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State wildlife officials are trying to determine the species of a blue eyeball found by a man Wednesday at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale.
They put the eyeball on ice so it can be analyzed at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.
Agency spokeswoman Carli Segelson says the eyeball likely came from a marine animal, since it was found on a beach. Possible candidates include a giant squid, a whale or some type of large fish.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Israel conducted a rare airstrike inside Syria near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks, foreign officials said Wednesday, amid fears President Bashar Assad's regime is providing weapons to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.
Regional security officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike to hit a shipment of weapons bound for Hezbollah, Lebanon's most powerful military force. Among Israeli officials' chief fears is that Assad will pass chemical weapons or sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah — something that could change the balance of power in the region and greatly hinder Israel's ability to conduct air sorties in Lebanon.
The regional officials said the shipment Israel was planning to strike included Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, which would be strategically "game-changing" in the hands of Hezbollah by enabling the group to carry out fiercer attacks on Israel and shoot down Israeli jets, helicopters and surveillance drones.
Hezbollah has committed to Israel's destruction and has gone to war against the Jewish state in the past.
A U.S. official confirmed the strike, saying it hit a convoy of trucks.
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the strike.
The Israeli military declined to comment, and Syrian officials and state media were silent on the issue.
Top Israeli officials have recently expressed worries that if desperate, Assad's regime could pass chemical weapons to Hezbollah or other militant groups.
President Barack Obama has called Syria's use of chemical weapons a "red line" whose crossing could prompt a tougher U.S. response, but U.S. officials say they are tracking Syria's chemical weapons and that they still appear to be solidly under regime control.
The strike, carried out either late Tuesday or early Wednesday, appears to be the latest move in a long running race by Hezbollah to increase its military power while Israel seeks to limit it.
Syria has long been among the militant group's most significant backers and is suspected of supplying with funding and arms, as well as a land corridor to Iran.
This strike, however, comes as Assad is enmeshed in a civil war with rebels trying to oust him. The rebels have seized a large swath of territory in the country's north and established footholds in a number of suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus, though Assad's forces still control the city and much of the rest of the country.
While Assad's fall does not appear imminent, analysts worry he could grow desperate as his power wanes and seek to cause trouble elsewhere in the region through proxy groups like Hezbollah.
Israel suspects that Damascus obtained a battery of SA-17s from Russia after an alleged Israeli airstrike in 2007 that destroyed an unfinished Syrian nuclear reactor.
Earlier this week, Israel moved a battery of its new "Iron Dome" rocket defense system to the northern city of Haifa, which was battered by Hezbollah rocket fire in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli army called that move "routine."
If confirmed, the airstrike would be the first inside Syria in more than five years. In September 2007,Israeli warplanes destroyed a site in Syria that the U.N. nuclear watchdog deemed likely to be a secretly built nuclear reactor. Syria has refuted the claim, saying the building was a non-nuclear military site.
Syria allowed international inspectors to visit the bombed site in 2008 but it has refused to allow nuclear inspectors new access. This has heightened suspicions that Syria has something to hide, along with its decision to level the destroyed structure and later build over it.
Israeli warplanes flew over Assad's palace in 2006 after Syrian-backed militants in Gaza captured an Israeli soldier.
And in 2003, Israeli warplanes attacked a suspected militant training camp just north of the Syrian capital, in response to an Islamic JIhad suicide bombing in the city of Haifa that killed 21 Israelis.
Syria vowed to retaliate for both attacks, but never did.
The military in Lebanon, which shares borders with both Israel and Syria, said Wednesday that Israeli warplanes have sharply increased their activity over Lebanon in the past week, including at least 12 sorties in less than 24 hours in the country's south.
A senior Lebanese security official said no Israeli airstrikes occurred inside Lebanese territory. Asked whether it could have been along the border on the Syrian side, he said that that could not be confirmed as it was out of his area of operations.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
A Lebanese army statement said the last of the sorties took place at 2 a.m. local time Wednesday. It said four warplanes which flew in over the southernmost coastal town of Naqoura hovered for several hours over villages in southern Lebanon before leaving Lebanese airspace.
It said similar flights by eight other warplanes were conducted Tuesday.
A Lebanese security official said the flights were part of "increased activity" in the past week but did not elaborate. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The U.N. Agency tasked with monitoring the Lebanon-Israeli border said in a statement Wednesday it had no information on any strikes near the Syria-Lebanon border. It did note, however, a "high number of Israeli overflights" on Tuesday.
"These air violations have continued on an almost daily basis," it said.
The area of Lebanon where the flights took place borders southern Syria.
Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace are not uncommon and Lebanese authorities routinely lodge complaints at the U.N. against the flights.
Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 war, and Syria demands the area back as part of any peace deal. Despite hostility between the two countries, Syria has been careful to keep the border quiet since the 1973 Mideast war and has never retaliated to Israeli attacks since.
In May 2011, only two months after the uprising against Assad started, hundreds of Palestinians overran the tightly controlled Syria-Israeli frontier in a move widely thought to have been facilitated by the Assad regime, to divert the world's gaze from his growing troubles at home.
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Morning Jolt: Mom forces screaming toddler to get tattoo
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Video surfaces of a mom making her young child get a tattoo. Scroll below to watch.
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A woman and her boyfriend were arrested by police after they found a developmentally disabled 8-year-old girl locked in a wooden cage at home. Police went to the home after the estranged husband of the woman went to a school for a movie screening and saw the woman, who told the man the child was caged at her home. The man called police, who waited for the woman to return home.
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Repair and reuse experts iFixit flew to Australia to get one of the first available iPhone 5s, and then immediately tore it to pieces. iFixit's usual thorough analysis reveals that nearly every hardware component has been upgraded or improved, yet is so power efficient that the battery capacity largely remains the same. The updated unibody-style construction of the case also means that it's relatively easy to remove and replace the front LCD touchscreen panel—a common iPhone repair, according to iFixit.
