Pot Luck

First! :-D (4.00 / 1)

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 21:02:10 PM CST

Comfort food, good timing (4.00 / 5)

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by: Eddie C @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 21:03:25 PM CST

Yum! (4.00 / 4)

I guess someone was properly prepared for Super Bowl Sunday. :-D

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 21:04:34 PM CST

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Saw you on the bus today... (4.00 / 5)

Man, I swear if you don't have a twin brother who lives in Portland...

Well then, it must have been you!

Sure you weren't out here about 60 minutes ago, riding the #9 bus down Powell Blvd?

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 22:50:53 PM CST

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what are (4.00 / 4)

those roundish things?

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by: count @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:07:16 PM CST

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Bronx Oysters... (4.00 / 4)

;-P

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:14:59 PM CST

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Maybe. (4.00 / 4)

They look neither blue nor pointy, though. Besides, they're too prettily shaped to be oyster fritters.

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by: count @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:23:56 PM CST

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Bronx oysters... (4.00 / 4)

...are sorta like Rocky Mountain oysters, only I think they're made from Red Sox fans who venture too far south / west of Hartford or New Haven.

;-P

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:40:45 PM CST

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Pasta (4.00 / 3)

I've been eating pasta-like food (pierogis, ravioli, Asian pot-stickers) sauced with sweet mirin and balsamic vinegar. I like.

We normal people usually eat spaghetti primarily for breakfast, in the form of leftovers fried in olive oil with black pepper. I think I'll buy some spaghetti so I can try this for breakfast one day this week, with some soy sauce added to the mirin-vinegar sauce.

Last time I looked for pot-stickers, the only available varieties were stuffed with shrimp, pork, or beef. No vegetarian. I'm omnivorous, but I couldn't bring myself to get any of the available varieties, so I chose ricotta cheese ravioli.

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by: count @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:48:16 PM CST

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Is there anything better... (4.00 / 4)

...than Airplane references?

:)

Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.

Captain Oveur: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

 

Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: L.A. departure frequency, 123 point 9'er.
Captain Oveur: Roger!
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Victor Basta: Request vector, over.
Captain Oveur: What?
Tower voice: Flight 2-0-9'er cleared for vector 324.
Roger Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Captain Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Tower voice: Tower's radio clearance, over!
Captain Oveur: That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
Tower voice: Over.
Captain Oveur: Roger.
Roger Murdock: Huh?
Tower voice: Roger, over!
Roger Murdock: What?
Captain Oveur: Huh?
Victor Basta: Who?

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 22:45:39 PM CST

Yes, there is... (4.00 / 2)

http://www.logoonline.com/show...

You'd better watch! :-p

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 22:51:49 PM CST

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Hmmm... (4.00 / 3)

I'll have to check it out later.  Videos kill my old computer when it's not fresh and just restarted...

;)

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 22:54:26 PM CST

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Got Logo? (4.00 / 2)

If so, "RuPaul's Drag Race" is on every Monday night. If not, VH1 replays it on Saturdays. It's just do much fun to see the queens get everything prepared to dress up and put on quite the amazing show!

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:00:46 PM CST

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My b-day is next month... (4.00 / 2)

So now, the important question...

Where do I book reservations?

Should I finally go where I've been wanting to go for some time? Or do I try this place? Or should I go here?

Any ideas? :-)

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 22:59:20 PM CST

D'ja ask Chowhound? (4.00 / 2)

Oh no, I just reminded myself of that place.  Now I'll never get to sleep!

Argghhh....

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:03:22 PM CST

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Oh jeez, I've already been leaving my mark there! (4.00 / 2)

And btw, I already asked. :-)

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:12:02 PM CST

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Geaux Saints! (4.00 / 4)

Great to see they won.  Anyone wanna chip in for a La Vida Locavore trip to New Orleans for the parade / celebration?

Heh, I have a feeling it might be fun there...

;-P

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:00:52 PM CST

eaux (4.00 / 3)

We talked about sloppy joes in the last Pot Luck, but we neglected hereaux sandwiches.

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by: count @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:16:18 PM CST

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Heh, while we're on that... (4.00 / 4)

This thread is awesome.

300-plus comments of food-related Jersey-isms!

I got lost in that thread, reminiscing for a good hour or so earlier this morning.

Fantastic stuff in there.  Hero vs. Sub vs. Hoagie vs. Grinder; where does South Jersey end and North Jersey begin (answer - the border between them is the northernmost Wawa convenience store); disco fries; pork roll; hard rolls; buttered roll for breakfast; pizza terminology; Italian Ice vs. Water (pronounced "wooder" by those strange South Jersey people) Ice; the proper way to pronounce Newark ("Noork"); sausage and peppers (pronounced by real people (i.e., North Jerseyans) as "saw-sij in Pep-izz"); Jersey Sloppy Joes; and a hundred other things...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:36:34 PM CST

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Oh jeez, I don't know... (4.00 / 2)

If I could handle that, or even "Foodiest Spots in LA"! ;-)

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:53:22 PM CST

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Gaba-ghoul, bro-jhoot, moots-adell... (4.00 / 4)

(capicola, prosciutto, mozzarella)...

