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Fruit butter are made by cooking down the fruit mixture until thick and sticky instead of adding pectin to set the mixture as you do with jam. Spread on whole-grain toast or stir into plain yogurt. Butters are supposed to be smooth and well, buttery, so we prefer to peel stone fruit, such as apricots, nectarines, peaches, and apples and pears. If you're making a butter with "seedy" berries, such as blackberries, raspberries or even blueberries, you can puree the butter and pass it through a siev
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Serves 32
Prep Time 30 min
Total Time 90 min.
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Combine fruit, water and sugar to taste in a Dutch oven; add citrus zest and juice if using. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to maintain a lively simmer and cook, mashing the fruit and stirring occasionally at first and then often as it thickens, until the mixture is very thick, 20 minutes to 1 hour (depending on the type of fruit). To test doneness, put a spoonful of fruit butter on a plate. If no liquid seeps from the edges, it's done. Return to a simmer to thicken more if necessary. For very smooth fruit butter, puree in a food processor or blender, then strain and push the mixture through a sieve before storing.
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If freezing or refrigerating, ladle the fruit butter into clean canning jars to within 1/2 inch of the rim. Wipe rims clean. Cover with lids. Let the jars stand at room temperature until cool before refrigerating or freezing. Or process in a water bath to store at room temperature (see Tip).
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WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA -- Had a blow out on very busy road on my motorbike. Called them at 7:00 am. At almost 10:00 am still not here. I have call a few times. They keep moving my time up by another hour. I'm only 4 miles from home so yea this is **. This is not a safe road to sit on and it's chilly today. They don't care but they want that money. I had it towed by a guy that I don't know and stopped and asked me if I needed help. He had a trailer. Thanks kind soul man. Thanks again. Will not ever use AAA again. I'm stopping their service.
BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA -- Good luck getting a tire changed with AAA. I've had two flats on a 24 ft. MH and no one could do it. First time in April 3, calls and someone showed up to change travel trailer tire. Had no tools for RV lugs. Had to change tire myself with borrowed tools. Second time, same thing. No one to change it again. I borrowed tools to change it. This time I was told they won't change inside tire, too dangerous. What's up AAA, you sell a service and do not provide service. Buyer beware.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE -- The 2 times that I used AAA, I was disappointed. The first time I tried using them, I accidentally locked my keys in the trunk. They told me that it would be 45 minutes before anyone would show up. 1.5 hours later, nobody showed up. I called again. This time they told me that the guy got held up and they are not sure how much longer it would be. Finally, the guy who was supposed to show up called me and said it would be another hour before he got there and he does not know why AAA told him an hour. I was at a gas station where luckily a locksmith walked in and opened my trunk for me. I waited for over 2 hours and nobody ever showed up.
The second time I tried using AAA, I had a flat tire where I worked. Once again I was told it would be about an hour and once again after 1.5 hours I called again. The guy who was supposed to be there to help me with my flat informed me that he wasn't sure why they called him to come because he was located approx. an hour away in a completely different county. I don't understand why of all the tow truck business located in my big city, they called someone in another county. After the last incident, I let my service expire. I will just take my chances next time.
CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY -- I had terrible experience with AAA. First time when my car's tire got flat I called them and was told that the driver will be there in an hour. He didn't come until 2.5 hours of waiting. Luckily I was in the parking lot of my office. He finally arrived and did his job. Second experience was worst. There was an accident on a major highway and somehow the broken glass from that car got stuck in my car's tire eventually leading to a punctured tire. My car was sitting in the fast lane on a major highway with all the rush hour traffic coming in. I call AAA and told them to send someone quickly as I'm stuck in the fast lane of a highway.
They told me someone would be there in 20 mins. 40 minutes passed no one came. Finally a police officer came with a tow truck and moved me to the shoulder. The tow truck guy also changed my tire. The AAA guy never arrived. I was there for an hour and no one from the AAA company showed up. I called them again and told them that no one came and I no longer need them. Instead of being apologetic the representative told me that she cancelled my request so I don't get charged!
Unbelievable...charge for what??? I have been paying them all those years to help me when I need and they want to charge me extra? I would never ever trust AAA again. It is the worst insurance to have if you have an auto emergency.
DENVER, COLORADO -- First time in texas I ran out of fuel in a rental car and called AAA for help. The dispatcher took almost 45 min to get the info, call a service provider then call back and say that AAA could not help me. I should call a local tow company or the police for help! Bad experience. 3 hours and the police brought fuel to get off of the highway. Then AAA shows up to assist me.
Second time AAA failed me I was on the way home and my engine failed, smoke pouring out, piston slapping the cylinder head and off of the side of the highway off ramp. One hour to get AAA on the phone, 45 min for a call back to say it will be 45 min at least due to heavy traffic. Started calling at 3pm and tow driver picked me up walking home at 5:25pm. Not what I think is ok or what I pay for. Bad service, expensive and leave you hanging.
SANTA ANA -- I have been a AAA member for 25 years. What a waste of money!!! I took a family vacation to Portland, or in July 2012, for a family reunion. Upon arrival at the airport we rented a car from enterprise, knowing we will get our AAA discount on the car at the end of the trip, four days later. Upon return to the airport, we had a $580.00 total payment due on our credit card!! I hit the roof and called AAA asking why?
I was told by **, the supervisor to customer service with AAA, that they do not honor or work with enterprise anymore!!! I told him how am I to know that? He said they do not notify members on these issues!!! My feelings are that AAA does make business decisions without the member's awareness behind the scenes and the chances are members get upset but eventually drop their complaints and move on!!!
For the past several months, I have written formal complaint letters to their president/CEO Robert **, communicated with **, again followed up 15 times on the status of my complaint!!! Up to now, I have not received any resolution, get my refund, or communication back from their complaint department. The customer service complaint department is a total joke!!! They ignore letters, faxes, and you can't reach them unless you fax them. Still they don't respond!!! Wow what a great company!!! When I call to follow up, they are surprised as to how many times I have called to complain about their customer service and how they ignore customer related issues!!
