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But for most retailers that happens almost simultaneously, with DR it authorizes the full amount then that drops off and like 1-2 weeks later they charge the card for real.
Amazon will that as well, they did it to me actually last month when I bought some Monster High.
The 1 to 2 cent authorization you are talking about is common only when doing a pre-order or signing up for a service where they need to validate you have a functional credit card. Most e-tailers will never just authorize 1 cent if you actually order something that is shipping within 7 days.
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Compounding that is when you use a debit card, because either way an authorization holds the funds, but in the case of a debit it actually holds your money, as opposed to a credit card where it goes against your credit limit.
I'm very curious to see how Grayskull is handled. If they are smart they will do a deposit and then charge the rest when it ships - if they pre-auth the amount, and wait for it to fall off, it's an issue for debit card holders, and really is useless if they aren't going to charge (seeing if the card has $250 on it now has no bearing on if it will be there in a year or not. So a $50 deposit would be the best way to go - though with DR, if your order doesn't go through, Sorceress bless you to get them to refund it properly, LOL.
I don't know what the incompetent fools at digital river did but my bank declined the charge so when i called some girl told me i probably didn't have enough cash. i told her i had over 1K in that account & to charge it that day but she said she couldn't & they would have to do it the day before the sale. how do these idiots stay in business???
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Is anyone else not showing the order on their MattyCollector order history page? I received the charges to my credit card, but there is no order showing as processing on Matty's site.
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Got my shipping notice. They really have their act together this month.
SCB will probably get his stuff tomorrow...hope Frosta looks good.
Got my shipping notices as well! I'll probably get my MOTUC stuff by next Saturday, but my DC Universe stuff comes on Wednesday!
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I just got hit with a 3rd pending charge now...so that's one for $61 and 2 for $129, how much money do they think people have lying around in piles to be tied up like this?
Please don't try to contact me thru heman.org about casted parts. That is specifically against there guidelines and out of respect for them don't do it. I rarely visit this site any more anyway so any messages more than likely wont be seen for a month. Facebook is the best way, i check there daily.
Got my 30th anniv shipping notice yesterday and my reg eternia shipping notice today. Very nice, indeed.
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My order is still in process, so I guess nothing will be shipping early for me this month. I'm used to broken promises from Mattel at this point
My subs have yet to ship. Here I was expecting something surprising since I had been charged already, but that is my own fault for have expectations of DR.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
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Wow, they've really screwed me this month. 2 charges of $105.95 (what should only be one charge of that amount) PLUS billing me for an additional $62.95. They've successfully over drafted my account.
Scott---DO SOMETHING ABOUT DIGITAL RIVER!!! The woman at customer service was zero help, trying to explain the pre-auth process. That doesn't address the issue at hand here. This really needs to stop.
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DR is completely screwing me this month. First that used the wrong shipping address for the THIRD month in a row. The ever so rude lady on the phone told me they couldnt just put a new shipping address on it, they would need to cancel the order and then make a new one, including new charges to my account. So before she hangs up I get on my bank account and DR has charged me twice for the club eternia, twice for voltron and a mystery 71.05 charge which the lady couldnt find any record of. She tells me to copy my bank statement and fax (FAX!) it to their accounting department. Anyways they are going to charge me again for the new eternia order.
My flipping point is that DR has tied up over a 1000 bucks in my account until the pending charges drop off. When I told her that was unacceptable she had the gaul to talk down to me and remind me of the agreement I completed and how pre-auth works blah blah blah. I've never had these charge issues before but if from now on if they are planning on holding my money hostage for an undetermined amount of time then I am going to tell the bank to refuse any more payments from them.
Scott if you read these boards, Digital River reflects you and mattycollector and thats a point you never seem to fully get. I was planning on purchasing the he-man/battlecat combo as well as greyskull and trapjaw. But now I don't have any extra money and I wont be buying them. Case and point DR costs mattycollector money.
I can't even imagine the nightmares that they guy who bought like 40 subs to "save" this line will have next year. NIGHTMARES!
The weird thing for my charge is its like $27 something but I only see one; Yet when I look on Matty it says the order is for Frosta and Rattlor, so I'm a bit puzzled.
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Got my shipping notice this morning. Still no charges....
I only have Club Eternia so I'm only getting Frosta and Rattlor, however I was charged $27.14, which I assume would be the charge for 1 fig+shipping. That was Wed. I see that I was charged $54.29 thursday, which should be the correct charge for 2figs+shipping, I have also been charged $54.29 as of today. I've never been a complainer about Matty, DR and the whole subscription process, nor have I ever had any of the unfortunate problems of others, yet right now I'm very tempted to cancel my 2013 sub and cherry pick off of Ebay since right now I don't feel my money's secure with DR. Sad.
Well guys, DR strikes again! I was charged 57.00 for my eternia sub 2 days ago. I have 1 sub so that makes sense. Then TODAY, I got charged 57.00 again TWICE, and then again 27.00! Thank you for overdrawing my account DR! THIS is why I didn't buy into the 2013 sub. this is disgusting!
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I have got one charge for about $23.00 and two charges for about $147.00 each. The $147 adds up for Cy-Chop, Frosta, Rattlor and Black Lion but I am not sure what that $23.00 charge is for.
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Please don't try to contact me thru heman.org about casted parts. That is specifically against there guidelines and out of respect for them don't do it. I rarely visit this site any more anyway so any messages more than likely wont be seen for a month. Facebook is the best way, i check there daily.
They authorize the charge, and then it posts. That's it. If they run the card once, that's what happens.
There are not multiple authorizations unless they run the card multiple times.
So don't believe any nonsense DR, Scott, whomever tells you - that is a screw up, not "pre-auths". Utter and total BS.
I have 1x club eternia sub and 1x 30th anni sub, both are combined and ship together in one package with usps.
