Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Christ the Only Saviour



Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood. Colossians 1:13, 14.

No matter who you are or what your life has been, you can be saved only in God’s appointed way. You must repent; you must fall helpless on the Rock, Christ Jesus. You must feel your need of a physician and of the only remedy for sin, the blood of Christ. This remedy can be secured only by repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.... The blood of Christ will avail for none but those who feel their need of its cleansing power.

What surpassing love and condescension, that when we had no claim upon divine mercy, Christ was willing to undertake our redemption! But our great Physician requires of every soul unquestioning submission. We are never to prescribe for our own case. Christ must have the entire management of will and action....

We may flatter ourselves ... that our moral character has been correct and we need not humble ourselves before God like the common sinner. But we must be content to enter into life in the very same way as the chief of sinners. We must renounce our own righteousness and plead for the righteousness of Christ to be imputed to us. We must depend wholly upon Christ for our strength. Self must die. We must acknowledge that all we have is from the exceeding riches of divine grace. Let this be the language of our hearts: “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.”

Genuine faith is followed by love, and love by obedience. All the powers and passions of the converted man are brought under the control of Christ. His Spirit is a renewing power, transforming to the divine image all who will receive it....

“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin.” He feels that he is the purchase of the blood of Christ and bound by the most solemn vows to glorify God in his body and in his spirit, which are God’s. The love of sin and the love of self are subdued in him. He daily asks: “What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?” “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”


Maranatha, p.73.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

4 march 2012: European Day for a Work free Sunday !


Sunday 4 March 2012, on the European Day for a work free Sunday, Markus Schlagnitweit and Helmut Schmidingerden climbed on top of the LAGELSBERG, 2.008 m (in Warscheneck-Stock/Austria) to show that Sundays offer possibilities for such performances.
The European Sunday Alliance thanks all members and supporters who took action on Sunday, 4 March 2012






(http://www.europeansundayalliance.eu/)



results of 4 March action day
Thanks to all organisations which organised actions all over Europe !!

Here some pictures





Sundays have no Price !
Common spare time is precious for everyone

On 4 march 2012 all over Europe, it’s the European Day Work-free Sunday ! The European Sunday Alliance calls on all members and supporters to take action on Sunday, 4 March 2012, as the EUROPEAN DAY FOR A WORK-FREE SUNDAY.

In times of financial and economic crisis when more and more social and employment rights are coming under pressure, the work-free Sunday is a clear and visible demonstration that the people and our societies are not dependent solely on work and the economy.

We believe that all citizens of the European Union are entitled to benefit from decent working hours that, as a matter of principle, exclude working late evenings, nights, public holidays and Sundays. Only essential services should operate on Sundays.

Today, legislation and practices now in place at EU and Member State levels need to be more protective of the health, safety and dignity of everyone and should more assertively promote the reconciliation of professional and family life. We believe that social cohesion in European citizenship should be reinforced.

Therefore, the European Sunday Alliance calls on members, supporters and all citizens to make our common demand visible on Sunday, 4 March 2012!







COMECE Supports the European Sunday Action Day



4 March 2012

As a Member of the European Sunday Alliance, COMECE calls to take action on Sunday, 4 March 2012, as the EUROPEAN DAY FOR A WORK-FREE SUNDAY.

In times of financial and economic crisis when more and more social and employment rights are coming under pressure, the work-free Sunday is a clear and visible demonstration that the people and our societies are not dependent solely on work and the economy. We believe that all citizens of the European Union are entitled to benefit from decent working hours that, as a matter of principle, exclude working late evenings, nights, public holidays and Sundays. Only essential services should operate on Sundays.






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Inter-America: Schools and universities to pause for a special day of prayer

Libna Stevens
Mar 3, 2012






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March 3, 2012 - Miami, Florida, United States...Libna Stevens/IAD


Seventh-day Adventist schools and universities across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory will focus on prayer and the study of the Bible on Mar. 7, 2012. The special day is part of the church's joined efforts to inspire spiritual revival among its thousands of students.

The division-wide event will mark the second consecutive year that regular class programs are put on hold to dedicate prayer and Bible study time, says Dr. Gamaliel Florez, education director for the church in Inter-America. It's an objective that educators have been working towards since last April, when the day of prayer initiative swept through schools and universities as an activity held throughout the IAD during its revival and reformation initiative, Constant in Prayer. Executive committee members voted last year to set aside a day of prayer and Bible focus throughout its schools during the current five-year period, which concludes in 2015.
Students and teachers will spend time reflecting on the benefits of prayer and the Holy Scriptures as an integral part of worship and spiritual revival.