Love that thread!

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:03:12 AM CST

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Well, at least you know Jersey... (4.00 / 3)

But can anyone define "LA food"? Or "OC food"?

Must one go to Koreatown on Wilshire for real Korean? Or Little Saigon for real Vietnamese? Or Santa Ana or East LA for real Mexican? Or the San Gabriel Valley for real Chinese?

Or is the real foodie scene on Melrose? Or is it at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market? Or "Restaurant Row" in Newport Beach? Or inside South Coast Plaza?

It's like a damned maze in SoCal! ;-)

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by: atdleft @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:14:37 AM CST

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heh... (4.00 / 2)

I think L.A. food is sushi (if you're wealthy) and those marvelous taco trucks (if you aren't).

But that's just a hunch.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

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by: Youffraita @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 04:12:50 AM CST

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Saints (4.00 / 3)

Began the second half with an onside kick? Egad.

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by: count @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:20:51 AM CST

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Did they? (4.00 / 2)

Excellent!  That's some Boise State-type shit right there!  Screw convention...

I actually didn't watch one snap of the game.  Found out the final score from a text message just after I left Pastaworks (oh, that reminds me!  I wrote down where they get their rabbits from, gotta go find that).  

Anyways, I believe this was the first Super Bowl I didn't watch since XXI (January 1987, Giants over Broncos 39-20.  Whoo!).

Still haven't read anything about it yet, either.  I think I'll save that for tomorrow...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:29:42 AM CST

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PDXers (4.00 / 4)

and former PDXers...

Tell us about P. S. U.

Founded in 1946, it has the largest overall enrollment of any university in the state of Oregon, including undergraduate and graduate students.

I don't know anything about this place.

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by: count @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:14:52 PM CST

Whaddya wanna know? (4.00 / 4)

Urban university in Downtown Portland, beautiful campus.  Hosts the Saturday PSU Portland Farmers' Market.

Part of the Oregon University System, and where I'll probably be going to school part-time in a couple of years (unless the train job I'm trying to get comes through first!).  Wim Weiwel, who I believe came from the University of Baltimore (hey!), is the current president.  

Basketball team is 2X defending conference champions, football is an FBS team that probably couldn't beat half of Portland's high schools.

Recognized as one of the "greenest" (however that's defined, who knows anymore?) schools in the US.  It's more adult/graduate-oriented than U. of Oregon or Oregon State University.

Not to be confused with University of Portland, which is a Catholic school on the other side of town...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:24:34 PM CST

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Oops... (4.00 / 3)

Meant football is an FCS (former Division I-AA) team...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:37:44 PM CST

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PSU? Jay, my degree is from PSU! (4.00 / 3)

Got my B.A. there in Journalism.  Cold as hell in the winter, though: right in the middle of PA, with all those bitterly cold winds swooping down out of Canada, and snowstorms, and freezing rain (part of my non-curricular education was learning how to drive in the snow without hitting anything).  Yeah, Penn State is a good school.  And Joe Paterno is, by all reports, a great guy as well as a great coach.

Oh...you mean Portland, OR?

(Emily Litella voice):  Never mind.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -- Calvin Trillin

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by: Youffraita @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 04:22:54 AM CST

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What to do in OC? (4.00 / 2)

It's just so different here. There's no excuse for me not to visit the farmers' market. There are little holes in the wall everywhere. There's no Michelin Guide, but plenty of overpriced chain steakhouses.

At the very least, it gives me something different to eat while I'm away from home. :-)

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by: atdleft @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:45:30 PM CST

I would go to the beach. (4.00 / 3)

Or go to a book store, and see if this book is around yet.

Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.

Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, tony shopping centers where pilates classes are run like boot camp and real-estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice-cream parlors on Main Street, U.S.A., exist side-by-side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir takes you for a hardboiled tour behind the Orange Curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver prowls the streets with more than the ticking meter on his mind, where cultures clash, housewives want more than the perfect grout cleaner, and nobody is who they seem to be.

The Portland edition was one of my favorite reads of the past few years.  They have a Las Vegas collection, too.

But no Jersey yet.  I think I should put that one together, or at least contribute one story to the collection.  "In The Shadows of the Old Paramount Theater".  Nah, that's too cliche.  I'll come up with something, though...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 23:55:52 PM CST

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I'll have to see if it's at the bookstore... (4.00 / 3)

And I'd love to walk along the beach if the weather cooperates before I leave. OC really is a different place with a different vibe. I never really appreciated it until I left for Vegasland.

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by: atdleft @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:08:41 AM CST

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The two things I'd do... (4.00 / 2)

...if I was going back to Jersey soon (which I'm probably not) - hit Montclair Books, and head Down The Shore!