I was charged $77.66 TWICE and on top of it $25.89.
These extra $77.66 and $25.89 charges don't make any sense!
What the heck's going on with DR this month???
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I am not a tax lawyer. And I understand that point of the prior comment about "accounting tricks." But that misses the essential point. This proposal is not tax simplification. It just adds additional complexity to a tax system that already is too complex. We need to simplify the tax system, not make it more complicated under the guise of raising revenue. This proposal is a major step in the wrong direction. One should not have to be a tax expert to figure out how to report and pay taxes.
From a tax perspective, the difference between cash and accrual accounting is supposed to be just timing - assuming nobody is trying to play tax games. That is the key. It is much easier to play tax games with cash accounting than with accrual accounting.
Simple example: a corporate client which is on accrual accounting will accrue the amount it will pay counsel in 4Q - but a cash-basis counsel may ask for the check to be mailed at the end of December so it is recorded in January revenue. Client reports the expense on one year's tax return, but the firm gets to delay declaring the revenue (and having it become taxable income) until the following tax year. Similarly, a cash basis firm can manipulate its tax bill by accelerating or delaying paying expenses, salaries, bonuses, etc. across accounting period boundaries. These are very simple examples - there are much more subtle and sophisticated games that can be played, which the government apparently thinks will exceed $23B over the next decade if not curtailed.
Contrary to what Mr. Silkenat says, nothing in a change to accrual accounting will require clients to pay firms immediately. any more than accounting rules require any customer to pay a supplier on a specific schedule (accounting rules just don't do that). A change to accrual accounting will also not require firms to pay taxes on fees they never receive (or at least not permanently). Just like any accrual entity, firms will have to adopt revenue recognition policies (presumably in line with GAAP), and will be able to have accruals for doubtful accounts, etc. If accrued fees don't actually come in, they can be written off (same net effect as if they had never been accrued).
Most of the big firms' corporate clients are already on accrual accounting - this will just align large law firm accounting practices with their clients' practices.
So, while it is understandable that the President of the ABA would not want to see large firms (presumably like his own firm) lose a very lucrative opportunity to benefit from manipulating their tax bills, he should not try to dress the effort up as anything other that.
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HOUSTON – Perryman Co. on Monday announced a $40 million expansion of its titanium products capacity that it said could eventually add as many as 100 people to its workforce.
The Houston-based company said capital expenditures targeted for the project include new facilities and equipment at both its Houston and California production sites.
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THese light weight sprinklers allow us to get to plants at edge of the yard that are hard to reach. They are also great for young plants or recently transplanted plants that you want to treat gently.
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My earlier review stated that my favorite old fan sprinkler had a 3/8 spray. It was actually about 3/4 of the half circle, and at a slightly differet angle, like a mostly open fan which you'd use to cool yourself with.
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I have what must be the world's thirstiest River Birch. Previous watering methods required several moves of hose and sprinkler. With the Fan Spot Sprinkler I can adjust the pattern by tilting and/or rotating the attached spike so that I can put water everywhere the tree wants it without having to move it several times.
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I was able to go around the lawn and just hit small areas that were in need of water...and also to do beds without spraying large areas. The area on the sides gets more water than needed, but this is great for pinpointed areas and the water stays low, so not too much evaporation. Going to get another so I can do two areas at once.
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I have been thru a lot of purchases on sprinklers, this one covers the garden perfect. Not for big lawns.
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Having depended on simple, but well made, fan sprinklers for many years in the past(that did a wonderful job)and finding only exceptionally cheaply made ones for the past number of years, after the old ones disappeared or were finally broken, I was very excited to see the one pictured in your catalogue!
I was so disappointd after setting this one in an area of somewhat uneven soil with plants of varying sizes, shapes, and heights. I turned it on, and it immediately began to spray into the soil about 3' out on one side where there is an uneven slant. Many branchlets were intercepting the spray, in other spots, diverting the water directly downward. It truly is a full half circle, which requires an absolutely flat surface to it's sides. It was impossible to angle properly for that, and many other, spots.
I had partial success moving the sprinkler to water a larger area, but it was still hitting obstructions to the sides while making a high arc in the center. With the water pressure turned higher to cover the maximum range, it was misting rather than actually sprinkling, which results in too much evaporative water loss. I did love seeing the little Anna's hummingbids in the background enjoying the mist, though!
My old "favorite" fan sprinklers (30-40 yr.'s ago)had about a 3/8ths circle coverage, and could be far more conveniently aimed, resulting in more even coverage in our yard.
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Love this product! It is simple and effective. I stick it in the ground and walk away. I don't get wet when I move it. It doesn't have any moving parts, so I expect to get many years of use from this simple, inexpensive product.
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When placed on front lawn it waters the lawn and not the neighbors passing by. Very easy to move without drenching yourself or having to turn the water off. I love,love this product. Bought severasl as gifts.And it was low in cost.
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We has a 30 year old model of this type of fan sprinkler that we held together with electricians tape until we finally lost it. This sprinkler will not last 30 years as it is made very cheaply comparitively speaking. It will still do a decent job.
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The man charged with kidnapping a West Virginia toddler Friday, driving her to Washington County in a stolen car and then stealing another vehicle before being caught by police is in the Allegheny County jail.
Timothy Adam White, 23, of Morgantown, W.Va., was jailed following his preliminary arraignment either late Friday night or early Saturday morning after he was treated for injuries at Jefferson Medical Center.
A jail spokesman said White is there on $2 million bond but declined to discuss charges White faces. The summary of White's arraignment indicates a bail of $1 million but that does not include any charges that could have been filed from authorities in West Virginia.
There, White faces charges of kidnapping Starr Parks, 2, daughter of John and Stephanie Parks of Reedsville.
Police said White knows the couple who live over a service station. They are unsure who owns the vehicle White stole when he left Reedsville with the young girl at 11:45 a.m.