Unlike the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, which was disassembled from back to front, getting at the iPhone 5's guts involved removing the front panel first. This is reminiscent of the iPhone 3G and 3GS, according to iFixit, and makes replacing a cracked screen relatively quick and easy. "Good news for all the phone droppers out there," iFixit's Miroslav Djuric said in a statement. "Compare to the iPhone 4S, where it took 38 steps to isolate the display assembly."
Once inside, the new battery is obvious. As we suspected, the battery is taller and flatter than in previous iPhone models. It also has a slightly higher capacity at 5.45Whr, compared to 5.3Whr with the iPhone 4S.
Despite the tiny increase in overall power capacity, the iPhone 5 still contains improved internals. The A6 processor promises twice the compute and graphics performance, the Qualcomm MDM9615 baseband delivers LTE compatibility, updated WiFi works on faster 5GHz channels, and improved TI and Broadcom chips power the larger 4" touchscreen's multitouch input. Despite the more-powerful internals, the iPhone 5 is rated for essentially the same amount of talk and standby time as the iPhone 4S.
The power efficiency is due in large part to the move to smaller process nodes for some of the important chips. The A6 processor is built on a 32nm high K process by Samsung, while the Qualcomm baseband is etched using a 28nm process by TSMC. Other power improvements derive from the A6's custom ARM core design as well as targeted power management in iOS 6.
Other notable improvements include an integrated metal support bracket for the iPhone 5's home button. Many of us in the Ars Orbiting HQ have suffered from a deteriorating home button on the iPhone 4 and 4S, which tends to fail after about a year or so. This redesign hopefully will add some durability. If not, it's an easy fix, according to iFixit
iFixit noted that the sapphire crystal cover that Apple added to the iPhone 5 camera lens couldn't be scratched by a pair of steel needle nose pliers. But the "slate" anodized coating on the black iPhone model may show signs of wear after extended use.
"We found that the side is pretty tough, but the chamfered edge can be susceptible to scuffing—making for a shiny streak on the side," Djuric said. "Moral of this story: be careful, or get a case. Or be free like the wind and just don't care."
Overall, the iPhone 5's revised construction—despite some tricky and compact components—earned it a 7/10 "repairability" score from iFixit. "The further we delved, the more excited we got—even though we had to remove two pentalobe screws to get inside. The oft-broken and hard to repair home button now sports an integrated metal support bracket that should reduce the chance of failure, and the battery comes out just as easily as in last year's model."
For more about the major silicon components inside the iPhone 5, or just to get a gander inside the device, head over to iFixit and check out the full teardown.
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3. Planning a New Vehicle Purchase in Trimble – Missouri
4. Best to Find Insurance for Cars in Trimble – Missouri
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Underneath the Wigs: Uncovering The Americans' Hair-Raising Disguises
On the back of The Americans' hair and makeup trailer door is a photo collage of the cast and crew each in the same wig. It's not Clark or John Denver or any other of Philip's (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth's (Keri Russell) follicular get-ups on the FX series - but Felicity's famous curls.
"Isn't it hilarious? I love it," Russell, the erstwhile Felicity, tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "It's so great. I'm all about the hair!"
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So is The Americans. The spy drama has never met a wig it didn't like, outfitting Russell and Rhys in such ridiculous and fantastic espionage 'dos, ranging from dowdy to sexy, that the wigs have become the true stars of the show.
"It's really been a wild experience," Peg Schierholz, the show's hair department head, says. "Lori [Hicks, the makeup head] and I had never intended for the wigs to blow up this way. It's really amazing how much people love them. We kept getting these interesting scripts from the writers, then we'd start playing around with ideas and it just kind of evolved."
While Philip's and Elizabeth's disguises were always meant to be an integral part of the show, not even executive producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields foresaw the wig-asm phenomenon to come. "We had no idea going into it what it would be like," Weisberg says. "We trusted [Schierholz and Hicks] and what they've come up with is genius. The other day, despite the fact that I knew Elizabeth is coming in [to a scene], for a second, I was like, 'Who's that?' That's how great the disguises are. They called that particular one the Margaret Thatcher."
The key, Schierholz says, is to do it all with a nudge-nudge-wink-wink while respecting the actual spycraft disguises of the '80s. The scripts usually dictate a "light" disguise - hat and glasses - or a "heavy" one - wigs and the whole shebang - or it might simply list the new identity, like "CIA bureaucrat" or a "Department of Defense officer." Schierholz, who has worked on The Talented Mr. Ripley, Enchanted, Julie & Julia and Blue Jasmine, and Hicks consult period magazines they've ordered online, including Time and Playboy, and even a book of real disguises the East German police used.
"We start with the wigs and work from there. Should we do it completely real? No. It would be too much of a joke for today's eyes. We try to find the line in between where it's humorous but not too serious," Schierholz says. "The thing with the '80s is everyone looked like they were in disguise anyway. There's not as much of a homogenous look as there is now."
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Although the number of personas keeps growing on the show - they're all named - Schierholz has a finite number of wigs to work with. Wigs are constantly reused and tweaked, and the stars often share them. Elizabeth's disguise as Jennifer, the sister of Philip's Clark, was born by adding tresses to the back of Clark's stunt double wig. "I've done wigs in movies in the past, but in TV, you don't get a lot of opportunities like this where you can be creative," Schierholz says. "In a movie, you have a beginning, middle and end. Here, you don't know what's happening next."
Take Clark. Arguably the show's most famous wig, Philip's crusty grey-blonde 'do that he dons in his other fake marriage to poor, unassuming Martha (Alison Wright) was never meant to appear this frequently. "We understood that Clark was going to be seen in the pilot and we thought we'd never see him again. [When we were shooting] the pilot, it was so hectic ... we just kept pulling things out of boxes, like, 'We can make this work.' All of the sudden, everybody liked him and he became an established character," Schierholz says. "I think as the season goes on, you'll see the Clark wig evolve in a more believable way."
