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• « Monday « March 31, 2003

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     1. {03312003}
     2. {01:22:33 AM}

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     1. What's gone wrong, and who's to blame?

         

        (Sydney Morning Herald)

         
     2. Vivid report from the frontline, on the road to Baghdad

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     3. Vivid report from the frontline, on the road to Baghdad..."
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• « Wednesday « March 26, 2003

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     1. {03262003}
     2. {03:50:07 PM}

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     1. TiVo Reports Oscars Viewing Behavior

         

        (AdAge.com)

         
     2. Your TiVo is watching you. Moore: most rewound; Julia Roberts: most paused

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     3. Your TiVo is watching you. Moore: most rewound; Julia Roberts: most paused..."
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     2. television
     3. technology

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• « Tuesday « March 25, 2003

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     1. {03252003}
     2. {07:31:17 AM}

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     1. Fictitious Times: Michael Moore's Acceptance Speech
        

         

        (75th Annual Academy Awards)

         
     2. Moore: "Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to
        Since I skipped the Oscars this year, I missed all the drama over Michael Moore's speech, but found it on the Oscar site. I guess he got booed off the stage or something. That's the MO at the Oscars: don't make political statements. It's ironic that Hollywood gets on a high horse and whips those in their own community who choose to voice their opinion. Are you telling me that Hollywood doesn't ram a f*cked-up point-of-view down people's throats everytime the lights go down and the projectors starts rolling? Please!
        
        Here's a link to Moore's post-ceremony press conference. (Windows Media Player required)

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     3. propaganda

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• « Monday « March 24, 2003

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     1. {03242003}
     2. {11:39:50 AM}

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     1. War in Iraq: Media, Disinformation, and Propaganda

         
     2. Words to live and die by:

        "This is just the beginning of a tough fight."

        "The unexpectedly large number of American and British casualties in the war against Iraq has shocked the coalition forces."

        "This is going to get a lot harder."

        "US-led forces had been dealt a series of setbacks."

        Yet weeks prior to the commencement of hostilities, here was the tone:

        "United States will quickly win a war against Iraq, based on superior American technology."

        "Pity a country that would come up against us."

        Propaganda. Disinformation. What can you believe? Who can you trust? WTF is really going on? We'll probably never really know.

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        "This is just the beginning of a tough fight."

        "The unexpectedly large number of Ame..."

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     2. news and media
     3. politics

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• « Friday « March 21, 2003

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     1. {03212003}
     2. {01:40:05 PM}

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     1. Boycott the Oscars

         

        (AlterNet.org)

         
     2. Imagine an Academy Awards stripped of all glitz and glibness, that is nameless and faceless, that is muted and mute. Moviemakers could make their biggest statement by shocking everyone and not showing up, or stopping by and not saying anything at all. Think of the world tuning in to the sight of silence: a night of peace amid war. Think of all the fleeing viewers and lost moola. It could give new meaning to the battle phrase "shock and awe."
        Remember in the aftermath of 9/11, all of the pro sports teams were debating whether or not they should play? All the pundits and commentators generally agreed that sports are relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Now, with a war on, the significance of the Academy Awards, and the entertainment industry the ceremony represents, is apparent: ultimately they are completely meaningless. If sports and entertainment, then, are so unimportant, why do we spend so much of our time, money, and attention on them?

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• « Thursday « March 20, 2003

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     1. {03202003}
     2. {07:23:45 AM}

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     1. Gas Face

         

        (BioChem Gas Mask)

         
     2. TIME magazine listed this mask as a "good mask" for civilian use

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     3. TIME magazine listed this mask as a "good mask" for civilian use..."
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• « Wednesday « March 19, 2003

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     1. {03192003}
     2. {07:26:40 PM}

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     1. Red alert? Stay home, await word

         

        (CourierPostOnline)

         
     2. In New Jersey: If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says
        That would be martial law, no? In the land of the free? WTF?
        
        b/w: politechbot, via american samizdat

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     3. In New Jersey: If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says..."
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  2. datetime

     1. {03192003}
     2. {04:26:42 AM}

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     1. Black kids get 'pep talk' before test ... because they're dumber

         

        (The Salina Journal)

         
     2. Hoping to boost her school's standardized test scores, an elementary school principal pulled black children aside and gave them a pep talk about the importance of doing well on the test.Terri Dieker, who is white, told black fourth- and fifth-graders at Nettie Hartnett Elementary that minority students hadn't fared as well on the state tests as white students in the past and urged them to try their hardest, said Linda Aldridge, an assistant superintendent for the Leavenworth school district. Aldridge said white students did not receive a separate pre-test pep talk from the principal.
        If you go in with the assumption that black children are less intelligent, then how can they ever get a fair chance to compete? Wait a minute, what am I talking about. Why give them a fair chance?
        
        b/w: Thought4TheDay

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     3. Hoping to boost her school's standardized test scores, an elementary school principal pulled black children aside and gave them a pep talk about the importance of doing well on the test.Terri Dieker, who is white, told black fourth- and fifth-graders at N..."
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• « Monday « March 17, 2003

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {02:34:43 PM}

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     1. Congress Nixes 'French Fries' in Fit of Pique

         

        (Yahoo! News (Photos))

         
     2. Anti-Gallic sentiment gets out of hand; no more French Kissing next
        
        b/w: davezilla

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {02:17:39 PM}

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     1. ..::| My Own Self | ::..