Asbury first, of course.  Then probably Spring Lake, Point Pleasant, Seaside, and then Sandy Hook on the way book up...

And if it was the 4th of July in Asbury Park, I'd probably look for Sandy, too.

;-P

As always, I must say -

Bruuuuuuuuce!

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:14:52 AM CST

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Oh, fork me... (4.00 / 2)

Alright, I'm done.  Long day.  Tired.  'Bout to crash right in the computer chair.  Busy day tomorrow.  Couch is already folded down (heh, I haven't folded it up since Friday I think, been a lazy ass), 4 steps away.  Just have to get up and take. those. steps.

Night, all...

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 00:34:39 AM CST

Employment/Unemployment (4.00 / 2)

I've listened to the audio reruns of the Sunday news-talk-opinion programs. The lip smacking, lip flapping, chin wagging chowderheads are either gleeful or woebegone about last week's report that employment declined by 20,000 non-farm jobs from December. Both sentiments are simultaneously half-baked and overdone, in my opinion.

Let's remember, first of all, that both the December number and January's number are preliminary. None of the pontificators know what the January number will be when the data are finally compiled and analyzed, and we might well find out that the reported January number is slightly positive, not slightly negative.

Let's remember, second of all, that the number everyone is jabbering about is a seasonally adjusted number. Not seasonally adjusted, the U.S. economy always loses millions of jobs in January, compared to December. The job loss in January 2009 was 3,699,000 compared to December 2008. The job loss in January 2010 was 2,819,000 compared to December 2009. That looks to me like an 880,000 improvement.

The job loss in Jan. 2008 was 3,035,000 from Dec. 2007.

I don't know what arithmetical black box grinds raw data into seasonally adjusted numbers, but my simpleminded intuition says that, if the reported seasonally adjusted job loss is 20,000, someone calculated that the economy lost 20,000 more than "expected" based on past data. That could mean that the economy could have been "expected" to have lost 2,799,000 jobs in a "normal" or "average" year. How reasonable is that? The 14-year average January job loss, 1996-2009, is 2,803,000. The calculation has to be extended to 1995 to get a 15-year average Jan. job loss of 2,770,000.

The future still looks cloudy to me. I am particularly concerned that the consequences of the mortgage and other financial chicanery have not been fully realized, but today's expressions of gloom and doom are not justified on the basis of what we now know, in my opinion. Economic activity is increasing, and I think many people will be surprised at the job rebound when businesses can no longer avoid hiring to accomodate the growth. For myself, I can't comprehend what the jobs picture might look like if the burden of providing health care could be removed from the backs of American businesses. It would be stupefyingly awesome.

Obama's most severe challenge in the coming year might be to prevent Wall Streeters and other Republicans from following through on their threats to destroy our economy.

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by: count @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 02:12:24 AM CST

Statistics (4.00 / 2)

BLS unadjusted net change page

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by: count @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 02:21:27 AM CST

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amen brother (4.00 / 3)

Did you see headlines this morning ( I think it was Huffington Post earlier) about Wall St giving more $$$ to Repubs because they don't like the financial reforms they see coming down the pike from Dems.

And here's a good read....about the next shoe to drop
http://shrinkify.com/1pcjJosh writes about PE for the NY Post.

I was interviewed for the book (didn't make it though)

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by: LeeN @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 09:36:37 AM CST

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oops wrong shrinky dinky (4.00 / 3)

http://shrinkify.com/1pcj

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by: LeeN @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 09:37:44 AM CST

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Pastaworks rabbit... (4.00 / 2)

Joanne - Pastaworks gets their rabbits from Nicky USA, a SE Portland-based wild game purveyor.  Their rabbits come from a handful of individual farms in Oregon and SW Washington that they work with.  Here's an interesting article from The Portland Tribune on game in Portland restaurants, with a few paragraphs specific to rabbit.

According to [Nicky USA owner and president Geoff] Latham, one of the biggest reasons there aren't many rabbit farms in Oregon is that very few local facilities process the meat.

Sometime in the future, Latham hopes to buy his own farm within 30 miles of Portland. Once he does, he plans to build a state-of-the-art processing facility at the farm where he could offer custom-processing days for local farmers so that they can process their less common, often heritage, meats.

"Now that Nicky USA has done the best that we can in sustainable, humanely raised animals, the next thing is to try to bring back different breeds that might not be used as much anymore. You know, heritage turkey was really a big deal this Thanksgiving. Unfortunately for Oregon, nobody has a major packing plant, so we can't really capitalize on what's being raised here," Latham says.

"The greenest building is the one already built" - Carl Elefante

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by: JayinPortland @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 09:47:58 AM CST

I was thinking that's probably where it was coming from (4.00 / 2)

I was over at Nicky USA's website yesterday trying to find out which farms they were using, and if they had gotten a local slaughter house built yet. The owner of the company had talked about building a slaughter house within 30 miles of Portland and slaughtering for local independant producers in addition to the growers they source their own rabbit from.

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 11:02:44 AM CST

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