Believable as in Martha will finally pull it off during the throes of passion? It'll slide off during a long, steamy shower? The tenacity with which Clark remains stuck on Philip's head has the cast and crew fielding questions about Soviet wig technology. "There's a really odd twist with it, and I can't spoil it," Schierholz teases. "That's finally answered in the last episode with a loving, wifely gesture by Martha."
Whenever Russell and Rhys have downtime on set, Schierholz tests new looks on them to keep in her back pocket - or more accurately, on a wall collage in the trailer opposite the racks of wigs in repose. "We photograph them, so when something comes up, we can go, 'Oh, that might be good,'" she says. Some backlogged disguises are Bubblegum Girl ("She looks like a waitress who chews a lot of gum") and the Tom Snyder, the former NBC News anchor and late-night host.
New ones fans will definitely see this season include Record Girl (a punk alter ego for Russell that Schierholz had to fight for) on Wednesday's episode, Vietnam Vet (restyled from Rhys' notorious greasy and goateed Fernando wig) and a Boys Don't Cry look for Russell, who is openly envious of the breadth of Rhys' disguises. "Mine are fun, but he gets facial hair and mustaches," she says. "You can drastically change a person with a beard or a mustache. A girl - oh, the eyeliner's different. Facial hair changes your look dramatically. You can really hide something. The shape of a mouth is so specific and to be able to hide that is so incredible, so yeah, I'm jealous!"
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Schierholz has started experimenting with moles and skin tones as facial hair alternatives for Russell. Though she admits that she feels pressure to come up with new styles, Schierholz says it's most satisfying to put twists on existing ones. "We keep trying to surprise people, but not be too outlandish about it," she says. "The producers love it when we come up with things that are subtle enough to make a difference in the characters."
And will we ever see the Felicity wig on the show?
"I mentioned it to Joel and Joe, but it seems to me that Felicity can't be a killer," Schierholz says. "That wouldn't work. I'm trying to find one of those benign scenes to stick her in there, maybe for a second or something."
The Americans airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on FX.
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Last year we had a few posts with recipes for this time of the year:
Yom Tov Recipes – Carrot Kugel
Yom Tov Recipes – From Prime Grill's Chef David Kolotkin
Yom Tov Recipes – Personal Honeyed Chocolate Lava Cake
This year we feature yom tov recipes again and we'll start this year's series with one of Chef Lévana Kirschenbaum's dishes, from her new book The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen.
Cranberry Apricot Bread Pudding
I often whip up this treat after a party, when I look to recycle my leftover bread. Attention gluten- free diners: This is for you too!
Any bread will do as long as it is not too crusty (in other words, don't use baguette or ciabatta!). You will love the kick and the bold ruby-colored specks the cranberries add. Nothing to it: All aboard-one step and you're done! Individual desserts: Pour into greased muffin molds and reduce the baking time to about 45 minutes.
Sometimes cranberries can be hard to find, like in this Rosh Hashanah holiday season, so I am making the pudding with apples, which is every bit as delicious. I have included the apple variation, every bit as delicious and as pretty.
- 3 cups milk or dairy-free milk, low-fat OK
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-fruit apricot preserves
- ½ cup sugar
- 1/2 cup oil
- 2 tablespoons orange flower water (settle for 2 tablespoons orange zest)
- 3 tablespoons apricot brandy or rum
- 3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, coarsely chopped (food processor)
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Mix all ingredients except cranberries by hand in a bowl, breaking up the bread and preserves as you go. Fold in the cranberries. Pour the batter into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan, or a greased 10-inch round pan. Bake for about 1 hour, or a little longer, until the pudding looks nice and puffy, and the center is firm. Serve warm or at room temperature, alone or with caramel sauce (recipe follows), and a scoop of sorbet or vanilla ice cream. Makes a dozen servings.
variation: Apple Bread Pudding GFA
Skip the cranberries and the orange flower water, reduce the milk to 2 cups. Add 4 Granny Smith (green) apples, unpeeled and coarsely grated and 2 tablespoons ciinamon. Proceed just as above.
Caramel Sauce
Another glowing example of a treat known as dairy that doesn't in the least suffer from a dairy-free adaptation, au contraire! (Go ahead and multiply the recipe if you would like-it keeps very well.)
- 1 cup Sucanat
- ½ cup agave syrup
- ⅓ cup water
- ¾ cup dairy-free milk, low-fat OK
- ⅓ cup soy or rice milk powder
- 3 tablespoons brandy or rum
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
Bring the Sucanat, agave, and water to boil in a small saucepan, stirring. When it comes to a boil, stop stirring and cook until thick and a deep amber color, 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk the remaining ingredients in a small bowl until perfectly smooth, then carefully add to the saucepan (to avoid splattering). Cook another 3 minutes on a medium flame, whisking. Makes about 2½ cups. Store refrigerated in a glass jar.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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Like my hunter post this will be short and to the point. This is a 'get you up and running' post and not a serious attempt at theory crafting. I have only tanked 2 or 3 runs so far with my bear so I don't know everything there is to know about it. This intended to be a quick start guide to show the basics of how to play a bear in 4.0.1 (and in 4.0.3)
First off your aoe threat will be crap. No really. It will be rather bad. Swipe on a cooldown is fairly painful. Don't give up the bear yet though. We have other things going on now. For one thing single target threat is insane. Seriously. I was pulling stuff off other tanks without using taunts, without trying to, and when they had a head start on the threat.
So let's get to it…
Glyph your maul. Yeah you probably already had that but make sure. You will need it.
For a spec check out Uncrittable or Big Bear Butt. They both have some that are good. Mine is pretty close to those. Don't bother checking mine. I just slapped some stuff in there.
Well it is more of a priority/rotation. Whatever.
You still want to swipe all you can. If you are going to be doing AOE threat you will need to tab target and maul a lot too. If you are doing single target threat it is the same as before, lots of lacerate.
But wait! There is more!
Whereas before we did heavy single target damage with lots of lacerate… and after the first 5 we were wasting it and filling in with FF and maul instead, now we have a new tool. Pulverize! This thing eats your lacerates so you will not waste their dots. And lacerate only goes to 3 stacks. My rotation so far has been this.
