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I just wanted to put some colour on my ocs uwu
Rick and Jo are the ones on the first drawing, and Lea, Rick's younger sister is on the second one^^
I guess I could also write a little bit about their personalities here…Rick is probably that actually good guy who barely gets anything he actually deserves. He's ougoing, caring and quite a big dork if you ask me, haha:D Has a mother and a sister, his father left when Lea was 1. (and let me say Rick didn't appreciate this act, and sort of come up with this rule not to leave people who need you. ever. Also he's not very fond of his father as a result..really angry at him for leaving his mother with both him and little Lea)
Jo (well Johanna, but she prefers a short version). She's quite a pretender I guess? She does communicate with people, have fun with them but barely ever lets up anyone to get close to her, not that anyone needs that. Jo pretends she's fine and doesn't care, when it reality is one lonely folk. Her parents are archeologists traveling constantly, so she gets to change schools from time to time (that's the last one take obviously)
And Lea..she's a sweetheart who isn't appreciated in her school, gets bullied constantly (which I mentioned before, heh). She's genuinely very cheerful and nice and yet very uncomfortable about her appearance. Has a humster named Totoro because this movie is her favourite.
I am not yet completely sure about their ages, so I'll just go with this for now.
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[Ed.: Note the comments where Greg from Allagash corrects some of my less than stellar observations. But check here for thoughts on my questionable taste.] • Have you ever had a surprise disappointment? I got a bunch of Allagash brews last year, stashed them to great benefit and loved them all …
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I don't know what you were doing last night but I was watching six episodes of Doctor Who with the boy. The 1978 version. As we watched Sontarans come this close to taking out the Time Lords and marveled at the state of British dental care of thrity years ago, I sipped a Kerst Pater Special Winter …
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Is that not the most repetitive title to a post yet? I wonder if New Glarus is in New Glarus County...or maybe Wisconsin county. Anyway, this is simply an incredible beer. Stan and Daria brought it to us when they visited this summer. Once upon a time, I had a small old farmhouse and it was near a …
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This beer crosses a lot of categories: oaked, aged, sour and from a state that looks like a mitten. I picked this 2006 edition of Perseguidor from Ron when I spent an hour with him a year ago, probably my beery highlight of 2007 now that I think of it. • BAer's lavish love - though they lament …
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I must have been very good today as this is the bottle I decided to open. I mowed the half the lawn. And I held the fort at my desk with a certain style. I'll likely even keep the empty as it even has the mark of importers Roland + Russell, the kind folks who forwarded this sample. • But, you …
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I think this is just gold. Today, The Session, the monthly celebration of one theme by beer bloggers all around the globe...was forgotten by The Barley Blog: • I need to pay attention to my own blog announcements — I forgot that today was Session #19. Well, I didn't really forget about the date …
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I shared with one to the shock and dismay of my guests two years ago but I've grown up so much since then I thought I would revisit it to see what I thought. Back then I use the word poo which seemed to tick off a crank. Apparently some who write "barnyard" have never been in a barnyard. Let's see …


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Who's That Girl in the Axe Effect Commercial?Category: Entertainment
When I first saw the new Axe commercial on TV, I thought the pretty chick featured on it is Filipina. She looks like Iya Villania – Angel Locsin – Gladys Reyes rolled into one.
A little Google search pointed out her name as Asmirandah Zantman, an Indonesian. She has a Wikipedia entry too but I can't understand Bahasa Indonesia.
All know is that this chick's hot. If I was the guy in the commercial, she need not tease me to call her.
Her number? It's written in ketchup: 08170080293.
Oh wait, she must have already changed her number due to the ton of calls she's been receiving since she showed it to all of us.
Here's the video of the Axe Effect commercial:
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14 Responses to "Who's That Girl in the Axe Effect Commercial?"
weng cariaga Says:
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Sir. mukang mahal ko na siya! heheee! = )
ark Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Tinamaan ka rin?
weng cariaga Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
hahaa!! hanggang sa panaginip lang! = )
LIFE Moto Says:
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
they have the same commercial here in ME. She is pretty cute.
enad Says:
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm
bro, has you wife read this post? lagot ka. lol
ark Reply:
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Yes of course… and she's totally cool with it. A crush over a celebrity is not something we'll fight over. Hindi naman ganun kakitid utak ng misis ko eh.
Hindi nga ako galit sa kanya ng crush nia si John Lloyd Cruz eh.