Top church leaders from the Inter-American Division will travel to each of the 21 major church regions or unions to participate in special programs in designated schools and universities.

A special live program from the University of Southern Caribbean in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago will feature Pastor Israel Leito, president of the IAD, with a spiritual message. Music and special prayer activities will also be featured. The program is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (or 2:45 p.m. Trinidad Time) and will be in English.

In Guatemala, more than 5,000 students and teachers in the 27 schools will halt all student activities to take time to pray, study the Bible and testify in their community, according to Yanet Cima, education director for the church in Guatemala. The church in the Central American country will hold concerts, marches and special parades through main streets and special drama performances designed to illustrate the need for prayer and study of the Scriptures in society, she said.

A number of activities will also take place in the Dominican Republic where more than 20,000 and teachers in the 98 primary and secondary schools will put away assignments and notebooks to focus on the Bible, pray and participate in drama performances.

Elsewhere in Inter-America, schools and universities will hold special programs to include parents students and their family members to participate.

For more information on the special prayer revival throughout schools and universities in Inter-America, and to view the live webcast of the March 7, 2012 program at the University of Southern Caribbean, click here

Resources:
Revival and Reformation webpage: http://praying4revival.org/
In Spanish: http://estamosorando.org/
French: http://praying4revival.org/ Vision One Million: http://visiononemillion.interamerica.org/

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English: http://www.facebook.com/praying4revival
Spanish: http://www.facebook.com/estamosorando




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Atheists resign yourselves: God exists (and is fighting with us?)

02/28/2012

An atheism campaign


Fabrizio Mastrofini Rome






In contrast to those (Pope in the lead) who see in secularism and indifference the challenge of all challenges, the magazine Credere Oggi (of the Franciscan convent in Padua) devotes its latest issue to analyzing Atheism and faith in God. The “new atheism” we are witnessing has many facets. Firstly, there is no God, and indeed creating images of him is only a childish fantasy that needs to be overcome. Here the atheist gets along with the believer because the Bible commands us not to create images of God. In Italy the phenomenon of atheism has an Anglo-Saxon influence pointed out in several articles which list various names and currents as examples. We have the freethinkers that use the new cognitivism of neurosciences to dissolve the metaphysical concept of soul. Then there are the anti-clerical followers of Christopher Hitchens, religion pollutes every human experience under the weight of an even more useless and unnecessary hierarchy. Lastly, the “neognostic”, which is allegedly very dangerous because capable of dissolving the uniqueness and authenticity of the revelation brought by Christ into an indifferent market of religious offerings.

The atheism of today, the authors of various articles point out in unison, demonstrates to be a phenomenon that is more aggressive than in the past because it uses the results of cognitive science to demonstrate the futility of faith. God becomes just another thought among others. So what must one do? As the theologian Bruno Secondin says in the magazine's closing article, we should be wary of “shortcuts” and clarify the differences between a church (understood as a place of worship) where you live an experience and meet people in the name of Jesus and a McDonald's where you nibble here and there in response to a primitive instinct.

The analysis is suggestive and interesting. Especially for the scenery of the positions that are shown. What is missing then? Ask at least one question: is it possible for atheism or criticism of religion which then leads to atheism, is all on one side? Maybe there is some responsibility also with believers and the Church, when they both seem too caught up in economic interests, politics and power, which should have nothing to do with religion? How to speak without recognizing the reasons of others? There are no answers to these questions, at least in this issue. There is rather tetragonal criticism and perhaps this is one of the most significant relationships between the Church and the modern world today.

"New atheism and faith in God", Credere Oggi magazine, number 187 (1/2012); pp. 120, Euro 8,50 http://www.credereoggi.it/


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Monday, March 05, 2012

Andrew Breitbart Just Another Weird Death


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Caution: Some vulgar language used.

Why I refuse to join any group pages on facebook


Today I followed a link on facebook and it lead me to one of those group pages...

I THOUGH IT WAS JUST AN ADVERTISEMENT
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it was supposed to be about how certain (from a religious organization) people are preparing for the future, spiritually, economically, etc.

Here's what I think about them:

I resent that entities are allowed to have facebook pages.
'They' solicit likes to boost their ratings and recruit friends to create interest in their product, service or idea; When in fact they are only trying to make a buck.
My main concern is that they are able to see all your personal stuff; Yet, you can only see that phony bologna wall where they spew their propaganda. Now, that isn't dealing on common ground, is it? That's not fair?