Lacerate-lacerate-lacerate-pulverize *repeat*
Filling in with swipes and mauls as needed for multi target threat. This does a metric ton of single target threat and pretty solid tank dps too. There are probably many ways to improve on it so don't take this as the final word. It is merely a workable first word.
Keep in mind we still have feral fearie fire and growl for grabbing things at range… BUT WAIT!! There is MORE!
At long last, all your caster mobs are belong to me. We finally have a ranged silence… sort of. In the past bears have had no ability to move ranged casters around. It was line-of-sight or nothing. Now we can. It is not much, but we CAN! It is called
What it does is a short range charge (about 8 yards) with no minimum range. So you can use it on things right in your face. It also is an interrupt and short silence. So you can use it to reposition casters. Bears Rejoice!
AOE threat…
AOE threat in 4.0.1 is not as stupid simple as it was. Between the swipe cooldown and the massive 'thorns' nerf your easy-peezy aoe threat tools are gone. Now you have to work at it.
You have charge in fast and get your first swipe off as soon as targets are in range. You might need to follow up with a quick 'demoralizing roar' if there are targets your swipe did not hit. Expect someone to pull off you right away. Everyone is still AOE happy and you can be almost certain some mage is opening up with blizzard. If a hunter pulls off let them die. Any hunter that can't figure out how to use misdirect needs to spend some time in the Bee Pit.
To build up AOE threat you are probably going to need to be target swapping and spreading around your maul and some lacerate. With maul hitting two targets and your lacerating a little on everything in a pack you CAN hold aoe agro. It is just not as easy as it was. You might have to get a lot better with your taunts. If you are rage starved you can spread around some FFF too. That still costs no rage so use it as needed. AOE threat is NOT broke. Bears are not broken. Their AOE threat was just over powered before and now it takes actual skill. You have to be reactive and adaptive. If you have to, beg your dps to follow kill order and start marking things. Your single target threat should be sky-high so if you can just get people to shoot your target your agro issues will vanish.
Personally I am happy about the changes. Bear tanking had become for me nothing but spamming one button (swipe macroed to maul) and charging from pack to pack. It was pretty boring really. Now it is challenging and interesting again. Good luck!
Like I said, this is just a quick start guide. If it is not enough keep 'googling' and you will find more detailed and in-depth information.
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News FLASH!
Bear tanking got a lot more nerf than the patch notes claimed.


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Easy Cake and Brownie Mix Makeovers
Box-mix makeovers
Want to add a little pizzazz to a box-mix dessert? Start with your favorite mix -- one regular or sugar-free two-layer-size cake mix OR one family-size brownie mix (a 19.5 to 26-ounce package). Then stir, swirl or sprinkle some adds-ins -- such as flavored syrup, a little spice or chocolate chips -- and you've got a whole new creation.
Click on the recipe link below for all our add-in ideas. For photos of some finished treats and a sampling of add-in ideas, click ahead.
Fill with pudding
A super-simple fix-up: Slice cupcakes into thirds or halves, fill with pudding, frost.
Top hot cake after baking
Sprinkle chocolate and peanut butter pieces on a brownie mix while it's still hot from the oven. This technique helps the pieces stick to the cake but still retain their shape.
Other sprinkles for hot cakes: coarsely chopped chocolate-covered raisins, chocolate-covered peanuts, candy bars or unwrapped caramels.
Make it glitter
Pipe mini dollops of canned pink frosting (or white frosting tinted with red food coloring) over the top of a cupcake and sprinkle with edible glitter.
Frost with swirls
Fill slightly hollowed brownie cupcakes with a small spoon of gooey marshmallow cream and top with drizzles of melted chocolate chips.
Layer toppings
Our brownies are covered with both marshmallow cream and pink frosting, topped by chopped maraschino cherries.
For a flavored cream: Beat together a jar of marshmallow cream and a quarter-cup orange marmalade, peanut butter or your favorite flavor of ice cream topping.
Add chopped candies
Frost a chocolate cupcake with canned chocolate frosting, then sprinkle on chopped candy bar and chopped chocolate bar.
Make a marshmallow flower
Decorate a cupcake with white canned frosting tinted with orange food coloring. Snip a large marshmallow to form petals and dip in colored sugar. Add a gumdrop to the center.
Roll in sprinkles
Roll the edge of a pink-frosted cupcake in multicolor sprinkles.
Create a tropical treat
Add shredded orange peel to whipped cream or whipped topping and spread between layers and on top of cake. Finish with toasted coconut and sliced kumquats.
Kids' choice
Add animal crackers and candy-coated milk chocolate pieces to a just-frosted cupcake for instant kid appeal.
Other topper ideas for frosting: Broken peanut brittle, honey-roasted peanuts, toasted coconut, broken cookies, grated chocolate, chopped candy, miniature semisweet chocolate pieces or colored sprinkles.
Batter fix-ups: Add seasoning
Stir your choice of seasoning into basic box-mix batter. Try:
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, ground ginger, apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice
• One-half teaspoon ground chipotle chile pepper (for some heat)
• 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
Mix liquid flavor into batter
Replace 1/4 cup of the water in the box mix with one of these:
• 1/4 cup coffee liqueur
• 1/4 cup melted ice cream
• 1/4 cup flavored coffee syrup
• 1/4 cup chocolate-flavored syrup
Top ready-to-bake batter
Just before you bake your cake, top the batter with ingredients such as:
• 1 cup dried cranberries, dried cherries or raisins
• 1 cup coarsely chopped smoked almonds or other nuts
• 1 cup flaked or shredded coconut (toast coconut, if you like)
Flavor frosting
Add flavor to canned frosting by folding in ingredients such as a quarter-cup miniature semisweet chocolate pieces, 2 tablespoons chopped maraschino cherries or 2 teaspoons grated orange peel.