** always has a excuse, or does not return calls. When he does, he blames it on the other company!!! I have been passed around from one supervisor to another, even talked to a supervisor's supervisor!!! This is not a complicated thing, just refund the damn money!!!!! How hard is that??? From California to Texas and then back again the follow-up calls go around and around!!! Still no resolution and I'm aggravated like hell with AAA!!!!
I have to thank Enterprise, because they were nice enough to give me a 20% discount equal to $40. That's more than I can say about my own membership of 25 years with AAA which did not do crap for me!!! The AAA does not deserve my money. Nor would I want membership with AAA any. I cancelled my membership on the phone and demanded to get my prorated membership refund. My money was wasted on them for so many years. I have been a loyal customer. What happened to their loyalty to me???? People.. save your money.
This AAA is not what it used to be. They are greedy, irresponsible, and so secure with their jobs that they pass you around, giving you run around until you get tired and drop your complaint. I deserve so much better than them. I feel bad, wasted my time believing in AAA!!!! Is it the company policy to ignore members???? You tell me. Shame on you AAA. You are disgusting taking advantage of good members like me.
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA -- The Auto Club's Verified Mileage Program or Pay as You Drive Program was approved by the Insurance Commissioner earlier this year and was touted as a way to save consumers money by lowering the price of insurance when they drive less. In theory, the program has its merits by discouraging unnecessary driving by motorists. In reality, the Auto Club's implementation of the program has many troubling flaws.
Auto Club agents are pressured to forge insurance documents and manipulate insurance premiums in exchange for more phone duty, better phone calls, better leads, paid vacations, better treatment by management, a trip to the Bahamas, and to maintain their employment. Ethical agents are threatened and harassed to quit or accept their fate that they will be terminated for low performance.
High production is looked at as a virtue and not scrutinized as agents submitting fraudulent business. Low production is looked at as laziness, incompetence, stupidity, and reason for punishment and termination. Lead distribution is such that high producers are given more leads and low producers are given even less leads insuring a huge gap between high and low producers. It also skews the policies written with integrity verses policies that are problematic.
Rather than estimate the accurate or actual mileage for each policy, agents are lowering initial mileage readings when starting a policy, which lowers the annual mileage category and thus lowers the annual premium, but just for that year. Agents that use this practice to quote will sell more policies because the premium will be much lower than it would otherwise be. Agents can accomplish this because only about 25% of all policies require inspections with an odometer reading. Agents at the district offices are allowed to inspect their own vehicles. They omit odometer readings intentionally and enter any figure they want to sell the policy.
All this would be a moot point; however, with the Verified Mileage Program insureds are required to submit their exact mileage reading upon renewal of the policy or be removed from the program. Through no fault of their own, many Auto Club insureds will have renewals with extraordinarily higher mileage depending on how much the agent lowered the original mileage and how many miles were driven during the current policy period.
An example to illustrate the wrong that is being perpetrated on unsuspecting consumers: If I start a policy today and my current annual mileage is 15,000 and I bought the car exactly a year ago, with zero miles, the mileage category should be 15,000 miles or less. The agent knows if he quotes me at 15,000 miles per year I won't buy the policy so he enters my mileage at 5,000 and my premium is much lower than what I am paying now so I switch to the Auto Club.
I'm happy until my renewal arrives next year. The premium almost doubles in price. When I am asked by the Auto Club what my current mileage is next year, it will be 30,000 because if you remember I was driving 15,000 miles per year and my vehicle had 15,000 miles at the inception of the policy. The Auto Club is going to rate my renewal at 25,000 miles per year because my agent entered 5,000 as my current mileage at the time I purchased the policy. The renewal will encompass the miles that were deficient from the prior policy (10,000) and include the actual miles driven (15,000). My annual mileage rating goes from 5,000 per year to 25,000 per year because it looks like I drove all those miles in only one year.
I really didn't drive that much but that is the way the miles are calculated. That's a big increase. If I complain, I am told by the representative that I am a liar and can bring in a service receipt in 30 days to lower my mileage to where it should be. Now that is customer service! Some in the company may say the miles are being accounted for over two years so it really doesn't matter. This is all being suppressed by the sales department. My view is the original sale would not have taken place and the premium manipulation has put the insured into a situation where the policy is written under false pretenses and can be voided by the insurance company.
The agent doesn't care because all this stuff will happen a year later and he sold a policy he normally would not have. The Auto Club praises the current agent and lavishes him with more phone duty, pays him more per policy, and sends him on paid vacations because he is a top producer and gets away with doing this on a daily basis. Nobody seems to notice except our insured. On the renewal the policy is way over priced and the insured non-renews or has to fight with our customer service department that won't believe him.
The insured doesn't know exactly what happened because they did not see the fraud that was committed against them. The fraud only becomes apparent on the renewal a year later. The insured has lost all longevity with their prior carrier because they are now with the Auto Club. Their current renewal is too high so the insured must shop for insurance elsewhere. The only way to eliminate the out right fraud and corruption at the Automobile Club of Southern California is to require inspections with odometer readings for every policy written. Currently, inspections are not required for "liability only" policies or insureds that have prior insurance with similar coverage.
Also, agents in the field can perform their own inspections and omit the odometer photo on purpose! This lack of accountability on new policies opens the door for agents to commit fraud and abuse on the unsuspecting public. This is a "verified" mileage program so you must "verify" the mileage, or otherwise this is a sham and should be abolished. Also, allowing the same agent that writes the policy to inspect the vehicle is a flagrant conflict of interest. The inspection should be completed by a manager or impartial third person at all levels of the organization and at all times include a photo of the odometer.
