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By James MACE, Coluumnist
The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine
November 24, 1998
I cannot say that there has been any prejudice toward me as a scholar,
researcher, or instructor. The intellectual atmosphere among social
scientists and political scientists has in general been characterized by
tolerance and a common path in search of understanding.
There have been so many serious projects not carried out. And now it seems
that the deaf do not hear, the blind not see, and stubbornly deny the facts
of repression in Ukraine during the communist period. However, such denials
are mostly grounded not on facts but are the products of manipulation by
certain political forces, by the consciousness and attitudes of people.
During the last eight years everything possible has been done of which whole
generations of researchers could only dream: researchers arrived at and
began to unravel such global questions as who we are, what happened to us,
why did it happen precisely to us, and where do we go from here.
I remember when in January 1990 I was asked to lecture in the Institute of
History before colleagues how the hall was gripped by a frightening
atmosphere. It was clear that the everyday working language was Russian, and
many of my Ukrainian colleagues had more problems with Ukrainian than I did.
I criticized the latest scheme of the history of the Ukrainian SSR published
a couple of months earlier in Komunist Ukrainy, the Central Committee organ,
and talked about issues that were either distorted or left out - about the
fate of national communism in the 1920s and thirties, the Great Manmade
Famine, repressions, and about Party policies toward Ukrainians.
At that time I did not intend to tell them, who were, after all, witnesses
no less than I, anything they did not know, for it was they who had access
to the primary sources but were forbidden to deal with such topics.
I simply analyzed the project worked out by fellows of the institute, which
paid much attention to the liquidation of illiteracy but none to the
national revival of the 1920s or national communism, that the plan mentioned
the Cossacks and Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky along with historian Dmytro
Yavornytsky, but it did mention such figures as Mykola Skrypnyk, Mykhailo
Volobuyev, Oleksandr Shumsky, or Mykola Khvyliovyi.
My Ukrainian colleagues listened, bowed their heads, and said not a word
for or against what I had to say.
That institute was so under control and frightened even to the very end of
the USSR, and the official reaction was only that it had been a "very
critical presentation." However, I had mentioned one Soviet monograph on the
Machine Tractor Stations published in 1961, which in one chapter had
provided a wealth of material about the grain seizures that had in fact
caused the Holodomor, as they call the Famine of 1933. I mentioned the
author's name, I. I. Slynko.
After my talk an old shaven-headed gentleman came up to me and said,
"I'm Ivan Slynko." He was happy that somebody remembered his work,
about which everyone else seemed to have forgotten. Of course, he could
not write about the Famine of 1932-1933, because officially there had been
none. There was only the "socialist reconstruction and technological
transformation of agriculture." But he had written everything he could.
In historical terms little time has passed. Ukrainian scholarship was at
first highly uncertain of itself and only later began to assume confidence
and find its voice. My bookshelves are already overburdened from the books
and reprints that have appeared. There is a whole flood daily of Ukrainian
scholarly materials. Students now have perhaps less than perfect but more or
less truthful textbooks.
They can freely discuss various formerly banned, topics of philosophy,
historiosophy, religion, linguistics, and political science. This is a major
achievement, and I am proud to have taken part in it as a former "bourgeois
falsifier", "bearer of inhuman psychology", and "patented lover of Ukraine",
as I was once characterized in Soviet publications, although my own
research basically relied on those same publications.
Now I look at my students at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. They are young,
talented, educated, and self-assertive. Will they be able to find a place in
this sea of ignorance, total idiocy, drug addiction, hypocrisy, and
licentiousness? Or will they be strangled by economic problems and those of
everyday life? Or will they be broken by corruption? Will our young Ukraine
need their expertise, education, dreams, and efforts? Without doubt,
Ukrainian scholarship has done and is doing a great deal.
But the impression remains that the indubitable conclusions and material
presented by such serious scholars as Yuri Shapoval, Stanislav Kulchytsky,
May Panchuk, Ivan Bilas, Ihor Vynnychenko, Vasyl Marochko, et. al.
interest only those who already know such things.
The Institutes of History, Literature, Philosophy, the Congress of the
Ukrainian Intelligentsia, the Ukraine Society, Union of Writers, Memorial,
Association of Independent Researchers of the Famine Genocide, and
suchlike, all conduct their various demonstrations, conferences, press
conferences, and presentations, but the practically same people always
take part.
Few young people take interest, few new controversial ideas are put forward,
and little intellectual cross fertilization takes place among serious
politicians, cultural figures, and scholars. What does fails to seep down to
the people at large. I also often hear, immediately after I say how I teach
without any particular special right, how I am conducting some policy or
another, serving one interest or another, or in general am asked what I am
doing here or why I do not take the next plane to my beautiful and affluent
America that wants to conquer the world.
I often want to ask such "well-wishers" what happened to the hundreds
of thousands of displaced Ukrainians who went to America and still live
there. Nobody disputes their right to live and work there, to fall in love,
and have families.
In Kyiv my greatest impression is that when someone hears me speak Ukrainian
their eyes open wide and they say, "How well you speak Russian!" or "What's
the word for August (serpen)?" and still write "September" on my ticket. One
hears such pearls as "Talk in a human language" or "How long have you been
in Kyiv and still not learned culture," that is, speak Russian. In the
bazaar my wife asks in Ukrainian for something and hears, "How I hate that
swinish language." The Saturday before last, I went to the train station to
pick up an express letter and waited a good hour before hearing on the
intercom, "Speak Russian," and at last it was found.
My Russian, while considerably worse than my Ukrainian, is not all that
bad even for lack of use at home (my wife is from Western Ukraine where
they do speak Ukrainian), but one suspects that starting off in what is,
after all, the official language in this state, was the real reason I had to
so long. I have to admit that recently I was in the Ukrainian neighborhood
of Toronto and felt more in Ukraine than I often do on the streets of Kyiv.
All this is the difficult and heavy legacy of the past: being ashamed of
one's language and culture or always bowing and scraping before someone more
powerful or richer, be it Russians or the representatives of some fund from
America, Canada, or Europe. Other peoples also have their complicated
histories, but one must admit that in the twentieth century Ukraine went
through real hell, which can be called genocide.