The car was found abandoned near the Lone Pine exit of Interstate 79 by state Department of Transportation workers. However, it had not been reported stolen by West Virginia police when it was discovered.
West Virginia police also apparently did not issue an Amber Alert.
The state trooper investigating the kidnapping was unavalable for comment as was anyone with the Preston County Sheriff's office.
In Richeyville, White stole a van owned by a cable company, later leading police on a pursuit first on Toll Road 43 and then on Route 51. In Baldwin, police said he crashed into a number of police cruisers positioned to stop him.
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Right, again.
I'd say I'm batting about .990 (unofficially) with my "guilty until proven innocent" approach to athletes and performance-enhancing drugs. I'll just continue to assume guilty any time I hear or read anything suspicious about an athlete and possible PED use.
I declared Lance Armstrong guilty – in my mind – 10 years ago.
The indignant, angry, teary denials don't work on me, and I can't understand why they continue to work on so many in the media.
You have an obligation as a journalist to not be too quick to jump to conclusions, but how many times do you have to catch people in a lie before you assume that they're lying?
Put me on a jury, and I think I'm capable of adhering to the beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt standard. But I'm not on a jury.
If a guy's name shows up on the patient list of a doctor who's been convicted or even suspected of dealing in PEDs – guilty until proven innocent.
I spent some time in internet hell a while back when I wrote that I assumed Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals was or had been a juicer. I didn't accuse him.
I said that I was assuming his guilt because a chiropractor in the Washington D.C. area, who admitted to selling steroids, had been bragging about having a few members of the Capitals as customers. Ovechkin's dramatic drop in production since that information was made public, and rumors and speculation that I had heard, told me he was juicing.
In a court of law, it's flimsy evidence, for sure. But in the world of sports in the 21st century and outside the courtroom, it's enough for me to assume guilt.
I wish I could repeat some of the off-the-record comments made to me in the weeks after I wrote that column, but I can't. If Ovechkin has never touched a PED, is it unfair for him to be suspected? Of course it is.
But it's also understandable based on the history of world-class lying done by world-class athletes in the last 20 years.
You can give 2011 National League MVP Ryan Braun the benefit of the doubt, because of a botched urine test, if you'd like. But I assumed his guilt the minute I heard he had been suspended. I still do.
When members of Armstrong's own team are saying they saw him use PEDs, and when one of the foremost experts on steroids, Dr. Charles Yesalis, is quoted saying that he doesn't believe it's humanly possible to win the Tour de France without PEDs – Armstrong won seven of them – sorry, guilty.
When a Steelers team doctor, Richard Rydze, is fired after he is suspected of illegally distributing anabolic steroids, and is indicted by the feds five years later, I'm going to assume that he was distributing them to players. I did the minute I heard he was fired. I'm not going to wait for him to admit it to Oprah on national television.
How can any journalist be naïve enough to assume otherwise? Rydze was indicted last October. How many stories were done to investigate whether he had sold steroids to Steelers players?
Dr. Yesalis estimates that 85 percent of NFL players use some kind of PED. Am I supposed to assume that a guy, who I saw on the Steelers' charter every Saturday for years and was in the business of selling steroids, didn't take advantage of his access to potential customers?
I couldn't convict him in court based on my evidence, but in my mind, he's guilty. Sorry.
I'm going to maintain my guilty-until-proven-innocent approach when it comes to world-class athletes and performance-enhancing drugs, and I apologize in advance to the innocent ones.
But don't blame me. Blame Lance Armstrong, Mark McGwire, Marion Jones and all the other juicers, past, present and future, who have looked or will look with tear-filled eyes into a camera to tell you how disappointed and sad they are that you would assume that they would cheat.
* Is Tom Brady playing his last game of the 2012 season for the New England Patriots? Only if the Patriots lose to the Ravens in the AFC Championship game.
Brady, as great as he is, has lost the last game he's played in the postseason every year since the Patriots won the Super Bowl in January, 2005.
Last year, he lost in the Super Bowl but, if not for a sure touchdown pass dropped in the end zone by the Ravens' Lee Evans, Brady would have lost in the AFC Championship game.
In his last two postseason games (2009 and 2011) against the Ravens, Brady has put up passer ratings of 49.1 and 57.5 with two touchdown passes and five interceptions. Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, in his last four playoff games, has thrown nine touchdown passes and one interception.
I like the Ravens. Especially with the 9 ½ points.
John Steigerwald writes a Sunday column for the Observer-Reporter.
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Even though 2012 was a stellar year at the movies, there were more than enough clunkers.
"That's My Boy" inspired yet more savage reviews for Adam Sandler. "One for the Money" registered with no one, although it did ring up yet another turkey for Katherine Heigl. And "John Carter" failed to send anyone into orbit, except for critics who tore into it like a dog's chew toy.
Even more crushing than those DOA duds were movies that should have been so much better. Here then are my five big disappointments of 2012.
1. "To Rome With Love": Sure, Rome sparkles in Woody Allen's latest travelogue comedy. But my iPhone shots of the romantic city are worth more than the thousand rotely uttered words in Allen's irritating take on it. "Rome" is a frustrating trip, cluttered with stock Allen characters -- a hot prostitute (really haven't we had enough of that caricature already?), a stammering, kvetching Allen, and contrived misunderstandings galore. At least we'll always have "Midnight in Paris."
2. "Hyde Park on Hudson": There's a lot of false talk about hot dogs in this feeble bit of flimsy revolving around a randy FDR and his distant cousin Daisy. Bill Murray is fine as the president in question, but poor Laura Linney is made to look like a frump. This slim sliver of re-imagined history -- the royal visit to America by the stuttering King George VI ("The King's Speech") and his wife -- is distractingly preoccupied with FDR's sex life and is about as inspired as a slice of processed ham slapped onto white bread.