There should be a separate disclosure just for mileage in the insurance documents that require the exact mileage for each vehicle to be listed at the inception of the policy. The insured should be required to sign the disclosure verifying the exact mileage for each car on the policy. There should be an explanation that this figure will be used to determine next year's mileage calculation. Unbelievably, this is not now required. The mileage would therefore be verified by the insured, by an inspector, and by the agent. The current system allows for only the agent to verify the mileage and the agent has a conflict of interest to be trusted with that.
Currently the only disclosure that references anything about mileage is on the Coverage and Limits page and this only lists what the annual mileage is calculated at. This is misleading if the insured doesn't know what their real annual mileage is or how it was calculated. Most insureds don't know what they drive and are influenced by the agent. When you ask an insured how many miles they drive, they most likely under estimate. This figure should still be listed in that location but the mileage disclosure should list the exact miles at the inception of the policy. There is a culture of corruption within the Auto Club of Southern California and drastic measures are needed for true change to be forthcoming.
The Auto Club will defend its position by stating it has systems in place to catch fraud and abuse and to some extent they do. However, the only way to avoid agents from lowering mileage is to educate the insured with a mileage disclosure that must be signed by the insured and the agent. It should explain how this figure will affect the rating for the following year. When only some of the policies require inspections, and this can be manipulated by field sales agents, then there is no effective process. When the agent knows in advance which policies will require an inspection the agent can make up the mileage on selective policies to, "get the job done".
The Auto Club will also reference the fact that conversations are recorded and can be audited for integrity. The agent knows this and never asks the insured what their mileage is. They'll only make reference to how much the insured's commute is and make up a figure that is statistically consistent with the commute, albeit on the low end. The policy ends up being a fill in the blanks bonanza for the agent.
Some managers look the other way and others go further by processing business that has serious errors. In fact some managers were required to send policies through processing a second time to verify corrections were completed because the managers couldn't be trusted to verify the corrections were actually completed. This company needs managers to watch the managers. But when the processing team can only catch incorrect phone numbers or spelling corrections, the mileage factor cannot be corrected at the pre-completion level but only at renewal when the insured complains about the increase in premium unless an inspection is completed and a mileage disclosure is developed.
Without seeming redundant, I have spoken in generalities because it is not my intention to get employees in trouble but to correct the failures of this program and this company. If the deficiencies discussed here are not corrected I have lists of managers, employees, and policy numbers that are at issue and I will release this information to the media and notify those insureds that have been wronged. Insureds will have grounds for a class action lawsuit.
LONG BEACH,, CALIFORNIA -- I have read some of the posts regarding AAA employees and how they are like robots, how they only know how to read the scripts and how they are incapable of thinking outside the box to assist their clients. Well I think I know why most of you are experiencing such horrible customer service amongst other things. I just recently applied for a job at triple A (AAA) and was very excited when I received the call back from a hit on resume. Thrilled because I have been laid off for approximately 2 years.
During the time I was laid off, I managed to renew my real estate license, as well as started working on my degree. I have completed 73 units and will be transferring to receive my BS degree. I have been in sales for over 23 years and have been very successful! What is on my resume is all true, every deal I have ever closed is verifiable. On my resume it shows that I worked for one company for 10 years the first go round and was hired back for another 9 months before being laid off due to an acquisition by Hitachi. That speaks volumes!
If an employer is willing to rehire a sales representative back for a second time around after resigning (one would think) AAA would recognize that. I must be a great sales representative and a top producer. I listed my previous VP and Director of Sales on my application for them to verify my performance and work ethic. I have no criminal record, I have a ticket free driving record for the past 7 years.
These are questions they asked me before I made it to the assessment part of the interview process. I was told that after the assessment tests (if I pass) I will move on to interview with a live human being (a manager). Keep in mind that I was told repeatedly that the assessment test. There were no RIGHT or WRONG answers, to just be truthful. (Keep in mind I was very excited about working for triple A selling insurance products. Big company, room for upward mobility, already had at least 12 people saying that they would switch their insurance policies over to me, because I would be working there).
Well let me tell you the type of questions on the assessment tests. Some of these questions I went to the EEOC website and have determined that some of these questions are better suited to be asked after being hired. The first question (if I am remembering correctly) was HOW OLD ARE YOU? EEOC says that how old a person is should not matter during the application process that people over the age of 40 are protected under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and that these are questions that can be asked after being hired.
They asked me questions like the following.. "How many jobs I've had in the past five years", "how many times have I collected unemployment", "how many people I know that sells insurance", "how much do I think a first year sales representative should make in a year", "how much should a representative be making after 3 years", "who told me about this job", "Did I speak to the person who told me about this job".
Here are the choices they gave me to answer from. "1 hour to 1 week", "2 hours to a month", " 2 months to a year" etc.. you get the point. They also asked me how much money would I spend on a client in unreimbursed dollars and pretty much gave at least 10 or more choices. They also asked how many hours do I think a first year sales representative should work a week, then they asked questions if I like spending time with my family etc.. Keep in mind they told me to be honest "there are no right or wrong answers".
So anyway I finished taking this God forsaken test and what do you know, I go back to the training coordinator and he says to me "oh.. You didn't score high enough on the test" (remember, there are "NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWERS"). Also keep in mind that there isn't one question on the test I would have to lie about, not one question on the test that has anything to do with intelligence, sales, or anything relevant to sales. Just questions that can disqualify you if you have been out of work for a while, questions that can lead to age discrimination, (they also asked me my nationality) questions that can disqualify you if you have been on unemployment twice in your life.
They asked a lot of questions about school also. All of which were answered truthfully. The training coordinator told me that he was sorry and that maybe sales is not for me. Can someone please tell me, what part of this test has anything to do with my ability to sell insurance? Or any other product for that matter. Also how can a personality test determine what type of human being I am, and how well I have done for the past 23 years in sales. These tests maybe set up for the younger generation. People who have no experience. Most of the questions I answered from experience. I don't think they want anyone who has experience. I said all of this to say.
