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I would like to begin by expressing my condolences to the relatives of those who died in the bridge collapse in Minnesota on Wednesday. I want to assure them of my prayers in this time of mourning.
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Last Friday, I met with a group of members of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council (APC) who had recently approached me about the possibility of creating a social justice committee.
APC members with Sister Marian Batho
I was very enthused about the idea because we really need to address so many different issues in our state, and we have a very great need of promoting knowledge of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church which is so powerful, so consistent and which flows from the Gospel teachings.
We see that very often Catholics are unaware of our rich tradition of social justice. We have been trying through the Massachusetts Catholic Conference (MCC) to look at ways to involve our people more in the social issues that affect the Church. So I am anxious for the APC to work with the MCC and the other dioceses in the state.
Ideally, I would like to see every parish council have a social concerns committee that then would be able to promote the education and faith formation of adults. It could also help to galvanize attention around social justice issues that the Church faces in our relationship with the larger community.
Most Catholics are very quick to recognize the need that we have to provide direct service to the sick, the hungry and the homeless. Yet, the social justice agenda of the Church goes beyond that, trying to create a society that is more just, in which the structures favor human dignity. Social justice includes a wide variety of topics such as life issues, racism, economic justice, the morality of war, casino gambling and the housing crisis.
What we would like the MCC and the APC to do is to help us prioritize what the most pressing issues currently are. Obviously the Church cannot deal extensively with every issue, but there are some issues that are so important to the community that we should try to lift them up for consideration, prayer and action within the Catholic community.
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Last Friday, I also had lunch with Msgr. Francis D. Kelly, who for many years was the rector of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston. Then, he was invited to be the rector of the Casa Santa Maria, which is the graduate school of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Msgr. Kelly has always had a great love for Rome and brings a lot of seminary experience to his role there, where he is supervising young priests who are doing their graduate studies. We have one Boston priest, Father Derek Borek, at Casa Santa Maria. He is studying for a doctorate in theology.
Msgr. Kelly brought me his latest book, "Discovering Christ." Of course, we expect everyone to go out and buy it immediately, lol.
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On Tuesday, I met with Dr. Clayton Christensen, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a member of the Area Authority Seventy, who each have a responsibility for a large area of the Mormon community. He is also the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Dr. Christensen was accompanied by Whitney L. Johnson,
Coordinator of Public Affairs of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, Greater Boston
This was the second time that I met with him in trying to have a greater understanding of Mormonism. As part of our outreach to other religious denominations, we spoke about the Mormon community and some possible points of collaboration. We have been very impressed with their desire to have more communications. Dr. Christensen thanked us for our efforts on behalf of marriage. He said that was very much appreciated by the Mormon community.
Dr. Christensen brought me my genealogy. It went back to my great-great grandparents. Apart from one mistake in it that I could find, there were many things in it that I did not know, like that the maiden name of my great-great grandmother was Gallagher. The other great-great grandmother was Nagel. They were from Ireland. I never knew them and had never even heard their names before. It was interesting.
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That evening, I had dinner with the Jesuits on the Feast Day of St. Ignatius of Loyola. I was happy that after dinner Father Bill Russell arranged for me to talk to Archbishop Larry Burke of the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica, who is also a Jesuit. Archbishop Burke is a good friend of mine who has been ailing, so it was nice to have a conversation with him. When I was in the Antilles, we were in the bishops' conference together, and I was also the visitator of the seminaries in Jamaica. I know Archbishop Burke very well, and I enjoyed personally wishing him many blessings on the feast day of their founder.
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Catholic Relief Service recently opened a regional office in Philadelphia, dealing with the Northeastern United States. Yesterday, Father J. Bryan Hehir and myself met with Maureen McCullough, CRS regional director, and Joan Neal, CRS vice-president of U.S. operations.
Joan Neal and Maureen McCullough
They were coming to us about promoting the works of CRS and also the general education of Catholics on social teachings. So much of the work of CRS is to raise people's consciences of the Church's commitment on social justice at the international level.
Sharing a light moment together with Father Hehir
They have a number of wonderful programs. We spoke particularly about the participation of the archdiocese in the rice bowl that CRS sponsors every Lenten season.
I encouraged them to be in touch with our campus ministry people as well as Catholic Television and The Pilot so we could help Catholics in Boston get to know the programs they have.
CRS operates on five continents and in 98 countries. I thought you would like to see photos provided by Catholic News Service showing some of their activities throughout the world.
Franciscan Sister Cecilia Reddim supervises preparation of nutritional food kits to be distributed among HIV-positive people at a Catholic Relief Services depot at the social service center in the Diocese of Warangal, India, in February. CRS sponsors most of the nutritional food kits distributed by the Warangal Diocese to people living with HIV/AIDS.
A woman cooks in her new home outside Mirpur Khas, Pakistan, last year. She and her family built the home with help from the Lower Sindh River Development Association, an organization supported by Catholic Relief Services. The aid they received has allowed them to live free of a landlord's control for the first time.
With assistance from Catholic Relief Services, Caritas Indonesia is building homes, including this one, for survivors of the 2004 tsunami and 2005 earthquake on the Indonesian island of Nias.
An injured child holds her father's hand at a hospital in earthquake-stricken Bantul, a town in Central Java, Indonesia, in June. According to Catholic Relief Services, Catholic agencies were allocating $1.2 million for emergency aid to the more than 100,000 people left homeless by last year's quake.
A woman searches her destroyed apartment in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, last summer during the 34-day war between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants. CRS worked with its partner, Caritas Lebanon to assist the 90 percent of the displaced who returned home immediately after the cease-fire took effect.
Bedding for guests is seen on shelves at the Community Center to Aid Migrants and the Needy in Altar, Mexico, in February. The center is sponsored by the local Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, with support from Catholic Relief Services. Besides beds, it also provides clothing, shoes, medical care, meals and warnings about the dangers of crossing the U.S. border illegally.
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This is the third year that we have organized a gathering of priests on or near the Feast of St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars. It was well attended with about 200 priests and seminarians. I was glad to see a cross section of priests of all ages and seminarians at the gathering.
This year, we had a lecture for the priests. Fr. Michael Medas, Director of Pastoral Formation at St John's gave a wonderful presentation entitled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Pastors. We also had a holy hour and a cookout.
At his presentation, Father Medas explained that as he drove around the Archdiocese ministering to the deaf he had the opportunity to meet many of our priests and be welcomed by them into their parishes. He noticed that in the parishes where a tangible peace, joy, and enthusiasm about spreading the Gospel existed often the pastors, unknowingly, where living out the life lessons contained in the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R.Covey.
Father Michael was reading the book at that time. The first three Habits offer insights on how a person can truly live life deliberately and not by default. The second three challenges a person to bring the fruit of such empowerment into the relationships of life. The last Habit, Sharpen the Saw, encourages a continual renewal of mind, body, heart, and soul.
In his overview of the 7 Habits, Father Michael showed how those insights could be taken to another level of empowerment if they were linked to Gospel values and the spirituality of our Church. That is exactly what he was seeing happening in those vibrant parishes.
For example, the first Habit is to "Be Proactive." He explained that Habit teaches us to pause before we respond to anything that happens, directly or indirectly, in our lives. In pausing, a person consciously – and with some reflection – decides what kind of a response will be true to inner values that lead to authentic freedom. Fr Michael called that pause the "moment of grace" when we ask and allow God to guide us so that our words, actions, and decisions truly reflect the face of Christ. Without the pause, he explained, we run the risk of being controlled and tossed about by our emotions or prejudices.
It is powerful to be reminded that God wants to be involved in all the responses of our lives so that we experience more and more freedom to love and be healed. "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." The power of the pause Father was speaking about. God's grace empowers us to choose the freedom of forgiveness over the tyranny of revenge.
The fact that so many priests came early, and sat in a hot 90 degree classroom was inspiring to me and showed their true dedication to do whatever it takes to become the best priests possible for God and His people.
After the presentation we had a holy hour. I reminded the priests that in this very chapel we had the heart of St. John Vianney last October.
The visit of the saint's relic to Boston caused such an outpouring of devotion of the priests and the people of the archdiocese. I also told the priests and seminarians that we were praying that we would have the same priestly heart as St. John Vianney – a heart that would make the pastoral love of Jesus for his people visible and present in today's world.
For the photo of the week I leave you with a shot of the relic of St. John Vianney taken at St. John's last year.
Yours in Christ,
Cardinal Seán


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Doing my bit to help advertise about the upcoming Malaysia Open Source Conference (MOSC) 2010 happening next week (29 June - 1 July 2010). I will be speaking on the topic of SUSE Studio and Mono on the second day.
