Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Prince Charles takes first "Tube" trip since 1986

LONDON (Reuters) - Four million Londoners cram onto the city's Underground passenger railway nearly every day, but it is a rarer event for Prince Charles. He rode the British capital's bustling commuter network on Wednesday for the first time since 1986.

The heir to the British throne and his wife Camilla took a one-stop journey from Farringdon to King's Cross on the Metropolitan Line as part of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of a transport service affectionately known to Britons as the "Tube".

The short journey was a rare enough event to cause some confusion at the prince's press office, which initially said he had last ventured onto the Tube in 1979.

"This is just to let you know that it has come to our attention that The Prince of Wales has travelled on the London Underground more recently than 1979. In 1986 The Prince and Princess of Wales travelled by tube to Heathrow Airport to open Terminal 4," a spokeswoman said in an email to media.

"We're sorry that our previous information was incorrect. Our archives of Royal engagements prior to 1988 are not computerised and in this particular instance a search under 'The Prince of Wales takes the Tube' did not bring up an event which had been logged as the 'official opening of Terminal 4'."

(Reporting By Estelle Shirbon, editing by Paul Casciato)

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High School Sports: 2A district basketball pairings

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Friday, Feb. 8

G1, GSHL No. 3 at Evergreen No. 2, 7 p.m.

G2, Evergreen No. 4 at Mark Morris, 7 p.m.

G3, Evergreen No. 3 at GSHL No. 2, 7 p.m.

G4, Evergreen No. 5 at Evergreen No. 1, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 12

G5, G1 loser vs. G2 loser, 6 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (loser out)

G6, G3 loser vs. G4 loser, 7:45 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (loser out)

G7, G1 winner vs. G2 winner, 6 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (winner to state regionals)

G8, G3 winner vs. G4 winner, 7:45 p.m. at WF West or Centralai (winner to state regionals)

Friday, Feb. 15

Championship

G7 winner vs. G8 winner, 6 p.m. at St. Martin's University, Lacey

Saturday, Feb. 16

G9, G5 winner vs. G8 loser, at Mark Morris (loser out)

G10, G6 winner vs. G7 loser, at Mark Morris (loser out)

Tuesday, Feb. 19

G9 winner vs. G10 winner, 6 p.m. at WF West (winner No. 3 to state regionals, loser out)

BOYS BASKETBALL

Saturday, Feb. 9

G1, GSHL No. 3 at Evergreen No. 2, 7 p.m.

G2, Evergreen No. 4 at GSHL No. 1, 7 p.m.

G3, Evergreen No. 3 at GSHL No. 2, 7 p.m.

G4, Evergreen No. 5 at Evergreen No. 1, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 13

G5, G1 loser vs. G2 loser, 6 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (loser out)

G6, G3 loser vs. G4 loser, 7:45 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (loser out)

G7, G1 winner vs. G2 winner, 6 p.m. at WF West or Centralia (winner to state regionals)

G8, G3 winner vs. G4 winner, 7:45 p.m. at WF West or Centralai (winner to state regionals)

Friday, Feb. 15

Championship

G7 winner vs. G8 winner, 8 p.m. at St. Martin's University, Lacey

Saturday, Feb. 16

G9, G5 winner vs. G8 loser, at Mark Morris (loser out)

G10, G6 winner vs. G7 loser, at Mark Morris (loser out)

Tuesday, Feb. 19

G9 winner vs. G10 winner, 6 p.m. at WF West (winner No. 3 to state regionals, loser out)

Note: If Mark Morris or W.F. West play a game scheduled on home floor, the site of the game will be moved to a neutral site.

Source: http://www.columbian.com/weblogs/highschoolsports/2013/jan/29/2a-district-basketball-pairings/

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Coffee Fungus Outbreak Resumes

Researchers are marshaling technology in a bid to thwart the harvest-threatening outbreak in Central America


Coffee grower Coffee growers are worried that a fungal outbreak will affect the next harvest of coffee berries. Image: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Where there is coffee, there is ?coffee rust?. But the long stalemate between growers and the fungus behind the devastating disease has broken ? with the fungus taking the advantage. As one of the most severe outbreaks ever rages through Central America, researchers are reaching for the latest tools in an effort to combat the pest, from sequencing its genome to cross-breeding coffee plants with resistant strains.

Caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, coffee rust generally does not kill plants, but the Institute of Coffee of Costa Rica estimates that the latest outbreak may halve the 2013?14 harvest in the worst affected areas of the nation. This outbreak is ?the worst we?ve seen in Central America and Mexico since the rust arrived? in the region more than 40 years ago, says John Vandermeer, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who has received ?reports of devastation in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico?.