With the economy the way it is today, unemployed workers should not have to take tests such as these to get back to work. Many of you have mentioned you've been talking to people who don't know how to make decisions, people who don't appear to know what they are doing. This is because good people like myself with a proven track record cannot get a job, because of tests like these that have no meaning, no substance, no ability to determine if a person will be a good employee at all. This is a way to keep certain nationalities out of work, to keep older people down.
I was compelled to type this letter because this particular rejection is not sitting right. I have spoken to CEO's, CFO's and owners of companies all of my life. I have closed major real estate deals, sold technology products to Novartis, Delta Airlines, and many other huge deals, yet AAA felt Sales was not for me because of a "personality" test that has nothing to do with sales. In fact the training coordinator said to me, "maybe sales just isn't for me."
I will continue to do my research and converse with the EEOC to make sure that companies are doing right by long term unemployed workers, workers who were once stable before the economy fell apart, and now seem to be undesirable to these companies through no fault of their own. So if you all are wondering why you are being treated poorly by AAA reps etc. I feel it is because they do not want someone older, qualified and experienced, instead they want someone that doesn't have a clue about life and the real world, and someone with a proven track record.
I would love to hear if anyone else have been through the same experiences I have with these personality rests. I know several sales reps all over the age of forty that have their Bachelor degrees very educated and have proven track records and have been told they were not going to be hired because of the way they answered a "personality" test. I feel sorry for the economy and anyone who is going through this new way of being hired. The economy will never be the way it was. Never.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA -- After buying a new Toyota Prius with the AAA's 'no hassle, no haggling' pre-negotiated price, I found out two days later the dealer was $1356 more than the other two in town for the exact same car (with Pkg#6). I am really shocked that AAA won't make this Member dealership honor their agreement. The regional AAA program rep, Jay, refused to do anything about it, as did the dealer, since it was a completed sale. Jay even has copies of the ads and emails I sent him from the other local AAA Dealers, so I was able to fully back my point, but he doesn't seem to care.
Everyone I talked to at Steven's Creek Toyota in San Jose basically was lying through their teeth when I went back in to speak to them after I found out they ripped me off. After being referred thereby AAA's website and purchasing the car (with a fancier trim package than what I was originally looking for, so I didn't have an exact out-the-door quote on hand) at what I was told was their AAA price, the floor manager later said they did NOT have ANY written agreement with AAA (which is not true if they are in AAA's program!) and he told me that the AAA price was whatever the general manager wanted it to be that day.
They said I should be happy that I did not pay full List price and left it at that. They refused to show me the AAA agreement during the sale and after when I returned, saying they could not find it (** has never sent me a copy either, despite repeated requests). The dealer also refused to price match, after their in-house AAA rep had emailed me that they do price match. Between the AAA program and a promise to price-match, I felt confident buying the car there without shopping around, but boy was I wrong to trust AAA!
The dealer's excuse for his high price is that they actually only wanted to give me $3500 for my trade-in, not the $5000 we agreed upon (for a vehicle worth $7k wholesale at the time, $9k retail, per KBB), and that justified the higher sales price. They also said their own *cost* on the Prius was higher than what the two other dealers in town were *selling* them for. This is a bunch of hogwash, since they also bragged that they are one of the highest-volume Toyota dealers in California, and I know high-volume Dealers get better discounts from the manufacturer.
The floor manager showed me a scribbled piece of paper with their 'cost', but they had tacked on hundreds of dollars worth of advertising fees, sales commissions, prep fees, and other misc. fees; the floor manager didn't even know what some of the fees were! I assume the other dealers (Capitol and Sunnyvale Toyota) have the same costs, and they manage to sell the same car for $1356 less. I wonder if AAA ** fell for the line of crap that they were handing out. These fees didn't include any closing costs, either, which were additional and added later.
Per the AAA Buyer's program website, trade-in value is not supposed to alter the price of the new car. I would never traded a $7000-$8000 car in for only $3500, especially since the having the older car saves my teenage son a lot of money on auto insurance. $5000 was the amount agreed upon.
I do not know if I should be more mad at the slimy dealer or at the AAA Buying Program regional manager ** for not backing up the customers using the AAA buying program when a dealer does not honor the terms of it. I tried speaking with the dealership myself, but found that they couldn't care less about customer service once the car is off the lot, and all promises go by the wayside. I was hoping for either a refund of the $1356+tax, so as to honor the AAA and the original sales agreement(s), or at least booting the Steven's Creek dealer out of the AAA program because they refused to honor it.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- I called AAA at 4 pm and it is now nearly 1 pm the following day and I have yet to get my car towed. I have called six times talking to a different representative every time that tells me the tow service is on their way only to find out there has yet been another miscommunication between AAA and the towing service.
I had given the keys to the tow service the day before (he was in touch with AAA about this). I did not need to be there and keys were in possession of tow company for a couple of hours later due to cars being parked around my car and couldn't load onto tow truck. Needless to say, I am still waiting just to get my keys back. I am in disbelief of the incompetence and runaround I have received from AAA. I will not renew my membership this next year.


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It's been a pretty cold winter here in the northeast. Today was the first day in 6 weeks the bees were out- 46F !! I trugged through the 3 feet of snow to check out the hives.
I found one dead. The cluster seems to have seperated into 3 groups in the hive. There was still honey in the hive ( mostly on the sides - none on top of the bees.
Some had their heads stuck in the cell (sign of stavation). But I fould while removing them from the cells they ALL have watery yellow guts is this any indication of a disease I sould be looking for?? Anyone seen this yellow puss before?
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London's Heathrow airport, the busiest in Europe, cancelled 225 flights and said others would be delayed as heavy snowfalls swept over southern Britain.
Services are alternating between the hub's two runways to allow for plowing, and people due to fly today should check with their airline before setting out, Heathrow Ltd. said. London City airport closed brief and Paris Charles de Gaulle will scrap one-fifth of flights from this evening as the snows spread east.
