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Questions from the Table of Free Voices
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I am white, but I am more African than any black person who was raised in America. Should people really still be defined by their race, or is where they come from more important? For example, aren´t African-Americans just Americans? |
by thomas.troxler | 
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How should the development of developing countries take place? Is micro- finance or macro- finance better? |
by delgersaikhan jadamba |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:12 |
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How do we determine "truth" and "fact" when we can manufacture either? |
by Ebon | 
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Why do so many people in foreign countries that don’t have democracy which are also being oppressed by dictators, get so aggressive against the Western World, which wants to spread our way of life (i.e. not living in fear all the time etc.) |
by CB123 |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How do you counteract violence, anger or hatred? |
by poligence |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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What is the energy balance of renewable energy? Does it produce more energy than its production consumes? |
by Energy |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Will it now take a global government to solve what were once considered national or regional issues yet now affect us all? |
by Michelle Twohig |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Is there something better then democracy? |
by Alex Lindt |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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When might it become necessary to break the law? |
by Matthew Kelley |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Why is there no peace in Middle East yet? |
by Moise Marabout |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How can the Internet as a global informational tool that criss-crosses entire continents, serve to enhance our own communities? |
by mSTELMACKER |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Can a person be perceptive enough to see our planet in a way that tells them that they too are part of nature? |
by abcq |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What does courage mean now? |
by Sarah Francis |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Is there value in resisting a new technology (genetically modified foods, for instance), which, while potentially harmful in the short term, could save millions of lives in the future? |
by emahleb |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Where does the line between personal freedom and social responsibility towards the common good fall? Who gets to decide? |
by Saphyre Rogers |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How does consumer culture actually influence the personalities, the ways people live, the way they think within a given culture? How does it become part of us and what does it mean to be able to resist that visual and verbal culture that seems to me is always reducing and simplifying reality into something that can be easily bought and sold? |
by abcq |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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If you had one piece of knowledge to give to the world, what would it be? |
by Gretchen Scheidler |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How come we are so many people but still feel alone? |
by Nadja Holtz Calderón |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How can we protect cities from sameness? How can we retain the identity of different cities? |
by Sara Baig |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How can two answers to a single question be right, but still contradict each other? |
by Matthias Hohlbach |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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What if all Chinese people want a car? |
by Andrew from DE |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What's after capitalism? |
by Wera Koseleck |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:14 |
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Why do I as a black American continue to love and defend a country that treats me like an unwanted child?
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by Jason Robinson |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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what is the purpose of public international law if there are no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it? |
by Maria Kyriacou |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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What is the future of the city? |
by nick_from_brisbane |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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What are the basic dignities that each human being deserves and why do we let so many people go without them? |
by clairemack |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How much of our liberty we are going to offer for our supposed security? |
by Florian Großer |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How objective is science? |
by Janina Sprenger |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What steps can be immediately taken to prepare all world societies for the pending "Long Emergency" associated with the convergence of peak oil, distruction of biodiversity, climate change, poverty, and global disease? |
by Mike Walters |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Why is it socially acceptable to hoard wealth while so many go without basic needs? |
by K2toU |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Is corporate social responsibility possible? |
by Adam Furnarie |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:16 |
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Why is the food we eat of such a bad quality? |
by Sascha Hellmick |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Television is a very powerful communication tool. Why do we use it to spread such unimportant information? |
by MichaelGR |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Do you think, that now we have the internet in our homes, that we are being intimidated and controlled more than ever? |
by chrissy |
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Aug 03, 2006 15:50 |
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Why is it that when the powerful use force it is called "self-defense" and when the weak use force it is called "terrorism"? |
by Haya El Azzah |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Is the current economic system inherently corrupt? If so, how do we go about dismantling it? |
by Glen |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:11 |
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What does the future you want look like? |
by walook |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Do we have the right to consider human beings as more valuable than other life forms? |
by easygisi01 |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:20 |
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If Darwin's theory is right about life beginning in Africa, then why are African states less developed than Western states? |
by abcq |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How will the world compensate for the growing energy needs and resource consumption of developing nations like China and India when nations like the United States consume resources disproportionate to their populations? |
by nathandh |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Why is it easier to get a cold can of Coca Cola than a fresh glass of water? |
by Dagmar Seidel |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Why does it seem that life gets more and more stressful with each thing we invent to save time? |
by Desiree |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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What is your tree? What is it in your life that calls you to be bigger than what you think is possible? |
by abcq |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How can we reconcile respect for universal human rights when these rights conflict with traditional cultural and/or religious values? |
by Frank Davis |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:18 |
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What can I do, and tell others to do, to stop global warming? |
by Nancy Clemons |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Why is an Iranian Nuclear bomb supposed to be more dangerous than an American, Israeli or French? |
by Wolfgang Jost |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:26 |
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What can we learn from Africa? |
by santini297 |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Why don't we dump all patent laws all around the world and stop restraining creativity and innovation? |
by esavard |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What is freedom? Is it relative to where you are in the world? |
by apwong |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Who are your heroes? |
by gasycom |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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The trend in war in the last 100 years has seen a dramatic increase in civilian death... why is this tolerated? |
by Angela |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What is the modern version of colonialization? |
by Adrienn Meszaros |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Does economic globalization promote democracy or consolidate dictatorship? |
by David Dubois |
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Sep 06, 2006 15:06 |
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How would the world be today if the Africans were never brought over to the Americas to be enslaved? |
by Shoshana Friedman |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How can we stop gang violence in the inner cities and motivate young people to place importance on education instead of killing each other? |
by ruby92052 |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What?s the most important subject in the arts that needs to be talked about and why?