         
     2. Terrifically awesome self-portraiture from a 22-year-old!
        
        b/w: jenett.radio

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {01:08:27 PM}

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     1. With war in Iraq certain, markets go through roof

         

        (BigCharts.com)

         
     2. But there's no proven connection between mass death, destruction and greed

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {12:45:00 PM}

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     1. Davis should be punished for showing up Jazz

         

        (ESPN.com)

         
     2. Punk-ass dunkmeister Ricky Davis went for triple-double the cheap way

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {06:47:18 AM}

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     1. Fleet of FBI Aircraft Track Suspects in War on Terror

         

        (Tampa Bay Online)

         
     2. "The cop on the beat now has Superman's X-ray eyes."

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     1. {03172003}
     2. {06:42:44 AM}

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     1. Human ID at a Distance

         
     2. The goal of the Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID) program is to develop automated biometric identification technologies to detect, recognize and identify humans at great distances. These technologies will provide critical early warning support for force protection and homeland defense against terrorist, criminal, and other human-based threats, and will prevent or decrease the success rate of such attacks against DoD operational facilities and installations.
        I am the Eye-in-the-Sky, looking at you. And I can read your mind, by looking at you.

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     3. The goal of the Human Identification at a Distance (HumanID) program is to develop automated biometric identification technologies to detect, recognize and identify humans at great distances. These technologies will provide critical early warning support..."
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     1. {03172003}
     2. {06:35:59 AM}

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     1. U.S. Dominance in Space: 'Pity the Enemy'

         

        (DefenseLINK News)

         
     2. Spy sat system can read letters on basketball 25,000 miles away

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• « Sunday « March 16, 2003

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     1. {03162003}
     2. {08:32:05 PM}

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     1. Poor People! Wanna play Internet?

         

        (The Register)

         
     2. "As for the Digital Divide - it can be solved easily enough. Give'em all credit cards and free mobile phones. The real Divide - crap schools, crap food, crap hospitals, crap houses - will be rather more difficult to bridge.
        I just liked the quote. It sums things up perfectly.

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     3. "As for the Digital Divide - it can be solved easily enough. Give'em all credit cards and free mobile phones. The real Divide - crap schools, crap food, crap hospitals, crap houses - will be rather more difficult to bridge...."
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• « Friday « March 14, 2003

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     1. {03142003}
     2. {04:29:54 AM}

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     1. Bet on Saddam's chances to live

         

        (TradeSports.com)

         
     2. Also, wager on that little NCAA hoops tourney, among other things

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     3. Also, wager on that little NCAA hoops tourney, among other things..."
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     3. internet

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     1. {03142003}
     2. {04:23:07 AM}

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     1. Delta: Treating Americans Like Terrorists

         

        (BoyCottDelta.com)

         
     2. Starting later this month, Delta passengers will be asked a lot more than 'window or aisle', or whether you want that 'special meal'. Delta wants to know more: a lot more. As a pilot test of a new Orwellian airline 'security' program, Delta will be running background checks on anyone who flies Delta from one of three as-yet undisclosed airports.
        Take the train. If this is the future, then the terrorists may have already won.

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     3. Starting later this month, Delta passengers will be asked a lot more than 'window or aisle', or whether you want that 'special meal'. Delta wants to know more: a lot more. As a pilot test of a new Orwellian airline 'security' program, Delta will be runnin..."
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     1. {03142003}
     2. {04:17:15 AM}

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     1. Government should control 'Net

         

        (IDG.net)

         
     2. Worms, viruses and cyberattacks growing too frequent to handle

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• « Thursday « March 13, 2003

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     1. {03132003}
     2. {07:33:09 PM}

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     1. Why Marketers Love Reality TV Stars: They're Cheap

         

        (AdAge.com)

         
     2. Those 15 minutes of fame are translating into 30-second bites as reality TV stars sign up in droves with Madison Avenue.
        Rhetorically blogging, but who's cheaper? The marketers or the Reality TV stars? And, by the way, is anything on television really real?

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     3. Those 15 minutes of fame are translating into 30-second bites as reality TV stars sign up in droves with Madison Avenue...."
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     1. {03132003}
     2. {09:42:16 AM}

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     1. HBO Suspends 'Sopranos' Filming

         

        (ABCNEWS.com)

         
     2. HBO has suspended filming of "The Sopranos" due to a contract dispute with the show's star, James Gandolfini, newspapers said
        Those loser hacks on Friends get $1 million per show, so why can't Tony Soprano? After all, he's really acting. Isn't he? We'll find out for sure if the head of HBO suddenly disappears, eh?

