips the night out of its languor, doing "Hick Town," a completely awesome swaggery-choogley redneck-pride anthem. Bonus points: he actually looks like a redneck.

10:28: Sara Evans may be the only person in the history of the universe to see her career benefit from being on Dancing With the Stars. She does "A Real Fine Place to Start," which, as weepy midtempo power-ballads go, is really good.

10:36: Hannah Montana is Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter? Where was I for that? She makes fun of the mullet he used to have, but she lets his current soul-patch/Fabio-hair thing slide. Great moment: they announce the nominees for Female Vocalist, and the split-screen shows all of them sitting out in the crowd. When Carrie Underwood wins, Faith Hill, standing backstage, mouths "What?" at the camera and storms off the stage. In the excessively-nice parallel universe of country music, that counts as a Kanye-level breakdown. I imagine it's all over YouTube at this point (edit: yup), and I'm not sure how they're spinning it this morning, but she looked like she was sort of smiling, so I think it was probably a joke. Either way, amazing TV. Underwood, of course, totally falls apart while she gives her acceptance speech. One thing about the CMAs: they actually give awards to the people selling records and thus keeping their industry afloat, even if they aren't respected veterans or whatever. The Grammys, meanwhile, always pull shit like giving Album of the Year to Steely Dan instead of Eminem.

10:40: Montgomery Gentry is presenting instead of performing, which blows. Brad Paisley wins Album of the Year, which does not blow.

10:44: Vince Gill sings his song about giving homeless people a dollar when you pass them on the street; it's one of the really pretty ballads from his ridiculous new quadruple-album. Sheryl Crow, Amy Grant, and his daughter all sing backup.

10:53: Barbara Mandrell, in an enormous black Morticia Adams dress, comes out to present Entertainer of the Year. Kenny Chesney, who won the award two years ago before losing it to Keith Urban last year, wins it back again. I guess the CMA people don't approve of rehab. This award show actually ends early, which is about the nicest thing an award show could possibly do.

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Because the Mayor talks about "belt tightening" and "sacrifice" when he cuts the budget, and you never hear from the civil servants who get those cuts in the neck, you might get the impression that they heroically and uncomplainingly shoulder their burden like good soldiers.

Therefore it is both refreshing and instructive to read today's statement from public advocate Betsy Gotbaum's office which begins:

"For the past 7 years, I have had to take part in a ridiculous annual budget dance with the two people who control my office's budget: the Mayor and the Speaker of the City Council.

"Historically, the Mayor proposes cuts to the budget, and I negotiate with the Council Speaker to restore it. I have always said this is problematic because this is an independent office that is a check on government. The office should have an independent budget.

"This year, despite a vigorous attempt to restore our budget, I have been told that we are about to be hit with a 40 percent cut to our funding. I believe this is political payback from Speaker Quinn for my spirited opposition to extending term limits without a referendum. It's anti-democratic, bad government, and politics at its worst."

Then Gotbaum runs through a list of all the good things the PA does for "New Yorkers who are denied city services... with a budget that has been about half that of some borough presidents, just over $3 million at its height, or about 1/200 of 1% of the total city budget." She calls her office a "watchdog" over government, and says Bloomberg and Quinn are trying to "turn this watchdog into a lapdog."

Gotbaum points out that, despite the alleged austerity of the Bloomberg Administration, the city's spending has increased, the borough president's budgets have been restored, and "the council is spending almost $50 million on member items." In what we assume is a reference to the city council slush fund scandal, she suggests that Quinn could have found money for the public advocate's office "from wherever it is she is parking funds."

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Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were pulled from a private listserv run by fellow Washington Post blogger wunderkind Ezra Klein, the notorious Journolist. Now it's time to ask: Who smeared Dave Weigel?

Journolist, which was started by Klein in February 2007, was an elite email (mostly liberal) list of political reporting's best and brightest. He once characterized it to Michael Calderone at Politico as "just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely." And yesterday, in a column noting Weigel's resignation and the shutting-down of Journolist, further explained it:

...The theory behind Journolist: An insulated space where the lure of a smart, ongoing conversation would encourage journalists, policy experts and assorted other observers to share their insights with one another. The eventual irony of the list was that it came to be viewed as a secretive conspiracy, when in fact it was always a fractious and freewheeling conversation meant to open the closed relationship between a reporter and his source to a wider audience.

