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Pakistan Air Lines President Blames Sleepless, Tired Pilots for Crash

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Smoking Hole in Pakistan. Courtesy of AP.

Yet another deadly “smoking hole in the ground” adds to the continuing trail of death left by sleepless and tired pilots being stretched beyond their limits by schedules designed to maximize profits for their employers. 

The worst air crash in Pakistan’s history of Airblue’s flight ED-202 from Karachi to Islamabad killing all 152 aboard may be attributed to pilot fatigue according to the President of Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (PALPA). Captain Sohail Baloch told a private news channel “The pilot may be suffering from accumulated fatigue because they are not given adequate leaves.” He added that the pilot was not in a no-fly zone and speculated that the plane was off course due to bad weather. The pilot had to ”resort to visual queues for landing” because communication with the control tower had been lost due to the weather.

The Hindu.com reports that the pilot , Pervez Iqbal Chaudhry, “had 35 years of experience and had logged over 25,000 flying hours.” Airblue official Raheel Ahmed was quoted in the same article explaining that the Airbus A321 was ten years old, had been used by them for the past four years, and was fully serviceable with no technical faults. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the aircraft at 2600 feet was cleared to land when it rose up to 3000 feet for no apparent reason and then disappeared from the radar. “The (control) tower did not receive any SOS message or report of a technical problem before the crash,” Malik said.  

Only nine weeks ago the world was mourning the loss of 158 people in an Air India crash in the Mangalore hills. That “smoking hole” left eight survivors. The experienced British pilot of that flight misjudged his landing so badly (2000 feet) that “senior pilots, including the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (IPCA) are already blaming pilot fatigue for being responsible for the major accident,” as reported in a China Post article. Two years before that “an Air India Express flight from Mumbai to Dubai overshot its destination by 350 miles after its pilots apparently fell asleep due to fatigue.” The ICPA in response to the Mangalore crash sent a letter to the Prime Minister complaining that “up to 78 percent of crashes were caused by fatigue-related human error.” Flight and Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) in India have not been changed since 1992 when they had no scientific basis for the regulations. Attempts were made in 2005 to change the FDTL but the rule changes were withdrawn under pressure from the “private operators.”

The flight and duty time restrictions worldwide reflect the lack of response from the FAA to the plethora of data now available regarding the effects of sleep deprivation upon mental and physical performance. Our rule changes were dropped in 1995 in response the airline industry’s complaints. Even the unions, strongly supported by then President Bill Clinton, wanted to drop the duty time hours from 16 to 14 hours. Andy Pasztor, in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Dispute Over Cost Delays Pilot Rules,” blames the delay in the rule changes on a dispute between the FAA and the White House Office of Management and Budget. Budget officials have told the FAA informally that “the proposal’s projected cost to airlines wasn’t justified by the anticipated safety benefits.”  Since the FAA is controlled by former air line executives and Washington is still held in the firm grip of powerful airline lobbyists like Linda Daschle we cannot expect the “change” promised by our President in the flowered oratory of his campaign.

The European Cockpit Association, a group of pilots unions with over 38,000 members, accuses the European Union (EU) of “ “endangering air safety by failing to act on the recommendations of experts who say cuts in flying hours are needed to curb pilot fatigue.”  The Air Canada Pilots Association, with over 7,000 members, has been asking for changes to Transport Canada’s regulations for years. Dave Ross, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, representing pilot unions at six regional airlines, says, “It’s money. If you can’t fly as long as you do today, then that increases your cost.”

 The world continues to scream the alarms to the FAA. The FAA’s mission statement is “to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.” The FAA’s vision statement is “ to reach the next level of safety, efficiency, environmental responsibility and global leadership. We are accountable to the American public and our stakeholders.” The world waits, awake to the ever increasing danger of sleepless and tired pilots threatening our lives. The FAA, Congress, and the Administration continue to hit the snooze button while confined to the bedroom of the airline industry’s sleep inducing lobbyists.

The “smoking holes” of death and the smells of burning flesh are permeating the atmosphere of Obama’s flowery campaign rhetoric about cleaning up the halls of Washington. In 2007 newsmax.com reported on Mr. Obama’s lamenting the fact that “the disproportionate influence of lobbyists and special interest is a problem in Washington (and) in state capitals.” He admitted then that he was “swimming in the same muddy water” and that he knows the waters are muddy. He said “I want to clean it up.” The world is waiting for Mr. Obama, Mr. Babbitt (FAA Administrator), and Mr. LaHood (Transportation Secretary) to exit the bedroom of the airline industry’s sleep inducing lobbyists and go to work on new pilot fatigue regulations. The safety of millions flying the skies continue to see the smoke and to smell the burning flesh. The time has come for you to douse the flames.

