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From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research? CALRG 2014 Beck Pitt Bea de los Arcos Rob Farrow The Open University
• What is the OER Research Hub? • Why Open Research? Practicing Openness • Researching in the Open • Sharing Evidence in the Open: Impact Map • Open Research Course Overview http://oerresearchhub.org #oerrhub @OER_Hub
What is the OER Research Hub?
• 2-year research project funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Aiming to build the most comprehensive picture of OER impact • Collaboration model across different educational sectors • Global reach but with a USA focus • Fellowship Scheme • Researching openness in the open OER Research Hub oerresearchhub.org #oerrhub @OER_Hub
Researching Open Educational Resources… Image credit: https://twitter.com/JasonElsom/statu s/474448086702776320/photo/1 Often feels like… But occasionally feels like… Photo credit: Tim Seal CC-BY
Our Hypotheses Keyword Hypothesis Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction Openness People use OER differently from other online materials Access OER widen participation in education Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER
Collaboration Model Collaboration Model
Collaboration Model Collaboration Model
Why Open Research? Practicing Openness
How we can make research better Open Research Practice: • All outputs from the project are CC-BY licensed: research instruments and methodology • Share our data and evidence: Impact Map and Survey Explorer • Blog progress of research and collaborations • Blog research findings • Use Twitter to connect, network and disseminate • Continuous evaluation and reflection on our practice Photo Credit: Mozfest13 Beck Pitt CC-BY Photo credit: still of "sprint" scene in Silicon Valley Make use of agile research techniques: • Sprints enable us to focus on and progress outstanding tasks as a group • Blog about our experiences of "sprinting" • Patrick's CALRG 2013 presentation
Researching in the Open
Researching in the Open: Researcher Pack Research Instruments available in the open: • Ethics manual • Interview and Focus Group Questions • Survey Questions • Open Consent Forms
Researching in the Open: Sharing Practices and our Survey Questions "Building Communities" Photo credit: Beck Pitt CC-BY Screenshots of OER Research Hub and ROER4D websites Sharing research methodologies and practices Creating synergies and building relationships
Sharing Evidence in the Open Picture credit: Bill Nihilist http://society6.com/BillNihilist/Loose-Lips- CNl#1=45 What we're not about… Blogs and Infographics Slideshare and YouTube Open Access Journals Instead… Twitter
Sharing Evidence in the Open: Impact Map
OER Impact Map http://chaos.open.ac.uk
OER Impact Map http://chaos.open.ac.uk Picture credits: Bea de los Arcos CC- BY
Open Research Course
School of Open course P2PU/Creative Commons initiative Facilitated and non-facilitated courses on different aspects of "openness" and open practices Courses include Copyright for Educators (both AUS and US), Get CC Savvy, Open Habits: making stuff with the daily create, Intro to Openness in Education OER Research Hub: Four week facilitated course on open research Ties into researcher pack Co-authored by OER Research Hub team over 4-5 months.
School of Open course Open and Collaborative: Initial brainstorming at February Awayday. Met every couple of weeks to review drafts and give group feedback. Asked community for what they would like to see in an open research course (Twitter, Fellows) Creation of assets for course: interviews on open research practices and reflection Megan and Catherine's blog posts (reflection) Course underwent an OU style review. Mapped activities and outcomes on final draft. Overall course review and check for consistency, use of external materials etc. Early drafts of the Open Research Course. (Picture credit: OER Research Hub, CC-BY)
School of Open course Open review process: community reviewed Non-facilitated version of the course to be made available Course openly available for others to use and develop Course composition: What is open research? Ethics Dissemination Reflection Almost there! Mapping the activities and outcomes against the course structure. (Picture credit: OER Research Hub, CC-BY) Course start date: 15 September 2014
Thanks for listening! http://oerresearchhub.org http://oermap.org Twitter: @BeckPitt, @celTatis, @philosopher1978
McAndrew, P. Becoming more agile researchers: experiences from researching OER (June 2013, http://www.slideshare.net/openpad/agile-research-for-open-education-reso) (Accessed 6 June 2014, 12.25) Perryman, L-A. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known: nine surveys for OER Research (June 2013, http://oerresearchhub.org/2013/06/19/somewhere-something-incredible-is- waiting-to-be-known-nine-surveys-for-oer-research/) (Accessed 6 June 2014, 12.23) Trotter, H. ROER4D Question Harmonisation Process (May 2014, http://roer4d.org/892) (Accessed 6 June 2014, 12.26) References/Bibliography "OER-archery" at CNX2013 Photo credit: Beck Pitt, CC- BY