At his research plot in Mexico, Vandermeer says that the situation is so bad that the leaves are simply dropping off the plants. More than 60% of the trees have at least 80% defoliation, and 30% have no leaves at all.

On 22?January, Costa Rica enacted emergency legislation to speed up the flow of government money towards fighting the fungus. Other nations are also stepping up the fight. Last week, the Nicaraguan government reportedly declared that it would include coffee rust on a list of special research projects designed to safeguard the country?s agriculture.

The fungus first emerged as a significant problem by 1869 in Ceylon ? now Sri Lanka ? before spreading around the world. Stuart McCook, a historian at the University of Guelph in Canada who studies the rust, says that the wet weather in some areas of Ceylon was ideal for the spread of the fungus, and more than 90% of coffee crops were wiped out in those regions. Faced with an economic catastrophe, the country abandoned coffee for the tea it is associated with today. The disease is so universal that it ?is not going to be eradicated; or the only way to eradicate the disease in practice is to eradicate all of the coffee?, says McCook.

By 1970, the fungus had been detected in Brazil, and severe outbreaks were seen in Costa Rica in 1980 and Nicaragua in 1995, says Jacques Avelino, a plant pathologist at Costa Rica?s Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, based in San Jos?.

But changes to management practices had brought the disease mostly under control. ?Coffee rust was considered a solved problem by most of the coffee growers and coffee institutes of the region?, says Avelino. ?People didn?t fear the disease.? The outbreak may have taken hold because of patchy use and effectiveness of fungicides.

And in Africa, Noah Phiri, a plant pathologist working in Nairobi for the not-for-profit development organization CABI, says that rust has been causing ever-greater problems, although in Kenya, varieties resistant to the rust have held it at bay.

Colombia could be the closest to a solution. Marco Aurelio Cristancho, a researcher at Cenicaf?, the National Center for the Investigation of Coffee in Chinchin?, says that the government has supported research into developing resistant strains of coffee through crossbreeding. The introduction of resistant strains, together with improved weather monitoring to help predict rust outbreaks, has meant that fewer than 10% of plants now need to be treated with fungicide, down from 60% four years ago, Cristancho says. The government has also supported work on the genetics of both the fungus and the plant.

Research programs have started in other countries, too. At the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Valdir Diola is working to isolate resistance genes in coffee and to find molecular markers that distinguish between different strains of the pathogen and that could be used to develop tailored strategies for its control. And in the United Kingdom, Harry Evans is working on the genome of H.?vastatrix at CABI in Egham. In Nairobi, Phiri is using money from the intergovernmental agency the Common Fund for Commodities, as well as from Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to screen for resistant coffee plants and to analyze varieties of the pathogen.

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Obama to send more aid to Syria


Under fire for not doing more to help Syria?s rebels, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he's sending opponents of strongman Bashar al-Assad another $155 million in humanitarian aid and defended his handling of the bloody conflict. Obama said the aid sends a message to the world.

?The relief we send doesn?t say ?Made in America,? but make no mistake?our aid reflects the commitment of the American people,? he said in a video posted on the White House website. The message includes Arabic subtitles.

Obama, who faces chiefly Republican criticism for not offering the rebels American weapons or taking other steps to beat back Assad?s armed forces, said the money would help Syrians under fire and those who have fled to neighboring countries.

?I want to speak directly to the people of Syria,? he said in the video. ?This new aid will mean more warm clothing for children and medicine for the elderly; flour and wheat for your families and blankets, boots and stoves for those huddled in damaged buildings.

?It will mean health care for victims of sexual violence and field hospitals for the wounded,? he continued. ?Even as we work to end the violence against you, this aid will help address some of the immediate needs you face each day."

The new aid will bring total U.S. assistance to Syrian rebels to $365 million.

?We?re under no illusions. The days ahead will continue to be very difficult. But what?s clear is that the regime continues to weaken and lose control of territory,? Obama said.

?The opposition continues to grow stronger," he added. "More Syrians are standing up for their dignity. The Assad regime will come to an end. The Syrian people will have their chance to forge their own future. And they will continue to find a partner in the United States of America.?

While senior Obama aides say Washington has not been arming the rebels, there have been media reports that the CIA and other agencies have been steering arms from third parties to certain opposition forces and working to exclude Islamist extremists?like al-Qaida?from assistance.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-announces-aid-syrian-rebels-161248504--politics.html

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Beer's bitter compounds could help brew new medicines

Jan. 29, 2013 ? Researchers employing a century-old observational technique have determined the precise configuration of humulones, substances derived from hops that give beer its distinctive flavor.