But other peoples try to understand what really happened to them. In,
say, the USA there has been real injustice committed against Blacks,
and it is hard to come to terms with its legacy. The process is still
incomplete, but today any impolite word or incorrect behavior brings
forth an immediate response from the community and the law comes
into play immediately.
One of the most shameful pages in American history relates to the Cherokees,
one of the most advanced tribes of the east coast, who in 1835 were forced
to walk from their ancestral lands in South Carolina and Georgia to what is
now Oklahoma. They call it the Trail of Tears, along which thousands
perished of hunger, cold, and disease. Some of my ancestors also walked that
road. Today in Oklahoma Indians still have many problems, but nobody raises
a hand against them, and their tragedy is the subject of scholarly research
and a major sore spot for politicians.
In Ukraine as well many talk of the difficult legacy of genocide, but real
steps to defend the Ukrainian language and culture are few. There are
few Ukrainian-language newspaper, journals, and publishers are
de facto paralyzed. In universities teachers and students often speak
different languages; these are different intellectual worlds and views of
the world, which more and more go their separate ways in time and space.
The sixty-fifth anniversary of Ukraine's Holodomor is a controversial date.
As early as 1927 Serhiy Yefremov wrote in his diaries about hundreds of
thousands of hungry in Kyiv, about the terrible lines for bread, about over
200,000 Kyivans who had been denied the right to buy bread at all, and about
peasant unrest provoked by state grain seizures.
But in 1932 hunger assumed the character of total destruction of Ukraine
as a state and Ukrainians as a nation. Thus, it is only right to now recall
the millions upon millions of innocent victims. They died with a single
thought: will the outside world know and say something? And will there
be anyone to pray for our souls?
In truth, US President Franklin Roosevelt, with full knowledge of the
Holodomor (I myself published the documents and can attest to their volume),
recognized the Soviet government in November 1933 literally on the heels of
the Famine. But now there are candles lit in churches, and the outside world
is saying something. In this context US President Bill Clinton's
proclamation to the Ukrainian people about these long bygone events is
particularly important.
In justice, one has to admit that an American presidential statement does
not mean much: a day in memory of the victims of the Ukrainian Famine or
Holocaust or broccoli growers is usually ignored by one and all. And
President Clinton's proclamation in memoriam of Holodomor victims is not the
first such, but it is perhaps the best occasion to talk about what happened.
I am by origin a typical American. My father was a railroad switchman.
Neither he nor my mother finished high school. But I went to university and
wanted to stay there. I studied Russian history. I studied Russian history
and went to graduate school. I was interested in Russian history and
When it came time for me to write a doctoral dissertation at the
University of Michigan, my advisor, Prof. Roman Szporluk, began to loan me
Ukrainian books. I bought a dictionary and began to read. I recall that my
first book by Panas Fedenko, The Ukrainian Movement in the Twentieth
Century, took me a whole month to read. Slowly, my reading picked up speed.
I chose for my dissertation the theme of national communism during the
Ukrainization policy of the 1920s. The Vietnam War was still going on, and
the theme of national communism was pretty trendy. Of course, there was
officially no such thing in the USSR. Later my colleagues here told me that
the topic had been a forbidden one in Ukrainian history and even
dictionaries. My road to Ukraine was thus closed, and I sat in the library
reading microfilm.
I do not know if in Ukraine somebody except spies know of that specific
pre-computer apparatus, but in American libraries it is common. I read the
journals of the period, one more or less complete newspaper, Visti VUTsVK,
the direct ancestor of Holos Ukrainy, and began to understand what happened
in Ukraine. I made acquaintance with long-dead figures then absolutely
unknown here: Georg Lapchynsky, Vasyl Shakhrai, Oleksandr Shumsky, and
Mykola Khvyliovyi.
I began to understand why precisely Ukraine was targeted for the worst
Stalinist repression: because it had more people than all the
other non-Russian Soviet republics put together and because it had
tremendous experience in fighting for its national liberation.
For Ukraine the lessons of the Central Rada and Hetman state had not been
lost without a trace. Up to 1933 Soviet Ukraine had a developed state
organism which, albeit within the police-state framework of the Soviet
Union, fostered significant development of the Ukrainian culture and spread
the Ukrainian language both among the proletariat and in the state
In order to transform the "complex entity," as Mykhailo Volobuyev had
called the USSR, into the Stalinist empire, Ukraine had to be broken.
Public enemy number one for Stalin and his cohorts was not the
Ukrainian peasant or Ukrainian intellectual; it was Ukraine itself. That is
why in 1932-1933 Stalin made an undeclared war here, using all the military,
police, political, and economic forces he had available.
I defended and published my dissertation to an uneven reaction. I was blamed
for defending fascists and Nazi collaborators. I was told that the famine
had been caused by objective factors and that the terror had been a result
of mass hysteria, not some policy. The road Ukrainians trod from deadly
critical reviews of my work in the Western press to the President's
proclamation was not easy.
Truth about the Famine was hard to bring to the attention of the world
community. The Ukrainian Diaspora did everything possible and impossible
to break the wall of silence on this issue and make it an abject of
scholarly research. Professor Omeljan Pritsak of Harvard came to me
in 1981 and said there was a project to study the Famine. I was familiar
with all the then accessible sources of the period and able to research
the theme.
When I arrived at Harvard I was told that I would do the research but the
book would be written by Robert Conquest.
1983 was the fiftieth anniversary of the Holodomor, and the Ukrainian
community took action. Public meetings and demonstrations were held. One
organization, Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine headed by the late Ihor
Olshaniwsky, came up with the idea of creating a government commission to
study the Famine.
Petitions were sent to Congress, and supporters there were found. Finally
Congress passed a bill to create the Ukraine Famine Commission. I became
Executive Director because it was felt that the view of a non-Ukrainian was
needed. Since the average Sovietologist knew that Ukraine was more or less
like Texas in Russia, if one of them had been put in charge nothing would
have come of it.