MOSC homepage -> http://conf.oss.my/home.html
MOSC schedule -> http://conf.oss.my/schedule.html
MOSC speakers -> http://conf.oss.my/speakers.html
I have just completed installing SUSE Studio OnSite on my Thinkpad T61p over the weekend. Granted, I could use the freely available SUSE Studio on the Internet/WWW but I want to avoid any connectivity and bandwidth issues that usually dogged live presentations with demos. Doing my best to beat Murphy's law.
The whole process of installing & bringing SUSE Studio up was fairly smooth & straight forward. The only reason it took the whole weekend has more to do with downloading the various codebases (SLES 10, SLES 11, SLED 11) and their respective 32bit & 64bit repositories via the Subscription Management Tool (SMT) than getting the actual SUSE Studio app to work. Of course, it also helps to know one of the Senior Software Engineer behind it. This is a nod (and wink) to James Tan for providing good advise over email/IM, thus reducing my trial-n-error in customizing this specifically for MOSC. Thank you.
Over the next couple of days, I will be creating 2-3 appliances and prepping for demo walk-throughs. I will also be mucking about with some .NET webapp with Visual Studio and having it work on SLES 11 with Mono Extension. Hope to find the time to blog/document about it.

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Here's how to play: List 3 joys, 3 of your fears, 3 of your goals, 3 current obsessions/collections and 3 random, surprising facts about yourself. At the end of your post, tag 5 more people.
3 Joys
1. My family is my #1 Joy. I love my family!
2. Mail. Especially non-bill-like-mail. I love getting letter, and e-mails, and voice mail, and so on...
3. Being home with my kids. I love being a stay at home mom. It is so rewarding, and such an amazing opportunity.
3 Fears
1. My latest and greatest fear comes from a very disturbing dream/nightmare. I am scared to death of someone kidnapping my kid(s). I came very close to canceling our family vacation for fear that something would happen to Lilia on the trip...
2. Being alone. Not just left alone in a room or by myself for a few days, but really being alone. I like companionship and knowing that I have someone I can run to or call to just talk or ask questions or advice. I have recently learned to be more particular on who is on my list of people that I can do this with, and it has made me realize how very special my truest friends are. I can't begin to describe the crippling fear I feel at the thought of not having Joe in my life and not having my few close friends to confide in.
3. Death. Its not necessarily the after death part. Its the actual dieing part. That and what leads up to it. I am scared that I will die young and not get to see my grandchildren, I am also scared that I will outlive everyone in my family (meaning cousins, siblings, etc.) but most importantly I am scared of a long drawn out painful death.
3 Goals
1. To finish my MT training. I hate it, but I will continue just so I can prove I am not a total loser. I didn't spend a ridiculous amount of money on a training program just to turn around and drop it cause its not what I expected.
2. To be a more forgiving person. To be able to take a hit and not wish evilness on the person delivering the blow. To be able to turn the other cheek over and over again. I need to get better at this. I don't want to stoop to their level. Basically, I just wanna be more Christlike in this aspect.
3. To teach my children about the Gospel, and help them become spiritual giants. I want them to see me set a good example, and I would love for them to love the scriptures, and to love the Lord, and to love being at church and to feel the spirit and get excited to do temple work.
3 Current Obsessions/Collections.
1. Spring Cleaning.
2. So You Think You Can Dance- I LOVE this show!
3. Joe!
3 Random, Surprising Facts About Myself
1. I like painting rooms. Just not the ceilings...
2. I have an aversion to certain textured foods. I don't like biting into an onion (but I love onion powder), I hate tomatoes (but love ketchup and tomato based sauces and I even like tomato soup), I hate the crunch of bell pepper, and don't like jalapenos, and though I hate all those ingredients, my favorite snack food is chips and salsa... go figure!
3. Scary movies freak me out. Yet I can't seem to get enough of the thrillers. Some of my favorite movies of all time are spooky: The Forgotten, The Good Son, The Secret Window...
Ok, I tag Triscuit, Riah, Morgan W, Steven, and Janna! Ready? Go!
Friday, May 30, 2008
I am such a sucker for these!
Here's how to play: List 3 joys, 3 of your fears, 3 of your goals, 3 current obsessions/collections and 3 random, surprising facts about yourself. At the end of your post, tag 5 more people.
Posted by Pam at 7:59 AM 2 comments
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Finally, Joe has an excuse!
Joe doesn't send me flowers. There is actually a very good reason for it, and I understand completely. He had two really awful experiences with buying me bouquets for our wedding reception and open house, and ever since then he has never been much for getting flowers. "And besides," as he would remind me, "flowers die- I don't want something dead to show how much I love you!" But it turns out there is a lot more behind his reasoning than I thought!
Posted by Pam at 3:54 PM 3 comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The reality of this job
I read a blog today written by a good friend of mine. It was such a good blog that I now feel the need to pass it on to the rest of my friends. AnnaMarie is one of the most amazing women I know. She is Superwoman! Anyway, below is her blog, and though it is long it is well worth reading. If you don't feel the need to read the whole thing, just skip down to the BOLD part. Thats the part that really brings this blog home for me!
The reality of this job
About a month ago, my husband and I were out on date night. At that point I was about 7 months pregnant. He started telling me about his friend, a guy that he works with, and a conversation they had.
This friend had recently been teasing Dan about this "unplanned" baby and going to have 4 kids.Well, soon after, he found out his wife was unexpectedly pregnant with baby 4 :)
Fast forward the the conversation he was telling me about...He said he had come home, and his wife (keep in mind she is in the middle of that first trimester, sick and crazy tired stage) had left the house a mess. Things were everywhere. The counters were sticky. His daughter was wearing his sons clothes and it looked like nothing had been done all day. As my husband is telling me this, I know in my mind there have been days like that around here, and I am feeling for his wife. Well, his friend proceeds to tell him how angry he was. He says he got the kids together and spent the next 45 minutes cleaning it all up. By then he was so mad that he left and went for a drive, and wouldn't answer his wife's calls when she tried to reach him. He went on about how he KNOWS a woman should be able to keep an impeccable house at all times, he has a friend whose wife does it. He knows it is possible. It's her job. And on and on and on.
As my husband is telling me this, my blood is literally boiling! I know that whatever he spent those 45 minutes doing with the kids, she had likely done 15 times already that day, and he just so happened to walk in the house at the wrong moment. When you have 3 little kids, your house goes from clean to messy, back to clean, about 50 times throughout a day. His wife had said those same things, and he was just sure she was making excuses, that being a mom is NOT THAT HARD!
It still makes me mad thinking about the whole thing because each day, I find myself in some situation where I think, "Didnt I just do this? Didnt I just clean this up? Didnt I just tell them not to _____?" It's part of being a mom.
I'm totally at the nesting phase, and over the last few days, I have spent hour after hour, reorganizing and cleaning. Yesterday, the tiredness finally hit me after several days in a row of hard, physical work I shouldnt have been doing. I planned to take it a bit easy. I took the kids to Subway so that I wouldnt have to cook. I put them at the table to eat and I laid down for a moment. A few minutes later, Savanah came in and said she dropped her sandwich on the carpet and some mustard got on the floor. I used every cleaner I could think of and it didnt budge. There is now a nice yellow stain on the dining room carpet.
Not 5 minutes later, Mason came in and said he accidentally spilled the entire thing of strawberry milk on the carpet. He tried to clean it up, in his best 8 year old boy way, and I went out to help him out. I was able to get most of the pink out, but still, if you look closely enough, my dining room now also has a huge pink stain, not just a small yellow one.
An hour or so later, I was walking through the living room and stepped in something wet. I asked what the spot was, and the kids said they spilled milk. So I scrubbed that as well (this spot was maybe 2 feet from the others).
And just before bed, I walked into the kitchen and stuck to the floor. What was it this time? Grape soda.
So this morning I get up and Im ready to get back to nesting. I didnt get much done yesterday (I mean, I didnt make much progress since I was treading water all day). I notice first thing that the last spot on the floor still has an off color, so I scub that one again. And the other small ones on the living room floor that I had not known were there. Then I went about my cleaning/organzing/moving furniture madness.
As I am going through some of my piano music to put it away, I pull on one piece of music that is sitting on the piano and it is stuck, melted, if you will, to the piano. Someone has spilled something on my prized piano, not told me, and let the music sit in that wetness. No big deal that the music is now missing the last few measures, but the piano, that one Im not happy about. I have to try and get it off without using a harsh enough cleaner to damage the finish.
While Im doing that, I see there is another dark, large spot on the carpet that wasn't there before, so I let that soak in some cleaner while I figure out the piano issue.
That's it right? Well, I think in the last 24 hours, those are the only real things that happened, in addition to the usual cleaning, picking up, cleaning again, picking up again, washing dishes, cleaning them up etc, that is part of our every day.
I love being a mom and truth be told, I dont even mind the cleaning. Sometimes I enjoy it. It's a great stress reliever for me. I absolutely think that part of my job as a stay at home mom is to keep a clean, organized house for my children and my husband.