I'm of the idea that Journolist was a bad idea in practice -- because there is always a rat, always -- but think that writers should be allowed to be sentient human beings with, you know, opinions about things. Otherwise, hold them in for seven presidential administrations, and the next thing you know, you're Helen Thomas and your incredible legacy is now marred because you expressed an opinion about your job for the first time in your life that you've held in for way too long, that ends up being a "shocker" to people, and costs you your rep.

Some of the members, following posts last year by Slate's Mikey Kaus and Salon's Glen Greenwald, were known. Some of them have started outing themselves. Among their ranks:

  • CNN analyst and Supreme Court scholar Jeffrey Toobin.
  • New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman.
  • Time writer Joe Klein.
  • The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates.
  • The Nation columnist Eric Alterman.
  • The Nation's D.C. editor Christopher Hayes.
  • The Nation columnist (and prize-winning poet) Katha Pollitt.
  • The New Republic editor Jonathan Chait.
  • The New Republic editor Noam Scheiber.
  • The New Republic writer Isaac Chotiner.
  • Boston Globe columnist Jesse Singal.
  • ThinkProgress blogger Matthew Yglesias.
  • ThinkProgress blogger Matt Duss.
  • Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen.
  • Washingtonian senior web editor and Atlantic contributor Alyssa Rosenberg.
  • Political writer Rick Perlstein.
  • UC Berkley economics professor and blogger Brad DeLong.

Big names, right? If you're not in that elite club, and you're not allowed in -- as Tucker Carlson wasn't when he requested to join three weeks ago -- it's a tough break for you. The problem is that someone who was actually on that list, which has been reported to be at over 300 members, had it out for Dave Weigel. And they broke the trust of their fellow reporting elite when they published his emails. Of those 300 names, there are a lot of seasoned reporting vets. Dave Weigel's a pretty plucky young upstart by comparison, and his star -- much like Ezra Klein's -- rose fast at the Washington Post. So...

Who smeared Dave Weigel?

We're not the first to ask. Alyssa Rosenberg perfectly articulated why it's worth asking:

If the leaker is a member of JournoList, they're someone who either came to despise Weigel enough to break a promise of confidentiality they initially intended to keep, or they're an impostor, a person who deceived one or many people about their intentions, perhaps for quite some time. That level of deception is not simply intriguing, it's genuinely revealing of a person's character and the evolution of their beliefs. And if the emails weren't given to news outlets by a member of the list, and they were obtained either through a deliberate hack or exploitation of an error--a lost password, an email account left open on an unattended computer--the level of coordinated work that went into getting the emails was substantial and considerable. Learning the identity of a person or persons who would spend that time and attention searching for the emails and designing a coordinated campaign to release them would say a lot about who feels threatened by Weigel's reporting.

So, who was it?

A jealous colleague?
What kind of agenda did this person have?
And what more do they have prepared for us, if anything?

There's always the possibility that Weigel was only the first in a series of "outings" (read: bullshit smear campaigns) that the members of Journolist are about to experience. The problem is that, unfortunately, it would appear this campaign was successful in exposing the vulnerability and unpreparedness of the backwards-thinking editorial leadership out there at places like The Washington Post, who for the most part, has sided against Weigel.

Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

The cowardly toadie-cum-ombudsman for the Washington Post, Andrew Alexander, did so in an hastily-written press release for the Post groveling over an issue he clearly has no grasp on (this is, of course, the same sentient human being who thought Dana Milbank should be "applauded" for calling Hillary Clinton a "mad bitch").

This was followed by Washington Post chief Marcus Brauchli telling Post "media" "columnist" Howard Kurtz:

"Dave did excellent work for us...[but] we can't have any tolerance for the perception that people are conflicted or bring a bias to their work..."

And then, literally, in the next sentence:

"There's abundant room on our Web site for a wide range of viewpoints, and we should be transparent about everybody's viewpoint."

Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

I couldn't explain this line of logic no matter how hard I try, suffice to say that Brauchli's implication that every writer under him needs to disclose his or her viewpoints on every article they write about is beyond absurd, it's simply impractical. Bias is inherent, but that bias wasn't brought to the table with Dave Weigel's work for the Post. Kurtz goes on to quote Tucker Carlson:

"The people who write there, are they reporters? Are they op-ed writers? I don't get it, and I don't think readers get it."