mao Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 3:01 am
ganda nga tlga.. mron pa po isang kamuka c regine angeles.. hehe
ark Reply:
October 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Ay, hindi ko kilala un…
Winziph Reply:
October 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
regine angeles sya ung bagong character ng lipgloss of channel 5,, lumabas na din sya sa channel two ung kina gerald at kim chiu ata un hehehe ^__^ maganda din ung girl na un pero sa tingin ko hindi xa look alike ni asmirandah ehehe ^__^ got a post of her too para may remembrance check it out po… ^__^ http://www.winziph.co.cc/2009/09/asmirandah-axe-effect.html
Prikitiw Says:
June 24th, 2010 at 2:40 am
If u like her, this is the real Asmirandah Zantman's twitter : @Ndah_asmirandah
U can check or u can ask her anything about Asmirandah. Yes,.! Absolutely she can answer all the questions because she is Asmirandah


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In any case, they can't pay the bills, and the power and the water have been shut off. They need some money fast, and porn, they reason, has "gone mainstream," so why shouldn't they make some? Porn will turn the lights back on. Unlike the kids in the Rooney-Garland "Babes in Arms," they have no particular talents, and only one of them is pretty to look at, but, for the sake of the movie, they will make out in front of the camera. To complete the cast, they hold auditions, gathering together a ragtag group of friends and strangers, along with a couple of babes in thongs from a local strip club. (Smith recruited the adult-movie pros Katie Morgan and Traci Lords for the job.) Then they start shooting, befouling Zack's coffee shop after it closes its doors for the night. The movie begins with church bells ringing in mournful disapproval of the filth that is about to be set before us. Kevin Smith, now thirty-eight, is the potty-mouthed boy from New Jersey who established himself as an apostate with "Dogma" (1999) and as a chronicler of the underemployed with such comedies as "Clerks" (1994), "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (2001), and "Clerks II" (2006). His heroes are not so much slackers (they often have jobs) as they are unambitious, easily offended young men preoccupied with the small but furiously important issues of manners, respect, and hoped-for sex. Now that we're in a recession, Smith's turn toward entrepreneurial angst feels like the right idea, and the let's-put-on-a-porn-show impulse is certainly promising. But I wish that Dionysus or Priapus or whatever god Smith prays to had made the movie funnier. The name of the film shot at the coffee shop is "Swallow My Cockaccino," which should give you some idea of the level of the movie's wit. Porn, of course, depends on a parasitic relationship with the rest of the culture, high and low, and it is often close to spoof to begin with. (While taking a class on Melville forty years ago, I was disconcerted to see the title "Thar She Blows" on a local theatre marquee.) In Smith's movie, the characters compete to come up with a title for their movie based on that of a regular feature film—"American Booty" and "Lawrence of A'Labia" are about as good as it gets—and there is a brief fantasia in which actors dress up as characters from "Star Whores," but it's more a costume party than an orgy. A lot of the comic ideas last for just a shot or two. When a complete sequence becomes necessary, Smith makes fun of the hapless mini-scenarios of porn—the delivery man at the housewife's door, the sudden urge to unzip, the simulated joy. As a parodist, however, he doesn't have much room for maneuver; he can only make silly material sillier. Gleeful to the end, he repeats his jokes over and over; some of the ideas must have been funnier to think about as minor outrages than they are to watch in a movie. His resources as a director are limited: the actors stand around in awkward clumps and grope each other clumsily. Smith got an R rating (rather than an NC-17) for his movie by making it lewd but never erotic—a classic American solution to the sex-comedy problem. In the midst of the moviemaking scenes, Smith attempts a love story. Zack and Miri, who have huddled together as outsiders ever since they met, are actually crazy about each other but can't admit it. Some of the rough, affectionate banter between Rogen and Banks is well written and well delivered. I must be getting used to Rogen. When he laid hands on Katherine Heigl in "Knocked Up," I was seriously alarmed—the beauty-and-the beast coupling seemed a violation of the basic principles of romantic comedy. But, to my amazement, I thought that he and the even lovelier Elizabeth Banks made a nice couple. In only a few movies, Rogen has established a persona—the underachiever, the slob loser, but a guy who is articulate, and slightly self-disgusted, and who finally pulls himself together. The flab and the soft features have become part of his junior-Falstaff appeal. He can be cast as the guy who gets the beautiful girl because, underneath all his basso bluster and dirty talk, he's a tender fellow. Staring in adoration at Banks, near the end of the movie, Rogen looks like a beatific bull. Banks had a brief role as a girl ready for anything in "The 40 Year Old Virgin," and, as Laura Welch in Oliver Stone's "W.," she takes a shrewd, appraising look at Josh Brolin's George Bush—it's the film's best scene. This actress—reedlike, mobile, but always focussed—has a real sexual spark and so beguiling a smile that she can say obscene things and still seem fresh, and even classy. On the coffee-shop set, Zack and Miri make love for the first time (without undressing), and discover that they respond to each other. This moment of sexual awakening is meant to be overwhelmingly romantic, but, since lots of people are standing around idly watching, it comes off as somewhat less powerful than a Tristan-and-Isolde rapture. (I don't think we're meant to believe that they're exhibitionists.) Kevin Smith turns out to be reverent after all: he wants to separate true love from mere copulating for money, but his story mixes romance and porn so inextricably that he seems confused, and the movie trips over its own conceits. Kristin Scott Thomas's elegant bone structure and slender frame make it hard to imagine her as a coarse-grained woman (though it would be fun to see her play one). She is an actress who suggests intelligence by not giving way to obvious emotions, and that taut withholding is part of her attraction—men, and women, too, want to pull her out of her shell. At times, she has hinted that something was seething underneath the beautiful mask: a struggle, perhaps, between desire and the need to maintain her soul in isolation. As Juliette, in the French film "I've Loved You So Long," Scott Thomas is first seen in closeup, without makeup, her hair lustreless, her expression blank but tense. This time, she's genuinely cut off, not just holding back. Juliette has recently completed a prison sentence of fifteen years for the unimaginable crime of murdering her six-year-old son. Her kid sister, Léa (Elsa Zylberstein), a university professor in the city of Nancy, nervously gathers her into her own family, where Juliette remains in an uneasy state of semi-silence. The movie—which is the directorial début of the novelist Philippe Claudel, who also wrote the script—asks whether anyone who has done something so extreme can be welcomed back into a full human community. And does she want to be welcomed back? Scott Thomas wears a colorless print shirt and a brown skirt, and she carries herself as if she were still a prisoner. She lets a man pick her up in a bar, and, later, when he asks her if the sex was good, she offers a blunt "No, not at all." Scott Thomas's bleak self-sufficiency has never been more daunting or more fascinating. "I've Loved You So Long" is one of those French movies which embed their characters in a robust bourgeois culture: a network of family, friends, and colleagues; a dailiness of cafés, cigarettes, and dinner parties. Difficult as Juliette's situation is, Americans may be struck by how many chances she has for connection. Here, emerging from prison, she would likely be thrown into a much more severe and fragmented gray zone of indifference. Her sister, for one, ardently wants to break through to her and introduce her to people. Despite a big difference in their ages, Juliette and Léa were once close, and the movie is as much Léa's story as it is Juliette's. Claudel turns out to be very good at the psychology of intimacy. An observant man, he has assembled a large (and, to us, unknown) cast of actors around his star, and he dramatizes her slow reawakening with an infinite number of small, sharply etched details. But Claudel goes wrong in managing the nature of Juliette's crime. When you find out, at the end of the movie, exactly what happened long ago, you feel a little cheated. But that error had the effect of making me want to see Kristin Scott Thomas's performance all over again—you may need to see "I've Loved You So Long" twice in order to see it once. ♦ David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. 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A question was asked in Parliament over the delay on the decision about the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) related to Spurs new stadium.