Those who had experienced the Famine were dying off. Its
history had to be preserved. I had a small staff: one collected eyewitness
accounts, and I read the written sources and wrote most of the commission's
Report to Congress.
After the first two years we obtained an additional two in order to prepare
for publication our three volume Oral History Project containing the life
histories of 200 survivors. We understood that as a government document
there would be two or three copies in every state. If nobody wanted to hear
us today, somebody someday would find the books we left behind. I never
dreamed of visiting Ukraine, but thanks to the political changes in late
1989 I unexpectedly received an invitation through the Soviet Embassy to
In January 1990 I first set foot on Ukrainian soil. Perhaps I still spoke
Ukrainian rather poorly, but people understood me. Maybe thanks to my
commission more and more people began to study the famine, and the Union of
Writers set up a committee to organize an international symposium. In the
Institute of History Stanislav Kulchytsky had begun to write about the
Preparation for the symposium was like a civil war between the
Institute of History and Central Committee, on the one hand, and the
Writers' Union and Institute of Literature on the other, for the latter were
breeding ground for the Popular Movement (Rukh) of Ukraine.
I recall a radio journalist asking me then, "Some people think Ukraine
should be independent, and others think it should stay in the Soviet Union?
What do you think?"
What could I answer? Of course, that the peoples of Ukraine, not I would
decide the issue. But it was clear that the USSR would soon fall.
On the morning of January 27 Ivan Drach called me to say there had been an
announcement in the press that the Central Committee had passed a decision
saying that the Famine had happened and that the documents would be
The late Volodymyr Maniak, who was compiling a people's book of
memory, said that a meeting to set up a monument near Uman had been
banned, but maybe the local authorities would act differently if an American
was present. No hesitation.
We traveled by rented bus to Uman: survivor Dmytro Kalennyk, sculptor Yuly
Sinkevych, kobzar-writer Mykola Lytvyn, Volodya Maniak, and others. In the
village of Ryzhavka we were met by the two local policemen and ten sent as
reinforcements from Uman. Obviously, there would be no monument. Kalennyk
led us to the mass graves from 1933, marked by a simple iron cross next to
the official cemetery.
There lay thousands of victims from one village. The black soil was covered
by bumps, and under the bumps were people, a land awash in blood. We
all said a few words. I cried. From far-off America I tried to express my
sympathy, but finding the words was difficult. The peasants stayed away
except for two gray-haired women in black scarves who looked on from
a distance.
Then came a public meeting in the Uman soccer stadium, where both the old
Soviet Ukrainian and the still-banned yellow and blue national flags waved.
People were afraid that the police would seize the national flags, but
everything went on peacefully. Then we went to the cemetery, where there was
a large common grave from 1937-38. Two memorial services were being
conducted, one by a Russian Orthodox priest and the other by a Ukrainian
Autocephalous one, whom most onlookers mistook for Catholic.
There was a heated discussion with the mayor of Uman, and it became
clear that if we set up a monument, it would soon vanish without a trace.
In fact, on my last day in Kyiv I spoke at a meeting at the October Palace
of Culture, the former NKVD headquarters, where we put up a small
bronze plaque in memory of those killed in the basement of that building.
Some months later on my next trip to Kyiv, I was told that it had been
stolen. The times were like that...
And what about our times? Are they any better? Certainly, much has been
done, researched, and published about the Holodomor, Stalinism, and the
nightmare called Communism. But few buy Ukrainian books and almost no one
buys them on the history of Soviet Ukraine. Those who do not want to believe
it simply refuse to. There is no fact or document that can convince them.
One neighbor lady once told me, "So, you're a historian? Well, we had one
history; now we have another history. Who knows what really happened?" And
she had a point. There really was one history then, and there will
inevitable be another tomorrow.
I would hope that more fortunate historians than I in the twenty-first
century write about the happy history of an independent and affluent
Ukraine, about its economic progress, and about how things continue
to get better or its people.
But the overwhelming majority of my students see absolutely no prospects
that they will ever be able to change things for the better.
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'Dhamail deo go bherbherir ma/amra dhamail chini na/ Kichu kichu chintam pari/budha betay manoin na
('Dance, O mother of Bherbheri.' 'We don't know how to dance. Actually, we know a little bit, but the Big Man won't allow us')
Growing us as a child in a village of North-east India, bordering Sylhet district of Bangladesh, I sung this song along with my friends during a session of 'Dhamail'- the most commonly practiced group dance in our area. In Dhamail,(originated from 'Dhamal' or fun) women, accompanied by a drummer, dance in a circular motion, singing songs of love, rituals, rebellion and worship. Such dance is an integral part of any social event, be that a wedding or an engagement or even 'annaprashan'(first rice eating of a child) in hundreds of villages in the NE region.
Also, Dhamail has always been the most popular game among children, especially girls. Every day while playing, we would break into a 'Dhamail' dance and sing joyously whatever we learnt from our female relatives.
However, this particular song, mentioned above, wasn't sung at any social event, and was only heard in little girls' groups such as ours. The reason: it was considered a pariah for elders because of its silly lyric.
As I danced with my friends, I too would sing and break into laughter. The very word 'Bherbheri' was funny as nobody had ever heard a girl with such a name. The laughter kept us from completing our singing.
It's only after I became a journalist and started covering, among others, women's issues, that the song started making sense. I started wondering about this mother of Bherbheri. Who was she? Why did she name her girl 'Bherbheri?' Why wasn't she allowed to dance? Who was this 'Big Man' who stopped her? Was it her husband or her father in-law? And, above all, why was the song considered silly? Was it because it spoke of an ugly reality?
Pondering over one song led me to another. In our village, every now and then, some women would come and beg for work or for food. My mother would always try to find work for them. One day, one such woman was weaning rice, while she started singing 'Ronger oto shamay na go, bare bare kaitam.'
Roughly translated, it means 'It's not something amusing that I like to talk about again and again'. I was curious and listened quietly as the woman sang on: 'Yesterday you beat me/broke my nose ring/if one wants, he can indeed go/to the market and/get a new nose ring…'
The song was a long one; it was a long tale of a woman battered by her husband. Every limb in the woman's body was sore from the beating and the song – with an extremely melancholic tune – was a cry rising straight out of her heart.