This essentially crystallizes an Old Media issue with bloggers perfectly. They don't understand that all bloggers are also -- the moment they pick up the phone, go to the scene of a story, use a source on a story, get quotes, etc -- reporters. But not all reporters are bloggers, because they file stories every day. It's like the old booze distinguishment: All bourbons are whiskey, but not all whiskeys are bourbon. And Old Media grouches think the bloggers are coming for their jobs -- which we are -- and that their abhorrence of technology will cause them to fall behind -- which it will -- and so they use the accusation that our work is worth less than theirs because they can't compartmentalize it easily. It's a sad logical fallacy that persists. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg demonstrated this best when he heard from his colleagues at the Post (anonymously, of course) discuss Weigel's resignation to him:

"It makes me crazy when I see these guys referred to as reporters. They're anything but. And they hurt the newspaper when they claim to be reporters."

"The lack of toilet-training is right. Everyone makes mistakes, but you can mitigate the number of mistakes through seasoning. Some people here are still put through seasoning, but others aren't. It shows, and it's embarrassing."

Three notes on this:

1. You fucking pussies. You have less spine than your average jellyfish. Come out and show your faces. Because...
2. You just made everyone at the Washington Post who isn't Klein who were on Journolist the first suspects. And
3. What's embarrassing is your obliviousness to how transparent your contempt truly is.

Whoever did this knew that Betsy Rothstein and Tucker Carlson were (respectively) desperate/deluded and shameless enough to make great places to drop these: Both outlets would give them the due diligence of sensationalism, weren't risking credibility (having none to begin with), and also, wouldn't rat on their sources. Yet. Because someone's eventually going to open their mouth, and that kind of thing gets around. And we want to catch it. Again:

Who smeared Dave Weigel?

There is, of course, an inherent hypocrisy in this that doesn't escape me: The outrage over a leak shouldn't beget another one, should it? In this case, all rules are off. There was no Higher Truth here, there was an angry careerist trying to off Weigel, one who knew the motions they were putting into play.

We'll take whatever we can get. We're going to find out who did this, and then we're going to ask them why, and we're all going to learn a sad, evergreen lesson about reporting and journalism and life in general that's started to rear it's ugly head again: You really can't trust anyone, ever. But you can certainly trust some people more than others. Let's find out who they are.

I'm perfectly fine with paying for a story. I'm not sure what the policy here is on it (I imagine they're against such a thing). But if I somehow magically get money for this, oh, you'll know. But I do know this: I'd pay to see this story, whether I'm reading it or reporting it. I doubt I'm the only one. Hopefully, if I can't get it for free, someone -- like my old bosses, who have exhibited their willingness to engage in checkbook journalism -- will, one way or another.

So, if you know, or have the first clues: You know where to reach us.

Who's Afraid of Dave Weigel? [Washingtonian/Alyssa Rosenberg]
JournoList wonders who leaked [Politico]

Previously: The Sad, Bullshit Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation

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The children giggle, sing, color, laugh, play, do their happy dances and rejoice in just being kids as the sound level during an activity indicates.

Fun is the joyful component, but there’s more going on.

About 40 children from 5 to 12 years old are engaged in math and language-arts classes as part of the King’s Kamp at the E.B. Family Life Center, 7 S. Garland Ave., which is sponsored by Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church, 1210 Himrod Ave. The center is the former church on the East Side.

For the first time as part of a summer camp, a youth police academy was offered. It was funded by a grant from the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence.

LaDonna Walker, member of Elizabeth Baptist and its church administrator, is volunteer program director. She worked at Youngstown After-school Alliance. Walker has a master’s degree in organizational leadership and administration.

She takes the family life center’s mission, “Strengthening the Community One Family at a Time,” seriously. “This is about the total child,” she said of academic and recreational activities.

“King’s Kamp focuses on integrating a new generation into society. We want them to be aware and be successful as they always do their best,” Walker said.

“We work first and play later,” Walker said of the philosophy she follows. That’s why the camp values the educational component, she said. There are about seven adult volunteers who assist; four are from the Foster Grandparents Program. There also are six teen counselors. They all serve as tutors and mentors to help children improve their math and language- arts skills.

