ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police say angry Roma, or gypsies, have battled police and set fire to Athens' main landfill northwest of the capital after a fellow Roman was found dead earlier Saturday.
The unidentified man was rummaging among the garbage when he was …
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Nonprofit leaders advocate for a variety of populations, such as children, the poor and the elderly.
Some sector observers say it's time these leaders advocate for themselves.
The Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO) is organizing its first Pennsylvania Nonprofit Congress, scheduled for April 17 at the Capitol in Harrisburg. The floor of the state House of Representatives will serve as a gathering place where nonprofit executives can set an agenda to guide the sector's future.
The congress also will give the organizations an opportunity to bring attention to the impact they have on Pennsylvania's economy and quality of life, said …
Lindsay Davenport began her quest for a fourth Bausch & Lomb Championships title when she beat fellow American Vania King 6-2, 6-3 on Tuesday.
Fourth-seeded Marion Bartoli became the first of the 16 seeds to fall but No. 8 Agnes Szavay, No. 13 Virginie Razzano and No. 15 Anabel Medina Garrigues won second-round matches. No. 10 Alona Bondarenko, No. 12 Katarina Srebotnik and No. 14 Victoria Azarenka were first-round winners.
Davenport won the title in 1997, 2004 and 2005, the last time as world No. 1, and was runner-up in 2003. She missed the event in 2006 because of a back injury and last year to have her first child.
"Definitely, it's …
A Tiger killed a man and injured two others after escaping fromits pen at a US zoo.
The beast was shot dead by police in San Francisco.
The three people who were attacked were all in their 20s and werevisitors to the park.
It was unclear how the Siberian tiger, named Tatiana, escaped orhow long it was on the loose.
The zoo, which is open 365 days a year, was evacuated immediatelyafter the attack was reported.
Police arrived to find the …
At least one American League owner wasn't so sure how the votewill come out on the Giants' proposed move to St. Petersburg. Theowner was miffed that his league lost out on the growing, richFlorida market, one that stretches all the way to Atlanta.
"This is something we're going to have to talk about," the ownersaid. "But the National League has big questions, too.
"The Dodgers have to be really angry about this. That(Giants-Dodgers) was one of the great rivalries in the history ofbaseball."
The American League owner knows that his league is the key tothe move. Anything less than a majority of the 14 AL owners wouldsquash it.
Meanwhile, Oakland …
PHOENIX (AP) — Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s third-quarter net income rose, energized by higher copper prices and increased molybdenum demand.
The mining giant also raised its annual dividend by 67 percent. Its stock gained $2.93, or 3.1 percent, to $98.28 in morning trading Thursday.
Despite an uneven global economic recovery, Freeport-McMoRan had expected to see stronger demand for the industrial metals it produces. The Phoenix company said it is working to increase its near-term copper production due to improving market conditions.
Freeport-McMoRan reported net income of $1.18 billion, or $2.49 a share, for the three months ended Sept. 30. That's up from …
Defense officials from seven nations are to meet with representatives from contractor EADS in Berlin later this week for the next round of discussions over the future of the troubled Airbus military plane A400M, a German official said Tuesday.
The seven nations _ Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey _ and EADS officials will convene Thursday in hopes of reaching a compromise on the troubled plane, a spokesman from the German Defense Ministry said. He did not give his name in keeping with …
The Internet is making the tax man unhappy and frustrated.
With the Net growing rapidly as a shopping mall for CDs, books,cars, dinosaur eggs - you name it - the revenuers are fretting thatthey are missing out on their rightful piece of the action.
At least 20 state and local governments have passed tax lawstargeting Net commerce.The stakes are huge. Sales on the Internet are estimated toreach $1.5 trillion a year by 2002. If uncollected, that could meana loss of tax revenue amounting to hundreds of millions in Illinoisalone.Meanwhile, some fear that undue government meddling could killthe Internet goose that lays the golden eggs.To protect emerging e-commerce, …
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner.
This ends what started as a promising campaign for Miller, a conservative Republican favorite who upset Murkowski …
An old friend showed up on the Old Course on Sunday.
A strong wind, the best defense in links golf, was largely missing the last two times the British Open came to St. Andrews, which explains how Tiger Woods won with a record score of 19-under 269 in 2000 and at 14-under 274 five years later.
Woods arrived after an overnight flight and found the Old Course much different than he remembered. By the middle of his round, when his tee shot at No. 11 wound up on the seventh green, the strongest recorded gust was just under 80 kph (50 mph).
Standing on the 18th tee, the wind now at his back as he waited to drive the 357-yard hole with a 3-wood, he was …
A promising new voice with new ideas for the 10th District
WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY ENDORSED MARK Kirk, the GOP candidate in the 10th District, terming him a polished, articulate, knowledgeable voice for the district. In past balloting we made the difficult choice of recommending him over qualified opponents, including Lauren Beth Gash and Henry Perritt.
This year we again face a difficult choice. The reason is because Mr. Kirk has done a fine job in Washington. Notably, he has been a great friend of Israel, demonstrating a vigorous, articulate, and well-considered support for the Jewish state, and an understanding of its problems. For that, we are extremely grateful.
But …
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters Friday killing at least six people as thousands rallied across the country to call for the downfall of President Bashar Assad's regime, activists said. Troops also clashed with armed anti-regime forces in central regions for a third straight day.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six people were killed in the central cities of Hama and Homs as well as the central town of Rastan, where the clashes between troops and army defectors has been raging for days. Syria-based rights activist Mustafa Osso put the death toll at 11.
It was impossible to resolve the discrepancy or to independently verify …
Venezuelan state television broadcast new recordings Thursday of what the government says are current and former military officers discussing a plot to overthrow President Hugo Chavez.
In one recording, a voice identified as ex-Gen. Wilfredo Barroso says, "We tried to get the gringos to support us in December," either with satellite phones or satellite transmissions.