After a few weeks, the woman was back. This time she had a new song and it was pure helplessness: 'my hand and legs are trembling/Oh god, which country shall I escape to?'
I have remembered and hummed those two songs a hundred times in past few years. It has since downed upon me that the woman wasn't just talking of the physical pain that she bore, but had other issues too. She obviously was a woman who still lived with her tormentor, hoping that things would change. Yet they didn't and now the woman's miseries increased manifold in which, added to physical violence was neglect, injustice and helplessness.
For past 6 years, I have been collecting folk songs from villages along this Indo-Bangla border. In my collection, there are songs that describe the anguish of women with vivid clarity:
"shisukale putrer adhin/jaubankale swamis adhin/bridhokale putrer adhin"
(As a child, I was a slave of my father/as a young woman, as slave of my husband and as an old woman, I am a slave of my son)
The song definitely is a lamentation of a woman who never tasted freedom in all her life.
In another song the woman cries "Oh god, I feel like tearing open my chest and show my injuries, but who is there to see them?"
Illiterate, unorganized and alone, but women victims of domestic violence have been telling to the world, the cruelty that they are facing day in and day out.
The question is are we ready yet, to pause, listen and accept as this rustic, yet true documentation of the violence? If we do, it will certainly help us better equip ourselves in the fight against violence against women and emerge as a safer, better society. ---------------------------------------
Dear Friends, the above article of mine was recently published by the Folklore Foundation of India - a prestigious research institute that publishes academic papers on folk literature.
In India, one in every 3 women in the age group of 15-49 experiences domestic violence. The number has not seen a significant drop despite the introduction of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (PWDVA) Act in 2005 - a law that offers protection to women from domestic violence. And because the problem persists, we must keep talking against it as well.4Send Me Love
Thank you, Stella, for sharing the songs of these women's anguish. It seems that in some way their songs are songs of resistance. They cry out against their abuse when society tells them they should bear all stoically. But, as you say, "illiterate, unorganized and alone" they seem to have little impact beyond helping them bear their grief. I read a similar article about Bedouin women's folk songs in Egypt. That it was only through song that they could speak out against, even mock, the men in their lives. It was an interesting article...I'll see if I can find it and send it along to you.
Sending you warm wishes as well as much gratitude for spreading awareness about violence against women in India,
Thank you Emily!
This is a subject (domestic violence in folk music) I had been wanting to write on for a long time. Now that it is finally done, feel a task well started. Your comment makes me feel very encouraged to go on and write more. Also, thanks for sharing the information on Bedouin women. It makes me now wonder if we have similar songs in our own desert (Rajasthan). I am sure, we do.
Thanks again!
Stella Paul Twitter: @stellasglobe
Hi Stella,
I think this is a great subject to explore and I'm glad I could do my little part to help encourage you to write more! The article I mentioned is called 'The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women' and it's by Lila Abu-Lughod. I think she also wrote a book on this subject too. Wishing you all the best with your research!
Congratulations for the publication. Songs are great medium for women in our communities to express themselves. Thanks for reminding us that women use different media to express themselves. Keep writing Stella, I like reading your write ups.
Thank you Amie my friend, for your encouraging words! I am a folk singer myself and writing about such music is a joy. I am only happy to see others liking it. Love
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The Wave Pictures are one of the most prolific bands around at the moment. Most modern artists put out one album every two or three years, but this three-piece manage to keep churning out records, year after year. 'City Forgiveness' is their thirteenth album since their self-released debut back in 2003. At this point it would be an understandable assumption to think that surely The Wave Pictures' discography is all about quantity, not quality. Although fair, the assumption could not be more wrong.
Last year the band embarked on a six-week US tour. Vocalist David Tattersall wrote down "anything that popped into [his] head", and the result was a collection of songs which eventually formed 'City Forgiveness'. At just over an hour and a half and spanning two CDs, this is a colossal album by anyone's standards. Again, somehow no quality is lost in the huge quantity.
Lyrically, 'City Forgiveness' somewhat reflects the troubles of touring so far away from home. Many of the songs deal with missing home, and distant memories. The opening song, 'All My Friends', sets a surprisingly dark tone for the album with the poignant line "All my friends are going to be strangers / All my friends are going to get strange". Presumably this is a reflection on Tattersall's feelings of missing home and worrying that things will have drastically changed by the time of the band's return home.
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As expected, the album boasts more of The Wave Pictures signature jangly-pop sound: very slightly distorted guitars, clean bass, driving rhythms and extremely catchy melodies. The album's first single, 'Lisbon', is a great example of this. The tune is delivered in Tattersall's classic style – nonchalant, whiny, yet still compelling. This pushed forward by the understated, rolling drum beat and plodding bass line. All the while the guitar fills in spiky chords and pulls off an extremely impressive solo showcasing technical competence, a rarity in many "indie-pop" bands.
The highlight of 'City Forgiveness' is the penultimate track, 'Golden Syrup'. It's a heartbreaking, introverted song about the regrets and difficulties of the past. Full of melancholic wit, it really demonstrates the band's lyrical ingenuity: "And you remember I enjoyed the anxiety / It went on joylessly, joylessly like the nineteen-nineties".
'City Forgiveness' is another demonstration of what a consistently brilliant band the Loughborough three-piece are. With an overall darker tone than some of their previous albums, and its extended length, this is a record which has more to give on each listen. It's been ten years since their self-released debut, but The Wave Pictures are still very much on form.


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Smart phone photography has come on in leaps and bounds with ever-increasing camera resolutions and a wealth of editing options available preinstalled, or in apps. The physical size of camera units has to be kept very small though, in order to fit into your slim mobile, and tiny sensors can't take in as much light as their larger counterparts.
The Sony QX100 smart lens hopes to bridge that gap by providing your phone with a 1-inch sensor, together with a large Carl Zeiss lens and a 3.6x optical zoom. The lens has all the components of a normal compact digital camera, except a display. It instead connects to your smart phone over Wi-Fi, letting you compose your shot on screen separately to the lens, and allowing you to instantly edit and share your shots using your data connection.