But let's be realistic here. It's not as easy it appears. If you come home and it looks exactly the same as it did when you left, it's not because nothing was done, it's because your wife worked hard enough to get it back to where it was in the first place :) The dishes didnt stay clean. Breakfast and lunch didnt clean up themselves. Your children did not maintain themselves all day long, getting themselves dressed, doing their chores without supervision, not getting into any trouble. What you see is not necessarily any reflection of what has actually gotten accomplished that day. While I clean, it's not what I am. What I am is a mother and that entails so much more than being just a housekeeper. The way my children turn out comes down to more than how things looked at 5:30 pm, and those things are not only time consuming, but absolutely imperative in the lives of my children.
Today I hugged.
Today I gave and got kisses.
Today I did someone's hair and painted someone's nails.
Today I read a book.
Today I held a child on my lap.
Today I tickled a giggly toddler.
Today I taught someone how to do something new.
Today I kept my cool when I wanted to scream.
Today I told them "it was okay" when inside I was frustrated.
Today I am taking them somewhere they have never been, to learn about something new.
Today, my children will know that nothing is more important to me than they are. They will know that my favorite hobby in life is being mommy. And they will know I love them when they are good, when they are bad, and when they dont listen to anything I say.
Today I will be a mother and I will be proud of that.
And that's the reality of this job.
And how do YOU feel about this?
Posted by Pam at 3:18 PM 1 comments
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mothers Day!
Joe got me a NICE gift card to a day spa. AND- he DID hide it in a stack of papers in the kitchen. Love him!
It has been a great day. Joe has gone above and beyond to make my it a nice day. And it helps that the girls have been very well behaved today. We went to my MIL's this morning. Just got home, and now we are just relaxing around the house. Good times!
Posted by Pam at 4:50 PM 4 comments
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Lacey's Favorite Toy.
Lacey has recently found a favorite toy. She love playing with it. She just LOVES rolling it. She will climb to get to it, and just giggles away while it rolls.
Or should I say UNROLLS.
My kitchen helper.
A few weeks ago I was making rolls for dinner. I had actually triple booked myself that day, and found myself making dinner for my family, another family, and my inlaws who Joe had invited for dinner. SOOOO, I was making A LOT of rolls. I got the first batch to the point of cooking (while batch #2 was in the bread machine, being mixed) and walked away while the oven preheated. I don't remember what exactly I was doing, but whatever it was had me busy with Lacey. While dealing with Lacey I heard Lil making these spitting sounds over and over again... "PBBBTTT. PBBBTT. PBBBTTT..." Thinking nothing of it I went about my business. When the oven beeped to let me know it was preheated I walked into the kitchen and found THIS:
Turns out Lil had poked each and every roll and "deflated them" and accompanied each one with a "PBBTTT!" Darn kid! Yeah- the rest of the rolls I ended up making were rushed, and didn't taste as good as I was hoping. :S
Joe's smart move...
So my awesome possum, better than great husband has had the same exact look for as long as I have known him. With minor changes in the shape of his glasses, everything about him looks the same as when we met. His hair is the biggest factor. He has had this same haircut since high school. Basically, he found something that works for him, and he never ever changes it. Here is a few pictures to show what I mean...
Joe and I about 3 years into marriage
Family shot about 2 years after the last one (you'll notice my hair is changed, but not Joe!)
Oh, and also for those of you in our neighborhood, Joe was worried that you all would think that he shaved his hair off to hide any evidence of aging (gray hair and receding hairline...). So if you see him be sure to ask if the new do is to hide the gray! LOL! I love him!
Lil's Favorite Babydoll.
So I am making dinner and hear Lil talking to her "baby" She is talking about buckling her into the babydoll stroller, and how she is goingto take her baby for a walk. I of course, assume she is referring to her babydoll. I go to check on the girls and see why exactly Lacey is being so quiet, and what do I see?
Yeah- Lacey was her baby. Lilia managed to pick Lacey up and put her in the babydoll stroller and then proceeded to wheel her around the house in it for the next half hour or so. Kids... whada ya gonna do, huh?
My Mother's Day Present
Lilia made me a gift at her preschool for Mothers Day. Only problem was, when she got home she decided she would rather give it to Daddy. :S Yeah. I feel really loved! :) Of course, Joe gets home and Lil gives it to him and says its for him for mothers day. He laughs and opens it. Inside was a flower she had made me as well as a paper they filled out naming my best qualities. I just feel the need to share them with you. (The bold part is Lil's answer)
My mom is special because she makes food for me.
I like it when my mom makes dinner.
My mom can do many things! I think she's best at Basketti and dinner.
My mom has a pretty smile! I like to make her smile by eating dinner.
My mom is as pretty as a princess.
My mom is smart! She even knows ______.
I think my kid is a bit fixated on dinner. What do YOU think? Now to be fair, I have really been struggling to get her to eat dinner lately. AND- if she does eat it really does make me happy... so she is pretty observant. Oh, and incidentally, I had made Spaghetti (basketti) for dinner that night. I rock!
My OTHER Mother's Day Present.
Later that night after the kids were in bed I mentioned to Joe that I really liked my Mother's Day present (I honestly didn't expect Joe to have remembered it, and I wasn't expecting much more than what Lil gave me). Well Joe looked at me and said, "Oh, you cleaned that up and found it did you?" To which my response was, "Huh?" He then said, "What are you talking about?!" And I told him I was talking about the letter from Lil, and what was HE talking about? And his response? "Well, nothing, never mind." :) Unfortunately for Joe, I have recently made a pact with myself not to pry, and not to figure my gifts out before they are given to me. (It worked for Christmas, for the first time since I met Joe he surprised me with a gift!) Well, because the gift is hidden, and can be found by cleaning something up, I have decided I am NOT cleaning until Sunday! Oh, and the reason for the pact is because Joe is terrible at keeping secrets and it is way too easy to work it out of him. In fact, I usually don't even try. He just kinda slips up and gives it away. So I really REALLY am putting forth some great effort to be surprised by gifts.
Oh, and have I ever mentioned that Lil looks SO DARN CUTE with curls?
Want proof?
And yes, she dressed herself with an inside out shirt... Independent kids are great, huh?
Posted by Pam at 1:35 PM 4 comments
Friday, May 2, 2008
Crazy 8's
8 Things...
8 things I'm passionate about
1. My kids
2. My husband
3. My family
4. My religion
5. My kids getting a good education
6. Family Vacations
7. Naptime (hehehe)
8. The importance of paying tithing
8 Songs I can listen to over and over again and never get sick of
1. If you could Hie to Kolob
2. Tarzan Soundtrack (The Disney cartoon)
3. Mask of Zorro Soundtrack
4. The Way- Fastball
5. Fingertips- TMBG
6. Grace Kelly- Mika
7. Fools Rush In- UB40 (yes- I prefer it over the original Elvis version)
8. Love Shack- B52's
8 books I've read
1. Book of Mormon
2. To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
3. Receiving Answers to our Prayers- Gene R Cook
4. The BFG- Roald Dahl
5. Righteous Warriors- John Bytheway
6. The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
7. The Giver- Lois Lowry
8. Standing for Something- Gordon B. Hinckley
8 Things I say often
1. Crap! (At least I assume thats where Lil learned it)
2. I love you.
3. Are ya kidding me? (Thanks, Katie- now I say it too!)
4. Is that how you ask nicely? (Teaching kids manners...)
5. Excuse me?
6. Nigh-night, Snuggle Puppy! (Saying goodnight to Lil)
7. Hiya Monster! (Thats how I greet Lacey)
8. Know what I mean? (I will admit, I say this WAY too often, know what I mean?)
8 Things that attract me to a friend
1. Honesty
2. Common ground
3. A sense of humor
4. They have to like me too... kinda important, that one!
5. Patience... heaven knows you'll need it with me!
6. Someone who really does know what I mean!
7. Never makes me feel like an idiot (at least not on purpose)
8. Someone who lifts me up instead of dragging me down.
8 Random things about me
1. I am left handed
2. I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas... (crap, now that song is stuck in my head)
3. I love playin' the movie quote game... Not sure why, just do.
4. I hate singing alone, and an very self conscious about it... it took me 4 years before I could sing in front of my own husband... and thats just lullabies and the likes..
5. I prefer to sing harmony but only on songs that HAVE a harmony part. I can't STAND it when people make up their own harmony for songs with only a melody.
6. In my family I am the runt. A scrawny 5'4" with towering siblings ranging from 5'7" to 6'4"
7. In Joe's family, I am taller than average. All three of his sisters are shorter than I am. Joe is the tallest sibling at 5'6"
8. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a banker when I grew up. (How boring of a dream was THAT!?) And guess what? I was.