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DrJamesBrunton Wed Apr 15 14:31:02
RT @BeckPitt: Blog post by @mweller last year re: "Iceberg model of OER engagement" #oer15 http://t.co/CCSS3puPnc #oerrhub
gconole Wed Apr 15 14:30:25
RT @BeckPitt: Blog post by @mweller last year re: "Iceberg model of OER engagement" #oer15 http://t.co/CCSS3puPnc #oerrhub
BeckPitt Wed Apr 15 14:30:20
RT @BeckPitt: Blog post by @mweller last year re: "Iceberg model of OER engagement" #oer15 http://t.co/CCSS3puPnc #oerrhub
laperryman Wed Apr 15 14:29:37
Blog post by @mweller last year re: "Iceberg model of OER engagement" #oer15 http://t.co/CCSS3puPnc #oerrhub
BeckPitt Tue Apr 14 22:09:30
@mhawksey maybe we can project map on plenary stage on get the whole #oerrhub team in
philosopher1978 Tue Apr 14 19:45:09
RT @Nat_Kitkat: Games night #oer15 #oerrhub http://t.co/JSOO9tCKPQ
horrocks_simon Tue Apr 14 19:44:02
Games night #oer15 #oerrhub http://t.co/JSOO9tCKPQ
Nat_Kitkat Tue Apr 14 19:43:41
Another awesome #table10 submission! @GJECirigottis #oerrhub http://t.co/aHuAlSC4ER
BeckPitt Tue Apr 14 19:06:26
#smoothoperators @OER_Hub #oerrhub #oer15 @GJECirigottis @Nat_Kitkat http://t.co/1xT7PWGOKU
BeckPitt Tue Apr 14 17:36:54
RT @BeckPitt: @OER_Hub #openresearch tools here: http://t.co/BjbvJwZJGc #oer15 #oerrhub
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Organic advocates file lawsuit against USDA over review
Illinois retailer to Congress: First, define what is a GMO
Pair of seed theft suspects in custody, face trial this fall
Seneca County farmers growing cover crops to protect Lake Erie
FRANKFORT, Ky. — As Kentucky farmers transition from a tobacco-dependent farm economy to a more diversified one, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is attempting to help farmers market new products.
One of the KDA's most successful marketing efforts has been the Kentucky Proud program which has provided numerous avenues for producers to get their goods directly to the public. It got its start through funding by the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board, which was created by the 2000 General Assembly. The Board serves to distribute 50 percent of the state monies received from the Master Settlement Agreement for the purpose of agricultural development in the state.
Kentucky Proud is designed to showcase Kentucky products made or produced by Kentuckians and has been received well by the producers across the state to the tune of more than 500 participants. With everything from blackberry jam to produce of all kinds to traditional country ham, the program has helped place a multitude of value-added products into venues that include large retail grocers to hometown farmers' markets.
Producers have been able to place their products in retail stores such as Kroger; Slone's Signature Markets in Lexington and Morehead; E.W. James and Sons in Lexington; Paul's, Doll's and A Taste of Kentucky in Louisville, and Remke Markets in northern Kentucky. They have also had access to events such as the Kentucky State Fair, the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Crafted-the Market, which is held annually in Louisville and features 300 exhibitors offering crafts, two-dimensional visual art, food products, books & music, children's craft activities and cultural entertainment. KDA Spokesman Bill Clary said the program is beginning to catch hold in the farming community.
"The Kentucky Proud program says so much about what the state is all about," he said. "We're very committed to using it as a tool for rural economic development. People are really starting to get into this."
Sisters Belinda Fay and Carla McDowell of McDowell Farms Salsa serve as an example of how the program has made a difference in their transition from a family tobacco farm to their current titles of the "Salsa Sisters."
The two opened a commercial kitchen in 2004 to broaden their love of making salsa by way of an Ag Development Board grant. It was then they became involved with the Kentucky Proud program that has helped to take them into markets that were unobtainable before.
"The program has brought us to events we normally would not have attended which have led to other opportunities," Fay said. "We participated at last year's Kentucky Derby Breakfast where we were interview by a television crew. Last week we got a call from a station in California that wants to visit us and film what we are doing in our business. That TV crew was from Sacramento. It does fuel your business to be a part of this program."