Chavez has accused the U.S. of trying to oust him. American officials have vehemently denied it.
The dates of the recordings were not given. They included fragments of discussions between the suspects, who include both retired and active officers.
Chavez said the plotters considered blowing up his plane or attacking the presidential palace. Five suspects have been detained.
In another portion of the recordings, a voice identified as Barroso says state-run media could "be destroyed" while other private media would be left on the air _ apparently to allow those involved to get their messages out to the public.
Chavez survived a failed coup in 2002 and has repeatedly accused his opponents of trying to depose him since then.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas left his first home game since being suspended for bringing guns to the Verizon Center last season with a strained right groin.
Arenas didn't start Thursday night's preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks, two days after faking a knee injury to miss a home game. He left after playing three minutes in the first quarter.
Arenas didn't attempt a shot, but had three steals, a rebound, an assist and a blocked shot. He teamed with John Wall on some neat passes.
Arenas entered with 7:05 to play in the first quarter to tepid applause from the sparse home crowd and seemed to savor playing with Wall before asking out of the game three minutes later.
He was fined Wednesday for saying he had a sore left knee.
Billy Butler went 3 for 3, including a go-ahead single in Kansas City's four-run fifth inning, and the Royals defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 on Friday.
Making his next-to-last spring start, AL Cy Young Award winner Zach Greinke allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 2-3 innings. He struck out three and walked one while throwing more than 90 pitches for the first time.
The right-hander will make his final start on March 31 against San Diego before opening the season April 5 against Detroit.
Manny Ramirez hit his second homer of the spring for the Dodgers.
Butler had three singles and scored twice before leaving after five innings.
Vicente Padilla, the Dodgers' opening-day starter, gave up five runs and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings. The right-hander struck out four and walked one.
The Dodgers scored first on Matt Kemp's two-out single in the third. They extended the lead to 3-1 in the fourth on Ramirez's homer and A.J. Ellis' RBI single.
NOTES: Dodgers C Russell Martin, out since March 7 with a groin injury, caught six innings without a problem in a minor league game at Camelback Ranch. He went 2 for 6 with two singles and scored a run. He's set to take Saturday off. ... Albert Callaspo was a late scratch from the Royals' lineup. The third baseman is batting .458. ... The Royals split their two spring games with the Dodgers, losing 6-4 on March 11.
GODOLLO, Hungary (AP) — The European Union's foreign policy chief said Saturday that she would go to Cairo to meet with leaders of the Arab League to discuss the situation in Libya.
Catherine Ashton said she would fly to Cairo on Sunday and discuss a "collaborative approach" with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa on Libya and the rest of the region and would also meet with Egypt's prime minister-designate, Essam Sharaf, and with Nabil Elaraby, the nominee for foreign minister.
The Arab League was meeting Saturday in Cairo, with talks about the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya on the agenda.
Ashton said it was necessary to evaluate how effective economic sanctions imposed on Moammar Gadhafi's regime had been so far and that she was "keeping all options moving forward" regarding any additional measures.
"We have started ... prudent, careful planning for all options," Ashton told reporters, without specifying whether military actions were being considered. "What we're seeking to achieve is a joint approach — it recognizes we need to look at all the available options."
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle welcomed the EU's "very cautious" stance on possible military intervention.
"We do not want to be drawn into a war in north Africa — we should have learned from the events in and surrounding Iraq," Westerwelle said. "It is very important that the impression doesn't arise that this is a conflict of the West against the Arab world or a Christian crusade against people of Muslim faith."
LOS ANGELES - Hillary Rodham Clinton pursued votes Friday in the city's historical black heartland with basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson at her side. Less than a week ago, her rival Barack Obama banked $3 million at a fundraiser at Oprah Winfrey's seaside estate.
For the two leading Democratic presidential contenders, the dueling events just six days apart highlighted the stiff competition for support and dollars within one of the party's key voter groups - blacks.
Johnson, the former Los Angeles Lakers star whose sprawling business interests range from movie theaters to health clubs, was also holding a fundraiser for Clinton at his Beverly Hills home Friday night. It was expected to be considerably smaller than the lavish event staged by Winfrey for Obama, an Illinois senator, on Sept. 8.
Johnson's fundraiser was co-hosted by music industry heavyweights Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy and Clarence Avant, and scheduled guests included Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Guests at the Obama event included Sidney Poitier, Forest Whitaker and Chris Rock.
The divided loyalties among blacks show "the community just isn't going to go lockstep behind any candidate, even a black one," said University of California, Los Angeles, political scientist Franklin D. Gilliam Jr.
When it comes to competing celebrity endorsements, "I don't know if anybody stands equal with Oprah," Gilliam said. But Clinton, a New York senator, is not conceding the black vote to Obama and "she can compete for it in a legitimate way."
On Thursday, the California Legislature's black caucus endorsed Obama - but one of its eight members is backing Clinton. And independent polls in California suggest the black vote is divided, largely between Clinton and Obama.
Obama, whose late father was Kenyan, gives blacks a chance to put one of their own in the White House for the first time. But Clinton benefits from the strong relationship her husband, former President Bill Clinton, maintained with blacks for years.
"People in the black community love Bill Clinton; she's seen as comfortable in the community," Gilliam said. And "there's concern about Obama being electable, period, because he's black."
The rivalry between Obama and Clinton also showcases the clout of black political influence and money.
Obama has predicted that black voter turnout could swell by at least 30 percent if he wins the presidential nomination, giving Democrats victory in Southern states that have been voting Republican for decades.
Asked last month why she would be a better candidate for blacks when Obama was in the race, she cited her years of public service and advocacy, and described herself as the more experienced candidate.
"My attitude is, I don't deserve anyone's vote. I have to earn everyone's vote," Clinton said.
At an event earlier Friday at a school in a heavily minority neighborhood near the Watts section, Clinton shared a stage with Johnson, Villaraigosa and other local leaders. She told a largely minority crowd including many students and supporters that she would bring a new style of leadership to Washington to take on issues like health care, education and ending the Iraq war.