Any progress on Spurs new stadium is delayed while the the Department of Communities and Local Government make a decision about the CPO Haringey Borough Council have sought to place on the site occupied by Archway Sheet Metal Work. The purchase of this piece of land adjacent to White Hart Lane is the last piece of the jig-saw which would allow work to commence on the building of Spurs new stadium.
Haringey Borough Council submitted the application in September, 2012 and an article on the This Is Local London website reports that on Monday Tottenham MP David Lammy asked the Department of Communities and Local Government when a decision would be made on the issue.
The decision is in the hands of the Secretary of State Eric Pickles but in response to Mr Lammey's question, Nick Boles MP, Parliamentary under-secretary for planning described the matter as "complex".
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This is a complex case. After the close of the inquiry there were matters in respect of which further views of the interested parties were sought and considered. This has delayed the decision in this case.
Interestingly, Mr Boles revealed that the average tine taken by the department to make a decision on granting a CPO was ten to 11 weeks. The question regarding the Archway Sheet Metal Work site which is delaying the commencement of work on Spurs new stadium has been with the Department for almost 2 years, Haringey Council having submitted its application to the department in September 2012.
The best news that Mr Boles was able to give Tottenham was that a decision would be made "shortly" but that he was unable to comment further on the matter.
The stadium work is linked to the council's Northumberland Park Development project and the regeneration of the area around the new ground.
So frustrated has one Tottenham supporter become that he recently set up a petition urging Mr Pickles and his department to complete the inquiry related to Spurs new stadium.
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Political systems in #sociology: We study four types of legal authority: 1) #Totalitarianism: the #government regulates every facet of people's daily lives. Schools, the media and other public institutions only reflect the official view of the Goverment and there is heavy censorship. North Korea, China and Nazi Germany are examples. 2) #Authoritarianism: The state has absolute power and cannot be removed easily. The law is highly conservative with strict sentences for crime and heavy fines for transgressions such as littering and smoking. There are heavy restrictions on human rights, such as freedom of religion, dress, and sexuality. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the military factions in Congo are typical examples. 3) #Monarchy: A system run by a single family from one generation to the next and legitimated by tradition. Many monarchies today are largely symbolic and operate alongside a democratic system. This includes the UK, Sweden, Spain and Denmark. 4) #Democracy: Government is elected by the public and #authority is overseen by the #law. As with the other three types there are different variations. Scandinavian democracies support a robust social welfare system through heavy taxes. The state intervenes in public life by ensuring a relatively higher redistribution of wealth. Liberal democracies such as in the USA and Australia are governed by principles of a free market. The government is less likely to restrict economic competition between businesses, on public goods and infrastructure. #SocialWelfare has less scope to address social inequality. #politics #socialscience #economy #power #education #society #socialstudies #socialinequality #visualsociology
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The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has agreed on a revised concept of operations for the deployment of an international military force of 3,300 soldiers to help the Malian state wrest control of the northern part of the country from Islamist fighters.
This step, taken on November 11 following a collective effort by regional and international partners, is welcome. But military intervention alone cannot solve the country's deep crisis.
The situation in Mali is desperately fractious. A military coup toppled the government in March, while separatists and al-Qaeda-linked fundamentalists took over the northern half of the country. Mali is now divided geographically, politically, militarily and religiously.
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A more ironic or parody government, a logocracy is a government ruling through words. Described in Washington Irving's 1807 work, Salmagundi, a logocracy is a government that uses tricky wording to control its people. The Soviet Union has been accused of being a logocracy, citing that its language was a ""stereotyped jargon consisting of formulas and empty slogans, whose purpose was to prevent people from thinking outside the boundaries of collective thought". George Orwell's 1984 is a good example of a logocracy, and used the Soviet Union's "Neo-language" as the basis for its Newspeak.
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One objective reality is that our government doesn't work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place."
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HBC Anticipates Emergence from Bankruptcy in February
Pending revisions to its current plan for reorganization as indicated to bankruptcy judge Stuart Bernstein November 29, Hawker Beechcraft expects to emerge from Chapter 11 in February 2013, as the Beechcraft Corporation.
HBC describes the revisions, not detailed in the hearing, as mostly technical. Following court approval of the changes, the company will solicit approval of the reorganization plan by its creditors.
In the meantime, anger is building among owners and operators of Hawker 4000s over HBC's announced intent to expedite the sale of approximately 20 in-production, new or used 4000s. An ad hoc committee of Hawker 4000 owners has already gone to Judge Bernstein and succeeded in halting an expedited sale of the airplanes, "for the best price possible under the circumstances, on an 'as-is-where-is' basis, with no warranty or support commitments." The ad hoc committee asserts that the sale would result in dramatic devaluation of Hawker 4000s in service.
Adam Katz, organizer of the ad hoc committee and founder and CEO of charter provider Talon Air, said he expects some of the HBC inventory of 4000s might sell for as little as $3 million for the used airplanes and less than $10 million for the new. The Hawker 4000 originally sold for between $18 million and $23 million. He describes the sale as "a tremendous destruction of equity."