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     3. HBO has suspended filming of "The Sopranos" due to a contract dispute with the show's star, James Gandolfini, newspapers said..."
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• « Sunday « March 9, 2003

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     1. {03092003}
     2. {08:24:25 PM}

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     1. California gas prices help raise national average

         

        (newsobserver.com)

         
     2. Gasoline supply problems in California contributed to a 5 cent per gallon increase in the national average over the past two weeks.
        Two years ago, when Cali was enduring those rolling blackouts I suggested to some friends that there's got to be some connection between energy companies like Enron, the Bush administration, and the energy price hikes we had to absorb. But what did I know? I was just a guy with a weblog. Now gas and oil prices are going through the roof, and somehow Dubya's crew -- focused more on a war they're instigating abroad than the rotting economy at home -- is right in the middle of it all. Of course, there's no connection.

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• « Saturday « March 8, 2003

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     1. {03082003}
     2. {05:38:25 PM}

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     1. Bush's press conference

         

        (uggabugga blog)

         
     2. We listened to it, and like other commentators - David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Ceci Connolly - thought that he was repeating himself in the Q & A session. So we decided to do a break-down of the words and see if anything stood out. Well, he did repeat things...
        Word analysis of Bush's last "Attack Iraq" speech. All you need to do is connect the dots.
        
        b/w: dratfink

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     3. We listened to it, and like other commentators - David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Ceci Connolly - thought that he was repeating himself in the Q & A session. So we decided to do a break-down of the words and see if anything stood out. Well, he did repeat things..."
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• « Wednesday « March 5, 2003

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     1. {03052003}
     2. {12:17:16 PM}

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     1. Junk Food News

         
     2. Burgers, Pizza, Hot Dogs, Tacos, Fries, Candy, Fast Food

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• « Tuesday « March 4, 2003

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     1. {03042003}
     2. {11:36:40 PM}

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     1. Minorities not as supportive of war with Iraq

         

        (BayArea.com)

         
     2. Do American wars ever benefit its people of color? Depends on who you ask
        
        b/w: allaboutgeorge

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     3. Do American wars ever benefit its people of color? Depends on who you ask..."
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     1. {03042003}
     2. {08:06:41 PM}

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     1. Michael Jackson Wears Fake Nose, Hates Being Black

         

        (Yahoo! Launch)

         
     2. More weird non-sequiturs from the King of Pop; it's amazing he can breathe at all

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• « Monday « March 3, 2003

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     1. {03032003}
     2. {03:28:03 PM}

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     1. The Thresher

         
     2. Flailing at Current Events: For the moment, the only realistic goal seems to be to preserve the freedom to dissent, to question authority, to express even a bit of skepticism. In the words of George Clinton (the only Clinton that matters): "Think. It ain
        Bits and pieces of gooey, thought-provoking verbiage, from social auteur/iconoclast R.U. Sirius' latest offline magazine.
        
        b/w: American Samizdat

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     1. {03032003}
     2. {10:23:00 AM}

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     1. Research on the prison industrial complex

         

        (PrisonSucks.com)

         
     2. South Africa under Apartheid was internationally condemned as a racist society.

        South Africa under apartheid (1993)
        Black adult men in prison: 851 per 100,000

        U.S. under George Bush (2001)
        Black adult men in prison: 7,226 per 100,000

        What does it mean that the leader of the "free world" locks up its Black men at a rate 8.4 times higher than the most openly racist country in the world?
        These statistics are so staggering they're almost impossible to believe. Download a one-page PDF of those stats. When people tell you race relations are getting better in America, show them the numbers, because the numbers don't lie.

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        U.S. under George Bush (2001)
        Bl..."

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     1. {03032003}
     2. {10:10:14 AM}

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     1. audblog

         
     2. audblog is a service that provides bloggers with the ability to post audio to their blogs from any phone. At the end of the trial sign up we will provide you with the telephone number...all you have to do is call the number and the world hears you. Use it to make a difference ... use it to make your voice be heard.
        This is the brainchild of Noah Glass, who I've met, and partied with, along with his gal Sonja, through Marc. There have been plenty of ideas for adding sound to weblogs before, but the complexity of recording and posting audio to the web has always been the dealbreaker. audblog proposes to address that problem by, literally, letting you phone in your posts.

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• « Sunday « March 2, 2003

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     1. {03022003}
     2. {09:16:59 PM}

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     1. Sympathy for the Devil

         

        (Interesting-People)

         
     2. John Perry Barlow: "War is bad for business. But what
        So it's all just a big bluff? Read this one all the way through and then decide.
        
        b/w: Adam Curry

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• « Saturday « March 1, 2003

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     1. {03012003}
     2. {03:21:07 AM}

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     1. Marcus Garvey

         

        (PBS.org (WGBH))

         
     2. What's in a name---to be precise, in the name Marcus Garvey? A century after his birth, what should we know about him and the extraordinary movement that bears his name? The name Garvey has come to define both a discrete social phenomenon, and an era of black renaissance, in which Garveyism and the concept of black racial pride became synonymous.
        I think this one is a fitting finish to my month-long posting marathon for Black History Month 2003. Since black folks are still at the bottom of the social ladder in America today, maybe it's worth revisiting some of Garvey's concepts, which all argued for independence and taking control of your own destiny.

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