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Hall, Jacob Keith, 24, 810 E. Harrison Ave., Gastonia, 1/25/14 10:28 p.m., resist arrest or escape from custody, 2700 Gail Ave., Huffstetler, C.D.
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Ivey, Darren Xavier, 22, 1424 May Ave., Gastonia, 1/25/14 4:15 p.m., fraud-false pretenses/swindle/confidence game, 117 N. Myrtle School Road, Armstrong, N.D.
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Jenkins, Robert Erving, 55, 805 W. Airline Ave., Gastonia, 1/25/14 11:21 p.m., trespassing, 107 S. Broad St., Lefevers, J.B.
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Knox, Brandon Earl, 20, 602 Glenn St., Gastonia,1/25/14 10:15 p.m., drug (IBR) narcotic violation, 425 N. Marietta St., Cape, C.A.
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Knox, Terrell Jemale, 38, streets of Gastonia, 1/25/14 6 p.m., larceny-from motor vehicle, 2106 N. Chester St., Northey, C.R.
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Degree, John Lowell, 57, 454 Doc Wehunt Road, Cherryville, assault-simple, 454 Doc Wehunt Road, Lawing, C.W.
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Devinney, Michael Ryan, 19, 149 Antelope Dr., Mount Holly, 1/25/14 10:30 a.m., OFA contempt of court/perjury/court violation, S. York Road and Hillcrest Ave., Rheinson, M.
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Dunston, Jennifer Loftin, 37, 875 Stowe Lane, Gastonia, 1/25/14 1:10 a.m., driving while impaired, Woodlawn St. and Belmont Mount Holly Road, Isenhour, A.J.
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Eason, Kayleigh Denise, 16, 5120 Sawbill Lane, Gastonia, 1/25/14 11:45 a.m., assault-simple,1753 Parkdale Ave., Bryant, J.D.
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Greer, Kathryn Leigh, 31, 5046 Surest Farms Lane, Crouse, 1/25/14 9:35 p.m., drug (IBR) narcotic violation, fraud-credit card/automated teller machine, 260 Eason Road, Fisher, S.R.
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Harper, Lisa Wallace, 48, 11 Billings St., Gastonia, 1/25/14 2:51 p.m., OFA contempt of court/perjury/court violation, 11 Billings St., Rheinson, M.
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Lail, Christopher Scott, 26, 3898 Orchard Road, Iron Station, 1/25/14 4:30 p.m., larceny-other, 3874 Dallas High Shoals Highway, Campbell, P.D.
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Lowrimore, Thomas Cole, 30, 1048 Avondale Road, Lowell, 1/25/14 10:40 p.m., assault-simple, 1048 Avondale Road, Henninger, R.B.
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Stanley, Nickie Wiggins, 47, 11702 Forestwinds Lane, Charlotte, 1/25/14 1:45 a.m., trespassing, 721 Dallas Bessemer City Highway, Drennan, W.R.
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Strange, William Marshall, 34, 905 Clay Drive, Gastonia, 1/25/14 8:00 p.m., drug (IBR) narcotic violation, 905 Clay Drive, Downey, W.P.
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Wray, Victoria E., 1318 Jay Ave, Gastonia, 1/25/14 11:22 p.m., embezzlement, 1075 W. Catawba Ave., Grier, W.J.
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The Laval Rouge et Or are a big part of the sports scene in Quebec.
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They often are referred to as a professional football team, in part because sponsors sink a ton of money into making it successful, but also because football has become such a large part of the culture of the province. The atmosphere at Laval home games is akin to a professional game.
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When the Rouge et Or take to Tim Hortons field in Hamilton on Saturday in the Vanier Cup against the Western Mustangs, they’ll find out that they won’t be the only team with some of that Quebec pride on display.
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There are a significant number of Mustangs who come from La Belle Province and would like nothing better than to knock off the province’s favourite sons.
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Nine Quebec natives dressed for the Mustangs in the Uteck Bowl: Jean-Gabe Poulin, Phillippe Dion, Mike Sananes, Jordan Beaulieu, Gregoire Bouchard, Cedric Joseph, Yannick Harou, Nicolas Theriault and Anthony Joyal.