"Kentucky Proud has allowed us to network with other producers and learn new things," said McDowell. "The program helps a lot to get our product out and the people at KDA are constantly providing us with those opportunities."
Weisenberger Mills is another participant in the program, only with a little more time in business than most of the others.
"Our business got started in 1863 making flour and corn meal from local grain," said co-owner Mac Weisenberger. "We moved to our present location (Midway, Ky.) in the 1880s and our present-day facility was built in 1913.
Even with longevity on their side, the company has benefited from the marketing strength of Kentucky Proud.
"The program has gotten our foot in the door of retailers we might not have otherwise been able to get into," said Weisenberger. "We don't have the manpower to knock on doors so the program has been like an extra person."
With such a marketing tool at hand, state producers are finding more and more ways to market their products becoming less and less dependent on tobacco. To learn more about the program or how to become a Kentucky Proud participant visit their website at www.kyproud.com
This farm news was published in the February 8, 2006 issue of Farm World.

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Ron Paul Demonstrates He's a True GOP Trendsetter
For chrissake. Ron Paul's excuse for writing lots of racist and nutball crap in his newsletters is that he didn't write the newsletters and doesn't know who did.1 Now Newt Gingrich has decided this is such a peachy excuse that he's going to use it too:
The Wall Street Journal reports today on a memo from April 2006 on the website of Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation. In the memo, filed under the "Newt Notes" column and written in the first person, Gingrich calls RomneyCare the "most exciting development of the past few weeks" and says he "agree[s] strongly" with the "principle" of the individual mandate....These days the mandate, and by extension RomneyCare, are treif2 in GOP orthodoxy. What to do, then, about this memo?
[Gingrich spokesman R.C.] Hammond said the Newt Notes essay wasn't written by Mr. Gingrich himself.
I would like to announce for the record that I have been paying various local high school students to write most of this blog for the past ten years. I never asked for their names and paid them under the table by giving them answers to SAT questions, so I don't know who they are. I assume this brings an end to questions about some of the unfortunate posts written here, which I disavow completely. As of now, it's old news. Move along, please.
1Actually, "doesn't know" should be rendered in scare quotes. Paul is lying. He knows perfectly well who wrote this stuff.
2adj. Judaism ritually unfit to be eaten; not kosher.
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So 2 days ago I flashed a stock rom, then CMW 126.96.36.199 (that advanced edition), then CM11 + GAPPS found in that same thread.
Result is an only half booting gio, I can enter pin, then select a language and then it's all black except for the battery and signal indicators.
I tried flashing again with a different recovery and flashed CMW 188.8.131.52. Now I got the bluescreen which is common on that version.
No problem, just put it in download mode and odin flash it... wel, not!
I tried on at least 5 different pcs, all windows 7, with custom driver packages, with official samsung kies (2.6), with reboots and without reboots, all usb ports and different usb cables. One pc began installing drivers for MSM72xx (GOOD), but then failed saying the device was disconnected while it wasn't. On most pcs it appears in device manager under usb devices as unknown with error 43, but trying to manually install inf files for it isn't working.
So no pc sees my phone when in download mode, I can't access recovery and I can't even make it to the android homescreen.
Any ideas on how to get it working again? Cause obviously it isn't bricked, its just that by pure coincidince all roads to a working phone are blocked (only half booting android + bugged recovery + weird behaviour in download mode).
Maybe usefull info. The inigial stockrom I flashed (the latest you can find on sammobile.com) didn't completely boot either. It stayed in the boot animation for almost 1 hour before I turned it off. I hope there wasn't something wrong with the stock rom cause me to have a broken download mode now (though it passed odin's md5 check).


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Popular Culture and Society
This course will introduce students to the key scholarly perspectives that have put the study of popular culture on the map, encouraging them to analyse the complexities of popular culture in greater focus and depth. Popular culture forms a lens through which to view societal attitudes through time. It can, however, also play a powerful role in shaping these very attitudes. Popular Culture and Society offers an enhanced understanding of the ways in which gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and other socially codified markers of identity are represented in popular culture; how popular culture potentially impacts audiences; video games, interactivity and moral panics; social media and self-display; makeover culture; and other topics and case studies. Each assessment item is designed to further student understanding of, and skills in, analysing and researching popular culture and society.