3. "Cloud Atlas": Some books should never get translated onto the screen. Such is the case with David Mitchell's multicharacter masterpiece about deeds that are passed, good and bad, forward through history. Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski sibling endeavor has high ambitions, but the result is an unruly mess -- albeit one that's visually beautiful. It's also long and unintentionally goofy. Of the cast, Ben Whishaw is the real stand out, while Halle Berry continues her overacting streak.
4. "Dark Shadows": Sometimes it works best when friends table their working partnership and just meet up for dinner now and then. Consider, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Back in their heyday, they wielded the Midas touch -- "Edward Scissorhands," "Big Fish" -- but now they're churning out tinny, assembly-line products such as "Alice in Wonderland" and this year's reworking of the classic vampire TV sudser. It's all in vain, so stop it, you two, stop it right now.
5. "Brave": As usual, Pixar's animation is magnificent, even spectacular. It's the weakly constructed narrative -- about a young female archer and princess bucking tradition and helping to save mom -- that swerves off target. Rather than be truly brave and take the female empowerment story to an inspirational level, "Brave" settles for Saturday morning cartoon antics. For that reason alone, I'll take Katniss any day.


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- The Apache language texts have been converted from Hoijer's original orthography to a contemporary practical orthography currently in use for Navajo and several other Apachean languages. See de Reuse, Willem (Ethnological Note An Introduction to Western Apache Linguistics (Ethnological Note vols). unpublished manuscript Tucson: University of Arizona. Adapted from the orthography employed in Robert Young and William Morgan's (Ethnological Note Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Authorship attributions. The Chiricahua narrator/storyteller is designated author/performer of particular texts. Hoijer is designated author of the collection as a whole, and is sole author of the linguistic analysis portions.
- This story is the English translation of one of the Ethnological Note bilingual Apache language texts when appear in this collection.


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Brittany Fradkin can sense when Washington & Jefferson College women's lacrosse coach Tracy Coyne is having a rough day, one when Coyne's care for her ailing father has been especially tough to provide.
Pay attention, Fradkin thinks. Try a little harder.
Give Fradkin credit. She gets it. You don't mess with a Division I coach.
And despite her current role as the head coach of an NCAA Division III program that's been around since 2008, that's exactly what Coyne is.
Coyne has enjoyed successful stints as the head coach of the Canadian National Team and at Notre Dame – the university, not the college. Yet when her father, Leo, began to experience signs of dementia and his health took a turn for the worst, Coyne moved home to Western Pennsylvania, giving W&J a serious ringer when it comes to women's lacrosse.
"You can tell she has a lot of experience with the game and knowledge of where to be on the field, how to run practices," Fradkin said. "She also has a ton of connections in the lacrosse world. I know she consults a lot of former colleagues for advice and whatnot."
But there was little Coyne could do for this one.
'It was time to take a break'
After struggling to make it home to see her mother, Nancy, who was placed in hospice care and who eventually died during the 2009 spring season – ironically one of Coyne's best at Notre Dame – the idea of being away from home started to weigh on Coyne.
"It was hard," said Coyne, who grew up in the Green Tree/Crafton area and attended Bishop Canevin High School. "Everything that I was doing … I was really, really busy. On the team's day off, I'd fly home, then I'd be back. It was a crazy schedule, and it was very stressful.
"It was time to take a break, regroup and refocus."
So far, that has meant breathing life into a program that has just 14 players on its roster, in an area where lacrosse often takes a back seat to other spring sports.
Coyne, who has never been married and does not have children, estimates that she uses roughly 20 percent of her offensive system from Notre Dame, where she led the Fighting Irish to the NCAA Tournament in six of her final 10 years, including the program's first Big East title in 2009.
Instead of installing different systems, Coyne talks about retention rate and not wanting to throw too much at her players at one time.
"I feel like the players haven't been exposed to as many ideas of tactical types of things," Coyne said. "I probably haven't been as tactical with them as I would like to be, because I'm trying to meet the team where they are instead of trying to make them into something they're not. But I would say that what we do at practice is probably very similar to what we did at Notre Dame, just sometimes I have to go into a little more detail in explaining some things."
A coach and her team
Fradkin leads the Presidents (2-6) with 27 goals, while Kelsey Kraus is second with 16. Overall, W&J has been outscored, 67-76.
But while the results lately haven't been what Coyne would like – or, with a career record of 261-124, what she's used to – she has enjoyed the opportunity to take care of her dad, cook dinner for him and get reacquainted with her nephews.
"I was pretty much on the road constantly with recruiting; I was probably in five states in five different days on some summer days when I was at Notre Dame," Coyne said. "I've gone from that to trying to get to Giant Eagle once a week to make sure that we have dinner."
Coyne has enjoyed the perks of home: going to Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Civic Light Opera shows, frequenting the city's cultural district and bragging about her alma mater, Bishop Canevin.
"It's seems to be a good thing for me right now from a family standpoint," Coyne said.
The excitement has been mutual.
According to Fradkin and senior goalkeeper Julia McLellan, it's the perfect marriage: The players enjoy Coyne's tutelage and offer support for what their coach is going through. Coyne, as a result, respects their wishes to pursue other activities at the Division III school.
"There will be times she's late or has to miss practice because of something going on with her family," McLellan said. "We're definitely well aware of the situation, but it's nice having a coach we can connect to on that level. I know I've never had that close of a relationship with a coach."
Is this crazy?
Given all she has seen, Coyne surprisingly isn't bitter. Sure, she'd like to revamp how Division III trains its officials, maybe drum up some interest for the sport, but she mostly enjoys the game.
She's sometimes surprised – no, frustrated – at what other Division III coaches will run on offense or defense, preferring to keep things simple for her own team.