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It’s a significant number of top recruits from a province where the Rouge et Or and Montreal Carabines often get the prime fruit.
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The Mustangs wouldn’t be playing for a Vanier Cup without their French Canadian contingent.
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The majority of those players are familiar with the Rouge et Or because they played either with or against each other at various levels of the sport including CEGEP, the preparatory college for university.
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For some of them, Saturday will be a special day. They’ll play against what has been, during the last 20 years, the best university program and a program many of them passed on to attend Western.
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Poulin was recruited by Laval. His choices came down to Western, Montreal and Laval because Calgary was too far.
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“I choose those schools because I wanted to beat (Laval). That’s always been a goal for me,” Poulin said. “Since I was 18 I thought ‘I don’t want to play for them; I want to beat them.’ That’s why it was here or Montreal because that’s where I thought I would have the best chance.
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Bouchard is the kind of player Laval rarely misses on. He’s a big, strong offensive lineman that thrives in punishing defensive lineman with the running game.
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He knows most of the players on the Laval team.
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Bouchard said the game also gives the Mustangs a chance to dispel the notion they didn’t have to knock off a lot of good teams to get here.
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Mustang running back Cedric Joseph is going to be seeing some of those top Laval defensive players up close and personal. But the fact he’s from Montreal doesn’t give him any more incentive to play the Rouge et Or.
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There is one other interesting footnote in this game. Mustangs coach Greg Marshall and Laval coach Glen Constantin are close friends.
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Excited seems to be the word of the week.
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For 18 years, the Design Management Institute has brought together some of the world’s best design thikers to discuss how all types of design can be used to help develop brands. This year, the conference will center around brand experiences and will feature presentations by creative executives from Walt Disney Imagineering, IKEA, BMW, Nokia and Cheskin (among others).
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Rhea described how the highest level, meaning, actually reinforces our sense of reality and helps shape who we are (a tall order for a brand). Rhea’s recipe for creating meaning? Align yourself with one or more of 15 universal types of meaning he’s identified for internatinal brands: Oneness, brotherhood, beauty, truth, wonder, accomplishment, security, freedom, justice, love, duty, and wisdom (outlined in his new book, Making Meaning). He points to Harley Davidson, OnStar, Apple and Method as brands that have done a good job of establishing a strong, unique meaning.
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The housing market is long overdue for some creative destruction. The question is when it will occur.
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We probably shouldn’t be surprised.
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After playing their part in expanding arguably the world’s largest housing bubble, our politicians are now doing their very best to prevent house prices returning to a marginally less bubble-like state. Treasurer and former investment banker Josh Frydenberg recently went full Soviet, calling for “banks [to] continue to provide affordable and timely access to credit", noting that "keeping open their loan books to borrowers will help maintain the strength of the Australian economy".
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Housing prices aren't just wildly overinflated, they are off-the-charts bananas.
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Is the housing bubble about to burst? And should we freak out about it?
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Yes, Sydney housing prices are skyrocketing. But does that mean it's all about to come crashing down?
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Banks have won some ground on capital requirements. And other business tidbits of the day.
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Is Australia in a housing bubble?
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Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott are pretty pleased that property prices are so high right now. But are we in for a crash? Freelance journalist Andrei Ghoukassian runs the numbers.
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Excessive loans, and not supply issues, have caused the housing bubble, Joe. And other business tidbits of the day.
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Fox has canceled producer David E. Kelley's new law office drama "girls club" after just two airings because of low ratings. The show, which replaced Kelly's previously cancelled Ally McBeal on Monday nights, debuted last week but finished 82nd out of 131 total rated programs, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox will air a rerun of "Boston Public" next week and specials throughout November to fill the slot.
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Winnipeg-based New Flyer industries have received a contract for up to 100 heavy-duty buses from the Port Authority of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The order for the 60-foot Xcelsior clean diesel buses includes a firm order for 25, valued at USD $18 million. Up to 75 additional buses may be exercised as options over the next five years.