That might not sound like a big deal to the average brewmaster, but the findings overturn results reported in scientific literature in the last 40 years and could lead to new pharmaceuticals to treat diabetes, some types of cancer and other maladies.

"Now that we have the right results, what happens to the bitter hops in the beer-brewing process makes a lot more sense," said Werner Kaminsky, a University of Washington research associate professor of chemistry.

Kaminsky is the lead author of a paper describing the findings, published this month in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

There is documentation that beer and its bittering acids, in moderation, have beneficial effects on diabetes, some forms of cancer, inflammation and perhaps even weight loss.

Kaminsky used a process called X-ray crystallography to figure out the exact structure of those acids, humulone molecules and some of their derivatives, produced from hops in the brewing process. That structure is important to researchers looking for ways to incorporate those substances, and their health effects, into new pharmaceuticals.

Humulone molecules are rearranged during the brewing process to contain a ring with five carbon atoms instead of six. At the end of the process two side groups are formed that can be configured in four different ways -- both groups can be above the ring or below, or they can be on opposite sides.

Which of the forms the molecule takes determines its "handedness," Kaminsky said, and that is important for understanding how a particular humulone will react with another substance. If they are paired correctly, they will fit together like a nut and bolt.

If paired incorrectly, they might not fit together at all or it could be like placing a right hand into a left-handed glove. That could produce disastrous results in pharmaceuticals.

Kaminsky cited thalidomide, which has a number of safe uses but was famously used to treat morning sickness in pregnant women in the late 1950s and early 1960s before it was discovered to cause birth defects. Molecule "handedness" in one form of the drug was responsible for the birth defects, while the orientation of molecules in another form did not appear to have the negative effects.

To determine the configuration of humulones formed in the brewing process, coauthors Jan Urban, Clinton Dahlberg and Brian Carroll of KinDex Therapeutics, a Seattle pharmaceutical firm that funded the research, recovered acids from the brewing process and purified them.

They converted the humulones to salt crystals and sent them to Kaminsky, who used X-ray crystallography -- a technique developed in the early 20th century -- to determine the exact configuration of the molecules.

"Now that we know which hand belongs to which molecule, we can determine which molecule goes to which bitterness taste in beer," Kaminsky said.

The authors point out that while "excessive beer consumption cannot be recommended to propagate good health, isolated humulones and their derivatives can be prescribed with documented health benefits."

Some of the compounds have been shown to affect specific illnesses, Kaminsky said, while some with a slight difference in the arrangement of carbon atoms have been ineffective.

The new research sets the stage for finding which of those humulones might be useful in new compounds to be used as medical treatments.

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Sept. 11 defendants won't respond to Gitmo judge

(AP) ? Two Sept. 11 defendants delayed the start of their hearing Monday at Guantanamo when they refused to respond to questions from their judge in the case.

Defense lawyers didn't say what prompted the silent protest by self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and one of five co-defendants at the military tribunal on the U.S. base in Cuba. Mohammed refused to say whether he approved the hiring of another attorney for him. Fellow defendant Walid bin Attash refused to say why he wanted a military lawyer removed from his team.

Their silence Monday delayed by about an hour the start of a four-day hearing on pretrial motions for the five Guantanamo prisoners charges in the death penalty case. The judge eventually granted the changes without statements from the men.

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Today on New Scientist: 28 January 2013

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Retreating rebels burn Timbuktu's science manuscripts

As the French and Malian armies recapture Timbuktu, Islamist rebels have set fire to texts that document when science began in Africa

Quantum theory of smell causes a new stink

An experiment showing humans might rely on quantum mechanics to distinguish between odours has reopened a smelly debate

Davos: Persuading big business to act on climate change

A new report argues that private-sector investment could limit rise in temperature ? as long as governments can encourage businesses to step up

Gas flares from Bakken fracking are visible from space

A shining cluster of light in this satellite image of the US from space isn't a city - it's the glow from hundreds of flares from rigs in North Dakota

First video reveals working tractor beam in action

Watch a light beam pull tiny objects using a new technique that attracts certain arrangements of particles

Human brain model and graphene win science's X Factor

Quests to build a supercomputer simulation of the human brain and unlock graphene's potential have each won a potential ?1 billion in research funding

Interactive nails give you a screen at your fingertips

Forget colourful nail varnish, one day your fingernails could be used to display touchscreen content from your smartphone instead

Stellar performances finally gain the limelight

In Heart of Darkness, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton add new stars to the constellation of astronomy to tell the subject's full history

Is Obama about to blow his climate credentials?