Walker said children take pre- and post-tests of the Ohio Academic Achievement Test during the camp. “We want to build on what they know,” she said of the practice tests. Language-arts sessions focus on vocabulary, writing and reading. She said the camp emphasizes the importance of education as a steppingstone to success.

The camp takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays. A typical day for campers includes daily devotion, art, choir, learning to mime, the math and language-arts sessions and recreation.

Children also receive breakfast and lunch, which are provided through a partnership with Neighborhood Ministries. Children also take field trips, including one to Waldameer Park & Water World in Erie, Pa.

Fourth- through seventh-graders participated in and graduated from the first youth police academy at a summer camp.

Delphine Baldwin-Casey, retired Youngstown police officer, led the program. Fifteen students began the academy, and 12 completed and received certificates.

Baldwin-Casey said the academy “makes a difference” for youths. “It’s vital that they learn there are consequences to their actions. There are laws of man and God,” she said. “Youth violence also is discussed so they understand its consequences.”

The retired police officer said she emphasizes that “making good choices” is the right path. For example, she said, if a friend you’re with is shoplifting, will you do it, too? “Choices do influence your life,” she said.

Baldwin-Casey said she tells students that making “bad” choices might land them in a juvenile facility or they may end up with a police record. “Both may affect their future,” she said.

Walker said the summer camp, in its second year, and the youth police academy were “responses to a need.” The camp would cost about $30,000 to run, but because of donations, grants and in-kind services, it is $4,300.

The cost is $25 per child for the eight-week program from July 7 through Aug. 29.

Walker said feedback from parents has been positive. They are thankful their children are in a safe and nurturing place. One mother told Walker that her daughter had hated math and now loves it.

She said the church camp has participants “from all sides of town.”

An after-school program from 4 to 6 p.m. weekdays from October to May will be offered. Call the church at 330-746-3877.

Churches interested in sponsoring a youth police academy should call Baldwin-Casey at 330-559-1927.

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Le Pont Royal from the Quai d'Orsay
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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)

Early Training
Early Paintings
Bohemian Lifestyle
Landscape Painting with Monet
Impressionist Painting Style and Legacy

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One of the best landscape artists of the mid-19th century, the Dutch painter and etcher Johan Barthold Jongkind was a highly influential pioneer of Impressionism, whose landscapes - notably atmospheric river and coastal scenes - had a major impact on his younger contemporaries, including Claude Monet (1840-1926). Indeed his plein-air painting techniques predated those of Monet, Sisley (1839-1899) and Pissarro (1830-1903) by twenty years. The famous 19th century art writer Edmond de Goncourt (1822-96), speaking of Jongkind's influence, declared in 1882 that all modern landscape painting of any worth descended from him. Active mainly in France, Jongkind's artistic ability was matched only by his alcoholism, which eventually led to his incarceration in an asylum. Edouard Manet (1832-83) considered him "the father of modern landscapes" while Monet acknowledged that Jongkind, together with the Normandy outdoor painter Eugene Boudin (1824-98), were the two most important formative influences on his art. For later Dutch painters who practised a modern French 'light' Impressionism, please see: Post-Impressionism in Holland (1880-1920).

Early Training

Jongkind spent his childhood in Vlaardingen and, although he was originally destined for the legal profession, his love of drawing led him to choose art as a career. In 1837 he travelled to The Hague where he received instruction in the Academy from the landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870), whose specialties included seascapes and meticulous winter scenes. Between 1838 and 1842 he studied painting at Massluis and in The Hague. In 1843, his watercolour painting, along with his talent for Realism, gained him a bursary which supported him for the next ten years.

Early Paintings

He met Eugene Isabey in The Hague in 1845 and spent some time in the latter's studio in Paris the following year. He also worked with Francois Picot and exhibited at the 1848 and 1852 Salons. In 1852 he received considerable praise from the critics, including the two famous writers, Charles Baudelaire and Emile Zola. In effect, his paintings were a sort of bridge between the Barbizon School of landscape painting and the coming Impressionism.

Until 1855 Jongkind drew most of his inspiration form Paris (numerous views of the quais) and from the Normandy ports such as Honfleur, Fecamp, Le Havre and Etretat that he visited in 1849. His watercolours and paintings reveal him as an accomplished craftsman in the Dutch landscape tradition, respectful of his subject but never overawed by it - see, for instance, Le Pont Marie (1851, Private Collection, Paris) and Etretat (1851, Louvre).