"When I'm president, there will not be any invisible Americans," she said.
Several people in the audience said they were comfortable with Clinton, in large part because of her long record in the public eye and efforts in her husband's administration.
John Bruce, 45, a Democrat from Los Angeles who works in security, said the black community is looking for leaders and Obama "seems to be heading in the right direction." Bruce, who is black, said race was not an issue in picking a candidate.
He said he remains undecided on 2008 but added, "I'm an all-Clinton Democrat."
Black community activist "Sweet Alice" Harris, who is backing Clinton, said she worked closely with her during her days in the Clinton White House.
What about Obama?
"I don't know him, but I know her," Harris said.
Earlier in the day, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, held a private fundraiser for Clinton at a Mexican restaurant in Lynwood, a Los Angeles suburb.
Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) establishes new rules for protecting the privacy of personal information. By January 1, 2004, the new rules will affect all organizations in Canada. Because privacy is a risk management issue, many organizations are turning to CAs and CPAs for help in managing privacy risks, and developing and implementing privacy programs.
The CICA and AICPA are participating in a joint Enterprise-wide Privacy Task Force to support CAs and CPAs in their privacy protection efforts. Recently, the task force issued a public exposure draft called Privacy Framework (available at www.cica.ca/privacy). The framework serves as a benchmark for good privacy practices and provides the foundation for all privacy advisory and assurance services.
To facilitate implementation of the framework, the task force is developing a comprehensive Privacy Services Resource Guide that CAs and CPAs in industry can use to address privacy issues within their organizations and that CAs and CPAs in public practice can use to deliver value-added privacy services to clients. The guide will be available in both print and CD-ROM format in the summer 2003. It will contain numerous resources such as sample forms, checklists and questionnaires. It will also provide detailed guidance for performing internal privacy assessments and delivering a full range of privacy services including:
* strategic and business planning;
* privacy gap and risk analysis;
* benchmarking;
* privacy policy design and implementation;
* performance measurement; and
* independent verification of privacy control systems.
For more information about the new Privacy Services Resource Guide, contact Paul-Emile Roy at (416) 204-3301 (paul.roy@cica.ca).
Jurors who found former Criminal Court Judge Thomas J. Maloneyguilty of fixing three murder trials said they wanted to send themessage they're fed up with "crooks" in office.
Maloney, 67, who retired in 1990, earned a new page in thehistory books of judicial corruption with his conviction Friday oncharges he rigged four felony cases, including three murder trials,during 13 years as a judge.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan Jr. said Maloney is thefirst judge here - and probably in the nation - to be convicted offixing a murder case. One double-murder fix in particular showed"unbridled arrogance," Hogan said, because it occurred three yearsafter the Operation Greylord probe of court corruption became public.
Maloney is the 17th judge to be convicted here and the secondfound guilty of post-Greylord corruption.
"We all agreed this is the message we wanted to send: `We wanthonest people in office,' " said juror Marion Morel, 66. "Theseoffices are too high to have crooks in them."
Convicted with Maloney was attorney Robert McGee, 52, accused ofacting as his "bagman" in three cases.
McGee now faces 15 years in prison and Maloney 15 to 25 years attheir Aug. 8 sentencing before U.S. District Judge Harry D.Leinenweber.
Both men were found guilty of racketeering, racketeeringconspiracy and extortion, and Maloney was convicted of an additionalcount of obstructing justice for asking attorney William Swano, thegovernment's key witness, if he was "standing tall" and refusing tocooperate with prosecutors.
Within the racketeering verdict, jurors found McGee had acted asbagman in three cases and Maloney fixed four cases. Morel said thepanel was deadlocked 10-2 in Maloney's favor on a fifth alleged fixwithin the racketeering count because there was not enoughcorroboration.
Three of the federal government's most significantinvestigations in decades converged to result in Maloney's andMcGee's 1991 indictment, said Hogan and co-prosecutors ScottMendeloff and Diane MacArthur.
The probes by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service datedback to 1983 during the waning days of Greylord, continued in 1986with a probe of the El Rukn street gang, and ended in 1987 during theOperation Gambat probe of 1st Ward corruption.
Defense attorneys blasted Swano and two witnesses from thefederal probes as "conmen extraordinaire" out to "save their hides,"and vowed to appeal.
But Mendeloff said Swano's testimony was particularly"horrific," because he said Maloney convicted an "innocent" clientafter Swano neglected - for the first time in six years - to offerthe judge a bribe.
The cornerstone of the government's case was Swano's testimonythat three years after Greylord became public, he gave McGee $10,000to pass to Maloney to acquit two Rukn "generals" charged with adouble murder. Swano said Maloney later returned the money andconvicted the men - allegedly for fear the FBI was onto the fix.
Defense attorneys argued Swano was a cash-strapped cocaine userwho planned to pocket the bribe and win the case by rigging thewitnesses, but was foiled when Maloney convicted the two Rukns. Ajury sentenced both to death.
Among the keys to the verdict, jurors said, was Maloney'spattern of buying $50,000 in money orders over six years -particularly right after an alleged fix. Prosecutors argued Maloneyhid bribes in the money orders.
Juror Rodney Kauer, 27, described McGee's seven-year-old homephone records as "the clincher." A Wedgewood Communications phonecompany worker, subpoenaed for other records by prosecutors near theclose of their case, walked in with the bombshell evidence afterSwano's testimony.
The records meshed neatly with Swano's testimony that McGeecalled him in Maloney's courtroom on June 19, 1986, to say Maloneywanted to back out of the fix. They showed McGee called Maloney'schambers three times on that date, and then called Maloney'scourtroom. Minutes later, Rukn wiretaps showed, an El Rukn reportedby phone to jailed leader Jeff Fort that Maloney was having "secondthoughts" about the fix.