The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth, says Fred Pearce

DNA privacy: don't flatter yourself

The secrets contained in our individual genomes are less valuable than we like to believe

Weird high-energy flare made by spitting black hole

One of the most detailed looks yet at a gamma-ray burst from an active galaxy hints that a knot of high-speed plasma was the likely trigger

Get cirrus in the fight against climate change

Feathery cirrus clouds trap a lot of heat and help warm the planet. Getting rid of them could counteract human-caused climate change ? in theory

Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus

Our teeth erupt later than they did in our early ancestors, but not so the roots of our molars: they develop as they did in Homo erectus

Bandwidth-sharing app brings connectivity to all

AirMobs lets you use your neighbour's mobile internet connection?- or share your own?- regardless of carrier or location

Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch

A kiss is not just a kiss - it's bacteria, mucus and DNA. And with the discovery that the DNA persists in the mouth for at least an hour, it could be used to identify sex offenders

The digital map is not the territory

The latest maps offer a rich and vivid way of navigating the world, but we must not expect a perfect representation of reality

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Video: Ariel Sharon?s brain scan shows signs of activity



>>> reports out of israel say ariel sharon is exhibiting signs of significant brain activity. the news came as a surprise, as sharon has been in what's been described as a persistent vegetative state since suffering a stroke back in '06. his doctors say he now responds to family photos, his son's voice, among other things. former israeli leader is 84 years old.

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Science in Ten Hundred Words: The `Up-Goer Five' challenge.

A central question of communicating science to a wider audience often boils down to this: can you take a complex scientific topic and explain it in a way that someone unfamiliar with the field can understand? The commonly-cited techniques for meeting this challenge, such as cutting out jargon and using relatable analogies, sound easy in principle but are often quite tough in practice.

Perhaps that is why the Up-Goer Five text editor, created by geneticist Theo Sanderson, has struck such a cord with many scientists, including me and my co-blogger Anne Jefferson. Inspired by a brilliant xckd comic that took the elimination of jargon to an almost absurd degree by attempting to describe the blueprints of the Saturn V moon rocket using only a list of the most thousand commonly used English words (hence, Up Goer Five ? ?the only flying space car that has taken anyone to another world?), the text editor compares anything that you type into it against that same list and gently chides you when you use a word that isn?t on it.

Anne and I were not the first scientists to discover the Up-Goer Five editor, but when we blogged about our attempts to describe urban hydrology (without ?stream? or ?river?), and paleomagnetism (without ?magnet?), and challenged other scientists to try their hand at describing what they do in Up-Goer Five-speak, we were inundated with responses ? so many that to record them all for posterity, and to allow future entries to be more easily collected, we set up a dedicated Tumblr blog called ?Ten Hundred Words of Science? to showcase them all.

In just over a week, it has accumulated almost three hundred entries, with subjects ranging from string theory (?the different kinds of bits we see come from just one kind of wrapped long thing moving in different ways?) to cognitive science (?I study what it is about human minds that allows us to speak to each other?), via volcanology (?Tiny pieces of fire rock from inside the world can fly through the air?), plate tectonics (?Even though the ground under your feet feels very still, it is actually moving really, really slowly?), nanotechnology (?If you take a big thing and make it small, it does something different than what you?d expect?) and everything else in between.

Some might not see this as anything more than a gimmick, and argue that the constraints you are forced to work under are too severe; that by replacing jargon with a dense thicket of ?simple? words, you are just replacing one sort of linguistic complexity with another. That certainly can happen, but only if you miss the point of the exercise.

What the vast majority of the submissions we?ve read in the past week clearly show is that if you seek to move beyond the straight replacement of forbidden words and seek to recast the concept you?re trying to explain, then something quite profound can result. Here for example, is Darwin?s theory of evolution by natural selection, distilled down to its essence by Richard Carter:

all the animals and green things we see in the world?have all been made by the same, fixed, easy steps acting all around us. These easy steps, taken in the largest sense, being growing and having babies; being like your parents (but not exactly like them); and being able to avoid dying for as long as possible.

If the unifying theorem of all biology can be so vividly described despite the limitations being imposed by the Up-Goer 5 list, then I think we can find it within all of us to do the same with our own research. I certainly feel that my own attempt to recast the magnetic signals I study as memories of past locations stored within the rocks, that they can give us if we ask them in the right way, did give me some insight into explaining what I do. As Anne remarked:

In many ways, I think telling people that you study little green things that lived more than ?10 hundred times 10 hundred years ago? gives more of a sense of the enormity of geologic time in a palpable way than saying that you study organisms that lived more than a million years ago?