The U.K. Met Office issued a "red" alert for Wales, warning that some areas might have as much as 30 centimetres of snow. British Airways, Heathrow's biggest operator, scrapped mainly short-haul flights to cities including Paris, Barcelona and Berlin, though a trip to New York was also called off. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. said it was suffering delays.
"We are keeping our schedule under constant review and will adjust it further if we need to," British Airways said. "If customers no longer wish to travel between Friday and Sunday they can rebook their flight to a later date."
UK rail services have also been affected, with Stagecoach Group Plc's South West Trains and Abellio's Greater Anglia among companies paring timetables in an effort to minimize disruption.
Eurostar Group Ltd., whose trains to London from Paris and Brussels have been brought to a halt during previous snowfalls, preemptively cancelled four services and lowered speed limits.
British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, said on its website that a noon flight to Los Angeles would depart as scheduled, together with others to locations including Rio de Janeiro and Toronto. Trips to Copenhagen and St. Petersburg were among those cancelled.
Virgin Atlantic, a long-haul specialist, hadn't been compelled to drop any services, spokeswoman Anna Catchpole said.
Earlier in the day, Cardiff and Southampton scrapped flights earlier as the blizzards swept in from the west.
Gatwick, the U.K. capital's second busiest airport, is operating normally, though 5 centimetres of snow fell on its single runway. Stansted, the No. 3, said it's not suffering any disruption, while Luton, the headquarters for low-cost carrier Easyjet Plc, reported only brief delays for snow clearance.
London City Airport, favored by business travellers, re-opened after being closed for about 90 minutes for the removal of snow this morning, spokeswoman Geraldine Nolan said.
Gatwick has spent 8 million pounds ($13 million) on snow measures since 2010, boosting the fleet of plows and brushes to 98 vehicles. It also has enough de-icer to last 10 days, and has trained 43 non-operational staff to help keep the runway clear.
"It's snowing and it's accumulating, but the runway and taxiways have been treated with de-icer and we are currently operating as normal," the airport, located south of London and owned by Global Infrastructure Partners LP, said in a statement.
Thousands of homes in Wales were without power after supplies were cut by the snow, and as many as 400 schools have closed on the Isle of Wight and in Hampshire, southern England, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.
Temperatures in the UK are likely to remain around zero in London, the Met Office said, with the national forecaster warning of widespread icy roads.
Snowfalls yesterday led to hundreds of flight cancellations in Germany and Austria, curtailing service by carriers including Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's second-biggest.
Munich airport scrapped 120 flights today, at least half as a knock-on from 345 cancellations yesterday, when runways were cleared a record eight times. Vienna lost 25 services this morning and anticipates that the situation will normalize as the day wears on, while Frankfurt airport, owned by Fraport AG, was operating as usual after about 40 cancellations yesterday.
In France, the civil aviation authority aims to ground 20 percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle and 10 percent at Paris Orly from 4 pm local time in anticipation of heavy snow this afternoon and overnight, it said in a statement.


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it was a bumper year for our two pear trees this year. i'm not sure what variety they are, but they get pretty big, are very juicy, and are more green than yellow in color.
i ended up with about 12 gallons of juice just from some of the peelings left over after canning.
i let it ferment peelings and all until it slowed down, then strained out the juice, and have since added some sugar.
the fermentation is definitely slowing down, and adding sugar doesn't seem to kick it off like it did.
i'm guessing i need to add some yeast. any recommendations as to what kind of yeast?
i will be extracting honey soon as well, and though i might add some honey to the mix. have any of you added honey to pear wine?


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The newest nickname for Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Based on the facts: a) Hazleton misspelled it's own name; b) all attempts to salvage this city always fail; c) Hazleton, PA = epic fail.
Another pimp killed another ho, instead of pimping that bitch for mad money. Welcome to Failzeton, biatch!
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In a rare special event the Rackham Symphony Choir will perform composer Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, a powerful oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra, accompanying a screening of Carl Th. Dreyer's majestic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Born in 1412, Joan of Arc was an illiterate young woman who led a French army against English occupation, was eventually martyred and canonized a saint. She claimed to be guided by divine voices – a core element in Einhorn's piece.
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Einhorn's score is built around a series of texts by women writers of the middle ages, and brings to it both his research in medieval chant and his appreciation of compositional minimalism. The libretto is a montage of Latin and ancient French writings, and is presented with English subtitles. This program is presented through the collaboration of the Rackham Symphony Choir and the DIA Friends of Detroit Film Theatre.
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text: My friend didn't come into work today, and midway through the day I got a message from her asking if I could call her back. When I called her back, she said that yesterday she was assaulted. I asked her if she was okay, but she gave a sort of "well..." answer and just stated she wanted to get her head back into things. I didn't ask if the unmentionable happened, but I have a bad feeling from the sound of her voice there's a possibility it did. The good thing is that she's pressing charges against the thug, so at least they have a suspect and it's not an unknown assailant. I told her that I'm glad I'm hearing her voice and that she's able to talk to me after what happened, and that I'll cover for her at work and let the boss know something came up and my friend will fill her in on the details later. Still, I'm not sure how/what to say to comfort a victim of an attack, even more so if it was a sexual assault. All I can think of is to let her know I'm here for support and can walk her home if she feels she needs an escort. Is there any way to comfort a friend who was attacked without prying or evoking the traumatic experience?


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We have 5 hives, we have not opened them in about a month, two swarmed today and we recaptured them, total luck out, if we put them back in their hives, obviously not sure exactly which belong in which hive, how do we keep them in there? they have 2 deeps and 2 honey supers on, we will try to open them up on Sunday (daughters graduation tomorrow morning) but the weather has been very rainy so we have left them alone the last few weeks.
I am reading stuff about capturing wild hives but what about the ones that were in your own hives to start with?