U.S. Attorney Michael Shepard said the verdict proved in"Maloney's courtroom, for the right price, you could get away withmurder. . . . We thought we had seen it all . . . in Cook County.But Maloney took us to new depths."
Bart Bryant got his bad shots out of the way early and birdied his last two holes Thursday for a 6-under 65, giving him a one-shot lead among early starters who were lucky to beat the rain in the PODS Championship.
Bryant twice escaped with pars through six holes, and he wasn't paying that much attention to his card until he realized he was 4 under. Then came birdies on two of the toughest holes at Innisbrook, including a 15-foot putt on the 18th, and he found himself atop the leaderboard.
"I felt like I got my bad stuff out of the way and I was still even par," Bryant said. "I think that gave me a little confidence."
Ernie Els, coming off a victory in the Honda Classic that ended 47 tournament winless streak on the U.S. tour, was part of the afternoon wave that did not finish the first round because of a 2 1/2-hour storm delay.
Els made two straight bogeys when he returned to the course, and finished his day with a birdie at No. 11 to return to even par.
Two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, who has not had full status on the U.S. tour since 2006, made good use of his sponsor's exemption with five birdies that left him one stroke behind with three holes remaining.
John Daly, another player without a card but no shortage of exemptions, was 3 over through 10 holes when the rain came. After he retuned, he three-putted from the front of the 18th green for another bogey.
The first round was scheduled to resume at 7:30 a.m. Friday. It was the first time rain has halted play on the tour this year.
Rain earlier in the week took some of the bite out of the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook, regarded as one of the toughest tour tracks in Florida, and rarely has it played this easy.
Kenny Perry hobbled around on a hip that felt like it was shooting volts down his leg, but he managed seven birdies in a round of 66, tied with Jeff Maggert and Stewart Cink.
Cink was playing for the first time since losing to Tiger Woods at the Accenture Match Play Championship, and while he suffered the worst beating in the 10-year history of the final match (8 and 7), he figured this was a continuation of good play.
"I had a lot of confidence after Match Play," Cink said. "Even losing the last match, I was happy to be in the last match."
Carl Pettersson, who won at Innisbrook in 2005, and Jonathan Byrd were among those at 67. Jerry Kelly was 4 under through four holes when play was halted.
The good news for Bryant is that he's hitting shots without feeling too much pain. It seems every time he recovers from one surgery, another body part starts hurting, which was the case last year.
Bryant said his right hip was in such bad shape that he took two months off during the summer. When he returned, his right elbow was acting up again, and he couldn't practice the last three months of the season.
"No practice, just playing," the 45-year-old said. "This year, I've been able to start hitting balls. My health has been good."
LOS ANGELES - Scorching heat that has gripped Southern California for more than a week is responsible for at least 14 deaths, authorities said Tuesday.
Temperatures were down slightly Tuesday as the heat wave entered its eighth day, with a high of 101 degrees reported in Los Angeles.
Authorities reported finding bodies in vehicles and apartments. Twelve of the deaths occurred in Los Angeles County and two in San Bernardino County, authorities said. With the death toll climbing, officials urged caution.
"If you have elderly relatives or neighbors, do everything you can to check in on them as often as possible, make sure that they're OK during this heat wave," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
In Los Angeles, an elderly couple were found dead in their San Fernando Valley apartment Monday, authorities said. Temperatures of 106 degrees were reported in the area in recent days.
Apartment manager Sheila Friedman said that paramedics told her it was 110 degrees inside the third-floor unit, and that she believed the couple kept their air conditioner off to cut costs.
Meanwhile, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies found a man's body on the Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms on Sunday. His dehydrated and sunburned friend reported the man, identified as of Michael Cuhna of Hesperia, as missing a day earlier, the Sheriff's Department said.
The friend told police the two were separated while illegally gathering scrap metal from the base. A preliminary coroner's report found Cuhna died of exposure and dehydration.
Elsewhere in San Bernardino County, a 47-year-old woman whose vehicle got stuck in the sand in a desert area was found dead Saturday, according to county deputy coroner Chalone Rhea.
Throughout Southern California, utility crews struggled to restore electricity as increased air conditioner use strained power grids.
About 29,000 homes were without power in 15 counties, including Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, said Paul Klein, spokesman for Southern California Edison.
The outages were caused by equipment failures rather than power shortages, Klein added, meaning rolling blackouts were not expected.
Another 18,000 homes in the Los Angeles area were dark Tuesday night, said MaryAnne Pierson, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Water and Power.
Near-record demand was causing transformers to pop and other electrical equipment to fail. People returning from vacations and businesses starting up after Labor Day put additional pressure on the grid, officials said.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A bowl is the end-all of a team's season, butrarely is it the be-all for a program.
Consider two men who share a strong connection and storiedcareers.
Among coaches who have worked at least a dozen bowl games, theworst records belong to late Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler (5-12)and a protege, retired West Virginia University Coach Don Nehlen (4-9).
Didn't keep them from College Football Hall of Fame residency, didit?
That said, WVU's 38-35 comeback triumph in the Gator Bowl overGeorgia Tech on Monday was more significant to the Mountaineers thana second-tier bowl triumph often is.
West Virginia won in a postseason game in which it had beenembarrassed five times previously. It won a game in which even CoachRich Rodriguez admitted his team was stumbling for 2 1/2 quarters.
A rally from an 18-point deficit was WVU's biggest comeback in 14seasons and a second straight 11-win season should land theMountaineers in the Top 10 of the final polls for a secondconsecutive year.
The 2006 season wasn't supposed to be the Mountaineers' finest andit wasn't, thanks to a sieve-like defense against the pass.
WVU didn't get the Big East Conference title and repeat BowlChampionship Series appearance it wanted, but it ran and scoredenough to keep the Gold and Blue faithful happy ... if also on theedge of their seats in season-finishing games against Rutgers and theYellow Jackets.
