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Asset-Backed Carnage, Part 2
On Tuesday, we looked at the bankruptcy of Criimi Mae (NYSE: CMM) and the balance sheet issues that affected the company. The contention that the company was just fine and dandy except for getting shafted by its creditors and trading partners has been put forth, but that misses the point of the business model and the risk to investors. If you build your business model on making a spread on constantly turning lower-quality securities through your balance sheet, you end up down the creek without a paddle if you can't turn your balance sheet any longer.
One money manager sent me a note explaining the difference between now and the days when lots of businesses trading this sort of stuff got rolling. He explained, as a former credit analyst before going elsewhere in the investing world, that he covered "...high-grade financial services and CMBS [collateralized mortgage-backed securities] and asset-backed credits. Back in those days (1992 - 1995) the lower-rated CMBS tranches would trade at rich spreads with prepayment lock-outs and make-whole provisions to entice portfolio managers looking for bullet paper to buy this stuff. A BBB-rated CMBS deal with good property diversification and good geographic dispersion would trade at a spread premium to a liquid BB-rated high-yield deal. Thus you could buy higher credit quality at a larger spread than corporates. All the RTC deals that came to market in 1990 - 1995 were just fire sales and all this paper was stupid cheap. Anyway, I guess those days are gone."
Enter the real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the last couple years that couldn't come to market quickly enough. With the imprimatur of all the popular investment magazines and the image of stodgy investments for older folks, the outperformance and the high yield of these securities drew in momentum players and safety investors alike. However, many of these companies were like having your own personal trading desk. When things are going right, you're the rig. When they're not, you eat the diminishment in capital. In the case of Criimi Mae, the company's leverage didn't increase this year and, in fact, had dropped through the end of the first half of the year.
It wasn't so much leverage per se that killed the company. Leverage is a fine thing when assets are stupid cheap. But when your assets are growing at better than a 100% annualized clip and those assets are being acquired at super premium pricing (and thus a deteriorating margin of safety), all it takes is a downturn in the market for those assets to nuke your balance sheet.
One of the most interesting cases in the mortgage investment trust world this year is Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT), which has certainly had a rough go of it in 1998 but exercised admirable caution earlier this year when it said it didn't like what it was seeing in mortgage pricing. In the middle of a raging bull market in equities, it is pretty interesting to see a company pull back, sacrifice near-term earnings growth, and exercise some caution when it doesn't like what it sees. Not that Redwood Trust is out of the woods, but its credit quality is much different from Criimi Mae, which is loaded with subordinated credits that are priced in extremely illiquid markets.
But moving on to a different component of the asset-backed world, the last year has seen some spectacular blowups in the mortgage lending world as the result of what one could presume to be a more rational approach to pricing business models. Amazing how a liquidity crisis can force that rationality. Before we get to that kind of business model, we need to establish a framework for looking at lending in the late 1990s.
We already know that lending to plain vanilla mortgage borrowers is a tough game. If it were easy, then we would have never had S&Ls blow up in the 1970s, seek regulatory relief, get that "relief," and then blow up in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Anyway, you can't be a mortgage lender using just equity and expect to build shareholder value, because you'll never get the return on investment that equity investors demand. You have to use generous amounts of leverage to generate a return to equity holders, and there you get into the dangerous waters of interest rate risks, not to mention default risks. If you mismatch maturities and credit terms of your portfolio versus the terms of your liabilities badly enough, you can set a clock to the time expected for your equity to collapse.
So what's the best way to go about mortgage lending? That's right, get the government to insure it. Take the credit risk almost completely out of the picture, and you get Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE). You get a lower nominal interest rate on your mortgage, but you also get a larger federal budget and more taxes. What's the best way to offset the higher tax bill if you are an older person who has already paid off the mortgage? Invest in these government-sponsored entities. Yup, for every dollar of equity these companies have in use, they hold $25 to $30 in assets. No problem if you make $0.008 yearly for every dollar in assets, because with 25x to 30x leverage, that turns into $0.20 to $0.24 in earnings for every dollar of equity. Can't beat that, especially if you were smart enough to acquire these companies at a low multiple to book value.
OK, so you've got this huge force out there that acts as a lender to all the good credits in the U.S. and which can finance its operations through the securitization process. If you want to be a mortgage lender, there are a few options. You can run a plain vanilla business and have an extremely low overhead and generate a middling return on equity. Or you can run a plain vanilla business with low overhead and throw in some fee-generating services, generating a decent return on equity. Or you can build a huge infrastructure to originate the mortgages, earn a little money on the origination, get it off the balance sheet via securitization, and earn money by servicing those loans for the benefit of the investors buying into those securitization trusts. And then repeat ad infinitum.
You can also find some niches where this huge mortgage force doesn't operate. And you can go out on the credit quality spectrum -- anywhere from borrowers with a good credit history needing a high loan-to-value (the amount of the value versus the amount of the asset being acquired) loan all the way out to people with bad credit, bad prospects, and no collateral. But don't forget to charge them a huge interest rate.
We'll look at those scenarios on Tuesday in Asset-Backed Carnage, Part 3.


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Arsène Wenger believes Arsenal fans will see a better Eduardo next season.
The striker has had a stop-start season due to injuries to his hamstring, thigh and most recently a broken toe.
It has also been the Croatian's first full season since returning from the broken leg he suffered at Birmingham City two years ago and manager Wenger is backing him to return to his best next term.
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Raise the window the tempera paint design is on and place a drop cloth or piece of plastic sheeting on the window's ledge. Lower the window.
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Dip a cloth or rag in the vinegar solution and wring out excess. Scrub the tempera paint design with the mixture-soaked cloth or rag.
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Tensions were high as feuding Republicans faced off on Jan. 31 across House Speaker Newt Gingrich's conference table. After months of bickering over landmark legislation to deregulate the telecommunications industry, Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi bluntly told his colleagues: "There's got to be a point when you close this thing." Twenty minutes later, Lott had forged a compromise that Congress overwhelmingly approved the next day. "Trent did a terrific job," marvels Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.).