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Japanese sake is getting more popular every year, but it remains an age-old wine with much mystery. In this podcast, join writer and sake "Samuari" Timothy Sullivan, as he reveals behind-the-scenes details about Japan's famous Hakkaisan Sake Brewery.
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Even geniuses make mistakes. That's the reassuring message of the engrossing new book Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein—Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, by theoretical astrophysicist and noted writer Mario Livio. Livio will give a Frontiers Lecture on Monday, June 10, at the Museum on the topic of brilliant blunders by such towering scientific figures as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein, and more.
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text: I'm a GA resident and wanted to take my handgun to NY when I visit family so I checked their gun laws. I did see that NY will not reciprocate my legal carry permit, trashes and violates 80% if the 2nd Amendment and prohibits me from having any legal right to self-defense, but there is nothing published restricting the magazine limit in a handgun. There is an extensive section on Assault Weapons which pretty much rules out owning everything except single shot Daisy Red Ryder BB rifles (well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration) but the only pistol restriction listed there is ones that accept a detachable magazine OUTSIDE of the grip.


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k-var says they have the Bulgy trunnions but the fronts are $100 and the rears are $70.
Pretty much as the title says: I am in need of a set of trunnions for a fixed-stock AK, but most especially a front trunnion. I also need two (2) 7.62 barrels to fit 23mm trunnions. I need 2 sets of lower rails and 2 sets of rivets as well.
I got 2 of the Bulgy kits from Sportsman's Guide, and I found once I got them that they included no trunnions at all. I have since found one set of Egyptian trunnions, so I still need one more set to make a complete AK (well, 2 complete AK's actually..)
I prefer paying with Paypal, but I can work with however you need it.
k-var says they have the Bulgy trunnions but the fronts are $100 and the rears are $70.
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Yes, they can be had if one wants to fork over a small mountain of cash, but I can't.
Every one with the milled kits you bought are looking for trunions an there getting scarce . that $100 might seem cheap in the future .Yes, they can be had if one wants to fork over a small mountain of cash, but I can't.
have you tried gun broker ? also a 5.45 can be made to work with some mods to the mag area there 22 mm but a barrel can be turned to fit.
Barrels will show up once things settle down from the rush .
The kits I bought are the "used" ones from Sportsman's guide, and they are actually Russian stamped kits that apparently sat for long enough in Bulgaria to be called Bulgarian. In reading the reviews on SG for the "new" kits they also had, people were commenting that they still had pieces of the original Russian stamped receivers attached to the trunnions. Well, stoopid me, I go for the less expensive "used" kits of exactly the same description otherwise, and I find out then that the real difference in the kits is that the "new" kits apparently came with trunnions and the "used" kits didn't. I've managed to find one set of trunnions for a reasonable price, but I'm still needing one more set to be able to use both kits I have.
I would take a 5.45 front, if the price is right. I do have a lathe, so I can theoretically turn down a barrel.
Okay, here you go. The arrows in the picture point to the two areas that would need to be widened on a 22mm trunnion in order to fit 7.62x39 double stack magazines.
22mm Trunnion versus 23mm Trunnion
If you need other pics or measurements (I have a 6 inch digital caliper) let me know.
That does help! Thanks!
Bumpity bump. I have some barrel blanks now from GM, but I still need a trunnion.


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I ws a fool and never researched Long Creek Apiaries and placed an order for 1 package of Russian bees back in January of this year. They were to ship to me this week. I checked the site to see if shipping was still on schedule only to find he is out of business! eeek! Typing "long creek" into google brings up numerous complaints and now I feel like a fool. I left messages by email and phone but by the looks of other's luck I am probably 129.00 poorer, huh? Anyone have any suggestions for recourse here? I have a friend who is a good lawyer - worth it or no?
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VIRGINIA - A federal judge heard arguments in Norfolk today on whether Virginia's ban on gay marriage is constitutional.
Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment back in 2006, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. In July, two men filed suit against that amendment after their application for marriage was denied in circuit court. They say the ban denies them liberties guaranteed by the 14th amendment.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a democrat, attended the oral arguments in the case of Bostic versus Rainey. The case centers around a gay couple who wanted a marriage license but were denied. They filed a lawsuit challenging the ban last year.
People on both sides of the issue demonstrated outside the courthouse today. Herring has said he doesn't agree with the state's same sex marriage ban and will not defend it in court. "Whether it was the right to public education regardless of race in Brown vs. Board of Education, or marry the person you love regardless of skin color in the Loving case, or the right to attend state colleges and universities regardless of gender in the CMI case... Virginia has found itself on the wrong side of landmark civil rights cases."
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This week was particularly monumental for the auto industry as the Obama administration
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"Just yesterday, my opponent called my position on fuel efficiency standards extreme," said Obama. "It doesn't seem extreme to me to want to build more fuel efficient cars. Maybe the steam engine is more his speed."
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This fresh take on gazpacho—a chilled tomato soup—is spiked with chopped chipotle peppers, which add a deep, smoky heat to the dish. The cilantro-yogurt swirl balances the heat from the chiles and makes a beautiful garnish. Serve this soup as a starter for dinner on a warm summer evening..
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Calcium
High Fiber
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Cholesterol
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 85 min.
Step 1
To prepare soup: Toast cumin in a small skillet over low heat, stirring, until just fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
Step 2
Combine tomatoes, onion, 2 tablespoons cilantro and chipotle in a blender or food processor. Puree until smooth. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the toasted cumin, corn, ice water, lime juice and salt; stir to combine. Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour or until ready to serve.
Step 3
To prepare cilantro yogurt: Puree yogurt and the remaining 1/4 cup cilantro in a blender or food processor until smooth. Refrigerate until ready to serve (it will thicken slightly as it stands).
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To serve, divide the soup among 4 bowls and garnish each with a generous swirl of cilantro yogurt.