Bohemian Lifestyle - Alcoholism

His lack of success at the Paris Exposition of 1855 made him decide to return to Holland where he lived in Rotterdam, then Klaawall, and then Overschie until 1860. But he missed Paris and, encouraged by friends who were worried about the effect on his career of his absence in Holland, he returned to France. Unfortunately, his time in Paris was characterized by an extremely bohemian lifestyle, severe poverty and alcohol. In the midst of great financial difficulties, he fell into a depression from which he attempted to escape by drinking. And while it seemed to give him back his artistic inspiration and even helped him increase his work capacity, it eroded his mental health. His painter friends, Camille Corot (1796-1875), Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), and Eugene Boudin helped him to overcome his misery on more than one occasion.

Landscape Painting with Monet

Between 1862 and 1866 he spent the summers in Normandy. In 1862 he explored etching, and produced his first series Six Views of Holland (he left 27 engraved plates), and exhibited the following year at the Salon des Refuses. In 1862 he met the Impressionist Claude Monet and the two men worked together on several occasions on the Norman coast. During these trips to Normandy, Jongkind painted numerous sketches and watercolours in the open air, for the sole purpose of capturing nature just as he saw it, using colour in all its different hues to capture the precise effects of light. After 1860 his treatment grew lighter, his touch more fragmented, and he allowed his colours to separate spontaneously so as to suggest the vibration of light - see, for instance, Effect of the Moon on the Estuary (1867, Private Collection).

During his numerous journeys to Belgium, Holland, Normandy and the Nivernais area, he painted principally in watercolour. Many of these works were designed as studies for further compositions, but increasingly, he painted watercolours for their own sake - see, for instance, Le Havre, Beach at Ste Adresse (1863, Louvre). He visited the Dauphine region in 1873, and in 1878 moved to La Cote St Andre, Berlioz's birthplace. In 1880 he made a journey to the south of France (Marseilles, Narbonne, La Ciotat), and between 1881 and 1891 returned each winter to work in Paris.

Impressionist Painting Style and Legacy

By now watercolour had become his favourite medium; his confident draughtsmanship, coupled with his ability to suggest swiftly and with intense accuracy both time and place, gained an extra dimension when allied to his fluid colour pigments, in which white played a large part. His style became freer as he abandoned preliminary drawings and began using a reduced range of colours in which yellows and ochres predominated - see, Snowscape in the Dauphine (1885). Jongkind's pioneering Impressionist paintings have a freshness and vision which result from extreme subtlety of execution. However, his numerous seascapes, painted with different climatic changes, different atmospheric conditions, and variations in light, are the paintings that provide the key to understanding Monet's later methods - the same methods that Jongkind himself perfected ten years earlier (from 1863-1864) - when he did a series of paintings of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in different daylight conditions. Although considerably less well-known than younger Impressionist painters, such as Sisley and Pissarro, Jongkind's legacy had an important influence on the evolution of 19th century landscape art, from Barbizon to Impressionism.

Note: For more about the development of Impressionist art, see the following: Impressionism: Origins, Influences; and also Impressionism: Early History. For the evolution of artistic methods, see: Impressionist Painting Developments.

In 1878, Jongkind went to Grenoble, but an alcoholic crisis drove him to madness, and he was committed to an insane asylum, where he stayed until his death thirteen years later. He was buried at La Cote St Andre.

Paintings by Jongkind can be found in some of the best art museums in Europe, notably in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and the Musee d'Orsay Paris, as well as provincial galleries in Grenoble, Aix-les-Bains and Rheims. Here is a short selected list of his works.

- Le Pont Marie (1851) Private Collection.
- Quai d'Orsay (1852) Salies Museum, Bagneres-de-Bigorre.
- Le Pont Royal seen from Quai d'Orsay (1852) Bagneres-de-Bigorre.
- The Breakwater (1853) Fine Arts Museum, Angers.
- Six Views of Holland (1862) (Etchings).
- View of Notre Dame, Paris (1863) Private Collection.
- Le Havre, Beach at Sainte Adresse (1863) Louvre.
- Sunflowers (1864) Musee d'Orsay.
- Wooden Piles in the River Escaut (1866) Musee d'Orsay.
- The Maas at Maassluis (1866) Museum of Fine Arts, Le Havre.
- Skaters at Overshie (1867) National Gallery, London.
- Effect of the Moon on an Estuary (1867) Private Collection.
- Environs de la Haye, Holland (1868) Musee d'Orsay.
- The Road to Magny, near Nevers (1871) Musee d'Orsay.
- The Isere at Grenoble (1877) Musee d'Orsay.
- Snowscape in the Dauphine (1885) Private Collection.