Lott has been closing lots of deals lately. With Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole busy running for President, Lott--the No.2 Republican--has become the Senate's chief traffic cop, troubleshooter, and head-knocker. His recent successes include House and Senate agreements on line-item veto powers, product-liability reform, and regulatory relief for small business. Lott's secret? "He's tireless in trying to bring together people whose views are not totally the same," says GOP Chairman Haley Barbour, a fellow Mississippian.
Helping Dole put legislative points on the board has not only bolstered the Kansan's White House bid but has enhanced the odds that Lott, 54, will become the next GOP Senate leader. But his ascendancy is intensifying intraparty tensions between Lott's own crowd--largely younger, hard-line Sunbelt conservatives--and Dole's camp of moderates and conservative insiders. If Lott gets the top job, it would symbolize a fundamental change among Senate Republicans from old-line moderation to the new, more activist conservatism already dominant in the House of Representatives. (Lott would have to prevail in a secret-ballot election that would be held in early December if Dole is elected President.)
DEFICIT HAWK. Lott has never been in Dole's inner circle. Instead, he is close to Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), an erstwhile Dole rival for the Republican nomination. In 1988, he endorsed Presidential candidate Jack F. Kemp. And he won his leadership job in 1994 by toppling Dole pal Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.).
Managing conflict is a lifetime specialty for Lott, son of a shipyard worker and schoolteacher. He often tells the story of how, as a boy, he mediated family arguments between his parents, who later divorced. In 1968, after getting hooked on politics while attending the University of Mississippi, Lott joined the staff of Representative William M. Colmer, conservative Democratic chair of the House Rules Committee. When Colmer retired in 1972, his 31-year-old aide ran for the seat and won--as a Republican.
Lott quickly rose to prominence as one of Richard M. Nixon's vocal defenders during House impeachment hearings. A leader of the GOP's conservative Young Turks, he became House GOP whip in 1980, a post he held until winning a Senate seat in 1988. Although an outspoken deficit hawk, Lott has been a fierce defender of federal spending for defense and shipbuilding in his home state. "If people want to call that pork, I plead guilty," he says. But irate Democrats say Lott's appetite for pork reveals a key political flaw. "It's the height of hypocrisy to say that you deliver for your state but to be against spending in the rest of the country," says Democratic consultant Kiki Moore.
Some Republicans gripe that Lott's ambition can get the best of him. Critics complain that he at first promised not to challenge Simpson, then reversed course. "That's true," he admits. But when the GOP captured Congress, "the world changed," he explains.
In the coming race to succeed Dole, Lott and Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma are gearing up for battle: Last year, their political leadership committees dispensed more than $150,000 to GOP Senate candidates. Lott concedes that "it's not healthy to campaign for Bob Dole's job when Bob Dole is still in it." But the majority whip does everything with gusto, whether it's cutting deals or crooning as part of the Vocal Majority, a quartet of senators that made its Kennedy Center debut last year. Lott, a deep bass, got rave reviews for his performance. Now, it's his colleagues' applause he's seeking.


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Breaking It Down
Posted by Paul Andrew in Communication, Leadership, The Leadership Coach™
I have a love/hate relationship with IKEA. On the one hand they sell exceptionally cost-effective furnishings that can often look good for the price. On the other hand I so often find that the frustration of dealing with their products overshadows the money I save.
Take the shelving system I bought last weekend for example: they didn't include the screws needed for attaching the shelves. Worse though, when I opened the "instructions" what I actually found was simply a picture of the parts and then a picture of the finished product. No steps. What could have been a simple assembly process turned into trial and error, hours of aggravation, and the inevitable discovery at the end that I had some pieces left over whose purpose remains unknown.
• As a leader, is your vision an "IKEA instructions experience" for your team?
• Do people around you seem to spend a lot of time trying to clarify what you see or what they're supposed to achieve next?
• Do you convey a big picture outline sketch of the finished product you see, then direct people back to a list of resources and leave them to "figure it out"?
• Do projects take much longer than you think they should?
Maybe this is an opportunity to ask whether or not you're taking the time to break it down for your team.
Like it or not, most team members need both the vision and the next steps. This is not about micro-managing. And it's not an anti-vision message either. In fact, if you can't show people a vision of what you're trying to build then all the steps in the world may be nothing more than "busy work"… or as the old adage goes, "climbing the ladder, only to find it's leaning against the wrong wall".
But let's face it – it's faster and more fun to come up with ideas than it is to break those ideas down into a plan that people can actually execute. I've consulted with organisations that clearly had "vision fatigue" – the cumulative effect of endless ideas and initiatives that rarely get executed. Whether it's you, or someone else whose gift is turning ideas into plans, don't underestimate the price we pay for not translating all that possibility into steps our team can actually take.
So if there's an aspect of your vision that seems to have stalled why not take some time this week with a few of your top producers to break it down. Create a plan. Lay out a sequence of steps. Clarify the starting point. Set some milestones. Then see if pictures and plans produce better results than pictures alone.
I'd love to hear your comments and feel free to use the links below to share this article with others
5 Responses to "Breaking It Down"
Dean Evans
05. Nov, 2010
Hi Paul,
I recall the story you told in the "Fast Track" series about your handyman skills so perhaps the shelves just brought up old demons??
The other take on this might be that, if like IKEA, the only tool you offer staff to solve/fix/build something is an allen key then you take away all those steps before the final product that help to forge a sense of togetherness and teamwork.
IKEA is still good for a cheap breakfast!
05. Nov, 2010
G'day Paul
Its good to know that I'm not the only one who has experienced the IKEA meltdown.
As the director of my firm, you've reminded me again today to 'break it down' to our team.
A great reminder!
Yvonne Xavier
06. Nov, 2010
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the article. It is so easy to see the goal or end product and forget the need to break it down into the steps required to get there, Thanks for the reminder
It's amazing how are experiences become a great teaching tool.