Here’s a link to a very sad slide show of crash site photos, courtesy of AP and thehindu.com: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article538554.ece

Another link to a related article from thehindu.com: http://www.thehindu.com/news/article540335.ece

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FAA and NTSB Sound Asleep. Pilot Fatigue Screams the Alarm Again!

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Time to Wake Up!

Despite a promise the Obama administration made in June of 2009 proposing “new limits on how many hours airline pilots can fly” the FAA, the NTSB, and air safety regulators across the globe continue to “sleep in” while the screaming alarms continue to sound. The crash of the Air India flight last week killing 158 people sounded the most recent alarm on possible pilot fatigue and pilot error. The reason I say “possible” is because the investigation for cause of that particular disaster has not been completed. It is doubtful that pilot fatigue will be blamed for the crash. Our air safety regulators choose to continually hit the snooze button and then to throw the alarm out the window. They will no doubt find a simpler cause to the crash. They do not want to confront the airline industry or the airline unions with the stringent new regulations necessary to protect our safety in the air.

Randy Babbitt, FAA administer, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, attended congressional hearings convened to discuss the crash of the Continental Connection Flight 3407 on February 12, 2009 near Buffalo, NY. The crash killed all 49 people on board as well as one person on the ground. The crash was caused by pilot fatigue. Babbitt told Congress and the media that he would propose a new rule addressing pilots’ fatigue related complaints dealing with multiple take-offs and landings (often described as more stressful than long flights) “in the next several months.” Mr. Babbitt, you can wake up now. It’s been well over a year now and we have not seen your new regulations. Babbitt assigned the Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) the task of drafting the new rule changes by September 1, 2009. The committee completed their task on time. An Aviation Today article detailing Mr. Babbitt’s promises described the ARC’s 18 members working together with unions, airline industry representatives, and the FAA. Mr. Babbitt said the group was examining “flight time, duty, and rest limitations; including definitions of rest, duty, fatigue, captain’s authority, and reserve. Scientists who specialize in fatigue made presentations about sleep opportunities, circadian rhythms and potential scheduling.” Wrapping up his speech Mr. Babbitt said, “I can’t say this any more directly than I am right now: We all have to take on additional responsibilities whether we’re legally required to or not. This is about safety, and safety is about saving lives.” The ARC finished up in September 2009, but Mr. Babbitt has been silent ever since.

Our administrators are not the only air safety regulators shunning their alarm clocks’ screaming cries. The European Cockpit Association, a group of pilots unions with over 38,000 members criticized the European Union’s “endangering air safety by failing to act on the recommendations of experts who say cuts in flying hours are needed to curb pilot fatigue. Here in the EU, pilot fatigue is the single biggest “hot potato” safety issue where neither the European Commission nor the European Aviation Safety Agency has shown any leadership to move decisively towards science-based EU rules.” The CBC in Canada has repeatedly reported on Transport Canada’s failures to respond to pilot fatigue issues. More than a dozen crashes linked to pilot fatigue have occurred since Regionnair’s flight 347 crash 10 years ago. Serge Gagne, the pilot of that flight had been working 30 days straight when he crashed in 1999. He was in his 18thhour of duty and was 60 hours over Transport Canada’s monthly limit. The Air Canada Pilots Association, with over 7,000 members, has been asking for changes to Transport Canada’s regulations for years. The regulations haven’t been changed since 1995, and before that, the changes last made were in the 1940s. Our own NTSB has been pressing for new regulations on pilot hours for 19 years. An FAA proposed rule change in 1995 was halted by the air industry. Pilot unions wanted to reduce the duty hours from 16 to 14, but the airline industry said no. Dave Ross, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, representing pilot unions at six regional airlines, says, “It’s money. If you can’t fly as long as you do today, then that increases your cost.” Mr. Babbitt, Ray LaHood, the Obama administration, and the airline industries need to ask themselves “How much money is human life worth?”

 The Wall Street Journal recently chimed in on this issue with an article by Andy Pasztor titled “Dispute Over Cost Delays Pilot Rules.”   He attributes the delay of proposed changes to a dispute between the FAA and the White House Office of Management and Budget. He says that budget officials have told the FAA informally that “the proposal’s projected cost to airlines wasn’t justified by the anticipated safety benefits.”

Front row seats at the FAA, formerly representing the airline industry belong to:

  • David Weingart: FAA Chief of Staff. Six years with Northwest Airlines.
  • Hank Krakowski: Chief Operating Officer. 30 years at United Airlines.
  • Ramesh Punwani: Chief Financial Officer. Past CFO and VP of Pan American World Airways
  • David Grizzle: Chief Counsel. 22 years at Continental Airlines. Responsible for agency regulation, safety enforcement and compliance programs, and personal and labor law.