It works with any Android or Apple device using the Sony PlayMemories app and can be picked up now for £399.
Should I buy the Sony QX100 Smart Lens?
If you absolutely crave top image quality but still want to be able to edit and share snaps immediately from your phone, the QX100 is worth checking out. Its big sensor and high quality glass gives better photos than a normal smart phone can achieve, and its screenless design lets you shoot in more creative ways than you can easily do with a standard camera.
It certainly won't suit everyone. If you want instant-on shooting and better battery life, Sony's RX100 compact camera is a better bet. It has the same sensor and lens as the QX100, but has its own screen. You don't have to tether it to your phone and you can pick it up on Amazon for a little under £400.
If you want good image quality but don't want to spend so much, there's a smaller version available, the QX10. It has a physically smaller sensor, but packs a 10x zoom and costs a more reasonable £180.
In terms of its looks, the QX100 might be the most boring thing you've ever spent 400 quid on. It's simply just a plain black cylinder, looking just like one of the lenses you'd buy for Sony's interchangeable lens NEX cameras. It's 53mm long and 60mm wide -- slightly too big to fit into an average jeans pocket, but easy to drop into a bag -- and its 165g weight won't bog you down.
The body of the lens is metal, and feels well-built and should put up with a few knocks. On the top is the power button, with a shutter button and zoom lever on one side and a battery indicator on the other. A standard tripod screw thread sits underneath. What you won't find is a flash, nor is there a hotshoe mount to use an external flash so you'll need to stay in well-lit areas. The front of the lens is home to a manual focus ring.
Features and usability
The lens connects to your phone over Wi-Fi, which you can set up manually or let it do it automatically using NFC by tapping your NFC-enabled phone to the lens. I tried this on my Samsung Galaxy S4 and it worked well every time. Turning the lens on and connecting it to your phone does take longer than it would take a normal compact to get ready to shoot though -- if you have time to stop and compose your shot it won't be an issue, but for speedy snaps, your phone's camera will be the better option.
A removable back panel lets you clip the lens to your phone like a normal camera, but the Wi-Fi connection means you can simply hold the lens anywhere you want, which I found to be the most enjoyable way of shooting.
It allows you to easily experiment with different angles and low-level shots without having to crouch down on the ground. It's also brilliant for holding high above your head -- to take pictures of crowds perhaps -- but still being able to frame your shot with your phone.
You can use the lens with any Android or iOS device, but you'll need to download the Sony PlayMemories app first. It's this app that gives you control over the camera and its settings -- you can't use your phone's existing camera app or shoot using apps such as Instagram or Snapseed. (At least, not yet.) The app itself is straightforward and lets you switch easily between shooting photos or video, change quality settings or tap to focus.
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Sunny get on it !! I never mentioned him as I thought you would have
Kind of ashamed to admit I haven't ever checked him out. Then again there are a lot of producers I should be keeping up with.
Posted 01 April 2014 - 09:49 AM
How come we don't seem to talk much about the beats this guy has made, been listening to Dag Savage, and this album is pretty dope, been listening to Exile for a while now, just shocked he doesn't seem to get more attention. (not posting any links, it will change the dynamics from talk to hype the speed a lightsaber turns on, I'll get screamed at that it should of gone in hype), Going to see Blu, Exile Dag Savage, Denmark Vassey (If you not heard his album check it out) Quelle Chris, tomorrow, still recovering from Ugly Duckling on sunday night, no word of a lie probably one of the best Hiphop gigs I've been to, was like a gym work out, and the rant about not using DJ controllers, and serato was amazing. But I'm pretty chuffed all these cats are coming to my home town tomorrow night. Anyone seen them live.
I don't see any problem at all posting music if it's not blatantly advertising your own project.
The Dag Savage LP and mixtapes are my first exposure to Exile, but it definitely has me wanting to dig deeper. Dag Savage is the shit!
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Posted 01 April 2014 - 10:40 AM
damn, you guys must know him from Below The Heavens at least, right? I gotta admit his solo instrumental stuff I was always disappointed in but based on Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them I think he's still got it...
His two albums with Blu are straight classic. Everyone I've lived with at least knows the tunes to those because they never fall out of rotation for me.
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This is prob my favorite beat from that new album
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Have a hard time listening to Aloe Vera to be honest, he is all over the charts here, and I'm kid of frustrated, puts me off listening to Emanon.
erm no one like his emanon stuff with aloe blacc then?
Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:19 PM
Man the Dag Savage album, is an amazing album to have along side Pinata, balances the constant rotation I've had these on stopping me getting bored, and how many times can you listen to BTH and it's better and different everytime, 12 and a half hours till I see what this is all about live, and I know Exile rocks his MPC live, so should be cool to see him in action, he did do an album with him rapping on it as well as making the beats, but I think people took it too seriously.
Really digging that new Dag Savage record (mostly the Exile production, Johaz ok too), always been a fan of his stuff with Blu as well (BTH is a classic imo)
This is prob my favorite beat from that new album
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Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:21 PM
Hand on my lightsaber son, hand on the lightsaber, don't make me press the on button
i think we should Exile this thread to the Hype section
Posted 02 April 2014 - 05:23 AM
Man the Dag Savage album, is an amazing album to have along side Pinata, balances the constant rotation I've had these on stopping me getting bored
Ha, that is a good point, I've been doing the same thing actually
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John Page has a conviction that mentoring prisoners truly makes a difference in the world. This deeply held notion comes from the experience he has gained through his third "career." After a 20-year stint in the Army and later teaching students in Texas, Page then volunteered in a halfway house for prisoners. When he relocated to Kansas, he began mentoring inmates from the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth through the Life Connections Program.
Page, 63, spends every Monday morning at the federal prison, engaging in one-on-one discussions with the man he mentors—his fourth prisoner. "We talk about what they want to talk about, whether it's sports, or how to love their wife, or the responsibility of being a dad, or everyone's obligation as a citizen of the community," Page says. "I try to build a rapport. Mentors are bridge builders and heart changers."