So, I choose not to get involved in any of those devious facebook pages. If you're gonna socialize, come correct!

I'm not only a consumer or a potential customer for yous to run you 'script' on me?

My opinion is: NO face = NO Friend.

How about the people that use nicknames for their facebook pages instead of their given names ?
No need to expound on that? That's obvious!
No, thanks Dr. Moreau, I'm a vegan.



Pros and cons of Sunday alcohol sales







WHAT PROPONENTS ARE SAYING


• The availability of retail alcohol on Sundays will draw shoppers to Au­gusta. Grovetown approved Sunday sales in November, but the rest of Columbia County residents won’t vote on the measure until July.
“The only way you receive the additional revenue is if you’re the first,” district Republican Party Chairman Dave Barbee said. Also, Augusta would lose Sunday sales business to other counties if they pass the measure and Augusta does not.


• It will mean more tax revenue. Augusta adds $2.7 million in wholesale excise taxes on packaged beer, wine and liquor to the city’s general fund every year. In Grovetown, the only city in the Georgia side of the region that has approved the sales, excise taxes connected with eight alcohol retailers have generated an additional $2,000 a month in revenue.


“So far, we haven’t seen any negative results,” Grovetown City Administrator Shirley Beasley said. Augusta has more than 400 retailers that would be eligible to sell alcohol.


• It will create license fees. Augusta officials haven’t determined whether an additional license will be required of retailers who want to sell alcohol on Sundays, though the referendum, if approved, would allow the city to permit and regulate Sunday package sales as of March 31.


“If you want to sell on Sundays, you’re going to have to pay the piper,” said Augusta Commission member Joe Jackson, who expects the referendum to pass. “That’s an additional revenue generator.”
• Why not? Adults can buy alcohol every other day of the week, and in restaurants on Sundays, so why not allow retailers to sell on Sundays?


“We like Sunday sales,” said Tim Schroer, the city’s deputy finance director, who grew up in Minnesota, where retail sales were prohibited on Sundays and recently got a thrill buying wine near Atlanta on a Sunday for the first time. Barbee said the availability of alcohol on Sundays is unlikely to increase consumption, only “spread the wealth from six days to seven days.”


• It will create jobs. Having a store open on Sunday will likely require some of the city’s 34 liquor stores to hire additional workers, while more than 300 other businesses engaged in alcohol sales might need more people to handle the extra Sunday traffic.




WHAT OPPONENTS ARE SAYING


• Sunday alcohol will increase crime.


“Alcohol is a contributing factor in many domestic-related calls,” sheriff’s Capt. Scott Gay said. “We anticipate an increase in domestic-related calls on Sundays because more people are drinking at home.”


• It will have limited economic benefits. Adopting Sunday retail alcohol sales will generate some additional revenue, but not that much.


“I just don’t see where it’s going to generate a significant amount,” Augusta Finance Director Donna Williams said. Augusta Com­mis­sion member Jerry Brigham favors letting voters decide, but “I don’t think it’s going to be a windfall for us,” he said.


• It will have religious and family consequences. Pastors, especially in black churches, expect Sunday sales to be a topic in several of today’s sermons.


“The Bible speaks of what (excess consumption) can do to our thinking and our attitudes,” said the Rev. Larry Fryer, the pastor of Hud­son Memorial CME Church. “With all the violence and criminal activity, those that misuse this substance can create additional problems in the community.” Retired Augusta State University political science professor Ralph Walker said he expected a city deeply rooted in the Bible Belt to vote the measure down. GOP party Chairman Dave Barbee recalled his youth when on Sundays they didn’t buy gasoline or go shopping, much less buy alcohol.


“We’ve strayed away from those hard-core biblical principles,” he said.


The Rev. K.B. Martin, the pastor of Anti­och Baptist Church, agreed: “We’ve disregarded so many things relative to the day of worship. I would hope the Chris­tian community would oppose Sunday sales.”


Pastor Bryan Cockrell, of Sanctuary Church, said his Pentecostal congregation believes, according to Scripture, “to remember the Lord’s day and keep it holy. I believe the focus on his day should be on Him.


• Stopping illegal operations will be difficult. Augusta hasn’t determined whether to require an additional Sunday sales permit, but if it does, inspectors will have to ensure establishments lacking the permits aren’t selling on Sundays, city licensing Director Rob Sherman said.