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Frost brings banking, money management to UTSA
(Aug. 21, 2008)--Managing your financial life is about to become more convenient at UTSA. Beginning Aug. 25, a new Frost financial center will open in the University Center along the paseo on the 1604 Campus. Frost officials are planning a weeklong series of events for early September to celebrate the grand opening of the center.
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A San Antonio institution for 140 years, Frost is the first bank to operate at UTSA. The financial center will tailor financial solutions for the individual financial needs of students, faculty and staff.
The UTSA community and friends can utilize these services at UTSA's Frost financial center:
- Use the ATM.
- Open an account.
- Learn how Frost can help you understand money management to achieve your financial success.
- Receive a free financial analysis for retirement, investments and savings planning.
"Having a bank on campus will add convenience to my daily routine," said Lauren Barr, a UTSA interior design student. "Knowing that Frost is at UTSA should make it easier to manage my money."
"We are very pleased to be able to provide additional conveniences such as a full-service bank in the University Center," said Lowa Mwilambwe, University Center director. "One of our goals is to provide members of the university community with on-campus services that meet their needs."
"We're excited to serve as students' financial coaches, offering money management tips and strategies to help them plan for a bright future," said Courtney Zinsmeyer, Frost's UTSA financial center manager.
The Frost financial center hours will be 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday-Friday; the ATM will be accessible until midnight.


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August 15 morning update:
65 percent containment of 12,336 acres. There are a number of unburned islands within the containment zones which will continue to burn. Heavy smoke is expected to continue and firefighters are concerns about the high pressure system building over the area today and through the weekend. This warming trend and winds could spur the fire activity and embers and burning debris could jump containment lines causing spot fires outside the containment zones. Evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation warnings.
1,844 fire personnel are still assigned to the fire and cost of firefighting efforts are now at $30.1 million.
While the Lodge Complex fire continues to burn, reaching 11,900 acres, at 55 percent contained on Thursday morning, firefighters are gaining confidence in their containment lines.
This is leading to more southbound fire engines heading south on Highway 101, as the Lodge Complex's incident command has peeled off about 100 persons to other fires raging across the state. Though the fire broke through containment lines on the eastern edge, and spread to the east, cooler weather and increased humidity have aided firefighters in bringing the fire under control, though smoky skies persist through the area.
Hazardous smoke conditions prevail in the area. Particulate concentrations are considered unhealthy for sensitive groups when visibility is reduced to between 3 and 5 miles; unhealthy for anyone when it is between 1.5 and 2.7 miles; very unhealthy is 1 to 1.25 miles and hazardous to less than 1 mile. One of the first recommendations for smoky conditions is to go indoors and limit the amount of outside air entering the residence.
The Mendocino County Public Health officer has recommended all individuals, especially the elderly, individuals with cardiac or respiratory disease and anyone else who is especially sensitive to air pollution should avoid any outdoor activities during unhealthy smoke concentrations. The elderly and small children in arease of heavy smoke accumulations should consider leaving the smoky area altogether.
The interior sections of the fire will continue to burn even after the fire is contained. In many cases the fire is not actually extinguished until the winter rains. As a result smoke may remain in the area for some time.
Areas on the northern flank of the fire are still under an evacuation order.
Fighting wild fires differs significantly from battling a home fire. In a home fire, firefighters attempt to put out a fire directly, with wildland fires firefighters concentrate on containing a fire's spread, ensuring that it does not move into areas where it might threaten people and structures, or become so big that it gets out of hand.
They do this by building containment lines dictated in a large part on terrain. Sometimes in the most rugged places this means sending in, or even dropping in, hand-crews who cut lines and clear brush by hand. When terrain and road access allow, this could mean sending in bulldozers, generally using existing or old logging roads, to clear a defensible space. Depending again on terrain, this could also mean stringing these dozer lines with hose. In the case of the Lodge Complex Fire this has meant laying 56 miles of hose along ridgelines in remote rugged terrain.
With hose lines, dozer lines and cleared space in place, firefighters will often set small controlled burns to "reduce the fuel load" between their established line and the approaching fire.
These sorts of operations can amount to significant impacts on the land, and when they occur on federally protected, or privately held wilderness, quick decisions have to be made balancing the impact of firefighting operations and the impact of the fire itself.
The Lodge Complex Fire has encroached on the UC Angelo Reserve, a wilderness conservancy owned and managed by UC Berkeley. Firefighters have been closely working with the UC system, through reserve manager Peter Steel, who lives on site, to balance these impacts and ensure that the fire is both fought effectively, and that fire suppression measures minimally harm wilderness areas.
The mixed interests, of regulations and overlapping jurisdictions, from private timberlands to federally protected BLM land, in the words of Steel, "Makes for a very complex decision making process."
Every morning at 10 a.m. CalFire and local departments hold a "cooperators meeting" at the Laytonville firehouse, where representatives of the various agencies share information and plan the day's efforts. Present are representatives from BLM, CalFire, the Mendocino Redwood Company, Campbell Global Timber, the Cahto Tribe, Laytonville Fire, the Laytonville Water District, Cal OES, the Red Cross and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
Steel is enthusiastic about the interaction between local and state officials, "These meetings have been great, there's a lot of good information that's shared back and forth."
At various points in the effort Steel has made different authorizations abou how to proceed within the preserve, but on the whole both Calfire and Steel are happy with their levels of cooperation.
As Koby Johns, a Calfire public information officer explains, "One of the bench marks for us is if the community would have us back."
"So if at the end of this thing the community goes, 'You know what? They kept us informed, they worked with us, they learned our names, they figured out what was important. And you know what, next time we have one of those things we sure hope it's team four.'"
In terms of just what the Angelo Reserve considers when managing fire, Steel explains, "When a fire comes through your natural instinct is to let it burn, because that's a natural process, it's part of nature, and it's a process that has been eliminated in several places by fire suppression. But there's a lot of other considerations like, who your neighbors are, and how long do you want to keep breathing smoke."