"How they run draws, different defenses, it's crazy," Coyne said. "That's what surprises me more than anything else. I think some of it has trickled down from Division I, but do I necessarily think that other people should be running some of those systems? No, I don't."
The Presidents' Athletic Conference added unofficial women's lacrosse tournaments this year and next and will hold a formal postseason event starting with the 2014-15 school year.
Good thing, too.
As Coyne sees it, Western Pennsylvania has plenty of athletes, but the region can use a boost when it comes to lacrosse, a boost she's more than happy to provide.
"Coaching is coaching, and you try to bring out the best in people no matter where you are," Coyne said. "Maybe the skill level is different, but you're still trying to get people to perform at their best by tapping into people and figuring out what works for them."
It was an unorthodox career step for Coyne, but one she wouldn't change for anything.
"I think a lot of people think it's crazy," she said. "But people who know me well know how strong my family ties are."
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The former city administrator for Washington scolded council Thursday night for failing to take action on a vacant property that has caused $20,000 in damage to his home.
Joseph R. Thomas, who served as administrator for the city between 1997 and 2002, said issues with the abandoned property have continued for years and he wants the property placed on the city's demolition list.
"I think 17 to 18 years of waiting for a building to be torn down is enough. This building has been on the demolition list before," he said.
The building, at 211 Grove Ave., is a former church but has been abandoned for years. Two years ago, an underground spring on the property caused water to flow into Thomas' house across the street.
The city's fire department had to respond and pump between two and three feet of water out of his basement for several days.
Now a sump pump in his basement runs constantly. Thomas told council none of the damage is covered by insurance.
What irked Thomas even more was that he went to an advertised public hearing this week on a 50 percent increase in city demolition funding and no one was there.
That hearing, set for 9 a.m. Wednesday in the public meeting room of Courthouse Square and advertised by the Washington County Commissioners, was not held. Thomas said when he arrived the room was empty and the lights had not been turned on.
He went upstairs to inquire at the county Redevelopment Authority and then over to City Hall, and no one was aware of the hearing.
He then stopped at the Observer-Reporter, where he was given the March 18 edition that contained the public hearing advertisement.
Thomas later contacted a member the redevelopment authority who told him the city has been given extra funds this year for demolition, with much of it earmarked for an area near St. Hilary Church.
Thomas said he was not looking to thwart that project or any other demolition projects in the city but wants the building across from his home placed back on the demolition list.
"I don't want to hear that the solicitor or the code enforcement officer haven't done what they need to do," he said.
City solicitor Lane Turturice explained the matter had been under litigation. A religious group had shown interest in purchasing the church for a mosque but the city's position is that a church is a nonconforming use in a residential neighborhood. He said the Muslim's attorney had withdrawn his representation so Turturice plans to file for dismissal in the case.
"I don't care if it's a Muslim group, a Christian group, a Jewish group. I don't care if it's Pope St. Francis," Thomas said. "I just want to get this property torn down."
Thomas noted in order to conform and be a house of worship again, additional parking would have to be added. Thomas said there is no room for parking unless additional property was acquired.
Looking at City Council, Thomas said, "You all claim you care about neighborhoods. Well, the only way to help this city is if decent people stay here, so don't drive us out."
Someone in the audience then exclaimed "Amen!"
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I am writing this in the living room, sitting in an overstuffed chair, my feet on an ottoman and warmed by the crackling flame in the fireplace. It's a cozy, peaceful scene except for the little dog barking maniacally at the marble to the left of the fire.
I write a few words, and then stop to watch. Smoothie, our Sheltie puppy, runs into the room and catches his reflection in the polished marble of the fireplace. He stops, stares at the dog, decides the dog is a menace and begins to sneak up on it. Moving with the slow stealth of a tai chi instructor, Smoothie moves in for the kill.
Of course, the dog in the marble moves forward, too, and feeling threatened, Smoothie pounces, lunging at the marble with his front paws. He hits the wall and falls backward.
Stunned, he gets back up and shakes his head. Proud of having banished the bad dog in the marble, he looks at me and I say, "Get him, Smoothie."
Then he runs into the kitchen and discovers the dog has moved to the oven. Smoothie attacks the oven door, falls back, gets up and then runs back into the living room to fight the dog in the marble.
He does this pretty much every waking moment that he's inside. When he's out in the backyard, he chases squirrels. Smoothie is not much bigger than a squirrel, and he's as furry, so we think he might think that either a) he's also a squirrel or, b) that the squirrels are Sheltie dogs, or c) that the thing in the marble is a squirrel. Shelties are herding dogs, so it's in his nature to chase.
You would think that Smoothie would eventually realize there's no animal there, but it's been almost a year now and he's not giving up.
Our two other dogs are smarter. Howard saw his reflection in the kitchen door exactly one time, rubbed snouts with it, and figured it out. Lucy is the aloof kind of smart, a dog so confident in her physical beauty that she feels entitled to lounge all day, rolling her eyes at the oafish mortals around her.
And still, sometimes I look at the two smart dogs and remind myself just how little they know. These pets – family members who are present for every meal, every nap, every rented movie, every visit from a friend – are unaware of the most basic facts of the world. They don't know who the president is, what the Civil War was about, that Beyoncé really did lip sync, who Justin Bieber is, why people like to drink beer (although they do understand pizza). Dogs probably have intuitive abilities that humans lack, but they are pretty much clueless about the human world outside the door.
Smoothie couldn't care less, of course. He's too busy herding that Sheltie in the fireplace. As I write this, he is yipping at the marble, growling as he sneaks up on that dog. He never loses hope that this will be the day he finally catches the dog, chases him away, reigns as master of that corner of his world, making the living room safe for all of us.
Get him, Smoothie.
Beth Dolinar can be reached at email@example.com.
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The long wait for Solomon Chishko's return has finally ended.