Equally disturbing, said Katz, is HBC's announcement of its intent to discontinue the related warranty and support programs.
HBC has asked the court to allow it to "cancel certain warranties and factory-sponsored programs, including our guaranteed maintenance program SupportPlus and the Hawker 4000 Upgrade and Enhancement program." The company has, however, said it is in negotiations with several third-party companies that could continue service and maintenance for the Hawker 4000, as well as the Premier IA.
Katz and other members of the ad hoc committee operate a total of 33 Hawker 4000s and they are not encouraged. "Twenty airplanes currently in service [have yet] to be upgraded [to meet current fuel-tank flammability standards]," Katz said, "and one of them is mine—one of eight in our charter fleet. It was scheduled to go into Hawker for the upgrade, and they cancelled the appointment. If that upgrade of the fuel system isn't done by March 2014, the airplane will be grounded, and several other people on the committee are in the same position.
"Our contract called for the block point upgrade, and now Hawker is backing out of its contract obligation."
Katz said the committee is now studying its options, adding, "We will absolutely do everything and anything to secure and protect our rights in these matters."
In the meantime, HBC's march through the bankruptcy restructuring continues, with an omnibus court hearing set for December 11 regarding "an order authorizing the debtors to reject certain aircraft warranty and support obligations related to Hawker 4000 and Premier I and IA jets."
Also scheduled for December 11 is court consideration of HBC's motion for an order authorizing it to sell the remaining inventory of Hawker 4000s.
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The Circus: 1870-1950," by Noel Daniel
The title page of "Circus and the Allied Arts"
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with the Circus"
"Books are among life's most precious possessions. They are the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that man builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, civilizations perish, but books continue. The perusal of a good book is, as it were, an interview with the noblest men of past ages who have written it." — Unknown
It doesn't matter what you collect, books on that topic can form a solid foundation for your collection. And nowhere is this truer than with circus collectibles. Circus collectors usually have an intense interest in circus history. A wide-ranging library of circus history books can help provide that information. Typically, the interest in circus books is limited to non-fiction, but there are a few circus classics that can add color to a collection. Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with the Circus is a good example. It's a children's book originally published in 1881 that tells the story of a young boy who ran away from home to join the circus. On the other hand, the recent novel Water for Elephants received rave reviews and was even No. 1 on the New York Times best seller's list, but most circus historians give it very low marks for accuracy.
It's easy to start a collection of circus books. You might begin by checking out books from your public library so you can find titles you would like to purchase. A recent search for "Circus History" of Amazon.com's book section resulted in more than 6,000 hits. Looking for "Circus" or "Circus History" on Alibris.com or Abebooks.com will also bring up hundreds of books. Or try searching eBay for "Circus History Book." But the most fun is the old fashioned way of going to a used book store and browsing through the stacks.
In building your circus book collection, make every effort to find the multi-volume Circus and the Allied Arts—A World Bibliography by Raymond Toole-Stott. It's expensive, but a very important set of books. There are five volumes, but volume number five is nearly impossible to find. Single volumes of the set frequently sell for $25 to $100. A set of the first four volumes sells from $300 to $600. Only 1,200 copies of the first four volumes were printed and the 1,200 copies of Volume No. 4 are signed and numbered. Volume One covers the period 1500-1957; Volume Two, 1500-1959; Volume Three, 1500-1962; Volume Four 1500-1970.
The first four volumes of Circus and the Allied Arts were published by Harper and Sons (Derby) Limited in England. As stated on the title pages, the bibliography is "based mainly on circus literature in the British Museum, The Library of Congress, The Universiteitsbibliotheek Van Amsterdam, The Bibliotheque National and on the author's own collection." The author, Toole-Stott died on Jan. 10, 1982. Ten years later, Volume Five was published using photo copies from his original typewritten script. A detailed review of Volume Five was published in the November-December 1992 issue of Bandwagon, the official publication of the Circus Historical Society.
Today there seems to be a resurgence of new circus books being published, perhaps because of the popularity of Water for Elephants. In the July-August 2008 issue of White Tops, the official publication of Circus Fans Association of America, there's an article which lists nearly 150 circus and circus related books that were published in 2007 and 2008. Among these new books is The Circus: 1870-1950 by Noel Daniel (Editor) published by Taschen. It's a monumental work with 670 pages and nearly 900 illustrations. This beautiful book measures 17.3 inches by 11.4 inches by 3 inches and weighs more than 18 pounds. For more details on this book you can go to the Taschen website. There's even a link there so you can leaf through the first 66 pages of the book.
For more information on the Circus Historical Society and the Circus Fans Association of American mentioned in this article see my article on Circus Collector Fan Organizations.
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Sales Woes Have Negative Impact on Credit Managers' Index for December
Though a number of favorable factors that help comprise the National Association of Credit Management's Credit Mangers' Index (CMI), problems with sales ultimately outweighed the positive toward the end of 2012.
The CMI, available Friday afternoon (see link at bottow of story), will show a slight decline for the month largely on disappointing sales figures. NACM economists Chris Kuehl believes this reinforces the notion that business is stalled out in anticipation of what might happen with spending and taxation next year. There was some cautious optimism just one month ago in the CMI, but that optimism has seemingly evaporated, as it seems all but certain that there will be no settlement of lasting value on the "fiscal cliff" issue paralyzing Congress and the Obama Administration.
Other favorable factors statistics were not expected to register the same level of distress, even though a few small declines were expected. Additionally, the unfavorable factor index for December will show only a slight decline. The overall sense is that this month's decline is due to the tensions existing among (and caused by) federal lawmakers. The inability of Congress and the president to make a deal has already cost significant economic growth, and it is now anticipated that real decline in GDP growth will be the next outcome.