8 Things I want to do before I die
1. Be a grandma
2. Travel. Certain places in particular, but I just wanna go places I have never been before.
3. Have my dream house...
4. Watch my children get married in the temple
5. Watch my husband start a company and make it a success
6. Learn to enjoy cleaning, and exercising
7. Read a good book
8. Charity work
8 Things I've learned this past year
1. Life can throw you curve balls, and though it causes change, that change can be a good thing if you work at it enough.
2. Joe and I can work through anything, together.
3. My husband isn't perfect.
4. A difficult child just raises the bar for you to extend your love to. And yet, its still easy to do.
5. Lilia is a wonderful big sister, and a smart smart child.
6. My worst nightmares have nothing to do with me, and everything to do with my children and their welfare... A mothers love can be fierce.
7. Personal revelation is REAL, and can REALLY happen.
8. That I love my family more and more with each passing day.
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Magnum Workshops in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jun 4 - Jun 8 2014
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Magnum Photos is very happy to bring its popular 5 days practical photographic workshop for the first time to Denmark.
Hosted in Copenhagen from June 4th to 8th, in conjunction with the Copenhagen Photo Festival (5 - 15 June 2014), the workshop will be led by two new unique Magnum members: Jacob Aue Sobol and Olivia Arthur.
Magnum's educational events are aimed at photographers who wish to push their personal boundaries and challenge their visual understanding. Participants of the Magnum Workshop Copenhagen will work on self-directed projects relating to personal interests, guided by their Magnum tutor in a daily combination of shooting, editing, group critiques and sequencing. They will develop their confidence, visual language and photographic identity, as well as practical, technical and conceptual skills and the expertise required to compete in photography's increasingly competitive marketplace.
Participants will be encouraged to create new bodies of work, or develop existing projects, within the cultural hub of Copenhagen and the surrounding area. The workshop will culminate in a projection of participant's work as part of the official festival programme, presented to both members of the public and Copenhagen's photography professionals.
As part of a special partnership with the British Journal of Photography, they will work with each Magnum tutor to identify a deserving workshop participant, who will enjoy a special online feature of their work accompanied by an interview.
The two Magnum photographers have chosen the orientations for their respective workshops.
Narrative sequence and the photographic book format by Olivia Arthur
Photographs take us on journeys. They take us into worlds we don't know or show us familiar ones from new perspectives. Individually photographs have the power to move, to share emotion, but as a sequence they start to take us on a journey, into a story.
On this workshop we will focus on taking photographs that share the emotional perspective of the photographer and look at how to create personal narratives through sequencing. Starting with the stories you have already been working on, we will develop the narratives and push to bring out the personal voice in your work.
Finally we will talk about the photographic book format and how to turn your stories and journeys, into a form that can be read and shared. Drawing on my experiences self-publishing and publishing the work of other photographers - through Fishbar with Philipp Ebeling - we will look at how finding the right form and edit for a body of work can transform the narrative an feeling of it.
Hello/Goodbye by Jacob Aue Sobol
Our lives (and images) are a journey filled with encounters and goodbyes but it is also a journey within ourselves - a study of the undefinable and emotional states that we are often controlled by and which inspire and move us.
The assignment Hello/Goodbye is an abstract visualization of the moments when we meet and part, when we see things for the first or last time, when we fall in love or leave (or are left behind). In those situations faces are associated with places, and the viewer's own reality suddenly connects to the conditions that the images open up for.
Tell me about your encounters and goodbyes in Copenhagen with people, places, objects and conditions.
The ambition is to create images with a visual distinction attached to our personality - and with their intimate, human and presence character they must be filled by the states, where everything shimmers and where we are invited to both deal with our own existence and with what we are looking at specifically.
It means everything that we can identify ourselves with our photos. They are a continuing study of our close relationship to the world and the camera is the instrument by which we attempt to bring order to understand our surroundings and place our self in the world today.
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Scandinavia's largest photo festival heading into its fifth year, celebrates a wide range of photography across all genres from photojournalism and reportage through commercial to fine-art. The 2013 festival was a resounding success for everyone who participated: more than 300 Danish and international photographers were represented at more than 60 exhibitions. Event program in 2013 offered include the openings , debates, movie night at the Cinematheque , photo auction on Bruunrasmussen.dk and week for photo documentaries on DR K. Applicant number for the juried exhibition reached its peak with more than 4,000 submitted works in 36 different countries worldwide. The festival attracted about 50,000 active visitors by galleries, museums and exhibition venues in Copenhagen and the Øresund region.
Candidates are actively encouraged to participate in the diverse schedule of the festival events.
For information about the activities during Copenhagen Photo Festival, visit
Workshop participants should be able to show a good level of photographic aptitude and a desire to learn. Candidates will be expected to arrive comfortable with their equipment and ready to photograph. Each workshop is limited to 13 participants and photographers will be selected on the perceived benefit to their career and development.
Photographers should prepare sufficient research relating to what they wish to shoot prior to arrival. A story list will be provided for inspiration; however candidates are expected to formulate realistic projects in the geography and time supplied. Magnum Photos will provide a suitable classroom infrastructure and participants will be responsible for their own time management.
Due to the fast pace of the workshop Magnum highly recommends that participants produce and edit their work digitally, using their own laptops. Individuals wishing to use film may do so, but at their own cost and during the time imposed. Lab services will be coordinated where required. Please note – all workshops will be conducted in English.
Tuition fees
950€ plus VAT (does not include travel, accommodations or on the ground expenses)
Upon submitting your online application you will be transferred to Google Checkout where you must submit a 100 € application fee. This will be applied to your tuition fee invoice if you are accepted onto the workshop. The fee will be fully refunded, minus 5€ for paypal services, if you are NOT accepted into the workshop. Applications without a fee will not be processed.
Please note: Magnum Photos reserves the right to cancel groups with less than 8 participants. Students will be given either a full refund or offered a place with an alternative photographer. In the event of a cancellation, students will be given at least 2 weeks advance notice.
Magnum Photos reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.
- If a participant decides to cancel for whatever reason, it must be confirmed in writing:
. Magnum Photos will reimburse all the registration costs except for €100 administrative fee, if the participant informs Magnum Photos of cancellation at least 3 weeks before the first day of the workshop. Beyond this time limit, Magnum Photos will charge the following:
. 50% of the cost if cancelled between 6 and 20 days before the workshop commences.
. 100% of the cost if cancelled less than 5 days before the workshop commences.
. All workshops that are commenced but not completed through the fault of either the contractor/or participant need to be paid in full.
- Magnum Photos is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance.
Travel & Accommodation
Participants are expected to make their own arrangements regarding travel and accommodation; a list of suitable accommodation options will be provided to successful candidates.
Please ensure you have the necessary travel documents & relevant visas in order to attend the event. Magnum Photos can provide letters of support where necessary.
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The deadline for acceptance is June 1st. Qualified applicants will be selected through a combination of the merit of their work and their personal statement, and the order of their application's receipt.
Successful applicants will be informed via email by June 2nd. Full payment should be received by June 3rd to fully confirm your place. Magnum Photos reserves the right to amend the program. For groups fewer than 8 participants, cancellation may apply; full refunds
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Just ordered a spool of paracord and am looking forward to trying some of these ideas! Question on the rifle sling....do you try to make it with as long a piece of cord as possible so you can unwind it for emergency use...or just make it and leave it at that?Thanks!Cathy
My pickup's fan belt broke on the way home from a party Dec. 26th last year, at around 1:30 in the morning. My wife was with me and we were 15 miles from home, which is about 60 miles away from anyone else we could call for a rescue. After a conversation with the police that happened by and a call to the local towing service that couldn't get out for a couple of hours I decided I had nothing to lose and nothing but time to think about this problem. I started looking through what I had in the truck and how I could use it.Using paracord twisted up into a two strand rope and a trucker's hitch around the pulleys to make it tight, I started it up and was pleased to see the water pump and alternator turning! After 5 minutes it was still holding, so I got in and gently drove it home. The cord had begun to tire near the end and the lights began to dim, but it kept the water pump turning enough to prevent overheating. My wife was both impressed and filled with dread because she knew I'd be hard to live with for a few days after this. ALWAYS have paracord near you! I took pictures the next day before replacing it with a new belt, but can't find them at the moment. Stupid digital cameras!
I've used paracord to make dog leashes, and collars. And now that I'm addicted to knotting, I've taken up crochet... Dang.. Now I really want to crochet something out of paracord. LOL! Maybe I'll make TW a paracord hat.
Where are you guys ordering your paracord from?Seems expensive on Amazon...
Supply Captain is one of the more popular sites based on price and selection.
My 11 year old was messing around and came up with the handle wrap on this one, and my wife added the strap. They have no clue what these are called or what knots or anything. but it sure looks cool and fits the hand very well. There is very little play in the cord wrap. That is cool . I have made a few bracelets and a sling for my quiver. During a trukey hunting trip my 13 y/o was complaining about the weight of his shotgun so I tied a sling for him using paracord in my pack. I will post some pics when I get time to take picture.