The Canon-McMillan junior, who has not wrestled this season after fracturing his elbow in a preseason tournament in October, will be back in the lineup for Saturday's Section 4-AAA Tournament at Moon High School.
Not only that, Chishko is the top seed at 145 pounds.
His return – even if it is not at 100 percent – boosts the chances that the Big Macs can win a third consecutive team title at the PIAA Individual Wrestling Championships in March. Canon-McMillan is coming off its second straight PIAA Team Tournament title with a thrilling victory over Central Dauphin two weeks ago in Hershey.
"It's been a long year without him," said Canon-McMillan head coach Chris Mary. "I'm pleased at what our boys have overcome without one of the top guns in our lineup. He is so much fun to watch. He has the tenacity to go out and pin people."
The return of Chishko wasn't the only news for Canon-McMillan. Defending state champion Cody Wiercioch has been invited to compete on the Pennsylvania Team in this year's Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic and also will compete in the Dream Team Classic at Elmhurst College in Chicago, April 20.
"Cody is one of the best high school wrestlers Pennsylvania has seen or will see," Mary said. "He's the elite of the elite."
Saturday marks the start of the individual postseason for Class AAA wrestlers. Class AA began last week. Besides the Section 4 Tournament at Moon, the Section 1 event will take place at Gateway, Section 2 at Baldwin and Section 3 at Fox Chapel. Action gets under way at 9:30 a.m. and the finals are at 6 p.m.
Chishko and Wiercioch each are top seeded in their weight class. They join five other teammates seeded first: Brendon Price at 106, Dalton Macri at 120, Connor Schram at 126, William Pihiou at 152, and Alex Campbell at 220.
Chishko will have everyone's attention when he steps onto the mat for the first time this season in a varsity competition.
"The last couple of weeks, we've seen him improve," said Mary. "I had a good feeling about him coming back. Since (the Powerade Christmas Wrestling Tournament), we've been on him about his weight loss and his conditioning: a lot biking, steppers and shadow wrestling."
Mary said he was determined not to rush Chishko back into the lineup.
"We went into the (PIAA Team Tournament) comfortable knowing we wouldn't have Solomon," he said. "He's was not going to come back too early. You never risk the safety of a wrestler over wrestling."
Chishko needs two wins to advance to the next round of the tournament, not a huge hurdle for someone with his talents. Nate Hall, a sophomore from West Allegheny with a 30-1 record, appears to be his biggest challenge.
The other top-seeded wrestlers in the Section 4 event are A.C. Headlee (113) of Waynesburg; Hopewell's Fillippo Crivelli (132), Michael Tempalsky (195) and Damon Sims (Hvy); Tyler Harris (138) and Brent Blacharczyk (182) of McGuffey; and Josh Barr (160) of West Allegheny.
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CLAIRTON (AP) — Police say seven Western Pennsylvania homes were hit by bullets in a shooting spree.
Station KDKA reports that the shooting took place at about 3:15 a.m. Friday in Clairton. That's about 15 miles south of Pittsburgh.
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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland -- Lindsey Vonn skied to victory in a World Cup Super-G on Saturday, and American teammate Julia Mancuso was third.
Vonn extended her perfect record in four speed races this season, timing 1 minute, 2.71 seconds to beat World Cup overall leader Tina Maze by 0.37 seconds. Mancuso was 1.01 behind Vonn.
Maze's victory in the super-combined Friday put some pressure on Vonn, who was hospitalized last month with intestinal issues and allowed a gap to develop in the standings. Vonn scored 100 points in the victory to trail Maze by 167 in third place.
"I'm struggling with my strength," Vonn said. "I came down with everything I have."
Vonn's 57th career World Cup win, the second-most in history, was her 20th in Super-G. She is the four-time defending champion in the season-long discipline title.
Vonn's celebration after crossing the finish line after the race provoked some debate.
The 28-year-old American acknowledged she used a curse word in a release of emotion in taking the lead -- but had not directed it at Maze, as her coaches had alleged.
"They think I said something very bad about her when I came to the finish and that is absolutely not true," Vonn said. "I swore and I shouldn't have done that."
Vonn spoke after seeking out Maze, and said she had told her: "I hope you trust me enough to believe me."
"Apparently they don't. It definitely hurts," said Vonn, who said she had been disappointed after failing to finish Friday in the super-combined won by Maze.
She swept the three-race downhill and Super-G program last weekend at Lake Louise, Alberta, and Vonn and Maze have combined to win seven of the nine World Cup events.
"Tina has had an amazing season so far. It's going to be a tough season," said Vonn, who has won the overall title in four of the past five seasons.
Earlier, Maze said the defending champion was "tough, but not impossible" to beat.
"I wanted to win, but Lindsey was better. It was fun to ski today," she said.
Maze has a 163-point lead overall from 2011 champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany, who placed fifth Saturday.
Maze will be favored to add to her advantage Sunday in a giant slalom, which has traditionally been a weaker event for Vonn.
Skiers raced Saturday on a shortened course after a forecast of strong wind up the mountain.


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MONONGAHELA – Members of First United Methodist Church revisited the building's belfry three years ago while considering having its valuable bank of bells polished for an upcoming celebration.
The congregation wanted to complete a signature project for the church's 200th anniversary this year, but its members soon realized upon inspection of the bells that "they needed more attention than we knew," said the Rev. Ronald E. Fleming.
"We are committed to maintaining those bells,' said Fleming, pastor of the stately church at 430 W. Main St., which is embarking on a nearly $400,000 bell tower restoration project.
The 11 McShane bells were installed in the church under a 1925 gift of $200,000 from local lumber mill owner Charles E. Stephens after the building's steeple was destroyed in a lightning strike that also threatened to topple the brick tower. The bells weigh between 525 and 3,000 pounds each, and contain 80 percent copper and 20 percent tin. They were manufactured by McShane Bell Foundry of Glen Burnie, Md. No other church in Southwestern Pennsylvania is home to such a collection that still chime on the quarter hour.