• Liquor stores appreciate the day off. Phillip Song, the owner of Superstar Wine & Spirits on Deans Bridge Road, said he has considered placing “Vote No on Sunday Sales” on his sign because Sunday is a welcome day of rest for liquor store owners. Still, if his competitors start selling and he’s missing out, he’ll open: “I’m not going to open right away. If my sales go down, I’m going to start opening on Sunday.”



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Magnitude-4.0 quake shakes San Francisco Bay area

Disasters - US


Published March 05, 2012

Associated Press



Two small, back-to-back earthquakes shook San Francisco Bay area residents awake Monday morning but appeared to leave no serious damage or injury.


The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude-2.9 quake struck at 5:33 a.m. about eight miles northeast of San Francisco in the city of El Cerrito. It was followed eight seconds later by a magnitude-4.0 temblor, said geophysicist Paul Caruso.


The shaking was felt within a 60-mile radius, from Santa Rosa in the north to Santa Cruz in the south.

The California Highway Patrol, San Francisco police and El Cerrito police said they didn't receive any immediate reports of injury or damage.


Bay Area commuter trains were briefly delayed after the quake to inspect the tracks.


Seismologists said the quake appeared to occur on the Hayward Fault, a seismically active fault that runs along the eastern San Francisco Bay. A 2003 USGS report said the Hayward Fault had the highest chance — 27 percent — of producing a large earthquake of magnitude-6.7 or higher in the Bay Area within 30 years.


"We know that the Hayward Fault is the really important fault in the Bay Area," USGS seismologist David Schwartz told KGO-TV on Monday. "These earthquakes, these 4's, are just an indication of ongoing activity, ongoing stress on the fault. They do nothing to relieve the likelihood of something larger happening."

Overall, there was a 62 percent probability that the Bay Area would see a large quake by 2032, according to the report.



Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/05/magnitude-40-quake-shakes-san-francisco-bay-area/#ixzz1oGSIly3z
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Obama's variation on Theodore Roosevelt Credo

Obama, Netanyahu meet on Iran's nuclear problem

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"Now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in, and to sustain the broad international coalition we have built. Now is the time to heed the timeless advice from Teddy Roosevelt -- speak softly; carry a big stick."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/03/05/Obama-Netanyahu-meet-on-Irans-nuclear-problem/UPI-37881330936200/#ixzz1oGNU0yK6

Allow me to translate that from rhetoric to English; It should have actually been:

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Shtick".

or perhaps

"Speak Soflly and Send the Drones".
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Obama on Israel and Iran



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UN to propose planetary regulations of water, food

Written By Kelley Vlahos
Published March 01, 2012
FoxNews.com

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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Foresight Process report, titled "21 Issues for the 21st Century," suggests global regulations of food and water to deal with impending shortages and threats. (UNEP)



An environmental report issued by an agency of the United Nations last month has some critics sounding the alarm, saying it is a clarion call for "global governance" over how the Earth is managed.


The report, “21 Issues for the 21st Century,” from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Foresight Process, is the culmination of a two-year deliberative process involving 22 core scientists. It is expected to receive considerable attention in the run-up to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which will be held in Rio, Brazil, in June.


The scientists who wrote the report say it focuses on identifying emerging issues in the global environment, and that it is not about mandating solutions.


But its critics see an agenda lurking in its 60 pages, which call for a complete overhaul of how the world's food and water are created and distributed -- something the report says is “urgently needed” for the human race to keep feeding and hydrating itself safely.


“This is more utopianism, pie-in-the-sky pleading for ‘global governance,’ including what they acknowledge as ‘novel governance arrangements,’ including, ‘alliances between environmentalist and other civil society groups,’” charged Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, and a senior fellow for energy and environment at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, D.C.


We are not talking about a world government.

- Professor Oren Young


The Foresight Report suggests actions to save humanity from starvation, the overheating planet and the collapse of the world’s oceans -- options that include new “constitutional frameworks,” “international protocols” and a “shared vision” for land and water management that essentially rewire existing treaties and governments.


But the group insists it’s not a call for global governance.


“We are not talking about a world government,” said Dr. Oren Young, professor of institutional and international governance and environmental institutions at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and one of the scientists who issued the report.


He said the panel’s conversations included questions like, “How do we resolve these problems without creating this monster entity?”


Young said the panel wasn’t tasked with finding all the answers.


“We realize that government can be part of the problem,” he told FoxNews.com. “But we can’t close our eyes and say, ‘oh well, everything will work out,’ without us even looking at it.”


Even environmentalists don’t believe that planet-wide accords are particularly popular.


“I don’t think there is a global appetite right now for new institutions … or a world environmental organization like we have, say, with the World Trade Organization,” said Janet Redman, co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.