God Bless
Paul Andrew
09. Nov, 2010
Great comments everyone. And Stuart I'm glad it helped- sometimes that's an opportunity to ask the "end users" what it was like to use our "instructions" and what they wish was include
November 4, 2010
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I went on 2 20mi rides this weekend using the fanny pack option. (Still no permit so weighed it down with wallet, phone, etc). This seems to work ok - I thought it was going to get annoying pulling at my waist, but wasn't so. After some bumps I had to pull up and readjust, sometimes tighten a bit at stops until I got it right.
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Some roadies probably frown on the fanny pack look, just like some think a camelbak on a road bike is a fashion "faux pas" (yet ok for mountain bike). But I don't care, and neither do the folks I ride with.
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The number one question I get here in Vancouver about figure skating is, "Who do you think will win the ladies competition?"
My answer: "Kim Yu-Na of South Korea is the one to beat."
Kim Yu-Na leads a super deep field of women in the upcoming ladies' competition. She is the reigning World Champion, Grand Prix Final Champ, and has looked the best of any other women this season. She's artistic, elegant, graceful, athletic: everything the judges are looking for in a skater. Key for her will be hitting her triple lutz/triple toe combo and landing her triple flip which has given her trouble this season.
She will be pushed by the Japanese team, however, which boasts two former World Champions. Miki Ando was the 2007 World Champion and Mao Asada was the 2008 World Champion. They are joined by Akiko Suzuki, who was the Bronze Medalist at this year's Grand Prix Final. All three ladies come with unique abilities. Miki Ando, while not as artistic, is a great technician with solid triple jumps. Mao Asada will be the first women to try a three triple axels in competition. If she hits them she'll be in the hunt for the Gold Medal. Akiko Suzuki comes armed with charm and showmanship that can win any crowd over.
Canada's Joannie Rochette will attempt to spoil the party and bring home gold on home soil. She is the reigning World Silver Medalist and recently had the skate of her life at the Canadian National Championships.
Two American women will try to sneak in for a medal. National Champion Rachael Flatt, who actually beat Kim Yu-Na in the free skate portion of the competition at Skate America last November, and Mirai Nagasu, the 2008 U.S. National Champion.
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In 1589, when he had reached his twenty-fourth year, he had probably been several years at sea.
The three regiments parading were the Eighth, Ninth and twenty-fourth.
The twenty-fourth of December came, and our hero's heart beat high, half with joy, half with apprehension.
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I am trying to understand the order of fax protocol selection. For example, lets take a PSTN gateway that is MGCP enabled. Fax passthrough, T38 relay and Cisco fax relay are enabled. Which protocol will be used to negotiate with the far end device first(ATA, vg248 etc) ? Is there a particular order in which negotiation takes place ?
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A superb 1855 walnut frame with a gold inner crosswork that would hold 4 quarter plates or CDVs. It is 10 x 12 inches od. and has (4) 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches pic. size.
Best - A beautiful two-tone mahogany example sized to hold a small, oil portrait or daguerreotype photograph from 1840-1850. 7 1/4 x 7 1/2" od.
Best - A beautiful three-tone mahogany & maple example with the finest grade mahogany ca. 1840. It is 21 x 29" od, 11 3/4 x 19 3/4" inside
Better - An 1840s-50 mahogany veneer. It is 12 7/8 x 15" od. Good - An 1840s-50 mahogany veneer. This type of hanger (on top) was phased out by the mid-1850s. It is 13 1/2 x 16 1/2" od. often called Currier & Ives-type frame.
Best - An 1850s English rosewood piece with exceptional graining and a gilded liner. The frame is 15 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches outside and holds an image that is 10 3/4 x 13 inches. Better - A mid-1850s gutta percha photo frame with an ambrotype of a sign painter. The frame is 5 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches outside and holds an image that is 3 1/4 x 4 inches.
Better - 1860s gutta percha with a mourning drape design. It was made to hold a CDV image. The carte-de-visite was introduced in the very late 1850s. By 1860, it was the photograph format of choice and images were made by the millions. Better - 1860s gutta percha with a flower design. It was made to hold a CDV image.
The 1850s brought in a refinement of the earlier styles. You will find that many antique dealers use the term "ogee" too freely when describing wood-veneer frames. Actual ogee pieces have an "S" curve in the wood.
Better to Best - An ogee mahogany and walnut piece made to hold 4 CDV photographs. Made in the late 1850s to 1860s. It is 14 1/2 x 16 1/2" od. Better - An unusual carved walnut example to hold an oval photograph. Made in the 1860s. It is 13 x 18 1/2" od.
Better - A gilded, wood frame from the 1850s. These are described as "honey-colored" or "lemon-gilded" frames. They are actively sought by collectors. 11 3/4 x 15 3/4" od.
Better - A lemon-gilded wood example from the 1850s. They often show wear, but this just adds to their honest history. 11 1/2 x 15 1/2" od.
Better - A nice wood, outside boarder, inside mound, with feet, nice site edge. Similar-to-an-ogee, Pennsylvania mahogany veneer & faux bois frame from the 1850s. It has nice wood and is 17 x 22" od., 14 x 19.25" inside. Better - A nice wood, outside boarder, inside mound, with feet. Similar-to-an-ogee, Pennsylvania mahogany veneer frame from the 1850s. It has nice wood and is 17 x 22 1/2" od., 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 inside.
Best - Ogee pieces can be found in many grades of wood. The better the quality of the wood, the better the piece. A high quality, ogee, mahogany-veneer frame from the 1850s-1860s. It is 20 1/8 x 22 1/8" od. Best - A similar-to-an-ogee mahogany and walnut-veneer frame from the 1850s-1860s. It has great wood and is 18 3/4 x 25 1/4" od.
Best - A ogee mahogany-veneer frame from the 1850s-1860s. It has great wood and is 21 3/4 x 30 3/4" outside and 13 1/4 x 22 1/4" inside.