Next season is the one to which WVU has been pointing, with starbacks Steve Slaton and Patrick White as juniors, senior fullback OwenSchmitt and a defense that loses little other than the cerebral playof undersized middle linebacker Jay Henry.
The bowl win also was soothing for Rodriguez, who now won't haveto listen to complaints about how he got two raises totaling $850,000and, then, slipped on another Gator banana peel before the formalcontract even was done.
With the first WVU team to score 500 points in a season (averaging38.8 per game) and an offense that set school and Big East standards,the Mountaineers played their way around question marks ... like:
How can a team so ground-oriented and offensive-minded go through13 games and not develop a reliable backup tailback?
Whether it's Ed Collington, Jetavious Best or prodigal prospectJason Gwaltney backing up Slaton, it's a question that needs ananswer when spring drills open March 5.
Or, how is it that Darius Reynaud, after emerging as a big-timethreat in last year's bowl win over Georgia, gets next-to-no touchesin an offense shy on options in the Gator Bowl?
WVU was able to upend Rutgers to avoid a who-cares Texas Bowltrip, keep Rodriguez with bigger bucks and win one of the nation'stop 10 bowl games. Now, the question is whether it can keep assistantRick Trickett up front?
A Trickett move from WVU's offensive line - he's Boss Hog - toFlorida State would leave a hole much larger than those created bythe blocks of Dan Mozes and Jeremy Sheffey.
Trickett has been significant in the construction of Rodriguez'sprogram. How would the Mountaineer fortunes be - past, present andfuture - without the decorated ex-Marine?
Could Rodriguez's program be as effective without Trickett? The9.5 miles (16,670 yards) that WVU has rushed for in the last fiveseasons is rooted in what Trickett has handed down to Mozes and histeammates.
One of the things Rodriguez has done best is tweak his system tofit personnel. Good programs adapt, as well as adopt, from others.
"He takes his guys and puts them in a position to be successful,"Georgia Tech Coach Chan Gailey said during bowl preparations. "Theyhave unique schemes, but they're playing hard-nosed football."
Rodriguez's oft-stated goal is that he wanted "a top 25 programand that's more than just a top 25 team" at his alma mater. The GatorBowl foe provides a ready point of reference.
Georgia Tech has plenty of tradition and a better bowl history (22-13) than any schools except Penn State and Southern Cal. However, theRamblin' Wreck is in a rut. It has been to bowls in 10 straightseasons, but in the last six of those Tech has finished with at leastfive losses.
Rodriguez, with 47 wins in five years after a 3-8 opening seasonin 2001, now has that program he wanted.
The Mountaineers can solidify that in 2007 - when WVU figures toopen the season in the Top 10 as it did in 2006.
However, as WVU proved in the Gator Bowl, it's not how you start,but how you finish.
Part of a busy road leading into the centre of Aberdeen has temporary traffic lights this weekend.
They were to operate on a short stretch of Wellington Road southof the Souterhead roundabout.
The carriageway was to be reduced to a single lane today andtomorrow while a drainage channel is dug across the road.
The work is part of the pounds5 million scheme to dual the finalsection of Wellington Road.
The traffic lights were due to start at 7.30am today and remainuntil 4pm, with traffic flowing normally overnight.
The signals will be reinstalled at 7.30am tomorrow and removedwhen work is completed later in the day.
An elite South African graft-busting unit is to be dissolved, the safety and security minister said Tuesday in the latest episode in a struggle between the country's crime fighting agencies.
The unit, known as the Scorpions, was the investigating arm of the national prosecuting authority, and police had seen it as invading their turf.
The unit has been behind some high-profile cases including the prosecution of national police commissioner Jackie Selebi, who has temporarily stepped down, and the new leader of the ANC, Jacob Zuma.
"The Scorpions will be dissolved and the organized crime unit of the police will be phased out and a new amalgamated unit created," minister Charles Nqakula told Parliament, the South African Press Association reported.
Nqakula did not say to whom the amalgamated unit would report and when it would be formed.
The spectacle of elite investigators fighting one another has left some South Africans wondering who is fighting crime in a country with more than 50 murders each day.
Nqakula said the merger would combine the "best experience" of the Scorpions and the police's unit and was part of a revamp of the criminal justice system, which would have organized crime as one of its main priorities.
"We need proper measures, better human and material resources to achieve our goals in the fight against all crime," he said.
The ANC decided at its December congress, which resoundingly elected Zuma over President Thabo Mbeki, that the unit would be dissolved by June.
It claims the unit has been used by Mbeki to settle political scores and accuse prosecutors of using "Hollywood style" tactics against Zuma, who is to stand trial in August on charges of fraud, money laundering, corruption and racketeering.
Nqakula's announcement was met by outrage from opposition parties who see the move to dissolve the unit as an attempt by the ANC to assert its control over Parliament _ and Mbeki.
"This announcement once again shows that the country is now run, not by Parliament, but by those few in Luthuli House (ANC headquarters)," said legislator Dianne Kohler Barnard, spokeswoman for the Democratic Alliance.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Brett Favre picked a near-perfect way to become the winningest quarterback in NFL history. Favre completed his first 14 passes of the second half and threw three touchdown passes to rally the Green Bay Packers to a 35-13 victory over Eli Manning and the New York Giants on Sunday.
The victory was the 149th of Favre's 17-year career and gave him one more than Hall of Famer John Elway.
It also gave the Packers their first 2-0 start since they won their first three in 2001.
The loss was the second straight for the undisciplined and error-prone Giants, something that hasn't happened at the start of a season since 1996 - the year Dan Reeves got fired.
Tom Coughlin, who came into the season under pressure to do more than make the playoffs, may now be really under the gun.
Favre threw a go-ahead 2-yard touchdown pass to Bubba Franks on the Packers' opening series of the second half. The eight-time Pro Bowl quarterback added TD tosses of 3-yards to Donald Lee and 10 yards to Donald Driver after New York rookie Ahmad Bradshaw fumbled the ensuing kickoff.
