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Mike Singletary will remain the 49ers’ assistant head coach and linebackers coach after withdrawing from consideration for the head-coaching vacancy at his alma mater, Baylor University.

Singletary said Thursday that a couple of sticking points surfaced during his talks this week with Athletic Director Ian McCaw and, rather than drag out the process, he decided to “let it go.”

Singletary said there were “philosophical differences” that would have prevented him from taking the job.

He said he had told McCaw that he would not leave his 49ers job before the end of this season.

“I was going to finish what I started. I wasn’t going to compromise on that,” Singletary said.

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This is an extreme closeup scan (2400 dpi) of a paint chip retrieved from the ruins of Belmont Art Park by Amy McKenzie earlier this year. The fragment is about 1cm thick, and appears to consist of about 150-200 layers of paint. (For a sense of scale, note the ridges of my fingerprint in the lower right.) This should give you an idea of the staggering number of pieces painted in this spot over the decades.

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A 60-year-old man came to the hospital to have the Pepsi bottle removed, which he said armed thieves had inserted in his anus before robbing him of two buffalos, Manan said. REUTERS/Asim Tanveer (PAKISTAN)

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