My 11 year old was messing around and came up with the handle wrap on this one, and my wife added the strap. They have no clue what these are called or what knots or anything. but it sure looks cool and fits the hand very well. There is very little play in the cord wrap. Notice that the single wrap that spirals down the handle is not a separate piece of paracord, that is the joining point for the wrap. Makes it very tight and a close up view is very interesting.
I've been making these for years, I mostly give them away for gifts but I also sell them through my website. It takes a bit to figure out how exactly to do it and it takes about 20mins but makes for a very compact way to carry; paracord, ferro rod, steel striker. Just thought I would share, some videos on youtube on making the knot, I just widened it and make it over the rod.
Where can you get the clips for the paracord bracelets? I would like to make one of these bracelets myself. Thanks.
i have made a number of paracord items and will admit that i am a paracord junkie (pics to follow soon). the help that i am looking for is does anyone know how to tie the small bottle holder for the hand sanitizer bottles. i like the look of the one that survival straps has made and would like to make my own. any help would be much appreciated.thanks allhttps://www.survivalstraps.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=Grenade


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Seven horses were killed in a barn blaze at the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth Saturday, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said.
Four other horses were burned and are being treated by a veterinarian, Capt. Michael Bergeron told NBC 6.
Firefighters responded at 12:08 p.m. to the fire at 4550 Polo Road, with those arriving first finding "a large barn that was fully involved with fire," the department said in a statement.
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Despite the firefighters' efforts, seven thoroughbreds perished in the fire, the department said.
Southwest Ranches Wants Tough Horse Slaughter Law
The blaze destroyed the barn, which was 70-80 feet long, Bergeron told NBC News.
"Not one inch of the barn was not totally engulfed in flames when I got there. The flames were 10 feet above the roof," the polo club's president, Randy Aversano, told The Palm Beach Post.
No people were injured, the Post reported.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said Saturday night that investigators concluded the fire was caused by "an electrical overload inside a tack room that was being used as a kitchen."


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Sri Lanka turtle conservation continues after tsunami
In the wake of the tsunami no one knew how the teeming wildlife in the seas surrounding Sri Lanka would be affected. But as the debris is cleared from the beaches and new homes are being constructed the turtles are also getting back to business as usual.
In fact it appears that the turtles somehow sensed the pending tsunami and in the nights preceding the event few turtles came onto the beaches to lay their eggs. Our Overseas Director, Richard Clowes was in Sri Lanka over Christmas and commented how he was surprised that virtually no turtles were washed up on the beach when the tsunami hit. It seems they stayed far out in the ocean waiting for the calm seas to return.
The turtle project is now running as usual with the volunteers patrolling the beaches, protecting the eggs, giving educational talks and helping with some of the relief work going on in the local area.
Laura Page is currently in Sri Lanka working on the turtle project, she tells us:
'After living on this tropical island for three weeks, I can now understand fully why people refer to Sri Lanka as the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean", from the organized chaos in the sprawling city of Colombo, to the much more relaxed pace of life in the small coastal villages, one thing certainly remains the same wherever you go; the warm smiles from locals who welcome you into their homes.
So far I've experienced Green turtles on night watch, coming ashore to nest: their huge, heavy frames lumbering up the sand with the moonlight reflecting off their precious shells. A truly awesome sight, so natural, and such a fulfilling thought that we are doing all we can to protect these endangered beauties. I've also been part of a group, visiting other projects run on the south coast at Rekawa. I never realized how much politics and organisation there is involved in running such a scheme. Although the work is physically tiring in the heat of the day, and time is needed for your body to adapt to the new climate, and new, spicy mouthwatering food, the rewards are felt by a simple "thankya" from a local, or the sight of a female turtle returning to the swell of the vast blue ocean, knowing that her eggs will be watched and protected by employed nest protectors until they emerge as eager hatchlings ready to return to the sea.
It is comforting to know there is a team here ready to support you through this challenging and most satisfying experience. I've learnt more about life in the last three weeks than I thought I ever could; and there is still much more to come.'
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It sounds decidedly counterintuitive. The Oilers need defencemen, so why would they trade a big 20-year-old blue-liner with a range of skills just as he's learning the North American professional game?
There are reasons why it may make sense.
The simple fact is that Edmonton desperately needs at least one top-pairing calibre defenceman. The modern incarnation of Chris Pronger would be the dream here, which is why Shea Weber's name never dies, but that may not be possible and if it isn't Edmonton has to fill the void somehow.
The names that might be available on the trade market are generally some distance south of Weber. Players like Christian Ehrhoff and Brian Campbell and Dustin Byfuglien are the ones people speculate about; good, useful defenders either underrated by their current teams or playing out the string on a roster miles away from contending.
All of those guys have some warts, but all of them would represent a massive upgrade for an Edmonton team leaning on the trio of Jeff Petry, Andrew Ference and Justin Schultz. If MacTavish can't bring in a Pronger, he needs to find at least a Boris Mironov or Janne Niinimaa or Roman Hamrlik. And given the meagre free agent pickings available, odds are good he'll have to do it via trade.
Perfect Storm
In this hypothetical trade for a good defenceman, Edmonton needs a package of certain quality to trade. It has to be good enough to get the other team interested. It has to be non-vital enough that it isn't going to crush the team to lose it. And finally it needs to be fair value for the Oilers, a team that needs to put meat on the table for every shot they fire.
The 2014 first round draft pick might have fit those bills, but at this point the Oilers would need eight more points than they have just to get outside the top-five of the draft. It's still a moveable piece, but the return on it needs to be something bigger than Mironov or Niinimaa and those returns are hard to land.
Some of the young forwards (Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins) are too vital to make the list; the others (Jordan Eberle and Nail Yakupov) fall into the same boat as that 2014 pick, where the guy coming the other way needs to be a lot bigger than he's likely to be. Sam Gagner's tradable but opens up an ugly hole at centre, and the only plausible internal replacement has all of 32 career games under his belt.
What about Darnell Nurse? Team Canada may not be in love with him but he's a 6'4" 18-year-old with a mean streak and a near point-per-game scoring run under his belt in junior this year. He's not going to be good enough soon enough to plug the hole on defence himself, but he's Edmonton's best prospect by a country mile and a perfect fit for long-term need.
Which is where Klefbom comes in. He's a good player, with that nice blend of skills and a combination of size and speed that's awfully hard to find. He was a first round draft pick. So he has value. But at the same time, he's also 27 games into his AHL career, 20 years old and a guy who barely played last season; he isn't going to fix Edmonton's blue line problems any time soon. He can move the puck but his offensive ability has a definite ceiling; he might evolve into a very, very good shutdown guy but that's years away and not impossible to find. He's a left-shooting defenceman on a team with Nurse, Martin Marincin, Martin Gernat, Brandon Davidson and Dillon Simpson, so the Oilers have both quality and depth at the position.
Put it all together and it's hard not to wonder if Klefbom is moved at some point. He has enough value to be the key asset in return for a good NHL player, much like he was when Edmonton moved Dustin Penner out. His absence doesn't hurt the Oilers now, and they have a wealth of prospects at the position. And while an excellent prospect he's not the kind of player likely to embarrass the team by winning a Norris Trophy five years down the road.
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The CS New Student Orientation is the most important orientation event for all new CS graduate students. This year's orientation will be held on Thursday, September 19, 2019 starting with student registration at 10:00 am in Gates 182 (for incoming MS students) and Gates 1st floor Lobby (for incoming PhD students.)
Lunch will be served from 11:00 am - 11:45 am in AT&T Patio.
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- New Heartland Podcast: Ill Literacy – Books with Benson (False Alarm with Author Bjorn Lomborg) - August 4, 2020
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Join us for a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who will talk about his new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House.
Just $15 gets you a good lunch, a great speaker, and excellent networking opportunities!
From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural influences on our American presidents are powerful and plentiful. Thomas Jefferson famously said "I cannot live without books," and his library backed up the claim, later becoming the backbone of the new Library of Congress. Jimmy Carter watched hundreds of movies in his White House, while Ronald Reagan starred in a few in his own time. Lincoln was a theater-goer, while Obama kicked back at home to a few episodes of HBO's "The Wire."
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have been influenced by the books, movies, TV shows, viral videos, and social media sensations of their day.
In What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House former White House aide Tevi Troy combines research with witty observation to tell the story of how our presidents have been shaped by popular culture.
Tevi Troy is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a writer and consultant on health care and domestic policy. He is a frequent television and radio analyst, and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and The Jim Lehrer Show, among other outlets.
Troy served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush. In that position, he oversaw all operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, food and drug safety, welfare, child and family services, disease prevention, and mental health services.