"The reaction captured in this month's CMI shows a stark lack of confidence as opposed to anything substantial," said Kuehl. "The overall news for the economy has been pretty good, and so it is with much of the CMI. The factors most connected to mood and confidence are the ones slipping. The whole business community seems to be in state of suspense."
The complete CMI report for December 2012 contains more commentary, complete with tables and graphs. CMI archives may also be viewed on NACM's website.
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2013: Surprise Year of the Trade Agreement?
At first blush, a boost in trade agreements would seem unlikely given all the wrangles about fiscal cliffs and austerity plans (see previous blog and eNews entries covering FCIB's Global Conference from Philadelphia in November). The political will to attack trade issues would seem to be missing, and in developed economies, the subject of trade is always controversial because trade is just what it implies: one has to give something up to get something. However, there are three reasons to believe that trade agreements could potentially become a surprise focus at some point this year, particularly where Europe, Japan and even the United States are concerned.
The first is the increased need for developed economies to find some means by which to grow. Everything else has been tried, and nothing has yet done the trick. The monetary authorities have run out of tricks as interest rates have been at rock-bottom for half a decade, and there is nothing left as far as the bond markets are concerned. For many nations, the solution will have to be increased levels of exports, and that doesn't seem to happen without the assistance of a trade agreement.
The second reason is the increased need to bolster strategic ties between nations. Geopolitical issues are only getting more complex and must be addressed in some kind of cooperative manner. Given that nations have very different strategic goals, there is a need to find incentives for cooperation. The most consistent weapon first-world economies employ is trade and market access.
The third reason for increased attention to trade agreements is what could be considerable pressure from the business community in first-world economic nations. The financial future of even smaller companies depends on access to overseas markets, and that gets a whole new community engaged in the conversation. Things have changed dramatically in the last few years and now even the very smallest companies have an opportunity to do business outside their borders, making them far more interested in the opportunities that could come with a new trade deal or two.
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Wave of Good News Hits EU Members Near Year-End
Perhaps the most covered story internationally this year has been about the debt struggles throughout the European Union and its impact on the rest of the world. But, for this week anyway, there was a much different and positive tone to coverage about the European sovereigns, especially in Greece and Germany.
Perhaps the most shocking of all came as one of the oft-maligned U.S.-based credit ratings agencies raised the credit profile of one of the euro zone's most troubled nations. Standard & Poor's raised Greece's sovereign credit rating by six steps to a "B-minus" and also placed it in a "stable" outlook category. It's a massive change for a nation that had been miles below an "investment grade" rating and one that has struggled with a negative outlook by the agency for years. In fact, the rating is the highest Greece has been given since early 2011.
S&P justified the improved rating by noting a deeper commitment and greater transparency therein on the part of EU member nations carried by a Germany that had dragged its feet for some time with calls for increased austerity and related concessions to avert risk. Meanwhile, economic news in Germany turned positive after some recent months of pessimistic attitudes that surprised the fiscal and production powerhouse.
Germany's business confidence, which sunk to its lowest level since early 2010 in October, increased for the second time in as many months in December, and did so by more than was forecast. Germany also experienced a noticeable bump in exports and new factory orders, as domestic companies involved in trade have found more opportunities for partnerships outside of an EU it had relied upon so heavily at one time.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Another Port Strike to Threaten U.S. Vendors?
Just days after an eight-day port strike on the West Coast ended, it seems problems brewing on the opposite side of the country are breeding concerns about the possibility of a new, late-year work stoppage...and one that would affect many more markets.
The contract between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance Ltd. is being negotiated to replace one that is expiring on Dec. 29. Getting something in place the last time a port-involved contract dispute came up – also involving the Longshoremen, in the Los Angeles/Long Beach area of California – resulted in some 75% of the largest U.S. port's capabilities being shut down for just over a week. Because of holiday retail-related shipping needs, some estimates noted that upwards of $1 billion in goods per day were blocked during the dispute.
A failure to forge a new deal or some type of extension would almost certainly lead to a lockout or strike in many, if not all of the following ports: Boston, New York/New Jersey, Delaware River, Baltimore, Hampton Roads, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Port Everglades, Miami, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, and Houston, National Retail Federation President/CEO Matthew Shay noted. Shay, who had blasted both sides in the West Coast stalemate, again publicly called on the Obama Administration to intervene because of the lost money potentially at stake.
"A strike of any kind at ports along the East and Gulf Coast could prove devastating for the U.S. economy," Shay said. "Allowing a strike to occur for even one day could have a negative impact on all of those downstream businesses and employees who rely on the ports. The U.S. economy cannot afford to wait for a strike to occur before we see administration action."
Granted, with the "fiscal cliff" issue yet unresolved on Capitol Hill and what sounds like a renewed call for new gun control measures in the wake of the mass school shooting tragedy in Connecticut, any intercession appears unlikely in the near-term. That's especially so since the Obama Administration elected not to get involved earlier this month in California.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Obama Signs Bill Establishing PNTR with Russia
President Barack Obama signed H.R. 6156 into law today, officially establishing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia.
Much of what the bill does is iterated in its full title, the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law and Accountability Act of 2012. In addition to repealing the Jackson-Vanik amendment, a regularly ignored Cold War regulation that made U.S. preferential tariff rates on Russian products conditional on the country allowing Jews and other minorities to emigrate freely, the bill also normalizes trade relations with Moldova and gives the U.S. the ability to sanction Russian human rights violators according to the terms of the bill's so-called Magnitsky provisions, named after Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in Russian prison while investigating allegations of large-scale theft on the part of Russian officials.
Normalizing trade relations with Russia became a priority once Russia officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in August. According to the terms of Russia's WTO accession agreement, the country could increase tariffs on products entering the country from the U.S. until the U.S. normalized trade relations with its fellow WTO member. The presence of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment on U.S. books was considered abnormal, and Russia was, until now, within its rights to discriminate against American products.