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Patients & Families
For Health Professionals
What do you think of when you hear the word fungus? Do you think of mushrooms? A mushroom is one type of fungus, but fungus also refers to a type of germ that lives on all of us.
This germ is harmless most of the time, but sometimes it can cause a problem called a fungal infection (say: FUN-gul in-FEK-shun). It sounds gross, but don't worry or feel embarrassed. A lot of people get fungal infections, but they're usually easy to treat because a fungus rarely spreads below the skin.
If you get one of these infections, before you know it, you'll be saying bye-bye to fungi (say: FUN-guy).
Fungi, the word for more than one fungus, can be found on different parts of the body. Here are some common types of fungal infections:
Lots of kids get fungal infections. Kids love to share and hang out together. Some of these infections are contagious (say: kon-TAY-jus), which means they easily spread from person to person. Close contact or sharing a comb or hairbrush with someone who has tinea can spread the fungus from one person to another. Because fungi need a warm, dark, and humid place to grow, public showers, pools, locker rooms, and even the warmth of shoes and socks can give fungi the perfect opportunity to strike.
Taking antibiotics can cause some kids to get a yeast infection. Antibiotics get rid of germs that make us sick, but they can also kill many of the harmless bacteria in our body. These harmless bacteria normally fight with the yeast for a place to live, but when antibiotics kill them, the yeast is free to grow.
Sometimes, a fungus may infect kids if they have an immune system disorder (this means their bodies can't fight certain types of infections). This is rare, but it does happen.
Many skin problems look like a fungal infection so the best way to know for sure is to ask your doctor. Here are some signs you and a parent can look for:
Getting rid of a fungal infection is not too hard. Your doctor may decide to scrape a small amount of the irritated skin or clip off a piece of hair or nail and look at it under a microscope or do a culture.
Once your doctor knows what kind of infection you have, special antifungal creams and shampoos can help to get rid of it. Sometimes the doctor will prescribe a medicine to take by mouth. Make sure you take the medicine for as long as the doctor tells you.
Maybe fungal infections can't be avoided altogether, but you can help yourself ward them off.
Walk away from athlete's foot by:
You can ditch jock itch by:
Prevent beastly yeast infections by:
Say bye-bye to pityriasis by:
There may always be a "fungus among us," but we can make it a lot tougher for them to invade and grow!


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State witnessed country's 'bloodiest anti-Christian attack last year.'
NEW DELHI, August 22 (Compass Direct News) – One year after India's worst-ever attack on Christians, which began after the killing of a Hindu leader on Aug. 23 in Orissa state last year, churches across the country will fast and pray for a peace that remains elusive.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) has appealed to all the Catholic dioceses in the country to "pray for peace and harmony and a spirit of reconciliation" by fasting tomorrow, one year to the day that Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was killed by non-Christian Maoists last year.
"This appeal is made in a special context to what happened to the Christians in Orissa after the murder of Saraswati in Kandhamal [district] on Aug. 23, 2008," CBCI Secretary General Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes said in a statement.
Archbishop Fernandes urged the Christian community to "adhere to the Christian principle of forgiveness and move forward so as to build a strong and integrated civil society."
On Monday (Aug. 24), an inter-denominational meeting to pray for peace, healing and reconciliation will be held at The Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi to mark "National Kandhamal Day."
Leaders of all major denominations and church groups, including the CBCI, the National Council of Churches, the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the All India Christian Council (AICC), as well as government officials, are expected to attend the meeting.
A Distant Peace
Christians believe it may take a long time for peace and reconciliation to become a reality in Kandhamal, where violence in August and September 2008 killed more than 100 people and burned more than 4,500 houses, over 250 churches and 13 educational institutions.
"The road to peace is not easily available to the Christian community," Dr. Sam Paul, spokesman for the AICC, told Compass.
The Hindu extremists who inflicted the violence last year have warned those who have returned from refugee camps for displaced Christians to withdraw the cases filed against them, Paul said.
"At some places they were threatened to convert to Hinduism," he said. "At a few places, to maintain the peace, the local Christians had to deny their faith."
Attorney Robin Ratnakar David, president of the Christian Legal Association, emphasized that without justice there can be no peace.
"Unless the administration is able to work together with the victims to ensure that the attackers are brought to justice, there will never be peace in Kandhamal," he said. "On the part of the Christians who have been displaced, there is a need to courageously give testimonies against the accused to ensure that minorities everywhere are able to live in peace."
David said it will take at least a year for the more than 827 criminal cases filed to be settled.
Dr. Krishan Kumar, Kandhamal district collector (administrative head), denied that peace had not returned to the district.
"There has been no incident of violence for more than seven months," he claimed.
Asked why a majority of the displaced Christians had not returned to their villages yet, he told Compass, "I have no knowledge about it." He added that he and other officials have been meeting regularly with religious leaders of various communities.
Dr. Sajan K. George of the Global Council of Indian Christians said Kandhamal did not need "mere moments of peace, but an era of peace."
AICC's Paul warned that if the attackers were not brought to justice, the impunity would further embolden them.
Kandhamal Today
A New Delhi-based non-profit group, the Indo Global Social Service Society, has spearheaded a campaign to gain signatures for a memorandum highlighting the true condition of Kandhamal and hopes to present it to the president of India tomorrow (Aug. 23).
The memorandum states that although more than 11,000 persons were named in police complaints, only 679 had been arrested.
It also points out that a total of 50,000 persons were displaced as a result of the destruction of their houses, arson and looting, but that less than half of them have returned to their homes.
"A number of those who have returned have been denied access to water, firewood, and even to shops to buy daily necessities," the memorandum states.
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), a private news agency, spoke to victims of the Kandhamal violence on the eve of the one-year commemoration.
"It was the darkest night of my life," recalled 45-year-old Ravinder Nath Pradhan, who a year ago saw his house and paralyzed brother doused with gas and set afire by a fanatical mob. Since then, Pradhan told IANS, justice is "nowhere near." On Aug. 24, 2008, some 500 people attacked his village and destroyed his house.