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The initial 25 XD60 buses will replace older buses that have reached the end of their useful service life.
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The 75 option buses remaining in the contract will be included in New Flyer’s backlog.
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CRAIG BELLAMY is ticking off the big moments as he comes towards the end of his career – and here was another one, setting up the goal that won his club the first top-flight Welsh derby.
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Bellamy has already retired from international football and, at 34, his total pension is not far off. But he swung over the 62nd-minute corner that Steven Caulker headed in, a Londoner winning an important game for a Cardiff-born man.
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The irony is that Caulker spent a season on loan at Swansea from Spurs before his £8 million permanent move to Cardiff this summer following their Premier League promotion. Caulker, now Cardiff’s captain, has his place in the history of this 101-year-old derby, courtesy of Bellamy’s assistance.
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“I make no bones about how mature Bellamy has been in the two years he has been here, even more so this year because he has called time on his international career and he knows the sun’s going down on his professional career,” said Cardiff manager Malky Mackay.
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Bellamy was part of a drudge of a first half but revved up the game – and individuals – in the second half when Cardiff took control from Swansea. He was not their best player, with Chilean Gary Medel, a bulldog in midfield, taking that honour. But victory meant more to Bellamy than anyone else.
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By the end, the derby was raucous, with Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm sent off in the final minutes and, with no keeper on the bench, Angel Rangel pulled the jersey over his No 22 shirt. Vorm brought down substitute Fraizer Campbell who, with more unspent energy than most, broke away and was threatening a second Cardiff goal.
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From Peter Whittingham’s free-kick, Rangel put the ball over the crossbar, but there was little else for him to worry about as Cardiff added an additional three points between them and the Premier League’s bottom three.
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That is the mundane reward for Cardiff’s win in the first derby of controversial Vincent Tan’s ownership.
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The football did not have a lot to say for itself early on, Michu wasting one chance and having another saved as Swansea dominated the early exchanges.
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Sixty coaches had brought in the Swansea fans, penned in a corner of the ground by double lines of police and stewards, and they raised a smile when they chanted, “Are you Wrexham in disguise”, a dig at Tan for his controversial change of shirt from Bluebirds to would-be Red Devils.
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Swansea’s Jonjo Shelvey tried to get a reaction out of Cardiff with two crunching tackles on Medel and Jordon Mutch but, apart from the predictable glare and words from Bellamy, it brought only a last-chance warning from referee Mike Dean.
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Mackay was on the edge of his technical zone bellowing instructions, presumably his own, while cool dude Michael Laudrup only came out of the Swansea dug-out for the half-time break.
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Cardiff’s attacking instinct had been limited, their threat timid and, having dropped down the league, they needed something from this showdown. And Caulker provided it.
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The man on the pitch with the most unlikely Welsh name of all, Kevin Theophile-Catherine, made a run from right-back and Medel found him with a superb long pass that resulted in Cardiff earning a corner.
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Bellamy took it and Caulker firstly battled with his marker, Chico Flores, before getting over him and heading powerfully down at the near post, where Shelvey had just vacated his guard duty.
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David Marshall needed to make two saves, one edgy, one superb, to keep Cardiff’s lead intact, then came the late drama to leave Swansea with 10 men.
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When Tim Adams went out searching for potholes as part of his work as Cromer district’s county councillor, he didn’t expect to stumble across the remnants of a cannabis farm.
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Mr Adams, who is also a Cromer town councillor, was searching for highway potholes in Southrepps on the evening of February 11 when he came across almost 20 black sacks containing what he believed to be garden waste.
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However, when examined the following day by a North Norfolk District Council officer, it transpired the waste was actually the remains of a former cannabis factory.
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A council spokesperson said: “Following a report of fly tipping in Southrepps, an Environmental Protection Officer attended to discover 18 black sacks dumped in Stump Cross Lane.
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Mr Adams continued: “It’s just such a shame as I’d spent the day litter picking on Cromer beach with a group of volunteers.