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by Layna Francisco |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Who is profiting from terrorism? |
by Barcelona Forum 2004 |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How can the decent people of the world help each other while the actions of their leadership are self-serving and internationally divisive? |
by Bo Chamberlain |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How can architecture better serve the social, econmic, political and environmental concerns of our present and future? |
by Kenneth Hinchcliffe |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What moves you? |
by nyork |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Is there an ecological limit to economic growth ? |
by David Letellier |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Can we still be indigenous in the twenty-first century? |
by farem |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Look at domesticated animals - pets - and how their inability to fend for themselves has rendered them largely obese, lazy, dependent, and less curious. In this sense: Are humans becoming domesticated by technology? |
by Ian Manheimer |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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How can people in the developed world enjoy cheap products and also criticize China for its rapid industrialization? |
by Qin Chuan |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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How could the technology boom of the past fifty years have been more useful to humankind if it wasn't driven by military or market forces? |
by Hilly |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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I would like to know if there?s a way when change is happening that it can happen gracefully and doesn?t have to take innocent victims with it? Is there a way for America to lose its standing as the most powerful nation on this planet without that disrupting the entire planet? Can power ever relinquish power? |
by abcq |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Does our wealth depend on the 3rd world being poor? |
by Tom Henze |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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If any these questions are answered, how do we get the world to listen? |
by Benjamin McQuillan |
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Sep 05, 2006 14:50 |
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Will it someday be possible to directly connect human brains to machines (like computers) ?
If Yes, when and how ? |
by Nicolas Flagey |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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What would be the best use for the trillion dollars a year spent by the United States and other countries on their military budgets? |
by Howard Zinn |
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Aug 30, 2006 15:14 |
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Expression media.defaultFilmFile is undefined on line 16, column 70 in default/_display_media_thumbnail_layer_link.htm.
The problematic instruction:
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==> ${media.defaultFilmFile.height+320} [on line 16, column 68 in default/_display_media_thumbnail_layer_link.htm]
in user-directive display_media_thumbnail [on line 38, column 13 in default/tablequestions.htm]
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Java backtrace for programmers:
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freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: Expression media.defaultFilmFile is undefined on line 16, column 70 in default/_display_media_thumbnail_layer_link.htm.
at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.assertNonNull(TemplateObject.java:124)
at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.invalidTypeException(TemplateObject.java:134)
at freemarker.core.Dot._getAsTemplateModel(Dot.java:78)
at freemarker.core.Expression.getAsTemplateModel(Expression.java:89)
at freemarker.core.AddConcatExpression._getAsTemplateModel(AddConcatExpression.java:77)
at freemarker.core.Expression.getAsTemplateModel(Expression.java:89)
at freemarker.core.Expression.getStringValue(Expression.java:93)
at freemarker.core.DollarVariable.accept(DollarVariable.java:76)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.Environment.renderElementToString(Environment.java:1461)
at freemarker.core.StringLiteral.getStringValue(StringLiteral.java:95)
at freemarker.core.StringLiteral._getAsTemplateModel(StringLiteral.java:80)
at freemarker.core.Expression.getAsTemplateModel(Expression.java:89)
at freemarker.core.Assignment.accept(Assignment.java:90)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.Case.accept(Case.java:80)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.SwitchBlock.accept(SwitchBlock.java:112)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:537)
at freemarker.core.UnifiedCall.accept(UnifiedCall.java:128)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.IteratorBlock$Context.runLoop(IteratorBlock.java:160)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:351)
at freemarker.core.IteratorBlock.accept(IteratorBlock.java:95)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:196)
at freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:176)
at freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:232)
at net.jforum.JForum.service(JForum.java:316)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
at net.jforum.util.legacy.clickstream.ClickstreamFilter.doFilter(ClickstreamFilter.java:65)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:300)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:374)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:743)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:675)
at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:866)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
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