Troy has extensive White House experience, having served in several high-level positions over a five-year period, culminating in his service as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. In the latter position, he ran the Domestic Policy Council and was the White House's lead adviser on health care, labor, education, transportation, immigration, crime, veterans and welfare. At the White House, Troy also specialized in crisis management, creating intra-governmental consensus, and all aspects of policy development, including strategy, outreach and coalition building.
Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. Troy lives in Maryland with his wife Kami and four children.


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TMZ Live: Simon Cowell Warned Off in Baby Mama Lauren Silverman's Divorce
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(0:00) Simon Cowell can't go near his baby mama's other kid -- or her baby daddy will have their hides. In a nutshell ... it means war.
(6:00) Mark Wahlberg says he didn't know Tom Cruise was the actor who compared their job to being a soldier ... you buying what he's selling?
(10:00) Andy Kaufman is alive!!! IF you believe a lady who claims to be his daughter. We talk to a comedian who witnessed her revelation ... real or not.
(14:00) Zac Efron -- there was no 911 call made after he broke his jaw ... another sign there's something missing from his story?
(18:00) Joey Lawrence joins us -- after the Olsen twins raised a huge debate about how rich, successful, young actors still need to go to college.
(24:00) Justin Bieber -- desecrating the Argentine flag ... or just ridding the stage of terrible crap his fans were tossing from the crowd?
(29:00) Brooke Mueller's waging a war on two fronts now -- one with Charlie Sheen ... and the other with her former nanny who's suing the pants off of her.
(32:00) Miley Cyrus says she's the biggest feminist in the world -- and some people actually agree with her. Well, at least one person does.
(36:00) The floor is yours!
(41:00) It's time again for ... Tim's rejected pitches of the week!
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'The Greatest' was but a nickname for Muhammad Ali who with his unorthodox fighting style ruled over the hearts of millions. A cultural icon, few even today would not have heard of the legendary Muhammad Ali.
The auction took place on the occasion of Ali's 70th birthday in Las Vegas which was attended by several celebrities and fighters. The gloves in question were the ones that Ali wore during a fight in 1965 against Floyd Patterson. The bidding was heated with the prime contenders for the gloves being Jerry Jones, owner of Dallas Cowboys against co-owner of the UFC, Lorenzo Fertitta. Jones placed a bid of $1 million only to be overturned by the winning bid of $1.1 million by Fertitta.
For a boxing great who the BBC has called as the Sports Personality of the Century, we think that the price is on the cheaper side. We are also grateful that for once the price has nothing to do with the item being encrusted with diamonds but instead due to the hard work , blood and sweat of this legend in the ring. The entire collections from the event will be going to charity.
Seen here is a video of the fight in 1965.
Ali has been honored by a special pen set by Montegrappa in recent times and is also considered the owner of a lucrative domain – www.allah.com which is listed for sale for a whopping $3 million dollars.


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This may be an ill-posed question, but suppose I have a collection of continuous, bounded, scalar-valued nonnegative functions $f_1(x,y),\dots,f_n(x.y)$ defined on the closed unit disk. Given a collection of scalars $a_1,\dots,a_n$, define
$R_i = \{(x,y) : f_i(x,y) + a_i \leq f_j(x,y) + a_j \\ \forall j \\ \} $
for each index $i$. Are there any sufficient conditions I can impose on these functions that will guarantee that the $R_i$ are connected for all $a_i$? It works if the functions are linear, for example (since the $R_i$ end up being convex), but I'd like something as general as possible.


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Hong Kong Day 11 and 12
It's coming to an end! I'm excited to be in my own house again but also sad I'm leaving such a wonderful place. The weather sucked but the food, shopping, and company made up for it.
In the last post I left off saying I was going to the ladies and temple street night markets. It poured on and off a few times but I was able to walk away with some ridiculously cute owl accessories. Mirrors, pouches, and coin purses! I only pictured a few items, but trust me, I purchased a LOT more.
On Sunday after breakfast I went to my Aunty's favorite market where my Momma bought me a second hair bow. Went back to the hotel for some afternoon tea and had my last scone in HK 😦
After that I packed for a teeny bit and joined the fam bam for pre-dinner snacks and then off we went to the MTR to return our Octopus cards. We slowly made our way to the 24-hour restaurant for a third time and I ordered the same noodles I had the first two times along with the best milk tea ever. There were nine of us and we all had it!
It's already Monday morning (1:05AM) and the flight is at 11AM meaning I need to be up in 6.5 hours!
Some things I learned the past few days:
–Most people here have no sense of personal space. I cannot count how many times people have put their face within an inch of my tattooed arm.
–The sellers at the market BUG and make NO SENSE. I touched a bag wanting to see what it was made out of and the woman started screaming at me, "YOU WANT YOU WANT?" After I yelled back "no!" twice, she said in Chinese, "IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BUY YOU CAN'T TOUCH…ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Mannnn did I give her the stink eye.
–"Ngo em sick gong gong dng wah" means "I do not speak Chinese (or is it Cantonese?)". Came in very handy! It did confuse the locals though since to them I was saying that in a normal Chinese accent.
Memorable quotes:
"You should carry a lollipop around with you, they'll think it's a weapon."–Aunty when discussing my tattoos at the market. She joked I could have passed as a triad boss' wife or girlfriend. hehe
"The people parted when she walked by!"–Aunty again telling my Mom about the people's reactions to my tattoos after the market.
So yes, my family is really really cute. Another example of cuteness–my BIL came back from shopping with a blanket for my almost-puppy Lily. He said they were "lily-pops"!
It's just about 1:30Am right now and I need to suh-leep! If I was smart I'd pull an all-nighter so I could fall asleep on the plane, but alas I am not. Another 15 hour flight–leave at 11AM Monday morning and arrive at 1PM Monday afternoon. Trippy stuff.


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The numbers are looking good for Team Adam this season on "The Voice."
Team Adam emerged unscathed from Tuesday night's live eliminations — giving the Maroon 5 frontman a whopping three contestants still left standing in the Top 5.
And with the elimination of Team Christina's indie rock belter and erstwhile frontrunner Matthew Schuler, both Team Christina and Team Blake were down to just one member each. (Team CeeLo was already out of the running.)
But for all the nail-biting drama of the eliminations process, the night's performances were ones of holiday cheer — starting with one by Kelly Clarkson, decked out in a Christmas-worthy sparkly red dress, of "Underneath the Tree."
As for the coaches' spirits heading into the eliminations? "You have to be prepared for the best and the worst," Christina said. But Blake, who had just one member left on his team, was more sanguine: "It only takes one to win," he said, and he said he thought his team's Cole Vosbury could.
But when Carson Daly lined up the six remaining contestants on the stage and announced who was first to be saved by America's votes, it wasn't Cole's name he called. It was that of Jacquie, who ran and hugged her coach Christina in relief.
Cole, however, was the next to get Carson's reprieve — but not until after his coach had performed a countried-up cover of "Silver Bells."
After Cole, the welcome words of a reprieve came for Team Adam's Tessanne Chin — and finally, after her good news, for her teammate Will Champlin, who said their coach's best advice to him had been to "be original."
That left their fellow Adam protege James Wolpert, still under the weather, and Team Christina's Matthew in the bottom two — and waiting to be saved by tweeting fans via an Instant Save.
"This guy is one of the best singers I've ever been in a room with. I promise if you save him, you will not be sorry," Adam insisted.
Christina had her own praise for Matthew. "We have felt your magic in the air so many times. This is not over, guys," she told fans, before assuring Matthew, "you've left your mark on this competition, and I am not done with you."
Unfortunately, in season five of "The Voice" at least, she was. As James was saved — and gave a disbelieving gesture of relief — Matthew was relegated to a trip home.
Semifinals of "The Voice" begin next week.
"The Voice" airs Mondays at 8/7c and Tuesdays at 9/8c on NBC.
Team Adam Escapes "Voice" Eliminations Unscathed, as Team Christina's Matthew Schuler Heads Home
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Zambia won the African Cup of Nations. By all accounts, this is one of the best AfCoN tournaments in recent years in terms of quality, and it had an absolute fairy tale ending–even for cold-hearted cynics like myself. Zambia's new golden generation has done what even the previous one (the one tragically killed in the plane crash) did not–win the AfCoN. It's a beautiful story, and following on the heels of the heels of Japan's victory at the Women's World Cup last year, one can only assume that from now on only teams that have overcome tragedy will win international football tournaments.
Well played to Zambia. I was rooting for them as was most everyone around the world. From their very first match against Senegal they proved they were something to behold and they never let up. Their victory was well-deserved, and they did it with a team that had almost no European-based players. Hopefully they will be able to maintain this success and get to the next World Cup in Brazil, but AfCoN success is not guarantee of qualification. Look at Egypt.