Best - The highest quality, ogee, mahogany-veneer piece from the 1850s-1860s. The wood is richly figured and artfully assembled. It is 14 3/8 x 16 1/4" od. Better - An ogee, mahogany-veneer with a tiger-stripe faux bois application on the inner and outer edges from the 1850s-1860s. It is 17 x 22" od.
Better - An unusual, fruitwood, ogee piece from the 1850s-1860s. 10 1/2 x 11" od. Better - A nice quality, ogee mahogany-veneer-from the 1850s-1860s. It is 8 1/2 x 9 1/2" od.
Better - A heavy piece with gilded flowers from about 1860. It is 14 x 16" outside and has an 8 x 10" rabbet.
With the coming of the 1860s, American frame makers began to rely upon the more readily available supply of walnut wood for their frames. There is no shortage of good walnut frames available to the collector. They can be found in all sizes. Look for good quality in the gilded finish of the "sight" (the inner edge of the frame that touches the picture).
Good - Walnut with a decorated sight from the 1860s. 11 1/2 x 13 3/4" od. Good - Walnut with a plain sight from the 1860s. 14 x 17" od.
Good - An unusual walnut, arched example from the 1860s-1870s. 11 3/8 x 13 3/8" od. Good - Walnut with a decorated sight from the 1860s. 15 3/8 x 17 5/8" od.
Better - A rustic, branch, mahogany example from the 1860s. It is 11 3/4 x 14 3/4" od. Best - A walnut, rustic piece with a decorated inner molding is from the 1860s. This is a rare frame because of the decoration on the gilded area. A naturalist movement was beginning the art world in the mid-1860s and this design was supposed to represent pebbles at the bottom of a stream. The style was gone by the end of the 1860s. It is 11 x 12 1/2" od.
Best - Like a 4 tier birthday cake, this beautiful, deep, walnut example is a piece of folk art. It dates to the late 1860s, possibly early 1870s. It is 17 1/2 x 15 5/8" outside dimension, image size is 10 x 12".
Better - Walnut with a gilded sight from the late 1860s. The carved & decorated wood gives it leg up on most walnut examples. It is 12 3/4 x 14 3/4" od. Good - Walnut made up with crisscross pieces with porcelain buttons from the late 1860s-1870s. 15 x 17" od.
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Melbourne Flatpickers Group
The MFG is community based non-profit organisation with the goal of providing a meeting place for acoustic flatpicking guitar players of all levels to share information relating to flatpicking.
We meet on the first Monday of the month at the Princess Park Carlton Bowling Club - 109 Bowen Cres Princes Hill Parkville Cnr Park St and opposite the lake - parking is good.
The next meeting of the MFG is on the first Monday of the month (except January) at 7:30pm at Princess Park Bowling Club
What's New...
2015 - Is it March already? There will be no MFG meeting in April as our normal meeting date falls on Easter Sunday.
11/9/14 - We had a great meeting last month. A great mixture of tunes and songs including a new tune Kim brought back from the States (Devil ate the Groundhog) which I'll send a tab out before the next meeting.
8/7/14 - The Webmaster is back! Hopefully things will stay up to date a little more now!
Here's some info re new tunes...
Angeline the Baker:
Here's a beginner's version from a pickin' buddy of mine, Heath Joyce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGXhCq1A5Cg
And for the more advanced who would like a bit of a challenge, Banjo Ben comes through again with free instruction on a great rendition using all soughts of techniques which we can discus at the meeting if there is interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdQdVTbRsk
Red Haired Boy:
Banjo Ben with some nice tips for the A part in G Major (Capo 2 for playing with fiddles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji7w6f1mJbM
Gary Tremel in G Major with some nice basic variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGgTis7Pjo
Keep up the practice as the festival season will arrive soon . . .Kevin Parsell
2/6/14: A great night at the June MFG meeting. The quality of the playing improves everytime! Jerusalem Ridge and Daley's Reel are now embedded in the repertoire and our new tune for the next meeting is Cherokee Shuffle in A Major. I'll send out a few versions a week before the next meeting. Meanwhile here are some Texas Swing progressions in G Major that work behind tunes like Bitter Creek and the Song Stay all Night (Tab Section)
16/10/13: Great session last month - eight pickers which seems like a nice size so everyone gets involved - Kev
7/6/13: Please Note - We have changed the regular day from Wednesday to Monday. That is the first Monday of the month. Next meeting is as above.
7/5/13: Great picking session last night - around 14 pickers!
Also Tennessee Waltz tab and mp3 posted on the relevant pages - Courtesy of Tony O'Rourke.
3/3/13: Devil's Dream and Jim Connolly's Jig tab posted on tab page.
12/2/13: Video for Jim Connoly's Jig available on the videos page. Courtesy of Kev P and Tony O.
6/12/2012: Message from Steve Kaufman in the USA -
"Hi All
Anything I can do to help the flatpickers of OZ?
I have some youtube stuff called Flatpicking Lick tricks if you want to use them search Steve Kaufman lick trick"
(these are great by the way - I had a look at a few of them already - MW)
29/11/2012: Video Lessons for Mississippi Sawyer and Basic Bluegrass Soloing System added courtesy of Kev Parsell. See the videos page.
28/11/2012: Tabs up for Eighth of January and an mp3 courtesy of Tony O'Rourke. Also tab for Cattle in the Cane and a video link to the video of Cattle in the Cane courtesy of Kev Parsell.
14/11/2012: Big Sandy River - Tabs and mp3 from Tony O'Rourke.
11//11/2012: Whiskey Before Beakfast mp3 and tabs from Tony O'Rourke. Mp3 is on the mp3's page, tabs are on the tabs page.
9/11/2012: New .mp3 of Beaumont Rag recorded and tabbed by Tony O'Rourke. Mp3 is on the mp3's page, tab is on the tabs page
31/10/2012: There are new links on the links page to some very fine internet resources including two ripper versions of Whiskey Before Breakfast - One by Orrin Starr and another by Norman Blake
31/10/2012: Tab is up for Mississippi Sawyer on the tabs page.