• For biographies of other modern Dutch artists, see: Famous Painters.
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The streets and lagoons of Africa's largest city - Lagos, Nigeria - are often clogged with trash, almost none of which gets recycled. One company is trying to change that.

Adeyemi Okuwoga is on the hunt for trash. Neighbors bring out bags of plastic and aluminum waste. He weighs them and carts them off, free of charge.

Okuwoga works for Wecyclers, a company that picks up recyclables from poor neighborhoods like Ebute Metta in Lagos.

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The music generally referred to today as Rock grew out of Blues and Rhythm and Blues and exploded on the U.S. national scene in the mid-1950s. One of the musicians who helped define the style was saxophone player Grady Gaines, who toured with such stars as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, and many others. Gaines tells his story in a new book that is really “out there.”

During the wild early years of rock n’ roll, Little Richard was king, and sax player Grady Gaines was on top of the world -- as well as Little Richard’s piano.

As shown in a scene from the 1956 film Don’t Knock the Rock, white teenagers loved the music and that helped break down racial barriers, but Gaines says the musicians did not fully appreciate their impact.

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Gaines feels the book truly captures the events of his life.

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One regret, said Evans, is that he was not able to interview Little Richard.

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Sources close to the negotiations at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare said mediator and former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who brokered the agreement signed one month ago to the day on Sept. 15, moderated talks among President Robert Mugabe, prime minister-in-waiting Morgan Tsvangirai, and deputy prime minister-designate Arthur Mutambara.

Tsvangirai told reporters after the negotiating session that the talks would continue Thursday as the participants had failed to come to a compromise. He told journalists that the proceedings had been, in his words, "quite circuitous."

But Mr. Mugabe said the leaders had made progress and would finish Thursday. Tsvangirai's lead negotiator, Tendai Biti, also said a deal could fall into place on Thursday.

Sources in Mr. Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change said talks on Wednesday focused on control of the Finance and Home Affairs ministries.

ZANU-PF had indicated it wanted discussions to be limited to the Finance Ministry, but the MDC objected and Home Affairs was also put in the table, sources said. A senior ZANU-PF official told VOA the ZANU-PF politiburo was not willing to concede the Finance Ministry.

But a compromise was mooted whereby the Finance Minister might come from the dominant Tsvangirai MDC formation, but would have a ZANU-PF deputy as well as one drawn from the Mutambara MDC grouping. A ZANU-PF minister would have two MDC deputies.

Mute MDC, the minister would have a ZANU-PF deputy as well as one from the Mutambara MDC grouping. If the minister comes from ZANU-PF, there would be deputies from both MDC formations.

Acting Associate Campaigns Director Briggs Bomba of Africa Action told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that Mr. Mugabe feels that he must control the Home Affairs Ministry and the police that depend from it, to maintain his control through coercion.

U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday that American officials hope to see power-sharing take hold, but for now see "a real bump in the road" in that process.

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THE situation at a sectarian flash-point in east Belfast is spiralling out of control, unionist politicians and Protestant clergymen in the district warned last night.

Democratic Unionists, Ulster Unionists, loyalist politicians and clergymen vowed in a joint statement to do all they could to defuse tensions in the area surrounding the nationalist Short Strand after a night of violence which saw nine police officers injured during clashes with Protestants.

They urged the Government to introduce immediate security measures to reduce the prospect of street clashes and called on the Republican Move-ment to end "orchestrated aggression".

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A joint statement signed by, among others including church leaders, Democratic Unionist MP Peter Robinson, Ulster Unionist MLA Sir Reg Empey, loyalist Progressive Unionist MLA David Ervine and Ulster Political Research Group councillor Frankie Gallagher, expressed concern at the disturbances which were "get-ting beyond control".

Police said at least nine officers were hurt on Wednesday night when they came under attack during intense loyalist rioting in the east of the city.

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Freedom From BOND-age

Tony Fyler proposes a radical notion for Bond going forward.