The 18-month, faith-based program in five prisons (Michigan, Kansas, Texas, Virginia, and Indiana) is sponsored by Volunteers of America, a nonprofit that partners with the Federal Bureau of Prisoners to reduce recidivism and strengthen an inmate's relationships with family, future co-workers, and community through his religious beliefs. Mentors, who receive training and ongoing support, almost exclusively work with men and women still incarcerated, although a small number of volunteers spend time helping inmates who are living in halfway houses to prepare for jobs and "real" life.
Other programs around the country, on the other hand, focus on mentoring released convicts. Consider the Loudoun Aftercare Program. New to Lansdowne, Va., Debora Lavin had gone online to find volunteer opportunities and "give back." She saw a need to address the plight of recently released prisoners and so, in 2006, she founded a one-year mentoring program. Like most offender counseling programs, hers is faith-based. (They certainly don't have to be.) In the Loudoun Aftercare Program, ex-cons attend the same church as their mentors and participate in prayer and other activities. They're buoyed by the congregation, widening their support net as they make their way in the larger world.
Lavin, 50, has helped ex-cons write résumés , groomed them to dress appropriately for job interviews and the workplace, and coached them to conduct themselves professionally (such as calling the boss if they can't make it to work rather than simply not showing up). She oversees more than a dozen mentors, who might contact an employer on behalf of an ex-prisoner, letting them know the candidate has a solid support system. The program also works with area businesses to get them to hire former offenders. "We help them through decision making in their jobs and everything else they do in their lives," Lavin says. "Transitioning back into the community is very difficult and scary for them."
Many believe they have irrevocably severed ties with family and friends. "I've seen them rebuild relationships that have been broken and that they thought could never be rebuilt," Lavin notes. She recalls one woman who reunited with her estranged daughter; today they work side by side in a restaurant. "It's so satisfying to work directly with people and watch them reintegrate themselves into the community again," Lavin says.
Amen, says Page, who mentors in the prison chapel's classrooms. "What I'm doing is getting them ready both psychologically and spiritually to face a world where convicted felons are looked down upon. I try to make each man I mentor understand that he is a precious creation and that his life is valuable," Page adds. "My purpose is to make a difference to men who are damaged and need someone to care." He understands from personal experience. "I was a prisoner to alcohol. I know what it was to be imprisoned with a habit, and I know what it is to be free from the habit."
Sober for 29 years now, the former Army officer teaches the prisoners about responsibility and accountability. "It's been a wonderful experience for me. I'm at a transformative point with the guy I'm mentoring. He knows that he's made mistakes, but he has accepted responsibility for them and chosen a lifestyle that will allow him to be successful," Page says. "Accountability is the best form of support."
Support is essential to reducing recidivism, and experts agree that there are not nearly enough programs or prison mentors to address the need. Fortunately, the numbers are improving. Lavin now receives calls from people who are starting similar programs and need advice. Taking up this cause is a win-win situation, Lavin believes. "I often get more out of it than the person I'm helping. To see them accomplish their goals is thrilling."
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Gum Arabic is also known as acacia gum. The source of gum Arabic is from the Acacia tree. The Acacia tree grows in a region that stretches from Senegal to Sudan in Africa. The Senegal gum acacia is an average sized tree with thorns that grows on the African savanna grassland. Gum arabic fiber is widely used in both the pharmaceutical and food industries as an emulsifier and stabilizer. Gum arabic is made of saccharides and glycoproteins and is fit to be consumed by humans.
benefit of Gum Arabic
Gum arabic may be useful in those with kidney disease.
Biological effects of gum arabic: a
review of some recent research.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2009G. Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khod, Oman.
Pharmacologically, gum arabic has been claimed to act as an anti-oxidant and to protect against experimental hepatic-, renal- and cardiac toxicities in rats. Gum arabic has been claimed to alleviate the adverse effects of chronic renal failure in humans. This could not be corroborated experimentally in rats. Reports on the effects of gum arabic on lipid metabolism in humans and rats are at variance, but mostly suggest that gum arabic ingestion can reduce plasma cholesterol concentrations in rats. Gum arabic has proabsorptive properties and can be used in diarrhea. Gum arabic has been shown to have an adverse effect on electrolyte balance and vitamin D in mice, and to cause hypersensitivity in humans.
Gum arabic establishes prebiotic functionality in healthy human volunteers in a dose-dependent manner.
Br J Nutr. 2008. Kerry Group Nutrition Technical Center Almere, The Netherlands.
The present study was undertaken to determine the prebiotic efficacy of gum arabic upon consumption by man for up to 4 weeks and, if any, to establish the dose-effect relationship. Human healthy volunteers consumed various daily doses (5, 10, 20, 40 g) of gum arabic (EmulGold) in water for up to 4 weeks. Daily consumption of water was taken as the negative control and that of 10 g inulin as the positive control. At 0, 1, 2 and 4 weeks quantification of bacterial numbers in stool samples was performed via real time-PCR techniques and questionnaires were filled in to account for potential drawbacks. The genera of Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli were taken as potentially beneficial bacteria and those of Bacteroides, Clostridium difficile and Enterococci as potentially non-beneficial, this distinction was dependent on the issue of these numbers being or becoming out of balance in the host. Compared with the negative control the numbers of Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli 4 weeks after consumption were significantly higher for gum arabic: the optimal dose being around 10 g. Moreover, at this dose the numbers of Bifidobacteria, Lactobacilli and Bacteroides were significantly higher for gum arabic than for inulin. No significant drawback was encountered during the study. It is concluded that gum arabic establishes prebiotic efficacy, at least as good as inulin. The optimal daily dose was found to be 10 g.
Gum arabic and kidney disease research update
Gum arabic supplementation of a low-protein diet in children with end-stage renal disease.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2004.
Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) die in the absence of renal replacement therapy (RRT). In developing countries RRT is not uniformly available and treatment often relies on conservative management and intermittent peritoneal dialysis (IPD). This study investigates the possibility of using Gum arabic supplementation to improve the quality of life and provide children with ESRD with a dialysis-free period. Three patients referred to our hospital with ESRD during a 3-month period were enrolled in a therapeutic trial to investigate the efficacy of Gum arabic (1 g/kg per day in divided doses) as a complementary conservative measure aimed at improving the quality of life. Inclusion criteria included a pre-dialysis creatinine clearance of <5 ml/min, current dietary restrictions and supplementation, at least one dialysis session to control uremic symptoms, absence of life-threatening complications, and sufficient motivation to ensure compliance with the study protocol. One patient complied with the protocol for only 10 days and died after 6 months, despite IPD. Two patients completed the study. Both reported improved well-being. Neither became acidotic or uremic, and neither required dialysis during the study period. Both patients maintained urinary creatinine and urea levels not previously achieved without dialysis. Dietary supplementation with Gum arabic may be an alternative to renal replacement therapy to improve the quality of life and reduce or eliminate the need for dialysis in children with end stage renal disease in some developing countries.
The effects of gum arabic oral
treatment on the metabolic profile of chronic renal failure patients under
regular haemodialysis in Central Sudan.
Nat Prod Res. 2008. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan.
This study aimed at assessing the effect of Gum arabic oral treatment on the metabolic profile of chronic renal failure (CRF) patients. A total of 36 CRF patients (under regular haemodialysis) and 10 normal subjects participated in this study. From this study, we conclude that oral administration of gum arabic could conceivably alleviate adverse effects of chronic renal failure.
Gum Arabic chemical
Gum arabic is a branched-chain, complex polysaccharide, either neutral or slightly acidic, found as a mixed calcium, magnesium and potassium salt of a polysaccharidic acid. The backbone is composed of 1,3-linked beta-D-galactopyranosyl units. The side chains are composed of two to five 1,3-linked beta-D-galactopyranosyl units, joined to the main chain by 1,6-linkages.
Q. Can Gum arabic be taken with an ahcc pill?
A. Perhaps you can take them a few hours apart, we are not sure if gum arabic would interfere with ahcc absorption.
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The author finds true love—and shared passion—over crab cakes By Cassandra King
Serves 2
1 pound lump crabmeat1 lemon, dividedSalt and pepper
1 large egg white
5 tablespoons butter
2 handfuls baby arugula
or butter lettuce
Extra-virgin olive oil
(citrus, if available)
Champagne vinegar,
to taste
2 tablespoons capers
1. Put crabmeat in a
bowl; pick over for shells.
Squeeze 1 wedge of
lemon over crab; salt
and pepper lightly.
2. In a small dish, beat
egg white until foamy.
Pour over crab and mix in.
3. Using as little flour as
possible ( 1 to 2 tablespoons), form mixture
into four crab cakes.
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IT WAS LOVE at first sight, the night Pat
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For me it was the chocolate-dipped strawberries;
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in garlic. I had arrived late at a reception for him,
only to be told that Pat—the guest of honor and
one of my favorite authors (his works include
The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides)—
had already gone. Disappointed, I consoled myself
with the leftovers of a lavish spread, grateful no
one was around to witness my gluttony. No one,
that is, but a broad-shouldered, bright-eyed Irishman who munched olives as he chatted with a
couple of my friends. I was unable to speak when
my friends introduced their companion, Pat Conroy
himself. With a knowing twinkle in his eyes,
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a mouthful of chocolate and strawberries.
heavy skillet, until sizzling
and just beginning to
brown. Carefully add crab
cakes. Brown on 1 side
until crispy; turn carefully
and brown the other side,
then remove to a platter.
5. While cakes are browning, put arugula (or butter
lettuce) in a bowl. Drizzle
leaves with extra-virgin
olive oil and toss until
coated, then sprinkle
lightly with champagne
vinegar to taste, and toss.
6. To make a sauce, add
remaining 2 tablespoons
butter to the hot skillet,
stirring to dislodge any
crab bits still stuck to
the skillet. When butter
begins to brown, squeeze
in juice of § lemon and
turn off the heat. Throw
in capers and toss.
7. Divide arugula among
2 plates, top with 2 crab
cakes each, pour sauce
over all, and serve.
Nutrients per serving( 2 cakes) 485 calories, 53gprotein, 11g carbohydrates,1g fiber, 27g fat, 205mg choles-terol, 1,897mg sodium
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The Survival Games – Survive as you fight against other players through a dreaded forest, fight until you are the last man standing!
The Survival Games – What is it?
The Survival Games is a recreation of the map in the well known book and movie. You and twenty three other players fight for your life through a thick forest on an island surrounded by water. You start in a cleared area, you are waiting in a tube. When the tube rises, you run towards the chests in the center, grab what you can and run off. As you run through the land, there are also hidden puzzles and random areas containing hidden chests to give you a better advantage. Your objective is to kill everybody around you and to survive incoming attacks from mobs and players as well. When you are the only one left, you are crowned champion.
The game is all coordinated by one host, you can also have a few other players help out to keep control. The host is to watch other players and to see who is left. The host is also to maintain the map by lighting the netherrack and making sure no one breaks the rules. The host also has the ability to make it tougher on the player by enabling mobs to spawn at night. It is also suggested that the host or admin of the server to create a bukkit server and find a plugin to help enforce the rules better. A very great map created by the Vareide team. As for their goal, they did very well, the map shares a very great likeliness to the movie.
Prerequisites of this Map
Some maps require some additional items, such as a mod or a texture pack. This map requires the following:
- A server
- People to play with (Up to 24 players)
Some maps have some rules. Here's the rules of this map:
- There can only be one victor
- You may not break any blocks except for mushrooms and leaves
- You can only place blocks you find in chests
- Inventory of players must be empty before starting
- No player can enter the host house
- You can not extinguish the fire lit by the host
In this particular map, there is a host, these are the jobs of the host:
- The host shall light the netherrack on the first night
- The host is allowed to add any weapons or food they want at any time in the center chest after the second day has passed
- The host may spawn zombies, creepers, or skeletons after the second day has passed
- If a player is stuck in a hole or in a similar situation, the host may teleport the player out
Some maps also have objectives. Here's the objectives of this map:
- Survive
- Slaughter until you are the last man standing
- Find hidden items in chests to help you in your battle
- PvP
Now for some screenshots of the map.