The amount of fuel available for fire, which in layman terms just means the amount of brush and trees, is among the most important factors in the intensity and size of a fire.
Prior to large scale suppression efforts forests in Northern California often saw a small brush fire every few decades. These fires had the effect of keeping brush low, and regulating the density and types of trees present.
Fire suppression over the past 100 years has meant that many forests in the state are exceptionally dense with brush. In addition, the mix of saplings and grown trees that have resulted create a kind of ladder effect, where a young sapling growing near an older tree will give fire a way to climb up to the tops of larger trees creating the devastating crown-fires or crown-runs that result in truly huge fires.
Once the fire has been completely contained the full-court press of hundreds of firefighters manning the lines, and pushing back on the fire, will begin to ease, but this doesn't mean that the work is over. The local departments will continue to suppress the fire, using infrared cameras to fly over and look for hotspots which can then be attacked with water dropping helicopters.
After the fire come rehabilitation efforts. The burned out hillsides are more prone to mudslides and erosion, and the dozer lines, necessary for stopping the fire from spreading, can exacerbate these problems once the rainy season arrives. As a result CalFire has developed procedures for returning to the lines and putting in "erosion control features." This mostly involves redirecting water so that it can't gather enough speed to really cause the erosion of hillsides. Rehabilitation does not focus on the damage done by the fire itself, but instead on any secondary damage caused to the land by the firefighting efforts.


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Torture collar. (XV.4)
Torture collar. (XV.4)
The mechanisms of a torture collar. (XV.4)
Carved wooden head of Henry VIII. English, about 1689-91 (XVII.1)
Date: 1547 | Object number: xv.4
|Object Provenance:
|16th Century, English
|Object Number:
|4.54 kg (10 lb)
Iron restraining collar which may be the 'stele color for a prysonr' listed in the inventory of Henry VIII's possessions drawn up after his death in 1547. It consists of two iron semi-circles which lock together at the back and front. When fully dismantled, the two semi-circles break down further into inner and outer plates. The plates are held together from the inside by a series of iron studs, the exterior surface being smooth. The upper and lower edges of the collar have six pyramidal spikes extending from them – the combination of the spikes and studs would greatly increase the discomfort for the wearer. The collar was formerly filled with lead, but this has now been removed.
In the seventeenth century, the collar was thought to have been captured from the Spaniards at the time of the Armada (1588), but by Boreman's Guidebook in 1741 it was shown as part of the Horse Armoury:
'Eleventh, is an ill favoured old instrument, called the collar of torment, which we are told was formerly put about the necks of such women as either proved false to their husbands beds, or took too great a freedom with their tongues. But long this collar has aside been cast. Sure! They are now less noisy, and more chaste.'
Surprisingly grown-up content as the two- volume set was intended for childish consumption.
Later guidebooks for adults continued in the same vein. Newbery and Carnan 1768 described p.12 a collar of torment used formerly to be put about the women's neck that 'cuckolded …or scolded' their husbands. The custom lapsed as there were not enough smiths to make them 'as most married men are sure to want them at some time or another'. Nineteenth century women finally rebelled, and an 1810 guide admitted 'These were found of no effect, for our women, possessing the spirit of liberty, made every man who used them pay dear for his presumption, by increasing the cause of his complaint'.
In the 1998 re-display it formed part of the Spanish Armoury display in the White Tower crypt, and was part of the Lower Bowyer 'Torture and Punishment' exhibits in the 1980s.
Collars, also called jougs, were used as a form of public punishment in the 16th and 17th centuries sometimes in the same way as stocks. The collar could be attached to a chain or post and the wearer was subject to public ridicule and abuse for a specified period. The weight of the collar combined with the studs and spikes made it a very uncomfortable experience whether a public or private penance.
|Object Provenance:
|16th Century, English
|Object Number:
|4.54 kg (10 lb)


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Watching the way the English bowlers were able to stifle the New Zealand batsmen in the first half of the ODI in Napier made me highly aware of the threat they possess in the test matches and how clear in approach the New Zealand top order will need to be to combat them.
New Zealand's batting approach for 30 overs of that ODI was to be conservative and it didn't work. It wasn't until Brendon McCullum took it to them and took risks that any ascendancy was gained. However, the problem is that you can't play like McCullum did in tests and 300 runs are not enough.
That will be the challenge once more; to find a way to keep the total moving while playing with an acceptable level of risk. In South Africa, against a quality attack, you could see the focus of the batsmen was to defend, bat as long as possible, and graft ... and it didn't work. That approach is not right for the current team.
The attack of James Anderson, Stephen Finn, Stuart Broad and Graham Swann is not so far removed from Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander, Morne Morkel and Robin Peterson.
It may lack a little pace but not by much, it definitely doesn't lack bounce, it has swing and just as much accuracy.
It's important that the New Zealand batsmen learn from South Africa and don't let this attack squeeze the life out them. Believe me, I've been there and it doesn't work. You simply become a wicket in waiting and 400-plus is out of the question.
For this reason I once again make the plea for Brendon McCullum to open in the tests because he has had the South African experience and BJ Watling may not be a bad option to take on the opening role once more. He has a reasonable handle on the tempo required. Two new openers will not have the harrowing experience in the republic to learn from.
The biggest threat should come from James Anderson. He has forged an exceptional career and is now fifth on the England list of test wicket takers ... and moving ever higher. Why is he so good? Well, he's about 6 foot 2, bowls in the high 130s and sometimes into the mid-140s.
He's effective at slower speeds because he has impeccable accuracy now. He makes people play and gets just enough in the air and off the pitch, all done off an economical shorter run ... does that remind you of anyone in particular? Sir Richard Hadlee anyone? I know, in this country, I've just made a sacrilegious statement but right now, at this stage of his career, I see similarities to the great man.
Okay, if I've offended you golden oldies then he's got a lot of Vernon Philander about his delivery - and we all know how much trouble he has given us.


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