Favre finished 29-of-38 for 286 yards, including 18-of-21 for 147 yards in the second half as he constantly exposed the Giants' suspect defense with short passes.
Rookie DeShawn Wynn added touchdown runs of 6 and 38 yards for Green Bay.
Manning, whose playing status was uncertain all week because of a sprained shoulder, played well, leading New York to scores on three consecutive series bridging the second and third quarters. He threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress and helped set up field goals of 48 and 32 yards by Lawrence Tynes, who also missed a 34-yarder on the opening series of the game.
Manning finished 16-of-29 for 211 yards. He threw a costly interception to defensive tackle Corey Williams with 6:35 to play. Backup Jared Lorenzen replaced Manning after Wynn's long touchdown run gave Green Bay a 35-13 lead.
Down 10-7 at the half, Favre dominated the second half despite getting little help from his rushing attack.
A 42-yard kickoff return by Tramon Williams gave the Packers the ball at their own 49. Favre needed 10 plays to go the 51 yards. He hit fullback Korey Hall for two 10-yard dumpoffs early in the drive and a 17-yarder James Jones before finding the burly Franks for the go-ahead touchdown. Favre completed all five passes on the drive.
After Tynes' 32-yard field goal cut the gap to 14-13, Favre engineered an 80-yard drive on which he hit all nine of his passes. None was longer than 19 yards and six were less than 10 yards, including the 3-yarder to Lee on a pass to the right corner of the end zone.
Favre iced the game after Bradshaw's fumble on the kickoff was recovered by Tracy White at the New York 22. Five plays later, he found Driver in the back of the end zone for a 28-13 lead.
The Giants, who gave up 45 points in a season-opening loss to Dallas, were defenseless in the second half. While Manning played well on offense, New York made a lot of dumb plays.
Pro Bowl tight end Jeremy Shockey was called for a delay penalty after a first-down catch at the Packers 16 late in the first half with the score tied at 7. He later dropped a potential first-down pass at the Green Bay 3 just seconds later, forcing Tynes to make a 48-yard field goal and give the Giants a 10-7 lead.
Veteran Amani Toomer also had an embarrassing mistake in the third quarter. He was called for a taunting penalty at the Green Bay 8 a couple of plays before New York had to settle for Tynes' second field goal, cutting the Packers lead to 14-13 with 4:22 left in the third quarter.
Instead of a third-and-goal at the Green Bay 8, New York was pushed back to the 23.
Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first system to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, strengthened slightly off the North Carolina coast Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches of rain in some areas of the drought-stricken state.
At 8 a.m. EDT, the center of the storm was about 40 miles south-southwest of Cape Lookout, N.C., and about 105 miles southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C. The National Hurricane Center said Cristobal was moving northeast at about 6 mph. Maximum sustained winds increased about 5 mph Sunday to 50 mph, with some higher gusts.
The storm was expected to skirt the Outer Banks on Sunday, fueling tides 2 to 3 feet above normal. The National Weather Service said a few areas could see flooding from heavy rain.
"Unless this thing does something really unusual, we're only expecting minor problems _ some gusty winds and maybe a few heavy rain bands," said John Elardo, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Tropical storm warnings remained in effect from north of Little River Inlet in South Carolina to the North Carolina-Virginia state line.
Minor flooding was reported in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday, and the area picked up 3.43 inches of rain, a record for the day.
The storm's heaviest winds and rains have stayed well offshore, though the winds have created strong rip currents along the beaches, and forecasters advised people not to swim in the ocean Sunday even if the weather cleared.
The National Hurricane Center said by early Monday that Cristobal was expected to move faster and farther away from the coast.
The rain could provide some benefits. Eastern North Carolina is under a moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Officials have blamed the drought for a huge wildfire that has charred more than 62 square miles in eastern North Carolina since it began June 1 with a lightning strike.
At the By The Sea Motel in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., out-of-state visitors photographed outer storm bands Saturday as Cristobal churned off the coast, said hotel manager Charlie Peterson. Intermittent light rain fell in the afternoon but that wasn't enough to chase them away.
"They've got their cameras set and they think there is going to be lightning over the water," he said.
Elsewhere, Hurricane Fausto was expected to weaken far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while Hurricane Bertha, the longest-lived July tropical storm in history, was downgraded to a tropical storm.
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Associated Press Writers Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, S.C., and Bill Cormier in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Reel Life / Randall King
TO the casual bookstore browser, Kier-La Janisse's book A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, looks like a handy, user-friendly guide to the life and career of an Italian character actor.
But Janisse cops to the fact that the book is the manifestation of a singular obsession.
Your first clue is the fact Rossi, who died in 2005, is truly obscure. As Janisse notes in the book, Rossi's principle contribution to the dozens of spaghetti westerns, giallo thrillers and horror movies in which he appeared was to die an ignominious death. (In The Violent Professionals, the Carlo Ponti-produced film that gave the book its title, Rossi is an escaped fugitive who is gunned down in the first 10 minutes of the movie.)
Fortunately for Kier-La (pronounced Kayla), obsession is a quality that has defined her own chosen, non-violent profession.
Janisse is the assistant to Cinematheque programmer Dave Barber, a position she took up in August after achieving something of a pinnacle in the field of cinema programming. She worked in Austin, Texas, for the previous five years at the Mecca of cult movies, the Alamo Drafthouse, the theatre where Quentin Tarantino and Ain't It Cool News's Harry Knowles hold their own film festivals.
Janisse was born in Winnipeg and raised in Windsor from the age of two. She returned to her city of birth at the age of 15 to live with her father. As a teenager, she was a fan to the bone.
"I was still writing letters to David Cassidy when I was 18," she says. "I was like a total Tiger Beat kid. I had posters all over my walls, and I wrote fan letters incessantly."
But the subjects of her obsessions matured and... darkened.
"As I grew older, I grew more interested in obscure movies, obscure music, whatever..."