Screenshots of this Map
Here are some screenshots showcasing the map:
Videos of this Map
Here is a video showing what the map is like.
Now you might want to know how to install the map.
How to Install this Map
- Extract the map into a folder.
- Open up Windows Explorer.
- In the navigation bar, type "%AppData%" (no quotes).
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Hi GuysI'm doing some reading and have also consulted with my DR but I place a bit more value on personal experiences. I'm + and recently met a Neg guy where there is mutual interest in pursuing something. He told me he has HPV and has had it for about 4 years or so. I feel a bit hypocritical for being concerned as I know what it feels like when I tell someone my status and they get concerned BUT at the same time I know that my health comes first. I asked my dr and he told me that the use of condoms should prevent the transmission of HPV and that also there is Gardasil but most likely my insurance wont cover it and it does for guys under 27..... Here is my real question/concern I guess.... I know that when I have been a top and used a condom there is ALWAYS skin on skin contact.... it's impossible for it not to be any skin contact.... based on personal experiences from men and women on this forum... what are the chances of transmission? Is there something that I should watch out for? What should be my concern here other than possible transmission? What are some of the personal experiences of members here? Any advise is greatly greatly appreciated!!!!
Depending how old you are, you probably already are infected with HPV. Most adults are. However, HPV doesn't cause problems in most people. I was vaccinated with the Guardasil vaccine and was told my insurance wouldn't pay for it. They did however. Even if they didn't cover it it was only about $200 from what I recall. Also, you should be receiving yearly pap's and HRA's if you are HIV positive which should catch any HPV related problems before they become serious.
Guy, as Bugs said, most sexually active adults have been exposed to HPV at some point in their lives and have one strain or other.If your friend is talking about warts, and he actually has warts, is there any reason why he hasn't had them treated? I remember dating a guy years ago - and the first time I ever went to give him a bj (second date, if anyone cares to know), I gave his penis a once-over and discovered a cluster of small warts on the underside of the head of his penis. He'd never noticed them, because of having a foreskin and them being on the underside where they were normally covered by his foreskin. I showed him, (he was shocked and embarrassed, but I was matter-of-fact about it and made him understand that I didn't think badly of him because of them) and told him where to go to get them treated. He went and got them treated, and he finally got his bj from me once they were cleared. ;) So if by HPV he means warts, encourage him to get them treated.
I suppose I need to bring up these tests that bug talks about with my doctor. I had a few warts removed years ago before I was diagnosed with HIV. I was in my late twenties and my current doc removed them, but he has never brought it up since. I haven't had any return sinceDoes Gardisil work once you already had it once?
Thanks Bug/Ann/Mikey for the repliesI'm 32. So is it pretty common for males to have been exposed and carrying HPV? He had them removed. I'll have to ask my Dr next time I go for my blood work to do a test for HPV then. So one can have HPV infection without having any symptoms? So is the only risk of transmission really when there is an outbreak? I have been very very very sexually active.... 80% with condoms but I know that even when using condoms there is 100% skin contact but have never had any warts or bumps or anything so I wouldn't know. Mikeyb39 from what I understand Gardisil is to prevent the infection but does nothing once you carry HPV. I did ask my pharmacy today the cost and he said they average around $130 per vial. It's one shot the first month, a second shot the second month and the 3rd shot 2 months after so you do 3 shots over a course of 4 months.
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I've been using site sponsorship on botw.org recently and been getting some really good results so I thought I'd do a quick write up.
For those who don't know Best of the Web is one of the oldest web directories about, and one of the few which have managed to maintain a decent editorial standard over the years and not succumbed to the temptation of selling spammy sitewide links or approving garbage sites just to make money. As a link building tactic I'm still a big fan of premium web directory submission, although I think the power of BOTW is probably a bit overstated by a lot of SEO's (might have something to do with the lucrative affiliate program they run:-)
Anyway in addition to letting you pay for a normal listing in the directory BOTW also offer category sponsorship which means instead of just being in the most relevant (usually meaning deepest) category in the directory you can advertise at the top of a category of your choosing. The ads look like this:
Aside from the pretty green background these listing render like any other listing on the site and go through the same editorial review meaning they're followed SEO friendly links. Unlike normal listings however the editors won't bury your listing in a deep category which gets very little juice from the homepage.
See the issue with BOTW, and most directories, is they tend to have a lot of link equity at the root but very little deep linking meaning the homepage and top level categories have plenty of juice but the further you get from the homepage, often 4 or 5 levels on a big directory, the less power those pages have. Couple that with the number of outbound links in mid-tier categories and you get to a stage where a link on a bottom level category is unlikely to pass much weight at all. By placing these sponsorships on a high level category, ideally 1 or 2 'clicks' off the homepage you get to siphon off some of that juice before it starts evaporating. Top level categories like the insurance category have got some nice metrics:
I started running some sponsorships on a couple of categories on botw.org about 3 months ago for a client in a pretty competitive, tricky little niche and the links appear to have given them a very nice little boost, just enough to move them from the top of page 2 to top 5 positions, just before the xmas rush as this graph hopefully, sort of shows!
Site sponsorships aren't that cheap at $50USD/ month but to be honest that's a drop in the ocean compared to what I know a lot of people spend on inferior text links which also come with a risk warning. You get a 30 day free trial when you first sign up, which is cool, but in my experience not really long enough to see a big impact on your rankings. If you're thinking of giving these ads a try my top tips would be:
- Get in as high a category as possible (there's a maximum of 3 slots available per category and the best one's are filled so shop around)
- Use MozRank, the number of internal links and good old fashioned toolbar pagerank to gauge the power of each category
- Link to an internal page on your site so you can measure the results
- For local campaigns try the regional directories. BOTW UK isn't as strong as the main .org domain but there's some juicy categories available- pretty much any Scottish business could benefit from a listing on this page for example.
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