When is a Bond movie not a Bond movie?

Arguably, when it’s actually a 007 movie.

Bond has become an action-movie Hamlet, with each actor who’s stepped into the tuxedo and picked up the Walther redefining the role – and to some extent the nature of the man – as they’ve played him. But one thing that always appears to be the case is that Bond is the same man. Whether he’s played by a Scottish (Connery), English (Moore and Craig), Welsh (Dalton), Irish (Brosnan) or an Australian actor (Lazenby), Bond is always the same Bond, the one with the family home in Scotland, as visited in Skyfall.

At the risk of being shot by Bondies the world over, that’s a mistake.

A mistake with an obvious solution, as seen in recent British spy thriller Kingsman. There, there are a round table full of Kingsman agents, each with the name of one of King Arthur’s knights – Galahad, Percival, Lancelot etc.

That feels like what James Bond, 007, should actually be. An identity, a legend, a way of living, inhabitable by any agent good enough to be Bond.

Why, why, why would that be any kind of good idea?

Well first and foremost it would appeal to those who like timelines to be uncomplicated. The events of Casino Royale seem to define the nature of Bond for quite some time in the books, but the movie didn’t arrive (barring remembrance of the Niven Bond here for the sake of convenience) till 2006, meaning essentially that the backstory of Bond could only arrive significantly after events and a mindset that that backstory put in place. With each new actor being ‘a new Bond’, rather than simply ‘Bond…The Same Bond’, things like that could be ironed out, and the impact of Vesper on Bond could be seen as being the impact on only the Craig Bond.

Secondly it would make a consistent sort of sense. We’ve seen at least four Ms. Believe it or not, we’ve seen six Moneypennys. We’ve had three Qs and an R – in each case, clearly the ‘name’ is assigned to a role. Why would agents be any different? In a genuinely secret service, why would ‘James Bond’ not be simply the most convenient cover story for the agent designated 007 at the time?

And thirdly and most importantly, it would allow the character to have a broader range, to bring new challenges to the Bond format, and interpret those challenges with a greater range of acting choices. In essence, it would open the action drama’s Hamlet up to everyone (and yes, I do mean everyone), not just that small section of actors who look convincingly like Bonds that have gone before. We’ve already had a blond Bond of course, but that’s no more than a dye job away from explanation. If we freed the role from its determination to persuade us that Bond is the same one man he’s always been, we would open the role out for re-interpretation by any actor. Yes, to some extent, that’s achievable now – but not without retconning the audience even more than we currently allow when we consider that a fully grown man who was a spy in the 60s is still a spy in 2015, and looks younger now than he did then. We’ve grown accustomed to thinking that this is ‘just what Bond does’. With this one simple move, there could be, at last, an in-universe reason why this is what Bond does.

Bond movies of course are fantastic at what they do – they’re spy fantasy thrill-rides with cool tech, witty quips, the day saved from a supervillain and lots of raunch along the way. But while all the Bonds we’ve had have saved the world in their own way, giving their own take on the character, freedom from the backstory of The Bond would allow the kind of variety currently enjoyed by Doctor Who fans every time a new actor takes over the TV version of the pop culture Hamlet – what will this Doctor be like? Friendly, aloof, dark or chatty? The same freedom could be granted to Bond, while still maintaining the parameters of what the character has to be – a seriously kickass secret agent for the British government, who saves the world from megalomaniac evildoers. That’s the fundamental Bond, but freedom from backstory would mean there would be, for instance, an explanation of the difference in style between Connery and Moore. An explanation for the more naturalistic Bond of Lazenby. An explanation of the relatively chatty Brosnan Bond and the barely-ten-lines-a-movie taciturn Bond of Craig.

We came so close, once, to this ‘many Bonds’ scenario – with George Lazenby quipping that ‘this never happened to the other fellow.’ Maybe, just maybe, when Daniel Craig puts down his gun, it might be time to officially make James Bond simply the alias of the current 007, and free the character up to have adventures legitimately in a range of bodies for the next 50 years or more.