Joining these FAA administrators in affecting current air safety regulations and concerns are the following important lobbyists:

  • Former Senators John Breaux and Trent Lott, along with at least 17 former congressional aides and staffers now with Delta Airlines.
  • Sharon Pinkerton, former FAA Assistant Administrator, now with the airlines main lobbying group: Air Transport Association of America.
  • Linda Daschle, wife of former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, former ATA executive and former FAA deputy administrator and acting administrator in the 90s. Now she is one of Washington’s top lobbyists, paid more than $440,000 a year to lobby for American Airlines.

Regulators, airline executives, congressional representatives, and lobbyists are constantly exchanging places in the merry-go-round for money. While they ride their ever changing horses, air safety regulations will take the back seat near the toilets where we can listen to the constant flushes of empty promises disappearing into the thin air.

 In the meantime, we will continue to read frightening data, such as these, reported by Stephen Stock and the investigation team of CBS4 in Miami:

  • “1011 incidents nationwide since 1978 where pilot fatigue caused a safety concern on board the aircraft or an actual crash. 689 of those incidents happened in the last five years (2005-2009).”
  • “Data from the FAA, NTSB, and NASA shows the problem is growing. There were 189 incidents in 2008 which is up from 117 incidents the year before (2007). And in just the first 9 months of 2009 there were 104 incidents of serious pilot fatigue which is the same number as in entire years in the past.”

Their investigation team even found a brochure, published by the NTSB in 1990, “calling for the FAA to address fatigue immediately.”

 Randy Babbitt’s latest word comes from his statementbefore the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Aviation on Update: The Agency’s Call to Action on Airline Safety and Pilot Training. His complete statement can be found on faa.gov. He laments that, despite his direction for an aggressive timeline for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the end of last year to update the rules from the mid-1990s, it did not happen. He says, “However, with my continued emphasis on this topic, we hope to issue an NPRM this spring. Although this is slightly later than I originally hoped, it is still an extremely expedited schedule and I can assure you the FAA team working on this is committed to meeting the target.”

 FLUSH, FLUSH, FLUSH…

 RING, RING, RING…

 Anyone hear the alarm going off? It’s ringing! Daylight has arrived. No one hears it. Our sleep deprived pilots are on their radios airing their distress signals. The music of the flushing toilet, the carrousel, and the ride for money are drowning out the cries for passenger safety. When will our regulators awaken from their sleep paralysis?

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Sleepless Thoughts of Leashes, Straitjackets, Bomb Shelters, and Freedom

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Child on a leash learning "proper" behavior in public

A reading of last night’s news prompted a powerful stream of emotions last night. Embarrassment and shame, irritation and anger, confusion and fear were the aggressors. We are the victims, sharing our sleepless and tired nights with the thoughts of our lost freedom. There are some who hope that our fears will result in paralysis and submission. My hope is that we confront these fears with the confident knowledge that our past experience, our determination, and our strength will deflect these attacks on our freedom. These attacks are very subtle. They are like the frog placed in a kettle of water heating on the stove. The victim will die before he realizes that the water is getting warmer and warmer until it boils. The attacks are designed to harness and tether our souls, to wrap our adrenalin pumped bodies into straitjackets, and to send us running to our private bomb shelters, afraid to confront our aggressors.

The stimulus that ignited the kindling to this fire was an article written by John Rosemond, a family psychologist. He is a well known author of many parenting books and is thought to be “traditional” in his child rearing methods. His recent article, printed in the Everett Herald today,“Leashes can help kids learn to behave,” has been syndicated through the McClatchy Newspapers, and published in newspapers across America. The article makes the following incredible statements which are direct quotes:

  • The leash allows the child a limited amount of freedom (the length of the tether can be adjusted).
  • The idea is for the parent to patiently teach the young child how to properly behave in public places.
  • …the leash can be lengthened, giving the child more and more freedom.
  • I’ve seen a good number of child leashes in use in Europe and the occasional use in the USA.
  • And never have I seen a child on a leash who was misbehaving.
  • …it is often unnecessary by the fourth birthday.
  •  The child on a leash is safe, can’t get lost, has lots more freedom than a child in a stroller, is getting more exercise than a child in a stroller, and is learning how to behave himself in public places.