“There are a lot of places -- especially the oceans and food security -- where everyone is saying that doing this piecemeal is not going to address the bigger sense of these environmental issues.”


But on the whole, she said, global government probably won’t work.


“I think everyone agrees this is not the right time,” Redman told FoxNews.com.


The State Dept. has already weighed in on many of the issues presented by the Foresight Panel in its own statement, titled “Sustainable Development for the Next Twenty Years United States Views on RIO+20.”


Submitted to the U.N by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OIES) in November, this policy vision makes it clear the State Dept. will back global government solutions -- whether they be in addressing the overfishing of the oceans, making national laws and regulations more transparent, addressing land and ocean-based pollution, or water management.


The U.S. also is wholly supportive of strengthening the UNEP as “a body through which governments can cooperate to recommend environmental policies, promote best practices, and build national capacity for governance, monitoring and assessment,” according to the vision statement.


Yet UNEP is unsuited for that, by the agency’s own admission.


An internal U.N study obtained by Fox News last June found that the $450 million organization is an administrative mess, not knowing how its money is spent or how many public and private partners it might be working with at any given time.


Questions about the ability of nations to work with global bodies such as the U.N, and whether they should subscribe to transnational guidelines or mandates, will no doubt be a subject of concern in the run-up to the Rio summit.


Just as global governance solutions are raised in the report, so are local solutions that involve local governments, private industry and promoting individual and community shifts in the way people live and tend to the environment in their daily lives and workplaces.




Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/01/un-to-propose-planetary-regulations-water-food/#ixzz1oALPyEKc
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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Tornado Miracle: Child in Field Survives Tornado That Killed Family

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In a field outside of a flattened home rescuers found a young child laying among the bodies of her family who were killed by a powerful tornado.

The unidentified 2-year-old girl was found in New Pekin, Ind., and taken to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky., where she is in critical condition. The girl has one family member, who was not identified, with her at the hospital as she recuperates from her injuries, said Cis Gruebbel, chief of nursing at the hospital.

Washington County Sheriff Claude Combs told ABC News that the girl was discovered near the bodies of her 21-year-old mother and two younger siblings, ages 2 years and 2 months old. The body of a 20-year-old male was also recovered from the field. Combs said it was unconfirmed whether the man was the girl's father.

Forty miles east of New Pekin, in Chelsea, Ind., a mother clung to her 4-year-old son, but the force of the tornado ripped the boy from her arms as the two huddled in the cellar.

The child and his great grandparents, who were upstairs during the twister, were found dead in a field behind their home.

"We lost a very good farmer, a good neighbor and his wife their great grandbaby," Tony Williams, owner of the Chelsea General Store told ABCNews.com.

The 4-year-old boy was identified as Davlin Terry Jackson. Williams said the child's mother, Amanda Jackson, had surgery Friday night and is in the hospital.

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The deadly string of tornados turned tight knit rural communities into apocalyptic war zones. At least 38 people were killed Friday in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia and Alabama.

Search crews fanned out as the sun came up this morning looking for survivors and injured people.

Schools were reduced to rubble, businesses were destroyed and families were left homeless by the disaster.

In Henryville, Ind., the town's elementary, middle and high schools were completely wiped out. Receipts from the town were found 150 miles away in Cincinnatti, carried by the brutal force of the storm.

"I'm a storm chaser, and I have never been this frightened before," Henryville resident Susie Renner told the Associated Press.

A city council member was one of three fatalities in Moscow, Ohio. Neighbors watched as a search and rescue team cut through debris, trying to find Carol Forste, 64. The woman did not survive, but searchers found her dog. The pet had four broken legs and will have to be put down, ABC affiliate WCPO reported.

In many towns, a person could travel for miles without seeing an intact house. The only structure left standing in the community of Marysville, Ind., was the town's water tower.

"This was the worst-case scenario. There's no way you can prepare for something like this," Clark County Sheriff Danny Rodden told the Indianapolis Star"target=external".

Three bus loads of children, from elementary to high school, rode out the twister in Tony Williams' Chelsea, Ind., store.

"There were a few kids who were upset and crying a little bit," Williams said. "Being a rural community, everyone is really comforting to each other. Right now, we're making sure people have food and a place to stay."

The town of West Liberty, Ky., was completely flattened by the twister. Dozens were reported missing overnight and at least two people were killed.

"The only thing I could think to pray was 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost,'" resident Martha Jo Hall told the Herald-Leader. "And He took care of us."

ABC News' Keturah Gray contributed to this report




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