From the beginning the pundits were saying this would be a Ghana/Ivory Coast final. Given the way both teams played throughout the tournament, I suspected at least one would not make it. Ghana, who played the worse of the two throughout, turned out to be the goat.
Spare a thought for Ivory Coast though. So much has been expected from this team, and each time they have come up short. They didn't lose the match against Zambia, they were edged out in penalty kicks (after squandering a chance to win). This is the second time that this happened to Ivory Coast (Egypt beat them out in penalty kicks in 2006). They have one more chance next year in South Africa when AfCoN (mercifully) moves to odd-numbered years, but really this was it. The Ivorian Golden Generation will probably fade into history trophy-less. One of the greatest also-rans of African history.
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Hugin Compiling Windows
|This is work in progress and not finished yet. And as hugin progresses with the introduction of new dependencies this page becomes more outdated than ever. If you are new to building hugin, try first with this method. If you know what you are doing, keep reading / following this instructions and feel free to update them.
Since mid January 2008, building hugin for Windows has been easier than this page might lead you to expect. The cmake build configuration and control system has become fully functional, and a complete set of precompiled dependencies (the Hugin SDK) is available. There are step-by-step instructions here: Build Hugin for Windows with SDK.
- 1 Why do I want to compile hugin?
- 2 Deciding on the toolchain
- 3 Building with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
- 4 Building using MinGW
Why do I want to compile hugin?
If you want to fiddle with the hugin code, add new features or help squashing bugs, and do all that on Windows, this is the guide for you. Be warned that building hugin on Windows is not a piece of cake, so only try if you know the dark sides with all the development tools involved.
For normal testing purpose it is better to use the occasional binary snapshot. For first-time builders it is better to use the SDK-based instructions.
This guide is designed to be a help for people who have expressed interest in understanding the depth of building Windows version of the current hugin code on a regular basis.
This guide will describe two ways of building the latest trunk. It does not apply to the hugin code prior to 2007/10/27.
Deciding on the toolchain
Currently, there are two methods for building hugin. Both are based on the CMake build system.
- Compilation with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. MSVC 2003 or 2008 is required. The recommended method is to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, and install it. For convenience a Hugin SDK with precompiled libraries for MSVC 2008 is provided. It is recommended to use these initially, rather than to compile your own libraries. There are detailed instructions at Build Hugin for Windows with SDK. Once you are familiar and comfortable with the process described there, you can move in to replace the precompiled libraries with your own self-built ones, step by step.
- Compilation with MinGW32. This does not require the Microsoft compiler and even allows cross compilation of binaries for windows on a linux machine. Until now, only the cross compilation approach has been tried, but a building on a native system should also be possible.
The following additional programs are also required for building a hugin installer package:
- CMake Note that Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is not supported by CMake 2.4. Download a recent Windows binary of CMake. These instructions were written at a time that only a recent CVS snapshot of CMake worked with this method. It is likely that CMake 2.6.x works as well, but it has not been tested.
- enblend 3.2
- GNU make, required by hugin, not for building hugin. (included in Hugin SDK)
- GNU gettext. (included in Hugin SDK)
- Moreover, for packgaging the installer you will need Innosetup. Instructions for this are in the Hugin repository.
For both MSVC and MinGW32 approaches, the hardest task is the compilation of the libraries required by hugin. This mainly includes wxWidgets, boost, libpano13 and OpenEXR.
Building with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
This also works with earlier version from 2003 onwards. However, you will need to compile the dependencies from scratch. For simpler installation (and less headaches during building) everything is built against the older, multithreaded runtime libraries (\MT option), and linked all executables statically.
Getting the dependencies
It is tempting to download precompiled libraries from the different projects, and use those. Be prepared that they might have been created with different compiler setting (Especially with a different runtime libraries). This can lead to hard to find and nasty problems and amount to days of depressing work.
Downloading precompiled dependencies
This is the recommended approach.
Download the Hugin SDK. and unzip it into a directory of your choice. src is used in this document. Continue with #Building Hugin.
Build all required dependencies from scratch
Download the source packages. Newer versions might work, too.
- Download wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org, 2.8.4 were used to write this guide and it has been last tested to work with 2.8.9, but later version should work, too
- Download boost from http://www.boost.org, I used 1.34_1
- Download OpenEXR source (IlmBase and OpenEXR) from http://www.openexr.com/
- Download panorama tools source (pano13), from http://panotools.sf.net. Use version 2.9.12 or later. Latest SVN is even better.
- Download and install gettext installer package from http://gnuwin32.sf.net
Unpack the source packages.
Building wxWidgets
NOTE: this will only work for hugin SVN revisions prior to 8-Oct-2008. TODO: describe how to activate the OpenGL canvas.
1. Open libs/wxWidgets/src/tiff/tiffconf.h in your favorite editor, and add
#define ZIP_SUPPORT
near line 90 to support ZIP compressed tiff files (update: wxWidgets ships with an ancient version of libtiff, so LZW will still be disabled. The Hugin SDK additionally contains libtiff 3.8.2). To avoid nasty popup messages with the command line tools we are going to build, additionally add:
#define TIF_PLATFORM_CONSOLE
2. build wxWidgets: start the MSVC command line shell (from the startmenu) and cd to the wxWidgets/build/msw. To build Unicode debug release libraries, execute the following commands:
cd wxWidgets*/build/msw nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=debug UNICODE=1 SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=release UNICODE=1 SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static
It may be more reliable to build the wxWidgets libraries with the distributed MSVC projects, as described here. When I used the commandline method several libraries were built wrong, or not at all. -- TKSharpless
I never had trouble using the makefiles, maybe thats a MSVC 2005 issue? -- Pablo d'Angelo
Building boost
Refer to the boost documentation for details, especially Build binaries from source. Download bjam exectable and place it in the boost directory. Open the MSVC Command line prompt located in Start Menu -> Programs Microsoft Visual Studio -> Utilities, change directory to the boost dir and issue
bjam stage --with-thread
This will build the boost thread library.
If you are using Visual C++ 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003) or 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005), you can save a lot of time and aggravation by getting precompiled Boost libraries from BoostConsulting. You first download an installer program, which when run lets you choose which library variants you want to install. For Hugin you need the multithreaded static libraries, built for the static Microsoft C runtime with the compiler you intend to use. If you already have a Boost installation, you can just add these libraries to it, otherwise install the Boost headers too.
Windows Boost libraries are named according to version, compiler and MS runtime variant (multi|single thread, static|dll) so take care that the Hugin build uses the right names. Example:
prefix 'lib' shows this is a static link library, not the import library for a Boost dll; 'vc80' says built with VC8.0; 'mt-s' built for release version of the Microsoft multithread static C runtime LIBCMT (i.e. with compiler switch '/MT') (the debug version has 'mt-sgd'); '1_34_1' built from Boost version 1.34.1 source.
Building OpenEXR
This is a tricky one, because the MSVC project files have been set up for DLL builds with the \MD runtime, and a custom program is used to prepare the DLLs. For the all static windows binaries, quite some changes to the MSVC project files are needed.
Build according to README_win in ilmbase-1.0.0 but changed the runtime of all projects to MT.
For all projects do:
- set each project to static lib
- remove OPENEXR_DLL, _USEDLL and *_EXPORTS defines
- set runtime to MT
- disable SSE2, to generate binaries that run on all platforms
- remove the createDLL part of the post-build command, but keep the call to install*.cmd, such as ..\..\..\installIlmImf.cmd $(IntDir)
Apply the same procedure to the openexr-1.6 source code. Here only the IlmImf and IlmImfTest projects are needed by Hugin. Follow the same process as for IlmBase, but additionally add include path for the zlib library (inside the wxWidget/src/zlib) to the IlmImf project, and wxWidget/libs/_vc/wxzlib.lib to the IlmImfTest linker options. The tests should run without errors.
It is a good idea to create new target configurations, say HuginRelease and HuginDebug, with the Visual Studio Configuration Manager, and apply the above changes to them, so that you don't lose the original project settings. This also makes the Hugin-appropriate libraries easy to find as they will be built in directories named for the configurations. They should be installed in directories named that way, too; the install commands make those directories in the Deploy/... tree, but fail to copy the static libraries there because the dll library names are built into them. However it is easy enough to copy the libs from the build folders by hand. The ilmbase libraries must be in the Deploy tree before IlmImf is built. -- TKSharpless
Building Panotools
Building Pano13 with MSVC is described on a separate page.
Building Hugin
Use SVN to retrieve the latest hugin sourcecode (svn root is: https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/trunk), and save it to src/hugin-trunk. Remember the SVN revision, it will be needed later.