Tony Fyler lives in a cave of wall-to-wall DVDs and Blu-Rays somewhere fairly nondescript in Wales, and never goes out to meet the "Real People". Who, Torchwood, Sherlock, Blake, Treks, Star Wars, obscure stuff from the 70s and 80s and comedy from the dawn of time mean he never has to. By day, he runs an editing house, largely as an excuse not to have to work for a living. He's currently writing a Book. With Pages and everything. Follow his progress at
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Fall Quarter, 2011 - We will be discussing some of the works of Franz Liszt, whose 200th birthday is celebrated on October 22nd. The first five or six classes will focus on the first two books of 'The Years of Pilgrimage' (Switzerland and Italy), which emphasis on literary (Senancour, Lord Byron, Schiller, Petrarch, Dante) and other artistic inspirations (Raphael, Michelangelo, Salvador Rosa). Later in the quarter, we will investigate a few of the later works.

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a better understanding of the cross-pollination between music, literature and art.

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The instructor will guide the class through each of the works via demonstration and discussion. Students are expected to particpate fully in the musical and historical analyses of these works.

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Music 326-328 (Undergraduate Piano Repertoire) is the prerequisite. Beyond that, a good historical perspective of 19th century Europe is useful. Students might prepare for the course by reading part of Alan Walker's three-volume biography of Franz Liszt ahead of time.

Class assignments and grading

There will be both reading and listening assignments. The listening examples will generally come from youtube, which has much of the necessary material. We will discuss several different performances of the same work, shedding new light on performance practice. The reading assignments will come from the authors listed in the class description.

There will be a mid-term. This will count for approximately 20% of your grade. The final will count for 30%. Your weekly assignments will count for 20%. There will be a final book report, which will count for 20%, and 10% will be taken from class participation. Good class participation and input from the individual student might even count for a bit more!

The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class.
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DNA Links Ga. Man to At Least 9 Md. Rapes

Attacks Terrorized Silver Spring Area

By David Snyder
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005; Page B05

Montgomery County police have used DNA evidence to link at least nine rapes in the county between 1987 and 1991 to a man recently charged with rape in New York City, police said yesterday.

The identity of the so-called Silver Spring rapist, who police say terrorized the Kensington, Bethesda and Silver Spring areas with at least 21 sexual assaults, remained a mystery for more than a decade.

Clarence Williams, shown in 1973, is being held in two New York assaults.

All 21 of the assaults shared several traits. The rapist entered his victim's home after midnight through an unlocked door or window. In all but one case, the victim was the only adult at home. The rapist wore a ski mask during the attack and left a black leather driving glove at the home of one of his victims, according to news reports from the time.

The victims, all women, ranged in age from 23 to 61.

A massive police manhunt failed to turn up a suspect, and the case appeared to have gone cold by the mid-1990s.

Then this spring, New York law enforcement authorities submitted a DNA profile from Clarence Williams, 58, into the federal DNA database. The profile matched DNA from the Montgomery rapes as well as two sexual assaults in Morris County, N.J., said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney.

Williams, who was living in Georgia when arrested, probably will be charged by Montgomery officials in coming weeks, authorities said. New York prosecutors have charged him with rape, robbery, assault and other crimes in connection with a 1973 rape in Manhattan and a 1974 attempted rape in Queens, Thompson said.

Williams, who most recently was using the name Omar Abdul Hakeem, fled in 1978 while out on bail and evaded authorities until last year, when he tried to buy a shotgun in DeKalb County, Ga., Thompson said.

A routine background check revealed that Williams was wanted in New York. He was extradited last fall.

Investigators retrieved evidence from the 1973 rape from storage and sent underwear taken from the victim to forensic specialists. They were able to obtain a DNA sample from the garment, and it matched Williams's DNA.

A DNA profile was sent to the federal DNA database, where police say it matched profiles from the Montgomery rapes.

In 1992, Montgomery investigators announced that they had determined based on DNA samples that at least nine of the 21 sexual assaults attributed to the Silver Spring rapist were committed by the same person.

Investigators said they are confident that those nine cases can be definitively linked to Williams. Police said they are opening old case files to see whether DNA profiles can be obtained from evidence in the other rapes.

Montgomery State's Attorney Douglas F. Gansler said the rapes from 1987 to 1991 kindled widespread fear and uncertainty.

"People in the Silver Spring community lived in fear each and every night when they went to sleep, not knowing who was the person responsible," Gansler said. "These were crimes that were very rare in Montgomery County, in the sense that they were believed to be stranger-on-stranger rapes of the serial variety."

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