Having fathered and helped to raise three sons, I was shocked that a psychologist would recommend animal training techniques for human applications. The visions of sidewalks, stores, malls, and restaurants populated by adults being led by children on leashes embarrassed me at first. But the more I thought about the nightmarish image, the angrier I became. How a loving parent can harness, leash, and train a child like an animal is beyond my threshold of patience and tolerance. The forced submission of a leash is far more demeaning than a scolding or even a spanking. Speaking, as Rosemond does, of a leash and freedom in the same sentence is a dichotomy I cannot accept. The idea of a parent “patiently” teaching with a leash is disturbing. Patient teaching is done by spending time with the child, allowing the child the freedom to make mistakes, and reprimanding the bad behavior when it occurs. Harnessing and leashing is demeaning and excessive, long term punishment. The fact that the practice is more common in Europe does not make it more permissible here. Mr. Rosemond says that he has “never seen a child on a leash who was misbehaving.” He has never seen a child trying desperately to run ahead? Has he ever seen the parent jerking the child back? Would he consider that demeaning? Mr. Rosemond says that the leash is “often unnecessary by the fourth birthday.” Can you imagine a child being harnessed and leashed in public from his first prideful days of walking at 12-18 months until the age of four? We have leash-free parks for dogs. Will we need them for our children as well? Will crate training be necessary at home? The parent subjecting his child to this “patient” teaching is much more interested in domination and submission to his power and command. I cannot argue the benefits of safety and exercise in a leash, but the negatives of the leash far outweigh those two benefits. The leash is an easy cop-out for the parent who doesn’t want to spend the time to patiently teach.

Mr. Rosemond goes on to ridicule parents who use “sippy cups” instead of teaching their children to drink water from a small cup. He calls “sippy cups” demeaning? Leashes are not? He suggests gradually increasing the quantity of water in the cup from an inch upward until the child is able to handle the cup without incident. This method requires patience, time, and communication. A parent resorting to a harness and leash would never take the time to teach drinking from a regular cup. 

Straightjacket

The conditioning of the harness and the leash can easily lead to more common straitjackets used by parents, schools, and society today. Parents liking the leash idea will be more likely to confine their infants to playpens when they are too curious and ambitious in their explorations. Our school playgrounds are missing the swings and the monkey bars of days past because our children may be injured. Our pools have no diving boards. Competitive events no longer have “losers” because a loss might mean some loss of self esteem, instead of providing a stimulus for harder work in order to earn the winner’s title.

Our Future Home?

Our government is now strapping us with the leashes of total control. Our defenses and our safety have been weakened with today’s nuclear weapons announcement. Our President  has announced that we will no longer use nuclear weapons to defend ourselves against chemical and biological attacks. We will not use them to defend our allies against the same attacks, despite our promises in treaties to defend them. We will not develop new nuclear technologies to stay ahead of countries who are continuing to do so. We are naïve enough to discard the centuries old policy of peace through strength, trusting in the promises of reciprocation. Our enemies are waiting eagerly for their dominance, and our submission. Nukes in their hands may soon send us running to the confines of the bomb shelters – forgotten in the eighties, and so common in the sixties. The reins of our government are reaching far beyond her Constitutional constraints.

The freedom to walk free of harnesses and leashes, to be free from the straitjackets of government regulation, the freedom to be curious, to explore, to invent, and to defend ourselves against our enemies are the freedoms which have made this country great. Unleash the strength and potential of our children. Save the leashes for the pets and our enemies. Challenge our children to unlock the treasures of the future!

Mr. Rosemond, I really doubt that you have used leashes on any of your children or your grandchildren. Please revise your nightmarish advice. Encourage parents to “patiently teach” and, please… make it without the leash. 

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Brain Wave Helmets an Aid or a Threat?

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
from Getty Images

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Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis? As many as 4 in 10 people have experienced this frightening malady. You feel like you’re awake but you are dazed, confused, and you can’t move! You “see or hear things that aren’t really there?” The experience, when it occurs, is much more terrifying than some of our worst nightmares. The good thing is that the paralysis only lasts a few seconds  or minutes. The condition occurs either on entering REM sleep or as we are leaving it. REM sleep is when our muscles are “turned off.” Becoming aware at the beginning or the end of REM sleep causes the paralysis. Many factorsare believed to be linked to sleep paralysis: a lack of sleep, a fluctuating schedule, stress, bipolar disorder, sleeping on your back, narcolepsy, nighttime cramps, certain medications, and substance abuse. Unless your sleep paralysis is a frequent sleep interrupter it does not need treatment. The problem can usually be solved by simply eliminating stress, getting more sleep, or changing your sleeping position.