President Obama's signature clears the bill's final hurdle and allows U.S. companies to take advantage of the newly expanded market access generated by Russia's WTO membership.
"The United States strongly supported Russia's accession to the WTO, because it is in the interest of our exporters and the Americans they employ to bring Russia more fully into the global trading system," said U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. "With the signing of this legislation, American businesses and workers are closer to enjoying the full economic benefits of Russia's WTO commitments."
- Jacob Barron, CICP, NACM staff writer
S&P Gets Negative on UK
As draft legislation is honed in the European Union putting limits on what credit ratings agencies can say in analysis and when they can say it in reference to member nations, one of the so-called "Big Three" agencies has placed the United Kingdom into pessimistic outlook territory.
Though Standard & Poor's affirmed the UK's "AAA" rating Thursday, the U.S.-based agency revised its long-term ratings outlook to negative from stable and noted a "one in three chance" a ratings downgrade could come in the next two years if fiscal health continues to weaken there.
"We believe this could occur in particular as a result of a delayed and uneven economic recovery, or a weakening of political commitment to consolidation," S&P wrote.
Like most ratings downgrades or threats of them, it's not being taken kindly, especially in Europe (see this week's eNews for more on the EU's draft legislation to limit ratings agencies activity). However, despite fears from governments struck by downgrades and outlook changes, New York University's Ed Altman, PhD, who will making an encore appearance as a speaker at the (May) 2013 NACM's Credit Congress Las Vegas, said the impact of such moves has been shown to be muted. He said France, which lost its prized "AAA"-level rating with two of the three big agencies in 2012, is a prime example.
"While the ratings have taken a hit with downgrades, the yields and the spreads have actually decreased in France, which is very hard to explain," Altman told NACM. "In other words, if you had acted on that information in terms of investment decision, you would have been wrong. France, if anything, has improved in its situation. I'm not saying markets are ignoring the ratings agencies completely, but they don't seem to be taking them too seriously in regards to investment grade countries."
He added that market-watchers are aware of the agencies' somewhat spotty track record from last decade and don't rely on them solely when making decisions and analysis.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Fed Rates Tied to Employment Data for the First Time
Much of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy public statement on the heels of its Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) meeting Wednesday was reaffirming long-held policies when it came to Treasury securities purchases and interest rates. However, an increasingly talkative Federal Reserve did shock some market-watchers by tying its stance on the federal funds rate to employment growth.
For the first time in the Ben Bernanke's era as Fed chairman, the FOMC noted it will hold the target range for the federal funds rate at between 0% and 0.25% until the unemployment rate sinks to or below 6.5%. The Fed – which noted continued moderate economic expansion (aside from weather/Sandy-related problems) and concern over risks associated with "strains in global financial markets" – also tied the historically low range's stay to inflation rates being no more than one-half percentage point above the FOMC's 2% longer-run goal. All but Jeffrey Lacker voted for the decision.
"Consistent with its statutory mandate, the committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability," the Fed noted in its uncharacteristically long statment. "The committee remains concerned that, without sufficient policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions. Furthermore, strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook."
Otherwise, the committee plans stay the course on recent policy initiatives by "continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month...purchase longer-term Treasury securities after its program to extend the average maturity of its holdings of Treasury securities is completed at the end of the year, initially at a pace of $45 billion per month...maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities and, in January, will resume rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction."
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Vitro Bankruptcy Update: Judge Places 10 Mexican Subs into Bankruptcy
In a case with deep implications for U.S.-Mexico trade relations, a U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas has put 10 subsidiaries of Mexican-based glassmaker Vitro SAB into involuntary bankruptcy. Texas-based Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale also gave credence to allegations that the subsidiaries schemed to block U.S. collectors from collecting debts. This all comes less than two weeks after an appeals court upheld a summer decision by Hale not to recognize the terms of Vitro's bankrutpcy plan filed in Mexico.
Several months ago, Hale denied enforcement of Vitro's Chapter 15 reorganization plan approved in a Leon (Mexico) court because he believed Vitro's plan "manifestly contrives" U.S. bankruptcy policy and the interests of American bondholders and trade creditors. Typically, a judge would affirm such plans out of respect to judges in friendly nations and for trade relations. In late November, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans denied Vitro's appeal of Hale's initial decision. In the aftermath, Vitro threatened that it was considering legal action as a result.
For its part, Vitro responded to the judge's latest decisions and claims of improper actions by subsidiaries by noting it will proceed with its restructuring in Mexico and that its most important assets are minimally impacted, if at all, by Hale's latest ruling.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Exports, Business Confidence Spiral Downward
There's no way to dress it up nicely: a near $7 billion drop in exports between September and October and a trade deficit significantly exceeding $40 billion is abysmal news for the U.S. economy and its small- and medium-sized businesses. It's yet one more blow to confidence that new numbers show was already faltering thanks largely to partisan gridlock among federal lawmakers.
The U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis unveiled unsettling trade statistics this week showing total October exports of $180.5 billion and imports of $222.8 billion, a goods and services deficit of $42.2 billion. The revised deficit figure was $40.3 billion in September. The $6.5 billion drop in goods and additional $300 million decreases in services exported for October represents the largest month-to-month total exporting slide since January 2009.
The news should do little for business confidence, which statistics unveiled by the National Federation of Independent Businesses this week before the new trade numbers could even be factored in illustrate is not far from the historically poorest levels. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index dropped 5.6 points in November to a level of 87.5. The monthly index has been lower only seven times since its inception in 1986. And this can't even be blamed on "Super Storm" Sandy – the East Coast states affected worst by the storm and its aftermath were excluded from this month's numbers to avoid event-based distortions.
NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg argued: "Washington does not have the needs of small business in mind; between the looming 'fiscal cliff,' the promise of higher healthcare costs and the endless onslaught of new regulations, owners have found themselves in a state of pessimism."
Key categories "Expect Economy to Improve" and one measuring potential for positive "Earning Trends" each declined in excess of 30% in the latest data.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Economist: Trade Wars, Resource Hoarding Likely Fallout of Downturn
The stress of financial crisis makes nations do a lot of things that distort the normal patterns of the global economy. Trade wars take place as nations try to protect their domestic markets at the same time that they attempt to penetrate other markets with aggressive prices or the establishment of subsidies for their own producers. Within the last few years, there has been another dimension to this protectionism: nations highly developed and less so alike hoarding natural resources.
The hoarding takes the form of buying up commodity production by state agency, locking in commodity production with long-term agreements and stockpiling what that nation can control. A recent series of reports suggests that these actions will become more common and more dangerous in the future.
The three most important threats to the global economy will come from distorted pricing, unreliable supply and uneven distribution of key resources. The hoarding of these commodities will take product off the market, thus driving prices higher regardless of actually supply availability. This will apply to food commodities, metals and oil.
In such events, the supply situation would be upset, as many of the producer nations will not know what the real demand and making price projections will be far less reliable. Only some nations will have the ability to stockpile, and that leaves the poorer states without access to the commodities needed. The expectation is that famine could become widespread, and commodity shortage in the industrial sector will leave many nations without the ability to grow their economies fast enough to contend with their immediate societal needs. Expect the most affected parts of the world to be in Africa and South Asia, where volatility could, in turn, become far more serious.
-Armada Corporate Intelligence
Several Key Nations Score Poorly in Corruption Study
An annual report ranking the most and least corrupt nations found most economic powers outside of the top 10 and important emerging economies lagging woefully behind the level considered neutral.
Denmark, Finland and New Zealand each scored a 90 out of a possible 100 in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI), given them a share of the distinction as the least corruption nation on the planet. The trio was followed by Sweden and Singapore to round out the top five.
Among the world's largest economies, Germany placed 13th (79 rating), Japan 17th (74) and the United States 19th (73). The power trio lagged slightly behind Canada and the Netherlands, which tied for 9th with a CPI score of 84.
On the flip side, two-thirds of the countries ranked by Transparency International fell below the 50 mark that separates those doing well from those performing poorly in metrics tracking sovereign corruption. None of the four BRIC's nations scored above 50. India ranked a shockingly low 74th (36 score), putting it at an identical level with Greece. Russia, sadly to the surprise of few, fared even worse with an abysmal rating of 28. That level was equal to that of Honduras and Iran.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Senate Approves Russia PNTR Bill in Landslide Vote
On a 92-4 landslide vote, the Senate today approved H.R. 6156, a bill that would establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. The bill now heads to the President's desk for signature into law.
Specifically, the bill repeals the Jackson-Vanik amendment, a Cold War relic that makes U.S. preferential tariff rates on Russian products conditional on the country allowing Jews and other minorities to emigrate freely. Its presence on U.S. books is considered discriminatory, meaning Russia has, since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in August, been within its rights to increase tariffs on products entering the country until the U.S. repealed the amendment.
The bill's passage means that U.S. companies can begin to take advantage of the concessions Russia made in its accession agreement with the WTO, including increased access to several of the nation's fastest-growing markets.
H.R. 6156 also normalizes trade relations with Moldova and imposes sanctions on Russian human rights violators, particularly persons identified as responsible for the detention, abuse or death of Russian human rights lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died under mysterious circumstances in a Russian prison in 2009.
Approval of the bill was not always a guarantee in the Senate, as a group of prominent senators sought to expand the so-called Magnitsky provisions to apply to human rights violators from all countries, rather than just those in Russia. The expanded version of the measure was authored by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) who dropped his objections to moving forward with H.R. 6156 while debating the bill last night. "I hope we will make this statutorily global," he said. "We will have that debate at a later date."
- Jacob Barron, CICP, NACM staff writer
Fiscal Cliff Can't Stymie Auto Sales
Uncertainty is the enemy of business, and the "fiscal cliff" battle between the Obama White House and Congressional Republicans has continued levels of uncertainty well beyond an election that was supposed to set more of a clear path, one way or another, again. Still, one business segment in the United States appears to be immune, at least in recent weeks.
Automotive sales surged at the best clip in more than four years, according to statistics unveiled Tuesday. Sales in the category increased by 15% to a level of just over 1.1 million for November, as consumers ignored the potential for tax increases and a government standoff in deference to replacing aging cars and (non-industrial) trucks. Experts also note that the Hurricane Sandy aftermath helped substantially in providing a regional bump in the Northeast.
The news was positive, somewhat surprising and almost certainly needed/helpful since it came about 24 hours after the Institute for Supply Management reported manufacturing levels at their lowest domestically since summer 2009. The disappointing results, unlike those of auto statistics, were pinned by the Institute almost exclusively on the fiscal cliff budget issues in Washington, D.C. And the index wasn't just a little off – its troubling 49.5 reading was below the 50 mark that divides expansion from contraction. Even during the recession's massively underwhelming early recovery days, manufacturing generally tracked above the 50 level.
-Brian Shappell, CBA, NACM staff writer
Four Reasons Fourth Quarter Will Disappoint
This is often the quarter that makes or breaks the economy, as this is the moment that the consumer rides to the rescue in an economy that relies on consumption for 80% of the nation's GDP. The retailers do not refer to the days after Thanksgiving as Black Friday weekend for nothing. There is a pessimistic sense that economic growth will fall by over a point, and the average will be between 1% and 1.5%. Some of the more pessimistic assertions predict the rate will be less than 1% for the quarter. That takes annual growth down an anemic level.