Not currently available.
This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2014.
Learning Outcomes
1. Discuss popular culture as always both reflecting and influencing our society;
2. Relate concepts such as class, race, ideology and spectatorship to popular culture and illustrate their significance;
3. Construct a critical argument regarding the issues surrounding popular culture;
4. Combine scholarship with original analysis in a popular culture case study.
The course involves:
- An overview of the many competing theories, methods, concepts and policies surrounding popular culture.
- Examining a series of case studies and discussing critical issues such as ethics, politics, histories, etc.
- Evaluating how audience / consumer / user relationships with popular culture have changed over time.
Assumed Knowledge
80 units at 1000 level
Assessment Items
Written Assignment: Written assignment
Online Learning Activity: Online activities
Quiz: Online quiz
Contact Hours
Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Lecture = online lecture
Online Activity
Online 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Email Discussion Group = online activities Email Discussion Group = online activities
Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per Week for 2 Weeks


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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as the MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to support the organization. The choir's current music director is Mack Wilberg.
The Conference Center, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the premier meeting hall for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Substantially completed in spring 2000 in time for the church's April 2000 general conference, the 21,000-seat Conference Center replaced the traditional use of the nearby Salt Lake Tabernacle, built in 1868, for biannual LDS Church general conferences and major church gatherings, devotionals, and other events. It is believed to be the largest theater-style auditorium ever built.
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 189,314 in 2012, the city lies in the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,175,905. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, which has a population of 2,328,299. It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West.
The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and several other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"—the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Although Salt Lake City is still home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church today.
The United States is a country in the Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, and the Eastern Hemisphere. It consists of forty-eight contiguous states in North America, Alaska, a peninsula which forms the northwestern most part of North America, and Hawaii, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. There are several United States territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. The term "United States", when used in the geographical sense, means the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. The country shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime (water) borders with Russia, Cuba, and the Bahamas in addition to Canada and Mexico.
The Battle of the Brothers is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Utah Utes football team of the University of Utah and Utah State Aggies football team of Utah State University. It also may be used to refer to the annual basketball game between these two schools.
The most notable feature of this rivalry is its lengthy history–dating all the way back to 1892. Since that initial meeting, the schools have played over one hundred games – meeting nearly every season. Additionally, Utah and Utah State have not competed in the same conference since 1961, meaning each meeting since then has been a voluntary non-conference game.
A first: Photos of Mormon women leaders in Conference Center
Health center rooted in helping migrant workers
Which US convention center is biggest?
Car seat safety classes in the Salt Lake City area
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Francesco Cilea (also Cilèa;[1] Palmi, 23 July 1866 – Varazze, 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.
Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it. He was sent to study music at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he quickly demonstrated his diligence and precocious talent, earning a gold medal from the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (Department of Education).
In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d'or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville (1787—1865). This melodramma idilico was performed in the college theatre, and it attracted the attention of the publishers Sonzogno, who arranged for a second production, in Florence, in 1892.
Sonzogno also then commissioned from Cilea La Tilda, a verismo opera in three short acts along the lines of Cavalleria rusticana. With a libretto by Angelo Zanardini, La Tilda had a successful first performance in April 1892 at the Teatro Pagliano in Florence, and after performances in a number of Italian theatres, it arrived at the Vienna Exhibition on 24 September 1892, alongside other works from the firm of Sonzogno. The composer never showed much sympathy for this work, the subject of which he reluctantly agreed to set to music in order to please Sonzogno and to avoid throwing away a rare professional opportunity. The loss of the orchestral score has prevented the modern revival of this work, whose fresh and catchy melodies can nevertheless be discovered in the transcription for voice and piano.
In 1897 (27 November), the Teatro Lirico in Milan saw the première of Cilea's third opera L'Arlesiana, based on the play by Alphonse Daudet, with a libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. Among the cast was the young Enrico Caruso, who performed with great success the Lamento di Federico: È la solita storia del pastore, the romance which was to keep alive the memory of the opera even to the present day. In reality L'Arlesiana was a failure which Cilea, being convinced of the work's value, tried repeatedly to remedy, making drastic and detailed alterations throughout the remainder of his life. In the score which we hear today, it is hard to find a single bar which is completely unchanged from the original. The revised opera was however still not successful, apart from a brief period in the 1930s when it benefited from political support which the composer established through personal contact with Mussolini.