Make sure you check out Kev Parsell's great videos on the videos page.
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Addresses academic and professional issues related to the study and practice of I-O psychology. Topics to be addressed include historical foundations of the field, links between I-O psychology and psychological science, career paths, scholarly and practitioner associations and publications, resume preparation, internship search strategies, and orientation to the M.A. program.
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What is a country's architecture? That is the question that the Venice Biennale's International Architecture Exhibition asks every two years, as any nation with the wherewithal and the will to fill either its own pavilion or a rented space in the Most Serene Republic flaunts its constructions or constructional aspirations. It is rare, though, that such displays give a true portrait of what is going on or will be built in that country. In most cases, countries show work on the margins, projects that represent their hopes or fears, or give a commentary through the medium of architecture on the state of the nation.
This year's architecture biennale is, despite its emphasis on "common ground" and its call for a return of the real, no different. That is to a large extent a function of the fact that the biennale's director, though he or she can set a theme, doesn't control these spaces. I will not dwell on the many boring displays of earnest construction that fill many country's spaces (though I will note that the American pavilion once again exhibits our lack of investment or concern about how we appear by showing countless very nice projects on pulldown panels that made it impossible to truly enjoy or understand them), and only note some of my favorites.
First, there is the Dutch Pavilion. Having been commissioner for the Gerrit Rietveld–designed space three times, I was especially delighted by the clarity of this year's entry. In "Re-set," the whole building is empty save for a curtain with various geometric patterns that moves on mechanized tracks throughout the space. In a programmed rhythm, the pavilion becomes one, two, three, four, or five spaces. It recalls the moving walls in Rietveld's most famous design, the 1923 Schroeder House. Designer Petra Blaise did Rietveld proud.
The official Italian pavilion, which is usually a disaster of calls for monumentality and vernacular mindlessness, this year is only half that. The other half consists of a moss and fern garden, creating a green alternative to the dusty halls around it. One corner of the space shows a film about the industrialist Olivetti's ill-fated foray into politics. The connection is a bit obtuse, but the combination of forest oasis and a bit of history offered an alternative view of Italy's past and, perhaps, future. The green patch has a counterpart in the Angolan pavilion on San Giorgio Maggiore, where Stefano Rabolli and Paula Nascimento have created a forest of fast-growing grasses in a wing of the Cini Foundation to illustrate their proposal to plant such patches to clean air and water in Luanda.
The Polish pavilion is empty, or so it seems. Katarzyna Krakowiak, in "Making the wall quake as if they [sic] were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers," has not only plastered the walls, she has also tilted them slightly, and inserted a wood floor. He then worked with Ralf Meinz and Andrzej Klosak to explore and enhance the room's acoustic properties, amplifying random sounds to create an atmosphere you only hear, but which changes everything about the space.
The Russian pavilion exhibits the plans for Skolkovo, a new city for which I am on the Supervisory Council. I will not comment on what was on display, but the mechanism is ingenious: walls and a complete dome are covered with QR codes; you receive a tablet at the entry, and view the projects by activating the codes. It is a bit of magic that I hope will someday be matched by the appearance of the buildings there.
I enjoyed the trinkets for sale in the Israeli pavilion, the high-tech green displays in the Spanish pavilion, and some of the experimental work, as well as the architect-designed fussball games at the Australian pavilion. The Golden Lion, awarded for best country participation, went to Japan, where Toyo Ito has installed hand-built models that help inhabitants understand how the areas devastated by the tsunami can be rebuilt. This is architecture at its most sincere and honest, but the forms in which it appears is affecting and, in the lack of polish, a welcome alternative to the rigidity and heaviness dominating the biennale's official section.


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Habanero Hot Pepper Sauce Recipe
The Habanero pepper is favorite choice of many pepper lovers because of its delicate fruity and almost citrus flavor. It has a decent heat level that brings a lot of flavor but nothing that is going to scorch you. It normally registers between 200,000-300,000 on the SHU. Hot sauce made from the Habanero has good flavor and here is a recipe that really enhances the fruit flavor of the pepper along with orange.
This recipe will be great for dipping or making some awesome wings. Give it a try. This is a super easy recipe to make so you can be enjoying it in a flash.
Habanero Hot Sauce Recipe
3 large tomatoes, chopped
2 large Habanero chili peppers, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/3 to 1/4 cup water
3 teaspoons orange juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Place chopped tomatoes, chili peppers and minced garlic into a blender container and process for 30-45 seconds until smooth. Strain mixture through a cheese cloth to remove seeds and membranes. In a large saucepan combine the blender mixture with the remaining ingredients and simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and let cool. You can use your sauce right away or refrigerate for up to one week.
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In the spring of 2008, the Bander Center conducted a survey of medical faculty, fellows, and house staff regarding their preferences for ethics CME. While many still prefer onsite lectures, a significant portion would prefer to complete CME online. Accordingly, the Bander Center has spent the past year developing an online CME module on the survey participants' first-choice topic, "Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Interactions (PPII) in Clinical Practice." Saint L:ouis University designated the module for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (TM). Read More
Bander Center to Partner with AMA for Essay Contest
To encourage scholarly inquiry into business ethics within the practice of medicine or the conduct of medical research, the Bander Center has partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) to establish the Bander Essay Contest in Medical Business Ethics. Read More
William Sage, MD, JD to be Speaker for 2009 Bander Endowed Lecture
The Bander Center is pleased to announce its 2009 endowed lecturer: William Sage, MD, JD, the University of Texas at Austin Vice Provost for Health Affairs and James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in Law. Dr. Sage will deliver a lecture entitled "Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Might Be Headed." Read More
First Year of Bander Fellowship a Success, Two More Welcomed
June marks a full year of work for the two Bander Fellows selected for 2008-2009. Miriam B. Rodin, MD, PhD, and Govind K. Nagaldinne, MBBS, both from the Department of Internal Medicine, have worked on many educational and research activities in the area of medical business ethics. Read More
Two SLU Students Edit May Issue of Virtual Mentor on Topic of "Specialty Choice and Business Decisions in Medicine"
Nathaniel Brown, a 5th year MD/PhD student currently working on his dissertation in Health Care Ethics, and Jeff, Dueker, a 1st year medical student at SLU, co-edited the May, 2009 issue of Virtual Mentor (VM), a monthly online ethics journal from the American Medical Association (AMA). Read More


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Wood container ponds?