Now, more than 80 years later, the tower has again come under threat of collapse.
The weight of its copper-tiled roof is forcing the belfry's four walls to shift outward, causing the masonry to crack and erode to the point where some of it needs to be replaced, Fleming said.
A study was undertaken that showed it would cost as much to remove the bells as it would to restore the structure housing them, he said.
"They have been ringing in this community for almost 100 years. When the bells go down (for repairs) we get calls from people," he said.
One study suggested that the wood frame holding the bells in place had rotted to the point that it was no longer safe enough to support them. That engineer proposed replacing the wood with a steel frame and rebuilding the entire tower.
Church member Terry Necciai, a Philadelphia architect and preservation consultant, was invited to review that plan and he recommended seeking a second opinion, the church states on its website. That led to the hiring of Suzanne Pentz, a Washington, D.C., steeple frame engineer who has worked on Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Fleming said.
She inspected the wood in the belfry by drilling holes into it using a bit the size of a sewing needle that created an electronic mapping of the resistance it met as it entered the structure. Pentz concluded the wood is solid and reliable.
"We have done our homework," Fleming said. "She made us aware that rather than ripping everything out we needed to do a restoration."
Bids were opened Jan. 7, and the work is expected to be completed within five months. The church also is launching a campaign to raise money to finance the project.
For additional information, visit: http://fumcmon.com.
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December weekends are so filled with parties, visits and other obligations – though I love to get caught up with all of the people at the events – that sometimes I just wish for a quiet weekend at home during that busy time. A weekend spent doing only the basic necessities and then sacking out on the couch to watch TV all cuddled up with the kids isn't too much to ask, is it?
This is one of the reasons I look forward to January. Everyone has generally had their fill of visits for a while, and there is not much scheduled. Weekends are ours to do with what we will. It is my idea of bliss after all of the commotion of the previous month.
So it was with eager expectation that this weekend approached. I planned to do the minimum amount of work possible and relax for the maximum amount of minutes available.
I believe Woody Allen said it best when he said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans."
Saturday afternoon, my son got sick. He was fevered and throwing up and generally miserable. In a short amount of time, I had to add laundry to the list of necessary things to do.
He was sick all night. Despite a strategically placed bucket, he managed to make more dirty laundry for me. (And the pile of towels he used from his repeated showering was a load in itself.) To top it off, he didn't want to be held or cuddled in any way.
Instead, I got to work and caught up on the laundry. I fed the family and did the dishes. The girls chipped in by dusting and running the vacuum. We even baked some pumpkin muffins.
By Sunday evening, the house was tidy, my son was starting to feel better and the smell of cinnamon and chocolate chips still wafted through the air. I even thought there was a chance of actually spending the rest of the day on the couches.
So it was with dismay that, when I went to sit down, I saw a dark spot on our couch. Upon further inspection, I discovered a pen had leaked all over the light-brown sofa, leaving a pair of ink spots. All further thoughts of relaxing went out the window as I spent the next couple of hours scrubbing and blotting blue ink from the fabric. By the time I got it to the "you can hardly tell" stage, it was bedtime for everyone.
I am not entirely disappointed, however. I know the day will come when the kids will be gone. I will have more time to lie on the couch, and less laundry to do. I will be able to pick up and go without considering carpools and practice schedules. And I will probably miss chasing after the kids all day.
I'll just hold on to the thought that although we didn't get to spend time together in the manner I had planned, we still spent the day together. We worked toward a common goal and achieved something. And then, while I scrubbed the ink from the couch, the girls curled up together and watched a movie without arguing, and that was good enough for me.
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Bethel mulls home rule charter change to aid fire company
Like other volunteer fire departments, members of the Bethel Park Volunteer Fire Company spend much of their time raising funds to keep the company in operation.
"It's become a whole lot more difficult with the economy,' said Ed Schmidt, company recording secretary and chairman of the new building committee.
"Take bingo for example," he said. "We used to get 90 to 100 people on a Saturday night. Now we get less than 20."
Along with funding the day-to-day operating costs of the company, members are now faced with having to raise money to replace the antiquated main fire station on Brightwood Road.
Schmidt said the company has visited local, state and federal officials seeking funding sources, but without any results.
"They say 'We need you, we love you and we can't pay for you,' " said Schmidt. "We've exhausted every grant."
Firefighters appealed to municipal officials, who are now considering changing the home rule charter to establish a dedicated annual tax of approximately .34 mills for the fire company.
Council members are expected to discuss the change at a committee meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, and may vote on the measure at the February voting meeting.
The dedicated tax would take pressure off the fire company, leaving more time for training. In addition, the change in the commitment of time would attract more new members, Schmidt said. Fire company members would still fund raise, but would not be pressured to always be scrambling to pay bills, he said.
Councilman Don Harrison is opposing the change in the home rule charter. He said the problem is businesses and households who fail to make annual contributions to the "dedicated and efficient volunteer fire company," while still expecting firefighting services.
Harrison said that changing the home rule charter is not the way to fund the fire service.
"Changing the home rule charter is like pouring it in concrete," he said.
Harrison is suggesting instead that municipal officials enact an ordinance or include funding to the fire company as a line item in the annual budget. Both of those suggestions would mean that the fire company would get funding at council's discretion, but it would not be a permanent funding source.
Schmidt and other council members argue that changing the home rule charter is the best way to assure that the fire company would always have a steady funding source. Anything less than putting it in the home rule charter would mean that the fire company would be left wondering from year to year if it must do more fundraising or ask the residents for more donations.
Enacting the tax by a change in the home rule charter will mean that it will have to be up to a vote by the residents.