Anyone who has ever experienced the fleeting fear of sleep paralysis knows what it’s like to be “locked-in.” The “locked-in syndrome” is very similar to sleep paralysis, but it is permanent. Locked-in syndrome is caused by brain stem strokes, Lou Gehrig’s disease, and some other afflictions. There is no cure for it and you don’t come out of it! Imagine what it would be like to be permanently paralyzed. You cannot move and you cannot speak. Your only communication is the blinking of your eyes. There is no cure and you don’t come out of this condition except by a miracle of God. Your life consists of thinking, reasoning, and a very simple communication system of blinking “yes” or blinking “no.” How long would you be able to bear the constraints of truly being “locked-in?”

Hope is on the horizon for those imprisoned by this helpless condition. Science is making some incredible advances in “thought reading.” Electrodes implanted in the brain can now discriminate elements of speech. The neural signals from the brain are converted to 

FM radio waves which are then transmitted wirelessly across the subject’s scalp to two coils on his head that serve as receiving antennas.

The signals are then routed into a system that digitizes, sorts and decodes them. The results are fed into a program that synthesizes speech which runs on desktop or laptop computer.

Imagine the future implications of this technology! An incredible aid to those who are now confined to their own thoughts! Speech for those who are mute! Movement for those who are paralyzed! Watch this video on how the amazing technology was used in the production of “Avatar.” 

Will we all be wearing brain wave helmets in the future? Will our most secret thoughts be known to all? Only time will tell!

We’d like to hear “your thoughts.” Please post a reply.

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Frozen in Fear? Paralysis and Death, or Challenge to Action?

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Tiny_mouse_frozen_in_fear_in_the_Himalayas[1]“This tiny mouse had darted out of a stack of sleeping bags and had frozen out of fear due to the commotion it had created within a group of chickens and ladies. Sadly this shot was taken 10 seconds before a bird of prey swooped away the tiny creature as I turned my back & was walking away.” 

photo and caption by Madhur D’silva

The animal world is usually served well by the “freeze” response to fear. It’s a valuable tool for survival in the animal kingdom. Playing dead will often turn the attacker toward more challenging victims. In this particular case, the ”freeze” response doomed the poor little mouse to a death he wasn’t prepared for. If he hadn’t frozen in fear, the flight response would have served him better. He would probably have survived the chickens, the children, the ladies, and the swooping bird of prey.

In our species the “freeze” response is rarely a benefit to us. If we suddenly encounter a rattlesnake while hiking, an immediate freeze would probably be an effective response to the threat. Most other threats are better confronted by the “flight” or “fight” response. How can the freeze response help a woman confronted by a rapist? A 6’2, 240 lb. attacker asking for your wallet in a dark alley will both appreciate and depend upon your freeze response to assist him in the robbery. Our bodies naturally respond to fear by pumping us full of adrenaline. Our heart rate increases, and we become stronger. We’re ready to attack, to defend, or to run. Fear is an emotion. It must be acted upon.  Darren Laur in Fear as Your Ally suggests that when threatened, we move to the “challenged” mode. The way to do that is to take a deep breath and think to yourself, “I’m in a bad situation, BUT if he takes another step I will…..” The word “BUT” puts our brain to work. We start to think of ways to get ourselves out of the situation. “Once the brain is allowed to work, the physical training and experiences you may have can now be applied. In other words, instead of freezing into a complete standstill, you begin to take some action to protect yourself.”

The animal, having escaped from the threat, shakes the experience off, and goes on as if nothing ever happened. The human species, however, tends to hold onto the stress. We don’t shake it off and go on. Jonathan Tripodi in The Habit to Freeze explains that we “humans have the ability to remain in a protective state long after the overwhelming event has passed. While the freeze response remains active, relaxation and self-healing are prevented.”  

The longer we remain in this state the easier it is to return to it. Any stimuli we experience similar to the initial event will trigger another relapse. “Eventually the body can no longer adapt and symptoms develop. Common signs of the freeze response are anxiety, chronic muscle tension, pain, poor alignment, grinding of teeth, mood swings, depression, digestive and elimination problems, high blood pressure, fatigue, and low libido.” 

Do you recognize those symptoms? Some are causes and some are the effects of chronic sleep deprivation. If we are to sleep well, we need to turn our threats to challenges; confront them with proper actions; and then “shake them off” as soon as possible! 

Some great quotations on fear:

Bertrand Russell:

     Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Edmund Burke:

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Eleanor Roosevelt:

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Marie Curie:

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. 

Michael Pritchard:

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions.  All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Dale Carnegie:

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

William Allen White:

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

Dorothy Thompson:

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Frank Herbert:

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Anne Frank:

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

So…..starting today…

 Turn your threats to challenges!

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Take the appropriate ACTION. 

And SHAKE IT OFF!

 

 

 

 

 

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