Again at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, in 1902 (6 November)and again with Enrico Caruso, the composer won an enthusiastic reception for Adriana Lecouvreur, a 4-act opera with a libretto by Arturo Colautti, set in 18th century Paris and based upon a play by Eugène Scribe. Adriana Lecouvreur is the opera of Cilea which is best known to international audiences today, and it reveals the spontaneity of a melodic style drawn from the Neapolitan school combined with harmonic and tonal shading influenced by French composers such as Massenet.
As a performer there is a number of examples of Cilea's art. At the piano Cilea accompanied (none too elegantly) Caruso in a recording of a part of the duet Non piu nobile and made another recording with the baritone De Luca at the same time (November 1902). In 1904 for the Gramophone (and Typewriter Company) he accompanied the tenor Fernando De Lucia in L'anima ho stanca from Adriana Lecouvreur and in the song Luntananza, an effort which critic Michael Henstock (in his biography of De Lucia) declares is hardly inspired by De Lucia's fine performances. Even given the crude recording techniques of the day Cilea's piano playing (put charitably) seems square and lifeless. (see Henstock).
Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou. The opera was withdrawn after only two performances; and the failure of this work, even though the composer attempted a later revision, was enough to drive him to abandon the operatic stage for good. There are however indications of some later unfulfilled operatic projects, which survive as parts or sketches of libretti, such as Il ritorno dell'amore by Renato Simoni, Malena by Ettore Moschino, and La rosa di Pompei, also by Moschino (dated "Naples, 20 May 1924"). Some sources also refer to an opera of 1909, completed but never performed, called Il matrimonio selvaggio, but no copy of this survives and Cilea himself made no mention of it in his volumes of memoirs ("Ricordi").
Nevertheless he continued to compose chamber music, and some orchestral music. In 1913 he produced a symphonic poem in honour of Giuseppe Verdi with verses by Sem Benelli, which was first performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. After this he devoted himself principally to education and became director of the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini in Palermo, and then at his alma mater, the Conservatorio San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he ended his teaching career in 1936.
In his last years Cilea's eyesight failed but his mind was active enough to encourage and work with singers of the day. Among his last musical activities was his championship of the soprano Magda Olivero (1910-2014), whose performances in the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur he especially admired. Cilea died on 20 November 1950 in Varazze, a town near Savona in Liguria which offered him honorary citizenship and where he spent the last years of his life. The Conservatorio di Musica and the Teatro Communale of Reggio di Calabria were renamed in his memory, and his native town of Palmi built a mausoleum in his memory, decorated with scenes from the myth of Orpheus.
- Gina (February 1889 Teatro Conservatorio S. Pietro alla Majella, Naples).
- La Tilda (7 April 1892 Teatro Pagliano, Florence).
- L'arlesiana (27 November 1897 Teatro Lirico, Milan),
- first revision (22 October 1898 Milan),
- second revision (1910),
- third revision (1937).
- Adriana Lecouvreur (6 November 1902 Teatro Lirico, Milan).
- Gloria (15 April 1907 Teatro alla Scala, Milan),
- revision (1932).
Other works
- Foglio d'album, Op. 41
- Gocce di rugiada
- L'arcolaio
- Melodia (F major)
- Symphonic Poem in honour of Giuseppe Verdi
- Romanza (A major)
- Sonata for cello and piano in D major, Op. 38 (1888)
- Waltz in D flat major
- ^ Cilea himself used the accented spelling Cilèa, as can be seen from these autographs from 1949 and circa 1902
- A biographical timeline (from the Conservatorio di Musica "Francesco Cilea").
- WQXR Classical Music Scene: Entry in Grove Concise Dictionary 1988
- La dolcissima effigie. Studi su Francesco Cilea; a cura di Gaetano Pitarresi. (Reggio Calabria, Laruffa, 1994), (reprinted 1999).
- Francesco Cilea : documenti e immagini; a cura di Maria Grande. (Reggio Calabria : Laruffa, 2001). ISBN 88-7221-172-7 .
- Francesco Cilea e il suo tempo: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Palmi-Reggio Calabria, 20-22 ottobre 2000), a cura di Gaetano Pitarresi. (Reggio Calabria, Edizioni del Conservatorio di Musica "F. Cilea", 2002).


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