The reasons for all this pessimism vary, but most of the analysts hold that four factors are playing a part. The first of these is the massive storm that hit parts of New York and New Jersey could not have been more badly timed. The economic damage from Sandy was staggering—estimates are running between $80 and $120 billion. The loss of business is not calculable at this point, but the retail community in the region has already reported the slowest period of sales in decades. The loss is made worse by the timing, as this is the portion of the year that matters the most to business. If a silver lining exists, it is that next year the impact will see the reverse, assuming that the money for rebuilding is forthcoming. Traditionally, a disaster like this one is followed by significant economic growth as communities are put back together.
The second reason to worry is that consumers are not responding as aggressively as had been expected earlier in the season. It would appear that the consumer is not yet enthusiastic about going into debt to buy presents. As such, they are reacting more frugally than expected. The Black Friday numbers were decent, but the details showed that consumer snapped up the big discounts and shunned virtually everything else.
The third reason to fear a bad fourth quarter is the too familiar by now "fiscal cliff" fiasco. The business community and the consumer fully expect the economy to be affected negatively by all of this. Even if a last minute solution emerges, the damage has already been done. Most business has slowed in anticipation of a bad start to the next year, and consumers are saving their cash in order to be ready for those tax bites.
The fourth inhibition is global. The U.S. has become increasingly dependent on exports very recently. In the last year, the growth of key foreign economies has stalled, and the U.S. export sector has faltered. Europe is a disaster that shows no signs of abating and even the fast-moving economies have now slowed to a crawl in some cases: China is barely staying above their recession-level growth, while Brazil has tumbled beneath 1%.
-Armada Corporate Intelligence


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Ah, youth is wasted on the young and I'm feeling nostalgic tonight. From the perspective of a post-graduate college student, nothing really topped off an especially good Saturday night than some whiskey soaked macaroni and cheese. Here, I share the best recipe I know:
You will need:
1 box of Kraft/generic supermarket brand/Trader Joe's macaroni and cheese
2 pre-gamed shots of vodka, 2 PBRs, 1 extra strong Jim Beam and Diet Coke
1-3 hungry roommates
The resolve to eat macaroni and cheese tonight instead of calling an ex or making out with the lame metal band singer/jock pre-med major with the strong cologne scent and appealing upper arms.
The milk your roommate bought and you ask if you can borrow a splash
Butter you suspect is old, but does butter even get old? Smell the butter, nod to nobody.
Various powdered spices (garlic powder, paprika, salt, pepper, cinnamon that you think is cayenne pepper, celery salt from your weird housemate that thinks she can cook)
1-2 slices of processed American cheese/handful of shredded cheese you stole from the bitchy, sleeping roommate. Jackpot, naughty girls!
-Get home in cab, remember box of mac and cheese, pee for what seems like forever.
- Take off ripped tights and fancy party outfit that took you an hour to decide upon but you've worn twice this month. Stare into mirror, wipe smudged eyeliner, approve.
-Throw on large t-shirt/college sweatshirt and loudly patter into kitchen.
-Joke with roommate about how lame that (party, ex, guy you secretly want to hook up with) was. Announce you are making food and will share, as if you are Mother Teresa.
-drop the pot you want to boil water in, laugh maniacally with friend.
-wait until the water is half-boiled, get sick of waiting and throw the boxed macaroni in anyway.
-leave on high for too long. Watch the bubbles foam over the pot because it sounds cool. Since you cannot find the colander, burn your hand and lose 1/5 of the macaroni into the sink.
-drop the powdered cheese package into the pot, tell the roommate in the TV room to put on 'something good.' Send halfway sexy, misspelled text to guy at party you didn't hook up with. I mean, you want to feel wanted but, like you don't want to sleep with him! Jesus.
-Throw all of the other ingredients into the pot and stir with a metal fork. Watch your parents find that pot when you move out and be exasperated at another ruined pot.
-dump the contents into 2-4 bowls, three of which you had to check if they were clean and rinsed under water without soap.
-serve with the half a beer you left on the windowsill/some of the 'leftover vodka' you keep on hand. Have no chasers and no ice.
- Eat all in three bites. Fall asleep on the couch with the empty bowl in hand. Wake up at 530 am and go to your bed. Leave bowl on couch for tomorrow.
Prep Time:
18 years of suburban living and triple the normal time the box says it should take.
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|13 Nov 2011
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How did my father manage to change the language in Win 7 Home Premium?
Hi folks
I've got yet another language question but I think its slightly different the usual!
My father bought a recon Asus laptop with Win 7 Home Premium installed in english. His wife is Colombian and at some point has managed to change the language to spanish. Now, we cannot change it back to english!
I understand that you need Win 7 Ultimate to change languages, so my question is how did she manage to change the language in the first place?!
(My guess is that when Win 7 HP is installed, it lets you set the language once so that one product can be sold in several countries.)
I understand that initially, she was getting the 'Windows in not genuine' warning, so it went back to the shop and they sorted that. Since then, she changed the language.
Any ideas?
Assume that to change it back I need to use that Visualisator software?
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|13 Nov 2011
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
Welcome to Windows Seven Forums.
If you use the Vistalizator software, you will also lose the Activation and License for the installed Windows 7, which is why you got the Windows is not genuine warning so my advice is not to use Vistalizator.
Warning message when multilingual user interface (MUI) pack is installed in incorrect edition of Windows 7: "This copy of Windows is not genuine"
I can only assume she managed to change the display language for her own user profile. To change it back to English:
1. Go to Start>Control Panel>Clock>Language>Region/Change the display language.
2. Switch the display language in the Choose a display language drop-down menu.
3. Click OK.
4. Log off for the changes to take effect (This will affect only the user profile under which you are currently logged on).
You could also try one of the following options:
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