"Within moments they flung petrol on my wheelchair-bound younger brother and torched him," Pradhan, a retired soldier from Gadragaon village, told IANS. "We fled for our lives."
After the violence, his family and a group of 120 Christians were forced to flee their homes to a relief camp in the state capital, Bhubaneswar.
"We went back once in December to reap our crop," he told IANS. "Tension still loomed large. We [minority and Hindu families] used to share all our joys and sorrows. Now they say a passing hello and inquire where you are headed, and that's it. We live underneath trees where we once had our own home."
Seeds of Destruction
The region had been tense since the 2007 Christmas season, when alleged extremists of the VHP carried out attacks on Christians, killing at least four persons, burning 730 houses and 95 churches and rendering thousands homeless.
The spark that ignited the violence was a minor conflict between VHP supporters and local Christians over the pitching of a tent for Christmas celebrations in Brahmanigaon village. Christians were beaten, and their shops were destroyed as they went ahead with their celebration plans. In the melee, VHP leader Saraswati, who was believed to be behind the assault, came under attack and "retributive" action followed. (See "Four Die in Christmas Rampage by Hindu Extremists," Dec. 28, 2007.)
Eight months later, with hundreds of displaced victims still living in relief camps, Maoists assassinated VHP leader Saraswati and four of his disciples on the evening of Aug. 23. The VHP wrongly blamed Christians for the murders in order to ignite large-scale violence on the minority community.
VHP leaders made public statements blaming the killing of their leader on local Christians, claiming it was to avenge the December 2007 violence. Fearing tensions, the administration of Kandhamal imposed a curfew. The VHP, too, imposed a "closure" across the state to protest Saraswati's death, requiring a society-wide shutdown.
Defying the curfew imposed by the administration, the VHP mobilized hundreds of supporters and organized a funeral procession carrying Saraswati's body from his ashram (religious hermitage) in Jalespata area to another site in Chakapada area – using a circuitous route that took it more than 100 kilometers (66 miles) to provoke greater conflict, according to The Hindu. As the VHP's funeral procession continued on Aug. 24 with police escort, reports of violence began to flood newsrooms across the country.
Local police were apparently under political pressure not to take action against the organizers of the procession (see "Police Do Little to Protect Christians in Orissa," Sept. 4, 2008). The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which has close links with the VHP, was still part of the ruling state government, in partnership with the regional Biju Janata Dal party.
The state government excused itself by blaming its inability to prevent arson, rape and murder on the "difficult" hilly terrain of Kandhamal, according to The Indian Express, and the federal government ruled by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) offered nothing more than token expressions of concern.
The UPA issued an official warning to Orissa under Article 355 of the constitution, which empowers the federal government to proclaim an emergency. But the warning came three weeks too late – by then the worst was over.
Report from Compass Direct News


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This Saturday LACMA Muse is holding its annual Muse 'til Midnight event, which will include live music, open bar, a mustache contest (you heard me), and viewings of Manly Pursuits and Catherine Opie. Taking its inspiration from the Eakins exhibition, the theme of the night is a throwback to an earlier, more industrial age. That's why many of us on the Muse team were outfitted in Steampunk attire by the clothiers at Clockwork Couture. We talked to Clockwork's Captain Donna Ricci to give us (and you) some pointers on making the perfect Steampunk outfit.
Can you describe the inspiration for the Steampunk aesthetic?
To say that Steampunk "Damns the factory but celebrates the machine" is one of the most accurate quotes stemming from the budding subculture. Inspiration for the look comes from the working-class Victorian: not fine lords and ladies but rather ship captains, yard bosses, storekeeps, metal smiths, dressmakers—and with that comes a more practical ensemble.
Something about that working-class angle comes across in the colors of a lot of Steampunk outfits—they're not wildly colorful.
Because many period images were in sepia, many Steampunks have fancied themselves in browns and blacks. Partner that with the working-class appreciation, and they tend to shun the acid dyes of the Victorians. This is not to say it's not allowed, just know with Steampunk, brown is the new black.
How would one go about creating the Steampunk look?
Creating a Steampunk ensemble requires imagination, ingenuity, and creativity. Thrift stores can be a great source to find sacrificial items to be altered. Many a prom dress was reinvented into a Victorian Steampunk gown. Do a little research before going in so you can keep an eye out for what makes sense.
For ladies, you can never go wrong with a swag-front bustled skirt, ruffle-front blouse, granny boots, and great little hat. Do remember your foundation when dressing, utilizing a corset to get the hourglass silhouette of the time. An underbust corset helps create that look while giving you more "breathing room." Literally.
For men, a true gent can never be without coat and tails and a proper topper. A pair of dress slacks and shirt will go well under a well tailored frock coat or tuxedo jacket. A bowler or top hat complete a dapper look. Spectacles or a dangling monocle distinguish a literary man from the uneducated worker and an cravat or ascot can cover up an unsightly or non-period button-up shirt. Don't be afraid to show some frill. The Victorian gent was the first metrosexual.
It seems like a lot of the Steampunk look is in the accessories.
A Steamer can never go wrong if he knows where his goggles are. It's much like a passport—you should have a pair because you just never know what adventure awaits you today. Flights on dirigibles were as common as train rides in our alternate history, and one really does not fancy a bug in the eye.
Thadeus Dowad, Muse Intern


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It is no coincidence that The Great Giveback, Hugh Eakin's lengthy argument against the repatriation of looted antiquities, landed in The New York Times on Sunday, just as the directors of America's leading art museums gathered in Kansas City for their annual meeting.
A key item on the agenda in Kansas City that day was the museum community's handling of looted antiquities, an issue that has roiled the art world for more than a decade. The Assoc. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has repeatedly tried to put the issue to rest, adopting policy changes in 2001, in 2004 and again in 2006 as the controversy metastasized into a full bore international scandal. In 2008 the AAMD revisited the issue yet again, adopting acquisition guidelines that required a clear ownership history dating back to 1970, a position that put them in line with most archaeologists.