Has anyone here built a raised wood framed container pond? I found a DIY for a small one only, but i'd like something bigger. I'm not sure how scalable this is due to the water pressure.
I'd like to make one about 18" x 30" and 20-24" deep. I'm not much of a DIY guy, but I can build a box and put a liner in it. Just wondering how it would hold up.
Whiskey / wine barrel pond? http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...82#post1734782
And was wondering if I could go a little bigger.
Wow. I want it! Very zen.
DIY instructions: http://www.bhg.com/gardening/landsca...pond-in-a-box/ It's double boxed and secured with bandings. If you go larger just secure more. Most of the water pressure will be pushing out from near the top rim. How large are you going?
You have to sign up for a stupid newsletter to acccess it tho. Oh the fish should get there today, all the other packages I sent out are out for delivery, yours hasn't updated for some reason :/
18" x 30" and 20-24" deep...or something like that.
I noticed it hadn't updated also. Making me a little nervous. I'll know in the next couple hours. Keeping my fingers crossed.
That sounds reasonable. Metal banding is the key, maybe 3-band it just to be on the safe side. If you do it, document the DIY so I can copy cat :P
Depending on the weather where you are you could always take a 40 gallon breeder (or other tank to your liking) and frame it all around with wood paneling or boards of some sort. It would be watertight and the wooden box around it would look nice.
My husband and I made a wooden pond. It's 4'x4' and 2' deep. We basically made a box from boards, lined it with OSB, painted the inside with drylok (optional, just added protection, and then lined it. We also sprayed the outside with water seal and sat it on pavers to protect it from moisture.
On any water holding rectangle or square the pressure with be strongest 1/3 and in the middle of the walls. Something I learned reseaching my rimless DIY build last year. i would build my box from 2x4"s building in support @ 1/3 from the bottom and 2/3 up. Then line the inside with 3/4" plywood using wood glue on edges and all wood to wood contact areas. Then skin the outside with 3/4" plywood. Screw the box together.
You could line it with a pond liner or saving an old swimming pool liner on trash day. There's also rubber tank, research Plywood tanks for brand names. Thatr is basically what your building Minus the window.
Material estimates $125 to $150 for the build without a liner. Two sheets of 3/4" your at $90 already plywood.
Maybe consider a Stock tank from a farm supply most are at least 100gl. Then just burry it or build around it with landscape timber of stone blocks.
OR just do this:
A rubbermaid container or stock tank seems simplest. Don't need to worry about the water pressure that way. I'm thinking I could build a frame around the tank and add an overlapping lip around the top edge to hide the sides of the tank.
I have some hardwood flooring left over from an interior project. I could skin the frame with this.
If I make it without a bottom, I could just drop it over whatever I use for a tank. Starting to sound very doable.
I appreciate the input everyone!
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I started putting something together. Trying to use all the scrap wood I have laying around.
This is what i've gotten done so far. I laid out the flooring pieces but need to pick up some trim before I cut and attach it.
Oak Hardwood floor? This will be nice enough to go in your house. :hihi:
Your "scrape" is way nicer than my scrape lumber. I built some Bonsai training boxes from old pallets.
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Students working in Latin America with Professor Rodriguez-Silva will learn about the social and cultural histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While students will follow the topic and area of their choosing, they are expected to master the main historiographical and methodological debates within this field. Major topics of analysis are the multiple forms of colonialism and imperialism, forced labor systems, processes of nation-state formation, race and ethnicity, migration and diaspora communities, and, most importantly, subaltern politics.
Division: Comparative History (Comparative Gender & Comparative Colonialisms)*
In preparing a field in Comparative Gender with Professor Rodriguez-Silva, students will learn about the history of women, the historical shifts in definitions of womanhood and masculinity among the diverse populations of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the crucial role of sexuality in the political and economic organization of colonial and national states. Students may also prepare a field in Comparative Colonialism, in which they will analyze the multiple forms of and the historical transformations in colonial relations established in the Americas since pre-Columbian times to the present.
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What Can We Hope For In Society?
by John C. Bennett
John C. Bennett was co-chairman of the Christianity and Crisis Editorial Board and president of Union Theological Seminary. He has contributed significantly to Protestant thinking on international affairs, communism, Catholicism and church relations. This article appeared in Christianity and Crisis. Copyright by Christianity and Crisis. Used with permission. It was prepared for Religion Online by John R. Bushell.
Within the past half-century, men in the Western world have plunged from the highest expectations that they have ever held concerning their future in this world to the darkest fears that they have ever known concerning that future. This change has taken place in the minds and hearts of many of us. In this country the change has been more recent than in Europe. Even now the older expectation lives on in the minds of many of the older generation who have not been able to revise their earlier hopes with consistency.
This change of outlook in regard to the future has taken place within the churches as well as in the secular mind. Liberal Christianity shared the belief in progress that came to dominate the culture. It often gave New Testament sanction to this belief by identifying the kingdom of God with a new social order in history. It is only fair, however, to recognize that much liberal Christian thought preserved some checks on this expectation.
There are at least three forms of optimistic belief in progress which we should reject.