?I think this is a great vehicle for getting us to be thoughtful about the way we explain our work to each other and to non-scientists. It definitely takes more thought to distill a complex topic down to a jargon-free explanation of the core principles and why they are exciting. And sometimes it takes more words. But, in the end, if it helps people to understand what science is all about, then that effort and those carefully chosen words are totally worthwhile.

As such, we hope that people continue to take the challenge, and submit them to Ten Hundred Words of Science. Because you?re not just explaining something to other people ? you?re also explaining it to yourself.

?And if you want a slightly less stringent vocabulary to work with, then Theo Sanderson has now come up with Up-Goer Six, an editor that colour codes your words based on their frequency of usage, rather than rejecting them outright.?

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Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant

The first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant.

Brendan Marrocco had the operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his father said Monday. The 26-year-old Marrocco, who is from New York City, was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009.

He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.

The military is sponsoring operations like these to help wounded troops. About 300 have lost arms or hands in the wars.

"He was the first quad amputee to survive" from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there have been four others since then, said Brendan Marrocco's father, Alex Marrocco. "He was really excited to get new arms."

The Marroccos want to thank the donor's family for "making a selfless decision ... making a difference in Brendan's life," the father said.

Surgeons plan to discuss the transplant at a news conference with the patient on Tuesday.

The 13-hour operation was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Johns Hopkins, and is the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States. Lee led three of those earlier operations when he previously worked at the University of Pittsburgh, including the only above-elbow transplant that had been done at the time, in 2010.

Marrocco's "was the most complicated one" so far, Lee said in an interview Monday. It will take more than a year to know how fully Marrocco will be able to use the new arms, Lee said.

"The maximum speed is an inch a month for nerve regeneration," he explained. "We're easily looking at a couple years" until the full extent of recovery is known.

While at Pittsburgh, Lee pioneered the novel immune suppression approach used for Marrocco. The surgeon led hand transplant operations on five patients, giving them marrow from their donors in addition to the new limbs. All five recipients have done well and four have been able to take just one anti-rejection drug instead of combination treatments most transplant patients receive.

Minimizing anti-rejection drugs is important because they have side effects and raise the risk of cancer over the long term. Those risks have limited the willingness of surgeons and patients to do more hand, arm and even face transplants. Unlike a life-saving heart or liver transplant, limb transplants are aimed at improving quality of life, not extending it.

Quality of life is a key concern for people missing arms and hands ? prosthetics for those limbs are not as advanced as those for feet and legs.

Lee has received funding for his work from AFIRM, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a cooperative research network of top hospitals and universities around the country that the government formed about five years ago. With government money, he and several other plastic surgeons around the country are preparing to do more face transplants, possibly using the new minimal immune suppression approach.

Marrocco expects to spend three to four months at Hopkins, then return to a military hospital to continue physical therapy, his father said. Before the operation, he had been living with his older brother in a handicapped-accessible home on New York's Staten Island built with the help of several charities.

The home was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy last fall.

Despite being in a lot of pain for some time after the operation, Marrocco showed a sense of humor, his father said. He had a hoarse voice from a tube in his throat during the long surgery, decided that he sounded like Al Pacino, and started doing movie lines.

"He was making the nurses laugh," Alex Marrocco said.

___

AP writer Alex Dominguez contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/soldier-lost-4-limbs-double-arm-transplant-171015152.html

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Hisense previews 2013 TV lineup that includes a 110-inch 4K set, Google TV and glasses-free 3D

Hisense previews 2013 TV lineup that includes a 110inch 4K set, Google TV and glassesfree 3D

Hisense gave us a tease of its TV future late last year with reasonably-sized 4K sets. We now know that it's bringing a lot more to CES -- and we do mean a lot. Its 2013 lineup will include the XT900 line, which brings 3D-capable 4K displays to 65-inch, 85-inch and slightly staggering 110-inch sizes. If extreme resolution isn't top on the list, there's still the 55- and 65-inch XT780, which port Hisense's Google TV interface from a set-top box to the set itself. Glasses-free 3D rounds out the previews: while just a concept, the 60-inch GF60XT980 is promising through its combination of face tracking and a 2160p display to avoid the usual 3D eyewear while preserving detail. Unspecified models across the entire mix carry MHL-capable HDMI ports to handle devices like the Roku Streaming Stick. Prices and ship dates will have to wait until closer to release, Hisense says, but many more details (including a snapshot of the XT780) await after the break.

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