The 2008 policy was heralded as a turning point for the American museums and a victory for reformers like the Getty's Michael Brand and Max Anderson, now in Dallas, who felt it was time for American museums to sever their ties to the black market. But those reforms are under attack. Museum directors are seeking to reverse the policy, which drives a wedge between them and wealthy patrons whose antiquities collections can no longer be donated in exchange for tax write-offs. These dissidents have made ample use of the policy's major loophole, which allowed museums to violate the 1970 rule if they posted the acquisitions on the group's Object Registry with a justification of why.
As Lee Rosenbaum recently noted, sixteen museums have posted nearly 600 objects there, many with no clear justification for flouting the 1970 rule. The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, for example, acquired an unprovenanced collection of 31 pieces of ancient gold jewelry, saying it violated the 1970 rule so the objects could be "studied, displayed and publicized." Last August, the Cleveland Museum posted a Roman portrait bust of Drusus (right) that has no documented ownership history prior to 2004 and was sold to the museum by the Aboutaam brothers, antiquities dealers who have been convicted of charges related to trafficking in looted art. "Museums should still be buying antiquities, and we shouldn't shirk that responsibility, and I think it's almost an ethical responsibility," Cleveland museum director David Franklin told the New York Times. (Readers of Chasing Aphrodite will recognize the quote as a nearly verbatim echo of what the Getty's John Walsh said in 1987 to justify the acquisition of the looted statue of Aphrodite.)
In short, the Object Registry has become a tool for laundering suspect antiquities. Once objects are posted there, museum officials believe, the statute of limitations clock starts ticking, giving foreign governments just a few years to investigate, build a case and file a claim before their time expires and the objects emerge sparkling and clean. More broadly, the series of reforms taken by many American museums in recent years — which include taking claims seriously and sending looted antiquities back to the countries from which they were stolen — are under attack from within.
That brewing fight is the context for Eakin's polemic, which notably takes aim not at source countries so much as museums like the Getty and Dallas that have embraced reforms and begun to proactively search their collections for problematic objects. With Philippe de Montebello retired and Jim Cuno forced to moderate his view by the Getty board, Eakin has emerged as the spokesman for the dissidents.
Recent events have only raised the stakes, for the controversy over looted antiquities shows no signs of going away. The depth of the problem with American collections of Classical antiquities is just beginning to emerge, with more revelations certain to come as researchers comb through the seized archives of the illicit trade's most prominent middlemen. Meanwhile, over the past year the search for loot in American collections has gone global, with countries like Cambodia, India and Turkey bringing claims. Museum directors know better than anyone that these claims are the tip of a very large iceberg.
To the ears of some in the art world, that sound is the creaking of the floodgates swinging open.
Spurious Claims
Eakin's piece, then, is best understood as part of a broader effort to convince the public that claims involving looted antiquities are baseless and those who cave in to them, cowards. The reforms have not only failed to stop looting (a "scourge" often given lip service by museums, but never more.) They have "spurred a raft of extravagant new claims against museums — backed by menacing legal threats." Unless American museums grow a backbone and fight these foreign claims to the death in court, Eakin suggests, someday soon they will be empty of ancient art.
As he has done in the past, Eakin relies on a mosaic of selective facts and careful omissions to cobble together his argument. Many of its most serious flaws have already been rebutted. Lee Rosenbaum — who herself is often skeptical of repatriation claims — denounced it as a "distorted, often mistaken opinion piece" and concluded Eakin was "an extremist on the anti-giveback side." Archaeologist Paul Barford was less kind, saying the piece "illustrates quite clearly the robber baron attitude of entitlement, hypocrisy, xenophobia and supremecism when it comes to appropriating for their own uses other peoples' cultural property, that internationally is losing America friends." Cultural property lawyer Rick St. Hilaire noted that Eakin's argument "overlooks the general principle that stolen property cannot be owned lawfully or that contraband antiquities (smuggled antiquities) are somehow legitimate." Speaking in Eakin's favor, I could only find three voices: Peter Tompa, the lobbyist for collecting interests; blogger Judith Dobrzynski, who calls the piece "pitch-perfect" but acknowledged a conflict of interest in the subject; and LA Times art critic Christopher Knight, who celebrated the piece's "nuance" in a tweet.
Let me focus on something I think Eakin gets almost right — his summary of recent events. (See below for his major omission.) Other archaeologically rich nations have been inspired by Italy's success. In bringing their own claims, many have been less disciplined than Italy, which supported its demands with evidence — much of it photographic — gathered during a decade-long criminal investigation. But here Eakin misses an opportunity to articulate the key flaw of some recent repatriation requests — the conflation of historical gripes with the modern criminal behavior of looting, smuggling and fencing. For example, most of the objects Turkey is demanding from American museums were acquired since the 1960s and have no documented ownership history before that, suggesting they are likely the product of illicit excavations. Whether Turkey has evidence to support those claims remains to be seen — unlike Italy, the Turks are making their case to museums before sharing it with the public. But Turkey has also asked several European museums to return objects that were removed nearly a century ago, sometimes by archaeologists operating with government permission. And to increase their leverage, Turkey has denied digging permits to foreign archaeologists who played no role in the alleged wrongdoing. All of this — coupled with Turkey's own history of plunder — has led to a skeptical reception of claims against American museums that may or may not be backed by clear evidence. And with good reason.
Likewise, Greece and Egypt have frequently included colonial-era claims with requests for the return of recently looted antiquities. Some of those historical claims may carry ethical weight, such as the reunification of the Parthenon marbles. But more often they blur the moral and legal clarity of claims involving modern looting. The same can be said for occasional statements that all things made in Country X should be returned to County X, which discredit the nations that make them.
So, there is legitimate reason for skepticism of repatriation claims. But these are not the arguments Eakin chose to make. Instead, he invents a picture of "terrified" museums being cowed by powerful foreign governments into giving back America's innocently-acquired art. This description of the situation makes for an almost laughable reversal of reality.