The classical Christian teaching about the universality and persistence of sin has not been the main cause of the rejection of this sober belief in progress though it is a ground for doing so. There are many shades of the historic doctrine, and its precise relationship to our problem was never fully developed in the New Testament because of a lack of interest in it. Not until men began to count on a future of indefinite length and not until they became aware of the degree of change possible in social institutions was the issue raised that we now face. When we consider some of the factors that make it difficult to believe in progress in this third sense, it becomes possible to see how they are related to Christian teaching about sin and especially to one element in that teaching: the recognition that the deepest roots of sin are spiritual, that it is on the higher levels of human development that the most destructive perversions of human life appear.
There are two contemporary experiences which very vividly bring home to us the truth in this Christian teaching, and these two experiences in themselves have done most to destroy in many of us the confidence in secure progress by which we had formerly been guided.
The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the division between two parts of the world has become so deep that we cannot now see any way in which it can be overcome. I do not say that it cannot be overcome, only that we cannot see the steps by which such a favorable change might come. The division is all the deeper because it is caused not only by differences of economic interest or by nationalistic rivalries, but by a spiritual chasm that for the present destroys communication between those on opposite sides of the conflict.
Other aspects of the situation illustrate the point that the most stubborn problems come at a high level of development. The very formation of larger and larger communities creates the possibility of more fateful forms of power. The world divided into two parts is in a more dangerous condition than if it were divided into many parts. Also, one result of man's scientific development has been the production of weapons of war which threaten the existence of every form of moral and social progress. To the increased size of the units of power and the increased destructiveness of the weapons of war we must add many techniques for controlling the minds of men which modern rulers possess. This situation which I have been describing results from perversions of reason and of idealism, from the misuse of some of man's most remarkable intellectual achievements.
My second contemporary illustration covers much of the same ground but it suggests to me even more poignantly the way in which the idealisms of men can become the instruments of terrible evil. There has been remarkable progress in the concern for social justice and, in many countries, in the social and economic institutions which give effect to this higher sense of justice. There are some quite remarkable advances in our own country in this respect for which we should be very thankful. And yet the just aspirations of the underprivileged and the generous idealisms of many of the privileged have been changed into the means by which the most efficient and most oppressive of all tyrannies has been imposed on many nations. This is the same development that divides the human race and threatens it with global atomic war. The totalitarian tyranny itself does not necessarily lead to anything better. It may be destroyed by revolution, but what will follow the revolution?
The point which emerges most clearly from these two illustrations is that the most destructive social evils of which we have knowledge appear on what, according to any previous conception of progress, have been high levels of intellectual and moral advance. It now seems all too clear that the various over-all solutions of the social problem which have been emphasized in the past two centuries by the believers in progress are not solutions after all. I refer especially to the belief that education, the development of the social sciences, the spread of democratic institutions, or the socialization of property would be the saving factor.
Each one of these factors is greatly to be desired. My point is that each one of them creates new problems and cannot by itself be regarded as a selfsufficient solution. Education, for example, is a great good, but it will always be difficult to get the right educators; and there is no way of insuring that the educational process will not be perverted by those who have the most political or economic power.
There are two other general considerations which support what has been said so far concerning the difficulty of believing in progress even in the third sense. The first is the fact that all solutions of social problems create unexpected new problems. The balance between such social values as freedom and order is very delicate, and it is natural that changes that seem good in themselves are made at the expense Of one of these values in ways that are not fully understood in advance. An experimental shifting of emphasis from time to time in a reasonably stable society is to be expected and desired. But hazards become greater as the units of power be come larger and the instruments of power more efficient. Such long-term trends as the development of technology, the increase of living standards, the growth of leisure, the elaboration of the mass media for entertainment and communication-all these create new and perplexing problems. But there is no turning back and it is our responsibility to do what is possible to redeem these instruments of "progress."
The second consideration is that spiritual advance from generation to generation is not dependably cumulative. Each generation has to learn its own lessons on the matters that are most important for its welfare. There is flexibility that is good in the fact that each generation rebels against its predecessor, but this very fact keeps moral gains from being secure. A strong spiritual impulse tends to lose momentum within a generation. If it is true, as I have suggested, that external gains are never secure gains, that institutional changes which promise much can be easily perverted if the spirit goes out of them, that in the precarious balance between freedom and order the responsible use of freedom and the self-disciplined exercise of power make all the difference -- then this fact that we cannot count with assurance on the preservation from generation to generation of the loyalties and the sensitivities and the faith which are the chief sources of the health of a culture or of a social system is the factor which, more than any other makes assurance concerning progress impossible.
So far I have been chiefly negative and have shown what we cannot believe about the future. Now as I turn to the things that we can believe, the result may seem less precise and, hence, anticlimactic. But my major interest in this article is to emphasize the elements of hope that remain.
There are no Christian guarantees of any particular good to be realized in the secular order, but there are Christian grounds for hope that man's cause in this world is no lost cause and that there will be significant embodiments of God's righteous purpose in human society. We cannot be sure of secure and cumulative progress in the moral quality of life or in the over-all welfare of the race. But every act of social justice, every corporate encouragement to the spiritual freedom of men, every achievement of true community is a gain even if we cannot promise that it will be followed by more and, more of the same. The enormous technical advance creates possibilities of good that did not exist before. Take as an example the extraordinary extension of the life span, the improvement of health, the relief of suffering which are the results of the advance of medicine. All this is mostly gain though length of life may often lead to greater frustrations, and in the total picture the means of healing may be outweighed by the instruments of destruction.
History is not merely a platform on which individuals are prepared for inward blessings or for eternal life. Nor, as a record of man's collective life. is history a story of a vast and unified success. But within it there have been and there will be many communal and institutional embodiments of justice and fraternity which have value to the Lord of history. They are all of them partial and marked by man's sin as well as by true loyalty and love. If they pass away they remain as possibilities to be realized again. The record of them inspires generations that know them only as a memory. To work for such communal and institutional embodiments of justice and fraternity is to serve the kingdom of God, even though that kingdom far transcends them and all are judged.
The grounds for social hope which we find in Christian teaching are of two kinds -- one related to Gods creative work and the other to Christian redemption.