She moved to Vancouver when she was 20, and her obsession fixated eventually on horror films. By the age of 26, she was publishing her own fanzine while working at the cult video specialty shop Black Dog Video on Cambie Street. Soon, she was also hosting her own film festival, titled CineMuerte, in sardonic tribute to "Mexican murder magazines." The festival eventually brought her to the attention of the owners of the Alamo Drafthouse, who visited Vancouver and were impressed with the fact that Janisse singlehandedly mounted the festival.
"They were very proactive people and they were fairly young people who started this giant cult movie empire down there and they just appreciate people who are proactive, so they offered me a job." (Janisse might still be there, except for the niggly detail of her Canadian citizenship. When she applied for a work visa, she had no less than Tarantino and director Joe Dante writing letters suggesting she was uniquely suited for her position as a programmer, but to no avail.)
Throughout that time, Janisse still found time to pursue her interest in obscure European cinema, especially when films might have included the blond, Rome-born thespian Luciano Rossi. Janisse says her attraction to the actor was that he simply cut a unique presence in his movies, and his face kept popping up time and again.
"He's actually very handsome," she says. "There are these bit players that you just kind of become obsessed with -- Steve Buscemi or whoever -- and you ask: Who is that guy?
"So it started out like that," she says. "I once saw him in some movie where he had really greasy hair and I just liked that so I wanted to see more movies where he has hair like that. So I was calling European Trash Cinema (a clearing house for obscure European cinema in the market of bootleg tapes) and I was totally annoying him because I was like: 'Do you have any movies with Luciano Rossi where his hair is really greasy?'"
But unlike the transient obsessions of her youth, her fixation on Rossi endured.
"When you're a teen heartthrob, the audience is very fickle because they get saturated with your image and they get sick of you and they move on to the next person," she says. "The great thing about the bit player is that you never get sick of them because you can never see them as much as you want to."
It's even harder to sell a publisher on the notion that they should publish a book about the object of your cinematic desire. Janisse went to the U.K. company Fab Press and pitched the idea to publisher Harvey Fenton.
"He said, 'It's great if you write it but I couldn't pick it up because I'd never be able to sell that book,'" Janisse says. "So I had resigned myself to having to do it myself and publish it myself."
Janisse employed a designer friend Rob Jones, who had done work for The White Stripes, and sent eye-catching, professional-looking finished pages of her project to Fenton to show him she was going ahead anyway.
"These punchy reviews and this crazy full-colour design and so that package was what sold him on it more than the idea of it being a book about Luciano Rossi," she says.
The book was already released in Europe since April and has been on Fab Press's top 10 list, according to the company's website. It's debatable whether the North American release (it's been available on Amazon since late October) will attract as many buyers. But the book has its own undeniable appeal in its juxtaposition of Euro exploitation film savvy coupled with a sweet taste of girlish idolatry.
"All the movies are rated with stars and hearts," Janisse says. "The stars rate how much screentime he has in the movie and they hearts rate how cute he is in the movie."
The book release party for A Violent Professional will include a dubbed screening of the Rossi film Violent Naples. The book will be available for sale too.
randall.king@freepress.mb.ca
Preview
A Violent Professional Book Release Party
Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.
Cinematheque
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Reel Life / Randall King
TO the casual bookstore browser, Kier-La Janisse's book A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, looks like a handy, user-friendly guide to the life and career of an Italian character actor.
But Janisse cops to the fact that the book is the manifestation of a singular obsession.
Your first clue is the fact Rossi, who died in 2005, is truly obscure. As Janisse notes in the book, Rossi's principle contribution to the dozens of spaghetti westerns, giallo thrillers and horror movies in which he appeared was to die an ignominious death. (In The Violent Professionals, the Carlo Ponti-produced film that gave the book its title, Rossi is an escaped fugitive who is gunned down in the first 10 minutes of the movie.)
Fortunately for Kier-La (pronounced Kayla), obsession is a quality that has defined her own chosen, non-violent profession.
Janisse is the assistant to Cinematheque programmer Dave Barber, a position she took up in August after achieving something of a pinnacle in the field of cinema programming. She worked in Austin, Texas, for the previous five years at the Mecca of cult movies, the Alamo Drafthouse, the theatre where Quentin Tarantino and Ain't It Cool News's Harry Knowles hold their own film festivals.
Janisse was born in Winnipeg and raised in Windsor from the age of two. She returned to her city of birth at the age of 15 to live with her father. As a teenager, she was a fan to the bone.
"I was still writing letters to David Cassidy when I was 18," she says. "I was like a total Tiger Beat kid. I had posters all over my walls, and I wrote fan letters incessantly."
But the subjects of her obsessions matured and... darkened.
"As I grew older, I grew more interested in obscure movies, obscure music, whatever..."
She moved to Vancouver when she was 20, and her obsession fixated eventually on horror films. By the age of 26, she was publishing her own fanzine while working at the cult video specialty shop Black Dog Video on Cambie Street. Soon, she was also hosting her own film festival, titled CineMuerte, in sardonic tribute to "Mexican murder magazines." The festival eventually brought her to the attention of the owners of the Alamo Drafthouse, who visited Vancouver and were impressed with the fact that Janisse singlehandedly mounted the festival.
"They were very proactive people and they were fairly young people who started this giant cult movie empire down there and they just appreciate people who are proactive, so they offered me a job." (Janisse might still be there, except for the niggly detail of her Canadian citizenship. When she applied for a work visa, she had no less than Tarantino and director Joe Dante writing letters suggesting she was uniquely suited for her position as a programmer, but to no avail.)
Throughout that time, Janisse still found time to pursue her interest in obscure European cinema, especially when films might have included the blond, Rome-born thespian Luciano Rossi. Janisse says her attraction to the actor was that he simply cut a unique presence in his movies, and his face kept popping up time and again.