American museums have long had the power when it comes to claims of restitution — the power to ignore claims, to withhold information and to create or defend false ownership histories. For decades, they have wielded this power freely, dismissing polite requests from foreign countries while continuing to buy looted art with impunity. For years, the Getty blew off Italian objections to their acquisitions of obviously looted art by simply refusing to respond to inquiries from senior government officials. The Met refused to allow scholars to look at its collection of looted Greek silver. Turkey has requested the return of the Sion Treasure from Harvard since the 1960s to no avail, while the university published a book about the treasure that detailed its illegal excavation and included a photo of the looter's hole from which it was taken. Yet Eakin laments that today, 40 years later, Turkey has decided to begin withholding loans from Harvard until it responds. These are what he calls "blatantly extortionary demands."
What motivates repatriation claims from source countries is not a desire for a few more pieces of ancient art. The basements of their museums overflow with the stuff. What they want is respect.
Let's consider Eakin's innocent acquisitions. If there has been a lesson from the last decade of controversy — and if there is one point made clearly in Chasing Aphrodite — it is that American museum officials were far from innocents. In case after case where internal museum records have come to light — via lawsuits or leaks to reporters — there is clear evidence that museums officials were aware they were buying recently looted antiquities. Met officials knew the Lydian Hoarde was looted and sought to hide it, as Turkey learned during its six year legal battle for their return. Dietrich von Bothmer kept a map of the precise tomb in Cerveteri from which the Euphronios krater had been looted, as we learned from Marion True's sworn deposition. The Boston MFA's longtime antiquities curator Cornelius Vermeule was close personal friends with Robert Hecht and acquired hundreds of looted objects from him, as the Italian investigation and Hecht's own journal revealed.
The Getty case, our most revealing window into a museum's antiquities acquisition process, is startlingly clear: "We know it's stolen," Harold Williams said in a confidential 1987 meeting about the acquisition of suspect antiquities. "Are we willing to buy stolen property for some higher aim?" Marion True discussed the contents of looted tombs in correspondence with Giacamo Medici, and declared the golden funerary wreath "too dangerous" before greed got the better of her. Her predecessor Arthur Houghton visited Medici's Swiss warehouse and sought his help tracing the Getty's griffins to tombs in Southern Italy. Houghton's predecessor Jiri Frel ran a provenance forgery workshop out of the antiquities department and acquired thousands of looted objects through a tax fraud scheme whose scope is just now becoming apparent.
In other words, the evidence amassed to date makes abundantly clear that many of our highly educated antiquities curators and museum directors were not total dupes when it came to their role in the illicit antiquities trade.
They knew.
This is Eakin's most glaring omission and the reason why repatriation is — at times — a reasonable response to foreign claims. They are the pound of flesh that must be paid for our collective cultural sins.
What standard?
How much evidence is needed to establish that an object is the product of the illicit antiquities trade and should be returned to the country from which it was stolen? For all the debate about acquisition policies, there has been nearly no debate or policy papers on this question, which is far more pressing concern facing museums today.
Eakin reminds us repeatedly that museums have returned contested antiquities under no legal order and often with no knowledge of their precise findspots. Such statements remind me of a phone conversation I had in 2006 with the Met's de Montebello. He told me that the Met was prepared to give up its beloved Euphronios krater if Italy could present "irrefutable proof" of the precise spot from which it had been looted. Soon after, the Met's general counsel informed him that there was no such legal standard — not even in cases of capital murder. Montebello left it to a spokesman to call back and sheepishly clarify that under the law, the vase could be seized by US law enforcement based upon probable cause. That is the legal standard for civil forfeitures. Apparently Eakin did not get the memo.
The cases that Eakin suggests are spurious are still being negotiated, and we don't yet have access to the full array of evidence. But what has come to light suggests they are far from fickle. In the case of Cambodia's claim on the Khmer statue in the Norton Simon, the precise find-spot is well-known and not disputed — the statue's feet remain in placed today at the temple complex from which it was looted. In the two cases where claims from Turkey have been resolved — Dallas and Penn — there was compelling evidence. Penn acquired the Trojan gold in 1966 from Hecht, whose ties to Turkish looters are well documented, and scientific tests later found it was consistent with samples found in Turkey. In the case of the Orpheus mosaic, investigators found Polaroids of the mosaic in situ when it arrested the alleged looters.
Eakin's call to legal arms betrays both his ignorance of the law and of museums' dilemma. There is a very good reason why museums have voluntarily given back nearly $1 billion in looted antiquities with no legal fight — it was in their self-interest. As cultural property attorney Rick St. Hilaire notes, taking these cases to court "is fraught with danger."
Museums hoping to fight in court had better make sure they have no damaging internal records detailing their acquisition of looted antiquities, for those are likely to come out in discovery, as Sotheby's recent learned. They had better also be sure that no other objects in their collections have dubious origins, because their legal fight will inspire a thorough examination of their entire collection. This was the lesson learned by the Getty, which, as Eakin notes, chose to fight rather than accept the voluntary return of six clearly looted antiquities. Several years and millions of dollars in legal fees later, they ended up returning more than 40.
Eakin laments the cost to museums of dealing with repatriation claims. The cost of litigation is far far higher. This is not to mention the public relations consequences, which concern museums far more than a few pieces of ancient art. The true and lasting damage to American institutions over this past decade has not been legal fees or lost antiquities. It has been the growing public perception that they are engaged in an illegal activity that, at its heart, is a deep betrayal of their public mission. If they follow Eakin's advice, they will double down on that betrayal.
The enlightened solution that Eakin seeks is the one being taken by the institutions he targets — rebuilding trust with the public and foreign governments by taking claims seriously, engaging in proactive research of their collections and sober evaluation of the evidence and when appropriate, returning a token of the stolen property in their collections in exchange for a collaborative relationship with a potential adversary.
As Eakin well knows, this approach is not "making great art ever less available." It is providing museum visitors with remarkable rotating exhibits of the world's great treasures while moving both source countries and museums toward a future where questions of ownership recede and the focus becomes cooperation and education.


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