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The councillor found two other fly tipping incidents that evening, one site trashed with general waste and the other with an upholstered lounge suite.
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The North Norfolk District Council advise people not to disturb the site in case it can help to identify the people who dumped the items.
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Instead they ask for the public to visually try to identify what the waste consists of and how much there is.
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They also ask individuals to make a note of the day, date and time you saw the tipping, its exact location and whether it’s in or near water.
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If anyone witnesses fly tipping, they should take a note of how many people are involved and what they look like, as well as trying to record of any details of what they look like.
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On top of the gravel we laid a DPM plastic which was to go below the polystyrene sheets. We had to run to collect concrete blocks and block cut-offs to hold down the DPM from waving around and flying away in the wind before laying the polystyrene with blocks on top too.
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Next we bent the D12 steel reinforcing rods down, as well as cutting and bending new D12 rods that would act as perimeter rods. On top of the bars we laid the steel mesh on top, and cut to size for the flooring. We then tied it all together using steel ties and nibs.
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Police from the Ministry of Public Security have busted a gang that used violence to extort money from and provide high-interest loans to drivers at a Ho Chi Minh City bus station.
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Nguyen Van Ty, 27, the gang's alleged leader and other four gang members were taken into custody last week by police, who also seized a number of weapons including knives and scimitars from the extortionists.
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According to initial investigations, the gang had been operating since 2010 at Mien Dong Bus Station.
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Police said the gang has around 15 members, some of whom are employed by bus companies such as An Sinh, Minh Phuong and Hoang Long, which operate out of the station.
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The extortionists demanded protection fees from taxi and bus drivers and brutally beat up those who resisted them.
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Ty also acted as a loan shark to the bus drivers and owners.
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The gang threatened to take revenge anyone who dared report their activity to police.
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Police are searching for gang's members who remain at large.
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A public school in Skægkær north of Silkeborg has decided to ban the use of mobile phones during classes in order to reduce distractions.
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All pupils now have to hand in their mobile phones when they come to class in the morning and receive them back before they leave the school.
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While some students didn’t have a problem with the new rule, others were less willing to yield.
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“We, the pupils, are responsible for our own learning, and so it must be up to us to control how we use our phones,” Caroline Eslund from class 9B told DR.
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Research by the London School of Economics revealed that schools that banned pupils from carrying mobile phones showed a sustained improvement in exam results.
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One of the school’s teachers, Helen Risgaard, commended the banning of mobile phones as student concentration during class has improved.
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“The difference is really obvious. Students were more erratic before,” Risgaard commented.
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Unlike the pupils, teachers are still allowed to keep their mobile phones at hand.
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Disclaimer: there is never a good justification for relapse. Deciding to take the word “blame” out of your vocabulary may turn out to be the most important decision you make before finally experiencing the joys of life long sobriety. All the excuses for why you decide to relapse are really just that: excuses.
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With this disclaimer in mind, here are some very important words of caution to those trying to get sober in an unsympathetic or unsupportive environment.
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Your planning efforts for stabilizing your recovery must always consider the environment that you are getting sober in. This is because the level of support available to you may have a negative or positive impact on how you meet the challenges of early recovery. Again – please do not mistake this caution or the recommendations below to mean that you can only get and maintain sobriety in the most optimal environment for you. We can and do get and maintain sobriety in the worst and best of times, places, and circumstances.
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The physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges endured by those we love and are emotionally engaged with are usually quite significant. It may take some time to address the fractured structure of our relationships. Some of our loved ones or friends might never heal, and that is tragic, but many seemingly lost relationships have been mended in the course of recovery for countless others before you.
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However, every relapse into active addiction reduces the likelihood of that healing and reconciliation. The swath of the addiction’s destruction can be wide and deep, and a declaration of abstinence and a promise to change is not necessarily going to alter the minds and the hearts of the people who have shared in your tragic unmanageability of body, mind, and spirit.
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If your family and friends have withdrawn from you, do not force yourself on them, as you are likely to threaten their security and people can behave poorly when they feel threatened.
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