Place all dependencies alongside the hugin-trunk source directory. Example (versions might be slightly outdated):
src/ hugin-trunk OpenExr STLport-5.1.4 boost_1_34_1 enblend-3.1 libpano/pano13 wxMSW-2.8.6 make/make.exe
Run CMakeSetup to create the MSVC project files. If you use the Hugin SDK or have a 100% identical directory structure, CMakeSetup will pick up the dependencies automatically. Otherwise the paths to each dependency will have to specified manually during the following cmake step
- Run cmake, select hugin source and build directories. Do not choose the same directories for both source and build.
- Press 'Configure.
- If building is done using an SVN checkout, the SVN revision number needs to be specified manually. Press 'Configure again.
- CMake will pick up the dependencies and show them to you. Press Configure again. Now the Ok button should be available. If CMake had problems picking up all dependencies (for example, if you build your own libraries). CMake will prompt you if it misses something. After some iterations, all dependencies should be picked up.
- Press the Ok button.
- Once all fields have been filled out, the "Ok" button should be available. Press it and open the generated hugin.sln file with MSVC. Switch to Build Type to Release and start the build (press F7). After quite some time hugin should be build. In order to run hugin, it needs to be installed so that data files are in the right place. This is done by building the INSTALL project. The binaries and all required files will be installed into INSTALL/FILES subdirectory of the build directory specified during the CMake step.
- Creating the .msi installer by opening INSTALL/hugin.warsetup with the WarSetup program available from http://warsetup.jgaa.com/ and clicking on the Build button.
- A NSIS installer can be build by building the PACKAGE target (NSIS needs to be installed for this). This is currently a default installer, without specific functionality.
Building using MinGW
I have managed to build the older, pre GSoC 2007 version with MinGW, but still having some problems with the new trunk. Once these are resolved, I will provide instructions
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I like the idea of explaining alignment like that personally. I usually operate from the standpoint that every creature believes it is good and its enemies are evil. Morality is a personal thing not a universal concept. Only psychopaths do what they consider evil intentionally. So I often run monsters similarly, Dragons are often apathetic of short lived thieving races, Goblins are narcissistic and believe the world should be theirs, Orcs follow a path of violence through a viking type mentality honor in battle and the afterlife is accessible only through death in combat, and the only exception is creatures like demons which are souls tormented and tortured into evil. I have similar stuff for many races.
As for Drow they simply have devalued life. They kill because it is necessary in the underdark and they have been doing so for so long that they forgot that each life has value. They torture and maim like the Aztec, as offerings to their god, to insure good crops, healthy children, or victory in battle. They attack the surface out of jealousy and a twisted belief that the surface is weak and should be made strong. To them attacking the surface elves is leading the weak, misguided portions of their race back to strength.
I follow the alignments but I create societal reasons for them. That also means a Drow not raised of Drow would not be drawn to evil just like a high elf raised by Drow would be just like the Drow.
my default campaign standard is that "always x alignment" entries are ignored, unless an individual and/or unique creature has, due to past actions and choices, deliberately become a paragon of that way of being. and due to other campaign standards that concept applies all the up and down the power curve with no exceptions. the end result is that all things can choose who and what they are, though there are certain points of no return which any given creature can theoretically choose themselves past; thus there are a few creatures in my campaigns that are completely evil or purely good.
Again I'm split. On the one hand, the idea of questing for runes, I mean numenera, answers the "what do players do" pretty neatly without "kill the monsters grab the loot". Notably, numenera are "plot coupons": dig up this old junk, maybe jerry-rig something to escape the current predicament, and haul the rest off to trade for *shins*, goods, and whuffie. The magi-tech setting also allows a mix of medieval fantasy, post-apocalypse, and science fiction. (Like Monte Cook I'm also a fan of The Book of the New Sun; I tend more toward Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure and other sword-and-planet series than the Dying Earth, though.)
On the other hand, hundreds of pages of detailed setting made my eyes glaze over. I would have preferred a few pages of adventure seeds, micro-settings, and random weirdness tables. Also, the amount of invented lingo seems hokey, verging on "Call A Rabbit a Smeerp".
What were your thoughts about the setting itself?
I think this is a very good understanding of a singular component of alignment. If a setting, campaign, or adventure dealt only with a given alignment (neutral, in this instance), the other alignments fade into the background as a subtle hum of activity while the primary alignment is explored. I like this idea, and I think it holds a great deal of promise in accommodating adventures and groups of characters.
fate system.... Dresden Files RPG with some tweaks?
Originally Posted by Blond Gamer Girl
Sounds like Rifts.....
I thought the same thing... although any Palladium system is a tough one to start... too many tables and such...
I had a tendency to use the ideas I got from Rifts and use the CP2020 system to run the game... Now that I've found the Fate 3.0 system, I'm constantly equating ideas to that LOL
Sounds like Rifts.....
Thanks for the suggestion. Alas, I can't even settle on a genre. Swords & sorcery? Hard SF? Space Opera? Modern horror/dark fantasy? Rattling through time and space? One day I'm keen on one idea, the next day I'm on (or back) to another.
One weird idea is John Wick's The Flux. Essentially it's a framework for moving player characters between universes and game systems without losing their previous characters. Of course, that's assuming I can get a game beyond two sessions in the first place.
Hmmm....don't know if this will help or not but here's a method I use. Forget the system for a moment and write down all your ideas (type actually). Come back the next day(s) after leaving it for a bit and expound on the idea(s) that take your fancy. Come back a few times and do the same but don't force the idea just use the one that again takes your fancy. After a few visits see which one you worked on most and then match it to a system, a system you and your group like.
MAKE A DECISION AND STICK TO IT - Many people fear making a decision and don't have the fortitude to stick to it if they fear/get criticism. That's some RL management tools.
Hope that helps.
I want to see a d10 system. I already have the ideas for my RPGame system, based on a d10. But I want to see what you come up with. Thanx
Sorry to hear that, Frank. :/
Just thought of something. You could use 3.5 D&D. Each character starts out as a factotum (from dungeonscape). Based off what they do, what they spend their "points" on, etc... dictates how their characters evolve. Sort of take away the multiclassing restrictions, and either you decide, the usage decides, or the player decides how the characters evolve. Evolving could be adding a level from another class (maybe a specific level not just a 1st level addition to best fit the evolution [i.e. the next level be what you get as a 5th level druid {wild shape, 3rd level spell, etc...}, even if you don't have any levels in druid]). Or add powers from monsters like aura of menace from hound archon.
That I would have fun playing. Mainly because I would want to know where my character goes next in terms of evolution. Ideas....
Another thing is sort of they find power crystals (or something) like in final fantasy V, that would give them access to new powers that don't have a good evolution (rage, powers from tome of battle, hexes from hexblade, etc...).
Also evolution could be dictated by not just actions done by the characters, but done "to" the characters. An over-abundance of being hit with fireballs, the player gets fire resistance. Constantly being charmed, the player can either resis charm or manipulate charms in some nifty way. I think there was a 3.5 source book that handled this, but I can't remember which. It was specifically with spells though, but could take ideas from it. It was acquired through feats.
Feats could be your way of "evolving" too. More I think about it, the more fun this sounds.
Reminds me of an old Graphic Novel that was about a bunch of genetically engineered soldiers. The main character's name was Friday (as in a Friday Job) he was more adaptable than the others and changed faster than all of his identical brothers. Still the other soldiers did learn from their own separate experiences but not to the same degree.
I think it would be easy to do. Only you have to convince the players to go for it. You just start out with one 1st level character, after the group goes up a level they (the PC's) can all choose to modify how they see fit. It might help to have a system that rewards actual skill use, but other than that, I don't think it would be to hard.
Fudge-On-The-Fly starts your character sheet with only a name, sometimes general description, and a bunch of blanks to be filled in as the the game moves forward. Each player makes a choice for their character and fills in the blanks whenever the need arises. Once chosen the choice sticks. (Morgo summoned his spirit guide to point the way. His first of many shamanic abilities.)
Character creation is done as soon as you have a name (if you require one).
My group always found this style of play fun.
Pendragon characters start out fairly similar. You're a knight. You have a horse, a sword and a squire. It is much more the personality traits that distinguish beginning characters.
IIRC, when you attempt a skill, make a check beside it. Annually (Winter) roll for each skill that has a check mark, if you roll (d20) higher than the current skill level, advance by one.
it is a lot like how you level up in the japanese final fantasy II
Reminds me of the classic 1e adventures that had the players start as 0 levels and whatever they did in the adventure that would determind their class at the end. So if someone tried to cast a spell they may end up a wizard, or grab a weapon to fight, a fighter, or try and unlock a door, a thief.
I think a skill based system like in Runequest would be ideal for suchb a game. But you could do a 3e Modern with the understanding that classes would have to be introduces.
It sounds like a very interesting and fun game. I'd join up with the Ashen Hand any day.


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I felt that I need to get some outside help with motivation to get out of bed early morning each day and get the workouts done. I think this new watch I got from my wife for Christmas will help me do just that. After all this is the year of aging up to the most competitive age group under the sun. And it is not 35-39.
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