If we take seriously the idea that God is the creator and Lord of history, it is natural to infer from this that the structure of life is favorable to the continuation of his creative work. The belief that all men are made, in Gods image and the fact that Christians are encouraged to stress their own sin rather than the sin of other men, should undercut any tendency to cynicism about humanity in general, Calvin was surely right, as far as he went, in allowing for "common grace" in social life. In spite of a very dark view of the deformity of fallen man, he was able to writ: " as man is naturally a creature inclined to society, he has also by nature an instinctive propensity to cherish and preserve that society; and therefore we perceive in the minds of all men general impressions of civil probity and order." Augustines insistence that there is no man "so wholly abandoned to turpitude, but he hath some feeling of honesty left him" is similar. Augustine goes on to say that the devil must "change himself into an angel of light (as we read in the Scripture that he will do) if he is to effect fully his intention of deceit."
A somewhat different phase of this basis for hope in God's creative work is the tendency of evil to be self-destructive. This has long been emphasized as a phase of the divine judgment in history. There is no comforting assurance that the process of judgment may not destroy most of the forces that make for good as well as those that make for evil, but there is strong pressure at work upon men today which causes them to see that they must find ways of living together more justly or perish. This kind of pressure by itself is not likely to bring men to a better society, but it has its positive value when combined with other motives.
We can see this process at work in international relations today. I have emphasized the tragic character of the East-West split in the world, but in spite of that we can say that the world has been brought closer than ever before to a recognition of the futility as well as the moral horror of war. There is fear in this and there is sheer fatigue in it. But there is also a widespread will to peace, the importance of Which can be seen from the fact that the Communists can play on it so successfully. All this is important of the institutions preparation for the development of world community.
The interaction between these broad grounds for hope that we find in the creation itself and the redemptive forces that have been released as the result of the , work of God in Christ is the heart of the matter. if we had only the redemptive forces to which to appeal, it is likely that we would think only in terms of a remnant to be saved out of the world. But it is the faith that the God of redemption is also the creator of the world which enables us to hope for more than that.
There is a quite remarkable converging of Christian thinking today, including New Testament studies, on the idea that the powers of the kingdom of God are already present within history. This emphasis upon the present kingdom is a more significant development in contemporary theology than the more widely publicized emphasis upon the hope for a future kingdom beyond history or a sophisticated conception of the "second coming." This idea of the present kingdom often takes the form of the rather difficult conception of the invasion of the future into the present, or the overlapping of present and future. We have to put the New Testament faith into a context that differs from the New Testament context at two points: the expectation of a, indefinitely prolonged future and our better knowledge of the population of the whole world.
It seems to me that the strongest New Testament basis for hope for society is to be seen in the broad implications of this idea that the redemptive power; of the kingdom of God are present in history. The interaction of the redemptive powers of the kingdom with the factors that are favorable to social good in creation becomes relevant to our social hope when we see it in the context of an indefinitely prolonged future.
As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the "age to come," the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the "New Being" will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world. Within human history we may not see the kingdom of this world become the kingdom of God, but we may see among them many places and at many times communities, institutions, and corporate acts of justice which truly embody the grace and power of that kingdom.
To make this idea concrete I shall refer to a recent event which had in itself some of the characteristics that such embodiments of the kingdom must have. It is an event that took place outside the sphere of what is usually regarded as Christendom. It is an event that seems to me to symbolize most of the real gains that have been made in recent history. I refer to the recent Indian general election in which a large proportion of the electorate voted and which was remarkably free from corruption. Let us grant that universal suffrage is no panacea, that the new institutions of India are quite precarious, that the people may vote themselves into totalitarianism. I accept all those reservations. But does it not remain true that this event was a symbol of the human dignity of all persons, of their participation in the common life, of their will to be free from the control of another people? What had the redemptive work of Christ to do with this event? There was little direct influence from the church in bringing it about, but it is unlikely that such an election could have taken place without the indirect influence of Christ upon Indian leadership and, we may add, without a Christian conscience in the country that yielded in time to Indian demands for independence. The acceptance of the importance of political action and the recognition of the essential equality of all human beings can be understood best against the background of such Christian influences. This event illustrates two aspects of every gain that is made in history. On the one hand, we know that it is insecure; on the other hand, we have good reason to thank God for it.
In conclusion, I shall bring together several considerations that need to be emphasized together.
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To better understand how the recession has changed market researchers' lives in the past year, we've conducted a survey of Forrester's Research Panel For Market Research Professionals about workload, the recession, and prioritization and I published a doc called 'The Impact Of The Recession On Market Research Professionals' Workload'.
The survey confirmed what I've already heard in the conversations I've had with market researchers during 2009: the majority of them haven't experienced a reduction in force in the past year. But this doesn't mean that 2009 has been easy for market researchers. Even if the size of the team stayed the same, the majority saw the number of projects and the workload increase in the past year and experienced more pressure from management for information and insights.
The bad news is that market researchers feel regularly pressured and overworked, the good news however is that this is the time to show the value of market research to the organization because more people pay attention to research studies for guidance and recommendations.
In my recently published report 'The Marketing of Market Research' I give some tips on how better communication of research results can help build influence. To name a few:
- Think and act as consultants. Don't only present the insights from the research; define a couple of business alternatives, show the monetary impact of each alternative, and position the best possible solution.
- Use new ways to communicate research. email and PowerPoint can be very effective - but they both need to be handled with care. Are they the right way to get the message and story across to your audience? For some groups, Web 2.0 tools like podcasts, vodcasts, blogs, twitter, or wikis can be more successful.
- Align the team with the business. To strengthen the relationship between the market research department and other business units, it helps if the research department is organized in a similar way as the rest of the organization. It makes it easier for team members to focus, it helps build their expertise, and they feel more connected to the business.
I believe that this is the time to start implementing some of these changes, even if it adds to the already challenging workload, simply because you have to strike when the iron is hot.
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