"It's a process," said Councilman Jim McLean. "Voters will get to vote on it on an election day. "(Residents and municipal officials) need to keep an open mind," he said. "Listen to what the folks from the fire company themselves have to say."


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Maggie Lucas scored 19 points, Alex Bentley added 18 and third-seeded Penn State overwhelmed NCAA women's basketball tournament newcomer Cal Poly 85-55 in a first-round game Sunday night in Baton Rouge, La.
While the dynamic Lucas scored from all over the court, Penn State (26-5) also used its size advantage to assert itself inside on both ends.
The 6-2 Mia Nickson, 6-3 Talia East and 6-4 Nikki Greene combined for 32 rebounds, and the Lady Lions outrebounded Cal Poly 52-40 overall.
Penn State outscored the Mustangs 44-28 in the paint.
Nickson finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds, Greene scored 11 points and East grabbed 12 rebounds for Penn State, which plays Tuesday against the winner of LSU-Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Molly Schlemer led Cal Poly (21-11), the 14th seed in the Spokane Region, with 24 points.
Jonae Ervin added 10 points and was the only other player to score in double digits for Cal Poly, the Big West champs, who were held to 27.9 percent shooting (19 for 68).
Penn State led by 10 at halftime and began to blow the game open with a 11-0 run in the second half that made it 59-36 on Lucas' steal and fast-break layup with less than 12 minutes to go. The lead grew to 30 on Bentley's layup with 5:39 to go and the result was never in doubt after that.
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Elena Delle Donne scored 33 points and led a second-half surge that carried Delaware past West Virginia in Newark, Del.
Playing on their home floor before a sellout crowd, the Blue Hens trailed 33-26 at halftime before bouncing back to extend their school-record winning streak to 26 games.
Delaware (31-3) had never won an NCAA tournament game before last year. The Blue Hens have yet to reach the round of 16, a milestone they will seek to accomplish Tuesday night against either North Carolina or Albany.
Delle Donne, a 6-5 senior, scored 17 points after halftime. She finished 10 for 24 from the floor, went 12 for 13 at the foul line and had seven rebounds.
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The widowed Opal Bedillion knew her killer well as she could see his house from her front door, where she was stabbed to death last year.
The sister of her killer, Frank Russell Jones Jr., 24, of East Finley Township, had even married into the Bedillion family before the woman was killed Jan. 8, 2012, relatives of the victim said.
"It's been hard on us," said her son, Dennis Bedillion of Washington, Thursday, when Jones pleaded guilty to first-degree homicide in Washington County Court.
Jones approached Judge Katherine B. Emery and said he fully understood the consequences of his plea that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He could have faced the death penalty had he stood trial.
"I'm very sorry for what happened and will take full responsibility for my actions," said Jones, whose trial was scheduled to begin Monday.
First Assistant Washington County District Attorney Mike Lucas said Jones' attorney, Tom Cooke, contacted him last week about his client's offer to plead guilty. Lucas then met Saturday with the Bedillion family to discuss accepting the plea.
Cooke said Jones accepted the plea fully aware of the penalty he would receive.
Jones didn't get very far after he repeatedly stabbed Bedillion, 80, and slit her throat. He knew she lived alone at 469 Templeton Run Road and was looking to steal her prescription narcotics to feed his drug addiction. South Strabane Township police approached his parked vehicle that night in a vacant church parking lot and became suspicious after seeing jewelry on the seat before anyone knew Bedillion was dead.
Township police seized the items and contacted state police to see if there were any recent burglary reports, Lucas said. Armed with Opal Bedillion's name among the items seized, police contacted her family to have someone check on her, he said. Jones, of 112 Willow Run Road, was arrested in the homicide several hours later.
"It was a textbook example of how officers conduct a traffic stop and quickly follow up on what they find," Lucas said. "Scientific evidence confirmed that Mr. Jones was in fact the killer."
Jones, a graduate of McGuffey High School, told the court he is mentally ill and takes medication for his condition. He also pleaded guilty to robbery, aggravated assault, theft and possession of a weapon.
Emery told Jones that Bedillion probably would have given him what he wanted when he went to her door.
"Mrs. Bedillion's final moments were pure fright," she said. "Your final days will be spent in prison ... because of your selfish line of behavior."
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Many of those graves remain without a military marker, but 945 do have a numbered concrete markers placed there by the Confederate Historical Association in 1886.
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If your relative is among these 55 men, and you want the photo of the gravestone for your own personal genealogy or family records, I am expressly waiving copyright on the photos used for that purpose. Just right click and save the photo to your computer. I retain copyright for any photos that someone might want to use for a commercial purpose.
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Carnegie exhibition features nature-inspired jewelry
Just in time for our landscape to burst with pops of color in the form of bright green grass, yellow daffodils, white tree blossoms and multi-colored tulips, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's latest exhibition, "Garden of Light: Works by Paula Crevoshay" opens April 13, and runs through Aug. 11.
Crevoshay, a jewelry designer with more than three decades of experience, is inspired from nature, and the beautiful and colorful pieces represent her love of Mother Earth. Her pieces, constructed from natural materials, include wearable botanicals and insects in bold colors. More than 60 of them will be on display in the Museum's Wertz Gallery: Gems & Jewelry, which is part of the Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems. The jewels are juxtaposed with the museum's collection of minerals, as well as its insects in an exhibition that aims to bring together the "three kingdoms of the garden:" floral, mineral, and animal – and it succeeds.
"It's in our nature to mimic nature," Crevoshay said. "As an artist, I mirror back to nature that which it inspires in me, which in turn strikes a chord in my viewers."
Visitors will be able to see natural mineral specimens that depict the transformation from mineral to completed pieces of jewelry, exhibits of ecosystems featuring pieces that "reflect biodiversity and important relationships between plants, insects and the elements," and the materials from which the jewelry are constructed, including gold, sapphire and extremely rare conch pearls.
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