"He's actually very handsome," she says. "There are these bit players that you just kind of become obsessed with -- Steve Buscemi or whoever -- and you ask: Who is that guy?
"So it started out like that," she says. "I once saw him in some movie where he had really greasy hair and I just liked that so I wanted to see more movies where he has hair like that. So I was calling European Trash Cinema (a clearing house for obscure European cinema in the market of bootleg tapes) and I was totally annoying him because I was like: 'Do you have any movies with Luciano Rossi where his hair is really greasy?'"
But unlike the transient obsessions of her youth, her fixation on Rossi endured.
"When you're a teen heartthrob, the audience is very fickle because they get saturated with your image and they get sick of you and they move on to the next person," she says. "The great thing about the bit player is that you never get sick of them because you can never see them as much as you want to."
It's even harder to sell a publisher on the notion that they should publish a book about the object of your cinematic desire. Janisse went to the U.K. company Fab Press and pitched the idea to publisher Harvey Fenton.
"He said, 'It's great if you write it but I couldn't pick it up because I'd never be able to sell that book,'" Janisse says. "So I had resigned myself to having to do it myself and publish it myself."
Janisse employed a designer friend Rob Jones, who had done work for The White Stripes, and sent eye-catching, professional-looking finished pages of her project to Fenton to show him she was going ahead anyway.
"These punchy reviews and this crazy full-colour design and so that package was what sold him on it more than the idea of it being a book about Luciano Rossi," she says.
The book was already released in Europe since April and has been on Fab Press's top 10 list, according to the company's website. It's debatable whether the North American release (it's been available on Amazon since late October) will attract as many buyers. But the book has its own undeniable appeal in its juxtaposition of Euro exploitation film savvy coupled with a sweet taste of girlish idolatry.
"All the movies are rated with stars and hearts," Janisse says. "The stars rate how much screentime he has in the movie and they hearts rate how cute he is in the movie."
The book release party for A Violent Professional will include a dubbed screening of the Rossi film Violent Naples. The book will be available for sale too.
randall.king@freepress.mb.ca
Preview
A Violent Professional Book Release Party
Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.
Cinematheque
A week after a Londoner's sudden death at a rally he apparently never wanted to be part of, his strange case is raising difficult questions for the capital's police.
Ian Tomlinson, a burly 47-year-old newspaper vendor, was trying to make his way home after work April 1 when he, seemingly inadvertently, got caught up in the sporadic clashes between police and protesters drawn by the Group of 20 economic summit.
Initial autopsy reports indicated he died of a heart attack, and police said the protesters had hampered their attempt to revive him. The inference was that the police had nothing to do with his demise.
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The Mayor of Chicago has approved a plan to commence a bidding process for a private contractor to manage Midway Airport's electricians, engineers and janitors.
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Byline: Pete Dougherty
Dozens if not hundreds of charity golf tournaments are organized each summer in the Capital Region, but not every player can afford a couple of hundred dollars to participate.
Now for the philanthropists on a tighter budget, the U.S. Golf Assocation and the PGA of America offer a chance to make a difference for only a buck.
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Byline: Vincent Jackson Staff writer
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of a sweeping plan to cut cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said …
"Prospective Evaluation of the ColorSPOT Test System (Seradyn, Inc.) for the Serodiagnosis of Mononucleosis Syndrome." C.A. Denys. Clarian Health Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana.
According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 8th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, held May 15-18, 1998, in Boston, Massachusetts, "The ColorSPOT Test System (Mono-C and Mono-M tests) utilize an enzyme-linked immunoassay dot technique for qualitative detection of antibodies (Alec) on assay strips. The Mono-C test detects Epstein-Barr virus viral capsid antigen (EBV-VCA), EBV early nuclear antigen (EBV-EBNA), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and toxoplasma (toxo) IgG …
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BMI Healthcare, which runs the Paddocks, said it would be changing the hospital from an inpatient service to an outpatient and consulting facility.
The shake-up will mean some redundancies, a spokesman said.
"Sadly, some jobs that are directly or indirectly related to inpatient care and surgery will be lost at The Paddocks Hospital and we will be making every effort, in consultation with the staff directly affected, to support them in obtaining similar positions at The Chiltern, Shelburne or another of BMI Healthcare's 49 hospitals around the country, he …
Judged strictly by the numbers, the new nuclear arms treaty that President Bush intends to sign next week in Moscow is a significant one. Yet the larger significance may well lie in what the treaty won't do. And judged from that perspective, the treaty is more of a mixed success.
The fact that Russian President Putin is willing to join Mr. Bush in signing the accord is a victory of sorts for the White House. Only recently, Mr. Bush had come under attack from critics at home and around the world for abrogating the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 to clear the way for building and deploying a missile defense system. Mr. Putin strongly objected at the time, though …
A Suffolk County man will be sentenced Sept. 5 after pleading guilty Monday before Saratoga County Judge Frank B. Williams to one count of attempted second-degree robbery.
Richard Nicolai, 19, of Patchogue had been charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree assault in an attack on a woman identified as Betty Wagner as they rode in a car on the Northway in Malta on Jan. 19.
A second Suffolk County man indicted on the same charges in the attack - Norman Jones, 28, of Central Islip - had pleaded guilty …
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"Shoot the puck!" he yelled, adding a colorful adjective for emphasis. The word fit.
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Byline: STEVEN K. PAULSON Associated Press
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Capsules for Saturday's second-round matches at the World Cup (FIFA rankings in parentheses):
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Uruguay (16) vs. South Korea (47), 10 a.m.
Port Elizabeth
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NORTH GREENBUSH -- St. Timothy's Lutheran Church, Winter Street Extension and Bloomingrove Drive, will hold its fifth annual flu clinic from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15. Participants must pre-register and meet certain criteria. Due to a limited supply, walk-ins will be not be accepted. This community service is part of St. Timothy's Healing Ministry and is co-sponsored by Seton Health.
For more information and to register, call 479-3432.
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